THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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SATURDAY. FEB. 12, 1910.
The refusal of President Hill of Missouri to become head of the University of Minnesota is notable. The opportunity of a larger work in a larger field would have been immediately given the Missouri educator at the northern school. The fame, size, and influence of Minnesota University exceeds Missouri University and for the present the influence for good that Doctor Hill has in the world would have been given a wider scope had he accepted the offer. No one realized that fact more than did President Hill. He is as anxious as possible to be useful in the world. But he looked beyond the present and in the future he saw the Mississippi Valley with increased richness and prosperity. He saw the valley filled with prosperous people to whom the fruits of toil and faith have granted leisure and culture. Among those people he also saw great universities spring up, the seats of intellectual advance and the pride of all the people. Doctor Hill saw this sight and realized that he would be more useful in the Middle West, than in one of the great universities of the North. It is harder to build than to direct; but he saw the opportunity to make Missouri one of the great universities in the West and he was willing to make a sacrifice and to lend his aid in the task of building. Doctor Hill's work in building up Missouri University will be much more difficult than the position at Minnesota would have been. But in the end, if he succeeds, he will have accomplished more.
It seems that the faculty at K S. A. C. are getting tired of going to chapel. The Students' Herald has been compiling some "grades" on chapel attendance, pased on the past three weeks. Only one professor on the list has a perfect record, while fifteen "flunked out" with a record of fifteen absences. About forty per cent was the average grade.
The students of the University of Missouri showed by their actions that they would have felt worse if President A. Ross Hill had left them than did when Coach Roper left. That is perhaps as great a tribute as President Hill could possibly receive.
Yesterday, at the first convocation of the new term at the University of Missouri, the members of the faculty wore caps and gowns. Now, do you wonder why Missouri has some trouble keeping its faculty?
There are a great many people who do everything from policy. From every little act of kindness they wish to reap a reward so large that they will have to use a McCormick binder and reaper to take in the crop. The "erop" never was very abundant for such persons, however.
In Chapel Thursday.
UNIVERSITY NOTICES
The Christian Science society of the University of Kansas will hold an open meeting next Tuesday afternoon, at 4:30, in Room 309 of Fraser hall. All students are ordially invited.
Dr. Paul Shorey of Chicago will speak at the vesper service Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Dr. S. M. Zwemer spoke in the chapel Thursday afternoon on "The Impending Struggle in Western Asia." In the country of Turkey greater changes have taken place in the last three years than in the three previous centuries. The battlefield on which the impending struggle is to occur contains 2,600,000 square miles in which live thirty-six million people of whom thirty million are Mohammedans.
Persia is and has been of great influence because from her people have come Mohammedan free thought. Her language and literature has been the polite literature of all central Asia. A future center of international politics will be the vicinity of the Persian Gulf. England has planted posts in that country and Russia, France and Germany are also in the struggle for territory. Constantinople is the center of political intrigue for western Asia The Turks are born rulers and are very energetic people. A Constantinople editor has recently issued a defiance to conservatism and a call to progress among his people.
Dr. Zwemer said that the political element in the coming struggle must be very important. Reformed Islam would be Islam no longer because its underlying basis makes it impossible to be reformed. The struggle is also between two civilizations which have been in opposition for several centuries. But back of other causes is the conflict between two religions which was emphasized by Dr Zwemer. He said that the people of western Asia are distinctly religious and realized that a severe medanism and Christianity. medan and Christianity.
A copy of "The Musings of Uncle Silas," by B. B. Clark, has just reached this office. The book is edited in pamphlet form and contains much good reading of a light, humorous nature. All of the sketches are short and each is appropriately illustrated by Frank W. Hopkins.
New Humorous Book
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Baylor University in Texas will have a new $30,000 gymnastium.
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HODDER TO CHICAGO.
During the period of years that Professor Hodder has been at the head of the department of American history in the University he has so developed the standard in this work that Kansas ranks among the best Universities of the country as regards the instruction in history. Professor Hodder has frequently been honored by the American Historical society and is recognized as an authority in American history. He delivered this series of lectures at Tulane University, New Orleans. at the spring semester, two years ago.
Prof. F. H. Holder has accepted the invitation of the University of Chicago to deliver a course of lectures there during the summer quarter. The time devoted to this work will be from about June 20 to September 1. Professor Holder will have the same labor there that he has in the University of Kansas. Both the colonial history and the presidential administrations of the United States will be presented.
THE POOR FRESHMEN
Coach Suggests That We Try Rugby on Them.
"If Rugby must be introduced at the University of Kansas, let it be tried on the freshmen," said Coach Kennedy the other day. "The freshmen do not have any football schedule under the present ruling, and to experiment with the tyros in a few games would demonstrate whether the game would be worth taking up."
The district of the girls' student government association, of which Gale Gossett is chairman, entertained the patronesses yesterday at the home of Martha Stough, at 1224 Ohio street. The patronesses are Mrs. W. E. Higgins, Mrs. George O. Foster, and Mrs. R. D. O'Leary. Some clever vaudeville stunts furnished the amusement of the afternoon, after which light refreshments were served.
Franklin Riffle, of the class of '80, delivered a lecture on "The Result of the San Francisco Earthquake From an Engineering Standpoint," last Thursday at 4:30 in the Engineering building. Mr. Riffle says, "It seems that this earthquake, like the great Chicago fire, has proved a blessing in disguise." A good audience was present at the lecture.
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GRADUATE CLUB MET
Chancellor Strong Spoke to Members Last Night.
At the meeting of the Graduate club last night, Chanceell Strom addressed a good sized audience. In his talk he compared the Graduate School of this institution with those of schools like Harvard, Yale, and Illinois. Woodrow Wilson, he said, favors the plan of making the school separate and distinct from the other schools of the University and the University of Illinois desires a large legislative appropriation for the purpose of establishing a separate department.
The Chanellor, in speaking of our own Graduate School, divided its students into the two classes; those who are taking special training to become teachers, and those who are doing research work. He commended the normal and steady growth of the school.
NEW GRADING SYSTEM.
A Way to Avoid Finals at Manhattan.
President Waters of the Kansas State Agricultural College announced Thursday morning at chapel that the system of grading would be changed and a system of granting student honors had been adopted.
The letters E, G, P, C, and F will be used in grading,these denoting excellent,good passed, conditional and failed.
The students council some time ago petitioned the faculty that some exemptions be made from the final examinations. Accordingly it was agreed that a student who received a grade of E for the term and not credited with more than six absences, would be excused from the final examinations.
Shipped Liquid Air.
Last night three flasks of liquid air were shipped to W. B. Patty at Fort Worth Texas. Mr. Patty is one of the lecturers on liquid air and has, since the installation of the liquid air machine, been receiving his supply of liquid air from the University. L. J. Kaf department of chemistry has had fer, one of the students in the charge of the machine this year.
Broke His Nose.
Another gym accident occurred Thursday evening when William Fleeson, a sophomore in the College, fell from a horizontal bar and struck the floor breaking his nose and severely brushing his face. He was treated by Dr. Chambers and is rapidly recovering from the temporary disfigurement.
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