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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE Students Journal Publishing Company
M. SHERREK ... editor-in-Chief
B. E. SODERSTROM ... Literary Editor
JOHN M. STERLK ... local Editor
WM. M. RAYMOND ... Exchange Editor
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
BUSINESS MANAGER
C.T.SOUTHWICK, W.J.KREHBIEL.
SUB-EDUTORS.
SUBJECT
H. C. Riggs. Miss Helen Wynne,
A. C. Gharrett Dean Foster.
A. R. Hoges S. E. Bronson,
F. W. Wallick Herbert Levy.
A TRUE education is a blessing to its possessor, and a priceless luxury to all those surrounding him.
EVERY year our University keeps many in Kansas, who, without the University, would be obliged to carry much money from the state, in order to secure educations. It also draws no inconsiderable amount of money from other states.
A TRUE education is wholly democratic; seeking not form, but substance; not wealth, but manliness; not favor, but freedom; not fashion, but usefulness; not a class, but mankind. A state encouraging an institution which disseminates such an influence, is sowing the seeds of prosperity.
MODERN education depends on libraries quite as much as on instructors. Yet, on account of a lack of room, only a small number of us students are enabled to use the library as it should be used. Until a library building is erected, procuring a really broad and liberal education at the University of Kausas must continue to be up hill work.
No man is liberally educated until he thoroughly understands hygiene and sanitation, knowing how to satisfy the primary wants of his body and how to purify and keep pure his environments, the water he drinks, the air he breathes. In these matters, practicalness is almost as essential as life itself is.
Missouri bordering Kansas on the east, and Nebraska bordering on the north are just at present thoroughly aroused and in earnest in regard to their Universities. They are using money liberally because they believe it will pay. This year the Nebraska legislature has been asked $205,000 for current expenses. Kansas has not only been unwise in making small appropriations,but the Kansas University itself has shown a lack of judgment in asking for only thirty-six per cent of the amount asked for by her sister university. A first class college can not be run on good wishes. It takes money.
A STUDENT from Pasaipolees hitched his wagon to a star, entered the University, began a poem, and died of grief. His life and his poem, though both are fragmentary and somewhat blank are as
follows:
* * * * * * * agitation,
* * * * * * bombilation,
* * * * * * examination
* * * * * * deplamination.
* * * * * * mome
* * * * * * home.
THERE is one unfortunate feature in the Moody bill, which appropriates $75,000 a year for the maintenance of the University. The amount remains unchanged from year to year, no matter how much the value of the taxable property in the state increases, or how much greater the attendance at the University becomes. It would be much wiser if a tax of three-eighths of a mill were levied on all the taxable property of Kansas. That is the proportion of tax levied by some of our sister states for the maintenance of their state universities. If Kansas were to follow that rule about $116,000 would be raised yearly. With that amount the University of Kansas might hold her position among the state universities, which under the present law she can not possibly do.
THE ITINERANT UNIVERSITY,
THE ITINERANT UNIVERSITY variously called University Extension and the University on Wheels, has a useful future before it. Two communities, side by side, the one attending university extension lectures, the other not attending them, must have different histories. New ideas relating to one's work, whether the work be manual or professional, must inevitably increase the value of that work. Ideas are the most economical things on earth. The dissemination of advanced ideas is the aim and the end of University extension. This is an economy our University may bring about in the state—provided the appropriation for current expenses are liberal enough to hire assistants for professors already overworked. Under such circumstances the more liberal appropriation is a matter of wise economy.
K. S. U. AT CHICAGO.
"Uncle Bill" Jones was on the hill Monday, the first time for three months. To quit feeding cattle, to cease complaining of an endless winter, and to visit the University for a day is what he calls a luxury. And he says he will risk his reputation as a prophet by predicting that the Kansas building at the Columbian Exposition will attract more visitors than any other two state buildings on the grounds. Instead of being deserted, except by the inhabitants of its own state, as other state buildings will be, he says it is bound to be crowded all the time. He considers the display of Prof. Dyche's taxidermic work, the most fortunate thing in the history of kansas. Every day from morning until night great crowds will be gathered in the building to view the animals, and, then, he says, is the time to distribute Kansas circulars. If Kansas can't catch fish with a bate like that, there is no use of truing.
