The Students Journal
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THE library clock is evidently not intended to indicate the time of day. Its use has not yet been discovered.
THE Kansas State Temperance Union request us to announce their eleventh annual state meeting to be held at Representative hall, Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 2d and 3d. One railway fare will be charged for the round trip.
The University of Missouri has four teen buildings. The state of Missouri made an appropriation of one and one-half million dollars last winter for its University. If money talks, Missouri should have one of the best Universities in the west. ___
IN this issue we publish the Constitution of the Athletic Association. We trust that it will be of use to persons who will participate in the Athletic Association election this afternoon at five o'clock. It is for this reason that the JOURNAL appears for distribution at twelve o'clock to-day.
The University Glee and Banjo club are already preparing for their annual tour. This year the Glee club is under the control of the University. A series of examinations were conducted by Prof. Penny and only the very best singers chosen from all who applied. There is no apparent reason why the Glee club this year should not do honor to our University.
During the week the four collegiate classes have been organized. The Freshmen were the first to organize their class and elect their class officers. They were followed in turn by the Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Although the class spirit is somewhat dampened by the elective system of study, yet there seems an abundance of enthusiasm. Each class is, of course, the best class that ever entered the University; but still there is room for improvement. For instance, the Freshmen can make themselves famous by disleading the old May pole exercise, and if necessary inventing something new to take its place.
WE REGRET that anyone misunderstood our suggestions for the improvement of University society. As was clearly stated in the JOURNAL of September 15th, a better opportunity for social culture is needed by two classes of students: those who are at present practically deprived of social advantages, and those who, for want of better advantages, are, in their own opinion, forced to indulge in a form of social life inconsistent with their moral convictions. The JOURNAL expressed no hope of making University society completely Democratic. It is a deplorable condition of college society in which a student feels bored by conversation with a fellow student; or feels that an evening spent in social conversation is too dull. If it be the case that the majority of people attend a church social merely from a sense of duty, why is it that not more than half of the people present at an ordinary
church social are not moved by a sense of duty to attend a religious meeting? The STUDENTS JOURNAL does not intend to sneer at anyone; but merely expresses an opinion upon an important question. If anyone is hurt, we hope that they will env aloud.
A TABULATION of the religious census of the students of the University has been made. The census of the law students has not been taken; and a few students in other departments failed to fill out census cards, but the census is sufficiently complete to give an idea of the religious complexion of the University. In the following tabulation the first column of figures shows the number of students who are church members and the second column shows the number who indicate a church preference.
Members Preference Indicated.
Presbyterians . . . . . . 42 21
Methodists . . . . . . 36 27
Congregationalists . . . 33 28
Unitarians . . . . . . 6 29
Rapists . . . . . . 17 6
Episcopalians . . . . . 13 6
Christians . . . . . . 12 1
Lutherans . . . . . . 8 1
Quakers . . . . . . 6 1
Mennonites . . . . . . 5
Catholics . . . . . . 4 1
Reformed . . . . . . 2 2
United Brethren . . . . . . 1
Universalist . . . . . . 1
M. B. C. Church . . . . . 1
Thirty-five persons who filled out census cards indicated no church preference. Three hundred and thirty-six persons in all filled out cards. These figures show that 55 per cent of the students are church members and of the 45 per cent remaining, 30 per cent declare a church preference. Such figures should overthrow the idea which some people have, that the State University is a Godless institution.
Kansas Academy of Science
The annual meeting of this society will be held in Emporia on October 25. The session usually lasts three days. At this meeting the scientific men of the state come together to discuss the most recent discoveries, and to read papers upon their investigations. The University usually sends a large representation from its scientific faculty. The officers of the Academy for the present year are: President, E. H. S. Bailey; Secretary, A. M. Collette, of Emporia; and Treasurer, D. S. Kelly, of the same city. It has been the custom recently to meet annually in different cities, so that a local stimulus may be given to scientific work.
The Band.
The "Rock Chalk" band held its first meeting last Friday evening at Music Hall. Lovers of band music were surprised and pleased at the excellent work of the new members. The instrumentation is much better than last year, and every man has had experience enough to know how to play his part. All the band needs to make it a complete success is a good leader and uniforms. An effort is being made to secure Mr. R. S. Saunders to direct the band, and the students of the University should encourage the effort by assisting, financially if necessary. A good band will be a decidedly pleasant feature at the football games this fall, as well as at other University events. Five or six of the boys are now furnishing music for chapel exercises. The officers of the band for this year are as follows: President, J. V. May; Vice-president, S. H. Rockwood; Secretary and Treasurer, Geo. O. Foster; Business Managers, R. K. Moody and G. O. Foster.
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A Country Girl.
OUR STUDY WINDOW
It was a cold, stormy day in mildwinter. Evening was coming on, and gusts of wind swept down into the valley and tossed the boughs of the great trees that towered above the little cottage standing close under a steep, rocky bluff. A dark and threatening sky bent low over the scene; it seemed ready to give to the winds a burden of snow and sleet to whirl into the valley below. Within the house a fire roared in the open fireplace, casting a glow of warmth over the darkening room where a young girl stood, with her wraps at her side, as if intending to go out. A woman standing near was saving.
