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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 hearty welcome.
The debating society just formed is having such good success that it is possible another will be organized to accem, modate all who desire practice in debating. Why not have two rival debating societies with joint debates at intervals?
As THE electric clock in the library reading room makes no pretense of keeping time, and must be tinkered with two or three times a week in order even to make it "go," it should be moved. The physical laboratory is a more suitable place in which to conduct experiments in electricity.
Now a member of the Faculty, and very few students attended the concert given for the benefit of the athletic association Tuesday evening. It is becoming very apparent that our University "partiotism" is not fervent enough to make us give our most popular organizations even moderately enthusiastic support. We say nothing about our less popular organizations.
The young ladies of the University who gave a hop last week, set an example, in one matter, that could profitably be followed in all University social events. The invitations announced that the guests were expected to arrive at 8 o'clock. Keeping early hours is always in order, but it is especially advisable when, as at the present time, warm weather makes one very liable to exhaustion.
EVER football reformers cannot accomplish their purpose at once it seems, for Mr. Hinkey, the captain of the Yale foot ball team, is going to make the evil still worse, by requiring candidates for positions on next fall's team to practice from Easter to the end of the spring term. Perhaps the best way to bring about a reform, however, is to allow a practice to be carried to the height of absurdity, and the Yale football captain is surely doing this.
WHAT was feared for the University last year,—that the legislature would not make adequate provision for the institution by appropriations—has befallen the University of Utah. The University Chronicle contains, in its editorial columns some very emphatic comments on the action of the legislature in appropriating only $45,000 for the support of the Uni. versity for the next two years, a sum much too small for even the most necessary running expenses. State Universities will welcome the day when they begin to receive endowments which shall be sufficient at least to free them from the danger of having at any time to suspend, because of unfavorable action of State legislatures on appropriation bills.
THE professor of the English Department of Nebraska University, in his letter which we publish in this issue, desires to know whether a debate shall be held this year. By all means it should be heid. We have debaters who can represent the University creditably, and although the debate might not be as good as desired, because of the lack of time for complete preparation, yet this would be more than compensated for by the greatly increased interest that the preparation for a joint debate would arouse in debating societies. A contest with a rival University will be one of the most effective means of so arousing interest in debates that debating societies shall become permanent and well supported organizations of the University, and debating societies should be put on this basis here as soon as possible.
It is to be hoped that interest in rowing will be renewed this spring, and that this athletic sport will be as popular as it was a few years ago. As an exercise, rowing is unsurpassed among athletic sports, since it brings into use muscles in all parts of the body. It also has, to recommend it, the fact that while in a game of football, the team captain has control, and determines how much time the players shall devote in training and playing, to athletes; in rowing each man determines for himself how much time he will give to physical exercise, and he need not fear that his participation in such an exercise as rowing will require so much time as to cause him to neglect his studies. For the success of the attempts to make rowing popular, all the circumstances are favorable. The river at Lawrence offers a boating course that could hardly be improved upon, and the Athletic Association is very willing to give all the aid it can. Boating should hold a very prominent place among University athletic sports, and with all the circumstances in their favor, those who are interested in rowing will have themselves to blame if they do not bring about this result.
THE following comments were made by one of the judges of the Indiana State oratorical contest when he returned the orations sent him to be graded. They are worthy of the widest circulation, since the view which many people take of plagiarism does not seem to be a very serious one. "The last named oration needs further mention. It is placed last. Firstly, because it is an essay rather than an oration, secondly, because its title is clearly a misnomer; and thirdly, because I discover on page nine of this so-called oration, and extending nearly through page ten, a direct quotation from Oliver Schreiner, for which no credit is given. It is a flagrant case of plagiarism, and the oration is unworthy of a place on your competition, as its author is unworthy of his place as an American college man. Plagiarism is the gravest offense known to the teacher of English, and if you are to maintain the dignity of your association, you must now and forever frown upon and punish any attempt to use the words of another in a contest of original orations.
"It is not my procregative to do more than grade the orations. This I have done. But I trust you will see to it, that so far as possible, dishonest methods are discountened by you and the other officials of your association." These remarks would apply with equal force to the State Oratorical Association of Kansas.
The employees of the museum have received instructions from the Chancellor to work only eight hours a day.
THE HALLS.
Photographs have been taken at different stages of their construction, of the imitation mountains and crags which are now being built in Snow Hall.
In accordance with the plan that was outlined at the last meeting of the Science Club, namely that each department might organize a seminary which should be auxiliary to the club, the Chemical and the Mineralogical Departments will combine to establish such an association. It is proposed to hold the meetings every two weeks, and though some papers will be read, a very important feature of the meetings will be the reports that are to be made on the current chemical and mineralogical literature.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
David.
David belongs to the class of children who are generally in the streets and are commonly called street Arabs. He is a sturdy little fellow with gray eyes and tow head and is some seven years of age. He has a rather bright countenance which might not seem a little hardened if we did not know it belonged to a street Arab. He wears a blue calico shirt fastened in front with two large white but tons and wrinkled up around his waist, and a pair of trousers of uncertain color, held up by a single strap. He wears shoes sometimes, that have been worn out by some one else before they came to him, and stockings that reach anywhere from the shoe top to the knee. He wearsf an old cap on his head and in cold weather he "wraps up" in a coat which is old, ragged and dirty. I remember seeing him once when his shirt was clean.
