The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 15, 1895.
No.12.
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WE WISH to call special attention to the very interesting letter from Mrs. Gertrude Boughton Blackwelder on the Dormitory System at Chicago University which we publish in this issue. The subject is one which should receive attention here at Kansas University.
ON NOVEMBER 22 will occur the formal dedication of the new Physics building. To how many students does the question occur: "Will there be no regular work that day?" When a fellow is being steadily snowed under by his
work and the drifts are daily becoming deeper and heavier, a holiday is a day of sunshine and warmth and gladness in his life.
WE MODESTLY give way to the State Normal. Will White in the Emporia Gazette says: "One of the sights of Hallowe'en was a quadrille by four couples of Normal students at a street crossing. President Taylor should call out the militia to prevent such orgies." The Normal should have a disciplinary committee to look after such matters.
NUMBER Two of the fourth volume of the Kansas University Quarterly has appeared within the week. The major portion of the number is devoted to mathematics, the following being the table of contents: "Continuous Groups of Projective Transformations Treated Synthetically," by H. B. Newson; "The Theoretical and Measured Pumping Power of Windmills," by E. C. Murphy; "Two Remarkable New Genera of Diptera," by S. W. Williston; "Involutoric Transformation of the Straight Line," by Arnold Emch; and on "Toxotrypana of Gerstaecker," by W. A. Snow.
THE NEWSPAPERS are just now induging in a great deal of talk about sending Prof. Dyche in search of the North Pole next season. We have not heard the Professor express his own thoughts in the matter, but we can imagine what he might say. Prof. Dyche has devoted himself to the study of Natural History and the gathering of specimens which will some day form the greatest collection of its kind in the world, and we have no fear of his leaving his work half completed to pursue a frozen bubble of fame which must quickly melt in the