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Exchange Notes.
We acknowledge the receipt of The Printer Girl this week. It is a monthly magazine devoted to the interests of lady compositors. Although published in our own State, it is not sectional, but covers a broad field and contains much valuable information that will be found of interest to every household.
Prominent among our new exchanges this week is the Occident, published weekly by the University of California. It is one of the best college journals published. Although a weekly publication, its literary department far surpasses that of many of our exchanges which claim to be purely of a literary character. We give you a hearty welcome, and are glad to be able to number the Occident among our exchanges.
The April number of the Western Home Journal contains a very interesting article by Arthur G. Canfield, entitled "Higher Education by the State." It presents in a very concise form the Professor's views on this much discussed question.
The board of editors of the Miami Student have offered a prize for the best original story, not to exceed 1,200 words. The merits of the manuscript to be judged by two of the faculty. If such an incentive was offered to the students of K. S. U. it might awaken some dormant genius and be the means of bringing before the world a George Elliot or a Dickens.
The Doane Owl for March is the personification of wisdom.
The March number of the Westminster Review contains several very interesting articles.
The exchange editor, or rather the editorial board, of that anomalous specimen of college journalism known as the College Echoes, seems to be deeply interested in the welfare of what he calls "his friendly pun," and assures us that if we sit down nobody will hurt us. We wish to thank the gentleman for his generous advice, and to assure him that had we known the delicate texture of the "thing" we certainly would have handled it with more care.
Harvard College no longer publishes a complete catalogue for free distribution. Her catalogue is published annually, however, and placed on sale at the leading bookstores.
The great English University Boat Race was won by Cambridge last Saturday by two lengths. The course was from Putney to Northlake, a distance of four miles and two furlongs. The Oxford crew became confused and steered badly. They made a final spurt, but failed to reach the Cambridge boat. This is the fourth successive victory for Cambridge. The score now is—Oxford, twenty-three races; Cambridge twenty-two. The one rowed in '77 was a dead heat.
A bill is before the legislature of Wisconsin to give the State University one per cent. of the corporation tax, or about $10,000 yearly, for the use of the engineering department. The regents propose to establish a chair in railroad and one in electrical engineering, should the bill pass.
Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Pennsylvania
nia now have courses of instruction in statistics.
Miss Lottie E. Granger has been elected president of the Iowa State Teachers' Association. Iowa has 25,000 teachers and 650,000 pupils.
The largest college in the world is that at Cairo, Egypt; it has 300 professors and 10,000 students. -Ex.
There are 309 colleges and scientific schools with 32,211 students in the United States. For every student of law there are two of theology and four of medicine.
Shakespeare has been translated into Chinese by the president of Peking University.
Cornell has tried and is pleased with the Monday holiday scheme.
The annual income of Oxford University is $6,000,000.
The University of Wisconsin possesses a boat house and gymnasium valued at $70,000.
Ann Arbor claim to have originated the "he's all right" yell.
The first female college in the world was built in Georgia.
Columbia has added 20,000 vols. to her library the past year.
Who killed the gretaest number of chickens? "Hamlet's uncle did murder most foul."
Prairie Breezes has solved an interesting problem and informs its readers that the shape of a kiss is elliptical (a lip tickle).
A Vassar girl being asked by her teacher what kind of a noun kiss was, replied with a blush that it was both proper and common.
THE REASON WHY.—Hastings Hall.
'91: “Do you know why Harvard's getting to be such a great institution of learning?” Jack-Go-Easy, '89:
"No; why?" H. H.: "Cause every Freshman brings in some knowledge, and no Senior ever takes any out; it's bound to grow."—Harvard Lampoon.
Die Freshies spielen ball vollig wohl,
Die Sophs, gewinnen jedes game!
Die Juniors können nicht snielen ball
Die Jumors können nicht spielen ball zu all,
Aber die Seniors bekommen da just
the same.
(Now go out in the street and die.)
—Ex.
