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The Weekly University Courier
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Secretary
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From the Press of P. T. FOLEY.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence, Kansas, as second-class matter.
Senator Ingalls, in an article or modern education, recently published in the official organ of Midland College, Atchison, Kas., claims that the system of instruction prevalent in higher education to-day, does not meet the condition and needs of the age. He holds that something is wanted besides Greek, Latin and mathematics, and claims that while the majority of college graduates cannot gain or earn a comfortable living, "the clownish boy who worked on his father's rocky farm till he was twenty-one, studying rudimentary text books as he lay on the floor of the squalid cabin, by the light of the hickory fire, at forty, has out-stripped the college graduate in the race of life. He has won his cases at the bar; taken a seat on the bench; been elected to congress; chosen president of the bank and railroad, without knowledge of the age of Periocles, the indebtedness of Sapho, or even having played a game of base ball, or pulled an oar in a rowing match."
The Senator, however, should remember that this is the exception, not the rule; and he should also consider that the young man of the present generation must, of necessity, be better equipped than the young man of twenty-five years ago. The majority of our senators and congressmen even to-day have more than a common school education.
The gentleman himself, although a member of the senate, was never kept in a state of ignorance until he was twenty-one, never lowered his "lofty head" to enter a lowly cabin, but has reclined from his earliest childhood in the library humming the Homeric verse or reading the sweet strains of a Virgil or Horace. A college education of so-day is much broader than thirty years ago, and even Williams, his alma mater, has increased her options twenty per cent. since the gentleman left her classic walls.
Orophilian has at last procured a hall, passed resolutions protesting against the manner they have been treated by the faculty, have asserted their "rights," and are happy. There
is, however, consistency and inconsistency.
When the committee of the faculty offered to make arrangements with the professors so that they could hold afternoon sessions, they objected. Nothing but a night session would satisfy them, and the members of the committee, taking in consideration the expense which would be incurred by night sessions, reported unfavorably. Whether the society followed wisdom and showed good judgment in the manner and stand they have taken must be left to public opinion. However, at the last session a member of that august body made an assertion unfounded and false in relation to poor old Oread. Charges which cannot be proven, and at a time when no member friendly to that organization could refute, and at a time when no defense could be offered. The members should always at least be truthful in their assertions, and should at least have some respect for the departed and the dead.
We do not believe that it was the intention of the gentleman referred to to give an erroneous impression to the new students concerning Oread and her members; but, at any rate, the attack and insinuation were cowardly, feeble and unmanly in every particular.
The College Editor.
The following poem taken from one of our exchanges represents college journalistic work to perfection.
The prevalant idea that the managing of a college paper is of little importance and has but a small amount of work and responsibility connected wlth it, is wrong. To edit a good college paper and especially a weekly, a man must of necessity deprive himself of pleasure in order to carry on his studies, and in a greater or less degree must come into conflict with the latter.
The editor sat in his sanctum, Letting his lessons rin;
Letting his lessons rip;
Racking his brain for an item,
And stealing all he could clip.
The editor sat in his class room,
As if getting over a drunk.
His phiz was clouded with awful gloom
For he'd made a total flunk.
The editor returned to his sactum,
He hit himself in the eye;
He swore he'd enough of the busin ,
He would quit the paper or die.
Preparation for College.
It is a general rule of the architect that a foundation to be good, must of necessity be broad and deep. In education as well as architecture the rule holds good. In the east the foundation of a college education is the academy, in the west the high school. From the embryo, the academy, the college with all its branches springs. Therefore from the character of the work wrought in our high schools, the degree of preparation obtained and the thoroughness of the knowledge acquired will depend upon the character, quality and quantity of the work accomplished by a student in his University course.
In an article in one of our exchanges in relation to a college course, we find the following:
The college, particularly the western institution which is known by this name as distinguished from the
common school and the University, is an institution peculiar, so far as I can learn, to the United States. As the common school imparts knowledge to the growing mind, which matures as the body does, by the proper assimilation of its food, thus laying the foundation for an education; as the healthy and vigorous growth of the youth gives a basis for future strength and usefulness as a man, so the college, upon the beginnings so made, seeks, while constantly adding to the stores of knowledge, to train these partially matured minds to sound moral and manly character; to broad views of life and the proper giving and receiving of its good things, and to that self-knowledge which gives the fullest command of all the faculties. It has been well said that the "college is the training place for minds not yet mature in the elements of knowledge and culture. The University is the teaching place for those who have been trained to the capacities, character and responsibilities of manhood." The regimen of the college is strict; the course of study and the time necessary for its completion are prescribed, and all are adapted to the needs of that particular period of life, usually from about seventeen to twenty-five years, which the youth spends in college. From this college training which makes or mars his success in after life, the man goes into the world to add wisdom to his knowledge by his experience of the friction of the world, or else to the University to educate himself specially for the particular profession he has chosen. The college is the correcting corridor between the common school on the one hand, and active life on the other, whether it be through the halls of the University to professional life, or by direct contact with the world in "practical" life. So it will appear to be the policy conducive to the best success of the college to have its foundation in the common schools, whence it may draw its supplies of new materials, year by year, and when the college is, in a measure, established for a special purpose this fact has an added force.
College War Cries.
