THESTUDENTS JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE Students Journal Publishing Company
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C M. SHENER ... Editor-In-Chief
E. S. EQDERSTROM ... Literary Editor
JOHN M. STEEL$^B$, .. Local Editor
WM. M. RAYMOND ... Exchange Editor
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
C. T. SOUTHWICK. W. J. KREHBIEL.
SUR-EDITORS.
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H. C. Higes
H. C. Garrett
Miss Holey Wynn.
Dear Foster.
A. Hodge.
THANKSGIVING vacation!
FIVE days of rest and fun!
Now for home and home loves!
EVERYBODY sample his mother's mince pie!
And Aunt Somebody's big fat gob
ler, too!
LET us forget a while that we are expected to be grave and reverened students.
THAT Thanksgiving Day comes but once a year and brings its motley army of poets for the affliction of mankind, let all be thankful.
A railway pass,
A little ride,
A kiss in front
And on each side;
Thanksgiving!
LOOKING BACKWARD: Thanksgiving,
gone, kisses wasted, turkeys destroyed,
sleep lost, fed to death, headache, life no
picnic, ow-00 00-00-o (with a stretch),
I'm tired of this.
SATURDAY's game shows that cripples can not play foot-ball, that sound players can not play well out of their regular positions, that stricter rules regulating the habits of players must be made and enforced.
Ir is fit that Kansas, the home of John Brown, should be, the first northern state to elect a confederate soldier to the house of representatives. It shows that, whatever demagogues say in regard to the matter, the old soldiers are going to let the sixties take care of themselves; and that they, as voters, are considering the question of today.
UNIVERSITY athletes practice. It is now proposed to have at the Columbian exposition contests in all sorts of athletic sports of whatever nationality. In variety and in athletic qualities it is hoped to eclipse anything ever attempted in this line. Why should not the K. U be represented?
That paragraph was written before the Baker game. At present our thoughts on the subject are like this: ? ? ? ? ?
THAT the two Betas playing on our team when Baker disgraced us should, the night preceding the game, wilfully remain up till dim gray morning began to light the cast, argues, either a lack of reason, or culpable disregard for the best interests of the team. In either case, whether it is a lack of reason, or lack of the proper regard for the honor of the team, they have forfeited their right to play on the team. In case they are allowed to remain on the eleven, they must consider it an undeserved favor and the public will consider it a leniency dangerous to the team's honor.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, Robt. Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and Mrs. Burnett, we are informed, each received for literary work $20,000 a year. Right here, we desire to say we are willing to trade places with any or all of them. They may consider negotiations open. And we hope they will not through modest coyness delay a matter of business in which we are much interested. Although we are a member of the Kan-
sss State University, weare one the people; we were one of them them before the people's party became influential; and, notwithstanding our personal acquaintance with a number of the once invincible foot-ball eleven, we are not haughty, consequently any of the hominum multarum literarum named above may approach us with confidence. We are not afraid of paying positions and never were. And we want it distinctly understood that we mean business.
THE scholarly method of study de mands that, as long as one may for himself test a conclusion, one shall accept no authority whatever;other men's decisions and suggestions shall be taken as aids—the more of them the better—but, as long as one can make personal investigations on the subject under consideration, other men's decisions and suggestions unaided by personal investigation on the part of the student, shall not be considered conclusive. Such a method study requires work; but the student, who follows that method six months, becomes a power in the intellectual world. He himself becomes an authority.
We are going to put our editorial speeches on. If we had it, we would take a little snuff too; but we haven't it, and under the circumstances, we consider snuff taking indiscreet. We're up to snuff, none the less, and, as soon as we can mount our three legged stool editorially, we are going to look through our speeces down into the world where the rest of you poor mortals are. We have grave thoughts, and many of them. But then we were instructed to be very careful what we do with our precious stones, and we see no reason why we should do otherwise with our precious thoughts.
This much, however, we will say. Thanksgiving gives but once a year. That may not be a very new thought, but it is a most wonderful thought. You will not appreciate it, of course, till you see it we don't explain it. But where are we? Oh yes, yes.
