The Students Journal.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY THE
Students Journal Publishing Company
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Robert W. Neal...Lights and Shadows
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Any student, instructor or employee of the
University, my hold one and only one share.
Educational Kansas has 9,088 school buildings.
MEMORES are for the most part made,
not born.—Hatfield.
Wno will be the first alumnus of our alma mater to help establish permanent scholarships here?
Control your hobby. It is all right to ride it, but you should be careful when and where you ride it.
ORATORS, fight spring fever and enlist in the contest. There is still room and time to secure one of the two prizes.
Of the 411,424 persons under school influence in Kansas during last year, only 3.409 were in the superior schools.
LAST your five thousand, four hundred and thirty-seven students attended the thirty-eight denominational schools of this state. ___
A study of "Current events," open to all students, would be the very best thing the University could give its students. ___
"EXAMPLE sheds a genial ray, which men are spt to borrow; so first improve your friends today, and then your friends tomorrow. ___
With our splendid exhibits at the World's Fair, Kansas University students will feel that the Kansas building is quite a home-like place.
At the rate at which our professors are now publishing books it will not be long before this school can establish a university press of it own.
SEVERAL departments in the University are offering work in original research. Graduates could very profitably spend a year in such work.
THAT chess is a game for the third intellectual man was recognized by the Austrian schools in making the game a part of the regular college curriculum.
At last the Annual is a reality and now the student's spring-belegged brain will be still further confused by the heterogeneous blending of sciences and "Annual" lors.
THE new regents have shown themselves friends of higher education by their liberal increase of salaries The promotions made were in all cases very judicious and in some, should have been made much earlier.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY is proud of the alumnus who gave $2,000 toward a new steam launch to be used in coaching its crew, but K. U. would be prouder if even a hundred of its alumni would, together, give as much toward establishing a permanent scholarship here.
This is an age of short cuts and all are hurrying to "get there." In the mad rush for the end, short cuts are taken through barren fields, while the longer way leads through lanes luxurient with fragrant flowers. Strength and excellence take time, and the thoroughness acquired by taking a longer, slower route in matters of permanence is the very es-
mental of success. Scholars of broad culture are the result of thorough, extended mental training. "The assimilation of knowledge, the knitting into one's fibre is slow processes taking time."
COMMANCHE, the war horse recently mounted by Prof. Dyche was, until his death, the only horse receiving a pension from the government. His pension was sufficient for his support and for the employment of a man to take care of him.
THE student who has time for nothing except that prescribed in the curriculum of his college course is one-sided. If he has no time for "outside" work he will be a very helpless creature when once he gets outside. No matter where we go the demand will ever be. "help me, help me." The selfish man can always excuse himself by saying, "I haven't time."
By urgent request the Athletic Association will repeat its presentation of Twelfth Night, next Friday. The play and acting are of such excellence that a repetition of [the performance] will be welcomed by many who were unable to attend or who failed for other reasons to go. The play should have a crowded house as all the proceeds go to the Association.
ALL students who failed to attend Twelfth Night last week will now have another opportunity to show their loyalty to their school and to contribute to the gymnastium fund. It is said that a large number of the students who usually go to entertainments remained away from this one. This should not be, for Twelfth Night, as presented by the present cast is as, good as any of the shows frequenting Lawrence, and is, be sides, pre-eminently a University affair. Let all remember this and help the good cause.
In years past our base ball teams have not been, par excellence, what is desired. We have relied too much on the foot ball team for a high position in athletic circles and have neglected the base ball team. This year much good work has been done to develop a nine which can cope successfully with our antagonists, but much more must be done before the victories will be ours. Athletes in training must be regular and moderate above all things, and it is as absurd for any of the base ball team to claim that they can neglect this great principle and still carry off the honors as it would have been for the foot ball team to do so. Victory is not won by boasting, and by competent judges it is said that our nine will need to do much more hard work. With the splendid facilities of this year, all members of the teams should bend every energy to the task of making an impregnable team, and carrying off the pennant.
