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With the proper facilities for heating, Snow Hall could be used next winter.
Roscoe CONKLING will deliver the eulogy on Grant, before Congress, some time in March.
THE matter of the establishment of a class of Spanish in K. S. U. should not be allowed to flag. It is needed.
The Law classes in their most court are doing the most thorough work done in the department since its establishment.
--of the languages required for admission to our Freshman class, are calling for some relation with the University which will enable them to send students without entrance examinations, prepared in all English studies. Since we have retained all our preparatory language classes, this relation will be of obvious mutual advantage. Thus the discontinuance of a large part of our preparatory course has stimulated the graded and high schools in various parts of the State to the manifest advantage of many, even, who do not hope to attend the University. We take pleasure also in saying that the condition of the University as at present administered, is such as to leave little to be desired. The professors are earnest, energetic, ambitious, sustaining the most cordial relations with the students."
CAN secret societies and the litera-ary societies of K. S. U. much longer exist together in the same institution? is becoming a very prominent question of late. If not, which must go first?
--of the languages required for admission to our Freshman class, are calling for some relation with the University which will enable them to send students without entrance examinations, prepared in all English studies. Since we have retained all our preparatory language classes, this relation will be of obvious mutual advantage. Thus the discontinuance of a large part of our preparatory course has stimulated the graded and high schools in various parts of the State to the manifest advantage of many, even, who do not hope to attend the University. We take pleasure also in saying that the condition of the University as at present administered, is such as to leave little to be desired. The professors are earnest, energetic, ambitious, sustaining the most cordial relations with the students."
A mull has been introduced into the Legislature to provide further facilities for the department of pharmacy. It asks $1,000 for furnishing supplies and $600 for the professors' salary. The balance of the salary is made up by the State Board of Pharmacy.
--of the languages required for admission to our Freshman class, are calling for some relation with the University which will enable them to send students without entrance examinations, prepared in all English studies. Since we have retained all our preparatory language classes, this relation will be of obvious mutual advantage. Thus the discontinuance of a large part of our preparatory course has stimulated the graded and high schools in various parts of the State to the manifest advantage of many, even, who do not hope to attend the University. We take pleasure also in saying that the condition of the University as at present administered, is such as to leave little to be desired. The professors are earnest, energetic, ambitious, sustaining the most cordial relations with the students."
REPRESENTATIVE ROBERTS has introduced a bill in the Legislature providing that the weights and measures received from the United States by the State University shall be placed in charge of the Chancellor, and shall be used as the sole authorized public standard of weights and measures.
THERE are but three college dailies in existence: The Yale News, the Harvard Crimson, and the Cornell Sun, founded respectively in 1878, 1879, and 1880. The Princetonian is published every other day, but the project of issuing a daily at Princeton is now being agitated.
THE University must send a large delegate to the State contest at Topeka with its victor of the oratory contest to night. Beaten out of it last year, K. S. U. must have the State victory this year. A good delegation will lend encouragement to the representative. Begin the agitation thereon at once.
The withering, impenetrable, social clanism formed by the secret society system in K. S. U. is, to the unprejudiced mind, something terrible to contemplate. The most dissipated young men in our school clearly belong to secret societies, yet they are given social prestage over young men who, morally, are as "Light to Darkness." It should be broken.
THERE is nothing in a man that is so much admired by all classes, and which adds so much to his success and happiness in life, as pleasing manners. A pleasant address is the key that opens the door of the best society; it is the "mantle that covers a multitude of sins;" it is the attraction that wins friends and disarms enemies. Although a man may lack education and wealth, if he has that true politeness which comes from a careful consideration for the rights and wishes of others, he may be sure of a hearty greeting wherever he goes. People are apt to judge of the character of the man more by his style, than by his intellectual ability.
Orophilian constitution, as amended, makes attendance at one of two roll calls per session compulsory. Four successive absences brings disfranchisement. The society, under its compulsory attendance provisions, is in the most flourishing condition since the organization. The amendment is an improvement; the former clause, while all right in its intent, was impracticable.
INTER STATE ORATORICAL CONTEST.
This year our school has been favored by the Inter-State Oratorical Association with its annual contest. Among those who will visit us on that event will be some of the brightest and most influential students of colleges of the States combined in the association. From their impressions, formed while here, our school will receive a great deal of advertising for better or worse, in the colleges represented. Let behooves us to take the matter in hand at once and begin necessary arrangements for the accommodations, and attention generally, which should be extended. Let the matter be attended to in no "half way" manner. Let the local organization take action at once for the appointment of necessary committees to plan all, and make provision for funds necessary to make the event one long to be remembered by every contestant and delegate who visits our city.
