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THE WEEKLY University Courier.
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY THE COURIER COMPANY. For Kansas University Students.
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A. L. ADAMS,
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Secretary.
Last Friday morning Prof. James H. Canfield, in/befalf of the graduates of the Normal department, presented Dr. Williams with a life certificate in the National Teachers' Association. Dr. Williams was taken wholly by surprise, but expressed his thanks in a neat speech. The Doctor is one of the most popular and well known teachers in the state. He is at present president of the State Teachers' Association.
It should not be forgotten that physical development is a very important factor in determining one's success in life. Thousands of young men start in life with brilliant prospects, but before they have reached middle life their strength is broken down and they are compelled to halt with life half lived. A collegiate education is of little value to one who is unable to use it. More than this, the relation between one's mind and body is so intimate that neither can be fully developed without the development of the other. If one wishes to acquire a strong, hopeful mind, he must exercise. Cramp the body and you cramp the mind. Half the cynicism and pessimism of the world can be traced to a dried up, antiquated body; creeds and dogmas are but the outward manifestations of a disordered liver. This is no patent medicine advertisement; we only wish to call attention to the fact that the students should take more exercise. We have no gymnasium or
Arbor day should be generally observed by all the public schools and colleges in the state. If there is any one part which more than all others relating to material welfare should be kept constantly before the people of the state, it is the great necessity of forestry culture. Professor Canfield has a most excellent lecture on that subject, which every student should hear. We hope arrangements can be made to have the lecture delivered before the students next Thursday.
other facilities possessed by eastern institutions, but we have a good campus and plenty of fresh air. It is to be hoped that every student will use these to the extent of his opportunities.
Arbor Day Proclamation.
STATE OF KANSAS.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Topeka, March 12, 1886.
To the People of Kansas:
A quarter of a century ago Kansas was described as a treeless prairie. To-day the state is dotted with forrests. The planting and growth of trees has not only diversified the beautiful landscape, but has modified the climate, increased the rainfall, and improved the agricultural productivity of Kansas.
It is important that tree-planting shall continue from year to year. Stenstone truly says that "the works of a person that builds begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve."
THEOREM, I. John A. Martin, governor of Kansas, did hereby set apart Thursday, April 1, 1886, as Arbor day, and respectfully ask that it be observed as a general holiday. County, city and township officers are requested to urge a general and practical observation of the day.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state. Done at Topeca, this 12th day of March, A. D. 1886, and of the state the twenty-sixth year.
By the Governor:
JNO. A. MARTIN
E. B. ALLEN,
Secretary of State.
By W. T. CAVANAUGH,
Assistant Secretary of State
--the son-in-law of a prophet, I still want to predict that the vocation that is going to offer the best opportunities for the future is electric engineering. The new discoveries that are being made about that pesky force—electricity—and the uses to which it can be put, seem almost without end. Experts in electricity science will be valuable.
The social advantages offered to the students of the University are among its most commendable features. The student who neglects these opportunities for social culture makes a great mistake.
A man may be as intellectual as Socrates, but if he has no social culture he will labor at a great disadvantage. He will find that the world is cold and formal and slow to recognize his true worth. But, say some one, "How can I go into society? I have no money and, besides, my clothes are not good enough." This is a mistake made by a great many students. They seem to think that one of the requisites for entrance into good society is a large bank account and an abundance of broadcloth. The truth is, however, that the amount of money which a student has, cuts a very small figure in University society. In fact, some of the most prominent students and leaders in society are comparatively poor. The only requisites demanded by society are neatness and gentlemanly deportment. This is not too much to ask of any student; yet it is more than some students think that they can give. We not unfrequently hear complaints of aristocracy in the University. For our own part we are glad that such a class exists, and that it is ready to receive additions to its number. A great many students who can now only boast of "golden mediocrity," might boast of golden aristocracy if they would only pay a little more attention to their personal appearance. If any one is not satisfied with the present aristocracy of the University let him start an aristocracy of his own.
1. Take a bath tub full of H2O., add soap, apply freely with special reference to ears. 2. Take ammonia, apply freely to coat collar.
In the forming of his aristocracy he will find the following receipt of much value :
3. Take blacking and apply to shoes, add brush in proper quantities. 4. Take brush, add to teeth. 5. Take a general "cleaning up."
