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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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A TRULY liberal education is always democratic.
THE faculty of the University of Chicago is right in encouraging the fraternal, in preference to the fraternity spirit. ___
IMMEDIATELY after the K. U, game Baker's hired coach quit pretending to be a Baker student. That man has a successful business career before him. After having completed a contract he does not tarry, but goes at once to other jobs. He has an eye for business, but Baker????? We-e-ell;—truth is a queer thing.
SPECIALIZATION may be begun too early and thus lead the student off balance, however modern conditions make specialization necessary.
This year there are over three thousand female students in the annex at Harvard. That they acquit themselves with honor is admitted, yet notwithstanding that, Harvard says to them: "So far but no farther go; Harvard proper is reserved for man, the dread king of creation, your master."
K. U. and Baker have played two games of foot ball together this year. In the first Baker was shut out; in the second K. U. was shut out. K. U. made the same number of touch downs in the game she won, as Baker did in the game she won. If Baker believes she can successfully cope with K. U., she will play a third game to decide the tie; if she is afraid she will lose the third game, of course she will continue to ask five hundred dollars for playing it. That is equivalent to refusing to play.
--in an, there will be over one hundred specimens in the exhibit. Besides the groups placed as depicted above, in reference to their latitude on the earth's surface, special groups will be formed without reference to their surroundings. Among these will be the suggestive group of the two mountain lions fighting over the deer, in the forming of which group much artistic care has been exercised; as may be seen in the curves of their tails, in the snarish peculiarities of their tigerish faces, as well as in the cat-like pose preparative to springing at each other. Another interesting group will be three big grey wolves eating at the carcass of a buffalo. The two contending moose bulls, on account of their great size, will be the most imposing group in the exhibit. But there is considerable difficulty to give expression to such specimens; their faces are almost immovable and there is nothing about them that can be made so suggestive as the expressive tails of mountain lions. Such highly marked animals as occlots and foxes, which would not be fully appreciated at a distance, will also be placed somewhere near the spectators. And the mountain lioness, so with her very small cubs, will be placed on a ledge so as to be conspicuous.
It was reported that, beginning with October, General Longstreet would spend three months on the Virginia battlefields of the rebellion, and that, by careful comparisons of existing maps with the remaining landmarks, he expected to correct many errors. It is to be hoped that every incident and every set of figures used in his contemplated history will be viewed with the same healthy suspicion. It is a comparatively easy task to draw true conclusions upon history, if one has a sufficient number of reliable data. No one possesses a sufficient number of reliable data regarding the rebellion, at present, although there have been conclusions drawn without number. General Longstreet has an opportunity to do a good work. If he does not do it, some one else must.
ASTRONOMENS are asses. Ass is an abbreviation of astronomer, any body can see that. Over the tips of their noses, these asses have for some time been sighting the heavens. They thought they saw Biela's comet. We don't believe Mr. Biela ever had a comet. The real facts are these. The gods love the Kansas foot ball players—of course the eleven cripples whom Baker defeated are not meant, but the regular team—and, instead of having them die young, as it a long time ago was supposed they did with their beloved, they sent crimson firewoks in honor of the victory won Thursday by Kansas over Missouri. This explains everything connected with the supposed comet of Mr. Biela, and also clearly proves that ass is only an abbreviated form of astronomer.
THE KANSAS TAXIDERMIC EX
HIRT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR
Visitors at the World's Fair arriving at the attractive building of Kansas, will be pleased and surprised too perhaps, to find so much space given to the University display. Of this display the taxidermy work will be the most pleasing to the generality of people.
As nearly as possible, it is intended to place each animal in a representation of its characteristic habitat. For instance, on one side of the lunaform display will be a Kansas scene, consisting of a prairie covered with buffalo grass, and dotted with coyotes, buffaloes, antelopes. Farther back on undulating foot-hills, will be deer and elk. Beyond them, on bald and desolate crags, mountain sheep. Farther toward the rear of the scene, steep snow-clad mountain will stretch away to the horizon.
