Kansas University Weekly.
editor-in-Chief
GUY, C. SEEDS.
Associates:
FRANK JEWETT,
E. MCSHARE.
Literary · Editor:
AGNES LEE.
Local Editor
GENTRUDE HILL.
Associate:
BERTHA BOWEN, RUTH WHITMAN,
LACY SIMPSON, JOHN FLETCHER,
C. E. ROSS, H.G. McKERVER,
E.S. LINDAS, W.B. GRAHAM,
CURTIS OSBORNE, MAML. MORRIS,
Managing Editors
FRANKE P. PRATT
Associate.
JOHN H. KANE
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LAWRENCE, KAN., DEC. 10, 1898
The WEEKLY now has a dictator.
It was observed that the petition requesting the council to make the Christmas vacation our week earlier than it had been previously agreed upon, was signed more generally by Freshmen than by any of the other classes.
The Regents were unable to decide upon a successor for Prof. W. B. Brownell, and Dean Green and Chancellor Snow were commissioned to choose an instructor for the rest of the year. There were a number of applicants for the place, 11 of whom had graduated from the University School of Law.
It has been generally reported that the faculty is trying to kill football in the University. Such is not the case. The professors are persistent in their determination to root out professionalism in athletics, and the stringent rules which they have had down to secure that end, make them appear opposed to athletics sports.
At a recent meeting of the State Board of trustees of Baker University it was found, as the result of a canvass, that enough money had been n' raised to pay off the interest bearing debt, which has been hanging over the school. The only remaining debt is a non-interest bearing one of $379 and 1 an active canvass is being made to raise that amount. We congratulate Baker on her good fortune.
Very few people in the state realize the amount of material stored away in the Kansas University Museum at Lawrence, some of which has attracted attention both at home and abroad. In paleontology, the collection of Cretaceous vertebrates is only excelled in number in one institution (Yale University) in the United States, and in excellence of individual specimens, it is unexcelled. The collection of fossil leaves from the Dakota sandstone of the central part of the State is very complete, there being no better outside of the national museum at Washington. The collection of carboniferous plants is also very complete and has attracted some attention, although no original work has been done on them up to the present time. In zoology and entomology is the collection of North American mammals, mounted by Prof. Dyche, having been awarded the medal at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. The collection of beetles is the best in any educational institution in this country, and the collection of butterflies is very excellent. At the present time the exhibit rooms in Snow hall are full to overflow, many of the best zoological specimens being stored away on this account — Topeka mail and Breeze.
Announcement.
The department of English announces that all themes and forensics must, after being returned to the writers, be again deposited with the department, to constitute part of the peramant records. Papers are to be returned to the English office within two weeks after the date announced for handling them back to the students after criticism, and no credits will be enured until the papers have been so deposited at the department.
SOCIETY.
Lawrence and the University has been gayer the past two weeks than at any time since the opening of school. The putting the vacation forward a week has rather added to this, since the gaities planned for three weeks were necessarily crowded into two. Friday and Saturday nights have of course been the most popular dates for entertainments, and for the past two weeks the three available halls in town have all been occupied on those nights.
The Woman's League "afteroon" Saturday was given at the home of Mrs. Olin on account of the illness of Mrs. Robinson. The entertainment was in the nature of a musical, the various numbers of which were given the members of the Music School. The affair was a success, as these afternoons always are, and brought together in a most delightful way the young women of the University.
The reception given Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Spaulding and Miss Spaulding at their home on Tennessee street, was a very pleasant affair. Two hundred invitations were issued, and the music fuilthed by Saunders was very delightful. Mrs. Havens of Leavenworth was one of the receiving party. Misses Bertha Miller, Elizabeth O'Keefe, Lulu Cross and Minnie Leach served in the dining room which was elaborately decorated. A number of University students were present
The Freshmen gave their first class party Friday night in Journal Hall. A short program of readings and music was given by members of the class during the first part of the evening, after which dancing, cards and various other games furnished amusement. Light refreshments were served and the whole evening was a most enjoyable one in every way.
The Charity Ball Friday night was a devoured success. The list of patronesses included the very smartest of Lawrence society women and under their auspices it could not have been other than the success it was. A very large crowd of society people including many of the University set, danced to the music of Buch's Orchestra.
The Kappas had an initiation Thursday night at the home of Miss Edith House on South Massachusetts street. The young women admitted to the fraternity were Misses Luci Cross, Jane Harmon, Beth Hudson and Bertha Miller.
Immediately after the holidays the series of fraternity spring parties will begin, although these can hardly be called spring parties any more since they are given in the middle of the winter instead of after Lent as was the custom a few years ago.
Miss Elma Van Fleet entertained at whist Saturday evening for a few friends at her home on Vermont street. Her guests were Misses Cubine, Bowen, Slocum, Connelly and Cochran; Messrs Rose, Buzzl, Baker and Thatcher.
