The Students Journal.
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The University must have scholarships and endowments before it can perform its highest mission. ___
WELL intending people are attempting to bring athletics into disrepute at Baker. But these good people should remember that muscular preachers are worth more than enervated dyspepties.
Those ambitions to excel in oratory should do work in literary societies. The school which has taken most of the interstate prizes, has had no instructor in elocution, but its students have practised in literary societies.
LAST year the Alumni Association appointed committee to procure scolarships for our University. Since its appointment the committee has not been heard from. Whether strayed or stolen, a liberal reward will be paid for its recovery
TRAINING in elocution never made an orator, and never will. Orators can not be made, they must grow. Frequent public speaking, extemporaneous debates and discussions, are worth more in orator-making than all the trainers in existence.
The managers of the World's Fair should charge wearers of crinoline larger admission fees than others have to pay; it is manifestly unjust to charge a woman the same fee as a man, and then allow her and her crinoline to occupy twelve times the space that the man occupies.
We are often told that modern students must make specialities of some particular lines of work; and when we look around us, accordingly, we see the professional athlete, the professional book worm, the professional politician, the professional dancer, the professional tailor's dummy. Civilization moves on apace.
STUDENTS and faculty alike should use the communication column oftener than they do. If one has a truth or a suggestion not generally known, he ought to make it public; if it is good he will be conferring a benefit upon his fellows; if his suggestion is evil he will be conferring a benefit himself, for he will be set right. A free communication of ideas insures advancement and success for the individuals and for the community. All questions and all phases of all questions ought to have a hearing.
THE Lotus Glee Club will be here Saturday evening. Everybody should attend, for two reasons; the club is popular and musical, and the friends of the University should show their appreciation of the good work of the Lecture Bureau. While all members of the race of complaining mortals are not, and cannot be, satisfied with the efforts of the Bureau, yet the fact remains that the present Bvreau is giving better satisfaction than any previous one ever did, and it deserves encouragement.
UNIVERSITY FINANCES AND PROSPECTS.
The Topeca Capital reports a yearly appropriation of $1,000 for chemistry supplies; $1,500 for addition to the natural history museum; $2,500 for library uses; $5,000 for the physical and electrical engineering department. In addition to this, $1,500 has been appropriated to purchase a new boiler; and $50,000 for the erection and equipment of a physics and engineering building; $1,600 of interest accumulated on the endowment fund has been released and may now be used by the University, and permission has also been given the regents to use the 290,000 Spooner estate in erecting a library building and a house for the chancellor. Thus during the next two years the University will have at its command $242,500, of which $136,500 is paid by the state, $16,000 from' the' endowment fund, and $90,000 by the Spooner donation.
The state is paying very little more than is derived from other sources. It can encourage private endowments and donations by dealing liberally with the University, and it is sound business policy to do so. Every dollar given to the University is a dollar given to the state.
Yet with the present happy prospect before us, this is no time for complaining; rather it is a time for rejoicing. The University has a good name; and, though it has considerable less money than several of the state universities, it is better provided for than usual; and it has the first essential of an educational institution, a competent faculty and earnest students. ___
ONE of the good things said by Prof. Carruth in chapel last week is, that the faculty and students ought to be mutually sociable. The students can appreciate a certain amount of modesty on the part of the faculty; yet, if the faculty believes a greater number of years and a wider experience fits it for leadership, it must feel that it is its duty to mingle freely with the students and to take part in University organizations. By so doing it can lead the student body as a patriarch would lead his kinsmen, by intelligent suggestions. This it can never do so long as it remains in the distance, and consequently in reals ignorance of what the students are doing.
WHILE the air is full of talk about our base ball prospects and arrangements are being made for practice by those who wish positions on the nine, would it not be worth while to pay a little attention to the needs of those who are literally dying for want of physical exercise? A great deal has been said about the poor facilities offered to those who cannot endure such sports as foot ball and base ball, and yet McCook field is still without tennis courts and the tennis players are complaining.
Let those who may be disposed to think that the University has been treated with exceptional liberality bv the legislature cast at least half an eye at Missouri. A few days ago the Missouri legislature passed without objection or amendment a bill appropriating $250,000 for new buildings at the State University. "Poor old Missouri!" Would that Kansas did as well!
THE University has received much better appropriations than most people expected three months ago. No doubt much of the liberality on the part of the legislature is due to the effective discussion of University conditions in the STUDENTS JOURNAL. Every legislator read it weekly.
At last the senior class "scheme" has materialized. Instead of the usual class day proceedings,aside from the orations,a "pot latch" will be held.In addition to this,the executive committee of the class has some mysterious plan which it will not divulge until commencement The members of the committee say that this plan is entirely original and will establish a desirable precedent for succeeding graduating classes.
THE KANASS SUNFLOWER.
(Written for the Students Journal.)
Golden discs on the prairie growing,
Threading your way through the tasseled corn,
Fainful are you to the God you wore him,
in shating sunbeams, at noon, or morning.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
GRACE HIBBRAND
San Francisco, Feb. 22, 1893.
THE KANSAS SUNFLOWER.
THE REST OF THE CLASS
(A continuation of the story of the Gray-haired Niranger.)
