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--the spirit of the dream of a month ago. Only a few short weeks ago the columns of the college press teemed with vociferous demands for a course in Spanish. Why are those voices so silent now? They were lifted up in a good cause, wherefore are they still? Every year we send out a score or more of young men and women ardent and fiery with the hot ambitions of youth. They look to the east, and the professions overflowing to suffocation with mediocrity, hold out no hope for patient effort. They turn to the north and northwest, and cheerless wastes and icy blasts chill their burning zeal. They look to the south, and a fierce sectional bigotry bids northern hope despair. Where, then, shall they go? If the stifled professions, hopeless as chancery, dishearten them, where can they turn but to the west and southwest, and especially the latter, a region where a knowledge of Spanish is indispensible, and where that knowledge is a condition to advancement and promotion which must be complied with.
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The Critic, of New York, has a very favorable criticism of Prof. Spring's History of Kansas.
Oread and Orophilian still wish evening meetings. The night watch could keep all in good order.
Two graduates of Dickinson college, Cancellor Lippincott's former position, are now regents of western universities.
Our December contest promises to be a most exciting one. Both sides have good programs and are determined to win.
--the spirit of the dream of a month ago. Only a few short weeks ago the columns of the college press teemed with vociferous demands for a course in Spanish. Why are those voices so silent now? They were lifted up in a good cause, wherefore are they still? Every year we send out a score or more of young men and women ardent and fiery with the hot ambitions of youth. They look to the east, and the professions overflowing to suffocation with mediocrity, hold out no hope for patient effort. They turn to the north and northwest, and cheerless wastes and icy blasts chill their burning zeal. They look to the south, and a fierce sectional bigotry bids northern hope despair. Where, then, shall they go? If the stifled professions, hopeless as chancery, dishearten them, where can they turn but to the west and southwest, and especially the latter, a region where a knowledge of Spanish is indispensible, and where that knowledge is a condition to advancement and promotion which must be complied with.
The musical department has scored another victory in establishing its lecture course. Other departments should follow its course.
--the spirit of the dream of a month ago. Only a few short weeks ago the columns of the college press teemed with vociferous demands for a course in Spanish. Why are those voices so silent now? They were lifted up in a good cause, wherefore are they still? Every year we send out a score or more of young men and women ardent and fiery with the hot ambitions of youth. They look to the east, and the professions overflowing to suffocation with mediocrity, hold out no hope for patient effort. They turn to the north and northwest, and cheerless wastes and icy blasts chill their burning zeal. They look to the south, and a fierce sectional bigotry bids northern hope despair. Where, then, shall they go? If the stifled professions, hopeless as chancery, dishearten them, where can they turn but to the west and southwest, and especially the latter, a region where a knowledge of Spanish is indispensible, and where that knowledge is a condition to advancement and promotion which must be complied with.
It is rumored that the young ladies are organized for Halloween. Now, girls, please be careful, or the police, or the boys, or somebody, will be hurt.
The executive committee of the Oratorical Association should hold a meeting and settle the date for the local contest. If possible it should be held before Christmas.
Missouri in 1880 had eight medical schools, and graduated 248 doctors. The State which calls itself the educational center of the west, should at least equal her sister across the Old Muddy. Give us a medical school.
To-morrow evening is Hallowe'en, and of course the students will enjoy a little relaxation. A great many jokes can be played which harm no one. Too often, however, a crowd of boys will allow their enthusiasm to run away with their judgment, and much damage is done to property. For the sake of the good name of Kansas University, let no property be destroyed to-morrow evening.
We are happy to chronicle the success of another of K. S. U.'s bright sons. Mr. P. A. Huber, of the Sophomore class, has received the nomination of the Democratic party for the office of county surveyor of Jefferson county. The voters of that county should gladly cast their ballots for a Kansas boy, a high minded man and a gentleman. In all his classes he has always stood among the first, if not the foremost, and is well qualified for the position. Success to you, Albert.
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There seems to be a great deal of talk about social entertainments in the University of late. We have something to suggest in this line, and it is something that has been tried in other colleges and has always proven a success. It is an inter-fraternity ball. A dance given by each fraternity alone is well enough, but something ought to be held in the name of the University. It has been proven that if any class undertake it it will be a failure, as the members of some other class will invariably try to break it up. So let the fraternities take the matter in hand and see if they cannot make it a success.
