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VOL. I.
LAWRENCE, KANS., OCTOBER 11, 1894.
No.1.
The Courier-Review is published every Thursday during collegiate year by the Courier-Review Publishing Co.
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LAST FRIDAY at a meeting of the stockholders of the REVIEW Co. it was voted to combine the REVIEW with the COURIER and to unite with the COURIER supporters in building up and maintaining a paper which should be a credit to the University it would represent. As a result of this combination the COURIER-REVIEW appears in its present form. The entire staff is thoroughly organized, and we say with assurance that we fully expect the COURIER-REVIEW to be a paper of which every student may be proud and after which other papers may pattern. It is the intention of the management to issue once a month a literary number which will in part take the place of the REVIEW. In this monthly edition it is hoped will appear all articles of merit written by the professors and students or the so-called literary departments. The weekly COURIER-REVIEW will be open to all and will in every way be representative of
all classes in the University. With this introduction the COURIER-REVIEW makes its bow to the college World.
THE ATHLETIC election is over. We believe it is the general belief that the best men have been elected to all places. Considerable rivalry was occasioned, but no ill feeling grew out of the contest. Now that the election is over let us all join together in a movement looking toward a general advancement in athletics along every line. Let us get out to practice games. Let us exhibit in more ways than one that the men engaged in college athletics have our active co-operation and sympathy.
THE SENIOR class is meeting regularly every other day and at every meeting each member of the class asks the other "What shall we do on class day?" Now please do something original and yet something that will be benificial both to yourselves and to the University. Whatever you do, do it well. Formulate a plan at once and follow it out so when commencement arrives everything will be in readiness and nothing will be done hurriedly. The COURIER-REVIEW has nothing to suggest, but may have later on.
THE READING habit—that is, the habit of reading good, solid books-is one which ought to be acquired by everyone. Once acquired it will be in no danger of being broken. The knowledge of books and the author of those books is a knowledge whose possession will more than once prove of great benefit and assistance. In the University library are twenty thousand bound volumes. How many of these have you ever looked at? In the library are two hundred magazines. How many of these do you read or ever glance at?
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There are dozens of standard works that your friends and companions are talking about. How many have you read? To be "up on" a new book is as essential nowadays as to be acquainted with the various political questions and parties. By the way, what do you know about protection and free trade? What do you know about income tax, about the silver or the gold standard? If you know about these things it is because you read. If you do not know about these things it is because you do not read. In no other way can you benefit yourself more than by acquiring the "reading habit."
WEWOULD advise every student who has any intention whatever of participating in the coming joint debate to join the Debating Club. The training which he can receive there is such that it will be of more service to him than anything else could possibly be. The power of thinking while standing and addressing an audience is one which can be acquired only by long continued practice. A natural gift of oratory will be of no service to a man if he is not able to formulate ideas while he speaks. If you are so situated that you cannot join the Debating Club, become a member of some other organization which will afford you an opportunity to acquire ease in speaking and thinking.
STUDENTS, you have chosen us to represent you on this paper, and in the beginning we shall insist upon your loyal support. This paper will be what you make it, no more, no less. Last year the burden of the entire work fell upon the staff. No doubt they received a great benefit from it, but what good did you get is the question. We must confess that the volume of last year missed its aim entirely. While the paper was carried on in order to give you a means of developing your literary talents, only a few took advantage of the opportunity of the REVIEW's or COURIER'S columns. Fellow students, this is your paper, and its moral and literary tone will depend upon the support you give it. The paper is not for the benefit of the staff but for you. The REVIEW number
is designed to be a medium for the free exchange of thought and for the development of style in writing. We know you are pressed for time-so are we. But do not forget that to learn to express your thoughts logically and grammatically is one of the choicest acquirements of college life. We can only learn this by practice and close study. So let us use our opportunities and make the COURIER-REVIEW a profit to ourselves and a credit to our University. Ever remember that
"Of all those arts in which the wise excel. Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."
Too much stress cannot be laid upon the tremendous results which depend upon a young man's actions while at college. Too much care cannot be taken to lay deep the foundation of life and character for future years. The young man who forms the habit of systematic study will certainly become an able business or professional man. If, on the other hand, he acquires the habit of neglecting his duty or giving up when confronted by a difficult task, he will surely be unfit for the solution of the hard problems of life. Man can just as well call back lost opportunities as he can rid his character of the defects formed at college. Eternity alone can reveal the benefits of integrity, honesty and religious devotion practiced by the student while at college.
Prairie Sunset. NANNIE PUGH.
Darkened prairie depths softly stirred As grasses whisper apart,
The one clean note of an upwinging bird Like an upspringing hope in the heart.
The wide shadowed sweep all still with a sense Of infinite mystery,
While in the hush expectant-intense The spirit of sunset passes by.
SUN RISING
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LITERARY.
The Attitude of the Church toward Science.
To harmonize the conflicting claims of science and theology has been the effort of orthodox scientists for many years. Their task has been far from satisfactory. As scientists they must argue from the firm ground of human experience and reason. As theologists they must transcend these limits and speak from the uncertain heights of faith. So the adherents of science have continued to send their shafts into the weak spots of the church, and the church has been as stoutly engaged in warding off attack. This warfare is almost entirely over matter of belief and opinion. But while these seemingly endless battles are waging, what most concerns the life of the church and of the individuals in the church is the answer to this question: "Are the active, living principles of Christianity in conflict with the spirit of modern science?" If they are not, then the question faces us: "What sould be the attitude of the church toward scientific inquiry and scientific methods?"
The history of the antagonism between church and science needs no repetition. It is enough for us to remember that it had its origin at a time when men received their religious beliefs not directly from the Bible, but from the clergy; and woe to him who refused to swallow without complaint the crusts of doctrine set before him. Under these conditions we are not surprised to find men bitterly persecured for holding the heretical doctrine that the earth revolves around the sun. But the blood of these early martyrs to truth was the seed of modern science. At the present day when the seed thus sown has yielded such rich harvest, a large and rapidly growing body of churchmen observe the common ground between science and the Christian belief. Each is seen to be indebted to the other. Science has proved the universality of the religious instinct and the paramount value of the Christian belief. It has gone far to banish from the church gross error and superstition.
On the other hand science has received from the Bible that lofty command to "prove all things true and hold fast that which is good." It has imbibed from Christianity the potent force of individualism. But its greatest heritage is the distinctively Christian idea of self-sacrifice. In no department of modern life is the spirit of this doctrine more strongly demanded than in the scientific world. Here men are taught to yield up personal inclinations, prejudices and ambitions in their devotion to truth. Self-abnegation, it is the dominance of this idea more than anything else that has brought science to its present eminence.
If this, the central teaching of Christianity, is also the uplifting force in modern science, the harmonious advance of church and science side by side should not be obstructed by theological differences.
Along with the progress of science in this country has come a realism in religion as well as in literature before which old traditions and notions vanish away or appear but as symbols. As a result there exists a fear through a large portion of the church lest with the passing of old ideas which cluster around religion, religion itself will become to many a mere illusion. Hence this party would entrench itself within the walls of traditionary beliefs and jealously guard against attack from without and uprising from within. This ultraconservative class must be leavened by the progressive spirit working consciously in the church toward a definite aim. This aim should be the rendering of religion more real, more active and more human. The means by which this goal is to be attained are chiefly three. First, a critical study of the source of the Christian belief should be encouraged in order that the dust and cobwebs of centuries may be swept away, and the truth of scripture appear in its native beauty. The growth of higher critlcism should be welcomed by the Christian who is upheld by a staunch faith in the genuineness of the scriptures. The frown that meets the work of testing the authenticity of any or all parts of the Bible is a sign of fear lest the scriptures, weighed in the balance of human reason, may
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be found wanting. What the church needs is a faith like Donier's which maintains that "all truth has in it the power to authenticate itself." The searching, critical, often destructive spirit should be encouraged. Let it be said of America what has already been said of Germany by Stuckenberg, pastor of the American church at Berlin. "Fear," he says, "is a species of infidelity that has been banished from Germany." This is the voice that comes from the land where the Reformation first asserted itself. May it also be the birth-place of a new reformation as fearless, potent and wide-reaching as the old.
An attitude favorable to higher criticism would strengthen the position of the church; but a further step is needful. The influence upon religion of the intense scientific tendencies must be recognized and made to assist rather than hinder the progress of the church. It has long been the custom in the church to judge all scientific theories on the basis of established theological notions. The majority of church members have followed in the steps of the old scholastics who, with a Bible in one hand and an Aristotle's logic in the other, set forth incontrovertible theories of life in the natural kingdom and in the spiritual as well. Gradually science has changed all this. It has drawn men's minds from the realms of mystical abstraction, and taught them to seek a grasp upon realities. It has taught men to see in the form and color of the slightest flower a meaning and a purpose. In all activity the working of law is recognized. Shall it be said that the effect of this is to make men pagans? True science may have induced too great a distaste for the artificial forms of the church. It may have condemned too severely the adherence to creed. But if it has done this, it has wonderfully expanded men's ideas of God. That great product of modern science, the theory of evolution, has led men to see order where before was confusion. It teaches union between man and nature instead of opposition. Above all it emphasizes the immanence of God in human destinies in place of the old doctrine of His interference. If the points of view held by the
Christian evolutionist were adopted by the church in general, new direction and energy would be given to the forces of Christianity.
This advance would naturally be followed by the adoption of scientific methods of church work. To maintain its power as a civilizing agent, the church must make use of instruments which science places at its disposal. A recent article on "Impending Paganism in New England," by De Witt Hyde, of Bowdin college, shows by statistics that church attendance in rural New England is on the decrease. The census of fifteen counties shows that of 133,445 families, 67,842 are not attendants upon any church. What is worse, the church lacks vitality and are in bad straits financially. The author ascribes this unfortunate condition largely to the fact that the antiquated forms of belief are severely insisted upon, and that sermonizing takes the place of preaching. Observation in the rural districts and small towns of the West would, I believe, reveal much the same general situation. For example, in the principal church of a small town in Kansas two weeks were spent in a serious wrangle over the comparative saving power of sprinkling and immersion as modes of baptism. Internal disturbances and quarrels with other churches recur with painful frequency. Although there are six denominations represented in the town, few of the substantial business men attend church, and the preachers depend largely for support on the income from entertainments and artificial revivals.
What is the remedy for this great lack of interest, and the failure of the church to meet the requirements of modern life? In addition to what has already been suggested, I believe it lies in the adoption of a different system of training for the preacher. He needs to study humanity more and the humanities perhaps less. Some of the Latin, Greek and Hebrew in the theological course might well be replaced by the direct study of man and his environment. The theological student dwells too much in a realm of ideas. He knows well what men ought to be, but he knows too little how they are to be brought to that perfection. He needs
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to know whence man has come as well as whither he is to go. The knowledge of primitive man and primitive society, gained by an extensive study of anthropology and sociology, should correct this disproportion. Let the theological student also become famaliar with scientific methods of treating crime and bestowing charity. Then the ministry will be entered as a field of definite, active usefulness when scientific plans of reform are to be systematically carried out. Then the church, while continuing to employ theology to bring God down to men, would invoke the aid of science to bring men up to God. If a fuller sympathy between church and science might thus be developed each would be strengthened. Scientific research would be pursued with the ardor which the Christian religion inspires, and the church would receive new life and vigor.
EDWARD O'BRYON.
EXCHANGES.
Love and Football.
A man and a Vassar maiden,
With wind and wave atune,
Talked low of love and football
'Neath a mellow Newport moon.
The Vassar maid had hinted That Vassar girls might play At Rubgy,'gainst his college And beat them, too-some day.
“If you should play," he whispered, "Your college against mine, I'd like to play left tackle On the opposing line."
Then dropped her head, the maiden. With blushes red as flame. And said, "since this may be so Let's have a practice game."
Drury Mirror.
It may be dangerous to publish such items as this at a co-educational institution like K. U., but we hope it will not induce the maidens of K. S. U. to challenge the boys to a game of football. One thing is certain, however, and that is that K. U. girls would not make a challenge until they had had several practice games.
Good Advice.
Iowa State University has received a donation of several thousand dollars from the late Gov. Kirkwood. The late William Reickoff also bequeaths $35,000 to that institution. The colleges of the West seem to be having their turn in receiving magnificent bequeaths.
Don't wear a long and troubled face,
Don't trouble and don't fret;
The useful man is the cheerful man;
And he gets there, too, you bet. -Ex-
Drury College has a new president, Homer T. Fuller, former president of the Polytechnic Institute at Worcester, Mass.
"Nations move by cycles," says Emerson. Not now they don't, Emmie. They move bicycles these days, and move them fast, too. Ex.
One of the liveliest college papers that comes to our exchange table is the Daily Cardinal, of the University of Wisconsin. It is a four-page four-column paper published daily.
With Princeton moving to abolish hazing and the new football rules generally in operation, college life promises to be a very tame and hazardless sort of existence. Kansas City Star.
Hazing seems to be going out of date, and this means a great step forward in college circles. The students of Princeton have unanimously agreed to stop the practice of hazing, and the students of Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois, must sign a pledge upon entering the college that they will not participate in the practice of hazing.
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ATHLETIGS.
FOOT-BALL GAME.
The "Crimson" again! The "Varsity" wins an easy game from the T. A.C.
The reports circulated in regard to the condition of the Topeka boys and their ability to play foot-ball were of such a nature as to cause a great many to think that perhaps the "varsity" boys had underestimated them, and that Topeka might be able to score, but this was all a mistake, for never once during the game did the Athletic Club boys get even in the vicinity of the "varsity" goal, and if the halfs had been of an hour's duration their chances for scoring would not have been any better. They didn't have the endurance for a game with our boys—the endurance of the "varsity" team becomes more apparent all the time. The Topeka team is made of men who have played foot-ball before, and who are now in business in Topeka, therefore their training is necessarily limited, but having good material the team in a month's time will be a good one. Saturday was only the second or third time that these men had played together, and by reason of this their playing was individual, a kind of playing which can never win in foot-ball. They were nervous, not accustomed to their signals, and most of all, not able to keep cool under the fast, sharp playing of the "varsity" team.
THE GAME.
The Topeka boys did not arrive until 3 P. M., and the time for the game was later than usual. As heretofore, the game was called as advertised, and at 4 P.M. the men lined up at the center of the field and the game began. The "varsity" was very much the same as it was in the game with Ottawa, the main difference was that Hill played left half in McMurrya's place and although this was Hill's first game with the "varsity" he played a game of high order, making several splendid runs, one of them resulting in a touch-down; his interference was also good.
K. U. takes the ball and Steinberger puts it in play by a kick, sending the ball 30 yards into Topeka territory, the ball is returned 20 by Evans, and K. U. falls on ball. Wilson bucks the line, making a gain of 2 yards. Hester bucks guard for a small gain. Wilson makes a nice run around the left end for 10 yards. Hill bucks the line for 5 yards. Hester hits the line for 4 yards. By the backs bucking the line the ball is carried to Topeka's 5-yard line and is here lost to Topeka on an off side play. Evans punts the ball 15 yards and Hester carried it back 5 yards. By small gains the "varsity" gets the ball to Topeka's 10 yard line. The ball is passed back to Williamson who trys for a drop kick goal, failing in this, the ball is brought out to the 25-yard line and Topeka gets the ball. Evans punts 25 yards, the ball is brought back by Wilson 5 yards. By good gains the ball is again at the 15 yard line and Williamson trys for a goal from the field, being successful the ball is brought out to the 25-yard line, in Topeka's hands. Evans makes a good punt, placing the ball 60 yards in our territory, the ball is carried back 15 yards by Williamson. Topeka gets the ball on grounds of foul interference by Hill. This was a question, many claim that the interference was perfectly legitimate. Topeka loses the ball to K. U. on a fumble by McCamery. By good gains by the backs and by Steinberger's end play a touch-down is made. The ball is punted out by Williamson, is caught by Steinberger and Hester kicks a nice goal. Time 14 min. Score 6 to 0, K. U. favor. The ball is at the center of the field in Topeka's hands. Ryus punts the ball 25 yards, is caught and brought back 20 yards by Steinberger. The "varsity" now shows Topeka what they can do when they want to. By just one play and in just one minute from the time the ball was put in play, a touch-down is scored. In this star play, Hill distinguishes himself, making the longest run made on the grounds this year. Hill takes the ball, going around the right end, aided by splendid interference, he carries the ball 75 yards, making a good clean touch-down.
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Steinberger fails to kick goal. Time 1 minute.
Score 10 to o, K. U. favor.
The teams line up at center of field with but a few minutes to play. Nothing of importance except a splendid tackle of Hill by Ohmer. This tackle very probably saved a touch-down Score at the end of the first half 10 to 0, K.U. favor.
The "scrubs" are put in for the second half and play a sharp, hard game, and by reason of their being fresh, made short work of the Topeka boys. McMurry goes in as captain and quarter. The "scrubs" were not particular enough with their signals and many fumbles was the result. Ryus puts the ball in play by punting 15 yards in our territory, McMurray A, punts back 25, and the ball goes to Topeka. In several good plays by the backs the ball is brought to the 15-yard line and the teams are lined up with McMurray A, at full. The ball is passed back to McMurray A, who makes a splendid drop kick goal. Time 4 minutes. Score 15 to 0, K. U. Ryus puts the ball in play, sending it 20 yards in K. U. territory. The ball is brought back 45 yards. By good gains the ball is again to the 15-yard line, and McMurray A, tries for a drop kick goal—this time he is not so successful. The ball is brought out to the 25-yard line, and punted well by Evans. The ball is carried back by McMurry 15 yards. The "scrubs" still conconue with their small gain and by a run around the left end Armour makes a touch-down. Time 14 minutes. Hester fails at goal. Score 19 to 0, K. U. favor. But two minutes is left for playing. Ryus punts 32 yards and the ball is brought back 40 yards by McMurry A. A nice run is made by Wilson around the left end, resulting in a gain of 20 yards. McMurray W, takes the ball around the right end and would have made a good gain, but for the splendid tackle of Kleinhaus of Topeka. This closed the game. Time called with the ball in Topeka territory. Score 19 to 0, K. U. favor.
