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The Students Journal
PUBLISH+D WEEKLY BY THE Students Journal Publishing Company
WM. J. KREHBIEL ... Editor-in-chief
W W. RENO ... Local Editor
ROSE MORGAN ... Literary Editor
RUSINESS MANAGERS.
J. H. MUSTARD. | D. H. SPENCER
ASSOCIATES.
Charles S. Griffin ... Literary
Joe L. Heels ... The Hunt
Annie Kelly ... Music
E. H. Lees ... Law
Athletics
W. H. Kutz ... Engine-ring
Herbert Levy ... Personnel
N. M. Malakoff ... Welling
A. O. Garrett ... Exchanges
The stock of the STUDENTS JOURNAL company consists of non-transfer-raised one dollar shares. Any student, instructor or employee of the University, my hold one and only one share.
"TEACHING is a life long learning of how to deal with human minds."
THE Congo Free State has a newspaper published by two educated negro women.
Do you take advantage of every opportunity to speak a good word for the University and its work?
JUST at present Kansas City is receiving much good from the University through the lectures on Sanitation delivered there by Prof. Marvin. Kansas City realizes the worth of such an educational institution and appreciates our assistance.
CHAS. K. ADAMS, the new president of Wisconsin University, in his inaugural address said that Switzerland, which is less than one-fifth the size of Minnesota and has less than one half the population of New York, appropriated $500,000 for a chemical laboratory at Zurich a few years ago and since then $750,000 for a laboratory of physics. Switzerland is prepared to keep abreast of the times. How is it with Kansas?
--gentlemen may be obliged to build a sort of club house, where they can retire to discuss college politics.
LITTLE petty jealouisies are apt to spring up among rival institutions in any place, and they always tend to hinder the progress for which each institution of that class is laboring. This is also true of colleges, and the organization of the Kansas College Press association was the result of thought and action along this line. The eleven papers which entered the association are all determined to work for their respective schools. But by being organized they will also cultivate harmony and good feeling among the various schools and will advance the cause of education by unity of purpose.
It has often been said that "the hinge of destiny is a spare moment," yet how few of us recognize its truth by our practice. Many a genius has been developed by judiciously employing a few minutes every day for a specific purpose. One of our greatest naturalists acquired much of his knowledge in this way while pursuing a course at school, and finally became so much interested in natural history that he gave up his chosen life work and began the study of nature in a scientific manner. It is better by far to spend such moments in observation and thought, than in hasty reading merely indulged in for pastime.
PATHOBIOTISM is at all times to be commended, but for a body of students at a state university to enlist in the services of political parties in the state during times of great excitement is a thing to be deprecated unless absolutely necessary. The young men who went to Topeka last week and took one side or the other in the conflict certainly did not think that as students in a non-partisan public school they must not act so as to commit the school one way or the other. In order to get the best possible success from our educational institutions they must be kept entirely free from and above the influence of partisan politics, and must bend every energy to educational work.
Although the Lecture Bureau has secured more and better entertainments this year than ever before, because of the establishment of a bureau fund and of the tireless efforts of the management, still many of the patrons have seen fit to express dissatisfaction with every lecture which has been delivered.
LECTURE BUREAU.
The management is only carrying out the wishes of the students in making up a course of entertainments, and if the attractions are not pleasing, the blame should not all be placed on the shoulders of the managers. When it was decided to place an extra musical entertainment on the course, many objected that already it was all amusement and no profit. The students did not want an amusement course, but wished by a judicious arrangement to have both amusement and instruction. Therefore, they chose to have a few thoroughly instructive lectures and some other attractions of a lighter nature. The student body said what it wanted, and the managers of the course procured what was desired. The three lectures on the course which have been delivered were on subjects which should find many interested listeners, and as students we should ere this have learned to interest ourselves in things not for the mere passing pleasure it may bring, but for the lasting good.
Every thorough student is ready to testify to the advantages to be derived from an acquaintance with all sorts of books on a given subject. How much better will we hold fast to things expressed in a book when we have a sight: acquaintance with the author.
Who is there among the students who does not realize the benefit to be derived from merely meeting men who have become respected by the world as men of brains and ability? We derive a double benefit, then, if these great thinkers will spend an evening with us and will tell us of their deep researches in fields into which we can as yet but peep. These men who have appeared before us, have granted us a favor which is not often extended to the west. They are respected and honored by the people of the east, but when they come here our students and citizens can find nothing but criticism for their actions, and denunciation for their learned lectures. It is hard to say that we are not able to appreciate such lectures, but such must be the logical conclusion if we can find nothing but dissatisfaction. Hereafter, let us be more careful of unjust condemnation simply because we are not pleased. If the students want more amusement and less instruction, then let them so instruct the management.
