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LAWRENCE, KANSAS. FEBRUARY 10, 1879.
ORUR ORWN.
—C. F. Shipman is in Chase County.
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—Robert Morrow, jr., has gone to Leadville, Col.
Frank Brewer is in the lumber business at Burlington.
—Charlie Smith is looking up a location in Western Kansas.
-Miss Gertie Bullene is in Washington, visiting the family of Hon. D. C. Haskell.
—Miss Mamie Grew visited her many friends in Lawrence recently.
—Miss Lizzie A. Stanley, Normal '77, has resumed her studies at the University.
—Prof. Canfield, we are sorry to state, is confined to his house by rheumatism.
Miss Minnie Cain intends visiting her friends during the University commencement.
—W. C. McCann has quit school. He intends to leave soon for Buffalo, Kans.
C. S. Gleed is the Topeka correspondent of the Chicago Tribune.
—John M. Walker intends going to Kansas City soon to be engaged upon the plans for the new Union Depot at Atchison.
- Geo. M. Huffaker is clerk of the Ways and Means Committee of the Kansas House of Representatives. "Huffy" is a genial fellow, and will make many friends.
-L. L. Davis, '81, has gone to Lincoln, Nebraska. The Oread Society loses one of its best members, and the University one of its hard-working students.
John Seaton has returned to his home in Atchison. He "took in" the Senatorial contest in Topeka on the way. We hope to have him with us again.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Why don't our literary societies pay more attention to parliamentary rules?
Hopkins, Wallace and Twitchell were "lookers on in Vienna," during the recent senatorial contest in Topeka.
The Seniors have all been to see Prof. Snow, who holds the book of fate.
Our cramming days are past.
During Prof. Canfield's sickness our friend of the "virgin beard" has presided at the organ.
Harry H. Bullene, as good hearted a boy as ever lived, has left the University, and returned to his home in Kansas City.
Do your duty, study well, shun billiard halls and spirituous liquors, pay for your Courier, and you will be happy.
The "Question and Answer" papers do not seem to thrive well. Perhaps our students are above asking questions, or are too modest. Who knows.
The lectures in chapel lately have had a very good effect upon some of our students, and our only regret is that the lectures were not given before examinations instead of after.
Somehow there is very little confidence placed in "ye local." Whenever he appears, everything is kept out of his reach, and conversation is turned upon subjects with which he is entirely ignorant.
Our friend W. M. Thacher, editor and business manager of that spicy sheet, the Pastime, has assumed charge of the local department of the Journal. His success as editor of the Pastime assures us that he will make the columns of the Journal fairly bristle with news.
A paper called the Orphans Friend, badly printed and badly edited, appeared at the University one day last week. Besides an article on the "University of Kansas," there was absolutely nothing that could possibly interest the average student.
The last lecture in the course, delivered by Hon. N. C. McFarland, was by far the most interesting and best delivered of the lectures this year. Were there more such lectures and lecturers in the University course, they would be better attended.
The war on billiards was short, and ended in a disastrous defeat for "ye ivory puncher." No more is the young man seen "bending over the green tables," squandering his time and money.
The "University poet" has been elected Treasurer of the Oread Literary Society, vice Brigham, resigned. The trouble of his predecessor will, beyond all doubt, make Mr. Simpson very particular in his accounts. He is a good man for the place, and will get all the money he can from impecunious students.
The Zoology class have commenced work in dead earnest, and they will soon be prepared to begin war on the bugs. Soon we will see them net in hand, roaming over the fields far and near, upsetting rocks and haystacks, and all for a collection of bugs.
IN MEMORIAM.
Died, in this city, on June 3rd, 1878, of bilious colic, K. U. C., at the age of four months and one day.
The funeral services were conducted at the University building on Saturday the 8th inst., at 10 A. M., by Adj't Gen. Peter S. Noble. After a dirge by the Cadet Band, the body, which had grown rank from long exposure, was laid in its last resting place.
"Lift her up tenderly,
Handle with care.
Fashioned so slenderly,
Young and so fair."
