The University Courier.
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Miss Winifred Churchill was ill with "la grippe" last week.
Coleman's nose, which he broke in the game with Ann Arbor, and which he injured again in the game with Missouri on Thanksgiving day, will be a little crooked when it gets well, and will bend somewhat to the right.
Last Saturday's games: Princeton 6, Yale o; Harvard 26, U. of Penn. 4; Notre Dame 22, Hillsdale Coll. of Ind. 10; Ann Arbor 28, Chicago 10; Purdue 42, Depauw 18; Lake Forest 10, U. of Ill. 10; Leland Stanford 6, U. of Cal. 6; Union 26, Dartmouth o; U. of Texas 18, Dallas University o; U. of Ga. o, Savannah Athletic o; Southern Ath. 24, U. of Miss. o; Boston Ath. 4, Chicago Ath. 8.
Professor Templin is busy looking over the courses of study offered by the different high schools throughout the state for the purpose of classifying them for the new catalogue. Circulars were sent out a short time ago asking the principals of the high schools to send in their full courses, and about half of them have replied. Another circular was sent out Thursday morning for the purpose of hurrying up matters. The list of high schools that fully prepare for the University will show a marked increase this year. This is a very flattering report and shows that the standard of our high schools is being raised every year.
Last Tuesday evening, December 28, the members of Phi Delta Theta celebrated the eleventh anniversary of the founding of that fraternity at the University of Kansas by giving their annual banquet. After indulging in several hours of fraternity fun in their fraternity hall the young men adjourned to Wiedeman's, where they sat down to an elegant banquet. During the course of the feast, the toast master, Mr. Fred Kellogg, under the title "Moses," introduced the following toasts: "The New Members of the Fraternity," A. K. Suttermeister; "The Old Time Phi Spirit," O. C. Le Seur; "The Ideal Fraternity," H. Foster Jones; "By gone days," E. F. Caldwell; "Present Joys and Sorrows," Ermine C. Case; "Chords and Discords," William Higgins.
Chancellor Snow addressed a mass meeting of the students Thursday at 11.45 a.m., in regard to the library fee of five dollars imposed on each student of the University. After the Chancellor had explained why such a fee was necessary that it should be charged, James Orr of the Law Department addressed a few remarks to the students stating why the students of the Law school had taken the stand they had. From the appearance of things the affair is by no means settled.
Professor Blake has lately been experimenting, with a great deal of success, upon the purification of water by electricity. The method of treatment consists of passing a current of electricity through a 2 per cent. solution of salt and water, forming a very peculiar chemical compound. A very small quantity of this compound placed in the most impure water will remove all the organic matter, which is the dangerous part of impure water. Water thus operated on has been analyzed by the professors of the Chemistry Department, and has been pronounced absolutely pure. Professor Blake hopes to prove by farther experiments that this solution also kills the bacteria and animaculae in drinking water, and thus will remove the cause of a large number of diseases.
Professor Louis L. Dyche, the famous Kansas taxadermist, returned to Lawrence a week from last Tuesday afternoon from Chicago, where he spent the last year at the Worlds Fair exhibiting his collection of American wild animals. He left Chicago a week from last Monday night, and had everything in readiness for shipping his animals before he departed. He left the five car loads of his exhibit in charge of E.D.Eames, W.W.Wyland,and J.C.Saunders, and they arrived here last Saturday morning, after Professor Dyche had become very anxious about their delay. Professor Dyche is much improved in health by his trip, and is fifty pounds fleshier than when he left. All the exhibit has been brought back even to old Comanche, General Custer's horse which was to have gone to the National Museum at Washington, but General Forsyth, who pre-