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MOTTO. —Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken
Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, as second class matte.
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The University is steadily growing in usefulness and popularity. The State should cherish and encourage it in every possible way.-GovernorJohn A. Martin's Message.
Yale has just completed one wing of a natural history building that cost $175,000.
Missouri two years ago gave $100, 000 to her State University for building purposes alone.
The regents of the Missouri State University ask for $400,000 for that institution for the next two years.
Last spring Prof. Cope, of Philadelphia, offered his collection of fossils to the board of regents of the Missouri State University for $100,-000. The board at the present session of the legislature asks for $185,-000 for museum collections. They evidently are intent upon securing Prof. C.'s collection.
This week Prof. Snow received a large number of valuable specimens of beetles, making the collections now embrace six thousand species. By the aid of these he classifies the bugs daily sent in by farmers all over the State, and is able to tell the name and habits, and whether they are injurious or not.
Hutchings of Kingman Leader, what are you doing? We take the following from the Troy Chief of last week:
A paper called the Kingman Leader, edited by a graduate of the Freshman class of the State University, feels called upon to do some snorting on what he calls the attacks upon the University, and names the Chief as one of the papers that is assailing Prof. Canfield. Firstly, the Kingman Leader does not see the Chief, and doesn't know what it says upon any question, except upon hearsay. Secondly, we do not remember that we have had a word to say about Prof. Canfield for some months. Thirdly, we are just now feeling very friendly toward the State University, and those young graduates who are over-zealous in its behalf should not slop over without sufficient cause, least they get us started on the rampage again. When a fellow is going along all right, let him alone.
The Denison Collegian lambets the fact that in spite of the efforts of the president of the college their college reading room "seems to serve as a rendezvous for certain fellows who congregate there to talk, laugh and
rack jokes.” This same trouble exists in the library of the K. S. U. A casual visitor would think that the office of the librarian was to walk from one end of the room to the other and endeavor to keep order. At Denison University the trouble seems to come from a far different source than at the K. S. U. Here we are allowed to take but three studies and consequently have one vacant hour. We walk through the hall and perhaps stop to talk with a lady friend, or sit down near a register to study. We have scarcely gotten our mind fixed on the lesson when we hear footsteps; looking up we see the ever pleasant countenance of our chancellor, who approaches and says: “Won’t you please go to the library?” “Certainly,” we answer, and off we go. Arriving at the library we find a dozen or two more who came there for the same reason we did. They have no subject that they wish to look up; they don’t care about reading any of the numerous papers; if they have not studied their lessons for the following hours they wish help from some one who has; if they have, they commence talking about societies, contests, etc., until some one touches them on the shoulder, and they hear the polite request of the librarian: “Please don't make so much noise.” Then there is a momentary lull and the same program is repeated. If you really do wish to read or study you cannot on account of the noise. In short, the library seems to be diverted from the purpose for which it was established, and used as a “corral” for the student with a vacant hour.
Missouri's Appropriation.
Kansas asks $137,000 for her State University for the coming two years.
Missouri asks $480,000 as follows:
Current expenses ... $75,000
Farm repairs and improvements ... 49,000
Chemical-laboratory ... 30,000
To furnish three additional halls ... 5,000
Heating scientific building ... 1,800
Reconstruction and improvement of all buildings and grounds ... 62,000
Armory and gymnasium improvement of grounds ... 50,000
Fencing of grounds ... 7,000
Electric lighting ... 6,000
Museum collections ... 185,000
Statues of Washington and Jefferson ... 6,000
Total ... $480,000
The Natural History Appropriation.
From the Topeka Capital of yesterday, 5th inst., we clip the following:
No bill now before the legislature is more meritorious than that part of the University bill asking money for the construction of a building for the use of the department of natural history, under Professor Frank II. Snow. The question is not alone one of prospective good or educational policy. The pride of pre-eminent scholarship is only one of the factors to be considered. It is a question of absolute practical business necessity.
have done for the older States enst. He has given education in Kansas a large part of its wonderful impetus, and his pure and useful life has been a saying light to thousands of our youth.
Professor Snow has always been a bonanza to Kansas. A man of rare scholarship, he has given his time and talent patiently and conscientiously to the development of our own State, telling our farmers who are their friends and who are their foes, and doing for the State generally what whole generations of strong minds
He has brought to the University its first bequest since that of Amos Lawrence, namely: the Spooner bequest of about two hundred thousand dollars; and finally his collections in the several branches of science, represent an actual cash value to the State of probably not one cent less than one hundred thousand dollars.
These collections have been made at an expense of perhaps three thousand dollars to the State, the professor and his assistants, and pupils having given their time free during vacations, and the various railroads of the State having contributed free transportation to help in the work of collecting. The collections will grow more valuable every day, as they include many specimens which are no where duplicated, and which most likely never will be duplicated. For instance, one small specimen showing the petrified skin of a saurian will bring five thousand dollars in hard cash any day the State will consent to part with it. In short, these collections are valuable in the same way that any stock of goods in any Topeka store is valuable, and should be guarded as carefully as a banker would protect his bonds, notes and currency.
A fire in the main University building would destroy in the collections alone as much as the whole building is worth. This very thing happened recently in Wisconsin, and that state will never be able to make good its loss. The state legislature refused a request similar to the one now pending here, and as a result, robbed the state of fully $200,000.
