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THE WEEKLY University Courier.
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A. L. ADAMS,
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HARRY SMITH, Editor-in-Chief
W. S. JENKS, '87
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G. W. HARBINGTON, '87
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In this "age of ink" when the greatest and the best thoughts of the world are placed in our possession through the medium of the "press," it is necessary for every person who would make a permanent impress upon society, to learn how to push the pen.
It is not too much to say that among the many advantages connected with the University, none are more beneficial than the opportunities offered for engaging in literary work. The publication of four magazines and one weekly paper by the students of the University is a fact full of significance. It seems to throw some light on the question as to who shall mould the public sentiment in the State of Kansas twenty years from now. If we are rightly informed the opportunities offered for literary culture in the University of Kansas are not inferior to the advantages in a like direction of any college in the United States. Yet despite all these opportunities—almost forced upon the students of the University—only comparatively small numbers take advantage of them.
It may be that the small number engaged in journalistic work neglect to some extent important class room work, yet the fact remains that the great mass of the students are neglecting a more important literary work. Let us see a change in this respect. The columns of the Courier are always open and contributions will be thankfully received.
--well as religion itself. A fruitful source of irreligion is mutual denunciation among sects. Nobody knows how to teach morality effectively without religion. In the class room the teachers can demonstrate that science is creating a very spiritual idea of God, and that there is no real incompatibility between religion and science."
President Elliot, of Harvard, made the following sound remarks in his debate with Dr. McCosh, of Princeton:
"What is the advantage of the unsectarian college? I answer that under its wings all forms of religion are safe. It offers security against any attack on a student's faith. Voluntary activity in religious matters is stimulated. When young men make a choice it is a conscious one. They learn that the doctrines and rules of living common to all sects have more practical importance than the doctrines about which sects differ.
What, on the other hand, are the disadvantages of an unsectarian college? It is asserted that it loses influence through want of support by any sect. It appears to be indifferent to religion. It does not know truth from error. There is a fallacy in these assertions. One may enthusiastically believe a doctrine, and yet be opposed to forcing it upon another. Toleration does not mean indifference. Religious liberty does not mean that interest in religion is extinguished. A national college in America must be tolerant. In all colleges students should be taught to respect even the forms of religion, as
Perhaps there is no branch of education which will add so much to the general culture of an individual as a knowledge of the correct pronunciation of words. And yet in our whole system of education there is no branch which receives so little attention. Students enter the University wholly ignorant of the pronunciation of the most common words, and what is worse, too many leave the University in full possession of this "blessed" ignorance.
No one can question the statement that this is a branch which is sadly neglected. Each professor engaged in what he considers the more weighty matters of his department, leaves this subject untouched. If any one questions these statements, let him take penile and tablet in hand and note the errors in pronunciation which he hears in a single day. He will be convinced by an argument much stronger than we can make in general terms.
It is indeed a matter of surprise that students so far advanced in other studies should know so little of Orthoepy, but yet when we consider that this is not taught as a regular study, and that it receives so little attention in connection with other studies, our surprise is not so great. And if we were to add the statement which can be truthfully made—that some of the professors themselves do not use the correct pronunciation of words common to their departments of study, we might consider the ignorance spoken of as quite natural and fully justified by the course of training.
In writing the above article we fear we have incurred the displeasure of some member of the faculty, yet before laying this paper aside in "righteous indignation," it might be well to look over the following list of words mispronounced by different professors in class room work within a period of four weeks, and in the hearing of a single student:
Lament-able
Ab-do-men (accent, second syllable).
Ap-pa-ra-tus (long a, third syllable).
Memoir (mem-wor).
Column (um, not "yum").
Squa-lor (long a).
Jug-ular (long u).
Sacrifice (fiz).
Exaggerate (egz-aj-er-ate).
Acoustics (a-cow-sticks).
Leisure (le-zhure).
Fully as many more words could be added to this list if space would permit.
It is probable that most of these errors occurred through carelessness, yet it may not be out of order to call attention to the fact that what instructors do through carlessness, pupils are only to read to follow as the truth.
