THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
C M, SHERER...Editor In-Chief
JOHN M. STERLE...Local Editor
WM. M. RAYMOND...Exchange Editor
BUSINESS MANAGED
C. T. SOUTHWICK.| W. J. KREHBIEL.
SUB EDITORS.
Dear Foster, H C Fliggs, Miss Hollen Wynne,
W. Steven Svenson, O A Garratt, A K. Hosey
SALUTATORY.
Kansas has always been proud of her State University, but today she is prouder of it than formerly. And well she might be. The University is a worthier and a more popular institution than ever before; it reaches out after all classes, kindly inviting within its walls all who will come, and sending lecturers to those who are unable to come. Historians and statisticians delight to tell remarkable facts concerning the development and progress of Kansas; yet her development and progress is excelled by the development and progress of her University, so that today her University is the most complete and effective educational institution in the Missouri Valley. Such a university should be represented by a journal worthy of it; and in order for a journal to be worthy, it must, as the institution it serves, be open to all who come; it must be democratic. In policy the STUDENTS' JOURNAL is to be democratic. the asking fayors, it will give none; it cannot stoop to servile flattery without losing its dignity. As an independent democrat, it reserves the right to reprimand the presumptuous and the erring, it not only reserves this right, but will use it whenever and wherever occasion requires its use. But with all its fearlessness and aggressiveness. THE STUDENTS JOURNAL shall be just. None ever need fear that communications treating subjects of general interest will be refused space in these columns, nor will any one ever be told "there really is no room in the paper at present" at a time when two or three columns of the paper that "really has no room" are filled by plate. "I serve" being the motto of this paper, its columns are open to all. As a matter of course, it has ideas on subjects of general interest; but it also believes that truth, if it only has a fair hearing, will prove triumphant. Hence, it is, that all students in the University, and all members of the faculty are urged to use these columns. If in anything we err, we will gladly stand corrected. Being proved wrong is only being set right; and that we believe is advantageous. Hence, our plain duty and our advantage, is to urge the friends of the University to use these columns, and to make of this journal the University's obedient servant.
The London Times and the New York Tribune have their matter written in good English and neatly printed. Although they are merely newspapers, both of them consider that poor English or a slovenly page would be disgraceful. They feel that they can publish news and form public opinion more effectively when their English is good and their pages are neat. They are right. And a student's paper should at least attempt to equal the best papers which are published merely for money. Student has to help him, the enthusiasm of youth, and his collegiate training. People expect him to be master of his mother tongue, or to remain silent and conceal his ignorance. The public will not, and should not, exponerate a body cf students from blame after the students have repeatedly abused the language of their country. We at all times shall aim at perfection; we know we shall often fail, but, by trying, we hope to come nearer to the goal.
The good that will come to our University from such an improvement, will be a greater respect from and a stronger influence over other schools, and indeed, over all classes of societies. There is no doubt that our University is the great educational institution of the Missouri Valley, and it must be recognized as such by the newspaper world. The newspapers are today the moulders
of public opinion. We must have their respect, and the surest way to gain it is by sending them a paper worthy of it. No one ever highly esteems his inferior; our pear, at worst, must equal those whose respect we seek; it should excel them.
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ADELPHIIC LITERARY SOCIETY
The acquisition of knowledge is only the first step to educate self and the multitude. If Kansas State University students expect to influence and mold public opinion; if they expect to repay the state for the expense incurred in their education; or if they but expect to further their own ends they must pay the strictest attention to the manner of application of any knowledge attained. For these reasons and for many more this society should have better support. The expense is slight, the time of meeting does not interfere with studies, and all non-fraternity men are allowed to become members. Meetings are open to everyone and it is expected that all interested in these matters will come whether intending to become members or not.
