The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899, February 01, 1900, Image 1
im 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. i ;t. I- r