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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
LAWRENCE, SEPTEMBER 18, 1879.
VOL. 2.
NO.1.
THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
A Monthly Publication Devoted to the Interests of the KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY.
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Address UNIVERSITY COURIER.
FELLOW-STUDENTS and friends, the editors of the Courier are happy to express their thanks for your assistance and encouragement heretofore, and trust that they shall merit and obtain the same the coming year. Our present number contains but few articles of thoughtful composition. We have spent the summer as students should, in healthful recreation, and not in deep studies. Our columns are largely filled with personals and light paragraphs, but hereafter we promise to furnish articles by the best talent the University and its graduates can produce.
PROF. PATRICK returned from Colorado last week, and brought with him some new ore worth $1,000 per ton, from Jamestown. The ore contains gold and tellurium. The Professor has every requisite, and proposes to make his scholars thorough chemists and assayists. The country is demanding more and more young men skilled in the applied arts, and there is no place in the West equal to the University to obtain this skill.
PROFESSOR SNOW, L. L. Dyche and Annie E. Mozley, '78, made a successful tour among the animal world of Colorado. They were especially fortunate in the number and variety of Lepidoptera taken. Prof. Snow, who never overestimates, thinks they have about 10,000 specimens. Among the rare captures are a magnificent porcupine, conies from above timber line, long-eared bats, and 500 specimens of Artic plants taken high up in the mountain. The Professor's museum grows more important and valuable every day.
A committee of Regents met last Monday a week to complete arrangements for the plat of land back of Judge Thacher's, known as the "old fort," donated to the University by ex-Governor Robinson. The intention, as soon as the necessary funds are appropriated, is to erect on the extreme point of land to the south a model observatory, with a fine telescope and mountings. At the present a temporary building will be put up for the placing of the instrument, which we now have.
A COMING CONTROVERSY.
No question has arisen of greater importance in its bearings in the life of man than the doctrine of evolution, and now that it has taken such a deep hold on the minds of the majority of the world's naturalists, there will surely be a long and spirited discussion as to the manner of teaching this doctrine.
In Germany the discussion has already begun. Scientists, theologians, teachers and laymen have all engaged in battle. The two leaders in this mighty struggle, who have spoken clearly and decidedly, are Ernst Haeckel and Rudolph Virchow. The former declares with firmness and emphasis that evolution should be taught, the latter that it should not.
On the 25th of last September Virchow delivered an address at Munich on 'The Freedom of Science in the Modern State." In the course of the address he made this demand : In all schools, from the poor schools to the university, nothing shall be taught that is not absolutely certain. None but objective and absolutely-ascertained knowledge is to be imparted by the teacher to the learner. Nothing subjective; no knowledge open to correction; only facts; no hypotheses.
When he came to the most discussed point of the entire theory he said: "We cannot teach the doctrine that man is descended from the apes, or from any other animal, for we cannot regard it as a real acquisition of science."
From these two propositions Haeckel dissents. He does not believe there is any boundary line between the speculative departments of natural science and those that are actually conquered. An objective science that consists merely of facts without any subjective theories is inconceivable. In a hurried survey of the whole domain of science he tests them to see how far they contain on