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WEEKLY University Courier.
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J. SULLIYAN, President. F. T. OAKLEY, Sec'y.
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Few states are receiving better recognition in advanced educational matters than Kansas.
Co-education is rapidly gaining ground. Adelbert College, Cleveland, Ohio, is the last to fall in with the procession.
While the State Agricultural College at Manhattan gets $32,000 annually from its endowment, our University gets but $9,000.
The University of Kansas has never before been in such a prosperous condition. Like the State, it is coming rapidly to the very front rank.
The alumni of the University, all departments, number one hundred and eighty-seven, and are scattered throughout the union in nearly every vocation.
The law department in the University should be something of which the State would be proud. It, however, should be given a little better support by the State.
We urge upon all under class men the advantage of as soon as possible clearing up back work. Every Senior who has neglected this has the ghost of some prep study haunting him, and will join us in this advice.
--fact we rejoice with all friends of good work and study.
Kansas is proud of her school advantages. Well may she be. None are better supported by a State in the union. Those well known school advantages are proving a great incentive to a high grade immigration to our State. It pays.
Why cannot the State Normal School, Agricultural College and State University support themselves, is asked by a correspondent in Missouri. We answer by asking: 'Why does not the common school system support itself? Why does not any system of public education support itself?'
Those who were here during the stormy days of college politics last year are marking the difference now. An era of peace and good feeling is general, and the personal enmity and bitterness which marked last year's work is noticeably absent. At which
No State in the union has a better endowment for her common schools than Kansas. No State of her age has a better foundation for the higher institutions of learning. If these are given the proper support, inside of twenty-five years her Normal School, Agricultural College and University will be among the foremost in the country.
From the Abilene Gazette :-Among the worthy educational institutions of Kansas the University stands at the head, and the people desire the members of the legislature to make such appropriations as the best interests of the State require, and the same can be said of all our public institutions supported in whole or in part by appropriations from the State treasury. The University is growing stronger in the affections of the people year by year, because it is doing good work in the education of the young men and women of the State. The regents are asking for needed appropriations only, and no member of the legislature should vote blindly against a single item. Every member should become acquainted with the facts, and vote from knowledge and not from prejudice. The people want their public institutions liberally sustained.
The State legislature began its labors for the session of 1885 at Topeka last Tuesday. The session promises to be one of the most important ever held, and its work from day to day will be watched with keen interest all over the State. The number of "appropriations asked" will perhaps exceed those ever asked of a legislature before. Considering the environments placed upon the members individually, coming from constituents from all over the state, who cry "cut State expenditures, times are hard," etc., we feel for them when they are brought to face many of these appropriations which all justice and right demand, they being allowed or recognized by members, yet the giving a vote for some of them often being the "sealing the political doom" of some. Truly the lot of a legislator is not always blissfulness.
The student who "leads his class" has a comparatively easy time. After he once has a reputation established, professor and fellow student will look upon his lead as almost a matter of course. Then his ambition will be fired to keep up his record, and no outside attraction can take him from work. But the man who is always at or near the foot of his class has indeed an unhappy lot. Professors are likely to misunderstand any merit which he may have, and see only his glaring faults. It is put down among the certainties of the examination that he will be found near the bottom of the roll. He is tolerated after a fashion, but any departure from his usual routine is laughed down. His companions are sorry for him, for "he can't help it, you know." But this is a small consolation for the poor fellow. It is only in after life, when the actual struggle for existence has begun, where he begins to loom up. The brilliant man who leads the class does not seem to get the firm grasp or
be so willing to accept misfortune and try to help himself as he who has experienced it for four years in college. Time has made all things even.
If the object of the new scheme of classification is to urge the Seniors to work up their back studies, it is probably a success. But if it is intended to be a permanent institution, it has already accomplished enough to prove itself a laughing stock. The absolute indifference which this system displays as it mathematically sends the dignified Senior back to J. P. or Quincy street is, torturing to those proud souls, but "nuts" for the rest of the students. The confusion is so great that class lines are effectually broken down. The Junior and the Soph, so long pitted against each other in deadly combat, repose quietly (?) in the shades of prepladm, and dream no more of class parties and kidnapping. The patient Senior who has labored for nearly four years to reach that height, is mercilessly cast down among the Freshmen, because, forsooth, he hasn't credit for that examination in J. P. Algebra. Ye Gods, can we endure all this? Rouse, ye dethroned Seniors; wake, ye Juniors, to your ancient dreams of class parties and plug hats; stir yourselves, ye mighten of '87, celebrated in your own story, and exhibit that former cheek and gall which won admiration and brickbats from all observers; and Freshmen, will ye endure that your short life shall be so ruthlessly cut off in the very bloom of youth, purity and innocence?
EXCHANGE.
A Bit of History.
