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Historical Sketch of Its Beginning and the Present Standing.
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For thirty years after Congress set aside the land for University support, the growth of the University was exceedingly slow.
The idea of a University for the State of Kansas dates back to the year the state was admitted to the Union. In that year Congress took the first substantial steps looking to the establishment of a University by setting aside seventy-two sections of land in Kansas, the same to be turned into an endowment fund. Recently the last of this land was sold and the University finds itself in possession of a permanent endowment of $151,000, which yields an annual income of about $7,500.
ture of the state, but through the generosity of friends coupled with state appropriation, the material equipment of the University has been increased until now it is valued at $1,000,000. From little old North College the University has grown, through much adversity until now it has eleven magnificent buildings, a faculty of one hundred and five members, a student body of over thirteen hundred, and ranks as one of the first ten universities in America, with an income equivalent to five per cent on an endowment of $4,000,000.
In the variety of technical and general courses in the various schools and departments of the
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in fact, until 1894 the material equipment of the University consisted of but four buildings. Up to this time the state had looked upon the University as belonging to Lawrence, and for that reason it received indifferent support. In all these years, however, through the guidance of wise and able minds, the University was slowly but firmly establishing its place in the educational world. From 1894 dates a more rapid increase in material equipment, not all, to be sure, by appropriation from the state treasury by the legisla-
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all characterized as real scholars are everywhere, by absence of pretense and a desire to be thoroughly useful to the students and the state; a large number of working labo atories supplied with all the approved and up to date equipments usually found in institutions of much greater age and endowment; a library of 42,000 volumes, the common laboratory of all the students and instructors, without a peer in the Middle West.
To quote from the report of the English Educational Commission relative to the University:
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University, the people of Kansas have at their disposal for the benefit of their children all that can be found in the other schools west of the Mississippi taken together. The students will find at the University broad and comprehensive courses in Science, Mathematics, Law, Medicine, Music, Pharmacy, Engineering, Banking, Insurance, Journalism, General Business, and the Languages. The student has for his aid a teaching force of one hundred and five profes s, many of whom are known to be the equal of the best in the United States,
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"It is democracy—where merit alone counts. Its standing and scholarship are of the highest. Its spirit and purpose are as broad and inclusive as the universe. Unlike the older colleges of the East, it is not circumscribed and hampered by a conservative, classical curriculum, nor is it intimidated by its benefactors as are some of the colleges founded by the predatory rich. It is the wholesome product of a commonwealth of three million people, sane, democratic, industrial and progressive, with ideals and not afraid of ideas. It responds to every need of humanity. It knits together the professions and labor. It makes the fine arts and the anvil one."
INTERCOLLEGIATE NEWS.
The man who hitches his wagon to a star must also prepare himself for some rough riding.
A college conference was held by Mr. F, S. Brockman and Prof. C. H. Robertson at Nanking, China, in December.
The University of Chicago is to have a Divinity school to cost $1000,000. It will be erected by the Baptists of the middle West.
Wisconsin and Iowa appear to be at "outs". After breaking off relations for debate with Iowa, Wisconsin has also refused to schedule a basket ball game with her.
Coach Stagg of Chicago University wishes to discourage the use of spiked shoes, and says that the men will be able to run just as fast without them when they get used to it.
Three hundred and twenty-six men are enrolled in Bible classes at Ohio Wesleyan University. This is over fifty percent of the men in college. Last year only
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IF YOU CONTEMPLATE attending the State University,write us as to Text Books and supplies in any department. All letters cheerfully answered.
Text Books, Drafting Instruments and supplies are carried in large quantities, as the student body favors us with a very large share of their trade.
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ninty-seven men were enrolled.
ninety-seven men were enrolled.
At the recent "Labor Day"
celebration at the University of
California, 1,000 students took
up the pick and shovel and today
the campus is greatly improved
and the University is about
$1,500 ahead.
At the University of Illinois, 415 men have been enrolled in the Bible classes and the canvass is not yet completed. Classes have been formed in three of the fraternity houses. A mid-winter institute was held in January.
The McGill University Association, at Montreal, has passed the $80,000 mark in their building campaign. This is the amount originally aimed at, but it is now proposed to raise $10, 000 more in order that the building may contain dormitories for at least fifty men.
Among the institutions where successful Bible classes have been organized in traternities are the following, Amherst, McGill, Cornell, Toronto, Stanford, DePuw, Denison, Boston university, Wesleyan university, Albion college and the university of Michigan.
Cornell will give a formal banquet to her debating teams this year, in order to create interest in literary work. Heretofore all attentions have been showered on athletic teams. The athlete it seems, has become too much "the man" in college circles, and the debater is now to be brought to the front.
Association work is getting a strong hold on the school life in
the County High Schools of Kansas, organizations having been effected in six. Many of the associations maintain regular devotional meetings and Bible study classes and do work which is of great value in fitting men to do college Association work after leaving High School.
The New York Evening World offers a prize of $10 for a woman's account of the most inviting proposal of marriage that she has actually received. Here is an opportunity for some fair co-ed to start a bank account. For the benefit of those contemplating a bank account we quote one of the accounts: "My sweetheart preposed in this way: 'Ethel, your music tonight has charmed me as nothing before ever did. You alone can fill my home. Say 'yes.'—Ethel M."
In a recent published article on college advantages, Dr. John Huston Finley, president of the college of the City of New York, said that "The college man has many more chances of succeeding in life than the man without a college training. Dr. Finley gathered his statistics from two leading biographical works. He found that one out of every forty college men succeeded in life, while only one non-college man out of ten thousand succeeded. Thus the college man's chances are 250 times greater than those of the non-college man. More than a third of the 15,000 names in one of the biographical works were college men, while 50 per cent of the 11,000 names in the other biography were college men.