THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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Frank H. Moore...Editor in-Chief
Rollin E. Blackman...Local Editor
Jim D. Green...Author
Jace H. Henderson...Managing Local
W. C. Atchison...Assistant Local
BUSINESS MANAGERS
Chas. H. Lease. Warren Edwards.
ASSOCIATES.
Frank E. House ... Exchanges
O. H. Parker ... The Hallas
J. M. Walpole ... Wilfes
H. C. Riggs ... Snow Hall
Mayo Thomas ... Law School
The stock of the STUDENT'S JOURNAL company consists of non-transferable one dollar shares. Any student instructor or employee of the University may hold one and only one share.
This paper is on file at the editorial rooms of the University Review, 250 Flifth avenue. New York, where all college men are given a hearty welcome.
Our physical culture class which has of late been attracting considerable attention will have to look well to its laurels. The young ladies of Ottawa University have been playing some good games of base-ball. Would not a challenge be in order, girls?
A PLAY is to be given to-night under the anspices of the Athletic Association. The Adelphian Quartette Concert for the benefit of the Assocsation was not a financial success. Our reputation for University "enthusiasm" is injured, and should be redeemed.
THERE is no doubt that these ornate historical contests do not develop true oratory, and that they have degenerated into a struggle between men whose sole incentive in many cases is the desire to win first place, and who are willing to resort to dishonest means to accomplish their purpose. There is need of reform.
THERE is need of a young ladies' dormitory on Mount Oread, the reasons for this being so apparent that it is not necessary to enumerate them. We see no reason why there should not be one, for if it is not built by the State it can be erected by private enterprise. A ladies' boarding hall on Mount Oread would surely be a paying investment.
UNDER the influence of democratic teachings and democratic spirit it is supposed that the citizens of this great American Republic are developing a fine sense of self-respect, but events show that the regeneration of the race is not as yet fully accomplished. During the entertainments given recently under the auspices of the School of Fine Arts, the street on which the building stands was filled with people who came to listen to the concert given within. To be a recipient of charity at any time greatly lessens one's self-respect, how much the more must this be true in the present case, where the charity is forced from unwilling givers. We hope that among those open air audiences there were nostudents.
THE project of having one of the approaches to the University graded and paved is undergoing some discussion. The Lawrence Journal of Monday evening contained a communication from a writer who favored the adoption of some plan for the accomplishment of this object, and a few nights before the Chancellor had made the same suggestion at a meeting of the Commercial Club. At this meeting the Chancellor's suggestion was very well received, and a number of the men who have great influence in the management of the city affairs declared that the city should make this improvement for the University and could do so. The project is an old one that is usually revived when the Commencement season is approaching. In the past it has never gone beyond the present stage—that of discussion—but with so many of the leading business men of the city heartily in favor of the work there seems to be hope of its accomplishment. We are happy to announce that there is some prospect that in the not very distant future one of the roads leading to the University may be made passable.
THEY have advanced ideas on the subject of college "enthusiasm" in Minnesota. McKinley recently visited Hammine University, where he was greeted by the students with the college yell. The occurrence causes Ignatius Donnelly to make the following remarks in the Representative,
"It is cheering to think that when this generation passes off the stage of action it will be succeeded by an enlightened body of educated citizens, so trained in our colleges and universities that they can give utterance to such beautiful and in-eligible sentiments as the following:
Walla, walla, woo,
Walla, walla, woo,
Hooo, Hoo-up,
Hamline U.
We like this very much, but permit us to suggest a variation and slight improvement:
Hoop do foodie-do!
When the fool-killer's through With his enlightened brew.
There will be very few
Left — Boohoo — hoohoo
Hamline U.
We bet a six-pence that there are not ten boys in that walla, walla woo crowd that know that silver is demonetized, or what effect is demonetization has had on mankind. The "higher education" consists in training up a lot of young men to shout "Walla, walla, woa." play base ball, wear good shoes and carry bags, be inscribed on their shoulders, and vote the old party tickets. The salvation of the country depends upon the common schools, and the boys are more familiar with "Gee-haw-who-buck," than they are with "Walla-walla-woo."
