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Every alumnus in the state should see the member of the legislature from his district, regarding the wants of his alma mater, in the session of the legislature, beginning next month.
An effort will be made by Wichita, it is understood, at the session of the legislature this winter, to have the "imbecile" institution on the northern brow of the hill moved, down there.
Prof. Nichols has recently made several additions to the apparatus in his department, notably in the line of electricity. We believe a special course in electricity would be quite popular under his leadership.
In the Views department attention is called to the plan of having future contests between the Oread and Orophilian societies occur on the Thursday before the holiday vacation. We hope this plan will be adopted this year.
A "clean sweep" seems to be the understanding with the Republician gubernatorial administration, as it again comes into power next month. It is being generally demanded, it would seem by party feeling all over the State. This of course, means another change in the affairs of the K. S. U. We hope for the best. The governor-elect is one of the broadest and most fair minded men of the state. The institutions of learning could not be in safer hands. If "mistakes" are made they will be of the "head and not the heart" with him, we feel assured. Our only admonition to him would be—to fully understand our wants before he moves. We would then feel we would have nothing to fear.
A course of lectures as a drawing attraction cannot be made a financial success. But a varied line of attractions rightly managed can be made such. Let the two literary societies form an association to be known as the K. S. U. AMUSEMENT ASSOCIATION. Six good lecturers can be gotten vet
AMUSEMENT ASSOCIATION.—Something must be done in the way of a course of lectures for the year. 'As students we come here from our homes, at heavy expense, to derive all the instruction possible. A lecture course is promised us by the board of regents, but is not this year being furnished. We can do something in the matter ourselves. Shall we do it?
this year; the loss on them can be made up on other less literary attractions. Some good men take the matter in hand in each society to-day have committees appointed to confer and see if some plan cannot be garied to a successful ultimatum.
As students of a great and growing University, which is dependent on State aid for its maintenance, do we realize our individual responsibility?
There is considerable antagonism when plans are proposed for the improvement of this, our highest State institution. This must be overcome wholly or in part, before any of the cherished schemes of those who hold the interests of the University nearest and dearest, can be realized.
It may be advisable to present petitions to the "powers that (are soon to) be," at Topeka.
If an appropriation of $50,000 for a natural history building is secured, and provision is made for a new library, and last but not least, funds are provided for a gymnasium, there will have to be solid work done, and much can be done by the students.
By writing or talking with our representative or senator we can perhaps do much to aid the upbuilding of our University.
It is our duty as students to show the necessity of these improvements, and if each individual will do his part,the result of our collective efforts will be beneficial.
In this connection we would note that several of Prof. Snow's natural history specimens have been destroyed, from not having a proper place to deposit. It is a slain that the partial result of years of earnest works should be destroyed. Such valuable specimens as are Prof. Snow's should not only be put in vaults to guard them from insects and "podents," but to preserve them in case of fire. In less than a year we hope to see these specimens ensconced in our new natural history building.
Wake Up!
The time for buncombe is past; the time for action is at hand. If the friends of the University intend doing anything in its behalf they need be at it. Next month the legislature meets and the University will have to endure the bitterest fight it has ever known. Those who sit back in silent complacency and flatter themselves that the University will reeive all it asks, simply because it deserves it, may find themselves ingloriously left. We confess the situation is most serious.
The opposition to our institution will be unique and powerful. First, it will be assailed by those bumpkins who do not believe in "hifaluting edication." It will be attacked by demagogues whose efforts at economy stop only at their own salaries. It must run the gauntlet of a host of adherents of small-fry "colleges" scattered around the State which have the audacity to be jealous of the University. It will also doubtless have to bear the assaults of the friends of the Emporia Normal School—a good institution, and one that should be engaged in better work than injuring her sisters in state education. Nevertheless the Emporia men have opposed us in the past, and may be expected to do so in the future. It will be attacked by several leading politicians, who believe State aid should be extended
only to the common schools. Lastly, it will have to endure the opposition of leading radical Republicans, who are at heart warm friends of higher state education, but who believe that doctrines hostile to their party are being taught here. These men seem to think, strangely enough, that their only remedy is to cut off University appropriations.
