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Kansas University Weekly.
English Department Notices.
ENGLISH BULLETIN. All new students will provide themselves with copies of the English Bulletin, which may be had at the main office of the University, and will notice carefully the directions given with reference to the preparation of themes and forensics. Observe that the dates given in the Bulletin are for last year. The dates for the present year may be found on page 48 of the catalogue. The first themes will be due October 9,and the first forensics October 16.
LECTURES ON FORENSICS. All students desiring to attend the course of lectures on forensics will meet in Room 14, Monday, September 21, at 5 o'clock P.M., to enroll, and to fix upon a convenient day and hour for the lectures. The course will consist of six lectures accompained by exercises, and will excused from the first forensic of the term. Attendance is required of such Juniors as have not taken the course in Advanced English Composition.
School of Fine Arts.
Miss Havens of Leavenworth, sister of Mrs. Preyer, will study piano.
Miss Mary O'Conner of St. Marys who will be aregular piano student, has already made many friends.
A class in Italian was organized Thursday at 430 P. M.at Music Hall, with Miss Spencer as teacher.
Miss Nellie Sands, who has entered as regular in the piano course, is performing the duties of Treasurer of the Music Department.
Miss Henrietta Warren, a former vocal student of Prof. Penny's, has accepted a position as vocal instructor in the Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa.
There will be a recital at Music Hall next Wednesday at 4:30 P.M. in which the seniors will participate. We are glad to announce that Prof. Pryer will play. All are invited.
Mr. Merrill has enrolled as a regular in the piano course. He being but the third gentlemen to enroll in the regular course, the proportion of ladies to gentlemen is $ 3 \times1 6 $ to 3.
There seems to be a tendency of the music students to take their studies with the students on the hill. The permission has been given upon the condition that they have a standing which meets the requirements of entrance to these classes.
The first Seminary was held in the Physics Building, Wednesday at 4: P. M. The change from Music Hall was requested in order to give the music students an opportunity to attend the Y. W. C. A. meeting on the hill at 5 o'clock. Prof. Penny gave a talk on the aims and work of the institution and then read an article on Musical Conception.
Notes.
Science bemoans the loss of one of her noblest sons in the death, September 6, of Prof. G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Director of the U. S. National Museum. Prof. Goode has been connected with the Smithsonian Institution since 1873, and has gained an enviable fame, both as an ichthyologist and as the Director of the National Museum. On fishes as well as on the best methods of museum administration he was eminently an authority.
September 7 was to be observed in Washington as the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Smithsonian Institution. But the death of Dr. Goode and the absence of Prof. S. P. Langley, the secretary, frustrated all the plans. For the same reasons the regents of the Institution failed, for the first time in 50 years, to have their regular annual meeting.
Harvard also is in mourning over the death of Prof. Francis J. Child, age 71, the oldest professor on her faculty and commonly known as Harvard's most learned man. His wisdom was only equaled by his modesty. Those who ever had the pleasure of listening to his lectures, will always keep him in loving remembrance. Prof. Child was the donor of a number of valuable works now on the shelves of our library
CARTER.