AT the meeting of the STUDENTS JOURNAL Company on Tuesday the following staff was elected to take charge of the paper in the Fall term: Editor-in-Chief, R. W. Cone; Local Editor, E. E. Waltmirre; Business Managers, J. A. Simpson and A. G. Clarke; Secretary, Miss Effie Loader, and treasurer J. W. Cheadle. The staff is a good one, and we believe its efficiency will be greatly increased by the addition which was made to its members of a Managing Editor who in addition to his own work, also assumes the duties of Associate Literary Editor. The managing Editor has a gen.良 supervision of the paper and edits all the matter that is submitted for publication. The creation of this office will make possible a much better distribution of work among the different members of the staff, and will thus have a direct effect in improving the quality of the work done on the paper. In addition to the amendments to the constitution made necessary by the creation of the office of Managing Editor, an amendment was passed providing that the life of a STUDENTS JOURNAL share should be two years whether the holder of the share attends the University during the whole time or not, and that all share-holders should receive the paper free for two years whether they are in the University or not.
Baker University desires to open negotiations with the Faculty of this University to have the playing of games between the two schools resumed. All the negotiation that is necessary, as far as we can see, is for the Baker teams to challenge our own We have no doubt that challenges will be accepted.
THE Interstate Oratorical Contest in some respects resembled our State Contest. Against one of the contestants the charges were made that he had asked one man to write an oration for him, and that in writing his oration, he was known to have received aid from two lawyers in whose office he was working. As far as we can learn from newspaper accounts no denial was made of the latter charge. We should think that such acts were as reprehensible as plagiarism, but the contestant charged with them was allowed to take part in the contest. Most of the orations were on subjects such as faith, civilization, society—subjects which could have been about just as well two or three centuries ago as today, and in fact one of the orations delivered at the contest had been in existence for a considerable number of years, the orator having taken part in a number of contests, and each time used the same oration, after having worked it over and re-written it. Such an oration we should call the characteristic college contest oration of the present day. College orators do not seem to know, or at least do not profit by their knowledge that the men who are considered to have great orators took some simple proposition or declaration about a subject, the more important and interesting the subject at the time the better, and devoted their whole attention to the proof and enforcement of that proposition. The language used was simple and direct. The average college oration, on the other hand, is a rambling, purposeless discourse into which the writer has introduced as many brilliant and startling phrases as he could find without taking much thought as to whether they were connected with the subject which the oration pretended to treat. In fact the "oration" seems to be simply intended as a kind of network to join these isolated gems of thought together.
The Study of Kansas History at the Uni. ority
A few rods southeast of the University Main Building there are still to be seen in perfect preservation, earthworks thrown up to protect Lawrence from invasion during the Wakarusa War. Lecompont, the early capital of Kansas, is but fifteen miles from this city. In fact, in or near Lawrence are most of the places that were the scenes of the principal events of early Kansas history; and Lawrence was so prominent in the early days of Kansas that to know the history of Lawrence is to know the history of Kanaas. Students, as well as all the other young people of the State and perhaps some of the older people have a vague idea that Kanaas has had an eventful and an inspiring history, but it may be safely asserted that they have simply this vague idea for definite information is almost entirely wanting. It seems to us that a university like our own, an institution supported by the state, should allow no student to go out from its walls before it has given him ample opportunity to become familiar with the early history of the state; and all the more does it seem appropriate in the case of this institution that instruction should be given, since there is no place where the history of Kanaas can be so well studied at Lawrence, because of the much greater interest that may be aroused by seeing many of the places where the events studied actually occurred Moreover, a number of the most prominent men of those early times, who still survive, live in Lawrence, and could add greatly to the interest of the study by accounts of personal experiences. The five o'clock lecture courses which were tried as an experiment this year have proved very successful. Next year, cannot the general student body, in some such way as this, be given an opportunity of learning of early Kansas history? The students, after leaving the University, will probably never have an opportunity to study Kansas history; at any rate, those who do not live in or near Lawrence will surely never have so good an opportunity, for here, while studying the events, they can at the same time see the places where the events occurred, and some of the men who took a prominent part in their
versity.