FIRST HALF.
K. U. T. A. C.
Armour.. R. E... Laughlin
Fletcher, .. R. T. Beirbahm
Hassig .. R. G. Rice
FIRST HALF.
Stone...C... Heise
Moody ...L. G... Watkins
Pope ...L. T... Lawrence
Steinberger ...L. E... Ohmer
Wilson ...R. H... Ryus
Hill ...L. H... M. T. Gourney
Williamson ...G... Dalley
Hester ...F... Evans
SECOND HALF.
TOPEKA.—Klinkenhaus took Mr. Gourney's place at left half.
K. U.-R. E, Armour; R. T., Cowman; R. G., Hassig; B. Stone; L. G., Foster. P.; L. F., Pope; L. E., Foster, E.; R. H., Wilson; L. H., McMurry, W.: G., McMurry, A.; F-. Hester. Umpire, Mitchel. Referee, Sherman. Lineman, Cowan. Time of Halves, 20 min.
Football at the Ottawa University.
On Tuesday seven of the Baker football eleven of 193 left Baldwin for Ottawa, where they will attend the Ottawa University and incidentally play football, that is of course if they are able to make the team. The purchase of this team was the result of an active canvass of the city and the university, both the citizens and students contributing freely, most of the work being done by old K. U. students. The COURIER-REVIEW, in extending her congratulations, admires the young men for their nerve displayed in the above enterprise. We wish the new team every success. One word of warning: don't attempt to play teams which are out of your class. A game has been scheduled with this team to be played at Ottawa on the 27th of October.
K U. vs. Doane College.
The team from Doane College, Crete, Nebraska, will play the University team Saturday, October 13th, on McCook field. This will be the first hard game of the season, and promises to be a close, exciting one. The Doane team last year was one of the strongest in the west; particularly did this team cover itself with glory in the Baker-Doane game—the team being the only one which Baker played and did not defeat last year. This team will be even stronger this year, having Crawford of Nebraska and a man from Ann Arbor on its rush line. Their training has been hard and systematic and they are now in condition to play foot-ball with the best.
The splendid showing made by the "varsity"
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in the practice games with Ottawa and Topeka has done much to make the student body feel that it is not to be disappointed in the "varsity" eleven and that the team defeating the "crimson" this year will have to be a good one. Now that we have a good team, let the student body and the citizens of Lawrence give it their hearty and combined support—leave business and studies for a few hours, and give the eleven a good start.
There has always been a query, why don't we have home games—now that we have them, give them your hearty support. The admission price is the same as last year, fifty cents, including grand stand.
Athletic Association Election.
The directors of the Athletic Association held their first regular meeting on Monday for the purpose of electing officers for the coming year. Mr. Cheadle was elected as temporary chairman. The meeting then proceeded to the election of officers. There being two strong candidates for the office of persistent, and for football manager, the contest promised to be an exciting one. After the ballot it was found that O.K. Williamson had been elected president. Nothing need be said as to the ability of Willie, but in congratulating him the COURIER-REVIEW wishes also to extend her hearty congratulations to the directors and members of the University Athletic Association on securing such a man as their president. After the election of president the directors adjourned.
LATER.
The president on Thursday morning posted a bulletin calling for a meeting of the directors on Thursday evening at 8 p. m. Meeting was called to order with Mr. Williamson in the chair. The only business before the meeting was the election of officers. The following officers were elected: Vice-president, Mr. Cheadle; secretary,Mr.Maxwell; manager, football team, Mr. McKinnon; manager track athletics, C.W. Armour.With the above good officers the Athletic Association should enjoy every prosperity during the year '94-'95.
Notes.
Stone played a strong game at center.
Piatt will probably glay in Saturday's game.
Steinberger played a great end game Saturday.
"Stonewall" Pope played a strong game at tackle.
Crawford will probably play with Doane Saturday.
Shellenberger will probably play in Saturday's game.
Harvard defeated Andover Saturday by a score of 48 to 0.
"Shorty" Hamil was up from Baldwin Saturday to see the game.
Admission to the game, including grand stand, will be 50 cents.
Shellenberger got out for practice Monday. His leg is now almost well.
Will McMurray was elected Foot Ball Manager of the Sophomore class team.
Williamson played an A No. 1 game Saturday. His interference was brilliant.
Armour is playing a strong interference game. His running and tackling is also first-class.
K. U. vs. Doane College, Saturday, October 13th, McCook field. Admission 50 cents.
Hill's 75-yard run in Saturday's game is the longest run made this year on McCook field.
The "varsity" made a goal in one minute's time, in both the Ottawa and the Topeka game.
It has been rumored that Mr. Cowan will play in the game against Ann Arbor. Is is hoped that this report is true.
Our next game is with Doane College of Crete, Neproska. This game is next Saturday and will be played on McCook field.
Ryus, the captain and half-back of the T. A. C., played a great game for the visitors. His tackling and bucking the line were features.
The "scrubs" played a quicker game than the "varsity." Klinihans and Evans played a good game. They both will make good players.
The "varsity" plays a practice game with Abilene on the 20th at Abilene. This team has been organized by Matteson and is probably a fair one.
Stone played a strong game at center.
Piatt will probably glay in Saturday's game.
Steinberger played a great end game Saturday.
"Stonewall" Pope played a strong game at tackle.
Crawford will probably play with Doane Saturday.
Shellenberger will probably play in Saturday's game.
Harvard defeated Andover Saturday by a score of 48 to o.
"Shorty" Hamil was up from Baldwin Saturday to see the game.
Admission to the game, including grand stand, will be 50 cents.
Shellenberger got out for practice Monday. His leg is now almost well.
Will McMurray was elected Foot Ball Manager of the Sophomore class team.
Williamson played an A No. 1 game Saturday. His interference was brilliant.
Armour is playing a strong interference game. His running and tackling is also first-class.
K. U. vs. Doane College, Saturday, October 13th, McCook field. Admission 50 cents.
Hill's 75-yard run in Saturday's game is the longest run made this year on McCook field.
The "varsity" made a goal in one minute's time, in both the Ottawa and the Topeka game.
It has been rumored that Mr. Cowan will play in the game against Ann Arbor. Is is hoped that this report is true.
Our next game is with Doane College of Crete, Neproska. This game is next Saturday and will be played on McCook field.
Ryus, the captain and half-back of the T. A. C., played a great game for the visitors. His tackling and bucking the line were features.
The "scrubs" played a quicker game than the "varsity." Klinihans and Evans played a good game. They both will make good players.
The "varsity" plays a practice game with Abilene on the 20th at Abilene. This team has been organized by Matteson and is probably a fair one.
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LOGALS.
Ewart and Powell are the new Betas.
Jeanette Wheeler was on the hill Monday.
Lee Delano was back for a visit last week.
George Haller, '94, visited friends last week.
Miss Carrie Lyons is visiting her Kappa sisters.
The Kappas attended the dedication exercises in a body.
Troxel rose to a "point of question" at the Review meeting.
Adrian Sherman, '93, was here for the football game Saturday.
Misses Sayre, Way and Florence Clark are wearing Theta colors.
Misses Carrie Lyons and Georgia Wilder were at the University Monday.
Now is the time to subscribe for the Courier. You will get two papers for one price.
A pertinent question now is: "Which of the three glee clubs are you going to support?"
W. A. White, '89, of the Kansas City Star, accompanied Gov. McKinley on his trip through Kansas.
Tuesday the laws had a meeting at which action was taken to attempt an evasion of the payment of the library fee.
Last Friday afternoon the Historical Seminary met and listened to a paper by Prof. Hodder on "The Machine in Politics."
Galen Nichols has gone to Burnside, La., to take a place as manager of a sugar plantation. He will return about the first of January and resume his work in the University.
Next week will be issued the monthly 42-page edition of the Courier and it will be a Spooner Library number. The speeches delivered at the dedication will be given in full.
The troubled state of University politics this year is largely due to the interference of outsiders and if this could be done away with there would be considerable less warfare in our elections.
Answer to correspondent: No, the Spooner library building of the Kansas University was not named for Edna and Cecil Spooner. Atchison Globe.
Saturday night the Sigma Chis initiated Mr. Hal Aikman of Fort Scott. After the initiation ceremonies had been finished there was an adjournment to Mr. Wiedeman's, where a "spread" had been prepared for the new member.
The Betas Entertain Hon. Webster Davis and Senator Charles F. Scott.
Six o'clock, Wednesday evening, the Beta boys invited their visiting and resident alumni to their chapter house on Tennessee street. After an inspection of the house, which they have just fitted up, a most delicious repast was indulged in to the gratification of all participants. There was indeed a feast of reason and a flow of soul. Hon. Chas. F. Scott presided in his charming manner as toast-master. He first called upon Mayor Davis who responded eloquently to "A Beta at Kansas State University." Mr. Perkins was next called upon and gave a pleasant after-dinner talk upon "Alpha Nu's Perpetual Toast-master." Chas. Finch caused intense laughter by his response to "Two Minutes." After an enthusiastic talk upon Betaism by the toast-master the pleasures of the evening were ended because of the engagements of the visiting brothers.
The Review Meeting.
At a called meeting of the stockholders of the Review Company last Friday it was decided to give up the publication of that paper. The affairs of the company have been in a bad state for some time and under the laws of Kansas the officers have been liable to prosecution on account of violation of the articles of incorporation. According to these the capital stock is required to be in the hands of the treasurer, and as this has been illegally spent the officers are responsible and in danger of action against them by the State.
After due consideration of these conditions it was moved that "The Review Company sus-
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pend publication for two years and overtures be made to the Courier Company leading to a combination with that paper." This motion was carried by an overwhelming majority in spite of the filibustering of the very small number of shareholders opposing the motion. Of the sixty votes present fifty-eight were for and two against the motion. Before the vote was taken a motion was made to table the motion before the house and when the vote was taken on this the opposition made the point of no quorum and began to leave in order that their point should be good. However the vote on the original motion was called for before they could leave the room and the motion was carried.
This action on the part of the company was taken under the best legal advice and is lawful in every respect, and as the Courier Company were heartily in favor of the combination the two papers will hereafter appear as one. The intention at present is to issue three regular numbers of the Courier and every fourth issue is to be a large forty-two page edition in the form of last year's REVIEW.
The company now intends to keep the COURIER up to its usual high standard and with the added feature of the large monthly issue will be abundantly able to defy all competition.
Kent Club.
Saturday morning the Kent Club met in the reading room or the law department. In the absence of Mr. Nichols, the president, Mr. Simons called the meeting to order. Mr. Scott was called upon for a speech and responned with a talk on the subject "A review of the political situation," in which he set forth in an able manner the principles of the populist party.
This was followed by a short talk by Mr. Blake on the necessity of a thorough knowledge of criminal law by young lawyers.
The woman suffrage question was thoroughly discussed pro and con by Mr. Cann, Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Green.
Messrs. Wheeler and Cramer took the affirmative of the question: Resolved that all property should be assessed at its real value. Messrs. Leonard and Johnson were on the negative side of the question, and the debate brought forth an enthusiastic discussion.
Spooner Library Dedication.
The dedication of the Spooner Library took place Wednesday morning. About 10:30 Chancellor Snow entered the chapel followed by the board of regents, the speakers and other distinguished guests.
Prof. Snow first read a number of messages of regret from a number of invited guests unable to be present. Among these were telegrams from Prof. A. R. Marsh of Harvard, Hon. D. W. Wilder of Topeka and Chancellor James H. Canfield of Lincoln, Neb. After the reading of these, the Chancellor introduced Dr. Cyrus Northrup, the president of the University of Minnesota, as the principal speaker of the day.
Dr. Northrup said that a library was to the literary student what the laboratory was to the scientific student. He drew comparisons between the old and the new forms of education. This is the age of books, and now a library of 30,000 volumes is no librory at all. Since this magnificent building has been presented us by a man outside of Kansas, it is the duty of Kansas people to fill it with books. In conclusion he said that all the occasion required was the heartiest congratulations on the steps which the University had taken and sincerest hopes for her glorious future.
Chancellor Snow gave a short synopsis of the manner in which the Spooner bequest came to us and how it was appropriated to the building of a Library and Chancellor's residence. Then an adjournment was made to the building itself, and, representing Mr. Spooner, Hon. Chas. F. Scott presented Spooner Library to the State. Hon. D. H. Valentine formally accepted the gift on the part of the board of regents.
At two o'clock the doors of the Seminary hall in the upper story of the building were thrown open and about 250 partook of the banquet and afterwards listened to the following
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toasts, Chancellor Snow acting as Toast Master:
"The sentiments of 'Your Orator'." Eugene F. Ware.
"A Modern House for Books." Henry VanBrunt.
"Libraries of other Universities." C. E. Shaeffer.
"The Church and the University." J. B. Thomas.
"Off with the Old and on with the New." B. W. Woodward.
"The University of Practical Life." Webster Davis.
"The Plough and the Lexicon." Geo. T. Fairchild.
"Sources of a Lawyer's Brief." John H. Atwood.
"The Breezy West." T. A. McNeal.
"Congressional Documents." Hon. Jeff. Hudson.
"Influence of Books on the Common People." Hon. Noble Prentiss.
Among the number of distinguished guests not mentioned before are: Judge Valentine, Senator Wm. Rogers, J. P. Sams, Dr. Bell, Pres. Rothwell of William Jewell College, State Superintendent Davidson, Dr. Tiffany, Judge Humphrey, Pres. A. R. Taylor, L. H. Murlin, S. O. Thacher, E. C. Little, W.A. White and Ewing Herbert.
Pi Phi Hop.
Among the society events of the last week was the Pi Phi hop, which took place immediately after the initiation of Miss Edith Snow, who has followed the very wise precedent of her elder sisters. The hop was held in Journal hall. There were about fifty couple present and everybody had a most enjoyable time until about 12 o'clock, when the girls departed as they had come-in omnibuses.
Iolanthe.
One of the most notable events of the amusement season will be the production of the famous opera, Iolanthe, by a troupe of over one hundred children who have been trained by
Miss Georgia Brown. Her reputation for doing thoroughly whatever she undertakes to do insures success, and the entertainment will be unique and of a high order of merit. The play will be staged in the most complete manner with scenery painted specially for it by Rohe. The costumes will be the finest that have been seen on the opera house stage. The electric light arrangements, under direction of Prof. Blake and his assistants, will be novel and will add wonderfully to the scenic effects. Prof. J. H. Bell will be musical director, assisted by Mrs. Straffon at the piano and Buch's full orchestra. Taken as a whole it will be a performance that no one can afford to miss, and those who have never seen the Lawrence children in one of Miss Brown's plays have a genuine surprise in store for them. Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, October 18, 19 and 20, are the dates. Box sheet opens Tuesday, October 16.
C. L. Edwards will supply you with any kind of Coal at reasonable prices.
Buy your cigars of Smith and you will enjoy your smoke.
See Miss Lotta Barber's line of Fall Hats before you purchase.
Whole-souled Pat Graham, the Shoemaker, will make you whole-soled if you go to him, and won't harge you much either.
Now is the time to buy your winter Coal. See Edwards before you buy.
Get a cane from Smith in time for the next foot-ball game. Everybody should have one.
Get Pat Graham to make you a pair of shoes that won't hurt that bunion of yours. No use being a cripple.
Lotta Barber will be in her handsome new millinery parlors next Saturday, down stairs from her present location, where she will be pleased to see her K. U. lady friends. A fine new stock of ribbons, trimmings, etc. have been purchased for the Fall trade.
If you want to keep your goods, don't advertise in the COURIER-REVIEW.
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Pat Graham makes fine shoes as well as does repairing. East Henry street.
Students, go to Edwards for Coal.
You will find the finest line of Smoking Tobacco in the city at Smith's.
"Good morning! Have you used Pear's Soap?" Woodward has all the best toilet soaps, and all manner of fine perfumes; also hair and all other toilet brushes, best quality, but cheap. That is what you want.
Get Miss Lotta Barber to trim your fall hat if you want it really artistic.
Smith, the newsdealer is headquarters for everything in the Sporting Goods line.
"All things to all men." "Piccadura' is the most popular cigar sold in Lawrence, but Woodward carries many other fine brands to suit all tastes.
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No.2.
SPOONER LIBRARY.
Report of the Speeches made at the Opening of the Spooner Library, Oct. 10th, 1894.
To a large audience in the University chapel Chancellor Snow introduced the chief speaker of the day in the following words:
"Ladies and Gentlemen:—We have invited many friends to be with us on this occasion and help us to celebrated the completion of the new library building. We have many of these friends present with us today, and many more are absent; so I thonght you would like to hear the messages of some of these friends. There are so many of them that I must defer the great majority of them until this afternoon, but there are two or three that contain words that I want this great audience to hear."
(Here followed the reading of several letters full of congratulations and regrets for absence.)
"Without further preliminary I introduce to you the speaker of the morning, Dr. Northup, of Minnesota."
Chancellor Snow, Ladies and Gentlemen:If I had come here this morning from Boston to address you, I should feel very much ashamed of myself, not because I came from Boston, but because I had come so far and had so little to say. I never go on a long journey to deliver an address without feeling that the result is out of all proportion to the expenditure of force, and I should not stand here with the pleasure that I do at this moment had I come under any such special conditions, but your excellent and justly honored Chancellor has arrested me
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in the pursuance of a journey from Minnesota to New Mexico, and has brought me from the railway station in Lawrence to this place with the expectation that I should give you what he calls the principal address. I am sorry for the other addresses if mine is to be the principal one, but I suppose he knows what he is talking about. I have not stood before an audience for ten years that impressed me exactly as this one does, with one exception, and that was an audience in the city of New Haven, and this audience strikes me very much as a Conneticut audience would.
