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The University is steadily growing in usefulness and popularity. The State should cherish and encourage it in every possible way.-Governor John A. Martin's Message.
Salary of the Greek Professor.
The attention of the regents should be vigorously called to an inconsistency, in fact a wrong, in the salary of the Greek professor. The salaries of the other professors are sixteen hundred per year, but that of Prof. Stephens is twelve hundred, the smallest received by any of our professors. Why this discrimination should be made is to us a mystery. We know of but one reason that could be urged—and that, too, most unplausible—that of sex. As the chair of Greek ranks on par with the other chairs of the University, and the work required in that department is no less than that required in all the others, this difference in salary is certainly a great injustice.
Normal Department.
From the action of our legislature in respect to the Normal department, it seems as if it must go.
That this department is and has been a credit to the K. S. U. since Dr. P. J. Williams has had control of it, is a well established fact in the minds of those who have a knowledge of its management and results. There have gone out of this branch of the University graduates—and in fact many who are not graduates—who today hold higher and more responsible positions as teachers than those from any school or college in the State.
If there is any truth in the aforesaid action, and there seems to be, it cannot arise from want of the proper facilities to prepare teachers; for 1st, all students in any of the Normal courses are obliged to recite in the same classes and to the same instructors as those in the collegiate departments. 2d, in addition to the above, they have the practical benefit of the instruction of the dean
The fact is that we were just getting ready to ask our legislature why with the facilities at our command in this department and a higher Normal course than any other institution in Kansas, our Normal graduates should not have the benefit of a life certificate, when such privileges are given those less qualified.
Again, let us ask, does Kansas need fewer Normal training schools? And the man who answers this in the negative will receive the ridicule of his more educated neighbor.
German and French.
The present indications point to a "nigger in the wood pile," and it would not from past events be very hard to locate said wood pile.
As far as numbers go the following figures will convey an idea of the work being done in the department of modern languages this year:
Total number of classes ... 10
Beginning German, two divisions,
average attendance 100 ... 120
Freshman, German, 2 divisions ... 37
Sophomore, German ... 17
Junior, German ... 17
Second year Normal ... 4
Senior Prep, French ... 17
Total, first session ... 2
Beginning French, second division ... 57
Freshman, French ... 10
Sophomore, French ... 10
Junior, French ... 6
S. P., German, second session ... 43
Third year Normal, German ... 10
Total, second session. ...
Special examinations on work made up outside ...
Total enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Enrolled German . . . . . . . . . . . 265
" French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Average number in class . . . . . . . 284
In addition, Prof. Arthur Canfield has given his attention to a small class of irregulars during a considerable part of the year. Many of the lower classes have grown to such size that mere numbers have become a drawback rather than otherwise, and the reduction of the S.P.German class of 120 to 54 in the second session, is largely due to a necessary and wholesome process of "weeding out,"which leaves none but rigorous, earnest scholars to pursue the work.
From an editorial in an exchange we cull the following:
The University in this country is the poor boy's nourishing mother. The boy does not live in Kansas today so poor that he may not have the highest education the State can afford. The standard must not be lowered. The rich can send their sons to Yale and Harvard. The poor boys of Kansas must be educated at the University of Kansas or not have the advantages of higher education.
Here Gauner, one of the poorest farmer boys in the State, was educated, and now has achieved distinction in the natural sciences. From the same institution went John Long, a poor boy, now a professor in one of the leading colleges of the country. The Gleed brothers worked their way through the University, the one
achieving marked success as a college professor of Greek in the institution subsequently, and the other as a journalist, and now they are practicing law in Topeka with excellent prospects for fame and wealth in the future. Every graduate of the University is to-day a success in life. We believe there is not a single failure.
From the classic halls of the young University of Kansas have gone already young men who have acquired distinction in civil engineering. The boys of the University have been especially successful, almost phenomenally so, in this department. The University is the poor boy's high school. Let it be supported liberally as one of the strongest forces in building up the highest civilization the State is capable of attaining.
Department of Natural History.
Under the above caption we clip the following from the pen of the Hon. Milton W. Reynolds, in the Herald-Tribune of this city of the 17th inst. :
However much the legislature may cut down in other directions it can hardly afford to refuse the appropriation of $50,000 asked for the department of natural history of the University. It is required in the construction of a building that shall afford room for the storage and proper display of the collections in natural history made by the man who brought $30,000 to the institution, $200,000 in the Spooner bequest, from his father-in-law, and a collection in natural history worth to-day $100,000.
