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WE SUGGEST that there is a sprained ankle lurking in every one of those little holes in McCook field, and that a small dose of harrowing may save gallons of liniment.
ADELPHIC AND the Kent Club have reorganized with large attendance and a promising outlook for doing good work this year. There is no reason why there should not be several flourishing societies in the School of Arts, and there ought to be enough men present to insure the success of the new Debating Society which is to complete its organization and present its first program Friday evening. The spirit and
energy which its promoters have shown certainly entitles them to a realization of their best hopes.
VOLUNTEERS ARE called for to act as marshals in keeping the crowd back to the side lines at practice so that all may have an equal chance to see, and the teams may play without hinderance.
TWENTY-EIGHT to nothing isn't bad for an extemporaneous attempt at football, is it? We shall carry a note book hereafter in which to keep account of the score, and we hope the boys will keep us busy putting down the figures.
THE LECTURE bureau is showing marked signs of vitality. In fact, it is practically settled that a University course will be given this year. It is to be hoped that the bureau will push the matter vigorously. There are several private parties anxious to make the venture if it does not. But the bureau can make by far the lowest prices and should receive the cordial support of all students. Let us try it once more and all work together to secure a first-class University lecture course.
WE ARE a little proud of our achievement this week in printing Mr. Gleed's address in full. The theme, "What the Business World thinks of Liberal Education," is one of great interest to a great many people, and we are always glad to have it discussed by those representative men of the business world who have the time, the energy and the ability to think of something besides Mr. Higinbotham and his doings. The address is full of that broad, liberal spirit which liberal education encourages, and we hope it will be widely read and re-read. We have done our small share toward making that possible. Pass your copy on to a friend.
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What the Business World Thinks of Liberal Education.
Opening Address as Delivered by Honorable J W. Gleed, at the Kansas State University, October 4, 1895.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I might with propriety say young ladies and young gentlemen; but that would be to call attention to a difference in our ages which I am willing to overlook if you are—or can. But can you? Measuring by years, especially years looked back upon, it is not so very long since I finished my course here as a student. Measuring so, I may still lay claim to youth. But measuring by the progress which this institution has made since I was an undergraduate, I am, alas! but a prehistoric relic—a mere fossil brought down from one of those remote geological ages the very name of which I have forgotten. You would not believe—or would you?—that when I entered here this building was barely plastered—the finishing was all yet to do. The faculty consisted of but ten members, the library of about one thousand volumes. Of the professors who said farewell to my class in 1879, but two are here today. One we lost during the past summer, a laborious, never tiring scholar, a faithful, patient, skillful instructor, a kindly, genial, christian man—a man whom thousands of men and women, his former pupils, will hold in loving remembrance for years to come.
You freshmen entering here in 1895 find six or seven buildings, splendidly finished and filled to overflowing with all kinds of equipment, where we, who entered in 1875, found but one unfinished building and practically no equipment at all. You have an ample library in a better building than Oxford has. You find here a faculty ten times larger than ours was in 1875. A century's growth—of old time growth—has been crowded into twenty years
But I do not for a moment admit that you; the members of this year's senior class, are as superior to the class of '79 as might be supposed from all this added and improved machinery. Our instructors, though fewer, were as good as
yours. Though we had fewer books to select from, it may be we read as many as you. We had the same rocks, birds, beasts, flowers, stars and atmosphere, physical and chemical phenomena to study that you have; and we had the same man to make us study them. Human minds, bodies and souls were the same then and now. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans have added much to their literatures since 1875, and German and French are no harder to read and no easier to speak now than then.
We had but two or three courses then and no optionals. But when I tell you that while pursuing the classical course I had to learn something of ten different branches of natural science, you will easily guess that we had no time to waste and that we had ample opportunity to find out what we liked best.
The changes have in one sense been great, but in another sense very small. The earth is the same, life is the same, the problems are the same. You, the convened students of 1895, do not differ materially from the body that assembled here in 1875. You may be a degree or two brighter; you may fight a better game of foot ball; the chancellor might admit this to you; he politely dodged the question when I pressed him; but otherwise you are the same. I feel sure I can describe you most accurately.
Some of you are pretty; you can become strong, bright, good, useful, sensible women in spite of that. It has been done.
You have come here from the office, the school room, the farm and the shop Your fathers follow many different avocations. You represent many races and stocks. A few of you may be rich. That is no fault of yours. It is nothing to be ashamed of. You still have brains and hearts as good as anybody's and if you can accomplish here as much as others accomplish, the greater credit to you.
Most of you are poor. The malaria of wealth has not fastened itself upon your systems to any appreciable extent. If you are relaxed, unknit, benumbed, it is not that; it is not because your way has been made too easy; not because your battle has been fought for you. You are not compelled to waste much energy in persuading yourself to work; you must work. You can run your race with no baggage to bother. You can go into battle undistracted by thought of the impedimenta.
Some of you are handsome, but I should think that need not hinder your attending to business.
Some of you are homely. Be thankful you will not be tempted to rely on your good looks. Besides, homeliness is worn off about as fast as beauty especially under the chisel of well directed life.
Some of you are perfectly at home in the ball room and drawing room, and some of you don't feel at home anywhere. The social graces are desirable indeed, but let me tell you it is a fine thing to feel at home in the study, in the class room, and the laboratory.
Some of you have the advantage of thorough training before you came here. You have been in school steadily from childhood. With others the preparation for this University has been broken and scant; but you come up here with an intellectual appetite that is tremendous.
And so each of you has a great advantage over the other and you must live up to it. If one has a surfeit of preliminary training, the other has the better appetite for his work. If one is selfpossessed and socially pleasing, the other has the good fortune to be bashful. If one has the gift of beauty, the other has the Socratic gift of ugliness. If one has plenty of money, the other has plenty of poverty. Don't spend any time on your disadvantages; keep your eye on your advantages; thank God for them and live up to them.
