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--great honor to become an officer in their ranks, and sport brass buttons. There is something about every college town which gives it an air of intellectuality, and Iowa City possesses it to a remarkable degree. That apparent intention on the part of the citizens to live to enjoy life, surrounded by culture and refinement, is everywhere manifested, and makes of the town one of the most desirable places to live in, that a lover of education can find. Yours, MAX.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS! The Courier comes to you, one and all, bearing the holiday greeting of the management.
We come to tell you the news, we come to cheer you.
Oh, how different is each succeeding Christmas. In the years of childhood, how we used to look forward to this annual feast and think of its presents and its varied joys.
Years have gone by, childhood has passed and we instinctively look forward to Christmas as the time when the broken family circle shall be united. The past will all come back as we gather at the old home, with father and mother, brothers and sisters, to enjoy the blessings of home. We feel like republishing the article of last year, entitled, "An UnChristmaslike Christmas." It seems to us very appropriate. Yet we will refrain and content ourselves with echoing the sentiment. You fortunate ones who have a home, and who spend your holidays there, just stop and think of your classmates who are here in Lawrence, unable to go home. They stay and work, and eat the black bread of poverty. The brave boys are not to be pitied; they are to be envied. It is hard for them to stay away from the family board at this time of universal rejoicing and feasting, yet such disappointment only makes more strong their determination to be and do something worthy the most noble and true men. It is from this class of our students that the most trustworthy and honorable citizens come. It is these boys who win for themselves the most honorable position and often the greatest amount of worldly wealth. The Courier could name a large number of our most prominent alumni who worked and suffered in the years of young manhood and young womanhood but who now are beginning to en joy the fruits of work done, thoroughly, earnestly, and well. But not ashamed of poverty. Let i urge you on to work with ye greater zeal.
"Is there for honest poverty,
That hangs his head and n' that,
The coward slave we pass him by,
We dare be noor for n' that:
The rank is but the guinea stamp,
The MAN's the gold for a' that.
The Minneapolis Messenger, Lieut. Gov. Riddle's paper, says that the main building, unless repaired, is in a fair way to tumble down within five years.
The water-works will be a rather poor protection to the University. By means of it,water can be thrown but to the third story of the Main building. A powerful pumping engine capable of throwing several streams clear over the building, should be purchased by the University. This could be either a common fire-engine or pumps connected with the steam boilers. Then by keeping the cisterns full,by means of the water works, almost absolute protection could be secured.
We were a little surprised at an article which appeared in last week's Gazette.
It seems rather out of place for our city papers to publish the complaints and carpings of every disappointed official of the University. The writer of the letter would have done better had she never written a word of it. It never pays to whine over an injury real or supposed. The attack on the chancellor is not only uncalled for and unjust, but it is indecent, libellous and untrue. Such articles injure no one but the writers.
The latest break made by the Hesperian Student is to announce that the cut on its title page is a work of art. Great heavens! Your exchanges are ready for anything now and while you are about it hadn't you better come out in your next and declare that your paper contained at one time, an interesting item or article? You would be just as truthful. On examining a copy, the first thing we behold is this work of art which by the way is very suggestive of hanging out clothes. We next notice your editorials and we are sound asleep.
The Mississippi University Magazine contains seven pages of original poetry besides five pages of editorial matter written and signed by Walter Malone, editor-in-chief of the same. We were at a loss to account for this until we saw his salutatory. Walter has been shoving off some of his old manuscript on the unsuspecting Mississippians. When he gets older and more accustomed to seeing his own writing in type, he will get over this. The poetry, however, does Mr. Malone credit, and is above the average college spouting.
A SUITABLE place has been cleared and all arrangements perfected, whereby students who wish to ride to school can erect sheds for the accommodation of their horses during the cold weather. How many of those who ride will accept this offer and erect shelter, is not known, but we think that if there is any one in the University so cruel as to cympel a horse to suffer the cold and rain and snow and sleet and wind for four hours while the owner is reciting in a warm building, that that person should not, by a rule of the faculty, be allowed to bring a horse inside the University grounds.
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It was a beautiful moonlight evening in the beginning of last June, when I arrived in the Athens of Iowa—that is Iowa City—once the Capital, but now the University town of Iowa. After giving the clerk of the Hotel Le Jones my autograph, I retired for the night to refresh myself after an all days' ride behind the "iron horse". The first intimation that I had that "Aurora in her rosy chariot had chased away the stars," was given by the ringing of the church chimes in the Catholic cathedral. I have often heard of "music in the air when the infant morn is nigh" but never understood its full meaning until I heard those chimes. It is possible that such music might become monotonous, after hearing it for months in succession. However that may be it is certainly preferable to that clanging monotone which peals forth so often at the south end of Kentucky street in the Athens of Kansas. But the University—that is what I wish to speak about—for it was this that I had stopped in Iowa City to visit. Years ago, when Iowa had rather a scanty population, her Solons gathered in Iowa City to make her laws; but as population grew, the capital was moved nearer the center of the state, and the old capitol building was transformed into a State University.
