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Kansas University Weekly.
Fine Arts.
Mr. Marshall went to Topeka Thursday to sing at an entertainment.
Remember the Euterpe club will sell holly and mistletoe in their X-mas booth.
The Christmas concert will be given in University hall on Tuesday evening.
Miss Lichtenwalter will play the organ part to "Joan of Arc," Prof. Preyer the piano.
The Oratorio chorus is practicing twice a week, in preparation for giving "Joan of Arc" next Friday evening.
Chapel Notes.
Rev. Mr. Griffith, pastor of the English Lutheran Church, will lead next week.
Services were conducted Monday morning by Rev. Dr.Dinsmore, of San Jose, California.
Prof. Wilcox led the rest of the week. His subject was the Revised version of the Bible.
Tuesday morning attention was called to the improvements of the Revised version over the Old, due to a better Hebrew and Greek text; Wednesday morning, the improvements due to a better translation, resulting from our present improved knowledge of the meaning of words and of the force of grammatical forms and expressions; Thursday morning, the improvements made by translating the same word or expression always in the same way; Friday morning, those due to the necessity of replacing words or expressions no longer understood or understood differently.
Science Notes.
The class in Invertebrate Anatomy has commenced to study wing venation.
Mr. Tucker is preparing a number of lantern slides treating on Grecian subjects.
The Entomological department has received a large consignment of books for its library.
Mr. Marcy has made a number of transparencies of the view that he took from the water tower. They are splendidly colored and finished and are by far the best pictures of the University that have as yet been made.
Mrs. Hunter returned to her home at Pleasanton last Monday after a week's stay in Lawrence.
Chancellor Snow has exchanged with George A. Ehrmann, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a number of coleoptera for some rare staphylinidae.
The Paleontological department received from Kansas City the remains of new species of moose. The dentition is remarkable, indicating that the animal must have been of an enormous size.
Chemistry Notes.
Prof. Sayre is working on coffee bean and methods of detecting adulterations in powdered coffee.
At the Chemical Seminary last Monday Mr. Whitten explained the Geneve system of nomenclature of organic compounds and Prof. Bailey talked about the explosive properties.
The Kansas Acadamy of Science will hold its meeting in Topeka during the holidays and a number of papers will be read at this meeting by members of the Chemistry and Pharmacy departments.
Mr. Logan McKee has been in correspondence with Dr. Emmens the man who claims to have made gold out of silver, and has received several letters and papers from him describing his process. All of these have a strangely familiar sound and by turning back to the old alchemistic writings we find that Dr. Emmens has simply substituted "force engine" for Philosopher's stone, gold seeds, a medicine of the third order of the old alchemiists. It is the same thing that has been making its appearance ever since the eighth century. Of course no one will say that it is impossible to change silver into gold and when Dr. Emmens shows that he can make the transformation we will be ready to believe it, until then we are inclined to be conservative for "man is a conservative animal but to be conservative is often to declare oneself an ass and an ass is an even more conservative animal than a man."