It is unnecessary to say to the student that he should be careful in this respect, and cultivate a correct pronunciation. Make an acquaintance with Webster at an early date. Keep pencil and tablet at hand and note all words of whose pronunciation you are not positive; you will be repaid. It will take but little time and will add much culture. Try it.
The Pharmacy bill has passed the Senate by a vote of 23 to 11. Hurrah!
Of the twelve Seniors who were suspended from Ohio Wesleyan University for attending "Richard III," eight have showed their independence and good sense by not returning. Of this number S. R. Greer, F. P. Irvin, F. T. Pennington, E. D. Stout, Clarence Murphy and F. P. Blackford have enrolled at DePauw University; C. F. Hoover has entered Harvard, and M. G. Park has gone to Florida to regain his health. These Seniors, while home during their suspension, were advised by all their friends not to sign the "iron-clad pledge," so they returned at the close of last term and petitioned the faculty to relieve them from signing the pledge and accept instead an apology and a promise not to break the rule again. But since the faculty would not recognize their petition they determined not to re-enter. The loss of these students to the Ohio Wesleyan University can hardly be estimated, for not only has the university lost eight of the best students in the senior class and the most aggressive and spirited men in the school, but the fact of their leaving has discouraged others, and it now seems that these will be followed by another delegation at the close of the year. The withdrawal of the Seniors has been almost entirely the subject of conversation among the students of O. W. U. since the opening of the term, January 6, and their action is universally indorsed. Of those who withdrew, five are on the Transcript corps. In the fraternites Phi Kappa Psi loses one, Phi Gamma Delta two and Beta Theta Pi three.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
When will college faculties learn that st ud nts have some rights that they are bound to respect? Ohio Wesleyan is one of the most prosperous and munificently endowed educational institutions in the West, and last year had over 600 students. The faculty is composed of gentlemen from whom this piece of sickning tyranny and bigotry would hardly be expected. But as is usually the case when churchmen have power that can not be called in question, they use it to further their own prejudices. It makes no difference how silly or nonsensical they may be, viewed in the light of every day common sense, they will enforce them to the last extreme. We doubt not that if the wise gentlemen who compose the faculty of O. W. U. had sufficient power they would have punished the boys who had the hardihood to desire to study the great masters of the English tongue, with the bastinade or stock, as was the beautiful custom when priests ruled the world. But thanks to the advance of civilization, this is impossible, and as is plainly evident from the above clipping, the worthy gentlemen will not go scott free, although there is no higher authority that can, in personam, call them to account. The public press and public opinion will perhaps awaken them from their dream to the fact that they are living in the nineteenth century, and among nine tenths of enlightened people, the study of Shakespeare is considered proper.
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We are glad that DePauw has taken them in, and we hope that she may reap the full benefit. Although a sectarian school, the management is evidently directed by men who appreciate the spirit of the age and do not still imagine that they are living in the time when it was considered a sin of the deepest dye to even read a play. They are evidently not like the minister, who, finding a copy of Shakespeare in the library of John Wesley after his death, cast it on the floor, and seizing the fire tongs threw it into the fire with holy horror.
SAINTS AND SINNERS.
The pilfering carried on by Gillespie is not the first theivery of which the cloak room has been a victim. Some years ago, in the college babyhood of the present Seniors, the gloves and handkerchiefs took frequent occasion to stray away from overcoat pockets while their owners were absent in class-room. In vain were the lost articles advertised from the paste-bedaubed bulletin board—the strays never returned. Finally the Frenchman from Cork, Herr Brenen, who then lorded it as superintendent of buildings, started out as detective. This was a vocation for which he was eminently fitted. Concealing himself in a doorway one day, he caught the pickpocket rummaging the overcoats When the thief had finished his job Brenen stepped out square before him, pointing to the coats. Without a word on either side, the pocket lifter returned the plunder to its rightful place, and went out of the University never to return. Society wondered why it was that one of its most prominent and wealthy members departed so suddenly from town, but outside of Brenen and a few others no one ever knew the true reason.