ONE of the first things the prospective Kansas Intercollegiate Press Association should attempt, is to put down the practice of petty quarrels between college editors, or between different schools. If a paper is unfortunate enough to have an editor so pevish he can not discuss questions relative to his school, or to anything else for that matter, without losing his temper and employing abuse, instead of argument, the other editors in the association should promptly and emphatically express their disapproval of his inviability. It is to be hoped all collegiate men in Kansas are striving to develop liberal manliness, and the editorials should be taken as indexes of the editors characters. Then why not look to the indexes? It would certainly engender a more generous fellow feeling between different schools, and between the members of the different schools. Considering such questions as this would make the association what it ought to be—useful.
THE University of Chicago is making a special point of university extension. It has a university extension magazine, a special faculty for extension lecturing Evidently it has faith in extension work. Its faculty is generally considered one of the most liberal and wise in America. Their action in the present case will no much toward overcoming the prejudice against extension work. Our Univer sity should keep in step with other progressive schools. It will be highly gratifying, if it receives an appropriation sufficient to carry out this important part of its instruction. Kansas needs the work, the University is willing, as soon as it is able, to do much of it.
JUDGED by those who are competent to judge, the School of Pharmacy is a success. The druggists of Kansas appreciate its worth. The State Pharmaceutical Association is actively interesting itself in the welfare of the school. They know the worth of a thorough, systematic, scientific training in a druggist. Their interest in the school will cause larger numbers of students to attend it. The increased attendance will create an even more urgent necessity of the school having more commodious quarters.
The annual income of the University of Michigan amounts to $80,000. Kansas appropriates $75,000 yearly for her University. That is 19 per cent of the amount spent by the University of Michigan. How is it to be expected that 19 cents can compete with $1? Or is Kansas not desirous of having her University in the front rank?
19c. VS, §1.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY APPRO-
PRIATION.
One of the matters of great importance that should receive the attention of the Kansas lawmakers is the appropriation for the State University. That institution ought to be treated liberally by this legislature, for it contains a larger percentage of the representatives of the agricultural class than Kansas legislatures usually do, and if the University has demonstrated its usefulness to any one class that class has been the agricultural By the use of Professor Snow's infected chernch bugs it is estimated that the state has been the gainer in the past two years by the saying of crops to the extent of $300,000, a sum which largely exceeds the total appropriations for the maintenance of the college. The book on jurulous insects, by Professor Kellog, issued last year, is another work for which the state is indebted to the University, and is one which will prove of increasing benefit to the horticulturists. All reasonable demands of the college for funds should be granted willingly.—Kansas City Journal.
STEALING KANSAS THUNDER.
Denver people are generally fair minded but the latest exhibition of gall is the claim by the fines, of that city, that the exhibit of Kansas State University at the World's Fair was made up, to a great extent, from the work of a local Denver taridermist. One McFadden says that he killed the animals, "stuffed" them and then sent them to Professor Dyche. Such assertions are scarcely worth noticing, it were not for the fact the paper giving utterance to them is generally conceded to be a fair and honest Fully a thousand in Kansas have been to have workshops of Professor and have seen the work going on in all its stages and know that so far as the "stuffing" is concerned, McFadden had positively nothing to do with it. That he had nothing to do with furishing the material to the University is known to every man who is acquainted with Professor Dyche.
The amount of it all is that Colorado is the big game of his girl and her exhibit in this line is so small that it seems necessary for the man who has been selected to get up the exhibit to make some excuse for his poor and faulty work. The fact that he claims to have done such work as will be exhibited by the Kansas University shows that he is prepared to try to build up a good reputation for good workmanship, even at the expense of the truth.
