The Weekly University Courier.
The Largest College Journal Circulation the United States.
Published Every Friday Morning by the
COURIER COMPANY For Kansas University Students.
O. B TAYLOR,
President.
DENT. HOGERBOOM,
Secretary
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOHN A. PRESCOTT, EDITOR-IN CHIEF,
CENTRAL HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY
CHAS. JONNSON,
M. E. GAMBLE,
FRED. LODDEKE,
HARRY BUCKINGHAM,
V. L. KELLOGG,
AENES LOVE,
AGNES FLAFFMAN,
MAY HAIN,
MAY CHURCHILL.
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
WILL. A. JACKSON, S. I. GTMORE
From the Press of P. T. FOLEY.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence, Kansas,
as second-class matter.
The students of Baldwin University have begun issuing a weekly sheet similar to the Courier. The first number, which reached us last week, is a very creditable one and speaks well for the men who have been enterprising enough to get it out. We wish the Breeze a full measure of success.
A sad need of the library is noticeable in the absence of full sets of standard periodicals. For reference work, complete files of magazines are next in importance to encyclopedias. Perhaps this is especially true in the sciences and of scientific periodicals we have almost none at all. To the scientific student this is a matter of continual and serious trouble. While in a library like ours, small in reality and made apparently smaller than it is by the attempt to cover all the subjects embraced in our curriculum, a series of scientific monographs cannot be expected to be found; yet there should surely be some means of studying the growth and progress of science in general, and the discoveries and theories concerning special scientific questions. Do books answer these demands more cheaply or give better satisfaction to the student than complete sets of leading scientific periodicals?
The plan for the final examination of the Senior class in advanced English composition has been announced by Prof. Marsh and is rather novel. Each member of the class is to hand in to Prof. Marsh a list of ten subjects upon which he declares himself ready to write. From these ten topics, three will be selected by the Professor, and the student allowed three hours in which to write his essays. Both matter and manner will be considered in the grading of the compositions. In this way the examination will be made less of a dreaded and tiresome task. It will be interesting to the student and will afford the instructor ample grounds on which to give grades.
We wish that more of the finals could be made less ikrisko; that the
student would not be compelled to look forward to examination week as the drudge of the school year. But we will refrain from other complaints about examinations. They are inevitable, this year at least, and we can better use our time in preparing for them.
It must certainly be very gratifying to the friends of the University to see the interest in self-improvement manifest on the part of the younger members of the faculty. Each year finds some member pursuing the higher branches of his department at some noted school either at home or abroad. This tendency is encouraged by the willingness with which leave of absence is granted by the Board of Regents. Prof Carruth passed the first eight months of '86 in Germany studying the German language. Mr. Dyche spent some time in the east last year, perfecting himself in taxidermy. Mr Sterling, the assistant in Greek, is at present taking a course of study at Johns Hopkins University. To-morrow afternoon Mr. Olin Templin, wife and little daughter, leave for Europe. They expect to sail for Liverpool from New York next Tuesday on the "Alaska" of the Guion line; from Liverpool they go to London, thence to Hamburg and Berlin. At the latter place they will pass the winter, Mr. Templin attending the University for which that city is noted. The summer of '89 will be spent in travelling through Europe. We hope that he will have a pleasant and profitable year, and return to carry on his work at the University with renewed enthusiasm. —Lawrence Tribune, April 19.
A CORRESPONDENT recently made some remarks on the advisibility of having a regular course of lectures provided by the regents. A course of well-arranged lectures on living questions by prominent men is a most necessary supplement of a curriculum, and of such a course we certainly stand in need, this year especially. It is true, some good lecturers sometimes come to Lawrence, and so in some degree may supply the demand, but their lectures are generally calculated to give intellectual amusement rather than interesting instruction. A discourse however able, on the "Uses of Ugliness," or "The Mission of the Dude," do not stimulate us to individual thought. We want lectures of a different stamp.
One great object in education is to make men individual and aggressive thinkers, to be able to cope with the living issues. In the studies of the curriculum we learn old fundamental truths. A student may complete a course and be little more than a learned fossil, and a learned fossil is of about as much use in this world as a petrified log. Language, science and mathematics energize and shape our intellectual powers, but conjugations, axioms and formulas do not make a man an aggressive thinker, or put him in the front ranks of progression. Although much may be done by the professors
of certain departments to keep their pupils abreast of the times in their especial lines, for general purposes a good well-selected course of lectures is a most effective means. We are afraid that in the past the most judicious selections were not always made. We have had some fine lectures which will ever be fresh in the minds of those who heard them. We have also had lectures that might as well neverhave been heard. The fault was doubtless due to lack of sufficient means. Good lecturers require good pay.
