UNIVERSITY TIMES
Published every Friday morning by the TIMES COMPANY.
E. M. MUMFORD, JUS. D. BOWERSOCK, I.
President. Secretary.
Editorial Staff.
F. E. REED, Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editors.
W. D. Wiss,
F. C. Scirrueder,
C. S. Hall,
W. L. Taylor,
Gerrude Crotty,
Anna McKinnon,
M. W. Wixon,
F. Webb,
A. Fullerton,
Fred Funston,
Emma Bartell,
W. P. Harrington.
Business Managers.
F. W. BUTLER, WM. HILL
Entered at the Post Office of Lawrence, Kansas, as second-class matter.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
BETA THETA Pt, meets on fourth floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA Psi, meets on third floor of Opera House block.
PHI GAMMA DELTA, meets in the El-
dridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA TRIEAT, meets on second floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA CIRL, meets on the fourth floor east of the Opera House block.
SIGMA Nu, meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
Pi BETA PHI, meets every Saturday af-
ternoon at homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, meets every Sat
upon afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPTA ALPHA THETA, meets every Sat
day afternoon at the homes of members.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION. Manager, Prof.
A. M. Wilcox; Capt. of the Nine, Charles
Voorhis.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, meets in Snow Hall.
PHILIOLOGICAL CLUB, meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENEM ASSOCIATION, President, F. E. Roberts Secretary, F. H. Kellogg, Treasurer, W. R.
SCIENCE CLUB, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, every other Friday at 8 p. m.
OROPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY, every Friday at 8 p.m.
ATHENAUM LITERARY SOCIETY, meets
the President Fred McKimson, Secretary
Y. M. C. A. meets every Friday evening at7:30, Room 11. President, L. T. Smith; Secretary, R. D. Brown.
FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, meets every Saturday for practice. C. S. Hall, President; Chas. Wright, Secretary; Schields and Wixon, Captains.
Y. W. C. A. meets every Friday evening at 7:30, third floor of U. President, Flora Newlin; Secretary, Anna McKinnon.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION of the Students of K. S. U. L. T. Smith, President C. P. Chapman, Secretary.
Executive Committee—E. M. Mumford,
Chas. Voorhis, Fred Liddeck.
We are informed that the report concerning the resignation of Mr. Boomer, of Ottawa, as delegate to the Interstate Oratorical Convention is without foundation.
Kansas State institutions are never found in the background. The State Agricultural College, at Manhattan, will have a prominent corner in the grand exposition at Paris. Her exhibit is now ready for shipment.
Strange to say, at the present writing peace and quiet reigns in the miniature political world of K. S. U. But ere this announcement appears in print some ambitions youth may have concocted a scheme to have the president (of Athenaeum) appoint him minister to the moon.
We give space this week to an article, on "College preparation for newspaper work" by H.H. Fletcher in The Writer, which has been copied by several of our exchanges and will no doubt be of special interest to those of our students who anticipate entering the journalistic field. We hope to have the space to conclude the article in next weeks issue.
College Preparation for Newspaper Work.
Year by year journalism is drawing to itself more and more of the best brain of American colleges. It is especially attractive to those collegians who find themselves unable, from lack of means, to pursue a post-graduate or professional course, and who are oblged to adopt some pursuit which promises the immediate return of a livelihood. While the tendency on the part of newspaper publishers to draw from specialists the finest product of their intellect will steadily increase with the development of thought and extension of scientific knowledge, still there will always be in the ranks of the routine workers 600m for vast numbers of college graduates who may be unable to pursue supplementary courses of study leading to the professional and special careers. These will find immediate and remunerative employment in the news gathering and news editing departments. As bread winning is a necessity with such students at the start, and as the salary paid will depend upon the value of the worker to the paper employing him, the most important question with such students is how to make themselves of the most value at the beginning of their newspaper careers. What can these young men do while in college to prepare themselves for active newspaper life?
