The Students Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE
Students Journal Publishing Co.
W. C. Fogio ... Editor-in-Chief
C. E. Kipman ... Local Editor
Chara S. Bosworth ... Literary Editor
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Robt. W, Nea. Literary
B. L, Pampel. The Halls
Artie Kelly. Music
W. C, Aatchison. Local
D. C, Kelley. Athlete
R. E, Blackman. Exchanges
The stock of the STUDENTS JOUNAL company consists of non-transferable one dollar shares. Any student, instructor or employee in the University may hold one and only one share.
This paper is on file at the editorial rooms of the University Review, 236 Fifth avenue, New York, where all college men are given a hearty welcome.
WE THANK you for your kind attention.
THE students' code of morals requires that every member of the University at tend the oratorical contest to night
We publish, in another column, the constitution proposed by the committee for the University Publishing Company.
THE Review for January appears this week. It contains contributions by Messrs. Frank Menet, J. H. Mustard, A. L. Corbin and others.
THE English Department have appointed as literary editor of the Students Journal for the coming term Mr. Arthur Corbin, and Mr. John II. Henderson, associate.
If K. U. proposes to play football next season it would be a paying investment to employ the very best coach available. For if the team be properly trained the extra cott of a superior coach can be earned in a few games.
The high standing of our University among scientists and educators has been well shown by two events of the past week. On Tuesday Professor Frank Springer, an authority on crinoids, was here, having come to make examination of some specimens of crinoids which are found only in the University museum.
The course of Bible lectures to be offered next term will be of great value. Any student will find it profitable to attend them. May the day speedily come when public prejudice and fear will be so far removed that the Bible can be offered as a regular study in our carriage. A scientific study of the Bible can do no harm.
PROFESSOR MIRNSTERBERG who holds the chair of Physiological Psychology in Harvard University arrived in Lawrence yesterday. Professor Miensterberg is collecting material for a work "Education and Educational Institutions" and he has selected the Universities of Michigan and Kansas as the two representative institutions on which to base a study of of State Universities.
The annual meeting of the State college press association will be held in Topeka Feb. 23, the afternoon of the oratorical contest. There are about thirteen college papers of Kansas represented in the association, each of which will have two delegates at this meeting. The purpose of the association is to bring more closely together the college papers and to inspire in them the idea of raising the standard of college journalism in Kansas.
A FEW WORDS
After this issue the present management of the STUDENTS JOURNAL will have to bear neither the burden of the work nor the responsibility for the make-up of the paper, and we may say what follows without being liable to the charge of seeking to avoid the proper labors of our position.
We are free to say, therefore, that we hope the support given the paper during the service of the new editors will be what it ought to be. We do not refer to financial support, for the JOURNAL has not only paid the cost of its publication and the remuneration of its business managers, but out of its paid-in-stock funds has a goodly balance left, upon which there seems no probability that it will be necessary to draw. What we mean is, moral support and particularly literary support.
We have no desire to accuse members of the company generally with manifesting no interest in the paper except when they wish to use it for the furtherance of some pet scheme of their own. Doubilities there are individual instances of this; stockholders who have never offered for publication a single news item or literary sketch, or asked to have published anything of their preparation concerning University affairs, have blazed about the Journal's failing to fulfill its purpose. But there is a far larger class of students who have merely ignored the existence of our University papers, except that they have probably read the locals, perhaps the "study Window," and picked out, wherever it was possible, blemishes or mistakes.
If any one doubts that practically no support is given our University papers by students, beyond mere subscriptions, he has only to assist in the preparation of matter for a single issue. In eastern schools, there is usually a great quantity of matter which is left over—students interest themselves in their college weeklies,—take the little trouble necessary to "give pointers,"—contribute items, criticisms, and literary productions. Papers so supported find it necessary to destroy rejected articles not called for, to keep them from accumulating in large numbers. Moreover, they are not compelled even to consider poor copy; they have enough that is good to select from.
It is anything but so here. There has been but a single literary article voluntarily offered to the JOURNAL this term: whatever has appeared, except the local and editorial matter, has been asked for and generally secured with difficulty. The literary editor has had to fill her columns without assistance week after week; and it has often been necessary for the other editors to "write against space" to make up the amount of original matter required.
