The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL.I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 29,1895.
No.14.
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ONE OF the best things spoken last Friday afternoon was this sentence by Regent Scott: "It is a magnificent thing to see a great institution of learning founded by the generosity of one rich man, but it is a more magnificent thing to see a great institution built up by the self-imposed taxation of a whole people."
It was quite appropriate that the dedication of our new Physics Building should occur so near Thanksgiving. The Univerity now has one of the best buildings in the country for that department of work, planned and constructed after the most approved modern ideas and equipped with every convenience. Not only may instruction now be given most advantageously, but there are rooms to be fitted up as laboratories in which to conduct original research. With its excellent material equipment and under the directorship of Prof. Blake, the Electrical Engineering Department of Kansas University will easily be the leading school of its kind in the West.
ON NEXT Friday and Saturday, December 6th and 7th,the Kansas Reform Editorial Association will hold its annual meeting in Lawrence. We hope that students personally acquainted with any of the visitors will join with the authorities in seeing that they are well entertained while here, and that the time they may be able to spend on the hill shall be made as pleasant and profitable for them as possible.
WILL WHITE seems unable to rid himself of the soreness resulting from that Emporia football game. Last week he sought relief by saying all the mean things he had heard or could invent about the Kansas Uuniversity team in general and Captain Piatt in particular, printing an alleged picture of the latter as a crowning insult. Poor man! He believes it necessary to disown the friends of his earlier days in order to make a few dollars from the patronage of the college students at Emporia.
THE DEDICATION of the new Physics Building gives opportunity for a word about the progress of the University, which opened not so many years ago in North College with only three instructors. Now there are eight buildings in use and the faculty numbers over fifty. The attendance is increasing so rapidly that within