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The Students Journal
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GROUND is to be broken this week for the Physics building. We are glad to learn that there is really to be a physics building. The firm which is doing the work on the library building has the contract for the stone work.
IT HAS BEEN suggested that students take part occasionally in conducting chapel exercises. Such a feature in the chapel service would be novel, to say the least. Yet it may be that it would be successful. At any rate the students who would conduct the service would be benefited.
THE STUDENTS JOURNAL contends the best "write up" of the game of October 21st that we have seen. It is honest and critical — Baker Index.
Thank you, index. The JOURNAL tries to be fair in every instance, as every true paper must, and it trusts that B. Us. publications will be as much inclined to deal fairly.
CHANCELLOR SNOW lectured this week in Augusta, Americus, and Great Bend. The Chancellor is working to perfect the high school system of the State. The high schools should be considered as a part of the University. They have taken the place of the old preparatory school, and in that place have proven very satisfactory.
Now that the Thanksgiving recess will soon be here, many of you are, no doubt, planning to go home. Those of you who live some distance from Lawrence should remember that Christmas is coming,—or, rather spend the time and money required to go home in buying and reading some good book which you have long neglected.
THE students of the law school have declared peace. Last week a committee was unanimously chosen by the Kent Club to arrange for a series of lectures to be given at the court hourse during the winter. The committee are endeavoring to obtain able men from this city and neighboring subjects and thereby open for debate questions outside of the regular course of study. It is the wish of the STUDENTS JOURNAL that students of other departments join with the law stud nis in making these lectures a success, in point of support and attendance. There will be no expense connected with the work.
THE University of Wisconsin has adopted a rule freeing students who have class standing of eighty five from examination. Had it gone further and made every student's record depend on his class grades, it would have done well. The special quiz should be abolished. It is not a fair test of the student's work, and more than that, often interferes with his attendance and regular work by enabling him to "cram" for the examination and so raise a low class record by a higher quiz grade. If it were not for this, many a student would be in class or at study, instead of loitering in the
halls, and would also have no reason for skipping class for a day or two before, in order to prepare specially for a coming examination. H.
THE Baker Index speaks of the students of Baker being organized according to counties for the purpose of furnishing the various county pap rs with news from their college. It is said that every paper applied to has been eager to receive news from the college. How much more gladly would the county papers receive news from the State University. Could not the students of our University be organized in a similar way for the same purpose. Suppose the matter be presented before a mass meeting of students, and county organizations be effected. Each county organization could appoint a committee to furnish University news or the papers of its county. A general committee from the whole University could oversee the work and recommend interesting news items to the county committees.
A PETITION is being circulated for the introduction of the study of the Bible, as a literary work, into the curriculum of the University. The necessity, for a thorough education, of having a comprehensive knowledge of the Bible, is recognized by the greatest educators. But this study seems to be neglected in our college course. One reason for the neglect of the study of the Bible is of course the danger of sectarian controversies. Nothing need be feared from this source, if the study be properly conducted. The study of the Bible in special schools has shown clearly that men of all religious denominations and men of no denomination can study the Bible together with no serious difficulty. The argument that the University is not the proper place for the study of the Bible is answered by the second sentence of this article. In fact there is no reason why instruction should not be given in the Bible to those who desire it. Have not students who ask for instruction in the Bible as good a right to receive it as students who ask for instruction in any other work have for receiving instruction in that work? By all means.
The scene of this tragedy lies in the class where In French does old madden and laddle and less swear.
M. Thunderfull speaks; silence now would be reigning,
If only from whispers the girls were refraining.
Now suddenly starting, in tones not uncertain,
“O gosh!” says Miss P'-l-ÿ. (Now faileth the
curtain.)
