WOULD UNITE TWO SCHOOLS.
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and the University the Chancellor favors the union of the administrative heads of the schools but only on condition that that unity be made complete not only in the board of regents but in one president who shall be at the head of both institutions.
DISCUSSES THE BUDGET
A large part of the first part of the report is devoted to a discussion of the budget for the next biennium. The report points out in an extensive way how the cost of maintainence has greatly increased owing to the rise in the salaries of teaching force etc.
AN INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTION.
Commenting on the practical things which the University is doing' the Chancellor says: 'The modern University must relate itself to the life of the state in as practical a manner as possible. That is to say it has in general two duties to perform. One of them is to insist first of all and of primary importance upon the highest ideals of culture and attainment. But on the other hand, the modern university is, or should be, an industrial institution having to do with the practical side of life. It must therefore help men and women in the struggle of life and aid them in the general accumulation of wealth, for one of the pillars of our civilization is the economic well-being of our people. The University of Kansas has long had this ideal in mind, but has not had the funds to realize it. It has for several years in a limited way carried on the work in university extension. It has carried on more extensively and very successfully its work in journalism. It has done something along the lines of banking, accounting, and domestic science; and its professional schools represent a large field of practical, vocational work. It now expects to increase its work in these general lines, especially in university extension and domestic science. It expects to add correspondence work to its present lectures in order to bring to bear on the community the university training and helpfulness. There is no reason, so far as I can see, why the benefits of the University should be limited to the comparatively few fortunate ones who find themselves able to spend the time and money to live from one to four years at the University. The University of Kansas must be for all who strive for the higher things of life and must go to those who cannot go to it.'
The Chemical Club.
The Chemical Club, which was organized in 1900, is an outgrowth of the Chemical Seminary established about 1895. The club has no definite membership but its weekly meetings are attended by forty or fifty students in the chemistry and pharmacy departments and the members of the faculty of those departments.
Discuss Phases of Their Work in Regular Meeting.
ENGINEERS' SOCIETIES.
The students of the electrical engineering school are organized into a society known as the Kansas branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. It meets once every two weeks to discuss the proceedings of the national organization as set forth in the periodical published from its headquarters. The present officers are Ray Jones, president; V. S. Foster, vice-president; E. J. Thiele, secretary-treasurer. Prof. M. E. Rice is chairman of the executive committee of which E. J. Thiele is the senior class representative and C. W. Nystrom the member for the juniors.
CIVIL ENGINEERS.
The Civil Engineering society of the University meets on the second and fourth Thursday evenings in each month of the school year and listens to addresses by professors and men who are actively engaged in engineering work. The officers at present are Tom Veatch president; L.C.Walker, vicepresident; Carl Pleasant, secretary-treasurer; Prof. W. C. Hoad, corresponding secretary and B.J.Dalton, advisor.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
Attendance upon the weekly meeting of the Mechanical Engineering society is required of the juniors and seniors of that department, and many sophomores and freshmen also attend. The programs consist of discussions of articles in the different engineering periodicals of the library and once a month an address by some competent speaker. The present officers are H. S. Coleman president; John Garver, vicepresident; Charles. E. Johnson, secretary-treasurer.
ENGINEERS' BANQUET.
The students of the different engineering schools have a banquet open to engineers only each year. Practical men from the cities, faculty members and students speak at the banquets. Carl Ball is the present president of the Engineers.
Economics Department Does Good Work.
"I have been doing all I can in the way of university extion work. Our department for this work is not more than half equipped, but despite this fact, there are about three hundred lectures delivered over the state by members of the University faculty," said Prof. Frank W. Blackmar to a reporter for The Kansan.
There is as Much Art
Prof. Blackmar delivers on an average of fifty lectures a year himself. There are but three members of the faculty who carry on this work here. The University of Wisconsin has twenty members in this department and the University of Illinois has twelve professors who assist in the extension courses.
The Chi Omega sorority will give their Christmas banquet and play at their chapter house Wednesday evening.
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Pharmaceutical Society.
The organization was started in 1886 and has kept up its meetings semi-monthly during the school year since that date. For the present year the students have voted compulsory attendance. Meetings are limited to one hour and various members of the pharmaceutical and chemical faculties appear upon the program. Prof. Higgins during the year gives several lectures on pharmaceutial jurisprudence. Among the invited speakers outside the faculty for the present year are Irving Hill, Lawrence, J. P. Raymond, Kansas City, Mo., H. D. Faxon, Kansas City. Mo. Professor Billings of the bacteriological department is to talk on the value of bacteriological research to the pure food and drug law, after the first of the year.
The officers of the society are Chas. W. Clarke, president; J. Val. Adams, vice.president
Mrs. Florence Hoopes, secretary; and Miss Agnes Dunning treasurer.
Annual Law Scrimmage.
The sixth annual scrimmage, given in honor of the football team this year champions of the Missouri Valley, will be held Wednesday, Dec. 16, in F. A. A. hall. The invited guests will number over fifty including members of the football team, their ladies, the faculty of the law school and Professor and Mrs. F. H. Hodder. The invitations are of a unique form following that of a subpoena. Three class presidents, Winfield Scott, Carrol Lord and Erle Wilson, and "Uncle Jimmie" Green will be on the receiving line. The invitations will be given out by members of the faculty.
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