The Students Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
PUBLISHED BY THE
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W.M. J. KREHBIEL Editor-in-Chief
W W. RENO Local Editor
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Charles S. Griffin...Literary
Herbert Leev...Their life
S. T. Glaspie...Athletics
Ricky Kelly...Music
E. H. Lee...Lee
D. Fossen...Athletics
R. K. Blackman...Mailing
A. O. Garrett...Exchanges
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SINCE "music is the universal language" of created beings, go out among the birds these pleasant days.
PROBABLY it would be well for someone to suggest to Dr. Gunsausia that he prescribe for himself—to cure his tendency to aberrational engagements.
During the past year 12,680 teachers were employed in the public schools of the state, of these 8,014 were women.
PROF. DYCHE has been given permission to sell his book on natural history and pictures of his exhibit on the World's Fair grounds.
The class in Charity and Corrections should prepare itself to deal with the spring poet. The signs of the times are propitious for his appearance.
For the next three months much gravy matter will be consumed in the brains of grave seniors in deliberating on the momentous questions of their "last act."
The oratorical splurges made by all colleges in the last few weeks have brought out many protests against the lack of facilities for proper oratorical training.
CULTIVATE decision, energy, dispatch, forethought and skill in employing resources, for they are the qualifications which achieve wonders in the world's progress.
The celebration of the annual inter-
collegiate field day on McCook field will be a gala day looked forward to by all
the schools as the crowning event of each college year. ___
STUDENTS of history have lost much in the death of Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, editor of the Magazine of American History. Attending, under protests of friends, to her editorial duties up the last moment, she shows how thoroughly she devoted herself to the great task of accumulating facts of present history.
QUEEN Margaret college, the only college in Scotland for the University education of women, will be incorporated with Glasgow University as its department for women. The endowments will used for the exclusive education of women but the school will have greater influence by being connected with Glasgow. The next step will be co-education.
Do you value a library? Now is the best time for you to begin collecting one for yourself. The books with which you become familiar at school will make a foundation for the most practical library a student can collect. A few books added each year will give you in a short time such a working companion as you could never bny at one time. Libraries are not bought, but built.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale in his oration on Washington said: "He was born to small opportunities; he made them great. He was educated with comparatively small advantages; he made them the first of advantages. He was brought up among simple people. He learned among the simple people the way in which to dictate to kings and to handle
generals. As he was faithful in the little, he was successful in the the great. And this is the American school of diplomacy, statesmanship, and of war."
In years to come your "little folks" will be teasing you to tell them some of your college experiences. You are anxious to please them and ransack your cranial cavities only to find that what you were looking for has slipped away. Suddenly you think of the 1893 Annual on your shelves and all is well.
كما يجب أن يكون لديك استخدام آخر للتطبيقات المختلفة في المستخدمات المحلية.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL, of Massachusetts, who is spoken of as a splendid orator for the Senior class day program, is a young man of more than ordinary ability as is shown by his success in twice securing gubernatorial honors, although his opponent represented the political party which almost always carries the state. As an orator he is said to be polished, pleasing, and of the year 1893
On Monday the House of Representatives in committee of the whole passed the bill giving the University $70,000 for building and $25,000 for sundry expenses. The bill was easily passed, and the feeling is that the senate will act favorably on it sometime today. The enormous growth of the University has made this increase necessary and the JOURNAL is pleased to see that our legislators take such an interest in state educational matters.
The large attendance at chapel exercises on Tuesday morning shows that when something of interest to students is to be said and is properly announced, they will be there. This should be of interest to the faculty as indicating that if chapel attendance is desired the exercises must be so conducted that students cannot remain away. Many of the students have expressed their desire to spend a half-hour in restful change from exacting wo-k, but complained that the chapel exercises do not rest them. More attention should be given to the manner of conducting these exercises, that the chapel at our alma mater may keep abreast of the progress in other departments.
The telephone experiments by Prof. Blake at Kansas City as announced by the Journal last week have proved to be very successful. The professor had a large audience which, after the lecture, was treated to a musical feat with the musicians nearly one hundred miles away. All numbers on the program rendered in St. Joseph, Mo., were distinctly heard by the Kansas City audience and the St. Joseph musicians also distinctly heard the applause of their audience through the telephone. The loud speaking telephone attachment, upon which Prof. Blake has been experimenting for some time, was thus proved entirely practicable. Everybody was pleased with the novelty of the entertainment, and scientists speak well of the new attachment. This was the first attempt in the west to use a long distance telephone and Prof. Blake deserves great credit for his enterprise.
As announced in another column of the JOURNAL, a beginning has been made in our school of awarding scholarships. Mr. Jacobs was an enthusiastic student of Prof. Sayre, when the professor was a tutor in Philadelphia, and is anxious to further the cause of systematic instruction in pharmacy. The intention is to create a permanent fund which will furnish scholarships under the direction of Prof. Sayre. The scholarship is to be given with the promise that the student will repay the amount to the fund as soon as he is able to earn it. Although Mr. Jacobs is a comparatively young man, he feels that the time to give aid to education is while he can yet watch its effects. The University may congratulate itself on the fact that the ice has been broken and may feel sure that, now that the example has been set, new scholarships will follow for other departments. No doubt many are ready to give such aid who have never before thought of it.
OUR STUDY WINDOW.
THE OLD WINDMILL.
(Written for the FHNKRW millwright,
Ot I've heard of the old windmill;
I'll keep it quiet, and its arms making
A black cross 'gainst sunset skies.
