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ATHLETIC meet Friday night.
WILL you enjoy yourself at the indoor athletics tomorrow night?
EDUCATION by correspondence is carried on by ten colleges in the United States.
Tinocorrent" the land the state institutions of higher education are rejoicing because of spring appropriations.
CONFESSIONS are said to be of benefit to one's soul, but surely this cannot be true if a man's ways are unaltered.
Since the catalogue has appeared, the patient waiter has turned his thoughts toward the time when the Annual will be a reality.
Now the grave seniors in secret council evolve deep laid plots and the freshie dreams wistfully of the far distant future when he too will participate in those dark mysterious sessions.
The spirit of song is almost dormant in our student body and we might learn a good lesson by the example of the students of Michigan University. They meet every Saturday morning to sing college songs.
THAT man shows poor tact and a narrowness of spirit, who, when he finds that his successor in public office is giving immeasurably better service than he did, will take every opportunity to show his envy.
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The new view of Snow Hall as given in the last catalogue is an improvement over the view formerly employed. In the first place, the picture was taken from a good quarter; then, the mechanical work done on the picture is of a superior quality.
In various parts of the country preparations are going on, with a view to furnishing music at the World's Fair. In very many cases particular organizations or localities hope creditably to represent themselves. What is the University of Kansas doing?
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An indoor athletic contest is a new thing for the west, and the rink should be crowded on tomorrow night by students prepared to enjoy the first athletic feats of the year. Enthusiasm is a necessary adjunct to healthy athletics. Turn out, and aid the athletes and the association by your presence.
The fad to attend the German universities seems to have a stronger hold on American than on English students, for there are six of the former to one of the latter in attendance at those schools. Now Johnnie will probably rise and say that English schools are better than American and that the English are educated at home.
A noteworthy change in classes, as shown by the new catalogue, is the consolidation of several classes which are very closely allied; and another is that some classes will not be given the next year. This is indeed a wise arrangement, for our instructors now have too little time in which to do original work.
ARBOR DAY will soon be come and gone, and perhaps the chronicler will again be decided the pleasure of recording work done by the students of K. U. The wind swept hill about North College could be greatly beautified and that historic place made more comfortable, if a few trees kindly nurtured by aspiring Laws, were given an opportunity to grow. The University grounds which lie barren to the north of the main building surely need the friendly shelter of shade trees. The grade is established as far as the water tower, and work done there will not be disturbed in later years. It would be well for the students to make arrangements for the proper observance of the day. Try it.
In order to popularize the chapel exercises and to further oratory, a movement has been started to have students give talks at the close of the regular ular chapel exercises. This is an excellent plan for many reasons. Any student who has anything to say can there have an opportunity. A freedom will be developed among students to discuss matters in relation to the school and to themselves. Extemporaneous speaking which is so essential to a complete education, will be promoted, and students will leave their Aboa Mater, able to think while on their feet, and to benefit others by their studies and researches. Then it will not be said that "he knows but cannot tell." The timid ones will be led to indulge in chapel rhetoricals, and oratory may again be revived. Already several students have consented to take the initiatory steps, and we may soon see the regular notice on the bulletin board announcing beforehand who will speak and what he will say. A great benefit will be bestowed on the school if by this means students can be drawn from their hard work and for a short time beled to dwell upon greater thoughts of life than the strife for more knowledge.
THE action of the faculty in refusing to grant the senior petition for the abolition of the "high school" commencement exercises seems to have been prompted by small foresight and large hindsight. Our University has made such progress that we cannot afford to tamper with such petty exercises as a cross roads college would have, merely "to show off the work of the students." We must move on, and while duly considering convservatism, we must ever look to the good of the school. If the class was in favor of the new movement and no valid reasons could be given for the refusal why should our amala mater be kept so far behind her sister school? An orator of known repute would bring more people here on commencement day, and the school would be better advertised, than if a few personal friends of the orators came to admire the deliveries. If the citizens of Kansas wish to see what the University is doing for them let them look upon the bright young men and women who throng our class rooms and libraries, and then look out on the hundreds of our alumni who are wrestling for the good of the state or nation. Commencement should not be a "showing off" but a pleasant close to a year's hard work.
It is about time for our orators to be gin preparing for the Spring Oratorical Contest. It will be held on the last Friday in April. The first prize is $15, the second $10. As no admission fee will be charged much more interest will doubtless be taken in the contest this year than there was last. The hall will be crowded with those eager to estimate the chances of the orators in the regular contest next year. One or two students are known to have been preparing for the contest for some time. No one should flatter himself with the prospect of winning the contest without a determined effort. Last year the contest was undoubtedly better than the January contest of this year. Moreover the very low state to which oratory has fallen in the University will doubtless induce many who have not hitherto taken interest in oratory to enter the contest. Contestants should beware of a dark horse.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
I belong to the composition class—
I hand my paper in.
And ever it comes back to me
With the compositions, Syn, Syn, Syn.
What a funful course is mine!
How much I'll never win.
Till some good angel sets me free
From my besetting syn.
The ordinary penances
Are here worth not a pin,
Ah, this must be, I clearly see.
The unforgettable Syn.