It is a well known fact in regard to the state of Kansas that we never know what she is going to do next. I felt tolerably encouraged when I got a dispatch from Chancellor Snow, asking me to stop on my way to speak to you, because that indicated good sense on the part of the people of Kansas, and I am not surprised at this exhibition of good sense, for you look like a body of New England people, and I am proud of the people of those states, and therefore expect that it will be as delightful to talk to you as it would to talk to New England people. It is always an encouragement to speak when one feels that one's hearers are in sympathy with the ideas to be presented. It has been my lot to go sometimes where they wanted a course of lectures on science, history, etc., where they gather in the infants at the breast and children of tender years to fill up the benches, and you go in and talk to them on the intricacies of philosophy, on the wonders of electricity, and try to inspire in them some of the joy that comes in acquaintance with the great thoughts in literature, and as you are in the midst of some celebrated thought, you look down at a lot of children, not too entirely washed, and it is not inspiring. You feel that somehow you have not hit the mark. But I am sure it is not like this with you, because if I should happen to sav anything, I know you will see it.
I was very much pleased with the letter read from Mr. Spooner's friend in which he speaks of the old anti-slavery spirit. It recalls an incident in my own life.In 1856 Kansas was in the throes of civil dissension. It was uncertain
whether slavery should exist in the state or not. At this time the New England states were making ready. Conneticut formed a colony, consisting mostly of students from Yale college. It was decided that these men should not come here without the means necessary to preserve their lives. Accordingly it was determined to arm the company with rifles. A meeting was held to discuss the matter in the church in which Henry Ward Beecher was preacher. A young man in the gallery called out, "One rifle from the junior class of Yale college." And the tow-headed fellow who thus called out is now Prof. Tyler of Cornell. Late in the evening I subscribed to that rifle, and that is the way I subscribed to the freedom of Kansas. Just to illustrate the stern spirit of the age, the name of one of the students who subscribed for the rifle was given as H.W.Killum. Henry Beecher remarked that Killum was a good name. That was the spirit in 1856.
When in Kansas last year, and as I came here today, and came up this hill, and looked out over your town, I was impressed with the New England Character which this place has, and in fact the whole state. The homelike character of the houses, the air of contentment and peace, as if Kansas had started out on a career of prosperity, having first of all concluded that happiness does not consist of great wealth, but in contentment. I hope you will hold to your policy.
Edward Everett Hale went from Boston to St. Louis awhile ago to speak upon the occasion of the completion of the public library, to tell them that "Books are to be Read." I do not think that there is anything that needs to be emphasized as much as that does in connection with a library. You are met here today to congratulate one another upon the opening of this library of the University. I am here, not only as an individual, but as a brother, of a State University, to offer my congratulations upon the completion of this library building. The completion of this building means more to the University of Kansas than any other buildon the campus, or any other building that is to be erected on the campus. I want to say that
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I have a very tender feeling for all the state universities in our country. I love everybody. We are required to, you know. In some cases we do it because we must, but there is no compulsion about this matter of state universities, because we all represent a common idea. We represent the idea that the state will provide for her sons and daughters the best education it is possible to offer. We have no jealousy one for another. I do not feel a bit jealous today, nor does our brother from the University of Iowa, because Kansas has completed this library building, for it is not possible for one of these state universities to get a lift from outside, and go up higher and get more influential without all the others feeling it directly or indirectly. Example is powerful; state pride is powerful. Because Kansas has been successful in building up her university, Minnesota and Iowa are going to do something soon, or if they had been the first to take the step upward, Kansas would not have been long in following.
I want to call attention to another thing. The old institutions like Yale, Harvard, and I may say Ann Arbor, take pride in showing how wide their institution is, and how the students come from all over the country and from all over the world. I remember when I was an under-graduate I used to feel that Yale was a national institution, because we had students from the North, South and West. But when I find that the most of the students in our University come from the state of Minnesota, I am glad, not that there are not many students from the outside, but that there are so many from inside; glad that the University is doing what it is wanted to do: paying back every dollar invested. Paying it back not with five or six percent interest, but in the unlimited capabilities, in the increased power and intellectual advancement of the sons and daughters of the state trained in the University. I am glad to see in this University that so many of the students are from the state which it represents.
Now education is very different from what it used to be. The Yale college library was in the third story of the chapel. It was opened
only upon certain days and certain hours, for those few inquiring minds who wanted something not provided by the curriculum. Whoever got a book, drew it out and took it home to read it. A friend of mine told of his experience in one of the colleges in the state of New York. The library was only opened two days in the week for the purpose of giving out books. But all that has passed away. The library is the heart of the university. The library is to the student in history, science, philosophy, to say nothing of the other branches of learning, what the laboratory is to the student of chemistry. One great change in the education of today is that we do not put a man up on the platform to tell the student how to do a thing, but we pull the boy up and make him tell how to do it. The difference between the new system and the old is that now the boy knows something and in the old he thought he knew something. Now I am too old a man to speak lightly of the old education. It seems to me that the real difference between the new and the old education is that the new gives more knowledge and the old more power. I am inclined to think that I am right. But the question arises, What is power? If power means that capacity which was expressed by Daniel Webster in his reply to Hayne, I have no doubt that the old training was more conducive to its production than the new. The boy with a microscope to his eye looking at bugs and insects, to see how they grow and how they are likely to stop growing, and what the effect on the community at large would be if they were all let loose, is in a fair way to know something of value to the world, and be an active man, but you do not expect him to get upon the platform and speak like a Webster.
Is Webster greater than Edison? Is the contribution of Webster to the human race greater than that of Thomas Edison? What of the wonderous mechanism which, allied to the electricity which Edison generates for the propulsion of the human body to places where it wants to go? I think I shall come to the conclusion that in this age of wonders, when everybody is uncertain whether things are going to last after
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he is gone and unable to attend to it, that these things which Edison has produced and which he has set other people to producing, has more to do with the cultivation of power than the old method. The fact is, in the old education, we are simply trained to think: they did not give us anything to think about; but in the new they give us a great many things to think about, and are greatly in danger of forgetting to give us anything to think about them with.
In connection with the thought that I have been pursuing in regard to education, look at the use that is made of libraries. The old system was simply to get a book and read it. If a man wanted to know anything in history, he would go to the best authority who had written on the subject and swallow him bodily. The boy who had read Bancroft, knew it all, swallowed him wholesale, and no doubt was a very learned man, but did not know exactly how he became so. Now the boy who is studying history wants something more than conclusions. He wants to know how to reach these facts from the data upon which they rest. He wants to know how to investigate any subject that he is ever called upon to investigate. Given a fact in regard to the history of Kansas, the life of Kansas, the boy wants to know how to go to the earliest records of the town, to the earliest records of Congress, get the facts all together, compare, calculate, judge and draw his own conclusions at the end. That is the kind of training that we want today in the department of history. When I was a student, a course of lectures was given on the middle ages. I thought at the time that they were very fine, but the professor did not seem to think very much of them. And I see now he was right. They were a mass of facts which he gave us, and we swallowed them whole. When a student goes into the library now to study, he does not know what book he wants in particular; he wants them all, one suggests another. He compares one with another, and gets the best there is to be had on the subject from each. In the present we need to be where we can get good books. With all this research into the .best books, when a student gets through
with his training, he is worth five times as much as the historical student of the olden time was, who simply listened to lectures upon history. The library should be opened all day, and every day, and opened in the evening, and later than dewy eve; it should be opened until bed-time, opened to every student with the utmost freedom. Suppose you do lose a few books, lose them. Suppose you do get a dishonest student once in a while who pockets a book, in the interests of those who are trying to make the most of themselves, let him pocket it. Let them go down through the ages in the pockets of those fellows an everlasting conscience.
This is an age of books. Do you know in what demand they are? With so many thousands coming out, a man who prides himself on keeping up is in constant danger of losing his self-respect. I have found great comfort myself in the words of that celebrated writer Hobbs who says "If I had read as many books as other people I might know as little as they." I have never cared to read those books that come out and become the fad of the hour, and after a brief period their light vanishes and you hear of them no more. It is better to stick to those lines of thought and reading that have commended themselves from the first. We cannot read all these books. We must have most of them, the best of them in the library. We must have rich materials. This leads me to a point that comes home to a Kansas audience, the point that a library of twenty or thirty thousand volumes is no library at all for the university of a state. Harvard has over 420, 000; Yale has 200,000; Chicago University purchased 250,000 at once, a German library. Many of the universities of the country have libraries of 50,000, 70,000 and 90,000 volumes. There are in this library 30,000 volumes, but are minds such as are to be found in Minnesota and Kansas to be satisfied with that number? If you will pardon a stranger, one who has shown his interest in Kansas, as I pointed out in the address, and is willing to show it again in the same way if any of you are to be killed. A benefactor outside of the state has built this building, and it remains for the peo-
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ple of the state to flood it with books, every room as full as it can hold, except the room the students want for reading. I hope that the next act of the legislature of Kansas will be to appropriate a sum sufficient to provide this library with such an inflow of new literature, science, history, things above and things below, that you will feel that the life of this institution is assured, because it has a great, strong, vigorous heart beating in the midst of it. (Well I do not know exactly where that leads me to, but I will go on.)
There is a great deal of useless writing done in this age; a great deal of it. And people, even after they have found out that a book is worthless, still read on and on, and take up others, and so on all the time. Sometimes my heart aches for a great many things that I cannot help, but I have long ago given up the idea that the human race was to be lifted up bodily as a race by any divinely appointed elevator that was going up a story, stopping on the way to take up any who would get in. If we are to rise, we must do so as individuals; every man for himself, and every woman for herself. Now every boy and girl in Kansas who is educated becomes a center of power and influence in the state. With your education, with your training, your children are going to be educated and are going up a few stories higher. Now the great trouble with much of the work in these days is that there is not enough thinking done. What is wanted to help us out of the trouble are these three things:
First, we want kind hearts. A cold-hearted man is a burden to society. We want to love our neighbor as ourselves. We want that love that was characteristic of the Divine Being when he "so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that he might die for us." We want a love that will make us give our best for humanity and the world.
Second, we want knowledge. We have got to have knowledge. A people cannot walk well in the darkness; there can be no upward progress without light. Half of our troubles at the present day arise simply from the fact that we have paid no heed to the lessons that
we could have learned from past experiences. Periods of financial depression do not come by accident. The transferring of one system and one policy to another, the turning over of the government into new hands every few years does not cause the trouble, but the fact that the new men in power have not lived in the experiences that have passed, have never learned the lessons, but have got them to learn by experience, in that school in which fools and only fools will learn. We want to know the best way in which we may guide our steps in the future, and we can only do this by profiting by the lesson taught in the past.
Third, knowledge is of no account, and kind heart is of little account, without clear thinking. The man who gropes for a few little superficial data and then thinks he knows it all lacks common sense. There is a link between cause and effect. Nothing happens without a cause. People do not get angry without a cause. Legislatures are not to be rated as violating all the principles of honesty without a cause. If the people see that the legislature is representative of themselves and the legislature is dishonest, then the people are dishonest. There has been the greatest want of clear thinking during the last ten years, and the largest amount of foggy thinking and foggy talking on subjects of government, legislature, etc., than any age has yet seen. I am not talking about Kansas alone, but about the whole country. You may have clear skys here, and a pure atmosphere, and everyone of you may be a clear thinker for anything known to the contrary, but if so you are very different from the rest of the country. So much fogginess of thinking, and jumping at conclusions. Why, a man can settle the silver question after reading fifteen minutes! He hears one man curse the demonetization of silver, and swallows it. He hears another man say just the opposite, and by the time he has got the two notions in his head he does not really know what he does mean, or what he wants. Nothing is clear in his mind. First get kind hearts; second, get knowledge, but let clear thinking go with them.
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It is essential to have a good library. I look back upon the time when I was in New England, and think of what the libraries were in even the most cultured houses. Perhaps some of you have read of such libraries. I remember one of the books I took and thoroughly digested was "Baxters Saints Rest," and when I wanted to get something of a little lighter nature by the way of recreation, I had "Fox's Book of Martyrs," and looked at pictures of pagans with pitchforks throwing Christians into the flames, all of which was considered something quite refreshing in the way of literature. Of course we had the Bible. Could not have anything better. There is not a book in the world that has got more variety to it. Where will you find any better poetry than Daniel and Isaiah wrote; any simpler or more beautiful English than that in the Gospel of St. John. Little Saxon words telling the truth with the precision of a telegraph click.
Now look at the difference. Why children in well furnished homes just revel in books. The Waverly Novels by Walter Scott, the dear old friend who has done so much good and brought so much cheer to many millions of hearts; Dickens, Thackeray, George Elliott, and a host of others. Then there is Green's History. You can read that history of the people of England, and you get not only just historical facts, but you make yourself acquainted with the ways of the English people, get correct notions of the lives, manner of government, customs of the people, all of which notions are at the disposal of the student in a work of this kind.
A public library impresses one. In one of the largest in Minnesota the librarian said that the number of volumes issued during the year just closing was from one to five hundred thousand. These five hundred thousand volumes have been taken out and read by these people of Minnesota during the past year. It means general intelligence, it means peace, power, it means a growth in grace, increase in general happiness, increase in general quietude. There is not anything that will contribute so much to the prosperity of the state as a good public
library. Nothing is so essential to the life of a university as a good library. I congratulate you ladies and gentlemen upon this magnificent gift to this institution. I congratulate you upon the hope you have that this building shall be filled with books and that they shall be had at the proper times and hours. I congratulate the faculty of the institution upon the opportunity that they will have for pursuing their researches into fields which no professor can enter with a small, distorted library. I say distorted because so great has been the progress of invention and science within these past few years, that a man with the best intentions who most desires to know the truth, if he has not the books, is as likely to go wrong as to go right. We have got to let these books open our minds, partly to receive new truths, and partly to warn us against error. We have got to have new books that pertain to the latest there is in science for our guidance and instruction. I congratulate your faculty that they are likely to have the opportunity to make such investigations when the building is filled with books such as are proper for a great university like this to have.
I have no idea of the length of time I have talked, but I have talked long enough. All that the occasion demanded was hearty congratulations. It is a day for joy and rejoicing, and all that you could ask of me is that from the depth of my heart I congratulate you upon the great epoch that this day marks for the University. I believe that Kansas has a glorious future in a building like this. In a building like this she could not fail to have a glorious future. It is not the land; it is not the variety of your charms; it is not these, or any material advantages: but it is the people. Go back to old New England where there are more rocks to the square inch than any region of the world except the Alps. I am proud of the people of New England. They must be praised for a part of your sturdiness and heroism coming through them in a season of storm and strife, and carried through the northern states away to the Pacific coast. They must be praised for the spirit of heroism that made ready and saved
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Kansas in the day of peril, saved it to make it glorious for years to come.
At the close of the banquet served in the Library Building, Chancellor Snow rose and proposed the following toasts to be responded to by the various gentlemen present on the occasion:
Henry Van Brunt: "A Modern House for Books."
The architect is no orator save through his building, and, when that building is dedicated to its uses, his impulse is to retire into its shadow and let it speak for itself. If it seems to be dumb, then there is some essential thing wanting in it which should be there. If it seems to deliver its message with an unintelligible utterance or in an unknown tongue, the architectect may then possibly have a function in the ceremony—an humble function—that of an interpreter. In this case who is to blame? The architect who cannot talk plainly in his building, or the people who cannot understand? In the former case I should be standing here merely as an apologist; I have too great a respect for architecture to try to make excuses for it. But if the conditions of the art are such that there is no plain vernacular in which it can express itself and it must needs talk in a tongue more or less learned, more or less derived from the great lessons of history as taught in its monuments, I must patiently wait until this University has raised the standard of civilization and made the language of art intelligible.
I must publicly confess that the unintelligibility of modern architecture in a popular sense is its greatest reproach. The only remedy for it is in the conduct of the schools wherein this great art is taught. The difficulty is recognized by thoughtful men in the professions and they are even now making strenuous efforts to find a remedy. I hope the time is not far distant when in these halls such a school may be established and that your own professors will be lending their aid to the solving of this difficult problem. We do not desire to utter enigmas, but we seek for such sincerity and simplicity of
expression as to impress with a sense of pleasure the most unlettered beholders of our work, for such beauty and perfection of detail as to be intelligible to any scholar capable of poetic emotion.
But accepting things as they are at this moment, and confining our attention to the new library, let me in a few words improve the occasion by stating how this building took its shape and assumed a form, whether good or bad, which must remain more or less of an influence, unrecognized perhaps, but still an influence to affect the culture of every intelligent student of the University for years to come. Do not suppose that the architects, in giving to the building this especial form, have been unconscious of the gravity of their responsibility.
When this project was presented for the consideration of the architects, their first thought was to provide for the accessible and fireproof storage of a collection of books, subject to rapid but irregular increase in its various departments; second, to afford the most convenient accommodations to the administration of the library; third, to welcome the students with amplest provision for their comfort in one great reading hall, abundantly lighted, and in various seminary rooms adjusted to the pursuit of special studies; and, fourth, to provide a lecture hall of considerable dimensions with anterooms. The number of students to be simultaneously accommodated in the reading hall the number of books to be ultimately housed in the fire-proof book-stack dictated the scale and general dimensions of the building, the shape and combination of masses, which are apparent in its external aspects resulted from an attempt to satisfy the four practical conditions of use which I have recited with the most economical structure which could be devised consistent with safety and permanency.
Up to this point of development the building has at least the merit sincerity and honesty of purpose; for to the capable eye the exterior clearly betrays the general divisions of the interior and is the result of practical considerations. No feature of mere caprice has been
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forced into the design for the sake of some favorite architectural effect to make the building appear different from what it really is or to impose upon it a fictitious aspect of academical symetry.
But truth in itself, without adornment, is only a nominal virtue. In so far as this building tells the truth gracefully or elegantly, and not with brutal frankness, it fulfills one of the primary requirements of a work of art. If, on the other hand, one misses in these uncompromising outlines any expressions of beauty or fitness, any happy adjustment of proportion, any effective disposition of the windows, which are the eyes of the house, any feature of high breeding, as it were, which would have made the composition more agreeable to the mind of the beholder and illustrate its expression of truth, then the building is to that extent wanting in the primary requirements of a work of art.
