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opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
THE appointment of Lieut. E. V. Smith to the professorship of Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last gives us cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of similar
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CHANCELLORF, H. SNOW.
or some of the Baker students to play football. According to the opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
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Kansas State University.
AT the head of the public school system of Kansas stands the State University." This sentence has been read or heard time and time again by a majority of the people of Kansas. But how many of them know and appreciate all that is implied in those words? How many pupils of the grammar and high schools know of the real workings of "their" University and the opportunities which there are presented for the completion of the education, the foundations of which were laid in the primary grade of some district school? The farmer whose wheat and corn is ravaged by the chinch bug looks for relief to the scientist at the University, the benefit of whose years of labor in the laboratory and in the field the farmer-citizen of Kansas enjoys. To whom does the student of Kansas socialism look for a solution of his vexing problems other than to those University men whose earnest efforts to find the truth have given them to a certain extent the ability to give an unbiased opinion? The waters of the state are sent to the University for analysis, on the accuracy of which may depend the health of thousands. The quality and value of rocks and soil are determined by University men by whose years of research the people profit. The man who is interested in art, ancient or modern, knows that he can find at the University those likewise interested. Or it may be that it is in the study of the languages that the citizen of Kansas likes to employ his leisure moments; perhaps his special study is the English language and literature; it may be the workings of the human brain. No matter in what line of study his taste may run he finds University men whose likes are his likes. The high school graduate who desires an education in mechanics or engineering turns at once to the University.
But little does each one think of the other departments in which he is not interested but which with the school in which his speciality is
taught go to make up the "University." He does not stop to consider that the scientific, sociological, legal, music and other departments are each but a part of a great whole.
The University student himself very seldom appreciates the size and scope of the institution in which he is enrolled. His work lies in one department or school; his knowledge of the work in the other departments and schools is meagre. The law student knows little, if anything, about the work of the engineering school. The student of the school of arts knows as little about the methods employed in the music school as he does about the work of the pharmacy student.
And so, then, a few words explanatory of the work done and the methods employed in the various schools and departments will be perhaps the telling of a new story to the reader of the Courier whether he be a citizen of Allen or of Wyandotte county; or whether he be a student in attendance upon some department of the University.
NATURAL HISTORY.
Snow Hall, the home of the Natural History department, contains much that is of interest both to the ordinary observer and to the scientific curiosity-seeker. Here are the museums and collections which attract so much attention and bring so many visitors to the University Here are the laboratories in which constant research is being carried on for new truths and fresh proofs of old theories. On the third floor are the laboratories of the department of taxidermy. Here work Prof. L. L. Dyche and his assistants. Here skins are prepared for mounting. Here was made ready for exhibition the collection of North American mammals which was the principal part of the Kansas exhibit at the World's Fair. On the next floor below are the laboratories of the departments of entomology and botany. Here were carried
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on those investigations which have enabled Chancellor Snow to give to the farmers of Kansas a remedy for one of their worst enemies, the chinch bug. Here constant study of insects and their parasites is pursued. On the first floor are the laboratories of the department of paleontology. Here fossils are studied. Here too is carried on the work in anatomy and physiology. In the basement are the work rooms of the geological department. From this department go out those parties who make the surveys of the state and who do so much
tastes for the low and disgusting. All insects were known as "bugs," and all were alike considered hideous and repulsive with the exception perhaps of some of the butterflies. Students of this subject were known derisively as "bug sharps," "grub trappers," "grasshopper tender-feet," etc, and it is only in late years that they have begun to gain the respect of the masses by routing the insect enemies of agriculture, and thus placing their study in the practical light of a public benefit.
Every state now has its special salaried in-
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toward determining the value of Kansas rocks and soils. The museums occupying the west half of each floor are of great interest. In them are gathered the curiosities and treasures of the South and West.
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.
Entomology and its practical applications have made more marked advance in recent years than any of the kindred sciences. The time was once when the student of entomology was regarded as a harmless sort of fool with
vestigators in this line. Upon the advice of entomologists state legislatures do not hesitate to appropriate large sums of money for the eradication of injurious insects. Massachusetts is spending many thousands of dollars every year to fight a single pest that threatens to spread over a large part of the state. In California and Illinois the public schools are enjoined by law to teach the rudiments of the science.
In Kansas the State University is known all over the world for the success which has at-
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
The appointment of Lieut. E. V. Smith to the professorship of Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last gives us cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of similar
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tended Chancellor Snow's chinch bug experiments. In prosecuting this work the departments of entomology and botany have collaborated, the subject pertaining to both as the disease which is spread among the bugs is of vegetable structure. Chancellor Snow's third annual report of the conduct of the experiment station, to appear soon, will make as flattering a show as in former years. Seven thousand five hundred lots of infected bugs were sent out from the station during the past season; and the actual working of the infection was observed in many counties of the state by practical assistants.
The collections of the department have been augmented the past year by donations, exchanges and purchase, as well as by the efforts of the assistants in the field. The excellence of these collections is due to Chancellor Snow, who during his twenty-two years service as professor of natural history devoted his best efforts to entomology without allowing the other divisions of his very broad chain to suffer. In fact Chancellor Snow for more than a score of years covered the branches of science which are now in charge of five professors and three assistants.
No other collection of beetles in the colleges of the country can compare with our own in diversity of forms, except that in the Agassiz museum at Harvard. Kansas University's collection embraces over 8000 species.
In the diptera, or two-winged flies, we now possess the largest collection, public or private in the country. The American fauna is represented at Harvard by about 2500 species, while our collection has over 4000. By far the largest and most valuable part of this collection came through Dr. Williston, who has found time with his many other studies to attain the distinction of being considered one of the two or three great dipterologists of the world. Dr. Williston's next long article on diptera will appear in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, and will be descriptive of over 750 new West Indian species. A set of the types of most of these species will remain in K.U.'s collection.
The cabinet of butterflies and moths contains upwards of 3000 species of North American forms as well as numerous exotic species from Brazil, the butterfly paradise of the world. Central America and the old world.
The collection of hymenoptera, or bees, wasps and ants has been recently arranged in a new cabinet and is a new and representative one. The same can be said of the orthoptera, or grasshopper and cricket order, and the hemiptera or true bugs. The collection of neuroptera, such as dragon-flies, lace-wing flies, etc., is now being arranged and named.
A very valuable feature about these collections is that they contain a large number of types, both specific and generic, including most of Dr. Williston's types, and many of A.R. Grote's types of North American lepidoptera.
The University is indebted to Dr. George F. Gaumer, 76, for large donations to the zoological departments, comprising in part about 6000 insects from Yucatan and Mexico.
In addition to the collections in the various orders of insects, the department also possesses an economic and biologic series illustrative of the life histories and metamorphoses of insects, with special reference to the injurious species. Miss Wellman is at present engaged in making enlarged colored drawings of the more important insect pests for display in the main zoological museum along with the actual specimens and samples of injury.
Another collection of practical use is being formed through the aid of Prof. Sayre, consisting of such insects as live in drugs.
With these collections, a well selected library, and abundant facilities for microscopic and photographic work, the department of entomology of the University of Kansas is in a position to do much toward advancing one of the most fascinating of the sciences in popular appreciation.
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY.
In botany, in addition to the regular Freshman study, courses are offered in structural, systematic, histological and physiological botany. Structural botany is open to Sophomores.
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The remainder are optional to Juniors and Seniors. Systematic botany consists entirely of laboratory and field work. In addition to the above courses a course in bacteriology is offered the first half of the second term. Herbarium work is also given, in which instruction is given in collecting, mounting and classifying plants. During the past year the following have been added to the material equipment of the department: A warming box for keeping microscope and object being examined at a uniform temperatnre—this box is used principally in physiological botany; a dissecting
phases, petrography, or the modern methods of investigating rocks, and the different branches of mineralogy and crystallography. This is accomplished by lectures and laboratory instruction principally, although students are constantly advised to provide themselves with the best books on the various subjects. The work in general geology is begun in the fall term, and a ten-weeks' course is offered as an optional study for all students in the University above the Sophomore year. This is followed in the spring term by a ten-weeks' course in economic geology open to all students
THE ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF TARANINA
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microscope for use in histological botany; a hand microtome for use in general botanical work; a camera lucida for general botanical work; five compound microscopes for general botanical work; an electro-motor for physiological botany; an auxanometer for physiological botany, and a number of objectives, eye pieces and photograph lens for general work.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.