THERE is a time in the college life of nearly every student when, first realizing the benefits of "outside work," he is inclined to slight classroom work. A large number yield to this incitation. Forgetful that they are not geniuses, these persons choose as their pattern those who, having some special ability, slightened their general college work. They forget that the class of eniment men who received low standing while in college is small and composed of those who either now bewail their lack of thoroughness, or who, having some special ability, and attending to some special line of work, perfected themselves in that.
It is claimed that the "outside work" is as difficult as the regular college work. Admitting this, it is still the plea of a lazy man, for in nine cases out of ten that outside work, even though it may be more difficult, is much more congenial than the dull routine of the recitation room.
It is needless to reiterate the arguments for and against such work. The saying, tho' true, has become trite, that nothing can compensate for thorough class work. But it is exceedingly necessary to guard against the seductive approaches of that vicious and destructive idea, that because some great men have been poor students, it is only necessary to do likewise in order also to be great. This statement (that successful men were mostly poor students) is one of those half truths that are worse than lies. It is utterly falacious and false.
Pres. Porter has well said, "That those college arrangements are the best which prepare a man to meet all the exigencies of daily life and will not let him off.
REGENT'S REPORT.—The board of regents submitted the following report to Governor Martin in view of the prescht session of the legislature:
"The condition of the University has not materially changed since the regular biennial report, which was presented one year ago. The prosperity of the institution, and its steady advance in academic and professional instructions then noted still continue. There is a marked increase in the number of students in collegiate courses, and in the departments of law, pharmacy and music; though, as we expected, there has been a decrease in the enrollment in the preparatory classes. The discontinuance, also, of the Normal department, as required by the Legislature at its last session, has caused a decrease in the number of our students. These changes, we believe, will be of ultimate advantage to the University, and to the people of the State. Among these advantages we may note the fact that there has been a marked advance made by the high schools, and a more general desire among them to do work preparatory for the University. Even those graded and high schools into which it is impossible as yet to introduce the study
The amount necessary for the prosecution of the work of the department of pharmacy for the year is $3,600.
There is a Senior at Yale who is over 50 years of age.
THE COLLEGE WORLD.
Thirteen American colleges are said to be looking for presidents.
The University of the Pacific is the oldest chartered college in California.
At Trinity College, each Senior, before graduation, is required to write a poem of 100 lines.
Since Dr. McCosh has been president, $5,000,000 has been donated to Princeton.
Harvard is now considering a proposition to shorten the length of their course to three years.
It is reported that the alumni of Yale are raising a fund of $100,000 for the purpose of building for her the finest gymnasium in the world.
At the University of Virginia there is said to be no regular prescribed course of study, no extrance examinations, no vacations, except the summer one, and but six holidays.
President Holden, of the California State University receives a salary of $8,000—$5,000 as president and $1,000 as director of the Lick Observatory.
be, that which would cause him to dress less extravagantly lest he should meet some classmate who could ill afford an expensive suit, and who would feel ashamed at the comparison in dress.
At an election in the Freshman class at Ann Arbor, held recently, it took forty-seven ballots to elect a president, at one ballot 280 votes being cast when there were only 170 in the room. Ten young ladies were nominated for vice president.
There were scenes of the wildes excitement in Oberlin College at one o'clock on the morning of January 8. At that hour the flames burst through the third story of Ladies' Hall, a brick structure connected with the college, and in which 150 female and 100 male students were accommodated. The girls were soundleep when the alarm was raised, and when they were awakened they rushed from their rooms into the streets, clad simply in their night garments. The weather was intensely cold, and it was difficult to get water into the building. The hall was completely destroyed. The loss on the structure and contents is placed at $50,000. The students on the upper floors lost all their effects. So far as we can learn nobody was injured.