From one cause or another the impression has been abroad that this school had no literary society. But the inquiring mind has long ago learned that every Friday night the Adelphic Literary society gathers in the northwest room on the third floor, there to spend a few hours in improving mind and speech. Fighting against great odds, without and within, the society has yet managed to hold regular meetings every week. All will appreciate the urgent necessity for exercise in the discussion of everyday subjects. Small colleges in the state make a special count of drilling their students in debating and ready public speaking and thus gain much adver tising. Whenever a student returns to his home he is expected by all to know something, and he is at once asked to say something before public meetings. The man who has had regular practice in intermontoric speaking is always prepared to say something to amuse and entertain his hearers while the student of possibly vastly profound knowledge must occupy a back seat because of his inability to think rapidly and coherently while on his feet.
When the friends of athletics canvassed the University in order to raise money for the encouragement of out-door sports, the subscribers were told that the money was to be used for the good of all. How has this pledge been kept? Faithlessly; after the money was collected from the student body, it was appropriated to the use of a few. These few are athletic, men of health and muscle. They are the very ones who need no encouragement to take exercise. It is the emaciated ones, the pale and trembling book worms, who should be entered out of doors. For instance, why are there no tennis courts on McCook Field? There is sufficient room outside of the ground used for foot-ball; and, if there was not, ground could be rented for much less money than was expended last year for base ball, and this ground, rented for less money, would accommodate a greater number of students. If athletics are to prove beneficial, those who do not take exercise must be enticed out of their rooms, and away from their books.
THE State University has every reason to be proud of its record in foot ball circles. The team selected for the present season's work is an unusually strong one. "Never Defeated!" is its record up to the present time. Can the same statement be made next spring? The new team will sustain the reputation made last year.
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We shall endeavor to maintain a literary department, which without encroaching unduly upon the editorial page or news columns, shall yet be sufficiently prominent to counterbalance the necessary crowdedness of local columns and hurried edition.
When you think of drv goods doesn't the store naturally come to mind. Bullein, Moore, Emery & Co., Kansas City.
LITERARY D
I hate him.
Scent far more pleasing; and when a stern Moon
Shines in full glory down the cri-strewn way;
Her soft effulgence sets my heart aright,
    O, Summer Night.
How grand to wander, led by I uma'sray in forests deep, amid trunks old and gray—
Hoary with years aye long since passed away—
Along some foot-path, where phantastic shapes
Dancing and weaving until lost to sight.
Filt cross my way,
    Ah, Morning Light.
Thou art too fierce, for life is a deceit—
A moment's being amid time untold—
Eternal promise, yet we'e grow old—
And, incomplete, as our short lives unfold.
We wander blind.
Yet the fofter light
Yet the *softer light*
Of silver Moon with radiance from afar
Vellis the rough truth, though pales each dying
star,
Till all seems lovely and fair forms dim seen
Float round about us in the silent night.
A. K. Hoog
JOHN BROWN.
Had he been made of such poor clay as we—
Waen, when we
*Gainst wrong within us*, dare not let it grow,
Bat croch and hide it, lest the scorner see
Ard sneer, yet back our self-co; placey
Bond-had-bus, bead, fashioned
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103.
It has no ne'o' that had come to that birth-throat.
That gave the world a new humanity.
the nation ne'er had come to that birth-throat That gave the world a new humanity.
He was no more professor of the word — His life a mockery of his creed — he made No discount on the Golden Rule, but heard Above the senate's brawl and din of trade Ever the clank of chains, until he stirred The nation's heart by that immortal raid. —William Herbert Carruth, in New England Magazine.
The impressionist school with its flash of lights, its dazzling panorama and pyrotechnics of description is growing in favor with our current magazines. Cannot the student of Marlow and Fielding draw some conclusions from the drama of this week and the literature of this month as to the present tendency marking an epoch in the history of English literature. Should the student keep up with the making of literature about him, or buried in historical sources of drama, fiction and poetry, should he defer observations until he can take an option in the nineteenth century authors.
