The Students Journal.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY THE
Students Journal Publishing Company
WM. J, KREHBIEL . Editor-in-Chief
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A. O. Garrett ... The College World
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REMEMBER the oratorical contest to-
morrow night. ___
STUDENTS cannot bear to take back seats in any social movements. At last reports, the striking students of the Dakota college were still bravely holding out for their rights against the tyranny of their instructors.
The sweeping victory over the Baker base ball team, on last Saturday, reminds one that once upon a time just such a victory in foot ball made our boys so confident of the next victory that they became negligent. Eternal vigilance is the key to success.
THE University band, which has lived in seclusion for some months of practice, showed its loyalty by appearing at the opening game of the base ball season. For a first effort the music was good, and, under the direction of Prof. Bell, the band will add charm and enthusiasm to athletics.
ARBOR DAY was quite generally observed by the colleges of the state, and proved to be a day pleasantly and profitably spent by the students. Trees and shrubs were placed about the various colleges "and were exhorted by song and oratory to do their utmost to grow and beautify their surroundings. K. U. should have "kept up with the procession."
The few days of returning coolness, although a blessing to the over-burdened tailors, have provoked so much dissatisfied talk that Summer has almost decided never again to show her shinning face until she is ready to stay all the time. However, her femininity will only too gladly take advantage of the principle that only an occasional glance begets a stronger longing.
THE oratorical contest tomorrow night will be free to all, and the orators should be greeted by a large audience of students. The committee has made every effort to give a pleasant contest. All who attend will be given a good evening's entertainment. The program will be short, as but three orators will appear, and the music will be select and good. Come out and show your good will for the good of the school.
During the windy weather the loose window sashes kept up such a joyful clatter that many times, during the short hills, the professors' falsetto voices could be heard ringing out loud and clear, and at such time the students would know that the class was still in session. By very slight attention the rattling windows could be quieted during a wind. Especially should the windows in the chapel be fastened—at least for the contest tomorrow night.
THE prompt action of the Delaware, Ohio, University in expelling the nine students who last week so brutally branded five fellow students with lunar caustic, is to be commended; but it is to be hoped, that the civil law also will be meeting out to them as justice demands. The five men have suffered much internal pain, and will have to carry on their faces for life the evidences of a bitter party fight. No matter how serious the differences existing between the two
With the approach of warm weather several of the co-operative eating clubs have "shuffled of this mortal coil." Upon the most exacting examination, thecoroners have come to the conclusion that the advent of the Ice King cowed them into submission to Death-
factions, such brutality was uncalled for, and the least that ought to be done with the nine assailants, is to make them serve in the penitentiary the full limit of the law's punishment, twenty years.
The new suffrage law of Belgium pays quite a tribute to education when it confers an additional vote on all men over 25 years of age who have completed a course in some institution of higher education. European countries are coming more and more to recognize the absolute advantage to a state of getting its educated men interested in its welfare.
At the close of the school year the Emporia Normal will conduct an excursion to the World's Fair. A visit to the Fair will be of incalculable benefit as an education, if the sightseer will keep a definite purpose in view, and do more than simply gaze at the wondrous works of science and art. The Normal's plan is certainly a good one for the large number of students who will not attend the Fairrin company with brothers and sisters; and which the University students might do well to consider.
Neosho county has adopted a good method of supplying infected chinch bugs to the farmers of that county. The county commissioners have ordered a repository to be established, where live, healthy bugs may be exchanged for diseased ones. In this way better attention can be given to the cultivation of the disease. The benefit to the state would be greatly increased if more counties would thus aid Chancellor Snow in his crusade of extermination.
THE fact that only three orations were handed in for the Spring Contest is a strong proof of the deplorable state of oratory and public speaking in the University. We give much time and energy to athletic enterprises, the benefit of which is merely physical and of short duration, and entirely neglect that accomplishment which, once acquired, always remains with a man, and is a fit complement to his University education, giving him the power to apply his knowledge to the benefit of humanity. The University student owes it to society to use his knowledge and power for the advantage of its less fortunate members. If he neglects to acquire the best means to pay this debt he neglects a solemn duty.
At present our University has made no provision to teach the branches wherein graduates must be examined before they can obtain teachers' certificates. History of Education is the only one of these courses given at present, but an addition of short courses in philosophy of education, school laws, school management and methods of teaching could be made at but a slight expense, and a student could easily add these to his regular four years work without any particular inconvenience. Since state certificates will be granted to graduates of the University, the attendance here will be greatly increased by students who would otherwise attend some normal school; and, in view of this fact, the University would do well to make immediate arrangements to teach short courses in the branches which such students must have to obtain state certificates. The state legislature has done its part, and it now remains for the University to help the students as much.
The Robinson Rifles have just received their pay for services rendered in the late trouble at Topeka. The captain received $5 per day; first lieutenant, $4.17; second lieutenant, $3.80; orderly sergeant, 83 cents; other sergeants, 67 cents; corporals, 60 cents; and privates 53 cents each. They were paid for four days services.
