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EDITORIAL.
UNIVERSITY COURIER.
A SEMI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF
THE STUDENTS
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
EDITORS
P. R. BENNETT, '86. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fortnight.
AGNES EMERY, '84, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary.
D. B. BRADY, '86, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editorial.
GLEN L. MILLER, '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scientific.
PROF. L. L. DYCHE, '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scientific.
A. S. RIFFLE. '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swaps.
MARY GILMORE, '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Views.
CHAS. METCALFE, '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Normal.
J. E. CURRY, '85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swaps.
NETTIE BROWN, '87. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal.
W. Y. MORGAN, '85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Corridors
NETTIE HUBBARD, '85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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THE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS.
The Courier takes pleasure in presenting its readers the portraits of the members recently added to the faculty of the University of Kansas. We have prepared these both to satisfy a curiosity among old students as to the appearance of the new professors, and as the inaugural of a number of special features we intend inserting in the second volume. As the comment of the state press on the recent changes in the University has shown a partial lack of information, and in some cases has been positively ludicrous, we give herewith short sketches of the past work of the new faculty members.
REV. J. J. LIPPINCOTT, D. D.
Dr. Lippincott, like his predecessor Dr. Marvin, leaves the chair of mathematics in a prominent Methodist institution in Pennsylvania. to accept the chancellorship of the University of Kansas.
His life's work has been devoted entirely to education. He graduated at Dickinson College about twenty-five years ago, from which place he went to Remington, N. Y., to accept the chair of mathematics in an academy. After spending a number of years there, he moved to Scranton, where he was placed at the head of the public schools. His excellent management of these schools won for him the vice presidency of the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton After a successful career in normal teaching, he resigned to accept the presidency of a private instituton at Baltimore. From here he returned to his old college home at Carlisle, to accept the professorship of mathematics in Dickinson College, a position he has held for a long term of years. At Carlisle he became prominently identified with the movement for the practical education of the Indian children. We understand that Dr. Lippincott accepted the chancellorship here only at the request of influential friends, who regarded his selection as one that would prove most valuable to the University.
EDWARD L. NICHOLS, PH. D.
Dr. Nichols, the new professor of astronomy and physics, graduated at Cornell in 1875, when but twenty-one years of age.
He immediately went to that Mecca of students, Germany, where he spent one year in Leipsic, two years in the laboratory of Baron von Helmholtz at Berlin, and one year at Goettingen, where he took the degree Ph. D. Returning to America, he was a fellow in physics in Johns Hopkins University in 1879-80. In 1881, he accepted the chair of physics and chemistry in Central University, Richmond, Ky., where he remained until called here. Notwithstanding the duplex labor of his chair, in addition, he worked up and delivered regular lectures in mineralogy and geology, and