This department gives instruction in the various branches of physical geology, including economic geology, dynamic geology in all its
who have had the beginning geology or its equivalent.
In mineralogy the work is begun in the fall term and may be continued uninterruptedly for thirty weeks. In addition to this a ten-weeks' course in petrography proper is offered the first half of the spring term for those who have taken mineralogy during the fall term.
For those who wish to become specialists, graduate work is offered both in physical geology and mineralogy to a sufficient extent to occupy two or three years.
In connection with both the under-graduate and graduate studies a course in field geology
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
The appointment of Lieut. E. V. Smith to the professorship Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last gives cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of simi-
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has been provided. The University has completed arrangements for the inauguration of a geological survey of the state. It is expected that each student doing advanced work will spend one or more summers in the field. Students of geology will confine their labors to Kansas, but those pursuing mineralogy and petrography may go anywhere desirable in order to secure proper territory for prosecuting their studies. The field class the past summer made a satisfactory beginning, so that it has already been demonstrated that such an undertaking is both practical and profitable. The graduate department has already brought graduate students from other states to be enrolled in our University in order to receive the benefit of the superior advantages we offer.
The department is well equipped with the necessary apparatus for doing good work in petrography and physical mineralogy. It has by far the most extensive collection of crystalline rocks in the West, and about one thousand thin microscopic sections made from the same. The mineralogical museum is very superior in every way. Those contemplating an extended course in any of the branches included in this department will do well to enroll in the University of Kansas.
THE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS.
In the geological museum a number of very valuable additions have been made during the past year. The most important of these is a skeleton of an extinct rhinoceros from the Loup Fork Tertiary of Phillips county, Kansas, which is, so far as is known, the only mounted specimen of the kind in existence. The skeleton is complete, and is mounted after the manner of a recent skeleton, standing about four and one-half feet in height by twelve feet in length. The work of mounting has been skillfully done by Mr. Overton, assistant in the geological museum.
Another specimen of scarcely less value and interest is a large slab, twenty feet in length by three and one-half feet in width, upon which is shown two very complete specimens of a Mosaaur (Liodon), mounted in the position in
which they were found in the Cretaceous deposits of western Kansas. The slab is fixed to the west wall of the museum. Other collections for the museum, made during the past summer by Mr. E.C. Case, represent an excellent series of Loup Fork Tertiary leaves from No Man's Land.
Arrangements have been made for an extensive series of excellent casts of some of the most important European fossils, both vertebrates and invertebrates, which it is expected will be placed on exhibition before the close of the year. Restorations of some of the more rare vertebrate fossils of the museum have been published by the curator during the present year, attracting much attention from scientific men, and calling attention to the excellent collections now the property of the University. The two most famous vertebrate paleontologists of this country have visited the University recently to examine the collections.
ENGINEERING.
The School of Engineering is divided into two departments. A part of the work is the same in both departments, but only a small part. The work in general in the departments differs so widely that it is necessary that they be treated separately.
The Civil Engineering Department has entire possession of the third floor of the south half of the Main building. Here are the drafting rooms in which students of the department spend from two to three afternoons a week. In this department are studied practical astronomy, location of railroads, roads and pavements, roofs and bridges, and kindred subjects. Complete and extended work in mathematics is carried on.
The department is well equipped with various transits, levels, and other instruments. In the mechanical course use is made of a very valuable rock and cement testing machine. The department also owns various photographs of celebrated engineering works.
At the last meeting of the Board of Regents the instructors in civil engineering were empowered to give all students in their depart-
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ment a month of field practice after the close of the regular University year. Students will go into camp and engage in this field work. This practice is to be optional with those students now in school, but will be required of all entering the department hereafter.
The Civil Engineering Department of the University of Kansas is recognized among the best engineering schools of the country. Graduates of the school are to be found in almost every state holding positions of importance and trust.
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Physics has grown in the last few years both in the work it undertakes and does and in the number of students enrolled.
While various causes have contributed to this growth, the principal cause is the energy and activity of the head of the department, Prof. L.I.Blake.To Prof. Blake's ability as a teacher and organizer the school owes, in great measure, the prominent place it now holds among the electrical schools of the United States. Largely to his industry and brilliancy does the University owe the new Physics building. This building is but a just reward of the work of the man whose department will occupy it. This building when completed will be the most complete physical laboratory west of the Mississippi. It will be built expressly for the making of experiments in electricity and magnetism.
The work done in this department is of the most thorough character. In addition to the regular recitation and lecture work, students are required to spend considerable time in the Physical laboratory and in the machine shops.
The Physical laboratory is furnished with all the improved testing instruments and apparatus for experimenting. This laboratory is always crowded, and the increased facilities which the new building will give are very much in demand.
The machine shops take up a greater part of the floor-space of the engine house. In these shops are machine-lathes, screw-cutting machines, and other valuable machines. Students are practiced in all kinds of machine and
lathe-work and blacksmithing. To this department belongs also the electric lighting plant, which furnishes the current for the more delicate experiments of the laboratory, and for the lighting of the entire Main building.
This department, like all other departments of the University, is very crowded. Students come here from all the western states. With the fine laboratories which the new building will furnish and the increased facilities for original research which it will afford, there is no reason why the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering of the Kansas State University should not become the greatest school of its kind in the United States.
PHILOSOPHY.
"To think just to be thinking," is the definition which was once given for logic. To a certain extent this is true. But in the study of logic one is taught not alone to think but is practiced in the proper way of thinking. To think is natural, but to think aright is an acquired art. The first principles of right thinking are taught in the elementary course in logic offered by the department of philosophy. Offered with it and as supplementary to it is the course in psychology. In this study one is taught how he thinks and the effect his thinking has upon himself.
Following these elementary courses are the courses in experimental psychology and advanced Logic. In the course in experimental psychology the action of the brain and nerves in the lower animals is studied to show by analogy the action of the human brain and nerve centres. The first half of this course is spent in the laboratories of the department of anatomy, where by practical observation the action of the various nerves and nerve tissues are noted. The course in advanced logic is, as its name indicates, but a farther study of the right way of thinking, and gives the student a deeper insight into the power of thought.
Courses are also offered by this department in history of philosophy, metaphysics, and aesthetics.
This department like all other departments
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
THE appointment of Lieut. E.V.Smith to the professorship of Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last gives us cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends.The work of similar
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of the University is a growing one. Greater laboratory facilities are needed. Delicate instruments for the testing of the powers of right touch, etc., are badly needed. The department has however an exceptionally good collection of books upon the subjects included in the courses.
THE LAW SCHOOL.
This school of the University was first established in 1878. The present Dean, J.W. Green, was at that time elected to the position he now holds. For one year he was the only instructor required, but since then he has been constantly assisted by men of energy and ability. At present the law faculty consists of eight lawyers, each one being a specialist in some line of practice.
The school was first assigned a room in the main building but as the number of students constantly increased more and more room was needed until in 1890 the Law School, together with the School of Music, was moved to North College. This building becoming crowded, the Music School was moved to Music Hall, and North College given up entirely to the law student. In addition to the regular instructors and lecturers there are twenty-one special lecturers. These lecturers are lawyers of the state who have become known as specialists in some line of legal study and practice and upon this special line their lectures are delivered.
The Law School has a fine reference library to which Dean Green generously adds his private library consisting of some 1500 volumes. All students have access to this library. Law students also have the privilege of using the University library.
Moot courts are held every week during the term. A Kent club furnishes the student with opportunity for discussion and the presenting of papers.
"Instruction is given by daily recitation upon assigned parts of text-books." The student of the School of Law have the privilege of attending recitations and lectures in the School of Arts. The hours of recitation are so arranged that students can obtain places in
offices in Lawrence and also attend courts. In many cases students conduct cases in the minor courts of the city. "Thus they combine practical with theoretical instruction."
MUSIC AND ART.
In this department a variety of courses are offered. In addition to the regular course in piano-forte students may avail themselves of the normal course for those intending to teach. In connection with the course in voice, elocution and physical culture are given. Special courses in these latter subjects are also offered. Frequent concerts which show the work done and advancement made in the department are given in Music Hall.