On the other hand, not one of the former champions of University bills will be in the legislature this year, and we must seek new advocates for our cause.
Affairs being in so critical a shape it behooves every one who wishes the University well, to put his shoulder to the wheel. This is not idle talk. The alumni and other former students should acquaint their representatives with our past work, our prospects and our needs. The citizens of Lawrence should urge their members in the legislature to a thorough knowledge of the management and wants of our college. While the University is not a local institution in any way, the championship of its interests rests largely with the members from this place. The utter ignorance on the subject displayed by the Lawrence representatives in the last House was supremely disgusting.
To-day the University of Kansas stands in the first rank of State institutions. Its rapid development has been unprecedented. A number of our professors have acquired national reputation from their work here. The instruction given within its walls is of a liberal and practical nature, adapted to the wants of the west. It is justly regarded with pride by the people of the State, and by awakening them to a realization of its needs, the danger threatened by the opposition will be easily overcome.
On looking over the list of appropriations asked by the regents, there will be found but one item out of the usual expenditures. This is $50,000 for a hall of natural history for Prof. Snow's department. This should be cheerfully given. Every one acquainted with the history of higher education in this State or in the United States, knows that Prof. Snow has done more for our University than any three men at present connected with it. He came here when it was in its infancy, and has worked drudgingly and unceasingly for its interests. His name is known among scientists over the entire world. Time and again he has refused positions of far greater emoluments and honor in eastern Universities, to stay with his pet institution. Year after year he has devoted his own summer vacations, in company with students, making collections for the University. These have been stored away until every odd garret and corner in the University is crowded. He now asks a place where he can arrange these collections he has given the State. Such a building should be gladly provided.
By crippling the University in the way of reducing its appropriations, the legislature would practically destroy what it has taken years of extraordinary labor to build up; and what it would require many more years to regain. Therefore, we appeal to every friend of the University to go to work. We have the sentiment on our side, and it needs only to be aroused. Don't delay! Wake up! Pitch in!
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The Central Collegian is a neat, well printed monthly from Fayette Missouri. The literary department is good, the article on Edgar Allan Poe being especially worthy of mention.
The Buchtel Record is on our table. It has a very handsome cover, and were it as good inside as it is out,it would be a model paper.
The News Letter, from Iowa, is well supplied with good local this month. Its leading editorial, on College Government, is a good one.
The following is taken from an editorial in the Illint, and we regard it as one of the best editorials we have seen in any college paper this year: "It is too much the tendency of students during the college year to neglect things not connected with school life, and to live as if the college walk shut them off all interest in the wide world around them. At social gatherings and in their walks the conversations all drift toward school affairs, and in the society debates there is a noticeable lack of information concerning the events which are transpiring in political circles, and in the rushing, practical life of the world. The evils resulting from this negligence are manifest to all who stop to consider them. We think the contempt so often shown for the college graduate is mainly attributable to it. For, in shutting themselves off from the world, they grow up as hot-house plants, as it were, in an artificial atmosphere and under generally impractical professors. And in so doing they forget the real object of an education, which is not to glean a bundle of facts and store them away in the mind, but to develop the intellect and to expand the mental vision. Education consists in growing stronger and broader mentally. But confining all our thoughts to the text book and class room will have a tendency to narrow rather than broaden our minds. He who studies into the present condition of society—the development going on in national and international politics, and the general characteristics of modern civilization while he is studying the sciences—who is continually throwing on the institutions of to-day the light he is obtaining from history and philosophy, and oftimes from pertinent facts and discoveries in the natural world, will receive a real education from the college course, and instead of stepping from the theoretical to the practical life on commencement day, he will simply take upon himself larger and heavier burdens, similar in a large measure to those he has been carrying through his student life."
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