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THE COURIER publishes a letter from William Harvey Brown in this issue which will interest his large circle of University friends. A letter from the United States Consul, at Cape Town, dated Nov. 18th, 1890, states that the expedition has arrived safely at its destination and that no attacks from the natives are to be feared now. The Consul says that while at Cape Town, Brown spent much time at rifle practice and is considered one of the best shots and all around woodsmen in the expedition. A letter received by the Consul from Brown stated that he was in good health and very busy collecting specimens, the country being full of all kinds of animal life. Every one will be glad to hear of Brown's success, for he was one of the self made men of the University, and while here was the admiration and esteem of all, not only by his great perseverance and pluck but for all his manly qualities.
CHANCELLOR SNOW has received in the last few days a number of letters from young men in the east in reference to entering school here. One or two letters have been received from students in Philips Exeler Academy, one of the preparatory schools in the east. These students feeling that they cannot afford the expense of attending one of the great eastern Universities such as Harvard or Yale, desire to enter a college where tuition is free and where they can pursue their courses much cheaper than they can at any other college of equal standing. They are also attracted to a school where those having ability and character, although without much wealth, are recognized as social equals much more than at the great eastern centers of aristocracy. It may be that in a few years it will be as common for an eastern young man or woman to come to a western University as is now for westerners to go to an eastern University. Western people will send their children east for a year or two in order to get the polish and general culture of the east. Eastern people will send their children west to receive part of their education in the free and bracing educational atmosphere of the west and to have them get in line with western methods and ideas.
Some Views on Things in General.
The above heading is chosen for this article on account of its comprehensiveness, like a political party's platform it may cover anything and everything; it is perfectly adaptable to the circumstances in any and all cases, and in any event will leave a loop-hole by which the writer may escape if the occasion requires it. One of the great events of the school year has come and gone, oratory has spread her wings and scared aloft to the amazemen of the first year students and the joy of the personal friends of the respective orators. But alas, the decision of the judges, like the federal appointments, made one happy man and cast all the rest down with despair and chagrin. Each of the orators was rewarded with "heart felt and long continued applause," provided he waited long enough. Then while the audience was waiting, that the judges might be appropriately deliberate in rendering their decision, the officers of the Oratorical Association and other important persons paraded through the aisles, while the mob in the gallery called the name of each dignitary as he appeared, in order that strangers might know who were our prominent characters. But finally all the important personages, with due parade, got together and held a wise consultation, then there being nothing else to do, Prof. Fulton, a real, live professor of elocution and oratory from Kansas City, consented to entertain the "highly appreciative" and most "cultured" audience until the judges should agree. Prof. Fulton, by the aid of a few jestures scarcely worth the speaking of, put the audience in an excellent humor and prepared the way for anything that the judges might announce. Finally the president appeared on the rostrum, holding in his hand a slip of paper from which he read the decision of the judges, reading the second place first. The second place elicited some slight applause, but we reserved our strength for the first man. The opportunity came. We made a good start on Rock-Chalk-Jay-Hawk, but just then two or three small boys in the back gallery started a cry that sounded something like this:
Sky high,
Phi Psi.
Live ever, die never
The Rock Chalk was stopped and slowly and solemnly the audiences filed out to the continued cry of
Phi Kappa Psi.
Sky high,
Phi Psi.
Live ever, die never,
Phi Kappa Psi.
I had also intended to venture some remarks on the pernicious custom of examination, but as the grades are not yet all in, and some professor might take to heart what I should say, I will defer my remarks to a more suitable time. CAXTON.
Phi Psi.
WITH
AN EXPLORING PARTY.
An Interesting Letter From Hervey White, Formerly of the University.
*n* are permitted to copy the following extract
from Mr. White to Chancellor
Snow—Ed.
The party consisting of ten observers and twenty-five hands,mostly Mexicans, with a train of seventy animals, horses burros, and mules has travelled from southern Arizona into Mexico through the towns of San Pedro, Fronteras, Oputo, Guasabas, Granadas, Bacadahueache, Nacori, and are now some twenty miles from Casas Grandes. This takes in considerable mountain desert before the town of Oputo, then the Bavispe valley south to Granadas, some of the mountains across the Nacori valley, the main range of Sierra Madre, the Bavispe river again near its source at the old trail made by General Crook and then the mesas to Casas Grandes.