You have assembled here at the beginning of the academic year from a great variety of motives. Some of you came because you were sent. That is hardly pleasant to think about—to be poked around like a clod or an oyster, to be placed some where by your parents like a baby at a day nursery. If you came because you were sent, I am convinced you will remain because you choose. Some of you come here with matured purposes; you have chosen your ayocation; you have drawn your plans and made your specifications; you are fortunate, perhaps. Some of you have come here because you wish to be rich; some because you
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Some of you have more ambition than Alexander. You feel that you are to become great and distinguished and renowned. There is no one in the state of Kansas that begins to fill the measure of your aspirations. There are only a few living in the world, and there have not been so very many in all history. If you knew you were never to be a congressman or governor, if you knew you were never to be a celebrated lawyer, more celebrated than any in Kansas; if you knew you were never to be a noted engineer, or eloquent preacher; if you knew you were never to write a great book, or at least a very good book, could you endure it for a moment? Confess that you could not. At thirty you expect to be vastly more learned than any of your professors here; and at forty you expect to have a European reputation. And it's all right to feel so. I say let your ambition soar, but incidentally don't neglect your lessons for today. You are going to do and be all these wonderful things, but there is a tremendous amount of work and training to be done first. And if you do not become in the end a general, you can at least come to understand the glory of being a faithful, courageous private. If you do not become an Hypatia or Harriet Beecher Stowe, you may at least learn the glory of being a good, true, useful, beloved American woman, distinguished by the sweetness of your home, the perfection of your children, the steadfastness and contentment of your husband,
You gather here at this University to begin a year, or another year, of study, and your Chancellor has asked me-not to make a speech to you on such a topic as I may happen to be specially interested in, but if possible, to talk to you on some theme which you will be interested in—to say something, if possible, which will be of use to you in your work
here. And I have chosen as such a theme: "What the Business World Thinks About Liberal Education" It is certain that while a very few of you may give your liyes wholly to art or science or religion; that while more of you but still few—may give your lives to that art of arts that science of sciences, that religion of religions, the work of education; still, nearly all of you will spend your years and your strength in the great bread-winning world, in the world which produces, transports and exchanges commodities; in other words, in business, or in the working professions which business requires and supports
This is your doom or your fortune, as it is mine, and if I can be of any service to you at all, it is likely to be in the discussion of some such subject
You are hard at work here in college, and you are making a success of it. But you look beyond. You are full of dreams and ambitions—you are looking to your life away off there in the dim, beautiful. terrible future; and you overflow with an uncertain kind of ecstacy as you look, until, perhaps, the thought that your future may after all turn out to be a miserable failure, comes along and sends the cold shivers down your back like a dash of ice water. You think perhaps you had better make the plunge right away. You have heard some people say that a liberal education is a waste of time and that it unfits a man for the practical world. Your professors, indeed, tell you otherwise, but you say, "It is their business to say that; they may not know." The rest of the world may not care very much about it, but your future and your success and your happiness interest you. You want to feel that you are on the right road—that you are arriving; and you would attach some importance to the opinions of the business world if you knew how to get at them truly.
What does the business world think of liberal education? As I have indicated, I mean by the business world, the great bread-winning world, or money-getting world, as distinguished from the world of trainers that is, the world of teachers preachers, and writers, artists and poets I need not try to define liberal education.
What you are getting here in this institution—I mean your laboring men and women who don't know whether eight hours, or sixteen, constitute a working day—what you are getting here is what I mean by liberal education, and so we understand each other. What does the business world, then, think of liberal education?
A certain Jones and a certain Higinbotham were the two merchants of a little town in Georgia. Their rivalry was bitter and all engrossing. Jones went to New York to buy goods and was returning by ship. A terrible storm arose. The wind blew a hurricane. The sea was all mountains, the waves dashed across the deck, and the day was turned to darkness. The spectacle was magnificent and awful. Finally the captain gave up hope and the passengers said prayers and made ready for the worst. In the midst of all this, when the minds of others were turned to the dear ones at home and to thought of impending destruction, Jones was heard to exclaim, in the bitterness of despair, "This is a great day for Higinbotham." The one thing that he saw in the situation was that Higinbotham was about to triumph—Higinbotham was about to monopolize the trade.
I shall have to confess at the outset that the Jones part of the business world and it is a considerable part—does not think the one thing or the other about liberal education. It is entirely engrossed with Higinbotham.
The most constant thought of another part of the business world regarding liberal education is its cost. And looking at it in one way it is expensive. I suppose, in the first place, the state of Kansas spends about $200 a year on each of you-counting annual appropriations and interest on investments. That is rather flattering to you You must be an important person indeed to be given a gratuity or pension of two hundred dollars a year by the state of Kansas That is more than a member of the legislature gets. Well, then, besides that expense, there is the cost of your living and books and clothing for four years. And in addition to that, there is all the money that you might, but do not, earn in these four years.
Liberal education is rather expensive,
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and that is the feature that most impresses a part of the business world
And then, there are people in the business world who think that a liberal education is a positive detriment, a positive stumbling block. There are people in the world who have been through college who think they have been liberally educated—but they haven't—who say that there is too much education, and that the laboring people ought not to be educated because it makes them discontented, and that a liberal education disqualifies a man for practical pursuits, and that if they had a boy—by some divine providence they never seem to have one—they would put him straight into the world, straight to earning money.
And so the different classes of the business world have all sorts of notions, impressions and opinions, on the subject of liberal education; but what you want is my idea of the best thought of the best part of the business world: and to that I shall address myself now.
