The Weekly University Courier.
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity, Meets in the
Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA, Meets on second floor of
Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA Pst, Meets on third floor of Opera
House block.
SIGMA NU, Meets in the Eldridge House block,
third floor.
SIGMA CHI, Meets on the fourth floor East of
the Opera House block.
BETA THETA Pi, Meets on fourth floor of the
Opera House block.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday
afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday
afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
I. C. SOROSIS, Meets every Saturday afternoon
in homes of members.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION: Chas. Johnson,
President; W.A. Snow, Secretary, Executive
Committee; J. M. Shellabarger, J. C. Fox, H.
M. F. Bear.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A.
M. Wile ox, Captain of the nine, Charles Vour-
hs.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in Snow
Hall.
PHIOLOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 30
every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNS ASSOCIATION; President, F. E. Reed
Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A
Snow.
COURIER COMPANY; President, J. M. Shella
barge; Secretary, J. C. Fox.
Gov. HUMPHREY did well when no appointed the Board of Regents of the State University. Joel Moody is one of the most earnest and careful of men, and his work for the University will be as painstaking as a father for a child. W.C. Spangler, of Lawaence, is a graduate of the University, and is, perhaps, the best informed man of the Board, as to the history and needs of the institution. Minneapolis Messenger.
The article on the Tribune's candidate for Chancellor, in last week's issue of the Courier crept into our columns without our knowledge Nothing in the article whatever voices the sentiment of this paper except the last sentence, and that sentence is this: "Without expressing our preference we believe that neither politics nor religion should control the appointment of the new Chancellor." If those who are kind enough to write editorials will please hand them to the Editor-in-chief,they will receive our grateful thanks.
WE HAVE just received a circular of information of the Dickinson County High School, established in accordance with the provisions of an act passed in 1886, whereby any county in the State, having a population of six thousand inhabitants or over, is given the power to establish a county high school. Dickinson county is the first county in the State to take advantage of this act. The school will open on the 4th of next September in an elegant new building erected at a cost of over $12,-000, at Chapman. Three courses are given. The collegiate course will prepare students for the higher State institutions, the general course will equip the student for business life, and the Normal course will give training to teachers. The Principalelect, Mr. S. M. Cook, A. B., is a graduate of the Kansas State University, has had six years experience in teaching and is at present Superintendent of schools at Solomon City, Kansas. The establishment of such schools as these in every county in the State would be highly beneficial to K. S. U.
Robert Elsmere.
From the college senior down to Gladstone, everybody is saying his say about Elsmere. Everybody finds in the book what nature or education has fitted him to find. As the members of a small religious sect, whose opinions, in the main, the book upholds, I might be expected to find in it matter solely for rejoicing.
Yet it was not easy to rejoice at the conviction which forced itself upon my mind that Elsmere's religion is not the logical outcome of his convictions, but a matter of temperament—the imaginative loving temperament of the Celt. His faith was deduced, is possibly not deducible from his intellectual beliefs. A nature less buoyant and sweet than his thought starting with the same premises would hardly reach the same conclusions. Natures as sweet, but less buoyant, have found the universe a hopeless tangle with only one thing clear in all the bewildering snarl, the necessity for right conduct; and they have laid hold on this by means of the same Divine unreason which Elsmere shows. Minds like the Squire's, neither buoyant nor sweet, will not be able to understand why, when so much has been abandoned, so much should be retained; why in the last resort, appeal must be made from reason to something higher.
Ours is a home-made country and we are home-made men. It is the pride of America that within herself were found those elements essential to her greatness.
If no one may kindle at any other fire than that of inner inspiration, the torch which is to be for a light to his feet, many must walk in darkness.
In America were reared the brains and the braun that shaped the destinies of our land and stamped her politics with a bright U. S.
She produced her own flax and her rivers furnished power to weave it. In colonial days her strongest men were great and her greatest men were strong. The hardy men who marched from end to end of the thirteen colonies to secure the blessings of liberty and of a free prosterity, had been afoot previous to the battle of Lexington. In boyhood, Washington was noted for his strength and his agility. He threw a stone across the Potomac. Afterwards he threw his mind and soul with his bodily exertions into the struggle for independence and threw off the yoke of servitude from an oppressed child of Great Britain.
A lithe body always gives us the impression of an alert intellect. A sleepy person is not often very sharp.
Now an athletic contest will awaken any participant. We should have a day of contests once a month. Why not get ready for a field day? I may be mistaken about the intentions of the lilac, but I anticipate that those early shoots of tender green are preparations for a display next month. We are all green and no one needs fear the others. Possibly if we try, by field-day we can find some one able to jump with weights ten feet; to clear a running leap of fourteen feet; some one who can run one hundred yards in fifteen seconds; some person to throw a ball half as far as Washington threw the stone; some one who can walk four miles in an hour, etc.
Can we not prevail upon the merchants of the town to offer some cash premiums for field-day contests?
