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Entered at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, and second class matter.
HENRY M. STANLEY is now in New York preparing for his coming lecture tour of the United States. Stanley will deliver fifty lectures for which he will receive about twelve hundred dollars each. Stanley used to be a news paper reporter in Omaha, and it is supposed that while engaged in that work he acquired that boldness and hardihood of character which enabled him to cope successfully with the natives of the "Dark Continent.
"WINNING ORATIONS "
TEE clipping about University matters, taken from the Kansas City Journal which we published in a recent issue does not voice either editorial sentiments of the Courier or the sentiments of the students and other persons connected with the University. No one will attempt to deny, but that the University will be more prosperous with a chancellor at its head, who is known over the entire country as a broad and liberal educator. That the University received any set back, or that affairs were mismanaged last year, no one acquainted with Regent Spangler's work as the executive head of the University, his recognized ability and fidelity to his trust, will for an instant admit. It is high time the Kansas City papers recognized this and stopped publishing malicious and false statements about matters pertaining to the University.
A prospectus announcing the forthcoming publication entitled "Winning Orations" of inter-state oratorical contests, and "Biographies of Contestants," has been received by the Courier. The book is being gotten up by C. E. Prather, of Topeka. It will contain the first and second orations of the interstate contest and biographies and photographs of the winning orators.
The book will be a very valuable one for all students interested in oratory, and especially valuable as a book of reference for those who intend entering the coming contests.
VIEWS.
THE ATLITHELIC ASSOCIATION.—AN
ABLE ANSWER TO X. Y.Z.
The communication of [X. Y. Z] n last week's Courier regarding the work and value of the Athletic association has an interest for all
students and has attracted a good deal of attention. I was struck by the general fairness of the writers views, but he makes a few statements to which I wish to take exception. I was somewhat puzzled to know what he was driving at, for he says, "the trouble is with the Athletic association and not with the students." Now the membership of the association consists of all the students and the faculty of the University. The force of the statement would be better comprehended if he had said, "the trouble is with the students and faculty and not with the students." This seems a little hard on the faculty, but it is a fair statement of his proposition.
The Athletic association is an association of the students and faculty of the University,with a board of officers of fourteen members called the Athletic board.
The object of the association is to promote Athletic interests in the University. The real qesion at issue is whether the organization promotes athletic interest or not. No one who knows the history of athletics in the University and who will take an impartial view of the matter can fail to admit that there is a much greater general interest than ever before. Of this interest the Athletic association is in a large measure the cause.
But I am to say something of X x z's strictures. He complains most of base ball. The club of last year was not the most creditable club the University ever had; but it is going too far to say it would have been a discredit to the smallest college. An examination of the club's record will prove this. Again, the association did not sink one hundred dollars, nor the third of it, in the club and, moreover, not a cent of the money subscribed by students and faculty was applied to the expenses of the club. As to base ball this year, there has never been as much interest in this sport in the autumn in the history of the University, nor have the interests been as carefully attended to, nor has anyone at any time known in the fall as well as now what base ball material we had. Most of the men are chosen and are in training for their respective positions.
On the subject of foot ball, the writer is slightly off. The foot ball interests have been organized this fall, as x y z says, "by individual effort," at the same time, he ought to have added, under the direction and encouragement of the Athletic Association. "Individual effort" organized the foot ball team, always has organized foot ball teams and all others, and as long as they are to be organized will continue to organize them. No other effort is worth talking about. This fact, it has often been observed, cannot be changed by organizing and electing a president, secretary and treasurer. The best such an organization can do is to give "individual effort", unity of aim, and this is exactly what our association is doing. The
foot ball men have not been obliged to get their own suits, as x y z might have known by a little attention to facts. The inferences from his statements regarding tennis and rowing are as misleading as what he says of base ball and foot ball.
The students of Harvard and Yale subscribe liberally for athletics because they know their teams will be a credit to them; our students do not subscribe because they do not know whether our teams will be a credit to us or not. This is about what I gather from X. Y. Z's argument.
Let us maintain this narrow view and continue to refuse our aid to all enterprises of which we are not positively sure of the result, and we will be in our present position some centuries later.
"The Athletic association puts the cart before the horse." "Let the students see active work begin on the Athletic field," etc. X.Y.Z. says. In another place he says the collections last year amounted to $150 and only a small amount has been raised this year. Of this sum, according to X.Y.Z., about $100 was sunk in base ba l. This leaves a princely sum in the hands of the association. Begin work on the Athletic field, indeed! Now, as a common sense business proposition, I submit that X.Y.Z. is putting the cart before the horse in such talk as this.
