Kansas University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief:
HILLIARD JOHNSON
Associate:
FRDERDEN H. WOOD
Literary Editor:
ELEANOR GEHPART.
Society Editor:
OSEPHINE SHELLABARGE*
Local Editor.
ARTHUR JACKSON.
Associates:
GERTRUDE CHAPMAN,
ARCHIE HOGG,
FRANK MKAY,
ALVAH SOUDER,
HERRIET GREISINGER,
R. G. KMUNNIE,
A. H. PARROTT,
JOHN FRANCIES,
J. M. LEE,
J. O. HALL,
G. C. SEEDS,
JOHN KANE,
Managing Editor:
C. E. ROSE
Associate:
P. S. LIOTT
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JAN 29, 1898.
The Profs. that were wise enough to give oral quizzes are feeling pretty well satisfied with life just now.
It isn't every one that can get grade I's neither is it every one that can successfully keep from getting them.
The Southwestern Collegeien keeps up its record as a humorous pamphlet. It is about to get out a poet's number.
A man that goes to school for any other purpose than to study, is a fool. And this is just a little bit of examination week philosophy.
There is one thing can be said to the credit of our Dyche. He does not advertise himself as the greatest Arctic explorer in the world, though he knows perfectly well that he is.
One of the members of the faculty seems to be disturbed by the presence of the new pipe organ in the chapel. But the cause of this is generally understood to be that the pipe organ is run by electricity and not by this member of the faculty.
The Vidette-Reporter makes a great to-do and calls attention to the exemplary foot-ball rules of Iowa. As a matter of fact the Iowa rules exclude college professionals athlete only. There is not a clause in the rules that would prevent old Uclep Anson himself from registering in Iowa university and captaining the base-ball team.
The new pipe organ dedicated and in use lends grace to a discussion of compulsory chapel attendance. Perhaps the organ will settle the vexed question, being itself a summons to large attendance. But unless the pipe organ works out a salvation for our college spirit, the agitation of compulsory chapel is timely. A gathering of one thousand students every morning for devotional exercises would create a marvelous change in our respect and admiration for Kansas University.
Mr. M; P. Cannon of Ottawa, takes a sane view of college politics, and his article published in another column is well worthy of attention. While mixing up in politics forms a very small part of a young man's college duties, still it is quite endurable to find a man now and then who looks upon college politics as not altogether a sin, and who might even admit that the college politician is not from the nature of things, on the brink of moral and material ruin.
The fact that the oratorical contest was free probably had its effect with the students. It had no effect, however, upon the faculty. The two members who are present at every University event, be it a football game, a lecture, a concert a debate or what-not, were there, that was practically all. The fifty or sixty faculty members who were absent probably wished to show that it is not the price that influences. But their absence was a happy occurrence after all. Every seat in the chapel was taken, and if the faculty had been present, they would perforce have had to sit on the floor.
Occasionally, when one happens to read the exchange column of a college paper a "filler" will strike the eye to the effect that some university in Europe or Hindostan or somewhere, has no college paper. And occasionally when one happens to be in the mood, an idea strikes the mind that such a college is in a state of fortunate anathy.
Valedictory.
the college paper, the average college paper, is peculiar. Newspaper men, it is said, when applied to for a job, pass by the college editor, if the applicant be so unwise as to mention this qualification. The editors of our every-day, practical newspapers well know that the college editor is a man of superior mold, that he has been accustomed since the time the vokes of his fellows first discovered his genius to preach morals and philosophy to students, college press and the newspapers at large, that he nas told over and over, finally and conclusively in pompous phrase, how to reform and purify the press, the body politic, the government at Washington and the slums. And so these ordinary, practical newspaper men look upon these college upstart journalists and tremble and shun them. Perhaps they are right. Perhaps the average college paper is too peculiar in policy and content. Too perhaps the editor soars too high, as college genius is apt to do, and grasping questions beyond our understanding makes folk smile. Perhaps there is a place in college journalism for modesty and a little more humanity. Shakperes was content to reflect the life of his age. He did this sympathetically but with no attempt at moral philosophy. Perhaps his purpose was too humble, yet men read him still. There may be a lesson in this for the college editors, if the comparison be not too odious. A modest attempt to reflect the life of the school, if not too far below the standard of ambition of the editor, would make college journalism saner and healthier and more readable. It should not be the purpose of the editor to represent college life ideally, neither should he wear green spectacles when he books on roses. The truth never hurts. If a true reflection of the college life looks bad in print it is not the press that needs reforming, it is the life itself. And so would the college paper do its work, not by tiresome diatribs, but by a broad policy in news gathering and publishing.
It has been the endeavor of the retiring WEEKLY staff to follow these lines. Perhaps their efforts were mistaken. Not every one has been satisfied. But after all is said and done there is satisfaction in the knowledge that the WEEKLY has been read. And the WEEKLY thanks its readers.
The Consolation of Philosophy.
Examination week has passed and the "fittest" have survived. To those who haven't survived the WEEKLY extends a heart-felt sympathy. Not every one can be at the head of his class, but there is always a jolly, congenial crowd at the foot.
There are two examples that may be cited as a conlation for those who have not survived. When General Grant graduated from West Point he ranked so low that it took two figures to tell where he stood. After a time Grant became a general and then president and people who wanted post-offices and bills signed didn't care whether he had ranked first or twenty-first when he graduated.
Now the moral of this little piece is that the fittest in college are not always the fittest out of college. And it is better to get low grades and become president of the United States than to be a Phi Beta Kappa and steal $3,000,000.
The project for a debating league is thoroughly commendable. Something of the kind is now in vogue in the universities farther east and serves its purpose well. The team idea is excellent, and there is no reason to suppose that a superior team of debaters would not command as enthusiastic support as a superior base ball or football team.
