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Kansas University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief:
GUY, C. SEEDS.
Associate:
FRANK JEWETT,
Literary Editor:
AGNES LEE.
Local Editor
E. FRANK SHINN
Associates:
BERTHA BOWEN,
LACY SIMPSON,
RUTH WHITMAN,
C. E. ROSE,
GERTRUDE HILL,
JOHN FLETCHER,
J. C. BOTTOMER,
H. G. McKEEVER,
CURTIS OSBORNE.
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FRANK P. PRATT.
Associate.
JOHN H. KANE.
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LAWKENCE, KAN, SEPT. 17, 1898
Again the WEEKLY appears before you guided by new hands. It has ever been, the aim of this publication to faithfully represent the interests of the faculty, of the student body and of the school. It is the expression of the University. The WEEKLY has always received the hearty co-operation of the students and consequently has been successful. It will discuss questions of vital interest to every student and should receive their united support.
Our football prospects were never brighter ___
The fact that almost half of the graduates of '98 have secured position as teachers, reflects much credit on the university but more on the class of '98.
Although the University students who enlisted did not have an opportunity to face the Spaniards, there never was a braver body of young men or one that responded more readily to the country's call.
Geo O Foster, who acted as registrar last year in the absence of Professor Engle, has made application for the office of secretary and treasurer of the University. No words that we might add in Mr. Foster's favor could raise the already high respect which he commands on account of his ability and worth.
The reception or new students at trains has always been a failure. This year two students regularly met trains to welcome new men. Of course students will eventually find the University and obtain rooms, but the pleasant greeting so common to other schools is lacking.
Mr. R. K. Moody has resigned the position of treasurer of the University and has become the general manager of the Stubbs contracting company. The University loses one of its most enthusiastic supporters in Mr. Moody. He has always given thorough satisfaction while in office and has ever been a friend of the students. He was foremost in athletics and his guiding hand will be greatly missed.
Manager Jackson made a good choice when he selected Mr. E. J. Leland as assistant manager of the football team. Mr. Leland has spent his whole time since August 1, resuming that correspondence which was broken off when Mr. Jackson enlisted in June. The schedule games are arranged. There will be a game with Ames college and the team will probably take a trip through the south.
Now that the rushing season is on, new students who are overwhelmed with fraternal favors should reflect where their footsteps are tending. Do you really know what a fraternity is and what its benefits are? Members of the faculty have often said that a student ought not to join a fraternity until he is thoroughly acquainted with it. Such a step should not be taken without due consideration.
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Bishop Brooke, of the diocese of Oklahoma and Indian territories, in an address recently delivered before one of the educational institutions of my own territory, put this thought most completely: "The Knowledge that teaches us how to live." he said: "must be gotten at the same time with that which teaches us how to get a living."
This much, then, I have said in behalf of the proposition that one's first duty is to make himself fit for effective service. And now I come face to face with that most specious fallacy, that when a man has done this, when he has made the most of his own life, he has then and thereby made his utmost contribution to the world's good; he has given to society one unit at its highest development. And so by easy logic it may be shown that selfishness lies, after all, at the bottom of the highest human action, and that egoism and altruism are one. Develop yourself to the utmost that is in you, that is the argument, and you have thus best served your fellowmen. Well, I go part of the way in this pleasant conceit, but I do not go to its fatal conclusion. I deny that egoism and altruism are one, but I assert that egoism and altruism are complementary. The man who most nearly attains his own completeness, not thereby does he become a blessing to the world, but thereby he fits himself to be a blessings to the world. Oh, yes, there are the men of transcendent gifts and power, whose contribution to civilization is so vast that it is impertinent to inquire into the motive and impulses of their work. In them egoism and altruism are completely merged. But we are not laying down rules for these.
