The Students Journal.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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Charles S. Griffin ... Literary
Robert L. Stallings ... Lights and shadows
C. G. Phillips ... Law
C. H. Lease ... Hard work
A. H. Hunter ... Snow
A. G. Murray ... The College World
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Always our alma mater first, other matters secondary.
THE Sophomore-Freshman ball game promises to be an interesting match since both classes have secured some excellent material.
REPORT has it that Washburn has a strong baseball team this year and our boys should remember that their first test of strength with them is for the championship.
THE Newton Republican in speaking of Miss Watson says that "she has been the popular librarian of the state University for fifteen years, and it is said that she is the only librarian in the state who can keep perfect quiet in a library and never make an enemy."
Poor Bethany at Topeca has been "smitten" with an epidemic which carried off all its students who were to graduate this spring. The dread malay, marriage, obtained a foothold, swept the class, and now the undergraduate ladies are lamenting that they are not destined to be seniors this year.
ALTHOUGH warned by a stray ball passing through between the two sections of wire netting in front of the McCook Field grand stand and striking a spectator, the athletic authorities have not attended to this dangerous oversight. The two sections should be so firmly secured together as to admit no ball between them. The next time greater damage may be done.
THE entrance fee for events in the coming field-day exercises is but fifty cents, and it will enter the contest in any or all events, admit him to the grounds, and give him all the privileges of the grounds. The amount given for this small fee is so great as to amount to paying the contestant for entering, and it is to be hoped that many more will enter for one or more events.
THE fact that before the chart for the Musin Concert had been open twelve hours every seat had been taken, shows how much the patrons must have expected to hear something excellent. Neither were they disappointed, for every member of the company is an artist. Next to Musin himself the mezzosoprano and the basso were extraordinary, and greatly pleased the audience.
THE Peru, Indiana, high school has applied to this University to be registered as an accredited high school. Verily the fame of our alma mater doth spread. This solicitude on the part of a high school in a far off state should open the eyes of the Kansas high schools to the fact that this is indeed a university, and they should strive to prepare their pupils better for entrance to the University.
THEE are but a few days remaining before the Field-day exercises, but it seems as if the enthusiasm which was so well begun at the time of the indoor meet is well nigh run down. Only a few entries have been made, and for some of those little practice is being done. Competing schools are energetically training their athletes for the coming contests, and by their determined efforts deserve to win. Our athletes are
too prone to rely on past laurels and to ignore present practice until it is too late. Entries should be made for all the events and then practice should be so continuous that K. U. can make a favorable showing before her visiting rivals
In the ball game of Saturday it was quite noticible that several of the team were weak in their plays, and it is not to be wandered at when one recollects that of the nine who played, only three were not dancing late the night before. Athletes cannot expect to win renown when all the while cheating nature of her just dues and working directly against her efforts to win.
It is greatly to be deplored that a student who sets himself up as a searcher after knowledge, truth, and justice should in practice be so forgetful of the property rights of his fellow men as to appropriate to his own use what belongs to another. And still more is it to be deplored that such a young man is connected with our institution. After repeated corrections and warnings he, still so persists in his nefarious practice that soon nothing short of stern law coupled with fear of prison will affect him.
Our band is very much in need of new music, and it is no more than right that the students should pay for it. The band is laboring under the disadvantages always incident to beginning, and this merited assistance would be well rendered. At all of the University gatherings the band plays free of charge, and in return the student body should contribute liberally toward its support. The Journal is assured that, if some friend of the band would canvass the student body, a large sum could easily be raised by very small individual contributions.
The burden of Dr. Taylor's chapel talk on Monday morning was the power of personality. He himself is an excellent example of this wonder-working force, and his every movement and word betokens the strength and vitality of the man. He has succeeded better than any other man in combining the workings of religion and sociology. He has applied religion to society, and has made it a potent influence in uplifting the masses. Practical theology is his aim, and he is now preparing other men for the work by exercising the power of personality in which he so thoroughly believes.
Now that the warm weather is approaching, the number of ways to detract a student from his work is increasing. Add to this increased facility to occupy soare moments and moments that are not spare, the natural propensity of youth to shirk all effort during the drowsy spring time, and you have a condition which is incompatible with the progress of education. Just at this time of the year, when a student has fairly begun steady work, he should zealously guard his time, that he waste none of it. The student is better prepared to do the harder work which is imposed in consequence of this improved condition over that of the beginning of the term; and instead of doing less work he should do more and better work than before. A denial of small pleasures here and there to one who has a thought beyond his nose, is only making life worth living, and is at the same time storing up for the future. At no time should a student allow himself to think that because there are only a few weeks more of school, he may squander a minute.
In spite of the inclementy of the weather, on last Sunday afternoon, the audience room of the Congregational church was filled by those cager to listen to Dr. Graham Taylor, of Chicago, The Doctor spoke largely from the standpoint of Christian sociology, his subject being "Personality Impowered by Christian Influence." He gave many striking examples which he has met with in his investigations among the lower classes of society.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
SAD FACE OF A SOPHOMORE.
[As revealed to him by his Lexicon.]
