THE UNIVERSITY COURIER
NOBIS SOLUM NON
1883.
OCTOBER 10.
CONTENTS
The Fortnight ... PAGE 41
Two Visions. — Agnes M. Macbar ... 43
Unwritten History ... 43
Offsets ... 45
A Ramble Through Taupo ... 46
Editorial ... 48
Scientific ... 50
Views ... 52
Normal ... 53
Swaps ... 54
Personal ... 55
The Corridors ... 57
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The University Courier.
Vol. II. OCTOBER 10, 1883. No. 3.
THE FORTNIGHT.
It seems that the students of this university are beginning to specialize too much. Young men and women come here with the sole idea of learning something that shall help them on in the world. They declare that Greek is folly, and would study no language, not even German, did they not think the latter might help them to earn a living. Infected with the desire of money-making, they wish to study only what is useful. It is this class that leave college in their Junior year to go into business, or have no time to read the best literature. They confine themselves to the daily papers, to books bearing directly on their studies, or perhaps, as a relaxation, run through some wishy-washy novel. It is these young men, thirty years from now, who will be the so-called successful and wealthy men of the day. Yet, are they right? Is not discipline the great end of college life? Are not the mere facts about this or that subject the least important things we learn? What is really valuable, is the training, the method, the alertness and concentration of mind, the power of finer perception that we acquire. Our student may say that the field of knowledge is so large, that competition is so fierce, that, in order to be of any consequence whatever in the world, he must specialize.
Granted: but let us have general culture first; special, afterwards. Let us explore the interstellar spaces, count the stripes on a beetle's back, laugh with Falstaff, weep with Lear, think with Plato, so that we may say with the much-experienced Ulysses, "I am a part of all that I have met." Is it not better to apply all knowledge, all experience to living a well-rounded life, than to remain all our days a money-making machine, an acid-pourer or a gerund-grinder. Even if we become authorities in special departments of science, or lay up ten millions, what shall it profit us if we have no joyousness or satisfaction in life?
The other evening Remenyi gave the people of Lawrence a lesson in good manners which we hope they will remember. The person who enters a theatre or a concertroom while the performance is going on, not only shows a very great lack of goodbreeding, but also insults every one who has come on time and wishes to enjoy the entertainment. In most European theatres no late comers are allowed to enter, save between acts. But American managers and play-goers seem to think that the purchaser of a ticket also purchases the right to annoy every one already in the house. We
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live in hope that this will gradually wear away, like other barbarisms.
The large audience that greeted the Tourists on the 27th inst. does not speak very highly of the culture and refinement of the citizens of the "historic city." The play contains neither plot, movement, nor character; in fact, is not a play at all in the real sense of the word, but merely a frame work to contain a variety show. Some of it was very funny, and we laughed with the rest, as for instance, in the scene where the maiden aunt suddenly confronts her neices and their cavaliers just as they are going in to dinner. But the greater part of the fun is found in the highly humorous feats of jerking boquets by strings, squirting seltzer water over every one within reach, making other people drunk and getting fuddled yourself, and this, with a farrago of old jokes, songs and dances and ventriloquism, fills up the larger portion of this classic entertainment. The company has hardly good voices enough for a play containing so much singing. Mr. Kennedy is a pretty good low comedian, and the rest of the company showed off their several specialties in due form. On the whole it was not a very satisfactory performance, and the large audience does not go to show that Lawrence is the "most intellectual town in the state."
The Planter's Wife is a pretty good play. While the main plot is somewhat disfigured with unnecessary incidents and characters, yet it moves along freely enough from the first scene until the curtain falls. The weakest point is in the part of Angie Gordon, who is not only wholly unnecessary to the development of the plot, but is very unnaturally and indelicately conceived. A young girl, supposed to be well-bred and fairly educated, may be sentimental enough, but the part given her should stop short of
immodesty. We find no fault with Miss Glenn's acting, for we believe that she follows the author's conception. The conception, however, is not good, but very indelicate and almost indecent.
The company, as a whole, is the best we have ever seen here. Miss Emily Rigl is a very talented actress of the emotional type. She enters fully into the spirit of her part, and the grace and naturalness of her movements and her utter apparent forgetfulness of the audience show excellent training. Mr. Lacy plays to the life the Southern gentleman of the best type. Mr. Delmore takes the villain in a somewhat melodramatic style, but is otherwise good. Mr. Burbeck is the personification of a keen witted lawyer. In fact, there are no "sticks'' in the company. What is especially commendable is that the actors played to support each other and not personally to the audience; there is no "star"" part, subordinating all others to itself.
It is to be regretted that so good a company did not obtain a better and more appreciative audience. But we suppose the cultivated citizens of Lawrence were waiting for the classic entertainment of Happy Cal and his brother hamfatters.
The last Critic publishes a very interesting article by H. H. Boyesen, on Ivan Tourguenef, the great Russian novelist, whose death occurred last month. In the same issue is a review of a series of papers with the general title of "Western Influence on Russian Literature," that appeared in the Viestrick Evropii last year.
We hope that the management of the opera house will hereafter endeavor to keep the gallery gods level. Mr. Lacy showed a very proper spirit in refusing to proceed with the play until the noise ceased. Such proceedings are a disgrace to the city and to the University.
TWO VISIONS. UNWRITTEN HISTORY.
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LITERARY.
TWO VISIONS.
Where close the curving mountains drew, To clasp the stream in their embrace, With every outline, curve and hue Reflected in its placid face,
The plowman stopped his team to watch The train as swift it thundered by; Some distant glimpse of life to catch, He strains his eager, wistful eye.
The morning freshness lies on him,
Just wakened from his balmy dreams:
The travelers, begrimed and dim,
Think longingly of mountain streams.
Oh, for the joyous mountain air,
The fresh delightful autumn day
Among the hills! The plowman there
Must have perpetual holiday!
And he, as all day long he guides His steady plow, with patient hand, Thinks of the flying train that glides Into some new enchanted land.
Where, day by day, no plodding round Wearies the frame and dulls the mind Where life thrills keen to sight and sound With plows and farmers left behind.
Even so, to each, the untrod ways Of life are touched by fancy's glow,
That ever sheds its brightest rays Upon the path we do not know. Agnes M. Macbar.
UNWRITTEN HISTORY.
"What is history," said Napoleon, "but a fiction agreed upon?" "History and biography," said Edward Everett, "for the most part record the lives only of those who have obtained military, political or literary distinction; or who in any other career have passed through extraordinary viscissitudes of fortune. The unostentatious routine of private life, although in the aggregate more important to the welfare of the community, cannot from its nature figure in the public annals."
The world owes much to what its poets have never sung, its historians have never written, its philosophers have never formulated. It is undoubtedly true that the history of the great mass of mankind has never found its way into books. The useful and truly noble lives of many men and women are so prosaic in detail, so commonplace in surroundings, that they begin and end in obscurity. And yet the world is made up of commonplace people and seemingly dull lives. At every fireside and in
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every school events are happening the importance of which is never correctly estimated. It is easy to ascribe heroic qualities to individuals far removed from us by time or circumstances, but we are all apt to overlook the heroism, the heroes who come under our own observation. The heroic deeds of knights in the famous days of chivalry form the theme of many a beautiful ballad, but every-day life furnishes deeds equally heroic and praise-worthy in themselves.
"Oh, yes, they are all around us,
Oh, yes, they are all around us. And in every walk of life; Heroes the best, that stand the test In many an unmarked strife; Heroes of home, of shop, of farm, And at duty's call alone. Though unaware of honor's share And by noisy fame unknown."
And by noisy fame unknown."
History records many great and decisive battles in which the bravery and military genius of the commanders are mentioned, but how little note is made of the rank and file, the men whose faithful performance of duty makes victory possible. These are the unnamed heroes. They march often with no less lofty purpose and clear perception of the crisis than their leaders. They serve with the same heroism. They fight with the same bravery and fall as nobly. If you read of the battle of Lodi you will find no mention of that brave and fearless drummer-boy whose post through the long and eventful hours of that terrific struggle was one of the greatest danger, and who so steadily sounded the many charges upon the enemy as to attract, by his coolness and bravery, the attention of the great captain, who, in the presence of the whole army, rewarded him by promotion.
If we turn to workers in science we shall find that many of them never have received the credit due their labors and frequently have died comparatively unknown. They wrought for the good of all, but their names have only gone to swell the long list of the world's forgotten worthies.
Who shall say how much a chance word, a kind act, or friendly sympathy, has effected some great event? Who shall say how much the act of Madam Cotta, who took in Luther when a poor boy singing in the street, had to do with the Reformation? "There may have been many Folletts who never held a brief, many Keans who never acted but in barns, many Vandykes who never earned more than sixpence a day, many Goldsmiths who never were better than penny-a-liners, many Michels who never built their St. Peters, and, perhaps, a Shakespeare who held horses at the theatre door for pence as the Shakespeare we know of did, but who stopped there."
It is true that all small events and common-place deeds cannot be recorded in history. Historical composition seems from a kind of necessity to deal largely with the uppermost facts in human life, and so has been likened to a field book of conquerors. Its delineations, as generally drawn, have seemed only a kind of picture gallery of kings and princes. But in the future, let us hope, the more important part of hitherto unwritten history will fill a larger space in historical writing. We have to go to the rebukes of Sallust and the satires of Juvenal if we want to learn of the private pursuits and vices of the Roman people. So to find out the manners and social life of the Greeks we have to go to the theatres of Athens. What we need is a larger chapter of that unwritten history which will enable us to see among the ancients not only the consuls and generals, the comitia and the forum, but the whole of Roman life in all its details and social aspects. While with modern life we shall have given to us all that goes to make up the sum-total of our manifold activities, as well of noble deeds about the hearthstone as on the field of battle, as well of domestic and social life as of the outer and public
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life. Let the coming generations not be obliged to excavate buried cities that they may learn what was tbe social and domestic life of our own times.
But let us not think that all the noble deeds unknown to fame are useless. The great multitude of men and women, who, although hidden away in paths obscure and plain, have faithfully performed their part in life, have not lived in vain. There is a certain reward in noble living. The genius of the scholar or writer brings a greater satisfaction than the praises of his admirers. The talented artist finds in his art a delight far superior to the pleasure furnished by admiring critics. But aside from the pleasure and profit which comes to those who, unknown, perform their part and make the history of ages, their influence is great. The circumstances which have most influence on the happiness of mankind are for the most part noiseless revolutions. Their progress is rarely indicated by what
historians would call important events. The influence of a noble deed is never lost. Just as the acts and spirit of a person's former years are not lost but are represented in the face and habits, so the past genius, heroism and patriotic devotedness are woven into the structure of a people, giving it character. Emerson has said, "Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus; every novel is a debtor to Homer; every carpenter who shaves with a fore-plane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor. Life is girt all round with a zodiac of science, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky."
"And nothing is lost, though hidden,
That springs from heroic seed;
In the larger course and the higher force That are adopted from a single deed The environment of a mass of men, May brighten and spread apace, 'Till the deeds shall throng all paths along To the glory of all the race."
OFFSETS.
The lives and fortunes of men are as different as their faces, no two destinies being exactly the same. In most parts of the world men are now born free but not equal. To each as his birthright comes that individuality or lack of individuality which largely determines his future career. No communistic theory can alter the fact that some men will rule their fellows by superiority, mental, moral, or physical, for good or evil. This inequality has puzzled and troubled many philosophers and philanthropists, but the subject has a brighter side. Upon slow investigation it is evident that the advantages and disadvantages of different individuals are very evenly balanced and, generally speaking, apparent disadvantages are not without their compensation. The inequality
is not as great as we imagine. We depreciate our own opportunities; through green spectacles of envy we look out upon the lives of those around us; we are misled by appearances and often see only the glitter and tinsel of another's existence.
Very few, had they the opportunity, would exchange lots with those whom they are perhaps inclined to envy. Almost every one has some part of his life which he would not consent to lose, only a memory worthless to all but himself; an unfulfilled, never to be fulfilled ambition, which he does not wish to give up; some duty irksome at first but now grown pleasant. The happy possessor of youth and health desires wealth, fame, or power, but he would not exchange his own life for the life of any one of those
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who possess all these things. He who has gold or fame or power sometimes earnestly desires youth or health, but values too highly his own possessions to dream of wishing to change them.
Many men could never appreciate what they never get, but are contented with that which would never satisfy those of higher ambition. They never feel the need of aims and objects without which others would be miserable. It would be an entire waste of false sentiment to wish that every citizen might be a great military commander or a railroad king or a scholar learned in many languages. A large majority of American voters apparently consider themselves qualfied for the presidency, but probably two-thirds would be as anxious to relinquish that position, once obtained, as they were formerly eager to obtain it. On the other hand it is equally foolish to pity some of history's greatest characters because they have failed to enjoy the humdrum monotony of an ordinary existence. They were fitted for bold, earnest and sometimes tragic courses. Probably many whom the world believes to have lived sad lives enjoyed more happiness than many whose lives were more peaceful. Characters are so different that no standard of success or happiness can be applied. Some characters we instinctively place beyond the pale of criticism, almost of human sympathy.
But what shall be said of those lives which seem entirely destitute of any cheering circumstances.
"Be the day weary, or be the day long,
At length it ringeth to even song."
And, aside from creed or dogma, it is impossible not to believe that somewhere or somehow the unknown future has for them some compensation for past sorrow and pain and privation.
A RAMBLE THROUGH TAUPO.
Probably many of my readers have visited the beautiful terrace of Rotomahana, but the country about Lake Taupo, though less frequented by New Zealand tourists, who generally approach Rotomahana from Auckland, contains much that is interesting. About ten miles east of Lake Taupo is a township called Opepe. It is here that the traveller from Napier gets his first glimpse of the Taupo Moana, or inland sea of the Maories.
After a hot walk over a barren plain covered with deep pumice dust, my friend and I arrived at a Maori village on the shores of the lake. Here we first made our acquaintance with hot springs. On going for a drink to a tempting looking stream
flowing into the lake we found it qiute hot, while the lake itself was sensibly warm. The village was almost deserted by the natives, and we were enabled to make a close inspection of the place. We were particularly attracted by a handsome whare belonging to the chief Tahau. Above the door hung an image of Tokoahu—one of Tahau's ancestors, I suppose—a formidable looking savage with an axe in one hand and a meri in the other. The walls and roof of the house were of bulrush, painted inside with diamond and checker patterns, and the rafters and ridge-pole were also ornamentally painted.
Going along the shore of the lake we found a hot spring flowing into a basin cut
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out of the rock, and with a whare built over it to accommodate bathers. After bathing here and in the lake, we went into the Taupo township, which is situated just where the Waikato issues from the lake. The river is here a narrow but very deep stream, confined between steep and narrow banks.
In the afternoon we followed the recommendation of some friends, and went to visit a waterfall a few miles down the river. After a fruitless ramble over the hills we were at length led to the right spot by the roaring of the water. The river, after widening its course, somewhat, flows swiftly down an incline for about 600 yards, and then enters a narrow and rapidly descending channel about 200 yards in length, along which it dashes at great speed, falling over three precipices on the way. At the last fall the river makes a clean leap of about 35 feet into a basin below, about 80 yards across, the middle part of which is one white mass of boiling eddies. These have probably suggested the somewhat unpoetical name of Huka (sugar). Even this beautiful spot has not been spared by the hand of vandalism, for some miscreant had fired the trees on the banks, and only the spray from the fall had saved the vegetation near the water from destruction.
Next morning, after hiring horses and a half-caste as our guide, we started across the country for a Maori village on the Waikato called Orakeikoraka, where we were told we should find an interesting cave and some geysers. We were welcomed by a fine set of Maoris, who knew little more of English than we did of their own language. Fortunately our guide made an excellent interpreter, and through him we negotiated for a day's board and lodging, a visit to the cave, and a guide and horses for the next day's journey. Geysers—both intermittent and constant—large hot pools
and steaming holes abound everywhere about this strange place. The largest geyser occasionally threw out water to a height of fifteen feet, but a dense steam rising from its basin prevented us from making a close inspection.
