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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Vol. VIII
LAWRENCE KANSAS, APRIL. 25.1890.
An Impressive Ceremony.
The laying of the corner stone of the new building of the Lawrence High School, last Friday afternoon, was an exceedingly interesting and solemn ceremony. The beautiful dedication was characteristic of the city's pride and patriotism. The long procession of students and school children with the most striking and impressive that Lawrence has ever witnessed.
The whole affair was soul lifting; one felt better for having seen it. To the average American it brought a touch of joy and gratitude—it filled his heart with songs of love and praise that found their repose in the beat of the drum, the flying of the national flag and the smile and laugh of the pretty children.
The services were conducted by the Masons. Rev. Dr. Cordley, President of the School Board, presided and began the servies in a pleasant, earnest speech.
Hon. W. C. Spangler was the orator of the day. Following will be found selections from his eloquent effort, together with Chancellor Snow's address, as reported by the Lawrence Record:
Col. H. M. Green, Grand Chaplain of the Mason, invoked the blessing of God in a beautiful prayer.
Pardon me if I talk too much about the relations of the University to the High School, for I believe that at this time it is of paramount importance that this relation be fully understood and appreciated. The High School can and ought to be of the greatest assistance to the University and on the other hand the University can and should be a constant source of inspiration and helpfulness to the High schools all over the state, and with a proper understanding of their relations each can become great and powerful in its own sphere, and working together harmoniously can advance unreservedly the cause of public education in Kansas.
Therefore Mr. President I congratulate you that the school system for this community is complete; that the humblest child in the primary department may look forward with confidence to a completion of a course of study at the University; that the humblest child without regard to his sex or color or financial condition may by his own efforts, rise step by step through all the grades of the common schools, enter the High School and after the completion of his
course here—without change or interruption take up his work in the University, and thus through the beneficience of the state and this community—receive the highest education possible in Kansas
The city of Lawrence has suffered much and sacrificed much for what is highest and best in the civilization of to-day but for none of her heroic deeds does she deserve more credit than for her efforts and sacrifices in the cause of education. It has not made her great in wealth or commercial importance, but it has done more. It has created, developed a desire for those things above and beyond the material, for that which is highest and best in this world and in all worlds. It is this which makes a state, and is because of this spirit and this effort that we have the hope and assurance that Kansas some day will indeed be great.
Chancellor Snow then took the front of the platfe.m and spoke substantially as follows:
This great assemblage of the children and youths of Lawrence is an impressive object lesson forcing upon our attention vividly, the importance of our educational interests. But a small portion of this large number will enter the house on the hill, of which I have just been assigned headship. I am therefore the more anxious that the range of instruction to be afforded here shall be ample and thorough. We are constantly reminded that the policy of our schools of whatever grade must be the education of the people, for the people and by the people. We read of the lost arts of Egypt. They were lost because committed to the exclusive charge of the privileged classeses. Had they been taught to the common they would still be in use, if worthy, in our times. These walls are to receive the children of the people. Here the sons and daughters of the rich and poor, black and white are to receive the benefits of the same courses and the path to honorable distinction in learning lies open equally to each of them.
The speaker then gave some amusing instances of the modes of instructions in a school in Massachusetts which he first attended as a boy of four years. He spoke kindly of the whimsical ways of his teacher who he declared had his hobby. "Each of us has a hobby," said he, "mine has been 'bugs,' now it will be something else." The contrast between the schools of the past and present was well drawn, and the chancellor passed to consider a late action of the faculty of the University by which all intending students of the University were invited to prosecute their sub-freshman studies in the Lawrence High School. The entire speech was admirable and was received with warm demonstrations of approval by the assemblage.
College Boys and Journalism.
We clip the following from the Troy (N. Y.) Times, and to those who are journalistically inclined it is of no little interest:
The college seniors are now enjoying their last vacation before passing their final examinations and taking their diplomas. Most of them already have definite plans for the future, and all have high expectations of the great things they are to accomplish. Doubtless much good advice could be offered these seniors, no matter what profession or vocation they have decided upon, but for the present we will have to do only with him who looks to the newspaper world as the scene of his life's triumphs.
This reminds us.
Why it is no one appears able to explain, but it is a curious fact that every college man who undertakes newspaper work thinks himself thoroughly equipped for any position a prosperous and influential journal can offer. His college chum, his equal in every respect, decides upon law and thinks nothing of two or three years of drudgery which must precede an entrance into the legal fraternity. And the same is the case with him who proposes to be a physician. But the college boy who espouses journalism feels fully competent to jump from the graduating platform of his alma mater directly into the position of managing editor of a great daily.
He can't though.
