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Kansas University Weekly.
THE INDOOR athletic meet Saturday evening March 14.
THE GRAND University ball which is to occur March 27 will certainly be enjoyable.
THE BOXING contest at the athletic meet promises to be very interesting, as several students who are not much inclined toward general athletics are interesting to participate.
It is not a pleasant fact to state that there seems to be need of two or three cuspidors on the north stairway leading to the chapel. Would it not be better to remove the need than to supply it?
LAST FRIDAY and Saturday eleven hundred and sixty students in the University of California worked on their campus with shovel, spade and wheelbarrow. This is certainly one instance where surplus college energy was used to good advantage.
THAT THE reputation of the University of Kansas is by no means limited is evidenced by a letter from H. K. Mulford, a prominent pharmacist and chemist of Philadelphia.In speaking of the school of pharmacy he says that he has never seen a more thoroughly organized department nor seen students who seemed to be more thoroughly interested in their work. He congratulates the University on the thorough work done in all departments.
THE INDOOR athletic meet at the rink one week from tomorrow night will be one of the most interesting events of the University year. Extensive preparations have been made and a large number of students who expect to contest for honors are now praticing in North College. The presence of the University girls at the meet will greatly stimulate the contestants to put forth their best efforts. If the majority of the University instructors should be present at the indoor meet, it will indicate that at last we are taking an interest in something besides foot-ball.
The Lotus for March has just been received. This issue accentuates the fact that each number is better than the preceding one. Probably the best story the Lotus has yet printed is in this number. It is entitled "Shatranj," and is a tale of Arabian mysticism by Laura E. Scammon, of Kansas City. The cover drawing by Max Knowles and the "Prarie Fire," a poem by D. A. Ellsworth with a drawing by H. A. Griffith, both of Emporia, are deserving of liberal praise. The latter drawing in red however would hardly be taken by the uninitiated as representing a prairie fire, yet is undoubtedly very artistic. The marginal illustrations by A. H. Clark are as usual the feature of the magazine. Among the other productions of note in the number are, a drawing by A. E. Borie, a Chap Book artist; an interesting Italian story by Joseph Marmon, of Princeton University; literary notes by H. E. Finney and verses by Walter Deffenbaugh, of the Chicago Inter Ocean, Sydney Carrington and Arthur Graves Canfield. The circulation of the Lotus has now reached 11,250 copies per issue. The University of Kansas may well feel proud of it.
THIS YEAR there are a larger number of graduate students in attendance at the University than ever before. The number of nonresident graduate students is constantly decreasing as the change in University instruction which has been rapidly taking place for the past ten years makes it almost impossible to pursue graduate work at home. In former times five or six books thoroughly crammed were all that was necessary for a semester of University work and this could be accomplished at home almost as well as at school, but now with efficient laboratory facilities and hundreds of books of reference it is necessary for a graduate student to be in attendance at the University.
THE RECEPTION given by Chancellor Snow last Friday evening was enjoyed by all present and we would like another. Now would it not be in order for the Faculty to give a reception?