THESTUDENTSJOURNAL
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This week's increase in the edition of the STUDENTS JOURNAL gives this paper the largest circulation that any publication printed at the University has ever had.
Five years ago the buildings of the University were large enough for the classes. Today they are too small. The University must have more buildings, or fewer students. Which shall it be?
In the last eight years our University has spent for buildings less than ten percent of the amount spent by the University of Minnesota. Yet we Kansans faince ourselves loyal to our state and to her institutions. Are we? Yes or No?
Some tax payers may be so constituted that to them it is no source of pleasure to know that the University has grown solarge as to require more buildings. Yet the tax payers have the comfort of knowing that the money invested in the buildings is invested for the good of all Kansas. Supporting a first class University is not an act of charity, but an act of business. It pays. Men, rather than cattle, make a state rich.
THIRTY-FOUR million bushels is the amount the Kansas wheat crop excels that of any other single state. With such a yield Kansas is certainly able to appropriate $100,000, instead of $75,000, for the yearly expenses of the University. And more especially should the state appropriate that amount, since the experiments, carried on at the University, with diseases of the chinch bug, have done very much toward making the wheat crop of Kansas larger than that of any other state.
--time. $20,000 will, it is believed, pay for an addition large enough for present needs. The youth of Kansas has ability, it needs only an opportunity.
THE basement of the Chemistry Building is dark, cold and damp. Working down there below the earth, the students resemble convicts passing to and fro in a coal mine, shadowy, chilled. When the floors above are washed, as they very frequently must be, or when water escapes from the heaters up there, it comes dropping and trickling down onto the students and drugs. It is neither pleasant nor profitable. If the students are not spoiled, they at best gain nothing by it; and the drugs are moulding and being ruined. Yet, as long as that cold, damp basement must be used as it is at present, these things must be borne, though it will be poor economy.
NEW STUDENT: Why did that paper which uses the great large type publish a list of the men entering the oratorical contest? Or rather, why didn't they publish such a list? They printed the names of many men who had no idea of entering the contest, and omitted to print the names of several who did enter it. What did they do that way for?
Old Student: Well, you see those whose names were omitted, when they should have been printed, belong to the fraternities which are friendly to the paper; those whose names were wrongly printed in the list either belong to other fraternities or are Independents. When it is said one has entered a contest and afterwards he isn't among those winning, it is supposed he entered the contest and failed.
N. S.: Then a wrong list was purposely printed?
O. S.: One can never say that. It is only an example of an often recurring incident.
N. S.: Oh!
MORE ROOM A NECESSITY.
"The State University has grown to such proportions that its annual appropriation is not sufficient for its proper conduct and new buildings and increased facilities are an important necessity. While we believe in rigid economy in the expenditure of public money we do not think it the part of wisdom to cramp our educational institutions or impair their usefulness by lack of sufficient means to conduct them on a broad and liberal basis."—Wpandotte Herald.
"This is all true, and we rise to endorse it heartily. In addition we think it looks rather ridiculous for the state to appropriate more money for the maintenance of the penitentiary than it does for the State University. Certainly such facts do not look very encouraging to the young people and the educational interests of the state. It is an established fact that education decreases crime then why not use more effort and money in our educational institutions? The bulk of the inhabitants of our penitentiaries, jails, etc, are an uneducated class; they belong to the class which for the lack of education, are thrown into the worthless class of associates, the illiterate and immoral class, and through their idleness, their surroundings, and their associations, they finally drift into the same channel of crime and lawlessness. We are forcing them into the very jaws of sin and crime, because we, through insufficient support, place restrictions upon our educational institutions, and we find our own young men and women unable to choose their desired avocations, either on account of their poverty or the limited accommodations of our institutions of learning. Our educational institutions of Kansas should be of the nineteenth century kind, and of sufficient capacity so they could say to all Kansas boys and girls. "All who will, may come." We hear no complaints of corruption and deals in regard to our State University, because the money appropriated and received by that institution is barely enough to keep its body and soul to gether,"—Seneca Courier Democrat.
Sound sentiments. But the editors who wrote the above articles do not know all. If they visited one of the chemistry classes, they would write such paragraphs oftener. The class referred to has 121 members, while the room properly accommodates only 72. The students perch upon window-sills, upon the lecture table, upon any thing, in fact, that projects. The picture thus formed is as unique as any our grandfathers describe for us, of the days they spent in log school houses. And in the laboratory, which can properly accommodate not more than 50, 103 are cramped together. One can scarcely turn without treading upon somebody's toes, or with the elbow prodding somebody's dinner. There ensues a loss of time and a loss of work, both in quality and quantity. Something is always getting tipped over, and it cannot be helped. But the students are here. They cannot be sent home. The best thing to be done is crowd them together. After one has been stepped on, elbowed, scaled perhaps, and had his chemicls overturned a few times he begins to want more room. Likely he will begin to think it is the fault of the study; he becomes discouraged. It is believed that, if Job had attempted to work in the laboratory, he would have
The pharmacy students should have work different from that done by the other students; they are studying for different ends. Yet on account of a lack of room, they all are crowded together and necessarily must do the same work. By not having the proper means, they can not attain to the proper ends.
