WOODWARD'S PICCADURA IS THE STUDENTS "BOSS CIGAR." UNIVERSITY KANSAN Entered at Post Office, Lawrence, Kansas, as second-class matter. Published every Friday morning by the UNIVER ITY KANSAN Company R. D. Brown, Prest. W. A. Snow, See'y. EDITORIAL STAKE: J. FRANK CRAIG, Editor in-Chief. LOCAL EDITOR. H. F. Roberts. ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Albert Fallerton, Emma Bartell, Goverter, Ina S Tangart, Koffin, K. Frogg, Logg, Herbert Hadley, Carrie Sackett. BUSY E. S MANAGERS: Harold Barnes, W. H. Riddle. UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY. BETA THETA Pi meets every Saturday evening on fourth floor of Opera House block. PHI KAPPA Psi meets every Saturday evening on third floor of Opera House block. PHI GAMMA DELTA meets every Saturday evening in the Eldridge House block, third floor. PHI DELTA THETA meets every Saturday evening on the second floor of Opera House block. Sigma Chi meets every Saturday evening on the fourth floor east of the Opera House block. Sigma Nu meets every Saturday evening in the Eldrioge House block, third floor. Pl BETA PHI meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members. KAPPA ALPHA THETA meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members. KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members. BASE BALL ASSOCIATION. Manager, Abe Levy; Captain of: Nine, John Davis. UNIVERSITY ATHELEIC ASSOCIATION- President, W. H. Carruth; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasure, Chas. B. Voorhish. PHILOLOGICAL CLUB meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 8 p. m. TENNIS ASSOCIATION - President, F. E. Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W.A. Snow. SCIENCE CLUB, meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 8 p. m. P. A. Williamson, President; Rob't. Rutledge, Secretary. OROPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY meets Friday at 8 p. m. *SEMINARY OF HISTORICAL, AND POLITI- CAL SCIENCE*, every other Friday 18 p. m. ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY meets every Friday at 8 p. m. D. H. Spencer President; Miss Corbin, Secretary. CAMERA CLUB meets once per month. E. H. S. Bailey, President, E. E. Slosson, Secretary. FOOT BALL ASSOCIATION meets every Saturday for practice. C. S. Hall, President; Chas. Wright, Secretary; Snields and Wixon Captains. Y. M. C. A. meets every Friday even ing at 7:30, room 11. President, E. L. Ackley; Secretary, C. P. Chapman. Y. W C. A. meets every Friday evening at 7:30, third floor University President, Emma Dunn; Secretary, Laura Lockwood. ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION of the stu- dents of K. S. U. L. T. Smith, Presi- dent; C. P. Chapman, Secretary; Exe- cive Committee; E. M. Munford, Chas. Vooris, Fred Lideke. THE Illineis Oratorical Association has purchased a silver cup, costing $75 to be awarded annually to the college of the State making the best record in athletics. Kansas might do well to profit by the example. The spring like weather this week has brought with it the thoughts of outdoor sports and ball and tennis are being talked of. This is right. The enthusiasm that has been raised during the winter should be maintained and as soon as the weather will permit practice should begin for the spring games. The replies from the other colleges of the State exhibit much enthusiasm on the subject of athletics and a number of games can without doubt be arranged for. We Make Our Adieu. We Make Our Adieu. With this issue of the KANSAN the official connection of the present staff ceases. When the next issue reaches our readers, new names will he at the head of our columns. The election for the management for the current term will be held to day, so as to the personel of the staff it is impossible to say, but our readers may be assured the KANSAN will be put in competent hands, and having the experience of the outgoing officers to profit by, will be able to avoid whatever weakness the paper has had during the past term. The work of the past term has been involved in many difficulties necessarily attendant upon the starting of a new paper, and that there have been many directions in which the paper might have been improved is recognized by no one more than it is by the staff, but the limited time and opportunity has prevented the realization of these improvements, which the incoming staff will endeavor to accomplish. To our friends who have given us their encouragement and support we extend our thanks and commend our successor to them. It is gratifying to the friends of athletics to know that the fate of the Athletic Association does not hang on such persons as those members of the Oratorical Association who refused to vote the proceeds of the contest to athletics. It was hardly believed possible that there is a student in the University who would be unwilling to donate what to each one will be so small a pittance to so worthy a cause. It is encouraging to know, however, that this number was a very small minority and had the friends of athletics in the Oratorical Association been inclined to take arbitrary action, they could have carried the motion. The liberal subscriptions that have been made by most of the students of the University should make those who refused to vote this money to the Athletic Association feel all the more ashamed of their unworthy action. They will have their reward when the athletic grounds are completed and it is to be hoped, they can take advantage of them and enjoy them without any reproachings of their conscience, for it is to be hoped that their action was justified by their own souls and if they are really so poverty stricken that they cannot afford to make the donation of fifty cents, which is about the amount they will receive when the division is made of the contest, after the funds for athletics are obtained it would be a Christian act of Charity to pass around the subscription paper for their Hon. T. B. REED, speaker of the National House was graduated from Bowdoin with the class of '60. Black Socks at Abe Levy's. TO THE STUDENTS OF KANSAS COLLEGE And Their Various Oratorical Associations. Delegations arriving at Lawrence shall be received by the committee on reception. Headquarters for visiting will be at the Eldridge House. All Fraternity Halls will be open to our guests. Students desiring admission to Oratorical ball must make application at room 21 Eldridge House. Ball to be held at Armory Hall. Contest at Opera House. Guests desiring accommodation will find committee on entertainment or reception at their disposal. Persons desiring information address President K. S. U. Oratorical Association, Lawrence, Kans. By order of Committee. College papers please copy. The largest list of appointments ever made at Yale is that of the present year—125 out of a class of 190. A Few Pertinent Remarks. No student who comes to the University for the purpose of study will ever complain of any reasonable amount of work that