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Kansas University Weekly.
The University of Kansas closes the present academic year with a total enrollment of 914 students. The substantial increase in attendance together with the earnestness and enthusiasm that has been manifested in all lines of collegiate work is gratifying and flattering to the instructors and authorities of the institution.
The outlook for the coming year is unusually bright. The welfare of the University depends upon and its interests are directly allied with the general condition of the inhabitants of the state. The present material prospects of the people of the state are very encouraging and indicate a large attendance in the various High schools of Kansas. It is from these schools now numbering 119 including academies that the University draws the greatest portion of its students, and hence the influences that control the attendance at those schools is directly felt at the University.
The changes in the corps of instructors for the coming year are two. Miss Effie Scott, '91, has been elected assistant in German and French, and Mr. Ralph Gowell, '96, will be assistant in zoology.
In no institution of similar standing and reputation is education offered at so little cost. Tuition is free to inhabitants of the state of Kansas. Tuition under the guise of matriculation, contingent, or annual fees, is unknown at the University. In the studies in which much material and apparatus are used for experimental purposes, such as pharmacy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and natural history the student is required to pay for the actual amount of material used or apparatus broken.
The amount of optional work allowed the student is one of the most noteworthy features of instruction of the University. In the Junior and Senior years the only restriction imposed upon the student in his choice of studies is in regard to the amount that can be taken under the department or instructor. During the Sophomore year the studies of that year are divided into two groups, the first containing the languages, the second all other courses. The student is not allowed to choose more than four terms work from either group. The Freshman work is prescribed mainly, except that freedom is allowed in the choice of languages.
All inquiries concerning the University will be gladly answered and catalogues will be sent on application to Chancellor F. H. Snow, Lawrence, Kansas.