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OUR SOCIAL STRUCTURE.
The organization of our social and political life, as it now stands, is a structure of the most heterogeneous composition. Elements the most varied, materials apparently the most discordant, enter into it. And yet from these most opposite extremes is produced a mean of wonderful character and harmony, with a stability difficult to be shaken, with an influence which is felt in every household.
Man is eminently fitted and adapted for association with his fellow man; he is endowed with those faculties which find exercise only in society; seclusion is inimical to him. A noble life is one not entirely spent in the interest of individual tastes and wishes, but in having a liberal and effective desire for the welfare of humanity. Under the genial influence of kindred spirits the soul of man expands with a fruitage unknown to the recluse or hermit. Mankind is bound together by subtile bonds and chains, whose influences are continually felt. Everywhere and at all times we feel the ties arising from a community of religion and party, from business and relationships. The motives of innumerable actions may lie in hidden sources, yet we can feel certain, that if we but knew their origin, we would doubtless find them to spring from the source of social life itself.
Our social fabric is wonderfully built; though comparatively new, it has as much, if not more, stability than older institutions; it has much the same characteristics, and it has its leaders; it has had those changes and vicissitudes which have marked the development of society in every country. The foundations of our social system were begun, when the Pilgrim fathers first set foot on the Western continent; in the face of obstacles the most stupendous, its walls were raised; under the influence of Christianity, education and freedom, it obtained those features which are now most prominent in it. Notwithstanding the influx of foreign elements it never lost its American character; these elements were absorbed and transformed, and by the almost magic power of a new life, were made to subserve the purpose of building up a people whose versatile genius and power the world never saw equaled.
Experience has shown that action is necessary to, as it is also the result of, life. Although our social structure has an apparent solidity, it is always changing and varying; for periods it changes slowly but certainly; then come convulsions, which seem to shake its very foundations. We may say it has its periods of health and sickness, as well as of youth and manhood. Upon our early life the world looked with curiosity, and without hope. We ourselves knew our weakness, and yet felt the vigor of new life. In time the world looked with astonishment, while we felt more confident and looked upon success as certain. We now think our experiment proved.
We have thrown open our doors to the world—nay, have even invited all to enter, and multitudes have come. Individuals are here of every race, color, party and sect, yet without serious contention or strife; peace reigns everywhere. Every shade of belief and opinion is tolerated—perhaps with too much freedom; liberty of speech and conscience is granted to all; places of honor are open to the trustworthy—as well as to the unworthy.
But we have passed through ordeals which have put our character to severe tests; we have even courted dangers, believing ourselves capable of averting serious results. And today it is with joy that we review our past history; it is with
exultation that we behold the wonderment of foreign states; it is with pride that we see the wonderful career which lies before us in the future, when as the guiding star of nations we shall lead all to a higher and nobler sphere of action.
C. A. P.
PREPARATION.
Two hostile armies are drawn up, each facing the other in battle array. Hurrying messengers are riding hither and thither, bearing the orders of the commander to the different divisions of his army. In obedience to these orders, a troop marches to an adjacent hill for the purpose of planting a battery. In the rear of the line are massed the veterans of a score of battles, ready to be hurled with resistless power against the enemy. Every soldier is prepared for the pending conflict, and confident of victory. All is animation without confusion. Every corps is in position awaiting the orders of the commander to begin the battle. Impatiently they wait the will of their superiors. They do not remain long inactive. The order for attack is sounded, and victory crowns the efforts of the brave. The army is that of Napoleon, led by its trusted general to almost certain triumph, or that of Meade at Gettysburg, driving back the Confederate army to its southern strongholds.
Turning to the more peaceful pursuits, we also see the necessity of preparation. Imagine a noble ship away out on the dark and heaving bosom of the Atlantic. Indications of an approaching tempest are noticed by her captain. Every preparation is made for the coming storm.
"And there she sits A lonely thing amid the gathering strife. With pinions folded—not for rest—prepared To struggle with the tempest."
By skill and tact she outrides the storm, and arrives in safety at the harbor.