is required of him, but some of the incidents of last week's farce are very questionable to say the least. The improvement that has been made in every department of the University the last two or three years has been received with favor on all sides and the increase in the amount of work done in the classes has met with a hearty reception by all students who are here for work, but there is a limit, past which, human endurance will not go. The students here if placed in similar circumstances, are capable of about as much as any to be found in any institution of learning, but when a class is given the same questions for examination that Prof. gave his class at Howard last year in the same subject, it is not at all out of the way to inquire if the same instruction and the same facility is given as is given at Harvard. Another professor announced to his class after the examinations that he was very much disappointed in the character of the papers given in by the class. The class was also happy to learn that the fault lay entirely with it. This assertion may be correct. If it is, the instructor in charge should be considerate enough to modify his plan of teaching a little, so it would conform with the ability of the class. It may he a hardship to a professor to have to conform his work to the ability of his class, but unless he can raise the standard of that ability it is to be feared he will be compelled to do this, or suffer another disappointment. Another of the beauties of the examinations is the uniformity of the system which is in vogue. One professor gives his class a very hard and rigid examination, while another gives a very easy examination and grades in a loose kind of a manner and gives a grade of "one" while the first mentioned professor would hesitate between a "three" or a "flunk." In the manner of grading on examinations, one professor will depend entirely on the examination while another who is willing to trust to his knowledge of the student's preparation from his class room work, goes through the examinations as a mere form and never looks at the papers. The week wasted in the examinations is no inconsiderable portion of the objections to the present examination system. Half the time of examination week, the majority of students have nothing to do and coming so soon after the Christmas vacation, the time is not wanted and is a drag to most students. It certainly seems that a professor should be better able to judge of a student's preparation in a study by the character of his recitations than by a three hour examination. An examination is unjust to a student who does conscientious term work. When examination week comes, he is content to take his examination on what he has done without any craming, while the student whose recitations have been "flunks" will cram hard the night before his examination and receive as good or better grade than the one who has done conscientious work, and did not cram. If our faculty wants to make a change for the better, which will be received with applause, it should either abolish the examinations altogether, or radically change the system as it now exists. An Acquisition. Prof. Snow has just secured a very valuable specimen for the Natural History Department. It is a specimen of Sigillaria from Greenwood county. A gentleman discovered it there ten years ago on the open prairie, partly imbedded in the ground. He was the only person having knowledge of its existence, and he informed Mr. S. T. Hare, who, with this gentleman, and two others went on a hunt for it. It took them a whole day to find the specimen, and after finding it, it took two days more to get it to town. In order to get it out of the ground, they had to dig a trench down to it, back the wagon into the trench, so that the wagon bed was on a level with the base of the stump, and thus load it on the wagon. The specimen was taken to the Kansas City Exposition where it was exhibited. Washington University, of St. Louis was negotiating for the specimen at the time Prof. Snow secured it, but not having closed the contract, Prof. Snow immediately bought it for the University museum. It is a large specimen, being a stump of one of the Sigillaria, a species of fossil tree. It is now in the museum and will soon be set up. It is a very valuable acquisition, since it comes from Kansas, and we were exceedingly fortunate in obtaining it. Together with this specimen Prof. Snow has purchased from the same person; Mr. Hare, a slab containing crinoids, which was found in digging the foundations for Bullene, Moore & Emery's new building in Kansas City last year. The peculiarity of this specimen lies in the number of perfect specimens of crinoids imbedded in it. There are two species of crinoids in the slab, both of which are new. It is undoubtedly the finest specimen in that line that has ever been taken from the upper carboniferous rocks. Looking along through the museum, Prof. Snow called the reporters' attention to some other new specimens. Prof. Dyche while on his trip, when stopping at a town in Wyoming, stepped into a museum and picked up a couple of the best and most perfect specimens of fossil fishes we have ever seen. They are imbedded in rock, but every bone and fin is perfect, and one of the fishes is remarkably large. The museum has also lately received a number of specimens of Coraline marble. There are about fifty specimens in all, containing two different species of corals, and were obtained by Prof. Dyche at Iowa City, Iowa. Eight of these specimens are polished, and are very beautiful. The visitor to the museum now, will also see mounted in a glass case the saurian called the Mososaur of which we spoke at the time Judge West brought it to the University from western Kansas, where he discovered it. The reptile is perfect, or almost so, and stands out as clearly as though the animal had just died and its bones been set up in the museum. With its long frame, twenty feet in length, enormous jaw armed with black teeth, it presents altogether quite a formidable object. It is a magnificent specimen, being so perfect and well preserved, and Prof. Snow is about as proud of it as Prof. Dyche is of the buffalo. It is enough to turn a scientist green with envy, and we doubt not Prof. Marsh of Yale, who went over the same ground upon which this specimen was discovered, would give a good deal to see the big reptile in his museum in Yale University. The work of getting the specimen out of the rock in which it was inbedded involved great care and skill, but Judge West is an expert in this line, and he surely has done a masterly piece of work here. We could go on and write columns upon the numerous new acquisitions at the museum. In fact the large museum rooms are becoming so filled that soon the third story will have to be occupied also. So much for a very profitable afternoon in the museum with Prof. Snow to explain things. New Party ties at Abe Levy's I allie I The p v But $ I too