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Kansas University Weekly.
President Carter Lectures.
Chancellor Snow introduced President Carter of Williams College to an audience which half filled University hall last Wednesday evening. The Chancellor introducing the speaker said that President Carter and he were classmates in the class which graduated in 1862 from Williams. This class he said has since become known as the President's class, there being four college and university presidents among its members.
President Carter then presented a paper on the Relation of Massachusetts to Civilization and Education. He spoke of the place which the colleges and instructors hold in the formation of the state and then particularly of the value of denominational school as a moulder of public institutions. He later spoke of the founding of Williams College and the real causes which led to its organization. It was originally a fort called Fort Massachusetts and was used in war between the French and English colonists in 1750. It was commanded for a generation or more by captains who bore the name of Williams. Ephram Williams the last of this line made provision in his will for the founding of a school to be called Williams College. After his death the will was executed and in 1747 was founded Williams College. Over one hundred and fifty years have passed since its establishment. It has been the fostering mother of many of the most prominent men in state and national affairs, and its presidents have been among the ablest men of the country. Such men as Mark Hopkins have established for the school an enviable reputation for learning throughout the whole country.
The lecture as a whole was a disappointment to some who had expected a larger treatment of the subject announced. It was however an excellent account of the founding and progress of Williams College.
Chapel attendance is compulsory one day of each week at the University of Chicago. -Ex.
Notes From the College World.
The Sophomore Medical class of Ann Arbor has adopted the "Honor System"of holding examinations, by a vote of one hundred six to sixteen.
A series of lectures on the Art of Argumentation is now given in the regular course at Princeton.
It is reported that Princeton college is expecting to send a large delegation to attend the inauguration ceremonies at Washington, D. C. March 4th.
Eight or ten Sophomores are reported as taking a vacation from Illinois State University in consequence of their disturbing a Freshman reception recently.
Theodore Roosevelt, the well known Police Commissioner of New York City, has been offered the presidency of Hobard College, Geneva, N. Y.—Ex.
The ladies of the State Normal at Emporia edited the Student's Salute last week. We congratulate them on their success as the issue is a very creditable one.
We shall refrain from entering any library statistics in this issue as we suspect the general reader tires of reading so frequently of the relative size of various college and university libraries.
A bill has been introduced into both branches of the legislature giving the University an additional endowment of two millions of dollars during interest at five per cent a year. —M. S. Independent.
Foot ball is prohibited in all the denominational colleges of Kansas. The Occident. Kansas seems to be getting a reputation for taking the lead in trying "something new" but we are in doubt as to the truth of this clipping.
In the recent debate between Iowa and Chicago Universities the decision of the judges was given in favor of Iowa. This is very flattering to Iowa and an encouragement to other colleges as it reveals the truth that the western University can cope with the larger and more prominent institutions of learning, although its enrollment may not be so large or its endowment so great.
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