If imitation is the sincerest flattery, what can be said of a man who has not brains enough to imitate, so tries to steal the thunder of someone else who can do such work as will attract the attention of the whole world?—Kausas City Journal.
ONE of the best things ever written by a Kansas man, is a small pamphlet entitled "Common Injurious Insects of Kansas," by Prof. V L. Kellogg of the State University. It contains in plain language just what the farmer and fruit grower want to know about the insects which at times are so destructive. Not only are the habitats where they live in readable shape, but also the remedies and preventives best known to science and to practical operations in the field, garden and orchard. The edition is but 10,000, but until it is exhausted every citizen of the state is entitled to a copy by remitting five cents to pay the postage. —Ex.
Prof. Kellogg's book on bugs, alone is worth all to the farmers of Kansas that the University will ask.—Kansas Citv Star.
What is given to institutions of higher education should be in such amounts as to enable the managers to make improvements as well as to pay running expenses. The State University for instance, will be left behind by the universities of other states, if a more liberal policy is not put in operation at once. Increased appropriations are needed to keep up the school and enlarge the scope of its work, and the institution ought to have them. Considering the great benefits conferred on the people by his discoveries, Chancellor Snow should not be denied the means he thinks necessary to increase the usefulness of what should be every Kansan's pride, the State University,—Rooks County Record.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
THE ARTIST AND HIS WORK.
How can that be, iad, which all men learn
By long experience? Shapes that seem grave,
Wrought in hard mountain marble, will survive
their maker whom the years to dust return!
Thus to effect causes yield. Arts hither her art,
And triumphs over Nature. I, who strive
With Sculpture, know this well, her wonders live
in spite of death and death, those tyrants stern.
So I can give长 life to both of us
In either way, by color or by stone,
Making the semblance of thy face and mine.
Centuries hence when both are buried, thus
They cany and my sadness shall be shown,
And men shall say, 'For her twa' wise to pine.
— MICHAEL ANGELO.
DRYDEN'S IDEAS OF. SATIRE COMPARED WITH POE'S.
In an article in the January number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, on education in the preparatory schools, Clas Francis Adams shows the evil effects on preparatory education in New England of the present method of admitting students to Harvard upon examination, and advocates admission on probation by certificate. The present method of admission has made of preparatory education in New England, amply a cramming process, the deplorable results of which are attested by the Harvard entrance examination papers. Mr. Adams reproduces in his article twelve such papers, four of them in facsimile, being translations, into English of passages from "advanced" Greek and Latin classics. They are fair representations of the whole number of such papers presented at the examination last June by students of the twelve best preparatory schools in New England. For the rendering of the meaning of the original, coherent English, orthography and condition of manuscript, nothing could be much worse. It is safe to say that few applicants for admission to the University of Kansas have ever presented such miserable papers. The method adopted by the University of Kansas of late years of admitting students of accredited high schools on certificate has proved fairly successful. Friends of education in Kansas may congratulate themselves that the University does not exert on the high schools of the state the baneful influence of the effete institution of learning at Cambridge.
We are told that when a nation begins to develop a literature, one of the first forms of literary production is invective writing. Learned men of modern times have traced invective back to the early Greeks and Romans, and have followed out its development through its many stages from mere improvised raillery to careful and studied attacks upon vice and immorality, or in less noble forms of satire, to personal abuse. Men who write satire, and men who formulate rules by which others may write satire, have arisen in many different ages. There has been perhaps, no one era which produced more brilliant satirists than the Augustian age in Roman literature. Few modern authors have equalled Horace and his contemporaries in satire, though many have imitated them.
Among the writers of modern times who were ardent admirers of Horace, and whose ideas of satire seem to have borrowed, to a considerable extent from him, are Dryden and Pope; and it is with their views concerning satire that we have at present to deal.
