The Students Journal.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE Students Journal Publishing Company
WM. J. KREHBIEL . . . Editor-in-Chief
W. W. RENO . . . Local Editor
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Robert W. Neal...Lights and Shadows
S. T. Gillapie...Athletics
O. H. Lease...Law
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A. O. Garrett...The College World
Jas. V. May...Mailing
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 share.
What has become of the agitation for a college pin? Now, more than at any other time, the University students should have such a pin, as at the World's Fair many college men will wear their school pins.
REMEMBER you help your athletes to win by attending their exercises and showing your appreciation of their efforts. The postponed meet to be played next Tuesday morning will merit a large attendance.
THE publishers of the Annual need the services of your purse as well as of your good will, and are still anxious to add your name to their list of subscribers at one dollar a copy. There good work merits assistance.
Now that almost everyone is kindly acting Polonius to Laertes of the graduating class, it may not be out of place to apply to the class orators the injunction of the preacher's wife who every Sunday morning admonished her husband with "John, be short, be short!"
ONE of the college journals, in complaining of the death of college enterprise in its school, consoles itself with the fact that, as most of its students are farmers' boys, they do not care to enter the field day sports because when they get home their "field sports" will bring evil sufficient unto the day.
The new departure of the JOURNAL which may aptly be termed an intelligence bureau, is for the good of the school and of all the students. In order to make it profitable to the needy, every one should feel himself entirely free to use it for the purposes intended Employment secured for the needy, earnest student oft times starts the career of a great man.
For our athletes, the timely rain of last Saturday was a fortunate occurrence. They had a practical illustration of the powers and skill of their antagonists, and if they profit by the knowledge, will lose no time in practicing to perfect themselves for the final test. K. U boys are not made of different clay from other Kansas boys, and in order to win must endure the pain of increasing drill and preparation.
THE change in the time of JOURNAL elections which was made this week is for the purpose of getting a complete staff to begin the next term's work on time. This will bring the time for the next election of officers and staff to Wednesday, May 31. The meeting has been called for one o'clock, because at that hour more can attend than at any other. As it is very important that the officers for the ensuing year be men of ability and industry, every share holder should make it a point to be present at this meeting, and cast his vote for a solid staff. We want men fit for the work, and not men to represent a clique; and to secure them we must look to nothing but their merits for the positions. Let all assemble in the chapel promptly at one o'clock on next Wednesday, and the meeting can be over in a very short time.
HORACE E. SCUDDER.
Prof. Horace E. Scudder, of Boston, who will speak at the University during commencement week, is as yet barely 55 years old, and comes from a family which has achieved considerable prominence. One brother has won distinction by his work in entomology, and another by a strong career as a missionary in southern India.
Mr.Scudder attended Williams college, and when he graduated in 1858, wished to follow an academic life. There was no opportunity in his own college, however, and after a year's desultory study at home, he went to New York,where he had private pupils for three years, and occupied what leisure he found by trying experiments in literature. The interest which he took in some children led him to write stories for their birthdays.
These stories passed from hand to hand in manuscript, and in 1862 Mr. Scudder collected them into a book which was published under the title of "Seven Little People and Their Friends." Not long after this publication he returned to Boston, with the purpose of devoting himself exclusively to literature. After bringing out a second book, Dream Life, he published The Life and Letters of David Coit Scudder, his missionary brother. This book was consigned to the new firm of Hurd & Houghton, and became one of their earliest issues.
Mr. Scudder soon became a literary aide to this house, when the Riverside Magazine for Young People was projected it was given into his charge. He edited the magazine for four years of its life, and from some of his contributions made a third volume for Young People, Stories of My Attic.
He was one of the writers on Bryant and Gray's History of the United States, and has published a School History, and also a short History of the United States. He published a volume of essays, Men and Letters. He was married in 1873, and has since that time made his home in Cambridge. In June, 1890 he became editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
THE plan of forming an orotorial association to include all colloges of the state, as was suggested by a communication in last week's JOURNAL, is one which seems a very good one. All will admit that under the present system, the program of the state contest is entirely too long, and that some deserving schools of the state are at present excluded from the contests. These excluded schools should be given an opportunity to enter the association, as they have men well able to cope with the best now in the association, and, if admitted, would undoubtedly work for the best interests of oratory and education in Kansas. To admit these under the present arrangement is altogether out of the question. By arranging the schools in convenient groups of four or five, and making three, or possibly four groups in the state, all deserving schools could be included in the contests and the programs would be vastly pleasanter than at present. The three groups could then contest for the best orator to send to the interstate contest. In order to win in the inter-state contest it is necessary to send the very best orator, and for that reason we must include all sources of merit.
THE last number of Seminary Notes for this year, issued last week, contains a number of very interesting papers on some Kensas institutions and history. These studies of the present and past history of our state's affairs are in the line of much important addition to knowledge through the efforts of our school, and should be appreciated as such.
Baker University has made application to the war department for the detail of a U. S. army officer to that institution for the purpose of developing the latent military capabilities of its students. K. S. U. might do we'll to follow suit. It would be no expense to the University to have an army officer thus detailed, and might be of some benefit to the school.