The ground upon which the University is built is located in the center of the town—adjacent to the business portion, and about two minutes walk from the post-office. There is no Mount Oread to climb in order to rerch it, but instead is easy of access. A beautiful, well-kept campus surrounds the buildings, of which there are five. None of the buildings are as large as our main building, neither have they any as well built as Snow Hall. Their chapel is rather a contracted affair, and their library meets the wants of their students about as well as our own. They have a good medical department, with a large attendance, and an excellent law course, with several able lecturers at the head of it. Their total attendance is something over five hundred—composed of an excellent class of students. Of course they have Greek letter fraternities, with all their attendant benefits and Christianizing influences. With one exception, they are chapters of the same fraternities as those represented in our University, and their manner of proselyting is the same as that practiced here. Of course they form combinations too, intermixed with the quintescence of "cussness," and friendly jealousy —which like a piquant sauce a relish to college life. There is one thing, however, about the Iowa Greeks to their credit—that is they do not neglect their literary societies for their secret societies. They have literary society halls nicely fitted up, in fact superior to any that we possess. Among the lady Greeks there does not seem to be as much rivalry as here, although their membership is made up o the fairest of the fair, and their colors those of L.C. and K.K.G.
A military department fully equipped is another feature which is an addition to their University, and seems to be very popular with the students, for it is considered a
Chancellor's Report.
TO THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS—GENTLEMEN: It becomes my duty, and it is my pleasure as well, to make formal report to you covering the two years which terminated on the 30th of June, 1886; to acquaint you with the present condition of the University; and to recommend such measures looking to the future as will, in my best judgment, secure continued growth and prosperity.
It is thus seen that the total enrollment was 471 for the year 1884-5, and 419 for the year 1885-6. Of these the State of Kansas furnished 425 in 1884-5 and 375 in 1885-6.
It must be borne in mind that previous to the fall term of 1883 the requirements for admission to the Preparatory Department was very meager. The lowest classes pursued essentially the studies that were offered in every school district in the State. At the April meeting of the Board in that year it was resolved that the lowest of these classes be discontinued. The Board further directed in their September meeting in 1884, that there should be still further reductions at the opening of the fall term in 1885. Furthermore, the Legislature of the State at its last regular meeting required the discontinuance of the Normal Department. The last two reductions were made operative at the beginning of the last collegiate year, September, 1885. There remains of the Preparatory Department not very much beyond that instruction in the languages which is necessary to prepare for the work of the Freshman class. It will doubtless be found necessary to retain this for some years to come.
The effect of the discontinuance of these lower classes had already been anticipated. In the aggregate the number of our students has been somewhat diminished. This was expected. The number of students, however, who have sought instruction in our collegiate and professional classes has increased quite as much as we had reason to expect. Besides this, our students come from the preparatory high schools with better and more mature preparation. These high schools, more fully recognized by the University than heretofore as preparatory schools, have come into more har monious relations with us.
But these are only the more apparent advantages growing out of the change in our course of study. They are by no means the most real and important. Our students, being of more mature age, have, with fewer exceptions than heretofore, been most thoroughly devoted to their work. The professors have
been enabled to give more time and strength to collegiate classes. In addition to all this, the University has gained immeasurably in the confidence and esteem of the people of the State.
At the beginning of the collegiate year 1885-6, Prof. Carruth, of the chair of German and French, indicated a desire to spend part of the year in Europe for purposes of travel and of study You readily acceded to his wishes, and in December he went away on leave of absence till the opening of the next collegiate year, September, 1886. During his absence the work of the department was divided between his assistant, Arthur G. Canfield, and Miss Nellie G. Thacher, of the city of Lawrence. It is a personal pleasure to me to say in this connection, that Miss Thacher most ably accomplished the work which was committed to her care. Her acquaintance with the subjects taught, acquired in part at the University, from which she graduated in 1881, and in part by foreign travel, her skill in teaching, and her helpful general influence, lead to regret that her services cannot in some capacity be continued in the University.
Near the close of the collegiate year 1885-6, Professor Leverett W. Spring resigned the chair of English Literature, Rhetoric, and Belles Lettres, to accept the same Professorship in Williams College. His successor in the chair of English is Arthur Richmond Marsh, Ph.D., a graduate of Harvard University.
Several changes have been made in the faculty of the University. At the close of the collegiate year 1884-5. Professor Kate Stephens withdrew. Miss Stephens is a graduate of the University, class of 1875. In 1878 she was appointed assistant in Greek. In 1879 she was elected to the full professorship. She is succeeded by Alexander M. Wilcox. Dr. Wilcox is a graduate of Yale College, from which institution he also received the degree Ph. D. After graduation he continued, in Athens, his studies in his chosen department. Returning to America, he devoted himself with eminent success to the teaching of Greek. In the changes that were made consequent upon the retirement of Miss Stephens, Miles W. Sterling was made assistant in Greek and Miss Adelaide Rudolph, of Hiram, Ohio, was elected assistant professor of Latin.
By the generous liberality of the Legislature of the State, the Department of Law has been greatly strengthened and improved.
The Dean of that department is now enabled to give it his entire time and strength. With the assistance that it is thus possible to give him, it would seem that the law classes in the University are well provided with competent instruction. There is yet needed, however, a well-selected law library.
Indeed, a separate building, with library, alcoves and lecture rooms, is as essential to the highest success in this department of college work as laboratories, lecture rooms and apparatus in any of the other departments.
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