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The mathematical department of the University this year, under the charge of Prof. E. Miller, is in a most flourishing condition. The following is the class enrollment for the fall term, 1884:
Freshman Geometry ... 75
Freshman Algebra ... 87
Sophomore Trigonometry ... 46
Junior Calculus ... 7
Prep. Algebra ... 110
- - - neath tables and desks; and then let him go down into the basement and see those two rooms packed with the latest additions, which are practically useless in their present position to professors or students, and then if he is not satisfied of the imperative need and inestimable value to the State of the building asked for, we will lose our faith in human nature.
A paper published under the auspices of the State University is now being mailed regularly to all the members of the legislature.—Troy Chief. Yes, Sol, this paper is mailed to the members of the legislature, but is not "published under the auspices of the State University." The Courier is published by a joint stock company of students, and is mailed to members of the legislature not as an official organ of the University.
--neath tables and desks; and then let him go down into the basement and see those two rooms packed with the latest additions, which are practically useless in their present position to professors or students, and then if he is not satisfied of the imperative need and inestimable value to the State of the building asked for, we will lose our faith in human nature.
In one respect the contests between the literary societies are a detriment to the successful society. Their victory is an assurance to them that their society has good members, and they contemplate it with a self complacency that should be superceded by good, earnest work. We trust the victorious society (in the last contest) will reinforce its triumph with interesting and profitable meetings the remainder of the year.
--neath tables and desks; and then let him go down into the basement and see those two rooms packed with the latest additions, which are practically useless in their present position to professors or students, and then if he is not satisfied of the imperative need and inestimable value to the State of the building asked for, we will lose our faith in human nature.
Every year a number o Kansas young men go east to attend a medical college. Were there a medical institution within our state these men, with others whom circumstances keep from fulfilling their wishes in this line, would obtain a medical education at home. Our laws provide for the establishment of a medical department in the K S.U. Would it not be well for our legislature to make the necessary provisions therefor this winter?
--neath tables and desks; and then let him go down into the basement and see those two rooms packed with the latest additions, which are practically useless in their present position to professors or students, and then if he is not satisfied of the imperative need and inestimable value to the State of the building asked for, we will lose our faith in human nature.
If any member of the legislature, or anyone else should doubt the necessity of a natural history building, let him make a visit to the University, take a walk through the rooms in Prof Snow's department, crowded so full with valuable specimens they can hardly be shown; let him look at the cases of rare insects, the boxes of geological specimens packed away beneath tables and desks; and then let him go down into the basement and see those two rooms packed with the latest additions, which are practically useless in their present position to professors or students, and then if he is not satisfied of the imperative need and inestimable value to the State of the building asked for, we will lose our faith in human nature.
Prof. Canfield.
Up to this time we had refrained from noticing the comments made by a few of the papers of the State upon our professor of political science, alleging that he had been using his position to force certain political views upon his students. Particularly has this been said in regard to the subject of free trade. Now, as students of the University, who have been in many of Professor Canfield's classes, we can unhesitatingly denounce any such charge as being utterly untrue. Every graduate of the University, everyone who ever attended the professor's classes, will join us in making this assertion. On the contrary, Prof. Canfield's branches have always been known as those in which a student was urged to form his own opinion, and the professor never attempted to teach his students the theories of any particular school. How such a charge as we have mentioned could have been trumped up, we are at a loss to know. But we trust those papers which have given space to such wrong ideas of the University and Prof. Canfield, will also give room for a complete denial of the charge, as coming from the students.
The Collegiate Students of Kansas.
State Superintendent of Public Inscription Speer has received reports from the various private institutions of learning in the State, giving the number and classification of students. A study of the figures given below of the number of collegiate students in each, compased with the State University, makes a showing quite creditable to us:
NAME OF INSTITUTE
Alumni.
Sophontioe.
Juniors.
Nenitors.
Last Year's
Graduate.
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
Wheedburn (march, 1860).
85
37 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
From the Lawrence Gassette, Hon.
Sidney Clarke editor, we clip;
Besides these K. S. U. has 12 post graduates, 1 resident graduate. 20 specialists, making a total of 234.
THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER is a regular and most welcome visitor to our table. As a weekly college publication, the enterprise shown in the management is the best testimonial that could be asked on the worth of the drill of the institution it represents. Knowing the difficulty experienced in securing appropriations from the legislature, owing to a great extent to the lack of information as to the wants thereof, the managers of the COURIER for a month past have been devoting their editorial page to
the edification of the members of the legislature as to the wants of the K. S. U., putting the entire body free gratis on their list. The greater part of the articles would do justice to the oldest and most experienced journalists. If the members of the legislature do not by the time they reach the University bills think it the most abused and neglected institution by the state in existence and give it what it wants, we will lose our guess. Our State University is a grand institution, and we are glad to see its undergraduates doing so well for it.
By the issue of to-day we see testified to by the publisher, the boys have a circulation from 1,000 to 1,200; a four column condensed history of the struggles of the K. S. U., which should be read by ever educator in the State.
Thanks.
VIEWS.
