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Kansas University Weekly.
A SUNNY temper makes beauty entrancing, knowledge delightful, and learning inviting. It also makes sickness, pain and extreme poverty more endurable, and makes homeliness attractive.
PLEASURE TO a woman, is said to be the last word in an argument. Pleasure to the student, is in a sense of advancement, a genuine appreciation of the world in its various phases. Pleasure like life is what we make it.
TOO FREQUENTLY the wail is heard from college newspaper men that there is no news. But there is always an abundance of interesting things ready to be noted in print if they are only discovered. As a rule a statement by a reporter that news is scarce is nothing more than a confession of his inability to find it.
THE ONLY true enduring happiness for any person is found in the consciousness of his own virtue. The applause of the world, wealth, social, political and intellectual distinction are mere dross unless accompanied with spotless character. The man possesing the former and not the latter may to all appearances be happy but there is a worm knawing at his heart.
It is very gratifying to learn that the attendance at the University for this year is already 895 and will probably exceed 900 before this semester closes. Next year, at the usual rate of increase the University will have 1,000 students. When we have reached the 1,000 mark, the University in point of numbers as well as equipment and instruction can truly be considered one of the greatest schools of advanced learning in America.
THE UNIVERSITY has its political clubs, fraternities and Y. M. C. A., the prototypes of which are to be found in the grown up world. But there is one institution not to be found here and the need of which will be at once apparent. This is the Salvation Army. A hall parade and tambourine service every morning would not fail to interest those who persistently fail to attend chapel. Let some Boothe arise!
THE EARLIEST account of the far-famed Phoenix is given by Herodotus, the father of history. The story of the Phoenix briefly told is this:—When a Phoenix dies another soon after springs up out of his ashes. The foundation for this story probably rests on the following foundation. When a high priest built a temple in Heliopolis, Egypt, like the temple at Jerusalem, and had just kindled a fire on an altar for sacrifice, a bird flew suddenly before him, fell into the fire, and was burned to ashes. The ashes were kept safely for some time, and within three days a little worm was noticed within them which at last took the form of a bird and flew into the wilderness. The explanation is, that an eagle attracted by the offering on the altar, fell into the fire and was consumed. Later a worm was found in the ashes which at last took the shape of a bird—perhaps a butterfly—and flew away. This was enough to originate the wonderful story of the Phoenix.
THE ice in the Antarctic ocean has been piling up for ages. This ice too extends hundreds of miles north from the south pole. A cruise was made along this icy continent for 300 miles without finding an opening or even a fissure where a landing could be made. A perpendicular cliff of ice several hundred feet high continually greeted the eye until at last the attempt to land was given up. The Antarctic ocean is a very large ocean and consequently millions and millions of tons of ice can readily accumulate there. The theory is believed by many that the glacial period in North America was caused by a heavy accumulation of ice at the south pole, and the shifting of the earth's axis thereby.
THE ATTENDANCE at the base ball games from present indications will be large, and it should be. Students on a base or foot ball field with interests in common form friendships in a short time which otherwise frequently take a long time to establish.
A GYMNASIUM for the girls is one of the most pressing needs of the University.