First, then, let us discuss what a good liberal education will do for you—speaking from a selfish standpoint and forgetting for the present that there are others in the world besides you—which there are. And afterwards, we will discuss what your liberal education is expected to do for those others.
Your first query will be whether you will be any better equipped to earn a living,to maintain a family,to make money by reason of what you are doing here. And I think the judgment of the business world is "Yes," And now, why?
When you come to fit yourselves into the bread-winning harness, you will find some things that may, or may not surprise you. The process of getting money has nothing mysterious about it. The learning or philosophy of the matter is simple A man must be able to do something that other people want done. You will, of course, find that the world does not care a rap about what you have done unless it bears on the question of what you can do. It does not care at all what honors, medals, or degrees you have taken at college, nor what your learning may be, nor the degree of your culture, nor even what your private character is except as to certain simple, well-recognized commercial virtues. Further,
of all the the facts stored away in your minds, here in the course of your college studies,very,very few will ever be of any direct service in the business or professional world. Even a good deal of your technical education will probably never come into direct play—and this is. of course, still truer of your liberal studies. The productive world,as I said, does not care for what you have learned or have done, but for what you can learn and can do.
In a sense, you will go out from here rather helpless. You will know a great deal about things in general, and not very much about one practical thing in particular. You will know what Plato taught, but you will not know how to copy a letter in a letter book without blurring it. You will know about political economy, but wont know how to draw a check—though that needn't bother you, perhaps, at first. And yet, notwithstanding this apparent helplessness, you will go out from this University well prepared; for if you have done your duty here, you will go out full of power to learn, full of power to apply your mind, full of power to persevere. In other words, you will be masters of the two simple keys to reasonable business success, the capacity to catch on, as the boys say, and the capacity to hang on.
The commercial virtues are few and simple Success in the work a-day world requires health, common sense, freedom from vice, self control, perseverance, endurance, courage, a reasonable degree of intelligence—that is, the capacity for close, continuous mental application—and integrity. If you have these things, your way is clear. You can earn a living and get on. You can and you will. It is certain. There is no question about it. Rest easy. These are the essentials, and if you can add kindliness, good nature, cheerfulness and tact in the treatment of your fellows, you will find these things a great help.
These are the essentials; though to listen to the public discussions of the day you would not think that honesty, industry, courage or any of the things I have mentioned had the remotest bearing on individual or national prosperity. Nevertheless, these are the elements of the problem; and the thoughtful world believes that a liberal education enables
men to comprehend the problem, and that it supplies. develops and strengthens the acquirements and qualities I have enumerated; that this is accomplished in your four years here, on the whole, as well as it could be accomplished in any other course of life, and that a great deal more is accomplished at the same time.
Let us see. Health: We have at last found out that he who sacrifices health to wisdom sacrifices both They used to think that intellectual and religious glory lay in creating something comparatively good out of inferior material, with edgeless, temperless tools. But now education calls for the best blood and bone and sinew and nerve that science and training can produce; and you are here studying hygiene and physiology and tactics and athletics.
Common sense: This comes by birth. I do not think a college education ever diminishes a man's stock of common sense, and generally, according to my observation, it increases it. No amount of education will enable a fish to sing; but where there is a voice at all, training will do wonders,
Vices: Is it no protection from vice to a man that he has spent four years tracing out the invariable, relentless, nay, cruel laws of nature; that he has traced the foul and frightful results of vice in history and biography; that he has filled his imagination with the pure and beautiful things of literature and art; that he has stored his mind with the truths of the philosophers; that he has strengthened his will by four years of persistent battle?
Self-control, perseverance, endurance: Can a soldier do his twenty or thirty miles a day for four years; can an oarsman row over the course from end to end every day for four years; can one of the eleven fight his way through the pitiless game of football every day for four years; can you do your work here honestly and well, without developing these characteristics?
Courage: Who can measure the mere commercial value, not only to the individual but to the nation, of this element of courage? Think of the difference between the man who goes into battle determined to conquer or fall with his face to the foe, and the one who goes in with matured plans for a retreat! Think
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of a man pushing forward with such dynamic thoughts in his head as these: "I am not required to succeed. I am not required to be victorious, I am not responsible for the outcome; I have succeeded, I have been victorious if I push straight ahead, get my quietus from the front and not from the back, and fall in the last ditch." How exceedingly valuable a man like that is to himself, how precious to a country. People admire and worship courage by a deep-seated instinct. They know its worth. And this is why down there at the World's Fair the people overlooked the magnificence, the luxury, the beauty and the splendor of the model railway train or passed by it with indifference, while they stood in hushed, uncovered crowds about the old boat in which Grace Darling made her daring rescues.
Just think of the difference in the productive power of a man who goes into the world a drafted man, expecting wrong, anticipating defeat, feeling that he is a mere misused puppet, the victim of some pitiless conspiracy, and the man who goes into the world a volunteer, feeling that he is in some sort a creator, a doer or poet in the world and expecting nothing but victory.
Think, for example, of the two kinds of poverty.
One of the mob arrested in Chicago not long ago testified that he had been without food for three days. Then they searched him and found two dollars and forty cents in his pocket And somebody suggested that this money was probably "trust funds." Well, this poor, debased, perjured coward represents one kind of poverty.
I knew a woman once who was left a widow with little children to support. She had neither money nor strength nor health; but she had courage. She left her friends and acquaintances in the cast, and went to a new country among strangers. And there she fought her battle. It was little she could earn; but when she had nothing she spent nothing. She was refined; she was timid; she was unused to the world; yet she shrank from no honest means of earning a living. She had tastes; she loved beautiful things; but her home was poor and bare, and one
dress outlived a dozen changes of fashion. She fought her battle. She never complained. She was always cheerful. People came to her for sympathy; she never went to others. She kept her children in school and church. She infused into them her own self respect and courage. They wore patches and were thankful that they had five cents to spend on the Fourth of July. But such was that mother's marvelous wisdom that until these children grew up and were as well launched in the world as money could have launched them, they never even dreamed that they were poor. And they were not. They were rich.