--the spirit of the dream of a month ago. Only a few short weeks ago the columns of the college press teemed with vociferous demands for a course in Spanish. Why are those voices so silent now? They were lifted up in a good cause, wherefore are they still? Every year we send out a score or more of young men and women ardent and fiery with the hot ambitions of youth. They look to the east, and the professions overflowing to suffocation with mediocrity, hold out no hope for patient effort. They turn to the north and northwest, and cheerless wastes and icy blasts chill their burning zeal. They look to the south, and a fierce sectional bigotry bids northern hope despair. Where, then, shall they go? If the stifled professions, hopeless as chancery, dishearten them, where can they turn but to the west and southwest, and especially the latter, a region where a knowledge of Spanish is indispensible, and where that knowledge is a condition to advancement and promotion which must be complied with.
The University Corrier at Lawrence wants the constitution of the State amended so as to levy a perpetual tax on the property of the State for the support of that institution. Not much, till there is a little different blood put into the institution than what is in it now. -Topeka Commonwealth.
By the way, the Commonwealth will continue to fail in politics until a little new blood is placed on its staff. Prof. Canfield is getting the young editors ready for you, Father Baker. But Prof. Spring does not teach the newspaper English of your last sentence.
--the spirit of the dream of a month ago. Only a few short weeks ago the columns of the college press teemed with vociferous demands for a course in Spanish. Why are those voices so silent now? They were lifted up in a good cause, wherefore are they still? Every year we send out a score or more of young men and women ardent and fiery with the hot ambitions of youth. They look to the east, and the professions overflowing to suffocation with mediocrity, hold out no hope for patient effort. They turn to the north and northwest, and cheerless wastes and icy blasts chill their burning zeal. They look to the south, and a fierce sectional bigotry bids northern hope despair. Where, then, shall they go? If the stifled professions, hopeless as chancery, dishearten them, where can they turn but to the west and southwest, and especially the latter, a region where a knowledge of Spanish is indispensible, and where that knowledge is a condition to advancement and promotion which must be complied with.
The chancellor spoke wisely last Friday morning when he referred to marring the building. Kansas can well feel proud of the building she gives the University, and the students should take pride in keeping it clean and neat. Just picture the walls of the corridors all marked with lead pencils. Visitors would take this for Baker instead of Kansas University. We are not complaining of the walls for they are kept bright and white, but once in a while we see a student carelessly make a mark or two, and you must remember "little drops of water, little grains of sand." Let us be more thoughtful.
Not a year passes but hundreds of students in our different colleges are suddenly called home to the death bed of a dying friend or relative. The University of Kansas is no exception to the rule. Frequently students receive dispatches announcing that Father, Mother or other friend, who is very dear to them, is dying. Studies are laid aside, school work is forgotten while they hasten to join the mournable circle assembled in remembrance of the loved one just departed. Often one thinks it was a pity that he or she was not permitted to live long enough to once more recognize you before earthly life was ended. Sometimes it is a consolation to think that he or she has led a life of purity, and is now in a better land enjoying the company of loved ones who have gone before. And it is always an incentive for you to lead such a life that when you think of the time when you shall go down to the river of death and its chill waters dampen your feet, looking back over your past life you can truthfully say: "I have fought the good fight. I have finished my work. I now submit to God's will without a murmur." And when the dear one has been laik to rest in the cold lonely grave, the weeping family again gather around the fireside, each one knowing ful well that another of their number will soon be called by the angel of death but which one it is, it is probably better for them not to know. It may be the eldest, but whoever it is, you should face it maniacally, as the will of Him who commands the universe.
Students' Views.
Everything in the amusement line is waking up. There were three parties and a social last Friday evening, and to-night there are two parties, and two to-morrow night.
--the spirit of the dream of a month ago. Only a few short weeks ago the columns of the college press teemed with vociferous demands for a course in Spanish. Why are those voices so silent now? They were lifted up in a good cause, wherefore are they still? Every year we send out a score or more of young men and women ardent and fiery with the hot ambitions of youth. They look to the east, and the professions overflowing to suffocation with mediocrity, hold out no hope for patient effort. They turn to the north and northwest, and cheerless wastes and icy blasts chill their burning zeal. They look to the south, and a fierce sectional bigotry bids northern hope despair. Where, then, shall they go? If the stifled professions, hopeless as chancery, dishearten them, where can they turn but to the west and southwest, and especially the latter, a region where a knowledge of Spanish is indispensible, and where that knowledge is a condition to advancement and promotion which must be complied with.