To say that such conditions are lamentable is putting it too mildly. They reflect discredit on the students, and meanly impose on the editors. These will have all they should be called on to do in preparing their regular copy and in editing what passes through their hands, without being forced to skip classes and devote half their time to work that ought to be done by the students, who claim to be the supporters and benefactors of the college weeklies. The editors should not be expected to supply all the matter, much less also to help in the mechanical part of publishing. Their work is largely critical and selective, unless made something else by just such unnecessary conditions as have been governing here, and their being turned from it simply means a poorer paper. If the students expect their papers to be fresh, crispy, fat with proper news, they must do more to make them so. And if they care to have such publications be of such literary tone as will give them a respectable standing among their contemporaries, they must enter far deeper into the literary spirit, and furnish literary matter to be selected from; not expecting, either, that they are going to "get in print," for if they do what they should, their well
never be nearly enough room for all the copy. As it is now, there is little honor in getting into the columns of our papers. But it would be an honor if half a dozen first class articles had been rejected to make room for what is given space.
We have been talking plainly, but we expect to say something a little plainer yet. We do not profess that the papers of K U are super-excellent. We are painfully aware that they fall short in much; nor do we even proclaim that the JOURNAL is all it should be. But we do assert this; That if such assistance as every member of the editorial force has a right to expect had been given them, the papers would have occupied a more enviable place among college publications. The present editorial management make no complaints concerning their experience. They have met the conditions faithfully, at least, and transformed them as far as possible into favorable conditions, though they have not wholly succeeded. But surely, their intimate acquaintance with the work and conditions justifies them in pointing out a possible great improvement, and the means of working it, and they express themselves thus openly, in the hope that the succeeding editors may be given the assistance to which they are entitled. Our personal knowledge of the service the coming editor in chief has rendered in times past assures us that, whether he is supported or not, he will do more than can be demanded of any editor. But his service is a service without pay, and if the students do not help him to make a creditable, refined college weekly, they have no right to sponge on his time and energy, and upon the time and energy of his assistants, for mental entertainment and for University news. In short, if they do not make the papers of K U their personal interest and give then proper moral and literary support, they may expect to have them stand still or retrograde. It takes spirit and some work to do what is necessary—but they want something in their papers, the must either pay their editors, reporters, an contributors, or do their part in furnishing first class matter.
ACTION TAKEN
By the Students Journal Company for Consolidation
Pursuant to a call-send at the request of members of the STUDENTS JOURNAL Company, the Company met on Wednesday evening to instruct its representatives on the committee concerning a University Press, as to the position of the Company. Some members were under the impression that the meeting concerned the proposition hereof made by the Company for a consolidation of the college weeklies, and did not attend, since the retusal to accept or reject that proposition left nothing to be done as yet by this company in that matter. Notwithstanding this, however, a very satisfactory and representative number were present. The only business before the meeting was the consideration of the proposed constitution prepared by the committee above referred to.
The position of the company was announced by the unanimous adoption of the resolution following, 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. The resolution is as follows:
Resolved, by the STUDENTS JOURNAL Company:
That this company hereby signifies its general approval of the terms of the proposed constitution submitted to it this 21st day of January, 1894, from the general committee to draw plans for the consolidation of the weekly papers of K. S. U. and the establishment of a University Press, and its readiness to agree to said general terms when it shall appear that said plan is supported sufficiently to ensure the probability of its success.
METHODISTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
OHIO HOMA
At the University of Oklahoma the Methodistists propose to build an "Epworth Hall" to be used as a dermitory and sort of headquarters for Methodist students who may desire to enjoy the privileges of that University. The move is a good one, as it will relieve the church from the too great burden of supporting a college. Other churches should follow the example of the Methodists; and thus save the extra expense of maintaining or attempting to maintain, in the territory, an academy for every religious denominations.
Football at Baker
The executive committee of the board of trustees of Baker University have lately passed resolutions defining their position with respect to football. After stating that the games "have not only been productive of good health and habits, but in the main also of the morals and scholarship of the participants," they conclude
"Upon the question of risk of the participants in the game of football as now played, we believe the danger is greater than it should be, and that the game should not be permitted hereafter in Baker, unless the rules of the game be so changed and modified as to prevent what is usually called "msss plays," or "dying wedges," wherein most of the serious accidents to members of other clubs have occurred. We also think and so recommend to the trustees, that contest games, if any, next season be limited in number and to colleges."
