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PHI GAMMA DELTA — Meets Saturday nights, No. 715 Mass. St., 3rd floor
PHI KAPPA Pst—Meets Saturday nights, 3rd floor Opera House Block.
PHI DELTA  TDETA - Meets Saturday nights, A. O. U. W. Hall.
SIGMA CIRI-Meets Saturday nights, 2nd floor Opera House Block.
Sigma Nu—Meets Saturday nights, K. of P. Hall.
BETA THETA P—Meets Saturday nights, 4th floor Opera House Block.
OREAD LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoons, in their hall, University building, south wing, 3rd floor. Pres Denton Dunn; sec y., Ella Ropes.
KAPPA  ALPHA THETA-Meets Saturday
afternoons, No. 715 Mass. St., 3rd floor.
1. C —Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA—Meets Saturday afternoons, at homes of members.
SCIENCE CLUB—Meets Friday afternoons,
in chemistry lecture room. Pres., R. L.
McAlpine; sec'y, V. L. Kellogg.
PHILOLOGY—Meets second Friday of the month, in Greek lecture room, University building. Pres., Prof. Robinson; sec'y., Prof. Wilcox.
WEBSTER DEBATING SOCIETY—Meets Saturday afternoons, in Orophilian Hall. Pres., Brandon.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION — Pres., E. G.
Blair; sec'y., A. L. Wilmoth ; board of
directors, Frank Crowell, Denton Dunn,
V. L. Kellogg.
COURIER COMPANY—Pres., L. A. Gilbert;
sec'y., Miss Emma Hynes.
REVIEW COMPANY — Pres., S. W. Shat-
tuck.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION — Sec'y., E. F.
Neal.
COLLEGE BRANCH Y. M. C. A.—Meets
every Friday night, in rooms of city Y.
M. C. A. Pres., F. J. Gardner; sec'y.,
L. T. Smith.
COLLEGE BRANCH Y. W. C. A.—Meets
Sunday afternoons, at homes of members.
The board of regents, in making up its estimate for the appropriations of the University for the coming two years, owes to our law department more attention than they have been according it. It is growing and gaining in influence over the state rapidlv.
Snow Hall. During the session of the Kansas state legislature of the winter of 1885, the sum af $50,000 was appropriated by them for the purpose of erecting a hall of natural history for the use of the Kansas State University. Though a liberal and generous gift to the University by the state of Kansas, nevertheless it was secured not without much work and care. Many erroneous ideas in regard to the use of
struction and for laboratory work in connection with the natural history collections, they became warm friends of the bill, and when it was further shown that there were thousands of specimens owned by the University, which, on account of the lack of room, were never able to be handled or examined by the students, and that thousands of dollars worth of specimens were in danger of total destruction by fire, the triumphant passage
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the building were to be corrected; many doubts as to the necessity of a natural history building must be dispelled. Many members of the legislature were at first indifferent to the bill, or actively opposed it because they supposed that the entire appropriation was intended for the purpose of display. They could see no great advantage in a "show" building. But when it was explained that one-half the building was to be used for in of the bill was secured. To the regents, to the chancellor, to the faculty, to the students, to the friends of the University, both in the legislature and out, and lastly but not leastly, to the Courier, is due the honor of having secured the passage of the appropriation bill. During the agitation of this bill the Courier was sent to every member of the legislature, and to every state paper. As soon as possible after the appropriation, plans were prepared by Haskell & Wood, of Topeka, under the supervision of Prof. Snow, and were accepted by the regents. After several meetings of the board of regents, the present site, directly west of the main building, was agreed upon, and proposals for bids were solicited. The contract was awarded to McFarland & Son, of Lawrence, their price, $45,000, being the lowest bid received. In June 1885, active work was begun and carried on at a rapid pace. The building was so completed that during the last summer three rooms were able to be prepared for the classes beginning last September, and since September the other rooms have been made ready for classes or specimens.
