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The College Transcript has a good article on Kossuth.
The Baldwin Index prints the "Art Gallery of the Skies." It also has a somewhat extended editorial on the contest.
The Alabama Monthly contains an article on Jefferson Davis. We had hoped that from college students, at least, such articles could not emanate. If the writer had thrown about him the true garb of history, well and good; but the very purpose of the sketch is to make him an example for Southern youths. "Greece and Rome furnished names which were not born to die. Germany will live in the works of Luther.
* * * And our own South will beget sons of undying fame as long as Jefferson Davis and his cause are held up before our people." What is his career, or was, perhaps, as it has been run. A partizan leadership in Congress, incompetency to maintain the contest which he had been instrumental in bringing on, and detection by the provoking prominence of "number tens" under too short petticoats, are three prominent points. To whom did Sparta point as an example for her youths, Leonidas or Aristodemus? Perhaps Jefferson Davis may "live," but will it be an enviable life? When partizanism shall have died out, and ages have sifted out all that is opposed to justice, will people look upon Jeff Davis as a benefactor of mankind? We think not. His darling scheme, by which he lives and will live, was not the embodiment of principles worthy our imitation. The introduction to the article is very well but it reminded us of sugar coated pills.
—We noticed in the St. Mary's Star an account of the oratorical contest held in that place. The winner of the Hagan gold medal was T. Francis Conroy; oration, "Effects of the Crusades."
We have received a pamphlet on the lead and zinc deposits of Cherokee County, in this state, presented by Erasmus Haworth to the Regents of this University as a thesis for the degree of Master of Science. Mr. Haworth takes up the subject quite fully, and discusses it in all its bearings. We predict a distinguished career in science for this son of the University of Kansas.
"The Qualities of a Leader" in the University Mirror can have but one possible merit—its capacity to fill up. The statements are perhaps all true, but some of the examples cited to prove, miss wide the mark. For instance, Alexander the Great is represented as a thinking man whose every action was the result of reason. Will history bear out this representation? What does history say of his action at Mount Climax and at the storming of the citadel of the Malli! His whole life in fact, was the direct result of circumstances. Napoleon perhaps, fits a little better as an example, but he too was called the man of destiny. The article terminates with a beautiful figure, couched in Longfellow's words.
The College Courier prints the oration of G. L. Mackintosh, who received second place at the contest. It is a very able production, and reads much better than the one taking first prize.
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