It has looked on the spring flowers,
Gazed upon the traces snow,
It has waved its arme in wild deepair:
At the coming of the foe.
It has seen the town in ashes,
Wrapped in a wrapping sheet of flame;
Seen twice, like tabled bird, arising
A fat city once again.
May the evening star watch over it,
May no sword of watch sitlady,
May it guard, like faithful sentinel
The town for many a day.
GRACE HIBBARD.
San Franctico, Feb. 23, '88.
Feb 26,1893.
To the literary editor of the Students Journal
Feb 26, 1903.
To the literary editor of the Students Journal:
Mr. W. D. Howells, in his "April
Hopes" makes the following assertion:
"The mind of a man is the court of final
appeal for the wisest woman. Till some
man has pronounced upon their wisdom,
they do not know whether it is wisdom
or not."
I should like to ask what could have been Mr. Howell's intention in saying such a thing as that? Did he really mean what he said, or did he have some special purpose in making the assertion?
M. E. H.
In the opinion of the literary editor Mr. Howells really meant what he said. The women he shows us do not generally possess independence, or even thoughtfulness, and when he does give a feminine character either of these dangerous qualities he may be expected to plunge her so deeply into trouble and love that she will sincerely repent having tried to have any existence of her own, and will ever after submit all points of doubt to the "court of final appeal."
We in the west, and especially we of the co-educational schools do not know what to make of some authors' views of women. Philip Gilbert Hammerton's statement that women never follow the intellectual life unless led to it and through it by men, takes our breath away, and we ponder over Mr. Howell's assertions and can't account for them.
By the way, if the literary editor may be allowed a question in turn, what does Mr. Howells mean by giving us such a young woman as Peace Hughes? She seems independent and thoughtful and decidedly inclined to rely on her own judgment. In spite of all this she is not represented as belonging to the genus crank. Isn't she rather off-color?
VALUABLE RELICS.
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The great University of Kansas has not passed through its twenty-five years of existence without valuable results. One has only to go on an exploring expedition about the University to find many interesting things. In Professor Blackmar's room, for instance two relics of great value are kept. These are two tables which, it has been recently discovered, were found in the mounds of the ancient Mound-builders, and which are believed to have been carved and decorated by prehistoric Indians.
The markings, indeed, which may be seen upon them could hardly have been carved by any others than the Mound-builders. Here on one of them are curious hieroglyphics, Phi Kappa Paies and Beta Theta Pies, characters so old that they are all covered with moss. There "Shylock and Justice" appears, a theme which must have been developed almost at the beginning of time. (The "Struggle for Liberty" does not seem to have been begun in ancient times, as it is not here represented.)
At another place, a large and imposing "barb" appears; which shows conclusively that "barbarians" existed in prehistoric times. Our imagination immediately carries us back to the time when a wide mediterranean sea of buffalo grass occupied the whole of sunny Kansas; when little "barbs," the remote ancestors of the present "Independents," roamed the plains unscared.
Yonder an Indian kicking a foot ball
is carved. This simple representation is of untold value to science. It proves beyond the shadow of a doubt, that foot ball did not, as currently believed, originate in England, but was one of the intellectual pastimes of pre-historic men. (It also throws a flood of light upon another obscure but important point—the intellectual development of the persons who made these carvings.) Again, with the assistance of a good imagination a conclusion of the utmost importance can be drawn from this carving. The little foot ball, if observed in the proper light, clearly demonstrates the existence of colleges and universities in pre-historic times.
But why attempt to describe that which exceeds all description? The tables are accessible to all and are able to speak for themselves. If they are once seen they will always be remembered. ___ W. W. R.
Prof. Carruth has been giving a series of talks in chapel this week. On Tuesday his talk was on fraternities and the large attendance showed the interest which the students feel in the subject. He said that while fraternities certainly can and do much good by bringing students together and giving them opportunities for the formation of lasting friendships, care should be taken by the fraternity members that they do not become too exclusive and acquire a feeling of superiority to other students, or seek to gain honors for their fellow members simply because they are members. He said that a student's joining a fraternity before he has been in school for at least a year indicates cowardice both on the part of the student and of the fraternity. The fraternites have undoubtedly caused an undue increase in the cost of living in the University, and also in the number of parties with late hours; but while deprecating this, the non-fraternity students should be careful not to fall into the same errors as the fraternity students. On Wednesday he spoke on Intra-mural Manners. The advice which he gave was forcible and well put and should awaken the students to a sense of their short-comings, especially "the sitters and spitters on the stairs."
Another of our students has been attacked with the Columbian Guard fever. Wilbur Kinzie left yesterday for Chicago to make application for entrance into the Columbian Guards. This ends his connection with the University' Next year he will probably study law at Cornell. ___
Tucker went to Lansing today, to take photographs of the state penitentiary. He intends to take views of the exterior and interior, about a dozen in all. Some of the latter will contain the portraits of notorious convicts. The photographs are for the use of Professor Blackmar.
A great many students have read B. O. Flower's article in the February Forum on Low Ethical Ideals in our Higher Educational Centres. Most of them think that in deportment at least the University compares favorably with Princeton and Yale.
Mr F. Mailatt of the department of entimology at the State Agricultural College called at the University Monday to visit his former student Dr. Williston.
The College Republican Club yesterday elected W. L. Gardner Treasurer, and Rush, Steele and E. E. Hopkins delegates to the State Republican League Convention which meets at Topeka Friday and Saturday.
Invitations are out for an Independent dance Friday night.
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