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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
THE LARGEST COLLEGE JOURNAL CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES.
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For Kansas University Students.
L. A. GILBERT,
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EMMA HYNES,
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HARRY E. VALENTINE, Editor-in-Chief
CYRUS CRANE, JEAN HERSON,
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University Directory.
PHI GAMMA DELTA—Meets Saturday nights.
No. 75 Mass, St. 34, door.
PHI KAPPA Psi—Meets Saturday nights, 3d floor Opera House Block.
PHI DELTA THETA—Meets Saturday nights, A. O. U. W. Hall.
SIGMA CHI—Meets Saturday nights, 2d floor Opera House Block.
BETA THETA Pi—Meets Saturday nights, 4th floor Opera House Block.
SIGMA Ni—Meets Saturday nights, I. O. O. F. Block.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA—Meets Saturday afternoons, No. 75 Mass. St. 3d floor.
I. C.—Meets Saturday afternoons at Homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA—Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
OREAD LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoon in its hall, University building, south wing, 3d floor. Pres., Denton Dunn; see'y, Ela Ropes.
OROPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoon in its hall, University building, north wing 3d floor. Pres., A. L. Wilmoth; see'y, Laura Arnett.
Science CLUB—Meets Friday afternoons, in chemistry lecture room. Pres., R. L. McAlpine; see'y, V. L. Kellogg.
KENT CLUB, of Law Students—Meets Friday nights in Court House. Pres., J. W. Roberts; see'y, A. Overton.
PHILLOLOGY—Meets second Friday of the month in Greek lecture room, University building. Pres., Prof. Robinson; see'y, Prof. Wilcox.
MOOT SENATE—Meets in Orophilian mall every Saturday afternoon. President, John Mushrush; clerk, L. A. Baldwin.
ORATORICAL Association—Pres., E. G. Blair; see'y, A. L. Wilmoth; Board of Directors, Frank Crowell, Denton Dunn, V. L. Kellogg.
COLLEGE Branch Y, M. C. A. Pres., F. J. Gardner'ssey; see'y, T. Smith. This Friday night in homes of city association.
COLLEGE Branch Y, W. C. A., meets Sunday afternoons, at homes of members.
COUFFER Company—Pres., L. A. Gilbert; see'y Miss Emma Hynes.
REVIEW Company—Pres., S. W. Shattuck.
Base Ball Association—See'y, E. F. Neal.
It makes a person feel sad to see the black smoke pouring from the chimney, soiling the east front of Snow Hall. Though everything else be neglected, let the removal of the engine house be the first consideration.
In the library of Washburn College is a long table, on which are placed all the college journals received by the Argo in exchange. They are interesting and good reading. They give a student many new ideas in regard to other colleges and their work, and dispel many prejudices which may be formed against sister colleges. If the University will prepare a suitable table or rack or shelf in the library, the Courier will donate all their exchanges to the use of the students, reserving the right to clip all articles or notes which may be needed in making up the "College World" column.
Co-Education.
For years it has been the cry of the educational reformers, and the frienids of female education, that the girls did not have the same educational facilities and privileges as were enjoyed by the boys; that they have been debarred from enrollment in the classes of our great colleges and Universities; that the day has come when a radical reform must be made and that all educational institutions must be thrown open to them, giving them the same opportunities and same rights as are given to the boys. What has been the result of this cry and agitation can be readily seen, and it will be but a short time until there will be no occasion for a plea for the girls of our land in regard to education. Nearly all our newly founded institutions of learning are open to girls, the majority of them making no distinction whatever in the curriculum as regards the sexes. Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton—all the great institutions—are rapidly tearing away all barriers to the entrance of girls into their classes.