STUDENTS' DRESS.—We clip the following from the Press and Badge, of Madison, Wisconsin: "It seems that students are no exception to the general world in acknowledging the absolute sway of Fashion. The question of dress in the University has never been discussed at any length and the manner of dress has been gradually affected until a tendency has been established that unless checked will run to an extreme and work great injustice to a majority of the students. It is a matter of justice, not of charity, that students should recognize that in the University the entire body of students constitutes their social circle. All students are by force of nature exclusive in the selection of intimate associates. But such is the nature of college life that socially they cannot be entirely should recognize on all occasions the rights of all students. In the matter of dress for public or social occasions it is a most decidedly selfish spirit that causes the student to wear such and, such, because he will outshine his classmate who cannot afford to dress so expensively. The true spirit should
Within the past few years it has become an unwritten law that the student should graduate in a Prince Albert, and it is a fact without question that this has been a hardship to many students, yet what student will withstand the temptation to deprive himself of necessary articles in order that he may appear before his friends at Commencement, as well arrayed as his classmates? Still the Prince Albert coat is a sensible coat, and is useful after graduation. But now society dictates that the antique 'claw-hammer' shall reign—a garment without sense and without beauty, the imbecile masterpiece of foppish ingenuity. But it is not our purpose to write a tirade against the 'claw-hammer', the person who wears the coat is accountable for the taste. What we wish we could prevent is any further introduction of it into college society. Under the present tendency we may soon expect to see our Seniors mounting the platform in a 'claw-hammer'. Then it will be demanded at college rhetoricals and so on down, until when they get a little rusty we may expect to meet them as they meander towards Ladies' Hall on Saturday afternoons and later following up the melanchohy conch on a stillly eve. The fact is, the 'claw-hammer' is entirely out of form in nearly ever university social affair, and can be omitted in good taste from every one. Gentlemen who array themselves in a 'claw-hammer,' and then call for their ladies without carriages plead either ignorance or poverty, neither of which harmonizes with their raiment. A good business suit is, and ought to be, good enough for college society. Because a fellow-student is not burdened with heaps of gold is no reason why he should be denied all the benefits arising from university association, and this is certainly the near result of present tendencies. Gentility does not always wander around decked out in 'claw-hammers' and patent leatherers. We come here to learn, not to dress, and if we learn cleanliness, neatness and generous regard for others' interests, we need not be alarmed but that all sensible people, those whose good opinions we care for, will recognize us as gentlemen.
EXCHANGE.
University of California has decided on the following yell: "Ha ha ha! Californian! Boom! Ti-ra-da!" —"Occident."
The True Educator, published at South Lancaster, Mass., has for its motto, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."
The Lombard Review is one of our best exchanges. It encourages a spelling reform, and has a good article on James Russell Lowell.
The Vidette Reporter publishes this week the oration of J. L. Tecters, which took second honors in the oratorical contest at Iowa City, Iowa. Iago is the subject, and it is a very fine production.
The University Voice is our largest weekly exchange. It contains reports from all colleges of high standing in Ohio and adjoining states. It is certainly an enterprissheet.
The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity has entered Ann Arbor University with a chapter of eleven men.—The University Voice.
The fraternities of Ohio Weslyan University are preparing for a Pan Hellenic banquet.
The following is from the catalogue of the University of Missouri; "The dress of a young woman should be simple. Simplicity in dress, right in itself is peculiarly becoming in a student for it saves time, money and thought to be concentrated to higher uses. Therefore, to avoid extravagance and disarm criticism all young ladies attending the University are required to adopt as their daily attire: a walking suit of
black alpaca with trimming of the same color. At stated times, a white waist may be substituted for the black one. The style of the hat will be announced at the beginning of each year. Each young woman must be provided with a water-proof cloak, with an umbrella, and with rubber overshoes." The University Voice.
VIEWS
I would respectfully call the attention of the disher up of etiquette who unloads a stale installment in your last issue, to the fact that I think he is mistaken. For this, in and of itself, he is of course not to be held culpable, for "humanum sat errae." The blame in the matter lies in its flagrancy, and in the absence of due reflection before the forming of a judgment.
I am perfectly willing to take off my hat to the gentleman's superior powers of observation. But my opportunities have been at least as numerous, and I know I have used them to the best of my ability; and I want to stand up and place on record my candid conviction that the gentleman is conservative to the verge of misrepresentation. He must have conducted his observation in a sphere very far removed from my own, which nevertheless embraces the majorpart of University life; for I am compelled in justice to the young ladies of K. S. U. to say that I never saw one out of fifty behave in a manner obnoxious to the most fastidious decorum. As to their taking the gentlemen's arm, or vice versa, that is by no means arbitrary, and all local regulations governing the matter must necessarily obtain. And the gentleman's fastidious friend knows it. Indeed, if any complaint can be made on any score more than another, it is in the very opposite direction. I hold it to be incontrovertibly true that the average student leaves the University after two or more years attendance upon terms of intimacy with comparatively few indeed.
I am heartily glad to agree with the gentleman upon one point—his censure of boys smoking in the presence of ladies. If there be one test for detecting an ill-bred bore more efficacious than another, it is this. The true gentleman will no more walk down the steet with a lady for whom he entertains any regard or respect whatever with a cigar in his mouth, than he will accost her in boisterous language or commit any other act of etiquetical deprivacy.
