The Students Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY THE
Students Journal Publishing Co.
BUSINESS MANAGERS
W. C. Fogle ... Editor-in-Chief
C. E. Kimpton ... Local Editor
Chara S. Bosworth ... Literary Editor
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT JAS, V. MAY F. H. MOORE
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B. L. Pampel . . . The Halls
Arie Kelly . . . Music
F. H. Kelly . . . Pharmacy
G. J. Graves . . Locals
R. E. Blackman . . Exchanges
The stock of the STUDENTS JOURNAL company consists of non-transferable one dollar shares. Any student, instructor or employee of the University may hold one and only one
THE sight and sound of the army of mechani s working on the Chancellor's residen c and library building, and greatly to the enthusiasm for our University.
ONE article I in our literary columns this week deserves especial notice. It is "The Lament of the Old Church 'Tower,'" by a stockholder of the STUDENTS JOURNAL company. ___
AT THE first meeting of the University band Monday noon seventeen persons applied for admission to membership. The total membership will probably be twenty-five. The next meeting will be held in Music Hall Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
THE outlook for a prosperous academic year is very good. Although the enrollment of students thus far shows no increase over last year, yet the students enrolled are apparently of a superior class.
A slight change from the original plan of construction is to be made in the foundation of the library building. Seven feet below the floor there will be placed a layer of concrete two feet thick and eight feet wide.
THE manager of our football team report an abundance of good material. Professor Shephard says that the only thing needed to make an invincible team is thorough practice. This year our team will meet the champion teams of seven states. There is no reason now apparent why we should lose a game.
PROFESSOR BLAKE devoted his summer vacation to experimenting upon a method of telephoning to a light ship on her station. The United States government has seen fit to adopt Prof Bake's method. This is not the method of fog signaling upon which Prof. Blake has been working for some time; but a new method devised a year ago.
The Athletic Association propose to make the football boys comfortable. An effort is being made to provide on or near McCook field a building to contain bath rams and lockers. It has been found impracticable to rent a house, so that some sort of house must needs be built.
THE chapel services have been conducted this week by Chancellor Snow. The music has been led by a quartette Everything about the service has been attractive. Thus far the attendance has been good. But experience in past years has taught us that there are a few whose heads are easily filled. The c few will probably quit the chapel exercise in a short time. It is hoped that the number of such per-ons may be reduced to a minimum this year, and that the great majority of those who now attend chapel will see the advantage of devoting twenty minutes each morning to devotional exercises.
LAW students are registering slowly owing to the apparently large entrance fee. There are students who make needless complaint; but there are others to whom the fee is a real barrier to entrance. It is unfortunate that arrangements cannot be made by which worthy students may be reliev d of paying out of their fund for daily bread a large entrance fee. The fee was imposed by the board of regeets with the approval of members of the alumni association and it is therefore wrong toensure members of the University faculty for the imposition.
A MISSING hat in the corridors Monday evening called the attention of the writer to the great need of some means of protection to the private property of the students. As the winter season approaches and umbrellas, sandals and overcoats will necessarily be left in the corridors this need will increase. A sure way of protecting the above mentioned articles would be a check stand; but this would entail the continual expense of paying a clerk. Perhaps the cheapest and most satisfactory method of protecting the student's property would be a system of lockers so arranged as to hold such articles as the student is unable to carry from class to class. Lockers are not very expensive and as fees are now in fashion perhaps an extra fee could be charged for their use.
THE New York Nation contains the following article especially interesting to Kansas University students in that it indicates the success of one of our members. Miss Anna McKinnon graduated with the class of '90;
"Among this year's notices of collegiate honors taken by women, mention should be made of the award of the mathematical fellowship (value $400) at Cornell University for 1893-94. There were twelve applicants, nine men and three women, of whom one was from Giston College, Cambridge. As it is stated that the candidates 'showed very remarkable ability,' Miss McKinnon (a M.S. of the University of Kansas) to whom the fellowship was finally given, can enjoy the satisfaction of feeling that she has contributed her modest quota to a mass of cumulative proof of the mathematical quality of the feminine intelligence."
The Santa Fe route advertises in the college papers. Why of course. The Santa Fe knows its friends and while it continues to get the generous share of students' business it will keep its "ads" running.
The success of the receptions given to students by various religious organizations during the past week show very clearly that for students to have a good social time, it is not necessary to spend the night in extravagant and injurious forms of amusement. One of the highest social attainments is to be a good conversationist and this end may be reached by practice. There are a few students who would be dissatisfied with anything less, in the way of social life, than late dances and expensive banquets. For such students this article is not intended. But there is a large class of students who would prefer a more mild form of social life than the regulation party; and there is another class of students who are at present practically deprived of proper social culture. For these two classes some social advantages should be provided during the school year. It is not necessary that social receptions be under the control of any religious organization. Let the church reception be taken as a form of social life to be adopted more generally in University society, so that students who are disinclined to attend church socials may have the highest social advantages at small expense.
Between now and next June there will be considerable business of one sort and another, originating in the University, that the Santa Fe wants. There are some things that the over worked business managers of the papers want. Everything is lovely. Both sides can be accommodated.
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Watch the Santa Fe "ads."
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
Sounds from the sands that front the eastern
Mingle their voices with the crisping leaves, and tell me that the happy month is nigh. Where, in the sight of nature, nature grieves; But for the seeing eye a garland weaves "twined heavy with gay fruits and flowers, an
A Birthday in Autumn.
kissed
By light more purple than the amethyst
Born of the seas, even while earth's bosom
heaves
With sisters at parting summer's loviness,
In this strange month of gladness wast thou
thro'ed.
born,
And singing, two harvest time dote bless.
