THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
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THE March number of, the "National Printer Journalist," published in Chicago, has something to say regarding the course in Journalism given at Kansas University. It mentions the fact that those who have left the university have already obtained positions and commends the teaching of such a course. "Anything that a man is capable of learning can be taught to him." The writer goes on to say that the many phases of newspaper work make it especially adaptable to academic courses. In conclusion he says: "All the talk against professional schools does not prove that there is any sense in the yap of the hair-brained, nor in the stilted pronouncements of notables, who have been without such professional schools, against their great usefulness and, in all callings, excepting newspaper making, they are generally admitted necessary for the highest and surest attainments to success and broad usefulness."
And yet Mr Ed Howe still insists that college journalism is taught to turn out "long-haired journalists" to give Kansas editors opportunities to make addresses at the university. Mr. Howe did not know when not long since, he said of a piece in a Kansas newspaper. "The writer of that is mighty smart," that the article was written by one of the University "Journalists."
In spite of the knocking that has been done by a few narrow Kansas editors, the boys are receiving some benefit from Prof. Hopkins' course and only a little more than a week ago one of the class became city editor of the best newspaper in Lawrence and another is doing good work for a syndicate and his stuff is being used all over the state.
U. again had cause last week to be thankful that she has withdrawn from the State Oratorical Association. The Topeka affair was from an oratorical standpoint one of the poorest contests that have ever been held. The right sort of enthusiasm was almost entirely lacking. The rooters seemed to forget their representatives excepting in an incidental way and devoted their chief talents to the physical contests which developed. Dodd Gaston's remarks to the effect that, it seems strange that the association should have
gone to the supreme court for judges when Bob Fitzsimmons and other prize ring heroes might have been obtained, are timely.
From the physical standpoint the "meet" was one long round of pleasure and applause, and the superior training of Washburn told heavily upon the Baldwin-Ottawa champions; incidentally on the Topeka police force also. The latter phase is fast becoming the chief attraction in the state contest. It has come to the point when it matters little whether the orator representing a school wins or not if his supporters are able to overcome their opponents in a physical contest, and the schools concerned do not care to attend the affairs unless they take along rooters enough to whip their opponents.
As the primeval prairies of Kansas have given place to the cultivated farm of the settler; the wandering herds of buffalo to the Texas long-horn; the pristine gentleness of Kansas Oratorical Contests is being replaced by strenuous meetings of schools whose chief preparation is in the gentle arts of defence and offense. Oratory is not dead, not exactly, but it has reached the place it serves only the place of the pow-wow before the mighty battle.
PROF. MARVIN'S and Chancellor Strong's remarks last Thursday and Friday upon the behavior of students during chapel exercises were pertinent. K.U. students, it seems, should not have to be told to remember their manners. Chapel attendance is not compulsory here. No one, if he is bored by the exercises, is compelled to remain. There are a number of class rooms in Fraser hall, all are unoccupied at chapel time and can be used by students desiring to visit at this hour.
Prof. Skilton's talk Friday morning was the most interesting that has been given from the chapel platform for many a day and it is to be regretted that he should have been bothered and his hearers disturbed by a few "gallery gods."
WASHBURN COLLEGE is torn wiith dissension. Is it proper to applaud a speaker or visitor in the College Chapel? This is the question which threatens to rock the Topeka college to its foundations. It is indeed a matter that calls for long and thoughtful consideration. If the precedent is once established some future time may see the impious freshmen raising their class yells within the classic hall or traditions may be so far forgotten as to allow the university band to enter its sacred portals. Or it may be within the realms of the imagination (perish the thought) to see long in the future a chapel class fight. Such actions may, though they need not necessarily, follow the introduction of applause in the chapel.
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WE OFTEN hear it said that higher education is of no benefit to a man,that it does not make any great difference in
the business world whether a cray fish is called an amphibian or a crustacean or whether a certain French verb is regular or irregular. This is all very true but while a student is learning a few things from his books, he is learning a great many things from observation and association. He is learning how to study, how to find things for himself, and perhaps best of all he is getting the rough edges taken off him in a way that is effective yet not discouraging or disastrous.
We all know the typical freshman. He comes from a small high school with a sheepskin in his hand. He is bubbling over with pride in his high school record for he was valedictorian, took part in the amateur dramatics and was an orator of note in the home town. He was the one who was always called upon to read the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July, and at Sunday school picnics he was always much in evidence. No funeral was complete without him as a pall bearer and he was about the only boy in town who could handle the mayor by his first name. In short he was the "village cut up."
What would happen to such a boy were he to go out into the cold business world? He might perhaps be successful in a business way, but he would be a poor excuse for a man. He needs pruning down before he goes out to "accept a position" and the university is the best place for this process. He soon finds out that he does not know much more than anyone else when he has entered his classes and by the time he has completed a year's work he is fairly well subdued. It is true that some students never are entirely civilized by a university course but in all cases the training is at least a great help in the direction of making better men out of the students and for this reason is of instimable value.
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It is reported that the editors of the Michigan Daily have been sued for libel, and that the cause of the suit is in a certain sense a result of faculty control. Some time since, the faculty at Ann Arbor expelled several students for writing inaccurate stories for the Daily, and to remedy this evil the faculty bought the Daily from the students "to inculcate anti sensational principles." Last week the paper dabbled in reform, its representatives concealing their own identity in order to secure "acts" from prominent men, and then charging the health office and a boarding house with criminal carelessness" in serving poisoned veal. They asserted that as students had suffered from the effects of eating the meat and said that it was still being served. The facts were that only four students had been affected and that the poison in the meat was very soon discovered and its use discontinued. The paper offered an elaborate apology but the injured business men were not satisfied and have brought suit.
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