4 THE STUDENTS JOURNAL. ENGINEERING NOTES. The D—committee is the next thing in order, quite in demand this term it seems. Mr. John Morgan has taken to the turf. A very good calling indeed for him. Mr. J. Cezanne Kelsey has completed drafting and is devoting his leisure time to playing ball. The science club will hold its next monthly meeting on April 19th at 5 o'clock P. M. in the chemistry Building. Morsher, having completely recovered from the mumps, is again attending his classes. Crosby is improving his time making bread knives and other household articles at the shops. We conclude from this that he intends to get married soon. When visiting the physical laboratory. Freshmen are requested not to speak ironically in the presence of any of the galvanometers, or other delicate apparatus. Prof. Murphy is again on the hill, but has not taken any of his classes yet. He has almost recovered from his recent illness. The casting will soon be ready to set up two new lathes now being built at the shops. We will then have seven standard lathes altogether for the use of the students. Mr. Rice intends to form a class, in the near future among the Junious in sractical arithmetic. Deicimals will be the principal subject to be studied by them The Junior and senior classes have combined in studying the steam engine. Mr. Ward gave two very instructive and interesting lectures before the class on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Landis wear a care worn look on his conutenance these days He purchased recently agentlmens bicycle and domestic trangenility was immediately disturbed which still continues, so we are told. We do not like to harp on one subject all the time, but we de wish that there more room in the shops. They are always crowded and especially on Saturday morning. Usually all the machines are taken before eight o'clock by the students, on that day. Snow Hall. plating being a foreign missionary, and should he so decide, we are certain that our would be successful. Walker has been engaged in getting up a church directory of the principal churches in the city. He is now seriously contem- Prof Dyche lectured at Eudora Thursday night. Marcy is busy cooking turuips to feed the sporotricum, Judge Emerygave a talk on irrigation at the Y. M.C.A. rooms Monday night. V. L. Kellogg writes that he will be here during commencement. Some of the more advanced students working in the Department of Botany are assisting in the freshmen laboratory work. The Department of Zoology received two specimens of wild swan from Tonganoxie this week. As a result of the successful experiments in propagating the sporotricum in water cultures, and scattering the sports fly spraying, the Chinch-bug Department will change its tactics in this summer's campaign. Instead of wintering a small quantity of the infection and ovaiting until the bugs have come out and began their work in order to collect grim to start the cultures in the laboratory, the plan now proposed is to propogate a quantity of the infection in vegetable cultures during the early spring and thus be prepared to scatter it as soon as the bugs appear to carry out thir plan, new sterilizing appratus has been set up in laboratory and preparations are being made for experimenting on fifty farms under the direct supervision of the department. FICKLE FATE. When the winter ends its storming And the spring-time 'gins its warning And the johnnie-jump-ups ope' their eyes out wide, To my heart then comes a longing And a host of dreams a-thronging. And a lonesome sort of feeling hard to 'bide. When I seek out a fair daughter And we bie us to the water. When the winter ends its storming And the spring-time 'gins its warning And the johnnie-jump-ups ope' their eyes out wide, To my heart then comes a longing And a host of dreams a-thronging And a lonesome sort of feeling hard to 'bide. When I seek out a fair daughter And we hie us to the water 3