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THE report of the foot ball game with the U. of Minnesota will be telegraphed to the headquarters of the STUDENTS JOURNAL at the office of the Daily Gazette. A bulletin in the window of the Gazette office Saturday evening will announce the result.
TO-DAY our foot ball team are on their way to Minneapolis. The result of the game can be but conjectured as yet. In practice our team work has been faster than the team work of last year, but the tendency to tackle high has not been enirely eliminated. The rush line is excellent. All things considered, the prospects for a successful season have never been better.
THE importance of hard practice by the second eleven of our foot ball men cannot be too strongly urged. A number of games have been arranged for the second eleven, and here will therefore be an opportunity for them to do honor to our University. Then, again, the success of the 'Varsity' team is dependent largely upon the work of the second eleven.
THE space just west of Snow Hall would be an excellent location for a number of tennis courts. The convenience of courts located on the college campus would induce many students to spend a vacant hour at tennis who at present take no out of door exercise. It is the duty of the athletic association to lay out the courts and keep them in repair. It is the duty of the students to use them.
THE STUDENTS JOURNAL is enthusiastic for college patriotism and believes in shouting and making a joyful noise on all proper occasions; but we doubt whether it is the proper thing for a few students to arouse the whole city at 1 o'clock in the morning, as did a company of students last Wednesday, by giving their yell. Freshmen were frightened, and even old citizens were led to curse the in sufficiency of the police force. Use every other means to gain prominence; but do not choose such an inopportune hour to make yourselves heard. If we are not mistaken, in many colleges students who are out till an extremely late hour go home on their tip toes.
It was discovered after the JOURNAL had gone to press last week, that the report of the Adephile Literary Society election had been omitted by the printer. Permit us to mention the election at this late date. The officers of Adelphi for the ensuing year are, S. S. Brown, president; John Simpson, vice president; H. W. Miller, secretary; J. J. Scott, treasurer; ElCann, critic. The organization has thirty members. Any student of the University is eligible to membership. There is no admittance fee. The programs rendered at each of the first two meetings have shown that Adelphi is not a thing of the past, but is a living organization. It may be safely said that Adelphi is to-day the organization best fitted to give training in oratory of any within the University.
THE September number of the Harvard Graduates Magazine contains a very interesting article by F. A. Walker on College Athletics. The writer notices the change of ideals and of heroes in the college world, and approves of the fact that more attention is now given to the health and proper development of the body, and that will power, endurance, and nerve, qualities so valuable in the struggle of life, are receiving more attention and respect than formerly. He says the improvement in the physique of students of the present time, over that of students who lived before this awakening of interest in athletics, is plainly apparent. At the same time he believes some of the objections made to athletes have considerable foundation. There is probably some truth in the claim that, in the excitement of athletic contests, students may use up vital force to such an extent as to weaken the body permanently. The danger of this has probably been exaggerated. The neglect of study by some students who take part in athletic games is known to be a fact. We consider the article a very fair presentation of both sides of the question, and recommend it to our readers.
IT may be of interest to many readers of the JOURNAL to know something of the boarding club system so prevalent among the students of our University. There are nine regularly organized boarding clubs, composed of University students. These clubs have a total membership of one hundred and thirty-six. The cost of board ranges from $2 to $2.50 per week for each person; but at the foot ball training table it is much higher, about $4.50 per week. Six of the clubs run at $2.50 per week for each member. Each member of the club pays his cook from forty to seventy-five cents a week. The steward of each club receives about $1 for his services. The remainder of the expense is for food. The total cost of running all the clubs during the college year is about $13,000. The custom of boarding in clubs is becoming more prevalent from year to year. The advantages to the student's of boarding in clubs are two-fold; first, better food is obtained at a less cost, and secondly, the fellowship created among the members of the same eating club is invaluable. This year there has been organized a boarding club composed exclusively of women, and conducted in essentially the same manner as the other clubs. Long live the boarding clubs.
