All the TEXT BOOKS for Second Term
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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 Psi, 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.
ORATHEICAL ASSOCIATION: J. A. Prescott, President; W. H. Brown, Secretary, Executive Committee; J. A. Mushrush, V. L. Kellogg, C. E. Street.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A. W. Wilcox, Captain of the nine, Charles Voorta.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in Snow Hall.
PHILOGOLOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 4 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION; President, F. E. Reed, Secretary, F. H. Kellogg, Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
COURIER COMPANY: President, Chas. John-
COUIRER COMPANY; President, Chas. John son; Secretary, Ed Esterly.
The boys are congratulating themselves because of the warmth of the weather and the few snows—sleighrides—we have had. We advise them to save all their loose shekels, as a near change in the weather is almost certain.
Now is the time when the gay society young man keeps his room and by frequent applications of towels soaked in ice-cold water is enabled to study far into the night. Now is the time when the over-confident "prep." takes his first draught from experience's bitter cup, and comes forth from the room, which, a few moments before, he entered with a light, elastic step, with a far-away look in his eyes as if imploring some unseen deity to free him from all this pain and trouble, and with his feet dragging in a manner that would break the heart of any would-be tragedian.
Now is also the time when the over-bearing sophomore, the aristocratic junior, and the haughty senior over-ride the barriers which separate them from their friends of lower degree and haunted by a vague something, which tell of impending danger, seek to rid themselves of this phantom, by suddenly becoming exceedingly affable and polite to all his acquaintances, and condescending to converse even with a "prep."
EVERYONE is looking forward to the oratorical contest, not the local one in particular, but the state contest at Emporia.
It will be so soon after examinations that most of the students will do their best to rid themselves of all their long pent up gayety and superfluous energy by every means known to vigorous and enthusiastic collegians.
The trip to Baldwin will never be forgotten; not alone because of the success of our representative, but because of the celebration afterwards.
He who has never experienced it, can not surmise the feeling which one of a crowd of two or three hundred students, who are taking the town before them, is possessed of.
THE following is taken from the Kansas City Journal.
The Kansas University.
"In glancing back over the history of Kansas one finds many incidents of interest connected with the founding and growth of the State University. Amos A. Lawrence, who will ever be kindly remembered by the educational workers of Kansas, in 1856 wrote as follows to Cov. Geary:
'To secure the adoption in all parts of the territory of the best system of public schools seems to be desirable at this early day, and I have a plan to communicate to some one or two who have the leisure to attend to its execution. In the center of the continent there should be a model state which shall be an example to all, a model to those who come in hereafter and a stimulant to the old states to keep up a high standard of learning, virtue and patriotism.'
Soon after this Mr. Lawrence placed in the hands of Gov. Charles Robinson and Mr. E. C. Pomeroy, as trustees, $10,000 for educational purposes.
The Topeka constitution, which united and held firm the free state men, in its seventh article provided that 'the general assembly may take measures for the establishment of a university.' Under this clause the legislature in June, 1857, passed an act establishing a state university at Lawrence. Although this and other acts proved of no practical effect, it plainly showed, however, that the strongest and best men in the struggling territory recognized the importance of higher education as a part of the foundation of a new state
After the free state men became a majority in the territorial legislature, they passed an act in February, 1859, in reference to a university, and under this law an executive committee was appointed, consisting of the following: T. Dwight Thatcher, now a resident of Topeka; C. H. Branscome, who enjoys the distinction of
Later on, the same thought was expressed by the regents, when they said: 'The direct object of the university is to promote the welfare of the state.' And so, far beyond the Mississippi, in a section rent by civil strife, was established a principal which has ever since characterized the growth of Kansas.
being the leader of the first emigrant wagon to Lawrence; William Bishop, who was for several years county superintendent of Saline county; Charles Reynolds, afterwards chaplain at Fort Riley; James Blood, the first mayor of Lawrence, and Robert Morrow, who came to Kansas in 1856. Under this committee the university of Kansas was established under Presbyterian control. Not having sufficient funds to complete the building, a new organization was effected in 1861 under the name of the Lawrence University of Kansas. The control having passed into the hands of the Episcopal church funds were collected, and the building which had been begun on Mount Oread, and which has since been known as North College, was completed.
On the admission of Kansas as a state, the question of the location of the state university, free from sectarian control, was discussed. In 1863 the legislature took up the subject. As an inducement to locate the institution in this city, Lawrence offered the university that had already been founded; also the ten thousand dollars donated by Hon. Amos A. Lawrence. Governor Robinson promised to give a building site of forty acres. Emporia was striving for the location, and competition was sharp, but Lawrence was successful and the institution was located here.
In 1864 there was a bitter fight in the legislature over the plan for coeducation. It was, however, adopted by a small majority, and Kansas has the honor of being the first state to enter on this educational reform.
Dr. Wendell Holmes' "Boys."
NORBORNE, Wis.
In September, 1866, the state university was first opened, with three instructors and fifty-five students. The history of the institution since then is well known. There has been a steady growth. Under the chancellorships of Gen. Frazier and Dr.Marvin the institution has prospered, and under Dr. Lippincott it has continued to do so."
