KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY
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The Phi Delts have issued invitations for their annual party to be given Feb.1, in New Eldridge hall.
The Barbs have selected Feb. 22d, for their spring party date. The party will be given in the New Eldridge hall.
The invitations for the Kappa party will be issued Monday. The party will be in Pythian hall on the night of Feb. 8th.
The Thetas will have initiation Saturday afternoon at Eva Barteldes', for Miss Ethelyn Rice and Miss Inez Cross, both of whom were pledged last fall.
Mrs. Thomas Henry Chalkley and Mrs. Arthur Tappan Walker have issued invitations for a reception to be given at the home of Mrs. Chalkley next Wednesday afternoon, from 3 until 6.
Miss Mary Barnette entertained very pleasantly at cards last Saturday evening in honor of Miss Kate Dobson, of Ottawa. There were three tables of whist and the prize, an elegant pack of cards, was won by Lee Davies.
Burke and Snow Literaries.
On Saturday evening, January 19, the Snow and Burke Literary Societies met with the Temperance Union at North College. An interesting program was given by members from the three societies. The talks by Miss Meredi h, Mr. Hanson, Mr. Jamison, Mr. S. A. Johnson, Prof Hopkins and Prof Carrnth were earnest and forcible. The question for debate; Resolved, that the abolishing of the canteen at army posts is in the interests of temperance. Messrs J.H. Langworthy and J.E.Boyle of the Burke upheld the affirmative and Messrs B.F.Moore and E.H.McMath of Snow spoke for the negative. The vocal solos
and the quartette were much enjoyed. After the program, the societies went by invitation to the Y.M.C.A. house and spent an hour very pleasantly. Music, games and "temperance drinks" made the time pass quickly. There was a good attendance and much interest shown in temperance, the vital question of the day.
Some Predictions of Nikola Tesla.
1—A system of wireless telegraphy by which a message can be sent clear around the world.
2—Electrical production of ozone for sterilizing water, rid it of its many impurities.
3-The manufacture of artificial food by oxidized hydrogen.
4—The flying machine will be a fact. It will not bring universal peace, as some suppose. Some nation will rule the air as well as the sea.
5- Future development will tend to diminish the number of individuals engaged in battle. This will bring into use a machine which can be operated by the fewest possible individuals.
6The perfection of the telautomaton, a machine having all its bodily movements controlled from a distance, without wire. Telautomatics are applicable to any machine that moves on the land, in water, or in the air.
7—The transmission of electrical energy through the earth without a wire.
8—A system to draw energy from the sun.
9—The electolytic process of extracting iron from ore, molding it into required forms without fuel consumption.
10—The electrolytic manufacture of alumni agd its gradual extermination of copper and, possibly, iron.
11—A self-acting engine capable of deriving energy from its own motion.—Success.