Kansas University Weekly.
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W. Ellis, G. P. Irwin, L. N. Flint; committee on revision of constitution, A. G. Clarke, A. J. Bales.
The Women's League will be at home to all young women of the University on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Mrs. Prof. Miller's.
We would not be astonished at seeing a Freshman hunt for his hat when it was on his head, but when a Senior looks and looks for her door key, and it is in her pocket, we are entirely overcome.
Prof. F. G. Menet, Junior Assistant in English has been granted a leave of absence because of sickness. Professors Hopkins and Jones will have charge of his classes until he can return to his work.
Prof. Blackmar will lecture to the North Central Kansas Teacher's Association on the "Inadequacies of Socialism." The association convenes at Beloit on Thanksgiving day. J. W. Huttinger is president.
Send one to your pa and ma. One what? One of those Lawrence Albums. Get them of Stewart in basement of main building. Over 200 pictures of Kansas University, Lawrence, and Haskell Institute. One half usual price Only 25 cents each.
M. L. Alden, '94, saw us defeat Iowa and yelled with as much spirit as if a home run had been hit with three men on bases. Maurice leaves for Washington, D.C., in a couple of weeks, where he is to be private secretary to Congressman Miller.
Prof. Blake addressed the monthly meeting of the Science club last Friday afteenoon. He gave a history of the various theories held by scientists on the force of gravity. The program committee is endeavoring to provide especially interesting programs this year.
The election by the Board of Regents of Prof. E. Miller as Dean of the School of Arts, has met with general commendation among both the alumni and undergraduates of the Univhrsity. It is an honor well earned by years of faithful service to the University and every alumnus or undergraduate of the University
who has ever taken work in the department of Mathematics under Prof. Miller and has come to know him will heartily endorse the action of the Regents.
The Topeka Mail and Kansas Breeze got its University illustrations mixed last week and labeled the Physics building "The Chancellor's Residence." This was doubtless caused by the haste and confusion in the Mail and Breeze office, incident to getting the war paint ready for Eugene Ware's edition of that paper.
The report that one dollar admission will be charged for the Thanksgiving day game at Kansas City has caused a good deal of dissatisfaction among those students intending to attend the game. The general sentiment seemed to be that fifty cents is enough to be added to the railroad fare which they are compelled to pay.
A crowd that filled both floors of University Hall heard Frederick Funston's illustrated lecture on his Alaskan experiences last Friday evening. Mr. Funston is a very pleasant lecturer and held the undivided attention of his audience from the very beginning. The lecture was well illustrated by a number of lantern slides from pictures taken by Mr. Funston himself during his stay of two years in Alaska.
Prof. Dyche brought from the Arctic Regions one of those light leather canoes used by the Esquimaux in hunting seals or walruses. The frame work is wood and ivory, and is covered with skins. There is not a nail or a scrap of iron used in its make. The pegs with which the frame is held together are of wood or ivory. The oar-lock is the transverse section of a tusk. The spears which they use have ivory points. The canoe resembles, in general shape, the one-man racing boat.
Friday evening, Nov. 1, at 7:00 p.m., the new officers of the Adelphic Society were duly inaugurated and President Guyer in a few well chosen words delivered an inaugural. A well rendered program followed consisting of an essay on "Cooperation," by Mr. Lewis, declamations, by Guyer and Robinette; impromptu speeches, by John Simpson on "The Prospects of K. U. and McCook Field on Nov. 2, and