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It is encouraging to note the increasing number of students and others interested in literary work, who climb Mount Orread every Friday evening. Last Friday evening in spite of parties, dances, parlor tete-a-tetes etc., and a most disagreeable evening, the rooms of all the societies and clubs which met, were crowded almost to over-flowing. Each Friday night since the University has been thrown open, has witnessed an increased attendance. By the middle of next term we predict that "going up to the University Friday nights" will be universal among the students, and also among a great number of those outside of the University.
Already the Unity Club has acknowledged this status of affairs, and is the first to lead the way in changing its meetings to another night, than Friday. We hope that all other organizations with which students are connected, will do the same, that for all social gatherings another more convenient evening may be found. To the members of the Faculty, who have labored so earnestly for this "Friday evening scheme," this must be especially gratifying. The only thing to be regretted is, that this was not done years ago. But all reforms take time. Learned men do not always act with the greatest wisdom. Let us be thankful for what we have, and go to work. To the literary societies this has been indeed a second birth. Both Orophilian and Athenaeum seem to be starting in with a renewed energy. The Political Science Club has more interesting meetings than ever before. The Science Club is doing better work than formerly, and its meetings are largely attended.
The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. are having a very large attendance at their weekly meetings. And thus, we might run over the roll of the University organizations, and truthfully say the same in regard to all.
Hurrah for Friday nights at K. S. U.
Military Department.
EDITOR TIMES: A petition has been circulated among the students of the University asking the Legislature to make an appropriation for a gymnasium. The object of the petition is praiseworthy, but it is doubtful if it will have any great effect on the Legislature. The average Kansas law-maker is a practical man and is accustomed to look on the practical side of every question. While I believe that a gymnasium would be of great practical value to the University, I do not believe that it is possible, at present at least, to secure such an appropriation.
Having had an opportunity to speak with several members of the Legislature upon this subject. I found them rather averse to an appropriation for any such purpose, but I found that they were heartily in favor of establishing a department of military instruction in the University, by an act of the Legislature, and were willing to work and vote for such a measure, if the students manifested any particular desire for a department of this kind.
A large per cent of the Senators and Representatives are men of military experience, having served as soldiers of the Republic in the Great Rebellion, and who having seen the disadvantage at which our country was placed in 1861 are qualified to appreciate the practical value and utility of such an institution in the State.
I would like to see the students consider this question carefully before any immediate steps are taken because I believe that a gymnasium can be secured in this connection and that K. S. U. can by this means obtain a well equipped gymnasium and drill-hall.
Military drill and instruction would not only afford a beneficial physical exercise for the student, but it would give him a knowledge that might be of value to him and to society.
The State Universities of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Missouri each afford their students opportunity for military training and the University of Kansas should keep pace with her sister institutions.
Now, students, as we go home to spend the holidays many of us will have opportunity of seeing and conversing with the Senators and Representative from our respective districts and I suggest that we
Political Science Club.
Very Respectfully,
The Political Science Club held its fourth meeting of the year, last Friday evening. In spite of the disagreeable weather, the cloudy sky, and Kansas zephyrs, the room was crowded, every chair being occupied.
W. R. Armstrong reported the proceedings of the United States Senate during the past two weeks. Wm. Hill gave a brief resume of the financial status of the country. M. E. Hickey made an interesting report upon the subject of Finance and Diplomacy, in which he showed himself to be master of the situation, even when it came to latitude and longitude of an inferior island.
Instead of the three regular theses by members of the club, Professor Canfield read a most interesting paper upon the subject, "What is Socialism?" The paper was written in the Professor's usual happy style, and it is unnecessary to add was well received.
Suffrage Lectures.
Prof. W. H. Carruth of Kansas University who is now taking special studies at Harvard College has kindly consented to speak occasionally for suffrage leagues. Prof. Carruth is an active suffragist and well acquainted with the subject and its practical working in Kansas. He can lecture on Monday evenings and on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, in places so near that they can be reached by leaving Cambridge after five o'clock. In no case will he go to leagues or places where the distance will prevent his return to Cambridge the same evening, or early the next morning.
11. 18 especially fortunate that Prof. Carruth can co-operate with us in this way. His terms are liberal. His address is 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, Mass. Correspondence can be had directly with him in regard to meetings. In all cases a stamp should be enclosed for reply. The leagues near Cambridge will note this opportunity. —Woman's Journal.
It is rumored:—
That there will be little time for cramming after the vacation.
