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CHANCELLOR SNOW left Lawrence Tuesday afternoon to attend the encential exercises of his alma mater, Williams College. The Chancellor will address the students and friends of Williams during the exercises, next Monday.
MR. WINTER brought to the chemical laboratory samples of petroleum from the newly bored wells in Wilson county. These samples will be analyzed and their commercial value determined. In doing such work the University is fulfilling her mission.
PROFESSOR BLACKMAR is to give a course of lectures to the University extension class of this city. The first lecture, which will be free, will be given Thursday evening at the Presbyterian church at 7:30.
The enrollment of students in the University, as we go to press, lacks five of being equal to the enrollment a year ago to-day, Friday. Perhaps five students will enroll during the few hours our paper is being printed.
A CERTAIN member of the Senior class who is forced to study in the library is making out a bill for damages to health, sustained by reason of the wretchedly poor heating—or the lack of heating—of that room. This bill will be presented to the superintendent of grounds and buildings.
A LARGE number of students were present at the address of Mrs. Mary Lease to the citizens of Lawrence on the political issues of the day. It is hoped that the students present were interested in the subject, as well as in the speaker An awakening of interest in political questions among college students will begin a new era in politics.
LAST week the University Courier suggested the organization, among the students of the Kansas University, of a steek company for the purpose of pur chasing books and apparatus at first cost. This idea is worthy the attention of the readers of the JOURNAL. You remember: "Money saved is money made"
A POLICE force has been organized among the students for the purpose of preserving order at the various athletic games and other student gatherings. These policemen should be enclosed with the power to make arrests when necessary. Such movements are worthy of mention. 'The names are given in the local columns of this paper.'
THE University extension co committee held a meeting Monday and took action that will lead to the adoption of University extension courses in various towns of the State. Success to the work of the University extension so long as it does not take the professors from their classes in the University. It must be remembered that the students who have come to Lawrence have made sacrifice to come, and are here at great expense. They demand the first attention.
The suit against the students who were engaged in the brutal hazing at Ohio Wesleyan last year, in which a number of students were disfigured for life, has been dismissed from the courts. The general opinion at the time was, that the culprits deserved severe punishment. We have not learned the particulars of the dismissal.
THE last number of Public Opinion gives the opinions of various prominent educators on the study of current topics as a feature of modern education. There is no exception to the opinion that the study of current topics is invaluable to college students. "How can I learn in a reasonable length of time what is going on in the world?" is a frequently repeated question. Every college should give instruction upon a systematic method of obtaining an accurate idea of the events occurring in the world from day to day, and their bearing upon the progress of the race.
THE *Baker Beacon* is working heroically for the foot ball championship this year. The *Beacon* evidently hopes to win the championship through eloquence. We are glad to hear, though, from other sources, that the Baker foot ball team is practising hard and will assist the *Beacon* when the game is played. It requires a cortile brain to write two columns of editorial matter on foot ball. *Beacon* is there nothing else you can enlighten us on regarding the achievements of the worthy University whose interests you are supposed to represent?
PROF. HAWORTH this year proposes to give the students of his geology class a chance to see with their own eyes some of the things of which they read in their text books. On Tuesday the class took a view of the surrounding country from the main building, and Prof. Haworth explained all the matters of geological interest. Several trips are to be taken to places in the neighborhood where the formation of rocks, the action of forces of erosion, and other geological phenomena are especially well shown. The first trip will be taken to the bluffs that form the southern limit of the Waukaraus valley.
A SEMINARY OF Electrical Engineering has just been organized in our school of engineering, similar to the organizations in Cornell and Boston Polytechnic. The officers are, Mr. A. N. Topping, '94, president; and Mr. Wm. Neally, '93, secretary. The work of the seminary will be the reading and discussion of current electrical literature. Students are to receive credit for work done in the seminary, as part of the required work of the course. Meetings of the organization will be held every Monday at 4 p.m. Various members of the faculty are expected to take an active part in the work of the seminary. Visitors will be welcomed.