Again, go with me, in imagination, to a machine shop. There may be heard an incessant clang of hammers upon iron. The workmen are making a boiler for an engine. Piece by piece the tenacious metal is riveted in its place; slowly and patiently the toilers progress until the work is completed.
Many illustrations from nature may be brought to bear upon this subject. One or two will suffice. As winter approaches, the foliage of green upon the trees gives place to one of many hues. The petiole of the leaf has accomplished its work. The tree is left bare of foliage. But ere the leaf was severed from its branch, the miniature leaf and flower were formed for the next years growth. Each bud is protected from the cold by a covering of bud scales. Every tiny leaflet, every petal of the future flower is formed, ready to expand and grow under the necessary conditions.
Again, what signifies that mass of timber with which the carpenters are toiling? Nothing to an unpracticed eye. Day after day they work on. Finally the stately edifice, or the beautiful ship answers our interrogation.
What lesson may we learn from these instances of preparation? The lesson is obvious. No young man or woman can wholly succeed in life without thorough preparation. The more thorough this is, the more certain is success. A great man has said that "nothing is sure to happen only the unforeseen," and therefore unexpected. The nation also demands preparation of all her sons and daughters for the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. Never in our country's history
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was there greater need for clear heads and hearts, warm and true to the Commonwealth. Never were honesty and integrity more essential to the complete renovation of every branch of the public service, or more necessary for the preservation of our free institutions from certain dissolution. It therefore behooves every prospective citizen of free America to lay broad and deep the foundation of an upright character. Let the corner stone be common honesty, and the ruling motive the common good. Then will the superstructure be as grand and glorious as it now is corrupt and despicable.
ANGER.
Every passion in the breast of man when allowed to control his action, unrestrained by the conservative power of reason, is attended with the unhappiest consequences, both to himself and the community in which he lives. If this is true of the passions in general, even of those which are comparatively mild in their nature, now emphatically is it the case with anger, which, more than all the others, disdains the control of good sense and a sound understanding.
C. G. U.
Anger is displeasure, or vexation, accompanied by a passionate desire to break out in acts or words of violence against the cause of the displeasure, which must of course be a sentient being capable of feeling the infliction. A proverb found in various languages, even in languages which have had no connection, says it is a "short-lived madness;" because the person is insane for the time being, but soon the madness passes off and the person is sorry for his conduct.
A man in a violent fit of anger looks as if he were insane, because he commits the strangest vagaries, pulling his hair, slamming things around, and acting as if without reason. His mind is beyond the control of reason and judgment; it is like a chariot without a driver, or a ship in a storm without a pilot.
"When head-strong passions get the reins of reason The force of nature, like too strong a gale, For want of ballast oversets the vessel."
He says and does things so unreasonable that they must be the result of temporary derangement. He may be compared to a tornado, a mountain torrent, or a conflagration, to whose fury none can set bounds, and whose disastrous effects are visited even on the innocent. Locke says: "Madmen do not appear to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having joined some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong."
The world, and even the law, in a measure deal with him as if he were a maniac. Opinion is divided as to the justice of this; for some argue that if he is a maniac, he should be "shut up" in the lunatic asylum, instead of being allowed to run at liberty, for a lunatic is liable to injure person and property.
Even the angry man himself admits that he has no control over his reason, deeming it sufficient apology for the most unseemly act or word to say that it was done in a passion.
This, of course, is a good plea, for the law always endeavors to prove it "malice of forethought."
Mortification, humiliation, remorse, and regret, at what has been done under the influence of passion, always follows. Remorse is always felt most, for example :
Abel was slain by his eldest brother, Cain, under the influence of jealousy, because the offering of the latter had been rejected by Jehovah, and that of the former accepted.
During Alexander's stay at Samercand, on his return in a drunken orgy, he killed with his own hand his general and friend, Clitus, who had saved his life at the battle of the Granicus, and now ventured to rebuke him for his overbearing pride and infatuated belief in his divine origin. After killing Clitus, Alexander was seized with such remorse that he went three days without food or drink.
