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This paper is on file at the editorial rooms of the University Review, 230 Fifth avenue, New York, where all college men are given a hearty welcome.
This spring oculator contest will be held Friday, April 27th.
A NUMBER of the college papers of Kansas have at last made statements that the newspaper reports of what occurred at the State Oratorical contest do injustice to the State University.
It has been suggested that a joint debate be held during commencement week between representatives of Adelphie Literary Society and the Young Men's Debating Club. Very successful commencement programs of this nature have been given in the past by University organizations.
KANSAS college papers are circulating the report that K. U. intends to withdraw from the State Oratorical contests. It does not seem probable that such action will be taken very soon, but whether it is or not, one thing is certain—we have not withdrawn from the Interstate contest that is to be held this spring.
THE Press Club which was organized some time ago to furnish news to Kansas papers, has decided to enlarge its field of work. Cuts of the University buildings are being made, and will be used to illustrate special articles on subjects connected with the University which newspapers receiving University correspondence may wish to have treated. The club is doing an important work, and we take pleasure in noting this evidence of its success.
industrialist: The Seniors of the Kansas State University have decided to contribute from $8 to $10 each toward a fund to assist poor students. The money will come out of the commencement fund. This action is a most commendable one. It shows that the class of '94 have "their hearts like their heads at the proper place". In no other way could these students better show their affection for their alma mater. A such fund carefully husbanded and added to by successive graduating classes will grow in time into a great and substantial benefaction and a noble help to seekers after the advantages of the University.
Tim editor of College Life is trying to induce the young labors of Emporia College to enter a declaration contest. Don't you think from the following that his efforts should be crowned with success? "We have hitherto deluded ourselves with the idea that our college girls had considerable grit or feminine spunk. It seems to be a mistake at the present. Hypatia fails to send any representative to the declamation contest, and one of them recently delivered an oration on woman's rights too. We didn't believe girls could be outdone by boys, but it seems so at present. If you haven't any more nerve than that girls, how will you ever vote or whirl a rolling-pin so as to hit your old man on the softest part of his head without missing? Better consider."
Gross misrepresentation and downright lying are, as a rule, not found in college papers, but the majority of the statements with regard to the University of Kansas that are found in the Baker *Bacon* can be characterized in no other way. College papers, just as papers in other fields, are supposed to take the course of action that meets the heartiest approval of their supporters, but we can hardly believe that the disreputable course of the *Bacon* is approved by the institution which it represents. If however, the supporters of the paper do not approve of its action, they are to be censured if they do not vindicate themselves by calling the *Bacon* to account.
THE University is entertaining this week the members of the Northeast and Southeast Kansas Teachers Associations, and to night will give them a reception to which the students are invited. It is unnecessary to say that the teachers are welcome, especially so since the University is a part of the public school system of Kansas, and a close acquaintance between instructors in different parts of the system cannot but be profitable. We hope the visitors will seek to become as thoroughly acquainted as possible with the University, its faculty and students, in order that they may form for themselves a judgment of the character of the institution.
ONE of the departments of the University that has not yet adapted itself to the changes made by the new time schedule, is the library. Though we now have Saturday morning classes, the library is not opened until 9 o'clock on Saturday, thus giving students access to the library shelves for only a very short time, to prepare lessons. The University Review suggests that in order to accommodate students who have Saturday morning classes, the library should be opened on Friday evenings, and at an earlier hour Saturday mornings. The Library was formally opened on Friday evening, but not enough students used the library to make it profitable to continue the practice. A trial for a week or two would show whether there is need of again opening the library on Friday evening. But there can be no doubt of the necessity of opening it earlier on Saturday morning, and we do not see that it will be any great hardship to the librarians to do so. All that is asked is that the library be opened as early on Saturday morning, as it is now on other week days.
QUOTING the statement of the athletic editor of the STUDENTS JOURNAL that it is very doubtful whether the proposed Interstate Field Day contest will take place, the Cooper Courier again urges what it has for some time been advocating, that the students of the colleges of Kansas meet in a field day contest this spring. In conclusion the Courier says: "It is due to the other colleges in the State to have a Field Day this year, and it is the place of the State University to arrange for it, as they did last year." In the contest held last year on McCook field, Cooper Memorial College, Baker, and the University of Kansas took part; and the enterprise was very successful. Without doubt a larger number of colleges will send representatives this year, and the contest will be much more successful, if arrangements are made in time. This is a lure opportunity for the new athletic association to distinguish itself.
By the way would it not be well to make more complete the organization of the new athletic association before the end of the present term; at least to give students an opportunity to become members? The only members of the association now are the officers, about eighteen in number; and from present indications it seems likely that no other members will be admitted during the present term. If this is the case, the association will probably be so disorganized at the beginning of the fall term as to be totally unfit for effective work for sometime
after the school opens, for a number of the present officers will probably not attend the University next fall, and considerable time must elapse before the enrollment of members of the association will have been completed and new officers can be elected.