With thy rich love the needy and forlorn;
Giving thy treasures against winter's stress.
And singling, bird-like, leaning on a thorn.
- Annie Fields in the September Scribner.
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The Lament of the Old Church Tower. (Written shortly after the fall of the old Unitarian church tower.)
All seems so new and strange, Twas scarce a week ago that Xolus released me from my earthly woes. I am not sad that he hatch set me free, O no? 'tis only when he recall the trials of my mortal existence, my vexations and disappointments, all the indignities heaped upon me that I dumb and motionless, a mere spectator was forced to passively endure, all the whims and caprices of that most fickle animal called man, that I grow sad.
Oh man, ye who created me, used me and misused me, should I thank thee merely for creating me? Truly thou wast more powerful than I, but is that any reason? Life's goal for me was only desolation, and yet I started forth with hopes as fair and bright as those of yonder child upon whom thus far unfeeling fortune has seceded to smile. I was in deed an early settler on these plains; my equal was not seen in this tair State for many a year The deer have grazed in my very shadow, as it were, and it was long ere I ceased to hear the coyotes yelping in the neighboring fields. Then I was forced to witness bloody strife; I seen men slain by dozzens in cold blood. Oft have men spoke beneath my walls of Quantrell's taid, and as oft have I silently laughed in my sleeve at their mistakes. How much could I have told them, for I can honestly claim that I was the best witness on that dreadful day With my three faces (I had three faces; it was my only fault) and towering up on the hill side, I would overlook all things. Then since emotion never moved my stony heart, I had no fear. Who can claim that he was a better witness than I?
I often enjoyed man his power of speeches, I should have rejoiced in proclaiming my grievances. Life would not have appeared half so hard, had I been able to communicate my feelings to my persecutors. Even now if some kindly soul would shed a tear or think with sorrow of departed me I would be satisfied. But not one sympathetic thought has come to soothe me; men say "Tis well, it might have injured us." There seems to be no hope of anything better. But stay, it seems to me I heard it said in my companion, the church, that a spirit may take possession of some human being and through him proclaim its thoughts and wishes. Could I not do the same? But first a human spirit willing to receive me, or one upon whom I can creep unawares. Ah, there is one! That student trying to grasp the relation of mind to matter. How useless is his thought to him, but just now it serves me well. How easily can I creep upon him, totally absorbed (or mayhap half sleep), until I have him fast!
Yes, I enjoyed life then; how cheerfully did I listen to the greet bell within me call the children to school or strike the hours of the day! For many years I was contented, but times changed; other buildings were erected, finer towers than I made their appearance. One tower especially did I watch with envy; it far
Hal now I have you sir. Fail not to repeat to the world all that I have to say, nor dare to omit one single word. I am now your master as your brothers once were mine.
surpassed me in height and beauty. But yet I was satisfied, for did I not have still the great bell and clock; no other could boost the like. But it was not to be; they tok my only pride to the very building I had so envi d, and then, even more cheerfully than before did the great bell strike it had so soon, forget me. And once, as I was looking toward it most appealingly for one sign of recognition, it so mockingly pealed forth the hour, that I hung my head for shame; my face tell, it was too much to bear. ("Tis true it was no less, I had two others; but they telt like falling too.) My only remaining friends, the swallows, the small boy drove away; the wind whistled in derision through my broken windows; my spirit broke; my heart was chilled; I totered, a kindly zephyr aid d me and my earthly ills were past.
MA.
Book-binding.
The art or craft of book-binding has, in varying degrees, occupied the minds of literary men and book lovers from times all but coeval with the existence of books themselves; and there have been few indeed, among those entitled to the name of bibliophile who have been proof against the attraction presented by an artistically bound volume. "This seductive branch of book commerce," as Diblin justly calls book binding, has undoubtedly been for some years past more generally popular than it has ever been before. Nor is this taste at present confined, as frequently as in old times, to any one country more than another. In England, France, Germany and the United States, the artistic revival which has taken place during the last ten or fifteen years has impressed itself most unimply takable on the binder's craft. In all these countries, for some time now, both patrons and artisans interested in the art, have, in their respective spheres, been united in an endeavor to make their age, if possible, the rival of the best periods of book-binding in better times; and it is no exaggeration to say that such efforts have been attended with a large measure of success. Under the circumstances it is therefore a matter which calls for no little surprise, that the history of this fascinating subdivision of bibliography has until recent years remained wholly unwritten. The subject has now and then been touched upon by many writers, in many languages, who have devoted their labors to the production of works on books and bookmaking; but the gathering together into systematic historical sequence of such scattered allusions as are to be found in the pages of these authors is a task which, we regret to say, has not yet been fully and successfully acclaimed by any one.
The early history of the subject is enveloped in an almost impenetrable mist of obscurity. What are generally considered the first knot specimens of the art are the terra cotta cases, samples of which are to be seen in the Assyrian Collection in the British Museum. These ancient book covers bear the inscriptions in cuneiform characters, with a simple archaic ornamentation and are capable of containing a small-sized volume. Next to these in point of time come the leaden tablets on which hieroglyphies were inscribed, fastened together by means of rings.
After these came the Egyptian roll, the most usual form of ancient manuscripts, and the form in which books continued to be made, as a document forage for the Greeks (Continues on fourth page).
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