The course in drawing and painting includes three years. Special courses in decorative design and modern illustration are offered. Pupils of this department have access to the classical museum where there are many valuable models and casts.
All students of this school have access to the large collection of works on music and art in the general University library.
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY.
The School of Pharmacy, established in 1885, has its home in the chemical building, which in the few years of its existence it has outgrown to such an extent that the last legislature was urgently importuned to erect a building which should be specifically adapted to the needs of the school. In spite of many disadvantages from its start, the School of Pharmacy has taken, by constant effort and push, an advanced standing among the schools and colleges of pharmacy in the United States. It, for example, has had the honor of representation in the important work of Pharmacopoeial revision, which honor could be accorded only to such institutions as have proper facilities and ability to use them. The course in Pharmacy embraces the following studies: In Junior year: pharmacognosy, pharmacy, physics, general chemistry, qualitative analysis, botany, Latin applied to pharmacy and medicine, manufacturing and compounding in laboratory. In Senior year: pharmacy, materia
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medica, structural botany, physiology, mineralogy, drug assaying, quantitative analysis organic chemistry, toxicology, microscopic examination of drugs, physiological chemistry.
The last half term of laboratory practice of the student in pharmacy is occupied almost entirely by original research in preparation of a thesis which is presented at the end of the second year.
To obtain a degree (Ph. G.) the student occupies four years, two of which are to be spent under a preceptor in actual practice in the drug business where medicine is dispensed. It must be seen that the studies in this department are those of a very practical character, and that they largely relate to the applied sciences, giving the student ample preparation for the responsibilities connected with the position of a pharmacist and for special work in the lines of analytical chemistry and the chemical examination of foods and medicines.
The existence of the School of Pharmacy in the Kansas State University is substantial evidence of the interest taken by prominent pharmacists in higher technical and scientific education and in those who would follow this responsible calling, the following of which without due preparation and equipment is not only a detriment to the practice of medicine but a danger to the public.
GERMAN AND FRENCH.
The departments of German and French, with two instructors in each department, offer both elementary and advanced instruction in those languages. Those who come to the University with preparation in German and French from their high school can continue it in the classes for which they are fitted. Those who do not offer these languages for entrance may begin them in any year after entering. By beginning them in the Freshman year they may reach such a proficiency in them the first two years of the course that they can use them in pursuing the studies of the last two years. Or by continuing either of them through the four years they may obtain a special mastery of it and an acquaintance with the literature written in it.
In the elementary instruction the aim is constantly to make the work thorough and give the student a solid and enduring foundation for all later acquisitions. As far as may be consistent with this end and as time will permit, regard is had from the outset to the purpose for which the student desires to use his knowledge of the language. Special classes are provided for students in technical courses of applied science who need especially to read German or French easily in following current research in their departments. And for all students it is recognized that they need to know the language rather than know things about it. After the foundation has been thoroughly laid, the classes are made to read rapidly and much, that they may acquire facility in reading and come as soon as possible to treat the foreign work as they would one in English, with full understanding of its thought and appreciation of its literary value. The result arrived at in the advanced instruction is especially an acquaintance with the masterpieces of the great periods of German and French literature and a vital contact with the intellectual life out of which they grew. So, a realization of the power and value of literature being always in view, the texts chosen for reading, even in the first years of study, are such as have a real and permanent literary value. For those who wish to make a special and more scientific linguistic study of these languages, advanced courses are offered in composition, historical grammar, and the older forms of the languages, and a normal course is designed particularly for those who wish to teach modern languages after graduation. The languages themselves are used as far as that is expedient in the conduct of the classes, and the ear is trained to recognize the spoken language as well as the eye to recognize it when written. Some classes also offer special practice in conversation, and clubs are formed among the students and instructors for the same purpose. A large number of photographs, busts, maps, charts, fac-similes of manuscripts, etc., have been collected to illustrate the literature and art of Germany and France.
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
The appointment of Lieut. E. V. Smith to the professorship of Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last gives us cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of similar
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MATHEMATICS.
The work in mathematics in the University is carried by three teachers, and has been distributed as follows: Three classes in Solid Geometry, three classes in Higher Algebra, one class in Conic Sections, one class in Modern Analytical Geometry, one class in Quarternions with elementary applications to physical problems, one class in theory of Probabilities and Least Squares, and one class in Descriptive Astronomy.
The students in the Freshman class of this year, on an average, were better prepared to enter this department than preceding classes, yet there is room for a great deal more improvement. Our catalogue announces that to enter the Freshman mathematics, students must have a knowledge of simple and quadratic equations in Algebra, and also be as well prepared in ratio, proportion, and the progressions, and have completed plane geometry including the book on planes. But a considerable number are admitted as high school graduates from accredited high schools, who know nothing of algebra beyond quadratic equations, and even that knowledge is very inferior. If all students were thoroughly equipped in this regard, the work required to be done in order for more advanced mathematics, would be accomplished at a great deal less expense of time and labor, and afford a keen satisfaction to those really in earnest.
In astronomy the work has been and will be for the remainder of the current term descriptive. A great many evenings are spent in learning the situation of the constellations; the names and location of the stars of the first, second, third, etc., magnitudes; the situation and names of the principal nebulae; in tracing the path of the ecliptic, and locating the equinoctial points. The telescope with an object glass of six inches diameter has been used to inspect the moon, the planets and their moons, and the heavenly bodies. It is hoped that in the near future the facilities for work in astronomy will consist of a first class observatory equipped with the best of modern apparatus.
The work of the department of mathematics
for the next term will embrace the subjects of Trigonometry, Calculus, Modern Solid Geometry, and a class in Practical Astronomy, in which the calculation of terrestrial latitude and longitude, right ascension and delineation of celestial objects, and of transits, occultations, and eclipses, will have a prominent part.
GREEK AND LATIN.
Instruction in Greek and Latin is given by a Professor and Assistant in each language Since all students enter with two or three years of Latin, provision is made only for advanced work, which may be continued for one, two, three, or four years. Since so many enter without Greek, provision is made not only for advanced work, which may be continued one, two, three, or four years, but also for beginning Greek in any year of the course and continuing it any length desired.
In all work done in both languages, an attempt is made to lead the student both to learn the language and to read its literature. There is sufficient grammatical drill to do the former, and to establish the necessary basis for doing the latter. The literature actually read in class is treated as a model for all later private reading, that is, with reference to its practical value and its bearing upon the literary discussions and problems of to-day.
All texts read are illustrated by maps, charts, plates, and photographs, a large number of which are on exhibition on the walls of the Classical Museum and the recitation rooms, while more still are at the service of the instructors, though they cannot be put on permanent exhibition. The Classical Museum contains also a series of casts of sculpture of the Parthenon and examples of the best periods of Greek and Roman sculpture, besides a number of busts of Roman emperors, and models of the Acropolis of Athens and a pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia. 700 stereopticon slides are at command, and used in special lectures on subjects of interest to students of Greek and Latin. Special courses also on Greek and Roman art and archaeology are open to students.
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Courses also are given on the Greek in English, aiming to make the English words derived from the Greek comprehensible to the ordinary English reader or the student of natural science; the History of Greek literature for English readers, opening a large part of the contents and value of Greek literature to those who have not the time or desire to learn the language; the History of both the Greek and Latin drama, for the same class of students; Roman law, for the especial benefit of future lawyers; a teachers' training course in Latin composition and colloquial use of the language; and the Latin used in Pharmacy.
The Greek department offers also University Extension courses on Greek literature for English readers, Greek art, and a short course on Greek architecture and sculpture; and the Latin department, a course on Roman poetry.
The Greek Symposium unites all Greek students in a fortnightly class in listening to lectures, essays, or reading of subjects of more general interest than special class-work, or of such a character as to need a larger amount of illustrative material than is available in the class-room. The subjects treated range over the whole field of language, literature, art, life, institutions and history of the Greeks, from the earliest times down to the present day, together with their influence on other peoples.
THE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH.
The work of the department of English is under three instructors, and affords opportunity for four years of training. The aim of the instruction is to give the student a clear understanding and a full appreciation of the English language and its literature; and thus to lay the foundation for any further special work he may wish to undertake.