The department has been compelled to entrench upon the grounds of other departments for necessary room, and the splendid collection it already has is every hour jeopardized from liability of fire, and is being wasted by decay. This department is largely in the interest of the farmers, fruit growers and producers of the State. They should see that it does not suffer for lack of means, especially when it is in the hands of a man so competent, so industrious, so faithful to their interests as is Prof. Snow.
For twenty years he has labored for the producers of Kansas and the west. He has given fame to the institution. He has been loyal to Kansas and her noble institution of learning. He has resisted tempting offers. He has worked by daylight and by lamplight for the University. Eastern colleges have wanted him at higher salaries than Kansas has thought she could pay. But he has remained true to his first love. And he has given to the University of this State the finest collection in entomology, save that at Harvard, possessed by any college in the land.
Latin and Greek.
The new building is imperatively needed. A possible calamity hangs over the State should the appropriation be refused two years longer. If the new building were not absolutely needed Prof. Ssw would not ask for it. The regents and the faculty ask for it.
The classical department of our University ranks with those of the foremost colleges of the country. In fact, it may be said without gainsay-
There is not a farmer in the State who, if he really understood the situation and the wants of the department of natural history, would refuse a vote for the needed appropriation.
ing it, in this branch of our University is the most perfected. It is possible for a student to take a classical course either in Latin or Greek as full and comprehensive as the courses at Harvard, Yale, Williams and the eastern institutions. The classies are not so much required here as in those institutions, but if so desired as complete a course can be had here as elsewhere in America.
The Latin and Greek chairs, once embraced in the one chair of languages, have so far developed as to be over crowded. The addition of an instructor employed for both departments has not supplied the demand for greater instruction, and more instructors are needed to carry out the work of these branches of our University.
Prof. Robinson has now four classes under his charge, which requires of him work double that of professors in other colleges of the country.
Colloquial exercises, one of the methods adopted by Prof. Robinson in imparting instruction, have proven most successful, and have been found by Prof. Robinson most efficient in bringing his pupils to a thorough understanding of the Latin tongue. The capacity for increased work in the upper classes is also noticeable as the department increases in efficiency.
The Greek department, under charge of Prof. Stephens, has also developed in importance and usefulness of late years. The department has well kept pace with the growth of the University in general, and is today a model in its efficiency and usefulness.
The aim of Prof. Stephens has been not so much to confine her pupils to the study of the Greek language alone, as to have them understand the history, customs and peculiarities of the Greek people. In this she has been exceedingly successful, and all the students of her department are thoroughly versed both in the language and in all relations of Greek life and history.
Prof. Sterling, the instructor in Latin and Greek, is also well supplied with work. The large class of the preparatory department is placed in his care. Thoroughness rather than the amount of work has been the desire of Prof. Sterling in instructing the primary classes. All classes have left him with thorough preparation.
Optional studies in both Latin and Greek are open to all zealous classical students who desire a more thorough understanding of those languages than the regular courses permit. It is the wish of Professors Robinson and Stephens that a student take the interest in Latin and Greek to pursue those studies beyond the requirements of the regular courses, and both are ready at all times to assist such interested students.
The success of the classical department of this University can well be measured by the positions its graduates have taken in after college life. Several have held positions in our University, while the classical alumn elsewhere rank perhaps as a whole above the alumni of the other departments of the University.
The Science club bulletin board now presents an artistic program border, an original design by R. L. McAlpine. The work reflects much credit on our engineering department.
Kansas University Science Club.
The Science club met at 3 p.m. last Friday in chemistry hall. J. T. West, M. J. Parish, W. H. Brown, E. T. Walters, E. B. Stimpson and W. C. Stevens, were elected members. Prof. E. H. S. Bailey read a paper on the "Kansas Sugar Industry," in which he made a report of his original experiments. Glucose was found one-half as sweet as cane sugar. "Extra C" was found sweeter than "granulated white." The sorghum sugar works do not pay. E.D. Eames read a paper on "Dry Pressed Fire Brick." E.D. Cruise described "Washington's Monument." R. Short explained "Dry Plate Photography." A. L. Adams gave a review of the Scientific News. A vote of thanks was tendered to R. L. McAlpine for his beautiful original design on the bulletin board. Each of the papers was followed by an interesting, jolly talk by everyone. The club spirit prevails. The next meeting is Feb. 27. All students and their friends are cordially invited.
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