THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY THE
Students Journal Publishing Company
M. SHERER    Editor-in-Chief
B. E. SODERSTRON   Literary Editor
JOHN M. STEEL    Local Editor
Wm. M. RAYMOND   Exchange Editor
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Herbert Levy.
To books: Good bye.
To Santa Claus: Welcome.
As higher education becomes popular it becomes practicable.
To the New Year; Glad to meet you.
The recent snow is suggesting sleighing and skating.
The most public spirted act one can do is to forget himself.
UNTIL last week we were having a phenomenal spring this fall.
*STUDENTLETS* and *toad-caters* are nuisances to their classes.
ATHLETES do not need exercise half as much as their weaker cousins.
An instructor should be the friend,not the step mother,of his students.
ORATORS enter the contest. If you do not equal Webster, do better than he did.
Each of the sciences depends more or less directly or indirectly, on all the others
All students are parasites, nourishing themselves on other men's thoughts.
JAY GOULD's life shows what may be accomplished by "sticking to business."
LAST week old daddy Winter formed a surprise party all alone. Nobody was expecting him.
No one can acquire a complete education, unless he some time do severe manual work.
Most men study political economy, European conditions, astronomy; but not themselves.
The true social ladder has a thousand rungs. At the top democracy. At the foot snobocracy.
JAY Gould is another example that a large portion of our self-made men were born in farm houses.
An instructor who will sell himself for a little toadyism is a weaker man than the toad-eater himself.
LADIES have a physical; a material life, as well as gentlemen; they too should have muscular exercise.
THE real student is not he who learns theories from others, but he who constructs theories for others.
A LIBRARY owes much of its value to its being cosmopolitan. If one author errs, it is likely another one will set him right.
If Champlin's record as a player may be taken as an index, he will be a successful captain of the foot ball team next year. ___
The University is in touch with the laboring classes. A very large majority of its students began their education as manual workers.
IN allowing women the same privileges as men, the national Catholic University shows itself more liberal than some of our older institutions which believe themselves the personification of liberality.
LIFE
(Rhyme, Blank Verse )
* * * * * * * * fan.
* * * * * * * * a smiling
* * * * * * * * beguiling
* * * * * * * * man.
* * * * * * * * tarried;
* * * * * * * * married.
The modern republics and novellettes were both late developments; the republics as a form of government, novellettes as a form of literature. France and the United States the most eminent examples of this form of government, are the two nations most distinguished as producers of this form of literature. Is this coincidence a matter of chance? or is there some thing which disposes particularly republicans in favor of novellettes?
Why do we hear people say the Americans can not talk English? There are more English speaking people in the United states than there are in England, and Americans as a rule are better educated than Englishmen. Under these circumstances, if Victoria desires to use good English she should study for a time in Yankee land.
WHEN education makes men so many that they desire for wives equals who may be admired—instead of inferiors who may be used as playthings—sage spectacled professors will open all halls of learning for women to enter.
THAT pretty sign-board on the University campus instructs strangers to go to the Main Building to procure a guide. That is very well as far as it goes. But there is a pluarality of buildings. By looking at it, no stranger is able to recognize the mainness of Main Building. Why not complete the sign-board by adding "?"
The faculty of the University is not doing its duty. The instructors, no less than the instructed, should use the University journals in which to publish their views on University affairs. It would raise the standard of the journals. It would bring the faculty and the students into a closer relation
Such talks in chapel as Dr. Maryn gave Friday morning are a step in advance. Where something is to be heard there will be listeners. All people are willing to feast on the meat of life. But not on dry and dusty bones.
The modern newspaper accomplishes wonders Of music it has made harmonious articulation. And, gentlemen, those dear creatures., we used to call women, are now our ribs.
AMERICANS consider newspapers professional jokers. By insisting on it they make them such. Editors no longer dare to speak of men, but of wearers of pantaloons.
By an odd irony of nature many of those who talk most of public spirit are personifications of selfishness, factiousness, pettiness.
JOHN SULLIVAN is prominent in all the Kansas University organizations in Kansas City. He does as much work for the University as any regent, and he does it gratis.
ALL men, and students especially,
should study carefully the laws of their
constitutions. To life it would add years.
To years it would add usefulness.
THE United States is a land of Turks. Maidons' cheeks have been from immemorial ages likened to roses. When a Turk finds a rose he reverently kisses it.
In much advanced work, a wisely chosen and logically arranged library is more instructive to the student than his instructor.
UNDERGRADUATES should go out over the state to lecture on subjects specially studied by them. It would bring the University into a closer and a more beneficial relation to the citizens of the state. It would encourage students to do more careful and more extensive work. It would be a profitable advertisement for the University.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT
A STUDY FOR A PICTURE.
The twilight lapes o'er the day's confine,
And so softly eights around each bare outline,
A blue blair gathers of the covin night;
Wes ward a liquid lemon light
Melts in assamese of orange red,
Whose waves of clearest gold and crimson thread
Against of distant trees that seem to lie
Against the splendor of the evening sky;
The red disc of the setting sun shows still 1
A thin, sharp rim of jewel light, a thrill;
One large white star trembling with ecacy
Lies on the bosom of the sundown sea;
The crescent moon holds in her curved gleam
An ghostly circle nild as a dream.
Earthward the air is chill and thick with night
And in the soft uncertain ebbing light
Two lovers meet and for a moment's space
In silhouette I dimly see each face;
And when the sun's great eye has clenched its lid,
The darkness falls—and all is hid.