Downward from here a water-course will flow; a part of the distance, it will thread a timbered valley, at last, in the front part of the landscape, emptying into a swamp. This swamp will contain lead vegetation, and in it a number of moose will be eating and drinking, or playing perhaps. Mountainward one will find specimens of caribou, or American reindeer as they are sometimes called. In a rugged dope farther up, one will find a cascade, training into the wooded valley before mentioned. Between this cascade and the neck center of the scene, on an almost barren crag will be a large all-mountain goats, some resting, others browsing on the scanty vegetation of that bleak spot. Back of this group and higher is a portion of the snow seen before stretching out toward the horizon. The observer can apparently look many miles up into the distant mountains. His vision will be limited apparently only by the depth of the atmosphere. As in the large panoramas, the real and the painted will meet and imperceptibly blend. The observer will be unable to determine distances. He can only explain: Beautiful well done! that's nice!
However, it is not to produce striking that the animals are placed in this realistic scene, which is intended to represent the various zones of North America; but they are so placed because the observer can then study the animals together with their natural surroundings.
However, it is not to produce striking effects, that the animals are placed in this realistic scene, which is intended to represent the various zones of North America; but they are so placed because the observer can then study the animals together with their natural surroundings, which, of course, is the best way to study them.
It is likely there will be taxidermic exhibits more numerous than this one at the exposition, but in two particulars the Kansas exhibit will excel. It will show superior work; it will be the most complete collection of North American specimens. Kansas can with excusable pride lead their friends to the University display. And they should be able to appreciate the opportunities the university the state possesses, they will at once conclude Kansas is a state of intelligent citizens, a land of homes, of able men and of virtuous women. People from all parts of the country and from other nations will have visible evidence that Kansas is progressive.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT
TWILIGHT.
Twilight, the gray eyed child of day and night.
Comes wanderi g through the wood with pensive
Tender as thoughts of home; a placid grace
Follows her footsteps, and holy light
Strikes amid leafless boughs, as childhood's
drama
dreams,
At slight of youth awaken in the oid.
And as I watch her take her noseless way
By glen and fields and lonely water gleams,
Lost hopes, like buds of spring, again unfold,
And roxy life comes trembling through life's
gray.
Thus have I watched thee, Twilight long ago.
That coming by an herald to n eyees
Of one who followed, and who filled my skies,
Not as with followed, but love's own morning glow.
— Mary Cross.
The December Cosmopolitan has an article on French Journalists and Journalism. The French are ahead of even the Americans in some respects in the matter of newspapers. The city of Paris has more newspapers than any city in the world and the circulation of these papers is also greater than that of any others. They have a paper that is issued at midnight containing all the news of the evening with dramatic criticism of the plays at the various theatres.
The French journals have many merits. They are models which the Americans would do well to pattern after. French papers do not feel the influence of the Counting room so pressingly as the American news sheets do. Advertising occupies a very small space. As to the rest the article says: "There is no difference more marked than that which exists between French and American newspapers. With us the reporter is supreme; in France it is the topical essayist or chroniqueur. French journalism is entirely personal. Each article is signed, and the newspaper is dwarfed by the importance of its editors. With us it is the Tribune or Sun that says this or that; in France it is M. Rochefort or M. Magnard. The front page of Le Figaro is taken up with the topical essay, a short article by the editor-in-chief on the political situation and two columns of society notes signed by Masque de Fer. The news of the day occupies a ridiculously small space on the inside pages."
