EDITORIAL.
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taught the advanced class in German. As a lecturer he is fluent, clear and copious, yet concise and pointed; as an experimenter he is exceedingly acute and aggressive. Many of his experiments have attracted attention in the scientific world. He is a frequent contributor to the Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, American Journal of Science and other scientific journals. He has lectured to public audiences in some of the largest cities of the country.
E. A. S. BAILEY, PH. D.
Prof. Bailey, of the chemical department, graduated in 1873 at Sheffield Scientific School, the renowned scientific department of Yale College. He remained to take a post graduate course of one year, also acting as an assistant instructor. In 1874 he was elected assistant professor of chemistry at Lehigh University, an institution well known for its fine technical training. In addition to his regular duties he spent much time in special investigation of ores, doing expert commercial work. He has acted as exchange editor for both the American Chemist and the American Chemical Journal, translating and editing foreign articles. In 1881 he traveled through Germany, making careful study in the finest laboratories of Europe. His design is to build up a reputation for the chemical department of Kansas University, by sending out students who shall be thoroughly able practically to apply chemistry in the arts.
ARTHUR E. CANFIELD, A. B.
Prof. Canfield—junior, we might say, to distinguish him from our older professor Canfield—graduated at Williams College in 1878. The succeeding year he went to Germany and spent one semester in Leipsic attending the lectures of professors Braum and Wuelcker, two semesters at Goettingen under professors Theodore, Wilhelm Mueller and Volmoeller, and two semesters at
Berlin under Scherer and Zupsitza; after this he went to Paris and spent a half year at the College de France, hearing professors Gaston and Paul Meyer. His vacations were spent in travel in Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy. He returned to America in 1882, and after a short stay at home was called to the University of Kansas to fill the place of his cousin, Prof. Jas.H.Canfield,who was very ill.The regents last spring honored him with the assistant professorship of German. Though very unassuming, a short acquaintance with him will serve to reveal to any one not only an extreme cordiality, but also a thorough and practical culture.
PROF. W. B. BROWNELL, A. B.
Prof. Brownell, occupying the assistant professorship of English and elocution, graduated last spring at Hamilton College, N.Y.Having just left college his reputation is yet to be made, but judging from a short personal acquaintance, the strides in that direction will be rapid. During his junior year he taught in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He was also exchange editor on the Literary Monthly,a paper of which Hamilton College may well feel proud.
THE CHANGES.
Since the last issue the Courier editorial staff has undergone a partial revolution that is, the editors have revolved half way round and stopped. The editorials will henceforth be dished out by Glen Miller, one of the former local editors. His accomplice in wickedness last year, Miss Mary Gilmore, takes hold of the new department, "Views," where alumni and old students, as well as present students, will present their opinions every two weeks. Perlee R. Bennett, in the "Fortnight,' will criticise entertainments and rhetoricals, and whatever seems to need looking after, in col-