WHEN men have become masters of their professions important positions come to them unsought, and they have the power to meet these greater demands. Position is for a man just what he can make out of it, and no more. The all important question is, has he gained by careful painstaking preparation the strength of vision for this larger outlook, the power to handle this greater opportunity. If he has not, then his incompetence will be more strongly demonstrated by his conspicuous position. The student should ask himself what kind of a man he will be when he shall have come to maturity. Has he laid his foundation stones true to the line, solid and firm, whereon he may rear a superstructure, that will be complete and perfect, when he reaches the terminus that is marked by a mound of earth? Has he reared a building that will stimulate others to become master workmen? The student must work earnestly but deliberately and though he may reach his place in life later in years, he will be more "richly laden and better fitted to wield the new powers, to grasp the new opportunities which he will find awaiting him." —Writer in Rambler.
Do not wait until the eleventh hour to buy your ticket for Twelfth Night
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
CHRONICLE OF THE DOINGS OF BOB, AS
THEY WERE SET DOWN BY THE
And it came to pass that on a certain day the sons and daughters of the Temple were gathered together and came into the presence of their Leaders; each to his own place, they that consumed themselves with acids unto their graduates, and they that tangled their tongues with German, unto Meinhern.
SCRIBES.
And they that struggled with English assembled themselves together and sat down before their Teacher; and it is they that were known by the red lak upon their papers, for it was not then as it had been in the days of the Children of Israel, that they who were marked with red, as with blood, should escape; for whosoever among them had much red upon his paper, the same escaped not, but was reproved by his Teacher, and his name was marked out from the book of the class and was no more found therein.
And it came to pass that, as they set themselves down before their Teacher, their countenances were light, for the days of their vacation drew night, wherein they thought to do no work. And as they came before their Leader, he spake unto them and said, Get ye up and be gone; for I would not that ye come again unto me till the time of your vacation be accomplished. And they would have got themselves away, but he detained them saying, Yet further would I speak, that when ye come again ye shall not come empty banded, but with themes and descriptions therewith to make offering, that ye may be accepted of the Teachers of this Temple.
And they were sore dismayed; and their countenances fell; and, as they went forth again away from their Teacher, they complained one to another, and said, Lo! now is our vacation become a delusion and a snare, a time of hard labor, wherein we shall see no rest, neither surcease of labor. And they were exceeding sorrowful, and went out from before their Teacher filled with murmurings and dissatisfaction.
And there went out with them a certain one of bold manner, who was called Bob, which is, by interpretation, Incorrigible. And when he was come forth from before the face of his Instructor, he turned again, and spat upon his hands, and made divers rude and threatening motions therewith at the back of his Teacher, and his Teacher knew not that he did it.
And when he had done so, he got himself away with haste, and said, I will go down from the hilltop into the valley; and I will not come hither again until I bring a theme as an offering, to offer up in the Temple, that I might be accepted of the Teachers therein.
And he betok himself down from the hilltop into the valley. And when he was come into the valley, behold! a way that led up from the water; and the same was good to look upon; but when he was come upon it, it was full of loose boards and divers pitfalls, so that it was not safe to go thereon.
And he looked up over across to the other side, and behold a maiden, and she was beautiful to look upon, so that he looked not where he walked.
And it came to pass that, as he walked and looked not where he stepped, by reason of the beauty of the maiden, he put his foot upon a board, and it was loose. And the board flew up and smote him on the elbow; and he put his foot into the hole where the board that smote him had been, and stumbled. And he fell with a loud noise and with much ciatter, so that all the dwellers upon that way heard it and marvelled, greatly, and came forth out of their habitations and beheld him.
And he rose up, and rubbed his elbow.
And he looked about, and saw the people, and they laughed at him in derision, saying. See the Dude, and, Look at the spring suit. Behold! it has got him down.
And he saw a smile on the face of the maiden; and she opened wide her mouth
and laughed him to scorn, so that his face was red like unto the card whereon the Teacher was wont to set down his class-record.