On entering the University, the student finds open to him at once a thorough course in the fundamental principles of English composition, with only so much theory as is necessary to the doing of the practical work. And in this practical work, it is not so much detached sentences
of incorrect English that receive criticism, as short themes and stories which illustrate the actual occurrence of errors in speech and writing,—errors that are such not only in themselves, but also, and especially, in relation to the rest of the theme or story. This study occupies the whole first term of the student's course.
The second term of the Freshman year gives our student a chance to study the history and development of English Literature, from its beginning to the close of the Elizabethan age, and aims to prepare him for an appreciative study of literature; and he is required to read such works in our early authors as will help to arouse interest and develop the power of independent study; he is required, also, to write brief abstracts and criticisms upon the works read. Frequent lectures are given which aim at furnishing the proper social and political "setting" for the literature of each period.
This course, which occupies a little less than half a term, is followed in the second term of the Sophomore year by a similar course in the English Literature of the Eighteenth Century. A great deal of the literature itself is read in connection with the study of its history and development. This course and the courses following are entirely optional, and deal with special periods in the development of our language and literature.
In the "sub-department" of Rhetoric and English Language the student may elect, subject to certain restrictions as to number, any of the following courses:
(1) . A course in Anglo-Saxon; including readings from Anglo-Saxon literature and a study of comparative philology.
(2) . A course in Middle English; with selected readings from authors of the middle period, especially from Chaucer. Attention here also is given to the history and derivation of words.
(3) . A course in Advanced English Composition, in which the student follows into higher work the lines of investigation begun in the English composition of his Freshman year,
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
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with especial attention to the subject of invention.
(4) . A Teacher's Course in Composition and Criticism, in which the art is developed in relation to its special phases and their history. Methods of teaching are discussed; and the student, on completing the course, is prepared to teach composition intelligently.
The other "sub-department," that of English Literature proper, offers courses that are intended to deepen and broaden the knowledge of our literature already obtained in the courses of Freshman and Sophomore years. The courses begin with the Elizabethan literature, and are as follows:
(1) . A course in Bacon and Milton, consisting of a critical study of the Essays or philosophical works of the former, and of the poetry of the latter. The course covers a whole term, with recitations daily.
(2) . The work in Shakespeare extends through the year, three plays being read each term. The aim is to show with especial vividness and power the inner motives of the characters in the great dramas, and to lead the student to analyze for himself these most wonderful works in our literature. The course is conducted chiefly by lectures and interpretations of the text, with essays by the students upon characters in the plays.
(3) . A course in the English Literature of the Nineteenth Century, in which the great poets and prose writers of our modern literary period are widely and carefully read, the student being directed and aided in his work by frequent lectures.
(4) . American Literature is felt to have a claim upon the students in our schools; and here in the State University opportunity is given to pursue a thorough and philosophic study of American authors.
(5) . A course in the History of the Drama is given each year by lectures by the instructors in Greek, Latin, English, French and German.
From sophomores are required, each term, three themes of one thousand words each; and from Juniors and seniors four argumentative essays, or forensics, are required, two each term.
The attempt is made by this department to ground the student thoroughly in the language and literature of his country, and to inspire him to further and higher work therein during his after life.
HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY.
The study of history and sociology in the University of Kansas is carried on by two departments, i.e. that of history and sociology, with two instructors, and that of American history and civics, with one instructor. This division into departments does not, however, prevent the practical union in the general organization of the work, so that in the twenty-three courses offered by these two departments the student is really free to arrange his work so as to get the benefit of both. The work in these departments was, until the present academic year, entirely optional, and was then open to the Seniors and Juniors, but not to Sophomores and Freshmen. This year a change has been made by which English History while still open to upper classmen, is also made a Sophomore optional, the intention being to provide a thorough knowledge of the history of England, so that this may serve as a basis for more thorough study in American and general European history. With this exception the work belongs entirely to the Senior and Junior years.
The total number of courses offered in history and sociology is twenty-three, of which seven are given by the department of American history and civics, and sixteen by that of history and sociology. Of these, fifteen are properly historical courses and eight are courses in sociology. The historical courses cover general American history, American constitutional history, general European history, institutional history, and the history of some few particularly important epochs in the development of nationalities.
The courses in sociology are merely confined to what are known as the general economic studies, with a few special courses on special subjects, as, for example, that on Sociology, including charities and corrections.
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In some of these courses the work is carried on by means of text-books, with allied reading, but in most of them the lecture system is deemed preferable because of its greater interest and its greater opportunity for literary work.
It is unnecessary to give in this sketch the titles of courses offered and the exact ground covered by each: such information may be found in the University calendar. In general, however, it may be said that the arrangement of work is such as to secure systematic historical or sociological study to any student who desires to take a major in either one of the two departments mentioned, and in order to secure this systematic study, major and minor courses are suggested in history and sociology by the heads of the departments.
In addition to the regular courses offered, the students meet once in two weeks, on Friday from four to five, in the seminary of historical and political science. The seminary generally has a large attendance, an evidence of its popularity, as no student is required to attend it, and that popularity is undoubtedly due to the effort made by the instructors to present programs which shall be both of value and of general interest to all historical students. Sometimes papers are read or lectures given by instructors; sometimes the students report on some selected topic, and occasionally a well known man from outside the University reads a paper before the seminary. In any case one of the most interesting features of the seminary is the opportunity always given for questions or for criticism towards the close of the hour.
Besides the regular seminary in which the students of the two departments meet, mention must be made of the economic seminary, meeting on Wednesdays from five to six o'clock practically an advanced course in economics, but no credit towards a degree is given for the work, its members merely meeting together for the purpose of reporting what each one has accomplished in some particular line of economic study selected at the first meeting of the year.
The development of the study of history and sociology in Kansas University has bee
unusually rapid during the past four or five years. Each year has seen an increased demand on the part of students for greater opportunity for work, and as a result new and more advanced courses have been opened. Even graduate work, which has not as yet been extensively demanded in western universities, has been undertaken in history, and is now being carried by graduates of our own university, and in order to encourage this work special graduate courses are offered and recommended in American history, in economics, and in politics and social institutions.
CHEMISTRY.
In the building where odors and gases abound is perhaps the most crowded of all the University departments—that in which chemistry is the principal study. Here are classes in qualitative analysis, each one divided into sections for laboratory work. Here the pharmacist gets his first insight into the "black art."
During the past term classes have been concted in qualitative and quantitative analysis, pharmacy chemistry, and organic chemistry. During the next term work will be carried on in living, sugar analysis, organic chemistry, chemical chemistry, and the regular freshmanductory chemistry. At the last meeting of Board of Regents permission was granted the department to extend the course in organic chemistry from one term to a full year, and the course in technical chemistry from a half-term to a full term.
THE LIBRARY.
A few words of description of library materials and methods may not be amiss. The first point of interest, and at the same time the most interesting point, is the newspaper rack. Here
The University library, the department of books, is to the University what all libraries are to large schools and colleges, the center of its life. From it go out to all the departments, to each one as it is needed, streams of knowledge, learning, and thought. In it are kept the reservoirs of wisdom, the results of ages of study.
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
The appointment of Lieut. E.V. Smith to the professorship Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last gives cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of simil
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are kept, in addition to the city dailies, the county papers which tell the news from home. There are at least a hundred of these, one from almost every county in the state. Near the paper racks stands a double case for scientific periodicals and magazines. Here are also kept the exchanges of the Kansas University Quarterly. In the corner behind the door are the papers and magazines relating to music and art. Along the west wall of the reading room is the periodical case for magazines of language and literature. Here are magazines of all kinds and grades, from Scribner's and Harper's up to the Journal of Philology. Over in the northeast corner "under the clock" are the papers and periodicals more suited to the students of sociology and history.
Thus it will be seen that within the reading room alone is matter enough to keep one busy "keeping up with the times" without his going into the next room to catch up with the past.
But before passing out of the reading room it is well to stop and examine the card catalogue, an index by means of which any author or subject may be found, and the number and position containing the desired matter may be ascertained.
