1 COMMUNICATIONS. A MEDICAL SCHOOL. When the preparatory medical course was established in the University the intention was to make it the first step toward a medical school. This idea was kept in view for sometime, but now it seems to be wholly disregarded, and the question of discontinuing it is being discussed. The argument used in favor of its abandonment is that it has not kept pace with the first year of medical schools. Perhaps, and in all probability, this is true, yet it is not a sufficient reason for discontinuing a course which a true university should do its utmost to develop. If it is defective, its defects should be corrected and not disregarded or neglected. The course as it now stands has some standing among medical schools. Mrs. L E Sayre was in Kansas City during vacation and visited the two medical schools there,—the University Medical School, [and the Kansas City Medical College,—and found that they were only too glad to give students taking our preparatory medical course, not only full credit for work done, but for the time spent in doing it. That is to say, the student who has taken our preparatory medical course can enter either medical school and complete the course in two years. A letter was received by Prof. Sayre from the St. Louis Medical School, through Dr. Whepley, secretary, which states, "We regard your preparatory medical course as one year. We have one or two of your students with us this year." What more could be asked? With a very incomplete preparatory medical course we are already receiving recognition. We should not abandon a course which gives such brilliant promise, but improve it in every way. A medical school connected with the University is of as much importance as a school of engineering, a school of law, or a school of music. If the University, by the continuance of her preparatory medical course and the improvement of it, shows the people of Kansas that a state medical school is needed, the state legislature will not be long in making an appropriation for one. According to a careful estimate, a $50,000 building and $10,000 a year for running expenses would give the University a well equipped medical school, which would compare favorably with the standard medical schools of the east. One half of the faculty necessary for a school of medicine is already in the University. We have instructors in chemistry, pharmacy, physiology and histiology. All we need would be about four instructors in the theory and practice of medicine and in surgery. A medical school would bring many new students to K. S. U. According to an estimate based on other states, two hundred and fifty men leave Kansas annually for medical schools in other states. Perhaps this estimate is somewhat large, yet there is no doubt but that almost one hundred Kansas young men yearly go elsewhere for medical training. At Topeka a small medical school was started two years ago and now it has between forty and fifty students. A state medical school would draw not only students who go there, but those who go to other states. A medical school in the University would undoubtedly grow faster than any other department. The ablest and best physicians and surgeons in Kansas would be glad to lend it their support. At present Kansas is supplied with physicians educated in other states. Not one of them has received his medical training in Kansas. If K.S. U. wishes to approach the ideal University, the preparatory medical course should be encouraged and made the foundation of a future great medical school. W.W.R. A great deal is said at this season of the year about the way in which women trim their bonnets. A great deal might be said about the way in which men trim trees. Heretofore evergreens have been the greatest sufferers at their hands; but fortunately we have few evergreens here to be tortured, and there really seems to be a tendency to let the few that are here grow as nature meant they should. The elms and soft maples, however, are grievously matted. No doubt the soft maple is a difficult tree to keep in good shape. Its long, loose branches are very easily tangled and twisted by the wind, and it often presents a very dilapidated appearance after a Kansas zephyr has passed by, but there is surely no need of lopping the branches off so close to the trunk that there is nothing left but a notch for a crow's nest—and a notch which no self-respecting crow would ever choose, at that. Perhaps the elm is the most beautiful of our trees. There is a wonderful grace in the upward and outward sweep of its branches. But the man with saw and shears cares nothing for that. He is like a boy with a new knife. The important thing is to cut. And so there is an elm in the row along the south side of Adams street of which there is absolutely nothing left but the trunk and a twig or two. It has neither beauty nor use, except as—like the broken marble shaft in a cemetery, which is the only thing it now resembles—it calls attention to what might have been. It is all very well to talk about Arbor Day, but we need to understand the rights and beauties of the trees we have, before we get more of them. Probably if the trees knew how likely they were to be deformed by the man with the pruning hook and saw, they would prefer not to be planted. R. M. Kansas Academy of Language and Literature. The Kansas Academy of Language and Literature will hold its tenth annual session in Music hall f Wednesday evening April 13. Other sessions will be held in Snow Hall. All interested in the study or practice of literature are earnestly solicited to become members of the academy. The following is the program although the arrangement is not official: Dialect Notes, W. H, Carruth, Lawrence. Literary Clubs, A. G. Canfield, Law rence. Kansas Bibliography, Carrie M. Watson, Lawrence. Symposium on Great Novelists—Howells, B. W. Woodward, Lawrence; Sienkewicz, H. G. Larimer, Topeka; Hawthorne, E. M. Hopkins, Lawrence; Scott; John McDonald, Topeka; George Elliot, Mary A. Humphrey, Junction City. Symposium on Great Poets—Shelley, A. D. Gray, Topeka; Byron, A. S. Dechant, Abilene; Lowell, A. W. Dana, Topaice; Browning, W. A. Quayle, Baldwin; Shakespere, W. H. Wynne, Atchison; Burns, Albert Fullerton, Beloit. An attempt was made Tuesday to keep populist and democratic students from voting on the grounds that they had registered at the University from other towns. One student stood at the polling place with a catalogue. The scheme was not very successful, as nothing could be proved from the catalogue as to the way the student's name was entered with the registar. Some of the offices in the University, supposed to bestow the most honor on the holder, prove to be a means of sinking the successful aspirant out of sight. Many prominent students of two months ago are never heard of now. Some students have studied so little this term they did not know the spring recess had come until it was over. A compromise with winter has been made in some of the spring suits seen in the hallways. KODAK SHOTS- The best way to get a man to stop talking politics in the corridors five hours a day is to elect him to some minor office. The way to dispose of a man who denounces secret societies is to give him a chance to join the least prominent of the organizations he condemns. Professor Templin has received some special apparatus for use in the advanced psychology class. 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