Kansas University Weekly.
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The Day of Prayer for Colleges Jan. 29th will be observed in the University under the auspices of the Y.W. and Y.M.C.A's. Dr. Marvin will address the students at Chapel, and the two Associations will hold a union meeting in the Epworth room of the Methodist church from 7 to 8 p.m. There will be good music on both occasions. There should be a large attendance of students.
The Senior class has already commenced its plans for Commencement week. The play has been selected, the form of the Annual has been chosen, the necessary officers and committees have been elected and each member of the class has some part in the work. Commencing early, as they have this year, the Seniors feel that they have obtained an advantage over the preceding classes and hope to excel all former efforts.
The University may lose the services of Prof. Emch, who has been assistant in Graphics for the last two years. A cablegram was received last Friday announcing his election as professor of Mathematics at Biel in Switzerland. Prof. Emch is one of the University Faculty whose work has been noticed in foreign publications a number of times and it is that which has brought him the offer of a new position.
Kansas Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi is very gratified at the announcement that they have a new sister chapter in the Women's College at Baltimore, Maryland. Alpha was chartered on January 9th, 1897, with seven charter members and two pledges. With the co-operation of the five alumnae members from other chapters, who are in the city, Maryland Alpha bids fair to be a not unequal contestant for honors at the Women's College.
Mr. P. S. Elliott, of Washburn, entered the University Monday morning. Mr. Elliott will be remembered as the winning orator in the recent preliminary oratorical contest at Washburn and against whom the charge of plagiarism was brought. It seems as though a fight had been made on him simply because he was a member of one of the two factions in the
college, the man taking second place in the oratorical contest being a member of the opposing faction. Mr. Elliott then thought it advisable to withdraw altogether, hence his coming to the University.
Friday the 15th inst. Representative E. T. Hackney, '95 introduced into the house a bill to provide for the erection of three new buildings on the University campus in addition to the annual appropriation for current expenses. The bill provides for the expenditure of $180, ooo to be expended as follows: Chemistry Building $60,000; Natural History Building, $100,000, and Electrical Engineering Building $25,000. It seems good that the University should be remembered by her sons in her hour of need. May she ever be worthy of the respect and devotion of those who have tarried within her gates.
A bill will be introduced in the legislature which has the approval of the committee on legislative matters of the State Teachers' Association, that will be of great moment to the University graduates expecting to teach. The bill is entitled an Act Concerning Teachers' Diplomas issued by the University of Kansas. The bill provides that all graduates with the degrees of B.A., M.A., or Ph.D., who have taken in class at least three terms work in Pedagogy and satisfactorily passed examination thereon, a Teachers' Diploma which shall become a valid certificate to teach in any district or city school in the State of Kansas on the filing of a verified copy of the Diploma in the office of the chairman of the city or county examining board.
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