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Political Science Club. Through the efforts of Prof. J. H. Canfield this Club had the pleasure last Friday evening of hearing Hom Chas. S. Gleed read his most excellent paper on"The Practical Financial Value of a College Education." In order to accommodate the many visitors who desired to hear this paper, the lecture room of Snow Hall was secured; but unfortunately these same visitors, and in too many instances the members themselves seemed to forget the courtesy they owed the speaker, that of coming on time, and came straggling in a half hour late, thus materially interrupting the speaker. However Mr. Gleed held the closest attention of his audience as he showed how ill fitted teachers, as a class, are for their profession. But few of them have broadened their views by contact with eastern minds. But few of them understand that most valuable science, the science of the human body. Their knowledge of the simplest commercial forms is as limited as their knowledge of Latin and Greek. And so it is with almost all classes of our so-called educated people.
An educated man is one who has gained full mastery of the relation of things, and can stand before men with clean hands and a clean heart. Educated men are not always those who have made the best college record, or who have acquired the longest titles. Nor are the greatest readers the best informed. Very often the reverse is true. But few remember what they read, while the minds of many are like a seive.
Our educated people know next to nothing of commercial knowledge. Political distinctions and the duties of officers are but little understood. Too often they are mere devotees of specialism and know nothing outside of their little world. What our people most need is good common sense, the summing up, the symmetry of well adjusted learning. It is not extreme development we want, but a rounded development of all the faculties. An acrobat may perform startling feats on the trapeze, yet he may be absolutely worthless in any other place.
Strange as it may seem our State demands more lawyers, doctors and ministers, more professional men, men rounded out by broad culture and not narrowed by adhering to one line of study and thought. The ignorance and stupidity of our lawyers has resulted in decisions which will take years of faithful, patient toil to correct. Precedents have been established by these unwise decisions which time alone can change. It has only been of late years that
our physicians have ceased to have one name for all diseases and one cure for all the ailments of humanity—malaria and quinine.
We need learned lawyers to interpret our laws. We need skilled physicians to advise us in health and to treat us in sickness. We need men in the pulpit who have the courage of truth and the courage to speak it. We need journalists endowed with a broad liberal education, men who have an interest in all that is truest and best in life. It is gratifying to know that many of our students are coming into journalistic prominence. The need of the scholar in politics is too much of a settled fact to demand discussion. The banker as well as the merchant must be educated in order to be able not only to make a success in business but also to benefit the community in which he lives. Nor can the farmer be omitted from the list. For in Kansas the majority of the population will always be farmsrs. They possess, to-day, great advantages over those of their fathers. Public schools have reached a high grade of excellence and public libraries have placed information within the reach of all. And it is necessary that the farmer should be educated. The machinery he necessarily has, requires intelligent use. He must be acquainted with the newest methods in farming, and must understand the principle of rotation of crops if he expects to be a successful man. Besides he must be acquainted with the markets of the world in order that he may reap the greatest benefit from his labors.
For women, an education has opened up a wonderful field in which she may find employment. The woman who has an educated mind is fortunate. And she who can add this accomplishment to natural charms is sure to be sought out by the best young men of our land, a fact which should lead every girl to acquire an education. It is a mistaken notion some people have that college graduates are failures in active life. The contrary is true. They are generally the successful men. In fact the very statement that they are failures serves to show that they are not. For what else would draw so much attention to the fact that a college man is now and then a failure unless it is the fact that such occurrences are rare? No, college men as a rule are successful, and not only influence the present but shape the future.
Mr. Gleed's lecture was very interesting and instructive, and Prof. Canfield is to be congratulated on having secured for his students so excellent a disquisition on the "Practical Financial Value of an Education"
The Greatest Event of the Season. Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley at Bowersock'a opera house, Tuesday, April 16, 1889. See what the Chicago News says:
AMUSEMEMTS.
The Greatest Event of the Season
Central Music Hall last evening was filled with people who passed the time waiting for the show to begin by making pleasant remarks concerning the intelligence of the audience and telling each other what nice people were present. What they said was true. The chairs were filled to the top seat of the top gallery with doctors, lawyers, merchants,and the all-around thinkers from Michigan, Prairie, Blue Island and other avenues of life.
The audience sought the quiet rest and recuperation of an entertainment by Mr. Edgar Wilson Nye and Mr. James Whitcomb Riley, the twin humorist-and-poet showmen. Mr. Nye brought his "fatal gift of beauty with him," but it is not likely to increase the cost of the policy of insurance on his life. Mr. Nye is long and lithe, and looks through his glasses as if he saw something in a second-story window on the next block. This little peculiarity fooled the audience and made the people down stairs think he was watching the boy who was selling his book in the balcony.