Towards the end of the afternoon we were skilfully ferried across the river by a Maori in a somewhat cranky canoe, which shipped a good deal of water during each passage. After a quarter of an hour's walk through the manuka, with hot and cold springs in every direction about us, the shouts of the Maori children in advance told us that they had reached a cave. Descending a flight of steps cut out of the rock we entered a beautiful vault. The floor of the cave was covered with large boulders. These were encrusted with a white alum deposit, the taste of which we easily recognized. At the end of the cave is a large pool of hot blue water, holding alum in solution. The roof is covered with pink, white and yellow incrustations, and is about eighty feet above the pool at the bottom.
In the evening the Maoris sat smoking and talking to us by means of the interpreter till after ten o'clock. Two of them had fought in the war—one as a Hauhau, the other as a friendly native—and they became quite excited in recounting their deeds of valor. Next morning we were provided with horses and a Maori lad for a guide, and after about six hours' riding we reached Wairoa, the nearest town to Rotomahana. On the whole we had no reason to regret that we had chosen to travel straight across the country instead of keeping to the roundabout and uninteresting high road, and those who travel from Taupo to Rotomahana will find the geysers and alum cave of Orakeikoraka well worth visiting. Nelsonian (New Zealand). RAMBLER.
It is the voice of years that are gone! They roll before me with their deeds. — Ossian.
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WE RECANT.
Baker was right and we were wrong. Last year we pitched into the Baker students for writing stuff no one could understand. We thought our students were doing a wise thing in taking live subjects and advanced views. We were wrong; we admit it. All our trouble here has arisen from having expressed ourselves on present issues. Free speech on our own part has placed us successively before the public of Kansas as prohibition fanatics, whisky bummers, dudes, nihilists, one-horse preachers, and rampant infidels. If our students had just followed Baker and delivered a mass of jargon no one could understand; if they had written on "The Sublimity of the Beautiful," "The Symphonies of the Spirits," or "The Unknown and the Unknowable, and what we know about It," instead of taking such topics as "Railroad Legislation," "The Indian
Question," or "Recent Strikes,' we would have been all right. A student ought not think or talk about things going on around him unless he wants to be called a "fanatic" or a 'communist.' Better talk about ancient Greece and the lost arts. We hope our Seniors will take this advice and prepare their commencement orations accordingly. In the meantime we humbly beg Baker's pardon for past criticism.
DOES IT PAY?
As the present time is about as far distant from examination week as it is possible to get, one may perhaps discuss the grading system of the University without the suspicion attaching that he has received but 70 per cent. in algebra, failed in Latin, or is fearful lest he may not pass in chemistry.
It is said a bear that has been chained a long while to a post will continue going around in his old circle after being loosened. We hope that the examination rut has not been worn so deep by its long use but that we may depart from the ring if we find a better path.
Our present University system makes term work and examination each count half on the final grade. Somehow the impression has become prevalent that it is the examination which is the all-important factor, probably because the one hour's work at the end is to balance the half-year's work in the class-room. Toward the end of the term comes the "review"—the preliminary cram. Then a day or so before examination the chancellor tells the students not to cram; that it is the cool, determined pupil who wins; and then they go home and cram all the more. They study by day, they stndy by night; they bolt their meals hastily and hurry up stairs to their books. On the day of the final ordeal they appear buoyant, but nervous, and take up a pencil
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with trembling hand to answer ten questions, with five divisions each, in one short hour. Unfairness seems to be expected, as the professor puts the chairs far apart so that they can't look over one another's shoulders, and marches up and down to see if any notes are passed or the boys are consulting their shirt cuffs too diligently How effectual these precautions are let any of the students answer.
The girl leaves the room sighing, "thank gracious its over," and the boy remarks that he "don't want to look in that book again for six years," and tries to forget all with which he has burdened his mind during the last week. The professor goes home, and looking over the papers wonders how it is that the poorest has come in so finely on the last heat, while the one he thought so good has barely passed the quarter pole. Then he puts down the grades according to the dots and the crosses the pupils have made, with the thought that he would have made a great mistake had he given them what their class work seemed to indicate; or else he concludes that he knows pretty well what a person deserves after he has tested him for five months, and then puts down what he thinks right.
Does it pay? Whether the grades beat the merit or the merit the grades, does it pay? May not this explain why the successful men in life were the medium scholars in college? In life there is no cramming, no cheating. A long test and a fair representation are demanded by the world.
What better have we? is asked. That grades incite to study none denies (unless perhaps one obtain but 60, when the result is not very encouraging). Last year one of our professors announced to his classes that all who received above 90 per cent. in term work would not be required to take an examination. The work day after day showed that all were determined to get
above 90. The labor during the term was much harder, but it was not concentrated in the last week, nor did the students feel a desire for forgetting it as soon as it was over. There was no need for cramming or cheating, and yet the grades were there to offer an incentive and record their efforts. Such a plan, if adopted in every department, would, we believe, have the effect of raising University scholarship most materially. It would make better men and women.
The inaugural address of Chancellor Lippincott, which will early be published in pamphlet form, is an article worthy of careful perusal. Although the address was hastily written, as we have been told, the opinions presented show themselves to be the result of wide experience and careful thought. The ideal University, as portrayed by the chancellor, is what we hope and believe the University of Kansas will one day become.
Last spring the representative from Pottawatomie county told the legislature how the University boys parted their hair in the middle and wore tight pants. Now some of the state papers tell their readers that the University is turning out nihilists. Imagine the ideal student—a dude with hair parted in the middle and tight pants—standing on a stump with uplifted dagger, advocating nihilism and calling on the people to burn and slay.
Prof. Spring has begun work on the History of Kansas, to be published in the "Commonwealth Series" by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The professor is both an entertaining writer and an impartial judge of Kansas history; but considering the bitter feeling between the old partisans of Gov. Robinson and James Lane, he has a difficult task before him. He can hardly escape rough criticism from one side or the other perhaps both.
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SCIENTIFIC.
SCIENTIFIC.
The estimated cost of the proposed Florida ship canal is $25,000,000.
The board of public works of Cincinnati refuse to admit the elevated railway.
—Captain Eads has received thus far $4,800,000 for his work on the Mississippi jetties.
The wooden pavements of London are being torn up and the macadam used instead.
The gradient of the Territet Montreux Chillon Railway, Switzerland, is 57 per cent.
Swiss railroads use a phosphorous preparation on their cars at night to render them visible.
The express train on the Canada Atlantic railroad makes forty-six miles per hour between Montreal and Quebec, including stoppages.
Mr. J. S. Bardwell, of Cincinnati, is the inventor of a smoke consumer,the construction of which costs but fifteen dollars. Let the good work go on.
—Kansas City spends more annually for public improvements than Cincinnati, yet the latter has a population of 200,000 more than the former.
The Mexican Central rairoad will be completed next May, and will extend from El Paso, Texas, to the City of Mexico, a distance of 1,230 miles.
A locomotive for burning coke on the Reading Railroad made a continuous run of 200 miles without any further attention than simply feeding the furnace.
The Oregon Short Line will cost $30,- 000 per mile according to the estimate of its engineer, Mr. Moscript, and will have
an average gradient of seven and a half feet to the mile.
The railway between Tokio and Kumagaye, Japan, built according to the American system, was opened July 26th.
The Sultan of Turkey opposes the proposed Palestine canal which would connect the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, by means of the depressed gorge of the river Jordan.
—M. Michalowski, of Montceau-les-Virines, has invented a blasting powder named by him "miner's powder,' which, as the result of numerous experiments, has been proven to be superior to any other known.
A new kind of gun-powder which does not possess the dangerous properties of nitro compounds has been invented hy Himly, and consists of a mixture of saltpetre, chlorate of potash, and a solid hydrocarbon.
The survey of the boundary line between the United States and Mexico will be made immediately. A large corps of engineers have already commenced work at Yuma. It is thought that it will take at least six months to run the line through to Arizona. American Engineer.
-A visit to the rooms of the engineering department reveals the fact that Prof. Marvin has not been idle during the summer vacation. The many elegant pictures of celebrated engineering enterprises that adorn the walls were placed there at his own expense. The zeal that Prof. Marvin has exhibited since being placed at the head of the department easily explains the enthusiasm of the prospective C.E.'s.
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Some of the specimens taken from the crinoid beds at Crawfordsville, Indiana, measure twelve inches in length. These larger fossils sell for eight and ten dollars a piece.
The Bartholdi statue of Liberty is 150 feet 10 inches in heiget from base of figure to summit of torch. The figure is 8 feet long,4 feet 9 inches in circumference, and the finger-nail 10 inches in length.
A committee of the board of trade of Kansas City recently consulted Mayor Sutor, of St. Louis, concerning an appropriation of $200,000 to prevent a change in the channel of the Missouri river, which would leave Kansas City and Wyandotte without a river front.
-A discovery is announced by the "Union Medicale" which promises to throw considerable light on the subject of prehistoric man. While running a gallery in a coal mine at Bully-Grenay a subteranean cave was broken into, in one chamber of which were found six fossil human bodies—a man, two women and three children together with implements, and fragments of lower animals. Another chamber contained eleven human bodies, precious stones, and numerous other articles, while on the walls were drawings of combats between men and huge beasts.Popular Science Monthly.
—Near Sonora, Mexico, ancient ruins have recently been discovered of a large pyramid, and several rooms from 6x10 to 16x18 feet and 8 feet high, cut out of a heavy stratum of gypsum about half way up the mountain. There is a winding road leading to the top of the pyramid said to be twenty-three miles long. There are hieroglyphics on the walls of the rooms, and drawings of human forms, but, strange to say, the hands and feet are represented with an extra digit.
The Wisconsin State Medical Society, during its recent annual session, passed a resolution virtually declaring consumption to be an infectious disease, and urging the necessity of the proper isolation and disinfection of those suffering from it.
Successful experiments have lately been made at Coblentz in the training of ravens as carrier birds in place of pigeons. The latter are more subject to attack from birds of prey than ravens. The trained ravens were made to fly a distance of forty miles with entire satisfaction.
—Charles H. Sternberg, formerly employed by Prof. Agassiz, is at present collecting in Western Kansas for Prof. Snow. The following extract from a recent letter details some valuable collections: "I am glad to tell you that we have had a grand success, as I felt sure we would. Last week we collected and packed 700 or 800 pounds of bones. I got one perfect skull of a rhinoceros, with full set of under jaws; a perfect set of under jaws of a mas-todon with beck projecting from the union of the jaws. I have also a great many under jaws and loose teeth of rhinoceroses, and perfect bones from all parts of the skeletons of a great many individuals."
"A breeder of canary-birds conceived the idea of feeding a young bird with a mixture of steeped bread and finely pulverized red cayenne pepper. Without injuring the bird, the pigment of the spice passed into the blood and died its plumage deep red."
Mr. August Vogel in an article about the Color of Flowers published in the Popular Science Monthly, relates the following curious experiment:
The celebrated ornithologist Russ, believes that the color of the plumage of birds might be altered according to desire, by using appropriate reagents.
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VIEWS.
VIEWS.
A CHANGE WANTED.
The chief object of education should be to teach the student to write and speak the English language, and to educate him as much as possible with reference to his after pursuits in life.
Do the present University courses effect this to the extent that is desirable?
As some changes have recently been made in the University, and it is now starting out, as it were, under new auspices, these questions are very pertinent at the present time.
To write the English language well requires constant practice and the study of best authors.
In looking over the university catalogue one is struck with the little attention that seems to be paid to English composition. The writing of essays seems to have little prominence.
The want of diversity between the different courses also strikes one very forcibly.
For instance, in all the courses, whether scientific, classical or modern literature, botany, zoology and chemistry, are found at the expense, as it seems to the writer, of some branches that would be of more importance to certain classes of students. The study of chemistry, for instance, is undoubtedly of use, if not indispensible, to the student who intends to become a physician or farmer, if subsequently followed up; but to the student who intends to study law or for the ministry, of what practical benefit is the little knowledge acquired in a college course in this branch. It is safe to say that three-fifths of the students, by the time they graduate, have forgotten the little they have learned in such branches.
A little well learned is infinitely better than a great deal half learned.
As a mere matter of discipline of the mind,there are many studies much more servicable than these, especially when studied at the expense of other studies much more useful to the general student.
Let, then, those study these branches who desire, but do not compel all, whether they wish to do so or not.
To those conversant with students' life here, and their studies, the tendency to cram is striking. There is no student, unless of very extraordinry ability, who can do justice to more than three solid studies such as mathematics and the languages. There have been here, however, instances of students taking two distinct courses at the same time, and frequent instances of students taking four and even more solid studies at the same time.
It has always been the tendency of Western institutions to 'cram' their students, and that is the great reason why the best Eastern colleges make more thorough scholars than the Western.
One thing well learned is worth a hundred things half learned, and this should constantly be instilled into the minds of the student.
Impress upon them constantly that to graduate is not the sole object of a college course; but to graduate, that that which has been studied has been well learned, and that those subjects have been studied which will conduce most to assist them in their pursuits in after life.
QUERY- Does the Oratorical Association claim that the three from each literary society provided for in its constitution, are representatives, respectively, of each society?
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NORMAL.
TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS.
At this time of the year more than at any other, the problem of teachers' certificates and to whom they should be issued, comes prominently before the public.
It is conceded by all that those who are to instruct our youth should give evidence of their ability to "teach and govern." But as to how much evidence, or the manner of furnishing this evidence, many of our best educators differ. The present custom is to hold public "examinations," where, if the aspirant answers certain set questions, which too frequently are mere technical catches, his ability to teach is taken for granted.
Fully one half of our so-called examinations are no more a test of the teacher's knowledge of the branches examined, than the failure to answer, "How many toes has a cat, or legs has a spider?" proves that you know nothing of these animals, or of their habits. Under our present system each county has a board of examiners. Sometimes they are broadly educated, occasionally (?) they possess the merest smattering of the branches in which they are to examine. And as a rule the less the examiners know the more technical the examinations.
There is no standard of ability recognized all over the state, but each county is a law unto itself.
Now wouldn't it be a great step in advance if our state legislature would entrust the preparing of all examination questionous to a state board? This would make all examinations throughout the state uniform, and by providing competent men to prepare the questions,the examinations would
be a fair test of the teacher's knowledge. And another piece of "red tapeism" which should be dispensed with is the compelling of experienced teachers, those who hold first grade certificates, and who have again and again proven their ability to "teach and govern," to go through the ordeal of a petty examination.
It does seem as though a teacher who has fairly satisfied a board that he is fully qualified to hold a first grade certificate, should be exempt from further examinations, so long as he is actively engaged in teaching, or teaches three months during the year.
This would be no more than justice to the good teacher, and such a law would stimulate more of our teachers to "post up." But with such a law we need the other one making examinations uniform throughout the state.
Kansas may boast of her schools, but it is the educational pride of her people, and not her school system, which every Kansan may be justly proud.
Normal students will not be required to take laboratory practice in chemistry this year. We think we can safely say that the professor in that department will not lose any friends from the normalites on account of this arrangement.
Emery Stanley, of '81, was in the halls of K. S. U. a few days ago, shaking hands with old friends. He was employed last year in the Hesper schools. We understand that Emery is going to bid farewell to bachelorhood in the near future. That success may follow him and happiness attend him is the wish of all normals.
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SWAPS.
SWAPS.
—Where is the Baldwin Index?
—A phrenological examination of the Crescent would reveal nothing but self-esteem.
The appearance of many of our exchanges would be improved were the front ads. to take a back seat.
—A few college journals will indulge in stories. Our occasional indulgence may be pardoned; but regular dreamers are detestable.
