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1. M. C. A. Practical Talk.
The "Practical Talk" at the Y. M. C. A. rooms last evening was given by Prof. J. H. Canfield and was listened to by a goodly number. The professor spoke of the difficulties which are encountered in the physical, intellectual and moral life and how the mastery gives strength and courage to the victor. In every generation he said there were croakers, who greatly magnify existing evils and view with apprehension the future. They are not moved by that spirit of discontent which urges a man to better his own condition, but they see only failure in every under taking. Notwithstanding the dismal prophecies of this class the world moves forward and there is progress and development on every hand. In the material world what comforts we now enjoy that were unknown to our fathers. In our commercial relations what confidence we place in the honesty and integrity of business men? In education have we not advanced to a stage never dreamed of a few years ago. And yet that there is evil can not be denied. Yet will do no good to speculate on the cause of its being here or be forever croaking and complaining because it is here. The boy will not remove the weeds from the garden by sitting on the fence and wondering why they grew there. But he must grasp them and pull. We must control the evils that exist and make them a power for the good. We find true delight in the search for truth. We see before us a certain elevation that we desire to reach. When once there we are stronger and butter prepared to go still higher. If there was no ignorance, the pleasure that we find in learning would cease to exist and inactivity would follow. The man who inherits the appetite for strong drink, but who by a powerful mastering over his own feelings resists the temptation, has acquired new strength and courage. Not that it is a good thing for these evils to exist, but since they are here, we should boldly and bravely strive to overcome them.
Political Science Club
Notwithstanding numerous attractions elsewhere Friday evening, a fair audience was in attendance at the P. S. C. The programme was interesting through out.
The state legislature was well reported by Miss Nettie Goodell.
F. E. Reed ably discussed the late doings of the U. S. Senate.
The work of the U. S. House was reviewed by W. T. Caywood. His report showed that all U. S. land reservations which are to be opened to future settlement, can be taken up under the Homestead act only.
The report on Finance and Industry was ably rendered by Miss Anna McKinnon.
Pursuant to the late howl about misrepresentation in Congress, that question was discussed by J. A. Mushrush. He holds that the people are not practically misrepresented in congress. The howl was started by a crank and merits little or no attention.
The greater half of the Continent, Canada, was reported on by E. Squires. This paper showed how very vague our general ideas are of the extent and resources of that country
The program closed with the report on Studies in Factory Life, by Miss Reasoner. This paper showed how erroneous is the opinion, that our citizens are being crowded out of the factories by foreigners. A very large percent of Americans who quit positions in factories do so only to accept easier and more lucrative employment.
Our Library.
There has been complaint for a long time, because the majority of the students are not allowed inside the library room. It seems as though there could be no possible reason for this. The library is furnished by the State for the use of the faculty and all the students, and it would not be at all strange if this state of things was known, to hear that
we received no addition by the State. As it is now, only 20 to 30 of the upper classmen are permitted to enter where the books are kept, and even these must put a ticket in the rack each and every time they wish to enter. We have a library of 8,000 volumes and only thirty of the student body can get the full benefit of it.
It may be urged that if others are admitted, they will take down books, fail to replace them thus causing the greatest confusion. But we have a librarian and an assistant librarian whose duty it is to take care of the library, and if they cannot can do it, then get more assistants
It is probable that no one of those not admitted would violate the rule of the library to such an extent as is now done by one who enters the library. This one takes a book from the library to another room and keeps it from the other members of the class because he wants it himself in an hour or two.
Now we do not want the library open to every one, but it seems that any one classed Freshman or higher should be given library privileges. We ask that this matter be considered.
Law Department.
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87. Sam Bishop gave thirty-one Democratic speeches in Kansas, Harrison's majority is simply immense.—Cornellian.
Prof. Gleed has made arrangements to hear the Senior class in Real Property in the afternoon instead of in the morning as has been the practice with former classes.
Should Oklahoma be opened for settlement this spring it is rumored that about one-half of the present Senior class will hang out their shingles in that promised land.
The law room was crowded last Friday night to hear the evidence in the celebrated libel suit of Finfrock vs. Herdman. The readers of the Times are familiar with the facts in the case, as the article referred to was printed in these columns. Mr. Finfrock proved that he had been greatly damaged by the publication of the article in question. His brother who was paying the expenses of his law course, threw him overboard, his landlord had ordered him to vacate his r room at the end of the month, and his best girl had notified him that in his case the marriage relation needed consummation instead of reformation. The plaintiff rested here, and the defense introduced a number of the members of Mr. Finfrock's boarding club to prove the truth of the charges in the TIMES. They testified that Mr. Finfrock had very peculiar notions of the subject of marriage, that he was continually talking the subject to anyone that would listen to him, and that he had frequently announced his intention of giving up his law studies and beginning a series of lectures on the subject "To Marry or not to Marry." This the plaintiff tried to rebut but failed to satisfy the jurv, who found for the defendent.
