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SOCIAL.
Cooke · J. T. Warne · I. C. Sorosis
· Art League - Usher Guards -
Bowersock · Chalfant - Phi Gamma -
Wright - Smith - Henshaw.
Major Whittle, Mr. and Mrs,
McGranahan and Mrs. Alex. Rankin spent Saturday afternoon and evening at the residen/
H. Branscomb.
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of the Phi Gamm's
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Friday evening.
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Lizzie Barker, Laurt
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Last Saturday eve occasion of a very pleasing at the residence o Cooke, in conversati taffing pull and each pleasant hours pass quickly. The gath honor of Mr. J. C. Bre City.
J. T. WARNE SURPI
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Mr. and Mrs. John
and Mrs. Wm. Spen
Mrs. Frank Perkins,
Lou Perkins, Mr. and
Bassett, and Mr. an
Van Hoesen.
Those present were Wright, Alice and Josie and Hattie Cook Joe Brown, of Osage Lippincott, Cyrus Gilmore and A.W. Pt
ART LEAGUE.—Me a special meeting oct League rooms. The gathering was to provo cessful exhibition of and loans. Owing to reasons being offered—was that the present ings should not be opp lar attractions—it was the exhibition should until December 1, 2, 1 works offered for exi
I. C. Sorosis. — The I. C. Sorosis were kit spend a day with Misa at her home in the cour闹日 last. Fourtee and after weary(?) molloding through a reg of despond," and keep lar fusilide of intero route from bashful, stry boys, arrived a "Beautiful," receivin erous welcome from t to recompense for all "amoyances" of the the good dinner and th appetites, and the meet time that followed! Sing, recitations, busi initiation of Daisy Co charming sisterhood. present were Mary G Love, Sue Miles, Je Lena Beard, Maud M trude Munroe, Louise Penfield, Jo Gilmore, O Daisy Cockins, Emma Laura Lyons.
have been previously exhibited at League meetings. The admission fee is to be a nominal one—fifteen cents, or twenty-five cents for a gentleman and lady. A catalogue will be provided to each visitor, free. The president pro tempore, Judge Banks, was instructed to appoint a committee on loans. Messrs. Martinez and Marcus were appointed a
WRIGHT.—Last Saturday evening, the occasion being Dr. Wright's forty-first birthday, Mrs. Wright prepared a surprise for him by inviting to their home a number of his gentleman friends in honor of the event. Mr. T. D. Griffith presented the Doctor, on behalf of the guests, with an elegant gold headed cape. The gentleman we
SMITH—In North Lawrence the evening of the 29th instant Mr. and Mrs. Holly Holly Smith celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of their married life. A very large number of their friends were present, and the evening was spent in a very enjoyable manner.
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Thanksgiving
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The revival meetings in this city are doing a good work, Major Whittle is an earnest worker, and Mr. and Mrs. McGranahan preach a helping sermon in every song. We are glad to see so many students taking part in these meetings
Some of the students who expect to graduate are having trouble on account of back studies. Every student should select one of the catalogue courses and adhere to it. Irregular students should become regular now, and not wait till the Senior year.
Now that the city is grading Oreal Avenue, we notice that the citizens are buying lots facing it, and building houses. Doubtsless the dormitory question will thus be settled. We hope the owners of the lots will endeavor to have large and elegant residences erected.
Kansas University can recount a year full of granted boons. Among the blessings that we shall recall on Thanksgiving are: An advanced standard of college work; a generous appropriation from the State; the Snow Hall of Natural History; a great increase of students in the higher classes; but little sickness and no deaths among the students during the past year.
The students return thanks to Gov. Jno. A Martin for adding to the general proclamation of Thanksgiving sent to the Chancellor; And I further order that the students of Kansas University be granted a two day's vacation for value received." The governor must have been a college boy himself.
