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THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Vol. VIII.
SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
DR. CHAS.F. THWING.
The Regents Offer Him the Chancellor ship- His Visit to the U.
It's done; the Regents have spoken their little piece. After a deal of spitting and spurting and fussing and mussing, the new Chancellor has been selected. The election is the subject of the hour; the state and students and every body of sense is talking about it. Some are talking too much.
Last Tuesday it was made known that the regents had come to a decision on this most absorbing question. Then ews spread like wild fire, and before the rise of Wednesday's sun it was in the mouth of every wide awake Kansan.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAR.14, t800.
The advent of the prospective Chancellor that morning, was a thing of no little importance to the students of a headless University. The way the coming guardian of Mt. Oread was looked at and talked about would have satisfied the proudest man on earth.
Dr. Chas, H. Thwing, of Minneapolis, arrived in the city last Tuesday evening. He was escorted from Kansas City by Vice-Chancellor Spangler. The Dr. was taken to the hospitable home of Prof. Snow, where he was entertained during his vtsit.
Wednesday morning the Dr. paid the University a thorough visit, an inspecting tour as it were. He was conducted through the buildings by Proi Snow, V.-C. Spangler and several of the Regents.
I was exceedingly fortunate Wednesday evening in meeting the Chancellor-elect. He seemed delighted to meet a representative of a University journal. I am sure I was delighted to see the Doctor. We went into the mutual business at once.
Dr. Thwing is pre-eminently an exceptional man. I came to that conclusion in a surprisingly short time. He immediately makes a profound impression, one that will never be lost. Fully six feet tall, his heavy but beautifully proportioned frame balances a finely formed head—a head, I am convinced, that has more vital tissue than is given to the average man. A happy, handsome face is the Doctor's, radiant with the smile of good humor and good sense. Behind a pair of Harvard glasses—I guess they are Harvard glasses for I never saw a Harvard man who didn't wear a pair—there sparkle and laugh and speak
and pierce a pair of wonderful eyes. I think they are blue. Yes, those were remarkable, striking features; they were an interesting study,-I read them. They were intensely scholarly if anything; they were kind, too. They made you smile or you were shamefully rude. But better, there was lots of sympathy behind it all--that sympathy which is death to studied indifference-- that peculiar element-I don't know what to call it—which harmonizes with humanity.
But my talk with Dr. Thwing; it was a pleasant one. The Doctor is a polished conversationalist if nothing else. He didn't say an uninteresting word, but the Courier's space won't let me give them all. Naturally, of course. I asked him first how his visit through our institution had pleased him.
"Pleased? yes, indeed I am. My visit was exceedingly enjoyable. I like your University. I think your Professors are a noble body of a noble institution. And the students, they are fine, noble fellows too. Yes, sir, everything about the the University, its beautiful position and all--more than pleased me."
To the question how he liked the west, he said: "For four years I have been among the people of the west. Of course I am attached to my eastern home, but to say that I like my western one, would be putting it mildly. I am one of those who believe that the west is the place for him who wants to rise in the world. If I wanted a clerkship I would go to New York; but if I wanted a pulpit I would go west. Yes, this is my first visit to Kansas, but so pleasant has it been I am sure it will not be my last."
Charles H. Thwing was born in New Sharon, Me., in 1853. First graduating at Andover, he finished his education at Harvard. As a minister of the Congregational church he filled his first pulpit in Massachusetts; Four years ago he was made pastor fo the First Congregational church at Minneapolis. Here he has become famous as an eloquent divine. The Doctor is a literary man of no little note. His "American Colleges," "The Reading of Books," and the "Social Family" are works of exceptional
Following is an incomplete sketch of this distingnished divine :
merit. He is also editor of he Chicago Advance, the western organ of his church. He is happy to be the possessor of a darling wife and child. Dr. Thwing has recently been offered the presidencies of Oberlin College and Iowa University. He is undecided where to go.
In his present position he gets a salary of $6,000 per year. The Regents promise him $5,000, and give him besides a field of amazing possibility.
Whether Dr. Charles F. Thwing is to be the next Chancellor of the Kansas State University rests wholly with himself. The Regents can do no more. There will be an exciting suspense until we hear the Doctor's ultimatum.
He will take the matter under consideration and his decision is expected in several weeks. It is the general opinion that Dr. Thwing will accept the Chancellorship of the University. The Doctor returned yesterday to his home in Minneapolis. Dr. Thwing will be an exceedingly popular man in Kansas until he is heard from, and if he accepts this proffered prize I believe he will always remain so.—JAY.
