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O. S. U. is a co-educational school, but the boys told me that the ladies were not numerous. There is no social relationship existing between the sexes as here. The girls have no fraternities; do not take part in the boy's literary societies; take no interest in college affairs; I did not hear O. S. U. boys talk of "solid girls," "Kat parties," "I C. grub," or "working the girl's votes." They know nothing of the joys of co-education. Poor boys, how little of life they have seen! I wonder how our boys could stand such an existence. If co-education is to be at all, I am in favor of admitting woman to the position she deserves. If she can compete with the men in class-room work and in study, she has a right to share the pleasures of college society; to give her voice in literary and scientific organizations, and manifest an interest in all that pertains to the welfare of the college. However, I did not see the O. S. U. girls, or I might side with the boys. I only speak from a knowledge of K. S. U.'s bevy of sweet girl undergraduates.
I certainly will long remember my pleasant afternoon in the capitol city of Ohio, and not least of the pleasures of my eastern trip, I count my visit to Ohio State University.
R. E. HENRY.
REMINISCENCES.
[For the Courier.]
For some time I have had a feeling that the University was undergoing an evolution. Not until recently, however, did I know the institution had been tee-totally revolutionized. This startling discovery was made by reading the leader in a recent Courier's editorials. It says there are in the University positively no conversationalists. No conversationalists in K. S. U.! No conversationalists! Whillikers! What has become of 'em? O'ho there, Tucker, come back. Bion Hutchins, where are you? Long legged short trowsered Phillip Young, do you hear that?—"no conversationalists in K. S. U.!" You Foster boys, come running. Scott Hopkins, drop that baby and make you hence. Pliny Soper, get you to the University lively—only mind you can't cuss nowadays. Thacher and Humphrey and Meserve, go thither and jabber to your heart's content; and for once you wont be cut short by calls for the "previous question." Now, Ed Little, you just run and spout to those boys until we get 'there. This thing of our dear old Alma Mater pining and sighing and dying for conversationalists will never do.
It is not many years since the University boasted a fine set of talkers; boys and girls who in epigram or logic, repartee or philosophy, wit or wisdom, could hold an electric light to the best of antagonists. How the very air was surcharged as some of these champions became pitted against one another. I think the honors in oratory in those days fairly belonged to Spangler, though he did not make the hullabaloo about it that some of the less gifted but more pretentious chaps. The most magnetic effort from the chapel rostrum was Scott Hopkins' commencement valedictory, as a reward for which there was built up around the favorite Scott a rampart of floral art as high as his head. In the off-hand
debate there can be no question as to the winner of laurels, for John T. Harlow was head and shoulders above the best of his rivals. He would walk into Orophilian hall on election day, after political schemes were cut and dried; after his opponents had made their slates, formed their combinations and pledged their voters; when the result seemed a foregone conclusion; he would enter against these formidable odds, and by one masterly speech crush his antagonists, smash their slates, capture their adherents and win the day. P. C. Young, long and stalky, was another of the skilled off-hand speakers. He several times represented Oread society in the annual contests. On one of these occasions, after a long series of rehearsals on his set debate, Phillip, like many another unlucky wight, broke down on the opening sentence. Unabashed by this bad break, Young started off on a rough and tumble argument, striding from one side of the stage to the other, and swinging his arms like a Dutch windmill. The effect was electrical. For once the audience didn't have to listen to a hand organ speech, and their vociferous cheers testified to their appreciation. Herbert J. Humphrey was another chap with an influential tongue, which he wagged in an awfully erratic manner. He would arise and in a few minutes talk thoroughly convince his fellow Oreads whitewash made a far prettier wall than the most elegantly tinted paper. No sooner had his deluded hearers voted the whitewash than the crafty Herbert would move a reconsideration of the question, and then in most winning phrases, extol the superiority of wall paper, and abuse those who dared utter a word for whitewash. Then the society, terror stricken, would vote the wall paper and appoint Herb to get it, though he had about as much taste in wall paper as a Poland China hog.
But the curious thing—not so curious either, when you come to know the ins and outs—was that not one of these fine speakers ever took a prize in the University, while some of the jaded dolts made a professional business of raking in the substantial honors. Neither Hopkins, nor Spangler, nor Harlow, nor Young, nor Humphrey, ever won a book, or cent, or hair pin, in the whole of their college life. In truth, these fellows had ideas in their heads, and no one ever spoke in the University, on a question that had two sides, and got a prize.
How the genus "spouterifera" could have so suddenly become extinct in K. S. U., is a scientific mystery worthy of Prof. Snow's closest investigations. Why, it was only last year that Prof. Canfield had to muzzle the lawyers in his political economy class in order to give other members a show. Then again it used to be a problem in the botany class how to let each member of sixty Freshmen talk ten minutes each during a one hour recitation. The literary societies would hold night sessions in order to give all a chance to talk, the sargeant-at-arms locking the doors to hold an audience. But that generation of students has departed, a new race has taken their place, and there stands the classic pride of Kansas "silent, speechless, mute" (except in Review elections). SMITH.
COLLEGE WORLD.
We are pleased to note the improved appearance of the Index. Among the editors on the staff we notice the names of four young ladies, which doubtless explains the improvement in the Index, and gives us good grounds for hoping that we will not receive such treatment from the Index as heretofore. Let us be friends.
Texas University has an endowment of over two million acres of land valued at $2 an acre, and over $600,000 invested in bonds.
We are pleased to acknowledge the receipt of the Cadet, published by the students of the state college of Maine. The editorial department seems to be ably sustained, the literary department above the average, and the other departments fully up to the standard. On the whole, the Cadet reflects credit on its editors.
Dr. Ira Benson, the eminent chemist of Johns Hopking University, is an alumnus of the college of the city of New York.
The University Voice gives a vivid description of the rush between the Freshmen and Sophomore classes of Wooster University last Friday afternoon, which resulted in a tie.
The attendance at the German Universities for the summer semester just closed was 28,021, divided as follows: Berlin, 4,434; Leipzig, 3,060; Munich, 3,055; Halle, 1,518; Breslau, 1,425; Tuebinger, 1403; Wuerzburg, 1,369; Freiburg, 9,319; Bonn, 1,293; Goettingen, 1,076; Heidelberg, 2,016; Griefswald, 1,016; Marburg, 939; Erlangen, 969; Koenigsburg, 876; Strassburg, 846; Jena, 655; Kiel, 542; Giessen, 513; Rostock, 313. The increase over the previous year is quite remarkable. In 1880 the total number was 20,988, an increase of 7,033 in half a decade. The principal increase has been in both theological and in the medical faculties; in the Protestant, from 2,315 in 1880 to 4683 in 1885; in the Roman Catholic, from 638 in 1880 to 1,197 in 1886; in the medical faculties from 4,018 in 1880 to 8,308 in 1886. The number of law students has decreased from 5,201 in 1880 to 4,914 at the present time, and the philosophical faculties have now an increase of only 103 over 1880, the present attendance being 8919. —Ex.
Some person in advocating a severer discipline in American colleges than the general tendency indicates, says: "Indeed the absence of government in Michigan University was so notorious that some wag was tempted to say that the University had but two rules: (1) No student shall set on fire any of the college buildings; (2) Under no circumstances shall any student kill any member of the faculty.—Ex.
James Russell Lowell has resumed his position as professor of modern languages and Belles Lettres at Harvard. He is conducting two courses, one in Italian, Dante, and the other in Spanish, Cervantes.—Ex.
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