Now, it is often said, and justly, that the only place where the art of journalism can be properly learned is in a newspaper office. It is equally true that the only way to learn the carpenter's trade is by an apprenticeship to a skilled carpenter. Still, if a young man enters upon such an apprenticeship with a thorough knowledge of the use of tools and of the elements of geometry, his advancement will certainly be more rapid than if he lacked such knowledge. By study and practice he can learn to saw and plane, draw a square or triangle, and otherwise perfect himself in the elements of his craft. It is likewise true of other trades and professions, journalism not excepted, that much can be learned of a preparatory nature before the actual business of acquiring them is begun.
There are four accomplishments of great value to practical newspaper workers which can be to a considerabe extent acquired during college days, the practice of them furnishing a pleasant change from the regular college routine. These are type setting, stenography, type-writing and telegraphy. While no one of these is absolutely essential to getting a livelihood on a newspaper, yet the possession of any one of them is a guarantee against penury; while he who is an expert, either in the first three or the last three, will find himself possessed of a ladder by which he can, other things being equal, climb with ease into a lucrative position in newspaper life.
A practical knowledge of the printer's art, besides being a help in every department of newspaper work, and in many cases a stepping stone to it, is well nigh indispensable if one would rise to managerial responsibility. In the large cities competition among newspapers is so fierce that the margin between dividend and deficit may be easily compassed by a slight extravagance in the mechanical department, which the manager familiar with
all the details of his business will discover or prevent, but which is more than likely to escape the eye of the novice in printing, Again, the most attractive papers, typographically considered, will be found to be those where the managing editor is sufficiently familiar with the routine of the composing room to be able to superintend in person the "make up" of the "forms" and secure the greatest prominence possible for the most taking features of the paper. This bringing out of especial features and making the whole paper show up for all there is in it is one of the most important parts of a journalist's work and that part on which, more perhaps than any other, success depends. It requires both "news sense" and printer's art and should never be left exclusively to the foreman. In small newspaper offices knowledge of printing is still more essential. The editor of a small daily is frequently required, a half hour before press time, to rush to the case and assist his hurried compositors in setting up an important despatch or "local" just in. Many a practical printer is easily and happily making his $2,000 or $3,000 yearly by conducting a small daily or weekly in some shire town, while the highly but not practically educated collegian is burning the candle at both ends in the large cities for half that income. The ever widening West offers an almost unlimited field for the establishment of small papers to grow up with the country, but in most such cases the editor must start as his own foreman, if, indeed, he is not obliged to constitute his entire force, from leader writer to office boy in his own person.
Continued next week.
There has been some very vigorous sub rosa profanity in our classic halls lately when a number of our hardest students, who have been calling themselves Juniors and Seniors, find that they are classed as sub-freshmen.
We do not claim to know where the fault lies, but this institution is certainly afflicted with an insufferable amount of red tape in this particular. Students who entered as Freshmen with diplomas from high schools, which filled every particular for admission to this class, have lately found by accident that they are marked in arrears in some study which was a part of the high school curriculum. If the high school does not fill the requirement for admission to the Freshman class, it should not be on the list in the catalogue; and if it does, the graduate who enters the University should be credited with everything in its course. His diploma is prima facia evidence that he has passed in those studies.
Quid Est?
Why require a member of the present Sophomore or Junior class to hunt up some high school principal who may have been dead five years, in order to get a sworn statement that the aforesaid student passed in physical geography when he was barefooted and wore knee-pants? The next move will be to make it one condition of graduation from this institution that the candidate should present his pedigree back to the time of William the Conquer, duly attested by the Secretary of State and the minister of the country from which his ancestors came.
Chemistry has come and gone: botany came in last week in blushing confusion. Soon the verdant Freshy will be seen scouring the fields and meadows for the "flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la." Tra la la la all -a excuse me, I so sometimes get feverish and excited when I think of flowers. They speak such a various language. Wonder if they built a tower of Babel too, and got confused. Bet they did and bet that accounts for their numerous dialect. But as I was going to say when I interrupted myself, the little plants have begun to shoot and hence the curious student will soon begin to examine pistils, commune with nature and revolver in his mind. He may be seen some balmy spring day, sauntering up towards Cameron's bluff, on the lookout for dog-teeth violets. Of course he knows nothing of the nature or extent of these bulbiferous specimens of plant life; if he did, he would not be humming "white wings" over so confidently to himself; he would be think himself of a more appropriate gurgle. Anybody but a Freshman knows that the bulb to this flower existeth from one feet to two feet below the crust of the earth; that the necessary requisites for its upheaval are a long bladed butcher knife and a large determination. Well, Freshy reaches the bluff and soon his eye falls upon the delicate tints of the beautiful flower. I don't mean that his eye really fell upon the flower, but he sees it, he looks upon it; he then stoops to conquer. If his vocabulary isn't exhausted in fifteen minutes, he may live to the completion of his design.
