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A Pointer to Old and New Students.
All new students should subscribe for the Courier at once. Remember the Courier gives you 46 FRESH, SPICY issues each year, while the Review, with its usual energy (?) (!) gives you 10 stale issues of matter copied largely from the Courier, the remainder being from one month to sixteen years old. The Courier is 50 cents, the Review $1.00 If you want to be an old fossil, you will find the Review especially adapted for you. If you want to be live and up with the times, take the good old RELIABLE COURIER.
We acknowledge the receipt of the Report of the State Horticultural Society. The volume is very complete and quite interesting. Among other things we find an extract from a letter of Gen. W. S. Sherman, worthy of note by our readers:
"Last summer Mr. Bayard, secretary of state, who had just come from your State University at Lawrence, where he had made an oration, asked me in the presence of several gentlemen if I had ever been there, and if I had ever seen a more beautiful rural landscape than the one from the college hill up the valley of the Wakarusa. Of course I had been there many times, and admitted it was, beyond question, a most lovely view, justly entitled to a fair comparison with that from Pilot Knob, near Leavenworth; that from the soldiers' home at Washington; or the most famous of all, that looking up the valley of the Thames, from Richmond Hill, above London."
The Standard on the University.
The Leavenworth Standard has a two column article from a Lawrence correspondent styling himself "Republican," which gives an accurate, interesting history of the State University, and a statement of its condition. The article is one of the best ever written on the subject, and the correspondent and the Standard have placed the University and Lawrence under obligations.
After giving full statistics as to attendance, instruction, alumni, faculty, and a brief history, the writer in the Standard says;
"I well remember when the State University was founded, twenty-one years ago, little thinking I would have personal use for it; but with others worked to some extent in the newspaper line to help it along. It seemed to grow slowly. From the time it was started until the present I have watched its progress with a good degree of interest, and if there has been a steal or scandal connected with it, I have never heard of it. It seems to have been managed by persons who wanted to see such an institution in the State, and that it be a successful and prosperous one.
It has been said that the fair sex have not always had an equal chance with the men. This is a mistake. No partiality is shown. Every scholar stands on his or her merit. No narrow, exclusive system of education shuts out the daughters of Kausas from receiving an education equal to that of the men.
The University is steadily gaining, and already its usefulness is being felt in all parts of the state, and even in the states and territories beyond. It is a first class University, with a well organized faculty, well equipped museums, laboratory and apparatus, and a library of 8,000 volumes. The location is good. Lawrence is an educational town, and while many of her citizens take a lively interest in her schools, far too many care but little for them. Often when very interesting exercises are being held at the University, but few citizens of the town are present."—Evening Tribune.
The Fall term opens to-day, Wednesday, with good prospects. The first and second days will be given wholly to examinations and enrollment. On Friday morning at 10 o'clock the first general assembly will be held. All students are expected to be present. The feature of the occasion will be the delivery of the opening address, by Hon. T. Dwight Thacher, of Topeka. Citizens of Lawrence and all friends of the University are most cordially invited to be present on this occasion. After the address the classes will meet the various professors in their lecture rooms, and in the order of the schedule of daily recitations. The class room exercises will consist merely of the formality of meeting, the assigning of work, instruction in regard to text books, etc. The schedule of recitations will be found in the catalogue and also on the bulletin board in the corridors.
It is greatly to be desired by the faculty, that as far as possible, all the work of enrollment be attended to on Wednesday and Thursday. After this all the professors will be occupied with the regular term work, and it will be practically impossible to attend to enrollment except in the early morning or in the afternoon. This will needlessly burden the professors and also retard the enrollment of students.
All old students will enroll by calling on Professor Robinson and recording their studies for the term. These studies should be selected carefully, so as to avoid subsequent changes. The card containing the selected studies, signed by Professor Robinson, will be carried to the clerk's office, where it will be filed. The clerk will not receive the con-
These cards in the clerk's will be of use at once in making out a complete schedule of students work for the term. It is extremely desirable therefore that they be free from error and subject to the fewest possible subsequent changes.
ingent fee except on the authority of this card.
New students will call first at the chancellor's office, No.2, where they will receive instructions as to the examinations or the transfer of grades from the accredited High School to the University books.
Candidates for admission for the first term to the Law, Music and Pharmacy classes will call also at the chancellor's office where they will receive instruction as to where they shall go for enrollment. Old students in these departments will go directly to the dean in charge of the department, where cards of admission to the clerk's office will be received.
Prof. J. W. Green will be found in room No. 11; Prof. MacDonald in music room (No. 17), next south of the hall, second floor; Prof. Sayre in chemistry building; the enrollment committee, in No. 10, on the first floor, at the north end of the building; Prof. Robinson will occupy his own class room, No. 24, on second floor, north end, west side. Examinations will be conducted as follows: Mathematics, in No. 9; Geography, descriptive and physical, No. 8; English, No. 19; U. S. History and Constitution, No. 15; Natural Philosophy, No. 16; Latin, No. 26; Greek, No. 25; French and German, No. 21; Drawing, No. 31.
"Our University."
Under the above heading a recent writer in the Topeka Commonwealth gave a long and well written description of the life and works of the University. After a few short introductory words he says:
President Elliot, of Harvard, recently said that "The State University of Kansas is the first institution of learning in the west, with the possible exception of Ann Arbor."
