THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
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O. M. SHERER ... Editor In-Chief
E. E. SOEDRERTHOM ... Literary Editor
JOHN M. STERLF ... Local Editor
Wm. M. RAYMOND ... Exchange Editor
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H. C. Rigge Miss Helen Wrnne,
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PRACTICE is success's nurse.
ATHLETIC men, read the above line.
Athletic men, remember what you read. ___
Is solicitles of the fondling, read the first linc above and look to the nurse.
If the Athletic Board intends to give encouragement to those students who would be benefited most by exercise. Some new arrangements must be made in the management of McCook Field.
THERE is no reason why incentive should not be offered to the ladies of the University to indulge in sports suited to their needs. If exercise is healthful for the gentlemen the proper exercises would be also beneficial to the ladies.
The Courier's local man has extended a hearty welcome to the STUDENTS JOURNAL, for which the Journal is as grateful as the welcome is hearty. Although the Courier has not editorially offered its best wish for the Journal, we know as a matter of course the Courier is very glad to welcome us From an overflowing heart we return thanks for this imputed courtesy.
Does not every student on Mt. Oreal desire to see the University become more influential than it now is? Would it not help it if every one would send the Student's JOURNAL home to be read? While costing only one dollar a year the Journail will give all the significant news of the University. Inserted in letters home, it would spread a good impression concerning the school. Our alma mater resembles truth; she needs only to be known to become popular.
THE foot bail team played well at Denver. The boys gained honor for themselves and for the University. But, while it is time for rejoicing on account of honor won, they should not cease to practice regularly. Practice and success are inseparable. The boys are by nature foot ball players, without daily practice they can not be first class players. Nature does halt, practice the other half. To all students and members of the faculty it would, six months from now, be gratifying to see the players wearing medals ornamented by "never defeated." There is much hard playing yet to be done, and, if the friends of the University are to have the pleasure of looking upon metals so pleasing to the sight of a University man, the players must do as they heretofore have done—practice systematically and daily. Only on those terms can they gain the medals—"Never Defeated."
medals—"Never Defeated."
To the large number which within the last week has handed in communications relating to the annual, it may be stated that, since the communications were all on the same subject and insisting practically on the same points, it was thought better to make a single article of them all. With much justness, each communication affirms that since all the members of college fraternities are considerably fewer than one-fifth of the whole body of students, the fraternities should not be allowed to monopolize the space in the annual; or in other words, that less than one-fifth should not through presumptuous measures be allowed to assume a greater importance than over four-fifths of the
students. It is clear that, however, much some of the-less-than-one-fifth would admire their own pictures in the Annual, more than four-fifths would prefer to look at something else. Will the executive committee of the Annual be influenced by the less-than-one-fifth, or by the-more-than-four-fifths? The sale of the Annual depends on the decision.
A PAYING INVESTMENT.
According to the reports sent in by farmers of the state, in the single year of 1891 the study of and experiments with contagious diseases of the chinchou, as conducted at the experiment station of the University, saved grain to the worth of $200,000. That is a single item; there are others. About the end of the present month the state will publish a volume by Prof. Kellogg on pests. That portion of the work which treats of cereal pests will be the most complete and also the most important; considerable attention is given, however, to those pests which destroy vegetables, trees and fruit, as well as to the few varieties which are bothersome in the house. The work is intended to be a manual in simple language; so that any intelligent person by its aid may detect the presence of the various pests at different stages and apply the proper remedy—or, what is better, take precautionary measures against them. The volume will be instructive on more than fifty pests. Being printed by the state, it is intended for free distribution. While in itself it may not prove as valuable as the experiments with the chinch-bugs have, yet it is expected to be the source of much profit to the state.
About the middle of the winter Prof. Williston will have a volume on the geological condition of Kansas, ready for the state printer. In the last two years Prof. Williston with assistants has spent seven months making a geological survey of the state. The survey is not yet completed, only sixty counties being examined. But where the survey has been made, the work is thorough. The specimens for building and ornamental purposes have been tested chemically and microscopically, and photographs have been taken of sections of them. They have been put to every kind of examination and test known to aid in revealing their composition, structure and durability. Thus, is determined what pressure they can sustain without crumbling, and how long they probably will endure against the elements. Building can be not done on scientific principles until all these facts are known. But this is not the only benefit arising from the survey and the work collateral to it. It is intended to find out what products the Kansas soil contains; where they may be procured, and what labor is necessary to procure them. The fossil remains show what strata is in a given place, the strata shows what may be found there. For instance, if a farmer desires to know whether it would pay him to dig for water at a certain spot, by knowing what geological strata is there, he can tell whether water is to be found; and, if so, how far he will have to dig. What holds good in regard to finding water, is equally as true for the finding of any other subterranean product. Before Kansas can use her buried wealth, she must know where it is; and her knowing the real worth of it and the proper uses to which it may be put is also very advantageous.
