Kansas University Weekly
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEB. 5, 1898
Salutatory.
It is with some temerity that the new board presents this, its initial issue. We realize that we succeed the most capable, at least the most successful, board that has had charge of the Weekly since its inception. The skill and energy of Mr. Johnson, the retiring editor, has transformed the Weekly from a weekly bargain counter of literary odds and ends to a live newspaper. The transition has been so successful as to give to the University of Kansas what, thanks to the guidance of Mr. Johnson, may be confidently called one of the best college papers in press. The seeming facility, too, with which the paper has been filled from week to week with live college news and gossip has proven that there is, at this institution, a real genuine college life; else a paper devoted entirely to news and drawing its news from this source, alone could not have succeeded; and this fact has been a stumbling block in the way of croakers who assert that at Kansas, no college life exists, and at Kansas, college spirit is entirely dead.
This college life it will be the aim of the new editor, as of the old, to depict; and this college spirit it will be his purpose to foster in those spots where it is now, at the best, in but an embryonic state.
Why shouldn't Kansas have a good track team?
Some of the letters sent to the chancellor would indicate that all the fools are not yet dead.
We may soon expect to see the girls electionering for the lucrative position of lady manager for an indoor meet class team.
We are glad to see that a creditable literary publication is assured. Such a medium for the literary activity of the institution is needed.
Athletics at Michigan has been put under the charge of the literary committee. A Michigan athlete may no longer be called a "crackerjack."
Iowa seems to have a set of newspaper correspondents as anxious to send out exaggerated reports discreditable to the University as those of Lawrence.
President Jesse boasts that his disciplinary committee has not met this year. Does it take a run-away football team to call the Columbia censors together?
The election of Mr. Kretzinger as vice president of the Kansas Day club is a thing of which not only Mr. Kretzinger, but the law school and the University at large, ought to be proud.
At the World's Fair the Snow Hall collection was the most talked of educational exhibit in the White City. It advertised Kansas and its University as no other state was advertised. While it is thus within our power to make an exhibition unique and unrivalled, the parsimony of our legislative fathers has not only made such an exhibit impossible, but has rendered any representation at all at the Omaha exposition highly improbable.
Track Athletics
The superiority of the last in football is fast fading away, due to the systematic coaching and training now employed by Western colleges. The same systematic and faithful training at the colleges of the Northwest and of the Pacific coast has recently been productive of as spirited inter-collegiate track and field meets and as good records, as those found among the colleges east of the Alleghanies. The WEEKLY is at a loss to see why the brawn and muscle of the Middle West cannot achieve as good success. We are glad to see the agitation for a field meet between the colleges of the present football association. Inter-collegiate contests of any character are broadening; they serve to destroy the insular feeling prevalent at so many colleges. We hope this matter will be pushed and that the first meet of the proposed association will be held this spring
Not only should all branches of college effort be encouraged, if we are to have a well rounded college life, but there should be full and well rounded development of each individual branch. Athletics doesn't mean foot-ball alone. It also includes base ball and track athletics.
CHEMICAL SEMINARY
Few students outside of the department in the University know of the Chemical Seminary This seminary meets every Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock and is composed of professors and students who are interested in the science of Chemistry. Although most of the members are doing special work in Prof. Bailey's department, it is not supposed that any one who is interested will stay away on that account. It free to be all and is usually conducted in such a manner that any one can understand what is said.