I cordially agree with the gentleman in his assertion that woman is every way the intellectual equal of man. But I do not think it would be an advisable measure to admit them to an oratorical contest unless it be one in which all the contestants were girls. It is indisputably true that youth and beauty would be a potent magnet to which the sensitive needle of judges' decision would be irresistibly attracted This is true, and in the very nature of things. Impartiality is something essentially impossible and not to be expected in such a case. Human nature laughs at judges, rules. In such a victory there would rest no honor, and in such a defeat there would be no disgrace
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The gentleman's attack upon the "startling innovation," introduced by one of the new professors in the matter of students' grades, was characterized by an aggravated misstatement of the case, and a practiced facility in the substitution of fiction for fact. I, myself, belong to one of Prof. Willeo's classes, and I heard him expressly declare and reiterate the statement that the marks he had given us were merely temporary, and would be modified in harmony with the ultimate conclusion at which the faculty arrives. In view of this fact, I claim it is little short of intentional mimepresentation to accuse the professor of flagrant injustice. M.
Ed. VIEWS:—To-night the conventional half dozen embryo Websters will meet in the arena of a contest of wits. And there is little hope but that the ancient and conventional force of an imbecile decision of the judges. Of course, in the very nature of thougts, it is impossible to please everybody and a certain degree of dissatisfaction is unavoidable. But it is notoriously the fact, that it has been a long time since we have had a decision which was characterized by strictest impartiality, and which could go before an unbiased, intelligent audience wholly on its merits. There seems to be a radical mistake somewhere. I am inclined to locate the greatest mischief in those who have the choosing of the judges. There is always a certain degree of partizanism unavoidable where the committee on judges consists almost invariably of persons who are notoriously interested in certain particular contestants. I believe that right here lies the root of all the dissatisfaction so universally expressed, and that right here the matter cries louder for reform. Let the judgers be chosen by persons utterly free from personal or other interest in those who participate, by persons who don't care a snap who wins, provided, the best one; and when this is done the universal murmur will die down into a partisan growl which finds an responsive sympathy in unprejudiced individuals. For as long as human nature is true to itself, so long will partisan interest stand at the balance and throw its shield and buckler upon the trembling scale—Reform! M.
LOCAL.
This is a cold day for the chemistry students.
The Augio Saxon class read "Chaucer" next.
Miss Lucy Dix left last Monday for a visit in Kansas City.
Mrs. Sol. Marks has been enjoying a visit from her father for the past few days.
The Freshmen are bigly pleased (?) with the historical recreations given them by Prof. Canfield this week.
The Schubert Quartette visited the University last Monday morning, and expressed themselves as highly pleased.
A young man certainly has his hands full, if not a hack full, who engages the company of four young ladies for the same evening. For particulars see Dan Crew.
Scene (not the "Athens of Iowa.")
Student, (to servant at the door)
"Is Miss Brown in?" Servant, "She's engaged."
Student, "I know it,
I'm what she engaged to."
A symposium.
"R. H." in the *Meade* (Pa.) *Campus*, in speaking of the Teachers Association held at Topeka$^a$ said, concerning Prof. J. H. Canfield's address, "Were there space, a tale we could unfold as the president told it us, which would glue the eyes of the *Campus* reader to the paper. The lecture was, indeed, replete with perfect gems of thought and wonderful prognostications for the future. The grist of the whole was, the destinies of the twentieth century and the part of the teacher in moulding them.
The symposium on the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy at the University Wednesday afternoon attracted quite an audience of students and citizens. On account of the smallness of Groud hall, the chapel was used as a place of meeting.
With a few explanatory remarks Prof. Spring introduced Col. H. L. Moore, who proceeded to give his reasons for believing that Frances Bacon was the author of the plays commonly attributed to William Shakespeare. His principal argument was that Shakespeare had not the learning which must have been the possession of the man who wrote the plays. He claimed that it is ridiculous for us to believe the plays to have been written by one who was uneducated and reckless in his youth, who sprouted from the common vocabulary. He added the common argument of the Baconians as to the parallels to be found in the writings of Bacon and Shakespeare, and quoted Judge Holmes and other advocates of Lord Bacon as the author of the immoral drams.
Prof. Arthur Candell is a through believer in the "sweet swarm of Avon," and made a good argument as to the identity of him whose aliess lie in Stratford church as the creator of the beauties of Hamid and Lear.
Mr. J. D. S. Cook was the last speaker, and was listened to with close attention. He, too, is a thorough believer in Winnebago history and made a masterly account in his favor.
Those who took the trouble to climb Mt. Oread felt well repaid for their pain, and should similar symposiums be held they probably could call out still larger numbers.
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