Kansas University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief:
FREDERICK H. WOOD,
Associate:
JOHN H. KANE
Literary Editor:
AGNES LEE,
Associates:
GERTRUDE CMAPMAN. ELEANOR GEPHART
Local Editor:
GUY. C. SEEDS
Associates:
FRANK SWETT, GERTRUDE HILL,
A. H, PARROTT, JOHN FLECHTRER,
JOHN FRANIS, JR, J.C. BOTTOMER,
J.M. LEE, FRANK JEWETT.
Managing Editor:
J. O HALL,
Associate.
FRANK P. PRATTE
Shares in the WEEKLY one dollar each, entitling the holder to the paper for two years, may be bad of the secretory. Miss Loveland, of the office, P. S. Elliott, or at the WEEKLY office.
Subscription price 50 cents per annum in advance.
Address all communications to J. O Hall, 1202 Kentucky street, Lawrence, Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class mail matter.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 5,1898
Dont forget the preliminary Missouri debate Friday night.
From a financial as well as a scholastic point of view, the University Quarterly seems to be a good thing. Push it along.
Thirty-five dollars will put the track at McCook field in good shape. There ought to be enough interest in track athletics here to enable the management to clear that amount on the Indoor Meet.
It may be noted in passing as an indication of increased interest in oratory, that at the State contest, a third member of the faculty was add ad to the two who are habitually present on all occasions.
J. Leeford Brady, of the Lawrence World, says a large part of the audience thought Games, of Baker, should have won first place. Of course they did. There were by actual count two hundred and one wearers of B ker colors present, the two hundred and first being J. Leeford himself.
That McKinley wave of prosperity seems to have struck K. U. The enrollment is larger than ever before, the requirements for admission have been raised, the course of study has been brought up to twentieth century standards' the football team made a remarkable record, and the Glee club a no less remarkable trip. Even the number of "flunks" has been greater than usual, and to cap it all we have won the State Oratory contest.
College Politics.
It is an old time-worn, thread-bare subject, this subject of college politics, but the discussion over it at the recent Press association meeting leads us to make a few remarks. It was there suggested that any discussion of college politics in the college paper should be religiously taboo and national politics substituted in its place. Such a contention, we believe can only arise from a misconception of term college politics and of the college journalism.
College politics in its broader sense is not confined to college elections. It reaches out into every sphere of college activity, and its discussion includes the treatment of all those things which go to make up the college life. Our policy in athletics, in oratory, in debating, are all college political questions. No one thinks of confining the term national politics to national elections, but the nation's treatment of the tariff finance, foreign relations and all other questions of interest to the body politic are rightly considered political questions. We cannot conceive of a live newspaper of general circulation which would refuse to discuss such questions editorially. These questions are live questions and the journal with an editorial page not occupied with them, but filled instead with speculations as the exact location of Mount Aarat, or with learned dissertations on the topography of the moon, would certainly be dry reading if indeed it were read at all. Now the college paper bears the same relation, to college life and the student body, that the metropolitan daily does to the national or municipal life and to the body politic. The secular journal represents the life of the nation and the locality in which it is
published. Its news columns are filled with their doings and its editorial page occupied with the questions of moment to them just so the college paper ought to reflect the life of the institution at which it is published. Its news columns should be occupied with college happenings. Its editorial columns should discuss the questions of policy which occupy the attention of the students. These questions are college political questions most decidedly within the sphere of college journalism.
On the other hand national politics is as much outside our proper sphere as the local government of the planet of Mars is outside the sphere of the secular press.
K. U. Quarterly
A modern university's standing is largely dependant upon the amount and the thoroughness of original research carried on within its walls. That it has been found necessary to divide the scope of the University Quarterly into two parts and make, as it were, two publications out of one, betrays an encouraging amount of original research going on here, and that too in a flattering diversity of lines.
It may be admitted that the same amount of research would be carried on even if there were no Quarterly in which to chronicle its results. The class of men, whose investigations are recorded in the Quarterly, do not carry on their work just for the privilege of seeing their names on the title page of a scientific journal. But this is no argument against the continuation of the Quarterly. It is our good fortune that such work is done here. It is no less to our advantage that the results of such work be published, and that in a journal of our own. We must not hide our light under a bushel.
National and international scientific journals are giving way somewhat to university publications of similar character. Other colleges are realizing the need of gathering together in one series the published labors of their students and professors. This tendency is not entirely due to the desirability of giving publicity to the work of each separate university. This might be called the advertising feature of the university Journal of research. It is also due to the many advantages to be derived from keeping the work of the various departments of each school intact and easy of reference.
For both these reasons the University Quarterly ought to be encouraged.