These items are only a few out of many; every department in the University is directly or indirectly saving money for the state. The languages bring culture and bore from other continents, and, when students go out into active life, this knowledge from foreign lands is used for the good of all Kansas. The University pays a greater return on the money invested than any railway in the country. If any individual made such profits on money invested and the fact became public, he would be drummed or stoned out of the state. Take the $200,000 saved in twelve months by the killing of chinch bugs in the state; consider the
good the little volume now being prepared on numerous pests will do; add to this amount the money that will be saved by having a geological knowledge of the whole state; and to that add the money made or saved for the state by all the other departments of the University. The profits double the investment several times every year.
But this is a cold blooded wav of looking at the matter. Men are worth more to the state than stones and dollars; and liberally educated men are mere profitable than others. The University takes the raw material and turns it out as a finished product—worth several times more on the market than the raw material was.
Cool, heads and courage, hardened muscle and mind, will carry the ball again and again across the line. The average Kansas boy has a level head, besides his physical qualifications, and when trained to quick calculation, decision, and action, in a crisis he is a success. The foot-ball team, when taken by surprise, has never yet lost its head. It has always coolly settled down to defeat the new move. Last year the first rolling wedge struck the team like an avalanche. Although completely surprised by the monster, as with one instinct, they lay down in front of it; and it stopped. Saturday for the first time a half back dived head foremost over the rush line. Our boys'd not go to pieces in consternation; they had been trained.
THOSE who denounce athletics entirely, overlook an important point. The movements in conflicting forces are as natural as rhythm in poetry or equations in amathematical solution. The returning to a blow instinctively flashes to the well trained mind. It prompts instantaneous decision and immediate action. It is a mental as much as a physical training and prepares one for the severe conflicts of life.
University Entertainments.
Now that the entire lecture course has been permanently arranged by the addition of another concert and of the world famed writer and speaker John Fiske no one has any further excuse to make for refusing to buy tickets. The bureau has been established on a permanent basis and it becomes the duty of every student to see that it will be a success from this day. There is no student in the University who can afford to miss this splendid opportunity to hear attractions which are daily appearing before the best eastern audiences and which could not have been brought this far west under other circumstances.
A partial combination has been effected between the University lecture course and Prof. Penny's concert course. The Lecture Bureau puts the Music Concert company on its course and Prof Penny puts on the concert course the Schubert Club and the Mozart Club. Course tickets for the concert course will be honored for reserved seats for the Schubert, Musin, and Mozart concerts under the same conditions as the tickets of the lecture course. Holders of tickets in both courses will receive twenty-five cents instead of a reserved seat for their extra coupons.
Following is a list of attractions: Schubert Quartette Club, Saturday, Oct. 22; Charles Emory Smith, ex-United States minister to Russia, December 1$^{1}$ 1891; Adolphe Cohn, professor of French in Columbia College; John Fiske, author of "The Idea of God," "Outhens of Cosmic Philosophy," "The Destivay of Man." etc; Music Concert Company: Mozart Symphony Company, Dr. F. W. Gunsau乳us, The Leland T. Powers Combination.
With such rapid railroad transit the store is almost at your door, Bullene, Moore, Emery & Co., Kansas City. Those athletic ties come from Urbansky the Boston Clothier.
Gentlemen are invited to visit our men's furnishing department for corrections in men's wear. Bullene, Moore, Emery & Co. ___
An elegant assortment of ties, crimson specialty, at Urbanskys'.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
CROSSING THE BAR.
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there so no moaning of the bar,
When we put out to sea.
But such a tide as moving seems sleepy,
Too full for sound and foam.
When that which draw from out the boundless
deep
Turns a gala home.
Twilight and evening ball,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I e a bark:
For the' from out our bourne of time and place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
When I have crossed the bar. ___ Tennyson
—Tennyson.
京 保
TENNYSON.
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The evening glow floods his hillside home, no more to light the silver, clustering locks, no more to find a companion in the radiance of his sympathetic soul. The lingering, gray light, affushing through long colonades and mouldering memorials in the resounding Abbey of Westminister, is warmer than before. Gently it falls, mellowed by the love of a weeping world, and softer rests on the newly broken pavement. The laureled one of the Victorian age struck the chords of pain and sadness, of hope and love, of the tender and sublime in all human life "and passed in music out of sight." Humanity with all its woe feels that "In Memorium" was written of its author, and today the lesson taught is learned anew.