THE Springfield, Mass., Daily Republican of October 10th, contains the address of Chancellor Snow at Williams College. Dr. Snow explained the hierarchy of the school system peculiar to the Western States. The transition from the various high schools of Kansas to the State University is as simple and easy as the transition from the grammar school to the high school. County high schools are being established in country districts which are deprived of the advantages of the city high schools. From the lack of county high schools, thousands of the most gifted youth of every State fail to receive the intellectual awakening and development which necessitate a college education for their possessors. Education of the people, by the people and for the people, is the watchword of the Western educator.
Dr. Snow then suggests practical means of connecting the colleges with the public schools. The advantages of the work of University extension are great. Through the work of the University extension movement, the general public can be shown that the colleges are not antiquated; but lead in the thought of the time. The good effects of the University extension are two-fold, first upon the members of extension classes, and second by the reaction upon the college itself. Professors in delivering extension lectures come in contact with people in practical life,
Let the eastern colleges renew and strengthen their connection with the pub lie schools if they desire to have in their veins the life-blood of the age.
and are often forced to give up untenable theories which have been formed in the seclusion of the private study or in the University lecture room. But the amount of attention which the professors can give to the extension work is necessarily limited. They owe their first attention to the resident students.
We regret that we are obliged to cut so valuable an address, and owing to the lack of space, and the lateness of the hour, we must be content with a meagre report.
Wr quote the following from the *Hes-
berian* of the U, of N:
Seldom have the students of the University of Nebraska been favored by being permitted to listen to an address equal to that given in the chapel at 10 o'clock. Friday last. The address had more than ordinary interest for our students, since the speaker, Prof.J. W. Gleed, of the department of Law of the State University of Kansas, is a truly western man with a western education and is an able instructor in a leading western institution. With a few well-timed remarks the Chancellor introduced the speaker, Many, no doubt, had come prepared to listen to a dry, prosy dissertation upon some deep moral or ethical problem and were very agreeably surprised when the speaker announced with a pleasing introduction his subject, "What the business world thinks of a liberal education."
Prof. Gleed first enumerated some of the reasons why students attend institutions like our own, and the ends which they hope to attain. He set forth in brief the different sorts of business men and told how much each sort appreciates liberal education. With a few well chosen anecdotes he showed up our nineteenth-century money serving and money worshipping inclinations, and advanced the opinion that liberal education tends to break down the desire to gain money merely for the purpose of becoming wealthy. He spoke briefly of politics and suggested that a very small amount of well directed economic science would have an infinite better effect than any quantity of demagogy.
Throughout the entire address every sentence was vital and to the point, Close attention was given by all. We hope that this will not be the last time that Prof. Gleed will visit us, and can insure him a hearty welcome whenever he may choose to return.
University Button.
Why does not someone take the matter of a college button in hand, and push it through to a finish? We need one if we would be up with the times in college spirits. It is not necessary that it be of a novel or peculiar design. The usual button of the eastern Universities is a plain square button of the college colors. The University of Michigan has a button of the design described, and so have Princeton and Cornell. All the students of the various departments could be identified as members of a common University, and that, too, without making them conspicuous, by a neat, tasty button, the price of which would be within the reach of all. It certainly would be pleasant to know that a man is a University student when you meet him. A graduate too, who cherishes pleasant memories of his alma mater, will feel his heart warm within him at the sight of the familiar badge which bears him back in spirit to the old college halls. By all means let us have a college button.
Ogg visited friends in Kansas City last week.
PHARMACY NOTES.
Several of the boys went to Kansas City to see the parade.
Mr. Everett Fish, of Sedan, has entered the University.
Mr. T. H. Kelly has gone to Olathe, where he will take charge of his brother's drug store for a few days.
Our only show for winning in the foot ball game with the Lawrence High school is to play Ogg on center. We must win, therefore Ogg must play center.
OUR STUDY WINDOW
Through the quiet atmosphere
From the distance, sounding near
Comes the lowing of the cows;
While beneath the dusky boughs
Showing fainty in the shade
Dreams of color dying fade
Into darkness, and the breeze
Ripples lightly in the trees,
Silent lies the land; the shrill
Voices of the land are still.
Evening.
-F. M.
He was an old man. The silvery gray locks which crept out from under his high silk hat brushed the collar of his long black coat. His face, which wore a peaceful expression, was brightened by two blue eyes set far back in their owners head. After wandering sometime up and down the broad hall way, the stranger walked into an adjoining room and asked.
