The Students Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY THE
Students Journal Publishing Co.
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
W. C. Fogle ... Editor-in-Chief
C. E. Kipminton ... Local Editor
Chara S. Bosworth ... Literary Editor
BUSINESS MANAGER
JAS. V. MAY, A. O. GARRETT.
ASSOCIATES
Robt. W, Neal ... Literary
B, L, Pampel ... The Halls
Artie Kelly ... Muscle
W, C. Atchison ... Local
D, C. Kelley ... Athletic
R, E. Blackman ... Exchanges
The stock of the STUDENTS JOURNAL company consists of non-transferable one dollar shares. Any student, instructor or employee university may hold one and only one share.
THE University Review for December appears much improved in form and its contents are of great interest and merit.
This paper is on file at the editorial rooms of the University, Review, 25th Fifth avenue, New York, where all college men are given a hearty welcome.
THE election of officers of the STUDENTS JOURNAL. Company, for the next term, will be held Tuesday, January 16th.
If you intend to enter the local oratorial contest why keep it a secret? If your oration be rejected by the committee you will not be forever held in disdain by your fellow students.
THE Kansas City Star seems to be greatly troubled about the affairs of Kansas University authorities and students. It is feared that the students will not find sufficient time to study amid all the confusion of football and other athletics, and of oratory.
IN the next copy of the University Review of New York, there will appear the picture of our foot ball team, made for the STUDENTS JOURNAL, together with an account of the team and its work. Eastern colleges and college journals are from year to year taking more interest in western football.
W. A. Matteson was elected captain of field athletics for the spring of '94. In the spring a team will be organized for field sports. Thus a more definite or organization will be effected for general field day athletes, and those who desire to enter the field day contests will be able to go into systematic training.
TO THOSE few who did not receive their Holiday Supplement of the journal, we can say only that we used our regular mailing list and sent papers to home addresses when so ordered. The loss of the papers must have been due to miscarriage in the mails. Unfortunately for us, our edition is too nearly exhausted to replace lost copies.
Ir is possible that certain of the lectures and entertainments which were to constitute our lecture course may be secured as single attractions. If such arrangements be made, those students who did not hold lecture course tickets, but who complained bitterly that the lecture bureau did not have sufficient enterprise to maintain the course, will still have an opportunity to offer their support.
The orations for the local contest must be handed to the executive committee on or before 6 o'clock Wednesday evening, January 17th. Although the University has paid almost no attention to octony this year, yet it is believed that, owing to the number of students who signify their intention to enter the local contest, we shall have a local contest of exceeding interest, and a good man to represent us at Topeka.
THURSDAY evening, at the meeting of the Student's journal Company, a committee of five members—Grillin, Foulsk, Schumacker, Neal, and Krebbleich—were elected to negotiate with the Courier Company regarding a combination of the two papers. The committee were given instructions and power to act. Although the meeting was a tumultuous one, yet the prevailing sentiment seemed to favor negotiations with the Courier.
The JOURNAL has upon its table Field's Farmer and Stockman, the leading article in which, for the month, is from the pen of Prof. L. E. Sayre of the University. The article is headed "Loco Weed and Loco Poisoning," and treats of the phenomena attending the eating of the notorious "loco" by stock; and of the probable scientific explanation of the poisoning which results. It is, of course, of considerable importance to farmers and stockraisers, to know all that can be learned about the mysterious plant, and the a title furnishes a summary of the results of the long investigations carried on by Prof. Sayre as to the loco, making it of more than usual value.
THERE is much room for improvement in the formation of the editorial staff of the STUDENTS JOURNAL. Some such plan as followed by the Yale Courant could be profitably adopted by us. Let the editorial board be composed of five fourth year students, to be assisted by five third year students. These should begin work at the middle of the school year and continue for 'one year', at the expiration of which time the fifth third year students, who have then had a year to prepare for their respective places, should take the places of the retiring board, and five new third year students be chosen as associates. The board of five should consist of editor, local edit r, literary editor, and two financial editors. The five third year men would naturally be assistants.
THERE is great uneasiness throughout the country lest football will come to occupy too prominent a place in the life of the college student. As a newspaper we take upon ourselves a share of the blame for the prevalence of such a feeling. We have given more space to football than to the languages or sciences, so that some few poorly informed persons have concluded that the languages and sciences are being neglected. Farmers are calling for the good old college days when the boys went to college in their bare feet and wore blue checked shirts and blue denim overalls supported by blue jeans suspenders, those days when the college boys prepared their own food, and sawed wood for exercise.
"In them old days they warrent bothered none with such scarcity games. They don't study none now in college like they used to."
We beg to inform our readers that it is not our purpose to give instruction in mathematics or any special study, neither is it our duty to set forth the various courses of study. The college catalog, or is published for this purpose, and can be obtained free upon application. The college paper primarily represents that phase of college life which is supplementary to the routine of study.
If you failed to receive our twenty-four page holiday supplement you will be reminded of the fact that your subscription is as yet unpaid. After this no paper will be mailed to any stockholders or paid up subscribers. If you are not at present connected with the University you are not a stockholder and will not be entitled to receive a paper until your subscription is paid.
An Explanation.
Try a Texas Trip.
To San Antonio, Austin, Ft. Worth or El Paso, and get a touch of summer in winter. The Santa Fe is offering some low rate tickets with liberal conditions as to limit. Texas may be just the place you are looking for, as a home or for investment.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
The sky was like a low-hung purple disk. The plain its counterpart, Eastward, between. These infinite disks of variant purple, the train Rushed steadily, standing in a belt of orange-eod
told says:
Wherein the spring-time sunlight grow in pow-
it
A Human Habitation.