In conclusion let me say that the students have not gotten rid of individual responsibility by organizing an association. There is a better opportunity now for "individual effort" than ever before. The greatest need at present, is more "individual effort."
I wish to exhort X. Y. Z. and all others to make greater "individual effort" and give the Athletic board the best you can of time and money. And I wish to urge the board to more energetic work as X. Y. Z so ably does in his article. G.
THE UNIVERSITY AND THE HIGH SCHOOL.
The University is but one—the last step in the educational ladder which this state in its fore sight and care has erected. First, the eight years of common school work, leading to the high school. Then the three or four years high school training, leading to the final four years course in the University. A notion fortunately not very prevalent but more or less wide spread that the University is an institution apart and distinct from the general education scheme of the state should be dispelled. The University is an integral part of the grand system of cumulative education which the people of Kansas offer freely to the children of the state.
It is gratifying to know that each year the connecting link between the University and the High school is becoming more perfect. That the University is rapidly coming to occupy the place in the state educational system which it was intended that it should. A few years ago
there was hardly a high school in the state which fitted for the freshman class in the University. The University could not under those circumstances touch the educational life of the state as it ought.
Last year in the supplementary catalogue there were twenty-one accredited high schools which fitted scholars for one or more of the regular University courses. This year there are thirty-five high schools which fit for one or more of the regular courses, an increase of over sixty per cent. These high schools will prepare on the average for three of the six regular courses offered by the University. Among the schools recently added to the list, are those of Abilene, Chanute Cherryvale, Fort Scott, Hays City, Hiawatha, Jewell City, Minneapolis, Sedgwick, Seneca and Solomon City. The number of high schools in list 2, those failing by not more than three terms work in one subject to fit for any one of the regular courses, will be about the same this year as last, about thirty-six.
The two new courses recently established in the University, the Latin English and the General Language, are meeting with very general approbation over the state. Twenty of the accredited high schools will prepare for the new courses, the majority in addition to preparing for some of the four older courses. That is where schools are already fitting for the old course the new courses are meeting with approval. In short; a very general inclination is shown by the high schools all over the state to get into line with University work. Some that are not able to do so at present are looking forward to being able to at an early period. The number of students received from high schools this year is far in excess of the number received last, and the number will increase each year.
A GOOD SHOWING.
The aim of the University authorities is not to lower the standard of admission but to bring the high schools up to the requisite standard.
The University is in constant correspondence with high school principal-, teachers and school boards all over the state, and there is no doubt but that the work of Chancellor Snow and the regents of the Universiily in perfecting the link between the University and the high school, has the commendation of all the professors and teachers in the state.
The broad and liberal education afforded by colleges of high standing is coming to be recognized as a necessity to perfect growth and development. The progress and greatness of our state in the future will be dependent upon the ability of its citizens for intelligent judgment and action.
The Glee club accompanied by the Mandolin and Guitar club will give a popular entertainment at Eudora next Saturday night for the benefit of the "Chapel Organ fund."
he Enrollment in the Regular Collegiate Courses -285 This
Year to 216 Last Year.
The total enrollment of the University thus far is 485 compared to about 500 at this time last year. The falling off is mainly in the sub-Freshman classes, the law school and the art department. The regular collegiate classes are, with the exception of the senior class larger than ever before. Here are some interesting figures of the attendance this year as compared to last. Freshman class 113 to 95; Sophomore 61 to 38; Junior 24 to 23; Seniors 22 to 29; post grunuits 22 to 17; Special students 42 to 22.
Total in all the collegiate courses not including sub-Freshman classes in the various schools 285 to 216 last year. The sub-Freshman classes have fallen from 138 last last year to 38 this year.
As to the special schools the Laws number 45 to 57 last year; Music students 63 to 59; Art students 21 to 40; Pharmacy 33 to 31. It will be seen by these figures that the total enrollment has not increased. The University has made a substantial growth in the lines connected with the true work of a University.
The large increase of post-graduate students and those attracted here to pursue special lines of research is particular gratifying. Next year will probably see the University with its sub-Freshman classes entirely, done away with having a larger attendance than ever before. This, considering the fact that the sub-Freshman classes a few years ago numbered several hundred, shows the position the University is coming to occupy among the institutions of higher education.
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