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The members of the old oratorical association have for the past month tried to convince themselves and some others, that because the members of the new association didn't come around and on "bended knee" beg of them to take shares in the new association, that the boys were not willing to give them their quota; but no one is so anxious to dispose of his stock in this association. The stock has been selling at a premium and no one could reasonably expect that any stock would be surrendered at par, to those who have been plotting to overthrow the new association, until at least it was asked for.
The above explanation may have some weight with the students of Ottawa and Baldwin, who may have listened to the piteous plea of any representative kickers who may have escaped from our city a week or more ago.
They came back sadder; but wiser men. A fresh coat of "soup" has almost changed their audacity to meekness, and they have since asked like gentlemen for their shares and in each case they have received them.
--are generally capable of keeping their own counsel.
We are glad to learn that there is a move on foot to form an interfraternity base ball league this spring. The friendly contest held on the "diamond" two and three years ago did more to harmonize the feeling aroused between the various fraternities by political strife and contentions, than a dozen "jamborees" could possibly have done. K. S. U. was almost the pioneer in adopting such a system of sports between the fraternities and many colleges have followed her example, Ann Arbor and California University are prominent among the number. By all means let us have inter-fraternity contests not only on the "diamond" but on the tennis court.
Young Mr. Admire of Topeka, has been interviewing Mr. Davis at Beauvoir, and this is what he says of the "arch rebel:" "His voice is soft and mellow, inspiring one with the idea that its owner is kind and indulgent to those he loves, while his gentle face shows no signs of aught but goodness," Why, this must be treason. They are disposed to hang men in effigy at times in Kansas for less offence than that.-K. C. Times.
An eastern concern has just published a map showing the "Seven wonders of America," viz: New York, Pittsburg, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. What's wrong with the "Windy Wonder" and Eames' Whale?
It is the student body which objects to Bill Nye's appearance in the chapel of Missouri State University, not the faculty.
The Argus devotes considerable space to a criticism of the decision of the faculty. If experience is worth anything we should say that with the faculty on his side Bill will get there.
As we prophesied some weeks ago Noble Prentis' little volume of "Miscellanies" is finding a ready sale. Over one half of the first edition is already gone. Every student should have this book.
O alas! my dearest Mary, a residual now we be.
Senior Poems.
A PROPOSAL.
So I plead for one expression for the factor you and me.
Oh! unclose those lips like roses, say you'll not my spirit vex.
Give for present unknown quantities the value wished for $x$,
Then the parson's transposition makes our sweet equation plus,
And the future's evolution will extract the roots for us.
CONJUGATION OF AMO.
"You hate the Latin conjugation?"
Thus she questioned me last night.
"But the conjugal relation—
Don't you think, now, that's all right?"
"Amo, amas"—do you wonder
That I here succumb to fate?
And she said when I grew fonder,
"Emo she would conjugate."
T was evening and the village chimes
Most musically chome.
The graceful cow and warlike calf
Unanimous hied home,
The bleeting sheep in chorus biote ;
The squealing piggies squole ;
The tout ensemble being quite
Bucolic, as a whole.
Two lovers, happy, hand in hand
Stole stilly to the stile;
The crickets cricked, the owlets 'owled
Bats beat about the while.
The katydids in unison
Together katy-dode;
The whippoorwills set up their cry
And ominously crode.'
The genial skeeter hummed his hymn,
And bote his baneful bite.
She tried to say a tender pome,
But couldn't quote it quite.
And when he gope a mighty gape,
She smole a sickly smile—
There was not (for the sake of rhyme)
A mole within a mile.
She heaved a mighty deep-drawn sigh,
And he in answer soghed ;
And round her taper, shrinking waist
His manly coat-sleeve gloode,
Then, while the distant curfew peal
Lugubriously pole,
She drew a pickled onion forth,
And cody ate it whole.
Exchange Clippings.
The March number of the College Mercury, published by the college of the city of New York, contains a sixteen page supliment, giving a detailed description of the Alumni dinner at which over two hundred graduates of that institution were present.
The youngest college president in the country is the Rev. Dewitt Hyde of Bowdoin. Three years after his graduation he was called to Bowdoin where he has given great satisfaction.
The March number of the University Review presented a very classical appearance.
It is evident that the author of the article on the "Co-education of the Sexes" in the Nebraska Central Collegian, belongs to the old fossilized pessimistic school. Like that historical character, Rip Van Winkle, he awakes and finds himself half a century behind the age. He seems still to cling to the old delusion that students of a university or seminary are mere children and ought to be under the same "wholesome" regulation as a kindergarten.
The gentleman who wrote the article may perhaps need the 'wholesome' restraint and vigilant eye of a faculty, but most students are able to discriminate between right and wrong and
We notice that several state institutions, among them the Universities of Texas and Missouri, have taken steps to establish fellowships and scholarships. This is a plan our own university ought to take under consideration. By this means the youth of ability and ambition throughout our own state and neighboring states are attached to the university and are afforded opportunity and encouragement for further and perhaps original research in special lines of study.
Among the most interesting exchanges this week is "The Kerk" a literary journal published by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is well edited and contains some strange and interesting items, devoting much space to theological subjects. Were it not for that strange appearance, characteristic of foreign publications, the Kerk might be suspected of being an American journal.
