The Students Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY THE
Students Journal Publishing Co.
W, C. Fogle ... Editor-in-Chief
C, E. Kimpton ... Local Editor
Chara S. Bosworth ... Literary Editor
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
The stock of the STUDENTS JOURNAL company consists of non-transferable one dollar Any student, instructor or employee of the University may hold one and only one share.
THE Baker Index, formerly a monthly,
will appear weekly this year. It will
stain its old form. Success to the Index.
SOMETHING will be said later regarding the superiority of lawn tennis as a college game. Suggested means for its more general introduction will be valued
TO THE student of history, the Anthropological Building at the Columbian Exposition is of great interest. It is unfortunate that this building cannot be preserved just as it is.
THE STUDENTS JOURNAL regrets that in our last issue we failed to note the well worded speech of Governor Lewelling before the graduating classes last commencement day. Our forms were closed before we learned of the Governor's intention to speak.
THOSE who attended the World's Fair, saw the world in its most condensed form. At the Fair, the classical student supplemented his knowledge of the ancient world with a most practical knowledge of the world as it is now. It would be interesting to draw a comparison between a supposed World's Fair in Rome at the time of Augustus Caesar and the real World's Fair now at Chicago.
Did you advertise your University during the summer vacation? The University's wonderful progress, the achievements of our Chancellor and other professors, the University's record in scholarship and athletics have al. done much to advertise our school; but the most fecual advertising is that done by the student. The student may advertise the school both by his conduct and by his words.
OUR summer school continued for about two months. The instructors were M. W, Sterling, Latin; M. E. Rice, mathematics and physics; R. D. O'Leary, Latin, French and English; J. G. Wine, German and history; and J. R. Linville, entynology and botany. The complete success of the school was believed by lack of financial support. It is believed that in a more favorable year, with thorough advertising, the school can be made a success in every way.
A SUPERIOR number of the University Review appears to day. Rose Ruth Morgan has an article on the "Chicago Summer School." B.W. Woodward contributes valuable comments on the Art Exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition. Other articles are: "Is Housekeeping a Failure?" by Miss Manley and "Old Jim," a character sketch, by Charles Griffin. The editor has an article entitled "Our Boarding Club." At the close a review of the summer is given.
MUCH depends upon the class of society a student enters upon coming to the University. Do not be eager to be initiated into the mysteries of University society immediately. Wait until you have found the class of society most congenial to you. Many students may invite you to join with them; but the first who come to you are not always the best.
The better way is to make your friends one by one. In this way, you will within a few years, have made a number of valuable friends.
The officers and members of the Young Women's and Young Men's Christian Associations have been at work all the week endeavoring to make all the new students at home in Lawrence. They have a complete boarding house directory at the University, and in the rooms of the city association. They are glad to give information or help to all who desire assistance. It is their motto to help their friends in temporal as well as in spiritual things.
A RECENT number of a prominent church paper published replies to the question, "Does it pay to take a college course?" by a score of educators and business men. All agreed that a college education is the most profitable investment a young man can make. Such a collection of articles upon the same subject is not only a rich mine of ideas, but is valuable to the student in that it shows the different and often peculiar ways of treating a subject'. Only one writer announced his purpose to be brief. His article exceeded the length of any other by three fold.
As STUDENTS we desire to endorse the advice of many of our professors, to build a library. The most valuable library cannot be purchased at once. It must be built book by book. When supplementary readings are suggested by the professors, buy the necessary books and you will be free to make marginal notes. After you have become acquainted with the contents of a book, then it becomes a valuable addition to your library. A new student is apt to post pone the buying of any but text books till a more convenient day. The cost for extra books may seem too great but a little money saved in other ways will in most cases remove this difficulty. Exchange your old books for books of more permanent value.
Last spring a certain political party organized a state college association composed of local organizations in the chief colleges of Kansas. In June an oratorical contest was held in Topeka, in which John W. Wetzel, of Winfield college, won first place. Mr. Wetzel very creditably represented our state in a national contest at Harvey III., June 28th. At this contest the orations were all upon the social and political questions that confront us. The true American oratory displayed at this contest was no doubt due to the interest of the orators in their subjects. By this means a new field for college oratory has been opened and college students who have heretofore taken comparatively little interest in politics have been lead to study this most important subject.
THE STUDENTS JOURNAL has, in the past year, demonstrated the fact that there was needed in the University a newspaper to represent her entire faculty and student body in their various departments of work. The paper has been a source of pleasure to its managers, and it is hoped that it has done good service to our University. At present we are free from debt and have money in the treasury. Our business policy is unique. Any member of the University may become a member of the STUDENTS JOURNAL company upon the payment of one dollar. Each member is entitled to one copy of the JOURNAL for two years, at the end of which time his membership expires. Our columns will be open to any contributions of general interest o the University and in accord with our determined policy of purity and justice, and respect for every one. We shall be pleased at any time to receive reports of original work done in any department of the University. We do not hope to make our University great, but merely to show forth her greatness. To do this the co-operation of every one connected with the University will be of great value.
OUR STUDY WINDOW
Who bides his time and day by day
Faces defeat full patientty.
And lifts a mournful roundel,
However poor his fortunes be,
He will not fall in any qualm
Of poverty, the paltry dine
It will grow golden in its palm.
