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VOL. IX.
What Are You Here For? To the Editor of the Courier:
A correspondent who conceals himself under the signature of K. has in last week's COURIER raised a question of some importance. He states that about fifteen hours of University work are "required" every day and therefore no time is left for recreation.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 22, 1891.
Now in regard to the two hours which both K. and myself have assumed to be necessary for the preparation of each lesson. This is a maximum limit of requirement but the work is never kept up to that amount and is not considered to be. As a matter of fact I never in the past four years knew a student who spent six hours preparing three
time we do have. There are twenty-four hours in a day and seven days in a week so they say. Eight hours sleep is a good average and unfortunately few students spend more than an hour a day at their meals. Of course we must set aside the thirteen hours of Sunday, for spiritual improvement, merely suggesting that a nap, a walk or a chat on Sunday afternoon is allowed by the moralists. Three studies and two hours to prepare each must also be accepted, on paper at least. Mr. K. allows an hour a day for a trip to the University and back. This is evidently what Shakespeare meant when he spoke of the "school boy creeping like a snail unwillingly to school." Since it only takes twenty-four minutes to walk from the top of Mt. Oread to North Lawrence and most students live about half that distance I must cut down that estimate to half an hour. Mr. K. takes an hour a day to write his themes and the same for elocution. I have seen themes written between supper and midnight. Elocution did not use to require much time but they make so much fuss over it now that it must be quite a task. But leaving these points unsettled we have from thirty five to forty-five hours a week left, at the lowest about three-fourths as much as the total study time. Now if Mr. or Miss K. went at it with enough energy I have no doubt but that he could do enough athletic work in forty hours to keep his body in good condition and have enough time to spare for college journalism, politics and fraternities. I should not advise him to spend it reeding books for I do not see how that could do any good to a man who has to be "goaded and lectured" into reading Hawthorne and Dickens. I really feel inclined to criticise the instructor in English for wasting his time urging students, to real good fiction when they are not interested enough to read for themselves.
J. H. Bell & Bro., the popular Music Dealers, have just received a lot of new songs.
That new process photo at Hamilton's is the finest thing made.
lessons for any length of time. I have myself, though I assure you I am not at all proud of it, carried a new study with a grade of one on twenty minutes a week, outside of class, and such instances, though fortunately rare, are not unusual. Most students, I think take about half an hour for each lesson, certainly an hour would cover the average of the University.
Such a state of things is not right and I join with K. in wishing to have this "required" amount of time required. The fault lies with the teachers rather than with students. A student who can get a good grade by fifteen minutes work is not going to spend two hours. The work should be such as to necessitate two hours preparation for the ordinary student, that is it should be just about double in all departments.
SUMMER UNDERWEAR.
Where to buy and what to buy is the question. We want the students to know that Bromelsiek's is headquarters for gentlemen's hosiery and underwear, as his assortment is greater than any other house in town can show and the prices are as low as the lowest.
EDWIN E. SLOGSON.
It is true that more is done by the students now than four years ago, and the time required is also increased though in a lower ratio, and it may safely be said that in spite of K. the standard will continue to be raised until K's fifteen hours may become a reality instead of the fiction it is now. Those who do not like it can find plenty of institutions in our own state where they can get the same degree without exerting themselves. The butterfly girl who is more proud of her record in the ball room than in the class room can find places where society is even more brilliant than in Lawrence. If not she can stay at home and spend her fourteen hours studying that useful manual "How to Shine in Society." The boy whose kicks in the gymnasium are high because his grades everywhere else are low can find colleges whose athletic record is ahead of ours. K. S. U. wants more students but it is STUDENTS who are wanted; men who are willing to sacrifice all pleasures, whether of society, athletics, fraternity or aesthetics, when ever they interfere with their studies; men, in short, who want to devote all their energies for four years to the acquisition and advancement of knowledge.
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
Paper, Pen and Ink at Smith's. Charlie Voorhis was up from Ottawa to attend the Pi Phi party.
Get your Commencement photographs taken at Hamilton's.
Bishop H. W. Warren of Denver went over the University yesterday.
Fred Shirus, of Ottawa, was in town Saturday, the guest of Chas. Voorhis.
Miss Mame and Nell Smith Leavenworth, were visitors in the city last week.
Send to B. Glick,535 Main street,
Kansas City,for all kinds of second
hand books.
Be sure and visit Hamilton's gallery before getting your pictures elsewhere.
Miss Stella Hutchings, of Osage Mission, visited among her Pi Phi sisteas last week.
Miss Jessie Edson of Topeka, was the guest of Miss Lou Barker last Friday and Saturday.
Bryce Crawford umpired the Washburn-Baker game of base ball at Baldwin last Saturday.
Charlie Voorhis and A. L.Smith played ball with K S.U. against Haskell last Friday.
Last Saturday was a great day for picnics, there being at least five parties leaving the city for that purpose.
Mrs. S. E. Luther presented the Indian bass ball nine with a beautiful basket of flowers after the defeating K. S. U. Saturday.
The following is the commencement program;
Sunday, June 7, Baccalaureate Sermon, by Rev. C.
Mann, of Kansas City.
Monday, 10 a.m.—Commencement of Law School.
