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THE WEEKLY
UNIVERSITY COURIER.
THE LARGEST COLLEGE JOURNAL CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES.
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For Kansas University Students.
DENTON DUNN, R. J. CURDY,
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University Directory.
PHI GAMMA DELTA—Meets Saturday nights,
'No. 75 Mass. St., 3d floor.
PHI KAPPA Pt—Meets Saturday nights, at
rooms of the members.
PHI DELTA THETA—Meets Saturday nights, A.
O. U. W.Hall.
SIGMA CHI—Meets Saturday nights, 2d floor
Opera house block.
BETA THETA Pi—Meets Saturday nights, at H.
S. Tremper's law office.
SIGMA Nu—Meets Saturday nights, I. O. O. F.
block.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA—Meets Saturday afternoon,
no. 75 Mass. St., 3d floor.
L.C.—Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of
members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA—Meets Saturday afternoon
at homes of society.
OHEAD LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday
afternoon in its hall, University building, south wing, 3d floor. Pres., Denton Dunn; sec'y
Ella Ropes.
OPHORICAL LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday
afternoons in its hall, University building,
north wing, 3d floor. Pres., Denton Dunn; sec'y
Ella Ropes.
SCIENCE CLUB—Meets Friday afternoons, in
chemistry lecture room. Pres. R. L. McAlpine; sec'y V. L. Kellogg.
PHARMACUTICAL SOCIETY—Meets Thursdays at 3 p.m in Prof. Sayre's lecture room. J. H.
De Ford, president; Miss Howaré, sec'y
KENT CLUB, of Law Students—Meets Friday
nights in Court House. Pres. J. W. Roberts;
sec'y A. Overton.
PHILLOGUE—Meets second Friday of the month in Greek lecture room, University building,
Pres.Prof. Robinson; sec'y Prof. Wincox.
MOOT SENATE—Meets on Olympian hall every
saturday afternoon in President, John Mushrush; clerk, L. A. Baldwin.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION—Pres., E. G. Blair; sec'y A. L. Wilmoth; Board of Directors,
Frank Crowell, Denton Dunn, V. G. Kellogg
COLLEGE BRANCH Y. M. C.A—Pres., F. J. Gardner; sec'y L. T. Smith; meets every Friday night in rooms of city association.
COLLEGE BRANCH Y. W. C.A., meets Sunday
afternoons at homes of members.
DICKSON (DEBATING CLUB—Meets Friday
nights, at Court House.
COURIER Company—Pres., A. G. Gilbe t; sec'y Miss Emma Hynes.
REVIEW Company—Pres., S.W. Sha tuck.
BASE Ball Association—Sec'y E. F. Neal.
It has been a long time since the columns of the Courier have been favored with "views" from any of the students. Let it not be thought that we no longer desire such contributions, for, on the contrary, they are always welcome when written on any proper subject and couched in respectable language. We do not believe in such articles, however, when advocating impossible projects or venting personal spite. But very often valuable suggestions can be made in this way, real necessities pointed out and many interesting facts be presented. So if you have anything of worth, intestey or importance which you wish to write up, do not hesitate to send it in.
An Extract.
An Extract.
The following extract is taken from the close of a lecture delivered near this city a few days ago by Dr. Ivon D. Heath, of Wyandotte. Dr. Heath was railroad surgeon several years for Mr. Meggs in Peru and Bolivia, S. A. He was a companion of Prof. Orton in his explorations on the upper Amazon, and was present at his death on the shores of Lake Tittacorca.
As the subject of prohibition is attracting great attention in American colleges at present, we will contribute this extract in its interest, although somewhat out of our line:
"I have crossed the Isthmus of Panama five times. I have crossed the summit of the Andes in latitude 7° south and in 12° south. In latitude 15° and in latitude 17° south I have crossed the entire Andean mountains; descended into the dense Amazonian forests where the heat, the sand flies by day and the mosquitoes by night made life almost insupportable. I have been in rain and mud and swamps. I have floated hundreds of miles down Amazonian rivers; I have hunted the ostrich over the pampas and the tiger in the great forests of South America; and I have never seen the time when a daily use of wine or liquors would not have done more harm than good. I have seen scores of men die from having drunk too much wine and liquor but never yet one man to die because he drank too little.
Fearful stories have been related of the deadly Panama fever—that in the construction of the railroad across the isthmus the laborers died in squads—that as many men had died of the pestilential fevers of the isthmus as there were ties in the railroad. There is no doubt that there was a frightful death rate; but nine-tenths were caused by drinking wine and liquors.
Wines are more harmful than brandy, rum or whisky. Panama is a free port. Wines and liquors are admitted free of duty. They are cheap, abundant, and constitute the biggest stock in trade in retail shops. A very noticeable feature is long rows of bottles displayed on shelves. Gambling tables occupy the sidewalks.