"An angry man," says Publius Syrus, "is again angry with himself when he returns to reason." He may be likened to a scorpion which stings itself as well as others.
It is at variance with the principles of the Gospel. "Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous." The controlling of anger is a part of moral discipline. In a rudimentary state of society, by imposing some restraint on the selfish aggressions of one individual upon an another, it renders the beginning of social co-operation and intercourse possible.
In individuals it leads to crime, as in the above examples; makes enemies and becomes a source of adversity. A man of placid temper is never disturbed by what goes on around him, while a man with a hasty temper is always displeased with himself and everyone else. In families and communities it produces hard feelings and unhappiness. In nations it causes war, with all its attending evils. For example, Francis I. of France, was always involved in war to please his own haughty desire.
The best mode of regulating this passion is by moral and intellectual education with self-restraint.
"No man is free who does not command himself."
"When passion enters at the fore-gate, wisdom goes out at the postern."
E. B.
It is said of Caleb Cushing that he could read sixteen hours a day for a month and never forget an important fact obtained in that time, and this faculty made him the profoundest authority on federal law in the country. His memory and his power of work were the secrets of his success. When he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts he was out of practice. He set to work, however, and in nineteen days had read sixty volumes on different laws—questions of precedent, laws of exchange, etc. About seventeen volumes were devoted to Massachusetts law; twice as many more were made up of reports, and the reading was altogether extremely varied. He was accustomed in Washington to get to work at five o'clock in the evening and labor tremendously through meal hours, and without taking a rest, until eleven o'clock at night. Then he would smoke a cigar, get into bed and read history until he fell asleep. In one winter he finished in this manner thirteen octavo volumes of scientific travel and recent history.
A Professor of Classics and Comparative Philology and Literature is wanted in the University of Australia. Salary, £1,000. Here now is a chance for some one of our enterprising American scholars. Apply to Arthur Blythe, 8 Victoria Chambers, Westminster, London, S.W.-Christian Union.
Princton College flourishes under the presidency of Dr. McCosh. Since he became president she has received gifts to the amount of over $2,000,000, and the number of students has doubled.-Spectator.
A student at Iowa University has recovered $300 from the Democratic judges of election, because of their refusal to let him vote there in October. - Ex.
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COLLEGE RUFFIANISM.
A few weeks ago a disgraceful affair occurred at Trenton. Twenty-four Princeton College students got drunk, insulted women, and conducted themselves in an outrageous manner. It was Saturday night, and under guise of going sleigh-riding these young men went on a spree. The citizens of Trenton had done nothing more than remonstrate on similar occasions before, but this time the students were arrested, locked up, and fined. Such ruffianism is frequently reported in eastern colleges, so that several of them have been rapidly losing their good reputation within the past few years. The idea seems to prevail that debauchery, rowdyism, and even crime are necessary to round out student life, and for this reason, perhaps, almost as many young men are now ruined, morally, intellectually, and physically broken down, at eastern colleges, as are really benefited and prepared for useful and honorable lives.
One reason for this unhappy condition of things is found in the fact that many young men enter college with bad habits already formed, and with the means to gratify them to the fullest extent. The disposition that finds satisfaction in the wanton destruction of property, or in insults to citizens, and general debauchery of manners, grows by what it feeds on, until the result is the total ruin of all that is noble, good and useful in the man. What a depraved idea of student life he must have who will engage in drunken carnivals that rival those held in the lowest dance houses!
The New York Sun comments as follows upon such affairs as occurred at Princeton :
"One reason for this college ruffianism is that the youths are encouraged in it. At every meeting of college alumni silver-haired graduates recount with glee the hazing and window-breaking scrapes of other days, and their speeches are greeted with shouts of approval. The boy, while fitting for college, is warned that he must be prepared to protect himself from the attacks of the terrible sophomore, and he goes to college with the impression that there he may do with impunity what would not be tolerated anywhere else. One would think that the influence of college culture might do something toward repressing these college deviltries. But as it does not, plainly the law will have to be invoked."
