Go to McConnell's for First-Class Garments
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS, THE NATION'S PRIDE.
Come let us see if those who have not acquainted themselves with the I. C. G. have not made a mistake by comparing notes with those who have been dealing elsewhere We find by observation that we sell more goods than any like house in the city. We have more clubs. We give more for your money. We look after your interests. We do a cash business, except that we have arranged for clubs to pay weekly. We deserve and will not be satisfied until we see all the K S. U's coming in and going out of our store. We like to have you come in no matter whether you buy or not. Should the temptation be too great after seeing what we have to sell, then you are only doing justice to mother and father by buying of us. Now in conclusion we would say that we are not giving you cheap talk but we are always willing to put out the white flag when we can not do better than our competitors Our long experience in business, our facilities for buying enables us to meet any and all competition. Should there be any students who wish board at low rates we are in position to cite them to places convenient to both business and study.
INDIANA CASH GROCERY, 828 MASSACHUSETTS STREET.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Something About its History and Present Condition.
The first meeting of the first board of Regents of the University of Kansas was held on March 2, 1865. Rev. R. W. Oliver was elected chancellor, and the faculty of three men mentioned above was elected July 19, 1866. Professor Rice was chosen president of the faculty December 5, 1866, Chancellor Oliver having formally presided in opening the school. August 8, 1867, Mrs. Cynthia A. Smith was elected a member of the faculty. Rev. Mr. Oliver resigned the chancellorship and was succeeded by Gen. John Fraser, A.M., elected Dec. 4, 1867.
BUILDINGS.
The first building erected by the University was that now known as North College. This building is estimated to be worth $20,000. It is 50 feet square, three stories high and contains eighteen rooms. The entire work of the University was done in this building until the fall of 1872. The building is now used by the Schools of Law and Music.
The next building erected was that now know as the Main building. The bui ding is two hundred and forty-six feet in extreme length ninety-eight feet wide in center, wings sixty-two feet each. It contains fifty-four rooms, one of which, University Hall, the main audience room, is ninety four feet long and fifty six feet wide. It has a seating capacity of one thousand and two hundred. There are eighteen lecture rooms, seating seventy five to eighty students each. The languages (Greek, Latin, German and French), Mathematics, Philosophy, History and Political Science, are taught in this building. The lecture rooms and laboratories in Physics are in the south wing, and the library and reading rooms(three) are in the north wing. The offices of the Chancellor and Secretary are on the first floor. Carpenter's shop, battery room, superintendent's office and cloak rooms are in the basement.
Snow Hall, a beautiful white
The Chemistry building was erected in 1883 at a cost of $12,000. It contains eleven lecture rooms, laboratories and offices used by the Chemistry department and the School of Pharmacy.
stone building, was erected in 1885-86 at a cost of $50,000. It contains twenty-two rooms, laboratories, offices, storage rooms, and taxideum work shops. Snow hall is one hundred and ten feet in length by one hundred feet wide, is provided with ample basement almost entirely above ground, two stories of sixteen and seventeen feet respectively, and an ante of twelve feet. Its museums are designed to make a complete exhibit in the various cabinets in Zoology, Geology and Botany, and its laboratories are so related to the various cabinets as to secure the utmost convenience. The lecture room, extending through the basement and first story, and arranged in amphitheatre style, will a commodate two hundred students. This building finished and furnished with the best appliances for investigation and instruction in Natural History, adds materially to the educational advantages offered by the University.
At an expense of $16,000, appropriated by the legislature of 1887, the entire steam heating plant was enlarged and greatly improved. A stone building was erected for the reception of the boilers, and to contain also the engine and machine shop for the use of students in the electrical Engineering course. This building, 86x 48 feet, is about five hundred feet south of Snow Hall, and about sixty feet below the level of the ground on which the other University buildings stand, thus affording the best possible facility for the distribution of steam and the return of the condensation. In connection with the machine shops a forge house has just been built.
omy...18,000
Apparatus in Civil Engineering ...5,000
Apparatus in Chemistry ...3,500
Apparatus in Pharmacy ...1,500
Maps, charts and illustrative a' paratus (including casts in
Classical Museum)... 3,000
The University lands, including the forty acre campus about the main building, the ten acre campus about North College and the land owned by the University lying be tween the two, in all sixty acres together with all the buildings are valued at $334,000.
The apparatus of instruction consists of and is valued at the following:
Library: 14,000... $ 30,000
Natural History collection 150-
Nat. Lab 00 specimens . . . 100,000
Astronomy in Physics and Astron-
logy
Apparatus in Physics...18,000
Apparatus in Civil Engineerof endowment belonging to
$ 161,000
The University possesses other property to the amount of $:4,000 Total value of property, exclusive
Education belonging to
University of Kansas...$519,000
THE COLLECTION.
