The Students Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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Frank H. Moore ... Editor-in-Chief
Rollin E. Blackman ... Local Editor
Arthur L. Corbin ... Literary Editor
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CHAS, H. LEASE, WARREN DWARDS
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Jno. H, Henderson . Literary
Artie Kelly . Music
W. C, Ackshire . Local
Frank E. House . Exchanges
R. W, Neal . Law
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This paper is on file at the editorial rooms of the University, Review, 290 Fifth Avenue, New York, where all college men are given a hearty welcome.
EXAMINATIONS are over. The student takes his inventory a little late in January but we believe it is thorough. If there were any so unfortunate as to "fail," will they say it was due to prevailing "hard times?"
THE rank given one of the contestants in the contest Friday evening, shows how hard it is for one to judge impartially anything that is contrary to his own belief. In the words of another contestant, "the prophet of this later age" fares no better than than those who have gone before.
THE oratorical contest held Friday night was a decided improvement. Mr. Sears may well feel that he has won no small honor in gaining first place among such speakers, but we expect him to do better things yet. It will be the enthusiasm of men who expect to win that will accompany him to Tepeka.
THROUGH the kindness of Professor Blackmar, we are enabled to give a general description of what fellowships are and how they may obtained. This matter should be carefully considered while you are deciding on the studies you will take this term, if you intend to take work in other Universities. A number who formerly attended the University have obtained scholarships or fellowships Harvey White, G. O. Virtue and J. Haamaker, not to mention others.
As we noticed the report that Harvard was in financial difficulty we give the Harvard Advocate's explanation. The report arose from the fact that two professors and four instructors were to be dismissed. The reason for this action was that their work was not of a sufficiently high grade, a.a.d., as the Harvard Advocate says, the more plausible excuse "that, owing to increased expenses, it was impossible to retain these gentlemen." In a long editorial the Advocate scores the college authorities for ingratiude in thus turning out old servants, thinking it would have been better to pension them if they were incompetent, and comments rather sharply on the "increased expenses" which made the step necessary. One of the principal expenses was the exhibition at the World's Fair.
"Thus in either case our Alba Mater has been made to flounder herself, not as a woman who sees wisdom above wealth, and honor above all, but as one with an eye for expensive buildings, a talent for vulgar advertisement, and a disposition to turn over her good name to the highest bidder."
THE annual election of officers of the Oratorical Association will be held at 1 o'clock to day. Every one has the right to vote for the more important officers, if he has registered.
The amendment providing that the judges on thought and composition shall grade after hearing the creations delivered, and not from reading the manuscript, is an attempt to remedy a real
fault. An oration that would be graded well as an essay, may be so written that it can not be even followed by one listening to its delivery, and would impress the hearer in no way unless it be with weariness. Orations are written to influence those who hear them not those who read them, and should be judged from this standpoint.
There is some difference of opinion as to whether it would be better to have thought and composition count one-half as is the case now and be graded by the judges after the orations are delivered, or to have delivery, thought and composition count one third each, and composition alone be graded from the manuscript, delivery and thought from hearing the orations delivered. Either plan is better than the one now in vogue.
The Courier Refuses to Consider Consoli- sation
The Corrier Company at its meeting held last Saturday, elected officers to manage the paper this term; and we understand, intends to resume at once the publication, which has been suspended since the issue of the New Year's edition. As far as we can learn no action was taken for consolidation with the STUDENTS JOURNAL by the formation of a University Publishing Company. This would seem to indicate that there is no prospect of a consolidation of the papers at a very early date. A review of the history of this attempt at consolidation may be both interesting and profitable.
About a week before the University was closed for the Christmas holidays, Mr. C. R. Troxell, Business Manager of the Courier came to the Business Managers of the STUDENTS JOURNAL, to propose that an attempt be made to consolidate the papers. He stated that the Courier was not paying expenses and it was evidently on this account that he desired consolidation. The STUDENTS JOURNAL, though it had no such financial trouble to influence it, believed that it was advisable to combine the weekly papers if possible, and therefore, during the Christmas holidays, Mr. J. V. May and Mr. Troxell drew up a plan for consolidation, which Mr. Troxell thought would be acceptable to the Courier Company. At Mr. Troxell's request, a meeting of the STUDENTS JOURNAL Company was called to decide whether it would accept this plan which was to be presented by the Courier Company. The Courier Company is composed of the members of four of the fraternities, and as representatives of these four fraternities signed a paper declaring that the terms of the plan were acceptable, the plan was really presented by that company.