The Lehigh Burr for September arrived a little late, but always welcome. She has a new frontispiece that will not fail to please the most artistic.
The Junction City Tribune issued a supplement with the proceedings of the State Temperance Convention, as well as the more important speeches made during the entire session.
—"You are as full of airs as a musicbox," is what a young man said to a girl who refused to let him see her home. "That may be,' was the reply, "but I don't go with a crank." —Ex.
—Mrs. Oliphant has written for the November Century a paper on Queen Victoria, which will be more particularly devoted to her life as a happy queen and mother, before the death of the Prince Consort.
The Burchtel Record hails from the nativity of our exchanger. It is a good paper and its opinions are worth something; in proof of which read:
"The University Courier, from the University of Kansas, has appeared in a new dress, giving her a very pert, not to say sauce, look. Her columns are full of good literary matter and spicy news."
—Teacher (to small boy):"What does the proverb say about those who live in glass houses?" Small boy: "Pull down the blinds."
The Hamilton College Monthly is a college paper of a very high moral tone and is a fair exponent of woman's college journalism. Although fair sister you have not attained the prominence some of your brothers have reached, your efforts are indeed laudable.
We regret to say that in many of our exchanges we find so much venom exchanged between the fraternity and nonfraternity men. Whether fraternities are a detriment or otherwise we do not propose to argue. But they do exist and there is no reason why an eternal warfare should be waged against them. Give each his deserts, and much wrangling will be avoided.
The Vanderbilt Observer is among our best exchanges. Its columns are well filled with readable matter. We were especially pleased with the article, "A Plea for Higher Education;" but we would kindly take the writer round the corner and beg of him not to use so much celestial imagery; e.g., "whose melody began when the morning stars sang the cradle song of the infant creation."
The Capture of Jefferson Davis will be fully treated by Mr. Burton N. Harrison in a paper to be published in an early number of the Century. It is a narrative of personal experience, describing the retreat of Mr. Davis and party from Richmond at the close of the rebellion, and is said to be of decisive historical importance with regard to the event of which there is so much dispute.
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PERSONAL.
—Charlie Cramer has returned.
—Nettie Brown is a little "krank."
—'87, W. E. Higgins is a little better.
—J. P. Jacke started for Colorado yesday.
—Nellie Melville is a new student at the K. S. U.
—Julia Benedict spent a week in Kansas City lately.
—C. F. Foley has entered the Senior law class.
—'86, O. C. Le Suer, is the oldest Phi Delta Theta.
—Miss Mamie Hudson was in Topeka over Sunday.
—'87, S. W. Shattuck, has lately donned the Phi Psi pin.
—Nellie Dow and Lizzie Meade spent Sunday in Olathe.
—'87, Ed. Cruise, spent Sunday at his home in Wyandotte.
—Miss Delia Churchill began the Senior orations Wednesday.
—Wm. E. Byrd, of '76, is running a farm west of the city.
—Prof. F. H. Snow was expressed up to the University Tuesday.
—Mr. Courtney's dog, Henry Ward Beecher, is a little lame.
—W. A. Otis is attending the Business College in St. Louis, Mo.
—Carrie Watson has recovered and resumed her place in the library.
—'86, Hattie Haskell, spent a couple of weeks with Carrie Watson lately.
—Frank Hutchins, brother of well-known Bion S., was in the halls Tuesday.
—Prof. Canfield visited Kansas City a few days since and was "interviewed."
—Charlie Cramer has returned.
—Nettie Brown is a little "krank."
—'87, W. E. Higgins is a little better.
J. P. Jacke started for Colorado yesday.
—Nellie Melville is a new student at the K. S. U.
—Julia Benedict spent a week in Kansas City lately.
—C. F. Foley has entered the Senior law class.
—'86, O. C. Le Suer, is the oldest Phi Delta Theta.
—Miss Mamie Hudson was in Topeka over Sunday.
—'87, S. W. Shattuck, has lately donned the Phi Psi pin.
—Nellie Dow and Lizzie Meade spent Sunday in Olathe.
—'87, Ed. Cruise, spent Sunday at his home in Wyandotte.
Miss Delia Churchill began the Senior orations Wednesday.
—Wm. E. Byrd, of '76, is running a farm west of the city.
—Prof. F. H. Snow was expressed up to the University Tuesday.
—Mr. Courtney's dog, Henry Ward Beecher, is a little lame.
—W. A. Otis is attending the Business College in St. Louis, Mo.
—Oscar Poehler and John Sargeant now wear the Beta Theta Pi plate.
—Mr. C. R. Wagstaff, from Mercer, Pa., has entered the University.
—E. Marshal, a brother of W. J. Marshall, has enrolled at the University.
—'86, Miss Lettie Collins, has been struck by the dart of the I. C. arrow.
—Lida Romig went to Baldwin last Friday on account of the death of a cousin.
—Mr. D. Hubbard has been visiting several days with his daughter, Miss Nettie.
—E. E. Ritchie, an old student, has returned. He enters the Sophomore class.
—Lillie Popenoe, of the Business College, gave the University a call last week.
—'85, Victor Linley, says he thinks of committing suicide. The cause is unknown.
—Will Lane, a classic son of Monmouth College, Ill., has entered the Junior class.
—Prof. Trueblood was at the University Tuesday and gave the trigonometry class a visit.
—'87, Clark Maher, visited home in Abilene Saturday. Homesickness the cause.
—Miss Minnie Perley and Miss Bertie Henry, from Spring Hill, Kansas, have enrolled.
—S. Seaton, one of the Phi Gamma Delta boys, visited his University friends last week.
—Dr. E. H. Canfield, who has been visiting his son, Prof. Canfield, has returned to the East.
—Miss Lida Griffith has gone to Ohio, where she will attend the Female Seminary at Cincinnati.
—Carrie Watson has recovered and resumed her place in the library.
—'86, Hattie Haskell, spent a couple of weeks with Carrie Watson lately.
Frank Hutchins, brother of well-known Bion S., was in the halls Tuesday.
—Prof. Canfield visited Kansas City a few days since and was "interviewed."
—Oscar Poehler and John Sargeant now wear the Beta Theta Pi plate.
—Mr. C. R. Wagstaff, from Mercer, Pa., has entered the University.
—E. Marshal, a brother of W.J.Marshall, has enrolled at the University.
—'86, Miss Lettie Collins, has been struck by the dart of the I. C. arrow.
—Lida Romig went to Baldwin last Friday on account of the death of a cousin.
Mr. D. Hubbard has been visiting several days with his daughter, Miss Nettie.
—E. E. Ritchie, an old student, has returned. He enters the Sophomore class.
—Lillie Popenoe, of the Business College, gave the University a call last week.
—'85, Victor Linley,says he thinks of committing suicide. The cause is unknown.
Will Lane, a classic son of Monmouth College, Ill., has entered the Junior class.
Prof. Trueblood was at the University Tuesday and gave the trigonometry class a visit.
—'87, Clark Maher, visited home in Abilene Saturday. Homesickness the cause.
Miss Minnie Perley and Miss Bertie Henry, from Spring Hill, Kansas, have enrolled.
—S. Seaton, one of the Phi Gamma Delta boys, visited his University friends last week.
Dr. E. H. Canfield, who has been visiting his son, Prof. Canfield, has returned to the East.
Miss Lida Griffith has gone to Ohio, where she will attend the Female Seminary at Cincinnati.
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PERSONAL.
—Miss Rose Wagner is one of the favored ones to speak in the elocation class next Friday.
—Miss Decima Miles, an old student of the K. S. U., came up to see her old friends Wednesday.
—Misses Bertie Niesley and Josie Brown made their friends at the University a call not long since.
—Mr. C. C. Surber, an old student, visited K. S. U. on his way to the Kansas City Medical College.
—'84. Is Clara Gillham coming to gladden the hearts of her inquiring friends? Echo answers.
—Marvel Mansfield, of this city, formerly of St. Louis, has joined Prof. Brownell's elocation class.
—Prof. T. C. Trueblood, of the Kansas City School of Oratory, attended chapel last Tuesday morning.
—H. E. Winchell, of this city, and Herbert Monroe, of Boston, gave the University a visit Wednesday.
—W. P. Gresham and G. H. Welch, of Burton, Harvey county, are numbered among the new students.
—'82, Miss Ethel B. Allen, is at her home in Kansas City, pursuing her postgraduate course of study.
—Mr. Benjamin Snow, of Fitchburg, Mass., has been visiting for a few days with his son, Prof. F. H. Snow.
—'84, L. L. Dyche, says he has just returned from Chicago, where he went to get married, but he didn't get.
—'85, Miss Hattie Dunn, has returned from an extended Eastern trip, and will resume her studies at the K. S. U.
—Ed. Butler, '83, quondam business manager of the Courier, has entered Yale in preparation for the law.
—Miss Gussie Brown, of Emporia, an old student of K. S. U., spent a few days in the city visiting Belle Boynton.
—Miss Rose Wagner is one of the favored ones to speak in the elocation class next Friday.
—Miss Decima Miles, an old student of the K. S. U., came up to see her old friends Wednesday.
—Misses Bertie Niesley and Josie Brown made their friends at the University a call not long since.
Mr. C. C. Surber, an old student, visited K. S. U. on his way to the Kansas City Medical College.
—'84. Is Clara Gillham coming to gladden the hearts of her inquiring friends? Echo answers ___.
Marvel Mansfield, of this city, formerly of St. Louis, has joined Prof. Brownell's elocution class.
-Prof. T.C. Trueblood, of the Kansas City School of Oratory, attended chapel last Tuesday morning.
—H. E. Winchell, of this city, and Herbert Monroe, of Boston, gave the University a visit Wednesday.
—W. P. Gresham and G. H. Welch, of Burton, Harvey county, are numbered among the new students.
-'82, Miss Ethel B. Allen, is at her home in Kansas City, pursuing her postgraduate course of study.
Mr. Benjamin Snow, of Fitchburg, Mass., has been visiting for a few days with his son, Prof. F. H. Snow.
--'84, L. L. Dyche, says he has just returned from Chicago, where he went to get married, but he did n't get.
'85, Miss Hattie Dunn, has returned from an extended Eastern trip, and will resume her studies at the K. S. U.
—Ed. Butler, '83, quondam business manager of the Courier, has entered Yale in preparation for the law.
Mrs. B. C. Dunwell and Mrs. L. Keith, of Cherryville, Ill., came up to hear Dr. Lippincott's inaugural address.
Cards are out for the marriage of E. F. Stanley, '82, and Miss Rubottom. The Courier extends congratulations.
Judge J. A. Humphrey was in the city last week, but was unable to attend the regents' meeting on account of sickness.
Miss Curtiss Harsha, a cousin of Carla Cockins, has withdrawn from the University and returned to her home in Washington, Penn.
'87, N. A. Swickard, has been seated with the sub-preps in chapel, in order that he may eat peanuts without disturbing the faculty.
C. J. Webb, an old student, we learn from a private letter, is engaged in a telegraph office at Waverly, Neb. He sends for the Courier.
Rev. McKay, of Emporia, and Rev. Dunn, of this city, came up to see the Seniors 'show off' in chapel Monday, but the Seniors, as usual, did not appear.
Miss Bessie Grey, a last year's student, revisited the University on her way to Chicago, where she will spend the winter. She spent several days with Kate Wilder.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S Blackwelder were in town last week to attend the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Brooks. Mrs. Blackwelder was a former student and a member of the I. C. sorosis.
George Ropes, one of our younger students, met with an accident a short time ago which might have been very serious. A young friend of his left a gun leaning against a tree; the wind blew it over and it went off, wounding George somewhat. The wound is not serious, but he will be unable to return to school until after Christmas.
--Miss Gussie Brown, of Emporia, an old student of K. S. U., spent a few days in the city visiting Belle Boynton.
—Mrs. B. C. Dunwell and Mrs. L. Keith, of Cherryville, Ill., came up to hear Dr. Lippincott's inaugural address.
—Cards are out for the marriage of E. F. Stanley, '82, and Miss Rubbottom. The Courier extends congratulations.
Judge J. A. Humphrey was in the city last week, but was unable to attend the regents' meeting on account of sickness.
—Miss Curtiss Harsha, a cousin of Carla Cockins, has withdrawn from the University and returned to her home in Washington, Penn.
—Rev. McKay, of Emporia, and Rev. Dunn, of this city, came up to see the Seniors 'show off' in chapel Monday, but the Seniors, as usual, did not appear.
—'87, N. A. Swickard, has been seated with the sub-preps in chapel, in order that he may eat peanuts without disturbing the faculty.
—C. J. Webb, an old student, we learn from a private letter, is engaged in a telegraph office at Waverly, Neb. He sends for the Courier.
Miss Bessie Grey, a last year's student, revisited the University on her way to Chicago, where she will spend the winter. She spent several days with Kate Wilder.
Mr. and Mrs.J.S Blackwelder were in town last week to attend the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs.Paul R.Brooks Mrs.Blackwelder was a former student and a member of the I.C.sorosis.
—George Ropes, one of our younger students, met with an accident a short time ago which might have been very serious. A young friend of his left a gun leaning against a tree; the wind blew it over and it went off, wounding George somewhat. The wound is not serious, but he will be unable to return to school until after Christmas.
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THE CORRIDORS.
—'84
—Now.
—Elocutes.
—New frats.
—Make up prep. studies.
—I. C. Dart!
—This is advice to Seniors.
Now bring out the Kittens.
—Bold bad Bennett: "Change it."
The Oreads elect officers next Friday.
The girls think the new profs handsome.
There are twenty-three Senior collegiates.
--'Tis said the Phi Psis have Cooked Graham.
The Junior class is talking up a base ball club.
The musical department has thirty members.
President Humphrey: "Fifty cents all around."
—The Sophomore class numbers over sixty members.
—A party of students went picnicing up the river Saturday.
--The Amphion Quartette will be drilled by Prof. Blackman.
—Curdy has no aspirations toward the gubernatorial chair.
—Prof. Snow has been busily engaged on his weather report.
The Phi Kaps have rented a hall in the National Bank building.
—Prof. Bailey has been adding to the collections in his department.
The Sophomore class is fearfully bored with Horace's bore just now.
-It is time for the politicians to make out tickets for contest election.
—Conundrum: By what plan were the students assigned seats in chapel?
The secret societies have been having numerous meetings at odd times.
Two dining clubs have been started and are now in successful operation.
The law department opend Tuesday with prospects of a good attendance.
-It has been suggested that a dancing club be organized among the students.
Many of the students are in a financial condition approximating bankruptcy.
The students are impatiently waiting an announcement of a faculty reception.
The Seniors followed '83's precedent by electing Miss Kate Ridenour president.
—Some of the students are getting homesick and taking a vacation over Sunday.
—It is rumored that a certain Freshman "soaked" his guitar to get money to go home on.
-A party was given September 28th by Mrs. Paul Brooks in honor of E. C. Meservey.
—Johnson says he will hang the author of "over the garden wall." P. S. - When he finds him.
--The German Society has reorganized and promises to become quite a useful factor in the University.
Students in the modern literature department are not obliged to take laboratory practice this year.
One hundred new books were added to the library during the summer and as many more have been sent for.
—It is encouraging to note the numerous students coming from other colleges and joining the collegiate department.
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THE CORRIDORS.
We rise to remark again that the sidewalks are in a terrible condition. Their only use is for Hallowe'en jokes.
The chemistry class has begun its laboratory labors, and now fills the south wing with fragrant sulph-hydric acid.
The I. C. sorosis had a "grub supper" at the residence of Miss Mary Griffith, on the occasion of the initiation of Miss Nettie Collins.
Cook, giving his experience as a teacher, states as a fact that he is not able to love all of his scholars alike. Strange, isn't it?
—Chancellor Lippincott invited all the students to make a call socially upon himself and wife. The preps. will turn out en masse.
