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gratifying, this report states, to know that there appears to be no mineral (earthy) adulteration in the flour. $\Delta$ microscopic examination reveals the fact that the two principal admixtures are corn and wheat flour, the latter often being in small proportion. In one case the flour examined contained so little buck-wheat that it was almost impossible to sea any buckwheat starch granules under the microscope. It appeared to be a mixture of corn and wheat flour adulterated with a small quantity of buckwheat
Very little attention is paid to the raising of this grain in the state of Kansas. About fifteen hundred acres under cultivation yield 30,000 bush-els, the value of which is about $22,000. New York and Pennsylvania produce about two-thirds of all the buckwheat raised in the United States. That which is produced here is raised largely for experiment. Our farmers seem to think such a crop either impossible on account of the acidity of the soil at the very season it should be moist for the filling of the grain, or at best unprofitable even when the conditions are fair. It is evident however, that the experiment has not been tried sufficiently to arrive at any very trustworthy conclusions.
The Annual.
the Annual has already been sent to the printers, Hall & McDonald of Topeka. The rest will in all probability be sent in a few days, and a strong effort will be made to get the book out not later than April.
It is sometimes said that an annual is no better as a medium for communicating facts about a college or university than are the ordinary catalog published yearly by such institutions. In a sense no doubt this is true. Perhaps an annual is even not so good as a catalog for some kinds of facts. A young man or woman wishing to enter a university will find in a catalog more satisfactory information as to how he is to enter it and what he is absolutely required to do after entering than he can get from the best college annual. But if he wishes to find out all he can about the real life of the students, of the spirit which animates them, of their relations to one another and to the faculty and if he is such a person as a university ought to seek to enroll among her students he will wish to know all these things before making choice of a school, then he must go, not to the catalog, but to the college publications, and above all to the annual, whose highest function it is to give a faithful picture of the many-sided life of the student with all the local coloring which belongs to that life as it is lived the particular institution by and for which the Annual is published.
It is a very grave mistake, therefore, to think that a college annual is something which seeks to fill a place that it is not vacant. When undertaken and executed in a spirit of fairness and justice to all, the publication of such a book is an enterprise than which none worthier can be engaged in or given the kindly support and good will of all students who have the welfare of their University at heart. It is needless to say that without this kindly support no annual can be a success either financially or in any other way however faithfully its business managers and publishers may seek to do their work. The Annual which will be published from this institution next April, whatever else it may be, will at any rate be a publication that will fairly represent and describe the entire student body of the University of Kansas. As such it is fairly entitled to the most loyal encouragement and support from every student of the University.
There was a large attendance of University people at the Whitney Mackridge concert at the Congregational church last Saturday night. The concert was one of the finest ever given in Lawrence and all were highly pleased with it in every particular.
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Language Conference.
Two very interesting papers were read before the conference on Thursday, January 12, the first one, "The Relation of History and Fiction, by Mr Ross, and the second one, Beowulf and Achilles by Miss Edith Manley.
MY boss said: We are told that history and story are the same words, derived from a common Greek source. History is regarded as information obtained by diligent inquiry and critical examination. But the word story has fallen from its high place of also meaning something obtained, by inquiry, and now signifies a mere creation of the imagination. The relation of these two words will be readily understood by considering the nature of history in its early development as a branch of literature. Macaulay says of Herodotus: "He has written something better than the best of history; he is from the first to the last chapter an invention." But Macaulay did not mean that the history of Herodotus was not based upon reliable information, but that for the sake of adding interest to his book Herodotus exaggerated many important events. Thucydides and Livy may be criticized for the same thing. The plays of Shakespeare are not good history; they are something better than the best history, for they combine accurate historical information with the profoundest philosophy of life.
Many historians err by sacrificing truth to eloquence. History, as it is written, gives too much attention to details at the expense of the real facts of history. The novelists of the present time have done more than just to entertain the reader. They have furnished a vast amount of historical information, and enable the reader to grasp the important points more firmly. It is certainly true that there is as much truth in the poetry of life as in its prose.