It is time for you to leave the library, forsake the recitation room, quit your books, and ride home on a couple of rails. When you get there receive your home girl with an open heart and two open arms. That is, of course, figuratively. Never be indiscreet in these matters, you might make your mother cry, and appear to the world as an ungrateful wretch. That would never do. It grieves our editorial heart to think of it. If, instead of having a home girl, you are a girl going home, follow our teaching as you follow your nose; open our arms and your heart and et your friends walk in. That is, always figuratively. We wouldn't for anything have you literally take us. We wouldn't have you take us at all, in fact, we are already engaged for six months. And, though it may seem a long, long time, we aim to keep our word for half hat period; fashion requires that in these matters one hold faith something near him long; and we aim to be fashionable, if we can't pay our debts—that's fashionable too. If you are so disrustful and hypochondriacal that you not even when we are sitting on our editorial stool and writing by the aid of our editorial spees,—why then nothing remains for us to do but to refer you to the fashionable tailors; they will tell you that for a fashionable suit they must charge a double price, because they can't collect anything on half the suits of a fashionable cut. But where are we? Oh yes. Dr. Jekyll has this week been the more prominent of the two who comprise the WE of this staff. Next week Mr. Hyde will again have gained the ascendency. On his sagacious breast you all may pillow your heads with trust and confidence—provided only you all don't try to pillow your heads there at the same time. Dr. Jekyll is to disappear for twelve months from public view. By the end of the year both of the component members of the WE will be entirely forgotten. But at present Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde do exist and unite in wishing a pleasant vacation to all.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
Heiley soring, loudly soring, on his down,
bod of ease.
And so long! I tried to wake him;
And with my strong strength shake him;
Yet he would not cease.
MY ROOMMATE
For, some hidden force within him, wrapped in sleep the snorer kept.
Though with pillow I did round him, and with watch I confound him," Yet, alas, be slept.
Then I lrought, for weeks behind me have
reasted in the leafed.
Space was sleep my soul allaying.
What were we doing that the braying
of a long-eared beast.
In the future, then i shouted, will my rest be thus disturbed,
Will my stumbber be molested
By this noise so much detested!
No reply was heard.
Yet my courage did not falter, as the snoring louder got,
And from out the bed I kicked him,
And with two brass pins I pricked him,
But he felt them not.
He lay snoring, loudly snoring, on the Brussels carpet fine.
Then I left to save my bacon.
For I knew he'd soon awaken.
As 'twas breakfast time.
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William Black makes it his aim to write a novel every half year. When working, he loves intense quiet, and in fact, is unable to bear the slightest noise. Consequently for his study, he selects a room at the top of the house. He is very fond of the sea, and he is never so happy as when rocking on its billows or listening to its ceaseless splash.
THE MAY-POLE AT MERRY MOUNT.
During the year 1620 Thomas Weston sent a company of about forty men from England to make a settlement in Massachusetts. They located about twenty miles north of Plymouth and called the place Weymouth. Owing to the mismanagement, the colony did not flourish and the place was abandoned.
In 1625 Captain Wollaston came over with a small party and settled on the south side of Massachusetts Bay, not far from Weston's settlement. The place was named Mount Wollaston in honor of its founder. It is now the town of Quincy. The party consisted of Wollaston and his partner Thomas Morton, with about thirty other persons, mostly servants. Wollaston, finding this system of industry unsuited to the country, sold part of the servants into slavery in Virginia. He left the remainder under the charge of a deputy. Thomas Morton was a pleasure seeker and had come to America to enjoy unrestrained liberty. After Wollaston had left the colony, Morton persuaded the laborers that it would be better to remain with him as independent settlers than to be sold into perpetual slavery. Accordingly they drove Wollaston's agent out of the settlement and renamed the plantation Merry Mount. It became a trading post where the Indians could obtain powder and shot, and it also afforded refuge to runaway servants.
As the object of the colonists was mere pleasure, mirth-makers of every sort were to be found among them. They brought with them all the hereditary pastimes of England, but their veneration for the Maypole was what characterized them as a colony. They called it the altar of their religion and made merry around it at least once in every month. As described by Hawthorne, this pole was a tall and slender pine tree. From its top floated a silken banner with all colors of the rainbow in it. The lower part of the pole was decorated with green boughs fastened with gay colored ribbons. Flowers were strenued everywhere, and everything bespoke happiness and joylity for the gay colony. Around the pole stood a strange crowd, band in hand. Some were musked to represent the beasts of the forest, while others were distorted features as of men or women. The Purtans compared the masqueraders to "those souls with whom their superstition peopled the black wilderness." In the midst of this circle stood a gaily dressed couple and with them an English priest. "Here," said
be, "stand the lord and lady of the May, whom I, a clerk of Oxford, am presently to join in holy matrimony. Dance now and show this couple what life is made of and how airily they should go through it." Dancing and drinking were the great features of the day. A song was composed specially for the occasion, in which everyone had a separate part. These proceedings were not looked on very favorably by the other settlements. Eight of the surrounding colonies promised the Plymouth people to share the expenses incurred if they would break up such meetings. Governor Bradford sent a remonstrance to Morton but it was not heeded. The merry-makers were unwilling to have their gay rule of sunshine and mirth replaced by the sober Puritan order under which sermons and psalms would be heard continually. The Puritans saw that force must be used and Captain Standish was sent with a few men to take the plantation. No resistance was made and Morton was taken prisoner and sent to England. The Maypole was cut down immediately and the Puritans felt that by the fall of the only Maypole in New England, all such frivolities and mirth-making were ended. Morton gives some account of the affair in his writings, and though very bitter against the Puritans, does not deny the charges made against him.