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Why is it that the study of political economy is reserved for the last year of the college course, while Greek and Roman history is spread out as the first dish on the college bill of fare? Only a small proportion of our students ever get through the Senior year. Are the social and political laws taught in economics, which confront us every day of our lives, of so little importance that they are only to be imparted to the few, after all the other courses have been served? Is the story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf, and other like ancient fables, of such transcendent importance that they must be shoveled into the stomach of every fledgling the minute he enters the University? These are the questions which, in our deep and dense ignorance, we would like some one to rise and answer.
Patie p cake, patty cake, Baker's man,
Pat him and roll him as much as you can ;
Do all that you will, you only have shown it's
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The High School bill has passed the legislature. If our lawmakers had voted the University a hundred thousand dollars they would not have done so much for us as they have in this one act.
It seems to me the Review is woefully hard up for something to whine about, when it complains of the bad habit students have of calling each other by their front names. As a matter of fact, there are not half a dozen codgers in the University who are called by their given names; and nine times out of ten, a student's first name is not even known. I guess the Revie w man got his pantaloums on backward, that time.
I always believe in giving the devil his just dues, and am ever ready to commend any good work he is carrying on at his Baldwin Bakery. In conformity to this rule, I must say that the doughnuts have a far better lecture course than have we of K. S. U. While we have engaged lawyers and preachers almost unheard of outside of their own road-districts, the Bakerites have secured such eminent men as Joseph Cook, Bob Burdette, Rev. Neuman and Bain. It is doubtful if the Bakerites are old enough to comprehend what was being said to them, but even the visit of such prominent men is a big advertisement for an institution.
Speaking of lectures, the best ones]
we have had delivered in the University in years past were from our own professors. Another splendid feature of the olden days was the half-hour Friday morning chats on popular subjects, by various members of the faculty. Who that heard them will ever forget Prof. Snow's entertaining talks on hygene, Prof. Canfield's witty but impressive explanation of business forms, or long-legged, alphabetical Prof. Smith's disquisitions on astronomy, as he demonstrated the laws of heavenly bodies by his bony fingers and out-flapping arms. Those talks were free from the high flown, incomprehensible, terms of the text books, and did more to impress the students with the subjects they treated than did all the stultified recitations of the class room. I wish a lot of students would get together and tantalize the professors into repeating those Friday morning chats.
After all the cyclopedias, manuals and other compendiums of knowledge are taken into consideration, there is no book that approaches Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. The latest feature of the book is a one hundred paged supplement gazateer, and one of the most condensed and useful things of its kind I have ever seen. It even includes evey town in the Union of a thousand population. Such a book on a student's table is itself a library.
The next appropriation asked for by the regents should be for an increase of salary for our professors. This should come before the observatory, the library or any addition to the natural history building. Nothing speaks the low educational plane on which we stand, better than the steadiness with which paltry salaries have been doled out to our professors year after year. It is no argument to say that they will remain with us at the present rate of pay. Even if they would, which is by no means certain, it is a poor commentary on the state. If the wages of teaching in the University are to be held down, one of two things must inevitably follow; either the professors will cease to strive for better work, which brings no corresponding compensation, or else they will work solely for higher reputations which will take them to other colleges. Brains, not stone walls, make a University. And if the regents are wise they will in the future pay more for teacher's work and less for the stone mason's. Smith.
Kansas Pharmacy Examining Board.
The following named gentlemen have been chosen to act as the Pharmacy Examining Board created by the law establishing the department of Pharmacy in the State University: J. P. Allen, Wichita; Arthur E. Barnes, Topeka; R. J. Brown, Leavenworth; Geo. Leis, Lawrence, and W. C. McPike of Atchison. The members will hold a meeting and complete an organization about the middle of March.
Correction.
In last week's issue of the COURIER appeared an article sharply criticising Mr. Fricker, the manager of the omnibus line in this city. Since then we have learned that the criticism was due one of the drivers on the omnibus line, who was pointed out to us as Mr. Fricker. We take pleasure in making this correction, that the injustice done Mr. Fricker may as far as possible be rectified. The fact still remains, however, that ungentlemanly drivers are a poor investment.
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