Students doing work in organic chemistry must work wherever they can. Before work they must take a hunt for a place. There is no room for apparatus, no room for chemicals. Room is the one crying need. Room, room.
crying need. 1000. An addition to the chemistry building is the only remedy for all these inconveniences, loss of material and loss of
PROF. L. L. DYCHE writes W. H. Smith, secretary of the Kansas board of world's fair, that Chicago people offer to erect a building as large as the Kansas building, and costing $30,000, for the accommodation of his natural history exhibit, pay all the expenses of making the exhibition and give Professor Dyche one-half of the gross receipts. If he will secure the consent of the Kansas board of managers and the regents of the University to remove his museum from the Kansas building.-Topeka Democrat.
If the people on the ground] believe that one half of the receipts would pay the expenses of the exhibit and erect a building costing $30,000, they must believe that the receipts would amount to at least $70,000. If they who are on the ground believe they can make $70,000, and enough more out of it to be a good speculation, it would seem about time that Kansas grumblers ceased trying to run so good a thing from the Kansas building. If the exhibit is worth $70,000 and a prospect for more to private individuals, it is worth that much to
In their last biennial report to the Governor of Kansas, the Regents of the University affirmed that; 'Probably nothing has contributed more to the unretarded growth of the University than the rigid insistence, by those who have from year to year been its legal guardians, that no bigotry or narrow partisanship should be permitted to impair or impede the practical working of the institution along the most practical and non-debatable lines.
It seems never to have been forgotten through all the history of the institution that the sole purpose of its existence is to help the people of the state get at the truth, and that the only way to get at the truth is to let every side be heard and every theory be examined. As the mul multiplication table is the same for those of all races and all creeds, so, through the whole realm of fact, there can be but one truth for all. As in the simplest matters of surmise and opinion there is need for charity, and concession, and toleration by all, for all, so, in the highest realms of speculative thought, in the most complex lines of intellectual exploration, the same patient, mutual, charitable tolerance, qualified only by good conscience and undoubted intelligence, has been recognised as necessary."
Their uttering such sentiments proves to everyone who has spent any considerable time in real study, that the regents have been students deserving the name student. Truth is so wonderful that to be recognized, she needs but to be seen. She wants no protection If encouraged to, she will become the fair protectoress of all mankind; and all the encouragement she requires is freedom. And that she must have.
The regents' report continues: "Outside the management of the University, there has now and then appeared, in one form or another, somewhat of the proscriptive spirit, the rask intolerance which comes of selfish prejudice and partisan bigotry. But it is a noteworthy and gratifying fact, to which all close observers will gladly testify, that those who have been guilty of attempting to inject this narrowness into the affairs of the University have, as often as they appeared, gone down in due time to a helpless and unrespected obscurity."
That such men should even for a short time rise before the public is to be regretted. That they soon passed into obscurity, whence they came, is cause for every friend of education to rejoice. When such men rule, reason has lost its power, and education has become mere mummery. If such men ruled, every one would ride his little hobby horse, though fancy himself a bold knight; would fight interminal battles with straw men, or, perhaps, with riders of other hobby horses. Likely the sun would be commanded to stand sun. Likely it would not do it, but would continue to shed its congenial bones on the just and the unjust on the wise and the foclish. As it is with the sun may it ever be with the University.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT
TO HORACE.
TO HORACE.
Seek not to know what is the fate
The gods above to us dictate."
The night was black, the morn is gray,
The gods above may go their way.
What they wish, what they're willy.
A man's his own, till death doth still
The band that strikes, the heart that hopes
The brain that ponders, dares and gropes,
So while this life belongs to them
The gods may fret their Tecan sea;
While I can hope, while I can hate,
I care not what the gods dictate.
The splendid clouds that hall the dawn
Ere touch of morn are long since gone.
The gentle rays that prophet night
Are lost with day's retreating light,
And every sound and every sail
Are fled 'tore we can fairly hall.
The bravest deeds that youth engage
Scarce find reward till frosty age,
While wealth and power, best tide of fate,
Immortal gods, ye grant too late!
- Ed. C. Little.
The latest accession to the French alcove of the library is the octavo twenty four volume edition of the works of Honore de Balzac, 1799-1858, father of the realistic novel in France.
There are some instructors who have a harsh manner of presenting the truth, or what they consider to be the truth. They gloit over the thought that they are removing the scales of blindness and prejudice from the student's eyes, and make him feel like a criminal. They thus arouse a spirit of resentment in the student and cause him to neglect studies which he might otherwise pursue with profit.