The humble position which this building seeks to hold among works of modern architecture is not attained by making it in this way merely grammatical, correct and workmanlike, this is mere prose; it must, if possible, be converted or exalted into poetry before it can pretend to any such rank. This process of conferring poetic expression on a work of practical common sense is as difficult to explain as it is to tell how the description of an evening scene in an English village became Gray's Elegy. There are very few in our profession, or in fact any other, who are really inspired by the divine afflatus, the rest of us in attempting process of conversion are constrained to content ourselves with the use of certain more or less conventional formulas of what may be called poetic diction, which, if applied with feeling and discretion, are sufficient to elevate the design above the mere prosaic condition of common sense and to make it acceptable as a work of architecture. These formulas are available to us in our reminiscences of the historic styles, among which we are compelled to make a choice more or less arbitrary. For there is as yet no vernacular architectural language of universal acceptance, expressive of our own civilization and belonging peculiarly to
our time. This fact, as I have already stated, is the most serious reproach to modern architecture. The especial problem of a University Library is peculiarly modern in character and requires a modern treatment. If such a problem had been possible in the 12th century it could only have taken a form like a cloistered monastery: in the 13th century in France or England it would have been a gothic chapter house; in the 15th century in Italy it would inevitably have been a little palace with a stately portico and systematical facades; in the 17th century in England it would have resulted in a stiff and extremely artificial academic building according to the fashion of Sir Chris Wren. But why should the same problem be solved in the most America of American States, in the heart of the new world, at the end of the 19th century, with a building decorated in the style which prevailed in the 10th century in Southern France? This seems like a strange anachronism. But because of our knowledge of all the architecture of the past we have no distinctive architecture of our own. We are embarassed by this knowledge, and consequently with more or less system we have been compelled to experiment with these old forms hoping presently by unity of effort to develop from them a style consistently belonging to our own civilization. Among these experiments the revival of Southern Romanesque is the only purely American one, the only one which has thus far given some promise of elasticity and of capacity of adjustment to modern needs, and in the present case we have not merely followed a temporary fashion in using it, but have tried to carry the experiment one step farther on towards a possible acclimatization of these exotic forms. We were guided also in this choice by the character of the masonry which certain local conditions made it convenient to use; for this masonry was peculiarly adapted to the style in question. Under the circumstances the construction and the material used needed no costly additions and adjustments to bring it into conformity with the selected type. The type itself in its original form was rude and primitive, but, as has been
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honestly developed from construction and was sophisticated by no feature of affectation, it possessed within itself the energy for a long career. But this process of evolution was interrupted by a political event. When in the 12th century the power of the bishops and the municipalities outgrew and supplanted that of the monastic orders a new expression of art was needed and gothic style came into existence. Eight hundred years afterwards a young American, my friend and brother in art, the lamented Henry Hobson Richardson, wandering through the untrodden ways of the old province of Auvergue, found this broken promise, this uncompleted art of a forgotten civilization, in the round-arched monastic monuments of Orles and Poictiers, and discovered its applicability to the uses of a civilization entirely modern. When, in the course of his brilliant career, he adapted the style to a memorable series of town halls, municipal palaces and libraries, it was not long before, in the light of the new world, by a perfectly logical process, it developed into forms far beyond the dreams of the innocent and unlettered builders of Auvergue. The decorative character of the Spooner Library is less an expression of loyalty to the genius of this really great American than an attempt, under the impulse of new conditions, to carry this interesting and, I think, patriotic experiment a little farther on towards a possible fulfillment.
If this new building seems to you to enter into the collegiate group of this University in the garb of a stranger, and seems to speak to you with a foreign accent, I trust that presently, when it is more familiar to you, it may at least become a welcomed guest, not without some touch of sweetness and light and with perhaps a dim prophecy of the new civilization. But if in this new form of art should come, more accurately adjusted to modern conditions, speaking in a clearer vernacular, and this building should seem in this new light like an exile indeed, never quite acclimated, even then, humble as it is, it may claim respectful consideration as the representative of an episode in the history of our civilization. Even it may
deserve recognition in saving from oblivion the strenuous efferts of the architects of the last two decades of the century to give to their country a genuine style of architecture belonging to modern life and to a certain extent capable of expressing its aspirations.
Pres. Shafer, of Iowa: "Libraries of other State Universities."
I am not one of those presidents who can talk by the hour, and I am sorry I cannot; at least as far as I am concerned I am sorry, although I feel sure you will agree with me that it is a very fortunate thing for you. It afforded me much pleasure to receive the cordial invitation from Chancellor Snow to be with you on this occasion, and I wrote him that I would be here if I possibly could do it. Chancellor Snow's invitation contained a little remark about an after-dinner talk. Now this is not one of my strong points. I am all right as far as the dinner goes, but when it comes to the after dinner part, it is something I have never been successful in. I noticed that the invitation did not contain any reference to the topic on which I was to speak, so I considered I would be perfectly safe in any choice I might make, until I received notice that I was to speak on a particular point. About the eleventh hour, nay almost the eleventh and a half hour, I got a card served upon me just in time to spoil my appetite.
Well I do not know that I can say very much about other State Universities. There were several very good points suggested by President Northrup this morning, and among them one that recalled to my mind my own college days. It was that the college student saw so very little of the library. I remember in my college days that there was a great difference between the college library then and the library now. It was not only very little used, but almost exclusively by the faculty. The library of today is for the benefit of the student, and this is the key to the advance along the whole line. And on this account, as President Northrup said, we have so many more centers of activity, and can expect so much more in the shape of re-
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sults. As I said before, I fear I do not know very much more about the libraries of other state universities than what has been said. As far as the library with which I have the honor to be connected is concerned, I think we have a few more books there than you have in this one at the present time, but I hope it will not be long before there are many more here. But we have nothing to compare with this magnificent building home of this library which you have here, and for that I must confess I have a little covetuous feeling. I cannot but help wishing that the institution with which I am connected had a building like this. One thing that I came down here for is to get pointers, and I am getting them. You have made an advance here which will be an example to every other institution, and since it is getting so much ahead it is time for us to pull up on her.
I sincerely hope that you will have your home full of books inside of twelve months. The state can do it, and I sincerely hope it will. There is perhaps a little bit of selfishness about this. I like to go home and tell the people of Iowa what Kansas has done, and although they cannot do it all, they will probably come as close as they can. This is my spirit and you can get the benefit of it.
I will not continue further, but before taking my seat will take the opportunity to thank the people of Kansas University for the kind and cordial welcome that I have received.
Rev. J. B. Thomas : "Church and University."
Unlike my brother I did not even have notice served upon me that I was going to be asked to speak on this topic until I had got my soup. It had a different effect upon me than it had on him. I really thought that the waiter had put something into it. I am reminded of the following anecdote: Two deacons of a certain church had got into a little squabble as to the capability of each to recite the Lord's prayer. One saying that he was sure the other could not repeat it correctly. I will bet you five dollars said the other that I know it. So the bet was taken and put in the hands of an old ped-
lar standing near. The brother began "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep and if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." "Oh," said the other, "hand him over the five dollars, I had no idea that he knew it." That is something of the addled state of my brain when I received that little card.
The Church and the University. We have heard from my friend Ware, and he always strikes the right note. I was up in the mountains with him last summer in Colorado, when my little girl, who is quite musical, heard a burrow. "Do you know that burrow sings on the same key each time," I remarked, and brother Ware said, "Yes, he always sings on 'Donkey.'" And when he gave us that little historical sketch in which we were all interested, and from that lead up to this beautiful building in which we are all interested, it struck me that we had got a key that might bring in something of the University and the Church. The truth is always a unit wherever we may find it. We have to keep up with the times. No nation ever rises above the ideals of its own church. They must stand above it, or it cannot rise. The church must be built and upheld by the institutions of a country. It seems to me that the relationship between the church and the university is at least a three fold relationship:
It is a co-operative relationship. A relationship that has to do with the equality of the soul and the mind. They are co-operative, but there are those who might separate them. They cannot be separated. We can easily tell the difference between mind and matter, but when it comes to the soul and the purely mental, it seems to me that they are at least co-operative. Truth is always the same, whether gotten at through the heart, or what we call religious sense, or through the mind, or what we term mental sense.
Then they are not only co-operative, but they are reciprocal. The church must give to the world the desire for culture,and the desire for culture resulting in the cultured mind and renewed heart,the life must redound to the
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glory of the church. In this country, as in every other country, there have been such problems to solve. We have problems of all kinds, social, religious, scientific, political, and the time is fast approaching when we have got to solve these problems, and have got to solve them rightly.
The church and the university find themselves co-operative and reciprocal. Lastly, the problems that have to be solved by the help of the church and the university are co-eternal in their results. You cannot cultivate a mind and help it to attain to more careful working processes without helping it to understand more of God, reading him, looking from nature to nature's God, from history to the God of history. It is said of Napoleon that an unbeliever once said to him, "Are you so foolish as to believe in God?" Napoleon replied, looking up at the stars, "Who made these?" A man who has a carefully trained and cultured mind must have a God to look up to. Bishop Vincent, in his delightful children's stories, has the following about a little boy called Tom: Tom sees on the dining room table a dish of beautiful peaches. He stretched out his hand to take one. His mother asked him what right he had to touch the peaches. He said, "I thought they were mine." "But," said his mother, "what right had you to think they were yours?" His reply was, "Well, mother, if a boy has a thinker has he not a right to think?" And just so a man may have a thinker, but without the training that enables him to use his thinker aright, he may miss the thought that leads him to eternal life. We must live broader lives, look higher, be stronger. Just in proportion as we are cultured and symmetrical, profiting by all the truths of religion, the nearer shall we be to that completer manhood and womanhood for which we are striving. When the church of Kansas sends to this University her sons and her daughters, we place them here in trust, and I am proud to believe today, Mr. Chancellor, that you and the faculty appreciate very largely the fact that it is not merely a problem solved, that we send our boys and girls to you to have the mind cultivated, but that we want them
sent back more symmetrical, stronger, truer men and women.
B. W. Woodward. "Off with the Old and on with the New."
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Chancellor:—Let me say that when in a little neighborly conversation you imparted to me the other evening, Mr. Chancellor, that, having sent out your venire all over the country, you had already secured a panel of twelve good men and true—and a few lawyers—to try this case this afternoon, I little dreamed that I should come to be summoned as a talesman.
"Off with the old and on with the new!" I cannot say that I am wholly in sympathy with that saying, as far as parting with the old is concerned, for I am a part of the "old" myself. I am not quite ready to be shuffled off—I am not after a felo de se, or any other fellow of that sort. But while I look back with regret on the past, I know that the steps of progress must always be forward, upward and onward, "that we must rise on stepping stones of our dead past to higher things."
Anyone who listened to that address this morning knows that this subject was treated most exhaustively; hence I shall not avail myself of the opportunity to borrow from the speaker—to make a transfer, so to speak, of some of his ideas—though he is well able to afford it. I would, therefore, simply offer congratulations upon what has been so happily accomplished here. The great development of this University has been fully indexed at all times, and especially at this time by the grand development of the library which is so essential and integral a part of an institution of this kind. Only a few years ago, as it now seems to me, and this library consisted merely of a shelf of books. Then slowly and painfully followed an increase to one, two, three thousand books, until in these latter days it has reached the grand total of thirty thousand volumes.
The crisis of any library is in its early years, until it reaches say ten to twenty thousand volumes; after that it will be an easy task to reach one hundred thousand and more.
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Astor once said, I believe, that in the accumulation of wealth the difficulty had been to get the first million; after that it was an easy task.
Then as to the home this library owns. I remember when it had scarcely any home at all, with hardly a "local habitatation or a name." Then the books were all in one little room! It lived in one room like a good many people in Kansas in those days! And now it has this magnificent building! Surely this will teach us not to disdain the day of small beginnings, but to render gratitude for the past, pride in the present, and hope and trust for the future.
Now I should like to summarize my personal impressions on the present conditions of the library, especially in view of this dedication today, but have nothing original to say on the subject, so shall have to turn to that resource of the speaker, "that last infirmity of noble minds," quotation. I will tell you something that was said to me a few days ago by a commercial traveller. In reference to that body of energetic, whole-souled men, the commercial traveller, I must say that there seems to be still a little indefiniteness in the minds of many in regard to them. In this, as in other libraries, we find no exhaustive treatise on the natural history of the drummer. The travelling man is not adequately represented in literature. He scarcely appears. Charles Dickens wrote the "Tales of an Uncommercial Traveller;" but the wonderful tales of the "commercial" man that he tells to his customers, his tales on the road, and at the "Wayside Inn," where he sojourns over night and monopolizes the best rooms of the hotel; all these just barely suffice to get him into literature. There is no other type of man who is so various. He seems to be all mankind. But he has one invaluable characteristic: he is always ready of wit and ready of retort. Well, one man I want to tell you about was an old Hebrew traveling man. He was in a railway carriage, and all of the rest were traveling men too, with the exception of one minister. He had been helping at the dedication of a new church or a new library (not this library—and it wasn't any of these
ministers); consequently dignity sat high enthroned upon his brow. Our old Hebrew friend supposed that all the rest of the company were drummers and he proceeded to address the minister familiarly and as an equal and companion. He opened the conversation by saying, "Mein goot friend, what ish your line?" The preacher drew himself up somewhat haughtily and replied, "Brains, sir." And then this Israelite without guile replied, "Prains, dot ish a very goot line surely. You garries no samples, hey!" There was another travelling man, a young man this time. I did not think he was very wise—not, however, because he wore eye-glasses, or a little fine gold chain, nor that he parted his hair in the middle, for, in these days, very many great and good men thus nobly "do" their part, but because he trained a little tender curl on his forehead. Now he carried his samples, which were perfumery. He expatiated on the fine quality of his "quadruple extract." And I said, "My young friend, what in the world do you mean by quadruple extract?" And, to show that he did know, he answered, "Why, consecrated extract."
Now there has been a good deal said here about the virtues of books. Books—those of the library of Kansas University, selected with the finest discrimination—these are the finest extracts, concentrated extracts of the literature and the learning, the wisdom and wit of the world. And this memorial temple, which shrines the books, after the appropriate dedicatory services of this day is now fitly consecrated to the cause of science and of learning in Kansas and the West.
Webster Davis: "The University and Practical Life."
I have a speech prepared for this occasion, but I will not give it to you at this late hour. I came to Lawrence today, not specially to make a speech at this time; I have a date in town tonight, hence I will not attempt to make two speeches in this town the same day. It is after an absence of ten years that I find myself in Kansas University. I note signs
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of prosperity on every hand. This is due as you all know to the ability and worth of Chancellor Snow, and to the able corps of professors, who compose the Faculty, and who have contributed so much to the glory of this University. I am proud of the State of Missouri, but I am also proud of Kansas. Proud of her history, proud of the splendid record she has made in the years that have passed, and I am proud that I was even permitted to spend one short year in Kansas University. There seems to be something in the beautiful landscape of Kansas, in her fields, residences, and homesteads, in her hills and valleys that inspires her young men and women with a hearty love for culture and knowledge. It is well that Kansas can boast of such a University as this, and I trust that the people of Kansas whatever may become of them or befall them in the future will not forget their University. I am a friend of this institution, for it is on the universities and schools of the country that we must be dependent for the country's strength in the years that are to be. They are the places wherein the poor man may find means to prepare himself for a useful life, to be a deliverer of his country, to make himself the equal of his fellow men. He should never forget the universities and schools of his country.
Today in this new world all things are open to man; this is an age of wealth, culture and refinement, and this republic gathers tribute of the harvest. Here in Kansas is a mighty representation of the world's wealth. A good story is told of a Kansas boy. A good brother was holding a revival, and at the end of his sermon he called upon those who wanted to go to heaven to stand up. Every one in the room stood up except the little boy. He then asked all those wishing to go to the other place to stand up. Of course all kept their seats, the little boy with the rest. "What is the trouble with you my boy?" asked the preacher. "Oh! Kansas is good enough for me," was the reply. And what has made Kansas what she is? Why, it is the schools, from the University to the little school house on the plain. Cultivate that feeling of love for the University and the schools in the children of Kansas and she will prosper in the years to come. Progress in the University, progresss in Kansas; onward and upward. May Kansas people come here until the University at Lawrence will be known far and near as the greatest university in the west, and this can be done largely by people of wealth and influence contributing of their means towards its uplifting and development.
Why is it that today, England, with her parliament and queen, with her peerless student homes, with her mind, her heart, will not begin to compare with this great republic? The answer is to be found in that increasing intelligence of the masses of the people in this country. With increased knowledge, what wonderful possibilities may not we hope to see realized in the years that are to come. Cursed be the hand that would destroy the schools of our country.
"Oh royal mind cease not thy flight
While suns and stars dispense their light,
And roll in grand array,
And when those orbs shall cease to shine,
When suns decay and stars decline,
Let onward progress still be thine
And upward hold thy way."
Geo. T. Fairchild; "The Plough and the Lexicon."
When that card was poked at me with those ominous words, "the Plough and the Lexicon," I felt somewhat like Pompey in good old Kentucky. His master was a great hunter, and loved to relate tales of the deeds he did on his expeditions. He was telling once how he shot a deer, the shot going right through from the heel to the ear. Turning to Pompey he asked, "Is not that so?" Yes, Massa, Yes," said Pompey; you see gentlemen just as the trigger was pulled the deer stooped to scratch his ear," remarking afterwards to his master, "For Gawd's sake, Massa, get it a little nearer together next time." So I too wish that these two, the plough and the lexicon were a little nearer together. But I recognize the fact that they are both tools. The lexicon is a good
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tool, and the plough is a good tool, but if anything it outranks the lexicon. Our friend Ware was not at all surprised to find the beginning of a Lexicon in Babylon, but we find the Plough in use a great many ages before that. We must have the plough in order to be able to use the lexicon. They are both concerned with roots, they are both used to cultivate roots; and both are used to cultivate "greens".