Against the glowing band,
A tooth of purple soil unpeared to notch
the otherwise umbroded, spherical sweep.
From it. Fm. 12
A thin blue smoke arose.
It was a human habitation
It was not a prison. A prison
Resoums with songs, yells, the crash of gates
The clink of hooks and grind of chains,
the shaking of strings do not exude
The sun upspring:
This was solitary confinement!
The salt tiltspelling
its light ship in the sea
of golden water, and the blue-gray
dust that soared over the settler's shack.
Was lighted into magical spender.
To some worn woman
Another monomouth day was born.
The author, Mother Arthur.
"Manuscripts containing curiously constructed sentences are sometimes placed in the hands of the printers, and although the types usually succeed in eliminating errors of the various description with which they are confronted, the following examples selected from actual occurrences show that mistakes will happen in spite of the author."
The author of the above extract has the right idea, but is rather awkward in his expression of it. The extract itself may be taken as an illustration of some of the errors which in this case the "types did not succeed in eliminating"
Newspaper errors are exceedingly common. We do not meet them in country newspapers alone, but in our best weekly and daily papers, even in University publications.
The following clippings are examples of some of the many errors. Here are two from a country correspondent.
"Chus Lamb left yesterday for Fort Scott where he will embark in the undertaking business with his brother-in-law, Mr. Smith, of Paola."
The idea of a person embarking in the undertaking business is ridiculous. It is an occupation that is generally carried on on dry land.
"The festive grasshopper are still in the land. We were in hopes these frosty nights would do them up but they seem as lively as over, Dr. Cope come down and we will give you a job of extracting teeth."
The connection between the first and last part of the paragraph is not clear. The reference to Dr. Cope is one of those personal mentions more interesting to the gentleman mentioned than to any one else. The other error of the extract need not be pointed out.
"Old Neosho humped her back, tore up the winter carpet of ice, swept off the accumulation of brush, legs, and dirt, and had a general house-cleaning time of it on Tuesday. Now is the time for us to lend a helping hand to aid her in keeping healthy for the approaching season of fevers and cholera."
As an example of mixed metaphor and general vulgarity the following has been selected.
"The gamblers at Pine Bluffs, Ark," have had their dens raided and their trick paraphernalia burned."
Obituary notices often furnish entertainment. Here is a poor woman of whom so many good things could be said yet they could not flow from the tongue or even the heart, perhaps, as a fitting ology:
Whatever induced the gamblers to have such a thing done?
"Mrs. ___, we are pleased to note, was a consistent member of the Baptist church, and her many acquaintances all petition to the honesty of purpose and many good deeds performed by her in life, and it is safe to say she will reap her reward in the new Kingdom where death can never enter. The words do not flow from our tongue or pen to properly eulogize this good woman."
But as was said before we occasionally find errors even in University publications. The following extracts are from 'last year's University papers.
"Although his voice was too much inclined to fall into cohlquotism, Mr. ___ exhibited in his whole delivery, from the flash of the eye to the rapidly descending palm, etc."
Colloquialism, presumably; but this is a quality not of the voice, but of word and expressions.
"The Gloe Club has two more dates, one at Olathe and one at Kansas City. A spring tour may be managed."
The word 'date' has a restricted meaning here. If the club makes a springtour, it will in all probability be managed.
The students of North College and others are very grateful for the few stones which have been held for a crossing at the Junction of Quincy and Ohio streets. It is not clear to whom or to what the "others" refers; other students, other persons, or possibly to other colleges.
"We love Whittier because we realize that he done much to make the world brighter and better, and in his death we all feel a personal bereavement."
The use of "done" in this case is certainly not the fault of the author, but another one of those errors which were no "eliminated" by the typos.
Want columns often furnish amusing information. For instance some one desires "A young man to look after a horse of the Methodist percusion."
"Ballard's Horehound Syrup when taken in its early stages will cure consumption."
"It is to say the least, wrong for anybody to go to church or public meeting and disturb the preacher or orator counging."
"The chair acknowledged the receipt of flowers and pictures of John Brown and the late Senator ___ from ladies in southern Kansas."
In nine cases out of ten the cause of error is carelessness upon the part of the author or the proof reader. The typeetter cannot be expected to stop and examine every sentence to see which its subject and verb agree in number, whether two, three or half a dozen adverbial modifiers separate the parts of an infinitive, or even attempt to comprehend the meaning of what he is setting up. It is a well known fact that the type setter never remembers what he puts in print. If it were so that he did remember, then the type setting business would be the best means of acquiring an education.
AN HONEST LAWYER?
ROBERT W. NEAL.
A young man asked me to day. "Is it possible for a strictly honest man to practice law?" I have heard that question perhaps a dozen times in the last ten days; "Can a good man be a lawyer?" "Is it possible for a man who is scrupulously conscientious to be a successful lawyer?" Such questions are put with endless monotony and greedy interest from year's end to year's end, and still there are ambitious young men who would like to enter the legal profession, yet fear that if they do they will find it necessary to surrender their honor. I am not a lawyer, but I have had extensive experience with the profession, am perfectly familiar with the nature of its duties, and know just what amount of reason there is in the wide-spread idea that all lawyers are at best only a necessary evil; a set of unscrumplious rogues waiting but an opportunity to invigle the unwary into their sares and destroy them, a guild of boogy-men on the lookout to snatch up and carry away the first son of innocence and "honest tell" upon whom they can lay their claw-tipped hands. I said to the young man who came to me with this question to day, "If you will tell me what is your idea of honesty, of scrupulous conscientiousness, I will tell you whether you can be a man or such character and at the same time praise law."
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