Kansas University Weekly.
315
Miss Anna Parsons visited friends in Kansas City last week.
Ted Bedell of Baker visited here Saturday. Mr. Bedell was a member of the Baker-Ottawa foot-ball team of two years ago and will probably compete for a position on the team here next year.
At Greek Symposium last week, Prof. Sterling read another of his series of papers upon Greek history, entitled "Philip of Macedon and Demosthenes." The Symposium will meet twice more before vacation.
Within the last six months Prof. Newson has published two papers in the Kansas University Quarterly in which he has begun the development of his new theory of continuous groups of projective transformations. This theory is strictly original with him and his papers have begun to attract the attention of mathematicians of this country and of Europe. In the April number of the bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Prof. Taber of Clark University has an article largely devoted to a discussion of his Kansas friend's discoveries. Prof. Newson believes that his discoveries when published in full will profoundly modify theories that have become classic in French and German Universities.
Inter-State Oratorical Contest.
At the oratorical contest at Topeka last week, the representative from Iowa won first place, Illinois second and Ferry L. Platt of Washburn College carried third honors for Kansas. Music was furnished by the Washburn Glee Club and by the Ohio Wesleyan Glee Club. The latter did excellently the orations were good and the contest was very interesting, but the audience was small for an inter-state contest. The judges were: On thought and composition, President J. B. Angell of the University of Michigan, R. H. Conwell of Philadelphia, John T. Graves of Georgia. On delivery, Rev. M. W. Reed of Denver, Lafayette Young, of Iowa, and Major Warner of Kansas City.
Mr. H. B. McCorkle was in Topeka last Saturday.
Mr. J. W. Hullinger was in Kansas City on business Saturday.
Warren Edwards, a former student, spent several days in the city last week.
Chancellor Snow was in Topeka in attendance at the State Board of Education last week.
The dynamo of the Senior Engineers is gradually nearing completion and will soon be ready for testing.
The Senior Civil Engineers have dropped bridge work while preparing their theses for graduation.
A number of University students will take part in the lady minstrel show to be given next week under the direction of Miss Georgia Brown.
T. H. Scheffer '95, spent a few days in the city this week. Mr. Scheffer has been principal of the Delphos High-School the past year and return soon to accept a position as instructor in the Ottawa County Normal.
Miss Radford's Sunday School class at the M. E. Church, with a number of young ladies went on a picnic at Deichman's Crossing last Saturday. Games were played and a very fine time is reported by those who went.
George O. Foster, the former well known stenographer in the office of Treasurer Moody, represented the Lawrence High School in the inter-high school oratorical contest at Kansas City, Kans., last Friday evening, and won the second prize, a fine gold medal.
A meteorite that fell in Franklin county in April was examined in the chemical laboratory this week. It weighs thirty-two ounces and is very valuable, and on that account may not be kept long in Kansas, as eastern dealers are already bargaining for it. The gentleman who brought the meteorite here was only two-hundred feet away when it fell. It was found the next morning buried nine inches in the ground and covered with a black crust due to the fusion of the surface in its rapid passage through the atmosphere.