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PHILOPENA.
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They ate a philopena,
Yes and No she must not say,
And he must not take anything
From her the livelong day.
They strolled into the garden—
The moon was shining so,
He could not help but ask her,
"Wilt be mine? O, don't say No!"
"I can't say Yes," she answered,
"Nor you can I say No;
But thine I'll be. Dost take me?
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WHAT COLLEGE DOES FOR A MAN.
It gives him some knowledge of Latin and Greek,
Allows a minute's psychological peek.
And teaches him rightly to think and to speak;
Yes, that's what it does for a man.
If he journeys to college all awkward and green
With a black Sunday coat that's been worn into sheen.
It polishes him until his suit is be seen;
Yes, that's what it does for a man.
Perchance he's been appointed at home all his day,
And been led to suppose that he needs caught up praise;
College shows such a man the mistake of his ways,
Yes, that's what it does for a man.
Education in Kansas.
Little flurries of incoherent abuse of the school teachers, late in the State convention assembled, because they were opposed to resubmission in Kansas have awakened an unusual interest in the educator of the prairies, and this interest emboldens the writer to again refer to a subject which has suggested two previous communications.
The free school question was plentifully discussed in the "territorial period," but what was done in the way of establishing a common school system seems to have been done by the Free State party. The first Territorial superintendent of public instruction, James N. Noteware, was appointed in February, 1858, and held office only till December of the same year, when he was succeeded by Samuel W. Greer, who held the office by election for three years. The real business of the office seems to have begun with Mr. Greer. He issued reports and laid foundations generally. His sons, Edward and Frank Greer, have succeeded him in the educational work, Edward as an editor in Kansas and Frank in Oklahoma. John C. Douglas was elected state superintendent in 1860. William R. Griffith was the State superintendent; he was the first and last Kansas State officer to die in office, and was succeeded by Simeon M. Thorp, who was appointed to fill out the term. Mr. Thorp was killed in the Lawrence massacre by Quantrell. Isaac T. Goodnow held office from January, 1863, for four years, and began the regular and prosperous succession of the State superintendents. Mr. Goodnow was one of the five graduates who started the town of Manhattan. In his time was held the first teachers' institute and the first meeting of the State Teachers' association. He still lives to look over the educational orchard he helped to plant. He was succeeded by the Rev. Peter McVicar, who brought from his native Nova Scotia a cool and solid brain, which he used to the State's advantage for
four years. He was followed by big, broad-shouldered Hugh D. McCarty, who was superintendent for four years, and who taught to the end, when he sank dead on the streets at Highland. Then came General John Fraser, the most interesting figure ever known in the work of education in Kansas. A Scotchman with the vivacity and enthusiasm of a Frenchman. A brigadier general in the Union army founder of the University of Kansas, as we know it, dead now, and remembered for his worth and the ingratitude with which he was requited. He was succeeded by Allen B. Lermon, now of California, the most voluminous writer who has held the office. He contributed to a volume of reports of the National Bureau of Education a history of the common school in Kansas, and one of his official reports made over 300 pages. His assistant in office was Wirt W. Walton, cut off in the midst of youth with so much achieved and with such dreams of ambition. Professor Lehmor was succeeded by Henry C. Speer, a teacher and the son of a teacher. He was followed by J. M. Lawhead and he by the present incumbent, George W. Winans, who has more work to do than any of his predecessors and strives very vigorously to perform it.
Still good things move on. The permanent school fund might have been made larger and the compulsory education act might have been enforced, and other reforms suggested by every State superintendent might have been granted, but in spite of all the things that ought to have been done, but were not, the figures look well. In Superintendent Greer's report he proudly calls attention to the fact that Kansas territory has 136 district schools, on which over $6,000 ot public money has been expended within the year; and Professor Canfield's banner, displayed at the State Teachers' association, said: Teachers, 12,000; school fund, $6,000,-000; annual expenses, $5,000,000; and add to that the largest State teachers' association in the United States. That will do, considering that if you go to Lawrence you can meet young-looking men and women who were pupils in the first free school in Kansas.
The common school is the pet and pride of Kansas, but the state maintains the State University, the State Normal and the State Agricultural college. It took a number of years to decide what each of these institutions was for. That has been pretty well settled now. The lower end has been chopped off the University and the bitter jibe of the legislative Solon that it is a "Lawrence high school" no longer applies.
In the histories of the state, in the annals of the neighborhood, we read that the first sod school house in the county was built in such a year. That reveals an instinct which will make the common
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school in Kansas prepetual. The first comers on the wild prairie did not wait for the time and change and better days, but built this first house of learning from the very earth. As the bird built its nest from the material of the forest about it, so these built this first alter of knowledge from the turf on which it stood, and roofed it with willows from the stream. The spirit which did this will forever build and forever maintain.—Noble L. Prentis, in Kansas City Star.
Much comment is being made in in the college world concerning the action of the Harvard faculty prohibiting the University Athletic teams meeting any of the colleges outside of New England. The general drift of opinion is unfavorable to the action and censures the action as being cowardly. Cowardly, now doubt it was, but there are a few mitigating circumstances. Poor old Harvard has been humiliated repeatedly, in the last few years, by successive defeats in athletics and the present action is undoubtedly in order *o* escape any more such ignominious defeats as have fallen to her lot at the hands of Princeton and others. It need not be thought however that by refusing to play Harvard will escape defeats in the future. It will only lessen the number, for there are enough colleges in New England to administer Harvard all the drillings she needs.
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