ORIGINAL SYN
Last evening as the editor stood looking out of the Study Window (the back one) two small boys came careering down the alley. Number One was bent half double, and hugged a suspicious looking bulge in the side of his tattered jacket. He drew up behind a sheltering ash-barrel and brought forth a bottle which he proceeded to uncork by transferring a very grimey thumb from its mouth to his own. Number Two looked on with eager interest—
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"‘S good?' he inquired.
"Mine flast!"
"Betcher!"
"Naw yuh dont!"
"Well you drink to there," indicating a point on the bottle's surface.
After some hangling, Number One adjusted his finger on the spot he was to. "drink to;" and putting the bottle to his lips, threw back his head, and managed to convey an impression of such ecstatic happiness that Number Two became quite frantic as he watched the liquid disappear into his comrade's mouth.
"Gimme! Gimme!! Gimme!!! he demanded, in a tone of voice that even Prof. Fulton would have found it hard to classify, such a variety of emotions did it express. Number One only gulped the faster. "Yer drinkin' past," howled the other small urchin. That was efectual—with a gentleman, not even soda on the sly is placed before honor. Number One felt that his honor had been called in question, and he promptly took the bottle from his lips, and denied the statement, showing moreover, by way of disproof, that his finger was still below the level of the liquid
"Yuh, yuh sid yer finger," said Number Two. scornfully.
A very heated discussion ensued, but truth and justice finally prevailed. Number One confessed and made amends, and by the time the bottle had been honorably emptied, share by share, such an amicable state of feeling had come about, that Number Two proposed, in a highly confidential manner, that they call each other Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy. So they swore eternal friendship after their own fashion, and then suddenly realizing the dangerous proximity of the corner drug store from whose back door their treat had been "hooked." Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy set out in search of new adventures and more bottles of soda.
The conventional picture of the college-bred man will have to be changed if it is to remain even a good caricature. We are all familiar with the typical college student of the newspapers. He is something of a dandy, totally lacking in common sense and always becomes a street car driver after graduation. His most striking characteristic, however, is his inordinate conceit, his firm conviction that he knows it all; and this quality is fast disappearing from the makeup of the average college man of today. He is growing very modest and selfdistrustful.
This is exemplified in the changed attitude toward commencement exercises. Once John Henry was eager to come forward, at the end of his four years' course, and give his views of life or the character of Napoleon Bonaparte to a proud and admiring audience of relatives and friends. The proud and admiring audience is still ready to welcome him. When he says it considers him a bore, he is evidently in the wrong, for nothing packs a hall
soful as commencement exercises. But John Henry has become so conscious of his own small worth that he seriously objects to inflicting himself upon them.
Surely this is modesty! Or is it, after all? Does John Henry possibly show more conceit in assuming that people expect him to say something worth hearing than his father did in thinking people wanted to hear his crude opinions of life.
The interest in commencement exercises is personal. Parents and friends do not come to be instructed or enlightened. They want to see what four years of training has done for John Henry, whether he has any ideas, and whether he can express them. It is a requirement which it is pretty hard for him to fill, especially in his present state of self distrust, but surely it is no unreasonable one.
If our new found modesty is to be of the selfconscious sort, if it is to make us feel that unless we can write and speak as well as Depew or Lowell or Curtis we are not to make the attempt, the question will be at least debatable as to whether it is more desirable than the old conceit.
The Language Conference.
The regular meeting of the Language Conference was held in the Greek room last Thursday, March 16. In the absence of Professor Wilcox, a paper on Diction and Style by Professor Canfield was substituted for his talk on "Some Biblical Parallels to Homer." Professor Canfield's paper was a continuation of that published in the January number of the Agora.
Style is more than the dress of thought; it is the form of its individuality—the expression of it, in the truest sense of that word. It is dual in its nature, being both body and soul. Prose and poetry differ in both these elements, yet they are frequently so intermingled in each that the line between prose and poetry, if there be any, can hardly be distinguished.
Rhythm, which is ordinarily supposed to belong to poetry alone, is a very important element in prose as well. It is rhythm largely which makes prose agreeable to the ear. It must be determined by the subject as well as by the individual of the author, since it is the idea, as shaped within the mind that is to be expressed.
Euphony also plays a very considerable part in style. The sound must be suited to the sense to give the fullest expression to ideas and emotions. We might speak of a poem in the sound key of a. o, or u, according to its prevailing vowel sound.
The use of figurative illustration in style is best learned by study of the masters of such style. Homer and Shakespeare are worth more than all the rhetories in teaching style. One can not learn to use figures mechanically; he must have them woven into the very fiber of his soul. Style is the expression of the mind as actions are of the heart.
As all expression is merely the embodiment of spiritual creations, there must be clearness, precision and beauty in the mind before there can be in the expression. If a writer has within him creations of the good, the true and the beautiful, his style will hardly be faulty.
After a short discussion of this paper, Professor Carruth spoke briefly of M. Gouin's patent method of teaching languages, promising to give a more extended review at some future meeting. By this method, claimed to be new, it is said that a foreign language can be learned thoroughly in the brief space of six months. The Professor seemed to think M. Gouin's method nothing more nor less than the so-called natural method, long known to American teachers. A method for which much more has been claimed by its admirers than it has performed.
THE library should have published rules, for all impartially enforced. That is the most practical way of conducting a library.
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