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Kansas University Weekly.
Women's League Meeting.
The Women's League will be at home to all young women of the different departments of the University at the residence of Professor F. H. Hodder, 1108 Tennessee street, on Saturday afternoon October 10th, at three o'clock.
Mrs. Preuszner.
It has become the custom in the colleges all over the country to observe one day in October as a day of prayer for young women.
Next Thursday, October the 8th, is the day chosen for this year, and the young women of the University will have the privilege of hearing a short address by Mrs. Preuszner, a niece of Henry Ward Beecher, and a woman of large experience and culture. She will speak in Library Hall on the subject, "The opportunities of a college young woman." A general invitation is extended.
Among the Greeks.
Mr. Francis is a pledged Phi Psi.
Ethel Luther put on Kappa colors this week.
Lou Wilcox of Atchison is a pledged Phi Delt.
Mr. Henry Attwater and John E. Frissele are wearing Beta colors.
There were several out of town guests at the Beta's hop last Saturday evening.
Misses Montgomery and Proud of Oregon, Mo., are pledged to the Kappa Gammas.
Miss Maud Maxwell of Keokuk, Iowa, who is here attending the University is a pledged Pi Phi.
A movement is on foot to organize a Pan-Hellenic Literary Society in the University. A meeting will probably be called next week to form definite plans, and perfect an organization.
In the fire at the Opera House last evening, the Sigma Chi hall was greatly damaged. The young men had just moved into their new quarters and their new furniture and carpets were ruined by the smoke and water. There was no insurance upon the goods and their loss is estimated to be almost $300.
Law Notes.
Clyde Miller spent Saturday and Sunday at his home in Osage City.
Mr. Cranshon,'95, is practicing law in Parsons. Mr. Lamb,'95, is also located there.
The Seniors are doing a great deal more of case-reading than was ever done before.
Several of the Seniors are to be found reading afternoons in the offices down town.
A Junior recently referred to a drug clerk as a "pharmist"—Everything goes.
The Juniors still continue to practice football about the Senior recitation room. They have lately promoted the two lady students to the front rank.
Science Notes.
Although generally known that many birds have striking and extreme seasonal changes in coloration, it may not be so well known that some species are supposed to undergo this change without moulting. Notable examples are the Ptarmigan and possibly the Goldfinch. The summer plumage of the former is very dark. In winter the plumage becomes pure white. It is probable that the transformation is not entirely due to a radical change in the color of the feathers, but is associated with some moulting. The American Goldfinch,(Spinus tristis), during the summer is of a very bright yellow color with some dark markings. In the fall this bright yellow is lost and the bird assumes a more or less obscure tawny gray more in keeping with the subdued hues of winter. Mr. G.W. Stevens has captured a number of these finches and will study them with regard to ascertaining to what extent the variation of color is dependent, if at all, on moulting.
From C. C.Brown.
A member of the Weekly staff is in receipt of a personal communication from C. C. Brown '96, who reports himself "in exile, doing the pedagogical act" at Olathe. The letter employs the characteristic Brown-Wickian vocabulary, and extracts from it will interest members of the University. Having paid a graceful compliment to his students and patrons, he observes that he has also "run athwart ignorance in its most virulent and aggravated form." Continuing, he says: "I have gotten my bearings and having shied my castor into the arena, and girded up my loins. I go fourth every day to grapple with the nascent hosts with now and then a trace of success. But eternal lassitude is the price of scrapping other people's scraps, and when at night I drag my aching bones to my lair and wrap the drapery of my ccuch about me, it is to dream that X+Y is the attribute compliment which bisects Washington Irving and intercepts mensae and puer with Cataline on the sine."