We have been asked how it has happened that the University of Kansas, in a state which has ever stood at the front in the ranks of advancement and education, does not have an endowment equal to the Universities of Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas and other western states. A greater part of the endowment of thee institutions was secured by the organic acts when they became states. When Kansas was knocking at the gate of the union for admission, and a majority attempted to force upon her free soil the curse of slavery, congress, then under therule of the slavocracy, in order to induce the people of Kansas to adopt the Lecompton constitution, attempted to secure its ratification by an offer of a munificent grant of land for educational purposes, if that constitution was adopted. But principle could not be bought with such means, and the proffered bribe was rejected. Thus all the responsibility of educational affairs was thrown upon the young State. And right nobly has she done her duty by them. Each year the legislature has carefully watched over and guarded the institution of learning which it has recognized as being of the greatest value to the State. So each session the University comes before the members and asks that support which they believe it worthy. It is now an institution to which the young men and women of the State may come and obtain a liberal education. A reputation has been made and a position gained corresponding to that of our glorious commonwealth. To the legislature now in session we turn for a maintenance of that liberality which a legislature of such a state with such a history may be expected to continue.
The average salary of all college professors in the United States is $1,530. — *Ex.*
There are 200,000 volumes in the library of Harvard College.
Princeton is to have a Latin comedy presented by the students in the near future.
In the cane-rushes of both Lebigh and Hobart Colleges the Freshmen came out victorious.
Every member of the faculty of Amherst College is an alumnus of that institution.
Students at Yale consume between 2,000 and 3,000 cigarettes daily.
Ann Arbor has more students in attendance than any other college in the country. The number is 1,554.
The value of the school property in the South is $6,000,000, while that in the northern states in $188,000,000.
Of the 320 Colleges and Universities in the United States, but 24 have more than 200 students, and only 17 have more than 20 teachers.
A Vermont debating society will tackle the question: "Which is the most fun, to see a man try to thread a needle, or a woman try to drive a nail?"
The faculty of Dartmouth has suspended two editors of the college paper for free expression of their sentiments They continue to edit their paper as ably as before suspension.
Amherst gymnasium cost $88,600 and is said to be the finest in the world. A student's excellence in the gymnasium counts just as much as excellence in any study.
The faculty are in a measure responsible for our physical as well as our intellectual and moral development, and they ought to see to it that we take exercise as well as that we attend classes and worship. Oberlin Review.
The attendance at some of the leading colleges for the past year was as follows: Yale, 1070; Harvard, 1522; Oberlin, 1,464; Columbia, 1,542; Michigan University, 1,550; Princeton, 527; University of Pennsylvania, 1044. —Ex.
The annual expense of a student at Harvard is $800; Amherst, $500;
Columbia, $800; Lafayette, $400;
Princeton, $600; Yale, $800, and
Williams $500. The average expense of the college course for the Senior
class at Brown is $1,769.70.
One of the seven commencement orators out of a class of over 200 at Harvard last June, was a colored man named Robert H. Terrell. He was born in Virginia, in 1857, of slave parents. He worked his own way through college, and yet stood among the first of his class. The subject of his oration was: "The Negro Race in America since Emancipation." He intends to devote himself to teaching.
A writer in the Vanderbilt Observer says that the number of colleges in the South is enormous; but out of this immense number very few have advantages sufficient to justify the name they hold, and yet all of them stand up with the dignity, gravity and majesty of learned bodies, and confer degrees and bestow diplomas equal in outward respects to those of Yale. The smallest institution in the South confers the degree of M. A., yet a student with that appellation from one of the most prominent colleges recently proved himself a most miserable failure in the lower classes of Vanderbilt University.
The students of Iowa College are greatly rejoicing over a new and more liberal policy adopted by the trustees of the College Says the News-Letter: "We are under the regime of self-government! The honor and nobleness of human nature is to be substituted for humiliating exactions. Yes, the day has come when the students of Iowa College can, with pride, say candidly: 'We are men and women.' The old regulations have disappeared as the mist before the dawn. We believe this change will be most beneficial. The willful and unrestrained will see they are simply injuring themselves, and from their lack of self-control, will cease to exist as students. The decree has gone forth that the students of Iowa College must exercise self-restraint." The feeling of satisfaction resulting from a change such as indicated in this extract is very natural. Iowa College is to be congratulated on attaining its majority.—Badger.
All studies are now elective at Harvard.
There are fifty-five fraternities in the United States.
The salary of Mr. James G. Lathrop, the new trainer for Athletics at Harvard, is $2,000 a year. The average salary of a tutor is from $800 to $1,200. Comment is hardly necessary.
Walter Tell's Song.
Ohio has as many Universities as France and Germany together.
TRANSLATED.
As the eagle reigneth
O'er the realm of air,
So through vale and mountain
Rinks he, free from care.
With his bow and arrow
'Ore hill and glade,
Early in the sunlight,
Comes the hunter brave.
To him belongs the distance
Where his arrow lies ;
And for him all body,
Which whitches creep and files.
*Scarithmore Phonix.*
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