Kansas University Weekly.
137
Science Notes.
Prof. Haworth returned Monday from Great Bend where he delivered a lecture before the Irrigation convention.
Mr. Tucker is busy in filling a large order of lantern slides for the department of Biology of the University of Missouri.
Thursday evening, Dr. Williston delivered a lecture on "The Brain" before the Academy of Science which convened at Leavenworth.
Mr. Riggs is collecting Jurassic animals near Laramie, Wyoming, and reports splendid success. He intends to return about the first of November.
Last Friday Prof. Blackmar met his class in Sociology in the museum where he explained the purposes of the various objects in the Archeological collection.
Chancellor Snow delivered an address before the Irrigation convention, which met at Great Bend last week. The convention accepted the Chancellor's invitation to meet here next year.
Mr. Stewart of the department of Paleontology has just completed a restoration of an Oreodon, an animal of the Miocene formation which is closely allied to the hog. A drawing of the restoration will appear in the January number of the Quarterly.
The department of Entomology has just received for its library the complete works of Zetterstedt and Meigen; those of the first comprise 14 volumes, written in Latin, and treating of the diptera of Scandinavia, while those of the second, consist of ten volumes, written in German and treating of the diptera of Europe. Both works are authorities and are for the use of the department of Systematic Entomology.
High Carnival Saturday Night.
Although the McKinley rally Saturday was a glittering success in every respect, it could not compare with the celebration over the victory of the 'Varsity at Denver, which began early in the evening and extended into the "short hours." The celebration was to the McKinley rally what the "Great Suburban" is to minor events on the card; what the meeting of the "stars" from abroad at a boxing exhibition is to the bouts between local fistic aspirants. In fact such "kavorting" has not been seen in Lawrence for years.
Crowds of students gathered about the telegraph offices late in the afternoon. All were confident of favorable reports, and consequently good natured; but when the first bulletin was received announcing the result of the first half, a gloom cast itself over the crowd. Some one remarked. "Why can we never kick goal?" They all agreed that such a score must have been the result of a "fluke." Not until after supper was a bulletin received announcing the final score, and then pandemonium was turned loose.
For a time the jollification was confined to quiet satisfaction and scattering yells, but this was too tame for the occasion. A committee on fuel soon organized and went into session. Occasionally a merchant, who could not appreciate the fact that the boycott of the students of Kansas University would be a dire calamity to him, would defend his empty boxes, thus adding to the sport of the committee.
Soon a bond fire was started in the park, and thousands of students and citizens of Lawrence assembled to see the fun and rejoice over our victory. Jerry Glathart and other popular heroes made short talks of a fitting nature, while the yells of the crowd signified its approbation.
After all of the fuel had been exhausted the crowd divided up into parties and continued the celebration in various ways. All kinds of mass-meeting machines were brought into service, and everybody had a good time.