If to these suggestions of the receipt he will get his cuffs and collars "done up" at the laundry instead of by some fifth-rate washwoman, he will be ready to start his aristocracy. Then exercising good common sense and gentlemanly deportment, he will be sure to receive a large and worthy following.
The current number of the North American Review contains an article on "American Landlordism," by Henry Strong. In answer to the article by Thomas P. Gill, M. P., which appeared in the January number of the Review, the writer presents figures which show that the would-be reformer was wholly mistaken in his assumption that landlordism is increasing, and that the land is getting into the hands of a landed aristocracy.
From the census reports of the last twenty years the writer shows that the tendency is towards an increase in the number of farms and a proportionate decrease in the number of acres in each. The following table shows the number of farms in states, east, south and west, for the years 1860, 1870 and 1880, respectively:
This would seem to explode the theory of Mr. Gill, Henry George and other "weeping pilgrims," and show that they had shed all their tears for nothing. However, to clinch the argument the writer presents another table showing the number of acres in the average farm for the last three decades in twelve representative states.
1860. 1870. 1880.
New York ... 136 000 216 000 241 000
Illinois ... 143 000 202 000 355 000
Iowa ... 61 000 116 000 185 000
Nebraska ... 2 781 12 000 63 387
Texas ... 42 000 61 000 174 000
Georgia ... 62 000 69 000 135 000
| | 1860 | 1870 | 1880. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| New York | 106 | 105 | 99 |
| Pennsylvania | 109 | 103 | 93 |
| Connecticut | 99 | 93 | 80 |
| Alabama | 346 | 222 | 30 |
| Arkansas | 245 | 154 | 128 |
| Georgia | 430 | 328 | 188 |
| Iowa | 165 | 134 | 134 |
| Louisiana | 536 | 247 | 171 |
| Mississippi | 370 | 193 | 156 |
| Virginia | 324 | 246 | 167 |
| Illinois | 146 | 128 | 124 |
| Texas | 590 | 301 | 208 |
Continuing his argument Mr. Strong shows that the notion that the number of mortgaged farms is increasing is wholly wrong. As a practical business man he asserts that "the number of mortgaged farms is diminishing even more rapidly than the diminution in the area of individual land holdings."
In proof of this he cites the fact that many corporations unable to get farm loans have withdrawn their money and are seeking other investments. Having spoken, as he says, from inductive argument, he changes his position and presents "the a priori probabilities." He shows that it is unprofitable to invest money in land unless one works the land himself. "The landed estates of England, formed by proxy, do not pay two per cent.
The article is so complete an answer to much of the grumbling which we hear from time to time, that we hope every student will take occasion to read it in full. The figures are worthy of preservation.
SAINTS AND SINNERS.
A friendly correspondent, writing of poetry, says: "Whenever the divine alliatus gets in its work, don't fail to give us the benefit." We extend a like invitation to all readers of the Courier Whenever the spirit moves, place your thoughts on paper and hand to the Courier for publication. Make this a paper of the students as well as for the students.
--the son-in-law of a prophet, I still want to predict that the vocation that is going to offer the best opportunities for the future is electric engineering. The new discoveries that are being made about that pesky force—electricity—and the uses to which it can be put, seem almost without end. Experts in electricity science will be valuable.
So far I have not heard a breath about the publication of an annual this year. The Kikkabe and the Cyclone left unpleasant impressions, and there is no manifest desire to repeat the enterprises which produced so much inflicthy. The Kikkabe succeeded in kicking up a furious row in the University, a fortunate occurrence for the publishers, as the row stimulated people into buying the thing. The following year the Cyclone, a production of brotherly love came out and was a practical failure. It contained too much sugar and too little spice. The manager learned, as has the manager of every University publication, that pepper is the best ingredient a college paper can contain; in fact, about the only kind of seasoning the students relish. The annual magazine was chiefly intended as a fraternity advertiser, anyway, and the fraternities concluded that advertising which emptied their treasures and brought no appreciable returns of any kind, was bad business.