It is highly desirable that we should have a medium through which to give notice of our best educational work. Indeed this desirability is so apparent, that it is safe to say that the Quarterly has come to stay. It is no less important that it should not be crippled or receive a luke warm support. It will only take a few hundred dollars to insure its regular publication and to make such mechanical improvements as will put the Quarterly where the character of its material should have placed it long ago.
Weaver's Colored Dress Goods Sale.
Will continue for three days. Saturday.
Monday and Tuesday You can not afford
to miss the last three days of this sale.
We are receiving new novelties and placing them on sale as fast as received Look for special values each day. Particular attention is called to four special values for Saturday, March 6th.
15 pieces of 38 in all wool mixtures,
sa le price 48c.
15 pieces of 38 inch all wool mixtures,
sale price $30.
to pieces of 36 inch mixtures and plaisd
sale price 25c
10 pieces of 36 inch mixtures and coverts,
sale price 29c.
Particular attention is requested to the new weaves and colorings in the 'skil and wool novelties, Poplins, Coverts and Broadcloths.
These are extraordinary values and you should not pass them lightly by.
One thing we hope you will keep in mind, is that "the time to get choice novelties is when they are first exhibited."
Remember the sale closes Tuesday night March 8th.
A. D. WEAVER
A. P. HULTZ, Dentist.
No. 735, Mass. St.,
Lawrence, Kan
CHAS. HESS Meat Market.
Choice Fresh and Salt Meats always on on hand. Telephone 14, 941 Mass. St.
BOOKS AND THINGS
F. Hopkinson Smith is one of the few men who can do many things well. He is a successful engineer—that is his business. In his play hours, he takes his white umbrella and color box to Spain or Mexico and brings back the most charming water colors. Some of his Venetian studies with gay sails against blue skies were at the World's Fair. He invariably tells the story of his Bohemian play days in some delightful book such as "Well Worn Roads" or "A Day at Laguerres." He betrays his artistic tendency in everything that he does. His home in a New York flat, people say, would be a delight to any artist.
Last week in Topeka Mr. Smith appeared in still another role, as the reader of his stories. A tall, city-bred looking gentleman, with iron-gray hair, pushed back union his forehead, and a very military looking mustache; he is forty-five at least, for he has a son who graduated at Princeton two or three years ago, a thing in which Mr. Hopkinson Smith took much pride, for he has always wished that he were a Princeton college man. But to return to his reading in Topeka he began with "Colonel Carter of Caftertsville," in his musical, Virginian voice and graufened up for the reading of "Tom Grogan," and the others. And the same charming personality that is revealed in his writing and drawing was present in his manner of reading.
The February number of the Atlantic contains the last chapters of F. Hopkinson Smith's story "Caleb West." It is not well named "Caleb West," for it tells how a lighthouse was built at Keyport Lodge, on the Massachusetts coast, by Henry Sanford, a young southern living in Ney York. It tells the difficulties and triumphs of the building and gives a look into the lives of those connected with the work. A Maryland major, suh, is brought in contact with the rugged, manly type of seamen of the New England coast in the most delightful way. Major Slocomb arrives at Keyport Ledge just after a boiler explosion on the ship carrying stones to the light house enrockment, and is devotion itself to the injured men. Caleb West's girl wife, Betty, tends another of the injured, and after she has nursed him back to life, runs away with him to New York. She flutters back in a few days, broken-winged and sorrowful, but Caleb West refuses to take her back, saying: "She can't git out love with me, and inter love with Billy, an' back agin to me in a week."
Meanwhile the sturdy men push on the work at the light house in spite of every misfortune. At last the light house is accepted by the government officials and Sanford is content. The story closes when gray haired old Caleb West, moved by a fraternal feeling, resolves Betty into his home again.
This is the barest outline of the story which gives no place to the delightful pictures of Sanford's life, his bachelor friends and his aspiring friendship with Mrs. Serov. There are some thrilling incidents, however, that cannot be passed over, for instance the capsizing of the boat with Captain Joe and Colet and the helpless ag my of those looking on from the light house. This is about the strongest thing Mr. Smith ever wrote.
The character portrayal is vigorous and true. Major Siocomb and Captain Joe are the best of their kind are the remnant of the easy-going south before the war, the other a splendid specimen of the sea-faring man to be found on the New England coast: "Cable West" is a delightful story, full of the picturesque and the pathetic
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Spring Must Have Come.
As a further indication of the advent of Spring we publish the following ebullition of the Spring poet handed to us this week:
night.
Feed me on gruel-soup just for tonight;
I am so tired of this sole-leather steak.
Predried doughnuts, and vulcanized cake,
Oysters that sleep in a watery bath,
Butter as strong as Goliath of Gath;
Weary of paying for what we can't eat,
Chewing up rubber and calling it meat!
STRAIGHT FROM THE STOMACH.
Backward, turn backward, oh time in your
'Backward, turn backward, for weary
Give me a whack at my grand-mother' iam
Let me drink milk that has never been skimmed.
