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Kansas University Weekly.
Mrs. Stone banquetted the foot-ball boys last Saturday night. The boys tackled well and proved themselves good offensive players even against the 'feathered tribe of domestic fowls.'
The base-ball suits may be moth-eaten, but the players are not. The prospects for a good team in the spring are the best for years. Preliminary practice in the gymnasium will begin the first of next term.
The Sigma Chi party in Fraziers' Hall last Friday night was perhaps the opening event of the social season. About thirty couple enjoyed the hospitality of the Sigs, and partook of the pleasures of the evening.
The K. U. girls know what a good thing is. They may be seen any day at Miss Barber's hair dressing parlors, a special line of hair goods are to be found there and it is the only place in town where ladies can obtain a shampoon.
The election of Armor as foot-ball captain for '96 insures the University another victorious season. The election was a complete victory for Prof. Cowan, and the boys by their votes, manifested a spirit of contempt for the disreputable and unjust roast in last Sunday's World.
Posted up in the Chemical laboratory is the following agreement signed by about twenty Sophomores: "We do hereby agree and promise that we will in no manner appropriate, seize, confiscate or swipe any property, whatsoever, that belongs to any other member of the class."
Prof. F. W. Blackmar has, in the December Chautauqua, a very interesting history of the pension system in the United States. It is a short article and does not at all enter into a discussion of the system but gives the different points in its development from the time of the Revolution.
The Economic Seminary met as usual last Monday. Prof. Blackmar gave a most interesting review of the "Review of Reviews". He devoted the rest of the hour to introducing the new economic books which he has just had purchased for his department. They have been assigned to the members for reviewing during the year.
Prof. Clark gave an informal talk on the masters in painting, in the rooms of the Art League at Leavenworth last Saturday, and on Monday in the rooms of the Art Department of the Athenaeum, at Kansas City. He illustrated his remarks with a hundred large photographs of the works of the masters. This lecture was given to University students in the lecture room of the Physics Building, Thursday afternoon. The same photographs were shown.
One of the pressing needs of the University is a green-house for the Botany Department. A great majority of the students take work, sometime during their college course, in this very important and popular branch of study, and yet less has been done for it than for any other of the Departments of Science in the University. Work in Botany, although most complete in every other way, is seriously hampered by the lack of a green-house that could be used as a laboratory in Physicological Botany.
Prof. Miller contributes an interesting article in the current number of "Popular Astronomy" under the title "Astronomy in the High Schools." The Professor deplores the fact that Astronomy is ignored or at least glanced at in a very desultory way by students in American High Schools. He speaks of the important relation of Astronomy to the other sciences and says that because of this important relation, Astronomy assumes at once a position second to no other science. In order that Astronomy may become a popular study, every High School, he says, should be equipped with apparatus not expensive but scientific and exact. In conclusion, he adds, that even a primary course in Astronomy would certainly do as much in strengthening the intellectual faculties in broadening character, in elevating and strengthening thought, desire, and purpose, in creating a strong and pure imagination, as any subject, whether scientific or literary, embraced within any course of study for High Schools.