The isthmus of Panama is by nature no more unhealthy than the shores of the river Amazon. No epidemic of yellow fever, nor of cholera was ever known in the city of Panama. I have ridden on horseback from Panama over the mountains to the Chagres river. I have floated down that river in a row boat; I saw the first seventeen miles of railroad, and I am convinced that the Panama fever is but another name for "killed by drinking too much wine and liquor." And yet brandy or whisky is as desirable an1 useful in the medicine chest as quinine, opium, epicac or epsom salts.
Let the traveler eat regular meals of well cooked food; without wine, without beer, without liquor, neither with meals nor between meals; eat sparingly of strange fruits, and he will be able to live not only with perfect safety in Central America, on the isthmus of Panama or in South
America but he will enjoy the new life; on the ocean; in strange ports; in forests totally unlike those of his northern home; among mountains that reach from the clime of the sugar cane and the palm to the highties of eternal snows and ice; amid the ruins of pre-historic races; in a climate of perpetual spring, summer, autumn and shine; in the mines of silvery Potosi or golden Tipuhuani; in the land where grows the cinchona, the chocolate, the coca; on Trans-Andean pampas and the rivers of the Amazonian forests; and in after years, forgetful of the trials and misfortunes of his journey, he will recall with delight his experience and studies in the lands of the Children of the Sun."
The 22d
The chapel was comfortably filled Tuesday morning with students and their friends who had gathered to listen to the exercises of the day. Everything passed off pleasantly and the excellent program was well received.
PROGRAM. MUSIC.
Declamation... Walter W. Davis
    "Character of Washington."
2
Essay... Frank G. Crowell
"Colonial Distress of the New American Gov-
crownt." MUSIC.
3
Declamation... Marcella Howland
"America's Debt to Virginia."
4
Oratios... Cora L. Kimball
"The Lesson of Washington's Farewell Ad-
dress." MUSIC.
5
Essay... Flora Newlin
"Origin of the American Spirit."
6
Oration... Edward G. Biair
"Abuse of Party Spirit." MUSIC.
Walter W. Davis spoke with great force and earnestness. His voice is strong and clear. He gives promise of becoming a fine speaker.
Frank G. Crowell showed that the belief that our government is growing more corrupt is fallacious. He took up the political and civil status of the country at the time of the revolution and gave a masterly description of it. Mr. Crowell is evidently a careful student of American history.
Miss Kimball's oration was very well written and was delivered in an easy yet forcible way which always gives pleasure to an audience.
Miss Marcella Howland made her first appearance before a University audience and acquitted herself with great credit. Her voice is rich and pleasing and her manner graceful.
Miss Newlin in her essay told of the different elements which had entered into the formation of our nationality. Miss Newlin has a strong cleartoned voice which can be heard with perfect ease.
E. G. Blair told how, at the very formation of political parties in this country, abuse was heaped upon opposing candidates and even Washington himself did not escape. Mr. Blair gave proofs of the evil influences of such slander and abuse. The oration was carefully written and was delivered clearly and forcibly.
The University orchestra and Prof. McDonald and Miss Gore furnished the music. It is only fair to say that the orchestra surpassed all former attempts.
EDITOR COURIER : — Will you please enlighten an ignorant student of the University by showing him for what reason the University should be ashamed of its record at Ottawa, or why we are "downed in oratory," because forsooth, the University, after winning two out of three contests, gives up the fourth one to inferior colleges and inferior orators. And why do the winning colleges show more joy at beating the University than in winning the contest, unless it is more honor to beat the University than to win a contest without the University being represented.
H. E.
We understand that the students have made a list of candidates who are in favor of building a side walk up Aliams street to whom the student vote will be given at the city election this spring. Considering the fact that our girls can vote, 300 students are not to be sneered at politically, and can have pretty much what they want by demanding it with their votes.
To Mark or not to Mark.