Think of the difference between these two cases—of the courage of this woman—of the cowarice of that man.
Now, ignorance is always fear—fear and danger. Knowledge is courage—courage and safety. Terror is of the night, not of the light. Your education is a shaking of fear. You are learning to value the things of life at their real worth. You are getting out of the night and shadows into the clear day—you are taking on courage.
Integrity: I know that to speak of integrity as a money-making quality is to run counter to a good deal of frivolous comment and to the teachings of the cynic, but it is to have the unqualified support of the real business world. Of course nobody denies that honesty is profitable, speaking from the standpoint of the nation. Everybody knows that to the community, taken as a whole, dishonesty is wanton waste and destruction. A nation of thieves is a nation of paupers. But many would have you believe that while honesty is a good thing for the nation, there is no money in it to you. My experience is that this is a gross mistake. I say you cannot take any commodity to market today that will sell quicker or bring a higher price than just plain honesty. The whole world is employing someone or dealing with someone perpetually, and the whole world is asking just one question every hour of the day; "Can I trust this man?" This has become especially true now that men act, so much more than formerly, through agents, servants, and trustees. Honesty alone will not make you rich any more than dishonesty alone; but speaking
from a very gross, material, worldly point of view. let me say that it takes a very smart shrewd man—a financial genius—to make money out of rascality. Depend upon it, you are not smart enough.
Now, a liberal education defends a man against the assaults of dishonest impulses. It makes him stronger to meet temptation and it diminishes the temptation. It lessens the value of material things and increases the value of other things. If a man be a mere money bag, he is worthless until filled, and he collapses as soon as he is emptied. Therefore, when temptation comes, he falls as a matter of course. But with one who is related to the great beautiful world of nature and humanity in a thousand ways besides through the bank, the case is different. When temptation comes to him, when the bribe is offered to him, he is more likely to say: "Keep your thousand; keep your hundred thousand; keep your dollars and your offices; I have the honor to be a man Keep your ease, your luxury, your distinction, your social position; I have the exquisite honor to be a woman!"
The next query you may put to me may be: "Shall I, through my education, be any more likely to become a millionaire?" Well, I hope not. Opinions differ here, but I am inclined to think not. My observation is that in ninety cases out of a hundred a man to become rich must just about worship money; must delve and dig and sweat and spend his years and his strength. He must see nothing but money—nothing but money in all his journey through the world. He must make money his supreme object, to that he must bend every energy of mind and body. He must harden his heart and tighten his grip and shut his eyes and so grow old. Now, I say that the man who makes money the supreme object of his endeavor, who subordinates everything else to that, who measures success by that, who rates his fellow citizens on the basis of Dunn or Bradstreet, is a fool. And this is not cant, nor sentimentalism, nor religion, but reason and logic and good, plain, horse sense. And to see it you have only to imagine the whole world animated by that kind of insanity. What a tremendous and immediate exo-
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dus there would be of everything worth while in the world—friendship, love, magnanimity, heroism,beauty, art,music literature and religion. Why,the world would not be a decent place for a pig to live in.
And when you have secured your million bv this disagreeable process, what you have secured is such a winged thing. The swrecked millionaires along the streets of New York are thicker than the cobble stones today. It is a long fall from Fifth avenue to Third, and the man who takes that drop is usually found crippled for life or killed outright.
Ninety out of a hundred, I said, must reach wealth in the way I have described. In the other ten cases it either comes by luck, which is a dangerous thing, or it comes by crimes and wrongs, or it comes as the result of some special genius or gift—comes as the reward of real and extraordinary benefits conferred on mankind. And however it may be acquired, wealth is a fearful responsibility and a fearful care and a fearful temptation. It is so likely to make a man hard on the outside and saw-dusty within! It is so apt to eat up the whole man, body, mind and soul! Life is in danger of becoming such a poor and pitiful thing! A man is so likely to become a coward! There was a man in Kansas who committed suicide because he could not bear the loss of a little of a large fortune.
Not many of you want to become millionaires really, and there are fewer who are willing to give the price.
Opinions differ, as I said before, but it seems to me that you are not the more likely to become millionaires because you are liberally educated. Liberal education will, indeed add to your capacity to heap up money, but I am inclined to think it will diminish your desire to do so.
Liberal education then, I conclude, is a good thing from the bread and butter point of view.
But the most valuable thing to be had cut of four years of liberal studies has no direct use either in earning a living or in getting rich, or in any so-called practical way. I say direct use, for I think it has an indirect use, if not in getting rich, certainly in securing and maintaining a place in the world. If
you do your work rightly here, you come out with warmer affections, keener sensibilities, and higher aspirations; you come out with the seeing eye and the feeling heart; you come out with the mind stored and the imagination enkindled. Go into any of the great collections of pictures such as the Columbian art gallery; there you will catch glimpses of all ages, climes and races; all classes and conditions of men; glimpses of the world caught by the eye of trained seers; the world with all its stir and rest, its gladness and pathos, its sweetness and its ferocity. There you may storm or shine with nature, and sing or laugh or weep with men. You may stand on the summit of Sinai and gaze down through the crystal sea of air to the peace of the valley below; or you may join the tossing sailor in his battle with the storm; or you may stand, pensive and alone, in the snowy field, by the silent forest, and watch the bleak moon break through the flying clouds. You may sorrow with the broken-hearted peasant as he sits by his dead wife's bedside, staring into the falling shadows of the night which will never in this world lift for him; or you may join the revelers at some wayside inn. There you may see the rosy baby in his mother's arms, the adventurous lad scaling the cliff, the youthful soldier parting from his his love, the valiant veteran dead on the battlefield. You may explore a thousand lovely nooks of beautiful earth, or you may lose yourself in old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
All this you may do if you do not try to make a catalogue or critic of yourself, but simply take what is before you and enjoy it as a layman should. And when for a week you have thus gazed through artists' eyes, you come out into the world, and everywhere you turn you see pictures, real pictures, which you never saw before and never would have seen.