down rules for And so we come back to law. I said the outset that service is the greatest thought in the world that it is the highest happiness, and that it is the chief end of man. Here you stand at the threshold, wilderness of questions arises before you What shall I doubt? Whither shall I turn What will come to me? What figure sha! I make? How shall I meet this difficulty and this, and this? But here is the ultimate interrogation: What shall I give to society? What shall I be worth to the world? Where will my handiwork appeal in the upbuilding of things? Here is world problem working around you through many veering and oscillation tending steadily, we believe toward progress, evolution, perfection. Loo closely, Is your personal fact or anywhere discoverable in that problem? Oh, the problem will be worked out, never fear. God's purposes will never be wrought out, never fear, not b divine fulmination, or divine intervention or divine manifestation, at all, but just b God's men and women. This will all come about with you or without you If thou altogether hold thy peace; de lervance will come from some other quarter. If fraud and injustice flourish under your face and you make no sign if political debauchery and corruptor stalk around you and you say not on word; if want and hunger appea to you and you turn away; if occasion great or small call loudly for that special gift of yours and you withhold your hand if some issue between right and wrong demand that you declare yourself, and you altogether hold your peace; be assured the attition of advancing civilization will not cease for want of you. The increasing purpose that runs through the ages will not cease for want of you. The increasing purpose that runs through the ages will be realized with your help or without it. But is your hand to be with held? Is your voice to be silent? Are you content to be a mere spectator of human progress and human uplifting? Are you not disposed to inquire if there is not a place in all this for you? Are you not disposed to consider carefully if perseverance you be not come into the kingdom for such a time as this? There is a very convenient and a very fatuous philosophy that declares that whatever is, is right I am not doing certain things, it says, therefore it was not intended I should do them. Somehow the way did not open to me to do this desirable thing, to fill this high station, therefore it was meant for another: Get rid of this parallyzing philosophy. It is just a convenient cloak with which to cover failure. God saw that you were not doing this thing that lay at your hand, and be touched another on the shoulder and said, "Do this
"For such a time as this." Ay, there's the rub! Was there ever a time less favorable to conspicuous and effective service than this? If I had been thrust into the world when Esther was, or David, or Paul, or Luther, or Lincoln! Ah, those were times, indeed to come into the kingdom, when nations trembled, when thrones toterted, when institutions perished, when systems rose—times of crises and storm. There might have been room and place for me in such times as those! Well let me admit that acute periods do
accentuate individual service—do permit men to say definitely and boldly. "This did I; here my hand is seen." Because the great rebellion came, many still alive can say, "I was one to save the Union!" Because the war with Spain came on, thousands of our countrymen have found the opportunity to render signal and goerous service to their own generation.
But now satipy at me, my mother fact that you and I and the multitude must not look to dramatic times of stress and trial and turbulence to call us forth to service. National collisions, stirring and dramatic occasions, convulsions and reverberations that shake the fittest men to the surface—these are the exceptional conditions in these modern days. And it is a satisfactory commentary on the progress of civilization that it is so. Things settle and grow steadier as the world goes on. And so we must expect to make our contribution to the sum of human advancement just in the ordinary vicissitudes of government, just in the ordinary movements of society. And the tremendous and fundamental secret of it all is time. "God works in minutes," says the French proverb. When wealth comes we say then my hand will be outstretched to help. When leisure comes, then will I do this and that for the public good. Thus do we construct a mirage that dissolves as we approach it. The everlasting now, that is the thought. What do you discern today on your right hand or on your left that you may reach forth and do? It is possible, that ten years hence you may write a word poem, or save a battle, or found an asylum; but it is certain that today you can set going some good word, or lend a hand somewhere toward the on-moving of things. Your great deed of the future is a bauble, not worth reckoning among the world's potentialities. The accomplished service of today, though a trifle, has passed into the economy of civilization.
But let us look again. Is this, indeed a dull, mean and sordid time to come into the kingdom—this closing time of the old century, this opening of the new? Believe me, you that are young, you whose lives will be projected far within the shadow of the twentieth century, you have come into the kingdom for the richest and fruitfullest and most glorious time that has yet dawned upon the world. No era of reformation, or clamor of revolution, or clash of civil conflict, ever held opportunities for individual service more rich and varied. What tools time has placed in the hands of the twentieth century—to unlock mysteries, to construct institutions, to upbuild civilization! How the incompatible and magnificent century now closing has cleared the way and cast up the debris. Splendid as its achievements have been in letters and ethics and religion, its imperial triumphs have been industrial and material. How can we doubt that the on-coming century, while not lacking in material splendor, will solve the uses of civilization, problems still more enduring, still more vital to the race—social questions that lie down at the bottom of things, the relations of man to his brother through all the scale of human living? Already these questionings, colosal and momentous, are casting their shadows before. Think not that opportunity has been exhausted. Think not that all great and worthy occasions have had their day. Think not that the last word has anywhere been said. "There is at this moment for you," says our profoundest thinker, "an utterance brave and grand as that of the colo-sal chisel of Phidias or trowel of the Egyptians or the pen of Moses or Dante, but different from all this." Some one wrote of the dawning of the nineteenth century lines which belong with even greater power to the rising of the twentieth:
"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!"
