THE UNIVERSITY TIMES
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T. HUNT, JUS. D. BOWENSTOCK, JR.
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EDGAR MARTINDALE, Editor in Chief.
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Tella Chapman, SUNTON Smith,
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
IBTA THEA PI. Meets on fourth floor of the Opera House block.
PHI KAPA PSI. Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
PHI GAMMA DELFA traternity. Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI ELDRIDGE THEA. Meets on second floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA NI. Meets on the fourth floor east of the Opera House block.
SIGMA NI. Meets in the Eldridge House block third floor.
BIP BETAHP Meets every Saturday afternoon at homes of members.
KAPA GAMMA Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPA ALPHA THEA Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members
BASE BALL Association, Manager, Prof. A. W. Wilcox, Captain of the Nine, Charles Vorhis.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB. Meets in Snow Hall.
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB. Meets in room No. 30, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNIS Association, President, F. E. Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
SCIENCE CLUB. Every other Friday at 8 p.m. POLITICAL SCIENCE Club. Every other week at Rp. m.
OROPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY. Every other week at 8 p.m.
ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY. Every other week at 8 p.m.
Owing to outside pressure and the lack of time, Mr. L. A. Stebbins has resigned the position as Editor-in-Chief of the TIMES. Mr. Edgar Martindale has been assigned the position and assumes Editorial charge with this issue. The new Editor has no promises to make, except that it shall be his earnest endeavor to make the TIMES in the future, as it has been in the past, the true exponent of the University spirit, and to give it a standing worthy of the leading educational institution of the great State of Kansas. There will be no change in the policy of the TIMES, but it shall continue as heretofore, the representative paper of the students of the University.
SOME COLLEGE QUESTIONS SETTLED WITHIN THE LAST TWENTY YEARS.
As the following editorial from the Chicago Advance, upon the above subject, exactly coincides with our views we take the liberty of publishing it.
"No question is settled till it is settled right. No score of years has been more replete in the debate of college questions than the last score. From these discussions are emerging certain positions or principles which we may be assured are settled for the right.
It has become evident that the intellectual value of a college education is intellectual discipline. The student of the period marked by the election of President Eliot, the retirement of President Woolsey and the election of President Porter, readily recalls that not a few paragraphs in inaugural addresses, review and newspaper articles treated of the relative worth of knowledge and of discipline in college study. At that time the assumption was—though with how much or how little of truth we cannot say—that Harvard represented the side of knowledge—Yale the side of intellectual discipline. The years have made clear that what a man learns in college is as zero, but that the training which a man receives is as infinity. It is hardly exaggeration to say that the president of most colleges would not pass their own examinations for entrance into their Freshman classes; but it would be exagregation and falsehood indeed to say that they were not so well educated as the coming Freshman. We now recognize the mind as an instrument to be fitted for use and not a depot to be crammed with
intellectual provision. The doctrine of materialism in metaphysics is marked by the decline in the belief in mere learning as the chief element in education. The more thoroughly we conceive of the mind as a spiritual entity and as a rational force the more important becomes its training and discipline.
With this elevation of intellectual discipline has occurred a change in opinion as to the value of the different college studies. The elective system is the outgrowth rather of the sense of the differing disciplinary values of college studies than of the desire to gain a knowledge of a certain sort. The discipline of the mathematics is quite distinct from the discipline of the classics. The elective system has thus become a permanent method in the curriculum. The specific form which it may ultimately be made to assume is not plum; election of groups of certain studies may come to be preferred to the election of individual subjects; but the general system has become permanent. And for its promised permanence every friend of the old education as well as of the new should feel gratitude. The advanced age of men entering college and their advanced attainments, in comparison with the age and attainments of those entering college a hundred years ago, make the elective system a necessity for the highest and finest culture. Indeed, the relative age and attainments have now become so great that it is probable the most fundamental change in the system of college education will be the permission to make the last year of the college course the same as the first year of the course of the professional school.
In this period the Seminary method has been adopted by many of the best colleges. This method is well defined and defended in the recent admirable book of Professor Foster of Oberlin. The Seminary is a place, says Professor Foster, "where the beginner may acquire methods and where the advanced student may do work which shall contribute to the sum of human knowledge." First employed by Von Ranke for training professional historians, it has come to be regarded as the best means for the study of history by scholars of the simplest as well as of the most advanced attainments. Originally limited to the historical sciences, and perhaps the more readily applied to them, it is now recognized as of fitting application to the study of every department of human knowledge. It is the laboratory method; it makes the student his own experimenter, guide teacher, under proper supervision. It expels the parrot element. It arouses enthusiasm. It promotes originality of thought. It has—this Seminary method—been one of the chief means contributing to the pre-eminence of the German University. In this country it has been employed much at Johns Hopkins and at Harvard; but it is with each passing year securing for itself a permanent place in other colleges and universities.