Mr. George Robinson has accepted a position in the University book store left vacant by John Nicholson. Mr. Irving Hill will take Mr. Robinson's place in the Bowersock mill.
Invitations have been issued by Misses Mame Tisdale and Fannie Barker for a dancing party, to be given next Monday evening at Miss Tisdale's home on Tennessee street.
Miss Grace Barnes, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs John Lofty, returned today to her home in Lyndon.
Mr. John Nicholson came down from Töpka Wednesday to remain a short time with Lawrence friends.
Misses Maume Tiadale and Frances Barker will give a dancing party Monday night at Miss Tiadale's home on Tennessee street.
The Sigma Chis are wearing colors for Mr, E. Tucker of Cawker City.
Mr. Cecil Haggart, C. E. '98, was in town Wednesday visiting friends. Mr., Haggart has a position in Parsons.Kansas, at present.
The Junior and Freshman girls have united their voices this week in the walk "Why don't the boys ask us to go to the class party."
J. Moncrief of Winfield, spent a few days the fore part of the week, visiting W. L. Cooper.
The Pi Phis had a cookey-shine Satur day night at the home of Miss Gertrude Boughton.
The Kappas are planning to hold an initiation tonight.
Miss Muir of Salina has left school not to return until next term.
Mr. Harry Sinclair went to Hutchinson Tuesday to remain a few days.
The Beta turkey pulling has been indefinitely postponed.
Mr. John Nicholson came up from Tooneka last night to spend a few days here.
Miss Bertha Case has returned from a visit in Topeka.
The students of the Elocutionary department will give an entertainment next
Thursday evening. The program will consist of dramatic scenes, declamations, original addresses and a debate. Everybody is cordially invited.
Mr. Fred A. Cahill and Miss Louise Ripley of Chicago were married November 23d by Dr. Dr. Thomas
Miss Mabel Sayre is planning to give a house party in a few days for some of her Wells College friends. Misses Rosalie Perdue of Kentucky and Katharine Dunn of Kansas City will be among the guests.
Mr. Milton Reitz went up to Topeka
Sunday to visit Friends.
Mr. Fred Herver of Kaaas, City, spent Sunday with University friends.
At the last meeting of the Biological club Tuesday, December 6, Professor Dyche gave an illustrated lecture on the Life and Conditions in the North Atlantic Regions.
BIOLOGICAL CLUB.
The meeting of the Biological Clu Tuesday afternoon was an especially interesting one. Professor Dyche gave a lecture describing his trips to Greenland, illustrating it by lantern. It was presented as an introduction to the series of lectures which he is to give before the club concerning the conditions of life that exists in the Arctic regions. The announcements posted throughout Snow Hall brought forth a large crowd and by 4 o'clock there was scarcely a vacant chair in the lecture room.
Professor Dyche first presented the map of Greenland showing the regios about the North Pole.
He pointed out the routes of the various Arctic adventurers, and the regions each had explored. A comparison was made between the north and south poles. The former was shown to be almost land locked, while the latter is surrounded by great expanses of water with no large bodies of land within many hundreds of miles.
He described Greenland as a snow-covered continent buried beneath a sheet of ice and snow from 2 to 10,000 feet in thickness. The western coast is rugged with many high barren rocks and promontories, the eastern side is blockaded by vast fields of ice. Much of the eastern shore remains unexplored. Nansen tried for months before he was able to obtain a landing. It is difficult and dangerous for a steamer to approach within less than thirty or forty miles of the mainland from this side.
Professor Dyche gave an interesting and humorous account of one of his trips to Greenland with about thirty other college professors and fifteen students. They had three captains, who proved to be two too many. The captain in charge steadily refused to take the advice of his fellow officers and ignored the petition of the students and faculty sent to him. The captain finally lost the ship and they all came back on a little fishing schooner, with ninety-two persons huddled up in space enough for one-third that number.
He pointed out the routes followed in his various trips north and gave a very interesting account of the col fisheries along the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.
His detailed description of the method of fishing and curing the fish followed by the Gloucester fishermen brought Kipling's "Captain Courageous" vividly to mind. One who has reat that delightful story of the hardy seamen of Gloucester and had seen Professor Dychke's photographs and heard his accounts of them, could easily imagine that author and explorer had both seen the same heroic fishermen.
Prof Dyche's account of the manner in which cod liver oil is obtained, is not cal-
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The lecture closed promptly at 5 o'clock with a great many regrets from the audience that the time had passed so quickly.
It is like listening to one relating the adventures on another planet. Scientific discoveries told in such a way do not appear as facts gained for the advancement of scientific learning, but simply as interesting details of a marvelous story.
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The team will be a strong one, being composed almost entirely of first team men and "scrubs."
During the Christmas vacation they will make a tour through the northern part of the state and will probably play several good games. The most important game will be played at Clay Center. Last year the short, grass team defeated that eleven by a score of 6 to 0.
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