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UNIVERSITY
WEEKLY
COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
VOL. IX.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1 PER YEAR.
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
J. E. Wright has again entered the electric engineering department.
J. I. Palmer has returned and will enter classes again. exit term.
Rev. A. H. Stote of the Baptist church led chapel exercises this week.
Will White, of the El Dorado Republican, was here the first of the week.
The Phi Kaps occupied the boxes at Burdette's lecture and were several times referred to by the speaker. He is a Phi Kap.
C. W. Moore, a former student, is business manager of a "to be" weekly paper in Lawrence.
Ten contestants in the local contest, have handed in their orations to the committee. Only the best six of the number will come before the audience tonight a week.
The University will indeed have a fine collection when Dyche catches and mounts a good string of Cantons. Nothing is impossible with Dyche.
On tonight week we have our local oratorical contest, and it will be one of high rank and intensely interesting. The very best talent in the University will be in it, and in it to win.
Clarence Seers showed his father, of Chillicothe, Ohio, through the University Tuesday. Mr. Seers was formerly a resident of this county and at one time represented the county in the legislature.
Some of the orations for the local contest were not finished until the morning they were handed to the committee last monday. This is the other extreme from polishing it for four years.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JAN. 17, 1891.
Col. Greene of the Record thinks the trouble is not with the Kansas City theatrical bill boards, but in the eye—in the evil mind. Very well. Just as truly the evil is not with the intoxicent but with the appetite which misuses it.
John Sullivan, the Kansas City lawyer and politician, the manager of divers newspapers, is about to embark in the matrimonial ship. He bestowed a visit upon the University last week and shook hands with all his old friends preparatory to his departure. John is an ex-student and a formor editor of the Courier.
William Blaikie said while here, "Boys get all the debating possible while you are in college, you can not get too much of this kind of practice. Among all the members of the New York bar there are but one or two who can make a good speech. Whatever you do in college learn to talk, to express yourselves forcibly and to the point."
Chancellor Snow was in Kansas City Wednesday.
Mr. John Whitesides visited his parents the last or the week.
C. E. Hite, from Crawford county, has entered the Natural History department.
Bob Burdette's lecture was full of "chestnuts" but it was not so "chestnutty" as was Bill Nye last year.
Mr. E. V. D. Brown has been under the weather the last week, suffering an attack of acute rheumatism.
The "big event" of the season is the contest next Friday night the 23rd. Every student should make arrangements to attend.
Mr. Newson will speak tonight at the Science Club on his experience in Heidelberg University. All students are invited.
The best contest ever held by the Oratorical Association will take place next Friday night in University Hall.
Baker and Washburn will probably have men to view our local contest. Show them what University enthusiasm is by your presence.
Burdette's claims at the Farmers Alliance failed to elicit applause, and the Phi Psis were not prepared for it when he spoke of them approvingly.
If you see a man looking at your feet don't think he is criticising the size, he is only looking for the rubbers he has lost.
The fellow who wrote the article in the Record concerning literary work in K. S. U., and signed "Junior" must have been "a Junior" in the wood carving department.
Be sure and get your tickets as soon as the chart opens on next Wednesday morning, as everything indicates that the largest crowd ever known will attend the contest on Friday night.
Out of ten entries for the contest the best six have been chosen by a committee of the faculty. The best one of these six will be chosen next Friday night to represent the University at the state contest.
The lecture of Mr. Blaikie is getting in its work. A party of students are looking for an able instructor in boxing. If there is one in the University he can enrich his pocket and get a chance to pound some one simultaneously by coming to the front and organizing a class.
Chancellor Snow will deliver an address before the State Agricultural Society, in Topeka, this afternoon on the subject of chinch bugs. The State Agricultural society must not be confounded with the state legislature as some malicious people would have us believe.
How to Develop Our Bodies.
Only a medium sized audience greeted William Blaikie, the New York lawyer, who spoke under the auspices of the athletic association at the opera house last Friday evening. Those who did felt alimply repaid and departed full of enthusiasm for gymnastic training as a means for gaining sound bodies and the host of blessings which necessarily follow.
Mr. Blaikie is a gentleman about fifty years old but looks thirty-five. He has a fine presence and is himself an excellent example of what athletic training will do for a man immersed in the cares of professional life. He is a graduate of Harvard class of'66, and was captain of the Harvard boat crew when it gained its first great victory over Yale. Mr. Blaikie has made a thorough study of athletics and physical culture and is today the best authority in the United States upon these subjects. Mr. Blaikie, besides being a good lawyer and athlete is a good speaker and his lecture was replete with wit and humor.
