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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
At Northwestern University the faculty have chosen one manager for the base-ball team and the students another. Trouble is threatened in deciding who shall fill the place.—Ex.
Those students who are advocating faculty Interference and supervision would do well to ponder over this statement. Kansas University students, beware of such pitfalls, and profit by the experience of others
Mr. TAYLOR, of the Baker Beacon, seems to have thoroughly aroused the ire of the C. of E. man by demanding a refutation to the charge of plagiarism preferred by Rev. Carl Swenson. This week's "Life" contains a scorching roast on Taylor from the pen of Sankey. Our Presbyterian and Methodist friends seem to have lost the pipe of peace. Mr. Sankey has now charged Taylor of plaperizing from the Bible.
POLITICAL circles in the University have been stirred to a white heat over the "expose" published in the city papers of an organization among the "barbs" for political purposes. This organization is said to number about fifty members and claims for its object the promotion of the "barb" course in University politics. Many of the "barbs" seem to think they are left out in the cold and are making a mighty and ferocious kick and threaten to bury the organization out of sight.
SOME of the most contemptable tactics, and some very low-lived guerilla warfare is being indulged in in the controversy over the barb organization. The city papers are besiged with anonymous communications regarding the organization. If any one has anything to give away why don't they do so in a manly way? Why don't they assume the responsibility for their statements as Mr. Pope did? Any one who will send in a typewritten anonymous communication of the character which is ascribed to one so sent which is now in the hands of one of the city papers deserves to be taught not in the State University but in the penitentiary.
COMPARISONS between the different state educational institutions as regards the quality of their work can rarely be of much good. Each occupies a different sphere and all are good in their own way, and any attempt at belittling the work of either must in the end result disastrously to the one that makes it. It is therefore with much surprise that we read in a late number of the Industrialist a statement made by President Fairchild that will convey a wholly wrong and unjust impression to those who are not conversant with the real facts. We quote as follows:
"As to the attendance upon various state institutions much misapprehension exists. The catalogues of 1893-94 show the following:
State Institutions. Total. Common School Studies or Special Schools. In Higher General Courses. Graduates.
University. 691 258 433 49
Normal School. 1335 946 389 13
Agricultural College. 555 90 465 39
"The above table gives some criterion for comparison among the principal institutions of the state with reference to their influence upon the general intelligence. As the State Agricultural College has essentially but one course or four years for all students, its record of attendance is comparatively high, entitling it to the repute it has gained throughout the country as the largest college of its kind. In comparison as to equipment and work accomplished for the means furnished, it is second to few institutions of any kind. Its rank in the state is easily seen from the table." Can it be possible that the President of the Agricultural College wishes it generally understood that the University has nearly three times as many students of low grade, and 35 less students of high grade than has the Agricultural College? Does he wish it to be understood that of the 691 students there were only 49 who graduated in 1894 instead of 108, the real number? We do not wish in any way to detract from the standing of the college, but the real facts are as follows: The admission to the first year at the College is from the Grammar school, while at the University it is from the High school. In the catalogue for 1893 the terms for admission to the College are given as follows: "Applicants for admission