Prof. Bartow had charge of the last meeting. He realk the report of the special committee appointed by Hon. R. E. Preston, on the Creative Process of E. C. Brice. For the benefit of those who do not read the wonderful stories in our Sunday newspapers it might be stated that the process of E.C. Brice is one for creating gold and silver out of Antimony. Mr. Brice was twice refused a patent on his process and when he applied the third time the matter was referred to the director of the mint who appointed a committee to investigate the wonderful discovery. After reading this report Dr. Bartow discussed the outline of Bouuer Redwood's book on Petroleum and its Products. Before the close a number of mineral specimens were passed around
Civil Engineering Society
The Civil Engineering society had a very interesting meeting last Wednesday. Mr. Macomb gave a talk on the graphical solution of a solar eclipse. He showed that by this method the lines of beginning of eclipse, of greatest darkness, and the degree of totality for any given point on the earth's surface could be found within very close limits. As an illustration of the use of this method he showed a large scale drawing of the recent eclipse of the sun as seen at Bombay, India. Mr. Myers developed an expression for the angle of shear in short blocks under compression and showed that the angle which the planes (in homogeneous blocks) of shear make with the horizontal must be 45 degrees plus one-half the angle of repose of the material of which the blocks are composed. He also showed that cases of failure of such blocks occurring in the laboratory conform very closely to their theoretical standard.
AMUSEMENTS
Referring to the engagement of Dvorak for three night next week, it will be noticed that the prices are made on popular basis. These low prices are made simply and only because Mr. Dvorak is not known to our theater going people, and in no sense does it represent the merit of the performances.
The new pipe organ has already done its work. It has not only increased the chapel attendance, but the soul-stirring service on Tuesday morning so aroused the "power" among the junior laws that when Prof. Brownell was called out of the room for a minute during the recitation period following chapel, the whole class burst out with the "Sweet bye and bye" and other sacred hymns.
Mr. Dvorak comes highly recommended as do also the various members of his company.
Mr. Dvorak will be at the Bowersock opera house Thursday, Feb. 10, in "Richieieu," and on Friday, Feb. 11, in "The Merchant of Venice," Saturday, Feb. 12, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. First floor 50c, balcony 35c, gallery 25c.
Junior Law Revival
The Civil Engineering Society has changed its day of meeting from Wednesday to Thursday.
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BOOKS AND THINGS
Since Mr. Kipling's departure for Africa we have been looking again over his American story, "Captains Courageous," and we must confess that we are quite content that for the present he is not going to write any more American stories, but will penetrate into the unknown of Africa to find his new plat and setting. For, while "Captains Courageous" shows his characteristic strength of handling it entirely lacks the strangeness, the tropical coloring, the variety that hitherto have constituted Mr. Kipling's greatest charm. There is no doubt but that the fishermen of the Grand Banks are as picturesque a class of men as may be found in all America, but even they are lacking in the mystery and coloring with which Mr. Kiplings works to best advantage. "Captains Courageous," is the story of a smart boy of sixteen, whose father is one of the multi-millionaires of California, who having fallen of a North Atlantic steauer, is picked up by a cod-fisher belonging to the crew off the "We're Here." The captain of the schooner discredits Harvey's tales of his father's fabulous wealth and takes him on their fishing trip to the Grand Banks. From May until September the fishing season lasted and during that time Harvey says: "I worked like a horse, and I ate like a dog, and I slept like a dead man." The season over and the "We're here" put it at Gloucester; then there were telegrams, a flying trip across the continent in a special car, and the overjoyed parents their son, not the same lad, however, but more manly in ideas, deeper chested and broader shouldered. The whole channel of his life has been changed from that of a pampered youngster to that of a many young man. Mr. Kiplings leaves Harvey a Junior at Stanford University but gives us to understand that he is on the road to a worthy, useful life.
Captain's Courageous.
The bare outline of the story shows it' to be not characteristic of Kipling.
Fully two-thirds of the book are taken by the life abroad, the 'Wess Hass.'
Fully two-thirds of the book are taken up by the life abroad the "Were Here." The long description grows tedious except in a few, thrilling incidents such as the wreck of the "Carrie Fitman," the washing up of the dead Frenchman, or the gathering of the fleet at the Grand Banks. The book is full of fisherman's terms and most landsmend would be glad of a glossary for one meets such words as, "sweed," "scrowged," "ulliskin," "squid," "trawl" and literally scores of others not included in an ordinary inlander's vocabulary.
