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UNIVERSITY TIMES
E. M. MEMOUND, JUS. D. BOWERSOCK, JR.
President, Securities
Editorial Staff.
F. E. REED, Editor-in-Chief
F. E. REEB, Eduto-Chico.
W. D. Ross, M. W. Wixon,
F. C. Schraeder, F. Webb,
C. S. Hall, A. Fullerton,
W. L. Taylor, Fred Funston,
Gertrude Crotty, Enima Bartell,
Anna McKimmon, W. P. Harrington.
Entered at the Post Office of Lawrence, Kansas, as second-case matter.
H. A. Cutier, Printer, Lawrence, Kan.
You who receive one of the "thousand copies" of this mid-summer edition of the TIMES, will know that she still lives and has her being. Born midst the thunders of discontent, she has never faltered, never wavered. Hoping that her high standard has not suffered at our hands, we offer you this issue.
Respectfully yours,
H. BARNES,
M. McKINNON, JR,
A large illustrated catalogue of the Lawrence Business College, containing complete information regarding the institution will be mailed to any address Free.
E. L. McIlravy, Pres.,
Lawrence, Kan.
SCHOOL OF ORATORY
The Fall term of session of 1889-90 of Fulton & Trueblood's School of Oratory, Kansas City, Missouri, will begin October 10th, at 4 o'clock p.m. With the opening of this term, this well-known school begins its twelfth year of continued success and advancement. The graduates of this institution are filling many college positions as professors of elocution and oratory at large salaries. Messrs. Fulton & Trueblood have full charge of the elocutionary work in the Michigan State University, the Ohio Wesleyan University, the Kentucky University, Hamilton College, the Missouri State University, William Jewell College and Park College in addition to their excellent School of Oratory in Kansas City.
We hope this summer edition of the Times will find its readers in the midst of health, wealth and happiness. A number of you, when you left for your homes last spring, were enthusiastic in the desire for turning the summer months into months of financial advantage. We trust your hopes are being realized. Quite a number of students are utilizing the time in making up back studies, and will surprise the natives this fall by the amount of work accomplished. Some have gone to the mountains, there to breathe the fresh green air and woo the soft tan of the western sun. They will come back this fall blooming with health and ready for another year's hard, faithful work. College politics, we believe, will not be so thrilling the coming year. The political asperity which existed between different factions at the beginning of last year, is gradually wearing away, and the fall of '89 bids fair to be a peaceable one. Should we reason by analogy, however, and compare coming events in K. S. U., with the remarkable record of flood, fire and death of '89, we should surely judge that the veil in the Temple of Peace would be shattered. But we will reason by no such analogy. The outlook for unanimity in college circles is most favorable, and we will spend no time in vain conjectures. Let each one come back this fall with a full determination to uphold the interests and work to the advantage of old K. S. U. Such line of action we believe will insure a peaceable and successful year.
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As THE long summer days pass by everybody is wondering why everybody else don't do as they agreed to, as a seal to the last farewell in that far away classic city. "Why don't Abe send me that photograph?" "Why don't my 'chum' send me that long-looked-for epistle; or if nothing more, why not a copy of the 'Jerk-water Journal,' containing an account of his masterly effort to explain the one hundred and thirteenth explanation of the one hundred and thirteenth article of the Father of his Country's Declaration?"
Yes, and how does it come that he hasn't remitted that dollar, dollar and a half or two dollars, which I lent him to pay his cigar bill at Smith's?' I can't square my account with 'dad' till he does."
These are some of the problems (more than any in analyties) which perplex some of the lonely lads laterly from Lawrence.
THE Chair of History and Political Economy has been made into two, that of American History and Civics occupied by James H. Canfield, and that of History and Sociology by Frank W. Blackmar. By this arrangement Prof. Canfield will be able to devote more of his time and energy to the Course in Constitutional and Political History of the U.S. Classes in this will recite daily instead of three times a week as heretofore Prof. Blackmar's work will relate to Political Economy and History, more especially that of Europe. The University affords a large number of works on subjects treated in this department, and the card indexes of this work are very exhaustive. Lectures, recitations and discussions take place in the class room.
The K. K. G. Picnic.