The proper and eminent distinction between the college and the University has also become permanent. This distinction is not so much that the one is an institution which gives instruction and examinations in certain subjects leading to the degree of A. B., and that the other gives instruction and examinations in certain studies leading to several degrees, such as M. D., or LL. D. But the proper and eminent distinction is that the college aims at the training of the mind of the student; the University aims at the cultivation of knowledge: the college is primarily concerned with the man; the University with science. Certain colleges which a few years ago seemed ambitious of becoming universities have more recently become content with the doing of college work. It is a wise limitation. Harvard is doing both college and university work, and with great success. But Johns Hopkus University is the only institution which deserves with any considerable degree of eminence the name of university. It is devoting itself rather to the enlargement and the improvement of the field of knowledge than to the culture of the mind.
Within these two decades the great streams of benevolence have begun to flow toward the treasuries of the colleges. When in 1847 Abbott Lawrence gave to Harvard University $80,000 to
found the scientific school bearing his name, it was said to be the largest sum ever given by one man in one sum during his life time to an institution of learning. $50,000! How small seems the sum in view of the magnificent foundations of George Peabody, of Matthew Vassart, of Henry F. Durant and of Senator Stanford, who while yet living gave half millions and millions to endow colleges. How small also, seems the sum in view of the scores upon scores of millions which have been bequeathed to colleges since 1847. The truth is, benevolence to the colleges has become popular with all men. It is a course worthy of popularity. No one can invest either one dollar or a million dollars with a hope more secure that it will do good and not harm so long as time shall last. In the middle ages the church became exceedingly and indeed excessively rich through the death-bed gifts of its members. In modern benevolence the college has supplanted the church. Regret at the supplanting need not be great; for the Christian college—and more colleges deserve and desire the epithet—is as essential to the church as the public school is to a Republican government."
THAT PICTURE AND THIS.
In a paper read before the National Educational Association at its last meeting, Prof. Jones, of the University of California, showed the financial resources of that institution. In the first place there is a State endowment amounting to somesomething over $800,000, then National endowments reachng nearly an equal sum, then private benefactions aggregating over a million dollars, in addition to the buildings and real property of the University amounting to about a million dollars in value, the whole aggregating nearly four millions. Of this, a sum approximating two million dollars is interest bearing, bringing in a fixed amount each year. In addition to this income, the Legislature two years ago passed a law which gives to the University the proceeds of an annual tax of one cent upon each one hundred dollars of value of the taxable property of the State, from which source alone it received this year $82,000, making its total revenue for the year over two hundred thousand dollars.
Laying down this leaflet and turning to the records here at home, we find the aggregate average income of the University of Kansas, for the last two years, from all sources, including the Legislative appropriation, to be somewhat less than $70,000 per annum. And yet when the friends of this institution go before the Legislature and ask for money, there is always some one to stand up and say to them, "Why don't you make a University like that of Michigan or California then we could give you money!"
A VIEW.
It is said that Benjamin Harrison never burns any midnight oil or studies after sunset, and to that fact he attributes his present good health and strong physique Moral—If you wish to be President, don't study at night.
How refreshing, and what joyful tidings will be this bit of news to the unoffending and docile Prep. For lo, these many years, from the time he wore his first boots until he paid his five dollars contingent fee at the State University, he has been taught quite a different story. Many a time his mamma has told him that he would be President some day, and he rather thinks he will, himself.
But many times, in spite of all encouragement, in spite of all his innate talent, and unquenchable longing for fame, there has crept into his young and hopeful mind, a doubt. For in all the little books that he has read, those who have become great, have always gone hungry for many weeks; they generally wear patched pants, and in fact their habiliments were almost always very sacred, ie hol(e)v. They always had a widowed mother and countless brothers and sisters to support, and their first book—which was generally second or third hand—was always bought at the expense of many month's labor. And then when they got that book, how they utterly and remorselessly annihilated it, binding, fly-leaves, and all.
The first thing to do, was to go out in the woods and get a pine knot—for great men and pine knots always grow up in the same neighborhood. Then, when everybody was asleep, they would sneak up in the garret, fire up this old pine knot—which did *knot* make a very good light, to be sure—and lay down on that old book and eat at it, until the old Shanghai roosters would begin to crow for morning. By that time the old pine knots would be about flickered out, and the future President would begin to think it was about bed time, so he would betake himself over in the corner to an old straw tick, and sleep for about half an hour as ordinary people do, then it would be time to get up and work all day for his brothers and sisters. The next night would be the same, and so *ad infinitum*.
This is the story we read in the good little books about the good little boys who didn't die, but became Presidents or Senators, or great orators. Is it any wonder that the doile Prep. sometimes doubted whether he would ever be President or not?
But times change. One by one the old myths and miracles are disappearing. And now with the beginning of the second century of our National existence. Young America finds that even the good little books are not always right. That it is not necessary in order to become President, to go hungry and wear patched or transparent trousers; to stay up every night studying second-hand books and work all day for the support of a large family, that the ratio of sleep one takes is not always inversely in the proportion of greatness. No, youthful Preps., it is not necessary to be troubled with insomnia, in order to be President.
The election of Harrison, if it has no obt merit, will have dispelled some of
The election of Harrison, if it has no other merit, will have dispelled some of the proud illusions of youth
VIEWER
THE GYMNASIUM.
