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TWELFTH Night.
The proceeds of Twelfth Night will go to the gymnasium fund.
If you are in favor of physical training for those who need it, attend Twelfth Night. ___
Now that the student has had a touch of spring weather he is becoming feverish for the next vacation.
LELAND STANFORD University will try to organize a ladies' boating club for this season. Why not organize one at K. U.?
SOMEONE has asked whether the recommendation of a "strongest cast" in Twelfth Night advertisements has any reference to the athletic ability of the actors.
The schools which expect to enter the inter-collegiate field day exercises on McCook Field are very enthusiastically preparing for the event and we may expect a very pleasant time.
The dignified Yale Seniors have come to a sensible conclusion in athletic matters. They are weary of the heavier sports and now indulge in the exquisite practice of sniping tops. ___
The time is almost here when the orations are to be handed in for the spring oratorical contest. Let enthusiasts hurry the orators up so that we may have a good contest. If we expect to get a chair of oratory we must pay more attention to these contests.
The patriots of Washburn who enlisted as assistant sergeants-at-arms in the Topeka legislature war, have decided to donate their salaries received from the state toward the fitting out of a gymnasium for the school. The old chapel is being prepared for the gymnasium, and, as a large number of students enlisted, a great part of the expenses can thus be defrayed.
THE plan adopted by Prof. Wilcox to give popular talks on the exhibits in the Classical Museum is meeting with much favor. Many students go through a course of years here and never know anything of these exhibits. All students should be given an opportunity to become acquainted with things in the University which they cannot study as their regular work.
THE Lecture Bureau is composed of three professors and nine students. The faculty chooses the three professors, who then choose one representative from each of the several schools of law, pharmacy, music, and engineering, and from each of the four collegiate classes of the school of arts. The oratorial association is allowed to elect one representative in return for giving its surplus to the Bureau. The three members, to the faculty, in order to give financial assurance to those engaged as entertainers, sign all contracts. They reserve, therefore, the veto power in all matters of finance.
THE History of Higher Education in Kansas, which has just been finished by Prof. F. W. Blackmar, is to be one of a series of monographs published by the United States and treating of the facilities for higher education in the several states. The book will contain about 200 pages and about fifty illustrations. In it the schools will be treated as state schools and as not state schools. A chapter will be deyoted, for the sake of completeness, to the excellent High school system of the state. This book will be a great benefit to the cause of education in the sunflower state, and especially will it be an aid to the University, which stands at the head of the state's educational system. Prof. Blackmar has made a very extensive study of the subject of education and is well prepared to write the state's educational system.
Why is it necessary to use star-chamber processes in selecting orators for the local contest? This anomalous condition in the affairs of the oratorical association is the cause of great dissatisfaction, and is keeping many worthy students from competing for the honors. Just why a few professors, who are above board in everything else, should be compelled in this particular to be so exceedingly wary about becoming known as the judges on selection, is not quite clear. In all other contests the judges are publicly announced and are agreeable to the contestants, but in this one the personnel of the committee is never known. Is this right? Is it just to the professors and to the contestants that this work should be done in secret, which holds out every inducement to irregularity and to the influence of personal favoritism? Those who have this in hand should at once see to it that this method is abolished, and that means be adopted which will give greater show of fairness.
--nappy as our school-days!" Then he persuades himself that these were the reflections that came upon him as he stood for the last time in the familiar building and received the precious parchment that rewarded him for his four years of labor. Doubttess he did have some regrets then, yet I will venture the statement that they are a good deal more definite and poignant now. The student who is finishing the last part of his last year in college does not feel that it is the last; but others have been through the same experience before him, and have given him their recollections, viewed through the magnifying glasses of time; so he knows how he ought to feel, and consciously lv tries to do his duty. It is no fault of his if he fails, and then strives to conceal his failure even from himself. Only give him time, and all the appropriate sentiments will be developed. M.
