Social Department.
CUPID DARTS.
Through the unnatural state of atmospherical affairs or some other unknown cause our "Cupid Dart" wire has been in such bad week that in spite of efforts to secure sufficient make even a presentable this column we failed.
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MELVILLE - Saturday
Charles Mellville being
visit from St. Paul, Min.
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his home on Ohio street
the evening hours in a mule
manner. Music, dart
playing, and social game
made all as merry as mas
Among those present wore
Powell, Misses Ada Taylor,
Nettie Littell, Mishaw,
Clara Poehler, Je
Flora Leis, May Church
Worthington, Mattie Run
Palmer, Mrs. and M
Waverley, Kan. Messas.
Ier, Frank Churchill, Rick
Charle Slutter, Burch.
Charles Mellville, St. Pa.
Fred. Morris.
USHER GUARDS—The social event of the season ball given by company H. Thomas night. The boys dwell wall with beautiful design green and flags were if every side. “Camp adorned the stage, and with a graceful Christmas trunk with shining lights, pany's flag was suspend of the camp, and the endi one perfect scene of berriment. A very large crowd was present, and qber from neighboring cit of the festivities. Some elegant costumes ever wore were noticed. Detined until the early moe the jolly crowd dispensing one of the most evenings of their lives. affair was a grand sun socially and financially, a receive the unanimous pl pleasure loving people joyable entertainments provided. The followers were present: Misses Erin Fannie Carmane, Nellie Bassett, Belle Roberts, Fr Carrie Levy, May Web Mallison, Nellia Brown, Lena Board, Georgia Gill Crew, Ella Williamson, B EVa Headley, Mattie Heshaw, May Porter, St Elia Hynes, Minnie We Steinberg, Minnie and Mison of Topeka, Clara G Messrs. L. Lewis, Will Chase, Stone, Herb, B Levy, Clarence Headley, Harry Riggs, Geo. An Fluke, Frank Haskell, J baugh, Lee Letter, Hard Chesa, Meyer, Howard D Bayne, Will Pitzer, Ben Akers, C. E. Davis, ley, Max Strassa, Geo. Le Hignbotham, of Topeka, A Harrie Hubbel, Harper P McCague, Dick Horton, O Dan Kennedy, C. Cramer J. E. Parke and wife, O. wife, John Barber and Tracy and wife, N. Gosli A. McCoy and wife, W. derson, of Topeka Mrs. amyer. The boys prom of these delightful bat Years eve, for which a fit from Kansas City will music. To this society forward with pleasure.
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GREENAMYER - Quite the friends of Clara were very pleasantly her home on last Sat in honor of her cousins
May Anderson, of Topoka. Music, cards and dancing furnished the entertainment. During the evening Miss May favored the company with some of her choice selections and rendered them in a very excellent manner. Miss Anderson is a grad. Director of Education.
Horse.—The fair maidens and gallant lads of the Lawrence high school assembled Monday evening at the House mansion on the occasion of a reception given by the Delta Tau Alpha fraternity at which a very enjoyable time is reported. An abundant moment was served and all
STUDENTS! THE LAWRENCE HOUSE,
Miss Francis Deane the well known and highly respected young colored lady of the city schools was Tuesday night united in matrimony with Prof. Buckner, of the Topea schools.
Tha Tahaw Coast ball for New
Toothaker's Stable is the favorite Livery with the students. Hacks always in waiting
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--student gets weary it is impossible for him to do good work; it therefore makes vacation a necessity. And as the time from the first of January to the close of school in June is almost twice as long as the time from the opening of school in September to the beginning of the holiday vacation, our faculty might as well begin to think about the advisability of an Easter vacation.
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Judging by the showing made at the State Teachers' Association K, S. U. is far ahead of any college in the State.
The orations for the oratorical contest have been handed in and the lucky men chosen. Let there be no kicking.
--student gets weary it is impossible for him to do good work; it therefore makes vacation a necessity. And as the time from the first of January to the close of school in June is almost twice as long as the time from the opening of school in September to the beginning of the holiday vacation, our faculty might as well begin to think about the advisability of an Easter vacation.
