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Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science.
At the annual meeting of the Academy which was held at Baldwin last week, some of the leading scientific men of the state were present and took part in the proceedings. Dr. S. W. Williston, the retiring president, spoke one evening upon "Science in Education." He argued that on account of the time required to do the work of an ordinary college course and to take professional training also, as in medicine or law, that it is not practicable for the student to do the work of the entire college course, but he should devote himself to those studies only that have a direct bearing on his profession. Technical courses are being extended to four years, and if a man takes both courses complete, he will average 28 years of age before he is ready to practice his profession. The advantages of optionals in the college course is shown in the growth of those institutions where the optional system prevails and the decline of those that adhere to the old classical course. The latter course is of value only to those who have the leisure and means to devote their lives to this kind of culture. Even in the most advanced institutions there is too little attention paid to the natural sciences and too much to purely literary and classical studies. At the Kansas University we require as much as five years of language study and but twenty weeks of natural science!! The latter studies are just as valuable for development of the mind as the former, and very much more practical. Every student who graduates should be thoroughly conversant with at least one natural science. The high schools may do something in the students for the University in science, if the University requires this for entrance. At present everything is sacrificed to preparation in Language, and the sciences are neglected. The lecture was heartily applauded, and it was voted that the Academy order it printed immediately for distribution through the state. A large number of valuable papers were read during the three days of the session; among these may be mentioned, several on orinthology by D. E. Lanz in which the valuable Goss Ornithological collection at Topea, was discussed, and lists of Kansas and North American birds were presented. Percy J. Parrott, now of Manhattan, illustrated his very practical paper on the elm-tree girder: B.B. Smyth told of a Floral Horologue for Kansas; L. E. Sayre discussed the plants of the state that are of pharmaceutical interest; S. W. Williston told of the work of his department in the study of the Mosasauria, and in the discovery of the new Labyrinthodont from the Kansas Carbonifer, ous; J. W. Beede spoke of the work that he is doing in connection with the state Geological Survey in the study of the geology of Trego County; F. H. Snow read a very practice paper on the extremes and means of Kansas Climate in which he illustrated by charts the variations in temperature, in rainfall, in the velocity of the winds, and in the cloudiness of the sky. He showed very graphically that the poor crops depend more on the distribution of the rain than its quantity. A mathematical paper on the Viscosity of ether by A. St. C. Dunstan showed some important work of the Physics department, as did also the paper on the Wheastone
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Mrs. Helen Campbell, of Manhattan, gave an outline of the work in the department of household economics at the college.
A large number of other papers were read either by title, or the summaries were given briefly. Altogether the meeting was a very profitable and enjoyable one, and the workers in the various fields of science were stimulated by this opportunity for comparison and discussion.
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Rules for Inter College Joint Debate.
1. The management of the debate and of all preliminary debates shall be in the hands of a committee to be constituted as follows: Three members from the University faculty, to be appointed by the University council; one representative each from the Senior, Junior, Sophomore and Freshman classes respectively of the school of arts; one representative each from the schools of law, engineering, pharmacy and fine arts; and one representatives from each of the University debating societies.
2. This committee shall determine its own organization, officers, quorum and method of carrying out the provisions of this plan in points not herein provided for.
3. This committee shall be chosen on or before the first Friday in November, and its members shall serve for one year, or until their successors are chosen. It shall propose the questions for the inter-collegiate debate or shall select from those proposed as may be determined in carrying out the provisions of the inter-collegiate agreement.
4. In order to facilitate the selection of speakers to represent the University in the inter-collegiate debate, there shall be a series of preliminary trial debates and a final trial debate. The preliminary debates shall be held, beginning not before the first Friday evening in February, and not later than the first Friday evening in March. The final trial debate shall be held on the first Friday evening in April.
5. On or before the third Friday in January, each debating society of the University shall hand in to the committee the names of such of its members as desire to enter the contest; and the committee shall fix a date for the preliminary debate of each society, choose a question for the debate, and appoint three judges of the debate, on or before the Monday following the third Friday in January.
7. A University debating society shall be defined as any of the existing organizations and any other debating society that shall be organized in the University before January 1, with a bona fide membership of not less than twelve and shall submit to the committee the names of not less than six contestants.
6. Each debating society of the University shall hold a preliminary trial debate on the evening appointed by the committee, and shall admit to that debate all of its members who desire to contest.
8. The preliminary debate in each society shall be subjected to the rules of the society, except as herein otherwise provided.
The judges of the preliminary debates shall report to the committee the standing of the debaters, and upon the basis of these reports the committee shall choose the two debaters having the highest standing in each preliminary debate, and shall the Monday following that debate announce them as contestants in the final trial debate; and shall at the same time announce the names of three judges of the final trial
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10. The question debated at the final trial debate shall be the question chosen for the inter-collegiate contest.
debate, no one of whom shall have served at any one of the preliminary debates.
11. The judges of the final trial debate shall report to the committee the standing of the debaters, and upon the basis of that report the committee shall choose the best three debaters to represent the University in the inter-collegiate contest, and shall announce them on the Monday following the debate.
12. No admission fee shall be charged at any debate except the inter-collegiate when held at this university and at the final trial debate when the inter-collegiate debate is not held at this University. After all expenses of the debates have been paid, the surplus, if any, shall be contributed to the students' loan fund.
13. At each debate each speaker shall have two speeches. He shall be allowed nine minute, for his opening speech and three minutes for his second speech in rebuttal. The opening speeches shall be delivered in the order assigned, and the rebuttals shall follow in the same order. For each debate not otherwise provided for the committee shall appoint a presiding officer who shall act as timekeeper.
14. In every trial debate, the sides and order of the speakers shall be determined by lot and announced twenty-four hours before the debate takes place, and no earlier.
15. Judges shall be instructed to use the following system in preparing their reports: In assigning ranks the language of the debater shall count twenty-five points in a scale of one hundred; ready and effective extempore delivery, twenty-five points; logical character of speech, fifty points. Judges will see that no ties in any single debate are reported to the committee.
16. Any judge in a preliminary debate may be objected to by one fourth of the contestants in that debate, and any judge in the final trial debate by a single debater. If such objection is filed with the committee at least one week before the debate, the committee shall appoint another judge to replace the one objected to.
17. These provisions may be amended at any time by a two-thirds vote of the committee.
RULES FOR FINAL DEBATE.
1. Each University shall determine the manner in which its own speakers are to be chosen.
2. No one but a regularly matriculated student, carrying full work in some school or department of the University not preparatory and having at least freshman standing, shall be chosen to speak.
3. Each University shall be represented by three speakers.
4. Each speaker shall be allowed fifteen minutes, and in addition, each side shall have ten minutes for rebuttal, the closing speaker to be chosen by the sides they represent. The debaters shall speak in alternation, and the representative of the negative side shall have the closing speech in rebuttal.
7. The University, at which the debate is to be held, shall propose, not later than Dec. 20th, at least five questions, from which, not later than Dec. 20th, the other University shall select one; and the sides shall be chosen by lot on the first Friday in April preceding the debate.
5. The place for the first debate shall be chosen by lot; after the first the debates shall alternate.
8. Lots for the first debate, both as to the time and place, shall be drawn by the President of the University of Missouri.
9. Three judges shall be chosen by the Chancellors of the two Universities. No one shall be chosen as judge who is a resident of either state represented or who has an interest in either University.
6. The debate shall be held on the first Friday in May.
10. ALL necessary expenses connected with the debate shall be met by the University at which the debate is held.
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