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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
HIA STAEET
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. FEBRUARY 23. 1894.
LOCAL NOTES
Go to Tipton's.
Griffin, the coal man! !
Athletic goods at Smiths.
G. Willman, the jeweler.
Jess Howe is the barber.
Shane's photos are the best.
The "Niobe" company next Monday.
Special attention given to students at
Give Pat Graham a call. He will treat you right.
Roberts & Culver for low prices on groceries.
J. S, Tipson is the student's barber, 836 Mass. St.
Go to Jess Howes' barber shop, 915 Mass. St.
Si Pimkard next week at Bowersock's opera house.
Blackman and Olinger are the agents for Jackson's hauntry.
Stylish veilings in the wide widths in La Tosca and Tuxedo Nets are just in at Weaver's.
Go to J. M. Zook's for fancy groceries.
Don't forget we lead in school supplies. SCHAUM & HENSHAW.
"Niobe" is by Paunon, the author of the beautiful "Ermitaie."
Money to loan on personal property
at Passon's Cheap Bazaar, 723 Mass St. Finest tobacco at Smiths.
Special rates to students' clubs for fine groceries and meats at J.M.JONES.
J. P., Rutledge dramatic company is in Lawrence this week.
See Newhouse & Waffle for the music for balls, parties and receptions.
Get a chicken for your Sunday dinner at J. M. JONES.
The very newest things in wool and wash dress goods are now being shown at Weaver's.
Shane's photos are the best. Only the best brand of cigars kept in stock at Smith's News Depot.
Pat Graham will repair your shoes
neatly and promptly at reasonable prices.
Students when you desire a good clean shave go to J. S. Tipton's barber shop. 836 Mass, St.
Students when you want a quiz book drop into the basement room just below the Chancellor's office and Geo. Graves will fit you out.
Go to Smith's News Depot for all the Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago dailies.
Jess Hewes keeps a first class barber shop at 915 Mass. St.
If your shoes need repairing go to Pat Graham's on east Warren street.
Abe Levy is selling all winter goods at cost.
Shane's photos are the best.
Clubs do not buy your groceries before seeing J. M. Zook. He carries a full line of the host girl she on the market.
For fancy and staple groceries go to J.M. Loves
Watch the papers for the announcement of Weaver's silk sale. Preparations are now going on and you can look forward to a great showing of new silks suitable for waists, dresses and party gowns.
Do you like good things to eat? If so call on J. M. Jones and he will send you away happy and satisfied.
Vol. II, No. 23.
I keep a full line of the best groceries in the land. J. M. JONES.
Robert Wilson, the butcher, corner Quincy and New Hampshire streets.
See Newhouse & Waffle for music at reasonable rates.
Spring wraps and capes are expected at Weaver's next week.
Do you want good groceries? Then go to J. M. Jones grocery store. He sells all kinds of the best groceries to be had.
Schaum & Hensbaw, headquarters for text books and all kinds of stationery, 917 Mass. St.
Students if you want a good hair cut go to Jee Howes. 915 Mass. St.
□ You can find the very latest ideas in Mackintoshes in navy blue and black with full capes at Weaver'a.
Call on J. M. Zook for all kinds of stur-
ple and fanny grocery stores. He carries a full line and can accommodate you.
J. Newnham 1039 Mass St. will
J. L. Newhouse, 1023 Mass. St., will give lessons on mandolin and guitar.
Shane's photos are the best.
Do you keep boarders? It will pay you to see Roberts & Culver and get their prices on groceries.
Text books, stationery, anything in students' line.
If you want your watches properly repaired go to Gus Willman's. His prices are reasonable, also good bargains in new watches. Gus WILLMAN. 017 HAVEN.
SCHAUM & HENSHAW.
Robert Wilson will supply you with all kinds of fresh and cured meat at reasonable prices. Corner of Quincy and New Hampshire streets.
If you want good grub do not fail to call on J. M. Zook. A trial will satisfy you that he carries a full line of the best groceries to be had.
Miss Clara Bosworth returned to school Tuesday, after being absent for a week on account of sickness.
Mr. A. C. Row.es, A. M., of Simpson College, speaks to the University Y. M. C. A. boys next Sunday, at Music Hall.
When you go to Topeca to attend the State oratorical contest make your headquarters at the National Hotel, corner 7th and Kansas avenue, only one block from the "Grand." The National is furnished equal to any Topeca hotel, having ing its beautiful dining room on the top floor. Rates in keeping with the times.