Mr. Merrifield was put on the stand to prove the circulation of the Times. This testimony so overcame the editor in chief of the Courier, that he was carried out of the room in a dead faint. Aid was promptly summoned and the stricken man was removed to his home, where at last accounts he was in a very precarious condition. His friends say that he has had some unfortunate dealings lately in oratorial stock, which seems to have unsettled his mind but that the indications all point to a speedy recovery.
Excxange Clippings.
Twenty-four women graduated as lawvers in Michigan University during the last year.
Gen. Jacob D. Cox has resigned the chancellorship of the University of Cincinnati.
"E pluribus unum"—my last flunk.—Yale Record
A University Annual.
Vassar has abolished her preparatory department.
Bargains in shoes at Black's.
Palladium.
It is to be hoped that an Annual will be issued this year, as it has been five since the last one, the Cicala, made its appearance. An attempt made last year, for the first time since '84, failed on account of factional disagreement, much to the disappointment of a large number of students. The Annual is a history of the college year, noting its changes and peculiarities. Not only would it be a pleasant thing to refer to in after years, but by reason of the attention it would attract over the state, would be a direct benefit to the University. It may be said against the scheme that that "Cicala" did not pay for itself. But it did not for the simple reason that it was not well managed. In the first place the finest of paper was used, when a cheaper grade would have served the purpose; then the volume itself was too large, there was no call for an Annual of 130 pages; then, too 1000 copies were printed when one-half that number would have suffaced. These mistakes were, financially, very serious ones, and we must be careful to avoid them. Another important thing is to be considered. As Annuals had been issued for several years previous, it was necessary for the "Cicala" to secure new woodcuts at a great expense. Now most of these cuts could be used again, for an entirely new lot of students now attend the University, and to them the old cuts would be quite as interesting as new ones.
With no financial obstacles in the way
there is no reason why we should not
have an Annual, and a good one too; one
of which we may all feei proud.
Last Saturday night at the court house
the following was the program:
Declamation... R. Blackman.
Reading... F. E. McCoughn.
Oration... S. B. Hamilton
Declamation... G. A. Harvey
Essay... E. C. Finney
Extemporaneous... Peringer
Parliamentary drill... C. M. Sherer
Debate, Resolved, that foreign immigration to the United States should be restricted to persons holding certificates from the nearest United States consul vouching for the good moral character of immigrants.
After the debate the following officers
were elected:
President, H. C. Riggs
Vice President, F. A. O'Leary
Secretary, E. S. Dolby.
Treasurer, D. R. Krehbiel.
Critic, G. A. Harvey
Sergeant, C. M. Sherer
Ex. Com. H. C. Rigga
G. W. Austin,
J. S. Workmar
Athenaeum.
Athenaeum met last Friday night as usual. Though the number of active members present was small, they were the old stand-bys, and everyone was in earnest. Especially could this be said of the better half. Truly the lady members of Athenaeum are its pride and its support.
One of the special features of the evening was an original poem, both in composition and delivery, by W. A. White.
grand for to light.
Reading . . . . . . . . . H. White
Declamation . . . . . J. M. Shellabarger
Essay . . . . . . D. H. Spencer
Oration . . . E. W. Palmer
Reading . . Miss Corbine
Oration . . Frank Lutz
Essay . . Miss Howard
The society decided to give one half hour of its time to the College Song Association for singing college songs. Every other Friday then the literary program will not begin till 8:30. Members and visitors are expected to be present at eight as usual. Below is the pro-
Debate—Resolved. That imprisonment should be reformatory rather than primitive.
Aff—H. B Hall, M. McKinnon.
Neg. E. M. Mumford, J. E. Rennyer.
The following letter received by one of our professors and read before the Science Club will doubtless be of interest to many of our readers :
The finest line of sheet music, mandolins and guitars in the city can be seen at Fluke & Son's.
JOINS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Baltimore. Md.
Will you please carry my greetings to the Science Club at their second annual meeting. I trust and believe that its success and usefulness will steadily increase from year to year. John Hopkins University has a similar society called the Scientific Association, which includes all lines of experimental science. The members of this association are the University professors and instructors and the graduate students. Strangely enough only the University officials and those graduate students who are fellows can vote in this association. The other graduate students cannot vote. The students and public are admitted, the meetings are held at 4 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month, and are very largely attended. Besides these there are separate societies for each branch of science, which meet generally on the first Wednesday of each month. The meetings are held on Wednesday because there is no required laboratory work that afternoon. From ten to fifty members attend each meeting.