For some reason or other the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity has deferred the election of four of the ten members to be chosen from the present Senior class. Why this delay is made is not clear, for in order to be of any pleasure or benefit to a student the election should be held at once. When out of school much of the pleasure will be lost because of the envious and admiring classmates. The election at this time to membership might also aid a student in acquiring scholarship or fellowships in eastern colleges where election to the Phi Beta Kappa is regarded as a great recommendation. If a student is to be elected at all why prolong the aching suspense longer than is necessary?
--gentlemen may be obliged to build a sort of club house, where they can retire to discuss college politics.
THE efforts of the State Oratorical Association to keep better order during the contest were effective and the conduct of the audience was certainly very gratifying to those who had attended former contests where all sorts of devices were used to make a noise. Strict attention was given to the orators and and all enthusiasm was kept under proper control, and indulged at the proper time. In all ways the contest was as a contest among gentlemen should be.
When you are up town you cannot help feel the influence of that great industrial motor. For blocks around the crowds are going to, and coming from Bullene, Moore, Emery & Co's.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT
WHEN THE DAY IS DONE.
The rolling thunder cliffs sink back to rest
As slowly fades from sight the set sun, en-
nouncing to the world the day is done,
From his bright hill-top in the distant west;
And all the lines of rainbow, vapor-drest,
Precede the twilight scarcely yet begun,
And many a perium of the zephyr won—
The sweetest portion of the day's bequest.
And so in Kansas, though with warlike lest,
The citizens reize weapons one by one,
And party strife and treachery arrest
Law in the commonwealth, the loaded gun,
The armed array, the angry warrior's quest,
Shall all be peaceful when the day is done.
-A. K. HOGE.
The class in Advanced English Composition was asked recently to write an allegory. The following shows the spirit of vengeance which animates some of the class:
Allie Gory was a very beautiful maiden. Her father had taken great pains with her education, and she charmed all by the simplicity of her manners and the ease of her conversation. Her popularity was increased by the fact that everyone who saw her felt that she resembled some one whom he had known before, but he could never be quite sure just who it was she looked like.
THE SAD STORY OF ALLIE GORY.
One day it was published abroad that there would be a great fair, and that a valuable prize would be given to the man who could place on exhibition the most beautiful daughter. Now, when Allie's father, Sir Metaphor Gory, heard of this fair, he determined to present his daughter as a competitor; for he was sure that she was the most beautiful maiden in the land.
When Sir Metapher brought in his daughter, the judge was very busy and told one of his assistants to examine her. Now this assistant, as it happened, was studying to become a surgeon, and when he saw the beautiful maiden, he immediately thought what a fine subject she would make for some experiments which he had long been desiring to perform. Setting to work immediately, therefore, he sawed off her arms and made several deep gashes in her face and neck.
When the judge came in, he was horrified at the bloody spectacle. He saw, however, that she had been very beautiful, and at once attempted to heal her wounds and restore her beauty. But he did not succeed very well. Her arms would not fit on as well as before, and the glass eye that he inserted in place of the one which the assistant had taken out was of the wrong color. Besides, there were deep red scars on her forhead and cheeks, and some of her fingers were gone.
When the father came and was told that this poor unfortunate was his daughter, he looked fiercely at the judge, and then he seized his child and tore her in pieces. This is the sad story of Allie Gory.
SONG OF THE SENSITIVE SOUL
O give me lees or give me more!
Vanity which makes me soar
Their leta me drop like leading ors.
O give me lees or give me more!
O give me less or give me more!
Concept which makes me such a bore.
Vet with trial knowledge leaves me sore.
O give me lees or give me more!
We are threatened with crinoline. (For the benefit of the uninformed we explain that crinoline is a disease, probably of the nature of a carbuncle, which attacks ladies' skirts, and makes them swell to the size of a hogshead. It is very contagious.) The full import of this statement is not to be taken in at once. An epidemic of crinoline next fall would affect the University in various ways.
The library building must be planned with reference to it. With good nature and a little skill one can make his way through the present reading rooms, even in chapel time. But imagine do it if crinoline were prevalent! Clearly the library building must have wide passage ways. Probably the lecture room in Snow Hall will have to be reseated, and as the halls will have to be cleared, the
Such a state of affairs would really be serious and might raise an out cry against the admission of women to colleges. Crinoline, if it comes, will deal co-education the hardest blow it has ever received. Ought we not to ask for a small appropriation from the legislature, that investigations may be conducted as to the value of inoculation against it? At least ships arriving from France and England, where crinoline has already appeared, should be quarantined, and subjected to a rigid examination by the health officers.
