The Students Journal.
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EDUCATION is the battle cry of time for as the boy, so the man.
WHAT has become of the students who volunteered to speak in chapel?
LET us know who compose the committee which will select the oratorical contestants. ___
EXAMPLE is a dangerous lure; where the gnat got through the wasp sticks fast.—La Fontaine.
FROM the appearance of the college exchanges, it seems that college enthusiasm is at present at a low ebb. Nearly every editor is urging his readers on to action.
THERE is but one week left before the contestants in spring oratory will be selected. Has the executive committee made any arrangements for open competition?
WILLIAMS college advanced a step in the eyes of the liberal minded when she decided to allow students to substitute an equal amount of modern languages for the required work in Greek.
More students should take advantage of Mr. Usher's generous offer of gymnasium privileges. An hour's drill each day with his apparatus will be the best spring medicine you can take.
Now that the time has come when the student carefully counts the remaining weeks of the college year, and loves to read estimates of college expenses, it is comforting to learn that a promising young English lord spent £70,000 a year while at Oxford.
The new University of Chicago has attempted many and daring reforms, and by its progressive spirit has greatly advanced the cause of higher education. The last thing to be tried is to abolish the practice of asking and granting excuses for absences from classes. At the end of the academic year, if the student has thirty absences charged against him, he will be required to take an extra minor to cover them. As a diploma of graduation is a certificate of the amount of work which the student has done, it is no more than right that the school require the work to be done, and not "allowed." In some departments of our Alma Mater the practice is to give a student full credit if he will bring an excuse for his absence. If classes are missed the work is certainly lost, and the professor should insist that it be made up. Giving a good excuse for the absence does not make the student eligible to a higher grade than he would have received had no excuse been given. The school should insist that the required work be done, thus helping the students to regular habits and at the same time building up a reputation for the school.
WHILE the average student is straining every faculty to complete his course and secure his diploma, he is too likely to think only of his books and immediate surroundings; and, when his four or five years at school are ended, he is suddenly thrust upon a world entirely strange to him. A small number try to keep in touch with the doing, of the outer world,
but in no regular, systematic way. As a person's usefulness is greatly enhanced by his knowledge of the world about him, it certainly is a large part of one's education to keep informed of important events. In order to keep the students interested and to do regular, systematic work, classes in 'current events' have been organized in several eastern schools and have proved very popular and successful. We should have such a class at the University. Let several of the professors get together and make arrangements to hold such informal talks, at least two or three times a week, as will keep students interested and informed concerning the world about them. By co-operation of students and professors, the work could be so distributed as to add but little extra labor to either. A class of this kind could easily be carried by all students, as the work might be made very light and still be instructive. For a beginning, such a feature might be introduced into the chapel exercises.
Twelfth Night.
Amateur theatricals are too often spoiled by the ill-judged dramatic attempts of those who have little or no ability 'as actors'. The performance of Dwelfth Night by the Athletic Association last Friday and Saturday, suffered some in this respect, but probably as little as any amateur performance which has been given in Lawrence for some time. Miss Georgia Brown, as Viola, at once the heroine and part in a manner which showed, even to those who had not witnessed her previous performances in Lawrence, that she was an experienced actress. Mr. Earnest Robinson kept his voice a little too much in the same key, but his oratorical tone was well suited to express the self-conscious love sickness of the Duke Orsini. Miss Marcella Howland rendered very well the face of the proud Olivia while Mr. Hall Riddle, by the aid of an excellent make up, contrived to look very much like Viola. So much so, indeed, that it seemed very natural for him to pass for his sister in the eyes of Olivia. The parts of the underplot were nearly all very well filled. The Whitman brothers, Abe Levy and Clarence Sears have frequently appeared upon the boards in Lawrence. That they should render their parts in a thoroughly creditable manner was a matter of course. But Miss Don Bowersock and Mr. Fred Miller are comparatively new to the stage, and the excellence of their work deserves special mention. Miss Bowersock's laugh captured the audience; it was decidedly contagious. Mr. Miller, as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, proved himself an excellent snecker, and also showed that he knew how to light a pipe. The underplot was somewhat over done throughout, but certainly not at the expense of laughter. One of the most pleasing features of the evening was the beautiful and artistic dance which concluded the play.
Seminary.
Mr. B. W. Woodward, of this city, read an interesting paper on "A Glance at New Spain," before the Seminary of Historical and Political Science, last Friday afternoon. He smoke of Mexico's condition while under Spanish rule, and showed how, through the extortion policy of Spain and the greed of Spanish adventurers and conquerers, the people were kept in such a state of subjugation that they had no fixed civil polity when they revolted from the mother country. This, too, was partly brought on by the indiscriminate blending of the races. The many adventurers who had no inclination to work must gain a support in some way, so the crown invented the system of en comienda by which each Spanish citizen was given control over a number of Indians, provided he looked after their welfare and relieved the home government of all responsibility. This soon developed into a system of hereditary vassalage, with which the lords were naturally loth to part.
