THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
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@OLLEGE WORLD.
A glance at the many papers convinces us that the spring poet killer will have an unusual amount of business for the next month
The Minnesota Magazine, U. of M , comes to our table this week. It is an excellent magazine, and would be a credit to any university.
Miss Ethel Brown won in the Iowa state oritorical contest; subject, "Plea for Shylock." Miss Brown lives at Oskaloosa, Iowa.
The University of Pennsylvania received two bequests of ten thousand dollars each in the past fortnight.
The Nebraskan, University of Nebraska, is offering a Webster's unabridged dictionary to the student who gets up the largest club of subscribers until the close of the school year.
The Crescent, New Orleans University, has an extensive staff, sixteen being the number of that body. They should be able to pilot the craft through the troubled waters to safe channels.
Our exchanges have awakened to the fact that the base-ball season is rapidly coming on.
Baker indulged in a "hard times" social last week. This a fitting sequal to the late oratorical contest at Topeka. Poor old Baker.
The subject of foot-ball is being vigorously discussed, pro and con, by the various college papers at present. The majority are inclined to think that the rules of the game should be changed.
The U of M. Ariel is advocating a chapel choir.
Accounts of the celebration of Washington's birthday occupied much space in many of exchanges last week.
One of the literary editors of the Independent who burns midnight oil reading oriental literature has conceived a new theory of transmigration of souls. He believes that only musical people attain Nirvani, and that the souls of those who can't sing are changed into cats, and have to spend long years practicing.-M. S. U. Independent
University Figures.
The annual catalogue of Kansas University will contain a number of very interesting facts about the leading state schools in Kansas. The catalogue will show that there are eurolled in the school as regular students this year up to the present time, 879 young men and women. The enrollment shown last year in the catalogue was 691. There will be enough more new students come in this year to make the total enrollment in all departments over 900. The enrollment comparing this year with last in the various schools is as follows:
1895 1894
School of Arts. 417 332
School of Law. 97 79
School of Pharmacy. 66 54
School of Fine Arts. 206 179
School of Engineering. 100 101
There are this year in all the schools 141 seniors, divided as follows: School of Arts 58, Law 46, Pharmacy 17, Engineering 14, Fine Arts 6. Last year there were a total of 114 degrees conferred, including the master's degrees. There has been an increase since Chancellor Snow has been at the head of the school in the last five years of from less than thirty graduates then annually to nearly 150 now. The students this year are a larger proportion of them from Kansas than has been the case in past years and there are parts of the state represented at Kansas University this term that have heretofore been unacquainted with the advantages offered. Since Professor Snow has been at the head of the school the attendance has increased from 477 with a large number of preparatory students, to 879 in the regular classes. The faculty has been increased two in the last year and now numbers 52. The library has received accessions of 2,630 volumes and now contains 22,735 volumes.-Lawrence Daily World.
What will some of the "Sports" do since the city council has passed an anti-cigarett ordinance?
Prof. Blackmar on Wednesday of this week delivered a lecture before the young Men and Young Women's Christian Associations, on Hebrew Institutions. The Professor has divided this subject into four lectures, one of which will be given every Wednesday afternoon during the month of March.