Some students are of the opinion that if one attains a class standing of over ninety per cent., this should be taken as his examination grade, others that the class standing should always be used. This may be good in some studies, but in others it cannot be the right test. If there is a student in this school who can get a class standing of ninety and cannot stand an examination on the work he has just gone over, he is not worth much. We fancy we can see a young graduate who has been used to the class standing system taking an examination for a government position.
How is his grade of ninety per cent, going to help him then? His knees
will shake and his tooth will rattle so that he can hardly write correctly. Some one will say that the examinations make students "cram." Far from it, it is the different grades of diplomas that makes you sit up nearly all night at your German. It is the big grade you are after that keeps you digging at your Trig. a few days before the examination. If a grade of seventy per cent, would get the same "sheepskin" that ninety-nine per cent, does, we would be just as contented with seventy-five in examination as we are with ninety. Then we would be willing to be examined and be just as satisfied all around.
+ - + treasurer, W. E. Higgins; secretary,
W. R. Cone; executive committee,
Prof. Carruth, W. S. Jenks. The club is in excellent condition, and he
has success has established permanent
the club system among K. S. U. students. A new era in boarding has begun with the students, by which those having but little money may not be deprived of the advantages of our University simply because board is so high. Board is the first thing people mention when you talk to them of the University. They say we can not afford to pay from four to six dollars per week when at other schools only two and a half and three dollars is charged. Much praise is due to the two professors who have taken such an active part in adding the students in this most necessary enterprise. There are now about one hundred boarding in clubs, sixty of whom are at the Hillside club. There is still one neglected feature. The ladies are still subjected to the chemicals of the citizens of Lawrence and until board can be made cheap for both sexes, the great mass of students will continue such schools as Emporia, Ottawa and Baker. We would like to hear of a lady's boarding club started for there is no reason why they could not be as successful in this noble or enterprise as the boys. MENTHUL
Confiction of studies. This is the cry of almost every student who intends to go through. As the University grows older and better, higher branches are placed in the higher classes, and the present studies dropped a year. This cannot help but make some students irregular, and make others more so. This year there are seemingly more who are mixed in their courses than ever before. Surely some provision should be made for those who are thus afflicted. In the great strides K. S. U. is taking to become one of the best of American colleges, its authorities have either placed their standard too high, or have foolishly cut off the preparatory department. There is not a high school in the State that prepares one so that he can enter the University regular. Although high school graduates are admitted to the Freshman class, before they are half through they are invariably troubled with back studies. Before they graduate, the University will always have advanced some in its accustomed manner, which will make them more irregular, and thus the work goes on. When two classes come at the same hour, the faculty either cannot make a person take one of them, or they must expect only half work in both.
Last week the Kansas Academy of Science held its annual meeting at Manhattan. The University was represented by four professors and two students, and these were also accompanied by a number of citizens of Lawrence. The meeting was one of the best ever held. The expression of one of our profs, when he returned was: "The meeting was full and the program was full." And we are of the opinion that the Lawrence delegation was about half full, as another one of the profs, said he had some difficulty in finding his house upon his return. The best part of the whole affair was the banquet which was given the visitors by the students of the department of the science of cookery in the Agricultural college. The way those folks from Lawrence helped to devour that "grub" was just awful; and while the Agricultural college has a department of cookery, they believe the University must have a department wherein they train themselves in eating.
But no matter how the "boys" had their fun, these annual meetings are of infinite value to the State. Once every year the scientific men of Kansas assemble and report the result of their investigations. The discovery of any new insect or worm which is destructive to our crops, is there reported, and if a remedy for them has been found, it is also made known, and if not, the problem is there submitted to the most intelligent scientists of the State to be solved.
Probably the best paper read was that of Prof. Snow, on "A Fossil Bird Track," and equally interesting were the papers of Profs. Sayrey, Nichols and Bailey. The Academy of Science has our best wishes, and we hope it will continue to grow in importance and value to the State.