The K. K. G's and a few friends spent a most delightful afternoon and evening, July 18th, at the home of Miss Jeanie Edwards. The picnic was held in honor of Miss Alice Ropes, who is spending a few days with Kappa sisters in town, after a year's absence in Michigan. Fun and jolty was the order of the day. An elaborate supper was readily disposed of. The guests were as fol- Alice Ropes, Jessie Arter, the Misses Savage, Mrs. McDonald, Laura Lockwood, Cora Kimball, Ila Williams, Annie McKinnon, Etta Hadley, Mrs. Bowersock, Edna Maxwell, Mamie Stimpson, Mrs. Grosvenor, Don Bowersock, Nellie Morris, Cora Henshaw, Mamie Henshaw, Laura O'Bryon.
Quid Est Tibi?
Make each day's recitation an examination in itself, and the students will strive harder to learn. We acquire far more in the daily recitation than by burning the mid-night oil before examination.
Much has been said on the examination question. We take this opportunity, nevertheless, to say a little more. We believe we have not said enough until the prevailing system of examination is done away with. Some of the professors, much to their credit, have opened their eyes to the evils of the fact and have adopted the class grade system. We intend to float the question until the eyes of all are opened and the class grade system is unanimously adopted. Examinations are not a fair test of a student's ability. Questions that would be comparatively easy for one are very difficult for another, and this too, when both are good students. All minds are not constituted alike. In the daily recitations one student will take in and assimilate facts which will entirely escape the notice of another. While student number two will grasp ideas that did not at all present themselves to student number one. How, then, can we expect one set of questions to test the ability of all the students. It can't be done.
The pernicious system of "cramming" the many and variegated "ponies," the hollow eyes, the nervous twitchings, the blighted honor, the seared conscience—these will fade away with the abolition of examinations.
We clip the following from the Lawrence Journal. Let every student peruse it: "A general fact that the Preparatory Department of the University is to be abolished, and which is now being published throughout the State may require a little explanation. As the public schools of the state have extended their course of study, the Board of Regents has directed discontinuance of parts of the Freshman work. No class beginning Latin will be formed at the opening of the fall term of 1889. Beginning classes will however, be formed in 1889 in French, and for the last time in Greek and German. In the fall of 1890 the last class beginning French will be formed. At the opening of the fall term 1891 and thereafter, no student will be received into the University who is unprepared for the work of the Freshman class in at least one of the four general courses. The papers mentioning the arrangement are right in their conclusion that it will advance materially the standard of the University work, and as a consequence the usefulness and reputation of the University itself.
Miss Eva Hoadley, one of Lawrence's fair young ladies, gave a luncheon to her lady friends last Friday afternoon from 4 to 7 o'clock. It was the occasion of a most enjoyable time. Miss Hoadley proved herself a charming hostess. Those present were: Mrs. Charles Grovenor, Mrs. Will Spalding, Mrs. Mac Long, Mrs. Fred Bowersock, Mrs. Chas. Marsh, Mrs. Wm. Mc Donald, Mrs. Byron Power.
Misses Kate and Julia Powell, Kate
Wilder, Sue Moore, Lillie McMillan,
Etta Hadley, Alice Mason, May Webster,
Gertrude Holmes, May Haskell,
Mabel Haskell, Edith Haskell, Nellie Thacher, Hattie McCague, Kate Riggs,
Emma White, Mamie Henshaw, Silney Dailey, Nan Love, Edna Maxwell, Delia Southard, Lena Beard,
Marcia Wood, Marcella Howland,
Edith Swope, Mamie Tisdale, Birdie Crew, Anna Kenyon, Cora Kimball,
Josephine Hutchings, Lallie Buckingham, Cora Parker, Belle Gregg,
Daisy Warne, Hattie and Mamie Bowman, of Indianapolis; Eva Harrison,
Clara Manley, Anna Stewart, of Kansas City; Clara Wheeler and Luda Griffith.
Literary Societies.