Now, you come out of college as you come out of that gallery, quickened in sense and in sympathy. You have gained fellowship and communion with nature, fellowship, communion and sympathy with the world that is gone; fellowship, communion and sympathy with mankind of today. In a word, you have gained life, and life is more than meat.
Liberal education, true culture, keeps alive the best part of man's being—the power of emotion, the power to feel. Men dread to grow old. What is it really to grow old, except to lose this capacity for emotion—to lose enthusiasm and aspirations, to lose our sympathy with nature and with men? Frederick Robertson was still young, at least in spirit, when he found himself alone in that solitary valley of the Alps, without a guide, and a thunderstorm coming on. "I wish I could explain," he writes, "how every circumstance combined to produce the same feeling and ministered to unity of impression; the slow, wild wreathing of vapors round the peaks, concealing their summits and imparting in semblance their own motion, till each dark mountain form seemed to be mysterious and alive; the eagle like plunge of the bearded vulture of the Alps; the wild, shrill cries of other mountain birds, startling the solitude and silence—till the blue lightning streamed at last, and the shattering thunder crashed as if the mountains must give way; and then came the feelings which in their fulness man can feel but once in life—mingled sensations of awe and triumph and defiance of danger; pride, rapture, contempt of pain, humbleness and intense repose, as if all the strife and struggle of the elements were only uttering the unrest of man's bosom; so that in all such scenes there is a feeling of relief, and he is tempted to cry out in exultation. 'There, there, all this was in my heart and it was neyer said out until now.'"
Now a man whose spirit had grown old would have felt nothing, under such circumstances, but the dampness of his clothes. The power to feel is youth and culture preserves it. Let us husband, not waste, the precious oil of emotion and sympathy given us by nature, and without which the machinery of life so soon begins to grate and rasp and jar. Restrain but cultivate your feelings. Avoid debauch. Preserve your your power to admire, to love, to venerate. Avoid the corroding influence of cynicism and distrust
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tion and strength which will not fail through all the coming years, whether they are successful or unsuccessful, whether you are rich or poor, whether you be great or small in the eve of the world.
Does not the educated man know where to find that which will minister to his mood—not harmfully, but helpfully? Has he not so often thrown the search light down into his soul that he comes to know himself as a physician should know his patient, so that when he finds himself ailing he is not without a remedy? The educated man lays up for himself memories and associations and sympathies and friendships which not only give him a fuller measure of happiness in after years, but which put their arms about him and sustain him when his hour of weakness comes?
Is not this substantial? Is this not just as surely good as houses and gold and stocks and bonds? Can you not imagine that the riches of culture may give you just as much happiness as material riches—that friends in nature and friends in art and friends in literature and history and philosophy will be just as true and unfailing as friends in the business or political world? And can you not see that all this tends to strengthen in you the very commercial virtues I have talked about-your courage, your integrity, and your endurance?
I have discussed what you may expect from the business world. I shall close with a few words about what the business world expects of you.
Colleges and universities are not established for the sole selfish advancement of the students who attend them, and this is especially true of state institutions. An alleged laboring man whom I chanced to meet in Chicago the other day near a group of university buildings, told me that people built colleges and sent their children there to learn Latin, Greek and Hebrew that they might thereby enslave the people. This poor fellow seemed to believe it. It came out as an interesting fact which I might or might not, know about, and in the company of many similar facts summoned to sustain an argument and embellish a tirade. We know that this is not true. The people of Kansas are not spending
cheir money here for your benefit alone. They expect a return. This is not intended to be as the school of the Sophists, where young men went to learn oratory and the art of persuasion, so they might go about advancing their own interests by fooling the people. The founders of this institution did not design it as a place where clever and enterprising young rascals might come and sharpen their wits and sweeten their tongues. They rather designed it to be a school over which the benign spirit of goodness, truth and beauty should brood as long as the state should stand—a fountain head out of which should flow to all the people a beneficent stream of purifying, regenerating influence. And such it is, and such may it remain, and long may it stand to enrich, embellish and ennoble the lives of the people who sustain it. And if ever the people find it fostering cynicism, caste, bigotry,cruelty, selfishness or other enemies to good republican government and good American happiness, then let the people tear it down forthwith.
Thoughtful men in the business world look to liberal education,look to you,the liberally educated, for the preservation of all that is good in our civil institutions; for the promotion of good government upon the earth.
They see, for example, the tremendous evil of blind partisanship in politics. They see the citizens of a common country, the children of a common mother, divided into hostile camps. They see the leaders of one camp inflaming their followers against their fellow-citizens in the other camp. They see these leaders construct horrid images with flaming eyes and red, gaping mouths, with dragons' heads, with slimy serpents' bodies; and they parade these images up and down the ranks and say, "See, these are the images of your fellow citizens in the other ranks. They want to subvert liberty, to destroy happiness, to bring down ruin on the country. They are called democrats—republicans—populists—as the case may be. Now, you must hate them and fight them. Self-preservation is the first law of life and this is a war of extermination. All means are allowable and no quarter is to be given." The children born in the camp remain there as a matter of
course. For a man to pass from one camp to the other is to be a traitor, hated at home and suspected abroad. You must stand by your side, right or wrong: you must fight for your party, right or wrong; and take your share of the spoil according to the fortunes of war.