Passing into the "book room" we come first to the bound periodicals, such as Harper's North American Review, and others. Then on our left we come to alcoves containing books relating to philosophy, religion, political economy, sociology, and philology, while on our right are works on mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, botany, entomology, and the other "ologies." Passing next into the third room, we come to the books on pharmacy and engineering. Then to those on music and art; American and English literature; German and French literature; and history. In the farthest case are the folios, books in all departments which are too large to stand in the regular shelves.
The library now consists of 20,000 volumes and many unbound pamphlets and papers. All these books are for the use of all students and can be obtained by asking the librarian.
NEW BUILDINGS.
Provision has been made for the erection of three new buildings during the present academic year. One of these, the Chancellor's residence, is already completed and was occupied on December 30th. This, together with the new library, is built by means of the Spooner gift, the bequest of William B. Spooner, of Boston.
The new library building, to be known as "The Spooner Library," will be a monument in the West to the generosity of a man in the East. It is being built of native limestone, trimmed with red sandstone from South Dakota. This building will be completed by the first of September, 1894. The capacity of the book-stack is to be 100,000 volumes. The main reading room will be used exclusively for the reading of books. Adjoining it, however, will be a periodical and newspaper room. On the basement floor and also on the reading-room floor are to be seminar rooms, rooms devoted entirely to the work in some one department.
Upon the upper floor is to be a large hall or reception room. Here, it is intended, will be held such gatherings as are too small for the University hall and too large for any of the other rooms. This building when completed will add much to the beauty of the group of University buildings, and also to the material equipment of the University.
The new physics building, for which the excavating is now completed, will not be fairly started until spring. In it will be placed all the laboratories of the physics and electrical engineering departments.
With these three new buildings the University of Kansas will have an equipment second to no state university. With their completion it is hoped will begin another era of prosperity.
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.
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members of its faculty. This movement first became general in the large cities. But it has gradually spread to the smaller towns until now every person living within reasonable distance of a University, and few there are who do not, has an opportunity to take a course in University Extension.
The usual course consists of twelve lectures upon some special line of study. The persons taking these courses "for credit" are required to do a certain amount of reading and study in connection with the lectures. When nine of these twelve lectures courses have been taken they are accepted as equivalent to a years work at the University.
Last year courses were given at Kansas City, Leavenworth, and Lawrence. This year courses are being given in Leavenworth; Kansas City, Mo.; Kansas City, Kansas; Lawrence, and Iola.
Thirty-one courses are offered by the University this year. It is to be hoped that those living in Kansas towns will avail themselves of this opportunity to come in touch with the University ways and studies.
NO DECREASE IN ATTENDANCE.
Owing to the universal financial panic the majority of the schools and colleges have a much smaller attendance than they had last year. A few, very few, report an increase over last year. A few report with extreme satisfaction that their attendance is the same as that of last year. Among these latter the Kansas State University is proud to be classed. For notwithstanding the unusual dull times in Kansas the State University Register shows that there are now in attendance at the University 650 men and women. In addition to this there are nearly four hundred enrolled for credit in the University Extension courses. So that the forth coming catalogue will show a total enrollment of over 1000.
The collegiate classes are made up as follows: Seniors, 40; Juniors, 49; Sophomores, 50; Freshmen, 98; and 50 specials. There are 10 resident post-graduates, and 8 non-resident Total, 305. At the Law School the Seniors
The cards of the Engineering School show post-graduates 3, Juniors 6, Seniors19, Sophomores 10, Freshmen 44,and specials 14; total 96.
number 30 and the Juniors 39. Total, 69.
In Pharmacy 23 Seniors, 22 Juniors, and 3 specials, a total of 48 are registered. The preparatory medicals are 3.
Owing to cutting off the lower preparatory classes in the Music School the total enrollment is not as large as last year. There are 25 in the regular classes and 106 in the preparatory department. Total 131.
Senior Pharmics, 21 yrs., 8 mos., 24 d.
Junior Pharmics, 20 yrs., 9 mos., 15 d.
Special Pharmics, 21 yrs., 5 mos.
Pharmacy School, 21 yrs., 3 mos., 21 d.
Graduates in Music, 25 yrs., 15 d.
Second Year Music, 22 yrs., 1 mo., 10 d.
First Year in Music, 20 yrs., 17 d.
Music School, 22 yrs., 7 mos., 28 d.
Senior Laws, 25 yrs., 3 mos., 18 d.
Junior Laws, 23 yrs., 5 mos., 9 d.
Law School, 24 yrs., 4 mos., 18 d.
Specials in Engineering, 23 yrs., 4 mos., 6 d.
Graduates in Engineering, 25 yrs., 7 mos.
Engineering Seniors, 24 yrs., 7 mos., 5 d.
Engineering Juniors, (18) 22 yrs., 3 mos., 10 d.
Engineering Sophomores, 22 yrs., 2 mos.,
20 d.
Engineering Freshmen, 19 yrs., 7 mos., 13 d.
School of Engineering 21 yrs.,'3 mos., 16 d.
Prep. Medical 24 yrs., 2 mos., 20 d.
Specials in the School of Arts, 22 yrs., 11
mos., 20 d.
Graduates in the School of Arts, 29 yrs., 11
mos., 19 d.
Seniors in the School of Arts, 23 yrs., 7 mos.
A few figures in regard to the student and his forefathers may be interesting not only to the student himself but to the statistician and sociologist. The age of man has been a subject of much discussion and writing. We will follow precedent therefore and give space to a truthful article (for figures do not lie) on the age of the University man (and woman). The following figures are obtained from the official register ister and show the average age of the students of the various schools of the whole University:
Senior Pharmics, 21 yrs., 8 mos., 24 d.
Junior Pharmics, 20 yrs.,9 mos.,15 d.
Special Pharmics, 21 yrs.,5 mos.
Pharmacy School, 21 yrs., 3 mos., 21 d.
Graduates in Music, 25 yrs., 15 d.
Second Year Music, 22 yrs., 1 mo., 10 d.
First Year in Music, 20 yrs., 17 d.
Music School, 22 yrs., 7 mos., 28 d.
Senior Laws, 25 yrs., 3 mos., 18 d.
Junior Laws, 23 yrs., 5 mos., 9 d.
Law School, 24 yrs., 4 mos., 18 d.
Specials in Engineering, 23 yrs., 4 mos., 6 d.
Graduates in Engineering, 25 yrs.,7 mos.
Engineering Seniors, 24 yrs.,7 mos.,5 d.
Engineering Juniors,(18) 22 yrs.,3 mos.,10 d. Engineering Sophomores,22 yrs.,2 mos., 20 d.
Engineering Freshmen,19 yrs.,7 mos.,13 d. School of Engineering 21 yrs.,'3 mos.,16 d. Prep.Medical 24 yrs.,2 mos.,20 d.
Specials in the School of Arts, 22 yrs., 11 mos., 20 d.
Graduates in the School of Arts, 29 yrs., 11 mos., 19 d.
Seniors in the School of Arts, 23 yrs.,7 mos, 2 d.
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
The appointment of Lieut. E.V. Smith to the professorship of Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last gives u cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of simil-
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Juniors in the School of Arts, 20 yrs., 3 mos., 24 d.
Soph. in the School of Arts, 20 yrs., 3 mos., o d.
Freshmen in the School of Arts, 20 yrs.,20 d. School of Arts 21 yrs.,1 mo.,5 d.
Total University, 21 yrs., 7 mos., 20 d.
It is often stated by those unfriendly to higher or university education that only the children of the wealthy or monied classes can attend the university. Below are given the occupations of the parents of those students now in attendance upon the University.
OCCUPATIONS OF STUDENTS' PARENTS.
