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We are accustomed to think of Harvard as teaching everything that any one might want to study. But the following extract from Prof. A. R. Marsh's report on the modern language departments of Harvard will show in what important branches this conservative institution is behind the other newer and more enterprising schools: "In the modern language departments the following languages are taught: Old and Middle High German, Modern German, Gothic, Old Saxon, Icelandic, Low Latin, Old and Modern French, Provencal, Italian and Spanish This is a very gratifying list, ank yet the experienced eye will detect at once several serious gaps in the round of studies which the University should aim to offer. For example we have but one course in the Scandinavian tongues—i.e. Icelandic; not a single course in the modern Low German languages; not one in the Slavic idioms, in Celtic, in Portuguese or in Catalan. When one reflects upon the extent and value of Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Celtic and Portuguese literatures, and upon the number of persons of all these nationalities now to be found in the United States, he cannot but regret that the resources of the University are insufficient for providing at least elementary instruction in them."
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The Shanar Dancing Girl and Other Poems, by Cora M. Stockton, published Hudson & Kimberly of Kansas City.Mo. has been placed in the library. Mrs.Cora M.Stockton, formerly Mrs.Cora M.Downs, liyas at Kansas City, Kansas and was for a time a regent of the State University during Gov. St.John's administration. The volume is dedicated to Mrs.Bertha Palmer, and shows the author to possess the gift of easy versification. The poem, "Mountain Born." is, in our judgment, the best in the volume.
The contents of the January number of the Kansas University Qurererly are as follows: On the Ayioceridae and their Allies, S. W. Williston. Diptera Brasiliana III. S. W. Williston. Notes on Some Diseases of Grasses, W. C. Stevens. Modern Higher Algebra, E. Miller.
Dialect Word List II, W. H. Carruth; Maximum Bending Moment for Moving Loads in a Parabolic Arch-Rib. Hinged at the ends, E. C. Murphy.
It is worthy of observation that simultaneously the masses started to the universities and the universities to the masses. Last year the different members of our own faculty delivered one hundred and fifty lectures to Kansas communities accepting no remuneration outside of traveling expenses. At the same time the number of students of the University has greatly increased.
THIS is no time for loyal Kansans to stand idle. The State University, the head of the educational system of Kansas, has reached a crisis. It must have help; not encouraging words; not good wishes: money-money ineeded.
The course in the drama given conjointly during the past term by Profs. Wilcox, Robinson, Canfield, Dunlap and Carruth, consisted of lectures on the history of the stage and of dramatic literature in Greece, Rome, France, England and Germany, and of reading in the library. Each member read in translations five plays, and made a critical analysis of one of them, of each of the literatures of these five nations.
A grand reception and ball is talked of in honor of the Glee and Banjo club directly after the concert Friday night. Fraternal Aid hall will probably be engaged and the admission of 50 cents a couple charged, the proceeds to go to the University Columbian exhibit fund.
Senator Thacher, of Lawrence, has introduced into the state senate, senate bill No 151, an act relating to the Spooner library building at the State University of Kansas.
Moot Senate Committees.
The following are the moot senate committees. The first named os each committee is chairman:
1. Contingent expenses—Hunter, Bessey, Southwick.
2. Commerce--Vaniman, Cramer, Rush.
3. Education—Cooke, Foulks, Corbin.
4. Epidemic diseases—Mustard, Sherman, Waltmire.
5. Finance—Rush, Fullerton, Sturgeon.
6. Foreign affairs—Raymond Winter, Griffin.
7. Indian affairs—Higgins, Reno, Donnelly.
8. Interstate commerce, Griffin, Lease, Sproul.
9. Judiciary—Sturgeon, Lawson, McClintock.
10. Manufactures—Moore, Steele, Fouls.
11. Military affairs—Garrett, Sproul, Donnelley.
12. Patents—McKinnon, Hogg, Lawson.
13. Pensions—Southwick, Gardner, Mustard.
14. Public Lands—Waltmire, Vaniman, Raymond.
15. Railroads—Orr, Hunter, Owen.
15. Amendments to the constitution of the United States—Huff, Orr, Phillips of Neyada.
17. General improvements—Hogg Cooke, Buchan.
18. Temperance—Gardner, Garrett Hoff.
18. Temperance — Gardner, Garrett,
Huff.
The Greek Symposium.