The building is constructed of the white "Cottonwood stone," rock face, broken ashler style, with roof of slate and cornice of galvanized iron. The inside is fitted throughout in ash, there not being a drop of paint used in the building. In its architecture the building is modified and modernized from the Medieval form, belonging to the interval between the Renaissance and the English Gothic period.
There are two principal stories, each sixteen feet in height, together with a basement and an attic. The first story contains a lecture room, capable of seating two hundred and forty-six. It also contains two geological laboratories and a large exhibition room (38x88 ft.) for the geological museum. The second story contains five laboratories for elementary and advanced work in botany and zoology, including entomology and comparative anatomy, together with a spacious exhibition room of the same dimensions as the geological hall, for the collections of plants and animals.
In these two splendid exhibition halls, each flooded with light from seventeen ample windows, the varied and valuable material of the University cabinets, now scattered from basement to dome of the main building, will find an orderly arrangement and become for the first time available for the proper instruction of our students and of the general public.
In the smaller exhibition rooms galleries are so arranged as to exhibit to a good advantage the articles to be shown. The windows of not only the exhibition rooms, but also of the recitation rooms and laboratories, are remarkably large, giving an abundance of light and sunshine.
The main entrance is on the north side of the building. Here a portico has been built, of a peculiar style of architecture, yet of beauty and grandeur in accordance with the building. Another entrance is to the east, being most convenient to and from the main and chemistry buildings.
In the expenditure of the money appropriated for the erection of this building, every dollar has been put to the best possible use.
There has been erected a hall which for beauty, will equal any public or even private building in the state; which for convenience and adaptability, will surpass any public or college building in Kansas. Beauty, magnificence, solidity, grandeur!
Dedication of Snow Hair
It is a fitting testimonial of the gratitude of the people of Kansas towards that Little Giant for whom it is so grand a monument.
No poorer weather could have been than that given last Tuesday, on the day which was set apart for the dedication exercises of the natural history building. The weather which had been for several weeks so mild and pleasant, turned on Monday evening, and Tuesday opened with blustering north wind and a cold rain and drizzle, which continued throughout the entire day, making the streets well nigh impassable, and rendering the climbing of the hill a difficult task indeed. But for this drawback the day would undoubtedly have been the greatest day in the past history of the University, and as it was, the exercises were truly in accordance with the solemnity and worth of the occasion. The visiting guests and those who were to take part in the exercises were received in the chancellor's room, where an informal reception was held by them.
At half past ten the large gong wasung, summoning those assembled into the chapel of the main building. The audience about half filled the power floor of the hall. Upon the chapel rostrum were seated Gov. Martin, the chancellor, the regents, the speakers, the faculty, members of the legislature, prominent citizens of Lawrence and many well known men of the state. After an earnest and beautiful prayer by Rev. Page, of Leavenworth, Judge Otis was introduced by the chancellor as a member of the board of regents. Judge Otis spoke to some length upon the past history and the prospects of the University. He described its growth from infancy, from a mere nothing, to one of the greatest educational institutions of the United States. He described the University as it was when he was appointed as a member of the board of regents four years ago, when but one building existed. The question then arising was whether the University was to remain at a standstill, to be a common college for evermore, or whether it was to be extended and improved until it was for the great west what Michigan University was for the northwest. The state decided that it was to be, and since, that policy has been carried out in the management of the University. In 1883 the chemistry building was erected. The law department was strengthened. In 1885 the pharmacy department was established. The appropriation was made for a hall of natural history. This appropriation shows faith in the University. It is evidence of a desire to honor a professor who deserves to be honored. The appropriation was without limitation or restriction. As to the question of what was done with that appropriation, he will point to that magnificent building, Snow Hall. Mr. Otis then showed what their future course of action would be. It was their wish that more ladies would attend the University; the ladies now enjoyed all benefits. He called upon the friends of female education to help in the matter. A residence was wanted for the use of the chancellor of the University. No private corporation would allow twenty-four hours to elapse, its property valued at that of the University, without a superintendent of some kind in constant surveillance.
After the address of Regent Otis, the chancellor introduced Prof. Snow,
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