Answer.—Dr. Holmes, our readers must all know, is famous as a writer of college anniversary poems. One of the finest of these is his poem entitled "The Boys," which begins thus:
Tell us who were the characters referred to by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes in his poem "The Boys." E.M.J.
"Has any old fellow got mixed with the boys?
If there has, turn him out without making a noise.
Hang the Almanac's chest and the Catalogue's spite;
In this poem he thus refers to some of his classmates, who had earned distinction in various walks of life:
Old Time is a liar! We're twenty to night!"
"We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told,
That boy we call 'Doctor',this one we call 'Judge';
Of talking in public as if we were old.
It's a neat little fiction—of course it's all fudge.
That fellow's the Speaker—the one on the right.
Mr. Mayor, my young one, how are you to-night?
That's our member of Congress, we say when we chaf.
That's the Reverend—what's his name?—don't make me laugh!
That boy with the grave, mathematical look,
Made believe he had written a wonderful book;
And chose him right in—a good joke it was, too.
And the Royal Society thought it was true,
There's a boy, we pretend, with, a three-decker brain.
That could harness a team with a logical chain,
When he spoke for our manhood in syllab- bleed fire,
We called him the 'Justice,' but now he's the 'Squire.'
And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith.
Fate tried to conceal him by calling him Smith.
But he shouted a song for the brave and the free;
Go read on his banner, 'My country, of thee.'
You hear that boy laughing, you think its all fun,
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done.
The children laugh loud as they troop at his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all."
These verses are rather puzzling, it must be admitted, to those who do not know to whom the clever allusions refer. They were all members of Holmes' class—the class of 1829 of Harvard college—and they presented a remarkable roll of talent for a single college class, as follows: The Doctor is Dr. Chandler Robbins; the Judge, Geo. T. Bigelow of the Supreme court; the Speaker, F. B. Crowninshield, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representative n 1848; the Mayor, the Hon. Geo. W. Richardson, of Worcester; the Member of congress, Geo. T. Davis, of Greenfield; the Reverend, Jas. F. Clarke, of Boston; the mathematician, Prof. Pierce, of Harvard; the Squire, Benj. R. Curtis, of the Supreme Court; the "nice youngster," the Rev. S. F. Smith, author of "America;" the Rev. William H. Channing.
Pnilological Club.
Last Friday evening was given up to a Symposium on Recent Handbooks.
ions of the science, as well as the position and significance of its branches.
Prof. Wilcox spoke of the encyclopedia character of the times, the tendency to gather into a single publication the intellectual acquisitions of the past, and the necessity and advantages of such a tendency. The specialist is thus enabled to get a knowledge of the development of the great whole, as also of the separate branches of the science in which he is working but an insignificant plat; and the student is enabled to put himself abreast of the times in his chosen line without having to wade through the myriad monographs in all languages. These general works may be in the dictionary or alphabetic form, or in the more systematic form, where more attention is paid to the conception and divis-
Prof. Marsh spoke of the "Manuel de Philologie Classique" of Reinach, a book intended to set forth the fundamental principles of every line of classical philology, and show how and where to get the material for study. This Manuel is very much smaller than Muelher's Handbuch, and hence less full, and more of a guide than an exposition.
It is about one hundred years since F. A. Wolf delivered a course of lectures on the conception and contents, the relations and aims of the classical studies. So Dr. Iwan Mueller thought it a good time to gather together the results of the numerous workers before and after Wolf, and publish them in a systematic "Handbuch der Classichen Alterthumswissenschaft." This, w.e.n completed, will comprise eight large volumes with about six thousand pages in all. Our library is getting the volumes as fast as they appear. About two-thirds of the work are now out. Twenty-one different subjects are treated by twice as many different men, the Greek and Roman branch of each subject having a different author. The subjects are: The Fundamental Principles and History of Classical Philology, Exegesis and criticism, Palaeography, Epigraphy, The Calendar, Weights and Measures, Grammar, Lexicography, Rhetoric, Metric, Music, Geography, Topography, Political History, History of Literature, General Antiquities, Mathematics and Natural Science, Philosophy, Mythology, Art, The Theater.
Prof. Canfield spoke of two works, one completed and one in course of publication, which are intended to give a complete survey of the philology of the Romance languages. The first of these is a book especially designed for students who are beginning their special study of these languages, by Prof. G. Koerting, an "Encyclopædia of Romance Philology," with a treatise on the method of its study. The other is a more elaborate work, to which 29 of the best specialists contribute, under the editorship of Prof. Groeber, of Strasburg. This is to be completed in six parts, and will contain pretty much all that we at present know about the subjects to which it is devoted.
Mr. Dunlap spoke of Koerting's "Encyclopaedia and Methodologie der Englishen Philologie," which includes every important topic connected with the subject. Appended to each chapter is a discriminating bibliography. He spoke also of Prof. Cook's phamphlet on the Phonological Investigation of Old English, in which Prof. Cook lays down fifty problems carefully worked out, so as to show the main rules of English Phonology. The phamphlet is valuable as suggesting methods to the student.
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