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At Kansas University any student who attains a term grade of ninety is excused from examination. Ex. It was but is not.
The Wabash is jubilant over the success of her aspirant in the state contest. The editorial in this paper, while very generous in distributing the title "crank,' shows himself the supremest "crank." His editorials show a one-sided selfish spirit. It is the old, old story over again, of "big I and little you," detestable anywhere, but extremely so in journalism.
The Transcript contains a very beautiful poem on the Cincinnati riot, entitled "The Riot, a Strike for Right." Its length prevents us from giving it entire; we give a few extracts:
In a valley rich and fair,
Where the sunbeams gently rest,
In a valley of health,
In a valley of wealth,
Sat a city, the Queen of the West.
She was a nation's pride.
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She was a nation's shame;
A shame as black as night;
For crime alone
Sat on her throne,
With undisputed right.
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Injustice did prevail,
Injustice held the sway;
It baffled right,
It filled with night
The radiancy of day.
Indignant at these deeds
The people bold and strong
Stood in their might,
Stood for the right,
Stood to redress a wrong.
For them was no recourse.
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Their judgment we condemn ;
Their purpose let us praise.
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The Calliopean Clarion has two articles that are unfortunately inserted in an April number. For who, in the gushing spring time, cares to read a resume of philosophy or an article on Concentration; who, when the joyful sunlight, April showers, singing birds and springing flowers all act as a prism to scatter his thoughts, wishes to collect and concentrate them on any one thing. We think, friend Clarion, you can reprint them both next year without detection. In the "Monthly Gossip" of the same we find an account of the voyage and safe arrival at New York of Barnum's white elephant.
The April number of the New Era contains the address of Capt. W. H. Pratt, upon "Indian Civilization," before the National Educational Convention at Ocean Grove. He maintains that no marked good can be attained as long as the Indian is kept aloof from the civilizing influences of the white race. They must learn our language and mix freely with the whites. As long as they are herded together we must expect disgraceful outbreaks. "My deductions are from practical knowledge. This knowledge is full enough to show me that all our Indians need is a broad and enlarged opportunity to make them within the short space of a few years a perfectly acceptable part of our population; and to remove them from a condition of dependence, pauperism and crime, to a truly civilized condition."
The College Rambler is rather brief in exchanges for April. Come, brother Ex., brace up. We know just about how you feel, but grind away, raise a breeze in some