Kansas University Weekly.
71
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Messrs. Saunders, Bunker and Gowell are preparing for exhibition the skins of bears collected last fall by the Department of Natural history. The group will consist of three old males, one female and a cub.
The University has received an interesting addition to the museum from Mr. Ossian Guthrie of Chicago, a slab of wood from a white oak tree which was supposed to have been buried ever since the glacial period.
The next morning after the oratorical contest at Topeka as an instructor in the University was reading a Topeka Capital, a student interested in the result of the contest, asked, "Who won?" The professor, deeply absorbed, enthusiastically replied, "Fitzsimmons knocked him out in the first round."
There is a student in the Senior Law class who entered school the first of December without a dollar to pay his expenses and with no prospect of assistance from any one. He has thoroughly reviewed the work of the first semester of school, has paid all of his expenses, and at present is making more than his expenses although carrying on full work in the University.
Deutsche Nachrichten
Student: Wie gehen Sie, Herr Professor?
Professor: Auf zwei Beine.
Student: Herr Professor, es thut mir leid das sie so viel Leichtsinn gebrauchen.
Die Studenten in Deutsch VI sind sehr zufrieden dass Deutsch inder Classe gesprochen wird.
Um ein Uhr als se Zeit ist heimzugehen, möcht der Student oft sehr gern dem Professor sagen: Herr Professor, dürfen wir kein mittagessen haben?
Einige der deutschen Classen sind zu gross. Die eine hat über hundert Studenten.
Wir schreiben nicht viel dieses Mal, da es unser erster Versuch ist. Wir werden wohl das nächste Mal mehr zu sagen haben.
School of Fine Arts.
Mrs. Jenness Venter will lecture at Music Hall, on the afternoon of March 3, to ladies only, and in the evening to both gentlemen and ladies. She will bring a number of beautiful costumes, for the purpose of illusrating her lectures.
Prof. Penny has been unable to meet his classes owing to an attack of the grip.
The Jubilee Singers' concert last Friday was attended by most of the music students and was enjoyed as an entertainment.
The Seminary this week was led by Mrs. Cowden. It was a general information Seminary and many interesting points were brought out upon various subjects relating to music.
Mr. Fred Penfield of the electrical engineering department has made several excellent negatives of the bones in the human hand by the Roentgen process of photography. The Crookes tubes used were made by Prof.E.C Franklin.
The class in Logic last week became so large that Prof. Templin found it neccesary to change its quarters. It now recites in the lecture room of Snow Hall.
Snow Hall.
The members of the histology class have taken up the subject of section nicking. By the use of a new process of staining they hope to secure better results than have heretofore been obtained.
Mr. M. Z. Kirk is making drawings of the machinery used in the salt industry of the state. These drawings will be used in Mr. Kirk's thesis on Kansas salt.
The beautiful photographs of the scenery along the Santa Fe route in Arizona and New Mexico which have been placed in the rooms of the Department of Geology by Prof. E. Haworth, contribute much to the attractiveness of the rooms.
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