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THE GYMNASIUM
COMMUNICATIONS
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The mental and physical well being of the next generation depends, upon the mental and physical condition of this. This is true irrespective of sex.
All prominent educators realize that judicious physical training strengthens the mental powers; that no university curriculum is complete without a certain amount of required gymnasium work; and that the student who completes his course impaired in health, has gained but little from his alma mater.
Let us consider the stand the University of Kansas has taken in this matter. Some two years ago a wealthy and liberal lawyer of New York, delivered an address before the University, and was very much impressed with the facilities for mental training and the lack of opportunity for physical training in our noble institution. He immediately gave the Athletic Association $1,500 with the promise of a further sum equal to any the association might raise, and not long since gave $150 more. What was done with this gift and the money that the association raised? It was spent for a foot ball and
case ball team, for a high court reefer for would-be spectators who could not or would not pay, and for a grand stand for would-be spectators who could and would pay. McCook Field has been fitted up at an expense in round numbers of twenty-five hundred dollars. And to benedit whom? Why, twenty-five or thirty-bodied young men who least of all need such physical training, and who often carry one or two studies in the University merely to get an opportunity to twirl the horse-hide or carry the pigskin. But someone says, "We must have a foot ball team to advertise the University." There is a difference between reputation and notoriety. Or suppose that our team is defeated. What then? A gymnasium is never defeated. It is a benefit to all the students in college, all the time. "But our gymnasium is even now being refitted." How much do you think will be expended upon it? One of the faculty said the other day, "We can probably raise forty-five dollars towards fixing up a gymnasium. We shall buy some boxing gloves and a rowing machine, and shall charge the students who use them two or two and a half dollars per term, according to the number of such students." About the same amount was expended last year. Compare one hundred dollars expended to benefit six hundred people with two thousand five hundred to encourage twenty-five or thirty in a brutal pastime.
Then again are the young women to receive any benefit from such a gymnasium as we are to have? No. They are not considered at all. It is to be exclusively a gymnasium for the young men. Here is a matter surely worthy of consideration. If five hundred dollars were expended upon a gymnasium for the young men, and the same amount upon one for the young women, and a small amount of work in them required for graduation, the University of Kansas would acquire greater prestige and benefit mankind vastly more than if she had the best foot ball team in the world; and a step would then be taken toward perfecting that noblest of habitations, the dwelling place of the human soul, the body.
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The fame and influence of K.S U.is not confined to Kansas soil. The jungles of Africa and the broad plains of South America have seen some of her favorite sons. Egypt and the Fiji Islands are soon to become the homes of two of her representatives. Even her animals have gone to the world's fair to teach taxidermy to mankind.
The latest addition to her fame has been made by J. F Noble, R D. Brown, H. S. Hadley and H. F. Roberts at the North Western law school in Chicago. They are maintaining well the honor and dignity of Kansas' favorite institution. They are taking the law school by storm. Brown is president of the Junior
class. Noble and Roberts are teaching the effete easterners how to scheme, while Hadley is editor-in-chief of one of the colleague papers of which Senator Palmer's son is business manager.
Kansas against the world. Her son will always succeed as they have the push and energy which insures succe ss
The report has long been current throughout the state that the Kansas University is in the control of secret societies, and that a student who does not bind himself by oath to one of these organizations is deprived of social and political advantages. As a result many students are positively known to have left the state or remained in smaller schools. Such a condition can no longer be said to exist. Why could the independents not take the initiative in an interstate organization? With the support of the non-fraternity papers in other universities it would become an easy matter. It would at least make a good subject for discussion at the next general meeting of Independents. S.
Prof. Sayre's Lecture.
The very interesting lecture given by Prof. Sayre last evening in music hall is another evidence of the value of the popular music hall course. The Dean of the school of pharmacy had for a subject, Science, Theoretical and Practical, and it would be a matter of gratification if the believers in "pure science" if all men who are so intimately connected with the practical applications of science should put the same value upon "pure" scientific work as does Dean Sayre.
The whole lecture was a brave and earnest defense of what in reality should need no defense, viz. pure science. Prof, Sayre is a pleasing and forcible talker.
Science Club.
Friday evening, Jan, 13 at 8 o'clock:
Maximum Stress in a Lintel, E. C. Murphv.
Some Plant Diseases, illustrated with lantern slides. W. C. Stevens.
The Manufacture of Railroad Rails, Rey. Wm. Ayres.
