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VOL. 2.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 19, 1890.
is the
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
EDGAR P. ALLEN...Local Editor
Sherman is a pledged Phi Psi. Abe Levy's new ties, very swell. Ladies' Thrush Caps, all colors, at Abe Levy's.
Prof. Templin's class now occupy the old law room.
Paul Hudson went down to Topeka last Saturday.
Miss Jean Fullerton was a visitor in the city Tuesday.
Mr. Will and Ed Franklin are now studying in Berlin.
Try Miss Cora Gill's restaurant and you will be pleased.
Prof. A. G. Canfield arrived in Lawrence last Friday.
Miss Nellie Franklin is now teaching music in the city.
No. 2.
About 110 new students have been enrolled in the University this year.
Messrs. Neely, Shot, Whitside and Brown are pledged Phi Gams.
Geo. Hollingberry sells goods as cheap as anybody outside of Philadelphia.
Frank Merriman paid a visit to his Phi Gam brothers last week.
H. J. Withington, a pledged Beta of two years ago, has entered school.
Preparations are rapidly being made to remove the law library to north college.
Extensive improvements are being made in the basement of the main building.
Bowersock and Hair have accepted the Phi Psi challenge for a game of tennis.
S. C. Brewster, of the class of '90, is now taking a post graduate course at Harvard.
Mrs. James H. Canfield and daughter are in France, where they will spend the winter.
Miss Bella Sinclair left Tuesday for Knoxville, Ill., to attend the St. Marys College.
Hon. Webb Wilder and Mrs. Wilder were shown through the University last Friday.
The Freshman English class recite in Dr. Snow's lecture room in Snow Hall. This is a very large class, having an enrollment of about ninety members.
Many of the students' supplies are to be had at bed-rock cash prices at Raymond's Drug Store.
At our special sale of Slippers and Oxford this week, is the time to buy your party slipper for this winter.
MASSACHUSETTS SHOE STORE.
Miss Alice Penfield expects to visit friends in the city soon.
Buy the Knox hat of Abe Levy.
The Intellectual Development class is reading Greek history.
D. E. Babbit came down from Kansas City last Saturday to attend school.
Miss Cora Gill's restaurant is situated on Winthrop St. opposite the P. O.
Barber Bros. Toothache Jelly cures the most violent toothache in on 3 minute.
Miss Daisy Bennett and Miss Fanny Barker visited the University Wednesday.
The finest stock of sheet music and studies in the west can be found at Bell Bros.
Washburn, Harwood and Bowman guitars and mandolin's at Bell's, 823 Mass. St.
All the sheet music and studies used at the University are kept constantly on hand by J. H. Bell & Bro.
Call at Barber Bros'. Drug Store and get a cake of K. S. U. Boquet Soap, only 10 cts. It is a leader.
Charlie Wright, an old University boy, was visiting in the city last Saturday. He returned to Kansas City Monday.
it will surprise you when you see what elegant goods we are selling for such little money.
MASSACHUSETTS SHOE STORE.
Miss Mary Simpson is very ill, her life having been despaired of for the last two days. The KANSAN expresses the sentiment of all who know her when it hopes for her rapid recovery.
Students should not miss the opportunity of hearing Gilbert & Sullivan's H. M. S. Pinafore, to be given by a troupe of sixty children at the opera house next Friday and Saturday.
The following is posted on the bulletin board: "The Phi Psi challenge for a game of ball has been accepted by the Phi Gamma Delta for Saturday morning at 9:30." This will be the first of the interfraternity games and will without doubt be a good one, as both the fraternities named have good ball players among them. The game will be played on the ball ground in the southern part of the city.
Chas. B. Spencer, who graduated from the Pharmacy department of the University last year and who has been connected with the Geo. Leis Drug Co. since then, has been promoted and now occupies the position of secretary and treasurer of the company.
The Science Club.