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Your artist friend takes water colors and in the prettiest alcheve of his studio, talks to you in his individually charming way as he quickly dashes in the forms and shadows of his story; now chasing the rapidly growing ideal with disconnected words and phrases, now elaborating as he places the finer strokes and touches. Picture after picture passes before you, delighted and absorbed in the sketches and the skill, until you quite forget the theme of the story into which they imperceptibly mingled them selves. Suddenly you are surprised by your entertainer striking an artistic attitude and disclosing the hidden truth pervading and connecting all. Read the "Three Forms" in the October Cosmopolitan. You already knew the pervading truth; you are none the less captivated by the skillful sketches inserted there.
Again the feelings of the reading public are harrowed by the further encroachment of an idea which has no place in any class of living literature. In the last number of the Review of Reviews appear the distorted caricatures and cartoons of politics, disfiguring the pages of an otherwise handsome magazine. What there is in modern newspaper political caricatures worthy of a dignified place in reviews and magazines is hard to see.
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The University reading room should have before the students the new star of rather uncertain magnitude, the AmeriJournal of Politics, edited by Andrew J. Palm. Three numbers are out containing articles from the pens of some of the ablest economic thinkers. David A. Wells is one of the contributors. The publication comes from 114 Nassau street, N, Y.
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The University alumni was well represented in the last number of the
Lora. Kansas can be proud of aspiring journals. The University has always had a keen sympathy for the aggressive spirit which could dare to publish such a periodical this side of the Alleghenies,
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"Professor, what works would you advise me to take for a course of reading aside from my studies?"
"Aside from your studies, nothing; supplementary to your studies, the Bible and Shakespeare." The professor goes on his way, and the young man, full of sophomoric conceit, calls him an old fogy, under his breath, of course. He has read the Bible for ethical purposes all his life, and now he wants something to improve his literary taste, and assist him in gaining a good style. Take the scriptures then; read them from a scholarly standpoint. Notice the fine discrimination with which all the salient points of a narrative—whether the historical books of Moses and Joshua, or the narratives of Esther and Ruth, or the many shorter stories—are brought out with a clear and irresistible simplicity, making the whole a living reality. Then attempt to imagine how you would have told the same story had you been the first reporter on the spot, with pencil and pad. Think of the ornate description with which you would have loaded it, and the sentimental sighings with which you would have smothered it; or worse still the funny ideas with which you would have disfigured it. In this manner improve your style. You will realize that the very simplicity of the story as told by the Evangelists, is the strongest evidence of its truth; and from these stories learn to be plain and simple, if you would convince your readers and hearers. Divest yourself of the idea that poetry means rhyme and rhythm, and study the poetry of David and Solomon, sailah and John. You know Byron got the inspiration for his grandest lyrics from Isaiah.
At first do not try to swallow to much of Shakespeare. Take time to trace the analogy between the story and the historical facts, and the customs of the times in which the plot is laid; and as you progress, the won-well stretch and compass of the writer's work will grow upon you. But do not think of imitation: One Shakespeare is enough, and you can use the knowledge derived from him for better purposes than imitation. A great deal of other reading will come in to perfect the knowledge derived from text books, the historical and scientific works recommended by your instructors will also aid you.
The young student had better not read too much fiction until he has acquired some powers of discrimination. Scott, Dickens and some others must be read as a part of a literary education. George Elliot should not be read until the critical faculty is sufficiently developed to appreciate the beauties, and not to be too much saddened by the sorrows of the story; to be able to distinguish between virtue and something akin to fanaticism, between noble pride and dogged and selfish obstinacy so that the reader will not lay down the book with a feeling of pity for the writer—the strongest impression she leaves, in spite of her magical talent.
You have not time to read all that is in the magazines, but the best of it will keep, and, in the meantime, do not neglect the editorial remarks and the book reviews. You can learn much from them. All this is in the line of your education, and if you want to break bounds and read a paper-covered story to rest yourself, do so, but be careful what you choose. Let alone passion, strife, and jealousy, as well as doctrinal or political discussions in the guise of a story; go off with "Three Men in a Boat," or some other pleasant travellers and have a good restful tune.
A student has no time to read all the newspapers; but he must keep up with the times, and in order to do so, let him choose the paper having the most reliable news in the best shape, with the least personal abuse and low joking.
A good assortment of sporting goods at Smith's news depot.