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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
Sec. 7. Students who leave the University for a longer period than six months shall sell their stock to active students, otherwise it shall revert to the company at par value.
Sec. 8. All transfers of stock must be reported to the company and be recorded by it in order to be valid.
SEC. 9. Each secret society holding at least three shares of stock shall be represented upon the journal staff. and the two holding the largest amount of stock shall have two, and but two, representatives each. In those departments having two editors one shall be a non-secret society stockholder and one a member of a college secret society. The Normal editor shall be a student of the University Normal Department.
SEC.10. The space of each department shall be apportioned by a committee of one business manager and two editors to be chosen by the journal staff on the day of their election.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION 1. The officers of this company shall be a president, a secretary and a journal staff.
SEC. 2. The president shall preside at all meetings of the company, shall decide points of order, shall call special meetings at the request of the holders of fifteen shares, or whenever a vacancy in office occurs, and shall perform all other customary duties of chairman.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the secretary to record all proceedings of the company; to call the roll; to read the minutes; to read all reports of officers; to receive notice of all transfers of stock, and to record them and all reversions in a book which shall be open for inspection to any student, provided, no transfer shall be recorded which violates any section of this constitution; to give the business managers notice of all reversions; to receive notice of equalization from the secret societies; to decide the validity of all transfers and reversions; and to perform such other duties as the office may require.
Sec. 4. The journal staff shall consist of twelve editors and two business managers.
Sec. 5. Each editor shall have supervision over the department to which he is elected, and shall carefully prepare articles for the same.
SEC. 6. The duties of the business managers shall be to publish the paper; to receive advertisements and subscriptions; to sell shares of stock held by the company, not violating any section of this constitution thereby; to make a written report of all their actions to the secretary on each date of publication; to receive and disburse all moneys necessary thereto; and to perform all other duties of treasurer.
SEC. 7. Six of the editors and one business manager shall be persons not members of college secret societies.
SEC. 8. None but stockholders shall be eligible to office.
ARTICLE IV.
SECTION 1. The officers of this company shall be elected on the second Friday of each college year, and shall take their places immediately after the next date of publication, and shall continue in office one calendar year.
Sec. 2. All vacancies shall be filled by election at a special meeting called for that purpose.
ARTICLE V.
SECTION 1. This company shall have power to adopt and enforce such by-laws as may be in harmony with
this constitution, and any by-law may be amended, suspended, repealed, or rejected by a two-thirds vote of the stockholders present at any meeting.
Sec.2. This constitution may be amended or repealed at any annual meeting by a vote of stockholders present, unless there be dissenting votes from three or more stockholders.
BY-LAWS.
1. The meetings of this company shall be held in the University building.
2. The votes of twenty-five shares shall constitute a quorum.
3. The president shall post notices of all meetings of the company upon the University bulletin board, giving at least two days' notice of the same.
4. The present journal staff shall hold their position until the next annual election, subject, however, to Article II, Section 6.
5. Robert's Rules of Order shall be authority on all points of order not herein specified.
Adopted September 18, 1882.
L. H. LEACH, President.
J. P. JACKE, Secretarv.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Following additions have been made to the University cabinets since our last issue:
A box of very interesting beetles, "with gorgeous wings, 'and' the marks of sovereign sway," from Australia and New Zealand.
Specimens of Iceland spar, from Cherokee county contributed by Prof. Robt. Hay. This is a new mineral to the state of Kansas.
Frank Dixon, taxidermist from Kansas City, is at the University mounting a family of deer, collected by the recent scientific expedition to New Mexico. This New Mexican family will occupy one of the new cabinets in the north end of the Natural History room on the third floor.
Some fine specimens of silver ore from the Forest Queen Mine, Colorado. Also some good ore from the "Old Boss Mine," Gallinas(ga-e-nas)canon, New Mexico.
Among other animals which the scientific expedition captured in New Mexico are two fine tufted eared squirrels and one peculiar rat with large eyes and ears and a bushy tail, much resembling that of a grey squirrel. The natives call it the trade rat, from the habit the animal has of always leaving a chip, stick or something in the place of things removed. I observed a case where a rat in a single night removed a half bushel of potatoes to a wood-pile three or four rods distant from the house, leaving the potato box half full of chips and sticks.
The other day Prof. Snow received a bottle from Cherokee county containing some larvae of the fly kind said to have come out of the nose of Mr. Milt Carter. The worms are about half an inch long and a line and a half in diameter. Thus far over sixty of these frightful creatures have made their way out of the proboseis. The man experiences much pain and thought for a time that a violent gathering was forming in his head. Prof. Snow thinks that the eggs from which the worms were hatched were deposited in the nose while the man was asleep. Moral: Don't sleep in the day time.