Kansas University Weekly.
297
EXGHANGES.
In beating the Southwest College at the recent field meet, the Wichita High School athletes ran the 120 yard hurdle race in 16 seconds and the 880 yard race in $ 2 : 0 1_{\frac{1}{5}}. $
The University Courier published last week a magnificent four-page sheet giving pictures of the track teams of Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania and Columbia, and individual pictures of thirteen men.
The U. of M. has had in the past week a fine lecture by Commissioner Rosevelt, eleven games scheduled for the Freshman ball team, and a new book on American Glaciers issued by Prof. Russell.
Some mean thief played the old hair-y at the "Cottage" yesterday. Stole all the curling irons. That pleasant home of femininity for the once looks as though it had been struck by a Paderewski craze. -Ottawa Campus.
The Collegian in an able article urging college young men to take part in politics, says the college youth can well afford to lay aside his Patrick Henry, Webster and Clay and take up Garfield, Sumner and Wendell Phillips. College orators, take note.
Cornell has made the entrance requirements for the Law School the same as for the School of Arts, and extended the course to three years. It is in line with the action of the good schools all over the country to put the entrance bars for schools up to a respectable height.
Some of our exchanges are in the belated stage of telling that Yale has a class in modern novels. Some tell that the class has 250 members, some that the class has been discontinued, and some give the list of very poor novels preferred by the members, but the Stylus has an original editorial on novels and it is a genuine pleasure to read such an article. The editor says the novel-i.e.the story,is the earliest, most enjoyable, and perhaps the best form of literature.
The latest product of the Park College Press is an eighty-three page Trigonometry by Prof. Mattoon. - Stylus.
The Campus gives a very flattering account of Prof. Dyche's talk in chapel the morning after his lecture in Ottawa.
The Senior class of the State Normal has elected a class poetess, and decided to erect the World's Fair fountain that has been stored away since its return from Chicago.
One of the Missouri colleges attributes to M. S. U. the two old rules which students are modestly requested to observe, viz: Do not kill any of the professors; do not tear up the sidewalks.
The The Mask and Wig of Pennsylvania has presented No Gentleman of France in Boston and in New Haven and has been well received by the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard and the undergraduates of Yale.
The last issue of the Penn Chronicle contains one of the finest illustrated articles to be found in any of the college papers. It is by our own M. Z. Kirk, and is entitled, "The Salt Region of Kansas." It gives a general sketch of the history of salt and salt manufacture in this country, the early development of the salt business in Kansas and a very clear exposition of the present manufacture. Also a statement of the geological conditions in which salt is found is New York and Michigan and an explanation of the formation and development of the geological conditions of the Kansas salt regions. The article contains three 5x7 inch cuts. Mr. Kirk has done a vast amount of original investigation in the salt regions, one of the most interesting results of which is the set of photographs taken 1000 feet down in the mines. He is doing the work under the direction of the University State Geological Survey of which Prof. E. Haworth is the head. Mr. Kirk is working for the degree of Ph. D. from the University.