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The Alumni Bulletin
"VtL. I. No. 2
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN
Fehruary i, 1906
To the Alumni of The University of Nebraska,
A little over a year ago the fine, large Exposition pipe organ was bought
by a committee representing the association. It was brought to the Univer
sity and is now, temporarily, housed in the Armory. Provisions have already
been made by the Regents to house it definitely.
In the appeal for pledges sent out a year ago the committee gave a
description of the instrument and an account of the purchase. That appeal
has not been in vain. Indeed we met with very generous encouragement
and support almost everywhere. The obligation which the committee in
curred in the purchase of the organ has been shared by the great majority of
students to whom the matter was presented. The feeling was and is general
that it was "the thing" to give our old alma mater so beautiful and dignified
a present as the pipe organ proved to be. '
So far the treasurer's books show that $1,600 have been paid on the
organ. Additional pledges, amounting to $650, have been made. Hence
the total account provided for is $2,250. The total account the alumni pledged
themselves to raise is $2,500. To this, however, must be added $125 to de
fray incidental expenses: printing, postage, insurance, interest. This leaves
$375 unprovided for. This sum we wish to raise by next Charter Day,
February 15, 1900. Send us your pledge, payable any time within the year.
Make it a V or a X if you can possibly do so. The good work is so far
along now that the committee feels that every aluminus who has not already
given toward the project wishes to be numbered with those who have in
making possible the free gift to the University of the best pipe organ in the
Trans-Mississippi country.
Lawrence Fossler, '8i, Will Owen Jones, '8o,
Paul F. Clark, '87, Gertrude Laws Hardv, '90,
H. G. Shedd, '97, D. J. Flaherty, Law, '97,
Committee.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY
Feb. 7 Conference of Associated Chari
ties and Corrections Chapel.
Feb. 8 Second Faculty Concert-Chapel
Feb. 10 Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.
reception to students
Feb. 18 State Veternarian's Associa
tion; 2 days.
Feb. 14 Annual Sigma Xi Lecture
Chapel. Fob. 15 Charter Day and Fifth Mid
winter Commencement.
10 a. m. Regular meeting Beard of
regents.
8 p.m. Special drill cadet battalion.
4 p.m Indoor athletic contest
Gymnasium.
8 p.m. Annual address Ex-Chancellor
A. R. Benton.
Feb. 10 National Bnttcrmakers' Asso
ciation; 4 days. Exhibit inUniver
sity Armory.
Feb. 23 New members program Liter
ary societies.
Dr. Besscy of the University of Ne
braska has just completed a review of
Professor Coulter's new book on
"Plant Relations." This book was
issued as a first book of Botany but
after a careful examination, Dr. Besscy
concludes that the author made a
mistalce supposing that it could be
profitably used in the secondary
schools. The department of Botany
taken up in the book is one which has
but very recently been developed in
the larger universities and as a conse
quence there are practically no teach
ers who understand it. Moreover the
subject matter, known in scientific
parlance as ecology, cannot be well
understood until after the pupil has
had a pretty good training in what is
now usually taught in the high
schools as Elementary Botany.
For these reasons Dr. Bes
sey has come to the conclusion in his
review that as a first book to be used
in the secondary schools it will prove
to be too difficult where thoroughness
and accuracy are desired, and where
these are not insisted upon it will be
too superficial. He recommends that
the book should be revised for college
and university use and that for this
purpose it will doubless prove to be a
successful work.
Three hundred and fifty students
have registered for work in the
physics department of the University
of Nebraska. The class is so large
that it was found necessary to divide
it into two sections. Six research
papers have been published this year
by the physics department. Dr. Brace
has published in the London Philo
sophical Review an article entitled ," A
New Spectrophotometer," describing
a new and important instument for
scientific and technical use. This
contribution also appeared in the
Astro-Physical Journal with some im
portant additions. Another paper has
appeared in the philosophical maga
zine contributed by B. V. Hill, former
fellow in physics in this university.
Two papers are now in the press of
the Astro-Physical Journal written by
graduate students. Papers by Profess
ors Moore and More are also with the
publishers of the Physical Review and
the Philosophical magazine, respec
tively. Seventeen invoices of new aparatus
have been imported this year for the
department.
Professor Wilbur C. Knight, an al
umnus of the University, now profes
sor of geology and mining engineering
in the University of Wyoming, visited
Lincoln last week. He was returning
from the meeting of the geological
society of America held in Washing
ton, D. C. His state had sent him
east to look up plans for a new museum
to be built in Wyoming next spring.
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