To abandon the figure of speech, you see that the political system is wooden. The electors as a mass have no liberty. Public sentiment has no real outlet. We cannot vote on the merits of questions as they arise. If republicans take up a good measure, we, as democrats, cannot give it active support, we cannot believe it is really good; because it has a tag on it marked 'republican.' We cannot give it active support, we cannot even keep quiet; we must go down to the electors and sophisticate and throw dust in their eyes and defeat the measure because forsooth the damage to the country which would come by republican supremacy overbalances the good of the proposed reform. I am a party man first, an American second, and an honest, truthful man last.
We let prejudices and names lead us about by the nose. I heard a politician express his sincere happiness at being out of office. He told of the torments of distributing patronage, the friends he had lost, the enemies he had made. He had been a good officer; he had selected his subordinates for efficiency and integrity and not for political service; but he had been in perpetual hot water. I said to him when he got through, "Well, you must be a civil service reformer by this time." A profane but expressive dissent fairly took my breath away. He had a prejudice against a phrase. There is everything in a name, everything in a trademark.
Now, it seems to me that liberal education should and does beget political tolerance. Liberal education gives a man some love of the truth and the whole truth. It teaches him how difficult it is to get hold of the whole truth; it puts him on his guard against the tricks of words and phrases, against the frauds of passion, against the deceits of reason. It informs him of the largeness of truth so that he never thinks he has caught the whole universe under his hat. And, more important than this, it
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teaches him, in a measure, how truth is really propagated; that is, by reason and persuasion and love, and not by force and threat and hatred. All this begets tolerance. Tolerance is not indifference; tolerance is good; indifference is worse than bigotry. Tolerance implies positive conviction. If a man doesn't care, he is simply careless, he is not tolerant. "Tolerance," says Mr. Brooks, "is the willing consent that other men should hold and express real opinions with which we disagree until they are convinced by reason that those opinions are untrue."
Tolerance does not mean that you leave the victim of free trade heresy alone. You do not, You go at him hammer and tongs, only in the right spirit and the right way. You do not wilfully misquote authorities to him; you do not use arguments you know to be false; you do not tell him he is a fool; you do not try to force him by stirring up prejudices against him; by belittling him and deriding him. You go at him fairly, by reason and persuasion to convert him. And if it ends by your converting yourself to his views, so much the better.
Thoughtful men expect that you will help solve the difficult political, social and economic problems which beset us. You will do this by strengthening the faith of the multitude in reason and righteousness. Faith in reason: Here, for example, is an ignorant man who has a little piece of cloth, and on that cloth is a spot of blood, and he wants to know whether that blood is human or animal blood. He does not know, and more than that he does not know that science can tell. He has no knowledge of scientific processes and no confidence in them. He consults a fortune teller or clairvoyant. Or perhaps he puts the question to a vote, instead of going away and consulting a man of science.
In just this same way we. the American people, want to know about some of these economic questions, and we go and consult the clairyovants, or we make it a party issue and take a vote on it. Here is a sick child and the question is whether the disease is smallpox or scarlet fever. Let us vote on it. The majority rules. The question is how to keep cholera out of the country, and
one party says throw salt in the sea, while the other says inject oxygen into the air, and we take a vote on it Now, there are a good many questions in life that you cannot get at in that way and some of these economic questions I believe are among the number. Science and reason cannot settle every question which may arise, but science and reason can help and we must have faith in them.
There is one great concern of human government and one great ever-present question which everybody discusses and which you don't want to hear about now, and that is the matter of capital and labor. I am not going to discuss it nor am I going to make any lugubrious prophesies There was a father once who, fearing an earthquake in the region of his home, sent his two little boys to distant friends until the peril should be past. A few weeks later he received this brief note: "Please take your boys home and send us the earthquake," Our land is full of soothsayers and oracles foretelling a tremendous social earthquake. Sometimes, in moments of irritation, we feel like exchanging the prophets for their earthquake; and yet seriously, it is surprising how many wise and good and courageous men are dejected over the matter and apprehensive. A vigorous attack is indeed being made upon the institution of private property in this country, or upon some forms or incidents of that institution as at present understood. "Your idea of the absolute sacredness of private property is grinding labor to the dust," thunders one party. "There can be no civilization, no material security for any one, where the right of private property is not held absolute and sacred," is the reply. This question of the distribution of property, this question of the rich and the poor, of capital and labor, may indeed sometime lead to civil war. But it is a question which cannot be solved by war; it cannot be settled by force. You might as well try to chop up currents of electricity with an axe. The forces at work are too deep-seated and subtle. The matter cannot be settled by ignorance and selfishness of any kind, whether it be the ignorance and selfishness of the poor, or the ignorance
and selfishness of "those comfortable moles whom what they do teaches the limit of the just and the true." Wisdom and righteousness alone will settle it and you are expected to help.
You will be counted on in all the reforms and especially in the reform of the reformers and their methods. Educated men know—and it is an eternal and fundamental truth which ought to be heralded perpetually in song, in art, in literature, in the press and the pulpit and on the platform and in our legislatures—educated men know that the way to every real reform is through the mind and the conscience of the individual man; and the way to get into the mind and conscience of the individual man is to take him when he wears kilts—or earlier. If you want to reform this great world with its billions of blind, unhappy, selfish, struggling people, gather your stores of wisdom and virtue and piety and wealth and skill and strength and put them reverently down at the feet of this little girl in short dresses. If you want to reform men, reform the man; and if you want to reform the man, take him when his hair is softer than silk—and his conscience is softer than that; take him when his eye is clearer than crystal—and his mind clearer still; take him when his cheek is lovelier than the apples blossoms and his soul is more beautiful than any material or earthly thing. Take him then and hang on to him.
