ODDS AND ENDS.
By mutual agreement between all the faculty and officers of several universities the uniform appellation of "Mr." has lately been adopted in mutual intercourse; thus doing away with all doubts and mistakes as to the proper title of any man connected with the institution.
The exchange editor acknowledges the receipt of Vol. I No. I of the University Chicago Weekly. An article on Labor Troubles by J. Laurence Laughlin and one on The Province of Sociology by Albion W. Small, are of special interest to students of the Political Seminary.
Prof. Von Holst, the renowned author of the "Constitutional History of the United States," has recovered from the sickness with which he has been afflicted since last spring. Yet a young man, he leaves Hendelberg and Germany to enter upon his greatest field of labor among the aspiring institutions of the Mississippi valley.
Among the many stories that haunt Snow Hall, is one told of Alex Butts of the Kansas City Star. That gentleman for the first time was viewing the collections in the museums, when he suddenly came upon the cast of the magisterium, seventeen feet long, holding to the top of a tree, he mildly scanned the towering skeleton and remarked, "Well, I never believed those stories about Kansas grasshoppers before."
"Is this a home for the crippled?" asked a visitor in the corridor yesterday as he observed several boys with crutch, canes and bandaged limbs. "I didn't come to visit the city hospital," he added, "I thought they said the University was up here." "Oh that's nothing," replied the guide, "those fellows are foot ball players who wanted to go to Denver." Foot ball is a gentle game for one desiring quiet out door exercise, isn't it? Go down to the field tonight and watch how tenderly the players collide, and how thoughtfully they try to "kill" each other. A freshman told with delight the other day how his opponent was dragged off unconscious. He owned that he used an unfair blow, technically allowed, in order to cripple him, but "every man killed," said he, "makes my chances better for getting on the Denver team." The fight has been getting hotter and more desperate every day this week and the men who stand the battering can safely run against anything west of us.
Few of the friends of the University appreciate the magnitude and immensity of the work accomplished in 1892 by the Schools of Extension of the University. This year will be marked by still greater strides in this direction. Those who have observed the movement since its rise in 1872 in the old world, and watched it drag along for years among the overlectured people of the eastern part of the United States, beheld with surprise the unbounded success of the Extension movement as inaugurated in the west by the Kansas University. The west is the place for innovations, political and educational. Scholars of the east looked to the professors who had worked in fellowship with themselves and won honors from the best of the Old and New world. Then they looked to the class of people so eager for University education, and found them from the upper middle class, many carrying degrees from eastern institutions. They examined the proportion of student work far above that attained by celebrated extension lecturers of the east. Prof. Richard G.Moulton, of Cambridge, England, ranking higher as an extension lecturer than any other man in the world known internationally as the apostle of University extension, after struggling with fair success in England, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, now takes the field on east side of the Mississippi valley. The highest compliment is paid by the school with which Mr. Moulton works, to the Kansas University when it says this is to be the second season of University extension in the west. We led in the movement last year, let us enlarge it to the fullest possible extent.
Owing to better terms than the lecture bureau had hoped for, eight instead of six entertainments will be given this season. The Schubert Glee club will be here October 22, Charles E. Smith December 1st, Moazet Symphony club February 24th, Isabel F. E.appgood January 25th, Leiand Powers, April 5th, Gunsal lustle in March, Prof. Addiphe Cohn about February 1st. One more lecture is yet to be added to the course. Tickets are now on sale. $2 for the course.
It is not intended that anyone connected with the management of the lecture bureau shall make any money from this course of entertainments. The organization is for the benefit of the patrons of the course. By its constitution the bureau is to have three members of the faculty at its head. These three are to appoint a representative from the School of Law, the School of Music, the School of Engineering, and a representative from each of the four collegiate classes The Oratorical Association elects one representative to the bureau and these representatives, with the three members of the faculty, constitute the managing board of the bureau.
The present board is composed of Professors Templin, Canfield and Sterling, the three members of the faculty; Higgins of the School of Law; McClung of the School of Pharmacy; Mrs Ida Bell of the School of Music; Koutz of the School of Engineer-ing; O'Leary of the Senior Collegiate Class, Miss Riggs of Junior Class; Piatt of the Sophomore Class; Hamaker of the Freshman Class; and H. C. Riggs from the Oratorical association.
The students appreciate the many favorable remarks made by D.R. Anthony in the Leavenworth Times in regard to the advent of a new paper in the University which shall represent the majority of the students.
John Sullivan has distinguished himself while secretary of the Kansas City extension of the University as being one of the few successful projectors of the University extension movement in the United States. He has proven that such an undertaking depends as much on business energy as on any other one factor
"I believe I'll go into the business," said an 'end of the century young man' meditatively as he dropped the paper. "There are a good many to compete with but the employment is light and very attractive. "What business?" asked his room mate looking off of his Handy Translation for a moment. "Why, you see the papers are full of stuff about Victoria, Bismarck, Holmes and a lot of old people 'rounding the century'. I believe I will go into the business of 'rounding out centuries.' A good many tramps are actively engaged in room—',—!—!—then he gathered himself together, and decided not to room with a foot ball man next year.
The moot senate should be started again this winter by the students of political science. Last year it was a success in every respect. The only points upon which it could be criticized were that of its partizanship and occasional excesses of filibustering. These can be corrected without it losing any of the life and spirit. It is more desirable this year because of the interest in political questions during a national campaign, and because there is an object lesson in the state legislature. Every student in the moot senate should visit the legislature, call on his representative and senator, and become acquainted with the questions of state interest. The legislature would soon learn that there is a University belonging to the state which demands a large amount of attention.