As a consequence he is disapointed. He applies to some newspaper for a place and is surprised that it doesn't yearn for one so preeminently endowed with ability. Lucky, indeed, is he if he gets an opportunity at the very bottom of the reportorial ladder, with one-tenth of the salary he thought of demanding. Once at work he finds his daily routine the most commonplace drudgery. He feels that he should be passing his time framing high-sounding phrases and forging verbal thunderbolts for the editorial page, and instead he is in the police court recording the sentence of an ordinary "drunk" or down among the markets inquiring the latest quotations on pork and potatoes.
It's tough, but it's "business." The weeks go on, and if he is not of the stuff of which newspaper men are made he drops out of the race and disappears. Otherwise he continues to take the bitter with the sweet, doing well the work which lies before him, looking for the better things farther on. At the end of a year he begins to see how little he knows about real newspaper work, and in two years he has acquired a fair groundwork upon which to build a useful if not famous newspaper experience.
If he "has the stuff in him"
The trouble with the college man is that he thinks a general literary training all the preparation necessary for newspaper work, while the truth is that few professors exact of their successful men more purely technical knowledge than does journalism. The successful newspaper man must have tact, good judgment, proper appreciation of the value of news and a thorough acquaintance with every detail of a newspaper office, together with a faculty of bringing everything he knows to the front at a moment's notice. All these points the newly-graduated college man lacks, and until he obtains them his wares are at a discount in the newspaper world.
Quite right.
So the college man who decides to enter journalism must make up his mind that there is no royal road to the chair of editor-in-chief. He must work his way in that direction slowly, with the chances ten to one that he will never reach that point. But when he gets his exalted ideas out of his head he will find many consolations even in the work of a humble reporter. To be sure, he will feel that he is only a small part of the great world, but he will find dozens of his fellow collegians making even less of a stir than himself.
The discipline is wholesome.
And another point to be kept in mind is that newspaper men as a rule do not make a fortune in a day, and rarely in a life-time. In a recent letter to the Chicago News Eugene Field gossips about newspaper making abroad. What he has to say regarding salaries is of interest in this connection. He thinks the $50,000 salary paid Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the London Times, makes him "the largest salaried employee connected with journalism in Europe. Several London critics are well paid—notably Clement Scott of the Daily Telegraph, who is supposed to receive $10,000 a year. Andrew Lang must draw a large salary as an editorial writer for the Daily News, and, aside from his journalistic work, he is a fertile bookmaker, and he lectures regularly before a number of educational institutions. But the large majority of London journalists are small-salaried men; $15 a week, and one seldom commands more than $25—I mean the local equivalent therefor. When Bennett started the London edition of the New York Herald he paid traveling expenses and $50 a week to the American reporters he imported. But already he has sent most of the importations back home, and the London end of the triangular freak is being conducted by native beef-eaters."
NO.31.
Hill and Dale.
A. C. Cunkle has left school to return to his home at Madison, Kan. He orders the COURIER sent to his address.
The sweet girls of Pi Beta Phi have had their pictures taken in a group. Enchanting! Bewitching! Ravishing! Lovely! Oh my, how sweet! Adjectives heard floating from feminine lips.
Miss Harrison entertained a few friends Monday evening at high five. Those present were: Misses Tisdale, Nelson and Bennett, and Messrs Carson, Bennett, McCague, and Challis.
Fred Kellogg went to Kansas City Tuesday on business connected with the entertainment to be given at the Opera House this evening.
Smelser is reported as quite ill. Miss Nelson and Mrs. Fred Bowersock went to Kansas City last Saturday.
Prof. Sayre is conducting chapel exercises this week.
Philomathian society will meet next Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Lotta Hopkins.
The Seniors' photos, are causing a great deal of comment, among themselves.
The recent examination in international law left some very sore people.
The Freshman themes have again passed through the fiery ordeal and are being delivered to their waiting authors expectant hands. Red ink, evidently is now being sold in job lots. 'Tis sad we know to have the very theme itself become roseate at your profound ignorance, but Freshies you'-ve got to stand it.
The Sophs are distinguishing themselves again in their own peculiar way. Prof. Winkler is giving them too much Dutch to learn auswendig and they are on a strike. This class is undoubtedly the laziest class in the University.
To-day is the day when Kansas was to undergo a visitation from a Cyclone. Latest news by telegram. The Cyclone is laid up for repairs at Baldwin. The college there saved the town, for it was the first thing in the path of the storm. The poor cyclone after vainly endeavoring to chew up some Baker students, hopelessly dislocated its jaw and lost all its wind. It will be here to-morrow if it is not converted into a Kansas zephyr by that blooming town.
The class in Zoology had examinations last Wednesday and Thursday. Evolutionists are in the front rank.
For Pretty, Stylish Millinery go to Mrs. Eva Savage.