That this is a University with a big U is being recognized all over the State. Some of the last to recognize that this is no longer an academy are those connected with the University. This "keep out of the hills" business is the latest foolishness.
--student gets weary it is impossible for him to do good work; it therefore makes vacation a necessity. And as the time from the first of January to the close of school in June is almost twice as long as the time from the opening of school in September to the beginning of the holiday vacation, our faculty might as well begin to think about the advisability of an Easter vacation.
--student gets weary it is impossible for him to do good work; it therefore makes vacation a necessity. And as the time from the first of January to the close of school in June is almost twice as long as the time from the opening of school in September to the beginning of the holiday vacation, our faculty might as well begin to think about the advisability of an Easter vacation.
Our regents should prepare a bill asking for an appropriation for our library. Our library has been too much neglected in the past, and is not receiving the proper attention now. If the matter were presented to the legislature in its proper light we believe we could get a small piece of the needful. Washburn College claims to have the finest library building in the west. As far as K. S. U. is concerned, we must admit it. Let our watchword now be a library building.
The pharmacy students have just finished their second "dose" of examinations; and considering their severity, the excellent grades made by the students in that department, speaks well for Prof Sayre and the department.
This reputation is the one thing lacking to all new institutions, and as soon as we have established that, it is reasonable to expect that our school of pharmacy will be a good one.
The professor intended to do the work so thoroughly that our pharmacy students would be able to pass examinations that no institution could laugh at, and he has certainly done this, and thereby placed our pharmaceutical institution on a high standard.
There is one thing certain, that Prof. Sayre is the man for the place, and if the students can be bad we will have the school.
There is no doubt that the dull monotony of studying text books is wearisome to the mind, and when a
Judging from the work done since the students have returned, the faculty ought to be satisfied that vacation is a good thing. It is true that it takes a day or two to get straightened out, especially this time, as so many of us were snow bound, and that the chancellor has been annoyed some by lottering in the halls (and as long as we have no better accommodations than we now have he always will be; for students who have a vacant hour have no other place to go); but the class attendance and recitations, it can easily be seen, are better.
There is no doubt that the dullo-
- - - student gets weary it is impossible for him to do good work; it therefore makes vacation a necessity. And as the time from the first of January to the close of school in June is almost twice as long as the time from the opening of school in September to the beginning of the holiday vacation, our faculty might as well begin to think about the advisability of an Easter vacation.
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The honored chancellor says that the halls must be kept clear; that the gay and festive student must amble from one classroom to another without stop or turn. This announcement will bring sorrow to the heart of many of our students. It pain us. We have had several girls since we have been in school, and it has been the joy of our heart to "skip" our algebra class and translate French for the aforesaid girls. (As a matter of course we only took one girl at time.) We did enjoy life when we got on the stairs and blocked the way and made the professors cuss them they had to go around us. (We were reading "Princes of Art," then. And now this is to be changed. We are to go to the library, and if we say a word there Miss Watson will order us. At Emporia there is: "reception room" or parlor, nicely furnished, where the students can go and not disturb any one. It is fully appreciated down there, too. If we go to the library we are sure to disturb some students who are studying or reading. It is almost impossible to study in the library with a regular hum of voices. So there is nothing to do but defy the chancellor and go to some other room or leaf in the hall. Besides, no one is disturbed by couples of students walking in the corridors; it is only when large groups gather to discuss "Oread" or some other warlike topic, that their profits, have to come out of the rooms to silence the multitude. The present regulation does not bind students from "skipping" recitations. If they wish to waste time they can do it in many ways. We firmly believe that those corridors were mad to walk in, and the girls and ourselves put here to walk in them. We thin that reform must begin in the classroom and not in the corridors.
SAINTS AND SINNERS.
It used to be a rule of Vic Linley's never to make a speech unless he could create a sensation. Who that heard him will ever forget his ecology on the Hon. Jesse James, when he made the astonishing declaration from the chapel roostrum that Jesse was a man; and brought the joke on our professors Robinson and Williams, by saying that Jesse was one of their own beloved faith—a Baptist? Well, I have often wished that more of our students would follow Vic's example and make their orations novel and interesting, if not sensational.