Mr. Blaikie said in the course of his lecture that books and books alone cannot make a man. A perfect man has his mental and physical parts developed symmetrically. The greatest men of the world, the men who have accomplished the greatest works, who have been the greatest benefit to mankind have been the men with the finest physical development, the men who have had strong and vigorous bodies, which served as never failing resevoirs from which to nourish and sustain the continued and severe mental efforts of the brain. The champions of the world have been men capable of enduring every hardship and meeting successfully every opposition.
Alexander and Cresar were athleties and spent years in developing the hardy constitutions without which they could have accomplished but little. Plato and Aristotle taught physical culture and were finely developed themselves. Wellington and Napoleon spent years in perfecting bodies which enabled them to withstand every hardship and endure every privation courageously. Daniel Webster and Daniel O'Connor were splendid specimens of manhood and always took systematic physical training.
Gladstone was the champion wrestler at Eaton, the champion walker and wrangler at Oxford and England's champion ever since. Gladstone exercises every day. In summer chops wood and in winter walks. He is eighty-one years old and can bring down the largest oak without fatigue. Washington had a magnificent body and
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was in his youth the champion wrestler and jumper for miles around his home. He was a phenominally strong man and owed his ability to withstand privation and discouragements to his perfect physical development. Over eighty per cent of the successful men on Wall street today were country born and bred. John Wesley, who preached over 42,000 sermons in fifty years was an athlete exceedingly muscular and strong.
Mr. Blaikie dwelt strongly on the fact that students in college should take systematic exercise. This is an important phase of college life that is too much neglected. Of what good is it to a man to spend his time "boning," "pouring over his books," and working for high grades, if when he graduates he is a physical wreck and unable to cope successfully with the affairs of life. He cited the instance of five Harvard young men who were in college when he was, fine students, away up in their classes, graduated with honor and all in their graves no two years afterward. Twenty-five years of hard work under our lightened system of education come to nought. He dwelt on the fact that the useful man in this world is the all around man. The man metrically developed. If students will take systematic gymnastic work every day they will not only be able to do more work but their work will be of a better quality. The young lady who recently beat the senior wrangle at Cambridge by 400 points only studied six hours a day and the rest of the day she devoted to tennis and gymnastic work. She attributes her victory due to physical exercise. She accomplished in six hours what it took ten to do before and her work was better, for her nerves were steady and her brain more active.
The fact was brought out that there is great interest in sports in the colleges. Those taking part in base ball, foot ball, rowing and tennis comprises but a small proportion of the student body. The majority of students receive no physical development whatever. Moreover foot ball, base ball, rowing and tennis only develop certain sets of muscles and the good results of such work are not far reaching enough. What is wanted is more means whereby the whole body of students can gain symmetrical development. This can be gained only in the gymnasium.
The old idea about a gymnasium being a place for students to parade in, is passing away. It is now a place for scientific development. It is one of the most important departments in the educational system of
every University. A good director for a gymnasium is as necessary as a good professor in the languages or political economy. At Harvard where they have a fine equipped gymnasium, no recitations are held from 4 to 6 to enable all to do athletic work. President Elliot used to exercise regularly with the boys at that hour. The result of a few months' work in the gymnasium will be astonishing. One will feel a bouyancy and enthusiasm in everything he does arising from a perfect physical condition. The days when it was thought that the body was of no account except to be scourged are passing away and the time is coming when a man can no more neglect his physical education than he can his mental. The body and mind go hand in hand through life's work.
Mr. Blaikie left for home immediately after the lecture.
His Story.
The following specimen was handed to us by one of our Junior "Pharmiks:"
Many students witnessed a grand snow-ball fight last Friday afternoon between the junior and senior Pharmieks, in which the seniors were badly worsted. The seniors were assisted by several outsiders, but notwithstanding this and the superior size of most of their number, they were forced by the plucky juniors to seek refuge in the Chemistry building.
Among the seniors dug up after the affair were Oatman, Kennerly, Amos and the janitor, Mr. Vestal. It's a cold day when the juniors get left.
Adelphic will present a program tonight on, "The Literature on the Abolition Movement." Some excellent papers have been prepared and the meeting will be without doubt an interesting one. Visitors will be made welcome.
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 do 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.
Go to the Cash Shoe Store for Boots and Shoes and Repairing. 830 Mass. Street.