Kansas University Weekly.
113
There are forty new volumes on Pedagogy in the library.
The Historical Seminary held its first meeting Friday afternoon of last week.
The Sophomore "Wake" last Friday night was a social success, and they didn't dance either.
A number of the Friends attending the yearly meeting in Lawrence have visited the University during the past week.
The Iroquois club met for re-organization last Thursday eve. They purpose giving a series of social functions during the coming season.
The Bryan Club held an enthusiastic meeting at the Court House Wednesday evening. The meeting was addressed by C. Burney, Howard and Wells.
Five tribes of civilized Indians in Oklahoma recently held an indignation meeting to condemn the action of the Yale students in hissing Bryan. Oh ye college men! What is coming next.
EIGHTEEN YEARS ago tomorrow the University Law School was first opened. Then as now the students in that department were "Prof. Green's boys," but the number enrolled the first year was only thirteen.
An excellent opportunity is offered K. U. students to study Book-keeping, Penmanship, Shorthand, etc., in night-school at the Business College in Nat'l Bank Bldg. For particulars call on or address I. C. Stevenson, Principal.
The following are the names of the University girls who went to Manhattan Thursday to attend the Y. W. C. A.convention: Miss Martha Snow, Cora Fuller, Agnes Radford, Elizabeth Warner, Stella Gallup, Bessie Johnson, Henrietta Henderson, and Emma Barber.
A society has been formed for the discussion of economic questions. Next week the question "Was the Demonitization of Silver in 1873 a mistake?" will be discussed. The question "Ought the United States to adopt Free Coinage at 16 to 1?" will be considered the following week.
John G. Hall, who graduated from K. U. in '95, went to Harvard for graduate work, took his degree there in'95 with honorable mention in his diploma for excellenee in Natural History, and was assistant in Botany I the last half of the year, has been promoted to assistant in Botany II for the present year. During the summer vacation, he prepared in the Museum of the University at Cambridge, sets of economic plants for Brown University and Wellesley College. Lawrence is his home and his many friends here are proud of the recognition thus accorded to his work by the foremost Uuiversity in the Nation. In addition to discharging his duties as assistant, Mr. Hall will continue his graduate studies in Botany and Zoology at Harvard throughout the year.
Science Notes.
During the past week Mr. Frank Marcy succeeded in taking from the top of the watertower a splendid photograph of the University Buildings including the Chancellor's Residence.
The department of Paleontology is making an outline of a Ptero-dactyl. The drawing when completed will be 22 feet long by 12 ft. broad, and is to be placed in the lecture room of Snow Hall.
In the aquarium of the Entomological department can be seen the larva of the Corydalus Cornutus. This insect is remarkable for its size, its powerful mandibles, and its slender antennae. It is a slow flier notwithstanding the unusual spread of its wings of $4\frac{1}{2}$ inches from tip to tip. In structure both pair of wings are translucent with an open net work of veins. The egg mass of the Corydalus is peculiar and interesting. It averages $ \frac{1}{2} $ inch in length and contains from 200 to 300 eggs, covered with a delicate shell. The young hatch simultaneously at night. The larva or "dobsin" as it is generally called by fisherman is aquatic. The body is larger and stronger than that of the adult, and the head is similar but of a deeper color. When disturbed, it assumes a threatening aspect and if touched will attempt to bite the one meddling with it.