One of the best orations I ever heard delivered in chapel was by a young lady some two years ago. The theme was startling and bold; the manner in which she handled it
The great mass of speeches one hears spouted from the rostrum are dry as the Sahara desert. As a rule the more time there has been given to their preparation, the more stupid they appear. The trouble is that most students think less of what they say than of how they say it. I would rather hear a spicy oration, something that has vigor and snap to it, though it have not a grammatical sentence in its whole length and breath, than to hear one of the milk and water order, where every word and sentence is perfect.
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showed she was not bothered with mock modesty. The speech was the talk of the University for several days. Anxious to publish so good a production, I secured the manuscript for the Courier. Such manuscript and such a piece! For three mortal hours Leach, Riffle and I tried to dissect the article and put it together in such shape as to be half way presentable in company. Misspeplled, ungrammatical, illegible. Riffle swore and Leach howled. The fact was apparent that we had all been so interested in what she said as to pay no attention to how she said it. Yet seldom has a piece been delivered in the university so well liked.
I should have made one or two exceptions to what I said about the general good nature and cordiality of the faculty last week. There are one or two professors—not more than two, I think—who appear to hold the students in contempt. One professor in whose class I was something more than a year, passes me continually without ever deigning to recognize me or return a salutation. This I would put down to my own inconsequentialness and say nothing about it, were it not that so many other students have remarked the same thing: Of course the students are a dumb, ignorant, set of animals, quite inferior to the professors in scholarship and ability. Still, even a dog takes a pleasure in being noticed, you know.
I am told, and on pretty good authority, that there are quite a number of diplomas in the clerk's desk at the University, whose owners have not thought worth five dollars. Among them is one belonging to a prominent member of '84, who got through by the merest chance, and that chance, Imagine, gained by his toadydism to the faculty. I have a pretty hearty contempt for the individual who thinks so little of his *alma mater* as to refuse her diploma and beat her out of five dollars.
I wonder if it is necessary to be glum, and sour, and crabid, and dignified, and offish, in order to be a minister. A while back I met Still, one of my former classmates. "Hello, old fellow, where did you spring from," said I, slapping him on the back. The look of sadness with which he eyed me, and the woe-begoness of his voice made me think he had lost a dear relative or else been married. A few minutes of conversation, however, explained the change. He was "working in the Lord's vineyard down in Missouri." I presume the grapes in the vineyard were not quite ripe and had burned on his stomach. I am very anxious to meet Tucker, one of the jolliest boys who ever came to the University, to see if there is any change in him. He, too, has been through a theological sausage-mill, and is now in "the Lord's vineyard."
Talk about students not doing enough to advertise the University! Last summer I heard a Sophomore rattling off the "unsurpassed, unequaled, unapproached facilities of Kansas State University" at the rate of eleven thousand words a minute. "Hold!" cried the farmer. "What's the matter?" asked Soph. "No use talking that stuff to me. Iaint married, and haint got no children, nuther," answered the country-man. "Well, you'll probably get married sometime, and if you do you ought to have some children; and I tell you, sir, there's no better place to send your boys and girls than right down to our University." And away Soph rattled again. If that farmer don't get married and have children
and send them to the University, it wont be any fault of Ed Bla—1 mean of the Sooth's.
Probably the University never received a better advertisement than that given it by our representatives at the State Teachers' bum. Prof. Camfield, the president, never let an opportunity slip to ring "University" into his speeches. Almost every other paper seemed to be by some one from K. S. U. The reunion of students in such large numbers called attention to the important place our institution holds in the school system. And to cap the climax, Prof. Williams, the most thoroughly and practically equipped pedagogue in all Kansas, or the west, for that matter, was elected president for the ensuing year. It was enough to make old Mt. Orend go up andug the capitol, to witness the sight.
SMITH.
STUDENTS VIEWS.