If our houses are all tumbling down about our heads, let us not go on building them in the same old way and trying to prop them up with cornstalks or beanpoles. Laws and institutions have their place. Political agitations and movements and revolutions may gain temporary ends. But all real and permanent reform must begin with the boy and girl in school. Only a little can be accomplished by going down to congress We had men and miseries before we had legislatures. Human life and welfare and happiness lie within the domain of law only to a limited extent. Improvement comes from within, not from without All methods of reform must fail in the end which do not address themselves to individual motives and individual motives are determined in youth. You are expected to serve your
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country by being the firm and warm friends of education.
Thus far we, as a nation, have laughed and cried and run and romped like the free and fearless little maid who finds a dozen years the loveliest of all play things. We have lately had an opportunity to get an inkling of the present height, breadth, and depth of human life, activity and endeavor; and the magnitude and complexity of our civilization, and the advantages we owe it and the burdens it puts upon us. And this is calculated to sober us. It may indeed be true that a tremendous social storm impends. It may be that in your day and mine the clouds will sweep down and the ocean of air and the ocean of water will lock themselves in titanic combat, such as has been pictured by that great Russian artist. In his picture a long path of sunlight has broken through the clouds and fallen across the deck of Columbus' shaken ship. Our picture may be without the sunlight and the caravel of civilization may be crushed like an egg shell—as some men say. But we believe not. We are not to go the way of other nations.
They tell us that a rav of light dispatched from earth to bear to Heaven the vision of created Adam can hardly yet have reached the remote fixed stars. We can imagine some leisurely stellar citizen, to whom a year is as a day,waiting on some far off globe to receive that vision. Perhaps he has a sort of celestial telescope prepared to catch and interpret the messengers of light as they arrive. Perhaps he sits with some celestial telephone in hand to gather in the dialogue, as well as the spectacle, of the earthly drama. And so age after age will pass across the scene. Again and again will his eye grow dim and his heart faint as he traces the history of man in its unwinding course of bloodshed and sin and suffering and defeat. Nations will rise and flourish and prosper,and he will pluck up hope and a glow will come into his heart. And then one after another he will see them stagger and fall and perish from off the earth; and sight and sound will be too much for him to bear. Finally he will reach the story of our own day, and the present Asia will roll into view, and his eye will sweep across that continent and gather in the toiling millions of China and the inhospitable loneliness of the Himalayas, and the cruelty of Siberia, and the degradation of India; and he won't find much there to comfort him. Then on, across the great armories of oppressed Europe, and the eternal, changeless jungles of sayage Africa, and there won't be much to comfort him there. And, then, eagerly, yet reluctantly, as if fearing the disclosure and still not without hope, his eye will sweep across the turbulent Atlantic and rest upon America. Here his eye will rest And I can imagine him studying us in the sunlight. He sees our busy millions,
he marks our marvelous material achievements. He discovers that we have subdued nature, annihilated space, and led time captive. In all that he sees there is less of despair and more of hope than the old world vision brought to him—and yet he is troubled. And I can imagine when the sun goes down and the moon comes out and our vast territory lies spread out before him in the shadow, he may dimly descern the ghosts of departed nations, of Assyria and Egypt, and Palestine, and Greece, and Rome, brooding over us in the night, and that he catches, faint and far, a sad refrain like the sighing of the wind, "As we perished so shalt thou. As we fell so shalt thou fall." And then—and then, perhaps he will catch a glimpse of the genius of our own country, America, Columbia, shining out of the canvas of night, with a face not of age, but of childhood—fearless, truthful, graceful, beautiful, thoughtful childhood; and then will fall from her lips this answer to the ghouls of bygone ages: "We have free labor which you had not. Free speech, which you had not, free and universal suffrage, which you had not." Then I can see her point to some little district schoolhouse, standing alone and weather beaten on the prairie, and I can hear her say in accents of celestial sweetness, "More than all, we have free and universal education, which you had not. Under God, we trust in these."
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LOGALS.
Miss Riggs has on the Theta colors.
Every one should wear the official University pin.
Price of Burlingame has put on Sigma Chi colors.
You should wear the official Kansas University pin.
Major Shockley is visiting his Sigma Chi brethren.
The class in histological botany is studying the starches this week.
Smith's News Depot is headquarters for Base Ball and Athletic goods.
Thirteen "Prep. Medics" are searching out the mysteries of osteology.
Elmer A. Powell, Law '95, is a special lecturer in the Kansas City School of Law.
Bishop Thoburn, a missionary home from India, conducted chapel Tuesday morning.
The Triceratops is now occupying a prominent position on the first floor of the Museum.
E. C. Alder while hunting last Saturday accidently shot the index finger of his right hand.
Heal the chapped lips, smooth the rough face and hands with Raymonds Cream of Roses.
Prof. Haworth attended the Irrigation Convention at Garden City this week. He took with him for exhibition a map showing the boundaries of the tertiary formation in the state. The map represents a part of the work
done on the state geological survey the past summer.
Fred B. McKinnon and Dr. E. C. Franklin will ride to Kansas City tomorrow on their bikes.
Griffin the Coal Man.
A whisp broom is quite necessary to keep the dust from your clothing. Have you seen Raymond's Pocket Whisk? 20c., only
Inspect our new line of Overcoats before purchasing elsewhere. Urbansky, 738 Mass., Street.
C. I. Spellman, W. H. Smith, A. A. Ewart, and Victor Boone went to Kansas City yesterday to attend the Karnival Krew.
Supts. Klock of Leavenworth, Davidson of Topeka, Dietrich of Emporia and Smith of Lawrence were shown about the University last Friday by Prof. Olin.
