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KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
The Sigma Chi's had initiation last Saturday evening for two of their pledged boys, Clare Cowley and Dudley Doölittle. Some of their Alumni members were here for the event as was also Mr, Montgomery, a Nebraska Sigma Chi. After the work of initiation the regular ceremony was gone through at their chapter house on Ohio street. Then the boys adjourned to Wiedeman's where an oyster supper was served for them.
Miss Esther Wilson entertained at cards Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Lulu Cross. There were five tables of whist. Miss Mamie Addison and Miss Nellie Morris cut for the prize, a large bunch of white chrysanthemums, and the former was the lucky one. After the refreshments were served there was a musical pronram.
There will be a Sigma Chi banquet in K C., Thanksgiving night at which members of the Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas Chapters will be present. Almost all the Sigma Chi's are going from Lawrence,and they expect to attend the game in Tallyhos.
Next Friday night members of the Pi Phi fraternity, of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa, will give a banquet at the Coates house in Kansas City. Among the Pi Phi's who go from Lawrence are Cecil Leland, Rea Wilson, Gertrude Boughton, Grace Bangs and Olive Gundry.
The Kappas will have a banquet in Kansas City next Wednesday night, members from the Chapters in Missouri and Nebraska being present. Among the Kappas who will go from Lawrence are:Esther Oilson, Neva Lehman, Lillian Axtel, Margaret Sprague, Katherine Armsby, Nellie Morris, Virginia McCrory and Mary Burnell.
Freshmen Meeting.
The Freshmen met Tuesday noon to make final arrangements for the party which they give tonight in Journal Hall. Misses Osborne, Bennet and Messrs Baumgartner Baldry, and McDonald were appointed on the
social committee. The class is raising twenty-five dollars for sweaters, and they are proud of the fact that three of the regular team are freshmen. The Freshmen class is thoroughly recognized by the Professors and other classes, as a pushing, energetic class.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
At the Mechanical and Electrical seminary Friday, Dec. 7th, Mr.Andrews will give a talk on the modern telephone switch-board. Mr.Sawtelle will review current engineering literature.
No engine lathe in the shop was large enough to accommodate the standards of the drills mentioned in the WEEKLY of last week. The largest lathe was increased in capacity by a process known as "blocking up" and the work has gone on without a break.
Some of the departments have complained that they have not enough heat. The new Chemistry building is a heavy draw on the heating plant, but the amount of heat used there will be decreased in a day or two.The fan that forces the air to the different rooms throughout the building has been running at speed which was intended to supply every room in the building with warm air, and to change the air within a specified time.Not nearly all the rooms are used, so the change of air in those used is much more rapid than intended. The speed of the fan will be changed until the other rooms are required.
Y. M. C. A. Notes.
The "House Boys" will entertain the football team soon after the Thanksgiving game.
About three hundred men heard Mr. Russell, of Chicago, at the Methodist church last Sunday. Mr. Russell comes here to act as pastor of the First Baptist church, and is very fuvorably received by students and townspeople.