J. H. Mustard received a visit from his brother Saturday and Sunday.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
AN ALLEGORY.
The leaders of the folk had led them into a narrow dale, whence they could so longer look upon the foam of the silver sea behind them, or the golden glow of the sun-hit hills before, upon which their eyes had been wont to reside with so much gladness and hope. Behind them now a steep and awful wall o stone, played over by sheets of hazy fire, and strenued by huge, glistening bone and grinning skulls, hld from their yearning eyes the feathery foam of the silver sea, and right before them a thick and pathless must let not the smallest glimmer of golden sunlight through it, to tell of the blessed sunset which many of them still believed to be there, though they saw it not. The dale where they now rested was bright enough for some of the folk, but others longed for a glimpse of the silver sea-foam and the golden hills. Some of them had beer all along too busily at work to know that they were not still among the wide moors where they had formerly dwelt; most of them had been plucking blossoms by the wayside, and were reckless of the fair landscape; a few, however, had marked the narrowness of their new home, and were weary and sad. Men in dark clothes went about among these and told them they had but to shut their eyes and they might again behold the silver sea foam and the golden hills. Many did so, and their hearts were glaiddened.
There were hardy men who went busily about in the fields, picking up little bugs and pulling them to pieces. If one of them found a new kind of bug he would raise a shout, and all the others would come running to see it. Their their eyes had grown so big and bulging from looking at the little bugs that they could see clean through them at first sight; but some of the folks said these men were so short-sighted that they mistook the mist before them for a mighty sunset. There was a wise man sitting on the top of a steep hill near by, striving to see through the mist with a spy glass of his own making. The mist fell in cold and clammy-drops upon his wrinkled forehead. Sometimes he would take away the glass piece from his spy glass, and put one of the bugs in its stead; but then he could see even less than before. The bug-hunters said he did not know how to do it.
Every day the wise man went out into the wan mist, and a little band of men and women always followed him from afar; some of them boldly, some sadly, and some very slowly and fearfully. The youth and the maiden stepped forward with locked hands and shining eyes. They were both bold and fearful, but most of the time they thought they saw bright and lovely beings in the shifting mist. The wise man had been farther than they and he had seen nothing; but he did not always say them nay, for he saw that their belief filled them with strength for the way-faring. Sometimes he thought that their young eyes saw better than his; and when they asked him about the unknown way he only smiled. Yet the youth and the maiden loved him. And so daily they fared into the mist.
One day the wise man did not come back out of the mist, and the folk knew that the same weird had seized him that must one day seize them all; and they were sad. Had he gone to some lovely, unseen land beyond, or had he melted away into the mist and the darkness? No one seemed to know; even some of the dark-clothed men shook their heads and said nothing. The youth and the malden, though they had not known the wise-man so long or so well as their elders, had loved him most of all, and were sadder than the others.
"Oh!" cried she, "must we think he has melted into the murk and the mist forever?"
The maiden wept and shuddered.
"He has always told us so." sadly answered the youth.
But a bright light now stood in the dripping eyes of the malden.
"I love him too well to believe him;
And she went back out of the mist with a softer light in her eyes, to dwell with he friends and her kindred.
she cried, smiling and weeping together,
"for see! I have loved him so well that I
have forgotten to love my friends and
kindred."
The youth looked after her; and as she went, a lovely gleam of golden light glintened through the mist, and lighted up her face with holy fire. In the shining swath of the light he ran and caught her.
"Let me too," he cried, "go and work among my klsman; for I have sinned!" And as they went along the mist roiled back before them. FRANK MENET.
Attention was called in these column not long since to the growing modesty of the college student. Recently, in our own institution—which we always expect to find in the van of any good movement—there have been unmistakable indications that the University man is growing in grace in another direction.
The urgent demand made on all sides for a chair of oratory shows an unselfishness, a far-sighted regard for the Interests of coming generations, which is hardly recognized, much less appreciated by the casual observer. It might be thought that this demand for training in oratory was brought about by a desire to win glory on the college rostrum, but such a mean estimate of our ambitions does us rank injustice. Anyone who has read the University papers knows that if there is anything more definitely settled than our need of a chair of oratory it is the fact that a good natured public has been made to suffer too long under the immature productions of college orators. We do not wish to be trained to speak so that we can speak at commencement, for instance, for in all well regulated institutions, commencement exercises are conducted by distinguished men from abroad.
Ab, there you have it! We want training in oratory so that in future years when our graduates have become distinguished men, they may deliver the commencement orations of other institutions!
It is rumored that Soderstrom will drop all of his language studies when he sees the Annual.
Prof. Hopkins says that the short stories of this year's Advanced English class are exceptionally good. The three best are those of Miss Bosworth, Mr. Templein and Mr. Mustard.
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