The students of the University are or two classes. About one-half are undergraduates, mostly boys, who must study three subjects in one of eight groups of collegiate studies; whose absence from lecture and laboratory is recorded and must be accounted for; who have frequent quizzes and rigid examinations, and who altogether are held under very strict discipline. The punishment for neglect of duty is suspension from the class or the University, or a bad record and no promotion. To the undergraduates a large number of competitive scholarships are open. These are given to the student standing highest in each group of studies. This causes the greatest development of the high pressure system of coaching and cramming, whose evil effects seem to me to be offset only partially by the most excellent laboratory work to which the undergraduate must give four afternoons per week, and to which most students give five hours daily. The instruction to these students is all given in fifty minute lectures which completely exhaust the knowledge of the subject under discussion and present the very latest discoveries. Instead of being like students text books, the lectures are like specialists' treatises. The advanced men attend with the beginners, broad-shouldered, bearded men sitting side by side with rosy-cheeked, smooth-faced boys, and on the next seat very likely a professor in some other department, revising to date his knowledge in this one. The advanced men often attend the same course for three consecutive years, and they tell me they hear new matter each time, and are greatly benefited by the repetition of the old. Think how much cramming is liable to be done to obtain scholarships worth $200, and untold honor! I think the best students get the scholarships, but they do so at an enormous expenditure of memory which seems to me useless for permanent knowledge. They call it "training" for the examination—just as we a prize 'gighter trains for his contest.
In sharp contrast to the rigid work of the undergraduates is the abundant freedom of the other half of the students. These men are called graduate students and are of two classes, 1st, Gradutes of John Hopkins, 2nd, Gradutes of other institution. The graduate students do what is ordinarily called post-graduate work. They verify former experiments and attempt some original research. They can use any of the libraries and any of the apparatus, can attend what lectures they please and when they please, and have no examinations whatever. The professors personally supervise their work and lecture to all who choose to attend, on some special subject about once a week. Once a week the graduates meet with the professors in a "Seminary" and give each other the result of their researches. Once a week also they meet to read and report on journals and new publications. A reading knowledge of German and French is absolutely necessary to a graduate student. These men have the true student
spirit, and are a very sociable set of young men. To these are open the Fellowships worth $500.00 per year and full of honor. The professor nominates without examination the one that he considers the most promising man in his branch. These fellows give tone to the whole university life and are very helpful to the others and especially to the new men.
All the graduates I know attend undergraduate lectures. Some do nothing more, finding that their work in other institutions, especially in the smaller classical colleges, needs entire revision. Most of these men are candidates for the degree of Ph. D. some time in the future.
As soon as the professor in charge of each one thinks he can do good enough work, he spends a year writing a thesis, and takes a final written examination on certain special subjects
The plan of rigid discipline for under graduate students, and great freedom for the graduates is, I believe, the German method, and it seems to give good result here.
The students have their trials here in elsewhere. Several ladies' societies and the newspapers make war, on the vivisectionists. President Gilman objects to either graduates or under graduates, act as "saps" for Booth and Barrett, when the historical men thought their knowledge of Roman and Greek customs grea qualifications for the place
I do not think the lectures to the undergraduate students should be so special. A boy is a specialist here from the start. A collegiate student needs a broad knowledge, yet an accurate knowledge in the general principles of each branch of the world's great knowledge. So many of the men who come here intend to be specialists that the bent is toward special training rather than that general culture.
The quizzes and examinations are excellent in results, but the competitive examination for scholarship (open only to Johns Hopkins' undergraduates and graduates) are baneful, giving a constant strain to all the work, for nearly all the graduate men take the undergraduate examinations as reviews, and they are marked on the same standard. When the students wish the instructor to be a good trainer for examinations something is wrong. I hope Kansas University will never have competitive scholarship. Better give the money to establish tuition or laboratory fees, or better still to found new professorships.
Yours sincerely,
DICE MC LAREN.
Blind Boone Concert Company.
This musical prodigy who appeared last Saturday evening at the opera house, is a truly wonderful boy. His performances on the piano are simply grand; the most commonplace music to the rarest gems from the most popular authors, Boone executes with admirable skill, manifesting a natural ability fully equal if not superior to that of Blind Tom. Under his magic touch the piano seems to re-echo the very perfection of musical harmony which fills the boy's soul. While playing Boone is perfectly happy, and to receive applause from his hearers seems to elate and urge him to greater efforts. The audience which greeted him Saturday evening was highly appreciative, and round after round of thundering applause followed every rendition. If Blind Boone should ever visit Lincoln again the opera house will hardly hold the audience that will gather to hear him.—Lincoln State Democrat.
At the Baptist church Friday evening. March 1. Reserved seats 35 cents. Benefit Y. M. C. A.
Hon. Geo. R. Wendling will deliver one of his magnificent lectures at the Opera House on March 12. Every K. S U. student ought to hear him as he is second to none on the American platform. Remember the date.
Do your shaying at Andy Reed's and get a chance on the silver headed cane and gold watch.
Fluke & Son sell everything in their line cheaper than any one else in the city.
Bromelsick's for bargains.
The Cheapeest Shoe and Neatest Fit at BLACK'S