THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
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The recital given at Chancellor Snow's last Saturday was very much appreciated and enjoyed by the large number of guests present. After the excellent program was rendered, refreshments served and conversation closed the enjoyable occasion. The following program gained much credit for Music school:
Sherwood, "Minuet," Miss Parry; Henselt. "If I Were a Bird." Miss Wilson; Lennox. "Dream Memories," Miss Chandler; Scharwenka, "Tanz Impromptu." Miss Lingard; Singelie "Fantaisie on Opera, L'Enchantress," Miss Jean Bowersock: Baga. "Angel's Serenade" with violin obligato, Grieg "In Spring-time," Miss Noyes; Blumenthal 'The Message.' Miss Warren.
The following resolutions were adopted by the Law school of the State University,by a vote of 26 to 4 at a meeting held Tuesday morning.
WHEREAS, It has been reported through the columns of the Lopeka Capital and Lawrence Gazette, that the Law students of the University were circulating a petition denouncing Eli Cann because of his work in regard to the "University fee bill" before the committee of the Ways and Means of the state senate;
WHEREAS, The Law school, not having any thing to do with the sending of Mr. Cann to Topeka, had no reasons to criticise his actions;
WHEREAS, Such statements tend to reflect discredit upon one of our most highly esteemed fellow students, therefore be it
RESOLVED. That we denounce such reports as unqualifiedly false and without foundation, and further.
RESOLVED. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to each of the above named papers for publication.
J. R. Hitchcock Committee.
T. J. MADDEN,
Members of the legislature you cannot afford to allow this institution, which has won such hearty commendations from all over this land, to be crippled for want of proper support. Put up new buildings and advance Kansas to the front rank in educational advantages. Give her own sons and daughters the same chance enjoyed by those of other states.
The Museum Building.
A knowledge of the conditions that prevail in the departments of natural science in the University will leave no doubt in the mind of any friend of liberal education as to the pressing needs of these schools.
In the chemistry and pharmacy schools it has become a matter of getting space for recitations and laboratories; the overcrowded condition now actually preventing the students from doing effective work. One hundred and forty students are crowded into rooms intended for sixty. The situation is scarcely worse than that in Snow Hall This building at present furnishes classroom, laboratories and museums for fine departments which could easily fill two separate buildings and then allow no room for future growth. Zoology, Paleontology, Botany, Entymology and Geology each have their laboratories and museums with collections, including hundreds of thousands of specimens, which in other universities would be given buildings for their proper display and ample room for conveniently studying them.
The department of Zoology should have a fire-proof structure to preserve the two collections, the finest in the world, of insects diptera and of North America mammals
The fossil collections are not equaled by any other outside of those in Boston, New York city and Philadelphia, and they surpass these in some respects. Geology and botany could be left in Snow Hall. A fact in regard to this building should be known and its importance felt. It is that this structure is nothing less than a fire-trap. It now contains collections that could not be replaced for many hundred thousand dollars. A disaster could be brought upon the state and the scientific world by an accident in the electric wires, by gas or by lightning that would leave the blame with no one unless it be the legislature.
A building for Zooiology should not be put back for any other.
Two gentlemen who boarded a car in front of the Beta Chapter house and attempted to stand off the conductor were met by the exclamation "What's the matter with you fellows up there you never have any money."