Students will have their fun, and it is right so long as it does not degenerate into ruffianism. To be a genuine gentleman is a worthy ambition, and he who completes a college course without having made himself one is, to say the least, unfortunate.
Our own University is largely free from this spirit of rowdyism which has brought several eastern institutions into disrepute, and to keep it so is the desire of every young man who has at heart his own interests or those of the University. The presence of young ladies in the University goes far towards cultivating good manners and a gentlemanly demeanor among young men, and perhaps if this fact had been kept in view by some of the eastern colleges, they would not now be called upon to mourn the loss of good reputation.
OUR MILITARY.
The officers of the University Cadets are, by this time, convinced that making a company what it should be in the line of drill is an arduous task. On that afternoon, a year ago, when the Cadets first marched down Massachusetts Street with their guns, there was an uncertain hesitancy in their step that even then told of hardships and painful vicissitudes yet to come. The company has lived a life of varying fortunes. Their military rigor culminated in the attempted arrest of members for neglecting to obey a special call to drill. After that dramatic military episode there was a decline of the martial spirit, until the late Governor's inauguration, when the gathering of military at Topeka aroused the old flame and led the University company to begin anew the drill practice. The boys are now in a fair way to have a well drilled company, if they persevere. We predict, however, that the constant changes necessary in a University company, because of the final departure of students, will prevent a permanent and well-drilled organization. But it may do each student who attends the University some good by giving him an idea of soldierly bearing and duties, so that in what Artemas Ward calls the "next war" the country may receive valuable service from ex-students of the Kansas State University.
There is another good reason for keeping up a University company, and this reason we give exclusively for young men, trusting that if any young lady has read this article thus far, she will read it no farther. The woman admires the soldier, that is, if the soldier is clean, good-looking, and in a new uniform. The fairest heart-citadel, however strongly fortified, can be stormed and taken. And this can be done by a young volunteer better than by an old veteran, for it is not necessary to tell
" Of moving accidents, by flood or field ;
Gold lace-bedecked uniforms and an agreeable address will take the place of any rough soldier experience, and make its wearer a hero of whom twould not be flattery to say that he is "perfectly lovely."
Of haint-breadth scapes the infamous death breached.
Of being taken by the insolent foe and sold to slavery.
Or hair-breadth 'scapes' i the imminent deadly breach.
LATER. Since the above was written Adjutant General P. S. Noble came to Lawrence, disbanded the Cadets, and mustered them out, relieving them from all service as Kansas State Militia. The guns, we are informed, are to be turned over to the new colored company. Thus fades away our dream of military glory.
The monument to the late Prof. Bardwell has been completed and can be seen at Parnham & Bailey's Marble Works. The monument is of white marble and bears the inscription : "In memory of Frederic W. Bardwell, Professor of Astronomy and Engineering, who died Aug. 18th, 1878, after nine years most faithful service in yonder University, this tablet is erected by those who were both his pupils and his friends. A man without reproach." It will not be placed in position until spring.
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GERMAN CUSTOMS.
The following extracts from a letter of Prof. Wickersham to a friend in Lawrence give us some interesting phases of German life:
"New Year comes half a day sooner here than in Lawrence, but stranger than that is his reception. About a half-hour before the bell in old Rath house ushers him in, the large square is filled with happy faces all turned toward the illuminated disc of the clock that has given notice of every year's coming since away in Luther's time, and as the hand approaches twelve, all are as expectant as though they would see the twelve Apostles of the old church in South Germany, and when it strikes, from every part of the Platz, from every street, one hears 'Prosit!' 'Prosit!'
"Strangers wish each other a happy New Year, and address each other in the familiar second person, 'Du.' The policemen for an hour relax from their strict watch, and loud hallooing, running, and other liberties at other times unknown, are heard and seen everywhere. Then the bells of the churches begin to peal, and one almost thinks the New Year will be frightened away."
"The Germans do not know how to make themselves comfortable. They sleep under great feather beds, they have common heating stoves that reach the ceiling, they never have carpeted floors. Have no arrangements for water, indeed one is hardly respectable if he drink water."