The state has paid Professor Snow since he has been in Kansas, perhaps $30,000 for eighteen years' work. In return for this he has given his time as instructor; has educated the people on questions of vital importance to our industrial welfare; has brought us a bequest of $200,000, and has heaped up a collection of natural history specimens worth at least another $100,000. Kansas could afford to hire as many men of that kind as could be found. The seven rooms in the main University building now used by the natural history department are sorely in need for other collegiate work. In short, the necessity of this improvement is, as we see it, almost absolute. We hope the gentlemen of the legislature will take the same view.
A Few Statistics.
From our issue of December 26, we republish the following statistics upon ENDOWMENTS from their various sources, and comparative expenditures for INSTRUCTION and LIBRARY purposes of educational institutions of the country, emphasizing the comparison with our own worthy school:
ENDOWMENTS,
1. Columbia ... $5,000,000
2. Harvard ... 4,220,000
3. Cornell* ... 3,700,000
4. California ... 1,675,000
5. Yale ... 1,500,000
6. Minnesota ... 575,000
7. Missouri ... 500,000
8. Dartmouth ... 500,000
9. Michigan ... 475,000
10. Amherst ... 411,000
11. Williams...310,000
12. Bowdoln...226,000
13. Iowa...216,000
14. Kansas...145,000
RECEIVED FROM ENDOWMENT.
1. Columbia ... $313,000
2. Harvard ... 305,000
13. Cornell ... 200,000
4. California ... 105,000
5. Yale ... 100,000
6. Wisconsin ... 84,000
7. Michigan ... 40,000
8. Minnesota ... 35,000
9. Williams ... 27,000
10. { Missouri,
    Amherst,
    Dartmouth, } Each ... 25,000
13. Bowdoin ... 18,000
12. Iowa ... 16,000
13. Kansas ... 8,000
RECEIVED FROM THE STATE.
1. Michigan* ... $164,000
2. Iowa ... 45,000
3. California ... 30,000
4. Missouri ... 30,000
5. Kansas ... 28,250
*Including special for library building,
$100,000.
RECEIVED EROM GIFTe
1. California ... $150,000
2. Missouri ... 30,000
3. Wisconsin ... 15,000
4. Michigan* ... 10,000
5. Kansas ... NOTHING
*Has received lately Art collections valued at $300,000.
EXPENDITURES,
EXPENDED FOR INSTRUCTION.
1. Columbia ... $294,700
2. Harvard ... 253,374
3. Cornell ... 104,000
4. Michigan ... 70,000
5. Wisconsin ... 50,000
6. Missouri ... 44,000
7. Minnesota ... 35,000
8. Williams ... 34,000
9. Iowa ... 26,200
10. Kansas ... 24,150
AVERAGE SALARY—FULL PROFESSORS.
1. Columbia ... $7,500
2. Harvard ... $8,300 to $5,000 4,000
3. California ... 3,000
4. Cornell ... 3,000
5. Williams ... 2,500
6. Amherst ... 2,500
7. Darthmouth ... 2,500
8. Bowdoin ... 2,500
9. Michigan ... 2,250
10. Minnesota ... 2,000
11. Missouri ... 2,000
12. Wisconsin ... 2,000
13. Iowa ... 1,850
14. Nebraska ... 1,800
15. Kansas ... 1,600
AVERAGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS TO EACH INSTRUCTOR.
1. Cornell ... 8
2. Wisconsin ... 9
3. Nebraska ... 9
4. Harvard ... 9
5. California ... 9
6. Bowdoin ... 10
7. Columbia ... 10
8. Williams ... 13
9. Minnesota ... 15
10. Amherst ... 15
11. Yale ... 16
12. Dartmouth ... 16
13. Michigan ... 17
14. Iowa ... 18
15. Missouri ... 19
16. Kansas ... 34
EXPENDED FOR LIBRARY.
1. California ... $38,000
2. Harvard ... 37,425
3. Cornell, books, $3,000; pamph
lets, $1,000; labor, $5,000 ... 9,000
4. Michigan ... 7,500
5. Amherst ... 3,785
6. Minnesota ... 1,500
7. Williams ... 1,500
8. Iowa ... 1,200
9. Wisconsin ... 1,200
10. Missouri ... 750
11. Nebraska ... 600
12. Kansas (1) ... 500
12. Kansas (1) ... 506
(1) The newer and smaller the library the more—not the less—should be expended.
Prof. describing an ancient Greek theatre: "And it had no roof."
theatre: "And it had taken
Junior, sure he had caught Prof.
in a mistake: "What did they do,
sir, when it rained?"
Prof., taking off his eye glasses and pausing a moment: "They got wet, sir." "—College Journal.
The laidies of Elmira college are discussing the question of higher education for men. Revenge! - Ex.
The University of Madras has graduated 899 students, of whom not one as been a Christian.
A big proboscis is indicative of intelligence. In other words, the bigger it is the more a man nose. -Milwankee Sentinel.
The only reason why no woman can become president is that the law requires that she be thirty-five years of age.
Columbia has added 150,000 volumes to her library within the last year.
At Princeton students are allowed twenty-five unexcused absences in each term.
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