Physician, 22; Lawyer, 19; Merchant, 64; Clerk, 5; Real Estate Dealer, 15; Farmer, 157; Surveyor, 1; Journalist, 3; Teacher, 11; Printer, 1; Engineer, 1; Banker, 15; Livery Man, 3; Pension Agent, 1; Druggist, 6; Undertaker, 1; Policeman, 1; Miller, 6; Janitor, 1; Butcher, 2; Supt. Orphans' Home, 1; Hotelkeeper, 1; Claim Agent, 1; Blacksmith, 4; Stockman, 13; Housekeeper, 30; Mechanics, 4; County Office, 2; Minister, 5; Contractor, 6; Commercial Traveler, 11; Railroad man, 6; Broom-maker, 1; Capitalist, 2; Coppersmith, 1; Insurance Agent, 5; Supt. Stock Yards, 1; Carriage-maker, 2; Bandmaster, 1; Teamster, 1; Bus Driver, 1; Painter, 1; Dairyman, 1; Loan Agent, 5; Postal Clerk, 1; Politician, 1; Carpenter, 3; Manufacturer, 1; Cabinetmaker, 1; Justice of Peace, 3; Supt. of Schools, 1; Land Office, 1; Dressmaker, 1; Hackman, 1; Abstractor, 2; Book-keeper, 2; Night Watchman, 1; Express Agent, 1; Artist, 1; Florist, Educator, 2; Marble Dealer, 3; Civil Engineer; 3; Revenue Collector, 1; Day Laborer, 2; Probate Judge, 1; Jeweller, 1; Tailor, 1.
The list plainly proves that instead of the wealthy classes predominating the contrary is true, the working classes being in the majority. It was found in making the above list that of the total number enrolled 36 per cent were the children of farmers, $ 14 \frac{1}{2} $ per cent the children of laborers and artisans, 31 per cent the children of those engaged in commercial pursuits, 14 per cent the children of professional men, $ 3\frac{1}{2} $ per cent the children of bankers and capitalists, and 1 per cent of politicians.
As further proof that students of the University are not of the wealthy class it is found that of 526 questioned,196 are entirely self-supporting and 78 are partially self-supporting.
A tabulation of the religious census of the students of the University has been made by the officers of the Y. M. C. A.. The census of the law students has not been taken; and a few students in other departments failed to fill out census cards, but the census is sufficiently complete to give an idea of the religious complexion of the University. In the following tabulation the first column of figures shows the number of students who are church members. and the second column shows thenumber who indicate a church preference:
Members Preference Indicated.
Presbyterians 42 21
Methodists 36 27
Congregationalists 33 28
Unitarians 6 20
Baptists 17 6
Episcopalians 13 6
Christians 12 2
Lutherans 8 1
Quakers 6 1
Memonites 5
Catholics 4 1
Reformed 2 2
United Brethren 1
Universalist 1
M. B. C. Church 1
Thirty-five persons who filled out census cards indicated no church preference. Three hundred and thirty-six persons in all filled out cards. These figures show that 55 per cent of the students are church members, and of the 45 per cent remaining, 30 per cent declare a church preference. Such figures should overthrow the idea some people have, that the State University is a Godless institution. Exchange.
THE UNIVERSITY AS A WHOLE.
Cut this out and—no, don't paste it in your hat—carry it in your pocket and show it to your friends as giving in a few words the University equipment:
Chancellor F. H. Snow.
Schools into which the University is divided: Arts, Law, Music, Pharmacy, and Engineering.
Number in Faculty, 45.
Number of buildings, 9 (8 the property of the University and rented).
Library, 20,000 volumes.
Natural history collections, 150,000 specimens.
The department has fifty compound microscopes which are used by students in class work.
Athletic field, 12 acres.
First-class equipment in electrical engineering shops, and excellent facilities in all lines of instruction.
10.
L. B. Edelmann
ARMOUR. JANTZEN.
JOHNSON. HARVEY.
CHAMPLIN, CAPT. '93. WILLIAMSON, CAPT. '94.
STEINBERGER. GRIFFTH.
PIATT. HAMIL.
COLEMAN.
MOODY, MGR. ROTHROCK.
SHELLENBARGER.
WILSON.
MATTISON.
ART McMURRAY.
SHEPHERD.
WILL McMURRAY.
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
THE appointment of Lieut. E. V. Smith to the professorsh Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last give cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of
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IN THIS issue of the COURIER we present our readers with a sketch of the work being done in the Uuiversity. Even the student is not too well informed on the work of those schools in which he is directly interested, while the great portion of the friends of the University who have never attended it must, of necessity, have only incomplete ideas of the advantages the University offers: hence, all of our readers should find this number of unusual interest. Many young people are going to eastern schools, and many more are attending some of the minor colleges of the state who would attend the University if they were well informed regarding it. The Glee Club and the foot-ball team attract considerable attention throughout the state, but the earnest student wants to know something of the work as well as the play, and it is to satisfy this want as best we can that this sketch is presented.
CORNELL HAS banished the examination, and hereafter her students will be graded upon their class work. Though the examination has its advantages, it is accountable for much that is injurious to the student; and we believe that
in time all the great universities will follow Cornell's example. The student who does good work receives little or no benefit from the examination; he is obliged to repeat in a time most probably too limited portions of the work he has already done in class, and if he be a little slow he will be unable to show what he knows of his subject. The lazy or careless student will do better work in his class when he knows that he will have no opportunity to make up in time for examination. The dishonest student may be able to cheat his instructor during a few hours of examination, but he cannot do it all the term. The instances are rare in which an instructor does not have a very good idea of the quality of the work the student has been doing; hence the examination is in many respects a detriment instead of a benefit.
EDWARD C. LITTLE, HONORED.
"To Hon. Edward C. Little, Ex-Diplomatic Agent and Consul General of the United States to Egypt" is the dedication to be found in "The Rulers of the Mediterranean," by Richard Harding Davis. This book has just been issued from the press of Harper Bros., and a man of Mr. Little's age may well feel proud to be thus honored by one of the most prominent literary geniuses of the present generation. Mr. Davis visited Egypt during Mr. Little's official life there, and this distinguished honor is no doubt the result of Mr. Little's straight forward and business-like administration in Egypt. Indicative of this is a splendid compliment to Mr. Little in this book because he refused to allow criminals to practice their frauds under protection of the American flag, as had been done previously.
The book is beautifully illustrated and is descriptive of life on and around the Mediterranean. The beautiful illustrations and entertaining style for which Mr. Davis is far famed makes it a book desirable for every Kansan, and especially desirable for every alumni and student of K.U. because Mr. Little is the first Kansan to receive this distinguished honor.
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opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
THE appointment of Lieut. E. V. Smith to the professorship Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last give cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of sin
sity, increasing the an important dev growing tendency institution of high The prejudice to labor in the pa beginning to avail
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LITERARY.
WHEN SNOW-FLAKES FALL.
When snow-flakes fall with airy grace Upon Earth's grim and rugged face They frolic, leap,-then glide away To deck some nook or leafless spray. Or veil bare boughs with misty lace.
Two bright eyes watched the fairy chase, And baby-shouts ring out apace She never yet has seen a day When snow flakes fall.
But silent, by the broad fire-place,
The mother rests—while time and space
For her are lost in snow drops' play—
She seems to see on hill-side gray,
A mound, which gleams in feathery trace,
When sno-wflakes fall.
ABILENE, KANS., Jan. 1, '94.
GREETING.
Good morning Ninety-four!
We beg of you give o'er
That legacy of lore
Which we inherit.
Your favor we implore!
Your genius pray outpour!—
And ever more and more
Your grace we'll merit.
And, just for custom's sake,
We now proceed to shake
Off every pain and ache
Amassed the past year.
Good promises we make,
Good resolutions take,—
Which of course will break
As we did last year.
We hereby own it true
That errors oft occur:
But yet we will, in lieu
Of vain entreating,
Admit our vices too.
But now we'll start anew,
And here present to you
Our New Year's greeting.
W.
OH, WHY IS MY HEART SO SAD?
OH, WHY IS MY HEART SO SAD?
Obon a bright and balmy night,
When gently blew the breezes light,
In accents low,
I asked he 'neath the campus wall
To be her escort to the ball. She said she'd go.
Upon a frightful, stormy night,
A carriage climbed that dismal height.
Within was pent
A youth, who groaned,-is groaning still,
"Oh, who will pay my carriage bill?"
And thus she went!
ON A STUDENTS FIRST DAY.
The academical quarter-hour was yet a matter of future history for me; so by a spurt at the end of the half-mile I reached the lecture room on the first minute of the hour. Four men, probably really interested in comparative anatomy were examining the alcoholic preparations on the reading desk; otherwise little suggestion of anything soon to happen. Regretting the last 100 yards, I went to the back or, rather, clambered to the top of the room for a seat. Lenckart has a room full of hearers. As the men began to gather the top of the room became, as it remained throughout the lecture hour, uncomfortable. One, probably, of ever four of the incomers was smoking, and the odor of the antiquarish smoke of 4-phennige cigars is not good. A few 10.phennige cigars which came in later afforded some relief.
