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The Students Journal
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Less time in the halls and more time in the library will make better students.
PROFESSOR TEMPLIN will give a lecture on hypnotism at the court house Saturday evening under the auspices of the Kent Club. We give this especial notice because it is the first of a series of lectures to be given before the Club. Everybody is invited.
HERE comes the student who is always trying to say something funny. He cares not whether it be a pum, a bit of sarcasm, a striking simile or what not,—just so it is funny. This student doesn't know the first principles of wit, nor has he a sense of humor. Get out of his way.
Do you miss the World's Fair? This is a question that can well be asked now of every one who was interested in that wonderful exhibition of our civilization. Newspaper editors feel the loss of a standing subject for comment. Visitors of the fair feel that their idiot has been destroyed, persons who failed to see the fair that they have lost an opportunity of a life time. But we can sit take consolation in the fact that the civilization which produced the Columbian exposition still remains and could without noticeable effort produce a greater.
IT WOULD seem that the JOURNAL's editorial condemning the practice of misplacing books and papers in the library and reading room has only made students more careless. The confusion in the reading room this week has been particularly noticeable. The JOURNAL is sure that the great majority of the students would heartily support the librarian in the enforcement of a strict rule against such unjustifiable disregard of other people's rights. The books and papers are supposed to be in readiness for quick reference, but if students get them into such confusion that it is often wholly impossible to find for a long time the volume or number wanted, the few minutes the reader may have are absolutely wasted.
THERE has been some discussion as to the desirability of extending our facilities for graduate work. Doubtless, it better inducements were offered, the demand for such work would be increased. As an induction for this work the degree of Ph. D. might well be offered. The Kansas State University is now in position to give the degree of Ph. D. We have competent instructors and we have good facilities for original work, in many lines. Most institutions of equal rank with our own give this degree. In every graduating class, we have some students who have the ability and the desire to work for the higher degrees, but as the degree is not offered they are drawn to other institutions. Furthermore, there are other colleges in the state and in neighboring states which offer a thorough college course and from which graduate students would be induced to come here for a higher degree. The offering of such a degree would be a long step toward raising the standard of our University.
ONE of the most unpleasant features of commencement is the bickerings and consequent hard feelings which almost invariably arise over the selection of representatives of the various departments. These are especially to be regretted because they come at a time when classmates are just parting When it is considered, that a change in the kind of commencement exercises will obviate this, and that it will in addition make the celebration of commencement more interesting and less fatigueing to students and visitors, and will give it a dignity and practical value which at present it lacks, it is to be hoped that the faculty will grant the request of the Seniors, and permit them to secure some prominent man to deliver an address on graduation day, instead of holding them to the routine of orations and essays which, indeed, even its having come down from the times of our great-great grandfathers cannot make satisfactory or acceptable to more than a tew. H.
ONE way to secure good work is for classes to show that they appreciate good scholarship. If a class-mate recites well, or if her diligence justifies, whether her recitations do or not, show her that you think what she is doing is of some use. There is scarcely a student, man or woman, that such attention will not help. I have known students who for weeks almost lived on some expression of commendation from a fellow student. It is not necessary to be casually approving, or to withhold praise until some remarkably bright achievement draws all eyes upon a student; if we waited for the latter, indeed, there are many who would never be much commended, although their steadily application and earnest efforts are wholly as deserving. But there are plenty of ways in which it can be shown that we have observed the work of others, and consider it good, without compromising our position (if we differ), or unduly inspiring vanity in them, and we should not hesitate about doing so when occasion offers.
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THE JOURNAL would gladly have a department of journalism established in the University, but it is useless to ask for it until a sufficient number of students evince interest enough to make its success probable. Why no more take any interest in journalism is hard to understand. No influence for good is greater than the newspapers could be upon human thought and life, and yet there are few professions in which practitioners are often so wholly unfit for their work. In many localities, the press has lost nearly all its influence simply on this account. Men want the true journal, not a trashy or vile imitation of it. In short, our social progress requires a newspaper directed by men of the highest culture and fairness and animated by the most sincere patriotism. Yet few of our students seem inclined to devote themselves to the elevation of journalism to the place it ought to fill. Can this condition not be changed? We are to be blamed that we give so little thought to a work so necessary and so honorable. Will not more of our students make it their own work, and prepare themselves for engaging in it successfully when they shall have left the University? If they have any hand in making journalism truer and better, they may depend upon it that they will in no wise lose their reward.
The history of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804-5-6 to the source of the Missouri river and across the mountains, then down the Columbia river to the Pacific ocean. The copy of this work in our library is one of an addition of a thousand copies published this year. The work is in four large volumes. At though scarcely a student will care to read the books through, yet it would be profitable for every student to take the
Among the new books put upon the library shelves this week some deserve especial notice.
books from the shelves and look them over in order to see how thoroughly work is being done nowadays in such seeming unimportant lines.
The Pharamacopoeia for 1890 is now on our shelves. This work is of interest to many from the fact that our professor Sayre was one of the revisers. Professor Bailey was also chosen, although not present at the revision.
Dick's encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes. A sort of general information bureau. An education for the price of one volume.
Other books are: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Phases of Thought and Criticism, Brother Agarias. Moral Order and Progress by Alexander. Salem Wi chercraft in Outline, Upham, and many which we have not space to mention.