He used to come to my house to bek, said he was hungry because his mother was sick and could not cook him anything to eat. He kept coming at intervals of a week or so until finally I took him into the house and learned something about him.
It was one summer evening after dark. There was a knock at the front door. I opened and a voice said in a half commanding tone "Please, lady, gimme sompun t'eat." Seeing it was the archin who had come several times before, I took him into the sitting room, much against his will, and questioned him.
He stood there in the light with his bare chubby feet, which were neither so clean or so dirty as they might have been, his cap under his arm, lifting up his broad tanned face to me as he answered my questions. He showed little embarrassment but an evident desire to get back to the open air.
His name was "David." He had not come alone, "Bill" and "Tham" were waitin' for him outside. He guessed he'd better go.
"Was he hungry?"
"Yep um."
"Had he had any supper?"
"No'm," lowering his head a little; his face was greasy and his breath smelled of bread and butter.
"Not a bit of supper?"
"No'm." In an accent of surprise, lifting his head again and looking me steadily in the eye.
We descended to the kitchen. He preferred to take the food and go. "They" were waiting for him. But I insisted upon his eating at the table and he did so, answering my questions in monosyllables whenever possible.
I found he lived by the depot down near the river a mile away and he said again as if repeating a piece he had learned by heart that his mother was sick and his father was dead. There were several other children at his house about whose relationship to himself he was uncertain. They were brothers or cousins. He said he went to school sometimes.
He seemed half frightened when I suggested accompanying him home, and as suremed me he was not going home that night but would stay just over the hill with "Bill" and "Tham." "Tham" was another boy.
He munched away at what I gave him to eat, but when that was finished refused to be helped a second time and hurried from the table.
He would say no more about the "other boy" and seemed to be growing suspicious; so, with an invitation to come again when he was hungry, I let him go. He said "Yepum" and hurried out to the boys waiting for him and was greeted with "what dyer git?" There was no audible response, only a sound of retreating steps.
Nearly a year has passed and "David" has not come to beg again. I often see him in the streets with "Tham" (who by the way, is really his cousin and is a mulatto boy with kinky hair) tumbling about in the dirt, performing wonderful
gymnastic feats, starting at the bill boards or sharing cigarettes with others of his class. Once or twice he has been trudging a curly headbaby in a box wagon.
A day or two ago when I was waiting at the delivery window in the post office for some one to hand me the mail, David came flying through the door, reached up on tip toe, clung with one grimy hand to the shelf in front of the window and shouted through the window in a shrill voice "Hey that mister! Lady wants her see yet!" turned away without paying any attention to my thanks and with the air of not having noticed me.
There is evidently considerable reason for believing the above statement. After at least several thousand years of development, men are still scheming and combining for self advancement; and what is the worst of all, men studying in the Universities, those whose principal business is to learn to avoid and prevent just such practices, are no better in this respect than many who can be more easily excused. The outlook is discouraging but there is a ray of light.
It has been asserted, perhaps by implication only however, that man is such by nature that he is deined always to spend a large part of his time in making combinations and schemes in order merely to overcome his fellow man. Such a pessimistic statement, even though it probably comes from a very unpessimistic writer, calls for an investigation.
Perhaps it is impossible that the advancement of self should ever wholly cease to be a motive of human conduct, and it is no doubt fortunate that such is the case; but as man grows wiser he will more truly know the meaning of self-advancement. He will find that in this universe of harmony the individual is a part of the whole, and that the advantage of the whole is the advantage of the individual. He will find that the way to lose his own good is to seek it at the expense of others.
Therefore to induce man to work for the good of others, and take no thought of himself is not necessarily the problem that confronts us. It is reduced merely to teaching him to know what his own good is. That this is no insignificant task is shown by the fact that man is still ignorant after several thousand years of instruction; but it does not seem so difficult as the other problem, and we may hope that sometime in the future it will be solved.
What the student can do to bring this about, is a very different question. When he has seen and admitted the deprivation of certain customs, he is something worse than useless to society unless he abandons them himself. Whatever he can do toward inducing others to follow his example is just so much gained. What can we think of a man who admits the wrong of an action and still continues to perform it only because he thinks it a hopeless task to induce others to stop also? The example of one man who independently adheres to the right principle is of more influence than is sometimes apparent. The way to suppress schemes and combines is to publicly express an opinion of their real character.
last Sunday's Meeting
The Union meeting of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, which was held in Music Hall last Sunday was very interesting and was well attended. Mr. A. E. Moody in a report of the Detroit convention gave a very inspiring and instructive talk. Misses Kate Riggs and Florence Hoge sang a duet which was very much appreciated and enjoyed by those present. The city Y. M. C. A. also joined with the college Associations in the meeting. There is no reason why we should not have more of these union meetings and thus engender more of the truly sociable Christian spirit.
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