Concerning the verse in which satire should be written—for satire in prose is not discussed—Dryden says he prefers the English heroic or ten-syllable meter, and gives as a reason the statement: "This sort of number is more rooomy; the thought can turn itself with greater ease in a larger compass." In his opinion Samuel Butler made a great mistake when he used the so-called burlesque or eight syllable verse in his "Hudibras" He says moreover that rhyme as it is used in Hudibras is not at all fitting for such "manly sature."
found in his Imitations than in the Dunc-ird.
Pope, too, seems to prefer the ten syllable line, for he uses it in all his Imitations, and in the Duncint. His verses almost always rhyme in couplets, though three consecutive lines occasionally rhyme. Lines rhyming thus are oftener
Dryden insists on unity of theme as a requisite of good satire; Pope is very much inclined to talk ramblingly of any person or thing that has excited his disapprobation, though it must be admitted that he has preserved this unity very well in the Duncird. Dryden says that one virtue should be inculcated, one vice denounced; Pope cares very little about either virtue or vice except in matters of personal interest to him. Though he says, "Cursed be the verse, how well oeer it flow That tends to make one worthy man my foe. A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead." he by no means confines his use of the lash to "babbling blockheads" and his unjust abuse made many a worthy man his foe.
"Hitch on a gorgeous seat that far offstone Henley's gilt tilt, or Fleckno'n Irish throne, Great Gibe sater; the proud *Arnasian sneer* The conscious simper and the jealous leer Mix in his look; all eyes direct their rays On him, and crowds turn coxcomb as they gaze."
Dryden gives only two conditions under which personal abuse is permissible in satire. Lampoons may be pardoned when the motive for their production is revenge, he says. But no true gentleman will write anything for revenge, and through our life teaching and training "we know that in Christian chrity all offences are to be forgiven." The second possible excuse for personal attacks lies in the possibility of poets of inferior rank becoming public nuisances and hence deserving public punishment. And there can be little doubt that the effects of such abuse have often been of great good to mankind. Pope, while ne pretends that he writes lampoons to rid the public of great nuisances, really writes for revenge on some real or supposed enemy. The opening lines of the second book of the Dunciad, show how bitterly unfair Pope could be:
He is very fond of telling how little originality any of his contemporaries had, forgetting that the same charge might fairly be brought against him, too. A typical passage reads thus:
A past, vamp'd, future, old, revived, new piece 'Twix Plantus, Fletcher, Shakespeare and Co.ville,
N.J., Gilbert Tibbald or Bell.'
Comparing what Dryden says he would write in satire with what Pope has written, the prize for fairness and kindness would most certainly be awarded to Dryden. If we go a little farther and compare Dryden's satirical writings with Pope's, we still find that Dryden, though he draws witty portraits of many men—with an ever ready pen, yet always confines himself to the truth—if history is to be believed. But we must remember that Dryden's satires dealt with politics and politicians, and Pope's with his own contemporaries and rivals in literature. Hence Pope's temptation to be unfair was much stronger than Dryden's. Perhaps, under the same circumstances, with the same deformity and the sensitiveness due to that deformity, Dryden would have been little fairer in satire than was Pope. We might, perhaps, have called him, as Pope has been called by Swift, a man
Co.vene,
Can make a Clibber, Tibbald, or Izell."
"Whose meanest talent is his wit."
MABEL HALL
The mathematical aloe of the library has recently been enriched by a copy of Prot. Sophus Lie's Differentialgleichungen. This volume contains a full exposition of Lie's method for the solution of ordinary and linear-partial differential equations. Former works on this subject have been hardly more than collections of special methods (often ingenious and tortuous to the last degree), which mathematicians have invented for the solution of special classes of problems. Lie's chief merit consists in unifying the whole theory of differential equations by basing it on one general underlying principle, that of infinitesimal transformation. Mayy of the fundamental problems of modern physics must wait for this solution until more powerful methods have been discovered for the integration of differential equations. Nature has ever challenged the mathematician, and Lie's book is the latest answer to that challenge. Its learned author con-
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