The professor of Greek has been promoted to the chair formerly occupid by exChancellor Marvin, that of lecturer on gymnastics.
—The Kappa Alpha Thetas had a 'blowout' at the residence of Miss Cora Pierson. They didn't Katch any new members, but had a good time.
The enrollment last Tuesday reached four hundred and fifty-three. One hundred of these are in the Freshman class, and sixty in the Sophomore class.
Where is the festive maiden who wanted to be introduced to the little man of'87? If she will call at this office we will furnish her with a printed letter of introduction.
When the circus was at Olathe last week the inmates of the deaf and dumb asylum were taken to see the show. We decidedly object to such favoritism among state institutions.
-In response to the invitation given by the chancellor quite a number of students meet twice a week in the chapel and practise music for devotional exercises, under the lead of Prof. Lehman.
The Y. M. C. A. will give a series of monthly literary entertainments lasting during the college year. The first was given last Thursday evening under the direction of Prof. Blackman.
The Santa Fe road has presented two pictures to the University. One is a scene at Chihuahua, Mexico, and the other a view of the Colorado river in Arizona, about one hundred miles from its mouth.
The Sophomore class held a meeting last Friday and elected the following officers: President, C. L. Smith; vice presideut, Kate Wilder; secret'y, Nettie Brown; prophet, Mr. McKinney; poet, O.C. Le Seur.
The highly wrought hopes of an appreciative audience were overthrown by the non-appearance of the Senior orators at the appointed time. The chancellor endeavored to fill the rostrum in lieu of the advertised "stars."
One of the appropriations granted by the last legislature, unasked for, was that for a small job press on which the weather report prepared by Prof. Snow will be printed. The press has been purchased and set up, and the weather report just issued justifies the wisdom of the appropriation.
—It is with pleasure we announce the marriage of C. C. Dart, of '83, and Miss Hattie Pugh, of'84, on Monday last. Both are well known and will carry with them the best wishes of numerous friends. Miss Pugh was a member of the I. C. sorosis and one of the most popular students ever attending the University. Mr. Dart was last year's editorial writer on the Courier, and in all of his work while here he showed himself a gentleman and a scholar. The Courier congratulates and wishes the happy couple a life brim full of happiness and success. Mr. and Mrs. Dart will reside in Dallas, Texas, where he is in the employ of J.B.Watkins & Co,
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—Something "dropped" at the Oread's last Friday.
-A Phi Gamma Delta orchestra has been organized.
The Olathe boys probably had a nI.C.e time last Saturday.
Some of the boys are getting their hand in at politics by work at the primaries.
The first choice of the committee to procure a June orator is Hon. Roscoe Conkling.
After their meeting last Friday the Germans went out on a serenade. One citizen was frightened nearly to death by their mystical miculings.
The custom of one paper copying the enterprise of another paper brings to mind "Ben" Butler's old couplet:
"Apee here and apee there,
And apee the style of the Courier."
--Last Thursday two bold cavaliers attempted to hold their umbrellas over the same fair damsel. A sanguinary encounter is feared, but if they will fight it out according to Marquis of Queensbury rules our religious editor will hold the stakes—that is, the girl. Don't tell F.C.T.
— Alas, 'tis true. The class of'84, with its usual disregard for the feelings of friends, has ordered samples of plug hats. If the hats are not too high and the pocketbooks are not too low, we may yet see the unwonted vision of the Seniors with new hats, and plugs at that. It will next be in order for '84 to wear canes and tight pants and graduate into full-fledged dudes.
—Last Friday the train for Olathe was boarded by about fifteen members of the I. C. sorosis, for a visit to the homes of their new members, Misses Collins, Dow and Hubbard. They returned Snnday after a "too too" time, much to the delight of certain of our boys, who feared for the loss of their fair ones.
The following resolutions were unanimously carried in the Oread society at their last meeting:
WHEREAS, The so-called representatives of Oread society, in the Oratorical Association, were elected without consultation with this society; and
WHEREAS, The persons thus elected represent but a small portion of this society; therefore,
Resolved, That it is the sense of Oread society that it is not rightly represented in the Oratorical Association; and
Resolved, That this society declines to be represented by these persons, and calls upon the Oratorical Association to elect more fitting representatives.
Caldwell, business manager of the Review, was beaten for delegate to the Repubcan convention, but Dean, business manager of the Courier, was elected a delegate from Clinton. Moral: Courier always ahead.
OROPHILIAN It should be the aim of every student to obtain as broad an intellectual and social culture as possible. One of the best aids to this is found in the well conducted literary society. By a well conducted society we do not indicate one whose energies are spent in congratulating a particular friend upon his success in not failing to do his duty in clapping his hands until they are sore applauding some fraternal satellite, or arraying hostile forces on some hair splitting distinction; but we do mean a society whose endeavor shall be to draw out the best efforts of every member. This latter we claim for the Orophilian, and invite every student to examine for himself. The following officers were elected at the last meeting: President, Mr. Caldwell; secretary, Miss Gilmore; treasurer, Mr. Johnson; assistant-treasurer, S.M.Cook; critic, Miss Hubbard; chorister, Mr.Findley; pianist, Miss Dow; chaplain, Mr. Orsley; reporter, Mr. Mahan; janitor,Mr.Doran; executive committee, Messrs. Leach, Curry and Miss Gilmore. REPORTER.
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THE CORRIDORS.
The Normal Literary Society is now under full headway. There will be a lecture course established, with lectures by professors and other capable persons. The first will be next Friday, by Prof. Bailey. The following officers were installed at the last meeting: President, C. S. Metcalfe; vice-president, Gussie Pierson; recording secretary, Elma Pierson; corresponding secretary, Miss Deamen; critic, Mr. Billingsly; treasurer, S. S. Cassad.
Last Tuesday evening as the I. Cs. were at Prof. Miller's initiating two new members into the "sacred mysteries," a knock was heard at the door. Supposing that it was some of their members coming in late to join in the ceremonies the fair ones made a rush for the door, assailing the arrivals with various tokens of sisterly affection and reproval. They were just slightly abashed when the chancellor emerged from the reception committee, somewhat startled at the warmth of his reception. Probably Dr. Lippincott never came so near being "taken in."
The Oread Society has begun the year under very favorable auspices. Many new members have been added to the roll, and the finances are in such a shape that a long pull will be made this year toward the better furnishing of their hall. Last Friday the following programme was rendered in a manner which fully showed the opportunities and advantages offered by the society: Declamation, Gertie Russ; readings, G.W. Harrington and R.S.Horton;essay,P.R. Bennett;orations,W.W.Russ and W.Y. Morgan.After recess,the question,"Do
the spoils belong to the victor?" was discussed on the affirmative by D. J. Dunn and W. Y. Morgan; on the negative by C.E.Wood and E.E.Ritchie.The judges decided in favor of the affirmative. W.Y.Morgan, P.R.Bennett, and D.J. Dunn, were appointed a committee to confer with a similar Orophilian committee to procure a June orator.
Last spring the project of an oratorical association, which should select a speaker for an inter-state contest, was vigorously agitated. Finally a committee of six, consisting of two from each literary society, Orophilian, Oread and Normal, was appointed to open up correspondence with colleges in this state and to secure admission to the inter-state association. The committee added six members itself, one more from each society and three from the law department, and organized into a "Kansas State University Oratorical Association." A constitution was adopted and officers elected. The time for the contest is fixed for the second week in December and is open to all collegiate students. The officers are: President, L. H. Leach, vice president, H. A. McLean; treasurer, Olin Templin; business manager, W. S. Jenks: secretary, W. C. Spangler.
The purpose of the organization is very good, but there is considerable dissatisfaction with the representations of the societies. The members from the Oread society are Glen Miller, W. S. Jenks and C. S. Crane; from the Orophilian, L. H. Leach, H. A. McLean and E.F. Caldwell; from the Normal, Olin Templin, C. S. Metcalfe, one more to be chosen; from the law department, W. C. Spangler, H. T. Smith and one more to be chosen.
STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY Will find the largest stock of BOOTS AND SHOES
to slect from in the city, including all leading styles, at prices that will pay you to visit the Family Shoe Store before buying elsewhere. MASON'S
Go to FAMOUS Boot and Shoe Store.
UNIVERSITY TEXT BOOKS AT LOWEST PRICES.
Everything needed by Students in the
Book and Stationery Line.
ARTIST MATERIALS! PICTURE FRAMES! FINE STATIONERY. AT J. S. CREW & CO. THE LARGEST BOOK STORE IN KANSAS
D. F. BICELOW.
DEALER IN
Drugs, Medicines, Toilet Articles
AND PERFUMERY.
133 Mass. St., LAWRENCE, KAN.
Prescriptions filled at all hours.
IN HOUSE'S NEW BLOCK Is Where Klock & Falley
Are keeping A FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT Confectionery and Oysters in every style. 167 Massachusetts St.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
LAWRENCE BUSINESS COLLGE.
[ ESTABLISHED 1869. ]
Institute of Penmanship, Short-Hand, Telegraphy and English Training School.
Fall Term Opens September 5th.
COURSE OF STUDY.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.—Book-keeping (by Single and Double entry) Commercial Arithmetic, Rapid Calculations, Actual Business Practice, Commercial Law, Business Penmanship, Letter Writing, Spelling and Grammar.
For Journal and information, address
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
BOOR & McILRAVY Principals and Proprietors.
WM. WIEDEMANN
MANUFACTURES
PURE ICE CREAM
OF THE FINEST FLAVORS AND QUALITY. Parties and Picnics supplied on short notice. Come and give us a call.
MOAK BROS.
TEMPERANCE
BILLIARD PARLORS,
66 Massachusetts St.
MERCHANT TAILORS. For First Class Work and latest Stylet go to KUNKEL & ROCKLUND, Over Steinberg's Dry Goods Store.
GRANT & PIATT,
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
GOODS ALWAYS FRESH.
Special Attention paid to Students' Clubs
If in need of anything in our line you can get BARGAINS at 118 Massachusetts Street.
CITY SCHOOL BOOKS AT Kansas Paper Store.
JOHN DALEY,
Merchant Tailor, Winthrop St., opposite Opera House. A full line of Cloths constantly on hand. A perfect fit every time.
PERSHALL'S RESTAURANT And Dining Room.
MILLARD & COOPER,
Billiard Parlors
60 Massachusetts St.
J. J. JARMAIN,
Official butcher to the University Dining Clubs, is now to be found at
STAR MEAT MARKET,
Corner Massachusetts and Adams Street.
Kunkel & Rocklund, the Champion Tailors.
WM.E.YEAGER FLORIST,
No.28 New Hampshire Street.
F. W, JAEDICKE,
Manufacturer of and Dealer in
Guns, Rifles and Pistols,
Amunition, Fishing Tackle, Pocket Knives, &c
74 Massachusetts, St. - - - LAWRENCE, KAN.
Scotford's Portraits
The best Photographic productions in the city. 715 Main St., KANSAS CITY.
Eldridge House Barber Shop.
Thomas M. Moore,
SOLE PROPRIETOR.
JIM R. JOHNSON, Foreman.
SMITH'S NEWS DEPOT. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS. All the Finest Brands. STATIONERY, NOVELTIES, &c. Eldridge House Block.
P. ULRICKSON,
---
STOVES.
as and Steam Fitting, Tinware. Job Work done promptly.
137 Massachusetts Street.
STUDENTS,REMEMBER!
Latest Styles of Boots and Shoes AT BOYD'S,
House's New Block
CHAS. CHADWICK.
Insurance Agent,
77 Massachusetts Street.
STEELE & BELL, L. S. STEELE, PETER BELL. Attorneys, Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Agents. Office on Henry, west of Mass. St.
S. C. RUSSELL,
Attorney at Law.
77 Massachusetts Street.
R. MORRIS, M. D.
Office on Henry St., west of Mass. St.
JOHN M. PUNTON, M.D., Lawrence, Kan. Office in connection with Dr.F.D.Morse, over Woodward's Drug Store.
V. G. MILLER,
Physician and Surgeon. Office over A. Marks' Jewelry Store.
J. D. PATTERSON, DENTIST. Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
W. H. LAMON, PHOTOGRAPHER 125 Massachusetts Street.
JOHN CHARLTON
Fire and Tornado Insurance Office over Leis' Drug Store.
DR. F. H. WILSON,
AIRPLANE
DENTIST.
First Class Work and Moderate Charges. 35 Massachusetts St., LAWRENCE, KAN.
[Footwear]
G. PETERSON,
SHOEMAKER. Repairing Neatly Done. Second door back of McCurdy Block.
SAM WALKER
Will furnish Rigs at reasonable rates. Stable on North Massachusetts St.
PAT HAMLIN
Furnishes Fine Rigs at Student's Prices. Stable just East of Post Office.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
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DEPARTMENTS:
Collegiate, Preparatory, Musical, Law, Normal, Medicine, Civil Engineering.
FACULTY:
JOSHUA E. LIPPINCOTT, A.M., D.D., President Mental and Moral Philosophy.
FRANK H. SNOW, A.M., Ph.D., Natural History.
DAVID H. ROBINSON, A. M., Latin Language and Literature.
EPHRAIM MILLER, A. M., S., Mathematics.
E. H. S. BAILEY, L., Ph. D., Chemistry, Mineralogy and Metallurgy.
JAMES H. CANFIELD, A.M., History and Political Science.
KATE STEPHENS, A. M., Greek Language and Literature.
FRANK O. MARVIN, A. M., Civil Engineering and Drawing.
EDWARD L. NICHOLS, Ph.D., Physics, Astronomy.
For General Information, address
P. J. WILLIAMS, A. M., D. D., Dean of Normal Department.
LEVERETT W. SPRING, A. B., English Literature, Rhetoric, Belles Lettres and Logic.
WILLIAM A. CARRUTH, A.B., German and French Languages and Literature.
ARTHUR E. CANFIELD, A. B., Instructor in German and French.
M. W. STERLING, A B., Instructor in Latin and Greek.
L. L. DYCHE Assistant in Natural History.
W. B. BROWNELL, A. B., Elocution and English.
RICHARD A. LEHMAN, Instructor in Music.
J. W. GREEN,
Dean of Law Department.
MARCUS SUMMERFIELD,
Instructor, Law Department.
W. C. SPANGLER, Clerk.
J. HOUSE The Popular Clothier!
Grand array of attractions in Men's, Youths', Boys', and Children's Clothing. New styles for Fall and Winter now ready for you. Absolute perfection in fabric, fit, and durability, guaranteed. You may be sure of the latest and best! You may count on the lowest prices. Come right now and get a quadruple bargain.
1st bargain, Best Style; 2nd bargain, Finest Fabric; 3rd bargain, Perfect Fit; 4th bargain, Lowest Prices.
J. HOUSE, 79 Mass. St.
HENRY FUEL,
Boot and Shoe Maker.
Repairing neatly done. Custom work made to order. Two doors West of the National Bank.
STUDENTS,
Buy Your Groceries OF ENDSLEY JONES.
C. L. EDWARDS,
DEALER IN
Hard and Soft Coals. OFFICE 143 MASSACHUSETTS ST.
A. WHITCOMB,
FLORIST.
Corner Warren and Tennessee Streets, LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
MRS. GIBBS & DAUGHTERS Invite old and new friends to inspect their fine stock of
MILLINERY GOODS, OVER NEWMARK'S STORE.
Mrs. Gibbs is an experienced trimmer.
W. CRUM, Dealer in
STOVES, TINWARE
Gas, Steam and Water Fitting, Roofing Guttering, Heavy Sheet Iron Work, Hose, Gas Pipe, Brass Goods, &c. Job Work promptly done.
180 Massachusetts Street LAWRENCE, KAN.
Hamilton! Hamilton! Is Headquarters for anything in the line of Photography.
STUDENTS, call and I will guarantee satisfaction. HAMILTON,- - Opposite "Round Corner" Drug Store.
