Students travel in the best of Rigs, and they get them of TOOTHAKER.
Plan of Natural History Building as Proposed.
The following is the plan as proposed for the natural history building, for which $50,000 is asked in appropriation. The estimate as made, it will be observed, is well calculated:
Two story brick or stone building one hundred feet long and eighty feet wide, with basement and attic, containing a lecture room with seats for two hundred persons, two exhibition rooms eighty by forty feet, one for the geological, mineralogical and fossil collections, and one for the zoological and botanical collections. Adjoining each exhibition room are the laboratory and storage room belonging to the same departments, and in the basement and attic are additional rooms for work and storage. The building can be enlarged on either side without interfering with its arrangement.
FIRST FLOOR—LECTURE ROOM
On this floor at the left of the main door is a lecture room, the floor of which slopes down to the basement level. It is entered by three doors from the passage F. The light comes from three large windows on the front, leaving the wall behind the speaker for blackboards, pictures and diagrams. A platform eight feet wide extends the whole length of the room, and has in front of it a counter or row of tables for apparatus and specimens. Apjoining this room, and opening at the end of the platform, is the basement room G, where materials used in teaching may be stored and prepared for each lesson. The tables on the stage may be on wheels so that they may be loaded in the ante room and brought into the lecture room as required. This room is intended for all departments, but a smaller class room or student's laboratory is provided on the second floor for smaller classes.
EXHIBITION.
On the first floor is an exhibition room eighty by forty feet and sixteen feet high, with windows twelve feet high and four feet wide on three sides of the room; one window to every ten feet of wall. The cases proposed are all upright, no table cases being intended, on account of waste room and no drawers or cupboards for storage being provided, as storage can be in separate rooms, only those objects being placed in glass cases which can be shown to advantage, and which will be useful to persons accustomed to use the museum. Between each two windows is a case four feet wide and twelve feet long, and seven feet high, which for small objects, may be divided into two by a screen of wood, ground glass or canvas painted gray or some color suitable for a background for the specimens. For this room ten double cases are proposed between windows, four shallow cases of the same length against the walls in the corners, and a big case against the back wall. A large space is left in the middle of the floor for large specimens in special cases or uncovered. The walls between the windows furnish good places for maps, diagrams, and explanations of the contents of cases. The windows should be as high as possible, and the walls light, but need not be white and barren as in many large museums, or disfigured by ugly lettering.
GEOLOGICAL LABORATORIES.
GEOLOGICAL LABORATORIES. Adjoin this exhibition room is room B, intended for an office for the curator and for the use of geologists or special students who may be at work on the collections. Here may be stored type specimens or specimens too small to be exhibited in glass cases, but which must be within easy reach; microscopic preparations and specimens which must often be taken out for teaching purposes. Opening into this room and also into the passage C is a larger room D, for general laboratory uses of students and teachers.
SECOND FLOOR.
The second floor is reached by stairs at the back of the entry F, lighted in part from the front door, and partly by a skylight.
On this floor is an exhibition room similar to that on the first floor, and directly over it and furnished with similar cases. The rooms on this floor are sixteen feet high with twelve foot windows, as on the floor below.
Connected with the exhibition room on the front is a room for the herbarium and for the use of the botanist, and beyond it a laboratory for students. The first room has a storage gallery eight feet wide at the back.
On the opposite side is a similar pair of rooms for the zoological department, for the insect collections, microscopic and small specimens generally, and those used by students, and for general laboratory purposes.
Between these two sets of rooms is a large one connected with both departments, which may be used as a student's laboratory or lecture or recitation room for either department.
BASEMENT.
Beside the lecture room, the basement contains a large room L for packing and unpacking and cleaning specimens, under the exhibition rooms, and back of this large store rooms. There is also a large storage place under the lecture room floor, lighted by a window in the front wall.
ATTIC.
The attic furnishes large space for the storage of all kinds of light and dry specimens, and should have some vermin proof cases for skins, insects, and such objects particularly liable to injury.
The attic is also a good place for a workshop for such carpenter work as is often needed for taxidermy and the preparing and mounting of specimens and all dirty work connected with the museum.
University Lecture Course.
After long delay and many tribulations, we are to have a lecture course. When the students had failed through lack of energy and push, the faculty took the matter in hand, and now offer to the students the following course:
Feb. 17...Rev. S. McChesney
Schuyler Colfax.
March... Dr. E. H. S. Batley
Tar Colors.
March 24...S. D. S. Cooke
March 31...J. R. Burton
Election and Reading
April 14...Dr. E. L. Nichols Soap Bubbles.
Elocution and Reading.
April 21... James W. Steele
Contrasts in Human Life.
April 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noble Prentis
May 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . Prof. F. O. Marvin
May 12 . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. B. C. Lippincott
May 19 . . . . . . . . . Pres. A. R. Taylor
Valuable Additions.
By correspondence with the war department and the department of the interior, Prof. Canfield has secured a large addition to the apparatus of instruction in both his own department and that of civil engineering. The latter has some fifty specimens of the best possible topographical drawings, largely view and harbor wook, and surveys of the more recently opened mining reigons. Prof. C. retains for his lecture room the following:
Yukon river, Alaska, Egypt and the Sudan (2 maps), Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Alabama, Florida, Dakota territory, Idaho territory, Washington territory, New Mexico territory, Arizona territory, Utah territory, Indian territory, Oregon, United States west of the Mississippi, and of remarkably fine detail plans of struggles connected with the Civil War, thus: Movements of Gen. Sherman's forces from Louisville, Ky., to Washington, the Atlanta campaign (5 charts), movements in front of Atlanta, Shiloh, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Knoxville, Nashville, Franklin, South Mountain, Fort Fisher (2 charts), Williamsburg to White House, Bermuda Hundred, White House to Harrison Landing; Gettysburg to Appomattox, Gettysburg (3 charts), Antietam, Harpers Ferry, Wilderness, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania C. H., Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor, North Anna, Tatopotomy, Jetsville and Sailor's Creek, Richmond, Petersburg and Fair Forks Appomattox.
