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Chemistry Notes.
Robert Combs, Pharmacy '92, who has spent several seasons as a sugar chemist in Louisiana will graduate this year at the Iowa Agricultural College.
Mr. Palmer reported on Henri Moissan's lecture in New York City and gave an interesting account of the experiments which he performed there.
At the Chemical seminary last Monday Mr. Cady reviewed the work of a number of physical chemists on the molecular complexity of liquids. Although they worked by different methods, they all agree that most substances have the same molecular weight in the liquid as they have in the gaseous state. The principle exceptions to this rule are water, the lower alcohols and fatty acids.
Prof. Franklin has made some vacuum jacketed test tubes for use in the investigation of liquid ammonia It is certainly very surprising what an efficient non conductor of heat a vacuum is, for in these tubes the liquified gas which boils thirty four degrees below zero will remain perfectly quiet for hours even with the mouth of the tube left open freely to the air. By means of these simple little pieces of apparatus this liquid can be experimented on as easily as so much water.
On the night of Hallowe'en the "pledglings" and "initiates" of the Kappa Kappa Gamma entertained the older members in a most novel and pleasing way. The old Hadley house on Tennessee street was furnished in a manner quite befitting the occasion. The walls and stairway of the reception rooms and hall were covered with white, which, together with the hostesses' ghostly apparel and their clanking chains would have won a smile of approval from the most gruesome of ghosts. Before supper the girls assembled in a darkened room and indulged in some choice and startling ghost stories. The most pleasant part of the evening was that spent in the dining room. The room was draped entirely in red and the weird light that the fire crackling in the grate threw upon
the prettily decorated table provided a contrast that was as stricking in appearance to the previous scenes as it was in effect. After supper fortunes were told and every old trick and game practiced that could be recalled for ages of Hollowe'ens. At half-past eleven the girls left, thanking their hostesses, who had again assumed human form, for a most pleasant evening, and probably the merriest and most happy girl of all was the one to whose lot the ring in the Kappa Kappa Gamma fortune cake fell.
Friday morning the Pi Phis, following the example of the Esoterics of Chicago University put their pledged girls through something of a test which to lookers on seemed to have been designed to remind the victims that their grammer school days were not over. After chapel time eight girls were seen attending classes in long pinafores and pigtails tied with the fraternity colors. Each one carried a large red apple, which presumably was to be eaten at recess, and a felt bound slate upon which were written the names;—Madgie Bullene, Gertie Hill, Winnie Hutchison, Maudie Maxwell, Amy Rudiger, Zillah Smith, Katie Taylor, Lucy Van Hoesen. This was preliminary to the initiation proper which took place Saturday evening at the home of Miss Daisy Cockins. After the ceremony a very amusing program was given by the old members who reversed the customary order of initiations by cutting a few capers themselves. To the cooky shine that followed, thirty-five enthusiastic Pi Phis sat down; among the number were Miss Mary Frost of Topeka a member from Knox College, and two of the patronesses—Mrs. Emery and Mrs. Arthur Weaver.
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