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BETSEY MUST DO HER SHARE.
Prof. Blackmar Says Woman Must Help
Support the Household
"The time is coming when a man, in proposing marriage to a lady will enquire what share of the household expenses she will assume."
That is what 'Professor F. W. Blackmar told his political economy class the other day. The class has been studying industrial history, and on this particular day the part woman is taking in the business world was under discussion.
Incidentally the marriage question came up for consideration. Professor Blackmar has been doing some thinking along this line and the result of his researches gave rise to the above quoted remarks.
The professor does not regard with pleasure the growing ranks of women in the professions and mercantile branches. He believes that when Betsy crowds John out of his position she should be made to pay him for it.
As an additional clause in the marriage contract he would insert a constitution of a stock company. Organizing the company on a cooperative basis, he would have each of the contracting parties invest shares.
Each candidate for nuptual honors should make the same agreement as that made by probationers being received in full connection in the Methodist church, "to give to the support of the church (the house) according as God has prospered him."
The savings of the two would be invested in a common fund and each could draw out in cash in amounts proportionate to the contributions he had made.
The possibility that the wife might occupy a lucrative position while the husband is out of a job was not considered and the important question of the management of the home was not dealt with.
If Mrs. Jones has I employment while Mr. Jones had none it is probable that the latter would recognize as one of his duties the training and carrying for the little Joneses. In this way only the wife would be able to contribute in cash to the family fund, but the husband would have his reward in good, hard labor.
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In such a case as this what rules would control the cash distribution when a dividend was declared? This is a question which the class will ask Prof. Blackmar at some future recitation.
One night this week a strange noise was heard on Massachusetts street. It seemed to be made like music and yet was not musical to those who do not attend the Music school. Its manipulator played the natural and unnatural scale all the way from Smith's news stand down to Watkins' bank and back again, and occasionally in order to break the monotony hit a few hard whacks on a bass drum.
There were many conjectures as to what caused the peculiar and disagreeable noises. Some said—unknown people—that Prof Penny's new five thousand dollar pipe organ had arrived and that he was exhibiting and testing it in public before placing it in the chapel. Others who believe in the supernatural air ships and the like thought it some sort of a Divine manifestation foretelling the overwhelming success of the University team in the Medicine game.
Investigation however showed that it was only a man with a blow pipe, who had come to town thinking Prof. Ferrel was here to give him some post graduate work on his favorite instrument.
A Burglar Alarm.
One morning last week, at about 3 o'clock a. m. the residents of a certain block on Tennessee were startled from their slumbers by a succession of blood-curdling shrieks and incoherent cries for help. They learned later, that the inmates of the house from which the cries issued had been disturbed by a burglar.
Two young ladies, to whom belongs the glory of discovering the intruder assert that they gave the alarm in the usual man, merely upon discovering the burge-
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The buglar who is described as being 'a man, seven foot tall in his bare feet' finally escaped through an open window.
Two other young ladies of the house in order to insure their safety from the presence of another burglar let down a folding bed and looked under it.
After a fruitless search they retired to bed covered their heads and spent the remainder of the night in debating whether or not their search had been sufficiently complete.
ENGINEERING NOTES
The lean and the haggard look on the faces of the Senior E. E. students is accounted for in the fact of their having an unusual number of quizzes this week.
The chimes in the physics building have not been heard for some time. It seems as if it is almost time for one of their periodical spells of ringing for a few days.
At a meeting of the Electrical Seminary last Friday, Prof. Dunston gave a 'talk on the production of electric wires as applied to telegraphy without wires. Mr. Stimpson spoke on the modern practice in telephoning.
The Junior E. E. class has, in consequence of the refining process of three years, been sifted down to four members out of an original twenty or more.
It is not generally known that the origi-
rional work performed last spring by Profs
Dunston and Rice and C. A. Kraus has
received attention in Europe as well, as in
America. An account of their experiments
published in the Electrical World has been
translated into French and German.
The senior engineers are performing some experiments with batteries.
A new acquisition to the department of physics and electrical engineering is a colored butter, employed to do odd jobs for the instructors and students.
Some of the engineers asked to be excused from class one day last week to attend the Douglas county fair. The soft hearted instructor granted their request, as but far as is known none were guilty of going near the fair grounds.
One of the senior engineers had a peculiar suggestive dream one night. The legislature had passed a law that every engineer that had not secured a job by commencement day was required to dig his own grave and be shot as he lay in it. This person had his grave dug, and was about to be shot when he was called back to life by the breakfast bell. If such a law were passed, few if any engineers of '98 would live to tell the story of their college days to their grandchildren.
Poor Managemen at Kansas Cltv.
