The University Courier.
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vides better means for the instruction of its young men and women in medicine.
Furthermore, the department would and should be almost if not quite self supporting from the fees of students who are now compelled to pay from fifty to two hnndred dollars a year each for tuition elsewhere. About the only expense which would devolve upon the state would be the equipment, and this would not be great. A building for the departments of medicine and pharmacy need not cost over thirty thousand dollars, and to this should be added twenty thousand for appliances of instruction. Already the University has, or soon must have, among its regular instructors a half of the required faculty, and six thousand dollars annually would provide the rest, including those in Homoepathy.
The subject is one of paramount importance not only to all friends of higher and better instruction in this state, but to the alumni and the citizens of Lawrence. A concerted action will insure the organization of the department in the immediate future, and it should be made.
Faculty Changes.
Mr. V. L. Kellogg has obtained a year's leave of absence. He will spend several weeks at Cornell assisting Prof. Comstock in the publication of a new book, and will then go to Europe. His classes will be heard by Mr. Will Snow.
There are three new instructors in the school of art. Mr. Farrell, of Leavenworth, will teach violin; Mr. A. H. Clark, Kansas City, Drawing and Painting, and Mrs. A. H. Clark, oratory.
Prof. A. S. Olin has been added to the faculty as instructor in Pedagogics.
The Kansas University Quarterly for January will be gotten out by Professor Haworth and will contain an article on the geological survey and a stratographical map of Kansas. Mr.W. H.Piatt and Mr.Jenks of Iowa have spent most of the summer travelling over the state making a draft of the county, locating lime and other mineral belts.
PERSONALS.
Harding will be back this year. M.E.Hickey will teach at Florence.
Jus. Bowersock will attend the Harvard law school.
Werner is in the commissary department at Omaha.
Carl Phillips, of Pocatello, Idaho, is visiting in Lawrence.
C. F. Pattijohn, of Olathe, will enter the Freshmen class.
Sheffield Ingalls, of Atchison, will enter the University this year.
Hall Riddle has a good position in the Lawrence high school.
Miss Maggie Rush teaches at Minneapolis. W.W.Reno is principal.
R. L. O'Leary will teach at Pleasanton, and R. D. Ross has J. H. Sawtell's old place at Hartford.
Will Mason, John Nicholson and Jean Alder, graduates of the Lawrence high school, will attend the University.
The library and all the halls have been carefully cleaned lately.
Fred McKinnon has actively entered upon his duties as Chancellor Snow's private Secretary.
Prof. Otto Lugger, of Minnesota, visited Chancellor Snow about August 1, and thoroughly looked over the chinch bug work.
The new superintendent of buildings and grounds is Mr. John Wilson. He is a substantial farmer of Douglas County.
A representative of the Russian government, Mr. W. R. Williams, was sent here to investigate the chinch bug extermination plan, during the summer.
It was the expectation that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Prof. H. N. Gaines, would deliver the opening address, but he had to be in Chicago at that time.