After all the 150 men, or most of them, and the two very brave young women, one of whom is an American, had got seated, and the long, narrow writing shelf in front of each row of seats had been profusely dotted with little, black-backed note-books, a tremendous pounding of feet on the floor, accompnied by a disappearance of the 4-ph. horrors, announced the entrance of a fine-looking white-haired man of 72 years. At the moment when he could first be heard, he was saying something about blood-cells, and for three-quarters of an hour he continued a series of rapid remarks on the same subject. One of these remarks was made inaudible by vigorous hissing and a furious scraping of feet on the floor, which was the encouraging welcome given a late comer. Duaing the course of the rapidly spoken remarks, more enthusiastic stepping on the floor, and loud guffaws of laughter greeted what was probably a witicism of the lecturer, but the vocabulary and syntax of it not being found in William Tell or in the one-time Sophomore book of excerpts from Goethe's travel-sketches. my college German was unable to give me warrant for laughter at it.
The lecture was interesting not alone because of its substance, some of which I understood, but also for the manner of its delivery, and, truly, also, because it was Lenckart, one of the greatest of living Zoologists, who made it. The lecturer talked loudly, rapidly, with evident extreme earnestness, without notes, and with much walking about and gesturing. At the close of the hour, as he began to edge toward the door, though without abatement of earnest talking, the little black note-books disappeared, the portable inkstands were screwed shut, and amid the din of uncommonly vigorously pounding, the glorious white-haired man plunged out of the room. Then was heard a long-drawn-out gentle rasping; it was the scratching of matches preparatory to to the relighting of the 4-ph. relicts; and here an unacclimated Kansan incontinently fled.
LEIPZIG, 3 December, '93.
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ATHLETICS.
THE VARSITY ELEVEN OF 93.
On the first week of the term, in response to the call of Captain Champlin, thirty-two men presented themselves on McCook field as candidates for the University team. It cannot be said there was a lack of good material.
Of the men who played on the champion Varsity eleven of '92, Matteson, Shepherd, Hamill, Coleman, Piatt, Williamson and Champlin, were back. Mendell, Huddleson, Kinzie, Sprinper and Dum were the absentees.
Amongst the prominent candidates, whose work was to some extent an unknown quantity, were Armor, Harvey, Johnson, Wilson and Rothrock. When it is considered that there is also the chance of finding among the entirely new candidates other valuable men, it can easily be seen that the captain of the team was well supplied with material upon which to work.
Indeed prospects were bright; but never was the saying "Good beginning, bad ending," more forcibly exemplified than in this case.
The presence, among some of the players, of the I-know-it-all disposition, combined with the reduction in numbers which regular practice caused lessened the number of candidates to such a degree that only threats of the management were able to secure a full quota for practice. On the choosing of the provisional team it was evident that there was a lack of wright all along the line, especially at center, which fact was painfully evident in the Iowa and Ann Arbor games.
The good resolves concerning the second eleven were never realized. In the treatment of this team the management certainly erred. One of the least desirable positions in the athletic world is that of a member of a scrub team His incentives and advantages are few. He is entirely unknown to fame. Yet he works as hard as any varsity player and it is upon his efforts that the success of the varsity so largely depends.
The second eleven, the trainer and feeder of the varsity, should have been coached to as high a degree of efficiency as was permitted. How well it could be depended upon was shown by the disablement of Williamson. Instead of looking to the second for a competent quarter it was necessary to take a substitute end and train him for the position. All this happened just before the two most important games of the year.
And in the work of the team itself there seemed to be a lack of that spirit and dash with which individuals play for success and reputation of the college. Indeed the balance wheel of the team must have been off on a tangent. The hopes of the most dubious would be raised after witnessing the slow and steady defense and the strong and aggressive offensive play of the varsity in the Minnesota, Nebraska and Ann Arbor games. But the willingly bestowed confidence would soon be shaken by the loose playing and apparent lack of stamina that characterized the contests with Baker, Iowa and Missouri.
The main cause of our defeat at Exposition park on Thanksgiving day can easily be traced to the Ann Arbor game. Crippled by the loss of center and quarter, and with the entire team in wretched shape from the four days previous game, we entered the last championship game to struggle with a team in the very pink of condition, handicapped by no injuries, and assisted at right guard by their coach and trainer, Mr. Robinson, of Tufts. Under these conditions only chance could have declared in our favor.
The inate desire of the management to economize has made it impossible for K. U. to keep up with the game. With Crawford, of Ann Arbor, at Nebraska; Robinson, of Tufts, at Columbia, and Sport Donnelly, of Princeton, at Iowa, the teams of the Quadrangular league have certainly laid the foundations for winning elevens next season, if not in this. Even Baker, of Baldwin, had secured the counsel of Mr. Thomas, of Michigan.
A word to the wise is usually sufficient, but in this case it has taken experience to show the folly of going through a season without the advice of an expert. The marked improvement in the Nebraska game was undoubtedly due to the little attention given us by Mr. Heath, of Kansas City.
Professor Dain's article in the Student's Journal finds the main cause of our defeats in the poor support given the team by the University. Be this as it may, certainly our much boasted of college enthusiasm was at a decidedly low ebb the entire season.
A large measure of the success or failure of any team is justly placed to the credit of its captain; but the result of the season has in no wise demonstrated the incompetency of Captain Ceamplin.
In conclusion, the evils that accompanied our team are not of such a glaring character but that very simple remedies will enable Captain Williamson to offer Mt. Oread her former
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
The appointment of Lieut. E.V.Smith to the professorship Military Science and Tactics at Baker University,at last gives u cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends.The work of simila
sity, increasing the an important deveget growing tendency institution of higher
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honors. And by the way, in regard to that evil which is permeating our associationprofessionalismCasper Whitney,the athletic editor of Harper's Weekly,has the following to say:
"For the benefit of our western and southern readers I publish in full a letter from the executive of the Western Foot Ball Association, touching a subject on which I receive many letters. It seems curious there should be any misunderstanding of such simple rules as govern elegibility and an amateur. Any athlete of any kind, foot ball, base ball, or what else, ceases to be an amateur the instant he receives a penny, and is not eligible for any amateur team. A foot ball coach who is paid is a professional, and consequently is not eligible to membership on an amateur team. It makes no difference whether he is a bona fide student or not, he is a professional just the same. Missouri and Nebraska are guilty of profersonalism, and the Western Association should insist on their obeying the rules."
RECORD OF GAMES, 1893.
October 14, at Minneapolis... Kansas, 6; Minnesota, 12
October 21, at Lawrence... Kansas, 12; Baker, 14
October 28, at Denver... Kansas, 10; D. A. C., 12
*November 4, at Kansas City ... Kansas, 35; Iowa, 24
*November 18, at Lincoln... Kansas, 18; Nebraska, 0
November 25, at Kansas City... Kansas, 0; Ann Arbor, 22
*November 30, at Kansas City... Kansas, 4; Missouri, 12
Missouri and Kansas tied for first place.
It is with much satisfaction that we note the national demand for the revision of the football rules. Harper's Weekly and The Nation in particular have advanced very strong arguments in favor of so modifying the game that sprain muscles and broken bones will not be quite so common among the players next year. It may be that the game will not be so interesting for the spectators after it is made less brutal, but it will certainly be much more beneficial to the student, and very probably will bring them just as much glory.
Give Blackman & Olinger your address and they will call for your laundry on Mondays and deliver on Fridays.
Go to Bruce's for coal. The oldest coal firm in Lawrence. 627 Mass.street.
All kinds of athletic goods kept at Smith's News Depot. See him before buying.
Tipton, 836 Massachusetts street, is the finest tonsorial artist in town. Patronize him.
Students call on Robert Edmondson to get your soles mended.
Students, See our Dancing Pumps.
K. S. U. Bouqet is the latest Perfume. It is a very delicate and lasting odor. For sale only at Barber Bros. Drug Store.
MASON.
Smith keeps a full line of athletic goods and news.
