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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Now in the Twentieth Year of its History,
HAS ESTABLISHED
A Department of Science, Literature and the Arts, a Department of Law, a Department of Music, Department of Pharmacy,
and a Department of Art.
It is thus prepared to give thorough collegiate instruction and professional training in the departments named.
THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT takes undergraduate studies at the University of California, San Francisco.
The course of study has been rearranged and enlarged in the Department of Law. The course of studies covers two years. Tuition, $25 per annum.
THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC has been in successful operation for two years. The best instruction is given in Piano, Vocal Culture, Chorus Singing, etc.
THE DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY was opened in the fall of 1885. It is already an assured success. Instruction theoretical and practical, 3,000 physicians prescriptions in the original are in use in the department. Course in the University, two years leading, after two years of practical work, to the degree Ph. G. Tuition, $25 per annum.
A DEPARTMENT OF ART was opened in the fall of 1885, under the care of Miss Mary L. Simpson. Instruction is given in Drawing, Oil Painting, Water Colors, Decorations, etc.
The next Term will open Wednesday, September 8th.
A Preparatory Department is maintained specially for those who lack the preparation in the languages required for admission to the Freshman class.
Necessary expenses vary from $180 to $300 per annum.
For catalogue and any information address
J. A. LIPPINCOTT, D. D.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
The twentieth catalogue of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 1885-6, just issued from the press, is a neat pamphlet of about one hundred pages. In mechanical execution the printer has left nothing to be desired. The type is clear and distinct; the paper, slightly tinted, is of good quality.
Twentieth Annual Catalogue.
In general appearance the catalogue resembles its immediate predecessors, but an examination of its contents discloses some important changes. The Board of Regents remains unchanged, except that Regents Otis and Simpson are removed from the bottom to the top of the list as being last appointed. As at present constituted, this Board appears to work so harmoniously and withal so effectively that one is almost led to the wish that it might continue indefinitely to guide the development of the institution committed to its care. Certainly a Board charged with such responsibilities should not be subject to rapid changes. Continuity of plan and development mark the growth of an institution as of a plant, and a sudden change of purpose or of method will mar the one as wall as the other.
The Board of Instruction numbers twenty-six. In the present issue of the catalogue appear five names for the first time: Alexander M. Wilcox, Lucius E. Sayre, P. D. Aldrich, Adelaide Rudolph and Mary L. Simpson. It is emphatically a working faculty. In addition to the daily work of the lecture room, each professor (we believe without exception) is busy with some special line of study or of investigation. Into this special work also have been drawn many of the more ambitious students, as witness the Science Club, the Mozart Club, the Engineering Society, etc. In these clubs the professors and the students work side by side and on equal terms. Indeed, it seems a characteristic of the University of Kansas that the students and their professors are on more intimate terms than can be found in the usual American college. The advantages derived from this more intimate relationship are two-fold—the professors are held to a more generous sympathy with their students; the student profits from association with his instructor. May the time never come when the faculty and the students of the K. S. U. shall drift into the antagonisms so common in college communities!
The total enrollment of students is 419. When it is remembered that the Preparatory department, necessarily so prominent in the earlier history of the University, has been systematically diminished for the last three years, and that the Normal department disappears from the catalogue the present year, the friends of the University may well feel satisfied with this showing. The Preparatory department, which three years ago contained three full years of study with a total of 350 students, now appears under the caption "sub-Freshman class." Students are yet received, however, who must in the University begin the study of Latin and Greek as also of French and German. This is due to the fact that comparatively few of the High Schools of the states are prepared to give instruction either in the classics or in the modern languages.
Two new "Departments" appear
for the first time in the catalogue— Pharmacy and Art. The department of Pharmacy has been an assured success from the beginning. It numbers twenty-three students, of whom three will graduate at the close of the present year. A room is being finished and furnished for exclusive use as a laboratory in Pharmacy.
The department of Art has quietly taken its place as a development from the drawing classes. There is reason to believe that this will prove the foundation of a school of art that shall become an ornament to the University and to the state.
The department of Law, greatly strengthened and encouraged by the liberality of the last legislature, has doubled the number of its students. With its increased facilities, it ought, and doubtless will, achieve a rapid and permanent success.
Another feature of very great importance, as it seems to us, takes its place with the least possible ostentation in this catalogue. The study of Spanish is to be introduced at the opening of the next term. There is no loud heralding of the event. An asterisk placed over against the name of Professor Carruth in the Board of Instruction calls attention to the modest foot note: "Prof Carruth will also, for the present, instruct classes in Spanish." This is the beginning of a work that has been delayed too long already. It is a gratification to know that students in the State University are to have the option of Spanish, and a further gratification to know that thus work is committed to the hands of Prof. Carruth.
Some very valuable apparatus has been obtained during the past year for the department of Physics. These additions have been in good part manufactured expressly for the University, some in this country and some in Europe. If the liberality of the last legislature shall continue, it will not be long before a new building will be called for to accommodate this line of work.
The fact is also revealed that the cabinets in zoology, botany and geology, continue to receive generous additions. We are told that upwards of 150,000 specimens afford important aid in the study of natural history. The recent collections of fossils from the coal measures of southern Kansas, hidden away for the present in dark basement rooms beyond the reach of ordinary visitors, are invaluable. The erection of Snow Hall will soon give these and other collections, equally worthy, the display which they so richly merit.
On the whole, the University is to be congratulated. It is making rapid and substantial growth. The people of the state regard it with increasing pride. There seems to be but one feeling in regard to it throughout the state, but one desire, one determination—that the University of Kansas shall take its place speedily with the best educational institutions of the country.
To the constellation of American magazines has been added another star of the first magnitude -The Forum. It is no fleeting meteor, but has come as a permanent light.
The Forum is attractive in form and contents. Its live, energetic, impartial treatment of the questions of the day will soon give for it a place in every library.
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