Education consists in studying men as well as books, and to come in contact with men of note intellectually has a most stimulating effect. We afterwards seem to take a personal interest in such men. We have seen them face to face. We have heard their ideas uttered by their own voices and are likely to pay more attention to the questions which they have discussed. We read some noted work and, perhaps, take but a passing interest in its contents, but we no sooner see and hear its author than our interest is tenfold vivified. The students who have heard Secretary Bayard will always look upon him in the light of an acquaintance. Whoever has heard the naturalists, Professors Cope and Wallace, feels a living interest in their works. To see and hear the great exponent of a new system gives an active stimulus to investigate the merits of such a system, as was recently shown in the Indiana State University, where Henry George delivered an address on his land theory. Had we been so fortunate as to have seized Hon. W. E. Gladstone to address us next commencement, since our literary societies had sent an invitation to this effect, how our attention would have been riveted on Gladstone and his labors! With what intense interest would we pour over his works which we now scarcely notice! And so with other men and other ideas. Thus we would be more likely to become actively engaged in living issues and keep abreast of the world. Give us an efficient course of lectures on interesting and living questions.
To the Editor of The Courier:
Scarcely a year has passed without complaint being made of the approaches to the University. The faculty and regents have complained of them, the college papers have taken up the strain, but still the city has done very little to improve them.
There are at present only two ways of reaching the college buildings: one by the road which leads up over the north end of the hill, and the other up Adams Street. Neither of these roads are kept in decent shape at any time and in muddy weather they are often totally impassible to carriages. It was only a few weeks ago that Mr. Nelson, of Indiana, who came to deliver a lecture at the University, had the wretchedness of the road down Adams Street thoroughly demonstrated to him. The night of the lecture was only a moderately rainy one, but it was enough to
put that street in such a condition that, when the hack in which Mr. Nelson was riding was opposite Mr. Woodward's, it got so imbedded in the mud that the horses could not move it and Mr. Nelson and Chancellor Lippincott had to climb out, wade to shore and go down the hill on foot. Such an occurrence could not but be detrimental to the reputation of Lawrence. That the approaches to the University should remain in such a condition, is a disgrace to the people of this city.
There is only one sidewalk by which the students can reach the University in rainy weather. This leads up Adams Street, one of the steepest streets on the hill, and compels all students who live in West Lawrence to come away around every morning. This is a great nuisance and should be remedied.
Numerous efforts have been made by the University authorities to have the streets put in better shape. Governor Robinson, a few years ago, made a liberal offer of land on condition that the city should grade Oread Avenue to the foot of the hill and keep it in good order. This offer was a strong inducement and seemed to have some effect for awhile. Work was begun on the top of the hill and continued for some time, but the city's enthusiasm soon died away and nothing has been done since. This policy of neglect has been pursued for several years and it seems to me that it is time for a change.
It is true that originally the city of Lawrence gave liberally to the University to aid in its establishment. But this was merely to secure its permanent location here with a view to the benefit which it would be to the town. The appropriation was made not so much in a spirit of benevolence as it was in one of self interest. Now that its location is fixed I think the city does not duly appreciate its presence. The students are every year expending in Lawrence much larger sums of money than the city ever gave the University. The importance of this fact to business interests, can easily be seen by anyone who will compare the business activity of the winter with the inactivity of the summer months when the students are away. Note the readiness with which the people take advantage of the free lectures and free concerts by the Department of Music, which are given on the hill. But what are the people doing in return for all this? When the Department of Music gives a concert and charges twenty-five cents admission, to help pay for a new grand piano for the chapel, the good people stay away with a unanimity most wonderful to behold. The gratuitous entertainments, the financial benefits, the active interest shown by professors and students in local institutions and the impetus to refinement and culture due to the presence of the University here, are all taken as matters of fact for which no return from the citizens is due.
It is time that the people should
arouse themselves from this state of feeling and begin to appreciate their obligations. If they cannot attend pay lectures and concerts, which they are seldom asked to do let them at least fix up the streets leading to the University so the institution may be accessible to those wishing to go to it, and the roads may not reflect discredit upon the city. Their present condition is disgraceful.
GROWLER.
To the Editor of the Courier:
Literary work in a college is indispensable to those persons whose object in attending college, is not only to acquire a knowledge of the studies prescribed in their respective courses but to be able when they leave the "Alma Mater" to express clearly and concisely, not only the ideas enforced by other instructors, but opinions new and original. A great author has said, "The art of conversation is a fine art." We would ridicule the idea of attaining excellence in sculpture or painting without years of exertion. Yet there seems to be an idea prevalent among students, that when the last "play" disappears, and the student becomes a citizen, expression will not be wanting. The majority of students may not believe this, but they say it by their actions.
In the collegiate departments of the University, less than seventy-five students are members of literary societies, and perhaps less than sixty are on the active list. The literary societies of the State University are not what they might be. The reason for this is obvious. Our literary societies are divided into clans and factions, which at every election, endeavor to control votes, not for merit but to satiate the cravings of some political demagogue, who will form cliques, and swap honor in order to force himself into a position, where he is not wanted. Of course, nothing of this kind has happened lately, but such things have been known to occur. It is a question whether, or not, this is the best method of pursuing literary work. Debating clubs have been conducted with flattering success. The work done, during the school year, by the Kent, Garfield and Excelsior Clubs proves beyond a doubt that this method is most effective. M.
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