L. W. Naylor, who won the inter state contest in '00, became the great orator that he is by studying other orations and getting their strongest points. The Washburn Mid-Continent will publish all the orations to be delivered at the State oratorical contest at Topcka, all the pictures of each school and orator, and all college yells. Get a copy, for 10 cents when at the contest or send five two cent stamps to the Mid-Continent, Topcka, Kansas.
A large, well lighted, steam heated hall. Will seat 250 people, or is just the thing for dancing parties and similar entertainments. Formerly occupied by Commercial Club. Inquire at Tracy Learnard's store.
For Rent-
Student's Laundry
Work called for on Monday afternoon and delivered on Friday afternoon. All work guaranteed to be first class
Prof. Wilcox* a Address _at Chapel February 16, 1894.
BLACKMAN & OLINGER, Agents for Jackson's Laundry.
COLLEGE POLITICS.
I cannot say all that I want to this morning. Nor am I sure that the title on the bulletin board is a correct one for what I want to say. But it makes no difference. I am going to say what I want to say, as far as I have time and ability.
Euripides makes Medea say to Jason after he had married her in her distant home and brought her to Greece and there some years after abandoned her: Do you think that the gods of that time no longer rule, or that the old laws have given place to new? It is surely a rhetorical question. Medea, barbarian as she, knows better. She knows that the fundamental principles of morality are ever and everywhere the same, and that God reigns in his heaven and alt's right with the world. But Jason acts as if God had been dethroned, and wrong had by process of time or change of place become right.
But Jason lived in that distant time when they didn't know better. Oh, did he? Let us see. Don't some people now a days think that a change of place brings them under the operation of a new code of morals? It looks very much like it. A great many of us never thought it was right to neglect church services and religious exertions completely, until we came to college. A great many thought it the duty of a college student to study to the extent of his time and ability, till we came to college. We thought that the hard earned money of our mothers and fathers ought to be applied by us when they so kindly lavished it upon us, where it won't do the most good, in a way that would prove us worthy or all their efforts in our behalf, till we came to college. We thought the selection of our intimates was a very important and serious thing, and felt that we ourselves had a responsibility and duty in the matter, till we came to college. We judged boys and girls and men and women by their intellectual and moral force, till we came to college. We thought we ought to form our own opinions and be true to them, till we came to college. We thought that the best men ought to be advanced and the worst put down, till we came to college. We thought it wrong to do anything to help advance a self-seeker or a man whose standard of morality is not high, till we came to college. We had heard combinations of one sort or another to get some body else than the best man for the place into position of honor or responsibility, but we thought that was wrong and despised the people who did such things, till we came to college.
But, how is it now? Don't a large number of us neglect largely or completely all church services and religious exercises? And worse than that, don't we think that it is the thing to neglect them? Havern't a good many of us changed our opinion about the duty of the student with his time and ability. Isn't our aim here something else than study and self-improvement? Don't we think that the money that our fathers earn for us and our mothers save for us is put to the best use, considerable of it at least, when it is spent on suppers and dresses and carriages? Are not a good many of us satisfied to let a fraternity select our intimates for us, instead of selecting them for ourselves? Don't we judge boys and girls and men and women by the fraternity to which they belong, or by their inability or unwilling guess to
get into any fraternity? Don't a good many of us take our opinions from our fraternity or non-fraternity or anti-fraternity eliques? And don't we exert ourselves to put those opinions in force, and turn traitors to our own better judgment? Don't we occasionally discover that we are trying to advance some interior man at the expense of a superior one? And don't we have a rather good opinion, of man who can make and run combinations? So good an opinion that we fall a victim to him? Or even go around and entice him to gobble us up? After the success of a grand combination at a recent student election, I heard a young man of whom I expected better things, expressing his admiration for the principal schemer. I am told that that admiration is not universal. But I am also told that some of those who do not admire the schemer admire the scheme, and in order to get one were willing to accept the other.
What does this all mean? Have the old gods of our youth fallen victims to new gods? Do we live here in college under a different moral code from what we did before we came to college? Be sure you do not. The same God rules the world now that did then, and the principles of morality are eternal. Don't think for a moment that you can ever escape them. And they are inexorable. They will grind you to powder in the end, be assured, if you do not learn them and obey them. No fraternity or clique or public opinion or scheme or combination can change them. And when you are acting contrary to them, it isn't they that have changed, but you.
