The Students Journal.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY THE
Students Journal Publishing Company
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Wm. J. KREHBIEL Editor-in-Chief
W W. RENO Local Editor
ROSE MORGAN Literary Editor
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Charles S. Griffin ... Literary
S. T. Gillispie ... Athletics
Ardie Kelly ... Musical
C. H. Loosee ... Law
C. H. Hunter ... Snow Hall
R. E. Blackman ... Mailing
A. Q. Garrett ... Exchanges
The stock of the STUDENTS JOURNAL company consists of non-transferable one dollar shares. Any student, instructor or employee of the University, my hold one and only one share.
TREES are the best of monuments to leave to posterity.
CLASSES in Botany in the co-educational schools are becoming so interested in weather prospects that we may soon look for new prophets in the land.
--of them right in through the Study Window. It read as follows:
Just think how generations to come will bless the energetic students of K. U. who planted the first trees along that beautiful and shady avenue, Oread.
THERE has been some talk of printing the constitution of the local Oratorical Association, for distribution among the students. This should have been done long ago. Every opportunity should be taken to let the students know just what are the conditions of entrance into the contest. Let them be printed and distributed in time to arouse a greater interest in the spring contest.
THE recent action of Harvard, in opening her museums Sunday afternoons throughout the year, shows that, old as she is, Harvard is not disposed to let her conservatism keep her much behind the new schools. The University of Kansas, by adopting a similar measure, could not fail to strengthen those close relations with the people of the city and state, which it has ever been her aim to maintain.
GRADUATES from our alma mater have good reason for feeling grateful to the recent legislature. The bill which grants a teacher's state certificate to our graduates is something which K. U. students have long desired, and it shows that the state is beginning to realize that graduates from its university make excellent teachers. Many schools of the state have long recognized this, as is shown by the fact that they have accepted, as teachers, graduates from K. U. without further examination, and have always returned for others when any were needed.
Twelfth Night, which will be given next week by the Athletic association, is looked forward to by all with great expectations. It is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's comedies and under the direction of Miss Georgia Brown will be presented by the strongest cast ever arranged for Lawrence amateur theatricals. New and elegant costumes and fine stage settings are in preparation, and Prof. Saunders is busy arranging special music to be given by the Banjo club. In all ways it will be the event of the year.
THE indoor athletic tournament last week was a decided success, and made the imitation of a system of athletic trials which should be more frequent. The great advantage of such trials of strength is that a student can enter the contest without being an athlete. Physical training is more especially needed by those who are unable to enter the heavier sports of foot ball and base ball, and these tournaments could and should be carried out for their benefit throughout the winter season, as they need not interfere with the greater sports. Enthusiasm is now aroused, and arrangements should at once be made for tennis and boating.
LECTURE BUREAU.
For reasons which are difficult to explain, but which the honest public is quick to lay at the door; of selfishness, the present Lecture Bureau has been maligned in public and in private, by small and contemptible means. It is sufficient to say that in some respects the work of the Bureau is open to honest criticism. But honest criticism is not malignity; it is not a means of indicating one's own conduct, nor of avenging a supposed slight. The fact that the course is not this year under the same management as last, is not a sufficient reason for making a general attack on the Bureau. And on the other hand, a newspaper which will defame an organization merely because that organization does not choose to do business with it, or because its good will is not purchased by the giving of "comps," is a dangerous menace to the liberties of a community.
The Bureau is not afraid of an investigation of its work. Much time and energy has been expended in arranging a valuable course and in placing the venture on a sound financial basis. The constant aim of the managers has been to establish a permanent Lecture Bureau, with a permanent working fund. Even barring the lectures which were more instructive than entertaining, the course this year is certainly a much more satisfactory one than any heretofore given. Many second and third rate lecturers can be secured, but the first class lecturers are loath to come west; and if for some unforeseen cause a lecturer cannot fulfill his engagements, it is very difficult to get a substitute satisfactory alike to the Bureau and to the public. In this respect the Bureau has experienced much trouble. The attractions secured are all of the very best to be obtained, and are given at a price lower than the trashy shows which so often frequent theatrical circuits. Patrons of the course who have objected to the lectures on the ground that they were uninteresting forget that for a paltry price they have been enabled to meet face to face some of the foremost men of our nation. Students and young people especially do not attach enough worth to the fact that seeing and hearing men of great thought and deeds is as much a part of an education as is the classroom and library work. Every time a student of our alma mater goes to a class it costs the state, at a very conservative estimate, at least forty cents. Are not the "class room lectures" on the lecture course worth twenty-five cents to a student, in comparison with the work for which the state is willing and anxious to pay forty cents?
The course has also been a success, financially. The affairs were economically managed and the Bureau will have a fund of about $250 to begin next year's work. In all respects, honestly considered, the venture has been a success this year and friends of a permanent Bureau will be pleased to have the same character of an organization continue the work during the next year.
THE interest which is being shown in the lectures of Prof. Wilcox on the objects in the classical museum, gives some indication of the number of students who intend to go to the World's Fair. The lecture yesterday was attended by a goodly number of students, considering the fact that it was the last day before vacation. The students recognize that the knowledge of a few fundamental facts about classical art will be of very great value to them while attending the Fair.
WHERE, oh where, we ask again, are the alumni who last year undertook with great determination to raise funds to establish permanent scholarships at the University? Have they gone out with the tide never to return, or are they busy gathering the pearls?
By shrewd calculation a mathematical student has come to the conclusion that it is cheaper to stand through a lecture than to spend several hours trying to secure a reserved seat.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
THE DREARY DAY.
In the past with the days that seemed brighter
Than Alladdin's diamond deck ha'la.
And the hours passed actor and lighter
That the footsteps of angels fall.
The day is dark and dreary.