We believe that this is just, and that the girls are receiving no more than are their rights; but we would now, since we believe that there is no further cause for speaking in behalf of the girls, we would speak concerning a matter which we consider an injustice to the boys of free America. We refer to the shutting out in the cold, as it were, of thousands of boys from some of the greatest educational institutions in our country. We write scarcely able to control our feelings against this crying injustice. Why have the boys, they who have willingly, ay, eagerly, with outstretched arms, welcomed the girls to their colleges, why are they not allowed the privileges of enrolling among the fair classes of Wellesley, Vassar, Smith, Jacksonville, Bethany. Fair Kansas, the boasted center of co-education, with her ten growing and prosperous colleges, contains but one which is not co-educational, and that one, a shame to our boast, bars from her halls the presence of the male student, though many have been eager to enter. The workers for co-education have before them a heavy task indeed, the correcting of these abuses. It cannot be said that the boys do not need to be allowed to enter these colleges of well meaning but mistaken and old-fashioned ideas, that there are an ample number of good colleges where they are allowed to enter, for it is well known that there are branches taught in the girls' colleges which have no equals in any of the co-educational or boys, colleges. In Vassar all the domestic arts are taught, while at Wellesly the department of pie making is the favorite department, and the Dean of that department the most influential and best liked of the faculty.
The solving of the question of obtaining equal co-educational privileges for both sexes is the most difficult and yet the most momentous of all those that come before the educators of our land. It needs to be studied carefully and thoroughly. Neither sex should suffer for the sake of the other, the male should suffer no educational detriment that the female might thrive.
The editorial staff of the COURLER from the "devil," down to the editor-in-chief, wish to return thanks to Harry Riggs for the efficient manner in which he conducted the holiday number, thereby allowing them a visit home, and a much-needed rest and recreation.
FROM now on the Topeka Capital will be delivered to Lawrence subscribers by 8:15 o'clock of the same morning of its publication. Now let the University make arrangements whereby it can secure this paper for the library the same morning that it is published and not receive it from two to six days behind hand as heretofore.
Some negroes down in North Carolina killed a student of the North Carolina University. The boys were out on a little tear and got into a quarrel with the colored fellows when one of the negroes accidently insulted one of the students. That settled it. As the Magazine published by the students says "they did what any other high born chivalrous boy anxious to see his own race defended against that of the negroes would have done." They proceeded to get reinforcements to do up the colored population, but as the colored population were loaded one "chivalrous youth" sleeps beneath the daisies.
A GREAT many people and papers seem surprised at the large number of advertisements which adorn the columns of the Courier, and are disposed to criticise the paper on that account. To such we would say that the Courier runs no more advertisements than are necessary to its maintenance. This paper is not a money-making scheme, but the frequency of its appearance the amount of matter which it contains and its general make-up necessarily involve large expenditures Again by making our subscription price so small (smaller in fact than any of our exchanges) we have been able to popularize the paper and give it a wide circulation among alumni and other friends o the University. This we believe has enhanced its value and made it beneficial to University interests but our revenue on subscription has been quite insignificant. From these reasons it will be seen that we are dependent to a large extent on our advertisements for support And in this connection it is prope to again return thanks to the business men of the city for their continued favors.
Chancellor's Report.
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From the earliest years of the University, instruction has been given in music to those desiring it; but no serious effort has been made formally to organize a school of music as an integral part of the University work until the fall term of 1884-5. At this time William McDonald, jr., a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music was elected Dean of the Department of Music. This department has been in operation now for two full years and has met with singular success. No appropriation has ever been
made by the Legislature for its support; yet it has fairly established itself. The promise of its future is flattering. Its revenues are derived from tuitions.
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Since my last report, a School of Pharmacy has been established. The Legislature, at its session of 1885, directed the establishment of a chair of Pharmacy, and indicated the fund from which its support was to be drawn. These funds proving inadequate, the same Legislature, at its special session of 1886, generously made further and complete provision for the support of the chair. An extensive correspondence, followed by a personal interview, led to the selection of Lucius E. Sayre, Ph. G., as Professor of Pharmacy. Mr. Sayre is a graduate of the Philadelphia school of Pharmacy. After graduation, he was successfully engaged for a number of years in the business of a practical druggist. During this time, he continued his studies in theoretical pharmacy, and, in addition, gained eminence as a lecturer and teacher in the Woman's Medical College, of Philadelphia, and in the School of Pharmacy in the same city. He came te us, in September, 1885, with the highest testimonials, and entered at once upon his work. He has been eminently successful. The wisdom of the establishment of this chair has already been abundantly demonstrated.
The Department of Natural History, under the judicious direction of Prof. F. H. Snow, comes every year into greater prominence. The cabinet collections, chiefly in the Departments of Botany, Geology and Zoology contain not less than 160,000 specimens. These are classified and arranged in such manner as to contribute largely to the efficiency of instruction in these branches.
