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The University Courier.
The Atchison delegation consisting of Will Winn, Chas. and Roy Fletcher, Rolla Mitchell, and Harry Fox, will go home for a visit Friday.
The annual reception of the Chancellor to the faculty and students of the University will be held in Snow Hall Friday evening, Oct. 27, from 8 to 11.
A meeting of the building committee, architects, and heating contractors, was held last Tuesday to settle upon a plan for heating the library building.
On Monday, Professor Newson lectured to his class in Mathematical Physics upon the subject of "probabilities," using a pack of cards to illustrate his lecture.
About 150 young women will be here to attend the Y. W. C.A.State Convention Nov., 2 and 5. The majority of these will represent the various colleges of the State.
The contract for grading the ground about the Chancellor's residence is to be let next Monday. It involves the excavation of 25,000 cubic yards of earth, 2000 of which must be removed from the premises.
The Lawrence Journal shows great push and enterprise in publishing a detailed account of Saturday's foot ball game, and circulating it on the street fourteen hours ahead of any other publication. Although it was strictly a business venture, it was quite a compliment to the two teams playing.
The first meeting of the Oratorio Society was held last Monday evening in Music Hall. The first half of the evening was devoted to vocal culture, and the last half to a study of the oratorio of "St. Paul" by Mendelssohn. Professor Penny this year intends to make the society one of unusual interest, and in addition to the choruses of St. "Paul," a thorough study of Gounod's oratoria will also be made. Only those possessing mature voices, a correct musical ear, and fair ability to read music at sight will be eligible for membership. To all those interested, an invitation is extended to meet with the society next Monday evening at 7 o'clock in music Hall.
Mr. Ed Little, ex-United States consul to Cairo, is on American Soil once more, and will resume his residence at Abilene. He received his appointment under President Harrison, amd for a long time was retained in office by President Cleveland. Mr. Little is one of K.S.U's graduates who has acquired great fame since leaving school, and the students of K.U. are proud to have his name enrolled among their alumni.
Over one thousand reports have been received by Chancellor Snow from farmers throughout the state in regard to the effect of inoculated chinch bugs in their fields. About sixty per cent. of these are favorable. While in the western portion of the state in the interest of the chinch bug work, A. G. Garrett picked up over one hundred thousand dead bugs from one field. They are to be seen in the Chancellors office.
Professor Bailey's department has just received from Germany a large amount of apparatus chemicals. They consist of fifty specimens of rare organic chemicals, a complete set of twenty hydrometers for measuring the specific gravity of different liquids, an apparatus which makes the representation of molecules and atoms very simple, a set of fifteen bars of pure metals, and a combustion furnace for organic analysis, which is the most complete and newest form. Besides these there are a number which have not yet been put together and set up.
The proof sheets of the Bulletin of the University Extension Lecture Course for the Academic year are being examined by Chancellor Snow. They give the complete University Extension Course which is offered by the University, and will be sent to the different towns desiring such a course to select from. Professor Hopkins is giving a course in Iola, Professor Dunlap and Professor Blake are lecturing in Leavenworth, and Professor Blackmar is giving a course of lectures here in Lawrence, and is also wanted very much in Kansas City. People in Kansas City, Kansas, Chanute, Topeka, Abilene, and other towns, who are desirous of obtaining a course, are in correspondence with the Chancellor. The University of Kansas is the only University in this section of the country that is doing regular extension work, and its professors are in great demand.