Toward the end of last year, some one intimated (we think unjustly) that the literary spirit in K. S. U. was dying out. There may have been some room for such an assertion two or three years ago. But for any one to make such a statement at this time—why, we will simply say they know not whereof they speak. Two years ago Atheneum sprang, phoenix-like, from the ashes of old Oread and spread her wings for contest. Since then she has shown by her steady and sustained flight that she is capable of great achievements. Old Orophilian after a short period of drowsiness has awakened from her lethargy, and is shaking her invincible locks at her healthy rival. With two such live literary societies we can justly assert that literary work is in a most flourishing condition. There is but one way in which any society can achieve recognition. Every member must do his or her part. If there are any chronic failures on the program, the sooner they are eliminated from the society the better. The faculty have kindly lent us rooms and tight. Why not show our appreciation of the fact by more thorough work and enthusiasm? If we have done well in the past, we can do better in the future. Let all members of both societies come back this fall chock-full of enthusiasm, each one determined to make their society the better of the two. Start up a gentle, healthy rivalry, and while we are thus bettering ourselves we are helping K. S. U.
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Picnic.
Notwithstanding the assertion of the Eudora News that Eudora had been almost "pinciped to death" a merry party of young ladies and gentlemen were to be seen wending their way toward that little village last Thursday week. They were picnicans and seemed to be enjoying themselves hugely. The party consisted of Misses Anna and Lou Barker, Hattie McCague, Nan Love, Emma White, May Russell, Lena Beard, and Messrs. Esterly, Snow, Robinson, Swope, Mushrush and Chas. and Bert Spencer.
The increase of the Law Library, making the total number of books 5,000, adds to facilities for work in that department. Recitations, lectures and moot courts familiarize the students with the works used as text books, and the student may read extensively in the library. The Law School is growing in size and efficiency.
A DAY IN JUNE.
H. B.
I see as how mos' every one's
A writin' poems now,
A tellin' of the earth an' sky,
An' weather, too, I 'low';
So thought I'd jes in my hand
An' see what I could do,
Per guess I've got as good a right
To poetry as you.
Well,'jes to tell the hones' truth
An' facts about the case,
I rather like a hammock now
A hangin' 'roun' the place;
It allus comes in splendid play
About the last o' June,
Jes when a feller's lazy-like
An' sweatin' an' a stewin.
Get under some o' apple tree,
As where there s lots o' shade,
An' bang yer hammock up, and then
You needn't be afraid
But what you can enjoy yerself,
A rockin' to an' fro,
A ketelbin' all the breezes, that'll
Ever dare to blow.
An' mebbe up above yer head's
A sparrier, jay, er such,
A talkin' a chatterin'jes
To beat the very Dutch ;
An' ef you look atween the leaves
It mos' 'll make you sigh
To see the swallers skootin'an'
A divin' through the sky.
'Taint no use to try an' read—
Yer chance is mighty slim
While nats an' skeeters is arow'
A singin' of their hymn ;
A crawlin' in yer nose an' ears
An' flyin' 'roun' yer head,
An' butin' an' a ticklin' jes
To be made ailler.
An' so it is. These sunny days
Brings sketches, mats an' flies,
With young hatched birds an' fruits
an' flowers,
An' clear an' vaulted skies ;
Some rain an' clouds with heat enough
To make a teller swoon—
But put 'em all together an'
You have a day in June.
An' when the sun is goin' down:
An' mos'ly out o' sight,
You'll see the fire-bugs risin' an'
A sheddin' off their light ;
I'll bet these bugs an' skeeters is
A runnin' in cahoot—
The fire-bug with his lantern, shows
The skeeter where to shoot.
They Do Say.
That the young reflow, who on the evening of July fourth caught a lightning bug and by its phosphorescent gleams attempted to light a fire cracker, was late from Kansas City. That Lawrence is the prettiest place in Kansas during the summer. That McKinnon is fond of the young ladies. That the Geometry class had no quiz, Tuesday. That nobody "climbed the hill" or "was seen in the halls" yesterday. That Caywood lives at Vining and not at Paola, as some May have thought. That the year of 1889 is famous for flood, fire and death. That the students' ponies are recuperating after a year's hard riding. that the Courier issued a splendid mid-summer advertising edition. That K. S. U. will have an unusually large attendance this fall. That Fullerton's anxiety was uncalled for. That the sweet smiles of High School maidens have a depressing effect on a young man's grade. That a fellow mush-rush if he gets ahead of the great religious weekly. That the Olympian game in Mississippi created undue excitement in the Athens of Kansas.
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