2 p. m.—Class day exercise)
5 p. m.—Pharmacy tea
6 p. m.—Business class.)
Tuesday, 10 a. m.—Anniversary exercises,
Presiding officer, F. H. Snow.
1 p. m.—Anniversary dinner
Friday, 9 p. m.—Commencement
4 p. m.—Alumni business meeting.
5 p. m.—Address by President Angell of
Mich. Uni.
9:30 p. m.—Meeting of Phi Beta Kappa.
Wednesday, 10 a. m.—Commencement (exercises),
p. m. —Class day exercise).
Amongst speakers in the anniversary exercises
are S. O. Thacher, Dr. Lippincott, Governor Robinson, and Dr. Marvin.
Goedown by the river Dollar al.
Go down by the river; Dolly always has a boat ready for you.
Prof. James H. Camfield will de liver the commencement oration before the Nebraska State University. The professor has not as yet fully decided his subject but he will probably take for his theme "The Development of Individualism." We congratulate the students of the University of Nebraska upon the happy choice of their commencement orator, as Prof. Canfield has the reputation of being one of the finest speakers in the west.
The Y. M. C. A. elects officers tonight. A number of the faculty will be present and a very interesting meeting will be held.
Pay your subscription! See Hamilton's photos.
Prof. Bailey is making an analysis of the Tonganoxi meteorite for the Science club.
Two new high grade balances have been ordered from Germany for the Chemical department.
E. W, Palmer has gone to Wichita as a delegate to the Y.P.S.C.
E. state convention.
Daily papers and illustrated weeklies at Smith's.
E. E. Slosson will probably leave next week to join the geological survey party in the western part of the state.
E. G. Allen will return to his home as his recent sickness has made it impossible for him to continue his studies.
Prof. Sterling has received the plates for the pictures of the five chancellors of the University, which will appear in the History. Prof. Sterling will deposit the plates in the chancellor's office as the property of the University.
The May Magazines are full of interesting reading. Get a Century or Forum at Smith's News Depot.
Prof. Sayre and several of the pharmacy students have gone to Ottawa to the state pharmaceutical association now in session. A fine exhibit of the drugs made by the students has been taken down Prof. Sayre has always taken pains to keep his students in close relations with the druggists of the state.
Glick has the largest stock of new and second hand books in the southwest.
Miss Bowman, the sister of Mrs. Prof. Blachmar was "at home" to a number of friends last Friday evening. Those present were: Prof. and Mrs. Sayre, Prof. and Mrs. Bailey, Prof. and Mrs. Blackmar, Prof. and Mrs. Hopkins, Prof. and Mrs. Wilcox. Mr. and Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Grubb, Mrs. Chambers Misses Parker, Jo March, Anna March, Springer, McKinnon, Mason, Wilcox, Profs. Dunlap, Newson and A. G. Canfield, Messrs H. B. Hall, and Sam McRoberts of Baker University.
The genius of John Stowel, or the Senior law class, has again manifested itself. Tuesday morning the law students were surprised to see hanging in the recitation room twelve of the principal legal maxims written very nicely on card board and surrounded by a beautiful frame with the small letters "J. S. '91." written in one corner.
If you have any books to sell correspond with B. Glick, Kansas City.
No. 35.
Hon. John C. Brown of Holton spent Sunday in the city.
Athletic goods and sporting material at Smith's news depot.
Henry Speer was initiated into the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity last Wednesday night.
Miss Jene Fullerton was on the hill Wednesday.
Don't forget to stop at Leis and get a glass of Stoddart's Buffalo Mead when you are hot.
Prof. Green went to St. Louis, the first of the week on business, returning Tuesday on the noon train.
Hello! We are in it once more. Pure juice juices ice cold soda water at Leis Drug Co.
Those Estey Pianos are for sale by J. H. Bell & Bro, on very easy payments.
Miss Inez Taggart who has been teaching in Burlingame during the past month is in the city to remain until after commencement.
The Aristotype photograph is the handsomest thing yet seen in the picture line, at Hilamts.
Get a copy of the Gipsy Dance at Bell's.
Our attention was called today to a patent bellows attachment to a bottle. By inverting the bottle and pressing the side of the bulb with the finger a small amount of Raymond's Diamond Tooth Powder is blown out upon the dampened tooth brush and by its proper use the teeth are beautifully whitened. Perfectly harmless and beneficial.
Now is the time for boating, you will soon go home where there is no river, so visit Dolly Graeber down by the bridge.
Mr. Stimson of clase of '90 left last Monday for Chicago where he is going to work as an electrician. We are sorry to see him leave us as he was genial and liked by all who know him.
Leis!! chocolate can't be beat. Get a glass when you are down town.
Treat your girl to soda water. Only costs you 10 cents at Leis Drug Co.
A new lot of Guitars and Mandoline Music just received at Bell's Music store.
The Kaw is in good shape and Dolly Graeber's boats are fine. Enjoy boating while you can.
The moon is shining, get your girl and go boat riding. Dolly Graeber will turnish the boats.
A number of the students expect to attend the May festival in Kansas city, May 50th.
WANTED.
Every student in K. S. U. to buy a glass of soda water at Leis'.