More than twenty-five years ago I was introduced to a minister in the city of Detroit. He said, "What chair do you hold in your Agricultural College." The chair of English Literature I replied. And what, said he, has English literature to do with agriculture." We must be trained to think along these lines, and we shall find that labor and learning go together, and that gumption in learning is all there is worth having, and that gumption makes real energy in the world. It was impressed upon me that one may know a great deal about things and not know much or indeed anything of them. I suspect also that one may know a great deal of things and not know much about them. The two must go together. The world must feel the movement of both, learning must suggest and gumption must follow. Gumption must clear the way, and learning help to find. But Mr. Chancellor, I remember that I am No. 7, and do not know what No. 27 is thinking about just now. I know that the two are going together in the world. The lexicon helps the plough, and the plough supplements the lexicon. We must have something to live on. As the Representative of the State Agricultural College, but for lack of a little furnishing that would make it hard to accommodate you, I would invite you to be present on the completion of a building something like in character to yours. It speaks well for your growth because you have a magnificent building like this, and today nearly five hundred young people from the plough, or going to the plough are consulting a lexicon of about fifteen thousand volumes in the room of a building that compares pleasantly with yours. There will be room for sixty thousand volumes with class and reading rooms attached. Bye and bye, not very long hence, we will invite you
to congratulate us upon the completion of the furnishing of our lexicon, as we do you in your growth as shown on this great occasion.
John H. Atwood: "Source of a Lawyer's Brief."
That you are spared the infliction of listening to what my office boy pronounced as the greatest effort of my life, is due to that guileful old gentleman who presides over this magnificent banquet with such infinite grace, since he, having asked me to speak on one subject today, he, a few moments since, directed me to speak upon another; the moral of all of which is, put not your trust in Chancellors and do not prepare after-dinner speeches. But the unkindness of the Toast Master will not prevent me from awarding the praise which is his due; for 'tis true that in giving the theme that has been just pronounced a place among the subjects deemed worthy of consideration here, there has been a most perfect display of an appreciation of the eternal fitness of things, even though there was a failure to completely recognize the proprieties when I was joined as sponsor, to such a subject; for among the festivities incident to the completion of such a magnificent home for what Charles Lamb calls the guides, governors and best friends of men, books, such as that in which we now stand, and which is properly the occasion of your rejoicing today, surely the craft that perhaps more oftener than any other makes of books companions, should have a place if it be but a nich or corner. The mention of books and the immense possibilities incident to them, recalls Rufus Choate's answer to the young man's inquiry as to what one must know to be a good lawyer, which answer was, as you remember: "All there is to know and more too," the recognition of which truth constrains us to admit that there are no good lawyers (a popular belief) and mantles my cheek with blushes (though you may not see them) at the thought that I have permitted myself to be presented to you as a lawyer at all.
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one at the utterance of this sentence! As file the shadowy kings before Macbeth, so moves by, the long line of calf-clad gentlemen—Glandville, Bracton, Fleet, a Littleton and his commentators, Coke, Bosanque, Puller and so on and so on, and finally closing with the English and American Encyclopedia of Law. But after all is said it is the lawyer who makes the brief. 'Tis he who molds the mass that he accumulates from these multifarious sources in to that which, more than the judges, makes the law, the Lawyer's Brief.
In a brief address spoken to the students of the law department of this University some little time since, I said the lawyers were the Levites, the chosen guardians of the temple and the keepers thereof and in so saying I spoke truly; and a most sacred trust it is, but sacred as it is, yet it is all too often not remembered. By this I do not mean those little remissnesses, happily not common, and always of trifling import, properly characterized as pettifogging. I mean the employment of the law and of lawyer learning to dig mines beneath the foundations of good government.
Macaulay said of the British rule in India that it was a despotism so complete that its only check was its own humanity; irresistable in its power, absolute in its sway—Hindoo and Bengalese, Rohilla and Maratta crouched before it, expecting and receiving no modicum of good, save that vouchsaved by the generosity of the master. The power of the law for good or ill when guided by the hands of the profession is a power almost as great. When the law is made by subtle minds and cunning brains to do that which its creators intended it not to do, when the laws against combines and trusts by clever tricks and keen devices are made to further and foster them; when the attempted legislative control of the great highways of commerce is made by legal causistry to swell the already bloated power of the railroads, then is the mine beneath the government's foundation being dug wider and deeper than even the cunning delvers imagine.
As the Sabbath day was made for man and not man for the Sabbath, so was the law made
for the people and not the people for the law; and all too often in this day of the republic are the methods of Cepola permitted by all-too willing judges torefine away the rights of the people.
When the counsel of the Pennsylvania Railway Company can stand unrebuked in the Supreme Court of that State and threaten its judges with the vengeance of his company, then are the pillars of the Law's fair temple loosened. When the Supreme Court of the United States will decide that the State of Ohio cannot determine for itself what shall constitute the law of negligence within its borders, where a railroad company is defendant, then is the presence of a judicial oligarchy, in fact if not form, so near that its grim features are only thinly veiled by the mists of distance. If my language seems extravagant, think of that judicial iniquity, the blanket injunction with which, within the last half twelve months a dozen federal judges have covered every corporate desire; and if that be not enough, pardon me for relating a personal experience. When the Hon. Lucien Baker and myself were defending those poor deluded creatures commonly known as Saunders' Coxeyites, we were told by a federal judge that, despite the rules against hear-say evidence, a railroad superintendent could testify to the contents of telegrams, then in existence, sent by, he knew not whom, which he had never seen and of which he only knew by their having been read to him. Such things as these come like a shock to the layman's mind unskilled in the niceties of the law—to the mind of the lawyer taught from his Blackstone days, to believe that all are equal before the law they seem as judicial monsters, sans eyes to see the right, sans ears to hear the truth, but with only hands and claws that close and rend when a power, outside the law, unknown to the law, shall chance to give the signal.
Deem me not a Jeremiah crying "Woe is the city," but I say that which I do know; that which great learning is not needed to enable me to know; that when the priests of the temple have ceased to be anything but changers of money the goddess will hide her face.
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Law is a deity in the light of whose smile springs homes and harvests, towns and trade, and all things good, but when her face is hidden these do reveal things all evil—and the times tend to prove that her face is hidden by a mask of gold as was hidden the face of the Indian god Teken. And I trust I shall be no pessimist if I say devotion to gain is the plague spot on our civilization. It ranges the whole scale. The preacher is called to the richer parish and the call may be as feeble as the whimper of a day old child and it will be heard if the salary be large enough. The doctor's devotion to the cause of science depends in no small measure upon the bank account of the subject under scientific consideration, and the lawyer's belief in his client's innocence is almost in exact proportion to the size of the fee. And these tendencies of the times stop not their steps at the threshold of the legislative hall. There arguments, more glittering than the most brilliant oratorical pyrotechnics, find an audience (usually an audience of one at a time) and which with no voice but a clink, prove more potent than the voice of reason or the voice of duty. The man who passes the Red sea of corruption that ebbs and flows at Washington and comes over dry shod, must be a veritable Moses indeed, but oftener called Dennis and rarely called Eli. But let us trust these tendencies carry within themselves their own cure. The laureate said, "the tyrants cruel glee forces on the freer hour," and lets us hope that very acuteness of the evil will the sooner rouse the people; and that the social reforms foretold by the Rev. Doctor Abbott are now, at this hour, grouping their way into the present out of the near future—that our nation will come to be not only the richest among nations but that its wealth will be distributed with such a degree of equality that the howl of the wolf of want will be but an echo of the past, that the laborer will have a fairer hire and that those anomalies in government, the giant corporations, with the power of princes and which recognize no more responsibility than a street gamin, that these creatures of the State will be controlled by their creator rather than without it. And this
work of rebuilding must be done largely by the lawyers.
May the work fall in the lot of those in whose brain wisdom is wedded to honor, for when such you find his mate as a workman is only to be found in a Hiram of Tyre; and in the Bar of America, needs it to be said by me, no larger grouping of this class of which I have just spoken can be found than in the portion of it known as the Kansas Bar—the bar graced by the presence of those lawyers who sitting silent at this board more potently represent it by their silence than I am able to do by much vain speaking.
The law in its purity is a divinity toward whom her lovers feel as does the devout Bramin kneeling at the shrine of Vishnu. She gives to those men who will seek after her with patient industry, nightly vigils and the cleanly living that steeps the mind with capabilities, to such she vouchsafes a reward compared with which the poor pleasures of the playhouse, the dead sea delights of the revel, the hush of summer days, or the bright eyes of women are as nothing. She has fitly been compared with the mystic lady who dwelt by "towered Camelot," who into the patterns of her loom did weave "the mirror-magic sights"—the woof of men's lives as woven by the loom of the law is not less complex, and he who knows her well dives deeper into the great ocean of human passion than all his brothers and knows his race, its longings, its strivings, its hates, its loves, as even the preacher in Ecclesiastes did not know them.
Judge Homes said that the law as lawyers knew her, seemed to him like a woman sitting beside the highway of life beneath whose overshadowing hood, men peering into her face can see their needs and their deserts—to the timid her smile gives hope; for the combatants fairly matched with foot to foot and breast to breast, she calmly keeps the list with stern and steadfast justice, while the guilty wretch who seeks for paths wherein she is not, finds her in the end and beneath her hood, he sees the awful face of death.
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there is a legend or superstition, that far in the interior and hard by the beaten track of travel, a mountain stands called Jabar Cadem—the turning mountain—for strange to relate, this mountain can be turned from side to side, being set upon huge spheres of stone, as the legend runs, and in this mount two spirits dwell—the one beneficent to man, the other hostile; on one side, this mountain is as fair to look upon as a garden in the Valley of Cashmere; pomegranates and grapes in clusters and all the fruits of the field mingle with the orchids and roses whose Iris like beauty, mantles the mountain side with a mass of bloom; fountain-thrown waters make cool the air heavy with perfume while from dell and grove come the singing of birds in whose sweetness is mingled the beauties of all instruments—flutes and viols and harps and mellow horns; upon the mountain's other side are yawning caves and scarred and blasted rocks, no green thing is there; from the caverns, issue the breath of plague and pestilence and in the semi-darkness serpents crawl. It is the good spirit's task to keep the mountain's fairer side turned to the traveler's track, and the desire of the evil one to turn the other. This turning mountain is not unlike the law as it is; when unperverted, as fair as the grove by the lake in Korassan, but at all times capable of being made to be a thing with fangs, all evil.
Let us trust that this revolving mountain of the law will soon become fixed, and fixed with its fairer side made blessed by the sunshine of ABSOLUTE EQUITY, presented to the people.
T. A. McNeal: "The Breezy West."
In speaking of the breezy West, I can only say, Mr. Chancellor, that as far as I know I can only discourse as to Kansas, but I suppose that is what is meant by the breezy West.
It has been said that whatever else may be said of Kansas, it can at least be said to be original. She is original in the style of her politics, religion, and in the character of her winds she is without precedent or shadow. It has been several years, my friends, since I first
made acquaintance with the winds that do business in the state of Kansas. I was struck with the peculiar manner that they had of picking up the dust and grass and cobble that is within her gates. I got into this state in a windy month of a windy year. I believed that I had accidentally struck the kingdom of Aeolus himself, and had got mixed up with the headquarters of the committee running his campaign. I noticed the peculiar blistering, bleaching, burning character of the "breezy West." I noticed, as I said before, how they seemed to stay with the stranger until his epidermis hung from his wind-burnt nose in shreds, and if he opened his mouth in protest, it filled as far back as his wisdom teeth with geological specimens and the deposites of the old sandstone period. The driver of a pair of mules with whom I had taken shelter from the extremity of the weather, seemed to bear it with a stoical philosophy that excited my curiosity, if not my admiration. I was amazed at the calm manner in which he continued to chew upon his quid, and when he spit occasionally, I noticed that the saliva floated away upon the graceful breeze until, I afterwards learned, it was stopped by the bald head of a man living in the adjoining county. It is said that on that occasion the man remarked to his wife that never back in the old state of Illinois had he seen such a large drop of rain fall from a clear sky.
Well, I attempted to whistle, but for some time I could not hear a sound; but bye and bye I heard, some rods to the right of me, a fragment of a tune. It was my whistle, and the wind had blown it off before it could get the chance to make a sound. It is said that sometime after that a traveller passing along the road picked up four bars of "The girl I left behing me," I mean the tune, in a cottonwood tree.
I was struck by the fortitude with which these tearing breezes were borne by the old settlers. I asked a fellow if these winds were not annoying. He said not at all; on the contrary the wind is one of the things to which we call the attention of the stranger when he comes here. The wind destroys the germs of disease by
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blowing them out. Disease is caused by microbes, and I leave it to you to say what chance would a common, every-day microbe have in a Kansas wind. A man came here as full of microbes as an Arkansas dog is full of fleas. But they were all blown out of his system in less than a week, and a farmer's wife found a bunch of them sticking to a barbwire fence in her garden. This is how the people of the West conform to the principles of truth when talking to a stranger.
Once when I was hanging on to a hitching post which seemed to be firmly planted, I noticed cheerfully floating on the breeze, several women and children. I asked the men around if they were not alarmed. Not at all said they, for the wind will change tomorrow and they will all come back again. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, and Mr. Chancellor, that the breezes have their advantages, because they have swept from the atmosphere the microbes which would otherwise be liable to enter our system, and the result is that when you come to the time when the wind falls, and it does sometimes, I am glad to say, you find upon the floor a tumbler full. Where is there any other state where you can go out on a clear night and see so many sparkling stars! We can on a clear moon-light night observe the man in the moon so clearly that we can see him wink his other eye, and can find out the lost daughter of the Pleiades, and see distinctly the manner in which she does up her back hair. Kansas people have taken their characteristics from the breezes. They pick up a good many good things when they pick up a university like this. I say this, my friends, because I want somewhere along the line to connect my speech with the subject in hand. I have been trying my best ever since I have started to get to it. I do not exactly see what connection my speech has with this University and with this library, but if you see it, that is all right. Each individual was expected to connect his speech with the University, and I have tried my best to do so. It is rather hard, however, to connect the subject of breezes with that of books, as no one would take a book out-in a Kansas
wind, for a man would be a fool to do so. As I said before, the people of Kansas, with all their eccentricities and with all of the breezy and windy character of their dispositions, are disposed to pick up all the good things that come in their way. Now good things should be retained, or at least we all think so.
And now coming out of the subject of winds entirely, of which I have talked quite a good deal this afternoon, would say that I have been royally entertained, and I think also that I have missed my train. I hope, as has been said before, that the time will come when this library building will be filled to its utmost capacity with good books. I hope that the time will come when the students of this University will be able to come out crammed full of knowledge on account of the magnificent gift that the friends to the University have given.
Eugene F. Ware: "The Sentiments of 'Your Orator.'"
Mr. Chancellor, Ladies and Geutlemen:—The subject assigned to a person at a banquet in Kansas represents a danger point which he should avoid, and if you will pardon me for consuming your time I will tell you very briefly of some books which I saw not very long ago, taken from the most ancient libraries of the world. The books were from the libraries of Nineveh and Babylon and were written in clay that had been baked into imperishable stone. They conld be read with as much ease as the writings of today. I saw them in the Louvre and in the British Museum, exposed in glass cases with their translations beside them. There were wagon loads of such books, documents and tablets, and it occurred to me to make memorandums of some of the topics.
There was a letter from a nobleman to the king of Babylon asking for a doctor to be sent to see a sick lady.
There was a list of Babylonian kings from the flood down. That flood was shown to be very ancient.
There was an inscription showing that Enteanna was king of Babylon 4200 years B. C.
There was a table of synonyms of Assyrian
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words from the Nineveh library; a treatise upon diseases of the eye; a list of observations upon the planet Venus; an Assyrian-Elam dictionary; a list of furniture in the royal household; a report upon the building of a palace; a list of kings who had paid tribute to the empire; a tablet containing a list of the standard works in the royal library of Nineveh; a record of the eclipses of the moon; a fixing of the exact date of the vernal equinox; an address to "primitive man;"--think of that! A then ancient civilization was addressing "primitive man," just as Hood did the Mummy.
There was a letter from Sennacherib to his father; a contract between two persons agreeing upon terms of partnership, the names of the persons being Sinina and Iribamsin. This partnership was 2400 years B.C.
There was a report of progress made in copying out works for the royal library of Nineveh. Perhaps by use they needed re-copying, and this was a report.
There were vast numbers of legal documents, mortgages, promissory notes, powers of attorney, court proceedings, law proceedings, deeds that conveyed property that would be as good deeds today as then and which would convey property as well as then; loans of vast sums of money at one and two-thirds per cent.
But I cannot recapitulate them all. When we consider these old records from the libraries of Nineveh and Babylon and find that lawyers of today have nothing fundamentally new and can do no more than what was done four and six thousand years ago, we may conclude that the doctors of today can do nothing more now than then and that they have nothing very new; and that the doctor whom the king sent was as capable then as one who would be sent now. And we may imagine, then, other callings, professions and trades were equally skillful. Perhaps society had then achieved as great success as now and has taught us, their descendants, to do what we are doing now. Perhaps that great achievement and dream of statesmanship, the happiness of the people, was as well attained then as now. A Moorish lady once asked a member of the British Par
liament, who was exploring Morocco, "Are the women in your country happy?" The statesman said, "I do not know. Are they happy in Morocco?" The lady replied, "Yes, we are happy, in Morocco."
In the old days of the Nineveh Library they did not have the Winchester and the Telephone but they had courts, and government, and private rights, and protection of property. The Winchester and the Telephone have not added to our happiness. Those great libraries tell us different things than so-called "history" tells us. History is never written. Battles, cruelties, and wars are the residium, the Nile deposit, which the great waves of civilization leaves as it sweeps over empires and ages. If convulsions should today bury this great Spooner Library, this grand building, and its priceless treasures, and if, four thousand years hereafter, an archaeologist could find it and dig into it, I doubt very much if from the ruins he could reconstruct our alphabet, so much would time efface everything. We are too civilized and too ephemeral. He would find nothing but dust.
