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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
words missed in the first part of the contest: Guomon, malevolence, respite, simony, guillotine, falcon, falchion, naid, obligatory, subsidence, vaticinal, presentiment, longlived, lithorgic, heculean, necromancy, nomad, palmistry, sanguine, and resoluable.
In the second half the following students who had missed less than three words: Misses Olds, Gill, Bowersock and Gardner; Messrs. Messenger, Engle, McCroskey, Ewing and Souder, were asked to pronounce twenty-five words, which were written on the board before the class. The following is the list of 25 words: Beaureacracy, cerebrid, cerement, chirurgeon, chistory, complaisant, congeres, eczema, ercise, frontier, harass, jugular, parotid, persistent, poignant, obesity, palanquin, peri, exegetist, alloy. prescience, railery, sybarite, tirade and quasi. Of this list Miss Bowersock and Mr Engle each missed one, thus making a tie. On pronouncing off the tie Mr. Engle was awarded first prize and Miss Bowersock the second.
The members of the faculty deserve much credit for the manner in which the contest was carried on, and for the time and work they gave in drilling those students who desired to compete for the prize.
Engineering Notes.
The Engineers will be well represented in the Senior play.
We are glad to note an improvement in Prof. Murphy's condition during the past week.
Cracraft went to Kansas City Saturday to interview a representative of the General Electric company in regard to electric lighting
The medicine ball is becoming quite popular with the boys in the gymnasium. A new cover was put on it last week.
The freshmen are drafting problems in descriptive geometry. The study will be taken up after the spring vacation in the place of trigonometry.
Trueblood and O'Neil each had a severe attack of the mumps a short time ago. They have completely recovered and are again attending their classes.
Albers enjoys scientific German very much He says that he frequently spends two hours trying to translate a single sentence.
Prof, Marvin has again resumed his duties on the hill.
A number of the Engineering students are practicing for the base-ball nine this spring, and from all indications our school will be well represented on the diamond.
Mr. Rice intends to have some of the advanced students in the physical laboratory construct some electrical apparatus. This is a good idea, as it affords the boys excellent practice
Landis and Kitzmiller wired the Baptist church last week for a set of electric bells. They have already completed several jobs of this sort about town, all of which have given good satisfaction.
George Hale and Gomer Thomas are spending their vacation studying and in hunting ducks—the ducks that live in the country by the way.
Walker spends most of his time on the base-ball field, where he is becoming quite an expert.
Snow Hall.
An analysis of the city hydrant water made by Mr. Barber shows an average of 72 bacteria to the cubic centimeter.
The United States Geological Society has just ordered duplicates from the series of photographs taken by Dr Williston's party in the "Bad Lands" last summer.
Mr. Marcy, who has constructed many ingenious pieces of aparatus for the botanical laboratories, has just completed an automatic electric switch, used in connecting storage battery with the dynamo.
Mr. F. H. Newell, of the United States geological survey, and who is especially interested in irrigation, is having a series of photographs made by the University photographer, illustrative of irrigation, and the facilities for irrigation in western Kansas.
The committee appointed to carry out the state irrigation survey consists of Judge Frost, of Garden City, Judge Sutton, of Russell, and Mr. Tomlinson, of Goodland. with President Fairchild, of the Agricultural College, and Prof. Haworth of the University as advisory members. The bill requires twenty wells be sunk and provided with pumping machinery. The committee has decided to sink seven of these wells at