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Kansas University Weekly.
Prof. L. I. Blake lectured at Kansas City last Friday evening.
Mr. Herbert Hadley '92, who is now practicing law in Kansas City, was in this city last Sunday.
Southern Greenland in the afternoon and Northern Greenland at night. Next Tuesday by Prof. Dyche.
Such a great variety of new black goods for waists, dresses and separate skirts as Weaver is showing is rarely seen outside of a large city.
Prof. E. Miller last Sunday addressed a large and attentive audience of men at the city Y. M.C.A.rooms, on the subject: "Is life worth living?"
Have you seen the Leggin-Hose at Weaver's. They are just what you want to wear with your rainy day suit. By all means stop in at the store and see them.
A society for child study has been organized in this state and it is probable that a local organization will soon be formed. Prof. A. S. Olin is much interested in the subject.
Students attending Prof. Dyche's lecture Tuesday afternoon should not fail to call on Secretary Moody and get students'tickets which they can exchange at the Opera House for 15 cent admission tickets.
University students desiring to avail themselves of the 15 cent rate to the matinee lecture by Prof. Dyche must obtain a ticket at the Secretary's office so that the management may know who are students and therefore entitled to the students' rate.
A girl is apt to speak well of the store where she gets a good article. The many girls who wear "Foster Kid Gloves" make lots of friends for Weaver's store. There is a great deal in fitting gloves and Weaver's glove girls know how to fit gloves to perfection.
A New Extinct Species of Bison.
A discovery of much interest has been made in western Kansas of an extinct species of bison, the skull having an expanse of nearly four feet. The bison has not yet been identified with certainty but seems closely related to a species already well known. The bison skeleton, that of a bull, will be mounted shortly in the University museum.
A Proposed Scientific Expedition.
Prof. S.W. Williston has been invited to become a member of a scientific expedition which will leave New York next September for a five months trip to Asia, Africa, and the East and West Indies. He will probably accept the invitation as he considers the opportunity a valuable one. The expedition will be under the leadership of Prof. Hite of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, who was a prominent member of the Peary relief expedition last year. Prof. Hite was formerly in the University of Kansas.
The object of the expedition will be scientific research. The plan of its projectors is to invite as members, professors of the leading colleges of the United States, who will afterwards deliver lectures on the literature, languages and geography of the countries visited. Prof. Williston has been offered the appointment of geologist of the expedition. The steamship "Ohio," of the Great American Steamship line has been chartered for the trip and is now undergoing extensive repairs in preparation for it.
The itinerary of the expedition will be through the Mediterranean Sea; up the Nile to the Pyramids; through the Isthmus of Suez to Bombay, Java, Sumatra and Australia, and return via Madagascar and the Cape of Good Hope to the West Indies.
Everybody knows of Prof. Dyche as a hunter and naturalist. He has brought down with his unerring rifle every kind of large North American animal except the musk ox. In the Artic regions the seal, the caribou or wild reindeer, the polar bear, the huge walrus and even the narwhal fell victims to his deadly aim. For three hours on one occasion he fought for his life against an infuriated mob of walruses. With the finest photographic outfit that could be procured in New York City Prof. Dyche took 482 views in that far away country—the only real first class pictures ever brought from the Artic regions. Every phase of Artic scenery and life will be illustrated by the use of a stereoopticon and the latest modern improvements of electric or calcium light, giving to the pictures a most realistic and life like effect.
The students' matinee Tuesday afternoon is a happy thought on the part of Prof. Dyche's manager. Many who do not wish to be out at night or have other engagements for the evening can thus be accommodated.