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STUDENTS JOURNAL
A Bakerite was up to the city last Tuesday and layed in a supply of cigaretts.
It may not be generally known that we have in the Junior Law a poet who has gained some notice.
The lilacs in bloom on the State University campus are very lonesome beside the girls in their new winter hats with the big black "tips."-Kansas City Star.
The talk of Courier,-STUDENTS JOURNAL,-Review,-Courier-Review and STUDENTS JOURNAL-Review would lead one to expect, next, a University Review of Reviews.
"The law of gravity still holds good," remarked a student of science, as "Pap" Cowan measured his length on Snow hall floor after attempting a difficult feat on the bar.
To-morrow we play the foot-ball team of Doane. Last year Doane tied with Baker, so it may be assured that the game will be one of interest to every loyal K.U. student.
The Athletic election may have been a "school boy"election, as some of the dissatisfied ones have expressed it, but certain it is that the faculty were not lacking in fatherly interest.
Have you heard any one say how he likes Patten's Review editorials? We suggest, as an initiative, he give us a forceful one on the evils of "ring rule" or the tyranny of "snap" methods. He might cite Jim Owen as a patron saint of political purity, etc.
Prof. Sayre's new book, Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, will be published about the 20th of the month. It will be illustrated by original drawings of starch grounds, etc, and will give a complete analysis of vegetable substances. It will be the best treatise on this subject yet published.
Clarence T. Southwick had a two-column article in last Sunday's Kansas City Times, descriptive of Prof. L. L.
Dyche's arctic expedition. The write-up is very entertaining, not only on account of the subject but from the graphic manner in which the story of the "ill-fated expedition," is told. Mr. Southwick was one of the founders of the STUDENTS JOURNAL. and we are glad to note his success.
The Hiliostat, another instrument in use in the laboratory is an instrument consisting of a mirror moved in such a way that a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, upon a plant by being directed to one spot during the whole day.
The result of the experiments now being made in the laboratory will be published soon in the Botanical Review.
The Universal Clinostat is one of the first things to catch the eye of a visitor to the Botanical Laboratory. The Clinostat was constructed by Prof. Stevens, assisted by Mr. Marcie, in order to eliminate light and gravity as factors in plant growth. So far as outward appearances are concerned the plant seems to lose all control of itself upon the removal of gravity and the leaves are as likely to grow in one direction as another; there is no longer any uniformity in its growth.
The University Council has now under consideration a proposition to modify the regulations concerning the selection of studies, that a student will be able to do more work in the English department. Such action would be another step forward and one heartily appreciated by the students. Under the present regulations, unless the student makes his major in English he is unable to take advantage of the superior course of instruction now offered by our English department. No student can afford to neglect his mother tongue, and the rules of the institution should not compell him to do so. Rather than make Englisn optional and foreign language compulsatory, a course in higher education should first require a high standard in English and then consider other languages.