I hope, therefore, that such a convulsion will never come; and I hope, Mr. Chancellor, that your library will be destroyed by use and not covered up by devastation or war.
President A. R. Taylor of the State Normal having to catch his train, leaves the following message of congratulations: "I regret exceedingly that my train takes me away in the midst of these delightful festivities, but leave my hearty congratulations on the completion of this beautiful temple and its dedication to books, the repositories of the best thoughts and best impulses of the noblest minds of the human race! All roads lead to Rome, so all books lead to pedagogy. I hope you will bear in mind the fact that our modern civilization has been made by the pedagogue and that without him was not anything made. The bibliography of pedagogy shows that it is not one whit behind any other department of learning. There is no field in it which has not been more or less fairly covered. Out of the fifty thousand books and pamphlets of varying value on education, I hope at least a thousand may find an immediate alcove in Spooner Library. Believing that this is but the beginning of great things for K. U., and for Kansas, the State Normal leaves this greeting and blessing for its Elder-brother and its inspiring leader, Your friend,
A. R. TAYLOR.
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WE TRUST it may not be necessary to harp all year on the subject of athletics, but it does seem that some of our students are determined to neglect this most essential part of their college work. It is just as necessary for a student to exercise as it is for him to eat and sleep. We have the material for a good foot-ball team, the question is whether they will give an hour each evening for practice. This material should be used to maintain our position in athletics. Colleges and universities at the present day are judged, and rightly too, by the interest manifested in college sports.
THE REVIEW again launches forth with its customary greeting to the new and welcome to the old student; but in a different garb and under different circumstances. It has been thought expedient and feasible by a majority of those interested in the Courier and Review to combine the two, as stated in the last issue. Thus save expense to advertisers and subscribers, and satisfy a long-felt want by publishing a paper that will redound more to the honor of the Institution which it represents. The third number of each month will attempt
to fill the place of the monthly, hitherto known as the REVIEW, and will meet the requirements for which the REVIEW was established seventeen years ago; the publication of articles of extra literary merit. From this object the present management does not expect to deviate, but in order to accomplish the purpose we must have the constant aid and sympathy of the entire University. Our success depends upon our patronage. The columns are open to every student and we trust the opportunity will not be neglected.
It is the custom of nearly every college to have a class poet, a class orator, and often a class prophet. These tend to a certain extent to organize class spirit, besides giving a chance to show what ability in literary lines are to be found in the different classes. Attention to this fact has been called by the publication of class poems and orations in our exchanges. K.U. certainly has her share of ability in these lines; why not develop them and elect class poets and orators.
Law Department.
The Law Department is now very pleasantly located in the north end of the first floor of the main building. The quarters formerly occupied by the library.
The east room is used for a lecture room and the recitations are held there. In the north room is the law library, while the west room is fitted up with the tables formerly used in the library and reading room.
At present the Seniors are taking Bigelow on Torts under Hon. S.A.Riggs of Lawrence, and in addition are hearing lectures by Judge Dobson of Kansas City on Corporations.
Under the instruction of Judge Green the Juniors are reading Lawson on Contracts. About the first of November they will begin constitutional law under Judge Humphrey of Junction City.
Prof. Green is much better satisfied with the present quarters than he was last year at North College and this arrangement is far more satisfactory to the students.
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ATHLETIGS.
K. U. vs. DOANE. The 'Varsity Wins the Game.
The Rock Chalk boys win their third consecutive victory by defeating the team from Doane College in a sharp and exciting game.
All last week the many lovers of football and staunch admirers of the 'Varsity team had been looking forward with a great deal of interest to the game to be played with Doane. All expected the 'Varsity to put up a great game, but the most hopeful did not expect to see the splendid exhibition of scientific football which was played in Saturday's game. It was one of the best games the people of Lawrence and surrounding towns will see during the season of '94.
The visiting team arrived late Friday night and were taken to the hotel, where they retired right away, so as to have a good night's rest before the game. After a good night's sleep they got up, had their breakfast, and spent the morning in visiting the University and other places of interest. The 'Varsity boys did not vary from their usual training: they went to bed early Friday night, and spent Saturday a m. in walking and resting up for the game.
The day was all that could have been wished for a football game, the weather being just cold enough to put plenty of ginger in the men.
The Doane team was first on the field, arriving at 2:35. They were soon surrounded by a crowd determined to find out just what material our boys had to buck against. A few minutes later the "boys in red" arrived on the field and were lustily cheered, the Rock Chalk yell ringing loud and clear over the field.
At promptly 3 o'clock the teams lined up at the center of the field, the line-up being slightly different from that which was advertised, Hector Cowan of K. U. going to right tackle in Fletcher's place; for the visitors, Thomas takes Main's place at R.H. The visitors won the toss, taking the east goal with the wind in
their favor, the 'Varsity taking the west goal and the ball. Steinberger starts the game by kicking the ball 12 yards and by a short run falls on the ball. After a few short gains by the backs bucking the line, the ball is lost to Doane on a fumble. Doane now has the ball, and after trying many plays with but short gains, the ball is passed back to Fuller who punts 35 yards; the ball is caught by Williamson and carried back 10. The ball is now in the 'Varsity's hands and the team takes a brace; Williamson makes a nice run of 35 yards, aided by good interference; K. U. cannot make the required gain, and the ball goes to Doane on downs. Doane tries a few end plays with no success; our ends seem to be invincible and Doane finds that their gains around our ends are always small. Doane now sends Feese around the right end, but Shellenbarger breaks through the line, making one of the prettiest tackles of the game, downing the man with a loss of 1 yard to Doane. K. U. gets the ball on downs, Doane failing to make the required gain. Williamson punts and the ball goes to Doane. By some sharp, quick playing Thomas is pushed over the line, scoring a touch-down. Time, 17 min. Fuller kicks a nice goal. Score, 6 to o, in Doane's favor.
The teams lined up in the center of the field with the ball in K. U.'s hands. Doane has played her game, and from this time until the close of the game the better playing is done by the K. U. boys. The 'Varsity boys now have a look of determination on their faces, and it is evident that something is going to drop. Steinberger kicks the ball 30 yards into Doane territory; a Doane man takes the ball making a nice run of 25 yards when he is prettily tackled by Shellenbarger. Doane -bucks our line three times for no gain; the ball is passed back to Fuller for a punt, but Cowan does some pretty playing, breaking through the line, securing the ball, and after making a pretty run scores a touch-down. Willie fails to
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kick goal. Time of play, 3 min. Score, 6 to 4, Doane's favor.
Doane takes the ball at the center of the field; Fuller punts 45 yards; the ball is caught by Hester who carries it back 20. K.U. now plays on tackle well. Steinberger and Wilson make a criss cross, Wilson carrying the ball for a gain of 15 yards. K.U. now gets 10 yards for off-side play. By several short plays the ball is brought to the center of the field. A pleasant surprise is now thrust upon the spectators: Steinberger, aided by good interference by Cowan and Armour, makes his famous end play, making a run of 55 yards around the right end, scoring a touch-down. The Doane men seem to be unable to tackle Steinberger. Willie fails at goal. Time, 4 min. Score, 8 to 6, favor K.U.
By good playing of the halfs, nice running by Cowan and Steinberger, the ball is brought to Doane's 15-yard line, when time is called. Had there been two minutes more to play, K. U. would probably have scored another touchdown. Score at end of first half, 8 to 6, K. U.'s favor.
Doane now takes the west goal, and K. U. has the wind in her favor. Fuller punts the ball 30 yards; Willie carries it back 10, and when thrown is slightly hurt, but soon recovers and continues playing. K. U. gets the ball on a fumble. Hester makes a nice run around the right end for a gain of 20 yards, but loses the ball to Doane by allowing it to flop out of his hands. Doane keeps the ball but a minute or two, and after bucking our line with but little success, lose the ball to K. U. on a fumble. K. U. again gets 10 yards for off-side playing by Doane; Willie makes a nice kick of 30 yards; Doane takes the ball and attempts to carry it back; the man is downed nicely by Armour. Doane cannot gain, so the ball goes to K. U. on downs. By good gains by Cowan, Pope, and the backs, the ball is within 65 yards of Doane's goal. Again Steinberger distinguishes himself, making the longest run of the game and the prettiest run on the home grounds. Aided by splendid interference he goes around the right end for a touch-down, making a run
of 55 yards. This was the star play of the game. Williamson now kicks a nice goal. Time,9 min. Score,6 to 14,K.U.'s favor.
Fuller, as usual, kicks off 40 yards; after a few short gains the ball is lost to Doane on a fumble, but Doane is still unable to make any gains, and loses the ball to K. U. on downs. Cowan now shows the spectators some very scientific running and interfering, making a splendid run of 40 yards, doing some splendid interference for himself. Hester makes two nice gains through the line, and Cowan takes the ball for another run, this time scoring a touch-down. Willie fails to kick goal. Time, 7 min. Score,6 to 18,K.U.'s favor.
Cowan and the backs make some nice runs, and Armour, Steinberger, and Shellenbarger do some nice tackling. Doane gets the ball and a good punt by Fuller brings the ball to K. U. goal where it is carried over. Fuller kicks goal. Time, 8 min. Score, 10 to 18, K. U.'s favor.
There is now but 9 minutes left to play. Steinberger makes a good kick; the ball is carried back 15 yards. Doane now sets a fast pace, and by quick, sharp playing gets the ball within 10 yards of our goal. They lose the ball to K.U.on fumble.Willie kicks 35 yards;Doane takes the ball and K.U.gets it from a punt by Fuller.Steinberger again makes a beautiful run around the right end, scoring a touch-down after running 55 yards. Time,8 min. No goal. Score,12to22,K. U.'s favor.
There is but one minute left for playing and time is called with the ball 15 yards in K.U. territory, and the best game of football ever played in Lawrence closed with the "Crimson" floating high. Certainly never in a western football game was there ever such an exhibition of scientific football playing as was played by our coach from Princeton, Mr. Hector Cowan. His playing was certainly a feature of the game. The playing of our entire team was of the A No.1 order, all men putting up a strong game. For the visitors, the punting of Fuller was very good, but his tackling was very poor. The
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backs played well. The teams lined up as follows:
K. U. DOANE.
Armour...R. E... Kenagy
Cowan...L. T... Reasoner
Hassig...R. G... Owen
Stone...C. Fisher
Moody...L. G... Lee
Pope...L. T... Stull
Steinberger...L. E... Houston
Wilson...R. H... Thomas, Capt.
Hester...L. H... Feese
Williamson...Q... Leavill
Shellenbarger...F... Fuller
Referee, Taylor; Lineman, Deford; Umpire, Mitchell. At-
Referee, Taylor; Lineman, Deford; Umpire, Mitchell. Attendance, 700.
NOTES OF THE GAME.
Williamson played his usual good game Saturday.
Shellenbarger was hurt slightly, but did not stop playing.
Stone is probably the best center the team has ever had.
The second eleven may play the Topeka Athletic Club in Topeka Saturday.
Doane won an easy game from the Topeka Athletic Club Tuesday; score, 18 to 0.
Doane could do nothing to prevent Steinberger from making good gains on his end play.
Piatt and Crafts are practicing with the team. Ottawa plays Emporia at Ottawa on Monday.
DeFord, of Ottawa, Manager of the Ottawa University eleven, acted as lineman in Saturday's game.
Thomas, Baker's old coach, surprised a good many by appearing with the Doane team as their coach.
Fuller, for the visitors, did some very poor tackling. The team will have to strengthen in this respect.
Doane has three good games to play: University of Nebraska, University of Iowa, and Denver Athletic Club.
It is rumored that Mr. Lease backed the wrong team in the K. U.-Doane game.Moral: Stand up for your own team.
Taylor, the captain of the Ottawa University team, attended the game Saturday. The Doane team played in Ottawa on Tuesday.
It seems that there should be some way to keep the people from seeing the game for nothing. By this is meant the people who see the games from the surrounding hills. For those who cannot afford to pay the admission price this may be all right, but a great many of those "dead heads," can afford this, and do this simply because they know that they can take advantage of the Athletic Association, and who have not enough loalty to the University to want to support one of its best organizations.
LOGALS.
Christopher was on the hill Tuesday.
Zeller is the latest acquisition to the Glee Club.
Bowker was observed taking the names of absent Betas in the chapel yesterday.
A number of our boys were put to blush at the athletic grounds last Saturday by hearing some wondering remarks dropped by the Doane college students in regard to the size of the crowd present. Yet it was considered a large crowd comparatively, about one-tenth of our student being there, however the game was witnessed by as many more who did not care to mix with the
vulgar crowd but observed the game from the surrounding hills. Even Baker would not be guilty of this.
If Kelley persists in wearing his red sash to foot-ball games Shiras will positively refrain from wearing his red cap.
Mr. Lahmer and Gear rode the Phi Gam goat last Saturday night, after the iniation there was a Phi Gam "cookey shine".
Although it had been generally believed that Billy Wynne had retired from public life,it is announced that he has been elected "President of the Kent Club" those who heard Mr. Wynne's
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inaugural speech were very much impressed, such unanswerable logic coming from him "impromter" is bound to make some stir.
We have it on good authority that the Phi Delta Thetas are negotiating the purchase of the spacious dwelling between Prof. Bailey's and Prof. Sayre's for a chapter house.A mass meeting of the Phi Delts will be held in University Hall on Saturday night for the purpose of deciding the question.
Speaking of Fred Funston in the Kansas City Star, Will White says: "Before he went into the exploring business, 'Timmy" was by turns farmer, hollow-eyed student, real estate agent, reporter and train collector in a half a dozen states. Throw him off the Tarpeian heights, and he will come down on his feet and have a mortgage on the base of the rocks. The mortgage may be worthless, but it will be an interesting relic. He is a genuine Kansas product.
Wheeler-Wagstaff.
At the Episcopal Church Tuesday evening Mr. Robert Wagstaff and Miss Clara Wheeler were united in marriage. Both of the young people were former students of the University and are well known in society circles. The Courier extends congratulations and best wishes.
The Students Protective Association.
"The Students Protective Association" has been organized. Never in the history of the Kansas State University has so much and varied parlimentary law been expounded, never have so many blood curdling utterances, wild gesticulations and rising intonations been delivered.
The object of the Association is not, as might be expected to protect, identify or recover overshoes in the halls this winter, nor is it to guard timid students on "May Day," but it is to prevent the collection of the now famous "Library Fee" which we have already accounted to our fond parents as paid and which we have spent cheerfully. It was a circus well worth the seeing, Eli Cann, the "Patrick Henry of the Law School" represented the Association while the Chancellor defended the Fee.
Eli spouted, Powell vibrated up and down in his chair moving for an ajournment, Jim Owen tried to make himself heard and the law students applauded vociferously. Finally it was understood that each member of the Association would pay one dollar and a half to be used in litigation, and so the situation now stands, whether to pay one dollar and a half for chances to avoid paying five dollars or to pay five dollars and be through with it is the burning question of the hour. W. H. H. Piatt took no part in the argument whatever.
Science Club.
The first meeting of the Science Club for the present year was held on Friday evening, Oct., 5th. The first paper was by L.E.Sayre on his recent visit to Ashville, N.C., to attend the meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association. He spoke at length on several papers that were of special interest. He noticed one on the art of collecting and drying medicinal herbs,a paper on cod-liver oil,one upon the poisonous principle of the ordinary poison ivy, or rhus,and one upon the method of testing ordinary "baking soda."
T. B. Sears, read a very interesting account of the field work at the engineers camp last summer. He told of the dividing of the corps into four divisions, each having its officer, the division of the area to be surveyed into four plats, and the method of systematically carrying out the work in each plat. An excellent beginning was made for a complete survey of Douglas county. The students not only enjoyed the camp life, but were introduced into the practical work of surveyors.
F. O. Marvin gave an account of his recent trip east to attend the meeting of the society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, at Brooklyn. A large number of valuable papers were read, one paper especially noted, advanced the idea that the mathematical work of the course should be of such a character as to directly assist the engineer, and should be taught by an engineer, with that object in view. The visiting members were given an opportunity
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to see electric welding on one of the street car lines. They visited the works where torpedos, moving by compressed air were made, and had many other opportunities to see engineering work.
E. H. S. Bailey gave an account of his visit to the meeting of the American Chemical society which was held at Brooklyn in August in connection with the meeting of the American Association for the advancement of science. In addition to the valuable papers read, there were excellent opportunities afforded the chemists to visit chemical manufactories. Among those visited he mentioned the acetic acid works of Squibb, the soda water establishment of Schults, the large oil refineries and fertilizer works in the vicinity of Newark, besides various ice plants, breweries and smelting works. The Chemical society has nearly a thousand members and publishes a monthly journal of great value.
Art Department.
Prof. Clark says the art department this year is far better than last. The classes at Music Hall are three times as large as last year and are doing much better work. He has a class of teachers from the public schools which he is instructing in the use of his new and very thorough system of Public School Drawing. But the interest of Prof. Clark is not so much centered in these classes as in introducing required drawing work in the University curriculum. There is a great need in the scientific department for better work in this line and the need is thoroughly appreciated by the professors who have had difficulty in distinguishing whether the illustrations submitted to them were intended to represent entomological, botanical, or geological specimens.
Prof. Clark now has two classes a week at the main building in which he teaches principles which will abate this difficulty. This is a beginning which is intended to eventually lead up to introducing required work in this line.
Now is the time to buy your winter Coal. See Edwards before you buy.
Princeton defeated Lehigh in a hard game Satuaday. Score was 8 to o. Lehigh had the ball on Princeton's goal line, but could not push it over.
The Sophomore class eleven has challenged the High School eleven. A game will be arranged in the near future. Look out for the class of "97."
