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Kansas University Weekly.
Hebrew Institutions.
The evolution of the Jewish nation from a historic standpoint was the theme of Prof. Blackmar's lecture Wednesday afternoon. The seeming harshness and arbitrariness of the Providence that rules the nation disappear when careful research brings to light the deep sociological principles underlying them.
"Moses and the Law" will be Prof. Blackmar's subject next Wednesday and the event is looked forward to with a great deal of interest by those who listened to "Hebrew Institutions."
The Senior Play.
The members of the Senior class are completing the arrangements for their class play. The committee having the matter in charge consists of the Misses May Gardner and Elizabeth Warren, and the Messrs. R.R.Price, E.C.Alder, and R.E.Everett. The play will be an adaptation of "The House Boat on the Styx" by John Kendrick Bangs, and will be replete with local hits and allusions. O.T.Hester has been elected manager of the play and the cast of characters wlll be decided upon soon.
Chapel Notes.
Rev. Dr. Hosmer, of St. Louis, led last Wednesday morning, and spoke of the increased necessity in these days of universal freedom, of carefully considering the aims and objects of life, and selecting the best.
Prof. Olin led the rest of the week. His subject Tuesday morning was the desirability of a wider extension and deepening of the idea of unselfishness; Thursday morning, he spoke of various ways of overcoming selfishness, calling especial attention to a proposed plan to organize a trust for the production and distribution of happiness.
A game of base ball is being played on McCook field this afternoon between the University nine and a nine from Haskell Institute. The line up of the Varsity team is as follows: Swett, first base; Carroll, second base; Todd and Housh, short stop; Blackshere, third base; Griggs and Speaks, left field; Sherman, center field; Wells and Morrison, right field; Stanley, Peters and Phillips, pitchers; Curry, Williams and Pittman, catchers.
Library Notes.
A new edition of the Encylopaedic Dictionary, published by D. Appleton & Co., has been bought for the Library. The work has been enlarged and illustrated and brought up to date. The four volumes will be placed on the dictionary shelf on the south side of the reading room.
Librarian Carrie M. Watson, representing the Zodiac Club, read a paper before the Federation of Women's Clubs of Lawrence on Thursday afternoon last. The subject of the paper was "The Evolution of a Book." The history of book making was traced from a clay tablet to Gutenberg's first printed Bible. The different stages in the evolution were briefly dwelt upon: the age of epigraphy or inscriptions, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, the cuneiform writing of the Babylonians and Assyrians and the inscriptions of the Greeks and the Romans; the age of paleography or manuscripts, including the papyrus roll and the parchment codex; the age of block or xylographic, books; the final development, about the middle of the fifteenth century, of the book printed from movable type. Following the reading of the paper, forty lantern slide pictures, illustrating different points in the lecture, were shown.
We will show a good line of Spring Boots and Shoes. AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
MASON'S.