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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
VOL. IX.
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH6, 1891.
Very quiet.
Cincinnatus is in town.
Seminary this afternoon.
Kappas entertain tonight.
Junior forencies, due today.
Gymnasium classes are organizing.
Miss Smith wears the wine and blue.
Phi Kaps entertain tomorrow night.
Mont Hallowell is now "Baby Phi Kap."
Rev. Yarger conducted Chapel this week.
Overton returned Tuesday from Kansas City.
Prof. Blake lectures at Concordia Friday night.
Dwight Potter has re-entered the Sophomore class.
March as yet shows none of her lambkin qualities.
Miss Van Hoesen has been ill during the past week.
Adelphio will elect its officers for the coming term to-night.
Miss Johnson returned Wendesday after a short absence.
H. S. Hadley delivers a lecture on "Land Plasters" tonight at Vinland.
Misses Overton, Barnes and Bigger are here to attend Kappa and Phi Psi parties.
Phi Gamma Delta entertained last Wednesday evening in their hall above the Eldridge house. As usual their guests were well entertained.
Hon. James Emery will address the Seminary this afternoon at 4 P.M. on "Irrigation." The management feel highly gratified in getting Mr. Emery's views on this subject, and request a full attendance.
Shades of Mozart! Listen ye prospective Freshmen and Sophomores. By recent enactment of the Faculty all students taking the prescribed courses in the University will be required to take vocal music for two years. This regulation takes effect next year. Credit will be given for one-fifth of a study. Pharmics will probably be exempted until a room with double, cork-filled walls can be fitted up to accommodate them.
Lincoln W. Cummings, a former student and well known to the students of '83'84. died on February 21st, in Texas, while traveling for his health. He was brought to his home at Nortonville, Kansas, for interment. Mr. Cummings was noted for his bright intellect and affable manners, and he made many friends while in the University, who will deeply feel his death. He was a brother of Mrs. Alice (Cummings) Curry.
Rev. H, L. Yarger, of the English Lutheran church, occupied the rostrum in chapel this week.
A mistake was made in the insertion of the Adelphic program last week. The program as then appearing will be presented to-night.
Prof. A. G. Canffeld addresses Philological Club tonight on "Paris by Gas light." A very interesting address is promised. All are welcome.
Prof. Hopkins delivered a second lecture on the "Sentence" before the class in Journalism, Wednesday. Much interest is displayed in these valuable lectures.
The class of '91 held a meeting Tuesday to hear a report of committee on arrangements for class day. Something new and something brilliant will no doubt result.
The class in advanced composition have taken a new departure in the shape of a bi-weekly paper. The new sheet is called "The University Mushroom." The first edition appeared Wednesday. It was a howling sucoess. Pay your subscription.
"Stranger, Where Am I?"
A more pointed example of the superiority and indifference to the common place in this world below, of a thorough going University professor, than the following account of Prof. Miller's trip to Vinland(?) last Friday evening would be difficult to find.
The professor was booked for a lecture at Vinland, but directly he boarded the train for that place, he became oblivious to his surrounding, as is the custom of great minds.
Probably he was cogitating over the usefulness of the rule of three, or Sturm's Theorem. At least, when the brakeman opened the door and yelled, he was startled; so badly startled that he did not catch the name of the town at which the train was already stopping.
However, our professor felt sure the brakeman had addressed him personally as no one else was in the car, and equally sure that he was expected to got off, so off he got.
Now when a professor of the Kansas State University favors a neighboring village with a whole night of his valuable time, he has a natural right to expect the people to meet him en masse with a brass band at the head of the gang.
Prof. Miller natnrally felt that he
Conceive then, Prof. Miller's unspeakable astonishment when the only human being at the station was a small black boy who offered kindly to "pack" the professor's valfice, but as the sole occupants of this piece of baggage was a sleeping robe and a lecture, the boy's kindness was wasted.
could stand it as well as the assembling audience. So, in his independence of mind, he sought the warm side of the station and awaited developments.
There are warmer places however than the warm side of a station house on the 27th of February at 7:30 in the evening; so the professor concluded to move in the matter at the end of the first five minutes.
He started up the road towards town and meeting one who was presumably a citizen, he asked if there was to be a lecture in town tonight. The rural "reckoned not." He was then asked as to his place of residence and answered without hesitation, "Here."
The professor felt hurt that the management had not better advertised the entertainment and passed on to find the leading hotel.
The first store building bore the escutcheon, "Eudora Cash Grocery," "Best prices paid for Butter and Eggs." Long and deeply did our worthy professor powder over this motto. But not in vain. He soon discovered that something was wrong and determined to end the suspense at the hotel.