"All the rooms are as near alike as two peas, and furnished alike,-a sofa with a little table before it,a book case and desk; and every student eats in his own room,that is, breakfast and supper. I say breakfast,but there is no breakfast in Germany.A 'portion' of coffee and a small biscuit are all anyone can eat for breakfast. They then piece at eleven,and eat in a restaurant at one,begin to eat again at four and stop at seven, but of course beer is always apropos to a German taste."
There are a few disadvantages in having a University on top of a high hill, but those disadvantages have most weight with the lazy. Though brain culture is the desideratum, yet it well becomes a brainy man to have a stout pair of legs under him, and culture to this end—a lower end though it may be—is not undesirable. There may be a tide in the affairs of men when legs are supremely useful, as, for instance, when it is necessary to give "leg bail,"though we trust that no one who was ever a student of our University will be troubled that way. However, a symmetrical culture of the whole man is to be sought, and the situation of the University will allow of no neglect, of at least the lower part of the man.
Since our last issue Herbert S. S. Smith has assumed the duties of Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering, to which position he was recently elected. The Professor is but twenty-one years of age, and is six feet four inches in height, and still growing. Since coming among us he has won many friends.
The Orophilians at their last meeting elected the following officers to serve for the ensuing six weeks: Franklin Riffle, Speaker; Nelson McClees, Clerk; James O. Hayes, Critic; C.A. Peters, Chorister; C.G. Upton, Chaplain; Miss Julia Watson, Organist.
Wesley Bishop, of Connecticut, confessed that he poisoned his own wife to get possession of another woman. He also confessed that he assisted Mrs. Cobb to poison her husband that she might live with him. The woman loved Bishop well enough to murder her own husband for his sake, and then Bishop made the confession in the hope of saving his own neck. On Bishop's confession, Mrs. Cobb was sentenced to imprisonment for life. If an utterly depraved wretch ever disgraced the "Land of Steady Habits," it is this man. And yet since going to jail he has become converted, is leader of the jail choir, and seemingly experiences all the religious ecstacies of assured salvation. He is confident that if ushered out of this world he will be welcomed to the presence of God. Bishop certainly ought to go. He ought not to be detained in this wicked world any longer. It would be a trying ordeal to the public to see him mount the scaffold with the air of a martyr and be swung off into eternity, but it could be endured for Bishop's sake. Connecticut is a religious State and has done a great many good things, but she can never do anything better than to hang Bishop. Connecticut owes this to the world, and if she does her duty the world will forgive her for all the wooden nutmegs she ever made.
The Orophilians, bound to keep up with the times, have adopted "Robert's Rules of Order" for their parliamentary guide. In this they have acted wisely. This book, although before the public but a little over two years, is displacing Cushing's Manual wherever introduced. The distinguishing features of the two authorities are, that while Cushing's Manual is based upon the rules and customs of the English Parliament, "Robert's Rules of Order" is founded upon the usages and rules of the U. S. House of Representatives. Having given the book a careful examination, we can commend it as a work at once systematic and comprehensive, and in no way calculated to mislead.
Prof. W. W. Carnes recently organized a class in elocution, which meets in Macaulay's Commercial College. The class now numbers about forty members and is constantly increasing. We are pleased to state that it is patronized by a good number of our students. Nothing will repay you better than taking a course in elocution under Prof. Carnes.
St. Mary's College was totally destroyed by fire on the 4th inst. The building was erected a few years ago at a cost of $50,000. There was no insurance, and very little of the contents was saved. The students have been transferred to the neighboring Academy of the Sacred Heart. It is the intention of the Catholics to erect at St. Marys the largest college of the kind in the United States.
Eleven new books have been added to the library, the gifts of D. Appleton & Co., New York. We understand that Harper Bros. will also follow in the good work of their generous rivals.
We would call attention to the advertisement of Kinney Bros., New York, and ask for them the patronage of our friends.
We are in receipt of an address and poem delivered before the Alumni of Michigan University, of which association Major W. C. Ransom is president.
