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The University Courier.
The field notes of Prof. Dyche, taken during his hunting excursions in far Northwest, have been compiled and edited by Mr. E.C.Edwords, editor of the Kansas City Journal. The volume will undoubtedly be most interesting, coming as it does from so experienced a writer as Mr. Edwords. The many and various incidents of travel and adventure which befell the great hunter and taxidermist, while collecting his specimens, will unquestionably prove an interesting subject.
The book will be sold on the grounds of the Columbian exhibit where Prof. Dyche has his unrivalled collection at present. It is a noteworthy fact that this is the only volume of its kind that will be sold on the grounds and we are doubly proud of the honor shown to a K. S. U. man whose work has brought such favorable notice to the University.
The man who can find his rubbers where he left them, when he is ready to leave the building, has righteous cause for wonder. It is astonishing the way the rubber fiend and the man with the old umbrella fail to recognize their personal property when there is any chance to appropriate a better article. There is no distinction of class, color or previous amount of service; a pair of rubber boots left in the corridor have been known to assume the shape of two veteran rubbers inside of one short hour. We all laugh when the newly arrived student posts a sign on the bulletin that somebody will please return his lost rubbers, but unless lockers are furnished everybody,the number of unintentional (?) exchanges will not decrease.
With all due respect for the perseverance and application of the bookworm, we must characterize the man who has no sympathy with the athletic movement as a blockhead. There are men among us who devote themselves to books with so much assiduity that they have not time for even a moderate amount of exercise. To reach the goal of graduation or from an ambition to excel in class standing, the physical man is wrecked before maturity. It is not always
the bookworm that is below the physical standard, but there is the man whose social dissipation not only causes neglect of every rule of health but classes him with those who depart at the close of the first term. The distinctive idea of an education is to develope each man symmetrically. That student who continues to devote all his time to books is laying the foundation of an undeveloped and sickly maturity; he is neglecting one of his greatest duties and the neglect may cause years of suffering in after life. The athlete who fails in two studies is a rare specimen, but our bookworms are often obliged to leave college forever on account of physical disability.
The habit of systematic and conscientious research, if kept up after leaving college, is of more real value than the limited amount of knowledge acquired in the regulation four years. It has been said that a college man is fitted for nothing special and is consequently at a great disadvantage, but with the foundation of four years' good work to start from, the college graduate is fitted for any work he may wish to take up. No specialty can ever be acquired without long training in particular branches, but the men who acquire the greatest proficiency in special lines must have the proper foundation of general information.
WHEN a student receives a quiz book from the investigating committee of one and finds no red and green disfiguration thereon, he is very apt to mention it in the regular monthly letter, forgetting to enumerate the other quiz books which look like a miniature sketch of a Sioux massacre.
The man who can preserve silence when he is angry, who can refrain from talking when talking is a dangerous thing, is greater than he who winneth a state oratorical contest.
WHILE the University can turn out such men as Prof. Dyche and Vernon Kellogg, the sunflower state has just cause to feel proud of her home-bred men.
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