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Is communication by means of speech in danger of becoming one of the lost arts? We talk, of course, but how little real interchange of ideas is accomplished in this way, and how little opportunity we give ourselves for anything of the sort. There is no place for serious conversation in our social life. When we invite guests we expect as a matter of course to furnish them with some form of entertainment. "Come let us reason together," is an unheard of invitation, and most of our social gatherings are too large to make it a practical one.
Yet the spoken word is the closest means of communication we have. The speaker has the assistance of his personality and facial expression in making himself understood. There are advantages to be gained in many directions from frank, earnest discussion.
The Greeks had no newspapers and few books, but they knew how to talk. We don't. Undoubtedly this is largely due to the fact that we depend so much on the printed word both in imparting and acquiring knowledge. Writing has the advantage of being permanent, and of reaching greater numbers, but it should not be allowed to usurp the place of speech.
Of all the adjuncts to the University, the hill probably receives the most abloquy, and deserves the least. To be sure, the stairs are sometimes pretty vigorously complained of, but there is a large class of students who regard the stairs as an excellent substitute for chairs, while those who sit down on the hill commonly do so quite involuntarily. Not only is the hill daily decried and trodden under foot, but we always feel obliged to apologize for it to visitors, though we seldom fail to point out to them the landscape it enables them to see.
Anyone can tell, after a moment's reflection, that the hill has great advantages. No doubt it is because of the hill that gymnastics are not obligatory here, as they are in Nebraska, Bryn Maur, and other less favorably situated schools. The hill removes the University from the prying gaze of vulger eyes, and renders it unnecessary to paint the lower sashes of the windows. The hill is the best place to test the force of the wind. But why particularize? Where would the University be without it? It certainly could not continue to occupy its present high position.
Inasmuch as the feeling against the hill is evidently a prejudice, means should be taken to remove it. Now, Kansas is a level country, and the explanation of the bill's unpopularity may be in the fact that the majority of the students who come here have not been educated up to it. To remedy this deficiency, the University might give the preference to graduates of such high schools as are situated on eminences, and require such as are not to institute a course conducive to the practical understanding of Right Ascension.
Christopher is the only man in the University who travels on the railroads for half fare.
KODAK SHOTS
"By what authority do you stop my troops?" exclaimed the brigadier general to the presumptuous state militia which confronted him.
There is a student in a boarding club on Kentucky street who writes a check for his board and then hastens to the bank and deposits the amount before the check is presented.
The Kodak has secured several excellent photos lately by arranging the groups in tiers on the stairway. We owe an apology for blocking the steps and halls, but it takes considerable time to get artistic poses.
The STUDENTS JOURNAL is the best all around, newsy college publication that comes to the Cent). We get a lot of them but they have generally a great fault; there is nothing in them.—Geo. Fulton, Ed.
The crisis is past. The reputation of the University is saved. Eleven of the foot ball players have decided to come back, even though we do not get any appropriation.
There is a mysterious secret order in the University whose members pledge themselves by the initials I. H.B. It is thought their color is crimson as one member has a crimson banner with a latin motto on it.
The new catalogue is the most complete epitome of what the University is that has ever been issued. It should become the almanac of every high school in the state. Each student should see that a copy reaches his own high school Loyalty in other colleges is shown by gifts of its alumni: we are just as loyal and can prove it by personal work.
There is one patriotic student who has a valid excuse for going to the seat of war. Immediately upon the breaking out of trouble he received a dispatch saying briefly, "Come up," which he supposed to be a unanimous request of the governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, both branches of the legislature, and in fact, everybody in the state house, as it was signed, "Capitol." The Faculty should not take any action in his case.
The Chancellor's bulletin has a list of names for chapel rhetoricals, filling every day in the month. A note kindly informs the student body that, though the list of names may be revised, the dates will remain the same. This will relieve the minds of many; since time will go on undisturbed whether rhetoricals continue or not. Everybody will feel grateful to the faculty for so generously allowing the days to retain their orderly procession regardless of the rhetorical scheme.
There was considerable wire pulling in the recent University elections. The startling charge is now made by certain politicians, who did not secure office, that there exists a "Consolidated Barbwire association" in the University. Furthermore it is alleged that this society is having a "barb-wire" factory built in Lawrence at the present time, by which they intend to control University politics hereafter. It seems scarcely credible that a plot threatening the foundation of democratic government, could be carried out on such an extensive plan. Yet the fact remains that a "barb" wire factory, backed by several thousand dollars, is being pushed to completion in this city. The faculty should investigate. Let us hear from the Record.
CENTRAL BARBER SHOP,
Elegant Bath Rooms
Just refitted in first class style.
JOHN PUTNAM, Man'g r.
Kansas Ave., . . Topeka, Kan.
700 Kansas Ave., - Topeka, Kan.
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