C. WICKS & CO.
Will make low figures to all who wish to buy Groceries and Provisions, Flour, Feed, &c.
84 Massachusetts Street.
C. A. PEASE & SON,
Dealers in all kinds of
Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Oysters. Sole agents for Booth's Oysters. 140 Mass. Street.
LET LAWRENCE FLOURISH!
Geo. Innes & Co.
Our Prices and Styles Have Caught Them All.
We are now ready for you--and don't care how you come. We will fit you out in good shape for less money than any concern in the state.The above has been so often and so fully proved as to be
THE TOWN TALK!
We are a progressive house, having commenced at the foot of the ladder, we have fought our way up to the top—where we now stand. We are going to sell an immense amount of goods this fall. We bought our goods at auction and of the best houses in America, and we are fully prepared for a legitimate or illegitimate competition. We are going to sell our blankets—bought at auction—this week at a low price. $1.65, $2.00 and $3.00 a pair, being $1.00 to $2.00 a pair less than the same blankets COST LAST YEAR.
MERINO UNDERWEAR.
You must keep warm. We are selling a Ladies' all All Wool Scarlet Vest at 95 cents, an Extra Fine one at $1.25, and BEST MADE at $1.50. Gents' at the same price Splendid stock of Boys', Girls' and Children's Merino Underwear from 25 cents, to $1.00 a garment. Our HEAVY MERINO HOSIERY for fall is now in stock. You can get any kind of a stocking you want from 10 cents a pair to $2.25. Buy now and save Doctor's bills.
OUR CLOAK DEPARTMENT.
We have Cloaks of various kinds for little girls four years old to big girls seventy-five years old. Our Children's Cloaks are much cheaper this year than last. Please take notice that Blankets, Hosiery and Men's Underwear, and Cloaks, are going to be sold by us this week at a Special Sale which means lower prices than the weeks following. Come and see us at 109.
GEORGE INNES & CO.
STUDENTS ATTENTION!
You will always find the newest and largest assortment of Millinery and Fancy Goods At MISSES A. & C. MUGLER, No. 113 Massachusetts Street.
PIANOS & ORGANS.
COLLECTIONS OF THE HISTORIC MUSEUM OF BOSTON
W. W. LAPHAM.
717 MAIN ST.,
Kansas City,
The Best Goods!
Decker Bros..} Píanos.
Mathushek,
Story & Camp.}
Western Agent for the
Send for Catalogue.
MISSOURI.
The Lowest Prices! Estey, Story & Camp, Organs. Dentaphone for the Deaf.
Western Agent for the Dentaphone for the Deaf. Send for Catalogue.
METTNER.
METTNER. THE PHOTOGRAPHER 79 Massachusetts Street. THE STUDENT'S POPULAR ARTIST.
W. M. CULBERTSON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Hard Coal, Soft Coal, PIEDMONT SMITHING COAL, Office 110 Massachusetts St.
We Manufacture fine Cream Candies,also keep Fruits and Confectionery. Oysters in season.
CONGRESS RESTAURANT
WILSON & NELSON. - - 73 Massachusetts St.
PALMER & GRIFFIN Dealers in Coal and Wood, Office 1st door south of M. E. Church.
Turkish Bath!
Reduced Rates to Students.
Opposite Lawrence Houes.
FALL. 1883.
TEMPLE OF FASHION
THE FINEST SUITS IN KANSAS
ARE MADE BY
McCONNELL
THE TAILOR.
63 Massachusetts Street.
THE POPULAR BARBERS HARRIS & MURPHY,
Opposite Mason's Shoe Store.
[Established 1870]
CONOVER BROTHERS.
COLLECTED BY JOHN WESTON, OF HARWOOD, N.Y.
613 Main St.
KANSAS CITY.
MANUFACTURERS OF FIRST CLASS
UPRIGHT and SQUARE PIANOS.
Publishers of Music and Music Books. Jobbers in Musical Merchandise.
General Agents for "Steinway and Sons" and "J. & C. Fischer" Pianos. "Geo. Woods & Co." "Burdett," and "Shoninger" Organs.
235 E. 21st St..
NEW YORK.
C. W. STRAFFON, Prescription Druggist.
AN INVITATION
Is extended to the public generally-exacting, economical and critical buyers included-to call and inspect our
LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT OF
Fine Ready-Made Clothing
FOR FALL AND WINTER,
which is equal to the best made to order garments in style, materials, make finish, and in fit, but price about one-third off.
We are fully aware that the Clothing of to-day must have style, quality and economy, to sell it. Because we know this so well, is why we venture to carry the largest stock of Clothing in the State of Kansas, and why we have just completed the handsomest, most commodious Clothing Palace in the West to keep it in.
Careful examination solicited by
Steinberg, the King Clothier,
87 Massachusetts St.,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
The Fortnight ... PAGE 61
With Slower Pen ... 63
City Government ... 63
Can America Have A Literature? ... 66
Editorial ... 68
Scientific ... 70
Views ... 79
Normal ... 73
Swaps ... 74
Personal ... 75
The Corridors ... 77
H. A. CUTLER PRINTER, LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
For Nobby HATS and TIES go to NEWMARK'S.
S. T. FIELD,
(Successor to BATES & FIELD.)
Bookseller and Stationer,
99 Massachusetts Street.
Would respectfully call the attention of STUDENTS to his very large and complete stock of
UNIVERSITY TEXT BOOKS
STATIONERY SUPPLIES.
AND ARTISTS' MATERIALS,
Which he offers at the lowest living prices. The paper for the COURIER is furnished by S. T. FIELD.
SPECIAL BARGAINS
In Men's Youths' and Boys'
OVERCOATS!
New Goods! New Styles! Bottom Prices!
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED AT THE---
New York Clothing House,
Corner Massachusetts and Warren Streets,
LAWRENCE, - - - - - KANSAS.
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The University Courier.
. OCTOBER 24,1883. No.4.
THE FORTNIGHT.
The die is cast, the stroke has fallen, the fat man has slipped upon the banana-skin, and Ohio has gone Democratic. Many of our students were considerably worked up over this national blessing, or national calamity, each one regarding it as the color of his individual politics determined. A suffering student-public may congratulate itself that the excitement of a close fight in the contest elections has taken the attention of noble Junior and Senior war-horses from matters of state, else there were danger that those attending chapel be turned into as many animated volumes of Von Holst and the Tribune Almanac.
Some of our rising upper class men evidently think:
The quality of politics is not strained;
They drop, as does the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath; they make to bloom
With wisdom of the Junior the dry soil
Of wide-mouthed Preps and Freshman; they become
The mighty Senior better than his plug,
That attribute to awe aud majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of Profs;
Above this plugged sway stand politics,
Enthroned in the hearts of Congressmen,
And attributes to Presidents themselves;
Thus students are most like to Presidents
When politics season study.
When politics season study.
As co-education and woman-suffrage are making such rapid strides, and as we must be nothing if not consistent, no doubt the
young ladies will soon agitate their tende minds with grave and awful questions of state. But here arises another difficulty What if the noble Senior and his best girl, his particular affinity, get upon opposite sides of the political fence,-we shudder to think upon it.
In this connection we rise to felicitate the editor-in-chief of our E. C., that great and fearless adovcate of the patent-medicine cause in the west, the Lawrence Daily Journal. After consistently and unhesitantly riding the fence of country politics—until the fence broke down under him—he has at last, when all hope seemed lost, fallen upon his feet, as it were, and lighted on the firm floor of an office. By the unpurchased votes of his charmed and enthusiastic fellow-studeuts, he has been elected—SECRETARY OF OREAD SOCIETY!!! We congratulate the gentleman, that his noble resolve of leaving the pestilential marshes of country politics for the exalted heights of Oread statesmanship has been so soon and so fittingly rewarded. Long may the hand that has written those mighty "leaders" inscribe in faultless chirography the important transactions of Oread Society!
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The other day, when we asked the Prof. of English Literature how many were taking Anglo-Saxon, we were surprised to hear that not one of our ambitious Juniors had attempted its intricacies. Of course, Anglo-Saxon is of no "practical" value whatever, but we did think that at least two or three Juniors would have courage or curiosity enough to spend the insignificant time of ten weeks upon it. This is only another example of the worst trait of our American college-students, of the anxiety to "get through," somehow or anyhow; of the wish to acquire only such knowledge as shall be "practical," then to rush out into the world. It is this feeling that makes the classes in Greek, one of the two great literatures, so miserably small. Sciences are compulsory; German and a little Latin are taken instead of better work; mathematics have an exactness very satisfactory to that man of affairs, the young American. But in all this there is an effort for knowledge rather than wisdom, for expertness rather than culture.
And yet another new magazine has appeared to try its fortune in what would seem an already overcrowded field. The English Illustrated Magazine is, in some respects, a new idea. It makes illustration a prominent feature, and backs up its pictures with articles by the best writers. In the first number we have a beautiful wood engraving of Alma Tadema's "Shy" for the frontispiece. F. W. Maitland writes very entertainingly of the old English law-courts and of Westminster, where judges sat for more than six hundred years. Mr. Swinburne contributes a somewhat spun-out poem on those famous rocks near the Channel Islands, the Casquettes. "The Dormouse at Home" is shown up by Grant Allen, who is an enthusiastic evolutionist, writing in the manner of John Burroughs. Our aesthetes will read Comyns Carr's article on Rosetti;
our scientist, Prof. Huxley on oysters. The curious in folk-tales will find an Irish story by William Black,and the novel-readers Mrs. Young's serial, "The Amourer's 'Prentices.'" The excellence of its articles, the number and quality of its illustrations, the beauty of its typography, and its low price all combine to recommend the English Illustrated Magazine.
The monthly magazine seems to be rapidly becoming the chief vehicle of literature. Commencing with the staid and sober review, it has absorbed the original material which the review undertook to analyse and condense for its readers. We have now in this country at least four first-class general monthlies, besides a number of special publications. Two of these four add the attractions of illustration to their literary merit, one of the others gains a hold upon our politics-loving people by giving prominence to such subjects, while the fourth maintains its reputation as the best purely literary monthly. Below these four are others of all degrees of goodness or badness. But the Century, Harper's, the North American and the Atlantic are easily chief. Every student should endeavor to read every month, at least one article in each of the four.
Now we are on the subject, why would not this be a good time to revive the Kansas Magazine. The quality of work done before, in face of all financial discouragements, was a surprise to the outside world. It was a shame that the people of this state permitted so good a periodical to die of neglect. Kansas should be prouder of those four volumes than of her corn-crops. If this ever reaches the eye of Henry King, whose pen first elevated the literature of Kansas to the dignity of the Atlantic and Scribner, let him consider that he had a better occupation before than grinding on a daily paper. Let us have the Kansas Magazine once more.
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LITERARY
WITH SLOWER PEN.
With slower pen men used to write,
Of old, when "letters" were "polite;"
In Anna's or in George's days,
They could afford to turn a phrase,
Or trim a straggling theme aright.
They knew not steam; electric light Not yet had dazed their calmer sight; They meted out both blame and praise With slower pen.
More swiftly now the hours take flight!
What's read at morn is dead at night;
Scant space have we for Art's delays,
Whose breathless thought so briefly stays
We may not work—ah! would we might,
With slower pen!
CITY GOVERNMENT.
The scenes painted in the history of our young republic are not less immortal than those of Greece and Rome, or old England herself. You know the stories—how we killed the native savages and took possession of their soil, how we wrested the reins of government from the hands of king George, and how, after a century's struggling, we freed ourselves from that devouring cancer, human slavery, which was fast corrupting our principles and eating away our national life. Though the newest, and in extent the vastest independent settlement of our race, we have borne a strain, says the historian, as hard as any community of men was ever called on to go through. The union on American soil of so much that is new and untried with so much that is ripe with age and experience from ancient civilizations, affords subjects of speculation deeper, perhaps, than can be found in the history of
any other commonwealth. Our orators—Wendell Phillips leading the van—tell us that we have demonstrated the fact of a democratic government, of a free people successfully managing their own affairs. Practical statesmen tell us that this is simply the language of an oracle; that the progress which our country has made for a century past, is due not to any problem of government which has been actually worked out, but to our vast territory, abundant resources, natural wealth, and to the care with which they have watched over the cradle of liberty. Again, the voice of the people speaks, and we hear that the government rests in the hands of a mob of selfish, unprincipled men, some of them accessible to bribes and the rest ready to "wink at corruption," and to sacrifice honor for the sake of personal advantage or that of their party. The history of our country, as writ-
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ten, furnishes volumes in vindication of each of these views. Cheered by the future and warned by the past, our faith lingers when we accept a third of each as truth.
Aristotle says that the popular orator is a dangerous public parasite.
Burke, who spent a half century in the study of governments, tells us that in matters of national right and wrong the people are usually to be trusted.
Gladstone affirms that the people gain most of their political knowledge from the press, and our greatest living American orator declares that "nothing but milksoops and fribbles indulge in the amusement of keeping journals."
Hume says that in self-governed states the power rests with the numerical majority.
Plato continues that in every community the fools are in the majority, and Froude adds that it is the special characteristic of a fool that he generally chooses to have an opinion of his own.
And weeping "Bob,'" when he looked into the future, might have sobbed, 'tears for the dead and cheers for the living.'
We are hopeful and draw our own conclusions, deeming the opinions of each not as a proof but as an indication of where truth rests.
If some great statesman could rise before us, whose political foresight and judgment could discern the workings of our institutions and the circumstances under which our commonwealth exists, as clearly as did Demosthenes those of Greece, when he stirred the "men of Athens" with a voice like a trumpet, to fight Philip of Macedon, he would say, of all the issues which will command the attention of the American people, the question of how to govern our cities well will demand the most energetic thought and active moral courage. We are accustomed to boast of our cities, of their rapid growth and splendor of their riches
and fine dwellings, of their manufactures and commerce, of their intellectual and social advantages, and our people are everywhere hastening into these, fancied Utopias, to be engulfed in the cloud of city temptation and wrecked virtue which hangs over them as dark and heavy as their clouds of smoke.
While they are centers of business and trade, yet they are not producers, but consumers of wealth; and the wealth is by no means owned by the people, but belongs to a few monied kings who have assumed the mastership of throngs of the poorer classes. Of the vast amount of real and personal property incorporated within the bounds of the city of New York, four thousand persons control more than one-half of it.
Of the fate of ancient and modern cities time scarcely allows reference. Of Babylon, the symbol of civic corruption; of Athens, striving for everlasting beauty, teaching humanity for centuries, and then falling supine in crime and sluggishness; of Thebes, aspiring to gigantic grandeur, wasting away in feasts, banquets and revelry; of Carthage, the slave of greedy merchants, devoid of honor, integrity and patriotism; of the dying embers of Corinth, or the flaming ruins of Jerusalem; of Rome, founded on the experience of ages, built in the radiant light of the cities she destroyed, and after assuming and collecting to herself the wealth of the world, she rots in debauchery, and in turn illumines the distant paths of history by her own flames, fired by the torch of Alaric and resounding by the shouts of the Vandals. But where in the records of history can we find a parallel to the lawless atrocity of our own age? In the fate of Paris. For years she smouldered, heated by her own moral decay. At last the flame, fanned by her own people and fed by blasted human principles, broke out. The corruption of ages burned.
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From those ashes which Napoleon, king of savages, tried to wash away with human blood, the feverish heat of extravagance and excitement still shines as a beacon of malignity and caution to all people.