When, in our own country, was the future so bright and wide with promise? Thank God for the era of national good feeling that seems to be again dawning upon us! Thank God for this day when we may all, regardless of partisan connections, commend the President of the United States; when we may all commend the distinguished citizen and patriot who contested with him for the presidency in the last national campaign; when we may all give great honor and glory and tears to our army and navy; when we may all pledge renewed allegiance and devotion to the flag of our greater America. How our horizon has grown within the year. What problems of civilization have been laid upon us that we cannot shink or put aside. Who shall say, that having once opened the door of civilization and progress in any quarter of the earth, we shall close and bar it again in the interest of mediaevalism, oppression and tyranny. I have no sympathy with the cry of "getting" and "keeping" merely as the means of commercial expansion and national aggrandissement, but I hope
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you will all believe and assert that as the agent and missionary of liberty, progress and civilization, the United States should take no backward step, either in the Occident or Orient. In a large sense it may very well be said that the United States has come into the Kingdom for such as this.
But after all the living question is not one of times or seasons; rather the abiding thought that service hath all seasons for its own human want.
L. M, GIBB, Proprietor.
On the memorable field of Crecy, an old Bohemian king, blind, and scarred by many battles, rode into the conflict between two faithful friends. After the fight all three were found dead, their horses standing over them unhurt; and on the shield of the battle scarred king of Bohemia were found the words, "Ich dien," "I serve." And it is a regal motto. The world holds no sentiment more humble or more proud. I commend it to you. Write it on your shield. Carry it in your heart. Let it once possess your life in all your height and
and need and imperfection and aspiration are always in the world, and as long as they abide, service hath a field. And it is not a question of place. Wherever men are thrown together, there some section of the world's destiny is being worked out, and there service hath a mission. And it is not a question of station, of greatness or littleness. Service may be performed largely and in the light, and men may write it in their books, and build it into their monuments, and celebrate it in great pageants; but not less heroic is the service that quietly brings light where darknes was, and quietly gives help where there is need of it. I do not say specifically what one could do or might do in the service of his generation, but I try only to indicate the attitude he should hold to life. I am content if I have been able to raise before you this question, so clearly that you can never quite get away from it: 'What am I doing and what can I do for the world?'
breadth and deep significance, and the question of Medecal will be to you no longer an interrogation, but as it was to the beautiful queen, an asseveration, eternal and inexorable, to once command an inspiration, "Who knoweth but thou art come into the kingdom for such a time as this!"
SOCIETY.
Miss Clara Lynn of Kansas City, who was a student here two years ago, is visiting her Theta sisters at Bingler's on Tennessee street.
Miss Florence Hawk of Abulene has entered school. Miss Hawk's family have taken the old Mansfield house, and will make Lawrence their home.
Some excitement was caused the other morning by the rumor that a prominent Barb girl was wearing Pi Phi colors. It was found however that the colors were those of the law fraternity Phi Delta Phi.
Miss Susa Jewell of Torpeka is the guest of Miss Gertrude Boughton.
Miss Josephine Shellabarger who was very prominent in university circles last year is studying art in New York.
Miss Harriet Ayres has been quite ill this summer, and will not be in school this term.
Miss Gertrude Boughton entertained informally at cards Wednesday night in honor of Miss Jewell and Miss Charlotte Cutter who are her guests.
Miss Augusta Flintom has resumed her university work, which she had to give up last year on account of ill health.
The Phi Phis gave an elaborate dinner Friday night at the home of Mrs. Gordon Gibb. Covers were laid for twenty-five.
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