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I am not one of those who imagine that a newspaper is published for my special benefit, and that what I don't enjoy reading is necessarily poor matter. There is one class of stuff, though, in which it seems to me impossible for anybody to get any enjoyment, and that is the Frenchified description of toilets one so frequently sees. How the reporter manages to go so far beneath the surface and picture garments denied ordinary vision, is to me a huge mystery; but that is probably because I don't understand French. Any way, here is a morsel from the description of costumes worn at a late wedding: "'She wore a pearl crepe de soie dress, a chinese of pearl colored crepe, corsage of moyen age, mousseline de soie sleeves, an aumonie covered with jewels, and a low caplita hat'"
The dickens of the whole thing is that I don't understand the little wee bit of English that has crept into the article, and that is where the writer speaks of the lady having a dress with "a moral train." Being of an inquisitive disposition, I'm willing to give six bits if some one will confidentially explain to me the difference between a moral and an immoral train. The Courier is a religious paper, and I want to keep on the side of morality, particularly of the "moral train."
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One of the anomalies of the present time is that men can anywhere be found to strike when there are so many thousand impecunious, open-jawed, lynx-eyed, craving men anxious to step into their shoes. The number of unemployed people desirous of work is positively astound ding. Any one is badly fooled if he thinks his own vocation is the only over crowded one. The teacher, for instance, who applies for a school and finds there are seventy other candidates electionering, fighting, scrambling and underbidding each other, is apt to think his path would be clearer through some other pasture-lot of life. But it wouldn't. From street-digger to U. S. senator, the contest is equally bitter, the vacancies equally few, the applicants equally numerous. A party of engineering students called on Chief Engineer Kingman, of the Santa Fe, on contest day, to ascertain how many choice openings offered in his department. They were not set in ecstasies by his reply that no vacancies existed, and that he could within an hour get a substitute for every man in his employ. The wise individual just now will take whatever he can get and stick to whatever he has.
Not pretending to be a prophet nor
Since my squibs above were in type, Arthur Adams drops in to talk me that he has been offered, and helps with celerity accepted, a position as assistant division engineer on the C. B. & Q. R. R. This leads me to say that the boys who have taken the engineering course in K. S. U. have on the whole, fared better in the world than those from any other department. In fact, the northeast corner of Mother Oread's loft conceals great big pile of thorough work—work that seldom disports itself with much *eclat* in the University, but tells mighty well when the boys get out into this rough-and-tumble land of the striped flag.
A kind of employment which serves a very opportune purpose for a goodly number of University boys during the blistering summer days, is institute teaching. In fact, there isn't much other work offered in the war of a one or two month's summer job at which a fellow can earn his salo. Yet, how overdone is this field of labor after all! I'll bet a curl from Rob Curdy's Hyperion books that there isn't a county superintendent in this Jayhawker state of ours who hasn't on file from a dozen to a score of applications from would-be institute instructors.
I was shown one of these applications recently by a friend who occupies the position of county superintendent in one of our most prosperous counties. The letter was a masterpiece of literature which I ought to have taken down verbatim et iteration for my COURIER readers, but I didn't think of it at the time. I think, however, I can give the salient points. The letter ran like this, barring the poor spelling, which I can't recall: "My Dear Sir: I have heard that you might want some one to run your institute next summer, and would like to say if you do I am your man and will do it for you as cheap as the next one or anybody else. I have taught school considerable and have been at a number of these institutes and know just how they go. Am five feet four inches tall, blue eyes and a dignified presents who knows how to command. Now being as I will be at liberty just about your time I wont ask you more than thirty-five dollars and my board. Wont you please do me the favor to write right off and if you have already got your man perhaps you know some other good place where such as I could get a place to teach and I can give the very best recommendations both as to my character and ability for doing such work as to teach in institutes or anywhere else that needs a first rate capable man."
Fra Diavola, Auber's delightful opera, is to be presented in Lawrence for the first time, by the Boston Ideals, next Monday night, and will undoubtedly catch a large coterie of students. The opera is full of perilous incidents, particularly the toilet scene of the bed-chamber in the second act, where Zerlina, the heroine, disobes singing; :
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Here's no cause, I fancy, for sigging.
When one boasts such a figure as this
During this scene the young man who brought his best girl generally clutches his chair with breathless trepidation, fearing something may "happen." The Boston Ideals possess to a charming degree what is now considered unnecessary in comic opera—voices. I predict a big and fashionable audience, including, of course, a full delegation of the Sinners.
SMITH.
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