To students one of the most valuable features of the University system is the opportunity afforded to meet and work in harmony with their professors and with each other by means of clubs devoted to particular lines of investigation. The oldest and largest of these organizations in K. S. U. is the Science Club. It was formed in 1885 by the union of the Medical Society and the Engineering Club, and since then has included in its membership almost every graduate from the scientific department.
It forms a sort of a "clearing house" for the different departments, as here their separate interests are joined into one, and whatever happens of scientific interest in any part of the University is at once reported to the club. Reports of all individual work in original investigations come before the club for discussion, after which, if of sufficient importance, they are sent to the journals or read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science or the Kansas Academy of Science. All the work is volunteer; no one is called upon for a paper unless he has previously signified his desire to contribute, although it is expected that each member will do some original work however slight during the year and bring it before the club. It speaks well for the University that the club is never at a loss for a program, and it is generally necessary to hold several extra meetings each year to dispose of interesting subjects. Besides reports of original work, which is the main object of the club, there are frequent reviews of scientific literature and talks on various items of interest by students, or professors who have made a special study of the subject. A handsome room has been given to the club in Snow Hall and the lecture room is used when some subject of unusual interest is presented. The use of the electric stereooption this year will add much to the popularity of the papers. All regular meetings are public.
Aldephic Literary Society meets tonight when the following excellent program will be rendered:
Address ...President Riggs
Debate: Resolved, That religion and morality have had different origins,
Affirmative, Harvey White, C. S. Griffin; negative, H. B. Hall, C. P. Chapman.
ADELPHIC
RECESS.
Oration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E. E. Hickey
Essay . . . . . . . . . . . B. W. Dickinson
Declamation . . . . . . . . . . . David Park
Oration . . . . . . . . . . . D. R. Krehbiel
Essay . . . . . . . . . . . W. W. Brown
Declamation . . . . . . . . . A. H. Couch
Harvey White has gone on a two years trip to Mexico with the American Archaeological expedition.
The Best Books.
On last Friday morning at 16 o'clock the students and professors of the University stopped for one hour before entering their class rooms and, together with their friends, assembled in the chapel to hear the opening address, given by Hon. D. W. Wilder.
The address was comprehensive and full of those thoughts which cause thought, and received close attention from all. Many of Mr. Wilder's hearers will thank him in the years to come for a strengthened purpose in their struggle for higher education.
A few of the sentences and paragraphs contain in the address are as follows:
"The eye sees that which it brings with itself the power of seeing. Those only bring back the wealth of the Indies who carried out with them the wealth of the Indies. These sayings are constantly on his mind. Carlyle, the naturalists, small class, cockfowl, of rare value, find sermons in stones, books in the running brooks.
When a man has, reached middle life he finds that his early friends are absent or lost, and his leisure hours are given to books.
"Some years ago one of our Kansas orators and public men made a speech here, before the State University, in which he ridiculed Greek and Latin, implying that a man who knew the "dead languages" knew nothing else and was a dolt, a dunce, an educated fool. Why, bless my soul, is history no part of learning? Is Homer or Plato worth thinking of? Are Caesar and Cato entirely personages? And your own language, language of the great English tongue, is it not worth while to know it, know it all the way through? You cannot know it unless you know the words that make it, and about half of these are of foreign origin.
"Those who are blind to rocks and stones, to birds and beasts, to physics, chemistry, mathematics, have a paradise all their own in books, the dear old books, the older the better, I often think.
White, of Scibourne, and *show and snow*
in green grass, find something in the
green fields.
"These 'practical' men who would have nothing taught that didn't have money in it, who would not buy Plato unless they could sell him tomorrow at a gold and success, what a race are they of dwarfs and cripples and clowns?"
"No broad, strong man lives today who, deprived of a classical education in his youth, does not go through life bewailing his ill fortune.
"The study of words has proved a rich mine of wealth in our day, unfolding the history of races and religions as well as of languages, and exploding thousands of the errors and mistakes made by authors only thirty years ago.
You cannot be a scholar, you cannot know history, you cannot know your own tongue, you cannot know the leaders of mankind, unless you know Greek and Latin. You must know and read words at sight as you do music; dissect them like a surgeon, decompose them like a chemist.