THE ONE AND THE MANY. AN IDYL OF
THE PHILOSOPHERS.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
In the old days when the problem of the One and the Many was unsolved and all the world was anxiously seeking for its solution, two venerable philosophers met by chance in a peaceful grove where stillness had never till then been broken by the voices of angry philosophers disputing upon the great questions of life and being. The philosophers recognized one another as members of rival schools, and without exchanging any superfluous and unmeaning words of greeting, as the vulgar do, they forthwith fell to discussing the problem of the One and the Many. They did not know what you and I know now, that between the propositions that all things are both many and one, and that all things are neither many nor one, there is no conflict all, but the most sublime and admirable harmony. For it was reserved to a later generation than theirs to discover the great truth that, in the highest realms of thought, contradictory propositions may not only both be true, but may even be made to lend to one another a mysterious strength which renders them absolutely impregnable to the malicious assaults of the septic.
At length the one who championed the belief that the Many are One, said to his opponent:
Age had not quenched in our philosophers the love of truth, nor rendered them less capable than they once were of righteous indignation at the spread of false and pernicious doctrines. The quiet grove, therefore, soon rang with sonorous periods wherein sarcasm and logic were blended in magnificent eloquence and scorn.
"At the edge of this grove there dwell a mysterious man who has charge of a strange book which he calls the Book of the Future. He permits none save philosophers to gaze upon its shadowy pages or hear the murmuring voices that issue from them, since none save philosophers so fully realize that the Future is the child of the Past as to be willing to believe in the reality of the revelations made by this wonderful book. I have often consulted this Book of the Future and have learned many things from it. In particular I have learned that, centuries hence, there is suddenly to spring forth from n. out of a now unknown sea a mighty nation, which, under the name of America, will fill the world with the renown of its marvelous achievements and whose people will be remembered by all succeeding generations of men, not only for their utilitarian scorn of the immaterial in life and thought, but also for the childlike simplicity of their faith in education as the panacea for human ills. These people are to believe in colleges, universities, and whatever has to do with education, as men in other lands and times have believed in gods, religions and churches. Let us go to the custodian of this book, and bid him open it at some page whereon is portrayed a great American college in the fullness of its life and activity. Perhaps from the learning of its professors, or the relations which exist among its students, we may get some ray of light upon what I see to you, in spite of all I have said, the still dark problem of the One and the Many."
"I will gladly go with you to consult the book you describe," regbed the other philosopher, who maintained that the One is Many; "since there can be no stronger confirmation of the truth of my views than this book is sure to give, by showing that there are Many (that is, more than one) ways of getting at the One truth."
So with feelings of inward contempt for one'another, but with an outward show of philosophic calm, the two venerable disputants took their way in silence to the place where the Book of the Future was kept.
They made known their errand to the keeper of the book. The keeper declared he would be glad to show them the marvellous volume, but that it would first be necessary for them to prove to
him that they were true philosophers. This they proceeded to do in a short but heated discussion in which one demonstrated conclusively that all things are ally, and the other proved as clearly that all things are dead and most always continue to be so. At the end of the discussion the keeper declared himself satisfied as to the justice of their claims to the title of philosopher, since their conclusions were truly philosophic and such as only philosophers could have arrived at. Accordingly he at once spread out the Book of the Future before them, and, after giving them certain directions to enable them to find what they wanted, he left them to make such use of the book as they saw fit.
The Book of the Future was a mighty volume, and so far unlike other books that the characters upon its shadowy pages were never at rest, but in eternal movement, which appeared both to the eye and the ear, and gave to the beholder the impression of a reality so remote as to be barely within the bounds of his perception. But in spite of the general impression of vagueness, there was not a feature of the scene before them that did not produce its due impression upon the sight or the hearing of the two philosophers
What they beheld as they gazed upon the changing page, was a modern American university. It was the hour for chapel exercises, and the students and members of the faculty were thronging into the hall set apart for those exercises.
The scene upon the shadowy page changed again and again in rapid succession, bringing before the philosophers the same spectacle of the assembly for chapel exercises upon many successive mornings. The face of the philosopher who maintained that the Many are One beamed with delight at what he saw.
"See the proof of the truth of my view and the falsity of yours," he cried to his companion. "A comon purpose brings all these people, the best of their age and race, together at this hour; a common faith—whether true or false it does not matter—calls the same words of reverence to their lips, and in all their bright faces I see mirrored the consciousness of their common humanity—a realization of the sublime thought that, though Many in appearance, they are One in reality."
To these eloquent remarks of his opponent, the other philosopher for some time vouchsaft no reply. Over his venerable face, as he gazed at the scene before him, there had been slowly creeping an expression of the deepest pain, which after a time changed in to bitter discuss. At length he spoke.
"I have lost my philosophical creed," he said in a dispairing tone, "but what I see here gives me no inclination to accept yours in its place. Though I can never again believe, as once did, that the One is Many, I am more thoroughly convinced than ever of the madness of your doctrine that the Many are One. Ponder for a moment upon the real meaning of some of the simplest aspects of the unpilosophical unmeaning we have seen performed here day after day, by what you style the best people of their age and race. See, for example, that bevy of young ladies who have just come in, and have taken their seats together in front of the main s盟. Morning after morning they have done the same thing. You have noticed that once or twice there has been a vacant seat or two where these girls sit. You have observed too, I daresay, what frantic efforts the girls have made on these occasions to discover the whereabouts of the missing member of their bevy, and the still more frantic efforts by which, after the harm they caused, attracting her attention and in at last compelling her to get up from the place where she is sitting, and come down to her accustomed seat among them. It must be that such conduct as this is consistent with, perhaps even required by, the canons of good taste recognized by these best people. For you will observe that it is the prettiest, the most refined looking, and the most neatly dressed
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