—NAN W. HEALEY.
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Frances Willard's choice for England's poet-laureate is Jean Ingelow.
It has been maintained by the people of western Kansas that the state should be divided because the people's party has control of the state and hard times will follow; that they, the people of the west end, will be injured by a people's party administration, and that if the state be divided they can elect a republican legislature.
What logic! As if a few counties have a right to pull off and organize a little state of their own because the majority of the people of the state have chosen a legislature not in harmony with their opinions. On that same principle the republican states of the United States should secede and establish a form of government that would suit the republican party.
The people of the western half say they have never had a governor from their part of the state. It is true that they have not, but neither has there been a president of the United States elected from any state west of the Mississippi river. Yet no one urges a division of the United States on this ground. It is also true perhaps that the western portion of the state has not had its share of representation.
There is not a state institution west of the proposed line of division, and yet that is one of the strongest arguments against a division; for if the state were divided, it would be necessary for the west half to have all these institutions, and by the time they had taxed themselves for a capitol, state university, state normal, state agricultural college, penitentiary, asylums for the deaf and dumb, the blind and the feeble-minded, a soldier's home and various other institutions, they would be ready to join some kind of a calamity party.
By the way, it might be suggested that Jerry Simpson, congressman from the seventh district, was elected by the western half of the state.
Many of the western counties have no railroads in them, are very sparsely settled, and in order to form a new state taxes would necessarily be very high. The facts in the case are that a few demagogues see that if western Kansas can be cut off there may be a chance of getting office. Perhaps two more republican senators may be gained, and republican senators are much in demand at present. On that same theory every southern state might divide itself and send up fifteen or twenty more democratic senators.
Considering the arguments already put forth the proposed action is about the most foolish that could be imagined.
Prof. Carruth is making a collection of words and sounds used by man in his dealings with the lower animals; those used by the people of this country and also those used in foreign countries. Does one ever stop to think that possibly the Germans, the French, the Swedes or the Russians may talk to their horses and cows and pigs in a manner different from that in which the Americans do? For instance, the writer knows of one people who make a smacking noise with their lips when they want their horses to go, and say something like t-r-r-r when they want them to stop. The language used to animals may on first thought seem a trivial subject for study but it is just such subjects as this whose investigation brings forth interesting and important results.
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The literary part of the editorial WE makes no particular to-do this week because Christmas is coming. The editor in chief may recognize Santa Claus, Christmas and vacation officially if he will. We pursue the even tenor of our way, not out of disrespect for the three above mentioned worthies however, and trust our readers will be duly grateful to us for not imitating our fellow literary periodicals in inflicting on them the customary chestnut of a Christmas edition.
Whittier's homestead is now owned by a retired merchant of Haverhill, who is to make suitable provision that it shall be properly and permanently cared for as a memorial of the poet.
Foreign authors, composers and designers have, since the passage of the international copyright law, received 18,000 copyrights Mr. Spofford declares that the first great benefit from the law is the gradual decline in price of the standard foreign works.
For the holiday number of Scribner Mr. George W. Cable, the noted Southern author, has prepared the true story of a West Indian slave insurrection.
J. B., Lippincott & Company announce a collection of the bric-a-brac of literature, literary forgeries, hoaxes, jests, enigmas, conundrums, paradoxes, anecdotes, proverbs, etc., entitled "Handbook of Literary Curiosities," and prepared by William S. Walsh.
Professor C, E. Norton is engaged in editing "The Letters of Russell Lowell." The great bulk of the poet's correspondence has fortunately been preserved.
The Funk & Wagnalls company will soon publish a book on "English Compound Words and Phrases," containing a list of nearly 40,000 terms, by F. Horace Teall
"Boyhood in Norway." is the title of a new book by Prof. H. H. Boyesen soon to be issued by Scribner's.
The nineteenth century has reached the most distant regions of the Continent. Some of the professors in the University of Upsala will soon make arrangements for giving lectures to the people outside of the University, or University extension lectures, as they are called in America and England.
There are some extremely interesting passages in the extracts given in the November Scribner from the newly discovered journal of the "Conversations and Opinions" of Victor Hugo. One of these concerns the question of literary inspiration. "There is in all my work," said Hugo one day, "not a single idea, not one line that I have not sought for; not a single word that I have not meditated on." Young writers, especially poets, who are waiting for the spirit to move them in order to produce something great, should consider this illustrative example of uninspired genius. Make an effort. Perchance the spirit will whisper something great and noble to you as you go along.
Lowell, criticising writers who seek for effect by forbidden means, put the argument in a few words thus: "Move my soul, I would say to the poet, as much as you will (or can) but pray let my poor senses alone. I have enough to do to master them as it is."
Saturday evening a number of students gathered at the home of Mr Frank Moore in West Lawrence. The evening was very pleasantly spent in games and various other amusements. The following were present: Misses Corbin, Weller, Hoover, Carter, Henrigs, Thoburn, Morgan, Kelley, Menet; Cunningham, Parrot, Bosworth, Blair; Messrs. Krehbel, Menet, Jewett, E. S.Riggs, Griffin, Moore, O'Leary, Shutt, Sherer, Cress, Carter, Mustard, Bessey.
Go and buy your HOLIDAY GOODS of THE LAWRENCE BOOK CO., 745 Mass. St. [Crew's Old Stand]. They have the really really stock IN THEIR ST. IN THE CITY. Have too many new and novel things to catalogue and prices are so cheap any one can buy. Go and see "The Two Georges," buy
and be happy.
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