That elocation lessons are going to be a little *heximensive*.
That the joint meeting and contest of Orophillan, Athanaeum, Jan. 11. promises to be an excellent entertainment.
That the TIMES is booming with a greater boom than ever.
That Swope is a Theta.
That Christmas comes on the twenty fifth this year.
That only one oration has been written for our contest, and all of the other candidates are dubious.
A Times man has been grieving all week, because he forgot once upon a time that this was leap year.
That we are all going to go home and have a good time.
Athanneum was to have met to night.
But it wont. The Faculty and the members of Athanneum do not always look at a thing the same way.
About all the K. S. U. Clubs shut up Saturday. No more hash for over two weeks. Dogs and *purps* are quoted below par.
The weather has been slightly chilly this week. Had you noticed it? The thermometer has also slightly fallen. Strange, isn't it.
No societies to-night. The hill will be deserted.
The local Oratorical contest at Washburn will be held January 4th. Brewster is one of the contestants. If successful he will be a hard man to defeat at Emporia.
Do not forget to hand in a list of your studies for the coming term, before going home.
Puns, jokelets etc., have been rife since the Kappa jollification meeting. Monday evening.
Science Club.
In spite of the wind, which was making a record of sixty miles an hour on Prof. Snow's anemometer, there was a full attendance at the Science Club last Friday.
The "rushing" season is about past. It was indeed a rush, a grand rush, and seemingly a rush altogether.
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The great attraction was the exhibition of the new instruments purchased by the Civil Engineering Department. The west end of the club room was filled with complicated three-legged machines which looked as mysterious and incomprehensible to all of as (except the civil engineers of course) the course of study does to a sub-prep. The current testing machine, which was bought for the purpose of testing the tension and pressure strength of various building materials was not on exhibition as it was to heavy bring over.
Prof. Marvin described everything in detail and answered all the questions of the club. Those who have been in his classes know the wonderful gift he has of careful and interesting explanation of principles and methods, and will appreciate the pleasure that the club took in listening to him. Among the instruments on exhibition were, steel tapes, which are rapidly taking the place of the uncertain chain; several transits of the latest pattern; two aneroid barometers, one with a range of 15,000 feet for mountain work and the other more exact and limited by which one can increase the height of a table by difference in pressure; a hook-gauge and current meter for measuring the depth and current of streams. The last is shaped about three cogs like a windmill and when placed in the river from an anchored boat the number of revolutions is recorded by electricity. Prof. Marvin has always claimed that the best instruments were not too good for the use of students and that when they had good tools really good work would be required of them. In accordance with this principle the department has purchased two of the best instruments in use, a precise level and a precise triangulation instrument. These are duplicates of those used by Columbia College. The triangulation instrument cost $850 and can be used to run lines up to fifty miles in length by means of the heliotrope. It has illuminated crosshairs and angles can be read by the micrometer-microscopes to single seconds.
There were two other papers read; one by Mr. Jacobs giving the methods and results of the experiments for the measurement of the velocity of light. Five different ways of determination were described and illustrated by diagrams.
The last paper was by Mr. Short, who gave an interesting and amusing account of his work during the summer in the employ of the Santa Fe company. Dykes were constructed with great labor and thousands of tons of rocks thrown in the river but the mighty Missouri only ate away the bank the faster until twenty acres of the Santa Fe's land including the road-bed was covered with water to the depth of forty feet.
Prof. J. H. Canfield leaves to morrow on an extended tour throughout the east. He leaves from here direct for Toronto, Ontario. At this city he will hold a consultation with Hon. E. G. Ross, minister of Education, on general educational interests. He visits Toronto on a special invitation of the Hon. E. G. Ross. He spends a day or two at Montreal, and from there he goes to Arlington, Vermont, and will spend Christmas with his aged father. Williams College, the professor's Alma Mater, will not be denied a day's visit. He will attend a meeting of the officers of the National Educational Association at Albany, N. Y. Thence he goes to Nashville, Tenn., to meet the local committees, etc., at that city for the purpose of making arrangements for the July meeting. The professor, when he returns, will have made quite an extensive tour and will no doubt, as he is a thorough Kansan, return more pleased with Kansas and her institutions than ever before. His invitation to visit Toronto is quite complimentary to our esteemed professor and to the institution which he so ably represents. The TIMES wishes him a safe and pleasant journey. Gold Watches, at Jaccard's, Kansas City.
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