KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
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Edison Wants Electricity Taught in Schools.
Thomas A. Edison makes some hopeful predictions for electricity, in an article contributed by him to January "Success." He says:
Not only as a motive power for massive enterprises will electricity find uses during the coming half century, but it will also be applied to the "gentler sciences" if I may use the term. By this I mean surgery, optics and astronomy, but greater minds than mine must dwell on this particular branch of electrical usage. Already we have surgical instruments that are being operated by electricity with gratifying success; indeed, they have gone beyond the experimental stage. It will find a large field in the operation of manufacturing machinery, as the Niagara Falls plant shows, and it may even extend to the air-ship, but I think it best to confine its uses to the earth until these uses have been exhausted.
Electricity as a science should be made one of the several studies in every school in the land. It should rank with spelling and arithmetic; for, the more it is used, the more potent it becomes in all of the world's general affairs, and its value, in connection with practical business and business affairs, cannot be given too prominent a place in America's future.
Vacation Foot Ball.
Foot ball games during the Christmas recess seem to be gaining favor at K. U. This year a new team was organized under the name of the "Northeastern Foot Ball Team of K.U." and a game arranged to be played at Sabetha on Christmas day. The game was played New Year's day, however, at Sabetha, and resulted in a victory to our eleven by a score of 5 to 0.
These vacation games deserve all possible encouragement from students, for they not only advertise the University, but crea-
ate interest in the sport and bring out more foot ball material this fall for the 'varsity eleven.
OTHER SCHOOLS.
Rockefeller has donated another $1,500,- 000 to Chicago University, $500,000 of which is to be cash to be used in supplying immediate needs of the university.
The M. S. U. Independent has the following to say of amateur athletics at K. U: "No one here doubts but what Kansas had an honest football team this year, that is strictly in accordance with the rules and regulations of pure amateur athletics.
Mrs. Stanford has presented 3,500 volumes of English law reports to the law department of Stanford University. They comprise a complete set from the year 1290 to the present time, and also a complete set of Australian and Canaian reports.
"Outing," which is an authority on amateur sports, gives this ranking to the western foot ball teams: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Northwestern, Chicago, Nebraska, Michigan and Illinois, the remainder being in a class the grading of which is difficult and not important, although Indiana and Ohio are entitled to mention for their excellent record.
Bryan Prize Essay.
The subject for the Bryan prize essay for 1901 is "The Policy of Subsidizing Steamships." Any student of the University may compete. Essays must be at least 3,000 words in length. A full bibliography must be added, and all sources of information fully indicated. Essays must be handed to the chancellor not later than May 1st, 1901. The award will be made commencement day. C.G.DUNLAP, E.M.HOPKINS F.H.HODDER.