The Students Journal.
VOL. I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, AUGUST 1, 1895.
THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
No.1.
Published fortnightly during the college year at Lawrence, Kansas. Communications and contributions should be directed to the editor-in-chief.
Terms $1.00 per year in advance.
ALBERT O. GARRETT, Editor-in-chief.
CLARENCE SOUTHWICK, Associates. HILLIARD JOHNSON,
THE mid-summer edition of the STUDENTS JOURNAL appears as the first number of a literary bi-weekly which it is the intention of its publishers to continue throughout the school year. The bi-weekly has established itself as first in favor among standard university publications. The "rush" always accompanying a weekly edition is avoided and more time and attention can be expended on style and contents. The Yale Lit and the Harvard Advocate are examples of the high literary merit a bi-weekly can attain. What these magazines have been in the way of reflecting the literary sentiment of eastern universities the STUDENTS JOURNAL hopes to be for the west. Prizes will be given from time to time to encourage literary effort at the University of Kansas. The editorial department will contain a candid statement of our views on matters affecting the welfare of the University. We do not claim the opinions advanced within these covers to be "authorized versions" of university affairs. This paper is not the mouthpiece of the faculty nor is it the official organ of the disciplinary committee. The field occupied by the University Weekly will not be encroached upon by us. But we do aim to be independent and fearless in our treatment of questions affecting the students of this educational institution, commending that which is good, condemning that which is base and false. The STUDENTS JOURNAL would be fair above all things; it would be unswerving from what it takes to be right; it would be democratic. It rests with the STUDENTS JOURNAL itself to prove whether it be worthy of the place it aspires to occupy.
KANSAS has one great blessing for which to be thankful this year—the generous rains throughout the entire state have saved her people from giving their hard-earned money to the rainmaking swindlers.
Ye Editor was in his study, endeavoring to be inspired by the aid of a fragrant Havana. A sudden thought struck him, and his hand trembled as he wrote that hackneyed motto, at last to be realized: "Get your V at the office."
TRAVELING on Massachusetts street was exceedingly disagreeable on July 15th, because of the sworms of chinch bugs flying in the air. It was very evident that Chancellor Snow was absent in Europe, for otherwise the chinch bugs would not have dared to invade the very citadel of Sporotrichum globuliferum. "When the cats away, the mice will play."
DURING the month of July, work was begun on $300,000 worth of dormitories for the University of Pennsylvania. At the recent session of the legislature of California, a special appropriation of $250,000 was made for additional buildings for the University of California. The University of Minnesota also appropriated $95,000 outside of the regular appropriation. And at its recent session, the Kansas legislature appropriated for buildings, $8,000 to cover a deficit on the new Physics building. Surely Kansas cannot afford to allow her neighbors to outdo her in generosity in this her proudest field of progression—education. Let the next legislature open up its heart and its purse likewise.
It is rumored on the streets that a certain prominent Professor remarked to one high in authority at the University that "the practice of young gentlemen and young ladies riding together in closed carriages to and from balls is very detrimental to the good morals of the University. It is too much like Breckenridge."
We sincerely trust that no man who has ever held a chair in the University of Kansas, would be such a dolt as to make such a statement. In case however, such is the fact, he should peremptorily be dismissed from the University faculty, for a man with such an evil mind certainly could never add, but could perhaps detract, from the moral tone of our University.
It reminds one very forcibly of an anecdote told of Dr. Johnson. The learned Doctor was accosted by a woman who exclaimed "Doctor there are so many naughty words in your dictionary." To which the blunt old doctor very aptly replied, "Ahem, madam! I am sure that you would not have found them if you had not been looking for them."—Look for evil, and you will surely find it. "To the pure in mind all things are pure."