The members of the STUDENTS JOURNAL Company therefore met to consider the plan proposed by the Courier, but at the meeting were informed that the Courier now refused to submit its proposition. Having no proposition to consider, the STUDENTS JOURNAL Company drew up and adopted a plan for consolidation with the Courier, and appointed a committee to present it to the Courier Company. The Courier Company either took no action upon it, or refused to accept it.
These plans for consolidation having failed, it was proposed that a mass meeting of the students be called, and that a University Publishing Company be formed to publish a weekly and a monthly paper, thereby bringing about a consolidation of the two weekly papers. Mr. Troxell, Business Manager of the Courier was again the prime mover; and it was at his request that the Chancellor called the mass meeting. A committee of nine, two of whom were professors, was elected at this mass meeting to draft a constitution, and a constitution was drawn up by the committee as published in the issue of the STUDENTS JOURNAL of the 26th of January. As was noted in the same number of the STUDENTS JOURNAL our company at a meeting held Wednesday, January 24th, adopted a resolution expressing its satisfaction with the essential features of the plan proposed, and
its readiness to take part in any meeting to adopt the constitution. As the STUDENTS JOURNAL of January 26th says: '
"The position of the company was an announced by the unanimous adoption of the resolution which indicates that, just as soon as the other interests concerned will act, the STUDENTS JOURNAL is ready to give way for the proposed one weekly paper thereafter to be published at the University."
We wish to emphasize these facts. The STUDENTS JOURNAL Company has shown its willingness to consider any proposition looking toward consolidation that may be made by the Counter; it has made the Counter a proposition for consolidation, and it has shown a willingness to combine with the Counter by adopting the essential features of the plan proposed by the committee unanimously elected by the students miss meeting.
The STUDENTS JOURNAL Company has shown its willingness to meet the Course half-way; and it has made this attempt at consolidation not because the paper was not paying expenses, but because it believed one weekly paper would represent the University more fairly and would be a much lighter burden to those who have to support it.
The Language Conferences
At the meeting of the Language Conference last Friday afternoon, Mr. B. W. Woodward reviewed the volume of poems entitled, "Rhymes by Two Friends." The verses were written by Albert Bigelow Paine and William Allen White, the introduction by Ewing Herbert.
Mr. Woodward did not wholly agree with Mr. Herbert's opinion that, "the best poetry made in Kansas is not that of the study." While the production of verse by intellect alone is not poetry, a little of the "midnight oil" spoken of in the introduction might have been burned to advantage while the authors gave a few additional touches to some of their verses, and yet they might not polish out of them their original feeling. The verses, at least many of them, might be compared to some of Whitecott Riley's, and not suffer by the comparison.
To illustrate his criticisms, Mr. Woodward read a number of selections from the productions of each author.
Prot. Carnruth spoke of the seeming parallelism between two of Mr. Faune's sketches, "Miss Smith" and "The Book keeper," and the value of midnight oil was again suggested.
The Science Club "It."
The annual Science Club Banquet or as it is enduringly called by its members, the "It," was held Thursday, January 25. In the business meeting the following officers were elected: President, Walter Crane; Vice President, E. S. Tucker; Secretary, H. G. Landis; Treasurer, Warren Edwards; Program Committee, Prof. Stevens, J. V. May, Fred Laudlow; Membership Committee, C. Faulkner, M. Galbreath, Prof. W. A. Snow.
was?
Instrumental Music ... S. C. Glee Club
Extension ...
A Mathematical Demonstration .. Prof. Dunn
Guitar Solo ... M. Milstein
Production .. Prof. Bailey and Mr. Case
Music ... S. C. Glee Club
A New Insect .. Prof. Dunn
Digestion .. Prof. Sayre
A New Flower .. A. O. Garrett
A Remembrance .. Prof. Blake
The program given at the banquet
The Science Club bar who holds office from one "it" to the next was then elected and the club adjourned.
Prof. Munsterberg said that for the first time in his experience, he saw in an American University that feeling of jolly good fellowship so prevalent in Germany, Geo. Pfluyter, of Pittsburg, Kansas came up to attend the "11."
NOTES.
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OUR STUDY WINDOW
A Soldier's Song
A Soldier's Song.
Translated from the German.
I transfixed from the treacherous.
We thought not.
Pain would ever be our lot.
Yesterday on proud steel flying.
Now shot through the breast and dying.
On the morrow cold in death.
But explain
What is earthly joy or pain,
Though you loot your cheek's bright flowers,
Though they shine these passing hours,
Lo, the roses all will fade.
Therefore still
Thereafter son
May I walk a good God will do,
Addiction to the triumphs blowing,
I must fail, my life outgoing,
I shall die as soldier should.