Twenty years ago it began its career under the chancellorship of Rev. R. W. Oliver, D. D. After him, followed General John Fraser, L. L. D., a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, whose successor was Rev. James Marvin, D. D., L. L. D. The present incumbent is Rev. J. A. Lippincott, D. D. The first faculty consisted of a president, two professors and one lecturer, of whom the two professors, Snow and Robinson, are active and honored members of the present faculty, and in the prime of life and uselfulness.
The faculty for the year 1886-87, will consist of the chancellor, sixteen professors, seven assistants and one instructor—twenty-six in all. Of these, one is a graduate of Dickinson college, Pennsylvania; four are graduates of Williams college, Massachusetts; one of Rochester university, New York; two of Alleghany college, Pennsylvania; one of Dartmouth college, New Hampshire; five of the University of Kansas; two of Yale college, one of Cornell, New York; one of Harvard university; one of Hiram college, Ohio; and the others are graduates of special schools.
Five of the number have been students in the German universities, and
two have been fellows in the John Hopkins university, of Baltimore. Professor. L. W. Spring, D. D., who so ably filled the chair of English literature, recently resigned his position in the University in order to accept a professorship in Williams college, Mass., and the vacancy has been supplied by the election of Professor A. R. Marsh, a graduate of Harvard, who will enter upon his duties at the opening of the fall term.
The faculty, as now constituted, consists of trained and experienced educators of the highest moral character, and in every way qualified to fill the high positions to which the state has called them.
Here follows a list of the members of the faculty as is given in the catalogue, with the addition of Profs. Marsh and Templin.
Speaking of the departments, he says: During the first year of its existence there were in the University fifty-five students, all of whom were in the preparatory department; and in the years following there was a great increase in the proportion in favor of the collegiate, until in the eighteenth year was witnessed the elimination of the first year of the preparatory course; the nineteenth that of the second year, and the Normal department was dropped at the same time. The result of such action was that 352 students were at once debarred the benefits of the University, and fears were entertained that it would be disastrous to the immediate welfare of the institution. But the twentieth year of the University's life shows that 143 students were in the sub-freshman or preparatory classes, and in the University classes, including law, art, pharmacy, music and collegiate, there were 276 students. Such a result shows the asplendid condition of the University ud the truth of President Elliot's, remark. During the past year, too, a stricter and more rigid classification of students was made.
The following are the departments of the University: First, science, literature and the arts; second, law; third, pharmacy; fourth, music; fifth, art; sixth, elementary instruction. There is also a preparatory medical course extending through one year.
Here follows a description of the various buildings of the University, which, though very interesting, can hardly be considered as news to the students. The article continues:
Newspapers, scientific, literary and art journals, a University science club and a University philological club, University lecture course, general literary exercises, as well as other facilities, furnish a large and varied amount of attractive features of great importance to the students.
The people of Kansas have in their midst—and at their very doors, so to speak—a first class University, with a large and well organized faculty, with well equipped museums, laboratories and apparatus, a library of 8,000 volumes, and a location that for health and beauty of surrounding scenery, is not equalled anywhere else in the United States. Kansas, though young in years, is great in material prosperity, great in territorial extent, great in her history, great in the character of her people, but greatest of all in the magnificent foundations that are laid for the educational and social advancement of her children. Standing at the head of all her educational institutions, is her splendid State University, whose open doors invite not only her sons, but her daughters as well, to enter and enjoy the privileges and opportunities so bountifully provided. No narrow, exclusive system of education here shuts out her daughters from the enjoyment of a civilization for which they have in a thousand ways shown themselves capable of receiving.
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The Gleed-Greer Wedding.
The bride, supported by her father, Mr. Channing Brown, was joined by the groom, who entered from the south door with his groomsman, Mr. Dix Spencer, under the bridal bell, which had been formed of cedar, golden-rod and sun flowers, and suspended over the chancel rail.
The marriage service of the Episcopal church was beautifully read by Rev. Robert Talbot, of Kansas City, after which the bridal procession, accompanied by a few of the immediate relatives of the bride and groom, wended its way to the home of the bride's parents. A shower of congratulations, a hearty good speed, and Mr. and Mrs. Gleed are away on their bridal tour, which will be an extended one east.
Topeka Capital: No more pleasant task has ever fallen to our lot this summer than to record the marriage of Mr. J. Willis Gleed and Miss Grace Greer, which was solemnized in Grace cathedral last evening. The ceremony was particularly beautiful and impressive, and the auxiliary arrangements elaborate and harmonious throughout. Precisely at the appointed time the organ, under Mr. R. W. Vincent's able control, pealed for the strains of "The Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin, announcing the arrival of the bridal party. The ushers, Mr. Pliny Soper, of Quincy, Ill., Mr. E. G. Welch, of Frank Bonebrake, Mr. Will McFerran, Mr. A. H. Connelly and Mr. Dell Keizer, were followed in pairs by the bridesmaids, Miss Dunlap, of Las Vegas; Miss Nena Quade, of Lyons; Miss Ruth Emery, of St. Joseph; Miss Clyde Davis, Miss Berta Thompson and Miss Mamie Smith, forming a half circle in front of the chancel, the beautiful white dresses of the ladies making a picturesque contrast with the regulation black of the gentlemen. The perfume of flowers and the strains of sweet music mingled with the flood of earnest hopes and sincere wishes that swelled up from the hearts of four hundred of our bravest sons and fairest daughters, filling the little church with an atmosphere of love and beauty that did honor to this happy and popular young couple, and shall in years to come hover over them like a benediction.
We quote the following for the benefit of new students and others, from the pages of the Lawrence Evening Tribune:
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