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"A PROJECT on foot is a slow affair."
THE law lecture fee has been abolished.
ONLY what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.—Humbolt.
THE Athletic Association has rented a dwelling house near McCook field, for the benefit of the football team.
THE Minneapolis Messenger suggests that it would be profitable to the state if Professor Snow could find some way of killing hum-bugs.
MR. R. W. NEAL has been appointed associate literary editor of the JOURNAL, by the English department. We welcome Mr. Neal to a place on our staff
Are you reading some good book aside from your regular studies? A few minutes each day spent in reading works of English literature will be invaluable.
"It is time to remind students of our local oratorical contest to be held in February. Orations written in a few days or even weeks will do little honor to the University.
A POEM by Sir Walter Scott, which, it is believed, has never appeared in any form, and certainly not in any edition of his works, will be found in the September "Blackwood's," page 339, entitled "Gengarry's Death Song." - Critic.
The poem has be-n in possession of the family ever since written.
PROFESSOR BLAKE was fortunate in procuring a large amount of apparatus for the physical laboratory at the Columbian exhibition during the first days of the fair. The purchase was made of Hartmann & Brun, a German firm. The goods will be delivered to the University at the close of the fair.
A CERTAIN University professor recently said that the reason many students in the University are deprived of social culture is, that they deprive themselves. This is too true. A large class of students really bee me exiles from society. The circumstances do not justify such action. Members of the faculty are glad to receive students at their home, not only to talk over work, but to spend a time in purely social conversation. The people of Lawrence are also glad to become acquainted with the students.
"THE State University opens again this month. We trust that the young men of that institution will pay less attention to football and more to their books this year than they did last year." —Neosha Falls Post.
The editor of the Post is evidently not aware of the fact that, out of the several hundred students of our University, not more than thirty are giving any time to football; and that these few spend no more time each day in football practice
than every student should devote to athletics. The great fault with football as a college game is, that it gives athletic practice to so few of the students.
THE Science Club meets Thursday afternoon at five o'clock. The program consists of "Notes from the World's Fair Engineering Conference," by Prof. F. O. Marvin; "Notes from the World's Fair Chemical Conference," by Prof. E. H S. Bailey; 'Summer's Geological Work.' Prof. E. Haworth. A club which offers such a program needs no recommendation.
THE Kansas City Times in a recent issue speaks of some remarkable discoveries of rhinoceros, elephant and mas todon remains, of whose existence nobody had hitherto dreamed, by the University of Nebraska geological expedition, the past summer. Inasmuch as the information concerning the locality of this remarkable discovery was obtained from the University of Kansas, and esas the University of Kansas has a ton or more of the boxes "whose existence was never dreamed of before," obtained by Assistant Overton, on whose father's farm they are found, the statement seems the least mite shaky.
OF ALL the county papers of Kansas received by the University last week only two were found to contain any mention of the State University. These two we have quoted in these columns to show their attitude towards our school. Eastern papers make frequent mention of the University of Kansas. The leading western dailies love to talk about the Kansas University. But the county papers appear not to have discovered us. The various politicians receive due notice, and a few union political questions are considered; but there is no mention made of the great educational system of the State.
THE editor of the STUDENTS JOURNAL overheard the remark, that "The terms of admission to our law school are far too easy." It will be seen by a comparison of the catalogues of various schools that the conditions of admission to our law school are the same as the condition of admission to the law schools of Ann Arbor, Missouri University, St. Louis, and other schools much older than our own. The dean of our law school wishes that every law student were a thorough student of chemistry, anatomy and numberless other branches of study; but this is impossible. The law school is for the young women and young men of Kansas, and it must be kept within their reach. The standard, now already comparatively high, will be raised as fast as the circumstances will allow.
THERE will be a meeting for the organization of a Literary Society this evening at 7 o'clock in Adelphic hall, on the third floor of the north wing of the main building. There must be a literary society in the University, a literary society is the society best adapted to give training in public speaking. There are many clubs organized among the student body for literary purposes and other pursuits; but these clubs cannot take the place of the literary so society. There are a few students who ignore the college literary society and declare it to be a relic of barbarism; but, notwithstanding the opinion of such ill-advised persons, the literary society has proven its efficiency in training public speakers. It is a noticeable fact that the colleges which have active literary societies are the colleges which win high honors in college oratory. It is in the interest of the University and college oratory that the STUDENTS JOURNAL uges the importance of the meeting this evening.
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OUR STUDY WINDOW
Jaques in "As You Like It,"
Jaques in "As You Like Me"
In that tar away forest of Arden where they "feet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world," was one poor discontented mortal who could not "translate the stubbornness of fortune into so quiet and so sweet a style" as the merry men about him. Melancholy, or what in our day we choose to call "cynical" or "pessimistic" Jaques, is the object of our compassion.