Time is two short to refer to London, which is said to be the best governed large city on earth, where eighty-nine persons died last winter from actual starvation, and where one out of every nineteen is a wretched pauper. But look at New York, our own eulogized, flourishing empire city. Its government as carried on for years, has not only been disgraceful, but stripped of the common virtues of dignity, honesty and common sense. For years the city was ruled by the infamous Tweed ring, composed of a gang of robbers, who, with impunity, violated law, used the public money to enrich themselves and control voting mobs. The experiment of the new charter has failed, and the best citizens desire to return to the old principle of self-government. In spite of the exertions of the board of health and the urgent advice of physicians, the streets were allowed to become so filthy winter before last, that an epidemic of typhus, diptheria, and small pox raged for months, distressing the people with the horrors of a sweeping pestilence. Thousands of the people met in public meetings and passed the most vigorous resolutions; committees of the most wealthy and influential citizens were appointed; the legislature was called upon; the mayor and city council were petitioned and implored—and all to no effect. There was no effective authority, no control, no power, no means by which the people could secure themselves against the malignant rancor of a destroying plague. To broach the subject of street cleaning was to court opprobrium and to set political factions and wrangling mobs to quarreling and fighting. The whole subject was finally decided—to be a scheme for
bribing votes, and the idea that street cleaning had nothing to do with politics was denounced as a heresy.
What is still more pitiable is that the other departments of government were conducted on the same principle.
This is but one illustration;but it may furnish us with a glimpse of the future, when each state in our commonwealth will be dotted with scores of cities. Most of our municipal governments,and to a considerable extent those of our towns and villages, are literally at the mercy of intoxicated mobs composed for the most part of non-taxpayers and ignorant neutralized foreigners.
The question is asked, Who can tell where all this will end? It remains to be seen whether any form of government can be devised which will secure a decent and honest administration for cities, and at the same time maintain the principle of universal suffrage, where orgaized mobs are the willing tools of unscrupulous politicians, and where there is a constant rising tide of foreign ignorance and brutality. The essential thing, as Aristotle says, is that the government, whatever it is, shall be of a kind which possesses confidence of the people. To possess the confidence of the people, it must be like the people, a reflection of their minds and morals, good or bad as they may be.
We may hope for justice and equality in municipal administration when public virtue can be made the ruling trait of voters; when the degraded morals of an European element can be purified; when modesty, virtue and comonn sense are made the household gods around which family circles kneel.
Harper's Magazine for December will be a beautiful christmas number, with stories and illustrations by the best writers and artists.
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CAN AMERICA HAVE A LITERATURE?
CAN AMERICA HAVE A LITERATURE?
In the first Courier of this year a certain writer has discussed quite fully the question, "Has America a Literature?" He takes considerable pains to prove, what we knew before, that a book does not necessarily belong to the literature of a country merely because it is written in that country. He shows how English literature has been written in all countries, and charges that American literature, thus far, has been no more than English literature. All this I grant, and will hereafter endeavor to show that it couldnot well be otherwise.
He says: "Before a nation can produce a literature essentially its own, it must have a kind of feeling and a system of thought peculiarly its own." Very true; what I conceive him to mean is, that a writer's verse or prose must have that peculiar flavor of national life, very easy to perceive but very hard to define, which some one has called the "taste of the soil." This is only to be found in early and what may be called spontaneous literatures; and by spontaneous I mean those works in which there is the least possible trace of conscious literary art, that spring direct from the people, coming so entirely from all the race that we cannot know their author.
The best examples of this are the many folk-tales to be found in all nations. Many of these, it is true, are common property of all Aryan peoples, and the ethnologist draws his conclusions therefrom, but each race has moulded and colored them according to its own genius, and has added inventions of its own.
How these tales arose is a minor question. The sun-myth explanation fits some; with others it is simply ridiculous; to treat them as actual history is to strain human credulity. But telling stories has always been and will always continue to be the great
source of amusement for mankind. In the childhood of the race these tales, many of them subjects of religious belief, were told and retold, combined and recast by countless generations of story-tellers until they became interwoven with the life of the people only less than that greatest effort of unconscious production, its language.
That these stories are the basis of most imaginative literature is easy to show. Whence did Chaucer and Shakspere get much of their material? From the Novelle of Boccaccio and Bandello. And whence these latter? From the Italian and Sicilian stories and from the French Fabliaux.
The best critics seem now to agree that Homer only shaped into an artistic whole the floating legends of the god-like heroes who went forth to recover the stolen Helen, or of the long and weary wanderings of the stedfast, goodly Odysseus, the most cunning of men. But these legends sprang from the people—were not borrowed from without.
Like to Homer ear the Saga-men of the North, differing only as the outward aspects of nature gave different turns to their imaginations. Thus the Northern tales are filled with bulky giants and tricksy dwarfs, which the finer artistic sense of the Greek intellect rejected.
Now it is literatures like these that are truly national. Homer and Aischyeos and Plato are Greek, and have no mixture of foreign cultures.
This is explanable by two reasons. One, that their literature sprang from the very soil. They had behind them no literary forms or traditions. Even if they took much from the surrounding nations, it is so worked over as to be wholly unrecognizable.
The reason for this last is to be found in
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the intense national individuality of the Greeks. The average Hellene regarded all other peoples as but little better than beasts. Barbarian languages they considered as but little removed from the cries of wild animals. The very word barbaros seems to come from a root meaning to speak inarticulately. Wherever the men of Hellas settled, whatever their occupations, they kept the customs, manners and religion of their fatherland; they remained Hellenes. Thus the Greeks, wholly self-centered, and working out the materials within themselves, produced a literature such as no nation has ever excelled, and but one ever seemed to equal. Thus they became the intellectual ancestors of all our modern world of thought. Yet it must be remembered that Homer is the source of imaginative Greek literature. Even Aischylos, the mightiest of tragedians, describes himself as picking up the crumbs of Homer's banquet. Now what are the poems of Homer? A collection of stories told about a great war, and of the return of one of its heroes.
As I have said before, it seems most likely that Homer only cast these folk-tales into artistic form, that he was only the editor and reviser of stories by unknown authors.
When do we find the next great period in literature? In the age of Elizabeth, when young Europe, stirred from its sleep of centuries, is beginning to look forth upon the world, and to see the beauty and joyousness of life.
Yet Chaucer and Shakespeare are not English in the sense that Homer and Aischylos are Greek. The English writers are the intellectual heirs of the Hellenic. Compared with the Roman or American the Elizabethan literature is national, but not as the Greek literature is national.
tion and literary form derived from the classic literatures, there is also the influence of unnational religion. Christianity tends to make men introspective and selfquestioning. For instance, the same motive—the murder of his father by his mother—that is enough for Orestes, is not sufficient for Hamlet.
New influences are at work on the minds of men. Aside from the weight of tradi-
Thus we see that even English literature borrows so much, is moved by such influences contrary to the original genius of the race that it is no longer truly national. English literature, like English speech, is heavily indebted to the classic races.
Now I come to the final question: "Can America have a literature?" The answer must be, No.
I have endeavored to show what are the sources and what is the growth of a national literature. From the past we may judge of the future.
The conditions which we see to have produced a real national literature in the past are: the absence of any overhanging traditions of literary form or manner; a religion developed from the people; a folk-lore well known and dear to the hearts of the nation; and last, but by no means least important, a certain mental seclusion from surrounding nations.
All these are now impossible. We have the weight of twenty-five centuries of literary tradition ubon us; we have a foreign religion; our folk-lore has been overthrown and driven from remembrance by the progress of the exact sciences. The printing press, the steam engine, the telegraph, have annihilated space and time.
So, in my opinion, it were vain for us, as Americans, to hope for a national literature. Men are becoming every day more cosmopolitan. A universal language and literature may, perhaps, be among the possibilities; an American, never. Whether this is to be regretted or no, must for us of to-day remain an open question.
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EDITORIAL.
UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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WANTED-BETTER ELOCUTION.
The Courier company, encouraged by the results of last year, has renewed its offer of four prizes for the best chapel rhetoricals. Two of these prizes will go to the Freshman and two to the Sophomore class. Ordinarily we are opposed to prizes, as being the most fruitful source of contention. But anything that will increase the interest in elocution is certainly a boon to the University.
Good speaking is a rare, though highly appreciated art. Even in our legislative halls, it is a possession of a select few. The good speaker has a passport to favor wherever he goes. Considering these facts, the elocutionary department should be the best supported in the University. Instead, however, of elocutionary work being supplied with the best facilities, we find it crippled to an extraordinary degree.
The instructor in elocation is now merely
an assistant in the department of English. He is required to train two hundred and fifty students for chapel, twice each year. He conducts two regular elocutionary classes, containing fifty pupils each. He prepares performers for the society contest in December, for three society entertainments in June, for the various prize contests, and for the class day and commencement day exhibitions. Work of this nature is most trying on the physical and mental energies of the instructor. And yet, in addition to all'this, he is called upon to teach other classes. Thorough work under such circumstances is an impossibility. Hercules might have found a thirteenth labor in conducting the elocutionary department in the University of Kansas.
What we need is an independent "Department of Elocution." Elocutionary drill should be inserted in the curriculum for every year, and should be made compulsory. The members of the higher classes should have partial charge of training beginners, thus relieving the professor and disciplining themselves. Off-hand debating should be made a regular exercise for advanced scholars. A department thus organized and conducted would double the value of work in every other department. The presenting of facts and arguments is of scarcely less importance than their acquirement. We do not want to make tragedians or dramatic readers, but we should make our students ready, accurate, and even eloquent, off-hand speakers.
Prof. Brownell is an instructor able to carry out these ideas. He is an excellent teacher of common sense or practical elocation—the kind needed in our institution. All the students who have received training at his hands are enthusiastic in his praise. Hampered as the department is, however neither he nor any one else can approach the thoroughness the work demands. Till
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better facilities are provided, the only remedy lies in the individual efforts of the students. The literary societies offer their aid. The oratorical association was organized for a similar purpose. For this object, also, the Courier offers its prizes for the best rhetoricals given from the chapel rostrum.
OUR INDEPENDENCE.
We disagree with those who say the denominational and private institutions of the state are a detriment to the University. We believe they are a blessing to us, whether they are to their pupils or not. The very cry they raise. "The right of the University students to do as they please," helps rather than injures us. The student who must be bound down with rules and regulations is not the one we desire. If he cannot keep out of a saloon without signing a pledge to that effect; if he will not go to church without being required to do so; if his company is of such a character that he must receive it in the presence of the teacher; if his college paper is of a kind to require the constant censorship of the faculty; if his every action must be spied out, and a daily report be sent to his gaurdian; if the student is of this character we do not want him. The denominational schools kindly remove him from our care and we should thank them for it. The wild boy and giddy girl cannot be trusted to the University. They must be sent where they "will be under the immediate supervision of the principal." We do not say these schools have none but the irresponsible ones. Such is not the case; but they do remove from us those persons who are a trouble wherever they go. For this reason we say the eleventh class colleges of our state are doing us a good work. As academies for us they would be poor excuses, unless differently managed. Let their good work go on.
What is the result of students' independence in the University? Our students behave themselves, pay their bills, mind their own business. They receive company when they please, but do not usurp study hours to do it. They attend parties, dances, theaters, but not to the detriment of health. Our college papers, which are under the exclusive control of students, will speak for themselves. No one is compelled to attend church; yet our students are not only church-goers, but we have the most prosperous Y.M.C.A.in the state. Our insultation is free from hazing and other dishonorable conduct. Our students are made self-reliant, energetic, responsible. Finally, the graduate from the University is not reminded of the existence of his college home by monthly letters begging for donations, but by reading in the press the names of former classmates, who have become eminent in private and public life.
Ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling has been chosen June orator by the joint society committee. We understand there is a strong probability that he will accept. As a politician, Mr. Conkling is anything but popular in Kansas. We hope, however, the bad grace shown last year will not again display itself. We select men for their oratorical ability, not for their political or religious opinions.
The professional politician of the University should learn a lesson. It is a matter of record that those who have done the dirty work—those who have schemed, electioneered and bull-dozed others—have seldom received any honors for their labor. The diligent and faithful student generally comes out ahead. This shows that the students exercise good judgment in selecting their representatives, for nowhere ought political trickery to be successful.
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SWAPS.
SWAPS.
The Occident sits down on our contemporary.
The department Courierosities in the Monmouth Courier is well edited.
The Wabash comes to our table rather slim in girth, but containing good matter in all departments.
—The Swaps man received a little book entitled Health Notes for Students, by Prof. Wilder. It contains many valuable notes and hints for students.
The Amherst "Senate" system is attracting much attention throughout the American college world. It is a method of government proposed by President Seelye, a man of large experience with students.
-Harvard has a co-operative society which tends to greatly reduce the expenses of those wishing to avail themselves of it. It would be well if K. S.U. could have some such organization among her students.
—Out of the smouldering ruins of her noble University comes the Indiana Student without even the smell of fire upon her garments. Although fire may blacken and char the walls it cannot injure, but rather strengthens the true university, the spirit of her sons. We extend to you the heartfelt sympathy of the Courier.
—Colby Echo contains a good article on Hypatia, Kingsley's heroine, slain by an ecclesiastical mob. In the same issue it has a long poem, "The Sea," which is a very prosy mixture dished up in attempted measure. The author evidently thought when he started out that blank verse pen-tameter was his stronghold; but soon he floats away beyond the confines of this
verse'' and adopts hexameter, with an occasional rhyme. Finally he settles down into rhyming tetrameter catalectic and with this finishes his labored effort.
The Star-Cresent is upon our table in its infancy. Although it is quite young for a phrenological examination, we believe if you will use a little less slang, conform a little more to the accepted arrangement, and leave out those cuts, for they are not funny, you will find a welcome place wherever you go.
The Argonaut gives us a "stab." That is right Mr. Argonaut; we were not angling for suckers but got a bite. Your voice has doubtless been heard throughout the length and breadth of the land, and all college papers will forever hereafter cease to clip, publish or compose anything of that nature.
The October number of the Transcript is very anxious for the proposed amendment in Ohio. The smoke has cleared away and we are sorry to say the amendment was lost. All the clogs and hindrances have not yet been removed, and the car of progress moves slowly in consequence.
We learn from the Indiana Student that Christian Boisen, (whom many of the old students will remember) is dead. Although Mr. Boisen was here but a short time he won the respect of all who knew him, and all will agree that a young life, buoyant with hope, and full of glorious promise, was cut off "long ere its prime."
The Prince of Naples, son of King Humbert, is said to be a constant reader of our American magazine for boys and girls St. Nicholas.
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SCIENTIFIC.
The capacity of the Great Eastern is equal to 1330 coal cars.
The corner stone of the Manual Training School of Chicago, was laid Monday, Sept.24.
The completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad was marked by the driving of a golden spike.
The "Flying Dutchman," a tram running from London to Bristol, travels more rapidly than any other tram in the world. It completes a distance of 1184 miles, making no stops, in two hours.
Mr. Tromas Urguhart has made some successful experiments with petroleum refuse for fuel in locomotives, and has found that there is an economy of at least 50 per cent. on the side of petroleum over either coal or wood.
The longest single span double track bridge was completed some time ago, on the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad to Weehawkin. The span is 290 feet and weighs 1,160,585 pounds. It was built 25 feet to one side of the present site and moved to its place in six hours by means of hydraulic jacks.
Cincinnati is the birthplace of the latest smoke consumer, the invention of J. S. Bardwell. A section of fire-clay is constructed on the bridge wall, the tubes being two feet in length with a diameter of two inches. The fire is started with coke, and the tubes soon get red hot, and then no matter what fuel is used, the smoke disappears in passing the fire-clay tubes, and beyond them is pure white flame. The cost of reconstruction of a furnace is said to be about 15.—The American Engineer.
Leavenworth is to have a Union Depot built by the railroads entering that place.
—"Arabian," the first engine run on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was lost a short time ago by the burning of the Cincinnati Exposition building. This little engine was built in 1834 by the above named road, and being its first it was kept as a relic after it was unable to serve its original purpose.