Our botanists are anxious to know how plants would grow if they received equal amounts of light on all sides and were affected by gravitation no more in one direction than another. To determine this an experiment has been arranged which completely eliminates the inequalities of both. A vessel containing growing plants is slowly rotated on both a horizontal and a vertical axis. The plants are by this means left free to grow according to their own inherent tendencies. Violets and other flowers of irregular shape are to be experimented with first. It is believed that under these conditions they will grow perfectly regular.
Chancellor Snow is working a short time each day in the entomology laboratory, preparing beetles for exchange. He is getting many specimens in return, among the most valuable of which is a collection of California insects.
SNOW HALL.
Prof. Dama, of Yale, has sent for the plate of Dr. Williston's restoration of elidastes vexto to publish in the new edition of his book on Geology.
The skeleton of the fossil peccary from western Kansas is now mounted and on exhibition in the museum. Five hundred photographs of it have already been made. A cut of it will appear in the next University Quarterly.
A jaw bone of a young deer was lately sent to Prof. Dyche to be identified. It had been twice sent through the mail as a registered parcel. We wonder that western people did not recognize the bone of so common an animal.
In a cave in Colorado both bats and cocoons of large moth were found. The parties finding them could not agree as to whether or not the bats came out of the cocoons. After making a bet, they submitted the question so Prof. Dyche for decision.
Dr. Williston lectured in Goodland, Kan., Thursday evening.
Prof. Dyche received lately a collection of fifteen skins of deer and elk
The Entomology department is getting in a large number of specimens by exchange.
The absolutely necessary expenses of a girl who attends the leading women's colleges are said to be: frym Mawr, #474; Vassar, $400; Smith, $350; Wellesley, $350. Women's College of Baltimore, $309; Mt. Holyoke $200. — Ex.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
Late Hours Injure the Health
Late Hours injure the Health
"Early to bed and early to rise.
Makes men healthy, wealthy and wise," says "Poor Richard," and "Poor Richard" was of an observing turn of mind, and very apt to be correct in his judgements. The world over, it is the people who take plenty of sleep that are her by, and if they are sensible enough to get up early, they will have their strength to acquire wisdom and wealth as well. The old woman who asked her folks were always affin,' and no good way, for they would set up everlastingly and lay abed eternally, was probably an acquaintance of Poor Richard," and had given him some points.
A university town, especially if it be gay as well as studious, is as good field for observation of the effect of late hours. Last evening I was introduced to a little woman, seemingly about thirty, with a face which gave hints of past prettiness, but the cheeks were hollow, there were ugly wrinkles about the dark eyes, and the skin was red and rough. She chatted gaily for a little while, with a kittenish playfulness which contrasted strangely with her worn appearance. As she passed on, my neighbor said: “It’s a shame the way that girl has ruined her health. A few years ago she was called the prettiest girl in town, but such a round of parties as she's attended up till two or three o'clock in the morning, night after night—is enough to break down anybody.”
But the devotee of fashion is not the only one who suffers from keeping late hours. The broken down student! We all know him. In truth he is so common, that the typical student is thought of as an individual who has gained a pair of round shoulders, a pair of bleared eyes, and mercy knows what internal disarrangements by sitting bending over his books by lamplight, when the end of his nose and the tips of his toes should have been turned up to the ceiling.
Students and writers, who are apt to keep late hours, are notorious for poor health and short lives but in any walk of life the evil effect of an insufficient amount of sleep at the proper time may be observed. The sewing-girl sitting up till morning to earn the miserable pittance which keeps soul and body together, the son of her employer, gaming and drinking during the same time, alike exemplify it. The city doctor who is called to the bedside of the one, and the criminal lawyer whose services are required by the other, both will testify to it. The physician will tell you he can not do justice to his work unless he can make up in the daytime the sleep he loses at night. The lawyer knows that long nights of study over a difficult case very often bring on an attack of nervous prostration.