A Drama in three Acts.
Several G. A. R. men have already found their way to an examination of these new attractions, and to students and citizens this collection must prove of both interest and value.
ACT I.
Place—K. S. U. rostrum.
Time.—8:30 p.m., Feb. 18, 1885.
Question for 10 year old boy on prohibition—What is the difference between real prohibition and that kind of prohibition that defeats prohibiton? Problem of the age.
ACT II.
Plə,ce—Kansas.
Time—November, 1882.
What is the difference between real R——p——m and that kind of R——p——m that defeats R——p——m? St. J——n.
Place—U. S.A.
ACT III.
All O. K.; set 'em up again. St.
J-—n.
ime—November, 1884.
Moral. —Don't discuss politics on the K. S. U. rostrum.
That it knows why Little and Linley are absent from so many classes.
That the University hop will be a success.
That the students should have a weeks' vacation before long.
What the Courier Believes.
And that it is too soon to speculate on Oread politics.
That the law students are having an easy time just now.
That a good crowd will go to Emporia.
That it is about time for Fritz to object.
That Oread will have a peacefull (?) election.
That it is about time for the Seniors to have a row.
VIEWS.
EDITOR VIEWS:—In the last issue of the Courier I noticed an article on "Analytical Geometry," from the pen of J. E. C. The writer of the same seems to be laboring under the delusion that the courses of study should be made for his especial benefit. If he did not think thus, his words, at least, convey this idea, for he wishes to set aside this study on the ground that he is a candidate for ministerial duties, and that it will be of no future use to him. Our University aims to give a liberal education to all who will avail themselves of her advantages, but in so doing, she retains the right of deciding the retention or rejection of any particular study, since she is the best judge of such matters. If J. E. C. thinks she exercises this power too much in any one direction, let him examine the courses and see whether they, on the whole, have not been made with the greatest impartiality. Many come to the University to obtain an education—a liberal education—and unless the courses of study were arranged to meet their wants they also might make just cause of complaint. It is the desire of those who have power in these matters to make such courses as would be most likely to suit the majority of the student's intellectual wants. As the affairs of the University now stand, it is deemed best by them not to make analytical geometry optional. If this is the sentiment of those who surely know the wants of the University better than we, we ought to be willing to give up some of our desires for the common good. When the University is able to carry on a larger number of optional studies, so that all can be satisfied, then our friend may be able to obtain his wish. But if he cannot be satisfied with this, and has not stamina enough to restrain himself from losing his morals while mastering this required study, he is indeed sadly in need of some theological training.
DKE.
EDITOR VIEWS:—A writer in your issue asks the question: "Is it better to acquire a slight smattering of every study known to the civilized world, or to master those studies which are of practical benefit and at the same time suited to mental training?" A thoughtful person will say; Master the foundation studies. Make yourself a broad man by getting abreast of the world's progress in all the great branches of knowledge. Master the principles; you can never know all the details. Then, when you can think, talk and act as an educated man, learn to be a lawyer in a law school; a farmer on the farm.
The aforesaid writer is made rabid by zoology, and pites the intended preacher who must toil among old fossils, bugs and cat intestines. A preacher like Joseph Cook or Talmage must know much of these same old fossils, bugs and cat intestines, and they are often mentioned in sermons. No man can write a sermon for or against evolution until he has studied zoology. A special student must study whatever comes in his line, but the required studies of our many optional courses do come in his line if he is to be a broad minded man, and not a bigoted specialist crank who digs his own narrow hole deeper and deeper, and becomes so sharp at las'
that he runs himself into the ground by his own projection, and stands as an everlasting monument to his own stupidity.
In the present condition of general knowledge, botany, chemistry and zoology are not special studies. The lawyer must know them to obtain and explain testimony. Every man should know something of the world in which he lives. We students cannot so well judge what studies we need, as the wise business heads of our regents who have mapped out several paths for us. We should follow one of these and do its work well. There is time in each.
We are required to study 70 weeks in the natural sciences; we can spend 275 weeks on Latin, 200 weeks on Greek, 110 weeks on German, 90 weeks on French, 105 weeks in English, 145 weeks in history and political economy, 130 weeks in chemistry or physics, 135 weeks in biology, 300 weeks on pure and applied mathematics, 180 weeks on drawing. What specialist can complain? R.'s peroration should read: "When our students can slough off and rise above some crazy and fanatical thoughts; when they shall widen out to the breadth of the University purpose, then, and not till then, can it accomplish its aim as an institution of learning." SPECIALIST.
EDITOR VIEWS:—To a visitor at the literary societies, one of the most noticeable things is the lack of original work. Almost all the members posted for essays or orations substitute readings or declamations.
The greatest benefit to be derived from the society is the original work; to be able to write a good essay or oration.
Now as the younger members rarely debate, but leave that important part of the programme to a few old members, we may ask what do these members do? Answer is, read or declaim. If a student joins a society, it is to be supposed that he means to work and profit by his work.
I do not believe that those members of the society who are always delinquent, get the benefit which they would if they would always take part. Hereafter let us have more good essays and orations and fewer selections from Petroleum V. Nasby and Josiah Allen's wife. OREAD.
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