A purse is better than betting every time. For the boys who make up the purse do not expect to get it back, and so are not going to raise a row.
A good race is even now on hand waiting for a suitable reward, and we should enjoy the sight of it. The writer is not a race horse nor does he claim to excel in running. But to set the ball rolling, he is willing to assist some of these runners get the prize, if the boys will offer a purse.
And why not "chip in" among ourselves for some races and jumping contests in the mean time?
enthusiasm to have an entertaining field-day? Let's do it, boys.
Can't the University arouse enough
Literary Notes.
It may not be generally known that some of the most successful, as well as some of the most excellent books published by American authors are written by what might be called western people, that is, by people who were born at least as far west as Ohio or Illinois. Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the Boston publishers, issue this month a classical catalogue of their books by western authors, by which it appears that nearly fifty of the authors whose works are published by their house, reside In Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, or some other western State.
Judged by the extent of the circulation of his work, probably General Lew Wallace deserves to be placed at the head of any list of western writers. Though not in such great demand as Mrs. Stowe's most popular book, General Wallace's "Fair God" resembles "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in this respect, that its sale is nearly if not quite as good as it was at the time when its fascination was first felt.
Among western writers, Joseph Kirkland, of Chicago, described as "a military-looking man, not far advanced in years," is taking rank as a master in realistic portraiture of life in the prierie towns. Mr. Kirkland's first book, "Zury, the Mennest Man in Spring County," met with an excellent reception; his latest book is "The McVeys." James K. Hosmer, of the Washington University in St.Louis, is the author of "The Life ef samuel Adams," and of the new "Life of Young Sir Henry Vane." probably the best biographies of those eminent statesmen. Thomas M. Cooley of Michigan, Lucien Carr of Missouri, Rusus King of Ohio, J. P. Dunn of Indianapolis, N. S. Shaler of Kentucky, Josiah Royce of Californiia, and James Phelan, member of Congress from Tennessee, although active in professional and practical affairs, are also the authors of admirable books of history or biography. John Hay, the Cary sisters, the Piats, E. R. Sill, and Ed. M. Thompson, all of Ohio, are widely read poets. These names, selected at random, by no means exhaust the list, for W. D. Howells, a resident of New York, but really an Ohioman, Mary N. Murfree ("Charles Egbert Craddock"), of Tennessee, and Bret Harte who is among the strongest and best known of American writers, each employing a distinctively original method, and enjoying a reputation in England as well as in America. The scene of nearly all of Harte's works is the west, but as he now resides in England his publishers do not classify him as a "Western Author," but as an "Author of Works on Western Topics." We think it has not been suspected how active and prolific the west is in the production of excellent literature. Other western authors whose work is admirable might be named, and new western authors are likely to appear even in larger numbers in the near future.
The following is taken from the American Geologist for March: Prof. F. H. Snow, of the Kansas State University, recently made careful examination of the rocks now being mined for nickel in Logan county, Kansas. According to his report there is an entire absence of crystalline rocks. The so-called "nickel ore" is the prevailing fragmental rock of the Tertiary age, the characteristic conglomerate or pudding-stone which overlies the eroded surface of the Niobrara limestones and shales. The color of this rock at the "mines" is darker than that of the ordinary conglomerate, but it is unmistakably the
same kind of rock. A chemical analysis of specimens of these rocks by Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, reveals the presence of nickel and cobalt in very small quantities. A special examination of one specimen said to be among the richest, showed not more than one-third of one per cent of cobolt and one-tenth of one per cent of nickel. The specimens examined were of his own selection.
Prof. Snow explains the presence of nickel in this rock by referring it to meteoric origin, from dust that fell into the old Tertiary ocean, in the same manner as it now falls into the Atlantic ocean, as revealed by the dredgings of the Challenger expedition.
We thank God we are not as other students are! That we are not windy and blowhard like DePauw students. That we are not tough and stuck up like they are at the State University. That we are not so green as they grow at Hanover. That we don't have to plow as they do at Purdue. That we don't always get left at the State oratorical like Franklin. That there are not as many flees on us as on Butler students. Thank God we are not like others!—The Wabash.
True to progressive principles the students of the University of South Carolina have risen in righteous indignation against the action of the power in removing Professor Woodrow for entertaining the belief that evolution does not conflict with Christianity. The South Carolina University authorities might well spare time, if they have not already done so, to read "Evolution and its Relation to Religious Thought." De Pauw Adz.
Considerable excitement has been caused at Wesleyan by the hazing of some Freshmen recently. Eight Sophomores took out some Freshmen and after rolling them down hill in barrels, set them climbing telegraph poles with the assistance of paddles. After some more "experience" the Freshmen were left in the graveyard to which they had been conducted. Ex.
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Among the books received for the library this week, are, "McClellan's Own Story" donated by Mr. J. E. Jewett; "Ancient and Modern Geometry of Conics," by Taylor; "How to draw a straight Line," by Kempes "Choice and Chance," by Whitworth; and "Modern Analytical Geometry," by Whitworth.
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