And still another reform in college sports has been abolished. Lehigh is the leader this time. It has abolished the cane rush. Now let some more elevated sport take the place of hazing and cane rushes.
We are glad to welcome with us this year C. C. and F. B. Stanley from Kansas University; L. L. Chambers from Leland Stanford University, Cal.; and Fred Burgess from Harvard College.—Earlhamett Advertiser, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. The Advertiser is a wide-awake paper, and we are glad to add it to our exchange list. F. B. is manager of the second football eleven and C. C. plays left half-back on the same.
Get a cane from Smith in time for the next foot-ball game. Everybody should have one.
Now is the time to subscribe for the COURIER- REVIEW. You will get two papers for one price.
Get Pat Graham to make you a pair of shoes that won't hurt that bunion of yours. No use being a cripple.
C. L. Edwards will supply you with any kind of Coal at reasonable prices.
Buy your cigars of Smith and you will enjoy your smoke.
If you want to keep your goods, don't advertise in the COURIER-REVIEW.
Whole-souled Pat Graham, the Shoemaker, will make you whole-soled if you go to him, and won't charge you much either.
Take that old hat to La Mode and see how pretty it can be made.
Students, go to Edwards for Coal.
Smith, the newsdealer is headquarters for everything in the Sporting Goods line.
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Ypsilanti Union Suits are what physical culture students are buying for winter wear. Weaver is sole agent in Lawrence.
La Mode carries a fine line of ribbons and trimmings. Examine their stock before you buy.
Expert glove-fitters fit to the hand every pair of kid gloves sold at Weaver's.
There is nothing like it: Leis Drug Co.'s Toilet Cream for chapped hands.
"All things to all men." "Piccadura" is the most popular cigar sold in Lawrence, but Woodward carries many other fine brands to suit all tastes.
The stylish Prince Albert coats for women are ready sellers at Weaver's.
Lundborg's Swiss Lilac, the latest odor, Leis Drug Co. have it.
"Good morning! Have you used Pear's Soap?" Woodward has all the best toilet soaps, and all manner of fine perfumes; also hair and all other toilet brushes, best quality, but cheap. That is what you want.
Equipoise Waists are sold exclusively in Lawrence by A. D. Weaver.
Sheet Music and Books At Special Rates to Students.
Pianos and Organs
For Sale on Very Easy Payments or for Rent.
Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos, and Violins Sold on Installments.
'OLIN BELL
845 Massachusetts St.
SANTA FE
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people were not supposed to care for luxuries. Now the day laborer enjoys more luxury than the Plantagenets dreamed of having, and they were thought to have corralled every pleasure.
There is no reason why everyone should not take short or long trips over the ever-popular, ever-ready and ever-improving SANTA FE ROUTE. It costs no more to ride in luxury in one of our fine coaches day car, chair car, or Pullman-on quick time and safe track, than if you went by other blowing-whistling-backing-and-sudden-stopping trains.
You will realize this should you take the Santa Fe Route to California. When it is cool or cold in the East, is the right time to see the California summer land.
Our handsomely illustrated book, "To California and Back," tells the story.
Write to G. T. Nicholson, G. P. A., Topeka, Kas. City Office, Leis Drug Store.
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Get Miss Lotta Barber to trim your fall hat if you want it really artistic.
Ladies, La Mode has the finest Millinery in the city. Have your winter hat trimmed there and it will become you.
You will find the finest line of Smoking Tobacco in the city at Smith's.
Even a plain face may be made pretty if the hat is becoming. Get your hat at La Mode and observe the effect.
PIANOS AND ORGANS For sale on Very Easy Payments, or For Rent.
Sheet Music and Books at Special Rates to Students.
GUITARS, MANDOLINS, BANJOS and VIOLINS Sold on Installments.
845 Massachusetts Street.
'OLIN BELL.
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Coats, Capes, Dress Goods,
Silks, Hosiery, Gloves, in the City.
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Keep the Popular Livery Stable.
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Dentist.
819 Massachusetts St. Lawrence, Kansas.
C. E. ESTERLY, D. D. S., Dental Rooms. Over Woodward's Drug Store.
J. W. O'BRYON,
Dentist.
845 Massachusetts St. Over Bell's Music Store.
F. H. KLOCK Restaurant and Confectionery.
OYSTERS AND ICE CREAM IN SEASON.
Choice Candies, Cigars, Tobacco, Etc. Regular Meals 25c,
Regular Board $3.00, Meal Tickets $3.50. 816 Mass. St.
CHRIS EPLEY, Oyster Parlor Lunch Counter Buy a Meal Ticket and Grow Fat.
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. . HOW? .
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935 MASS. ST.
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PRINTING,
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BUNKER & PARRETT, 1027 MASS. ST. JOB PRINTERS.
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FRESH and GURED MEATS,
Wholesale and Retail.
POULTRY and FISH.
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Has now on hand the best and largest Stock of Suitings and Pant Goods to be found in the City.
Fall and Winter Goods now in.
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Suits to Order.
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STUDENTS, CALL UP 113
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Wall-paper is the most complete and best selected in the city, and that you can get any kind of paper. That the
Picture Mouldings are the prettiest and comprise the best assortment in the city. That its
Stationery includes all the latest styles in writing paper as well as standard papers and tablets. That
Tissue Paper is carried in every color and shade imaginable, both in French crepe and plain. That
Holiday Goods will comprise the completest line of novelties of all sorts and elegant fancy goods ever brought to the city. And that we have a full line of
Blank Books, Gift Books, and the works of standard authors a complete line of Artists' Material, and everything else kept by a first class Book and Stationery Store.
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JAS. H. PATTEN, Editor-in-Chief.
JACK MORGAN, Local Editor.
DAISY ORTON,
EDITH CLARK,
Literary Editors.
J. O. SHIRAS, Athletic Editor.
C. W. L. ARMOUR, Exchange Editor.
ADELIA HUMPHREY, Society Editor.
CLYDE W. MILLER, Managing Editor.
JAMES OWENS, Business Manager. LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, Circulator.
"Surely, surely," quoth the greenback
"I must be out of sight,
To have this mass of lawyers
A making such a fight.
They say its not my beauty
That they are fighting for,
But simply down right duty,
That's causing all this war;
And that if they were petitioned
To help the Faculty out
They gladly bring their fiver's
And give them without a pout.
I know I'm very stupid
And ignorant about the right
But if the petition was given
I'd fear for the widows mite."
WE HAVE no desire to renew the old fraternity and anti-fraternity discussions, which are only harmful to the tempers of those discussing
and are of no benefit to either party, we believe in partisanship when there is any need of it; but realize that the average newspaper squabble is worse than useless.
IT HAS been said that no human soul is perfect. If that is true, then some mistakes in humanity can be forborne, as being the common fate of all.
ONCE IN a while we intend to think, and what is more, we will express our thoughts. Truth shall be our guiding star regardless of consequences. Some do not admire a strongly marked policy. It is not our intention to consider for a moment the "does it pay" theory. If presumption or crankishness shows itself, it ought to reap the deserving reproof of its actions. In all cases we shall endeavor to use courteous language which will not leave any doubt as to what is meant.
It is right to prefer to be liked to being disliked, to be loved to being hated. It is well to be agreeable, to be popular. Yet this desire may become excessive. For often popularity is purchased at an extravagant price. To pay for popularity, intemperance or integrity or time is extravagance and extravagance leads inevitably to penury. It will wreck the strength of manhood and blight the most promising youth.
THE PRESENT literary status is deplorable. Every assembly reveals the sad fact that few students can preside over a meeting with dignity, and so as to reflect credit upon themselves. Scarcely a person passes through life without being called upon sometime unexpectedly to address an audience or wield the gavel. To do this as it should be done requires no small
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amount of practice. It is no slight affair. The neglect of parliamentary practice and expression is sure to place the student in an embarrassing position and bring, as retribution, loss to his interests. The present societies have made their work felt on all occasions. Yet they only contain a small amount of the splendid material in the University and the impending debates, in which the honor of our noble Alma Water is at stake, demand the most rigid cultivation of our powers.
"How long we live, not years but actions tell," said one writer. Is this not equally true of college life? How long our school life is, not years but work accomplished tells. How long a boy is in school, years do not tell. There are men who have been in college only one year, if measured by time, who have been longer than others that have gone to school for five years. Our school life is not measured by length of time we have gone to college, nor the number of books we have studied, but it is measured by the amount of work thoroughly done.
CLASS GAMES, if taken hold of and conducted in the proper manner, would prove an unqualified success. There are many reasons why a series of football games between the respective classes would not only prove interesting and amusing but also of the highest benefit to the University in general. We are sure there are many men in the University who would like to indulge in such contests, and if such be the case, there is no particular reason why such games should not be held. They would be accompanied by a friendly show of class spirit. These contests are held at other colleges and have proven successful; why cannot we hold them at K. U.?
THE MANAGEMENT of the COURIER-REVIEW has no regard for the effusion of the airy brained disgruntled politician. Our position upon the staff were not entrusted to us for the gratification of personalities. It was not the intention of our constituents that we should make these columns loathesome to readers by venting our
spleen against those who do not concede to our wishes. The college press should be free from personalities. The individual should not be dragged into its columns, simply on account of one man's narrowness. What an impression a paper in which half the editorial and local space is devoted to a personal attack must make upon the ardent supporters of the University! What a source of pleasure it must be to the generous people of Kansas who are laboring to have their beloved University on a par with other similar institutions, to read of the antagonizing attitude of the students toward each other.
SOME DISSATISFACTION has been expressed on account of the conflicts that occur in the program of the studies of this term. While it is true that those conflicts are the source of great annoyance to many students, yet if we look into the matter carefully we will find there are no conflicts of any two required studies The Faculty in making out the program are hampered in various ways. The lack of room and a sufficient number of instructors in the various branches make these conflicts unavoidable. It is evident that under existing circumstances the Faculty have followed the best possible plan, that of having no required studies conflict. If they attempted to make a program that would meet the approval of all the students regardless of the work required in the classes it would destroy all system and give general dissatisfaction.
THERE ARE many places smaller than Lawrence, and which have no educational facilities, where a lecture bureau is successfully maintained. Some students say they hear enough lectures in the regular work of the University to satisfy them. The lectures afforded by the University Lecture Bureau are, however, of such an entirely different nature that we cannot see why they should not be appreciated by all. Such lectures have as much educational value as anything we study. Nothing will give a person such a general idea of history, drawn ones attention to the progress of the world in
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special lines, or set one to thinking so much as a good interesting lecture upon some subject that the speaker has thoroughly investigated. A knowledge of which we could or would not gain in any other way. The management of the lecture course this year has been given to Fred Bowersock who assumes all responsibility It is a strong series and deserves patronage.
WE ARE glad to note the interest taken by the students in seminary work this year. There are seven seminaries or similar societies organized at present that meet regularly, and it is probable more will be formed in the future. The work of these societies is most valuable to the student. It enables him to become thoroughly acquainted with some subject. The thorough investigation of a subtopic deduces certain facts and principles applicable to the general subject. At these meetings the student may elaborate in the expression of his own views and profit by the criticisms and discussions.
LITERARY.
Patriotism and German Fiction.
In his great novel, A Struggle for Rome, Dahn makes Procopius say of the Goths. "These barbarians have the good fortune to be a people, and it is exceedingly hard to conquer a people." What Procopius said of the Goths did not become true of the Germans until the year 1871 when a complete unification of the German Empire was first accomplished. True the three centuries from 980-1250 had seen the building up of a state but it was as Pocopius would say, "a state without a people," the outward form without the inner harmony.
Germany was but a multitude of petty provinces ruled by their petty princes all with conflicting interests and jealousies, each seeking his own advancement to the exclusion of any national feeling, no unity or organization, everywhere dissension and rivalry. In the hearts of some to be sure still lingered a desire for greater unity, a desire felt even among the peasants in their belief in the great Frederic Barbarossa who, legend said, had not died but was sleeping a long sleep under Kifflianser mountains waiting the hour when the ravens should cease to fly about the mountain, when he should come forth to renew the ancient glories of his Empire and his people.
With the existing condition of disunion in the nation, there was urgent necessity for strengthening such sentiments, for arousing in this people the dormant national spirit, for inspiring in them a realization of the importance of making one great nation out of what was then such only in name. Some bond of common unity must be found to lift them above these petty rivalries and this bond was found in their literature which, as a German historian says, was "not merely a pride, a delight and an education for each citizen but for the time, the nation itself, the only symbol of its union and center of its patriots." This was the one thing which lifted men above the boundaries of their petty states and brought them into some sort of union.
With, then, this strong need for arousing patriotic feeling and with this universal love and admiration of all the states for their literature it is but a natural step to a union of the two, that is that national pride should be aroused by introducing into the literature such subjects as would have this result and what would more fittingly do so than subjects from the history of a people.
There always lingers about the past a touch of romance, so to a people like the Germans, romantic and emotional, subjects taken from the past must appeal with especial power. The novel that must characteristic form of literature of the nineteenth century easily became the medium for expressing such thoughts and thus we see the birth of the historical novel brought about very naturally, for the novelist profiting
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by this love of the Germans for their literature and by their romantic nature, sought to unite with his purpose to entertain, an attempt to awaken national patriotism by these subjects out of a romantic past.
In Scotland not many years before, had appeared the first of a series of novels which really taught the Germans the art of infusing this spirit into fiction. Scott's work written with no didactic purpose of creating national sentiment but merely the expression of a heart like so many other Scottish hearts, full of warmth, love and appreciation of its fatherland was a strong power in intensifying this feeling and not that alone but he aroused in other nations the deepest interest in the romantic past of this little country. He showed how potent a power the historical novel may be in spreading lofty thoughts, in inspiring and strengthening national feelings and ideas.
Analagous to Scott's work for Scotland is this work of the German novelists for their land. Not that they were the only ones who carried on this movement. Great honor must be given to the beautiful Queen Louise to the great statesman Stein for the vigorous efforts they made toward building up a nation, but in these historical novelists were found loyal supporters and lieutenants in these efforts.
First to be mentioned among these writers is Alexis, not on account of the importance of his work itself but from the fact that he was the first to attempt to arouse the dormant national life by a series of historical novels. Scott had glorified the heroes of his fatherland—did not Germany, he queried, likewise possess a rich historical past and must not the picturing of its struggles and fates attract the German public far more than the foreign Scottish world. Thus he at least opened the way for his successors who while they far overshadowed him in the result of their works, had the common object "to cultivate diligently national thoughts in a time of hopelessness and despair."
romantic interests the struggle of Ulrich of Wirtemberg in the Sixteenth century. His work is written with the avowed purpose of arousing in his countrymen a keener appreciation of the scenes and deeds of their own history, of crushing out that tendency to over-esteem every thing foreign not because it is great or noble but merely because it is foreign.
Four great historical novelists followed in these lines, Hauff, Sheffel, Freytag and Dahn. In "Lichtenstrin," William Hauff depicts one of the periods of German history most full of
Sheffel goes farther back in time and presents in his Ekkehard a most charming picture of German life in the Tenth century. He avows no direct purpose to arouse national feeling but so perfectly does he grasp the spirit of that age and inspire it with life, that it cannot but have that result.
The series of novels known as Die Ahurn Gustav Freytag dedicated to the Crown Princess Victoria very clearly expressing his hope of touching a chord of sympathy between the past and present, while Dahn the last of this group in going back to the history of the Goths in the Fifth century chose a subject which must be of interest to every German because the story of their common ancestry.
This then in merest outline is the work which these writers attempted nearly all with the avowed common purpose not to teach history but by stimulating an interest in their past history to awaken in them a realization of its import, to arouse in them what we call patriotism. To say that these works were the sole cause of the final national spirit aroused in Germany would of course be untrue but it undoubtedly is true that they were an important force in accomplishing this revival of patriotism in their native land. These novels each full of interest and charm, each full of the breath of loyalty were widely read. How could it be otherwise than that the people influenced perhaps unconsciously by the breath of warm national feeling in them should come to be more proud that they themselves represented a part of this same people, that in reading these novels they should come to feel more clearly the reality of their past history, to feel a common pride and a true spirit of patriotism.
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spirit which declares my country right or wrong, but in an appreciation of the past of that nation of the spirit for which it stands. To use the words of Geo. Wm. Curtis "A man's country is not so much a certain area of land, mountains and woods but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." Only in a knowledge of the past can this principle, this spirit for which the nation stands be interpreted. Of the utmost interest is it then to every people to keep alive an intimate knowledge of their past history for in the past alone, lies the interpretation of the present, the key to the future. In our own land a knowledge of the past is essential to the understanding of the sentiment which led to its establishment. The right of human liberty from which the country sprung, is the touch stone by which all American institutions are tried. "Let us search more and more into the past," says Carlyle, let all men explore it as the true fountain of knowledge by whose light alone consciously or unconsciously employed, can the present and the future be interpreted.
History then must be perpetuated, an interest in it must be kept alive in every one, and moreover the past must be made present, must be
endorsed with life and reality, beings which have seemed to us, mere personified qualities in allegory as Macaulay expresses it, must be invested with the reality of human flesh and blood.
This the historical novel has for its aim. This it is which Scott accomplished for his country and after him the German novelists Hauff, Freytag, Dahn and Sheffel accomplished for Germany. The historical novel cannot teach the facts of history, it does not aim to do so, but it does teach this truth, that the bygone ages of the world were filled by living men, not by "state papers, controversies and abstractions of men." Dahn in his story of the struggles of the early Germans by putting into it the breath of life, has undoubtedly changed into the strongest reality what was, for many, almost a myth.
If then, the historical novel with its power to touch such vast numbers can arouse in them a sympathy with past times, and through that, a deeper, more appreciative love for their country, a warmer patriotism even when national feeling is growing cold, has it not a sufficient cause for existing, an important mission to perform? KATE L. RIGGS.
EXCHANGES.
The glorious moonlight bathed the bed Of a football muddled Junior's head; For he slept one night—'twas a comic role Right at the base of the football goal.
