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Kansas University Weekly.
LOGALS.
The invitations for the Pi Phi party have been issued.
Miss Edith Davis spent Saturday and Sunday at home in Topeka.
Miss Ella Anderson returned to the University Tuesday after a short illness.
The defeat of the Freshman class by the Sophomores last Friday will probably make things interesting at the May pole contest.
The Chemical and Pharmacy departments will order their chemicals and laboratory apparatus direct from Germany this year. They are making up their orders now.
Mr. J. W. Hullinger returned last Wednesday from Junction City. He made the trip in his buggy, which with the horse has been at that place. The weather was rather unfavorable and consequently the trip was not as pleasant as it might have been.
Prof. L. I. Blake made some interesting practical experiments with the Roentgen ray while in Kansas City last Saturday afternoon. A negro who was shot in the left arm sometime ago was brought to him for the purpose of locating the bullet. The arm of the injured man was laid on a photographic plate under the Crooks tube and given a thirty-two-minute exposure. A number of other injured persons were brought to him and subjected to a like treatment. The plates have all been developed with most satisfactory results.
Mr. A. G. Alrich, foreman of the job composing department of the Lawrence Journal, is a prominent candidate for division commander of the Kansas Sons of Veterans. He is well and favorably known to members of the WEEKKY staff as a thorough gentleman, obliging and very ready to inconvenience himself to help others. He is moreover an enthusiastic son of a veteran. If any student in the University can be of any assistance to him in the annual encampment next week at Beloit the favor will not be mis-placed.
In the current number of the American Journal of Philology, on page 525, we notice a favorable review of Dr. Holmes's Index Lysiacus (Bonn,1895) from the pen of Professor Gildersleeve of the Johns Hopkins University,and of Latin Grammar fame.In the current number of the Classical Review, also, on page 106, Professor Forman of Cornell University, has a little study on the Ethopoiiia in Lysias, based on Dr. Holmes's Index.
At the meeting of the Eastern Kansas Medical society in this city Tuesday, Prof. L. I. Blake made some very interesting experiments. He explained the Roentgen rays and took a photograph of Chancellor Snow's foot to demonstrate them. The shadowgraph was taken through a board, the shoe and a hard rubber plate. The foot was given a five minute exposure.
Mr. Maurice L. Alden, '95 was elected secretary of the Grand Arch Council of the Phi Kappa Psifraternity at the biennial session of the council held at Cleveland, Ohio, last week. Mr. Alden is rapidly winning honors, and of course his many friends at the University are proud of him.
The gentlemen who take rowing have a great deal of difficulty while on the river, on account of the wind. Several times they have returned to the boat house drenched by the waves.
F. L. Glick, '98, enjoyed a visit last Sunday. from his brother. J. F. Glick and Mr. John Greene of Topeka,
Prof. Bailey spent a part of his vacation making lantern slides from the views he took while abroad.
The Pharmacy department will have a write up in the next issue of "Myer Brothers Druggist."
Mr. John Sullivan, Law'87, and wife of Kansas City, visited the University Monday.
There are thirty-two students taking Junior Pharmacy laboratory work this half term.