In my own work there has been much of a sameness. Are still in mountains of the same upheaval as those in which we started. Rock is all felsite, varying much, sometimes running into granite. No mineral veins to speak of. I have made but one real find. In the Nacori valley, around the town of Nacori, are quite a number of large bones in the clay of an old river deposit. They are very poorly preserved, however, not being silicified in the least and are all fragments save one, looking somewhat like mastodon bones. That one is the find. It is a horn six feet, eight inches long, twenty-six inches in circumference in the largest place having the curve of a circle though completing only about 200 degrees, with a compound lateral curvation of eleven inches. The color is horn brown and black, the tip, blunt and worn. If one could imagine a head large enough to carry it, he might liken it to the horn of an African buffalo. That it is a horn and not a tusk, I have no doubt, every one is convinced of that. At the base it is thin, one-eighth of an inch, and horn like, and the hollow thirty-two inches long, tapers rapidly. Can you give me any clue as to what it can be? Mr. Stephen says he never heard of anything of the kind. and Prof. Libbey shrugs his shoulders and says: "Leave that to the geologists." You probably know that he is Professor of Physical Geography. The specimen was under twenty-five feet of clay. Other bones have been seen near by and I found a few fragments but I am satisfied that the horn was alone and hollow when deposited there. These bones are scattered all through this terrace there, and no doubt more will come to light as erosion goes on, but being so frail they go to pieces at once, and as there seem to be no beds of them it does not pay to dig blindly. The horn itself is but poorly preserved, being soft and flaky, but it is entire and packed as good as possible, with the material we had.
In archaeology, too, the report is rather meagre. There have been two kinds of ruins, if you could call them such, one in the valley of the Bavispe, and the other in the mountains and along the Bavispe, near the source. The first class, or that of the valley's, consists of rows of stones set in the ground, sometimes in long lines, but oftener in squares looking like the ground plans of houses, sometimes forming a series of rooms around a hollow court, but often arranged on each side of streets or irregularly suiting the lay of the ground. These stones are about a foot in diameter, such as lie about handy and are set in the ground for about half their depth, and say from twelve to eighteen inches apart. The ruins are found on the high terrace, back from the river, rarely on the flat, sandy terrace below. Bits of pottery are usually found, but of a poor grade, and the decorated is very rare. Mr. Stephen tells me these same forms are found in Arizona and New Mexico, and explains them as being supports for the brush huts of wandering tribes. The second class or those found in the mountains, seem to have been made by the house-building Indians. The houses which, while they are near water, are always way up on some commanding point, often 600 feet above the stream, consist of rude walls of undressed stone, never more than four feet high. Sometimes they are solitary, but oftener are in small villages. They can be found on any hill top near water. Connected with these is the most remarkable part of the ruins, consisting of rifles or dams built across every draw, hollow and canon in the mountains. They can be counted literally by the thousand, from the mountain tops to the streams, every where since we left the Bavispe river at Granadas. They too are walls built of undressed stones, broad at the base like a dam, and all the way from one to ten feet high, and stretching across the stream some times not more than four feet in narrow canons and often one hundred yards in the wide shallow hollows. There is always a series of these rifles. I have counted thirty in one canon, at different distances from each other. They seem to have been built to catch the dirt that washes down from above, thus making a level spot on which to cultivate the corn of the people. At least they have done this, and have given the canons the appearance of wide terraces. They could have hardly been built for mining as there is nothing here to mine. Around the houses, ruins can usually be picked up, fragments of pottery, often decorated. I am saving a piece of each type for the corner in the museum in Snow Hall. The Princeton men here are making their little collections, and I see no reason why I should not do the same, especially when they take up so little space. I am also making a little collection of ferns for the herbarium, and just as winter set in I began to pick up the curious beetles
for you, but the result of so late a start is only two specimens. Though I can say that our entomologist has neither of those in his collection. They are from the mountain tops.
The vegetation has probably been much the same as would be seen in Arizona and New Mexico. Several varieties of scrub oaks and pines. Along the Bavispe we saw two species of palms, one of which was the date, some orange trees, (cultivated,) and plenty of mesquite. Cacti too are numerous, though the variety is not so great. Some fine agavas grow here that our botanist thinks new.
The weather is generally warm and pleasant, cool at night. Down to seventeen, above once. Our greatest elevation was 8,850 feet.
UNIVERSITY life has been unusually quiet this week owing to the oratorical contest being out of the way and the examinations in the way. The new term will usher in a number of parties and social events as well as new students, and University life, after a little flutter of gaity, resume its normal state.
At a meeting held a few days ago at Washington, D. C., Prof. Y. W. Blackmar, was elected a member of the executive council of the American Economic Association of which Francis A Walker is president. This association was organized in 1885 and is for the encouragement of economic research and to promote freedom in the discussion of economic subjects. A number of economic works are published each year. The election of Professor Blackmar to the council is a deserving compliment to that gentleman and as a member he will honor both the University and Kansas.
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