The old idealism, with its dark heroine and its light heroine, its black villain and its resplendant hero, has its dangers. It may make the real world look very dingy, common every day duties very trifling, it may put us out of joint with the things around us; but the modern realism hies open to the very same charges,—though it brings about these results in a very different way,—and perhaps to others besides. All this inspection and introspection, this analysis of ourselves and others, will it not make us morbid?
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
The other evening I had a visit from an old friend, a doctor, who, in spite of his professional cares, keeps up his interest in and acquaintance with current literary movements. We were commenting on the tendency to write up everything and everybody, and I was remarking on a physician's opportunity for observing human nature, and the queer characters he must become acquainted with.
"Queer characters?" said the doctor, "Yes, of course. A novelist who would study medicine and practice for a few years would be well repaid for the time spent by the knowledge of human nature he would gain. And that reminds me of a fellow I knew or thought I knew when I was a medical student in New York city. It was a pretty hard pull for me to get through on the money I had, and, I was living way up in the fifth story of an old house in a discouraged part of town, though I oughtn't to call it discouraged either, for the people about there had more hopes than any thing else.
"One night I was running up the stairs in the dark, and as I turned the corner I bumped against an unexpected corner so heavily that he sat right down on the steps. I struck a match to see what the state of affairs was. The man sat there looking before him in a dazed sort of way,'and responded mechanically to my apologies, saying.'It's no matter. MaybeI can make use of it.' I recognized him as the man I had seen several times coming from the room across from mine. $ I didn't know what his business was, but I couldn't imagine what use he could make of being run into and knocked down on the stairs. Partly because I was curious, and partly because I was lonely and wanted some one to talk to, I asked him to come up to my room with me.
"Poverty does away with a deal of etiquette. The cards we exchanged as we sat before a soft-coal fire, crackling in a rusty little stove, were brief statements of our present condition and future prospects. My neighbor had literary aspirations and was willing enough to talk about them; but though we met often after this, and not infrequently spent an hour or two together at night, talking and munching bread and salt fist, which formed my staple [articles of diet in those days, he never alluded to his past. He listened almost eagerly, however, to my talk of my home and family, my stories of this or that adventure, but always with a queer sort of an expression on his face, as though his interest lay not in what I was saying, but in what he expected I was going to say. Sometimes he talked about his work, perhaps enthusiastically, perhaps disprovingly, but when the former, he made it seem so fascinating, with its close analytical study of human nature, that I caught the infection and began scribbling myself.
"Poor old Masterson! One evening, when I came in, I found a letter on my table addressed in his writing. I smiled a little at his vehement appeal to me to forget all he had ever said about literature. He begged me by all that was good and holy to keep from his way by looking at men. 'Masterson's in the dumps again,' thought I, but as I read, my face sobered. His story was written there, simply and in short space. From a boy he had been given to dramatizing everything which occurred to him, until he came to look at events only,with regard to their literary value. Three years before he had been brought back to the world of reality by his love for a woman whom he afterward married. A little while he felt and lived for himself and her. Then she died, and even in the midst of his overwhelming sorrow, he found himself calculating as to how much this grief would increase his power as a writer—making capital out of his wife's death. Since then his old attitude of mind and his horror of it had been continually growing upon him. The letter ended abruptly. 'What a fine story my life would make! God —'
"Poor old Masterson! I see him now as I saw him the last time, lying stiff and lifeless with a bullet-hole in his forehead."
Science Club.
At the regular meeting held last Thursday day afternoon, Prof. Kellogg discussed in a very interesting manner "A New Seat of Science." The Leland Stanford University is situated on the same peninsula as San Francisco, some distance south of that city. It is on the east side of a range of high hills or mountains that rise 3,000 to 4,000 feet above it. The land begins to rise immediately behind the university campus, and there is a steady upgrade to the top of the range. Along the very summit there is a grove of great Sequoya trees. The climatic conditions are very peculiar at Leland Stanford, and there are special opportunities for studying the flora of different altitudes, at points not far apart.
There is also a marine laboratory on the main coast further south. The methods of teaching science at this University are thoroughly new and very much inductive in character. Prof. Comstock has introduced methods of his own, that seem destined to work a revolution in the teachings of biology. The paper was discussed by Profs. Williston, Sievens and others.
Mr. E. C. Case, in a review of recent progress in geology, spoke of the recent outbreak in geological circles against the autocratic methods of the U. S. Geological Survey. There seems to be disposition among geologists to form opinions and to stick to them, even if their opinions do not agree with those of the Solons aforesaid.
Mr. I. R. Rothrock received a number of recent articles on chemistry. Prof. Bailey exhibited a blanket from Central America, that is made from a single piece of the bark of the India rubber tree.
Most of the members of the Science Club are in favor of the change that has been made in the hour for holding the meetings. By holding these meetings on Thursday afternoon, Friday evening is left free for those who have other engagements at that time. This is the last meeting of the term before the annual meeting, at which the work of the entire year will be reviewed in a series of original papers.
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