He dreamed of punts and furious pranks, Of catching the half-back about the shanks, And, just as he'd made a "tackle" bold. He awoke to find that his feet were cold.
— College Life.
Let us equal Nebraska in enthusiasm and by our earnest work make it a success.
An Irishman sat by his door figuring ostensively. A jew came by and asked him the sum of two and four. "Eight said the Irishman"
"Six," replied the Jew, "I knew you could not figure." But Pat had not lost his wits and replied. "I knew you would Jew me down two anyway."
Considerable interest is manifested in the projected debate with Kansas. It is to be hoped that a large number will enter the scheme and make it a success.-The Hesperian.
An enthusiastic football authority in New York says: "If the games were to be played this week I would pick Pennsylvania to win from both Yale and Harvard, and give Princeton a regular Henry of Navarre-Domino race." —Pennsylvania.
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K. U. vs Topeka Athletic Club.
We sent our second eleven to Topeka in the vain hope that we might have a hard battle to fight. But we easily won the game and also treated them to a goose egg.
When our boys arrived in Topeka they were shown the town from the top of a tally-hocoach and made themselves known by the K. U. yell.
The game was played at the fair grounds, south of the city and the two teams were promptly on the grounds in due time.
K. U. loses the toss but takes the ball and the east goal. Promptly at 4 p.m. the men lined up and K. U. starts the game by a kick off for 15 yards. Topeka loses the ball on a funble and by quick work on the part of our boys, K. U. scores a touch down in just 5 minutes after the game started. W. McMurray fails to kick goal. Score 4 to o. It takes just 7 minutes more to gain another touch-down, wrested from Topeka by the good work of Hill, A. McMurray and Maxwell. W. McMurray kicks a perfect goal and score is 10 to o. Topeka kicks off from center of field, but K. U. soon has the ball in her opponents territory. Hill gains 15 yards by end run, Foster gains 7 yards. K. U. bucks the line for small gains but finally loses ball on downs. Topeka loses it on a fumble, K. U. follows suit. Evans, full-back for Topeka, makes several good gains but the half closes with K. U. in possession of the ball. Score 10 to o.
After an interval of 20 minutes the teams lined up, Topeka having the ball. A. McMurray catches the kick off and carries it 10 yards. K. U. bucks the line repeatedly with small gains. W. McMurray finds a hole at center and covers 10 yards, Maxwell gains 10 yards by end run. Topeka gets the ball on downs but loses it by a fumble, Maxwell gains 7 yards, W. McMurray punts 25 yards. Leland gains 5 yards but Topeka is doomed again to lose the ball on downs. K. U. ingloriously loses it on a fumble. Topeka punts but the ball is soon
carried into her territory by Turner, A. McMurray and Maxwell. We buck the line for repeated short gains and Maxwell secures a touchdown for K. U. W. McMurray kicks the goal and score 16 to o. Topeka braces up but is unable to withstand the playing of the "scrubs." The ball changes sides several times but K. U. gradually approaches the coveted goal line. "Big Mac", "Little Mac" and Maxwell make good gains, "Little Mac" finally crossing the line to add another touch-down to K. U's score. Goal is kicked and 22 to o is the result. Further playing fails to change the score and the half soon ends, the ball being at Topeka's 25 yard line.
Topeka's team outweighed ours but they had no team work and could put up but very poor interference. Evans and Ryus are good men both tackling well and in fact are all around players. Hill, A. McMurray, W. McMurray, and Maxwell held the honors for our team.
Our "scrubs" played a very even, steady game and had good team work, showing that they had profited by experience when battling against our first eleven.
The teams lined up as follows:
K. U. T. A. C.
Foster...R. E...Beerbaum
Cowman...R. T...Lawrence
Prentiss...R. G...Hesie
Walker...C...Tipton
Simpson...L. G...Watkins
Kirk...L. T...Carr
Hudson...L. E...Trainer
A. McMusray...Q. B...Ryus
Maxwell...R. H. B...Kane
Hill...L. H. B...Leland
W. McMurroy...F. B...Evans
Substitutes, Squires, Turner. Referee, A. Cain. Umpire,
Mitchell.
Class Foot Ball.
For the first time in years a foot ball team, representing a class of the University, played a game of foot ball although the game was not a brilliant one, it was at least an exciting one, and from the exhibition of class spirit in Saturdays game, this sport is certainly going to produce a good quantity and quality of class spirit. The class of "97" again comes in for credit
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on account of having done something to raise the standard of the class and of the University, for an exhibition of class spirit is always a good showing for a University. The Sophomores started the inducement some weeks ago, and not until this week did any class call for foot ball players. The COURIER-REVIEW extends her congratulations to the little Freshmen for their call for foot players on Monday. Now that they have expressed the desire to play foot ball, the Sophomores will take them in hand and try to show them the fine points of the game. It is hoped that the Juniors and Seniors will take a brace later in the season, and at least try to play foot ball.
The organization of a class league would be the one thing to develop class spirit, and the lack of this is very evident in our University.
K. U. vs Ottawa.
The best game of the foot ball season in Lawrence will be played Saturday, and from the present outlook the attendance will be the largest of the year. And from a comparison of the two teams the people will witness one of the most hotly contested games ever played in Lawrence; aside from the foot ball ability of the two teams, is a large amount of feeling, the old Baker feeling with the addition of the feeling from Ottawa. There will be an excursion train run to Lawrence from Ottawa and a great number of people from both Ottawa and Baldwin will leave their duties to cheer and encourage the "yellow" of Ottawa University.
The Ottawa team is composed mostly of old Baker players, men who have played together for sometime and who are therefore in a condition to play foot ball from the start to the finish. The team is also strengthened by the addition of "Shorty" Hamill, who played on the "Varsity" last year. The team thus far has played but one game, but in this game they distinguished themselves and their playing in this game indicates some good playing in Saturday's game. At least, the game will not be won by either side until the time is called in the second half.
The playing of the "Varsity" men during the last week has given much confidence to the
students and citizens, and all who are interested in the welfare of our eleven, feel that before the season is over that we will be more than proud of the "Crimson" and that the team which will defeat the team of "'94" will be the best team in the west. The team has been strengthened by the addition of Piatt and Griffith, both of these men have proved to be valuable acquisitions to the team. Griffith will play guard, Piatt will alternate with Williamson, playing Quarter and Full.
The men who will play in Saturday's game are among the following:
K. U. Ottawa.
Steinberger. Taylor.
Pope. Toomey.
Moody. Potter.
Stone. Bedell.
Griffith. Pierson.
Fletcher. Allen.
Armor. Hamill.
Shellenbarger. Tyler.
Wilson. Moon,
Hester. Hamilton.
Piatt. Austin.
Williamson. Davidson.
Foster. Cambell.
McMurry.
Cowan
Umpire, Thos. Mastin, of Kansas City.
Referee, Geo. Revall, of Kansas City.
Linesman, Chas. Klinhans, of Topeka.
Game will be called at 3 p. m. Admission 50c.
K U. vs. Haskell Base Ball.
Last Saturday there was rejoicing among the poor despised Indians. They had obtained redress for their wrongs suffered at the hands of the white men. They had revenged themselves upon the pale faces and buried the tomahawk deep in the pride of K.U. The white settlers from University hill had come out to battle with the Redman. They came out with pride in their hearts and confidence in their strong right arms, but they have been humiliated. The cunningness of the young brave Augusta failed the sluggers from Mt. Oread, and twenty or more long haired scalps dangle from his belt; a trophy to the speed of his twirling. With all his might and main did he hurl his tomahawk and with three wild gasps for a life did the proud white man give up the ghost.
All this is another way of saying that the colors of K. U., went down before the Haskell Indians last Saturday, partially through an in-
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ability to hit the ball, and partially through ragged field work, probably the result of lack of practice.
The day was a horrible one for a ball game. A strong wind blew most of the time and the dust from the infield was frequently carried into the players eyes. The grounds too were in rather bad shape, the sunlight and the broken up condition of the ground, making sharp fielding on the part of the out fielders almost impossible. The game opened rather favorably for K.U., Chamberlain, the first man at the bat, made a drive between first and second for two bases and came home on errors. The Indians in their half only went one better making the score two to one and the general work of both teams seemed to prophecy a close game.
In the second inning Haskell increased its lead by three more and K. U., drew a blank. From this time on the game was never in doubt the Indians adding to their score nearly every inning, while the University boys only succeeded in scoring once more, in the fourth inning when Mitchell made the rounds on a two bagger and good base running.
The score by innings.
K. U...1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0-2
Haskell...2 3 4 0 3 2 2 2 x—18
LOGALS.
Miss Berry was with us Monday.
Ray and Harold Blackshire are new Sigma Nu's.
Miss Katherine Dunn is wearing the Theta colors.
Christopher will "be on the hill" every day till further notice.
The astronomy class are using these nice evenings for star gazing.
Prof. Marvin spent several days last week in St. Louis visiting Washington University.
Shiras did not make an error or fumble as quarter back in the Sophomore game Saturday.
The Kappa's gave a very pleasant box party to their new members Friday evening at "Iolan the."
Should we lose the Ottawa game, Billy White of the Kansas City Star, will be in his old time form.
John Edwards enjoyed a visit from his cousin Miss Katie Edwards of Emporia, the early part of the week.
Spellman. McKinnon and Miller went to K. C., Satnrday to see Julia Marlowe in "Much Ado About Nothing."
The crowd at Topeka guyed Walker's red hair and yelled white horse although the Topeka "white hoss" is not the kind that is popularly supposed to follow around auburn locks.
We are authorized by Ward Mc, to deny the rumor of his engagement. Other papers please copy.
Prof. Adams gave a very interesting talk on the Chinese-Japanese war at the seminary last Friday.
Miss Anna Banks was elected state secretary of the Y. W. C. A., at the recent convention at Ottawa.
The "Society Notes" by Miss Adelia Humphrey will hereafter be one of the features of the COURIER-REVIEW.
Prof. Dyche will deliver a lecture at the high school Friday night for the benefit of the high school football team.
Prof. Dyche gave an interesting talk on his recent northern trip to the members of the Lake View Club Friday evening.
Prof. Emch the new instructor in drafting gave a talk on Zurick University, his alma mater, at the C. E. S., Thursday.
Our Bohemian's may be found every morning at chapel hour roosting under the east campus wall reveling in pipes and cigarettes. If a man wants to get a "line" on the Corbett-
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Fitzsimmons mill, the best way to put on "gaffs" or how to administer the "hypo," he need only sit down and listen. As cold weather is coming on the sporting congress will probably adjourn till spring.
A local actor will "make up" smiles for members of the S. P. A., when they pay their "library fee" for the small sum of twenty-five cents a piece.
Rev. Dr. Bennet of Ft. Scott who is doing work on the University Geological survey is spending a couple of weeks at the University editing his field work.
Sheffield Ingalls went to Atchison Wednesday to attend the wedding of his sister, Miss Ethel Ingalls who was married Wednesday evening to Dr. Blair a former University student.
The Courier-REVIEW is particularly proud of its literary department which has been strengthened by the addition of Miss Edith Clarke and Miss Daisy Orton to its staff.
Arthur McMurray has been out of school during the past week, coaching the Emporia college football team. We would judge that he was making quite a success of his work from the score of the recent game at Eureka. Emporia college 40, Eureka o.
Friday the Betas give their "house warming" and every thing will be arranged to entertain the guests in true Beta style. It is said that Spellman has another shirt—grander, bigger, louder and more dazzling than ever before. One of Worth's productions, and encased it this he will serve "larup" of which they have many kegs in the larup celler. After the reception a Beta "cookey shine" will be participated in by the entire frat.
SOCIETY NOTES AND PERSONALS.
Miss Mattie Snow is visiting Mrs. J. C. Horton in Kansas City.
Miss Ruth Plumb visited at her home in Emporia over Sunday.
The Kappa Kappa Gammas enjoyed the felicity of being the observed of all observers at Iolanthe Friday night. Their boxes were very
artistically decorated, and the girls themselves made quite a charming appearance.
Miss Linga Anderson visited at her home in Morganville this week.
Mrs. Nash, of Topeka, visited her daughter Miss Lou Nash from Friday until Monday of last week.
Miss Helen Sutliff read a paper on the "Wage Question with Educated Women" at a meeting of the Association of Collegiate Alumni in Kansas City Saturday.
The Alpha Nu Chapter of Beta Theta Pi has issued cards for an "At Home" next Saturday evening. Those favored with invitations are looking forward to the event with a great degree of pleasure, for the reputation of the Betas as accomplished entertainers has long been established.
Mrs. D. A. Weaver entertained the members of Pi Beta Phi most delightfully a few days ago. The parlors of the charming house were decorated with dahlias and other flowers, and the table in the dining room with wine and light-blue satin ribbon and adorned with flowers. Mrs. Albert Flintom presided at one end of the table and Miss Helen Webber at the other, and chocolate cake and ices were served.
The Seniors Rusticate.
The fresh breeziness and rustic sympathy of the Freshmen just from their rural homes were not without their effect upon the blasi and cosmopolitan Seniors. For several weeks the class of '95 has been contemplating a renewal of its youth by a trip to the country, and on Saturday last their dream was realized. At seven o'clock in the morning the repose of Massachusetts street was startled by the lusty yelling of "Rah, Rah, Rive! We're all alive! Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk! Class of '95!" proceeding from two picnic wagons containing the illustrious members of '95.
On arriving at the happy nutting ground it was discovered to the wrath of the princess that the worthy President had been deceived as to the quality and quantity of the nuts in that vicinity, so a capacious piece of canvass was
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promptly produced and Mr. Bowker, who had wrought upon the imaginations of the party with soul-stirring tales of nuts as thick as leaves in Vallorn brosa, was cordially invited to occupy the center, while a gentle agitation was produced by the crowd. Each member held a section of the canvass and Mr. Bowker contributed his share of the day's entertainment in a manner truly sprightly.
Notwithstanding the absence of the nuts, the picnic party enjoyed to the utmost the other amusements provided by the entertainment committee. There were footballs, rifles, a good dinner with post-praudical eloquence from Mr. Alden, who owns a handy-pocket-referencebook; not to mention the delights of a keg of liquified apples. Many were the cheers for '95 on the ride home.
P. D. Fisher's "Cold Day" and K. L. Scott's "Chip of the Old Block" are both well known shows to the general public. For the past nine years Perkins D. Fisher has made both fame and money on his original farce, a "Cold Day." The public never seems to get tired of it. Wills' "The Two Cronies" and Henshaw and Ten Brock in the Nabobs both copied from Fischer's "Cold Day" to get their material to start on, and Fisher often says he has plenty left for some one else if they want it. There are more laughs in one act of "Cold Day" than you will find in the entire performance of some of the so-called farce comedies of today. This is also the sixth season of Bob Scott's "Chip of the Old Block" Co. Scott was the criminal "Old Soldier" in "Muggs Landing," and after playing a few years with that company had "Chip" written for him, and he has for years starred in it, making a big hit everywhere in the character of the "Commodore." No one who had over seen Scott as the "Old Soldier" or the "Commodore" will forget him, as there are few comedians on the stage today that can equal him. On this occasion the performance will commence at 7:45 sharp. So be in time to see it all from start to finish. At the opera house Oct., 30th.
Students, go to Edwards for Coal.
La Mode sells K. U. Ribbons, a large stock on hand.
Get a cane from Smith in time for the next foot-ball game. Everybody should have one.
C. L. Edwards will supply you with any kind of Coal at reasonable prices.
Buy your cigars of Smith and you will enjoy your smoke.
James Corbett in "Gentleman Jack', Oct., 31st.
Whole-souled Pat Graham, the Shoemaker, will make you whole-soled if you go to him, and won't charge you much either.
Take that old hat to La Mode and see how pretty it can be made.
Smith, the newsdealer is headquarters for everything in the Sporting Goods line.
Now is the time to buy your winter Coal. See Edwards before you buy.
Get Pat Graham to make you a pair of shoes that won't hurt that bunion of yours. No use being a cripple.
Pat Graham makes fine shoes as well as does repairing. East Henry street.
You will find the finest line of Smoking Tobacco in the city at Smith's.
Even a plain face may be made pretty if the hat is becoming. Get your hat at La Mode and observe the effect.
Ladies, La Mode has the finest Millinery in the city. Have your winter hat trimmed there and it will become you.
La Mode carries a fine line of ribbons and trimmings. Examine their stock before you buy.
There is nothing like it: Leis Drug Co.'s Toilet Cream for chapped hands.
"All things to all men." "Piccadura" is the most popular cigar sold in Lawrence, but Woodward carries many other fine brands to suit all tastes.
Lundborg's Swiss Lilac, the latest odor, Leis Drug Co. have it.
"Good morning! Have you used Pear's Soap?" Woodward has all the best toilet soaps, and all manner of fine perfumes; also hair and all other toilet brushes, best quality, but cheap. That is what you want.
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$4.50 for All=Wool Trousers $16.50 for All=Wool Suits
MADE UP IN ANY STYLE AND FIT GUARANTEED.
Over 200 Styles to Select from. Call and See Fall Samples.
U. of K. TABLETS.
W. BROMELSICK, Hatter and Furnisher.
THE NEW BOOK AND STATIONERY STORE...
Wants to remind you that its line of
Wall-paper is the most complete and best selected in the city, and that you can get any kind of paper. That the
Picture Mouldings are the prettiest and comprise the assortment in the city. That its
Stationery includes all the latest styles in writing paper as well as standard papers and tablets. That
Tissue Paper is carried in every color and shade imaginable, both in French crepe and plain. That
Holiday Goods will comprise the completest line of novelties of all sorts and elegant fancy goods ever brought to the city. And that we have a full line of
Blank Books, Gift Books, and the works of standard authors a complete line of Artists' Material, and everything else kept by a first class Book and Stationery Store.
TRACY LEARNARD,
710 MASS. STREET. PROPRIETOR.
U. of K. TABLETS.