A GREAT DAY FOR THE Y. M.C. A.
Thirty Members Received-New Officers Installed.
Sunday, March 26, the following named men were received into the Y. M. C. A: H.C. Nichols, Barnette, Davies, Glick, Lucas,,W.H. Anderson, Burris, Dennevic, Sump, Gant, O. D. Hall, Logan, Leman Woodward, Hindman, Nichols, Plickinger, Fogwell, Sweet, Swan, Robins, J. A. Anderson, Filkin, Johnston, Wood, Baker, Tavlor.
The initiation service was followed by the election of officers for 99-00. The officers nominated by the committee the week before, were unanimously elected.
A committee on Resolutions, consisting of W. E. Henderson and W. B. Sutton, gave the following report:
Whereas, The past year has been a very successful one in the history of the Young Men's Christian Association of the University of Kansas, and whereas, we feel that this has been largely due to the faithful work of our president, Mr. Frank L'Jewett, and his corps of efficient officers therefore be it
Resolved. That we do hereby express our grateful appreciation of the unremitting effort of the outgoing officers for the success of the association.
Respectfully submitted,
Willis E. Henderson }
William B. Sutton, } Com-
The report was unanimously accepted as expressing the sentiment of all.
Mr. Jewett then gave his farewell address. He spoke briefly of the year's work, touching especially upon the success of the Bible study and the social committees, the Y. M. C. A. rooms and the devotional meetings.
He recommended for the coming year that we get a paid secretary, secure rooms in some building on the bill and have a house down the bill, that a committee to look after sick students be appointed and the association should branch out into as many lines of practical Christian work as possible. Mr. Jewett's talk was followed by the charge to new officers given by Dean Miller and Dean Sayre. Professor Miller said that there was a feeling among the faculty that along with the growing interest in the development of body and mind there must be more attention given to the development of the spiritual side of man and that the faculty expected the Y. M. C. A. to be a leader in this work. He emphasized the fact that well proportioned development is necessary in order that we stand in the proper relation to our college, our home, our companies, and our God. His forceful and earnest words of advice and encouragement were very impressive and will not soon be forgotten by his hearers. Prof. Sayre in beginning his address said; "I do not speak to you today as professor to student but as a brother to brether."
Using as a nucleus Christ's words, "We are the salt of the earth but if the salt have lost it's savor wherewith shall it be salted," he called attention to some of the essential work among which were fellowship, righteousness and love. The practical and helpful thoughts with which his talk abounded well deserve to be remembered by the members and officers of the association in their future work. While the new officers stood, Dr. Cordley offered a moving prayer for the work of the association and young men of the University.
The tone of the meeting was deeply spiritual, inspiring those present with a burning zeal for Christ's work in Kansas University. The feeling is general that the association has begun its most active and prosperous year.
D1E MEISTERSINGERS.
Prof. Carruth Gives a Most Instructive and Interesting Lecture.
Prof Penny opened the sixth educational entertainment by playing a beautiful organ solo, "Processional March" from Wagner's "Die Mesteringer."
After the solo Prof. Carruth began a very instructive lecture on "Die Meister-singers." In introducing his subject the professor explained briefly the oldest German poetry, with its alteration and its strokes of two equal parts and a third differing from these.
He then spoke of the Minnesingers, the wandering "love singers" who were welcome in every German cottage and palace, where they sang their poetry to the music of a harp or other instrument. These singers had no doubt learned much during the crusades from the French troubadours and other European people, and even from the subjects of Salladin.
A brief sketch of the lives of the most famous Minnesingers was given and choice selections of their work read. The professor said that there was nothing better under the sun than some of these minne-songs, of the springtime of poetry. These songs may be compared to beautiful garden flowers beside which the volkslied would be the weeds. The professor then briefly explained that interesting episode the 'Wart-
burg War," a contest of the Minnesingers in which the poorest was to be hanged and the best crowned. Walter von der Mongelweide justly received the laurels. Wagner's orera "Tannhauser" is based on this contest.
The minnesongs gradually declined after this and the tradesmen in their guilds took up the study and production of poetry and music. Mastersong at first meant the best song, but it changed so that mastersinger meant a good singer or writer of poetry. The guilds held monthly meetings where all studied the art of song-making, listened to a good singer, or sung some popular songs. Every three months a contest was held in which the masters were contestants. The first best one received a necklace of guarded silver coins and the second a wreath of flowers. The members were divided into classes, the lower ones being pupils who had to learn the long tables of rules and the highest class, the masters, had to invent new forms of songs. The meetings were held on Sunday afternoons. The songs were written about nature or more frequently some scriptural topic and mistakes of thought or form were severely criticised or carefully marked in case of a contest. The greatest vice of the master singers was their destruction of verse, forms. Every form had its peculiar name and the professor gave some very amusing examples of the names applied to various forms.