Every college of importance in this country has a college cry. In every town in which a college is situated, the midnight air resounds with the hideous yells of the student symbolic of Victory, defeat, or devilment. The student of University of Kansas use their yell but little and it is only amidst great victory that Rock-chalk-Jay-hawk, K-U-U-U float through the midnight air reminding one of a band of Apache Indians.
One of the college papers has compiled a list and history of college cheers. According to it the original shouts of the colleges were a repetition of the name of the college. This gave an advantage to the colleges which had sonorous names, and as the constant aim of cheering is to make more noise than the other cheerers, new yells were evolved by a process of evolution. These came into existence a quarter of a century ago, whenYale andHarvard had their boat races on Lake Quinsigamond,when the 'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah! thrice repeated was first heard. Harvard sounded the 'Rahs full, and added "Harvard," pronounced so that the ar and a clipped d were all that were heard. "Yale" was added to the New Haven college's 'Rahs with a long onl on the a.
Princeton's cheer was developed soon after as Princeton came into athletic relations with the other colleges. They took the three 'Rahs for a basis, and added the skyrocket siz-boom-ah, which they hold on to as long as the nine 'Rahs of their opponents hold out, and then yell "Princeton" as a calliope climax. Dartmouth has one of the most novel cheers of all. Some Indian must have invented it, and stout college lungs gave it the right inflatus. It is Wah hoo-wah! Wah hoo-wah! Diddy, diddy, Dartmouth! Wah-hoo-wah! It is very picturesque, and only a sophomore can Wah-hoo to the best advantage. The hoo is like a human owl's hoot.
Everybody has heard of Columbia's Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! C-o-l-u-m-b-i-a! The name spells out rithmically. John Hopkins University at Baltimore has taken the ground plan of the cheer and built upon it, adding J-o-h-n H-o-p-k-i-n-s. instead of C-o-l-u-m-b-i-a. Stevens Institute at Hoboken, and Union College at Schenectady have similar cheers.
Rutgers has a cheer almost as original as Dartmouth s. It is 'Rah!' 'Rah!' 'Rah!' Bow-wow-wow! Rutgers! Williams has an entrance and resonat 'Rah!' 'Rah!' 'Rah!' Williams! yams! yams! Pennsylvania University has a wild Philadelphia cheer without any special charm. It is the three 'Rahs and Penn-syl-vani-ah! The College of the City of New York cheer better. They say 'Rah three times and add C! C N! Y!
Cornell has a cheer that once heard cannot be forgotten. It is like the rhyme of the passenjaire. It is given with proper emphasis only in times of excitement. Here it is: Cornell! Cornell! Cor-cor-cor-nell! I vell like——! Cornell!
Views.
One of the reasons the faculty gave for taking no action in regard to the request of Orophilian Literary Society for evening sessions, was teat they did not have the power to admit the society into the building at night.
If they have no power to grant Orophilians an evening meeting, surely they have no power to grant any other society the privilege of evening sessions in the University.
Wednesday a notice was posted on the bulletin board announcing that the Science Club would meet in its rooms Friday evening.
While not partial to any one society, we would like to know why one society has the privilege of holding evening sessions in its room while another is debarred from that right?
Is it because four or five Profs. are members of the Science Club that it is allowed to meet in its rooms at night?
If this is the case, the Profs. will soon be in great demand by the various societies in the University that are seeking privileges.
Is there any justice in allowing one body of students, that have four or five Profs. among them, the privilege of meeting in the University in the evening, and denying another body of students that privilege, who have no Profs. in their organization; but who are just as considerate, just as gentlemanly, just as honest and just as law-abiding as the Profs. themselves?
We are informed that the Science Club did not even ask the faculty in regard to the holding of their meetings, but simply posted their notice on their own responsibility.
Unless the faculty imforms the Science Club that they have no authority to hold evening meetings in their room, we will be led to think that this institution is not governed on the most democratic principles.
E.
As the law students are not allowed in the main library room, and as the law books kept in that room are of no benefit to any but the law students, why might not arrangement be made to put all those law books in the law room with the law library? Is a student to be compelled to run into the other library every few minutes to look up a reference when the time required to look up the reference is but one or two minutes, while obtaining the book takes ten or fifteen minutes. The law library has not even a law dictionary, while there are probably a thousand dollars worth of law books comparatively locked up from the use of the law students as access to them is so impracticable. OUTLAW.
Stanford University.
Senator Leland Stanford has endowed a school in California. The endowment is mainly in land, which, when sold, will realize a large fund. Buildings are now in process of erection, and next fall, it is hoped the doors may be opened.
The striking feature about this institution is the fact that it is intended exclusively for the poor. There will be no inducements for rich boys to go there. The accommodations will be thoroughly comfortable, but plain throughout. There will be no style and no luxury. The main work of instruction will be in the industrial arts. It will be a good school to teach a poor boy how to better his condition in life.
Such a University has no competition with Yale or Harvard. It fills a place of its own. But its place is one that has a crying need for just such work. The plan is a noble one, and capable of untold benificence. The benefit will react on on society at large. It will help to lift the level of civilization.
Senator Stanford has many enemies. His wealth, or rather his ways of getting wealth, expose him to criticism and attack. But such a public benefaction as that of the Stanford University makes up for a good deal that is not admirable in his record.—Ex.
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