1007 Mass. Street is the most convenient place for students to buy Coal.
Kangroo, Cordaran, Bear, Donkey, Elk and Calf Skin Shoes at MASON's.
Geo. Hollingbery makes a specialty of supplying students' clothing at prices you cannot buy the same quality west of Boston, New York or Philadelphia. To secure this great advantage you must plan two weeks ahead. It will save you money.
Bruce is making the lowest prices on coal. Telephone 113.
Give Blackman & Olinger your address and they will call for your laundry on Mondays and deliver on Fridays.
Students, See our Dancing Pumps.
MASON.
New students, Smith's Depot is the place to get your cigars.
Best Coal and Wood at Griffin's.
Geo. Hollingbery makes a specialty of supplying students' clothing at prices you cannot buy the same quality west of Boston, New York or Philadelphia. To secure this great advantage you must plan two weeks ahead. It will save you money.
Examine our stock of Fine Shoes. MASON.
Blackman & Olinger are agent for Jackson's laundry.
Examine our stock of Fine Shoes. MASON.
REYNOLDS BROS. RESTAURANT.
(SUCCESSORS TO HARRY HUTSON.) If you want a good meal this is the place to get it. Board by the day or week at reasonable rates. Ice-Cream and Oysters.
715 Massachusetts Street.
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For Rent or Sale for Cash on Easy Terms.
SCHUTZ-STAUBER
SHEET MUSIC, MUSIC BOOKS, and MUSICAL MERCHANDISE,
To Students at Special Prices Call and See the Mandolin-Banjo
OLIN BELL.
845 Massachusetts Street, - - Lawrence, Kansas.
WILDER BROTHERS,
Shirt Makers and Gents Furnishings,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
STUDENTS and everybody will do well to call on us and be fitted out in Shirts and Underwer that have been made to order for parties and not taken. You can buy the finest goods for one-third the regular price, Patronize our Custom Steam Laundry for nice work and low prices. Work called for and delivered. Telephone 67.
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Patients taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice in the Scientific Americnn, and thus are brought widely before the public without cost to the inventor. This splendid paper, issued weekly, elegantly illustrated, has by far the largest circulation of any scientific work in the world. $3 a year. Sample copies sent free.
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Robert Edmondson, east Warren street, does the finest shoe repairing in the city.
The cheapest place for fuel in Lawrence is Bruce's, 627 Mass. street.
Pat Graham will make you the finest dress shoe you ever wore, and for less money than you ever paid before. East Warren street.
JOHN F. STRATTON & SON,
43 & 45 Walker 8t. NEW YORK.
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in All kinds of MUSICAL MERCHANDISE, Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Accordeons, Harmonicas, &c., all kinds of Strings, etc., etc.
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MRS. WADE'S BAKERY. ●●●
Home made Cakes and Pastries a specialty. The most delicious Cakes and Pies furnished students' parties on short notice. Nice Lunches for students. Call and see us. 1029 Mass. St.
or some of the Baker students to play football. According to the opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
THE appointment of Lieut. E. V. Smith to the professorship of Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last gives us cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of similar
sity, increasing the an important develop growing tendency t institution of higher
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E. M. ROBERTSON.
J. W. ROBERTSON.
ROBERTSON BROS.,
UNDERTAKERS Dealers in FURNITURE,
718 Massachusetts Street,
Telephone No. 90.
For Christmas Gifts
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Go to the Great Unloading Sale. COMMENCES SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9.
All Clothing and Furnishings Marked Down. WE ARE HERE TO STAY. NO ONE CAN UNDERSELL US. Reliable Goods at Stringency Prices at
733 MASS ST. STEINBERG'S.
H. JAESCHKE,
BAKERY.
Fresh Bread Delivered to Any Part of City.
Special Rates to Clubs.
825 MASSACHUSETTS ST.
FRESH AND SALT MEATS.
Fish and Oysters. GAME IN SEASON. 615 and 1337 Mass. St., Tel. No. 29.
At MOHUNDRO & ADDISON'S.
ZUTTERMEISTER'S
Confectionery, Ice Cream and
Oyster Parlors. PURE CANDIES AND FINE ICE CREAM. Supplying Parties and Banquets a Specialty. 709 Massachusetts Street.
SUMMERFIELD & JACOBS,
Bakers & Confectioners
CROCERIES, PROVISIONS, FRUITS, PRODUCE, ETC.
SPECIAL RATES TO CLUBS.
737 Massachusetts St. Lawrence, Kansas.
DONNELLY BROS.,
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable.
Nos. 700 to 728 New Hampshire Street.
TELEPHONE 100.
S. HOEN, Dealer in the Best Brands of SMOKING TOBACCO, AND CHEWING And Manufacturer of FINE CIGARS.
845 Massachusetts Street.
J. W.O'BRYON, DENTIST,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. Over Bell's Music Store.
ABE LEVY.
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WOOLF BROS' LAUNDRY.
T. WITHINGTON, Soliciter.
Students Patronize
The Saratoga
805 Main St.,
KANSAS CITY, MO. + Restaurant.
MODERATE PRICES,
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UP WITH THE TIMES
Is scarce, put a little of it goes a long ways buying GROCERIES at
McCURDY & ROBERTS',
Tel. 77. 639-641 Mass. St.
A. WEBER & SON
Merchant : Tailors,
727 Massachusetts Street,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Suits from $20.00 up. Pants from $5.00 up.
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J. J. KUNKEL Carries the best assortment of Merchandise and Tailor Goods 740 Massachusetts St.
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American. $3 per day and upward. European, $1 per day and upward. Absolutely fire proof. Elegant Cafe open from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
7th and Walnut Sts., Kansas City, Mo.
University Medical College of Kansas City, Mo., 911 and 913 East Tenth St.
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J. M. ALLEN, A. B., M. D., President.
Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine,
Liberty, Mo.
JAMES P. JACKSON, M. D.,
EUGENE R. LEWIS, A. M., M. D.,
Professors of Principles and Practice of Surgery and Clinical
Surgery, Journal Building.
GEORGE HALLEY, M. D.,
Professor of Clinical Surgery, 800 Lydia.
FLAVEL B. TIFFANY, M. D.,
Professor of Diseases of Eye and Ear, and of Histology and
Microscopy, 1235 Grand Ave.
CHAS. W. ADAMS, A. M., M. D., Dean,
Professor of Diseases of Women, 1201 Grand Ave.
GEO. W. DAVIS, M. D., Treasurer and Curator,
Professor of Genito Urinary, Venereal and Skin Diseases,
Journal Building.
JAMES E. LOGAN, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Nose, Throat and Chest, Ninth and Walnut.
LYMAN A. BERGER, A. M., M. D., Secretary,
Professor of Obstetrics, 1201 Grand Ave.
ROBERT L. GREENE, M. D.,
Professor of Anatomy, 11th and Walnut.
B. E. FRYER, M. D.,
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W. F. KUHN, A. M., M. D.,
Professor of Physiology and Theraputics, 11th and Main.
RANDAL R. HUNTER, M. D., Ph. D.,
Professor of Chemistry, City Hall.
ALBERT L. BERGER, LL. B., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence.
CLAUDE C. HAMILTON, M. D., Ph. G., Professor of Analytical Chemistry, College Building.
JOHN WILSON, M. D., Professor of Hygiene, N. Y. Life Building.
CLAY S. MERRIMAN, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Children, 24th and Forest.
JABEZ N. JACKSON, A. M., M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy, Journal Building.
C. F. WAINRIGHT, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, Rialto Building.
S. GOODWIN GANT, A. M., M. D., Lecturer on Diseases of Rectum, Rialto Building.
JOHN PUNTON, M. D., Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, Rialto Building.
A. M. WILSON, A. M., M. D., Professor of Materia Midica Railway Y. M. C. A., Union Depot.
S. C. JAMES, M. D., LESTER HALL, M. D.
Assistant Professors of Theory and Practice of Medicine, Times Building.
W. C. BURKE, M. D., Rialto Building.
CHET. McDONALD, M. D., 1010 Grand Ave.
CHAS. F. WILSON, M. D., 2135 Summit.
Assistant Demonstrators of Anatomy.
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or some of the Baker students to play football. According to the opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
THE appointment of Lieut. E. V. Smith to the professorship of Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last gives us cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of simil
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