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A Letter.
the following letter will explain itself:
DEAR WILL—What a long time it has been since I have heard from you, and in that time I have done the strangest things under the sun. Would you believe it if I were to tell you that I am a patent medicine doctor? I will tell you about it, but I am afraid that such student pranks will be uninteresting or something worse to such a staird old farmer as you have grown to be. What a mistake you made, anyhow! It makes me feel queer when I imagine myself having left school after the first year and settled back on the farm at home. I surely would have missed the best part of my life, or at least I would have missed some queer and wonderful experiences. You know that before I graduated we were talking at club about what we should do this summer. I wrote you some of the schemes that were suggested. Isn't it queer that we have started to carry out the most impracticable of them all? We were to get box car tickets for Colorado or somewhere in the west, lay in a good supply of some harmless patent medicine and good saleable books (or of course you remember that Bert Crane never could be comfortable maleness he had a book to sell) and then proceed to get experience by making our living. Well four of us have actually been carrying out this plan; Bert Crane, Charley Bennett, Fred Thomas and I. You knew the other boys when you were in school. We took box cars for the west just a week ago to-day, and though we had to change cars several times and often got on the wrong train, we finally reached our destination. Perhaps if our destination had been more specifically defined, we would not have succeeded as well. I really don't know the name of the town wears in. If you want to write to me you may address Denver for the next week, for we have actually made enough money to get there via box car. Bert and I got put off the train about fifteen miles cast off of here. I felt lost so to speak, but Bert was used to such things. He reassured me and we walked the rest of the way here. As luck would have it Charley and Fred had discovered our abilities, and had stopped to wait for us.
Well we gave an exhibition last night.
It was a grand success. We obtained a street corner and a large dry goods box for a platform and went to work. I am not sure how it was with the others, but I felt shaky and sheepish too. The others declared that they felt perfectly at home, but I was somewhat inclined to doubt the statement. Bert Crane was selected to lead the attack. He mouthed the dry goods box, and soon attracted a crowd by his stirring accounts of the merits of our new medicine. In a splendid dimax he impressed upon the assembled multitude the statement that the medicine was "a remedy for all the lilies of body—a balm for every wounded spirit". Some of the crowd were ill-mannered enough to laugh and some hoooted, but on the whole he made an elegant speech. Fred and I did the selling. Suffice it to say that getting fired from a box car doesn't compare with selling patent medicine on a street corner. I was in a rather unsettled state of mind, until Charley (who by agreement beforehand was a disinterested spectator on this occasion) walked up confidently
and purchased five bottles. After that it went better. But what do you think? An old fellow walked up, shouted into my ear and asked if the medicine would cure deafness. I was non-plussed. I hadn't been obliged to tell a direct lie to any one personally before. What was I to say? I helplessly turned to Freel and asked him if it would cure deafness. That ingrate pitilessly said he didn't know, and the bystanders laughed. Trade didn't seem to prosper very well after that, so we concluded to vary the program by giving experiments in hypnosis.
Or course none of us know very much about hypnotism, but Bert thought that he would perform the experiments. He called for subjects to volunteer from the crowd and several came forward. Bert looked them over one by one, felt their pulses and examined their tongues. He rejected several but at last found one that suited him. Of course that one was Charley. We didn't sell any medicine, but the crowd was pleased for Charley was a remarkably docile subject; too docile in fact, for Bert thoughtlessly began telling that he had never before seen such a fine line between it and expatriated upon his virtues to such an extent that Charley couldn't stand it. He broke completely down and laughed with all his might in the middle of an experiment. That gave the trick all away. Someone shouted that he had seen Charley with the rest of us the evening before and that we were all frauds. The crowd yelled and hooted until we thought that we had been there long enough. We skipped out without making any elaborate preparations. We leave town this evening and to-morrow Charley will deliver a temperance lecure at a little town about thirty miles from here. Fred is going to pose as a living example of the effect of drink. We are going to find him in a mandolin condition on the streets. Can you imagine Fred Thomas leering and staggering like a drunken man? I saw him do it once and I think he will be a success. The boys spoke of selling our medicine as a cure for drunkenness but I feel doubtful about our perpetrating that. I am preparing a lecture on socialism to be delivered soon. I think I'll get a hall and take up a collection.
Have you heard from any of the other boys? Jack Pfeffer and some others are down the Mississippi floating now I suppose. Jack promised to write to me if he had any experiences, and if he does I'll send you the letters. Don't worry about me; I'll try not to get caught if I do anything contrary to the letter of the law. Even if I am caught I can surely get off on the plan of temporary insanity. I'll send you a letter now and then to let you know of my further progress.
ART.
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