Every student of the University should consider it his duty to encourage the move toward procuring a gymnasium. Some try to discourage the move by citing to the past, as if to point out a failure of a few who were unable to meet a need of many. You ask why we need a gymnasium? I shall answer you with a few questions: Why do nine-tenths of the students pelt like lizards if they climb Mt. Oread in less than fifteen minutes? Why are there from five to twenty recitations missed every week, on account of sickness? Why are you so ungainly? Why are your arms so flimsy and your muscles so placid? Why is your breast sunken and your shoulders stooped? Does one, or even two trips to the University during one day afford sufficient exercise to the student that lives at the foot of Mt. Oread?
It is true that continued gymnastic exercises would, to a great extent, remove the above difficulties. The cost of starting a gymnasium that will accommodate all who desire to go into it, will not be more than one-fourth as much as has already been pictured to us. Several of faculty have been consulted concerning this move and very heartily approve of it. Let us who are neutral show their approval by co-operating with those who are trying to fill a great vacancy in this institution. STUDENT.
THE TIMES is issued this week on Wednesday morning instead of on Friday as usual, so that the students who spend Thanksgiving at home may be furnished with the report of the K. S. U. happenings ere they take their departure and also be supplied with reading matter on their journey.
THE TIMES Co. does not send a paper outside the city of Lawrence.—Courier. Notwithstanding the above fact, our challenge to make affidavit to our circulation either in or out of Lawrence remains unaccepted.
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Soaps for every one, Recamier, Swinton's Pear's Lubin' s. Bazia's Colgate's Graboor's and others at Raymond & Dick's.
Go to Abe Levy's for your winter underwear.
Hard and soft coal, best quality. delivered in good order.
C. L. EDWARDS
The Mikado.
The "Mikado" has been played over and over again, but one who has seen it presented several times has never seen it performed better, and better appreciated than it was last Friday evening. The opening scene with about half of the company on the stage, attired in gay Japanese costume, was one long to be remembered. Mr.W.E.Higgins as Mikado might have been envious if the Mikado himself had been present. Too much cannot be said in praise of the way in which the parts of Ko-Ko by A.L.Baker, Pish.Tush by F.K.Dorance, Pooh.Bah by John Walker, Nankipoo by Fred Bowersock, Nee Ban by Abe Levy, and Katisha by Miss Lena Kenyon were rendered. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the whole play was the "Three Little Maids," Misses Anna Kenyon, Cora Kimball and Ia Williams, and especially this is true in regard to the admirable manner in which Miss Ia Williams rendered the part of Yum-Yum. Miss Williams gave the "Fan Song" in a rich, clear voice that was beyond all criticism, and the encore she received was deserved. We predict for the "Mikado" next Monday evening, fully as large a patronage as was given last Friday eucening.
Junior Laws Organize.
This select and sedate body of men met last Friday and perfected a permanent organization to be known as the class of '90. The following officers were elected President—A. L. Wilmoth. Vice-President—T. Flunnell. Secretary and Treasurer—Swartzell. Class Poet—J. E. Renminger. Historian—Caughey. Elaborate Constitution and By Laws were adopted.
Unity Club.
Dancing at K' of P. Hall,
Unity Club meets Friday night, as usual, in the basement of the Unitarian church. The literary part of the evening will be taken up by Mr. C. M. Enns, who will give a talk on "A Russian School-boy's Literature." That this lecture will be very interesting there is little doubt, as the subject is one of which we know very little, and Mr. Ennis is a pleasing talker and thoroughly posted, having been one of the school boys himself. Games and other amusements will occupy the Social Hour. Lecture begins at 8 o'clock. Everybody cordially invited.
Prof. Ryan's Academy of Dancing open for ladies and gentlemen every Monday and Friday evenings. Ladies private class every Monday afternoon Ladies and children's class every Saturday afternoon. Mr. Ryan teaches all the most fashionable dances, making a specialty of the Waltz and Reverse. Pupils can enter at any time, their term commencing with the first lesson. Classes are always open for beginners. References required. For further information concerning tuition, etc., address
J. RYAN, Lawrence House
J. RYAN, Lawrence House,
or call at K. of P. Hall.
Secure your seats early, as everyone is going to hear the ever beautiful and popular opera, "Mikado" Monday evening Dec. 3rd. Patronize home artists in a good cause.
Oxford hash is the only cigarette to tobacco cigarettes smokers should use when they make their own cigarettes. Smith keeps it.
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Tickets for sale by members of the Co. and Guild. Admission 35 and 50 cents.
Now is the time to buy your winter Cap. Bromelsick has the largest line in the city.
All the students who remain in lawrence for the holidays can afford to treat themselves to a good Thanksgiving dinner. The Delmonico will have a special menu that cannot be equaled by any restaurant in the west.
Baths every day in the week and Sunday too, at Andy Reed's.
I am too crowded to write any advertisements but I will say to the public that the Delmonico is the most finely equipped restaurant in the city, and that everything which the market affords can be found on our tables.
Very respectfully. I. B. McCormick.