The German universities lately requested the opinions of the colleges and universities of the world on the subject of co-education. The West has always been the strongest advocates of democracy and equality in the educational field. Last year Yale admitted women to some departments of the university. Now the German schools are considering the question of admitting women to the jectures. In this connection the students of the Kansas University will remember the strong plea for women made by the celebrated historian, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in an eastern magazine last spring, in which he referred to a lady graduate of the Kansas University, whose grades were exceptionally high, being refused admittance to a school of Harvard University on account of sex.
Wednesday dispatches announced the serious illness of Lord Tennyson and the announcement of his death will create no great surprise. He is in his 83rd year and is living near Haslemere, England. No poet can fill the place of another. We cannot talk about who shall take his place when he is gone, for his place is filled by the beautiful creations of his own beautiful soul.
Watch that man go down the hill like an automatic jumping-jack.
The new sidewalk up Mount Oread which is to be built this year must be of flagstone. The present piece of engineering was constructed on the cantilever spring board style, with occasional stretches on the suspension bridge plan. It is more difficult to climb and has been repaired in places too much already.
FOOT BALL NOTES
W. J. Coleman is out again after a few days scrimming with malaria.
The Athletic association will receive bids for crutches and surgical material.
Hard practice every evening now will give the boys a show to wave the victorious crims. n a week from to-morrow.
bids for crutches and surgical material. Springer thinks the ground is not the softest place to rest his weary limbs, especially in a scrimmage.
Denver sends the personnel of her team. While they seem very light no doubt they will make up for beef with activity.
Washburn means to be in the foot ball swim this fall. Practice has already be gun and several very promising players have been added to the strength of last year's team.
Lust year our team was hindered by using a ground on which other games were given first choice, thus destroying regularity of practice This year the McCook field, handy to the University grounds and well graded, has done away with many inconveniences; and, by the action of the Faculty the hour of five to six is left for Athletic exercise, so that every one is given a chance.
The following dates have been arranged for this season's triangular league contests: Monday, October 24, Baker wa Washburn, on the Washburn grounds; Saturday, October 29, Washburn vs. K S U., at Lawrence. There will only be one game played with each college. Other games will be played with various colleges in the state. - Topeka Capital.
This fall only six of last year's team presented themselves to the foot ball management for this year's work and for some time our prospects of having a good team were very doubtful; but much new material has been discovered and worked into shape, so that the team is much stronger than last year's team. This has only been possible by the diligent work and training under the dir-tection of Managers Hopkins, Shepherd and Captain Kinzie. Today we feel confident that K. S. U. possesses the best team west of Chicago.
This new society met Wednesday afternoon and perfected organization. Prof. Carruth in his introductory talk stated that the objects would be for the members to gain a larger audience than the class room affords. Original productions and investigations of all kinds may be read there and criticised; the desire being to get a free interchange of ideas. Thus may be seen the effect of one language on another; one literature on another. Meetings will be held every other Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Greek room.
The Seminary of Language.
Leland Stanford's President.
You will settle down to harder work after you see the result of your quiz.
David S. Jordan, president of Leland Stanford Jr., University of California will be in Lawrence the 28th of this month and will in response to an invitation, already extended by Chancellor Snow, address the students.
President Jordan is one of the most distinguished educators in the United States his career, first as president of the University of Indiana, and since his connection with Leiand Stanford University has been such as to win him the widest renown. He will be heartily welcomed by K. S. U.
The Foot Ball Team.
The foot ball team has been organized for the fall contests. There has been a large number of applicants for positions on the team and those selected to be congratulated. A month's hard practice developed the best talent and resulted in the selection of the following: For the rush line, Coleman, Matteson, Huddleston, Springer, Mendall, Higgins, Hamell; quarter back, Williamson; halfbacks, Kunzie and Champlin.
The first regular game will be played at Denver, Oct. 14th under the auspices of the Denver Athletic club. The Denver people say that it will be the greatest game ever played in the west. On Oct. 21 a game will be played here with the Washington University team of St. Louis. Before the season closes games will be played at Lincoln, Columbus, St. Louis, and Kansas City, besides the games now being arranged with Kansas colleges.
The Denver Foot Ball Team.
Manager Hopkins has posted the personel of the Denver foot ball team. The team falls below the K. S. U. eleven in height.
POSITION NAME WEIGHT HEIGHT
Left end Hayden 148 5-8
Left tackle Macon 170 6-1
Left Guard Blackburn 181 6-1
Left Center English 187 5-10
Right guard Fillmore 177 5-9
Right tackle Field 168 5-11
Right end Houston 157 5-10
Quarter Barton 125 5-6
Left Half Spalding 140 6
Right half Holden 185 5-9
Full back De Witt 158 5-10
Average weight, 162 pounds.
This team includes two Harvard men, two Yale, one Princeton, one Ruigers, one University of Wisconsin, one Clergy man. Holden is the only ex-varsity man.
Music Department Notes.
The improved appearance of the interior of Music Hall will be a surprise to concert goers this year.
There is a good deal of enthusiasm manifested over De Kontski, who will give the first concert of the series of eight which are to be given at Music Hall this winter. De Kontski is the only surviving pupil of Beethoven, and is therefore an old man, but time has only weakened the physical man—the musician still retains his energy and magnetism.
Some of the brightest music students ae devoting themselves to violin lessons; the majority of those who are doing so being young ladies.
Lawrence will receive the benefit of some of the University Extension Lectures this year. Prof.Penny will soon offer a course of lectures on musical subjects. The opportunity thus given will undoubtedly be appreciated and improved by many of the towns' people and students.
Indolence and cupidity are parents of the lowest crimes.
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