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The optional system is doing away with required courses in many eastern colleges.
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One of the good points in our University is the harmony which has always existed between faculty and students.
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The principle of coeducation is gaining ground in spite of the old fogyism of some would-be "conservatives." Wabash will receive young ladies next year.
--has made the department thorough practical and popular. His discoveries in science have added to om fame.
Oread society has young ladies for officers. During the past year the boys have been running the mebine and have almost run it aground. The young ladies are called upon to help, and are responding nobly.
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Almost every college in the United States is controlled by Greek letter fraternities.
Yale college used to have Greek and Latin salutatories for commencement. Owing to lack of interest in the classes both have been done away with.
It may "seem like a wail from the desert of forgetfulness," but we would like to call the attention of the students, faculty and regents of the University to the fact that we need a gymnasium. This can only be secured by the hearty cooperation of all; and perhaps as a petition for a $50,000 natural history building will be presented to the legislature, an appropriation for a gymnasium will be impossible, but it will do no harm to try it. At the proper time a petition will be circulated for this purpose. Let us live in hope if we do die in "despair," and perhaps our hope will not be in vain.
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If there is any department in our University known better than another it is that of natural history. The professor in charge has won for himself a leading place on the list of America's scientists, by his patient, enthusiastic pursuit, and great success in his work. Prof. Snow is known all over the United States, and would be an honor to any institution. Only his love for Kansas and the University, with which he has been connected since its inception, have retained him here against the more advantageous offers which have come to him from eastern colleges. He
The department is now too large for the space allowed it. The cabinets are filled to overflowing, and valuable specimens are stored away. More room is required. And now the appeal is made to the legislature to recognize this necessity, and give us a natural history building worthy of the department and its professor. Certainly no money could be spent by the state with better or more permanent results. We hope our legislators will recognize its value, and add to our University a building devoted to natural history.
How strange it is that some of our students who are by nature best fitted to become leaders in their classes throw away their splendid chances, and waste their time and talent on trivial things, which should be beneath their notice.
This class, as a rule, learn easily and are considered brilliant during the first and perhaps through the second year, and then studies are neglected and faculty censure is sure to follow. If we could all only learn that "Life is real, life is earnest," and that as students we have already commenced our voyage, this class would cease to exist.
Those who waste their time and opportunity are not those who in the school-room of work-shop have labored, planned and toiled to obtain the "wherewithal," that they might have the advantages of a higher education, but they are the sons and daughters of loving parents, who have themselves labored, perhaps in this manner, that their child should not only be the heir of their property, but the possessor of a good education.
Who knows the sacrifices that are being made by kind and indulgent parents for some of K. S. U.'s students?
If there are any who have been wasting their opportunities and making this great sacrifice a mockery, let them consider well before they banish from their mind any thoughts (which are already taking form in resolutions) awakened by this sketch.
To "Old Barb" of last week we will say: "No, we hardly think, from present status of affairs, with the Counter booming as it is; that there is much "aristocracy" in the "frats." In fact, we are rather inclined to judge from their present standing that they are degenerating into the lower classes of the serfs."
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When the students go home Thanksgiving they should take a little time and interview their legislators in behalf of the University.
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The musical department is rapidly becoming one of the foremost musical institutions of the west.
Prof. Brownell has taken a good step in offering the students additional instruction in oratory and exemple debating. This is a study long needed in our curriculum.
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The interest in study is increasing since election.
Editor Views:—Your last issue contains some comments from the Fortnightly Index, on the right of professors to have opinions on political questions, as well as connelmen and farmers; and this is reinforced by an editorial of the same tenor.
VIEWS.
Such talk is getting old, dry, flat, stale, insipid, disgusting. The right of professors to hold whatever opinion under the sun he wishes, has never been denied. Their right to employ a public position supported by public friends, devoted to public interests, to enforce any political or religious tenet is denied, and is very strenuously denied.
There is no use beating around the bush and speaking in generalities, therefore we will be plain. A professor may be a Republican, Democrat, Greenbacker, Prohibitionist or Woman Suffragist, and no one can object to his holding a public chair on that account. He may be a Mormon, Catholic, Methodist, Juno or Infidel, and he has a perfect right, in common with all other men, to be of such faith. But he has not the right to advocate any of those doctrines in the class.