The other example is that of Captain Carter of Savannah, Georgia, who graduated at West Point in 1903 with the best record ever made there. Had there been a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa society at West Point he would have been the greatest catch it ever made. Captain Carter went back home and engaged his talents in putting in a deep harbor at Savannah. Some one, however, who probably never went to college in his life, has come forward and charges Captain Carter with stealing $3,000,000 and the dear captain who belonged to the "heavy artillery," figuratively speaking, in West Point is now going through the ordeal of a court martial.
Several members of the senior class already feel the royal blood of Phi Beta Kappa coursing and throbbing through their arteries.
The WEEKLY congratulates every one that got through.
CORRESPONDENCE.
College Spirit.
To the Editor of MARYTOWN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE WEEKLY.
Dear Sir—I would like to say a few words through the medium of the best college paper in America, on a subject which cannot fail to strike the unprejudiced observer who has seen other universities and other countries; and that subject is the lack of college spirit and patriotism in the University of Kansas in particular, in western universities in general, in contrast to the patriotism which is shown in Europe and in the eastern colleges. It seems to me that the students of a western university are not bound together in any way, by those ties which should unite them and make a college truly great. After they leave their class rooms, they scatter to their various rooms and until they mount the hill again, they are strangers. There are very few occasions on which any uniformity of thought, any patriotism is shown. Perhaps the most stirring of these is a football game with a rival college; there at least the whole student body seems to be of the same mind, and a good amount of enthusiasm is displayed. A great many students of this university have seen their college papa, and over half do not know that in Snow hall the University has a natural history collection of which any college can be accounted for; perhaps the first of these is the fact that the students are scattered all over town among private families instead of having rooms in college as they do in England. Then another thing in which this University and the universities of England Clipper, is compulsory chapel attendance. Here about half a dozen students attend chapel, but there the whole student body is bound to attend, just as they must attend a lecture, and this bringing them all in contact once a day if only for a few minutes tends to unite them. I must not forget the college fraternity as a factor of dismemberment; the fosterer of patty jealousies, promoter of cliques and factions, the disturbing element of college society. Who is it that belongs to these fraternities; is it the good students, the best athletes, the most popular boys among their fellows? No! It it the so-called society men who care only for their fraternity and work for it instead of working for the University, the "Jeunesse doree" forsooth. I do not say that all fraternity men are thus, but the majority certainly are the exception only goes to prove the rule.
But there is something of course to be said for the fraternities. Perhaps the clanishness of the frat men and women is the effect rather than the cause of the absence of University spirit. Finding nothing better here to satisfy the social instinct, the man who demands something besides routine school work falls the willing victim to the invitation of a frat. Is there not a way to create a diversion for such people, and in creating this help the whole student body? It seems to me that class spirit is what we want here. Why can't we have cane rushes and hat rushes and inter-class debates? Why can't we create a class rivalry instead of a fraternity rivaly? The class base ball games of last spring were a beginning in the right direction. Let us have more of them this year and organized class enthusiasm to cheer the boys along. And then there is the indoor meet and the outdoor meet and the proposed jockey club tournament. There is great opportunity for class enthusiasm and when we get this, college spirit will take care of itself.
Fraulein Stolle's Lecture.
ARTHUR ST. L. MOSSE.
Lawrence has had a perfect flood of attractions in the present week and people have had a hard time to choose among the many offered, but Fraulein Stolle has an international reputation and lovers of art turned out in good numbers last evening at music hall. The fraulein is a very attractive woman and has a pretty accent.
The first pictures thrown on the screen were landscapes taken by the lady herself in Maine and the coloring was beautiful. Then introducing the subject of Dore's galleries, the lecturer commenced with a description of the life at Versailles in the time of Marie Antoinette, then passed on to an exhibition of the best work of old and new masters in the Louvre collection. All the views were beautiful, but at certain ones the audience would audibly manifest their interest by a murmur of oh's and ah's, which led the fraulieu to hold them longer. Her observations on the tendencies of different schools, and especial qualities of certain masters; illustrated as they were by the pictures, was of great value to those who study, and many must have take away from the lecture a new idea of the beauty and power of great art. After the Louvre, the Luxembourg, and the modern paintings, many of them familiar in black and white reproductions, now seen in their true coloring.
This lecture must have been of great value to the student. There never were such lantern pictures shown in Lawrence before and probably will not be unless Fraulein Stolle visits here again.
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A Sumner Lad Has a Daring Scheme for Aerial Navigation.
The duties of Chancellor Snow are varied. Besides acting as chancellor, teaching his class and lecturing over the state he is frequently called upon for advice. Recently he received a letter from a young genius whose home is in Sumner in which he unfolds a daring scheme for aerial navigation. The genius thinks it is a good thing and wants the Chancellor to tell him how to get the government to help him, or else to recommend him to some man of means who is willing to back him $1000 worth.
The young inventor reasons that one wild goose can carry two or three pounds and therefore 200 will carry 400 pounds. Now a man will weigh 150 pounds and a wagon and harness, fifty pounds, all of which the 200 geese could easily carry and have two hundred pounds to spare. The genius thinks he knows how to catch the geese and says that he has ideas for harness and wagon but needs one thousand dollars and wants the chancellor to tell him how to get his scheme before the government without acquiring notoriety. In concluding he says: "Do you think the scheme practical enough to result in success and if so how could I get the government to act on it without my scheme becoming public comment? Or do you know of any man 'of means whom you think I could interest?"
"I am 21 years of age and have not had time to accumulate the amount of capital acquired."
The chancellor can do a good many daring things, but he thinks he must draw the line at becoming a partner in a wild goose aerial navigation company especially if he should ever be expected to do the driving.
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