Let me eat butter whose hair has been triumphed.
Let me once more have an old fashioned pie.
Then I'll be ready to curl up and die."
It Is Almost Here !
For first class time pieces, for ladies and gentlemen, call on G. Willman and examine his bargains.
Spring in all its beauty and grandeur, with its midnight walks and study of the stars. If we expect our lady love to look at us with admiration in her eyes we must not wear an old style hat. The shape of a hat is distinguishable even on the darkest night, and to be popular with the K. U. ladies now we must wear a
This is the best stiff hat in the city at the price of an inferior article. The hair is said to be man's crowning beauty but yet above it is the hat. The hat proclaims the man. We like to appear in our new spring Suit on EASTER DAY. We have just received our line of spring suitings and would be pleased to show you through. We will fit you out with
K. U. SPECIAL HAT.
A Nobby Suit at a Nominal Cost
and guarantee satisfaction in workmanship. We are always pleased to show goods.
Our Line of Neck Wear
is complete with a beautiful line of silks. All 50c grade of silks we sell in bows and strings at 25c.
We have one price to all and square dealing.
ROBINSON & ROBINSON, The Clothiers
CORRE SPONDENCE.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY
Mr. Wagner Writes of Its History, Scope
and Needs.
The WEEKLY is in receipt of the following communication from Mr. Wagner, assistant in Pharmacy:
"With the October number, the Kansas University Quarterly completed its sixth volume. It will not be out of place therefore, to say a few words as to its past and future.
The first number was that of July 1892, and since then four numbers a year have regularly appeared. In order to make its volumes co-extensive with the calendar year, vol. 5 was ended with its second number. A further change instituted with the beginning of the 6th volume was the publication of the journal in two series, of which one, A, is devoted to Science, the other, B, to Philology, History and Political Science. The division has proved beneficial in many respects, though it has been difficult once in a while to secure enough matter to fill both series. The difficulty, however, is nothing to complain of, for it is, pernaps, the one universal attribute of journalism.
From the beginning the rule has been to publish only such articles as represented original research. As a consequence, faculty and students, with few exceptions, have come to look upon it as the proper place to publish their work. This again has made the journal indispensable to workers in many lines, and therefore a good means of giving publicity to such discoveries as are made here.
Scientific publications of colleges and universities are usually looked on with suspicion by the older publishing societies, owing to the fact that so many of them have either been discontinued after a short career, or after securing a long list of valuable exchanges by means of a few good scientific articles, have degenerated into a mass of pseudo—scientific hodge—podge, not worth the ink it is printed with.
A few, only a very few, have kept up their merit, and I can say, from a somewhat full knowledge of the case, and with no desire whatever of talking "for Buncombe," that our Quarterly is one of the very best, both scientifically and mechanically.
Now the Quarterly serves a number of very useful purposes. It gives our workers a convenient and adequate medium of publication. It enables all publications of material belonging to this University to be kept together. It gives publicity to the fact that research is an important function of this University. And finally, it secures for the University a large number of exchanges,
J. W. O'BRYON,
DENTIST.
Lawrence, Kan.
Over Bell's Music Store
which otherwise we would have to dispense with, or purchase for a high price.
This last function, alone, justifies the expenditure of money and of work, which is made upon the Quarterly. Let us compare the expense with the benefit received.
An annual allowance of only $600 is made for the Quarterly. A very strict economy has enabled the publishing board to do a great deal with this, often even without expending it all. The editorial work, proof reading, correspondence, packing and mailing are all done at present without any cost whatever, through the very willing efforts of those who see in the Quarterly "a good thing." And the amount of work expended thus would probably be a surprise to many.
Now as to the other side. By a careful, though still only approximate estimate of Oct. 1, 1897, the publications annually received were valued at $1000 at least. Since then forty new societies have expressed their desire for exchange, and by next October, to judge conservatively, those forty will become one hundred or more. There is every reason to believe that by October, 1899, the Quarterly will have five hundred exchanges, furnishing on an average three dollars worth of matter annually each. Fifteen hundred dollars! Quite a fair return on six hundred It would be very desirable that all investments of the University would show up as favorably.
Of course the estimate is for the future, But whether it will prove true or not is not a matter of chance, but will depend entirely upon the energy of contributors and editorial board. And under Professor Carruth's able lead there is no danger of shirking by the latter.
Now there are a few things the Quarterly yet needs. First of all there should be several hundred alumni of this school who would consent to become subscribers to it. Two dollars is certainly not a very great amount for such a purpose. Secondly, the appropriation by ourorgs should be raised at least to $800, and better to $1,000. This would make possible many mechanical improvements, a more prompt publication, and the securing of some exchanges which are as yet refused to us. And finally, a somewhat larger amount of matter for Series B would make the managing editor "rejoice and be exceeding glad."
GEORGE WAGNER.
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