However, for a fresher smell of salt air, reeking with vitality, we know of no better place to go unless perhaps to one of Pierre Lotis, "The Iceland Fisherman" for instance. And there is a good deal in common in these two stories. The Frenchman excels in exquisite atmospheric effects which are not found in Kipling. Lotis fishermen are Bretons; Kipling's are from Massachusetts.
Mr. Kipling's familiarity with the Santa Fe and his mention of Topea and Dodge City give a slight local relation which is pleasant.
Altogather, we believe that America is not the proper setting for Mr. Kipling to work in and we will be glad to welcome some African tales.
The Louder in the New York Critic.
I should like to see a society organized for the suppression of science. What is to be the end of all this electrical Paul Prying. It was bad enough to have our words caught on the phonograph, our very vitals laid bare by X rays; but now, worse than all, comes the Junior Edison, who, as it were, shows his scientific heels to his father—beats him in the race, by inventing, so it is said, a machine to photograph our thoughts. Young Mr. Edison is said to be trying to demonstrate that "when a person with a normal mind thinks of a large object, there results a swelling of the head". It did not need science to tell us this. The "swelled head" has long been known in literature, nor do we need a camera to read aright the thoughts which produce the swelling.
Symphony Orchestra May Come.
There is an attempt being made to secure the Kansas City Symphony orchestra for a concert on the afternoon of the 17th or 18th, the proceeds to go to the pipe organ fund. Prof. Penny and Mr. Hilliard Johnson are the prime movers in this project and Mr. Johnson has been circulating a subscription paper among professors, students and down town people. The Kansas City Symphony orchestra is, outside of Theodore Thomas' Chicago orchestra, one of the best in the United States. There are fifty-four musicians in the organization which is under the direction of Behr. It is hoped that the concert can be arranged
Miss Georgia Brown will teach a term of ten lessors in dancing at Pythian hall beginning January to 8 p.m. It is requested that pupils will make application at residence, 1217 Rhode Island street for admission to school.
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Snow Literary.
The Snow Literary was called to order last night by the repeated war-whoop of that organization. It was the first meeting since the society came out of the oratorical contest, represented by the orators receiving first and second places. Every one seemed to have taken new life and joined heartily in the yell.
The One Price Clothiers.
The formal opening *jwas* a beautiful violin solo, followed by a declamation in which the speaker powerfully protrayed the death scene of Benedict Arnold. Mrs. G. W. Stevens read an interesting and well written paper upon "The Policy of Queen Elizabeth." Mr. A C. Wheeler has become very popular as a declaimer and his rendition of a declamation only strengthened that popularity.
After the usual intermission the debate took place upon the question: "Resolved, that the United States is in more danger from external invasion than internal dissension." The question was affirmed by Messrs. Morscher and Laughlin, and denied by Messrs. Moore and Scholer. The judges gave the decision to the negative. The speech by Mr. Moore was particularly telling in argument. The society then began its business session which was largely occupied by discussion as to the contests which are before this society in the not for distant-future.
The number of visitors last night showed in a measure the support which the society should have from the University and the public generally. Visitors are made welcome by the society and their presence is a source of gratification to the members of that organization.
The debate next Friday night will be particularly interesting, as it is upon the question of the benefits of monopolies.
The Dramatic Crub.
The Dramatic club met at the Fine Arts club house Wednesday evening. The officers elected were as follows: G. B. Penny, president; Josephine Shellabarger, vice president; Eva Brown, secretary; Carl Cooper, treasurer. Members of the executive committee, C. G. Dunlap, G. B. Penny, Dale Gear, Frank Curry, Eva Brown. The club meets once a week and are studying flags in reference to giving two good performances as soon as possible in which only members of the club will participate.
The club will hereafter be known by the name of Masque. The membership is limited to twenty members.
The K. U. Special prevents headache.
Prof. Carruth was in Topeka Wednesday.
Prof. Cowan is testing his Physical culture class this week.
A number of four year men have entered the Physiological Chemistry Class.
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