--ble to everyday professors. But I submit that even in cases where this blooded acumen with a pedigree ten feet long, is possible to be employed, this abstract standard is manifestly too arbitrary to be used in the case of the average student. For instance, here is the average student, X, with an ability represented by 60. Here are two flesh and blood students, A, with an ability of 50 and B, of extraordinary ability and exceptional thoroughness of previous training, with a capacity of 70. Both receive marks of 85 on the score of a hundred. Which has made the greater progress? Which is the more deserving of a good recommendation? Both have attained precisely the same results. But is not A far more deserving than B, even though A be of inferior capacity and unequal advantages as to previous training? Should B be rated as high as A, who has made nearly twice the progress he has? Has not A done better and far more deserving work than B, even though B has a greater ability than has A? Should not A be made to feel that he deserves more than B? I have tried to make this case as fair and impartial as I possibly could and I deprecate any charges of bias or prejudice of any kind. I have tried to show that this system of judging by an abstract and previously constructed standard is both difficult and uncertain as to the formation of the standard and that the standard when formed is unadapted to everyday students. I would submit also the following consideration: That a fair and reliable conception of the ability of each individual student is very difficult to be attained. An occasional remark by the student and a random question by the instructor, each day, is very meagre ground upon which to build. There are powers which are never called into exercise or developed; ability which is forever rudimentary; depths which are never fathomed by the shifting plumblone of daily duties; capacities which are never tested, never imagined, never known. A recommendation which is founded on the accidental glimpses of more than ordinary brightness is not more desirable than that founded on faithfulness and application and conscientiousness. The first may be only iron pyrites and in the second there may be true metal after all.
EDITOR COURIER:—For the first time this year I ask the courtesy of a few columns of your valuable space for an expression of view upon the subject of marking. Prof. Marsh has set the ball rolling with an able and convincing article setting forth the merits of his system. While not assuming to myself the ability or the competency to pass upon the merits of the system, it is at least in order to submit a few notes upon it.
I suppose it should be assumed at the outset that the question precludes the abolition of all systems and we are to look upon markings as we do upon cholera morbus—as a necessary evil. But if it be admitted or assumed that some system must be in force, Prof. Marsh's system possesses much to commend it to students. I am inclined to think, however, that that which is most commandable in it is the least practical and accomplishable and that only its more objectionable features, so far as it possesses such, are feasible. In the first place the key note of the system is this: An abstract conception of the ability of the abstract student—necessarily abstract, even though founded on observations of individuals. If I have mis-stated this pivotal idea I shall cheerfully acknowledge any rectification. But I believe I have succeeded in what I have certainly earnestly striven to do—to state the hinging idea of the system. Now it seems to me that this standard is certainly an arbitrary and unsatisfactory one. This conception must either be founded on a much longer experience than is possessed by most professors and must even then be acquired by the employment of more than ordinary acumen and a more than ordinary professional instinct. And this discussion lies outside of abnormalities in professorship as much as it does outside of phenomenal classes. This conception then must either be very imperfect, owing to the length of experience required or it must require an acumen and a mastery of human nature, beyond those of the ordinary college professor. In either case it is not adaptable to everyday professors. But I submit that even in cases where this blooded acumen with a pedigree ten feet long, is possible to be employed, this abstract standard is manifestly too arbitrary to be used in the case of the average student. For instance, here is the average student, X, with an ability represented by 60. Here are two flesh and blood students, A, with an ability of 50 and B, of extraordinary ability and exceptional thoroughness of previous training, with a capacity of 70. Both receive marks of 85 on the score of a hundred. Which has made the greater progress? Which is the more deserving of a good recommendation? Both have attained precisely the same results. But is not A far more deserving than B, even though A be of inferior capacity and unequal advantages as to previous training? Should B be rated as high as A, who has made nearly twice the progress he has? Has not A done better and far more deserving work than B, even though B has a greater ability than has A? Should not A be made to feel that he deserves more than B? I have tried to make this case as fair and impartial as I possibly could and I deprecate any charges of bias or prejudice of any kind. I have tried to show that this system of judging by an abstract and previously constructed standard is both difficult and uncertain as to the formation of the standard and that the standard when formed is unadapted to everyday students. I would submit also the following consideration: That a fair and reliable conception of the ability of each individual student is very difficult to be attained. An occasional remark by the student and a random question by the instructor, each day, is very meagre ground upon which to build. There are powers which are never called into exercise or developed; ability which is forever rudimentary; depths which are never fathomed by the shifting plumblone of daily duties; capacities which are never tested, never imagined, never known. A recommendation which is founded on the accidental glimpses of more than ordinary brightness is not more desirable than that founded on faithfulness and application and conscientiousness. The first may be only iron pyrites and in the second there may be true metal after all.
I am inclined to think that in a judicious combination of the first and second systems mentioned by the professor, the true solution will be found. Eliminate the ghostly abstraction of the second and the equivocal equality of the first and with the result as a basis a much juster system might be formulated. Any system is manifestly juster than that used by several of the faculty. If a student accidentally fails upon some bare technical question, no matter how thorough his general knowledge of the subject, he is by several marked zero; while another student who, just as accidentally, remembers the point required, is marked 10, even though he has no practical knowledge of the subject. Such a system is openly absurd and, long before we pretended to enlightenment, should have been relegated to the barbarism from which it sprang.
FRANK A. MARSHALL.
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