Reading aloud seems to be a lost art with us moderns. This is unfortunate. A good means of entertainment has been lost. We are told how of old before the days of printing, a good reader would attract a group of interested listeners around him as he read from the poets—from Homer or Virgil or Dante. Nowadays when one wants to read he goes off to a corner and silently and unsociably reads to himself. He says he can read so much faster than by reading aloud, and thinks of course that he thereby gets more pleasure. Here is where he makes a mistake. He could derive more pleasure and profit from spending the same amount of time in reading the same kind of matter aloud to a group of friends and in listening to them read in turn. Reading would thus become a social affair. The eye, that much abused member of the modern organism, would be spared and the ear trained. By persistent practice in reading aloud, strength and volume of voice would be gained. Gymnasium practice or running along with the reading would be of great assistance of course, by developing lung power. But even reading alone will better the voice a great deal. By this new strength any possible laziness of speech—a tendency to run words together or to slight syllables—would be overcome. Any possible nasality of tone would disappear and the voice become more soft and agreeable. By the sympathetic corrections of one's listners one would finally learn to pronounce this heterogeneous tongue of ours, and in the effort to make the matter read intelligible to these listeners the reader would learn to put expression into it. All these advantages come as the result of reading aloud.
The writer knows of a group of four or five students who used to meet on Sunday afternoons and take turns in
reading cloud from the best English authors, reading by themselves during the week. Great improvement in each one's reading was soon noticeable. Go ye and do likewise.
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The following from an exchange on the inspiration of repose should be read by nervous haggard-eyed students who are always worrying about their studies. And right here to all such students we would presume to give this bit of advice: Spend the required amount of time on your studies in real hard earnest study. At the end of that time whether you have your lessons or not, put them and all worry about them resolutely aside and take up some outside reading or go and take exercise or social recreation. At the end of the year you will have accomplished more and be in much better health than if both in and out of study hours you had worried the year through. This is the clipping:
Repose of spirit and manner is a great element of strength. It is astonishing how quickly impetuous or unruly souls yield to the spirit of a deep and unbroken composure. Repose does not mean stagnation, in sensibility, sluggishness; it means the resolve mastery of one's self and steadfast reliance upon the deepest sources of power. It is the final attainment of a great and noble nature. The river, when it issues, a shallow rivulet, from the hills, often runs turbulent and noisy, but when it becomes a wide, deep stream, the ear cannot detect its flow. It is quiet because it is deep. When men first take up the interests and pursuits which attract them, they are often noisy in their devotion and boisterous in their energy; but when they have measured their strength against their tasks, and gained a real impression of the vast and sublime order of which they are a part, a quiet, calm, steady putting forth of power takes the place of the former impetuosity. The aims of life involve long periods of time; the goals of life are distant; and they who win must adjust themselves to the conditions of a prolonged and exhausting race. It is not the spurt at the start, but the continued, unresting, unlasting advance, that wins the day. The excited man is never master of the situation; the nervous, anxious worker is never master of himself. The nervous, irritable, restless man not only works at a great disadvantage to himself, but disturbs and demoralizes everybody who works with him. His manner is the frankest possible confession that he feels unequal to his task, and that the issue is doubtful. On the other hand, the man who takes his duties quietly and bears his burdens calmly gives his fellow-workers the sense of security, the feeling of competency. Such an one inspires others with confidence, and brings out the best that is in them. Life is too great, its tasks are too heavy, and its days of toil too long for the wasting of energy through agitation, nervous excitement, or that restless manner which betrays lack of self-control. A man must have repose of spirit to get the best out of himself and the most of life, and he must have repose of manner to inspire fruitful energy in others.
According to the reports of the continental papers, a collection of autograph letters of Charles XII will shortly be published under the editorship of one of the professors at the University of Gothenberg. The letters have been collected from the archives of Stockholm, Moscow, and other towns and a number of them are addressed to his younger sister, Ulrike Eleonore.
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It may be somewhat of a surprise to readers of fiction to learn that Mr. Edward Gosse has for the first time deserted his field of poetry and criticism, and has written a one-volume story called "The Secret of Marcisse," which has just been published by Mr. William Heinemann.
The foot ball season is about over and the undergraduate vows he will go into training next year and try for a place on the regular team.
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