THE six entertainments which will constitute the University lecture course this year have been decided on. They are Locke Richardson, "The Prince of Shakespearean Readers"; John Temple Graves; Henry Watterson; The Wilzek Concert Company; the Tobett Luttermann Concert Company; and the great French violinist, Henri Marteaen. The testimonials as to the superiority of Locke Richardson over all other Shakespearean reeaters fili a volume, and, far from being mere newspaper notices, are words of praise from the greatest living critics and Shakespearean scholars. Regarding John Temple Graves, George W. Bain says "I consider 'The Reign of the Demagogue' by John Temple Graves the finest oration in the language." The Luttermann sextette are from Stockholm, Sweden. They are accompanied by Miss Ollie Tobert, violinist, and Mr. Isidore Moquist, pianist. Henri Marteaen, the French violinist, will give but fifty entertainments in America. The people of Lawrence cannot but be grateful to the managers of the lecture bureau for securing such an artist as Henri Marteaen. Matteae receives as high as seven hundred dollars for each evenings entertainment; but through peculiar circumstances a reduction in price was obtained. As Paderewsky ranks among pianists, so Marteau ranks among violinists. The entire course will cost twelve hundred dollars. Those persons who have purchased lecture course tickets for several years will fully appreciate something new, and something far superior to the stereotyped lecture course program of past years. The manager of the lecture bureau declares that last year the people heard from a number of the world's greatest scholars, but wanted oratory; this year they shall hear oratory—the best the word can afford.
AMONG the vast number of periodicals published to-day there is not one which is devoted to the scientific study of the various economic interests of the people, and can be read by the people. Such magazines as the Forum are perfectly proper, but they cannot be read by the common people; first because they are too expensive for the laboring man; and secondly, because the articles they contain are too difficult of apprehension. The result is that the laboring people, the farmers, the classes who most need enlightenment on political questions, are dependent upon partisan newspapers for such enlightenment. Why is there no magazine published at a reasonable figure which will treat of the current economic questions in a scientific and yet popular way? Why do so few people know anything about the tariff or money or any other economic question? Is it because such questions are beyond human comprehension, or is it because proper instruction is not given?
A MISSIONARY extension course of lectures to be delivered in Lawrence has been arranged by the officers of the Christian Endeavor Local Union. The following lecturers have been obtained: John Henry Barrows of the First Presbyterian church, Chicago; R. A. Torry, president of Moody's Bible Institute, Chicago; John Marshall, Field Secretary for Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian church; S. D. Mershon, of Omaha; L. D. Wishard, who has traveled around the globe in behalf of the Y. M. C. A. and is now connected with the Students Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions; Joseph Thompson, of Chicago; and a number of others. Mr. Mershon will speak Oct. 16th in the Congregational church. Dates will be made with the other speakers at intervals of about six weeks. The men announced above are men of national reputation, and the people of Lawrenge and students of the University who are interested in their line of work will no doubt appreciate an opportunity to hear them. It is hoped that dates will be arranged so as not to conflict with the dates of the University lecture course. The lectures will be free.
"ATTORNEY GENERAL LITTLE this morning delivered an opinion to the effect that the Chancellor of the State University has no right to charge students who are residents of the State any of the extra fees for the use of the library and chemical laboratory and other special departments."—State Journal.
The above statement is going the rounds of the daily newspapers. It is, however, merely an opinion, and is not official. If such a decision were made officially, it would cause work in the laboratories to be stopped until some other provisions were made for the supplying of material and apparatus to the students. At present, students are charged first cost for just what material they use in the laboratories. Were the fees abolished, the students would be forced to buy their material elsewhere at an advanced price. It would not be profitable for a student to go down town to purchase a test tube, for use in chemistry, at a cost of, say, five cents, while the University could furnish him the same article at his desk for two cents. A decision of the court for the abolishment of laboratory fees would be absurd unless some appropriation were made for defraying the expenses of the laboratories. As to the library fee, it is questioned whether there be any just cause for its existence.
OUR STUDY WINDOW
Above the Dam.
