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THE
WEEKLY
UNIVERSITY COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
SUBSCRIPTION, §1 PERYEAR,
VOL. IX.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH, 13 1891.
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
The Tail-less Toad
The Tail-less Toad
(Dedicated to the A-D E-H C-N Class)
BY MISS ANN ONYMOUS.
Now listen to the tale I tell—
So started upwards, slowly rose,
Within this well there dwelt a toad. Who, pricked by high ambition's good, Declared that he would see the light. Would not endure perpetual night.
Aided by half-reptilian toes,
But found that he as skyward flew,
He fell back four feet, jumping two.
"This will not do,"he sadly said,
"I can't make headway with my head,
And if I would not wholly fail
My guiding star must be my tail."
So turned him round,and found that he
Had solved the problem easily;
Hope sprang up in his breast once more,
Descending two, he went up four.
And soon the glorious orb of day,
Did lighten all his devious way—
But, startled by the effulgence shed,
The toad turned tall and quickly fled.
Alone, in utter darkness now,
Hear his deep, dank and dismal vow
"Since this essay of mine did fail
Henceforth I'll never wear a tail"
L'ENVOY.
So listen to the tale I tell
So listen to the tale I tell
Of tailless tonds down in the well.
We print this effusion because politeness compelled its acceptance. We hope readers will receive it in the spirit in which it is offered.
"Holy City!"
"Holy City!"
Spier is a Phi Kap.
Overton left Tuesday.
Voorhis called Sunday.
Prof. Stevens led chapel this week.
Colonel Hallowell visited his son Wednesday.
There are eight pair of new trousers at school.
Tuesday evening, "Holy City," Handel and Haydon club.
Regents Scott and Spangler gave us a short call, Monday.
Miss Lillie Freeman, of Topeka visited her Kappa sisters, Monday.
Jack Wever says he holds the championship of the 'Varsity at chess. How 'bout it, Whitesides?
Misses Barnes, Bigger and Hewins returned to Kansas City. Tuesday, after a pleasant visit in our town.
E. P. Allen enjoyed a visit from his brother C. C. Allen and his cousin W. D. Johnson, of New York City.
Prof. F. O. Marvin will address the Science Club tonight. Subject, The Genesis of the Locomotive. All interested are invited to be present.
The full text of the chinch bug bill as passed by the legislature is to be found in last Wednesday's Capital. The bill appropriates $3,500 to enable Chancellor Snow to carry on his experiments for the extermination of the chinch bugs.
Prof. Stevens leads in chapel this week.
The class in logic has been on nettles all week on account of the final examination today.
Prof Blake was ill during the first part of the week. We are pleased to note his recovery.
Prof. Carruth has constructed on his lawn, a snow man which is said to speak German quite correctly.
Subscribe for the COURIER. We have a choice collection of spring poems which will appear in our columns soon.
Prof. Dunlap delivered the first of a series of lectures on "The Paragraph," Wednesday, before the class in Journalism.
Besides an interesting programe last Friday evening, the Modern Language club held its regular election of officers.
The goose hung high on Wednesday. Prof. Dyche suspended it by the neck from a fourth story window in Snow Hall.
Rolla Clark, a former student of the K. S. U., who is now studying medicine in Kansas City, was seen in the halls on Friday.
The students of the Electrical Engineering department are constructing a dynamo after the model of the one in use in the shops.
Haskell Institute was well represented at the lecture on Paris, Friday evening. The gallery was filled with Indian students accompanied by their teachers.
The Handel & Haydn Club give their entertainment Tuesday evening, next. Much pains has been taken to make this in every way a brilliant success.
The operetta, "Trial by Jury," will be rendered by the musical talent of the University. The proceeds will go towards the Athletic fund. Keep a look out for the date Prof. Dunlap has expressed a desire for a rowing machine. He is willing to contribute towards getting one. Any persons interested in such exercise should see him and ascertain what can be done in this direction.
There is a call for a meeting of the students at the end of the fourth hour to organize a local oratorical association. This organization will be entirely friendly to the present one. It is expected to benefit it, and to further its object by arousing enthusiasm on the subject. It is proposed to hold a contest some time in November, thus giving prospective orators a chance to prepare for the more important struggle in the spring. Every one should attend this meeting and help in whatever way they can to make it a success.
Good authority has it that the student from Baker University who won the oratorical contest is only 17 years old and has never tasted a soda biscuit.
Miss Lucinda Smith was initiated into the mysteries of the Pi Phi fraternity last Wednesday. Faithful enquiry has not rewarded us with the particulars of the event.
Wednesday, Prof. Fulton addressed a mass meeting of students on the subject of elocution. The professor is not satisfied with the support he is receiving and wishes his class enlarged from about sixty to one hundred. With such support Prof. Fulton feels sure of favor from the regents next year.