There are several incidents in the recollections of Prof. E. D. Gross, by Dr. O. H. Allis, that seem of interest to all students. He was one of the great surgeons of this age. To his class he seemed bound by a double tie. The engagement to deliver a course of lectures was paramount to all other engagements, and no tempting consultation, no lucrative fee, and I may add no surmountable bodily infirmity, could keep him from his post. He expected every student to avail himself of the opportunity for which he had contracted. Loitering about the college, listlessness or leaving clinics before being dismissed, were not passed without rebuke. On such occasions I have seen him rise to his full stature, and cying those just ready to leave the room, picture the American student stealing out of clinics, and after graduating, going abroad to complete his education and get a foreign strut. He was too proud of American surgery, and too loyal to American medical teaching to feel that earnest students needed better opportunities than were afforded at home. At the same time he felt mortified that men who would neglect such opportunities would soon go forth with diploma of the college, to face disease, accident and medical problems similar to those they turned their back upon.
No man ever lived that obtained the mastery over labor more completely than he. Other men have accomplished great things, and broken down under the burden. He never let any labor, scheme or purpose of life get the mastery of him. With him work had its legitimate ends, and each day's labor done he wiped the evidence of toll from his brow, gave to recreation its full share, and slept the sweet sleep of the harvester. He never allowed work to accumbate on his hands, never undertook more than he could accomplish well, and in the fulfillment of any project that must extend over months or years, he held himself rigidly to the accomplishment of stated duties, never yielding to disinclination or paltry excuse, and emerging from it if not refreshed, not exhausted, a contrast to the thousand of nervous, dyspeptic, sleepless ones who have shattered their fruit barks long before they got their fairly into life's current. A teacher of half a century, with students from every eline and tongue, a writer of universal acceptance, a surgeon whose aid had been invoked by a continent, honored by the highest titles in the gift of American and European Universities—such was Professor Gross.
To the class as a whole, he was full of encouragement and sympathy, and almost parental solicitude. He gave them hints about their health, how to employ their time, with solemn warning against allurements of the city: "Gentlemen, don't study late, retire early, rise early, take all the exercise you can, study with pencil in hand—you will thus ward off drowsiness, and obtain a clearer knowledge of the subject—write home often to your mothers."
--treasurer, W. E. Higgins; secretary,
W. R. Cone; executive committee,
Prof. Carruth, W. S. Jenks. The club is in excellent condition, and he
has success has established permanent
the club system among K. S. U. students. A new era in boarding has begun with the students, by which those having but little money may not be deprived of the advantages of our University simply because board is so high. Board is the first thing people mention when you talk to them of the University. They say we can not afford to pay from four to six dollars per week when at other schools only two and a half and three dollars is charged. Much praise is due to the two professors who have taken such an active part in adding the students in this most necessary enterprise. There are now about one hundred boarding in clubs, sixty of whom are at the Hillside club. There is still one neglected feature. The ladies are still subjected to the chemicals of the citizens of Lawrence and until board can be made cheap for both sexes, the great mass of students will continue such schools as Emporia, Ottawa and Baker. We would like to hear of a lady's boarding club started for there is no reason why they could not be as successful in this noble or enterprise as the boys. MENTHUL
The Science Club hold its regular bi-weekly meeting in the chemical building last Friday. Quite an interesting program was rendered. The delegates to the Academy of Science, which was held at Manhattan last week, gave the results of their labors and told the club all about the meeting. They decided to have a question box, wherein a person desiring information on any subject, will place the question in the box and it will be drawn out by some other person who will tell all he knows about it. They also decided to hold what will be called an "annual meeting," at which original work will be strictly required. This they intend to make the meeting of the year, and will invite the public to attend.
STUDENTS: VIEWS.
Mankind has a dread of imitating what seems to be inferior, but we may often profit by good things selected from a mass of rubbish. A few days ago, in visiting a school in Kansas, I saw a few things that I thought K, S, U. might adopt with profit. Although the society in this school is not separated into different grades, this fact is partly caused by the rural character of those composing its society. So on the whole, I would prefer the condition of the society of K, S, U.