Twas at this point that college training showed itself. Did Prof. Miller ask the question at the top of this article? Yes, but of himself alone, and when he had answered it to his own satisfaction he got the key to his room and slept while Vinland swore.
When arrived there he reconnoitered, sized up the man behind the bar, and finally opened the register. At the top of the page was the following legend: Eudora Hotel, terms $1.25 per day.
That Aerolite.
Chancellor Snow has been in quest of another meteor. Did he get it? Don't ask him, for he is rather reticent on the subject. It seems that some body is to blame for his ill luck. It must be either the Washburn man or the newspaper reporter. All the facts that can be gathered in reference to the matter, go to prove the Chancellor's statement that the meteor hasn't lit yet.
Prof. Craigs of Washburn must surely have made a mistake in his astrological calculations, for scientific research has clearly proven that no meteor fell on the house of B. Williams of Highland as he predicted.
Confident in the unerring skill of Washburn's astrologer, a correspondent of the Topeka Capital announced the advent of the aerial visitant some hours before it didn't appear. Prof. Snow, on reading the article in Wednesday's Capital,
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DR. ELIOT.
President of Harvard Addresses a Large Audience in University Chapel.
The rare treat to which the students of the University have long looked forward drew a large audience to the Chapel Tuesday evening. Both the citizens of Lawrence and students at the University showed their appreciation of the opportunity to hear Dr. Eliot by a generous attendance.
At 8:30 Chancellor Snow appropriately introduced the speaker. Dr. Eliot is a man above average stature, finely built, and well preserved for a man who has stood at the head of Harvard for twenty-two years. He spoke for nearly an hour, with little or no attempt at oratorical effect, and with a voice at once pleasing and powerful. Although, apparently speaking extempore, his discourse was so well arranged and treated with such confidence that attention and conviction followed naturally.
His subject was "The Educational System," and, as Dr. Eliot has stood at the head of educational matters for a generation, what he said was well worth remembering. Two phases of education were treated particularly: Choice of course of study or the elective system and individual instruction.
The elective plan was first adopted by Harvard, and has since attained such wide spread success that no proof of its advantage is needed. Especially during the last ten years has this plan received such general adoption, that to-day not only all Universities and Colleges, of any prominence, have elective courses but the plan is finding its way into the High Schools, Academies and even the Grammar schools of this country. The value of the elective plan was sooner recognized in Europe than in America, but to-day those schools which have adopted it are those which are generously patronized.
Dr. Eliot is a strong advocate of the elective system, not only in Universities, Colleges, Academies and High Schools, but in the most primary departments of instruction. He says this is the end of present tendencies in education.
Usiformity in education is the least desirable of any kind of education. Human brains are as various as there are numbers of beings. Each child is unique.. To develop these different qualities in human minds requires a great variety in methods of training
Speaking of "Individualism in Instruction," Dr. Eliot again claimed for Harvard the distinction of first attempts. This method began
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in the study of science in the laboratory. To-day all branches of learning are best taught where individual instruction is most completely adopted.
Lectures and recitations are becoming less and less popular methods, and individual investigation and laboratory work are more successfully used.
At first, say seven or eight years ago, this method of instruction was attempted only in Universities and Colleges. While to-day the secondary and primary schools are adopting individual instruction with the best results. It is slow of adoption in public schools because of the increased expense, but we will find that only such schools as adopt this plan together with the choice of studies, will survive. It is therefore of paramount value that public schools accept these advances in educational methods, toward which the drift of progress tends.
After the lecture a reception was given in the University parlors, to which those wishing to meet Dr. Eliot were invited.
Wednesday Dr. Eliot visited the school, of which he expressed the highest approbation.
Cigars and cigarettes, pocket knives and pencils, writing paper and envelopes, at Smith's News Depot.
What's the matter with Raymond's bicycles? They are all right, and great bargains. Do you want a wheel?
Dunab Bells, Indian Clubs, and everything else needed for gymnastic exercises, at Smith's News Depot.
SPRING Hats, the new shapes, all kinds, at Abe Levy's.
Smith's News Depot is the place for Cigars and Tobacco.
Illustrated papers and comic weeklies, at Smith's News Depot.
You may not travel much,
You may not travel much,
While attending the University.
A trip home at
Thanksgiving, or
Christmas, or
During the spring vacation, or
To Kansas City to hear Booth,
Is perhaps all your purse
Can stand.
But when you no go,
Remember that the
"Old Reliable" and
"Always on Time" line is
The Santa Fe.
It reaches more Kansas towns
Than all of its competitors
bunched.
Any time you feel in the
Migratory mood, call on
Geo. C. Bailey, ticket agent,
Santa Fe denot Lawrence