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College Presidents.
Public attention has been drawn this year, in a very unusual degree, to the presidents of our colleges. The changes that have lately taken place have been very many. There have been resignations by President Lee, of Washington and Lee University; President Sturtevant, of Illinois College; President White, of Cornell University, and President Caldwell, of Vassar College. The appointments to college presidencies have been many more, among them those of the Rev. Dr. Duryea, of Boston, to Union; the Rev. Wm. D. Hyde, of Paterson, N. J., to Bowdoin; the Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., of Worcester, Mass., to Iowa; the Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D., of Chicago, to Vassar; W.W. Prescott, Esq., of Burlington, Vt., to Battle Creek College, Mich.; the Rev. John Kershaw, of Bound Brook, N. J., to Tillotson University, Texas, and Prof. C.K. Adams, of Michigan, to Cornell. This is a very remarkable list, and yet undoubtedly is not full. Marietta College is seeking a president, and the announcement of his election may be made at any time.
It would not seem that changes in college presidencies are more frequent than formerly. We appear to be in a transitional period as regards the policy of our colleges in regard to methods of instruction and administration, and in consequence, there is an unseiness and a critical spirit regarding college presidents, which did not formerly exist. There are sharp discussions regarding the relation of the president to the other members of the faculty, the propriety of self government among the students, the position of Greek and Latin in the college curriculum, the political attitude of the college. These and other questions bring the president, as the especial representative of the institution, under close inspection, and subject him, not infrequently, to harsh criticism. His character and ability are not so apt to be called in question as the policy he represents. Our colleges are growing more and more domestic. The faculty demand more voice in the administration of affairs. The students have had a taste, at Amherst and elsewhere, of self government, and like it. Then further, the competition between colleges has increased, and the financial problem has grown more difficult. The president is judged by his ability to secure endowments quite as much as by his scholarship and power as an instructor. In consequence of all this, the position of a college president has come to be one of anxiety. It is, indeed, a place of very great honor, of the very best social standing, of wide reputation, of extended influence, of delightful opportunities for study. It is not strange, therefore, that men will willingly sacrifice large pecuniary advantages for the sake of the position, and submit to the meager compensation which goes with it. At the same time it is less and less a sinecure. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Within a very few years not less than six prominent college presidents have been under the fire of adverse criticism. Three were obliged to withdraw in consequence, one held his place under great difficulties, and two are now in the midst of the battle.
Rare gifts are evidently essential
for these commanding positions. One must be not simply a scholar, an instructor and a disciplinarian; he must be an administrator, a financier, a man among men, a man of tact. One of the great New York dailies, in commenting on the election of Dr. Duryea to the presidency of Union College, in a tone of somewhat lofty condescension says, that Dr. Duryea will do as well as any clergyman who could be induced to accept the place, but that clergymen do not make the best college presidents. In view of the fact that the practice from time immemorial in this country has been to give the preference to clergymen for such positions, that multitudes of our more successful college presidents like Woolsey, Porter, Hopkins, Seelye, Magoun, Angell and McCosh, among our educators are clergymen; that Yale, Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, Princeton and other colleges, have attained their present honorable position through a long line of clerical presidents, one is hardly able to regard this editorial dictum as seriously intended. Surely the training of a clerical life does not unfit one for the position.
It is undoubtedly true, however, that our college trustees are breaking over traditional lines in this respect, and do not hesitate to choose for presidents those who though not clergymen, have marked qualifications or the place. General Lee, of Washington and Lee University, General Chamberlain of Dowdoin, President White of Cornell, President Carter of Williams, are illustrations of this fact. But in another particular are college trustees deviating from the ancient practice. They are at east experimenting—and so far very successfully—with those who are young for presidents. President Gates of Rutgers, and President Carter of Williams, are young men, and remarkably successful in infusing new life into the institutions of which they have taken charge. President Tyde is only twenty-seven. Miss Freeman, the brilliant president of Wellesley, not yet (if a guess is not impertinent) out of her twenties, is the peer of gray-headed men in her ability to manage a great institution of learning. It may be wise policy to take one of evident promise and et him grow into his place. He has ambitions and adaptability not always found in an older man. He is not so likely to be self-willed, and to comm conflict with established preceents. At the same time, he is it fullest sympathy with the youth who gather about him, and can fire then with enthusiasm, and catch with them the spirit of the age. —N. Y. Independent.
The department of pharmacy will be a great addition to the University. There is every probability of a large enrollment. By law, hereafter in this State, every druggist must be a registered pharmacist, and as this is the only school in the State and there is but one other west of the Mississippi, students of pharmacy will flock to K.S.U. Kansas is building a University which will have no superior and few equals. The pharmaceutical department will be very useful and prosperous.
Pharmacy.
Read the View of the Tiblow hammocks.
Peruse and Reflect.
EDUCATION!
Answer. Reliable persons who can do some one thing well.
Question. Who are always in demand?
Business men are in search of those whom it will pay to employ. Young men and women are seeking engagements while lacking in ability to do any one thing skillfully.
Business life affords the widest field for desirable employment. Special training is required for all branches of business. Those who are looking forward to good situations, should be able to give positive and affirmative answers to such questions as the following:
Are you an expert bookkeeper?
Can you write a neat, legible, rapid, business hand?
can you write in commercial calculations?
can you speak and write the English language correctly?
Can you compose a good business letter?
Do you understand commercial law?
Are you acquainted with the forms and obligations of commercial paper?
Are you familiar with counting-room practice?
Do you understand commercial law?
Can you operate the type writer?
Can you write shorthand?
Do you know when out of work you cannot successfully compete with others, unless you are their superiors in attainment?
If you are better fitted than the average young man or woman to do that which is implied by these questions, there is room for you in the world of business! If not, what can you expect? To fit you, in the best manner, and with the least expenditure of time and money, is the work of the
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EDUCATION
hat more can afford to do without; the want or
which daily doom many to failure; and many
that we need to deal with.
EDUCATION
that enables men to rise among men, and "Be hero in the strife." Such is the business education to be acquired at the
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No. 109 Massachusetts Street.
L. BULLENE & CO.
No. 89 Massachusetts Street.
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Dealer in Hard and Soft Coals
At J, M. Wood's Grocery.
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135 Mass St., LAWRENCE, KAN.
First-class Work at Moderate Charges.
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Billiard Parlor
THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS PLACE IN THE CITY.
Fine Imported and Domestic Cigars.
The Imported and Domestic Cigars.
No.60Mass, St., · LAWRENCE, KAN.
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Imported and Domestic Cigars
64 Massachusetts Street.
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Lemonade, Soda, Fruits.
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=IN 1868
1 established what is now the oldest manufactory of
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Special Attention Given to Parties and Entertainments.
I ALSO CARRY A FULL STOCK OF
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