"There is no better discipline for the learner, mind than the study of the classics.
"Since all modern European languages are largely made up of the classical tongues you cannot really know the ancient until you have mastered the ancient.
Read Horne, Toook, Skeat, Trench,
Dr. Murry, and become an analyzer end a
builder of words
"Talk English, write English; use no other words but those of your own great mother tongue; the heir of all the ages; the mosaic enriched with every hue and every jewel from every land and cline."
The rights that breathe and words that burn.
"And when you have learned these foreign words throw them away. Throw away last mother's son of them, if you can.
Quoting from the Bible he said;
"There are a thousand pages of this book; Enlished in this matchless manner; and the Bible, not Chaucer, is the 'well of English underfiel.'
"There have been five great epochs in human history. Of the first, Eastern Pacific, Oriental, most of us know very little. The history of astronomy, algebra, printing and other rare things is embraced in it; China, India, Egypt, Persia, Arabia; scholars are adding to it and writing it every day.
"And Ben Johnson, mighty Ben, sec-
ond only in style to the 'Sweet swan o.
Avon' What grace and beauty those
four words give to Shakespeare!
The next age is in Palestine, Judea.
"The history of this epoch need not be rehearsed. Whether divine or human, no other age, no other men and women have had such an influence on countless millions of people; and more broad and embracing now than ever been for the nobest and highest things. The original record is written in Greek.
"Coming all along down you can safely skip Alexander and Caesar and the whole Roman Empire; nothing in it but language; theirs and ours. We are after Shakespeare and the English language, that we left waiting back there. Take a chronological table and look at one century only, from 1546.
There are now many kings in the list; not many millionaires; very few of those men would reach real eminence in our present political world. It may be said of them, as Agassiz said of himself—they had no time for it, and could not afford to make money. They made the English language and the French, the Catcholic and the Protestant Bibles that continue to be used after the lapse of nearly three centuries. They wrote Hamlet and the Pilgrim's Progress; hey translated Homer and Virgil and Plutarch in books that we still read with keenest pleasure. You remember Bishop Berkley's lines:
That is America, our own republic, and the poet did not go too far in his eulogy. A century of American names, beginning with Franklin and ending with Lincolngives no Homer, no Shakespeare, but it is the best list of men and women who have helped mankind that you can find in any century in all the ample pages of history. Foreigners say cheap, unoccupied land made famous by the best artists and were brought here — poverty and noble purposes. The century that made America was a century of poor men and pure men. The Kansas boys and girls of today are the real successors of those pioneers. You worry because your fathers are poor. It is a cause for rejoicing. The students who struggle with poverty make the great names in every college catalogue; they give to the university its perfume and aroma, and cause the sons of rich men to go there, seek employment, and so on. Our poor boys have created. And so American government, is the pattern that all oppressed peoples are sighing for, working for, and will obtain. Our system is not an experiment; it is founded on the rock of human equality, and cannot be moved. Our Jeffersonian platform is largely ideal still.
You have seen on shipboard or on land men pulling down a rope to raise a great weight; after each yo-hee and haul, the slack is taken up and the men rest; their hands are still on the rope; their arms aloft, their muscles taut, ready for the next wo-ho. It is only such rest as this that is ever given to the humkind!
A fifth shall close the drama with the day;
Time's noblest offering is the last.
Nestward the course of empire takes its way,
the four Eats sets already past.
But we are on the right road, gradually going ahead, ad we shall get there.
Mankind marches up the mountain slope with powder in its face; when the table land is reached it stacks its gums and says "Here we will rest." There is no rest; there never has been; it is only the halting of the column.
"And there will be no rest at all without !bstice; none without political equality to all races; to women not less than to men; to women in the humanities she has done the most for men and for woman; she must do more, and all, and she will.
"She will because the ideas of Kansas prevail. Kansas, who always fights her way; Kansas, always ready to adopt new ideas when they are shown to be true and to become an institution and all of whose six schools and institutions of learning are based upon the equality of men and women and the equality of races."