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The Weekly University Courier.
The Largest College Journal Circulation in the United States.
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LOCAL STAFF:
RUSSELL R. WHITMAN... Editor-in-Chief
E. P. Allen, '91, *Laura Lockwood*, '90,
H. A. Peare, '92.
J. M. CHALLIS, '92...Editor
E. F. Eagle, '91. Charles Johnson, '91.
W. M. Currie, '93.
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an second class matter.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
SOCIETIES.
Science Club—Meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 8 p.m.
Seminary of Historical and Political Science—Meets in room 14. University building, every other Friday from 4 to 6. J. H. Canfield, Director.
Philological Club—Meets in room No.20. University building, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
Kent Club—Meets in North College every Friday afternoon at 1:30. Admits law students only.
University Glee Club—Meets in Music room, North College, every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Prof. Penny, Director.
Pharmaceutical Society—Meets in the Lecture room, Chemistry building, every other Friday at 8 p.m. Admits Pharmacy students only.
Adelphic Literary Society—Meets in Adelphic hall, University building, south wing, 3d floor, every Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
FRTERNITIES.
Phi Beta Kappa—Honorary collegiate fraternity.
Sigma Xi—Honorary scientific fraternity.
Beta Theta Pi—Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House Block.
Phi Kappa Psi—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Opera House Block.
Phi Gamma Delta—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House Block.
Phi Delta Theta—Meets every Saturday evening in A. O. U. W. Hall.
Sigma Chi—Meets every Saturday evening on the 4th floor east of Opera House Block.
Sigma Nu—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House Block.
Pi Beta Phi—Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
Kappa Alpha Theta—Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
Kappa Kappa Gamma—Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
MISCELLNEOUS.
Oratorical Association of the Students of Kansas State University—President, Jus D. Bowersock; Secretary, W. D. Ross.
University Athletic Association—President, A. G. Canfield; Secretary, M. A. Barber; Treasurer, H. A. Peirns. Includes Tennis Association, Base Ball Association and Foot Ball Association.
Camera Club—Meets once per month. President, E. H. S. Bailey; Secretary, E. E. Slosson.
Telegraph Club—President, Prof. L. I. Blake; Secretary, W. S. Franklin.
Y. M. C. A.—Meets in University building room 11 every Friday at 7:30 p. m. President, E. L. Ackley; Secretary, C. P. Chapman.
Y. W. C. A.—Meets in University building, north wing, 3rd floor, every Friday evening at 7:30 p. m. President, Miss Emma Dunn; Secretary, Miss Laura Lockwood.
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Contest tonight!
PRESIDENT ANDREWS, of Brown University, has introduced a new scheme for marking the senior class psychology. The class is to choose eight or ten men, who will mark every recitation during the term. These markings will then be averaged and the averages so obtained will be the marks of the class for the term.-Ex.
The seniors at K. S. U. do not take psychology. This exquisit pleasure is the right inherent of the of the sophomores.
LATEST.—The official count reveals the fact that the State Oratorical contest will be held at Emporia February 20 instead of February 13. Immediately after the contest tonight let some energetic person or persons solicit the names of those who will go to Emporia and make arrangements for a special train, colors, etc. K. S. U. must take Emporia by storm next month, first, last and all the time. In order to do so we must have some systematic effort.
The foot ball season being over Salem Goodale, the Baker University foot-ball man, has left college or rather discontinued his one study in the music department and gone to Michigan. It is also rumored that Mr. Jack Harris, who played half back for Baker in the last K. S. U.—Baker match, is not in school now. We have also heard on pretty good authority that Mr. Harris was never a student of Baker, not even to the extent of one music study. This can hardly be however because we have Captain Goodale's and Manager Moorhead's pledged word to the effect that he was a student and surely these are honorable men—both honorable men. Besides this they both come from a good Methodist institution.
The University of Michigan Glee Club will sing in Kansas City about April 15th. There are thirty members of the glee and banjo clubs and their tour will be for the benefit of the gymnasium fund. At a recent concert in Detroit the proceeds of the entertainment and the subscriptions given at its conclusion amounted to $4,400. Joseph W. Waterman has given $20,000 towards the gymnasium fund on condition that the University raise an equal sum. About $10,000 has already been raised and the remainder will probably be raised soon. Besides this fund Michigan University has an old fund for gymnasium purposes of about $6,000. President Angell is taking an active interest in the securing of this fund and in the erection of the gymnasium. In this connection it might be pertinent to inquire what steps the authorities of our University are making towards securing the $10,000 or fraction thereof, to be given for gymnasium purposes by Col. J. J. McCook when the University shall have raised an equal sum? It will soon be a year since the offer was made. If any active steps toward raising the sum have been taken, we have not heard of them. It will be a
disgrace to the University and an injustice to every student if this offer is let go by default and without the most strenuous efforts being made to fulfill the conditions necessary to secure to it. Not only this, but other men will be deterred from giving to the University when they see with what apparent indifference such gifts are regarded. It would seem, at least poor policy for the University to foster and push a scheme to put a $5,000 organ in the chapel, while this offer of Colonel McCook's is lying before it unacted upon. Especially as the money is to come from the same persons who would be looked upon to contribute to the gymnasium fund.