Science Notes, R. R. Rodgers All interested are invited.
NORTH COLLEGE.
Our yell is:
Locke, Hopkins, [Rush and Sears are back at school after three weeks absence
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Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk,
L. L. B.
Several members of the senior class were entertained by Prof. Greene Wednesday afternoon with an examination on evidence.
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.
At a meeting of the senior class Monday morning Phil. E. Parrot was elected president, Walter Pleasant vice president, L. J. Mason secretary and J. H. Mitchell treasurer. West, Wells, Kirk, Haymer, and Byrnes were chosen for the executive committee to serve during the year.
Visitors to Kansas City are always sure to see the greatest of her mercantile enterprises, with its immense building and splendid service. Bullene, Moore, Emery & Co.
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Language Conference
The Language 'Conference holds its regular meeting this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Greek room The following program will be given: Fiction and History, Mr. W, D. Ross; Beowulf and Achilles, Miss Edith Manley; miscellaneous. All interested are invited.
Best coal for heating at Griffin's.
Major Gear of Holton spent a few days this week with his son, D. D. Gear.
Smith's news depot in Eldridge house block is headquarters for sporting goods
ARTIST
SNYDER.
At the meeting of the Language Conference held December 14, Miss Florence L. Snow read a graceful and appreciative review of the life and works of Eugene Lee Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton was born in England and educated at Oxford and on the continent. Entering the British diplomatic service he was stricken at Lisbon with the malady which makes him a hopeless invalid. He took up his residence at Florence and there discovered his poetic gift. Formerly every literary artist who used the English language visited him when in Florence, but of late years the advance of disease has made him inaccessible to most. He can not read and never revises his works. To this fact, perhaps, is due the clearness of his poems. A few lines of poetry are read to him each day. These he memorizes, and by this slow process does some translating.
Shadow Photos. Latest Novelties.
The general impression left by Mr Hamilton's poetry is given in a line from the preface to "The New Medusa." "This book is all a prison growth watered by prison water, not by rain." To his confinement is due the author morbid imaginations. "The New Medusa" is the story of a man who chanced to be on the ship which rescued a woman floating on a mast. He married her despite the old belief that only guilty beings were thus miraculously preserved In a dream one night, her black hair turned to snakes, and the horrid creatures coiled round his throat, stifling him The hideous things grew upon him, and at last came when he was broad awake Brooding upon the old legends of those guilty of many crimes, whose hair became snakes, he resolved to become an avenger. But as he stood with uplifted sword the beauty of his sleeping wife well nigh conquered him, until suddenly, instead of silken tresses loathsome serpents writhed around her pillow. He struck, but on the sewered head, were only raven locks. Helived on, tormented by the ever present question whether he were an avenger or a murderer. Supernaturalism such as this, is present in much of Lee Hamilton's work, but not in all. In the "Hunting of the King" we catch the bounding music of outdoor life, while the sonnets, too, have a more healthy tone. Mr Hamilton's latest work is "The Fountain of Youth" a tragedy in five acts. In this worked out the story of Ponce de Leon embellished by the author's fantastic imagination.
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Mr. B. W. Woodward next read a paper entitled "Some Literary Hersely." A celebrated American wrote, some thirty years ago, the best guide book to Rome that has ever appeared. Through its magnificent descriptions of the ruins and wonders of the Eternal City there dance before our eyes certain phantoms, the characters of a romance.
From this poet's life we derive two lessons: first, the suffering of the material world for any writer; second, the mission of limitations.
Hawthorne is at his best in "the clear sunlight of truth." A good healthy mystery may have a legitimate function in romance, no doubt, but Hawthorne is unskillful in the management of the mysterious. He lets us see the clumsy machinery by which the puppets are moyed. In "The Marble Faun" various explanations of Miriam's origin are suggested, but they are all "too thin." The final hint is that the two chief characters are Beatrice Ceni and her accomplice re-embodied.
But many errors of execution may be pardoned if the purpose and spirit of a work are good. What Hawthorne teaches through Donatello is elevation by sin. This is poor metaphysics. Our own experiences contradicts it. Rather does one crime cause the commission of others. It may seem that the interplay of imagination and conscience would
stimulate a dull fellow, but a person with these attributes would not be dull.
Hawthorne becomes entangled in the web of his own mystery, and gets the ancient land of Etruria inextricably mixed with the territory of the ancient provinces.
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