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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
Notice Sal Walker's spring shoes. Miss Vincent is still visiting in the city. Mason is at his old C.C.Pill habit again The Sigma Nus will give a party this evening.
The Pronouncing Contest takes place today.
Miss Alice smith put on Kappa colors this week.
The girl's boarding club has napkins this week.
Prof. Haworth made a trip to Topeka Tuesday.
Williams and Hill have moved to 1003 Tennessee street.
Mr. Horton spent Saturday and Sunday at his home in Topeka.
Mason is not much of a fisherman but it is reported that he recently caught a large trout.
The Sigma Nus have named their club "Hotel De Trilby," after Pap Harrinton's favorite novel.
Messrs. Wherry, McCorkle and Beach attended church at the corner of Ohio and Warren streets Sunday evening.
Two enterprising pharmacy students were on the campus early Saturday morning giving an exhibition of their sparing ability.
According to a recent act of the legislature all bills paid by the University treasurer must be sworn to before a notary public. Since there are no other notary on the hill Miss Watson is doing a flourishing legal business.
What a disappointment awaits the Freshman botany class. Prof. Stevens has decided to require two hours for day laboratory work, without the work of making a fascicle. This takes away the pretext of gathering specimens, which formerly gave rise to so many Freshman picnics.
Prof Pryor and wife will leave for the East about the first of April Here the Professor will persue the study of music during the summer. He had hoped to go to Vienna Italy, and take up his studies under Leschilitzky, his former instructor, but Leschilitzky is no longer in Vienna, and consequently Prof. Pryor will remain in America. The graduating recitals will be given before the Professor leaves.
Miss Vincent, of Clay Center, and Miss Loader dined with Mr. H.I. Maxwel Monday evening, at the Topham club on Rhode Island street.
There has been more illness in the faculty this week than at any other time this winter. Professors Murphy, Marvin, Wilcox, Engel and Newson have all missed classes.
A mass meeting was held in the University chapel last Friday for the purpose of consolidating the University papers. The committee to effect arrangements consists of Messrs. Newson, Patton, Logan, Cone and Brown and Miss Blanche Thoburn.
Chancellor McDowell, of Denver University, will lecture Saturday evening in the M. E. church on "George William Curtis." The Chancellor lectures under the auspices of the Y.W.C.A.,Y.M.CA and a large audience is looked for.
The third bulletin appeared on Wednesday morning. This relic of the Dark Ages, is becoming a chestnut with the student body. If the authors of these bulletins entertain for a moment the idea that the student cannot see the source of such placards, we would suggest that their political schrewdness which has carried them so far, is fast waneing.
The following question will be discussed Friday evening by the Adelphic Literary Society: Resolved, That Labor Unions are conducive to the best interest of the Nation. Messrs. L. V. Olson, and A. Foster will speak on the affirmative, with Messrs. F. L. Glick and C. A Burney as their opponents.
To Botany students who desire to secure a beautiful collection of well pressed flowers, the following fact might be of interest. The most delicate tint can be preserved in the flower if it is pressed and dried between sheets of paper which have previously been saturated with a solution of one per cent of oxalic acid in water
The liberal appropriation to the Department of Palaeontology will enable Dr. Williston to carry out his plans for field work during the coming summer. Mr. Overton and Mr. Martin collect in the Cretaceous beds of western Kansas, while the Doctor with a small party of students will work in the Cretaceous and Jurassic beds of eastern Wyoming.