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Kansas University Weekly.
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ORATORICAL CONTEST AT ST. LOUIS
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Many Institutions Will Be Represented at World's Fair City.
The Oratorical Contest of American Colleges and Universities at St. Louis in June will be the greatest affair of its kind ever held in this country. Institutions throughout the country are desirous of having representatives in this contest. The number has so greatly exceeded earlier expectations that it is quite likely that a number of preliminary intercollegiate contests will have to be held in various sections of the country to cut down the number at St. Louis. The Colleges and Universities who are interesting themselves in this movement comprise the best institutions and are situated in all corners of the United States. In the east the University of Maine desires to enter; farther west a number of institutions, among them the State Universities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas and Colorado, in the south Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi; and farther west Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, California and Oregon. It can be readily seen that the St. Louis contest will be virtually a national college affair.
Some of these seven questions will be assigned to each contestant a few hours before the contest. The World's Fair officials will present the winner at St. Louis with a trophy. The judges will be men who are thoroughly conversant with municipal affairs in this and other countries.
The contest will consist of twelve minute extempore discussions upon one of seven themes under the general topic, "Improvement of City Government in the United States." The subdivisions are: 1. "The Growth and Cosmopolitan Character of American Cities."2. "The Power and Methods of the City Boss."3 "The Application of the Civil Service Merit System to Municipal Affairs."4. "Independent Action in City Politics."5. "Adaptibility of German Municipal Methods to American Cities."6. "The Franchise System vs. Public Ownership."7. "Have Democratic Principles Been a Failure in Municipal Government?"
Interest at K. U. is greater than has been evinced in oratory for several years. Prof. Frazier has a class in Public Speaking and Debate, which is making a study of municipal government and any one who desires to try for the contest may visit this class and take part in the discussions upon municipal subjects. Prof Cone, in addition, is delivering a series of lectures to the class upon municipal affairs, so that a considerable benefit might be obtained by attendance.
PROF. BLACKMAR'S LECTURE
It is desired that every student who can will enter this contest About a dozen have already signified their intention of trying for a place.
...The Mastery of the Desert.'
Prof. Blackmar addressed the Sociological and Economic Conference Thursday afternoon upon "The Mastery of the Desert." Prof. Blackmar told how the tales of the early explorers had for years made people believe that the region west and south of the Missouri river was nothing but a dreary canse of sandy waste. From these traveler tales the people of the East created the myth of the "Great American Desert" and the geographers of the first half of the nineteenth century had likened it to the Atrican Sahara and traced it upon the maps as a vast expanse running across the country from north to south and as far east as the Missouri river. He told of the explorer Long who visited the plains about 1820. To this man the "desert" offered two uses to the country, first a barrier to the passing of the population on west, second that some time it might be a means of defense to a foreign power attacking us from that direction. Prof. Blackmar went on to say that although there was not nor had ever been a "Great American Desert," yet there were patches of country west of the 100th meridian where there was very scant rainfall and little vegetation save the scrubby sage brush The living inhabitants of these tracts were limited to the half-starved coyote, the sage hen and a few snakes and lizards. Land, too, that but for the lack of water might be as fruitful as any in the country.
The reclamation of these districts, the first stage being the visits of the trapper and trader, was the next idea brought out by Prot. Blackmar. The building of government forts, the fights with hostile Indians, the building of railroads and the final settlement by pioneer settlers, all represent some of the trials gone through to develop the arid regions. Even after settlers had made permanent settlement, the wars of the cattle men against the sheep men for water rights and pasture lands formed a chapter in the development. Finally the farmer came and to the development of agriculture we are indebted for the mastery of the desert.
The region once known as the "Great American Desert" comprises 150,100 square miles from which fifteen states and territories have been carved with an aggregate population of nearly 9,000,000 people. In these states the agricultural products amounted in 1900 to $947,000,-000. The products of the "Desert" are taken care of by 50,000 miles of railroad including x vans continental lines. 6,500-000 acres of land in these states
are now under irrigation and when necessary many million more can be utilized. And the final development of this great region is not yet reached. The manufacturing center is rapidly moving west, the railroad center is also coming this way, and the center or all industries is fast moving toward us, all combining to place the center of the national industry of the future within the boundaries of "The Great American Desert."
LECTURE ON CORINTH.
Prof. Richardson Speaks on Recent Excavations.
Professor R. B. Richardson, late Director of the American School at Athens, lectured last night in University Hall upon "American Excavations at Corinth." Probably no American is better acquainted with the subject of Grecian archaeology than Prof. Richardson. He was Director of the American School at Athens for ten years and personally directed the excavations at Corinth for six years beginning in 1896.
"Corinth," said Prof. Richardson, "was twice the largest city of Greece and one of the most important. It was first destroyed by the Romans in the year 146 B.C. and afterwards rebuilt into a great city by Julius Caesar. From the height above the city is one of the finest views in Greece."
Regarding their first year's work in excavation, the professor described the difficulties under which they labored. They had only a total of $2,100 to begin the work on, and it required the labor of more than 100 men to accomplish anything. Laborers were, however, cheap, unskilled
Corinth was the mother of many colonies. Her population found outlet mostly to the west, although she had interests toward the Persian side. Her greatest colony was Syracuse, established in the eighth century.
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INTERCOLLEGIATE NEWS.
Last week the University of Nebraska celebrated its thirty-fifth birthday.
The Dramatic Club at the University, of Nebraska have made arrangements to give a Ladies' Minstrel Show sometime during April.
The Dramatic Club at Minnesota will produce "Everyman" in April.
Professor Charles W. Smiley of Harvard is carrying on a unique experiment in psychology. He maintains that a man cannot translate from one language to another correctly if his mind is prepossessed with opinions on the subject. Professor Smiley has taken several Greek students who have never read the Bible and who do not be lie in Christian doctrines, and is securing from them translations of the Bible from the Greek He believes that only in this way can an exact translation be secured, since the former translators have been influenced by their previous knowledge of the contents.
A bill has been offered in the Iowa house of representatives to provide a chair of matrimony for the Iowa university. According to this bill the governor will appoint a Director of Marriage Instruction with a salary of $2,000 per year. In addition $3,000 is to be appropriated for "incidental expenses." The 'Chicago Maroon' suggests that "incidental expenses." probably means "settlements of damage suits arising from instruction in new department and will probably be stretched to include almamy if, after taking a course in marriage, the student finds his affinity incompatible." The probababilities are that if the measure goes through, the millitia will have to be called out to protect the governor from being run over by the aging spinsters flocking to the gubernatorial quarters seeking the appointment of "Director."
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