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hand of the winner. When the Professor goes hunting, he goes after something more substantial than this, something which he can stuff and put in the museum, and he is proudest when he can come home with "eighty or ninety boxes and barrels of specimens," as he has this time. And when these are taken care of we want to see him take down his gun and go south for a time, and in the course of a few years we hope to read such headlines as a "Rival of Stanley and Livingstone," or "Dyche's Siberian Expedition." Prof. Dyche has a world to conquer, but he will not seek to do it by pulling out the props which support it.
UNDER THE management of Mr. Fred B. McKinnon, the Agora is brought out as a monthly and the November number presents a very inviting table of contents. The most notable articles are: S. O. Thacher by Dr. Cordley, "Desert Island," a poem by Florence
L. Snow, and "The Start of Coronado," a translation by E. F. Ware from an old Spanish manuscript. Particularly interesting are the departments which are conducted by the following editors: Art and Letters, B. W. Woodward; Popular Science, T. H. Dinsmore of the State Normal; Notes About Women, Mrs. Mary A. Humphrey; Language and Literature: W. H. Carruth; Historical Notes, F. G. Adams, of the State Historical Society; Educational Notes, John MacDonald of the Western School Journal. There is also a valuable legal digest prepared from syllabi of the supreme court and courts of appeals, which will be appreciated by all lawyers. Hereafter Mr. Dewey will be assisted in his editorial duties by Mr. R. D. O'Leary of the University. The Agora is the literary magazine of Kansas and we are proud of it, and of the part which University people have in its making.
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The Women's Halls of Chicago University.
The West has long ago settled the question of co-education. It is not likely that a college or university will be founded there, or in any other section of our country, which will not give instruction to both sexes. But the problem of caring for the students outside the class-room has not yet been solved. The authorities of one college leave the students to choose temporary homes wherever they can find them, in private houses or in the professional boarding places of the town. The policy of other institutions is to provide a home for those who are separated from their families. Each plan has its advantages. The student who lives with a quiet refined family still keeps up his home habits, the indefinable courtesies which might be lost in institutional life; and is less likely to suffer from interruptions and distractions incident to a large concourse of his fellows. But you of Kansas University well know that there
are not enough quiet, refined homes, where boarders may be received, to supply the demand of a growing college. Then the boarding house, naturally a profit-seeking institution comes in to fill the want. It goes without saying that quiet and privacy are seldom found in these, while the young man or woman has a degree of liberty that is not always best.
The other plan makes the university itself responsible for the social life of the students. And who will deny that social life is an important part of the college course? You are living while in college not preparing to live, (as some define the process of education) and no tendency of the being so helpful to development as intercourse with one's fellows, should be overlooked There are practical reasons for a greater attention to the conventionalities of life than has been given by most schools. Last winter Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer showed me letters from college authorities who were seeking teachers.