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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 15, 1888
Week
Themes and Theses due to-day.
A sidewalk has at last been laid on Oread.
The Infant Greeks were quizzed Friday.
The Betas gave an informal hop Friday evening.
Think of it! A delegate was unan- monously selected!!
Why not another "Mother Hubbard" production?
The after-dancing class hops are becoming very popular.
The Phi Gams will entertain their friends next Thursday evening.
Prof. Hudson, of Topeka, will soon start a dancing class in the city.
The Geometricians are at present interested in the subject of spheres.
The High school will soon present "As You Like It" at the Opera House.
The Sophomore English class is preparing abstracts on "The Deserted Village."
West Lawrence vehicles are wearing out. Smash ups are daily occurrences.
The Old and New club was entertained Fridry evening by Professor Robinson.
Quite a number of Topeka people accompanied "The Doctor of Alcantara" troupe to Lawrence last week.
The exhibits of etchings and watercolors at the leading bookstores are greatly admired by the students.
No 14.
The Sunday Capital-Commonwealth contains an exhaustive article on K. S. U., written by E. L. Ackley.
Ten young ladies, chaperoned by Mrs. A. Monroe, will have charge of the charity fair to be held on the 17th and 18th.
The Phi Gams, who celebrate their seventh anniversary next week, are preparing to eclipse all former efforts in that line.
The class in Sophomore English has finished Goldsmith's "Deserted Villiage" and has taken up 'Keat's 'Eve of St. Agnes."
The social event of the season among University students will be the I. C. party, given at the residence of Miss Mamie Tisdale to-night.
Prof. Snow has just issued his annual Coleoptera (beetle) exchange list, which will be sent to the prominent entomologists of this country and Europe.
The Oratorical continues to cause the regulation "flowing about of brains" without effect. It is hoped that to-morrow's meeting will succeed in settling all difficulties once for all.
The foot-ball team is taking advantage of the fine weather and have a game nearly every afternoon. Practice up boys, and we shall beat Washburn in foot-ball as well as in baseball.
Prof. J. H. Canfield has donated to the library Bernard's History of the United States, revised by C. E. Bush. This book contains a full history of Kansas, and is a valuable addition to the Kansas department of the library.
The government is indebted to the natural history department of this institutson for donations of fine specimens of fossil leaves from the Dakota sandstone in Ellsworth county, this state. Our museum possesses the finest and most complete collections in the world in this line. They were obtained through the energy and skill of Judge E. P. West, who has spent the whole of his time for the last several years in collecting; assorting and preparing the specimens in the department of Paleontology.
The following judges and alternates for the oratorical contest to be held at Emporia Feb. 8th,1889,were selected by the convention held at Topeka last Saturday:
ON COMPOSITION.
Noble Prentis, Newton; Mr. Munsell, Council Grove; Gen. Taylor, Hutchinson.
FIRST ALTERNATES; Judge Martin, Topeka; Philip Krohn, Atchison; Hon. Geo. Winans, Junction City.
SECOND ALTERNATES: — Marsh Murdock, Wichita; Geo.T. Anthony, Ottawa; H. H. Russel, Kansas City.
Ottawa, H. H. Russo.
AT LARGE:—Judge Eskridge, Emporia.
ON DELIVERY.
Sen. J. H. Burton, Abilene; J. C. Banta, Hiawatha; Mr. Coffin, Wichita.
Mr. Luslett, Secretary of the Y. M.C.A., visited the Pharmacy Department Tuesday. Reformations are expected.
FIRST ALTERNATES:—Mr. Simmons, Fort Scott; Hon. Tom Fenlon, Leavenworth; Sen. Green, Manhattan.
SECOND ALTERNATES:—Prof. Sanders, Fort Scott; Gov. John A. Martin, Atchinson; Prof. Buchanan, Kansas City.
AT LARGE:—Ex-Gov. T. A. Osborne, Topeka.
Pharmacy Flareeks.
Prof. Sayre went to Topeka on Wednesday.
Prof. Bailey and assistants are determining the poison used on Mr. Field's dog.
Earnest Himoe visited the Chemical department Friday.
Athenæum.
Pharmacy Phreaks.
Smith is analyzing commercial coal-oils.
Last Friday evening a large audience listened to the following program in Athenaeum Hall:
Earnest Rankin, from Swift & Holliday's, Topeka, visited old scenes Sunday night.
Declaation . . . J. M. Lutz
Reading . . . McKinnon
Music . . . Miss Johnston
Current Event Essay. G. L. Holsinger
Discussion of the C. E. Essay by
the members of the Society.
Oration...H S. Hadley
Music. Miss Franklin and Miss Weber
Discussion of the C. E. Essay by the members of the Society
RECESS.
Oration...J. O. Worden
DEBATE. — Question : Resolved,
That the Aristocracy of the Dollar is
more to be desired than the Aristocracy
of the Blood.
Affirmative: W. D. Ross, J. E. Reneger.
Negative: J. A. Mushrush, R. D.
Brown.
The following persons were admitted into the Society: Misses Floyd, Lindley and Tinsley, and Messrs. H. L. Armnon, F. P. Edson, Fred McKinnon, McPherson, Stanley, Shellbarger, Weh2, and Wright.
Atheneum's mee'ings are open to all and everybody is cordially invited to attend.
To-night there is an election of officers. All members are requested to be present.