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EXCHANGES.
Bates Student comes to our table from Maine. It contains besides other interesting reading, an excellent poem entitled The New Year.
The literary department of The Wittenberger is well conducted, and shows evidences of merit. The Wittenberger is now entering on its sixth year, and is a very creditable paper.
The last issue of The Campus contains an article on Social Culture, which is well worth reading. We should like to ask whether it is the contribution of a lady or gentleman.
We have received the February number of the Alabama University Monthly. Its general make up is good, but we take exceptions to the article on Skepticism.
The Earlhamite says we have 331 students this year. Come out, Brother Earlhamite, and visit us. We will introduce you to 375 of the best looking and most intelligent class of students you can find in any college in the United States.
The Archangel is among our best exchanges, and though we don't wholly agree, perhaps, in the matter of religion, yet we can fraternally shake hands in the good cause of popular science and universal knowledge.
The Round Table, published every Wednesday by the Archean Union of Beloit College is comparatively an old college paper, being in its 25th year. Its typography is unexcelled. Its articles are of a rich and racy sort.
The Simpsonian, representing the Simpson Centenary College, of Indianola, Iowa, lies upon our table, and after careful perusal we have come to the conclusion that it is a first class college paper. We shall always welcome you.
The Carthagenian, devoted to the interests of Carthage College, comes to us this month in neat pamphlet form. Its leading articles are good, and altogether it is a well conducted sheet. Carthage non delenda est. Recte.
The University Magazine, published at Philadelphia under the auspices of the Philomathean Society (State University), has been received. It is very neatly gotten up, and is a live college paper. Each department is well sustained.
The College Courier is, as the old lady said, as "cherp as a cricket" this month. After looking over the numerous exchanges on our table, it is really a relief to read the Courier, and like meeting an old friend we say, Bless your old soul! How are you?
Prosperity seems to have blessed our friend the Kansas Monthly. The January number comes out in flying colors, with 16 pages of wholesome reading-matter, and the prospect soon of doubling the number of pages in succeeding issues. Pages 4,5 and 6 should be taken out and framed by every intelligent voter in the State of Kansas.
The Cornell Review for January is a most interesting pamphlet. Modern Skepticism, Theodore Winthrop and His Writings, and Communism in America, are three excellent productions, and will amply repay perusal. The editorial department is well sustained, as also that of exchanges. To any student wishing to take an instructive college journal, the Cornell Review would be recommended by us.
The Denison Collegian is one of our regular exchanges. The fact of its being published each alternate week of the collegiate year by the literary societies, tends to create a stimulus in each society to excel, and as their endeavors tend in the same direction the result is obvious. Kansas University papers might learn a lesson in the example the Collegian presents us.
The Tripod, now entering on its ninth year, wishes a prosperous New Year to all. "One especial care," as it says, "is to make the paper essentially a journal which shall record those incidents and pranks which sandwich college life." We only remark that if the boys of the Northwestern University are as full of "Old Harry" as they are here, it will necessitate the enlargement of the paper at once. You are always welcome.
In the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry for January, we find an ably written article under the head of Thoughts Upon Our Conceptions of Physical Law, by Prof. F. E. Nipher; an essay by Judge E. P. West, entitled Footprints of Primitive Thought; Science and Man, by Prof. Noah Porter, of Yale College; besides much other interesting matter. The Review is a credit to Kansas City, and a commentary upon the intelligence of the Western people.
The American Journal of Education comes this month as full of news as ever. It has several articles of special importance to teachers. We heartily enjoyed the article on School Management, and hope it may be the means of tearing down too many of our barns commonly called school houses and replacing them with commodious, beautiful buildings. Every teacher who lies awake nights puzzling himself or herself how to "grade," will find the whole problem settled in the January number, under the head of "A Problem Solved."