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M. R.
A word about artificial writing. There are some writers whose reading has not been intensive or who are of a nature not to profit by what they read in such a manner as to use language correctly; whenever they are at a loss for a word or in doubt as to its proper use, they turn to a dictionary, and select a word or usage no matter whether they have ever before seen that word or usage. The result is a haphazard sometimes ludicrous use of words. They will use words with meanings and in places never before known to human eye or ear. No one but a great genius and scholar can safely take such liberties with words. A dictionary simply records in a matter-of-fact business way the usage of the best writers. A person can never learn to use language correctly from a dictionary alone. He must go to the sources from which dictionaries are compiled. He must 'read', and read a great deal and 'absorb not only thought but also the form and words in which that thought is expressed.
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Porter Edminster, Law '90, is now a prosperous attorney at law in San Francisco. Since leaving K. S. U. he has traveled some, visiting Colorado, Texas and Mexico. The following is an extract from a recent letter from him: "I suppose that by this time it is getting quite cold in Kansas. You ought to see an autumn day in California. Today it is as warm and balmy as May or September. There is not a cloud to be seen in the whole sky. The Bay that is sometimes so stormy, looks as peaceful as the Kaw, and through the Golden Gate a whaling ship that has spent all the summer away up in the Arctic regions, is slowly coming in, back to the port from which she sailed about a year ago.
Within less than 1st dozen years the literary world has lost many of its most distinguished men. Carlyle, 1881, George Eliot, 1881, Longfellow, 1882, Emerson, 1882, Matthew Arnold, 1888, Robert Browning, 1888, Kingslake, 1891, Lowell, 1891, Walt Whitman, 1892, George William Curtis, 1893, and Tennyson.
All workers in the library will be glad to know that Miss Watson has just received the latest volume of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. It covers the period from Jan. 1, 1882 to Jan. 1, 1887.
Prof. Hodder has just secured for the library Benton's "Abridgement of the Debates in Congress from 1789 to 1856," in sixteen volumes. The set is handsomely bound in half calf and was bought at a bargain.
Another book of great interest and value to students of English literature, lately placed in the library, is Vol. VIII
of Henry Morley's "English Writers" It deals with the period from Surrey to Spenser and contains material heretofore rather scarce in the library on the beginnings of English tragedy and comedy—Ferrex and Porrux, Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Royster Doyster.
The Annual.
The Annual board have come to the conclusion that it will be impossible to get the Annual out by the holidays, if the work to be put into it is to be nothing but first class. In all probability, therefore the publication will be delayed until sometime in February. Mean time the class editors have begun work, copy is being collected by them and by the board, and it is hoped that this work will be completed by the first of December.
The Moss Engraving company will do the half-tone work, and this is a guarantee that it will be well done. The classes and the schools will be given an opportunity to pay for the designs in case they want better and more artistic ones than the board of publication can otherwise afford to put in. The real cost of the book will probably be much nearer a dollar and a half than one dollar, though the latter is the price at which the book will be sold. Hence it will be seen that if the various classes and schools wish to be well represented, they must contribute something to this extra cost.
It is with sincere regret that the board announces the entire failure of its attempts to stir up some literary interest among the students by its offer of prizes for a story and a song to be published in the Annual. Only a single contribution has been received for the story contest, and not one for the song contest. While the prize offered was not large in either case—ten dollars worth of books for the story and the same for the song—yet it was hoped that we had at least a few students with enough literary ability to write for even so small a prize as that, especially in view of the fact that publication in such a book as the Annual ought of itself to be looked upon as no inconsiderable honor. The effort how ever has failed, and though there may be a prize story, there will certainly be no prize song in the Annual. Something equally good however, or perhaps better than either would have been, will be substituted for one or both of them, and the value and interest of the Annual will in nowise be diminished by this indifference in our literary people.
THERE has been much interest shown in college circles regarding the stand of President Harper, of the University of Chicago, against fraternities. In a recent speech to the students President Harper referring to college secret societies said: "In the judgment of the faculty the ends sought by these societies, so far as they are laudable, may be secured by other means, which should be free from the objections of secrecy, of rigid exclusiveness, and of antagonism to the democratic spirit which is inherent to the highest scholarship and manhood, and the most exalted citizenship; and it would be deeply gratified if the high purposes and lofty feeling of the body of students will lead them to cooperate with it by voluntarily excluding everything that makes against a broadly fraternal spirit and a primary concern with the intellectual aims for which the University of Chicago was founded."
The menest man on earth is the one who fails to return borrowed books. One member of the University is just now in need of about half a dozen books which have been borrowed. When a person is kind enough to loan valuable books it is an act of grossest ingratitude not to return them promptly.
The route for the annual tour of the University Glee club has been selected and it includes all the large cities in Kansas, and a number of the leading towns in Colorado and Nebraska. The club will start just before the winter recess.
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