At the meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 18th, Mr. Jus Bowersock read a paper on the Philosophy of Socrates. The pre-Socratic philosophy, he said, led to two forms of skepticism; that of the sophists and that of Socrates himself. The latter though was a complete answer to the former. This was shown by a review of the sophists and their doctrines and the corresponding ideas of Socrates. The latter was not, as is often said, only a missionary, but is justly entitled to be called a philosopher in the realms of ethics. The master of Plato must have been a philosopher, and indeed his whole life proves that though he did not develop a system publicly, yet he had one. According to that, thought, not sensation is the most important part of man, and the human mind contains within itself a great number of innate ideas. The method of induction and the definition of general terms were at least suggested by Socrates, if he did not actually himself employ them. Virtue, he taught, was knowledge; vice a sort of madness which can be removed by knowledge. His death, even more clearly than his life, marks him as one of the world's greatest philosophers.
Mr. Sterling exhibited and spoke of the latest edition of Jowett's Translation of Plato. Though not always giving an exact reproduction the of thought of Plato, it makes that thought clear to men of today, and by its beautiful style has given the English language a work ranking with its great originals.
Prof. Wilcox spoke of the existing portraits of Socrates and Plato; showing a reproduction of a bust lately found which gives the best portrait we have of Plato.
Adelphic.
The following is the program for Friday evening. February 3rd;
Essay... Charles Armour
Declaration... B. W. Dickinson
Talk... Jacob Holmes
Oration... A. S. Foulks
Essay... B. B McCall
Are examinations profitable?
AFF. NEG.
W. W. Reno H. C. Riggs
Otis Allen James Orr
MUSIC
Decision of judges.
DEBATE.
Miss Kate Wilder, formerly of K. S. U., instructor in hygiene and director of the gymnasium for women in Nebraska University is visiting in town.
The seats for the Glee and Banjo club concert for Friday night went like hot cakes yesterday morning when the chart opened. Prof, K. Geza Von Dome with his exquisite violin playing and Mr. Ed Young with his trick banjo work are alone worth the price of admission. McCall and Baker in "Romeo and Juliet" are side-splitting. The quartette has ordered an extra lot of crimson hose for the rendition of "Schneidar's Band "
It will be a great concert. Prices only 50, 35 and 25 cents.
AMUSEMENTS.
Notice
According to the constitution of the Oratorical Association any student of the School of Arts, may vote for most of the officers of the association by registering in a book provided for that purpose. Such book may be found on the general bulletin board for three days only. Those days will be Friday, Monday and Tuesday. Let everybody register.
W. G. Kelly, son of ex Senator Kelly, who until the legislature convened attended the University, has been appointed clerk of the senate committee of cities of the first class of which Judge Thacher is chairman, and the following is told about how he got the place: Kelly started out to be a reading clerk in the house, but he was deposed at the instance of Chairman Simpson of the republican state central committee Kelly, the younger, recognized at once that his set back was due to the blistering which his father gave to Simpson in an interview published just after the Waterloo. He said that he would see whether in Kansas politics the sins of the father were to be handed down to an innocent generation The young man has shown that he is something of a politician himself; he has turned the flank of the republican generalissimo and given up a place with an uncertain prospect for a position with a sure salary.
MATTHEW ARNOLD went to see him on his arrival, and it is needless to say that Whittier derived sincere pleasure from the visit; but Arnold's delightful recognition of Whittier's "In School Days" as one of the perfect poems which must live, gave him fresh assurance of fulfilled purpose in existence. He had followed Arnold with appreciation from his earliest appearance in the world of letters, and knew him, as it were "by heart" long before a personal interview was possible. In a letter written after Arnold's return to England, he says: "I share thy indignation at the way our people have spoken of him—one of the foremost men of our time, a true poet, a wise critic, and a brave, upright man, to whom all English speaking people owe a debt of gratitude. I am sorry I could not see him again."—From "Whittier," by Annie Fields, in Harper's Magazine for February.
Prot. Hicks has predicted that from January 25th to 27th we are to look for rain or snow and after a few days of warm er weather, hard freezing weather about the 31st. He forecasts for February 1st cold, 5th, warmer with rain or snow to the 7th. Then will follow a cold wave extending to the 12th, and cold with sleet, rain thunder, snow to the 19th and storms and much cold to the end of the month.
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