Kansas University Weekly.
93
Every student should feel a personal interest in the Kansas-Nebraska debate. Don't let Nebraska think that the University is afraid.
The McKinley Club has accepted the challenge of the Bryan Club, and preparations are being made for the joint debate by a committee from each club.
By the invitation of the Y. W. C. A. of the Agricultural College the eleventh Annual State Convention will be held in Manhattan Oct.15- 18. Our girls should see that the University is well represented.
The Adelphine Literary Society reorganized last Friday evening and decided, to hold regular weekly meetings. The time and place of meeting has not been fully decided, but it it will meet next Friday evening in Adelphic Hall and will make further arrangements.
Among the apparatus just received by the Chemisty Department the following deserve mention. An aluminum oven; an apparatus for the electrolytic estimation of metals; an electric furnace for reduction of metals; a large Sartorius balance with aluminum beam; and a neat gasometer for lecture use.
A class for bible study has been organized by the Young Women's Christian Association and will meet at the Y. W. C. A. house, 1605 Tenn every Friday afternoon at five o'clock. It is unnecessary to say that the work is interesting as well as beneficial when it is stated that Miss Joe March is conducting the study. Any and all of the University girls will be most warmly welcomed to the class.
The following is a portion of a letter recently received from Ralp W. Cone, one of the "Harvard Colony:" "The Kausas colony is thriving here. Breese and Bloss have been here several days and they have found a pleasant room in a private house. Patten I expect tomorrow morning. Griffin I have already mentioned. Hamaker, Linville and Virtue are here and will probably come up for their Ph. Hd. this year. Zeller and Hall are also here. The former will add Russian to his already considerable collection of languages, this year."
Mr. A. R. Bell, M. A.'96 who died at the home of his parents in Graham county, Kansas, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1896, of typhoid-pneumonia and malarial fever, was born in Putnam county, Mo., on Dec. 15, 1867, and came in early boyhood to Graham county, which has been his home since that time. In 1888 he attended the Kansas Normal College at Fort Scott. In 1890 he entered the Salina Normal University, taking consecutively the Teachers Scientific and Classic courses. In 1893 he was placed in charge of the scientific department of that school, and, concurrently, he attended the scientific and classic classes of the Salina Wesleyan University, and from both of these schools he received the Bachelor's degree. In 1895 he was elected vice-president of the Afton Normal College, Afton, Iowa, but he soon resigned to enter Kansas University, which school conferred on him the Master's degree in 1896. Mr. Bell was not widely known in the University as he was pre-eminently a student, carrying two extra studies much of the time. All of those, however, who did become acquainted with him, and especially those who knew him best, were impressed with the extraordinary strength of his mind and character, and with his sincerity, and earnestness of purpose.
Very Important.
It has been found that in the Library file of the WEEKLY, Vol. I, No. I is imperfect. Any one supplying this number to any member of the Library force will confer a favor, which will be duly appreciated.
The Kwir Book in New York.
A few days ago Syd Prentice received an order from Chas. S. Pratt, a bookseller of New York City, for twenty copies of the "Kwir Book." As the edition is exhausted and available copies held at a premium this order cannot be filled.
The "Kwir Book" was introduced to New York last summer by the New York Echo, an illustrated periodical which reproduced one of its illustrations.