Prof. Sterling has collected enough from students using the gymnasium to pay for the apparatus. We are glad to hear this, as it makes us feel at home. After many years of talking, working, planning, scheming and begging we have a gymnasium that is paid for and being run under a competent management.
Class Day.
The Seniors held a meeting at which class officers were elected and arrangements completed for class day exercises. MaKinnon was elected president with Rice as secretary and treasurer.
For class day, the Seniors have concocted a scheme entirely worthy of themselves, and if executed as planned will have none of the chestnutical characteristics usual to such events.
The day will be divided into three sessions at each of which an interesting program will be carried out. Among the new and startling features of the plan is a coach ride at 8 o'clock. All the class will join the coaching party which ends at the University where a morning banquet will be served. Faculty and Junior class will join the worthy seniors at this most pleasant feature of the day, and add to the brilliancy of the occasion by responding to toasts.
In the afternoon, besides a public program in the chapel,they will perform as a whole on the campus for the amusement of the Sophomores, Freshmen and country people.
In the evening the classes will resolve itself into a sort of mutual admiration society. Miss {Springer will preside as toast master, Miss Howell will respond to "Our Boys," W.A. Snow to "Our Girls," Mr. Morse will discourse class history while Mr. Barber will prophesy all manner of good luck to his classmates.
Dunb Bells, Indian Clubs, and everything else needed for gymnastic exercises, at Smith's News Depot.
VIEWS.
An Elective Curriculum.
It is assumed in this paper that no student should be allowed to pursue any of the technical courses in the University, such as those of law, pharmacy, civil engineering and music without first having taken an academic course. Therefore the discussion will be confined to that part of a school training which is calculated merely to fit the student for pursuing higher and special work in one of the above mentioned schools.
It does not seem that a free and elective curriculum is suited to the condition of the Kansas State University, and the points proposed against such a system are as follows:
First. That the student on entering the Freshman class is not fitted by age and experience to choose his course.
Second. That essential parts of a college course are liable to be neglected.
Third. That it permits a "scattering" in work which is detrimental:
Fourth. And that the Faculty is better able to prescribe a course in accordance with the aims and requirements of the student, than is the student himself.
As to the first point, most students on entering the University are less than twenty years old most of them come from the High Schools of the state, where the opportunities for reading and gaining a broad experience are lacking. Buf of the applicants for matriculation have had any advantage in the way of good teaching and liberal training in their preparatory work They are acquainted only with the subjects taught in their text books and in most cases they have been hurried through the High Schools at such a rate as to preclude any real original work. It is a lamentable and perhaps unavoidable fact that the preparatory work of the High Schools cannot be made other than it is, but so long as the primary schools continue to be inferior it will be necessary to crowd the work in the High Schools. This state of affairs makes the students equipment on entering the University merely a collection of dates, rules and propositions, he is unable to think clearly and to the point; he usually has some end in view and desires to shape everything to that end, and hence, his inability to choose the best means of attaining that end often lead him into grave mistakes at the beginning of his college course.
The second point naturally grows out of the first, though other things add largely to its force; such as the
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tendency of education at the present time to be immoderately practical. Men who have no conception of education as a thing in itself, but who deem it merely a means of making money or accomplishting some other equally sordid aim, have urged practicality in matters of education until thousands of young people are full of the belief that a school which enables them to rush through a few so-called sciences and to obtain a smattering of some foreign language is the best sort of an educational institution.
The American love for the "al- [Continued on 4th Page.]
New Guitar Music at Bell's.
Illustrated papers and comic weeklies, at Smith's News Depot.
Do not make any engagements for the nights upon which will be presented Midsummer Nights Dream. This play is seldom put upon the stage, and for that reason deserves liberal patronage. It is an assured success, as the persons who have charge of the entertainment know no such word as fail. The proceeds will go to the Atheletic association.
All the March magazines at Smith's News Depot.
See the new Music for Banjos and Guitars at Bell Bros.
New Banjo Music at Bell' Music Store.
Smith's News Depot is the place for Cigars and Tobacco.
Few Pointers.
Are you thinging of taking a trip?
If so
Come down to the depot
And let's talk it over.
It makes no difference
In what dirgction
You want to go,
The Santa Fe depot
Is the best starting point.
The ticket agent's education
Comprises the 3 R's:
Routes, Rates and Reserva-
tions.
What we dont know
We will try to find out
In the spring time,
Gentle Annie.
There will be some students'
excursions
To play foot ball
And other things.
The Santa Fe route
Can handle such business
In right elegant shape.
Come and see us.
And get best rates.
And get best rates. GEO.C.BAILEY, Agent.
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