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A London cablegram of Dec. 13, says that the poet William Watson has recently become violently insane. Watson was recently granted the royal bounty of two hundred pounds sterling for writing the best ode on Tennyson, and because of his transcendent success in this production, has been proposed for poet laureate. It is said that his insanity is caused by the flatterty received for his ode on the dead poet. —Argo Reporter,
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The Library of Old Authors, John Russell Smith, publisher, London, is a late addition to the English alcove. It is in thirty-five volumes and contains some at thurs heretofore not represented in the library. It includes among others Robert Southey's abridged translation from the Spanish of Amadis of Gaul, the earliest and best Spanish romance of chivalry; Hazhut's Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England; Piers the Ploughman; Michael Drayton's Polybion; John Lily's Dramas; poetical works of Sackyville, John Seiden, Robert Herrick, and George Wither; and works of Increase and Cotton Mather. Other valuable additions to this alcove are a Shelly concordance, and Alfred Miles' collection of the poets and poetry of the century in ten volumes containing the works of minor English poets not easily obtainable in this country.
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SALT IN KANAS. ITS POSITION AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE.
(From the forthcoming biennial report of the State Board of Agriculture.)
The chemistry department has been working on Kansas salt for the past six or eight months. All the localities in the state where salt is made have been visited, and samples of brines and manufactured salts have been obtained. In all, about fifty complete analyses have been made.
The salt region of Kansas is quite extensive. There are outcrops of salt in marshes in the north in Republic and Cloud counties, and again in the south in Cowley county occur salt-springs, in Meade county there is a salt lake, and numerous salt marshes are found near the southern line of the state in the vicinity of the Cimarron river.
It was formerly thought that the salt-marshes might be utilized for the production of commercial salt, but recently the discovery of solid beds of rock salt at a depth of from 700 to 1,000 feet has put earlier plots out of mind. The salt is obtained first by mining. Shafts seven by sixteen feet are sunk through the different layers and the native salt is hoisted to the surface. It is usually
quite pure; some of it exceptionally so. Several selected samples contained over 99.75 per cent of pure salt. An average sample of rock salt had the following composition:
Sodium chloride (salt) ... 97.23
Insoluble residue ... .08
Sulphate of lime ... 2.04
Chloride of magnesia ... .24
Sulphate of soda ... .41
100. 00
This salt is used for salting hides, for packing meat, for salting cattle, and the finer grades as dairy and table salt. The successful mines are worked at Kanopolis in Ellsworth county, at Lyons in Rice county, and at Kingman in Kingman county. Thus it may be seen that the salt beds cover a large area of country.
In some places it has been found to be more expedient to bore through the salt strata, encase the wells and pump water in, which flows out again as a saturated brine. This brine is then evaporated for the production of salt. This method of making salt is carried on at Anthony and Wellington in the extreme south, and at Hutchinson, Nickerson and Sterling in the Arkansas valley.
The well is about six inches in diameter, and inside the tube is a smaller tube down which the water is forced. The brine is stored in vats till some of the solid impurities deposit, and is gradually drained off into wrought iron pans for evaporation. Most of the pans are heated directly by a fire placed beneath one end. At this end of the pan the brine is retained for some time till it concentrates enough to deposit much of the sulphate of lime; then the brine flows into the main pan, and as the salt crystalizes out it is raked out upon platforms on the sides to drain.
Another method of heating is by what is known as the "Grainer" process. Here the vats are heated by coils of steam pipes. There are two plants of this class at Hutchinson. The brines as they come from the wells are nearly saturated, and have about the following composition in 1000 parts:
Sodium chloride (salt) . . . . . 286,080
Insoluble residue. . . . . . . . 075
Sulphate of lime. . . . . . . 5,404
Chloride of magnesia. . . . . 1,190
Chloride of calcium' . . . . . 320
the rest being water.
From this a salt is made containing from 96 to 98.5 per cent of pure chloride of sodium. These salts on being compared with those produced in other parts of this country, as Michigan or New York, are shown to be as pure as any, and as good. The quantity that may be thus made is practically unlimited, as the saline beds underlie many entire counties. The text to be printed in the Biennial Report of the State Board of Agriculture will be accompanied by a number of cuts descriptive of the different processes of manufacture.
The Chemistry Department has recently spent much time and care in making analyses of Kansas salt. In another column of this paper are printed results of the analyses. In reading the article, one is impressed with two ideas: First, that Kansas has good salt and much of it; second, that the University is a paying investment for the state; it aids in developing the minds and mines of Kansas, Kansas men and Kansas wealth.
The class in eighteenth century French literature has read already this term representative tragedies of Voltaire and comedies illustrating history of comedy in the eighteenth century, being representative works of Regnard, Destouches, Le Sage, Marivaux, and Sednae, along with lectures by Prof. Canfield on the history of dramatic literature of the century followed by lectures on the general literature and society, in which the life of Voltaire was taken as the central point The class is now reading Beaumarchais' comedy, Le Barbier de Seville.
We Move, move with us. $150 to be given as prizes to Engineering Students of the senior class. For particulars see the Editor-in-chief of the Students Journal .
Best coal for heating at Griffin's.
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