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inaugural speech were very much impressed, such unanswerable logic coming from him "impromter" is bound to make some stir.
We have it on good authority that the Phi Delta Thetas are negotiating the purchase of the spacious dwelling between Prof. Bailey's and Prof. Sayre's for a chapter house.A mass meeting of the Phi Delts will be held in University Hall on Saturday night for the purpose of deciding the question.
Speaking of Fred Funston in the Kansas City Star, Will White says: "Before he went into the exploring business, 'Timmy" was by turns farmer, hollow-eyed student, real estate agent, reporter and train collector in a half a dozen states. Throw him off the Tarpeian heights, and he will come down on his feet and have a mortgage on the base of the rocks. The mortgage may be worthless, but it will be an interesting relic. He is a genuine Kansas product.
Wheeler-Wagstaff.
At the Episcopal Church Tuesday evening Mr. Robert Wagstaff and Miss Clara Wheeler were united in marriage. Both of the young people were former students of the University and are well known in society circles. The Courier extends congratulations and best wishes.
The Students Protective Association.
"The Students Protective Association" has been organized. Never in the history of the Kansas State University has so much and varied parlimentary law been expounded, never have so many blood curdling utterances, wild gesticulations and rising intonations been delivered.
The object of the Association is not, as might be expected to protect, identify or recover overshoes in the halls this winter, nor is it to guard timid students on "May Day," but it is to prevent the collection of the now famous "Library Fee" which we have already accounted to our fond parents as paid and which we have spent cheerfully. It was a circus well worth the seeing, Eli Cann, the "Patrick Henry of the Law School" represented the Association while the Chancellor defended the Fee.
Eli spouted, Powell vibrated up and down in his chair moving for an ajournment, Jim Owen tried to make himself heard and the law students applauded vociferously. Finally it was understood that each member of the Association would pay one dollar and a half to be used in litigation, and so the situation now stands, whether to pay one dollar and a half for chances to avoid paying five dollars or to pay five dollars and be through with it is the burning question of the hour. W. H. H. Piatt took no part in the argument whatever.
Science Club.
The first meeting of the Science Club for the present year was held on Friday evening, Oct., 5th. The first paper was by L.E.Sayre on his recent visit to Ashville, N.C., to attend the meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association. He spoke at length on several papers that were of special interest. He noticed one on the art of collecting and drying medicinal herbs,a paper on cod-liver oil,one upon the poisonous principle of the ordinary poison ivy, or rhus,and one upon the method of testing ordinary "baking soda."
T. B. Sears, read a very interesting account of the field work at the engineers camp last summer. He told of the dividing of the corps into four divisions, each having its officer, the division of the area to be surveyed into four plats, and the method of systematically carrying out the work in each plat. An excellent beginning was made for a complete survey of Douglas county. The students not only enjoyed the camp life, but were introduced into the practical work of surveyors.
F. O. Marvin gave an account of his recent trip east to attend the meeting of the society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, at Brooklyn. A large number of valuable papers were read, one paper especially noted, advanced the idea that the mathematical work of the course should be of such a character as to directly assist the engineer, and should be taught by an engineer, with that object in view. The visiting members were given an opportunity