As a general thing the students of this University attempt to carry too many studies. The majority have four and some even five. The consequence is they can not do justice to any, and their time is so taken up they have not opportunity to read anything outside of their regular work. That student is not making the best progress who confines himself strictly to his text books, but he who manages to take up a general course of reading. Let him spend a certain time each day in reading some good novel, biography or book of travel, and he will find himself broadening, his dry studies will become more interesting and he will be better fitted to take part in literary work or make himself agreeable in society. After pouring for several hours over Latin, Greek or Anglo-Saxon, it is a rest to take up some book of a lighter character and spend a short time in its perusal. Let us see fewer studies taken, and more students adopt a general course of reading, and we will have better recitations, better literary societies and a warmer social feeling in the University.
During the last few days I have had occasion to spend considerable time in the library, and while there I have watched pretty closely the students who come there and their actions while there. At least six out of every ten come in, walk to the end, give three or four persons a hit, turn around and walk out. Two out of the other four use the library as a study room during the vacant hours. One of the others comes in to get a book and the last man is the only one who really knows now to use a library. It was really astonishing how little some of the students know about books and the library. But few of them know where to find the book they want and when the librarian has found it for them they don't know how to use it. Some of the best and most useful books in the library are hardly ever called for. Take for instance, the Statesman Series, a set of books which we would suppose would be in constant use, but I find that the leaves of many of them have never been cut.
In view of these facts one of the first thing many of our students should do is to learn to use books
MARX.
I would like to call attention in your valuable paper to a custom that needs reforming. It is that of allowing the professors too much time to talk.
It is simply nauseous the way some of our long-winded professors bore the classes with their long drawn out twaddle. I have in mind one professor in particular, who, every time I attempt to get off one of my bright and witty speeches, launches forth sentence after sentence of meaningless words. And I think of another professor who used to shunt me off with, "that will do" or, "we will pass over that." He does not do it any more because I have left his classes and gone where I am more appreciated. If I were not a little afraid I would sign my full name.
J. E. C.
The fact has frequently been noticed and commented upon that the number of young lady students is gradually but steadily decreasing. It is also true that the number who come from the upper classes is diminishing every year. This is especially true of the city people. Cities which send ten or twelve male representatives send us no lady students at all. They go to Monticello, or Chicago, or Bethany, or even Washburn, all of which are far behind us as regards educational facilities. And why? lst, because parents object to sending their daughters where no care whatever is taken of them; and 2d, because none of the accomplishments except music and painting in a small way are taught here. When we think of the number of young ladies who are receiving their education at inferior schools, I believe we should consider these points well. Can we afford to lose the influence of the wealthy and polite classes? Is say no. We need them to give tone to the University; we need their influence in the legislature, and we need the young ladies themselves, who by their quiet and easy manners will do more toward keeping order in a school than all the rules a faculty can devise.
As the end of the term approaches it is time something was being done in regard to examinations. According to the ruling of the faculty, we must still go through the old force of an exam at the end of the session. In the lower and larger classes I have nothing to say against it, but in the upper classes, say Junior and Senior, it is a nuisance, and should be abolished. Any professor who can't tell by the daily recitations of a student how much he deserves does not know enough to be a professor. Take a class like our Moral Science, and the professor in charge can tell whether a student deserves 1 or 2 or 3, just as well before examination as he can after. The examination is a relic of the high school, and should be put away when we leave the high school.
MARX.
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Please let me have a little space in your paper, Mr. Editor, to give the boys a good plain talking to. I have been attending K. S. U. now for a year and a half, and during that time have only attended one lecture and one contest. Why is this thusly? Well, I will tell you the reason. It is because you and your old mean paper are always making fun of the boys who have the moral courage to take a girl to a "free show," as you call it. Now I know just the sweetest little fellow in K. S. U. who is just dying to take me somewhere, but is afraid to. He even asked me to go to the lecture with him, and when the time came to start he said it was pretty cold and we had better stay at home. Now what I want to say, Mr. Editor, is that any boy who will let a nasty little paper like yours keep him from going with a girl he loves like Sammy loves me, is no boy at all. What the boys want to do is to brace up and do their duty; and what your paper wants to do is to let up on its foolishness and tend to business.
HATTER.
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