A large and appreciative audience assembled in the art room last Friday evening to hear Miss Simpson's lecture on "An Art Student's Life in Paris." The lecture was charmingly written, and presented in a lively manner the various phases of the somewhat Bohemian life of the Parisian art student.
The Art Lecture.
The lecturer spoke of the art teachers of Paris, and described their methods in a very interesting way. She also told an interesting anecdote of an occasion when she and some friends had an opportunity to encounter "French politeness" in a rather disagreeable form.
Miss Simpson opened by commenting on the interest of Paris as an art center, and the special advantages it offers to the student of art. The inestimable opportunities for study affordedby the galleries of the Louvre and the Luxembourg, were spoken of. These, together with the succession of numerous smaller exhibits, which last from January into the spring, and culminate in the great event of the year, the salon, form a continuous round, from which the art student emerges at the end of the season quite tired out.
The advantages of Paris for study, from an economical standpoint, were discussed. Furnished rooms, and board of excellent quality, could be obtained at a much lower rate than in new York City. Shabby appareal, lodgings in a little back street, or a three-sou ride on an omnibus, was always excusable in artists.
The models were spoken of in the course of the lecture. These were
generally French or Italian, preferably the latter. A number of other points of interest to the artist were touched upon,and the hearers dispersed after having spent a delightful half-hour. We believe it is the intention of the art department to give one of these lectures every two weeks, and we hope they will continue to grow in interest and popularity.
Science Club.
This popular University society held a very interesting meeting last Friday in its spacious headquarters in Snow Hall. The members, as well as the large number of visitors present, were highly edified, during the half-hour preceding the formal session, in examining Prof. Snow's collection of microscopic slides through the excellent instruments which belong to his department. This informal "microscope social" was supplemented in the regular program by a talk on microscopes by Mr.V.L.Kellogg. That gentleman spoke of the exhibition of magnifiers at the recent meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science at Leavenworth. It was there satisfactorily demonstrated that the instruments of American make, as used by this institution, compare most favorably with those of European manufacture with the ostliest accessories.
W. S. Franklin reviewed some of the more important recent scientific researches. In the course of his remarks he referred to a new treatise by Bernheim on Hypnotism, which is placed in the front rank of dissertations on this subject. Mr. Franklin also cited most interesting passages from the American Journal of Psychology relating to the same subject.
Prof. Snow was very much interested on discovering that the seven year cycle of maximum precipitation, as shown by Mr. Murphy's chart, was identical with the period of rainfall fluctuation at this place, which the Professor has the honor of first noticing.
Mr. E. C. Murphy followed with a paper on the "Relation Between the Rainfall and the Depth of the Great Lakes." This article was illustrated by two charts showing the rainfall curve for that region and the surface curve of the lakes.
The chairman of the annual banquet committee reported the purchase of a complete assortment of dishes to be used on that occasion, samples of which he exhibited in the club. The report was ratified with great enthusiasm. This annual Science Club jamboree has become a recognized feature in the doings of the club, and the extensive preparations now being made to render an unique and interesting program seem to justify the assertion that this, the sixth one in the history of the club, will in no wise fall behind its predecessors. The club voted to meet again next Friday evening.
Philological Club.
The club decided to purchase and put in the Library the Contemporary Review, the Nineteenth Century, the Fortnightly and the Neue Jahrbuecher fuer Philologie und Peadagogik; and to accept the offer of Prof. Marsh to add to these the Edinburgh Review, the London Quarterly and the Westminster. It also left with the committee the purchase of a modern language periodical for the library.
Miss Mary Manley spoke of the Vercelli Codex, a manuscript of Cynewulf, discovered early in this century at Vercelli, a small town in Northern Italy. Professor Cook, of the University of California, has lately issued a pamphlet to prove that this manuscript was carried thither by Cardinal Gaula Bicchierri, the Pope's legate to England from 1216 to 1218. The Cardinal was a scholar, a friend of learning, the founder of the Church of St. Andreas (probably in memory of his English benefice at St. Andrew), and later of a monastery and school, to which he bequeathed his large library. Among his books was certainly one in English. The Cardinal employed a French scholar with English interests, and English architects. Why may he not have been interested in English literature? His life and fortunes were in various ways connected with St. Andrew, an account of whom is one of the principal poems of Cynewulf. Therefore he would have had especial interest in the Vercelli book.
Miss Merrill gave a resume of the late Professor Sill's article on the Principles of Criticism. Critical principles must be broad enough to include all art; otherwise they are not fundamental. The effect of beauty on the mind is increased activity. The secret of all art is that it is the giver of what man desires most earnestly, abounding life. Art should be judged, then, according to its life giving qualities; literature, the highest of the arts, because of its expressive power; novels and poetry, the highest forms, because they convey more of the writer to the reader than any other form.
Miss Rudolph spoke of a new book on the Roman army in Caesar's time, by Mr. Judson. It is the fullest account of the subject in English, and a valuable addition to Roman school literature
Prof. Wilcox spoke of and read some extracts from an edition of the fragments of the Greek comic poets, with metrical translations, by Prof. Paley, and a Skeleton Outline of Greek History by Evelyn Abbott. He also gave reports of excavations and finds in Greece, at Athens, Mycenae, Tanagra and in Crete. At Athens the most important find is an inscription showing conclusively that the Erechthion had gables on both the east and west front. At Mycenae a large number of pre-Homeric graves are being found, with many articles in quite an oriental style.
Abe Levy has an elegant line of fine Silk and Cashmere Mufflers.