The most excellent poem quoted above is found in the Washburn Mid-Continent, which paper asked for poetical contributions and received this in answer to its request. Its refined tone, perfect style, and great value as an inspiration to exalted tone of thought make it not at all inferior to certain productions that occasionally find their way into other college papers. The difference is, that the Mid-Continent published it for the purpose of saying that it does not want more contributions of similar kind, while some papers seem greedily to hunt for such bits of literary abomination, in order to seater them as far as possible. The Mid-Continent is right in refusing such things. Our college papers must realize that their work is, to furnish the best. Certainly, if we are to stand side by side with the comic weeklies, that can exercise no influence whatever for good, but are continually pulling down the structure of the language, and corrupting literary taste as well as morals, the publication of senseless jokes and inane doggerel is as good as anything possibly can be to maintain that position. But if we expect to fulfill the mission of college papers, boffoonery must be left to sheets that have no good purpose in existing, and refinement and good taste made the standard of our articles. H.
TO MAKE editorial mention of men from Kansas University who have reached influential positions is not the rule of the JOURNAL; but the material growth of the south and the strengthening of friendly relations, between it and the north are of so much importance, that the rule will be suspended in order that something may be said of the success of an old K. U. student, Mr.C.S McFarland, now chief chemist and superintendent of the Miles Planting and Manuf. eturing Company's plantations, in Louisiana.
It is said that the Miles Company is the largest producer of cane and sugar in the world, having seven plantations and themselves cultivating six thousand acres of cane alone. Needless to say, the company is prosperous, but it is significant, that its prosperity has been brought about largely within the last two years, and during Mr McFarland's management. He has followed strictly business principles, and has instituted many new and economical methods. In one house alone a saving of 600,000 pounds of sugar was made last year. It is also interesting to note that Mr. McFarland has been assisted in his work by four other K. U men—Mr. C. E. MeClang, assistant in pharmacy in the University, and Messrs. A.J. Eicholtz, R. L. Combs, and I. H. Morse.
It is evident that work and faithfulness are necessary to reach in so short a time (he graduated in 1890) a place so responsible, but those who know Mr. McFarland know that he spares neither, and that it will not be due to lack of earnestness if he does not, through his high business and social standing, exercise a powerful influence in improving the condition of his community, developing the resources of Louisiana, and establishing a hearty feeling of fraternity with us of the north.
IF THE JOURNAL has not heretoore joined the Courier in urging directly a spirit of class and especially of University enthusiasm, it is only because it has been seeking the saus end in a different way. But it is ready and does add its voice to the Courier's. It believes in enthusiasm. It believes in class spirit. And it believes above all in University spirit. K. U. is in its opinion the best school in Kansas. With no exceptions, it may be, it is as good as any school in the west. And it can well stand comparison with eastern schools. But not only this, after so short an existence. It has wonderful possibilities wrapped up in it. To day one of the best of American Universities, it may hope to attain a position second to none, from which it may put forth throughout our land and other lands a most potent influence for good. But it can never reach that position, or even retain its present high place without the enthusiasm and devoted support of its students and alumni. The responsibility for the future of one of the great institutions of civilization lies on us, and the student who does not enthusiastically and devoutly attempt to discharge that responsibility violates his obligation to mankind. These may sound like great words, but they are no greater than the truth they contain. In earnestly striving for its development, we who are proud to be known as students of Kansa University have an opportunity of under taking a work as noble perhaps as any we shall be able to do in after life. Le us give a rousing Rock Chalk! Ja Hawk! K. U! and hereafter leave no o caston for any one to accuse us of lackin in enthusiasm for our alma mater.
Second Call.
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OUR STUDY WINDOW
On Pilot Knob.