And he would have got himself away, but he could not, for that his ankle was turned. And he set himself down by the way, and lifted up his voice and be-walled his misfortune. And they brought a chariot, such as was called a wheelburrow, and set him therein. And the maiden was still laughing; wherefore that place is called to this day Hefell-landshesh-outed, that is, the Place of the Masher's Tumble.
And when they had brought him to his habitation, they lifted him up out of the chariot and bore him within his dwellings. And all the neighboring people betook themselves to see him, and comfort him, saying, How did it happen? and Well, I declare!
And it came to pass that he sturred not out for five days, until the time of his vacation was accomplished. And he was full of pains, and his anger was hot within him; and he spoke harshly to all than ministered to him, and he cursed his luck, so that all that heard him were astonished.
And on the fifth day he called for scribes; and when they were come, he caused them to write, that he might fulfill his yow, that he would not return to the Temple without an offering, that he might be accepted of the Teachers therein. And the scribes wrote as he ordered, and what they wrote is set down in this Chronicle; and the same is true and faithful as it was recorded by the scribes
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R. W.N.
AN INCIDENT AT A RAILWAY STATION.
AN INCIDENT AT A RAILWAY STATION.
In going by rail from Smithville to Watota, being tired and only too glad of an opportunity to prepare our lessons (we were returning from home after our spring vacation) my room mate and I decided to eat our lunch in the waiting room and then study. "The 12 o'clock whistle blew just as our train pulled in, and it was not long before the loafers and those employed about the station went off to dinner. Only one person besides ourselves remained, the colored girl who takes charge of the waiting room. She was about eighteen years of age, neat in her dress, and with a pleasant face. After we had eaten our lunch and gotten out our books, she began her regular sweeping. We could see no dirt on the floor, and it was evident that she did it just because she was told to do it. It was impossible to keep from smiling if you watched her handle her broom. I have watched men raking garden beds and her motions were the same as theirs. At last her task was finished. She was leaning out of the window, her elbows resting on the broad sill, and her knees in the seat below. Suddenly a smile flitted across her face, followed by "Houdy, Mistah Greene."
Mr. Green made no reply, but just kept smiling at her.
"Yo' were not out los' night?" the girl continued.
"No," said Mr. Greene, "did you have a nice time?"
"We had such a long sermon. — I didn't enjoy it tho'. Ole Miss Anderson fainted dead away 'fo times, I don' bebe in disaint business."
"Is dot so?" Mr. Greene found time to remark.
"Yus, and Mist Nancy she read a song.
She thinks she can read, but she con',
an' what do yr' 'spose she done? She
stood up dere in fron' and just read dot
song backords. I jus' 'bout died lafn."
At this stage of the conversation, a gust of wind swept through the open window, and for a moment, we could not catch what was said. When the wind quieted down again the girl's voice was still to be heard.
"Alnt vr' glad Lent is over?" she asked him.
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American Wheelers, $100.
Constellation, or lady gentleman, $60.
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"Why, I donno's I am," Mr. Greene said.
"Well, I am, I'm tired of this dull season."
Something recalled the sermon of the day before to the girl, and she broke out anew.
"Did yo' notice Miss Fanny's new spring bonnet?"
Mr. Green could not remember that he had, and probably thinking that he had spent enough time in idle conversation, smiled very kindly and walked away.
The girl watched him for a moment, then turned round, looked at us and slipped down into the seat on which her knees had rested. She was silent for a moment, then after drawing a deep sigh, she groaned, "I'm tired of this waitin' room business: it's so 'seldom dot yo' see yo' frien's." C. B.
We Quit Business in Lawrence
on account of a recent change in our firm. We commence
to close out our entire stock
SATURDAY, April 15,
Regardless of Cost
and value. Beware of imposters. Only genuine
IS AT
Progress- Clothing COMPANY.
733 Massachusetts Street.
Entire stock must be sold n 30 days. Store for rent. Fixtures for sale.
Oread Greenhouses.
CUT FLOWERS!
South Tenn. Street.
CARPENTER'S
Shorthand Institute,
Lawrence, Kansas.