Miss Manley said.—It is not always wise to judge a nation by its actual achievements. It does not seem unfair to regard the hero of a nation's epic as the representative of that nation's ideal. Achilles was the ideal Greek of the heroic age. Beowulf was the first among the Danes and Geats. Beowulf and the Iliad are the characteristic productions of two nations' at essentially the same stage of development. Let us recall the story of Beowulf. While upon a voyage Beowulf learns that his friend Hrothrang has suffered much from the ravages committed by Grendel. Beowulf determines to seek revenge, and goes to the home of Hrothgar. The first night he is there he is aroused by an attack of the dragon. An encounter takes place and Grendel is killed. Then Grendel's mother seeks revenge by carrying off nine of the warriors. Beowulf attacks her in her cave in the bottom of the mere, and after a terrible struggle kills her also. Then he returns to his home. After fifty years Hygelac, his king, dies, and his throne is offered to Beowulf, but Beowulf refuses it while there is a lawful heir living. Finally he becomes king. Then a terrible fire dragon begins to devastate the land. Beowulf goes out with a party of Goats to destroy him. But as soon as the fight begins the Geats all desert Beowulf excepting his nephew. A terrible fight ensues. The dragon is killed, but Beowulf is mortally wounded. His last words are words of comfort and wise counsel for his people.
The story of Achilles is far different. It is an account of a man, base selfish, one who hates the king, and is seeking revenge for his injured feelings. Doubtless many of the revolting characteristics of Achilles may be attributed to the rudeness of the age. His love for his friend, and the sorrow caused by his death are genuine passions. Achilles as well as Beowulf feels the shadow of an over-mastering fate. Of Boenwulf not one unworthy action is recorded. He habitually rises above self and thus portrays a nobler race of people than that which Achilles represents.
LAURA RADFORD, Reporter.
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The Seminary Meeting.
At the University Seminary Friday Judge James Humphrey delivered an especially interesting lecture on the relations of political economy to governmental legislation, presenting the question from the standpoint of each platform as influenced by party interests.
The coinage subject was forcefully treated, tracing its growth through its primitive stages, noting its abuses in the old countries and their bearing upon our legislators; considering the exchangeable value of gold and silver as dependant on the market prices of the metals or as created by the government stamp, and the call for the legislative equalizing of the purchasing power of gold and silver and their relation to the cost of production. The equalizing principle was a strong point in each of the lecturer's arguments, from the monetary value of the metals to the demand and supply of products and attendant fluctuation of prices and the evil of over supply as exemplified by the growth of the cattle industry and its abatement, demonstrating that if the amount of gold and silver was doubled its exchange value would be diminished one half, and that on the hand if exchange values diminished, production would cease to be profitable.
Wages were duly considered as affected by imports and the resultant demand that if foreign production is allowed to compete against home production, there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home; wages as affected by the adveracity and not affected by the prosperity of employers; the tendency of the latter to diminish compensation and the protest of laborers in strikes.
Judge Humphrey outlined the policy of free trade and its consequences, defined the rights of 60,000,000 people as better determined by that number than by 400 assembled in Congress, and finished with a plea for the party that would give to each supporter the right to dispose of his own in the furtherance of his personal interests and to the greatest good.
Are there to be chapel rhetoricals next term? If so the list of speakers with their dates should be posted as soon as possible. To wait until a week or two from the time when they are to commence would be a manifest injustice to those who have to speak first. To write a good oration takes considerable time, and the students should be given all the time possible, and not be compelled to neglect their other work at the last moment. A student never expects that he will have to speak first until his name is posted.
The committee on reception to the University of Kansas Giee and Banjo club, which appears at the Auditorium February 24, met yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock and discussed various plans for the proper reception of the club on its arrival. A committee will be appointed at the meeting to be held at the same time and place next Tuesday afternoon to go to the dept and escort the club to one of the hotels. Several of the boxes at the Auditorium will be taken by "K. S. U." people and will be decorated in crimson, the colors of the University The club has just completed the most successful tour, during which it gave twenty-four concerts, attended eighteen receptions and had a royal reception all along the line.-Kansas City Journal.
The following are the faculty regulations concerning examinations: Examinations will be held for all students, and during the regular recitation hours of the last days of the term (or half term), each study in its proper recitation hour; they may continue, not to exceed one hour for each hour per week that the study has occupied. Special examination will be given only during examination weeks and during the opening week of the fall term. A condition which is not made up at the next examination period is replaced in the list of failures. A student falling in more than one-third of his work severs his connection with the University thereby.
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Essay... C. E. Shutt
Oration... A. A. Bosey
Essay... M. E. Farley
Oration... A. K. Hoge
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