Mr. Nye was amusing. Mr. W. C. Goudy laughed until the gold in his back teeth rattled against his tonsils, and Mr. Murray Nelson's face looked like a danger-signal.
Mr. Riley rather eclipsed his humorous partner in the heartiness of the applause. Mr. Nye was all fun; Mr. Riley a mixture of grave and gay. Mr. Riley's recitation of "Good-By, Jim; Take Keer o' Yourself;" was so well received that he had to return and give another dialect poem. Mr. Riley had a great deal of ability at imitation, and among his numbers were the aesthetic educator's lecture and the western orator's diatribe against baseball. Mr. Goudy and Mr. Nelson had to be held in their chairs while these samples of their elocution were being given.
Seats on sale at Crew & Co.'s book store.
The young ladies of K. S. U. are especially invited to call at Mrs. Savage's parlors a..d examine the new stock of millinery goods.
Good Clack socks for twenty-five cents at Abe Levy's.
Abe Levy sell a good white shirt for one dollar.
The parlors of Unity Club were filled to overflowing Monday evening, April 1st, with those who wished to see for themselves some of the phenomena of hypnotism, or, as it is commonly called, magnetism. Considerable attention to the subject has latejiy been aroused in Lawrence, and those who were so fortunate as to hear Prof. Blake's lecture two weeks before were especially anxious to witness some of the usual experiments. For the enlightenment of the less fortunate the Professor opened the performance by giving a short summary of his former address, in which he maintained that the phenomena of hypnotism are due to the fact that in hypnotism the conscious nervous centers no longer act, and some of their functions are usurped by the replex centers. He then introduced the operator, Mr. Smith, for the openness and honesty of whose tests he declared himself ready to vouch.
Mr. Smith began by calling for volunteer "subjects" from the audience, but among those who presented themselves there was none who possessed the required susceptibility to mesmeric influence. Mr. Smith, however, was working at the disadvantage of limited time and a rather unimpressionable audience. He stated that he thought he could, under more favorable circumstances, do something with one of the subjects.
He then proceeded to mesmerize a number of old subjects, and upon these a number of interesting experiments well performed, the most striking of which was the throwing of a little colored boy into the catalectic state. [By the way, Mr Smith, while stating that intelligent people are the most easily hypnotised, declared that women and colored people are generally the best subjects.] In the catalectic state the boy's muscles became so rigid that he maintained a horizontal position, supported on the backs of two chairs, his head or neck, and heel being the point of support. Mr Smith was followed by Mr. French who furnished the club with some interesting exhibitions of mind-reading. These were highly satisfactory and there can be no doubt of their genuineness. In reply to a question Mr. French stated that he was unable to tell how he was guided during the experiments, but he knew he fel at times sure of the place in which an article was concealed. His ability to read thoughts does not extend be yond a sense of direction and location.
The Freshman French class finish "Athalie" this week.
GRAND OPENING!
The Twenty-fourth semi-annual display of a large Spring Stock of
Millinery Goods,
AT ORME & ENGLE'S
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
April 5th and 6th.
ORME & ENGLE,
All are cordially invited to give us a call.
837 Mass. Street,
AWRENCE, KAN.
Bromelsick sells ties as cheap as any body.
Oh! go and see Bromelsick's new spring hats.
Don't buy your new hat until you see Abe Levy's stock.
Call on Bromelsick and see the last party tie, it is a dandy.
Abe Levy sells the best hats in Lawrence.
Buy your new spring hat at Abe Levy's.
Call at the new tea store 812 Massachusetts street, Red Front, for good coffees and teas.
Buy your collars and cuffs of Abe Levy.
MOAK BROS.
Billiard Parlors.
CHOICE CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
No. 714 Massachusetts St.
BOOTS AND SHOES
MADE AND REPAIRED
BY
J. F. WIEDEMAN,
Second door east of Polar's Grocery
I have the handsomest, the best selected stock of Suittings Pant Goods &c., that has ever been seen in Lawrence.
McCONNELL,
The Merchant Tailor.
A liberal discount to students.
Willis,
DALEE'S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY South Tennessee Street, First-Class Work Done.
Special Rates to Students.
MENGER'S is the Place to Buy Your Fine Shoes.