Our Schools. We take pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of No. 1, Vol. I. of Our Schools,a paper devoted to educational interests. Printed in the literary hub of Kansas, it deserves our support. It supplies a long felt want in the State Its articles are well chosen and well written. With the platform it unfurls, success no doubt awaits it. It starts out with the patronage of such men as Allen B. Lemmon, Winslow L. Hayden, A. H. Terry, and others. It courts honest criticism, and any paper of this day that makes so bold a stand must succeed. Success.
There are ninety-seven colleges in the United States with co-educational principles.—Vidette.
The total attendance at Michigan University is 1,347.
Iowa boasts thirty-five colleges and the largest law school in the West.—Ex.
Don't try to write too plainly, says an eastern exchange. It is a sign of plebian origin and school breeding. The scrawler is the man of genius. -Ex.
The first college journal was published at Dartmouth, in 1800.
Syracuse has 250 students ; Williams, 268.
Kansas has six sectarian colleges, two seminaries, five normal schools, one agricultural college, and the best university in the West.
Oxford University, England, is over ten centuries old; has an annual income of about a million of dollars, and a library of five hundred thousand volumes. -Exc.
Oh, the Soph., the Soph.
On, the Soph., the Soph.,
The obstreperous Soph.,
Blowing and shooting his big mouth off:
Following, watching, aping the Senior; —
Miserable Soph., you're running great danger.— Ex.
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MUSIC.
Vocal, Piano, and Organ, by a competent instructor.
For any desired information, write to
J. MARVIN, Chancellor, Lawrence, Kansas.
HOLIDAY GOODS!
Mrs. GARDNER & CO.
Have the Finest Assortment of
Ladies' and Children's Furs
In the city. Sold CHEAP FOR CASH.
LAWRENCE, - - - KANSAS.
DALEE.
University Photograph Gallery.
South Tennessee Street, LAWRENCE, KAN.
Photographs taken from card to life size by the Lightning Process.
"VENIENTI OCCULI MORBO."
Dr. Thos. Yarnold, ENGLISH PHYSICIAN,
Treats all Chronic and Complicated Diseases.
Office 169 Mass, St. Residence 163 & 165, up stairs.
F. W. JAEDICKE,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Manufacturer and Dealer in
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University Students and all their friends will find the best assortment of
Boots and Shoes
AT LOWEST PRICES, AT
HUMES' ONE PRICE HOUSE,
125 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kansas.
BARBER.
J. M. MITCHELL,
OF THE
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UNDER FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
Offers special inducements to University Students and public generally by
Reduction in Prices!
Best workmen in the West employed. Give the boy a call.
Hair Cutting, 25 cents ; Shampooing, 25 cents ;
Shaving, 10 cents.
The Lawrence Standard.
Large Eight Column Weekly.
TERMS, $1.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
E. G. ROSS, Editor.
The largest and most popular circulation of any paper published in the city of Lawrence, Kan.
Specimen copies sent on application with stamp.
L. D. L. TOSH,
(Class of '73.)
Attorney at Law
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LAWRENCE, - - KANSAS.
W. M. CULBERTSON.
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Office No.110 Massachusetts Street.
University Books,
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Devoted to the Advancement of Educational Interests.
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THE
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BOOK AND JOB OFFICE.
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DIRECTORY.
W. W. FLUKE,
MUSIC STORE. AND DEALER IN ORGANS,
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BROMELSICK'S
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A. G. MENGER,
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OLD STANDARD JOB OFFICE!
ALL KINDS OF Plain & Fancy Job Printing NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED.
COMMERCIAL JOB WORK A SPECIALTY
Mr. L. CALLLAHAN, an experienced Job Printer,
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P. O. Drawe 240.
MANUFACTURER OF
Monuments, Tombstones & Mantles All work guaranteed to give satisfaction.
P. M. HAMLIN,
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Students are especially invited to call on me for Rigs of all kinds.
Cash Grocery House.
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FRESH OYSTERS AND CELERY ALWAYS ON HAND!
Students, Remember the Sign,
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Kansas Marble Works.
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The Latest Styles of Mens,' Youths' and Boys' Clothing and Furnishing Goods kept constantly on hind.
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JOHN Q. A. NORTON LAWYER.
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