People on earth to-day when of Jaques' disposition, are regarded as representing one type of insanity. They are afflicted with what is known as ideational insanity. Sometimes the disease is acute, but more often as in the case of Jacques, it becomes chronic. These patients, perfectly harmless, were not shut up in mad houses, in Shakespear's time, nor are they to day confined in aylum. We meet them every week of our lives. They are persons possessed by one idea; and Jaques, likewise, had his idea. He was a slave to the thought that everything in this world is wrong, always has been and ever will be.
But why should a man of Jaques' temperament be in that most enchanted spot, the forest of Arden? Persons subject to melancholy usually seek a quiet and secluded place, and there brood over their misfortunes. But Jaques abhorred solitude and craved society. Indeed, we agree with him in that his melancholy was peculiarly his own.
"Neither the scholar's, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is politic; nor the lady's which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these; but it is a metanycho of mine own, compounded of many simples and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness." "A traveler!" "By my faith," exclaims quick witted Rosalind, "You have great reason to be sad."
Jaques, then, is a man saddened by experience. We wonder what has been his past history. He must have been of good birth, a man of education. Though we may not understand this mysterious character, his associates did. Jaques and the old duke were congenial friends. The old duke liked Jaques because the duke liked "to cope him in those suffens fit, for then he was full of matter," and Jaques liked the old duke because he too was in adversity, but was deserving of better circumstances.
In addition to melancholia and probably as its cause, Jaques had another allfliction. His eyesight was poor, and strange to say, he never discover it. He looked at the world through glasses which gave everything a distorted appearance, wholly unconscious that the fault was in himself. But Jaques only looked and stowed away his observation in his memory. It never occurred to him that there is such a word as "act." To him all the world was a stage, and he was only the spectator. He did not care about playing any part, since he could not have an original one. The seven ages were not an arbitrary arrangement to him, they were fixed for eternity.
There was one thing Jaques was willing to do and that was to, talk. His conversational powers were a great source of pride. Talking required no effort, and he had traveled enough and seen enough to furnish subject matter for a lifetime. He still possessed a very faint spark of philanthropy. He had an idea that he could do a vast amount of good for the world, if the world would only pay attention.
Jaques was drinking the very dregs of despair. He had lost all faith in humanity. No hope sprang in his breast. Not one of the soldiers who fought Mahomet's battles was a firmer believer in fatalism. He wondered how anybody could be happy. A feeling of envy or jealousy prompts him to upbraid Orlando for writing love-songs on the painful of trees. Perhaps it brought the painful recollections of a time when he too had indulged in such innocent frivolity. At any rate he finds Orlando interesting, and Jaques proposes that they sit down and 'rail against our mistress the world and all our mlsery.' Orlando, however, is not in the mood for such entertainment, so "good Signor Love" and "good Mousieur Melancholy" bid one another adieu.
Melancholy became so habitual with Jaques, that he seems to have adopted it as a profession. When the rest of the porty grow jolly, he withdraws. He prefers to sleep or to "rail all against the first born of Egypt." On meeting pretty, refreshing Rosalind in the forest, he touches upon his melancholy in his second remark. He tells her of his travels, upon which Rosalind frankly tells him, she is thankful her own experience has not been such. Then Jaques retorts, "God be vol' you, and you ta.k blank verse." At the close of the play, where everything turns out happily, Jaques is still consistent in his behavior. He has an opportunity to go back with the old man whose dukedom has been restored to him, but, "To see no pastime—I?" "To your pleasures, I am for other than for dancing measures." On the surface, Jaques here appears to be making a very great sacrifice. A pompous court awaited him, but the news that "the duke hath put on a religious life" arouses his curiosity. It is not to be supposed that he remained long with his new associate. Jaques had traveled too much to settle down forever in one place. He had seen so much of the world that his native land and its customs had become uninteresting to him.
One of the most interesting points in the play is Jaques' attitude toward Touchstone. It would be interesting to know just how these creatures regarded one another. That Jaques was envious of Touchstone, we have abundant evidence.
"A fool, a fool! I met a fool 'l' the forest, a motley fool." Thus Jaques prattles on, and closes with "O that I were a fool." I am ambitious for a motley coat."
He had an idea that if he were once invested in the motley, and allowed to speak his mind, he would "through and through cleanse the foul body of the infected world." Touchstone, in Jaques' estimation, of course, is not capable of deep thinking, and he says of him, "When I did hear the motley fool thus moral on the time, my lungs did crow like chantleer, that fools should be so deep-contemplative, and I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial." Jaques flatters himself that he is a very extraordinary mortal. It is not everybody who can boost of such an unfortunate career. Few are blest with his ability to think profoundly; and then, he has great tact in keeping his thoughts to himself. A little jealous of the old duke, he says, "I think of as many matters as he, but I give heaven thanks, and make no boast of them." This is the first and only time that Jaques expresses any gratitude for anything. He imagines wisdom to be so inseparably connected with his name that one of the conditions on which he will don the motley, is, that "You need you better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them that I am wise."
Jaucer' melancholia was hopeless. He would not be cured. If there ever was a place on earth where a severe attack of the blues might have been cured, it was in Arden. The whole forest re-echoed with peals of joyful laughter, and the old
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