The standing of a university today is judged largely by the amount of original work done under its supervision. Much of the college work in the past has been a study of what others have said and done; but the progress of science will not allow a school to stop at this. It must do work for itself. Our instructors realize this and are ever willing to give students opportunities and encouragement to make original researches. The department of Geology has offered a course in field work in Geology, Minerology, and Petrography. The student will be given a few directions and placed in the field upon his own resources. He will be required to conduct a geological survey of a section never so surveyed; to note lines of strata, qualities of the geological formations; and to make accurate notes on the work. This work is intended to be done during the summer months, and when meritorious will be credited as one study pursued in the University for double the length of time actually spent in the field. At present the investigations will confined to Kansas, and it is possible that the student may secure a section of country near his home.
THE cry for student representation on the Lecture Bureau, which has lately been raised, is in the nature of a political bugaboo. Any fair minded student, who wishes to have good lecture courses given here, will readily see that the worst thing that could happen to the Bureau, would be to put the selection of the student members in the power of college politics. Each faction would think only of being represented, and of the honor it would receive thereby. It would be as much out of place to elect the student members as to elect the members of the United States president's cabinet. They must be students in sympathy with the work of the Bureau as well as representatives of their constituents. On account of the many changes in the student representation, (and there have been not less than a dozen this year) it would not be practicable to elect the members. Whenever a student resigned from the Bureau, the work would be greatly delayed, and his school would be without representation until a successor could be elected. Everyone knows what a difficult matter it is to get together a body of the students for such purposes.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
They told me spring's first flowers were ablow I tossed aside the work I had to do,
And hastened where the tall, bare maples grow Upon a gentle slope from which the snow the ascii sheet would tend to grow The winter Easter bells, as pale of hue As babies temples with their veilage blue Their mode t bud 'mid dry leaves nestling low. The light was fading from the western sky.
As on I went with eager, searching eye, No fa' bud shone from out the gathering gloom. But when I turned, and took the homeward way—
The Easter bells and seemed to say.
There nodded Easter-bell and seemed to say,
"Tie on the path of duty that we bloom!"
--nappy as our school-days!" Then he persuades himself that these were the reflections that came upon him as he stood for the last time in the familiar building and received the precious parchment that rewarded him for his four years of labor. Doubttess he did have some regrets then, yet I will venture the statement that they are a good deal more definite and poignant now. The student who is finishing the last part of his last year in college does not feel that it is the last; but others have been through the same experience before him, and have given him their recollections, viewed through the magnifying glasses of time; so he knows how he ought to feel, and consciously lv tries to do his duty. It is no fault of his if he fails, and then strives to conceal his failure even from himself. Only give him time, and all the appropriate sentiments will be developed. M.
If the editor of the Agora had happened to be walking along in the vicinity of the polls Tuesday afternoon, he might have received some evidence on the question, "Do Kansas Women Want to Vote?"
Mamma had just expressed her feeling in the matter by going and voting. Miss Ethel—who, by the way, has reached the mature age of five—had accompanied her, and fully determined to do her duty as an American citizen; but, strange to relate, her efforts were neither understood nor encouraged. When she found herself actually on the way home, with her crumpled ticket still in her chubby fist, her fortitude gave way. Mamma, bending to ask the reason for a half-mothered sob, was deluged by a flood tears.
There was no time to reason or explain. Mamma's quick eve caught sight of the letter box on the corner. Two minutes later Miss Ethel's tears were dry and a contented smile lit up her face. She had voted.
"I want to vote! O I want to vote!"
wailed Miss Ethel.
BE ON TIME.
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The value of the above motto to a student (or anybody else) can hardly be over-estimated. It should be worked on card-board, and hung up in every school room, office, and family living-room in the land. Parents can hardly begin too early to impress its importance on the childish mind. The teaching should be at first by example; as soon as the child can talk, by precept. A little later, he should be introduced to that old school-reader (we all know it) whose pages contain such awful warnings against the theft of time. A delay of five minutes in the arrival of a reprieve has been known to cause the death of an innocent man; even a tardiness of only one minute, causing the loss of a train, may exercise a baleful of influence over the whole future career of the procrastinator. Let these considerations once be firmly impressed on the facile mind of youth, and exemplary promptness can not but result. Who would put off till tomorrow, who would put off today when
Let these considerations once be firmly impressed on the facile mind of youth, and exemplary promptness can not but result. Who would put off till tomorrow what ought to be done today, when he reflects that the intervening twenty-four hours is a period sufficient to make him miss fifteen hundred trans; to cause the sacrifice of three hundred innocent men? M.
