Carrie M. Watson
THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
Published weekly at the University of Kansas.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 22, 1894.
Vol. XII.
No.19.
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We are glad to state the Local Oratorical Association has taken the proper steps to settle the difficulties that arose out of the State Contest. With the exception of two, all the institutions interested have consented to the call of a convention for the purpose. Should this be done, we have no doubt but K. U. will be given second place.
The recent stand taken by the Students' Journal in the matter of commencement exercises is surprising to say the least, and while we admire the spirit of humble submission manifested, we fail to see why this should be clothed with such a falacious argument.
According to the Journal the significance of commencement has been lost in Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and all the larger Universities of the country since they have adopted the plan of having a foreign speaker conduct in the commencement exercises.
Because there is a larger audience present on commencement day the Journal concludes the present form of exercises is the most popular. If this is true, why is the largest audience present at the commencement exercises of universities that have adopted the other plan?
The idea that we can develop orators the last three months of school, when we have displayed our inability to do so before, is absolutely ridiculous.
The crowded condition of the several departments located in the Chemistry and Natural History buildings illustrates in a pleasing manner the growth of the University during the last seven or eight years.
The School of Pharmacy, occupying the basement of the chemistry building, is so crowded now that the work has to be arranged in the most inconvenient manner to allow laboratory room for each class. The Junior Pharmacy class numbers at present 25 students, which is all that can be accommodated in the present quarters, should the school expand next year in the proportion it has in the past some proviso must be made for laboratory room.
The Chemical Department is in nearly the same condition. The Freshman chemistry class is always the largest in the "U," since all Freshmen of the schools of Art and Engineering as well as the Pharmacy students are required to take this work. The present class, numbering 120, has to be crowded into a lecture room designed to accommodate about 75 or 80 students. For laboratory practice Prof. Bailey is forced to divide the class into sections which he takes on different days. This is not only inconvenient for the professor but often conflicts with other work of the students. Again, the more advanced work, qualitative and quantitative analysis and organic chemistry, have to be crowded together in the south laboratory, which will accommodate but ten persons,—fortunately there are but ten students
aking this work now, but it is evident that expansion is out of the question until more room is provided.
Turning our attention to Snow Hall and we find the same condition of affairs. The Departments of Paleontology, Geology, and Mineralogy are very seriously crippled by lack of both laboratory and museum room. The lower museum in Snow Hall, assigned to the use of these departments, is now so full as not to admit of another case being placed in it. Prof. Williston has several very fine Paleontological specimens already set up, but he has no room for them.
The Department of Geology and Mineralogy, in which there are some fifty-five or sixty students, is crowded into one little room in the basement of Snow Hall. Prof. Hayworth has been at work for some time past upon the products of economic geology, of which there are at present no specimens in our museum. He has already secured enough material in this line to more than fill his one small room used for a laboratory. Besides this, he has some three or four thousand pounds of material already collected, upon the Geological Survey of the State, now being carried on by the Department, which he has been unable to unpack for lack of museum room.
From this state of affairs it is quite evident the University must have in the near future at least two new building.
A new chemistay building for the exclusive use of that department, leaving the present chemistry building to be devoted to the use of the Pharmacy School alone.
A second new building for the exclusive use of the Department of Zoology. Thus the large museum and rooms on the second floor of Snow Hall, now used by Prof. Dyche, could be assigned to the Geological Department, while the lower museum could then be devoted exclusively to Paleontology.
This expansion of the several departments mentioned is manifest in every department of the University. It marks a growth and development of higher education of which every Kansan should be proud, and we hope not only to see two new buildings but in the near future to see the campus literally covered with University buildings.
THE following, taken from the report of the University Council, will show the requirements for the degree of Ph. D., mentioned in last week's COURIER:
Regulations for conferring the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Kansas.
The Degree of Pu. D. will be granted on the ground of advanced scholarship and the performance of independent work in some special line. It will be given for scholarship alone, or for the completion of a prescribed course of study.
for seniorship alone, or for the completion of a prescribed course. Ist. The candidate must be a baccalaureate graduate of this University, or of a college or university whose degrees are accepted by this University as equivalent to its own, or he must give satisfactory evidence to the University Council that he possesses an equivalent preparation for graduate studies.
Counsel that he possesses an equivalent preparation for graduate studies 2nd. He must make application to the Committee on Graguate Studies before the first of October preceding the commencement at which he intends to present himself for the degree, and must then give satisfactory evidence of his ability to read with fluency such German and French as may be necessary for the proper prosecution of his studies.
3rd. He must have spent at least three college yaars in graduale studies, two of which must be at this or some approved University. The last year must be spent at this University.
4th. He must present a thesis showing the results of original research and pass acceptable examinations, both written and oral—the latter before the University Council—in one chief or major study and two allied, subsidiary, or minor studies. One hundred and fifty copies of his thesis must be deposited with the University Librarian before the degree is conferred.
5th. The lines in which the degree of Pn.D. is offered are as follows: Greek, Latin, Mathematics, French, German, English, Political Economy, Sociology, American and European History, Entomology, Paleontology, Mineralogy, Stratigraphical and Physical Geology.