Woes, also, his pain.
Who des his time.
Who blides his time—he tastes the sweet of honey in the saltest tear;
And though he fares with slowest feet, joy runs to meet him, drawing near;
The birds are heralds of his cause.
And like a never-changing flower.
The roadside bloom in his applause,
Who bides his time.
Who bides his time, and fevers not
In the hot race that none achieves,
Shall wear cool-wreathed harcel, wrought
with steel plates, and a plucking；
And he shruil enraught a goodly king.
And sway his hand o'er every clime,
With peace writ on his signet ring.
Who bides his time.
James Whitecomb Riley in Alterwhites.
Like the minister who had been to Chicago and on his return announced the fact in his opening sentence to his congregation, and concluded his discourse with the remark that while the exposition with all its wonders would soon vanish away "the things which are not seen are eternal." so we, too, have been to the Fair and cannot refrain from talking of it.
There is everything to be seen there (as you have been told before) every thing from Adam and Eve's backbone to the process of hatching out chickens by electricity with the pathetic inscription above the incubator of "Who will care for mother now" or, "Mother can go to the Fair now."
We wanted to bring everything home with us, the Edison maker, the "Whale-back" and, most of all, the lake. One thing in particular we were tempted to take when the guard was not looking. It was a little poem which would have fitted very neatly into one of these columns. The subject of the poem was "Time" and very appropriately tucked up over some old manuscript. We might have copied it into our note book, but the guard frowned at it, and a man in the rear of the crowd shouted not to block up the way there.
There are a few unchanging laws which nature has laid down for the government of her universe. Man has toiled since the gate of Eden was closed against him, he may toil until the last day shall come; but never with all his discoveries and inventions will he be able to break or evade these stern, unyielding laws. Why is it that nature's law must ever be superior to man's law? The answer comes by one of these same fixed laws, "The fittest must survive."
In the world of science and philoso-phy, nature has taken care that this law be not broken. But in the redm of literature, man has unconsciously aided that the requisite for that survival which is lasting shall be fitness. What fitness it is revealed by a careful study of the in sterpieces of the past, and of the present. Each masterpiece bears the impress of its time, the individuality of its author. No great work can be a copy. No man would calmly model his life after some other man's life, putting aside his own personality. Such a man would be dwarfed, stinted, weak in some poins, abnormally strong in others, and under it all a nervous, sensitive being whose very presence would rasp upon the mind of every well-devel-oped, organized human being. And so it is with books. If the personality of the author is repressed, no reder will feel his heart thrill in sympathy with a work which is a mere copy, a beautiful imitation, perhaps, of something great. An author must breathe into his works his own life, his own soul, that it may be in fact a part of his very being. Then will his work fulfil the highest duty of literature, little mattering whether his style is one of rugged strength or a sweet and rhythmic flow of liquid sound, if he touches the hearts of his readers and wins them to the fulls
sympathy with the characters he por trays. And not merely his own generation will do him homage. The facilities of mind and soul do not change with the fashions. There are those qualities which are always to be found in the heart of civilized man and in the breast of the savage; qualities not equally developed, strongly cultivated in the one, and sternly repressed In the other, but the germ is present and some day a touch will bring it into life.
Literature must always appeal to the intellect, but not primarily, only that, through it, it may control more completely the higher faculties of the soul. Take for example that treasure house of literature, the Bible. It appeals to the intellect, but we are moved by that something higher and holier which touches the heart. Some one has said that the sweetest music the world has ever known is found in the Songs of Solomon. In this he has recognized the true spirit of music, in that it must rule the soul as well as sway the passions.
The great masterpieces of Homer possess the requisite for survival.
He wove into his verse the fanciful myths an strange legends which were a part of the Grecian recension. He placed a wreath of everlasting glory upon the brows of the founders of the Grecian line. Thus it is that Homer's poems became an invaluable legacy to be handed down from generation to generation, to arouse the spirit of patriotism and create a deeper reverence for th' un-teen-power which rules the destinies of all.
The latrature of later times gives additional proof that survival depends upon fitness Shakespeare wielded the magic pen which brought forth tragedy and comedy in the full noontide of the Golden Age in English literature. It has been said of him, that the strength and beauty of his style and the vivitness of his imagination were unequalled. He painted characters as nature made them, his men were manly in their strength and courage; his women womanly in their sweetness and devotion. No author of modern times has swayed the minds and hearts as Shakespeare di t.
Milton raised his readers to the highest pinnacle of hope and plunged them down into the black darkness of despair. Like Shakespeare he roused the slumbering passions to sudden vigor and sudden them at will. But as in nature all characters do not tend to rouse and stimulate those with whom they come in contact, so it is in literature. Dryden's verse is passionless, but there is that exquisite finish and those delicate shades of meaning which give it a permanent place in the world of letters.
Such are the works which have survived and will survive through all eternity. Not those ephemeral works which move the lighter passions, but those which sway the soul with a power we can scarcely estimate. And when in the coming ages the whole world has reached a higher and better civilization, when the heart of every man bows to the good and beautiful, then will the full power of literature be felt and acknowledged. Then will those works which do not appeal to the higher faculties of mind and soul be rejected; and those which are pure and holy be given their rightful place in the literature that survives.
N. L.
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