SOME INAPPROPRIATE REFLECTIONS.
Have you no sentiment about leaving school? was the question recently put to me by a friend who evidently thought I did not have the feelings suitable to approaching graduation. I responded that sentiment was apt to be crowded out until after examinations, but that after that ordeal I should begin to cultivate the appropriate frame of mind.
In all seriousness, however, I believe the traditional emotions of the youth about to bid farewell to his alma mater are in a measure artificial. After he has been some time away from college he has very genuine fits of homesickness for the "classic halls" of the valedictorian's oration, which make him forget that he ever found Latin and Greek a "hore," and mathematics a "beastly grind!" He forgets that he and his schoolmates had occasional differences over, for instance, the Lecture Bureau, or the Oratorical Association, and he remembers he used to have so much fun with "the boys." Perhaps, too, if he went to a co-educational school, he has pleasant recollections of some of the girls. And he sighs, "Ehe fugaces! no period of our life is so
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The strong support which Mr. Leland O Powers received from his hair in his impersonations the other evening calls to mind Dickens's "Ghost of Art" and the Model who expressed all the emotions a painter ever dreamed of representing, by means of his beard.
Probably the beard would have been in Mr. Powers' wav. At any rate he got on very well without it. The only objection to his presentation of the characters yet reported came from a very young person, who thought it would have been a great deal nicer if all the people had really been there, and even this objection may be groundless for most of us feel that "all the people" really were there. Dickey was—there's not the slightest doubt in regard to that. Miss Araminta? We could describe everything she had on from bonnet to sandals, and as for the old East India merchant, we could swear to his identity in court if necessary. Evidently the young person must withdraw the objection.
There seems to be another, though; but from the standpoint of the impersonator. How does he ever manage, to keep his own identity? One would think he would be so tangled up by the end of the evening that he wouldn't know whether he was the mother of seven children, or seventy.
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ALONG THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY IN
CANADA
CANADA.
English flags and English faces in the towns; and in the country broad, shallow English brooks, idy winding through the meadows, lying in long calm stretches smooth as glass and reflecting the tall grass or the marges, and the lazy blue sky overhead. The air is as sweet and drowsy as the brows, and the autumn-tinted woods in the distance doze idly in the yellow sunshine. The grass is spring grass, though, as fresh and crisp and green as grass at home after a June rain and yet it is almost October now.
But in spite of the freshness of the grass, and in spite of an occasional map flaming up, there is still a sense of napping in the view. The cattle feef this where they stand, dreamingly forgetting the sweetness of the grass. The water-wheels feel it as well, for though they continue to turn, splashing the shallow silver water, yet it is plain to be seen that they are not conscious of what they do, and they really turn nothing but themselves.
If I were practical, I should ask what these rude wheels are for,—turning, turning in the brooks and yet attached to nothing, and often a mile from any house or shed; but practicality is not in the air here, and I fall to watching the crawling landscape again. The houses here are older looking and more picturesque than those of the states, and the pine stump fences everwhere flinging out their snaky prongs, make one think of some of Dore's pictures in the Inferno.
There was a fair at London as we passed through, but the square buildings were covered with English flags and the faces were someway a little different, or perhaps it was I that was different, since I could decide upon no line of distinction between them and home Yankee
faces, I did, however, see two regular beef faces, English cut of whiskers, English stiffness, and all.
But Paris, that is the village of my heart! All snuggled away on the sunny hillside below us, a deep ravine below that—a canyon it would be in the mountains—and the neat, white houses and church soires gleaming from the green along the sides of the gleaming, winding road. Then far down in the ravine below was a river dashing.
I shall come back some day and rest in that pretty village.  HERVEY WHITE.
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