The last number of the Baker University Index contains several well written articles.
We welcome the Collegian to our table this week.
The Lincoln University came to our table this week, it is a four page sheet and contains many interesting items. It is published by the Lincoln Academy, Lincoln, Neb.
The College Transcript contains an interesting article entitled, "Collegium et Fraternitos." It discusses at length the establishment, influence and nature of college fraternities, and gives the testimony of the presidents of several leading institutions where fraternities are established.
Harvard has 189 courses of study. Princeton's class tax is $12 apiece.
Dr. McCosh, of Princeton, lately read a paper to the Senior class on "Robert Els mere."
There are eight Japanese students at Cornell.
There are in this country 362 colleges and universities, of which 271 are founded and supported by religious denominations.
Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia hold entrance examinations in Paris.
Johns Hopkins publishes seven magazines.
A prize of $100 is offered to the college and university students of the United States by Geo. T. Angell, 19 Milk St., Boston for the best essay on "The Effect of Humane Education on the Prevention of Crime."
There are 600 American students in the Univiseity of Berlin and over 200 at Leipsig.
An exchange says that the editors of the Yale Literary Magazine receive salaries of from $140 to $150, and the salaries of the editors of the Yale News are from $250 to $275 per annum.
In the University of California there is a students' co-operative association through which text books and stationery are obtained. The Occident says many hundred dollars have thus been saved to students.
The condition for the admission examinations at Harvard in 1697 were as follows: "Whosoever shall be able
to read Cieero or any other like classical author at sight and make and speak true, Latin verse and prose, and decline perfectly the paradigms of names and verbs in the Greek tongue.
Hush, little Seniors,
You'll raise a mustache
Don't you cry,
Bye and bye. —Ex.
Bobby: "What are the wages of sin, pa?" Father: "Depends on the locality. In Washington they'll average about five thousand a year."—Ex.
A PROPOSAL.
A PROPOSAL
The street was full of mud and soot;
The two in deep discussion stood,
She was dressed in nutty suit,
He wore a check and appendage hirsute.
With all her might she urged her suit;
With all his might did he refuse
Her, and swear she would not suit,
Unless there was the cash in boot.
She asked her pa; he was resolute.
The lover swore he'd bring a suit,
And the cash question then did moot
And—gad the end of that father's boot
Prof. Snow's March Report.
Only five Marches of our twenty-two years record have been warmer than the month just closed. The rainfall was normal and the winds were of low velocity and the sky was slightly cloudier than the average. White maples were in blossom on the 11th, dog-tooth violets on the 20th, and elms on the 22d. The weather has deen highly favorable for the wheat crop. Peach buds are in fine condition.
Political Science Club.
Expecting a large attendance Friday evening the Club held its meeting in Snow Hall Auditorium. All societies of the University adjourned to attend the meeting, and with the many visitors from the city, formed an audience that fairly filled this spacious room.
By mutual consent of the Professor, and Students upon the program, it was decided to table the general program and tender the entire evening to Regent C. S. Gleed of Topeka. The policy proved a good one for Mr. Gleed's paper, of a pleasing length, and interesting throughout, afforded the audience ample food for thought. His subject, "The moneyed Value of an Education" was thoroughly discussed, to use Mr. Gleed's own language, from a purely hog and corn basis.
It is obvious that when the question of education is raised in the minds of the masses, the first thought is to measure it upon this "hog and corn" basis, and unless the time spent in acquiring knowledge at once yields rich returns in ringing coin, it is looked upon as lost. Hence by many individuals education is abandoned as a financial failure.
How erroneous this idea is, was clearly set forth during the discussion of the evening. It was plainly shown that there is great demand for cultured and well trained individuals in all the various so called professions. Nor is this demand less imperative in the business world. But demand, in the professional and business world of the day, means a willingness to give a fair compensation for value received. Both these spheres are
ready to pay a high price for skillful service rendered.
Mr. Gleed's ideal of an educated man is not a mere book worm, a rhetorician, a precise writer etc., but a man with broad views, copious knowledge, and all his faculties so developed and trained as will enable him to turn his knowledge to practical account in the various and shifting avenues of life.
The speakers own observations have proven to his mind the importance of educating the gentler half of our race. During the last few years he has been thrown into company with five hundred or more young men contemplating matrimony and within this range he has observed that in the choice of a companion for life, the educated girl was almost universally in demand. This is truly encouraging to the young women who are creditably mastering the courses in our higher Universities. If a young lady would command for herself a high price in the form of a cultured and worthy husband, she has but to put that price upon herself by developing her intellectual faculties, fitting herself to become an agreeable and useful companion.
In short the speaker denounced neglect of intellectual groth and training as gross sin, but commended the persuit of it as one of the most noble duties that man has to perform.
Athenæum.
The program for to-night is as follows:
lows:
Reading...E. M. Munford
Declaration...C. F. Humphrey
Essay...Alberta Corbin
Oration...W. A. White
Reading...H. E. Ellison
Declaration...H. White
Essay...J. O. Worden
Oration...Harry B. Hall
Debate: Resolved, That imprisonment should be reformatory rather than punitive.
Affirmative: E. W. Palmer, A. F.
Sherman.
Negative: C. L. Christian, D. H.
Spencer.
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