A few illustrations will serve to good purpose: Prof. Adams, of Michigan University, proclaims his free trade ideas to the students. Protectionists are justified in crying against their being taxed for such a purpose. Dr. Laws, of Missouri University, tells his scholars that the rebels were in the right and the union men in the wrong. The press does well in denouncing this infamous perversion of public place. A few years ago the Kansas University authorities denied the students the privilege of securing Robt. G. Ingersoll to lecture here, simply because the colonel was an infidel; and against this a protest went up from our students, though very few of them hold Ingersoll's religious ideas. Now, Prof. Adams has a perfect right to be a free trader, Dr. Laws a rebel and our professors high church men. But they cannot exercise the authority, delegated them by a common public, to influence students under their charge.
It is foolish to say these questions are not enforced upon the students, and that they are open to free discussion. Young people come to the University to be instructed, not to combat their professor's opinions. They naturally imbibe most of what is taught in the class rooms. Political and religious discussion is for the home and street, not for the school room.
Another thing. Most of the professors of political science in the United States are earnest advocates of civil service reform, the main principle of which is that public office shall not be made the means of propagating and perpetuating political tenets. And yet these same professors use their official positions to teach doctrines which are made the vital issues between great political parties. It is the teaching of these doctrines, not the holding of them, against which the press and people cry. R.
EDITOR VIEWS: Among the numerous societies of K. S. U, it seems to me there is room for a "society for the prevention of cruelty to animals." To starve and poison harmless animals (as I am informed is done in this University) in order to demonstrate old and well known facts, such as can be found in any text book, is not only needlessly and wickedly cruel, but also furnishes the strongest possible argument against intrusting the power to inflict pain and death upon even the meanest of the animal world into such unworthy hands. Against such practices, both humanitarians and true votaries of science should protest.
E. M.
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The University Mirror, from Lewisburg, Pa., is on our table. It is a monthly, well edited, and poorly printed. It holds up its hands in horror because the Corner does not bow down and worship that truly good man, George William Curtis.
The College Rambler, though limited in size, is well filled with choice articles. Every department is good, and the general make up is excellent.
The Wesleyan Bee, from Bloomington, Ill., is before us. It is the first college paper we have seen that is illustrated. The illustrations are poor and seem to us entirely out of place in a college paper. Its local and personal columns are excellent, and the other departments are fair.
"The University Courier, of Kansas, is an enterprising sheet, but it opposes the fraternity system with a zeal worthy a better cause. If the Courier would cease its hostility to the Greeks, no doubt it would be a better paper. It is behind the times on that subject."
The above is taken from the Westleyan Bee, and contains too many errors to the square inch to be allowed to pass uncorrected. In the first place, the Courier does not "oppose the fraternity system." The Courier staff contains fraternity men, and men who labor hard for the success of their fraternity. We believe that when properly conducted a fraternity is an excellent institution; but when conducted as some of them in K. S. U. have been, they would be a disgrace to any college. When fraternities mite and try to secure all honors by excluding the "barbs" it is time something was being done. The affairs of K. S. U. were in this state when the Courier motto was adopted, and the motto will remain until the evil has been fully removed, and the "barb" attains his true position in college life. In the second place, we are not "behind the times." We are rather ahead of the times, for people are just beginning to find out that there is some ability outside of the fraternities, and that a man can be a "barb" and still have some rights which even fraternities are bound to respect. We write this in order to correct the impression that has got abroad that the Courier is opposed to fraternities. We hope our exchanges will notice this, and remember our position on the fraternity question.
The plan initiated by Williams College, of having the protection as well as the free trade view of the tariff question presented to its students, has also been adopted by Harvard. Although it is unlikely that our University purse could at present stand the expense of another professorship in political economy, we cannot avoid the wish that we might enjoy such double instruction. Michigan Argument.
Of eight $200 scholarships recently awarded at Cornell, four went to lady students.
Senator Anthony bequeathed to Brown University his library of 6,000 volumes.
"As a mere matter of form," said she, as she adjusted her stays.
Prof. in Moral Philosophy: "Mr. P., what end has a mother in view when she punishes her child?" Mr. P. blushes and sits down.
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