BY W. ILSON,
It was autumn. The late rain had raised the river higher than it had been for years, and it was rushing onward in a mighty flood. Standing where the houses on its bank are few, John Hewick heard it, as it went rolling by, calling him again and again, always calling; and felt more and more as he listened, that he must obey. Foolish it would be, he knew, to go cut on it to-night, when it was up to the highest limits of its banks. His judgment told him how rash it would be; fear restrained him; and though they called him, yet by their force the very ripples seemed to warn him back, as they edified maddily about some temporary obstacle, or swirled a log orstump of driftwood onward, to dash it over the dam and add it to the great accumulation of waste which the back water was gathering below. Yet,—the rush of the water through the dipping branches; the gurgling and swash of the riffles; the dull, mighty roar of the torrent at the dam; all came to him with a monotonous, irresistible call that filled his mind and compelled his whole attention. Like one who resists the approach of hypnotic sleep, he struggled against its influence. But the calling did not cease; a weird and powerful impulse was upon him; and he loosed his boat and pushed out into the treacherous river.
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As he laid hold of the oars, the last inhibition upon his mood disappeared, and he' gave himself up completely to its wild, restless energy. His boat was beaded against the current, through which he forced it with frantic haste. Almost convulsively his muscles swelled and sank. His eyes were fixed on the darkness down stream; not once did he turn to mark his course, or to see and avoid whatever floating debris might threaten him. The dim, drooping trees along the banks, the flying clouds, the saddening wind, the water's angry murmuring, he neither saw nor heard. Nervous over-excitement was discharging itself in a frenzy of physical exertion, and while the discharge went on, his mind was otherwise as passive as a babes.
Presently, however, its inertness began to pass away. For the first time, he looked to see where he was going; and he chose a shallower channel, where the current was not so strong. Gradually his surroundings impressed themselves upon him. He heard again the sound of the water, and the swish and dip of the willow boughs that dabbled in it. Occasionally, the moon shone through between the thick clouds, and he could see how full the stream was of drift. At times, too, he heard the barking of dogs on shore, and at intervals the dismal cry of a boon came wavering down through the mist. The night express whistled, and presently the windows of the train flashed along, like the joints of a great phosphorent snake. The rattle of the cars echoed for a moment over the shadowy water, mingling with its deep, unvarying resonance, then died away as the red lights merged into the gloom.
Helwick tossed his grasp, and rested, indeed, he could row no further, he was exhausted. For three hours he had been putting forth strength sufficient to overcome the current and carry him far upstream; his hands were blistered, used as they were to the oars; and as he lay back in the bottom of the boat, and drew his overcoat across him, his arms throbbed and his back ached from over-exertion.
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Swiftly the skiff drifted out again into the stream, and swiftly John Helwick's thoughts drifted from present to past, and back from past to present. As his body had worked and his mind rested before, so now his mind was active white his limbs were still.
Throughout the day, he had had a feel
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Moreover, if his earlier education had not been such as best to prepare him to round out his life into a symmetrical whole, it had yet given him a desire to do that. He had had, therefore, great purposes and high aims; had felt the inspiration of self-sacrifice, and had thought to undertake and carry on, faithfully and earnestly, whatever work he found to his hand, letting results take care of themselves so long as he had done what he could. If he had thought, in this dream, of getting for himself either a great name or great influence, it had been of getting them only as they might come through the performance of duty. But his dream of a worthy life had come to nothing. He saw, and shamed to see, that he had neither undertaken nor carried out, faithfully and earnestly, whatever work had been ready for his doing, but had permitted a mean, and—he realized it now—a degrading selfishness to obtain power over him and control almost his every decision and performance.
So, he looked upon himself with contempt. He did not, it is true, consider himself abandoned, a "vile" sinner. His knowledge of the world and his good sense forbade that. He knew that there were thousands who, in corruption of heart, are far worse than he, yet are respected, not only by the world, but by themselves; and had he been less upright, he would have let this fact stille the self-condemnatory thoughts that scourged him. But he was too honest to deceive
ing of despondency and utter weakness, that had resulted in the nervousness which had been spending itself in his violent labor at the oars. But that somewhat vague unrest had given place to an understanding, insistent dissatisfaction with himself. Unusual and unpleasant as it was for him to pause for the purpose of considering his life, he resolutely put before him for review the twenty-four years it numbered, and analyzed the character of which, at their close, he found himself possessed. He had nursed himself to face unfinishingly the revelations of that analysis, but, as it disclosed him to himself, he shuddered and drew back from the painful view. The thought that the education and training of his childhood and early youth were responsible for what he was, tried to force itself upon him and quiet the unpleasant contemplations that disturbed him; but his conscience told him that he had in himself the strength that should and could have overcome the influences which he had permitted to shape his life.
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