A brief sketch of the greatest of mastersingers Hans Sachs was given, and a number of examples of his poetry read. Sachs composed 6250 different songs.
The effect of the master singers has been to make the Germans a nation of singers, and did much toward producing that rich poetry of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The last mister-school was held in 1830.
Prof. Farrell then sang in a very pleasing manner several of the minne-songs and meister-songs.
Many fine views were shown of Nurem-berg, "the home of the meister-singers," of meister singing books, music scores, musicians, and ornaments, also of Hans Sacho and his books. The views were made very interesting by Prof. Carruth's pointed explanations.
The closing number was a trio for organ, piano and violin, entitled "Walther's Prize Song" from Wagner's "Die Meistersinger," played by Messrs, Penny Preyer and Farrell.
Every number on the program was entertaining and most instructive and it is too bad that not more were present to hear it.
Mr. W.H.Brown'a New Book.
Mr. W. H. Brown's New Book.
There has just come from the press of Charles Scribner's Sons a volume of adventures and travels entitled "On the South African Frontier," the author being William Harvey Brown, a Kansas man born and reared. Something more than ten years ago, after graduating from the Kansas state university, Mr. Brown went to South Africa as a representative of the Smithsonian institute, and ever since he has been fighting, hunting and exploring throughout Mashonaland and Matabeland. During the latter years of his stay he became associated with a great English land company and gathered to his ownership something like 13,000 acres of land upon which he is now conducting farms, while in Salisbury, the capital of Rhodesia, he has established a flourishing commercial business. During all the years of his stay Mr. Brown continued to follow the profession of naturalist and in the Smithsonian at Washington is a fine display of African specimens gathered by his own hands. A few years ago he had a complete collection of African mammals ready for shipment to the Kansas University, but in one of the native rinsings this collection was burned and thus lost to the Kansas institution.
The book issued by Mr. Brown is a beautiful specimen of the printer's art. It is written in the breezy, narrative form one might expect from a man born and reared in Kansas. Himself a thorough master of the art of photography, he has been able to embellish his pages with many striking illustrations. Undoubtedly it takes front rank among the famous books of travels, and is a worthy contribution to the literature of the age.
Less than a year ago, in July of 1898,
Mr. Brown came out of his South
African wilderness on a mission filled
with romance. He came back to
marry the Kansas girl whose memory
had been his companion (in
all his distant wanderings). Arriving
in Lawrence he was wedded to Miss Martha,
the eldest daughter of Dr. Snow, Chancellor of the Kansas University. Next week
Mr. and Mrs. Brown will start from Lawrence for their home in Salisbury, and they
will be accompanied by Frank, the youngest brother of the bride. First comes
the long voyage to the west coast of Africa,
and then 1,500 miles of interior travel by boat. stage and ox team.
Mr. Brown tells us that some of the identical stage coaches which were used in
Kansas and Colorado in the early days are now used on African routes, and this seems to be testimony not only to the adaptability of this vehicle for rough travel, but also to the enduring quality of the work of American mechanics. Mr. Brown says that when he makes his fortune he will come out of South Africa for good and allMrs. Brown says she goes to the ends of the earth cheerfully and willingly in order to be with her husband. Young Frank Snow, who is fired by inheritance with the ambition of the naturalist, expects to make a valuable collection for the Kansas University, and the only people who are not exactly pleased with the outlook are the father and mother of the bride.
Every humanimpulse and endeavor has a starting point. It is doubtful if Mr.Brown had ever thought seriously of becoming a naturalist until one day when he was wandering aimlessly about the bluffs west of Lawrence and came upon the skeleton of a horse picked clean by the birds. He was then a student in the University and when he reported his find to Dr. Snow, that hungry man for specimens suggested to him that he ought to collect the bones and mount them. The suggestion struck young Brown favorably and for a long time he put in all of his leisure hours cleaning and mounting the skeleton, which, by the way, now stands in the University collection. When he had finished he brought Dr. Snow around to inspect his handwork and this gentleman was so pleased with it that he said enthusiastically: "Good for you, Harvey; you will ride that horse into Washington." And in due time young Brown did ride that horse into Washington, for he continued in the line which the horse had suggested and in a few years was doing work which attracted the attention of the Smithsonian—Kansas City Journal.
Tabulated Report.
Prof. Naismith has prepared a tabulated report of entries and results of the Indoor meet. It is as follows:
Entries Points made Records held
Freshmen... 6 15 0
Sophomores... 9 15 0
Juniors... 6 27 0
Seniors... 4 35 3
Arts total... 16 54 2
Engineer total... 13 31 1
Law total... 2 0 0
Pharmics... 2 0 0
The boys are at work preparing a team to meet Nebraska in outdoor athletics. The team will consist of six men and they will contest in the following: sprint, high jump and hurdle, long run, broad jump, pole vault and shot and hammer put.
The boys are at work preparing a team
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