A visitor at the above mentioned temple of learning is shown into a nicely furnished parlor instead of standing in the corridors as at K. S. U. He also feels grateful that he can find a list of all the students and their addresses, and he need not disturb his friends in their classes. And if he must see them immediately, he has a quiet, cheerful parlor where no one will be disturbed. Visitors appreciate accommodations. The school has two literary societies, and their popularity is attributed to the fact that they meet in the evenings.
W. HORTON.
I would like to mention something that has occurred to me. The other day Orophilian adopted an elaborate amendment to its constitution, proposing to impose fines for non-performers of duty, and a penalty for absense. Now, I believe that Oreads' present lamentable condition is attributed to its fines and assessments. When the fines and dues amount to more than a dollar, the delinquent is apt to lose interest in his society. I know quite a number of Oreads who have not attended the meetings because they were not active members, and could not take part in the exercises. They would rather pay the dollar initiation fee into Orophilian than the fines plus a dollar and a half assessments. I think that this is the reason why Oread has not been able to have any programs lately. A word to the wise is sufficient. W. Houron.
Why should the Sophomore class be required to take four studies when the catalogue states that a student is required to pursue only three? The cause seems to be that Anglo-Saxon and one or two other studies have been added to the course, lengthening it out to more than four years, of three studies each. Now we do not object to four studies, if the lessons are given in accordance with time ablated, but with such lessons as some of our professors are in the habit of giving, we do decidedly object to the change. Every prof. expects the student to prepare the text in his department to the exclusion of all others; and some give lessons as though they thought we studied one branch, and then to impose an extra study on us is too much. It is not alone what one gets in the text books that makes him wise, but he should have at least two hours every day to read in the library. One of the most honored Americans of to-day—James R. Lowell—says he learned more from reading than from regular recitations. Students read too little and become narrow by studying only the text book. Why, then, can we not make a choice between two of the languages in this year—say between Anglo-Saxon and French or Latin, and be required to take only one? There ought to be some arrangement made by which a change of this sort could be brought about, for the studies of the Sophomore year are particularly difficult. C. R. W.
The Hillside dining club held a meeting last week and elected the following officers; President, Richard Short; steward, D. C. Kennedy;
Work has again been resumed on Snow Hall. Last week the large iron girders which support the floor of the upper museum were put in place, and the joist of the second floor mostly laid. If the weather remains good the stone work will be completed by Christmas. Snow Hall will be the handsomest building on the camp when completed, but we regret that it could not have a better view to the easy. The museum will consist of two large rooms, which extend clear across the west end, one above the other, and will be filled with the newest collections of Profs. Snow and Dyche and other contributing friends. When completed it will be the principal attraction to visitors of the University. W. K.
Some unhappy wight who, I suspect, spends most of his time in the balls or at the Academy of Science has been wailing up and down your generally bright columns for a moment or more about the absence of the lecture course; how, forsooth, the aim and end of his (collegiate) being was all broken down and brought to naught because he has no intellectual pabulum fed to him on Tuesday evenings. Now I understand the lecture committee has very considerably withheld two or three numbers of the course, in order not to interfere with the revival meetings in progress in the city, and that the disc lecture is to be given next Tuesday evening, by Lieutenant Governor A. P. Riddle, of Minneapolis. I would be willing to risk my old hat and my new one, too, if I had one, that this hopeless howler does not come to the University next Tuesday evening at all, and that he did not attend a single one of the lectures last year, although they were superior in quality to the paid lectures at Baldwin. If he is not a fraud, he ought to demonstrate it by attending, coming in before eight o'clock, and bringing his girl and her sister, and sitting in the amen pew.
REGULAR.
One of the most pleasant kettle-drums ever given in Lawrence was that which Miss Etta Halley tendered to her Kappa sisters last Friday afternoon. All the Kappas, including Miss Fisher, of Wichita, were present. An elegant lunch was served, and the girls enjoyed themselves as only Kappas can. They all departed, wishing for many more such happy reunions.
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