An Electric Gun. Colonel Fosbery created a sensation at a lecture he recently gave to an assembly of officers, small-arms inventors and other experts at the Royal United Service Institute, London, by suddenly drawing from its place of hiding, under the table, a wonderful new gun, which he had just brought from Liege. He called it a "baby electric gun." It looked like a pretty carbine, but it had no mechanism, and could not possibly go off until connected to the source of electric force. This done, it could be fired with amazing rapidity, 104 rounds having a few days before been fired from it by its inventor, M. Preper, of Liege, in two minutes. Colonel Fosbery fired two shots with infinitesimal powder charges. He had prepared himself by secreting under his vest a small circuit of wire and putting on a banderole, supporting what looked like a two-ounce vial, but was in fact an electric accumulator, with sufficient stored-up energy to discharge 2,000 rounds. The cartridges were innocent looking mites, and contained no detonating substance; nothing, in fact, but simple powder and a wad. The opinion was expressed by various speakers that the electric gun must revolutionize the manufacture of small arms within a brief period.—Electrical Journal.
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SCIENTIFIC.
It was originally intended that the signal for change of classes in the University should be given by a system of electric bells, one in each room connected with a clock in the laboratory of physics. With this same clock also were connected three electrical clocks. The necessary wires were placed within the walls. As might have been expected, in the course of time the wires became grounded to such an extent as to interfere with the success of the system. It is now impossible to restore the insolation without disfiguring the walls. The Courier suggests that a large electric bell be placed in each hall, and that the few wires that may be necessary, be run along the surface of the wall where they may easily be examined and repaired when out of order, thus avoiding the complication of numerous wires and bells.
As for the clocks, we would also suggest the substitution of reliable eight day clocks wherever needed for the electrical ones. The labor and trouble of winding them once in eight days would be far less than the care of a ten or twelve cell battery.
Probably the first man in England to notice the properties of saline solution to become heated to their own higher boiling point by the absorption of steam, was Faraday. According to this law Mr. Honigman has constructed a fireless steam engiue. The engine has no smoke stack and consists of two cylindrical boilers, the one enveloped by the other. The inner one contains water, the other caustic soda. Water of the right temperature, and the caustic soda, is supplied from tanks. The steam at a temperature of $ 212^{\circ} $ Far. after being used in the cylinder is passed into the outer boiler where it is evaporated, causing the caustic soda to rise to its boiling point of $ 374^{\circ} $ Honigman's engine has been at work on English tramways and has proven a success. It will do good work for house fires with one
charge. The water of the used solution may be evaporated at the chemical works, and the former charicteristic of the solution restored. In localities where it is desirabie to avoid dirt and smoke, and there is a lack of wood, this engine will supply the wants admirably. Mr. Honigman deserves special commendation for his energy in an age when investigations with steam are to a great extent abandoned for electricity.
The cabinet of minerals collected and owned by Mr.J.C. Cooper, of Topeka, is well known among scientific men as one of the best and most complete single collections west of the Mississippi river. It is intrinsically valuable because of the taste, judgment and scientific knowledge displayed by Mr. Cooper in its collection and it is a matter of pride to Kansas that one of her busy citizens has been able to accomplish so much in purely scientific lines. Friends of the University have long felt that this cabinet should finally become the property of this institution and that in this fitting manner it should be preserved to the state. We understand that it has recently been offered to the State Uuiversity on most liberal terms, and that with his usual enterprise Prof. Snow has taken the initiative in its acceptance. It will be removed to the University building within a few months, where the Board of Regents will gladly care for it while arrangements are being completed for its final possession.
American Journal of Mathematics. J.J. Sylvester, editor. Thomas Craig, Ph. D., assistant editar. Published under the auspices of Johns Hopkins University. Such is the title page of a journal devoted to the higher mathematics, now in the sixth year of its publication. Our students who wish to know what the masters of the present day are doing in various lines of the perfect science, now have the opportunity, for a complete set of this Journal in question, from the first issue has just been obtained for the University library.
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VIEWS.
Students, did you ever stop to consider the gains and losses sustained by you in these little society fights, and then in all coolness weigh each side carefully, with a view of ascertaining whether you were bettered by them or not? You weigh every other proposed action before performing it; but in society elections you often lose sight of reason and rush blindly into a conflict with your fellow classmates, determined to win a position for yourself or a friend, no matter what it cost. Is this right? Is it doing justice to yourself, your friends or your parents? No one within the walls of the K. S. U. can say yes to these questions without feeling the stings of conscience. You know you neglect your studies; become intensely interested; think more of college politics than of college work; hate those once your friends; take glory in calling them "liars," and grow gradually into a first-class "ward politician,'" fit for almost nothing except wire-pulling, blackguarding and a general kicker-up of rows. Is it worth your while to lose the friendship of even one, to gain a position upon a contest program? Does it pay to work, and sweat, and scheme for a society honor, when in so doing you detract from your individual honor? Can any one of you afford to neglect work you were sent here to perform, by entering so zealously into matters of minor importance? Think of these questions.
If the Orophilians have as big a fight next Friday as did the Oreads on last Friday, I really believe it would be for the best interests of student life to have the literary societies placed under the control of the faculty, it having power to close them up
entirely when such a spirit of warfare is being generated by opposing factions. If secret societies would confine themselves to their proper sphere of work it would never be necessary to take such a step, but as long as they make themselves a unit for the securing of positions to any of their number, we may expect nothing but warfare. "Barbs" are not to be trampled upon; the sooner any fraternity recognizes this fact the better will it be for all. Nine-tenthsof the rows kicked up in this University during the past four years can be traced either directly or indirectly to fraternities. A back seat will be the ultimate result of every blind Greek, unless the fraternities recognize ability wherever found. Greeks must learn to cease saying, "I will not associate with 'barbs,' they are too inferior to me." Bless you, aren't you aware that several of the best students in K. S. U. have refused to associate with you in the secret hall? It does me good to see it. It shows that the fraternity man's action is watched as well as that of the "barb." Our society halls are now the battle grounds upon which these distinctions are being fought down. If fraternity men will crush them out there will be no struggles, and we cau write on our society walls peace, not war. This once done, our societies will be inviting to new students instead of disgusting, as they now appear to many. Neither will there be any reason for blackballing worthy applicants prior to an election for fear such a one may vote upon the wrong side. As fraterity men we ought to fight against the growth of these distinctions now altogether too apparent.
Shall we do it? L. H. LEACH.
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NORMAL.
NORMAL.
Query—How are the normals going to finish "Trig?"
The third year normals will take astronomy with the regular Junior class this year. Leave one more for the normal department.
'82. We had the pleasure of shaking hands with L.M. Spray one day last week. He is employed for the ensuing year in our Capital city schools.
The college journals will be furnished with reports of the workings of the normal in their society meetings, by Miss Eva Halsted. E.L.Cowdric will perform a similar duty for the city papers.
The first of the series of semi-monthly lectures before the Normal society was delivered by Prof. Bailey, Friday, Oct. 12. The subject being,' "The Chemistry of Common Things."
The professor explained by experiments many of the wonders and workings of common things, to the entire satisfaction of a large and appreciative audience, making many friends among the normalites, who will always be glad to welcome him to our lecture field.
The second lecture will be delivered by Prof. D. H. Robinson, next Friday afternoon.
At present about seventy-five students have entered the Normal department, against forty-two for the same time last year.
The Senior Normals were marshalled in Prof. Marvin's room a few days ago to straighten up their grades in order to go out with'84. The faculty have taken a wise step in establishing this precedent. It not only saves them a great deal of time and annoyance at the end of the school year, but it causes the students to go to work at once and make up their deficiencies, instead of putting them off and off as some of them have done in the past, until it becomes almost impossible to "get through."
The best work a teacher does for a child is to teach him how to learn for himself. The crusade against text books had its inspiration in the prevalent notion that children who learned from books would never learn for themselves; and now we have been taught, at great expense of experience, that one can teach objectively and still not train pupils to study for themselves. We have learned that it is in the teacher and her inspiring and directing power, rather than in any theory, that the secret of such success lies. Study this art and your reputation is secure. The teacher does well to remember that the school life is only from six to twelve years interjected into a life that may be three score and ten, and the school room is not the end of existence, but merely the means to an end, and the teacher should so use it.- American Teacher.
'83, Geo. E. Rose, came up a short time ago and spent the Sabbath with his brother and sisters, who are attending the University. George reports himself well pleased with his position at Armourdale.
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PERSONAL.
'82, A. W. Hill, was in town yesterday.
Miss Sallie Loveland went down to K. C. last Friday.
J. I. Sweezey, a student of three years ago, is practicing medicine at Osage City.
P. O. Smith, an old student, is working in the Santa Fe office at Atchison.
P. E. Gregory, formerly a prominent Orophilian, is studying law in Carbondale.
Misses Hubbard and Dow enjoyed a visit from their mothers on last Friday.
Miss Edith Webber has returned from an extensive visit to Chicago and Cleveland.
Hon. J. W. Green, dean of the law department, has been very ill, but is rapidly recovering.
Grant McAlexander, a prominent student of last year, is under Uncle Sam's tutelage at West Point.
Robt. Hutcheson, a student of two years ago, is studying medicine in the K. C. Medical College.
'83, J. G. Smith, came up from Kansas City Thursday to attend the Senior class reception.
Alvah H. Pearson (formerly of '81) was renominated for county surveyor by the Republican county convention.
'82, L. M. Spray, was in the city last week. Mr. Spray is teaching in the Topeka schools and is meeting with good success.
W. Y. Morgan is quite ill. The result of the election and the effect of the black kids, in which he appeared Friday night, was too much fo his small frame.
—'82, A. W. Hill, was in town yesterday.
—Miss Sallie Loveland went down to K. C. last Friday.
—J. I. Sweezey, a student of three years ago, is practicing medicine at Osage City.
—P. O. Smith, an old student, is working in the Santa Fe office at Atchison.
—P. E. Gregory, formerly a prominent Orophilian, is studying law in Carbondale.
--Misses Hubbard and Dow enjoyed a visit from their mothers on last Friday.
--Miss Edith Webber has returned from an extensive visit to Chicago and Cleveland.
—Hon. J.W.Green, dean of the law department, has been very ill, but is rapidly recovering.
—Grant McAlexander, a prominent student of last year, is under Uncle Sam's tutelage at West Point.
—Robt. Hutcheson, a student of two years ago, is studying medicine in the K. C. Medical College.
--'83, J. G. Smith, came up from Kansas City Thursday to attend the Senior class reception.
-Alvah H. Pearson (formerly of '81) was renominated for county surveyor by the Republican county convention.
--'82, L. M. Spray, was in the city last week. Mr. Spray is teaching in the Topeka schools and is meeting with good success.
—'87, W. E. Higgins, is recovering slowly.
—J. E. Curry took a short sojourn at his home last week.
—'82, Charles Simmons, is attending Bellevue Medical College.
—Wm. Nevison entertained the Seniors at his home Thursday night,
—Prof. Bailey delivered a lecture before the Normal society, last Friday.
—'87, Aggie Wright, had a pleasant visit from her mother last week.
—A. Burney, a brother of Mr. Burney, who graduated in the law department last year, has joined the Phi Delta Theta society.
—Miss Clara Hanback, of Osborne, one of last year's students, is in the city, the guest of Miss McMillan. Miss Clara enters Bethany College in January.
—Dr. L. W. Luscher, of '82, is meeting with success in his profession. He also takes very readily to his new field of instructor in the K. C. medical college.
—Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Richards are in the city visiting at Prof. Miller's. They came from Hermosillo, Mexico, where they have both recently recovered from an attack of fever.
—F. C. Thompson came down from Topeka last week to attend the Senior party.
—'84, A. S. Riffle, has resigned his place as scientific editor of the Courier because Mr. Dyche did.
—Mrs. L. Ellen Searl, wife of A. J. Searl, who has attended the University for the past year, died the 4th of October of consumption, at her home in Lawrence. She leaves her husband and four children to mourn her loss.
—W. Y. Morgan is quite ill. The result of the election and the effect of the black kids, in which he appeared Friday night, was too much fo his small frame.
—'87, W. E. Higgins, is recovering slowly.
—J. E. Curry took a short sojourn at his home last week.
—'82, Charles Simmons, is attending Bellevue Medical College.
—Wm. Nevison entertained the Seniors at his home Thursday night,
—Prof. Bailey delivered a lecture before the Normal society, last Friday.
—'87, Aggie Wright, had a pleasant visit from her mother last week.
—A. Burney, a brother of Mr. Burney, who graduated in the law department last year, has joined the Phi Delta Theta society.
--Miss Clara Hanback, of Osborne, one of last year's students, is in the city,the guest of Miss McMillan. Miss Clara enters Bethany College in January.
—Dr. L. W. Luscher, of '82, is meeting with success in his profession. He also takes very readily to his new field of instructor in the K.C. medical college.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Richards are in the city visiting at Prof. Miller's. They came from Hermosillo, Mexico, where they have both recently recovered from an attack of fever.
—F. C. Thompson came down from Topeka last week to attend the Senior party.
—'84, A. S. Riffle, has resigned his place as scientific editor of the Courier because Mr. Dyche did.
—Mrs. L. Ellen Searl, wife of A.J. Searl, who has attended the University for the past year, died the 4th of October of consumption, at her home in Lawrence. She leaves her husband and four children to mourn her loss.
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PERSONAL.
—'85, Frank Walker, of Hesper, visited the University and his friends Monday.
—'84, Clara Gillham, has returned at last to resume her studies at the University and rejoice the hearts of her many friends.
—'86, Wm. Spencer, is the latest member of the Phi Psi fraternity.
—'85, C. E. Wood, was initiated into the Beta society Saturday night.
—'84, Kate Ridenour, spent Sunday at her home in Kansas City.
—T. W. Houston, a last year's student, is teaching in Garnet, Kansas.
—'86, Miss Frances Johnson, gladdened home with her presence last week.
—A young lady student has offered her photograph for a Courier frontispiece.
—'83, W. S. Whirlow, was in the city last week on business.
—Miss Flora Hadley visited the University last Thursday.
—'84, George Watson, went home Friday to spend Sunday with his parents.
—Wm. J. Morse, of Oskaloosa, was in the city Tuesday to see the boys.
—'86, Franc Johnson, spent a few days at her home in Oskaloosa not long since.
—'84, Kate Ridenour, made her periodical trip to K. C. last Friday.
—Walter Willis, a last year's graduate of the Lawrence high school, has entered the Junior law class.
—Glen L. Miller gave a fine oration in chapel Wednesday, on the life and character of Bacon.
—The cause of Victor Linley's contemplated suicide has been discovered. Financial crisis.
—'84, Agnes Emery, entertained a number of friends at a lunch party, given at her home, last Saturday.
—'81, Miss Mamie Woodward, has returned from her visit in California and is at her home in Kansas City.
-'85, Frank Walker, of Hesper, visited the University and his friends Monday.
—'84, Clara Gillham, has returned at last to resume her studies at the University and rejoice the hearts of her many friends.
—'86, Wm. Spencer, is the latest member of the Phi Psi fraternity.
—'85, C. E. Wood, was initiated into the Beta society Saturday night.
—'84, Kate Ridenour, spent Sunday at her home in Kansas City.
—T. W. Houston, a last year's student is teaching in Garnet, Kansas.
—'86, Miss Frances Johnson, gladdened home with her presence last week.
—Miss Flora Hadley visited the University last Thursday.
—'83, W. S. Whirlow, was in the city last week on business.
-A young lady student has offered her photograph for a Courier frontispiece.
—'84, George Watson, went home Friday to spend Sunday with his parents.
—Wm. J. Morse, of Oskaloosa, was in the city Tuesday to see the boys.
—'86, Franc Johnson, spent a few days at her home in Oskaloosa not long since.
—'84, Kate Ridenour, made her periodical trip to K. C. last Friday.
-Walter Willis, a last year's graduate of the Lawrence high school, has entered the Junior law class.
—Glen L. Miller gave a fine oration in chapel Wednesday, on the life and character of Bacon.