I can not refrain from calling attention in a modest way to a few of the most prominent points made by the noble Greek who so ably upheld his side of the fraternity question in the last issue of the Courier. The whole of the first paragraph is a simply but very clearly stated "You lie, Sir," which let me state right here is such a thundering avalanche of overwhelming argument that I shall not attempt to answer it. As it is something so new, so unheard of in the annals of debate, and at the same time so logical, that it would be useless to try to conceal the fact that in this particular portion of his article at least, be completely, everlastingly and irrevictively pulverizes my argument.
Your worthy correspondent says my statement that "the fraternity man must defend his fraternity or acknowledge himself connected with a bad organization," is characterized by more of adroitness and plausibility than truth, and then in place of attempting in even the remotest way to show why my statement was not true, he sweepingly sums it up with the weakest piece of high sounding sophistry I have run across in many a day. He says "no iron clad oath can make any fraternity man do violence to his conceptions of right and justice, or make him an apostate to the holy creed he learned at his mother's knee."
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He acknowledges that there is only one truly landable aim of a fraternity, so there is no further discussion on that point. He says I seem to think that to belong to a fraternity means the compulsory adoption of all the friendships and emmities of his fraternity. If he had left out the word compulsory he would have spoken my sentiments as clearly as I could have done. A fraternity man does this just as naturally, and many times I doubt not as unconsciously, as a man takes up the ways and customs of a people with whom his lot may happen to be cast. He acknowledges that to belong to a fraternity, indisputably increases his chances of being elected to some position, so I will drop that part of the discussion.
And now comes his profound logic in closing, to which I wish more particularly to call your attention. He wants to know if everything which produces evil effects when prostituted is radically wrong. "The prohibition law has been abused; therefore it should be repealed. Religion has been abused; abolish it!" If any institution ostensibly good contains within itself the germs of its own pollution; if it be abused time after time and the abuse prevails to such an extent that the institution is no longer what it was intended to be, and there is no reason to suppose that it can be reformed, then—then most assuredly abolish it! Suppose the prohibition law was not enforced to any reasonable extent, and suppose farther that there was no prospect of its ever being enforced, would the most rabid prohibitionist think for a moment of retaining it upon the statute books? Most certainly not.
And now permit me to say in closing, that I am not a fraternity later, as the gentleman seemed to think. In my first article I merely called attention to some of the objections that have been raised to them, many of which I think worthy of consideration by the new student before identifying himself with one.
L. A. STEBBINS.
We haven't heard anything about a Spanish course for a long time. It seems that a change has come o'er
Year after year the relations between Mexico and the United States are becoming those of national fraternity. As the people of the two nations come to know each other they see that their interests are reciprocal. And when a full and perfect confidence and amity shall be established, a vast and fruitful effort will be opened up. Let us then take time by the forelock, and educate for the future as well as the present. But let it not be understood that the former phase has all the importance attaching to the question. A great field of possibility and promise calls upon us to-day to equip our graduates to win the prizes it offers. Let us have the matter agitated, and in the near future we shall have a chair in Spanish. F. A. MARSHALL.
The organization of the Oratorical Association brings up thoughts and speculations upon this question; and what your correspondent would like to see would be some of our lady orators taking part in the coming contest. If we mistake not, no lady has as yet spoken in our local contests. Ladies, there is no reason why one of you should not represent the K. S. U. in the State contest this winter. Bestir yourselves, write your orations and take the conceit out of some of our young Websters in the local contest. Boy,
Last Friday the chancellor gave the students another lecture about loitering in the halls between recitations. We think that all students must readily admit that it is a ridiculous spectacle to see a row of boys standing on each side of the hall, between whom the ladies must pass in going to and from their classes. Such exhibitions of gentlemanly (?) conduct as these were, as the chancellor said, the causes which made him mention this thing again. Now your correspondent for one thinks the chancellor has been extremely mild, and at the same time extremely just in his requests in this matter; and that we, the students, ought to respect his wishes to the highest degree. X.
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I think the University needs a reception parlor to which a student could take his visiting friends, and which would be open to all students and visitors who would use it for low-toned conversation. Alumni coming back to their alma mater could there talk with old classmates without the professor's frown when they whisper, or an unpleasant request to vacate the corridors. The parlor could be used as the guide's office.
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