The limits of this article prelude any thing more than a passing reference to the remarkable collections which find places in the museum rooms of Snow Hall, and in the Classical Museum. The Natural History collections have been chiefly obtained during the past ten years by the voluntary contributions of exploring parties in western Kausas, Colorado, New Mexico and British America, in charge of the professors of Natural History. By means of the material thus accumulated a system of exchange has been established with leading institutions and naturalists in all parts of the United States, so that the cabinets contain a very satisfactory representation of the plants, insects, birds, minerals and fossils, not only of the state of Kansas, but also of the whole of North America.
The Herbarium includes more than four thousand species of plants represented by a much larger number of specimens.
The Entomological collection contains more than ten thousand species of insects, and is being constantly added to. It is especially strong in Lepidoptera and Colcoptera.
The Mineralogical collection is valued at $5,000. The Conchological collection contains over one thousand species of shells from all parts of the world. An alcoholic collection of marine ivertebrates is one of the most valuable in all Snow Hall to the student.
The collection of birds and mammal skins, mounted, and of skeletons is rapidly coming to be one of the foremost in the United States. The taxidermie work of Proof, L. L. Dyche is not excelled if equalled in the world. His groups of buffalo, mountain lions Rocky Mountain goats, big horn sheep, grizzly bears and moose are wonderful works of art.
The Paleontological collection is a large and valuable one, its special features being the fine series of fossil leaves from the Dakota sand stone, and a striking series of Cretaceous vertebrates.
In the Classical Museum a good collection of plaster casts, models, photographs, plates, etc., has been
made as an aid to the study of the ancient and modern languages. DEPARTMENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
The University of Kansas is not only a University in name but in fact. From the first the institution was planned as a University, but the professional schools were not opened for some years. The School of Law was opened in 1875 and continues in successful operation. In 1885 a School of Pharmacy was established in connection with the state board of pharmacy. There exist also schools of Music and Art which have good enrollments.
In the College of Liberal Arts there six regular courses. The requirements for admission to the Freshman class are an ability to write correct English, a knowledge of General History, U. S. History, U. S. Constitution, Algebra to the theory of equations, Geometry, plane and solid, Physics, Perspective Drawing In addition languages are required varying with the courses as follows: Classical. Greek two years, Latin three years, Latin Scientific, Latin three years, German one and one half years, General Scientific and Modern Literature, Latin, two years; German one year; Latin English and English three years. Special courses in civil engineering, electrical engineering, preparatory to medicine, applied chemistry and natural history are offered. The work in the Freshman and Sophomore classes is prescribed, though the six different regular courses offer much freedom of choice even in the lower class work. In the Junior and Senior years all studies are optional, the equivalent of three full studies being required to be carried. There are about 125 of these optional studies offered. Admission to the University is gained by examination or by presenting a certificate from the principal of any of the Kansas high schools which are accredited with preparing their students for the University. There are forty-eight high schools in the state which are in this close relation to the University.
Tuition is FREE in all the departments of the University to Kansas students.
FACULTY.
The University faculty comprises thirty six members. Many of these men have national reputations, whose fame redounds to swell that of the Kansas University.
Historic Novels for Summer Reading.
The German department asks students who contemplate taking the course in German Historical Novels the coming year to read this summer at least one of the following novels in the light of the outline which was printed in the commencement issue of the Courier. Notes should be made while reading, and a careful criticism written out on finishing. This suggestion is one which would be very beneficial for others than those designated, and the influence of such a careful examination of one work of fiction would be felt in all reading done thereafter. Even if one has already read the book, it would do him good to read it again under guidance of that outline.
LIST.
Scott: Waverly and Ivanhoe.
Dickens: Tale of Two Cities.
Kingsley: Hypatia.
Cooper: The Spy.
Bulwer: Last Days of Pompei.
George Eliot: Romola.
Erckmann-Chatrian. The Con-
script of 1813, or Waterloo.
Grasshoppers in Kansas.
The recent grasshopper scare in Colorado and Western Kansas is allayed. Chancellor Snow went to the grasshopper infested region in Colorado and discovered the grasshoppers to be a local species and not the dreaded Rocky Mountain Locust. Grasshoppers reported to be injurying alfalfa near Garden City, Kansas, being sent in to the University were discovered to be two species closely allied to the Rocky Mountain Locust, but not possessing the migratory habit of the dead pest, so that there is no danger to Kansas crops from these grasshoppers. Some tentative experiments looking toward the possible infection of grasshoppers in a way similar to the chinch-bug method have been made at the University this summer. The experiments so far give no hope of success.
Boarding.
WANTED-To cook for a club, also one room to rent. Terms reasonable. No. 1214 Kentucky street. Mrs. MAGGIE FITZ.
BOARDING FOR University students with or without rooms, at 925 Indiana street.
A. G LANDIS.
McConnell,the Tailor,Cives a Liberal Discount to Students.
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