The rain is falling fast,
My heart is lone and weary,
My thoughts are away in the
My heart is lone and weary,
My thoughts are away in the past.
And my heart is left in its sorrow
To wee; and wall alone
Witne never a hope for the morrow,
Through the gloom of its sadness thrown.
The rain in its fury is sweeping
O'er hill-top and grass covered plain,
And my heart is sobbing and weeping,
Is sobbing and weeping in vain.
O, heart, cast ally all thy sorrow
For the rain, may soon cease and be o'er.
Ard my thoughts may return on the morrow
To comfort and cheer the once more.
And perhaps are days a many
In the future dim and vast,
That are father by far than any
That lie in the tomb of the past.
--of them right in through the Study Window. It read as follows:
-F. J. LANGE
Is our *Alma Mater* open to a charge of sight affection in desiring to appear literary, or what is the explanation of the way in which she scatters manuscript over the top of Mt. Oread in such scholarly confusion?
Curiously enough the bulk of the paper is accumulated to the northwest of Snow Hall. Now it would not only be more appropriate about the main building, but would stand a better chance of being seen by visitors, and impressing them with our literary tendencies; unless—such is the stupidity of some people—they should not understand its significance, and actually think that a lot of papers, eddying hither and yon with careless grace, was—untidy, and a sign that our *Mater* is not a good house keeper.
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The campus—Surely we do not appreciate it? Some of us are pretty intimately acquainted with the soil of McCook Field, but what do we know of that in the north hollow yonder? Not even what it produces, and yet violets and crab-apple blossoms, anemones and spider-lilies are not to be despised.
Probably north hollow could not be improved upon, but the grounds to the east and south of the main building could. The lilac hedge must be a pleasant recollection in the mind of many an alumnus, and there is no reason why we should not have more of such pleasant memories. There are plenty of hardy shrubs and vines, like the syringa and sweet honey-suckle, which would require no care and would soon amply repay the small trouble of setting them out. Many of our students come from western Kansas where their education in the matter of flowers has necessarily been limited. Here they ought to have a chance to develop in this direction as well as others. The poets, from Shakespeare down, have known and loved flowers. Let us furnish our future poets with material to fal back on.
Then there is the matter of trees. Our buildings, as yet, do not tend to cultivate the artistic sense. The chemistry building seems to be modeled after a child's block house, and the main building has been broadly classified as belonging to the American school of architecture. It is to the trees we must turn for the Gothic arch and Corinthian column.
Therefore let us have more trees. Not on the campus perhaps, at least not where they would cut off the view, but on the bare hilltop to the north, where it is proposed to put the library building, and along the north side of Adams street where a row of trees is almost necessary to correspond with the elms on the south. North College, too, would not look near so bleak and desolate, if it were possible to conjure up four or five great trees to shade it and break its hard outlines. We have Arbor Day, nominally. Why not observe it in reality?
As the editor finished writing the above, a gust of wind, eddying about among the papers in question, blew one
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"History, unlike the Bard of Avon repeats itself. Coming events cast them shadows before. In the dim and hazy distance, the success of K. S. U. at the State Oratorical contest is perceived. It looms up like a ship in a fog, and presages honor and glory for Kansas' favorite institution."
This was immediately recognized as the beginning of an article which had been refused publication a month or two before. Upon investigation, it was found that most of the papers floating over the campus are of the same nature. Why they have been rejected is obvious, but if the editor had imagined they would ever adorn the wind-swept top of Mt. Oread he would have consigned them to the waste basket while it was in his power.
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GEOGRAPHICAL SUPERIORITY.
The natural man can hardly help rejoicing when he preciates or thinks he preceives, his superiority to others of his species Superiority derived from geographical position is specially apt to minister to pleasure of the sort I have indicated.
Teachers' Certificates.
What a merit it is in the superior being that he was born an Englishman, when, as the chorus sings, "He might have been a Russian, a French, or Turk, or Prussian, or perhaps Italian!" In this country the superior being may be heard to murmur: "In the East my birthplace lies." Our country is as we are wont to say. First in war, first in peace, and first to measure superiority by meridians of longitude. In ancient times the centers of superiority were fixed, and the amount of satisfaction to be derived from geographical considerations necessarily limited. More recently the discovery has been made that the East is the center of superiority. Mark what follows: Since each spot on the globe is east of some other spot, and consequently superior to it, the joy to be derived from the consciousness of superiority is extended to the whole race of Adam. Thus it was that a lady in a Montana town, when asked if she was a resident of that place, replied, "Oh, no; I come from down east, from Sioux Falls, Dakota," and the inhabitants of a certain district in Nova Scotia explained the scarcity of male inhabitants by saying that most of the men had gone west—to Boston. M. M.
The legislature's recognition of the value of the state schools was not shown solely by appropriations. House bill No. 182, which went into effect March 14th, gives the State Board of Education, consisting of the chancellor of the University, the presidents of the State Normal and the State Agricultural College, and three others appointed by the governor, power to grant state certificates to graduates of the State University, the State Agricultural College and other institutions of learning, incorporated under the laws of the state, which maintain a course of study as efficient as the four years courses of the State Normal. The certificates are to be granted first for three years; then, if the persons holding them" have taught successfully at least two years out of the three, and have kept themselves well informed in the general literature of the profession, the state board shall issue life certificates in lieu of the first ones issued."
"All life certificates issued by the state board of education or by regents of the State Normal school shall be void if the holder of the same should not be engaged in school work for three consecutive years; provided, that certificates may be renewed by the state board of education."
This law will undoubtedly result in inducing many students, who desire to become teachers, to attend the State University and the Agricultural College in preference to the State Normal.
B. R. Linville is in the northeast part of the state collecting building stones to be prepared for the Kanss geological exhibit at the World's Fair.
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