The spring has come, but it brings no joy to the sad-eyed Senior. "A fuller crimson has come to the robin's breast," but the Seniors sees it not. "A livelier iris changes on the burnished dove," but the Senior's fancies turn not to thoughts of love. Cares infest his days and his nights are full of sadness. All the "flunks" of former days are vividly brought to his mind—by the faculty. Analytics, physics and a half dozen more Banquo-like ghosts rise up before him and must be downed again. Another vision haunts him; commencement day, a sea of upturned faces, an oration, stage fright, utter vacuity and external disgrace. All in all the chrysalis stage of the college graduate is a trying one. Washburn Reporter.
Which should be considered the most injudicious, the state of Kansas that pays the chancellor of her University only $3000 for a hard year's work, or the city that pays Ward $5000 for scoring one or two home runs during a season?
Books to Read.
A few years ago Sir John Lubbock, in a paper read before a London college, gave a list of the best one hundred books, which evoked much discussion. Acting on an idea received from the Lubbock paper, the Kansas City Times recently sent out requests to a number of the prominent literati of that city, to make out a list of what they thought the one hundred best books. In these lists there is hardly a dozen books which appear in all of them, showing how different people's tastes are as to what are the best books. One of the compilers of a list, in speaking of this difference of opinion, says: "A scientific man like Huxley would never agree with a literature like Lowell. nor would the average intelligent reader agree with the average critic. There might be a small neucleus of books, such as the Bible, Shakespeare, Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, etc., which would meet the approval of all; but the remainder of the names selected would be as various as the habits, training, tastes and interests of the compilers."
It will be readily seen from the list that each one has selected books which have meant the most to themselves, and we publish a list of the one hundred which appear in more than one list. The lists were prepared to cover a general course of reading for the average person, and not to be a course on any of the special isms or ologies. To be acquainted with all the books in the list would be a liberal education. We all of us take up something to read, at times, which is of no particular value and sometimes of positive detriment, whereas if we had a better knowledge of what to read, we could take up something just as interesting and a great deal more beneficial. In selecting, the list will be of considerable value, because it represents the books, among countless numbers read, which have proven of standing value to representative business men.
ONE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS.
Rise of the Dutch Republic. Motley.
Draper's Intellectual Development of Eu-
rope.
Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies.
Bancroft's United States.
Bancroft's United States.
Mommsen's Rome.
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
Conquest of Mexico. Prescott.
Conquest of Peru. Prescott.
Ferdinand and Isabella Prescott.
Charles the Fifth. Prescott.
Rollins' Ancient History.
Napier's Peninsular War.
History of Europe. Allison.
History of Italy. Taine.
Kinglake's Crimean War.
Lamartine's History of Turkey.
Macaulay's Essays.
Chronicles of the Cid.
Thackeray's Georges.
Junius' Letters.
Froud's Sketch of Cesar.
Epictitus.
Irving's Columbus.
The Sun. Proctor.
Herodotus.
Irving's Sketch Book.
Bacon's Essays.
Lamb's Essays of Elia.
Bunyan's Pilgrims' Progress.
Sartor Resartus. Carlyle.
Robinson Crusoe.
Darwin's Origin of Species.
Plato's Works.
Illiad and Odyssey.
Philosophy and Religion. Spencer.
Aeschylus.
Euripides.
Machiavell's Princes.
Among My Books. Lowell.
Reynard the Fox.
Rasselshs. Samuel Johnson.
Don Quixote.
Arabian Nights.
Gulliver's Travels.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Holmes.
Count of Monte Christo. Dumas.
Molier's Dramatic Works.
Shakespeare's Dramatic Works.
Emersons Essays.
Innocence Abroad. Mark Twain.
Last Days of Pompeii. Bulwer,
Les Miserables.
The Vicar of Wakefield. Goldsmith.
David Copperfield.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Tale of Two Cities.
Ivanhoe.
Ben Hur. Wallace.
Marble Faun. Hawthorne.
On the Heights. Auerbach.
Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne.
Our Mutual Friend. Dickens.
Bleak House. Dickens.
Wandering Jew. Eugene Sue.
Vanity Fair. Thackery.
Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales.
Middle March.
Daniel Deronda. Elliot.
Waverly. Scott.