It would seem from these resolutions that the chances are against Baker playing football next year, but as rules against "mass plays" are expected, the objections of the trustees may be withdrawn.
The suggestion that contest games be limited to colleges is a very time one. The games played with the professional or semi-professional athletic clubs this last season have almost without exception, been disgraced by "shugging" and have sometimes ended in a tree-for-all fight, as in the game between Nebraska University and the Denver Athletic Club.
We believe that, for the good of the game, University and College teams should refuse to play with a athletic club teams or with colleges whose teams play professionals. Football is in many respects the best game there is for young men, but the prize fighting spirit shown too often this last season must be done away with if it is to continue in favor as a college game. College can keep football free from objectifiable features, at least among themselves, and they should do so.
The Festival of Tortures.
To day ends the Week of Tortures. For five days the Court of the Holy Inquisition has been racking and tearing, spreading dismay and terror everywhere. But with to day's warning, its divinely obtained and supported care and correction of the students' welfare will be withdrawn until the periodical recurrence of the administration of the general punishment which is required by the maintenance of the traditions of antidivallian college life to be taken upon all, regardless of ability or merit. It is in order, therefore, for the student to begin again the grind of "leading" against the inevitable test, at the expense of real and careful study. The loader may lay again and skip classes, until the time when he expects to cram enough in two or three days to take him through the next examination. The nervous girl who has been overworked and overworked during the time of this trial now have a week out of class to be sick and the members of the Court can mark down their minds the delinquencies of the poor students in class, with the intention of "catching" them on the quiz—only to be surprised as usual, by the passing of the intended objects of their retention and the sacrifice of innocent victims.
Hasten the time when the Holy Impulsion shall sit again. What if it does mean injury to health and injustice to students? It is customary, it is tradition at, and it must last. Vive l'Impulsion!
OUR STUDY WINDOW
Jessie Brown
The outside door down stairs went stent with a bang. For a moment the whole house trembled. Five quick steps on the stairs were followed by a vigorous knocking on the door.
"Come in, Lewes!" shouted a voice from within. "We know who it is by the way you skip those steps."
"Cards again!" exclaimed the stranger, pulling off his overcoat and piling it in the corner.
"Too late, too late!" said Kelley, as the four rose from the table. "Jones and I've redeemed ourselves. Never had such luck in my life. Why didn't you come around earlier?"
"Couldn't.—Had a thesis to finish off.
But how can you see to play in all this smoke?"
"Sir!" exclaimed Kelley. "Why man we could beat these fellows in the dark! Been over to Simpson cottage, have you?"
"Speet you could with that halo of yours about your head," retorted Lewes, wholly ignoring the question which had been asked him. "Red hair is an advantage after all. Ugh! This smoke is choking me."
"That's the disadvantage of having a light head," said Kelley, with special emphasis on the *dis* and *light*. "It's bound to rise to the top of the room and get filled with impure gases."
"Come, come; we've had enough of this" said Judd, who had been busying himself picking up the scattered cards and putting them away. "Kelley, if you want something to do, put a little coal on the grate. Lewes, here's a cigar. Find your a chair."
"Now for that poem," said Kelley, pokin' at the fire
"What poem?" asked Lewes.
"What poem?" asked Lewes. "O, Judd wrote a poem the other day. A real live poem with feet and toes" prattled Kelley.
"Yes, by all means let's have the poem," said Lewes. "But really, Judd, I never would have suspected of you." Jones pretended to protest, but Kelley put him in the corner, and holding him ordered Judd to get the poem.
While Kelley is occupied in keeping Jones in the corner, and Judd is searching for the poem in the drawer under the table, it may be well to give the reader, if there be one, a short sketch of the people who have been talking. At the time when the incidents of this story—and it is a true story,—took place, we were students at Harvard. Jones and Lewes were graduate students and the rest of us were Senior. Jones and Lewes had been classmates in some college in Iowa, and after graduation had taught. Jones in some normal school in New Jersey and Lewes in his "Alma Mater," as he always put it. While at school they had been rivals for the hand of a young lady, whom Lewes had won, and married, and who at the present, was living with her mother.
Lowes had not been at Harvard very long before he noticed that Jones made frequent visits to a female college not many miles from Boston. Inquiring of
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