—Etta M. Smith of the Normal department, is teaching in the schools of Perry, Kan.
—Prof. L. L. Dyche has resigned his position as scientific editor of the Courier because of overwork
—J. W. Gleed has returned from Europe and is reading law with a prominent firm in New York City.
—Miss Aggie Wright, Mamie Hudson, Carrie Hastings and Hattie Haskell, have lately put on the Kappa Psi.
—Lieut. J. A. Manley, the father of Miss Edith and Mamie, visited his home a short time ago.
—Miss Mabel Wemple came up to the University Friday to see her friends again. She will not attend school this year.
—'85, Ora Good, came up to the University one morning and again shook hands with old friends.
—'87, Agnes Wright, was much pleased to receive a short visit from her mother Oct. 13th.
—'82, E. C. Meservey, left Tuesday for St. Louis, where he will attend the law school of Washington University.
—Miss Ella McGahey, of Leavenworth, who has been visiting her friend Carlie Cockins, gave the University a call last Thursday.
—K. A. T. has added four new and valuable names to her list—Mamie Hudson, Agnes Wright, Hattie Haskell, Carrie Hastings.
—'84, Agnes Emery, entertained a number of friends at her home Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18. The Lunch received its share of attention.
—Mr. Lucius Meinscheuk, of Chicago, who is a bright and shining light of the Phi Psi society, and who has been visiting friends in Lawrence, called on the Oread society last Friday.
The cause of Victor Linley's contemplated suicide has been discovered. Financial crisis.
—'84, Agnes Emery, entertained a number of friends at a lunch party, given at her home, last Saturday.
—'81, Miss Mamie Woodward, has returned from her visit in California and is at her home in Kansas City.
—Etta M. Smith of the Normal department, is teaching in the schools of Perry, Kan.
Prof. L. L. Dyche has resigned his position as scientific editor of the Courier because of overwork
-J. W. Gleed has returned from Europe and is reading law with a prominent firm in New York City.
—Miss Aggie Wright, Mamie Hudson, Carrie Hastings and Hattie Haskell, have lately put on the Kappa Psi.
Lieut. J.A.Manley,the father of Miss Edith and Mamie,visited his home a short time ago.
—Miss Mabel Wemple came up to the University Friday to see her friends again. She will not attend school this year.
—'85, Ora Good, came up to the University one morning and again shook hands with old friends.
'87, Agnes Wright, was much pleased to receive a short visit from her mother Oct. 13th.
'82, E. C. Meservey, left Tuesday for St. Louis, where he will attend the law school of Washington University.
—Miss Ella McGahey, of Leavenworth, who has been visiting her friend Carlie Cockins, gave the University a call last Thursday.
—K. A. T. has added four new and valuable names to her list—Mamie Hudson, Agnes Wright, Hattie Haskell, Carrie Hastings.
—'84, Agnes Emery, entertained a number of friends at her home Saturday afternoon, Oct.18. The Lunch received its share of attention.
Mr. Lucius Meinscheuk, of Chicago, who is a bright and shining light of the Phi Psi society, and who has been visiting friends in Lawrence, called on the Oread society last Friday.
THE CORRIDORS.
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THE CORRIDORS.
—Call on Menger for E. C. Burt's ladies' shoes.
See Menger's prices on Burt and Packard gent's shoes.
The Seniors are the e-dentical ones to study Webster.
- Latest fall styles in lace and button walking shoes at Menger's.
—Prof. Dyche objects to his students spending so much time after Kats.
The Juniors are talking up the subject of a class party.
-Victor Linley has a handsome new Phi Gamma Delta pin.
A class in parliamentary law would be a great addition to our college.
—Last Thursday the boys of '84 held a secret meeting. The young ladies feel very bad about being left out.
There is to be no more skipping of chapel rhetoricals. The rule is speak or take a zero.
—Our poem, The Serenader's Scare, has been set to music and is now sung in fashionable circles.
Amateur inventors may take a hint from Prof. Canfield's unpatented method of ventilation.
The Choral society has been organized and meets Monday and Thursday mornings in Orophilian hall.
We still anxiously await the Senior plugs (that is the plug hat). The Juniors will probably follow with a class hat.
--Kappa Kappa Gamma is said to have a sub rosa chapter here. If report is true the chapter will be a strong one.
Who is prouder than Joe Curry since he sports the Beta pin?
Dean did not succeed in roping in a prep. this year with his Ohio election game.
Chancellor Lippincott has constituted himself a special police to enforce the rule against loitering in the corridors.
The editor of the Journal has given up county politics and entered the Oread arena where his ability may be better appreciated.
The Betas and Phi Psis were slightly agitated over the Ohio election, as Hoadly and Foraker belonged to their respective frats.
The Oread president needs a horse-pistol to quiet the crowd on election days. The first man who raises a row, shoot him on the spot.
The visits of members of fraternities not represented here, to our college, would indicate that another frat. was a strong probability.
Hallowe'en is rapidly approaching and the old stale jokes will be gone over to the disgust of all concerned. Now, boys, try and invent something new and startling.
Speaker Caldwell, of the Orophilians, duly received his initiation into parliamentary law at the hands (or mouths) of his loving subjects.
By a decree of the Collegiate Dining Association, any member who shall come in late on account of his having gone home with a fair "co-ed," must take his place at the foot of the table and subsist for two meals on bread and water. There were seventeen convicts the first week, but the number is gradually diminishing.
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THE CORRIDORS.
The weather has been against our ball players, but enough practice has been had to see that there is plenty of material for a first class nine.
—Among the many valuable additions to the collection of minerals made by Prof. Bailey, are specimens of iron and steel together with the native ores.
—An unusually bright Soph. propounds the following: If the Prof. in the chemistry class asks a question and the student is "not prepared," does the reaction equal zero?
The fourteenth of October, 1881, came off the Rice shot gun party; one year afterward was the Rice club party. This year the stone mansion was duly prepared to resist any attack and passed the fatal day unscathed.
The Oread election of officers was warm and close. Good men were put up and all the fight in the society came to the surface. W.H.Brown was elected president; H.E.Riggs, vice president; W.M. Thacher, secretary; W.L.Little, critic.
-On the afternoon of Oct. 13th, Miss Agnes Emery entertained about twenty-five of her young lady friends, at her residence on Indiana street. The time was pleasantly spent in singing, dancing and conversation—and the lunch, which was so generously provided, formed no unimportant item of the entertainment.
—It was a disappointment, we admit, for L——h (a senior) to be frustrated in his attempts to "scrape" an acquaintance with her, after finding that no one would introduce him; to get as far as the gate and then to be carried away bodily by four of his friends, was enough to try the patience of a saint; but he must remember that every disappointment that he now bears, better fits him to withstand the battles of the future.
The following is taken from an Olathe paper of Oct. 11th: On last Friday afternoon Olathe was given a rare treat by receiving a visit from eighteen of the accomplished and beautiful young lady students of the University of Kansas, who form a society in that institution of learning known as the "I. C." Sorosis. They arrived on the "Calamity" at 2.30 p.m., and from the depot they marched in procession to the residence of Miss Nellie Dow. At six o'clock they were served with supper at the American House. That evening the Sorosis left Mr.Dow's for Mr.Hubbard's west of town, escorted by eighteen of the Olathe boys. The evening was very pleasantly spent in card.playing, dancing, singing, and listening to recitations by Misses Lyons and Meade. Saturday evening the I. C.s held their regular meeting in the parlors of the Eastern Star Lodge. At nine the doors were opened and the young gentleman invited to a "grub"' meeting. Before eating, the I. C.s sang a song of welcome to the Olathe boys, and then passed around the "grub"' in a very unusual manner, but it is said to be the regular I. C. style. The remainder of the evening was spent in dancing and pursuing the acquaintances so pleasantly begun the evening before. Sunday morning all of the young ladies attended church. At 2 p.m. the crowd which had spent two evenings so pleasantly together, left Olathe in two large picnic wagons en route for John Collin's, nine miles northwest of Olathe. They arrived there at about 4 p.m. and were received cordially. A good social time, adapted to Sunday, was enjoyed by all. About 10 o'clock the crowd was conveyed to Cedar Junction, where the Sorosis took the train for Lawrence, where they will pursue their studies after a three days pleasure trip. The I. C.s will always be welcome to Olathe. Come again.
ONE OF THE BOYS,
THE CORRIDORS.
79
OREAD ELECTION.
The election of contestants on the 27th ult. for the annual contest with the Orophilian literary society was one that should be memorable in the history of the society; for on that occasion three secret societies combined to place in position their own members to the exclusion of non-fraternity members. There was but one outsider among the entire number elected, and he would not have received his position had he not been championed by the "big combination." The pre-arranged "slate" of the "big three" carried the day. Although able and deserving non-fraternity members of the society were placed in nomination, their forces were but as pigmies compared with the solid phalanx of the Greeks and their retinue. The result of this election should be the signal for a revolution in society affairs, for it clearly reveals the fact that the pledges of some secret societies are established facts, and are considered by them as more sacred than the demands of justice. Albert Riffle, in Courier Nov. 6, 1882.
Time works changes. The "revolution" has come. Last year's drama was re-enacted, but with a different ending. This year the "big three" were defeated and the "barbs" carried the day. Last year "there was but one outsider among the entire number elected." This year there is but one fraternity man on the successful ticket. The victory of the outsiders was overwhelming. The "big three" may profit by this lesson.
Two weeks had been given up to the warmest electioneering. Studies were a matter of second consideration. The long expected day at last arrived. Oread hall was crowded to its utmost. The first event of political significance was the blackballing of proposed members, to keep them from voting. The usual motion to elect
these members unanimously had been objected to by a member of the "big combination."
The strife was hottest for the position of orator. S. T. Gilmore and W. Y. Morgan were the rival candidates. Mr. Morgan was elected on the first ballot by a vote of more than two to one. P.R.Bennett was chosen essayist, Miss Gertrude Russ declaimer, and N.A.Swickard debater. The motion of courtesy to make these elections unanimous was defeated by the vote of J.Merton Keys.
This session of the society was marked by the preservation of strict order. The action of president Brown in shutting down on electioneering and personal abuse was commended by all. This policy, if carried out, will raise the society to its former usefulness. The day of secret society domination is over. "BARB."
According to the Courier constitution editors elected as representatives of the nonfraternity element must resign if they join secret societies. As two of our board, Miss Hubbard, of the Local, aud Mr. Curry, of the Exchange, had concluded to cast their lot with the Greeks, a meeting of the stockholders was called for October fifth. The editor for the I. C. Sorosis was Miss Gilmore, who desired to withdraw from the staff and allow Miss Hubbard to retain her place. Both of these requests were granted. H. F. Graham was elected to the place of literary editor vice D. B. Brady, who cannot return to college for some time. E. E. Ritchie was elected to take the place of Miss Gilmore in the department of Views, and G. N. Walker was chosen to fill Mr. Riffle's place as Civil Engineering editor. Prof. Dyche was compelled to resign his position as one of the scientific editors on account of pressure of work. Barlow Lippincott was elected to fill the vacancy. This completes the editorial staff, which may be seen in its reorganized state at the head of the editorial columns.
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THE CORRIDORS.
The annual reception given by the faculty to the students of the University took place last Friday evening.
Students will find a full line of underwear at Bromelsick's.
A slight mistake was made in the Personals in our last issue. It should have read, W. Y. Morgan is a big "crank" and Bennett too, instead of Nettie Brown.
—The Freshmen, determined not to be outdone by the Seniors, forthwith called a class meeting to discuss the propriety of having a class party.
For gent's furnishing goods, call on Bromelsick.
-It has become necessary for one of the Seniors to take a friend with him when he calls at the residence of a certain professor, in order to prove his identity. Not long since one of these noble youths was taken for the washer-woman's boy.
We are always glad to show our goods which consist of a large stock of underwear, gloves, ties and a full stock of gent's furnishing goods. BROMELSICK.
We clip the following from the Kansas City Times:At a meeting of the Oread literary society yesterday morning the following parties were elected to fill the programme for the December contest:S. T. Gilmore, orator; Miss Fannie Pratt, declaimer; Miss Ada Sutliff, essayist, and N. O. Swickard, debater. Remarks are unnecessary.
OREAD LITERARY SOCIETY. The last two sessions of the Oread literary society have been very interesting on account of the elections. On the 12th inst. the following officers were elected: W. H. Brown, president; H. E. Riggs, vice president; W. M. Thacher, secretary; and W. L. Little, critic. On the 19th inst. the above officers were installed in their respective offices, and the contestants for the December contest were chosen. S. T. Gilmore and W. Y. Morgan were put in nomination for orator. Mr. Morgan was elected by a majority of 28. P. R. Bennett was elected essayist; N. O. Swickard, debater, and Miss Gertrude Russ, declaimer.
The programmes of this term have been good. Thorough preparation has been the rule. Last Friday the following programme greeted a very large audience: Declamation, Miss Gertrude Hunnicutt; reading. Markley; essay, F.H. Bowersock; orator, G.L. Smith; instrumental duet, Misses Pratt and Thompson; reading, Miss Ella Ropes; declamation, Miss Laura Lyons; essay, Miss Lida Jacke; instrumental duett, Miss Mabel Gove and C. Mahan.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. We have a few samples of drafting instruments of the best Swiss and French manufactures, which we will show for ten days. Any one in need of same can get bargains during that time. A. B. Warren, THE STATIONER.
- We understand that there has been a "Kent Club" organized by the law students.
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717 MAIN ST.,
Kansas City,
MISSOURI.
The Best Goods! The Lowest Prices!
Decker Bros.,
Mathushek,
Story & Camp.
Pianos.
Estey,
Story & Camp,
Organs.
Western Agent for the Dentaphone for the Deaf.
Send for Catalogue.
METTNER.
-THE PHOTOGRAPHER 79 Massachusetts Street. THE STUDENT'S POPULAR ARTIST.
W. M. CULBERTSON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Hard Coal, Soft Coal,
PIEDMONT SMITHING COAL,
Office 110 Massachusetts St.
We Manufacture fine Cream Candies, also keep Fruits and Confectionery. Oysters in season. WILSON & NELSON. 73 Massachusetts St.
CONGRESS RESTAURANT
PALMER & GRIFFIN Dealers in Coal and Wood, Office 1st door south of M. E. Church.
Turkish Bath!
Reduced Rates to Students.
Opposite Lawrence Houses.
FALL.
1883.
TEMPLE OF FASHION
ARE MADE BY
THE FINEST SUITS IN KANSAS
McCONNELL
THE TAILOR.
63 Massachusetts Street.
THE POPULAR BARBERS HARRIS & MURPHY, Opposite Mason's Shoe Store.
[Established 1870]
CONOVER BROTHERS,
HANDELHOFF
613 Main St.,
KANSAS CITY.
BROTHERS,
MANUFACTURERS OF
FIRST CLASS
UPRIGHT and SQUARE PIANOS.
Publishers of Music and Music Books. Jobbers in Musical Merchandise.
General Agents for "Steinway & Sons" and "J. & C. Fischer" Pianos. Geo Woods & Co."Burdett," and "Shoninger" Organs.
235 E. 21st St..
NEW YORK.
C. W. STRAFFON, Prescription Druggist.
AN INVITATION
Is extended to the public generally-exacting, economical and critical buyers included-to call and inspect our
LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT OF
Fine Ready-Made Clothing
FOR FALL AND WINTER,
which is equal to the best made to order garments in style, materials, make, finish, and in fit, but price about one-third off.
We are fully aware that the Clothing of to-day must have style, quality and economy, to sell it. Because we know this so well, is why we venture to carry the largest stock of Clothing in the State of Kansas, and why we have just completed the handsomest, most commodious Clothing Palace in the West to keep it in.
Careful examination solicited by
Steinberg, the King Clothier,
87 Massachusetts St.,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
N.C.