THAT DESTITUTED FIELD! !
It is said by some that Galen Nichols will represent K. S. U. We hope so. Reason why—do you remember that fifth place last year and seventh the year before. This is his record in Baker.
Will Priestly has gone to K. S. U. to try his oratorical powers in that destituted field.-Baker Beacon.
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It is exceedingly painful for the Courier to be compelled to spoil the great satisfaction and capital which Baker hoped to derive from the above. With all due respect to Mr. Nichols and Mr. Priestly we feel compelled to state that owing to various and sundry good reasons, neither of these gentlemen will represent K. S. U. this year. The Beacon may possibly have heard that there were ten orations handed in to a committee of the faculty and that only the best six of these were chosen. As Mr. Priestly won third place at Baker year before last the Beacon will probably be interested in knowing that Mr. Priestly's oration was graded tenth on the list of those handed to the faculty committee.
K. S. U. does not brag and bluster about winning the state contest his year but she will go into the battle determined and with confidence as to the final result.
THE GERMAN STOVE.
The following extract published in the K. C. Journal from a personal letter written by Neil C. Brooks, class of '90, who is now attending the University of Berlin, gives his experience with the German porcelain stove:
"The late cold spell, with the thermometer ranging about the zero point, has given me a chance to test the inefficiency of my stove, and it surely comes up to my fullest expectations. The Germans seem to heat on a different principle from the Americans. While we aim to impart a comfortable temperature to the room the Germans strive merely to keep the stove warm. When that is accomplished they seem to think nothing more can be desired. It is amusing to see my landlady come in and feel of my stove in order to judge the heat of the room. I have had to get a blanket to wrap my feet and legs in; with this and by wearing my overcoat and getting as much of myself against the stove as possible, I manage to eke out an unfrozen existence. When I get too cold I go out doors to warm up. I have not yet found any way to keep my hands warm while writing. The situation is about as bad as it could be; still I do not catch cold and sleep warmly with a feather bed above as well as under me. You have doubtless noticed places in the second story of buildings where a flue from the first story passes up and makes the wall quite warm above. Such a place gives you a good idea of the heat of a German stove. Common sense iron stoves are occasionally seen here, but are not much in use. The Germans call them American stoves. The fuel burnt in my stove is a sort of peat pressed into regularly shaped pieces resembling in size and shape a bar of laundry soap. My landlady pays 80 pfennig a hundred for them, and I pay her 25 pfennig a day for fire and have to take just what she gives me. After a fire is built there is no replenishing it chiefly because there is no fire to replenish, only a pile of warm bricks. If they cool off before evening a second completely new fire has to be built. Altogether it is a very unsatisfactory arrangement."
George Bancroft.
With the death of George Bancroft at the advanced age of ninety-one years, America looses one of her most noted men and one of her most shining literary lights.
Mr. Bancroft was always fond of outdoor exercise, to which, in a large measure, he attributed his good health and prolonged life. He regarded his life work as finished two years ago, and of late had done no literary work. During the last decade he had revised his great work, the history of the United States, going over it in a severely critical style and eliminating the flowers of rhetoric in the early work. His last production was a history of the formation of the constitution.
In 1820, Bancroft was given the degree of Ph. D. by the University of Gottingen.
George Bancroft was born in Worcester, Mass., October 3, 1800 He was prepared for college at Exeter, N. H., was graduated at Harvard in 1817, and went to Germany. At Gottingen, where he resided for two years, he studied German literature under Benecke; French and Italian literature under Artaud and Bunsen; Arabic, Hebrew and Scripture under Planck and Heeren; Natural History under Blumenbach; and the Antiquities and Literature of Greece and Rome under Dissen, with whom he took a course in Greek philosophy.
Removing to Berlin, he became intimate with Schleiermacher, William Von Hunaaboldt, Saviguy, Lappenberg and Barnhagen Von Ense, and at Jena he made the acquaintance of Goethe. He studied at Heidelberg with the historian, Schlosser.
In 1822 he returned to the United States and accepted, for one year, the office of tutor of Greek in Harvard.
His first publication was a volume of poems in 1823.
In 1834 he published the first volume of his "History of the United States."
In 1844 he was nominated by the democratic party for governor of Massachusetts, and received a very large vote, though not sufficient for election. After the accession of President Polk, Mr. Bancroft became secretary of the navy.
From 1846 to 1849 Mr. Bancroft was minister to Great Britain. In May, 1867, he was appointed minister to Russia, in 1868 he was accredited to the North German confederation, and in 1871 to the German empire, from which he was recalled at his own request in 1874.
In 1849 Mr. Banroft took up his residence in New York City and continued work on his history. The third volume had appeared in 1840, and volumes four to ten at intervals from 1851 to 1874. In 1879 the work was revised and issued in a centenary edition of six volumes. Volumes eleven and twelve were published first under the title,"History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States." The last revised edition of the whole work appeared in six volumes,1884-1885.
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