Adelphic and Kansas
Both the literary societies have excellent programs for this evening; the one to be given by Adelphic is especially interesting. It deals well and exhaustively with a subject in which American youths can never learn too much.
Causes of the French Revolution, H. C. Riggs; The Constitutional Assembly, H. R. Linville; The Convention and Parties, W. D. Ross; Trial and Execution of Kings, C. M. Sherer; England and Revolutionary France, G. O. Virtue; Napoleon and the Heroes, D. R. Krehbiel; Moral and Political Effects, W. W.t Brown; Debate, Resolved that mortgaged property should nobe taxed at full value: Afferd mative, W. J. Coleman, Davis Park; Negative,Grey Sackett, A. H. Couch.
Declaration, H. S.Hadley : Reading, W. C. Fogle ; Extemporaneous, H. F. Roberts ; Debate—Resolved, That the tendency to centralization in government of the U. S. threatens the future welfare of our Republican institutions. Aff : Albert Fullerton and W. M. Curry. Neg: J. E. Baker and M. McKinnon.
HILL AND DALE.
Mr. Hargis was a visitor Thursday morning.
Peckham is now rooming on Mississippi Street.
Smelser left for Emporia Friday to remain over Sunday. Carson spent Sunday at his home in K.C.
Miss Tillie Buckingham very pleasantly entertained a number of her friends last week with a progressive "high five" party.
Walter L. Fisher, a prominent Sigma Cii of Chicago, has been in the city for several days past, endeavoring to restore peace and harmony among his brethern.
J. N. Wilkinson, of the State Normal, was one of the visitors of the week.
Hogeboom spent Sunday with old Lawrence friends.
It is reported that Kuncle and Kroll have withdrawn from Sigma Chi.
Miss Laura Lyons, a graduate of several years ago, is teaching in the city schools of Topeka.
John Sullivan, of Kansas City, was in town Wednesday for the purpose of interviewing the prospective chancellor.
Weaver spent Sunday at his home in Leanenworth.
Prof. A. G. Canfield addressed the Y. M. C. A. meeting Sunday.
Hon. Joel Moody was in the city Wednesday on business connected with the University,
Miss Edith Clark has reentered the University.
Whitman is making arrangements for the grounds of the Tennis Club. An excellent location has been secured in West Lawrence.
Miss Mamie Tisdale will represent Kansas Alpha at the convention of Pi Beta Phi, which is to be held at Galesburg, Ill., about the first of April.
No.25.
John Davis is sick at his home in Ottawa.
The Mind, a magazine published at Edinborough, is the latest addition to the list of perioideals in the library.
Frank Merriam was quite sick during the early part of the week.
Prof. W. J. Annan, 517 Taylor Street Topeka, Kans., will give nstruction in elocation to students for others desiring it.
University circles are quite agitated over the various reports concerning one of the fraternities in school. In fact, it has been predicted that the dissolution of the chapter is inevitable by reason of the dissensions among the members.
Items of general interest to the readers of the COURIER are about as seldom met with this month as the strawberry. If this stagnation of meanness continues among the sportive element much longer, the COURIER, like its contemporary of about equal circulation, the New York Herald, will have to detail some Henry M. Stanley, or perhaps a Nelly Bly to do something that may be read of with interest—lead a snipe hunt for instance. The extreme vigilance of the Faculty in sitting down on the practical jokers, hazers, etc., has made the college newspaper business sorter "tuff" on ye local editor. In the meantime, we offer a box of Havana stindadoras as an inducement to the successful leader of a bona-fide snipe hunt.
In the spring when young men's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of——pants see Crains & Urbansky.
Prof. E. H. S. Bailey delivered a lecture to the Faculty and Chancellor in futurus, on Wednesday morning.
Prof. Summerffeld sold one hundred and twenty volumes of his law library the first part of the week.
The Pharmacy department has received a supply of appa- ratus from Germany which was ordered over a year ago.
The Junior Pharmics are studying Materia Medica or "The Shepherd shall Gather Them In," by O'Wedia.
We see by the Exoian of the Phillips Exter Academy that the students are in the midst of a big exciting Pool and Billiard Tournament. That's right Exter, there is nothing like giving a fellow a broad and polished education; he ought, you know, to be fully prepared for the future struggles—mighty struggles—of life.
Prof. Annan, of Topeka, will spend a portion of each week in teaching objection in Lawrence. Those wishing instruction in dramatic art, can secure an interview by addressing him at 517 Taylor Street, Topeka.
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