It is a delightful summer evening, and we are on the way to Pilot Knob to see the sun set. The dust is hard and the air clean and even from the recent shower.
clean and crisp from the rettish mossy. Peggy, our friend between the thills, highly approves of the expedition, and is in such high spirits, she needs must relieve herself by a little horse play. So she pretends there is a tiger beyond yonder heep of stones. Mercy on us, let's get by quick, before it springs! And the old cow mogging along toward us? Ugh, it's a grizzly! And Mistress Peggy, ears pricked and nostrils distended, makes as wide a detour as road and rein will permit. She resents a "None of your nonense, Peg!" and a touch of the whip, with a pettish toss of her glossy neck, and then settles down to work. She is not interested in sunsets from hill tops, but clover in the valley is entirely within her comprehension, and will soon be within her reach. At the foot of the hill we uncheck her, hitch her to a fence post with a long rein, and leave her and the clover to work out the law of the survival of the flittest.
The hill slopes gradually on the east, and a half disheartened road straggles up it, looking badly abused, as indeed it is, for the teamsters who come from the quarry on top of the hill, wear it into all sorts of ruts, and pelt it with stones from their heavy loads. To the right of the road are vegetable gardens and a solitary square house, fronted by a stiff, straight row of cottonwoods, trimmed up high to the left, a cornfield, and higher up, a walnut grove. We soon pass right into the woods, hickory trees, for the most part, with thick undergrowth and luxuriant wild grape vines clambering over everything, and then up a steep, stony incline, and out upon the treeless hill top.
The real top has been cut out, so to speak, by the quarriers, leaving an exposed ledge of rock on the north, higher than our heads. Scrubby trees grow to its very edge. Indeed the vegetation creeps up on all sides as if to take possession of the place, but the hill top remains bare, except for the renegade purple grenadiers, tall and straight, which seem to stand guard, as though they owned no kinship with the assaulting hosts.
We stand on the top of the hedge, and look out into the west. The sun is going down in glory behind a far away range of purple hills. The valley below us lies in a soft, clear light, as if seen through water, like the bed of a brook. Out of the depths of its shadowy dense foliage comes floating up to us, 'Whip-poor-will, whip-poor-will,' and hark! there is the shrill cry of a coon, while from somewhere in the distance comes the low, plaintive notes of a mourning dove.
It is hard to turn our backs on it all, and go down into the gathering dusk, but Mistress Peggy, having reached the end of her rope though not of her capacity for clover, and beginning to realize somewhat of the sad fate of Tantaulus, greets our approach with an impatient whinny, and is as eager to take us home as she was to bring us away.
One fine day in early spring, I decided to go on a buffalo hunt. I had discovered traces of the animals the day before, a recently shed skin, and after a repercussions of pages bearing on the subject in the famous volume of our own authority on such matters. I started out alone, but well armed in accordance with directions given in the book just mentioned.
A Buffalo Hunt.
M.
The sun was already some hours high, when I got on the trail. I found a spot where the herd had evidently been feed ing not very long before. A hunter's heart rises when he feels that his game is near, and my search became eager. Every sense was on the alert. At last I caught
sight of three shaggy, brown creatures peacefully eating.
I felt no compunction whatever in creeping stealthily upon them, so thoroughly does the barbarous hunting instinct arouse the feeling of one's individuality, and suppress all sympathy with fellow-beings. When I think of that moment I understand how a man can commit murder.
I was almost upon them. Then, some inadvertent movement on my part, they took alarm, and went tearing off in diverse directions. Thinking what Prof. would have done under like circumstances, I selected the largest and made after him. What an exciting chase I had! The creature dodged and turned, now I lost sight of him, and now his shaggy, brown body again appeared in some unexpected direction. At length, however, I came up with him and despatched him. But I had no time to rejoice over my victory, for I wished to secure the other two. My war was a war of extermination.
I got back to the point where I had seen them first, and followed the direction taken by the second as nearly as I could remember it. Without much trouble I discovered and put a quietus to both.
Feeling that I had been very successful, I got the careasses together, intending to burn them. The first looked still larger in comparison with the other two. He was in fine condition and measured almost a quarter of an inch from end to end. I made an exhaustive search, but discovering nothing farther, decided that my carpets and coath stuffs were for the time being at least, free from the devastations of the buffalo—moth.
M.
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