When we reflect that there is no such thing as a complete recovery from an injury done the health, that the effects remain even after the cause has been removed, it would seem that our forefathers were wise in ringing the Curtew as nine o'clock and seeing to it that the community had at least the opportunity to recruit its strength by plenty of sleep. R. M.
A Prairie Shadow.
The prairies were fresh and green, and seemed to send up mute thanksgiving to the Great Spirit who had given them life and happiness. The wild flowers were bright and fragrant and lived as in a paradise of their own—one uncontaminated by the profane presence of mankind. Yet up on the ridge of the long "divide" there stood a cabin. It was small and roughly built, and the bright newness of its pineboard walls formed an unpleasant contrast with the soft green of the prairie.
The sun was nearing the west, and slowly went down until its brilliant rays were seen only as reflected from the piled-up masses of clouds, which stood guard over its slow retreat to another world.
In the door of the cabin sat a strong man, his face burned by the sun, yet full of hope and courage—his body weared from labor, yet strong in its weariness.
He sat there looking out through the rapidly darkening twilight, across the rolling land, even to the dim outline of the southern horizon.
A gentle voice sounded behind him, and a slender girlish figure slipped out of the door and sat down by his side. She was cheerful and happy; and as, he threw his strong right arm about her and drew her to him, she brushed the hair back from his sun-burned forehead, and looked up into his eyes trustfully and confidently; and was proud of the man she loved, though there were none but herself to look upon him.
They sat there until long after the darkness had settled down around them, happy in each other and hopeful for the future. What cared they if they were alone on the prairies, far far away from all that had once been dear out there? They would work out a new home from this prairie wilderness. They would be strong and trustful. They would force from the reluctant soil a harvest and plenty. And when they offered up their prayers that night there was naught of complaint in them—only a peaceful thanksgiving for the blessedness of existence, and a petition for those far away. * * * * *
The scene has changed and yet it is the same. Here are the same rolling prairies. There is the same long ridge and here the same simple cabin. But the prairies are no longer bright and green. The anemone and the spring beauty no longer raise their sweet blossoms to the now burning rays of the sun.
God seems to have withdrawn his blessing from the land and to have cast upon it his heaviest curse. The land is dry and aphist, and the very air seems to tremble with the burning heat.
The cabin is no longer new and bright. The color of its four walls no longer forms a contrast with the paitri, but, like the green of the prairie, has surrendered to the desert heat, and has become dead and burned like all else. The door is open to receive the gentle southern breeze, which alone has not changed. The figure of a man—he who sat in the door-way once—lies stretched on a rough bed. His face is not burned now, save by the heat of a raging fever. His eye is bright no longer; and now his body has no strength in its weakness. Yet his right arm is around the same form now that it encircled once before. She is sitting on the bedside, fanning his flushed face and again she pushes the hair back from his forehead. She is worn and weary with watching and waiting for that change that never comes; yet there is not one falter in the trust and love she bears him.
He opens his eyes from a titted sleep and tells her not to sit there; but to lie down and rest. She must not sicken herself from watching, for he will need her as soon as he gets strong again; and he tries to smile in his own conceit. She smiles with him; but it is only fletching; and, as he closes his eyes again she asks her God to spare her the one she loves, and to grant her strength to guard him.
Days go by, and she still sits by the bed-side and waits for the change to come. At last it comes. She awakens one day from a light troubled sleep and she sees the change. The paile face is peaceful as if in sleep; the wan hand lies on the coverlet, and the eyes are still closed. The change has come. The strong man has stepped over the narrow boundary; and there in the dim shadow of the great unknown he is waiting for her.
She has seen the change; and when a wandering horseman comes to the door the next day, he sees them both. She, too, has crossed the boundary line and has joined him there. M.D.
Ball Game With Missouri.
Armamentess have just been made for a base ball game with Missouri State University. The game will take place in Kansas City on Saturday, May 26. An excursion will be run to Kansas City for the game and as only one coach will be secured for the excursion all persons who expect to attend the game will do well to leave their names with either Al Garrett, J. V. May, or R. K. Moody.
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