Tennyson stands apart in the spiritual devotion to his muse. In the purity and holiness which pervades his works he sets forth a loftiness of purpose, a fidelity to virtue unlike any before seen. Yet the poet within him never allowed him to fail in grasping the fleeting form that lent vitality to the play of imagination. He knew in his sympathy the fallings of all. With such divine aim and subtle insight he painted the figures of Adeline, Elenore, Lillian, and the May Queen. With the hand of an artist and lover, with just and consummate art, he fashioned the characters to enforce the truth. If to make purity lovlier and truth, more precious he laid a back ground in the lights and shades of reality; or even with bolder hand portrayed vice in crimson robes or sin in her deformity, the motive cannot be mistaken.
Can he be called a dilatante? Because he plucked the beautiful from every field, saw all emotions and passions under the blue sky of morality, and thrilled at the delicate touch of exquisite sentiment, could he not also tremble and shake when in contact with the sublime?
Has he not broken bonds in the Charge of the Light Brigade, raved in the dispair of Locksley Hall, wept aloud in the breaking of the sea? Whether he reached the cloud furled heights or dipped in the sea of crimson experience his conceptions were as distinct and forcible as his loveliest sympathy was touching. He entered more possessively into the hearts of men than any other bard of this or any other age. He interpreted every grander passion with the hand of a master; he cut the clear outlines of beings in the tame light of day with a faithfulness and simplicity unknown since Chancer.
Like the closing of a summer day he followed the constant blaze of the sentimental, imaginative, and Satanic school of the revolution; illuminating the sky with varied tints in the cooling twilight of a moral vision. Faultless and ever varying, he caroled strain upon strain, and ever higher to bursting heights, and at each note a new heart quivered in response.
CRITICISM ON STUDENT LIFE.
Read Before Adulpheric Literacy Society.
A mistake common to the majority of students is the neglect of the social and literary drill afforded by literary societies. When well done society work is of more practical value to a student than any one of his studies. Dead knowledge is worthless, unless in the brain of a scholar who has learned how to use it. A literary society is the place
to learn how to convey one's ideas to others. Knwledge is power, but like steam in the boiler is practically powerless until it passes to the engine; so learning exerts no force unless in the brains of skillful men. Scholars who can use their knowledge are the men who give force to action; who have and who will rule the world.
Many students are faulty in their habits of study. They may be criticized in not having a fixed program, or for their lack of application in studying. There is a great advantage to be gained by a set time for getting each lesson. Not only time is saved, but the habit formed will be of great value in after life. One student spends an hour and a half in getting a lesson, while another of the same ability spends three hours. The difference lies in their application. The former fully applies himself; the latter thinks on the lesson a few minutes and then allows his mind to wander to some other subject.
Another bad thing is the use of "ponies." The plea of the riders is that they can get their lessons so much quicker, and with less dictionary work. The only trouble is when they get off after having ridden so long, they can't walk.
The physical side of student's life is open to much criticism. In some there is a tendency not to take enough exercise, while in others the incination is to make a dissipation of athletic sports. The sight of a confused mass of young men making battering rams of their bodies, plunging their heads into each others stomachs, pulling on each other and sometimes injuring each other for life in the presence of a crowd of fellowing bystanders is certainly a brutal show.
The social side should not be neglected by those trying to make a success of their University training. The advantages offered by the various societies should not be left unimproved, and especially the Sabbath exercises. After all the main object of our college work is to develop and to build up characters—to make men. Little do some of us expect practically to use our knowledge in certain lines, but nevertheless each study has its influence on us in forming character. So let us fully develop our powers and make all around men of ourselves.
HARRISON W. MILLER.
The November Cosmopolitan is a more than usually interesting and valuable number. The frontispiece is a portrait of Gladstone. Sir Edwin Arnold revisits Japan, M. G. Holyoke discusses a cosmopolitan language. Murat Halstead has an article on the city of Hamburg, the principal scene of the late cholera ravages in Germany. W. H. Rideing describes a visit to Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden. George Cable, the well known southern writer, treats "Education for the Common People in the South," and Archibald Forbes has "A War Correspondent at the Fall of Constantinople." E. E. Hale, John Burroughs and Brander Matthews have articles. There are good papers on the growth of great cities, aerial navigation, and the art schools of Paris. Mr. Boyesen continues his "Social Strugglers," and Howells also contributes his mite. All interspersed with good poems and stories, and plentifully illustrated.
In this number Mr. Howelis gives the first of a series of delightful papers under the title "A Traveller from Altruria," made up of his traveller's remarks concerning our own institutions and the social customs of Altrura itself. It is in the line of his former writing in beha f of sincerity in our social relations and the removal of the cruel distinctions of rank. His traveler comes from the land where Altruism prevails, not on y in theory but in practice; where selflessness is unknown and brotherly helpfulness is on every hand. With delicate satire he touches the growing, or rather grown, tendency in this country to aristocratic principles, but he does it like a true artist, and we do not feel that he is preaching.
Any who have not yet made their ac-