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Kansas University Weekly.
a position in St. Joseph, Mo.; Perry expects to work for a wholesale drug house in Kansas City; Stuart expects to go to Chicago and Ogg to Kansas City; Jacquemin, Newton, and Bowen have not decided where they will go; Lang will begin work in St. Louis next September and Sprague will sojourn among the rustics of Morrill and relate tales of university life.
Prof. Sayre and a large delegation of students attended the annual meeting of the Kansas Pharmacentical association at Leavenworth last week and captured several of the field contest prizes. Miss Northrup, Miss Fisher, and Mrs. Carter won the prizes offered for the egg and potato races. Myron Mason and Clarence Carter won the running races. In the 100 yard dash Mason won a fine silver flask.
Of the two or three hundred journals in the reading room of the library eighty-one are foreign publications. Of these, twenty-seven come from London, Eng., twelve from Berlin, twelve from Paris, and nine from Leipzig, while Halle furnishes four, Vienna three, Stuttgart, Stettin and Cassel two each, and Stockholm, Santiago, London, Ont., Dresden, Cambridge, Eng., Strasbourg, Zurich and Athens one each. All of the leading dailies of the state are kept on file here.
The students of the University of Kansas should consider themselves especially favored in that they are to have an opportunity to hear President Wm. R. Harper, of the University of Chicago. President Harper is recognized as being one of the leading educators in the world. He is at the head of the great University which is no doubt destined to become the intellectual center of educational circles in the Mississippi valley. Just at this time when President Harper is proposing to inaugurate a pronounced reform in the educational system of the Baptist church it is fitting that he should choose for the subject of his address "Ideals in Education." No one can be better fitted than he for outlining such systems as would raise educational standards and be of incalculable benefit
to students the world over. President Harper is to speak Monday night at 8 o'clock. Every student of the University should hear him. Let us give this University man a University welcome.
A party of a dozen university boys start for Buffalo, N. Y. next Monday, where they will canvass for Jas. M. Davis' stereoscopic views during vacation. Arrangements have been made to have a competent canvasser meet the boys at Buffalo, secure board and lodgings for them and give them a thorough drill in the science of canvassing. The boys expect to make enough money to carry them through another year and incidentally they will see Niagara and other sights. As at present constituted the members of the party are: O. T. Hester, Jno. B. Thierstein, J. W. Lanning, C. R. Troxel, J. M. Drysdale, S. C. Sweezy, L. A. Simons, F. H. Johnson, C. J. Moore, H. J. Myers, Geo. Kingsley and Leroy Beebe while Prof. Haworth and V. L. Leighton, who expect to spend the summer in New York and C. B. Humphrey, who is going to West Point, will go with the party and swell its numbers.
E. Miller, Ph. D.
The many friends of Prof. Miller will be pleased to learn that another merited honor has been conferred upon him. It is a source of great satisfaction to see such a deserving man, one who has confined himself so close to the field of pedagogy, the recipient of a Ph.D. degree which is truly the culmination of a long series of intellectual achievements. He has most successfully devoted many years to mathematics and astronomy without the least relaxation of purpose. He is a graduate of Alleghany College where he took the degrees of A.B. and A.M. It was in the capacity of principal and superintendent of the Lawrence High School that he proved his ability to be the head of the department of mathematics and astronomy at K.U., which position he has held since 74. The professor is a member of the New York Mathematical society, Astronomical society of the Pacific and of the honorary fraternity Sigma Xi. He is the author of
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