A few days later I encountered the gray-haired stranger again. I had learned, meantime, that he had for many years discharged faithfully the duties of a certain unimportant judicial office, having most unaccountably refused to accept several higher appointments, which had been almost thrust upon him in recognition of his very uncommon ability. He was respected by every one for the rare and gracious sincerity of his life; and a sort of tempered kindliness that marked his neighborly relations made him greatly loved by his own townspeople, though they had much ado to understand what manner of man it could be that not only waited for the office to seek him, but refused to receive it when it had sought him. A certain judicial (not pedantic) tone, which had characterized his conversation long before he had come to sit upon the judge's bench, made it peculiarly fit for his friends to call him, as they always did—the judge.
"I have been thinking over what you told me the other day," said I. "and I hope you will pardon my curiosity if I ask you to tell me something of the other members of your class. Surely these were extreme cases; many of the class must have prospered, and are doubtless now living happily in the midst of contented families and comfortable homes?"
"Yes," assented the Judge, very slowly and musingly, "they were perhaps extreme cases. Many have, I believe, prospered in life, as we say. The are well-fed and well-clothed—happy, I suppose. But it has sometimes seemed to me that if there is anything in life more drearily profitless than the case of disappointed and poverty stricken wretches like that dry-goods clerk, for instance, it must be the case of sleek and satisfied—and eminently respectable—merchants, such as, I fear, a large part of our class became. At one time I thought I had found a number of honorable exceptions, when I incidentally learned of one or two old class-mates who were making names for themselves in several worthy professions. But I soon discovered my error.
"One of these, a lawyer, I found to be attorney for a very rich and unscrupulous corporation, which was enabled, chiefly by means of his shrewd advice, to violate every moral obligation that bound it, without often rendering itself liable to legal prosecution. Another, a journalist, had already won for himself 'a phenomenal success,' as his paper. The Daily Cosmos, would call it. I found, however, that the wide circulation of the paper was directly due to the bitterly aggressive partizanism of the editorial page. (it was a republican paper, if I remember correctly.) and also to the absurd—and at times indecent—sensationalism of the news columns.
"Still another, whom I had heard of occasionally as a rising young Presbyterian priest, I went one Sunday to hear. He had been a leader, I think, in the college Y. M. C. A.—not an unpleasant sort of a fellow, as I remember him. But his mind, instead of expanding and mellowing with maturer years, appeared to have contracted and hardened. His discourse was of a sort that is now, happily, much rarer than it was years ago, when I was a boy. It was one of a series of revivals at which I heard him; he dwelt with a sort of grim satisfaction on the tortures of the damned, until he had wrought his congregation up to the highest pitch of excitement. In the midst of this emotional anarchy, the preacher suddenly paused. Then, "If I could only get hold of Dr. Rriggs" he shrieked in a voice of insane passion. "I would bind him to that pillar and burn
him as black as the devil, that he might have a foretaste of the everlasting flames of hell!" Dr. Rriggs is a very able exponent of the Higher Criticism. I need not recount to you several other experiences of this sort which had the effect of convincing me that there might be worse lives even than those of the veriest Philistines."
"But," I protested, "you are drawing the picture still more darkly. I am sure there must have been at least a few young people in your class who developed into noble and unselfish men and women. There is at least yourself," I added, "if you will excuse the impartience of my saying so."
"It is not impertinent," replied the judge gravely, "only untrue." After a pause he continued;
"There was in our class a group of four or five, with whom I was rather intimately associated, who were neither 'grinds' on the one hand, nor idlers on the other. If they sometimes 'skipped class' it was for reasons satisfactory, not always perhaps to the professor concerned, but always to their own sense of right. One of these died within two years of graduating, poor fellow; he had been to England to learn something about the college settlement plan, and died of a fever contracted in the slums of East London. Another livet, and is now editor of the Pacific Magazine, a scholarly gentleman, and a strong and fearless man. The Pacific, he writes me, will be to the West what The Atlantic has been to the East. He thinks they don't quite know what to make of him out there yet, but he doesn't doubt that he will subdue them in the end."
"And were there no young women in your class?" I enquired.
"I was coming to that," said the Judge. "Yes, there were; one of them was engaged to the young man that died. She was with him in England at the time, studying carefully the workings of the settlement scheme, for she had always had a desire to do something for her unfortunate sisters of what we call the lower classes. For some time after the young man's death, all her energies seemed to be paralyzed. But she was a strong young creature, and after a few weeks of impotent grief, she appeared to draw herself together with what must have been a painful effort, and set to work again, with outward quiet. The next time you happen to go to New York'—the Judge had taken a card from his pocket-book, and he now handed it to me—"call there. There you may behold the result of one one brayee young woman's effort."
"And is this young woman lying?" I
asked.
The Judge smiled. "She is no longer young," said he, "her hair is as gray as mine; she is an old maid—she never married. If you would like to meet her, she is now visiting another excellent woman, a former classmate of us both, whom I knew very well, quite intimately, in fact. In sort," concluded the judge with a frank smile, "my wife. It would be immodest for me to praise her. But I would like to have you come to supper with me, that you may judge for yourself whether the nobility and usefulness of two or three such lives as these outweighs the impotence, the inanity, the poverty and manifold miseries of thousands."
The gray-haired Judge had begun his last sentence with a smile, but when he was done his face had assumed a strange expression of pallid gravity.
"I am not always certain," he added,
"that it does." F. M.
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