Adam Bede, Elliot.
Romola. Elliot.
Poe's Poems and Tales.
Burns' Poems.
Light of Asia. Arnold.
Longfellow's Poems.
Mrs. Browning' Poems.
Tennyson's Poems.
Bryant's Poems.
Childe Harold. Bulwer.
Milton's Works.
Heine's Poems.
Faust.
Byron's Poems.
History of France. Guizot.
Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles.
Hume's History of England.
Gibbon's Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire.
Macaulay's History of England.
French Revolution. Thiers.
Froisart's History of the Middle Ages.
Faine's English Literature.
Lewis' History of Philosophy.
Carlyle's French Revolution and Frederic the Great.
Irving's Life of Washington and Fall of Granada.
Plutarch's Lives.
Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Grote's Greece.
Green's English People.
Gekkie's Life of Christ.
Pedy's Journal.
Tacitus.
Rationalism in Europe. Lecky.
A large audience assembled Monday night in the parlor of Unity Club, to listen to Prof. A. G. Canfield's lecture on Boulanger. The professor prefaced his discourse with a sketch of the condition of French politics and demonstrated the divisions of the republican majority in the chamber of Deputies from the Conservatives of the Centre and Left Centre to the wild Radicals and Communists of the extreme Left. He ran very rapidly over the political history of France from the Revolution, and remarked that since then no form of government had lasted over twenty years in succession. The present Republic has nearly reached that limit and it remains to be seen whether the habit of representative government will prove stronger than the proverbial French fickleness. If a return to the principle of one man power is imminent, that power could hardly be intrusted to one more unworthy than General Boulanger. It is hard to explain the popularity of this notorious politician; Frenchmen themselves give up the attempt. Boulanger would seem to be an unserrupulous adventurer, who is a showy
horseman, a fair soldier and who above all understands how to advertise himself. He and his friends with an audacity almost magnificent, have turned his misfortunes and his missdeeds to account, represent richly merited rebukes and disgraces to be details of a deliberate system of persecution entered upon by the government against the pure patriot Boulanger —successive stages in the "martyrdom of St. Boulanger." Though ineligible by reason of his commission he has stood for election to the chamber of Deputies in many districts; and now that the ineligibility has been removed by his retirement from active service (intended as a punishment,) his large majority in many districts give grave cause to fear lest all the districts indorse him in turn, and he thus become France's Dictator. The professor read translations of extracts from various French papers which declared the most deplorable, uneasy, restless spirit, the craving for the new, the unreflecting delight in mere noise and glitter that threaten to render possible such a triumph for Boulanger. Another extract contained a scathing indictment of the modern French writers, who pander to the vile tastes themselves, are largely responsible for, and still further debase the public brain and heart.
Next Monday evening Prof. Snow will deliver his lecture on Evolution.
LaW
The Senior Law students met as a body Monday, April 15, and various matters were considered, deliberated, discussed and disposed of, by the honorable body; Mr. Harrington presided. The question of music for the commencement day of the Law class of '89 came up first. Although our students are men of no mean habits, being able to debate, deliver orations and write essays, they feel singularly weak when it becomes necessary to furnish music. Conscious of their musical infirmity they appointed a committee of three, whom they instructed to see the faculty and persuade them to furnish all the music. Nor do our Seniors have great confidence in their own aesthetic qualities, such as would be absolutely necessary for the choice of a suitable class hat, and in their modesty they passed a motion, authorizing the Hon. McClinton to select and buy the class hats of the class of '89, and to pay for them too. The gentleman felt very much flattered. "I move you that we have our picutres taken," was adopted by an unanimous vote. A committee appointed for that purpose will see the different photographers of the city and make arrangements for the great event of the season. In conclusion, Mr. Harrington suggested and informed that the world was distressing anxiously to read a Law Bulletin, i.e., a little pamphlet containing the biographies of the illustrious students of the celebrated law class of '89. Enns, interested in the Annual, vehemently protested, but he was overwhelmed and appointed one of the committee to see if there is a publisher in the United States worthy of publishing such a document. Harrington is chairman of the committee.