Go back to the goals and the laws of your youth. Make your life here in college the best possible preparation for a life of usefulness and honor after you leave these walls and opportunities behind you. Which reminds me that a student once told me here that college politics served as a preparation for after life, and justified our college combinations to elect officers of the various associations by saying that that is what we have to do in after life. What a fallacy! Because some men do do that, do you jump to the conclusion that you must prepare to do it, without inquiring whether it is right or wrong? Any combination that results in or aims at putting in any position anybody else than the best man that can be found for that position is wrong, and the last thing a student wants to know in college is to prepare himself to join or assist any such combination. The thing to do in college is to prepare to resist such a combination.outside. A college life and course is not a preparation for the worst that is done outside. It is a preparation for the best. Its aim is not even to make a man or woman as good as the ordinary run of men and women. It aims to make them better. Where are we to expect our better and best men and women to come from it not from our colleges? If you leave college no better than the ordinary run of people, the money of the State has been wasted on you. If you do no leave college better, you wrong yourself and the community. The very men whom in politics some of you want to take as your models, will never tell you to adopt their principles of action. They may use you and in that way instruct you in their ways, but depend upon it, they either lament their actions on the score of some grevious necessity, or are more ally rotten, or at least would never honesty aivise you to follow in their foot steps. And don't do it, I beg you. I hasn't been so long since I was a student that I forget that you have many temps
tions, and that it is hard to run contrary to public opinion in college or anywhere else. Its hard for a man to do a good many things that he ought to do, and duty is no less duty because it is hard. And besides, isn't there something exhibrating in the very fact that a thing is hard? What difference does that make to young and vigorous people? If you can't do anything hard, you aren't fit to be in college. There'll be plenty of hard things for you to do when you get out of college, and you had better begin to get some preparation for them while here.
I am so tired of hearing that we can't do anything by ourselves, I can't do this or that unless others do so too. It seems to me glorious to be a leader. What a grand thing it is to exert force! To go into the midst of the conflict! To conquer enemies! But you know you can't conquer enemies if you haven't any. It is necessary to have enemies sometimes. We don't amount to much if we haven't some. I rather like to have a few. They are a luxury, I think. There is a German proverb which says then when the dogs bark we know we are on horseback. And when you remember that other one that it is tonesome on the heights. Who would not rather b: tonesome on the heights than down on the plain?
Pardon me if I have spoken too strongly in anything I have said. Be assured I have spoken it all because of my interest in our University and in each student in it. I know few students to whom what I say applies. So there can be nothing personal in what I say. I am merely absolutely sure that these things are wrong, and just esse sure that wrong must be and will be crushed everywhere, and I want you to get out of the way before the crushing time comes. I want you to have us all take an interest in the moral welfare of the University, for that is its highest welfare, without which nothing will make us great or indeed of any value Our numbers, our appliances, will not save us, if we perish morally. We must get rid of some of our moral incumbrances. I have referred to several of them. But none of them is more serious just now than this resorting to combinations to secure the advancement to public positions of inferior men at the expense of superior men. Will you not think seriously of this matter, and so act upon a stop to 19? I am sure you can do it, and I am sure you will, though I know that no deep seated disease can be cured at once. Perhaps this kind will come out only by fasting and prayer. But no matter what is necessary, let us get it out.
ATHLETICS.
The Yale Athletic Association has been invited to send a team of fencers to compete at Boston for the championship of New England on February 24 and will probably accept.
A number of Baker students have begun to practice for field day contests, most of them practiceng sprINTing. The Beacon is also urging that the base ball club be organized and put in training at once.
Candidates for positions on the base ball team of the University of Minnesota will immediately begin training in the gymnasium. It is reported that there are enough applicants for all positions, to insure brisk competition and hard work.
A game of football will be played at St. Louis between the Paulian Athletic Club of Christian Brothers College, and the Pastime Athletic Club on February 22d. Heffelfinger, the Yale guard, will probably play.
sells all kinds of the best groceries to be had.
Students, Dolly Graber will be found at his usual place of business with his
The picture and biography of Geo. O. Foster, the University stenographer, occupy the first page of the State Christian Endeavor
coming to the front
Same Will Walter.
It must be almighty dull in Lawrence for a West Lawrence girl is visiting at Baldwin.
The Interstate Field Day contest is still a thing of uncertainty. It is probable, however, that a contest will
the time honored Senior-Faculty base ball game.
called after nearly dered. The comfi exceedingly well failed to being do Farrell, the famous admirors