THANKS to a good instructor and a general awakening, Cooper is making rapid advancement in oratory. —Cooper Courier.
"FOR ORATORY."
When is K. U. to have "a general awakening?" How long do our students intend to neglect the advantages which come from oratorical training? How long do they intend to permit institutions with much poor facilities to triumph over us at every recurring contest,—if indeed, we have energy or courage enough to enter into a trial of eloquence with them? There has been much talk about oratory in the University. The JOURNAL suggests that the time has come for hearty, objective, persistent action, such as will redeem K. U. from the disgrace of her too numerous oratorian defeats.
But these is one thing that must be gotten rid of before we can hope for successful training in oratory or anything else. It is the spirit of utter narrowness that we have which will not let us take up any work unless it be very immediately productive of the most material benefit to us. If its good is only manifest in a general mental development, or if it cannot be at the moment utilized to personal advancement or benefit, we are all the less ready to enter upon it. More. In our endeavor to "get through college" easily, we neglect often what would be of the greatest value to us ourselves.
This neglect is very apparent in our treatment of oratory. Scarcely one of a hundred of us are in any way trying to avail ourselves of the opportunities of acquiring those numerous and tangible advantages which come from oratorical training. And if a few of us do take interest enough in the prize offered to engage in a contest, we act as if the fifteen dollars or twenty-five dollars were immeasurably more important than the creation of enthusiasm, of sympathy, of emulation. We set our whole aim on winning, and think not once of the true end of our undertaking. We seem actually afraid that others will find out our intentions and be themselves encouraged to compete.
The legitimate consequence is shown by our deplorable record. We have almost invariably been defeated in state contests (to say nothing of our interstate contests), because we have not fitted ourselves for winning, have not cultivated that spirit of hearty competition which qualifies for successfully necting well developed opponents.
The JOURNAL is not "sweeling" when it says this. It is simply telling what it believes is undeniably true. It blames no one in particular for the existence of these conditions. All are to blame, and the JOURNAL takes its share of the responsibility and of the consequent censure that is due. It is said, however, that the time has come for acting. These unfortunate conditions can be changed, and they must be. Let it be done at once. Concerted steps are about to be taken to this end. To make them successful, we must co-operate heartily. Let us resolve to do our part, and, subordinating the selfish, the contracted, mercenary motives to those of a higher and better kind, join cordially in the movement for the cultivation of true and readily beneficial oratory. H.
OUR STUDY WINDOW
Method is to day considered almost the first requisite in nearly any line of work. And rightly it is so considered for without it our work becomes a mass of actions tending to no end, from which little good to ourselves can accrue. A man without method does his work upon impulse, and attending to those parts that please him, and neglecting others more important falls to arrive at last at the point for which set out. His whole attempt is thus an utter failure. Often, too, a plan for a line of work is excellently laid out, but the scheme, when half completed, is abandoned for a better one and all the work is done for naught. Such men are called impractical. And they are not infrequently met with. We adunire them for their genius and catholism, but we actually pity them for their lack of method. If they could but learn to systematize," we say, "their work would tell." And so it is the world over!
It would seem when we look at the un practical man that we could not have too much method. To be sure the more system used in running a business, the greater its financial success. But it distracting to meet a man who tells you just how much sugar to put in his coffee, for a grain more or a grain less would spoil it. And such is sure to be the result, if a man is reared methodically, and is methodical in his business. You tell certain he would make love by the clock and say his prayers by a metronome.
If method is unpleasant when found in an extreme degree in a business man, much more it is so when found in an instructor. We expect an instructor to be enthusiastic in his line of work, for why else should he choose it? We look for him to arouse our interest by showing us its beauties and attractions. But when all a student looks for is not to be found, and in its place is given an exact number of facts, with their bearing upon an exact number of other facts, and the date of the discovery of every one of these certain facts; instead of enthusiasm a great dislike is imbedded. Eating, itself, would become obnoxious, if we were compelled to eat a certain amount of food, in a certain length of time, taken in specific quantities, at regular intervals.
If an instructor could so present his work as to make it, appear interesting, thus arousing in students a love for their studies, the regular intervals of work would not need to be required. A student's work would cease to be to him a dread or bugbear; and into it he would put not only his mind but his soul.
Let us then try to be practical, but above all things not too methodical.
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Tale of a Dish towel.
A dish-towel had met with a bitter disappointment. It had been a respectable flour sack just a week before our story opens, but had done its duty grudgingly and never with the least feeling of pride because of the excellence of the burden it bore. Therefore, when its duty as a flour sack had been fulfilled, it heard with pleasure that it was to become a dish-towel. Wouldn't it be pleasant to lie quietly with heaps of other towels on one of those broad, clean pantry sheaves, of which it had caught a glimpse when it was bearing its burden to the flour chest? Then it would no doubt be a pleasant task to rub with gentle care the beautiful china that sometimes stood, dripping wet, in a pan on the table just inside the pantry door.
But alas for the hopes of the poor dish-to-well. It found that instead of lying on a wide pantry shelf, it was to hang on a nail behind the kitchen stone, and instead of drying bright china, it was to be used to dry pans and lids. The thought of all this was running through its mind as it hung on the line after its first week's washing. When the maid approached to take it down, it began to
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