The holidays swiftly passed away. A few risings and settings of suns and the day was here when we gathered from all parts where we had been passing our days of recreation, to again assume our duties at the University. When we left Lawrence we hoped that the weather would moderate, and that the few days granted for the pursuit of pleasure would be lighted by a warm sun and a genial atmosphere, that our joys might be unrestrained by the biting cold that generally attends this season.
Kansas.
But our hope was in vain. As the days wore on the wind blew colder and the snow fell, robing the hills of Kansas in the mantle of Christmas. But it only stimulated our desire for pleasure, and the cold and bracing air seemed to bear with it a feeling of joy that can only be felt at this season, and would be lax and languid without the muffling robes and tinkling of sleigh bells.
But we travel not alone for pleasure. With our eyes we see; with our ears we hear; with our mind we think,
Traveling over a part of the State for the first time the writer sees hills and valleys of Kansas which he never saw before, and finds them inhabited by a class of people who have transformed prairies that a few years ago lay wild and trackless, into smiling gardens, and upon them they have built pleasant homes and now live in the wealth of their contentment. We hear them talk. Of what do they speak? Their thriving flocks, their farms, their government, their schools. They speak of nothing but that which suggests intelligence, prosperity, refinement and contentment. What do we think? We have seen Kansas with her fields, her flocks, her schools, her government and her people. With boundless wealth in fields and flocks; with a system of schools and a government that equals, if they do not already excel, those of any other State in the union; with a most intelligent people, we think Kansas is destined to become the greatest commonwealth of this great republic. Her schools and the intelligence of her people are but precursors of her coming influence and power. She is already felt; and Kansas may well feel proud of her leading institution of learning, the K. S. U., for her alumni are already in the ranks of those who are framing her laws and moulding her destiny. So with unity of action in State and schools, Kansas will educate her children to preserve
in age the government that preserved them in youth.
Students are not allowed to choose political subjects for chapel rhetoricals. We think this a mistake, for it debars them from that field in which our most successful men are engaged, and which offers the greatest inducements for masterly efforts and friendly debate. The State supports our institution in order that its graduates may become its supporters and preservers; and therefore students should be encouraged to grapple with the questions that are of import to the State, and should be taught to judiciously consider and discuss the questions of the day. If the tariff law is wrong the students should know it; if free trade is right the students should know it; if Democratic principles are pure and Republican principles corrupt, the students should know it, and when he leaves the University to enter the bustle of the world, he will be guided in politics by his knowledge of them, and not by the prejudices which he has always held against the opposing party because his father was a Republican or a Democrat. POLITICIAN.
EDITOR VIEWS:—In your last issue I noticed an article advocating a course in which there should be but one foreign language, and asking why the petition circulated some time ago and signed by a number of students, was not pushed. As for the petition, it was circulated and signed by nearly all the prominent students, but the circulator was suddenly called away from the University before the petition was handed in, and not being able to return for several weeks, was unable to find the petition on his return.
The students who have spent two or three years in the University recognized the need of such a course, or they would not have signed such a petition. It is a notable fact that our graduates and the graduates of any institution where two or more foreign languages are taught in one course, have but a very imperfect knowledge of any, and but very few can take up a Latin or Greek book and read intelligently without the greatest difficulty and the aid of a lexicon. Now if the time spent on two or more foreign languages were given to one, our graduates would have a much broader knowledge of language than they do from the present course, for then they could gain a useful knowledge of one foreign language, which is much more preferable than an imperfect smattering knowledge of several.
Although the petition was not handed in, we hope the faculty will consider the advisability of such a course. CIRCULATOR.
This exercise has been submitted to professors, doctors of divinity, editors, authors, bishops, etc., and the best have made mistakes. Try it! "A sacrilegious son of Belah, who suffered from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally himself to a comely, lenient and docile young lady of the Maylay or Caucasian race. He accordingly purchased a calliope, and a necklace of a chameleon hue, and having secured a suite of rooms at a leading hotel near the depot, he engaged the head-waiter as his coadjutor. He then dispatched a letter of the most unexceptionable caligraphy extant, inviting the young lady to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificial to his designs, and sent a polite note of refusal; on receiving which he said he would not now forge fetters bymenial with the queen. He then procured a carbine and a bowie-kraife, went to an isolated spot behind an abode of squab, severed his jigular vein, and discharged the contents of the carbine into his abdomen. The debris was removed by the coroner, who from leading a life in the culture of belles-lettres and literature, had become a sergeant-atarms in the legislature of Arkansas."
Any pronunciation allowed by Webster or Worcester may be used. We would like to hear from the student who has never seen this story, who reads it correctly at sight.
There are from twenty-five to forty words in this exercise commonly mispronounced by those laying claim to "culture." B.C.P.
The Indiana School Journal reports the following answers to questions in teacher's examinations:
1. What preparation have you made for teaching? "I have shucked my corn and cut my winter's wood."
2. What was the length of your previous certificate? "It was about fourteen inches long."
3. Describe the thermometer. "It is an instrument by means of which the temperature of a room is kept uniform."
4. What is wind? "It is air set in motion by an approaching storm."
5. Why is it colder in winter than in summer? "Because the sun's rays lose their heat in cold weather."
6. What became of De Soto? "He died."
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