Kansas University Weekly.
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Prof. Blackmar was in Kansas City Saturday.
Mr. Beede of Washburn college was a visitor on the hill Monday.
Ralph McKinnie and W. N. Logan attended Richard III, played by Keene in Kansas City Saturday night.
The next meeting of the Chemical Society will be held April 9. H. E. Davies is preparing a paper for that meeting.
Mr. G. D. Phillips, '98, who has been teaching near Rosalind, has entered the University for the remainder of the term.
Mr. O. P. Davis '93, graduated from the University Medical College of Kansas City last week. Mr. Davis will attend school in New York next year.
The annual spring Beta party has been indefinitely postponed on account of the death of Mr. Spellman's father. A lawn party will probably be held later in the season instead of the usual dance.
Mr. Clarence I. Spellman was called to his home in Kansas City last Saturday by a telegram announcing the death of his father, Mr. Norman W. Spellman.
It will be gratifying to the students of the University to learn that Mr. D. D. Gear is playing an excellent game of base-ball with the Ft. Worth Texas team.In a recent game he struck out nine men.The papers speak of him as a "whirlwind."
The class in Advanced English Composition finish narration this week. During the spring vacation the members of this class will each compose a story of two thousand words. At the beginning of the half-term the class will take up argumentation.
Lately a great number of strangers have visited Spooner library. Almost without exception they have been impressed with the arrangement of the book-stock. Most of them have spoken of the advantages which the seminary rooms must afford to the students. People who have visited eastern libraries speak in the highest terms of ours as compared with them.
As the doors of the University building were closed last Saturday evening and permission to enter could not be obtained, the Adelphic Literary Society held a very interesting meeting on the stone steps outside the building. In the absence of the president Mr. Thomas Harley presided. The regular program was dispensed with and instead declamations were given by nearly every person who was present. Mr. U. S. Guyer was appointed to make arrangements for the society to meet inside the building hereafter.
Judging from the notices of Professor Blake's lectures in Kansas City, on the X ray problem, it is expected by the people that Professor Blake will yet be the discoverer of the ray—what it is and why. Why should not the X ray and the north pole become University trophies?
University men show more interest in cycling this spring than ever before. The Chancellor, Professors Blackmar, Hodder and Hopkins and a number of students have purchased new wheels. Every pleasant evening these amateurs are out practicing.
At the Economic Seminary on Monday Miss Anna Edwards reported on the leading articles in the current number of the North American Review and Mr. Carl Wallace reviewed the last copy of the Annals of the American Academy.
Prof. Sayre will lecture before the Leavenworth Academy of Science on "The Manufacture of Antitoxine and its Therapeutic Application," Friday evening of this week.
The meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society was postponed last week on account of Junior examinations. The next meeting will occur April 10.
At the Historical Seminary last Friday Prof. E. D. Adams delivered a very interesting address on "The Political Conditions in Europe."
The March number of the Pharmaceutical Record contains an article on the Metric System by Prof. Bailey.
Prof. Bailey's course of lectures on "Toxicology" will begin after vacation.