I'm reading the odes of Horace—
Mostly between the lines—
And there has come upon me
A dreadful belief in sigma.
I sit and caze at my lexicon
With a brow of melancholy.
The old book opens to "amo,"
And then it opens to "Poly."
The old thing tells the truth like a book,
But I can not make it say—
By any amount of coaxing—
"Poly" — "amat" — "me."
"There is a unanimous and enthusiastic college spirit (at Bryn Mawr), but it seems to be the desire of all that the four classes shall not be separated, and that Senior and Freshman shall stand on equal footing. To one accustomed to the class pride of K. U, this seems a great lack, and it strikes one as a little curious that students should pride themselves on their union into one body, instead of a separation into four distinct classes."
Curious indeed! but it must be remembered that Bryn Mawr is a school for girls, and girls are really better fitted to appreciate the beauties of class spirit as displayed by members of the sterner sex than to demonstrate them in their own persons. Poor Bryn Mawr, being wholly feminine, must content herself with pride in the unity of her student body, and get along as best she can with mere college spirit.
Among ourselves, as is well known class spirit is not only present, but or the increase, and as K. U. always carries whatever she takes up right straight forward, our plans for the future should not be made without reference to this fact. If the airy dance about the Maypole is to become a yearly occurrence, due provision should be made for it. The upper story windows—not forgetting the one in the Study—might be furnished with an iron bar or two, so that the girls could look out upon the fray without danger of falling. Those of the girls themselves who have sufficient courage and philanthropy might form a Red Cross Society or something of the sort, proyide themselves with needles, thread, bandages, etc., and do field work among their wounded brethren. Judging from the experience of one resident on the hillside during last year's manifestations of class spirit, the most suitable style of architecture for the Chancellor's residence, would be something medieval. At least there should be a moat and draw-bridge, and it might be wise to furnish the main building with the same means of protection. Thus prepared and secured, we could watch the growth of class spirit with equanimity, and its manifestations in safety, being assured that it is all in some inscrutable manner for the good of the school and the advancement of civilization.
A REAL LIFE TRAGEDY.
One day last fall a beautiful girl, not more than eighteen or nineteen, accompanied by her father entered the car where I was riding. They took the seat just in front of me, and, as they were very unguarded in their conversation, I could not help hearing much of what they said. They were returning home, it seemed, after a visit with an old friend of the father, in the Indian Nation, where they had been shut off from outside communication. They had not heard from their friends now for two weeks, and were, of course, very anxious to reach home and see them; especially as one of the friends was the girl's lover.
That she was to be married to him soon was evident from the remark she made to her father, — "Only a little while, papa, until I shall be Mrs. George ——" Her father smiled at the words, but the name struck me at once. It was that of a prominent young business man, who within the past week, had been found to have embzzled a large sum from the firm of which he was a member, and who had immediately pleaded guilty and received a heavy sentence. I fell to wondering if the George —— this girl continued to speak of with such evident
love and pride, was the same George — whose name had been in every one's mouth and who was so soon to begin a long term in the penitentiary. I could not be certain that it was, but the coincidence of the names was striking, at least, and during the rest of the ride I found myself often returning to the thought of what her suffering would be if the first news she received on reaching home was, that her lover was a condemned thief serving a convict's sentence. Our train did not pull into the Union Depot at St. Louis until after dark. It was a rainy night, no trains leaving at that hour, and the platforms were almost deserted. I noticed as our train backed in, that the usual precaution of placing men upon the engines working beneath the sheds had been omitted. The father and daughter stepped off the train just before me, and I heard the girl say.
"O, Papa, there is George come to meet us! You telegraphed him we were coming, didn't you?"
Looking up, I saw a young man whose face I instantly recognized as the original of the cuts with which the papers had recently been filled My surmise had been correct; and the trusting girl was meeting her felon lover on his way to don the stripes. He was in charge of a deputy sheriff, whose badge, catching the light form the electric lamps, glimmered as if it strove to call attention to the duty its wearer was performing. "George," called the impulsive girl;—then, suddenly catching sight of the irons on his wrists, she cried, "O George, what is the matter?"
He made no answer, but stood looking down, trembling visibly. Other than the start he gave upon hearing her voice and the agitation his carriage manifested, he made no sign of recognition. When she found he did not speak, the girl sprang forward and appealed to the officer, upon whose arm her ungloved hand was laid in deep agitation.
"O, sir, why is he handcuffed? Where are you going with him? What is the matter?"
"I am sorry, Miss, if he is anything to you; he has embezellied money, and is being taken to Jefferson City for ten years."
His words seemed to daze her for a moment, and she stood motionless. The next, she uttered a piercing shriek, threw up her hands, and fell fainting upon the track, under the tender of a locomotive that was just then backing past us. Her father sprang foward, but before he reached her, her body was run over by the heavy wheels, and as he put out his hands the blood spurted over them
No one saw the rest, no one knows whether it happened by accident or purpose,—but when the engine had gone by and we raised the girl's crushed body, we saw upon the rails another form, whose mangled arms were bound together at the wrists with handcuffs.
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