From almost every point of view the Kansas-Medic game Wednesday was very poorly managed. Not only was the slugging of the Medics during the game a disgraceful performance, but the K. U. players suffered other discomforts before and after the contest.
There was no committee of any kind to meet the boys at the train. Evidently anticipating such a condition, "Pa" Burney, who is now a resident of one of the Kansas Cities, resolved himself into a reception committee and took the players to a cable car. Then an insolent conductor was encountered. This official at first refused to give transfers to some of the men, and not until Dr. Woodruff and "Sai" Walker had signed a contract to "lick" him, was the "conductor brought to time.
The police protection at Exposition paris was remarkably poor. The crowd was allowed to force over the side lines often interfering with plays on the field.
Tickets for the lecturecourse will be on sale next week. The attractions are General Gordon, the Welsh prize singers, Katherine Alvord, W. M. M. R. French, John Dewitt Miller and the Ollie Torbett Concert Co. The price of the course tickets will be $1.00.
The whole affair was much more poorly managed than most games on McCook field.
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CERTIFICATES
Chancellor Snow says that the Statement that Action had been taken Unfavorable to University Graduates Ja Incorrect.
WILL STILL PE GRANTED TO UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
There is going the rounds of the associated press, a dispatch to the effect that by a ruling of the state board of education, the state normal has the exclusive right to issue state teacher's certificates.
uates is Incorrect.
Knowing that such a ruling world may materially affect a large number of University students who are preparing for the work of teaching, the WEEKLY sent a reporter to interview Chancellor Snow, who is a member of the state board.
The reporter found him affable as he always is.
"You want a statement about that paragraph in the Star, I suppose," said he, leading the way into his private office. "I believe this gave the impression that the board had taken action unfavorable to graduates of the University. The statement is incorrect. Graduates of the University who pass a satisfactory examination before the state board in the five professional branches, will receive their state teachers' certificates as heretofore."
It was the action of the board in regard to the qualifications of instructors and conductors in county normals.
"What then; was the origin of this false report?"
"But even that does not affect the University more than the other schools of the state. The only institution discriminated against is the state normal. It loses some of the especial privileges it has enjoyed and is reduced to the level of the rest of the colleges, but only in respect to this matter of instructors and conductors in county normals. Here is the change made by the board at its meeting last Monday," said the chancellor, taking from his desk a pamphlet and pointing out "Rule III" under the "requirements of instructor" in county normals. It is as follows:
3 He shall be the holder of a state certificate or a life diploma; or be a graduate of an accredited college, or shall furnish satisfactory evidence of having instructed successfully in one normal institute in Kansas.
"That, printed, is the old rule. You see the changes made with pen and ink. The clause "or be a graduate of an accredited college," is stricken out; that affects all the schools alike. The word "life," modifying diploma; is cut out and by an addition the reading becomes "a diploma granted by the State Board of Education." This is where the State Normal is affected, as it is the only school in the state having power to issue a life teachers' diplom independent of the State Board of Education. The holder of such a diploma can no longer obtain an instructor's certificate by virtue of it because only diplomas granted by the state board are to be accepted as qualifications of instructors.
"But none of this, you notice, affects in
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The candidate for a life diploma must have taught five years and must pass an examination before the State Board of Education in twenty-nine subjects ranging from spelling and reading to chemistry and Latin in which an average of 90 per cent and a minimum of 85 per cent are required. For a three year certificate the number of subjects is reduced to about twenty-five, the percentage to 85 and 70, and the teaching experience to one year.
The law gives to graduates of the University and the other accredited schools the right to waive examination in any branch, excepting the five professional subjects, and to offer instead the grade received in the said branch by the candidate while in college.
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successful examination in the five professional branches is good for a three year state certificate. The latter is valid in all the schools of the state: If within three years after receiving such a certificate, the holder shall have taught two years successfully he man exchange his certificate for a life diploma.
The University now has a teacher's diploma of its own. To all students taking three terms work in the department of pedagogy, and also one of the teachers courses offered in the other department, will be given a special diploma which, while it has no legal standing, will be an excellent recommendation to the high schools of the state.
"The "five professional subjects" so often referred to are included in the work of the department of pedagogy and may be taken by the student and counted as three terms of regular University work.
The young educators of the state are rapidly coming to a realization of the fact that the best place in which to prepare for their work is the State University.
Adelphic Society.
A very interesting program was given in Music Hall as usual, Saturday evening.
Some very fine music was rendered and among the interesting things on the program was a speech on "mud," by Mr. Huet.
The question, Resolved that the imposition of the personal property tax should be abolished, was able sustained on the affirmative by Cheadle and Bolinger, and on the negative by Griffin and Munz. Affirmative won.
The renewed interest in the society is doing much in improving the programs, both in interest and volume.
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