"You mustn't go to night. It's too bad. They won't expect you, and they'll think you're crazy if you come."
"I'm going, Mrs. Brown," the girl replied. "I must go home to sleep."
Mrs. Brown did not insist further. She knew by the girl's tone and by previous experience with her that words would be useless. Just then a closely covered carriage stopped at the door. A voice from the carriage called out,
"Ready, Nell?"
he just a minute was the answer.
"In just a minute," was the answer.
On went the heavy wraps and in a twinkle Nell was seated by her brother and tucking the carriage robes close about her. As they were starting off Mr. Brown drove down the hill from the north with a load of fodder for his cattle. Pulling up his horses, he cried out,
"Better stay all night with us. Yer horses 'ill never go against that north wind. It'll be snowin' like blue blazes in less'n a minute, and drivin' straight inter ver faces."
"We'll make it all right," Ned replied. "Our horses will travel as long as they can stand. Good night!"
The two young people went on their way toward home. Nellie Lane had come two weeks before to visit an old family friend, Mrs. Brown, with the promise that she would return with her brother as he came from the city where he was going on business. The two were twins, children of an eccentric father who, after having passed the prime of life as a successful lawyer in an eastern city, had grown weary of the world and determined to spend his declining years in peace. When he had announced his intention of settling in a western town, situated fifteen miles from any railroad station, his wife had meekly consented, though it cost her many a pang to leave her life-long friends. As for the children, then aged twelve, the only ones left at home, they were delighted with the prospect, and for a week previousto their departure had waged war with hordes of imaginary Indians, whom they always put to flight after a fierce battle. The family arrived at the new home without catching a glimpse of an Indian, much to the disgust of the twins, but there were plenty of things new and strange enough to make these forget their disappointment.
The children grow up on the farm much as other country children do. The main difference was the cultured home and many comforts such as are unknown to most westerners. The children helped with the "chores" about the farm, washed dishes, fed the pigs and chickens, or herded cattle. They always worked together. Mrs. Lane would have preferred to have her daughter do work commonly allotted to girls, but Nell managed, by hook or crook, to wheedle her brother into doing half of her work, and she in turned help him with his. She saw no reason why she should do only what she called "puttering work." And then becoming disgusted with her mother's yielding meekness, she determined to shape things to suit her own convenience, and so far had succeeded.
Thus brother and sister grew up in close companionship. They attended the district school which was held just across the road from their house. At the time our story opens, they had finished
the brief course given there, but had never lost interest in the school, because in it was centered all the social pleasures of the country neighborhood. Nell took especial delight in the spelling school, for she was a good speller, and the secret of her anxiety to reach home that night was, a spelling school to be held at the school house.
So then, Nell had been quite ready to start off on the ten miles drive under a forbidding sky, with the wind steadily rising. For a distance, the road led to the west along the bluff and through the wooded valley where the wind did not strike with much force. But the tree tops, rocking to and fro, gave warning of what was to be encountered on the prairie. Now and then a cutting blast would strike the horses and make them shake their heads and dash away angrily. When the carriage came out from the woods, the time for sunset was not yet past, but night had already settled down. Fortunately there was a moon which lighted the way dimly from behind the dark heavy clouds. By the time the top of the bluff was reached, the wind was blowing furiously, and bringing with it fine, hard-frozen snow flakes that cut the face like ice-blades. Yet the boy and girl in the carriage did not mind it. They only braced themselves against the blasts, and pulled their fur caps lower. But the horses showed that they did not like it, when the storm first struck them. They stopped for a moment as if half inclined to whirl about, but a word from the driver and they lowered their heads and bent their broad shoulders to their task.
Once settled to the work, the horses fairly flew, their shod hoofs coming down on the frozen ground like hammers on an anvil. Their way now lay straight before them. Not a fence or a tree obstructed the road that stretched across the level prairies between them and their comfortable stalls. They sped on for about an hour, and were still some four miles from home, when a turn in the road brought the carriage broadside to the wind. For an instant it seemed to the occupants that the carriage would be picked up bodily and borne away. The horses gave a lunge. Ned thought he heard a tug snap.
"Nell," he cried, "if anything breaks, we're gon'!
Nell did not answer. Even her stout heart quiled when she thought of what might follow, with the horses going at breakneck speed. They seemed half erased, and Ned had given up trying to do more than keep them in the road. Presently the team stopped of its own accord, and Ned, looking out, saw with amazement that they were at his father's door. In his excitement he had not watched the landmarks, and had reached home before he was aware.
A light was streaming from the kitchen window, where the mother had been anxiously watching for her children since dark. Nell and her brother left their hot team to be rubbed down and blanketed by the hired man, and hurried to the welcome and the warm supper waiting for them. Neither was very cold, and both declared that they were ready for just such another ride.
Supper was hardly finished when Nell, who had gone to the window, announced.
"The school house is lighted up"
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