A list of colleges and Universities having an enrollment of one thousand students was 'tately published. The enrollment of our University, as shown by the new catalogue, entitles us to a place on the list. We have now over twelve hundred students. All of them are pursuing regular courses of study, and on passing satisfactory examinations, receive credit for the work done and all on the completion of the required amount of work, are entitled to receive the degrees conferred by the University. This is just as true of University Extension students as of those who attend classes at the University buildings. To at least one of the universities mentioned on the list, there is still a preparatory department, and short term farmer's courses are given which require the attendance of students for only a few weeks. Students in these departments are regularly enrolled, and are a part of the one thousand students of the institution. Besides these, there are what are called in absentia students, that is, teachers and other persons interested in higher education are allowed to enroll as students. They need never have been at the University, and are not required to pursue any course of study. They are given the privilege of asking advice about methods of instruction, or about the work they may be doing. This is the connection this part of the one thousand students has with the school. We think that with such competitors, we could make good a claim to a place on that list.
The Meeting of the Northeast and South East Kansas Teachers Association.
The meeting of the teachers which is now being held in Lawrence should be of special interest both to the city and University, as teachers come here from all parts of the State, and the sessions are being held at the University. Prof. Olm instructor in Pedagogy in the University, is president of the Northeast Teacher's Association. Several of the professors of the University occupy prominent places on the program.
Chancellor Snow speaks on "The Qualifications of the Teacher in Scholarship" this afternoon, Prof. Hopkins, Saturday morning, leads in a discussion on the subject, "University Extension for the teachers of the District Schools," and Prof. Blackmar presides Saturday afternoon at the Round Table on the subject of History. Besides these it may be of interest to know that President Quyleb of Baker will speak this afternoon, and Prof. A.W. Small of Chicago University will lecture on the "Social Problem" this evening at S o'clock. Immediately after this lecture, the faculty will give a reception to the teachers and students, and refreshments will be served.
Dr. Williston made some valuable dis coveries during the spring vacation. Eight complete skeletons of extinct Pecaries belonging to an entirely new genus and species were round in the Pilocene of Western Kansas in Sherman county. They were discovered in digging a well, and were ten feet below the surface of the ground. These Pecaries are about the size of a New Foundland dog. As soon as possible the best one of the fossil skeletons will be mounted and placed on exhibition by Mr. Overton. A full description of these new specimens will be given by Dr. Williston in the next number of the University Quarterly.
Dr. Williston's Discoveries.
The Law school will render the following class day program: Orators, Messrs. Challis, Bennett, Orr, and Higgins Theses, Mrs. Phillips, and Messrs. Melvin and Campbell; Debate by Messrs. Park and Sprout.
Class Day Exercises.
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One for the Other.
[Translated from Goethe.]
A little blue-shell.
Early in May.
Spring up from the ground.
In its dress so gay;
A little berry drink.
On the tiny chair.
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Charlotte.
Charlotte was our cook. She was about medium height, square-shouldered straight as an arrow, carrying her head proudly erect in the consciousness of superiority over her associates. Her hair was dark and wavy and her complexion—but you can tell that for yourself, when you have heard about her.
If at any time while she was the cook, you had gone into our kitchen, you would have said that order reigned supreme there. But we who knew Charlotte never said that, we used to say that Charlotte reigned supreme there. The kitchen was a large one—a boarding house kitchen—and contained several tables, but under no circumstances would she allow a kettle or greasy pan to be set down on one of these tables. She had a number of little boards which she kept on the tables to set the cooking vessel; and these boards were secured thoroughly with lye, every day and were always put away in exactly the same position. If any one of the girls happened to displace a board, Charlotte would say sharply: "Look-a-bear gal, you better straighten them holds." She even had a certain position for the shovel; and once, when my mother put it down with the wrong side to the wall, Charlotte remarked respectfully, but in a decided tone: "This chile never puts no shovel down that-a-way."
Charlotte was a lover of peace, a trait not common to her race. While she was working at our house, the church she attended got into a great quarrel over their minister, part of the members were determined to dismiss him, while the others were quite as determined to retain him. They used to have church meetings two or three times a week; and at these meetings they seemed a veritable church militant. Whenever I knew there was to be a church meeting I would say: "Well Charlotte are you going to the meeting to night?" just to hear her say, "Lawd no chile, I don't want to git out wid razah."
She was very obliquing and was often imposed on, especially by Maggie, the dining room girl, who whenever she wanted a favor from Charlotte, would be all smiles and graciousness itself, though at other times, she was often actually uncivil to Charlotte. But Charlotte, with all her kindness, was sharp enough to see through Miss Maggie's tricks, and when that young lady began to be very polite. Charlotte would say with a wag of her head "Look out chile, there's a rat in the wall!" and then go right on doing kindnesses, for which Maggie would give neither pay nor thanks, never doubting her ability to get more favors from Charlotte whenever she wanted them.
Charlotte had a great alliums—"miseries" she called them. But though
she would complain almost incessantly of a "misery" in her back and another in her "hold." yet nothing would induce her to forsake her post in the kitchen, and the care of her precious "bolds."
Though whenever you asked after her health her usual reply was: "I feel miserable baid; if I don't feel better next week, you won't see this chile in no cook kitchen."
These "miseries" troubled us somewhat at first, but when we once came to realize what a comfort they were to Charlotte, we ceased to worry and as time went on, we found that in spite of her "miseries," she could always be depend upon.
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