"Is this the place where you obtain a guide?"
"Yes sir," replied the clerk, at the same time motioning to the stranger to register. "Arkansaw? You've come a long way, but our University is worth the trouble."
By this time the guide, an obliging looking young man, came up and rattling a bunch of keys, asked the stranger if he was ready. Passing along the hall, lined with students engaged in conversation and the examination of bulletin boards, the stranger stopped short as strains of muscle struck his ear.
"They are having devotional exercises up stairs. Would you like to go up," asked the guide.
"Why, yes! But are not the students allowed to attend? These young people about us are students, are they not?"
"Of course," assented the guide. "But it's early yet, and most of the students don't have time to attend chapel."
The stranger seemed not a little surprised at the latter statement and murmured something to himself about people in this age being so rushed. By this time they had reached the chapel door, and at the guide's suggestion they entered and took seats. The stranger was evidently pleased with the services and showed familiarity with the hymns sung. The idea of an orchestra seemed a trifle odd to him at first but he afterwards confessed it was an improvement.
Passing out of chapel they met a young man hobbing about on crutches. "Ab, that is good." exclaimed the stranger. "You have a hospital connected with your institution. There is always more or less sickness among students." The child smiled, then pulled
The guide smiled,then replied.
"Yes, we found it necessary; so many men get hurt at foot ball."
"Foot ball! What is that? I presume it is a department added since my school days."
"Well not exactly a department. But we are strong in that line," hastily added the guide.
"I guess I do not understand you. You will have to explain foot ball to me as you will probably have to explain many other things."
"Well, foot ball," said the guide growing an inch taller at the mere mention of the game, "is a grand athletic sport. You just ought to see a game. It's impossible for me to describe it to you. A man gets hurt now and then, but that don't count. It develops a man wonderfully."
"Oh, I guess I understand now. It is a branch of study and at the end of four years or so you turn men out who intend to follow foot ball as a profession."
"Well, not exactly," the guide was forced to admit. "In some Universities the foot ball men do very little collegiate work, but you must bear in mind our work along this line has been rather meagre until within the last few years. We hope at some future time, however, to give football a prominent place in our school. It's a most heathful exercise you know."
"Now I do understand you. We had something of the sort in my college days
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years ago. We used to go about sawing poor widow's wood, for in sawing wood we exercised every muscle of our bodies, and at the same time helped many a poor woman."
The guide laughed at the idea and the two walked on in silence.
Passing a crowd of girls, the stranger paused to remark,
"I see you have young women here. But like the majority of the young men they do not look physically strong."
"Well, it is the same way with the young women as with most of the young men. They don't get the proper amount of exercise. There really ought to be some athletic sports planned for the majority of our students, but it costs a great deal of money to emphasize merely foot ball and base ball, and besides some of the students are so listless they would not take the exercise were it planned for them."
"Excuse me," said the guide, interrupting the stranger, "but I have a class this hour. I'll get another guide who'll show you over the rest of our great University.
There was a gentle rustle of starched bretelles, and half a dozen bright faced girls tripped across the chapel to a group of girls near the door.
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"Od dear! I wonder if he'll call on me to day." sighed one. "I don't know a blessed thing about the lesson. How far does it go anyway?"
"You needn't worry," replied a girl who evidently had her lesson and was doing her best to cheer her friend. "You recited yesterday and you probably won't have to recite for a month."
"Yes I know, but you can't always tell." I never am called upon when I have my lessons, and when I don't have it then I'm just sure to be called on and paraded before the whole class. Did you get any of the originals? I tried them all but what good did it do?"
O they don't expect girls to get original problems. It wouldn't give the boys a chance to show off if we girls took to getting originals."
This complimentary speech was secrec-
ly delivered when another girl who had
been busying herself by arranging in
folds the lace on her sleeve, spoke up,
"How did you like my dress last night? Mamma didn't want me to wear it, but I was determined to. My flowers came from St. Louis."
"For pity's sake keep still about dress over there if you expect anybody to learn anything about frustrums," piped