The increasing need of room for cabinets and laboratories in this department of University work led to the generous appropriation of $50,000 by the last Legislature for the erection of a suitable building for Natural History. One-half of this fund became available on the first of July, 1885, the rest, one year later.
At a meeting of the Board of Regents, held April 1, 1885, Messrs. Haskell & Wood, architects, were directed to prepare plans and specifications for such a building as was contemplated in the action of the Legislature. With these plans and specifications in hand, the building committee of the Board, consisting of Prof. F. A. Fitzpatrick, of Leavenworth, Hon. A. G. Otis, of Atchison, and the Chancellor, advertised for bids. The contract was let to J. N. McFarland & Son, of Lawrence, the lowest bidders, for $44,666. The location of the building was determined in full meeting of the Board, and ground was broken July 13th, 1885.
The greatest care was taken to secure a stable foundation. Indeed every wall, interior as well as exterior, rests upon the solid rock The work has progressed under the most careful supervision on the part both of the architects and of the building committee. The building now, September 1886, approaches completion. In its arrangement of rooms for the cabinet cases, laboratories, etc., in its location, in its architectural proportions, it is all that can be desired. The builders have done their work well. When it shall have been furnished with needed cabinet cases so that a display can be made of the material already collected, it will be a gratifying surprise, we think,
even to those who are best acquainted with the University, that so handsome a beginning has been made in this line of University work. Moreover, when the department shall have been supplied thus with the means of making an exhibition of the illustrative material in hand, and when the lecture room and laboratories shall have been finished with the needed apparatus, we think we may venture the assertion that but few of the colleges of the country will be better prepared for the most advanced work in natural history.
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Weather Report for December 1886.
PREPARED BY PROF. F. H. SNOW, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT LAWRENCE.
A cold December; although the minimum temperature has been often surpassed, its average temperatures were unusually low. There have been five colder Decembers in the past 19 years ('68, '72, '76, '78, and '84). The rainfall was only half the usual amount, thus fifty closing the driest year on our record. The sky was clearer than usual and the wind velocity was above the average.
MEAN TEMPERATURE—24.03 degrees, which is 5.62 deg., below the December average. The highest temperature was 58 deg., on the 10th; the lowest was 6 deg., below zero, on the 27th, giving a range of 64 deg. The mercury fell below zero on 3 days. Mean at 7 a. m., 19.03 deg.; at 2 p. m., 30.79 deg.; at 9 p. m., 23.16 deg.
RAINFALL — INCLUDING MELTED snow—0.83 inch, which is 0.80 inch below the December average. Rain or snow in measurable quantities fell on 6 days. Snow fell on five days, on two of which the quantity was too small for measurement. The entire rainfall for the year 1886 now completed has been only 24.25 inches, which is 11.02 inches below the annual average and is the smallest annual rainfall on our record.
MEAN CLOUDINESS—37.77 per cent. of the sky, the month being 14.52 per cent. clearer than usual. Number of clear days (less than one-third cloudy) 15; half clear (from one to two-thirds cloudy) 10; cloudy (more than two-thirds) 6. There were 5 entirely clear days and 5 entirely cloudy. Mean cloudiness at 7 a.m., 36.13 per cent.; at 2 p.m., 49.35 per cent.; at 9 p.m., 27.74 per cent.
Wind—N. W., 24 times; S. W., 22 times; N. E., 19 times; N., 12 times; S. E., 8 times; S., 5 times; E., twice; W., once. The total run of the wind was 12,170 miles, which is 463 miles above the December average. This gives a mean daily velocity of 392.58 miles and a mean hourly velocity of 16.36 miles. The highest velocity was 42 miles an hour, on the 31st, from noon to 1 p.m.
BAROMETER—Mean for the month 29.254 inches; at 7 a.m., 29.264 inches; at 2 p.m., 29.228 inches; at 9 p.m., 29.270 inches; maximum 29.788 inches, on the 4th; minimum, 28.825 inches, on the 17th; monthly range, 0.963 inch.
RELATIVE HUMIDITY—Mean for the month, 73.4; at 7 a.m., 81.9; at 2 p.m., 52.3; at 9 p.m., 76.9; greatest, 100, on eight occasions; least, 20.5, on the 20th. There was no fog.
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