Kansas University Weekly.
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Snow Hall.
Prof. E. Haworth is in the southern part of the State securing data for volume 11. of the geological reports.
Dr. S. W. Williston's work on the West Indian Diptera has just been published in London and will be here in a few days.
Mr. E. S. Tucker captured a seventeen-year locust Saturday. Later Mr. R. C. Gowell reports that they are abundant in the vicinity of Tonganoxie. As is well known, the seventeen-year locust Cicada Septendesim requires seventeen years in which to attain adult condition. That is to say, the eggs from which this year's brood originated were deposited in 1879, and the young, which hatched the same year, have been living in the ground feeding on juices of roots during the intervening years. This brood will deposit their eggs and the adults will have died in a few weeks. The eggs will hatch and the larvae burrow in the ground, not to reappear until 1913. The time for development required by this species is the longest known of any insect; and this Cicada has other anomalies than its longevity. The male needs only a short time in which to accomplish its life function, hence lives but a few days. It takes no food and shows scarcely a trace of a digestive canal. Longer life and food are essential to the female for the development of her eggs. The female differs further in having no musical apparatus,—the shrill humming so characteristic of the Cicada, or locust as it is incorrectly termed, being produced by the male.
Twenty-two separate broods of the periodical cicada are definitely mapped out in the United States. Two of these extend into Kansas. These are the brood of this year and another which occured in 1885.
There is also a 13-year cicada (Tredecim) differing from the 17-year variety only in requiring a less number of years for development. It also has more southern geographical range than the other,—its northern boundry being latitude $ 38^{\circ}。 $
DR. WHARTON in one of his lectures at the rink, spoke,in illustration of a certain point,of a boy whose mother lived upon bread and rice and took in washing in order to send him away to college. When this young man returned as a graduate from college his mother in eager expectancy and with looks of admiration stood waiting to receive him. When he saw how care-worn she looked,how ill-dressed she was,the result of long toil and deprivation for him, he thrust her from him and left her in disgust. This illustration could hardly be considered a type. This sort of ingratitude especially under such circumstances, is inhuman and we might say impossible. There are few colleges where a character of this sort would not have been discovered long before its possessor completed his college course, and would have lost him the respect of all his associates. It is hardly conceivable that such a man should have been able to graduate from any college. If there is one place in the world where such a character would not be tolerated it is a student community. W.W.R.
"A UNIVERSITY that is set on a hill cannot be hid" said President Low a few days ago in his address at the dedication of the new site of Columbia University. Let us congratulate Columbia on taking this step upward into the higher and purer and more invigorating atmosphere which Kansas University has been thriving on these many years.
STUDENTS ARE often mistaken when they depart from the University believing themselves to be educated. In numerous instances they are merely learned. One who has completed four years, and has not elevated his standard of life, cultivated other capabilities than those of a dilettante, and has not broadened his mind to fit the knowledge acquired instead of merely stretching it to contain this knowledge is not educated. He may point with unwarranted pride to his diploma, but unless he reflects its true intent in his manners, habits and actions, he is only learned, and has missed the purpose of a University course.