Dog-teeth violets, though, are nothing to false indigo. False indigo has a root as long as some people's tongues. Yes it's longer in fact than some people's tongues, methinks it's hard, knotty substance, reaches the dark cavernous regions of Pluto's realm and saps its existence from the Lethe; of course I couldn't prove this, because I never explored those regions, but that's my opinion. Some people, however, think the termination of the false indigo's stem is like the north pole—though no one ever saw it, yet there is an open see around it. See? I don't believe this last theory, though. But avaunt! false indigo, I'll none of thee.
The time will come when it will even be necessary to beard the lion in his den—that is, of course, the dandelion. It all depends on how you go at it. If you have the spirit of Daniel about you, there's no need of trouble. If you haven't got that spirit, you must get it; it's indispensable. That flower's a compositae; it carries more pistils than some people do money. It's got a briandle complection that turns off white in its old age. So much for the dandelion. But then there's the dear little pale faced anemone. Who can look upon it, without seeing it? I vainly protest no one can. The Greeks called it the wind flower. The Greeks thought they were smart. May be they were; but they hadn't any business to call this meek little blossom a wind flower.
There are also the violets. I don't mean dog-teeth violves, but just the regular violves. Some people call
'em Johny jump ups. I don't know who they're named after. They grow along in the valleys where the "moon-light sleeps upon the bank." They like moonlight. So do I for that matter. So do lots of other people I know. Moonlight's very suggestive. It has such a mellow, benign influence on one—or two. Perhaps one of the best known of flowers is the ragweed—food for the gods. I think the gods must have been hard up. I think they must have had a civil war amongst themselves and been reduced to the very verge of famine. At least this ragweed has the appearance of a verge. So much for flowers.
U. N. O.
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K. C. Times:—The Hutchinson Republican, with Will T. Little editor, and M. H. Curtis manager, is the latest arrival in the journalistic field.
Can it be that this is our W. T. who is seeking fame in journalism? We had expected to see his name among the legal lights of western Kansas.
LATER.
Yes, true it is. We have before us Vol 1, No. 2, of the Hutchinson Republican, a neat seven column octavo. It takes but one glance down the editorial columns to assure us that they are the product of the same fertile brain which used to coin many bright and interesting items for the Review and Courier.
Will Little although not a graduate of K. S. U. is well known by all students of two and three years ago as an able and energetic young man and just such a man as will soon make the Republican one of the best papers in central Kansas.
As we might well expect, Will still remembers the rhymes of by gone times and knows just where to credit them, as the following item appearing under his heading of "Kansas Folks" demonstrates.
"A UNIVERSITY BOY."
'An article in last Sunday's Capital—Commonwealth is devoted to the poems of Eugene Field, in the Chicago News. One of them quoted is to the refrain 'God bless you.' 'Gene Field is a jewel, but for once he has arrived on the ground too late. Several years ago, Will Carruth, a student at the University of Kansas, now German professor there, wrote a pleasant little poem, very similar in thought to Mr. Field's, and, to our mind, superior, as a poem.
We quote a couple of verses :
We quote a couple of verses:
When you've struggled hard and long,
And the battle has gone wrong.
And a world of cares oppress you,
Like cool waterats from a spring.
Like the balm the south winds bring,
Are the simple words, 'God bless you.'
Be his faith in James or Paul,
One God, many, or none at all,
Whose kind lips the words address you.
Nothing matters; when it needs,
Doubts, philosophies and creeds
Are forgotten in 'God bless you.'
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The last legislature created a chair of anatomy, phgsiology and taxidermy at the Kansas State University, and the regents have chosen Prof. L. L. Dyche to fill it. The big buffalo in Snow Hall that always tries to break out of the museum when the grass begins to grow on the campus was stuffed by Prof. Dyche.-Alex. Butte.
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