A. D. Johnson, known during his "exile" at Baker as K. U. Johnson, led a party of boys off fishing Saturday. McCorckle's club as a result had fish for breakfast Sunday morning.
This evening the faculty will give a reception in honor of Chancellor Snow,Mr. Gleed and the members of the Board of Regents,in Library Hall. This will be the first public greeting to the Chancellor since his return from Europe All students are invited to attend. Snow Hall Spooner Library and the new Physics Building will be open to the public. This will be an excellent opportunity to see the Natural History
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museums and the interior of the new buildings. But especially will this afford an opportunity to honor our Chancellor and our guests for the day.
All kinds of gents furnishing goods, neckwear, etc., at the Boston 738 Mass. St.
At the meeting of Seniors Friday, the following were elected members of the newspaper advisory committee for the year: W. O. Galbreath, A. B. Bates, E. S. Riggs, W. Griffiths and Archie Hogg.
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The reception to the students at the Friends' church last Saturday evening was very well attended, and was, indeed, a very pleasant social event. This was the first reception given by the friends to the students, and it was a marked success.
It doesn't make any difference whether you are warm or cold your case can be attended to by A.J.GRIFFIN.
There was a good attendance at the opening meeting of the Adelphic society last Friday. The program was, in the main, very good. About a dozen new names were added to the roll of members and a number of officers elected to fill vacancies. Robert Wells was elected to succed President Ward McCrosky, resigned; C. J. Moore was elected treasurer; P. A. Classen, critic; W. E. Griffin and J. F. Hall, members of the executive committee. All students are cordially invited to attend these Friday evening meetings.
If you want a Walking Cane go to Smith's News Depot and see the largest line in the city.
Students, subscribe for the official K. U. WEEKLY. Only 50 cents per annum in advance. W. N. Logan is our solicitor.
Finest and largest line of overcoats at Urbansky's 738 Mass. St.
The finest line of Cigars and Tobacco always in stock at Smith's News Depot.
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Public Opinion.
B. W. HENSHAW'S,
An alumnus of the University, for several years prosecuting attorney in a prominent Kansas community, writes in a letter to Prof. Carruth:
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"Some of the bluest moments I have spent have followed an effort to enforce law when the victims were of the upper class in society. People, generally friends and those of a moral tone and in favor of decency and order, did not have the courage of their convictions, and spoke their approval, if at all, with bated breath, and coupled with the injunction not to have it known that they had so expressed themselves. There was no single moment of doubt that if the whole community were, or had been, moved by the courage of their convictions, even to make secret announcement, it would have been far more weighty than the loud, violent declamations that seemed to possess the streets.
It is said "clothes make the man." That is not strictly true! But if you want to be as near the clothes made man as possible see Hollingbery & Son the Merchant Tailor 831 Mass. St.
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"It is my conviction that public opinion is as sensitive as the whims of fashion or as subject to change as conscience, and where an officer finds himself surrounded by an adverse opinion he should not yield, but bend every effort to make public opinion of the right stamp. In such a battle one may stand against a thousand and put all to flight. I have noticed, too, that pure, true public opinion is very diffident, and must have a great emergency as a stimulant or constant encouragement to call it out and put it into active work. The public mind is right generally. The assaults against law and order are never so strong as they appear, while the desire for law abiding conditions is always more powerful than is apparent on the surface.
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University students desiring to get instruction in Book-keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Penmanship, etc., can be accommodated at the Lawrence Business College, without interfering with University work. Charges reasonable.
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The English History class has assumed such gigantic proportions this year that it requires an extra building for a recitation room.
See the new style (Chesterfield) cutaway frock at the Boston 738 Mass. St.
Miss Ina Myrtle Hopkins, of Anderson county, a student in the University from 1884 to 1888, died last week. She was a faithful student, and a young woman of sweet and helpful disposition. Her many friends here, though they have not seen her for several years, will be saddened by the thought of missing her from the world.
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The Woman's League will hold a reception at Library Hall, Saturday, Oct. 12th, at 2 p.m. They will receive as guests the Kansas City branch of the association of Collegiate Alumnae. Mrs. Martha Foote Crow, President of the National Association, will be present and will read a paper on Woman and Higher Education. The young women in all of the departments of the University are cordially invited to attend.
Removal Sale.
Students can buy their school supplies at a great reduction at J. S.Boughtons for the next ten days, I am about to move and wish to close out my entire stock.
Gondeliar Mandlion Club.
The best music at the most reasonable price will be furnished for receptions and dances. Leave orders with Olin Bell, Fred Soxman or Ross Whitlow at Weaver's.
A Splendid Performance.
Mattie Vickers in "Jacquine" is the announcement for an early appearance in this city, and it will prove a welcome one as well, for no one who has ever seen this delightful entertainer will ever forget his or her enjoyment in so doing. Miss Vickers this season has drawn about her a company of exceptional merit, and "Jacquine" has been brightened with a number of new songs and dances and specialties galore will be the
rule. Indications point to a very large audience to greet her at the opera house next Monday evening.
We advise all our readers to visit the historic drug house of B. W. Woodward (founded 1855) when in need of Toilet Sundries as well as Medicines, Hair, Clothes or Tooth Brushes in endless variety direct from importer's hands, go to the "fountain head."
We are in the game to win, with the choicest merchandise in every department. The great sellers are our New Jackets or Fur Capes, Dress Goods, Ribbons, Gloves and Underwear. K. U. boys and girls are especially invited to trade at Innes.
The Snow-Cowan-Star combination of football players, every foot-ball crank in Lawrence every friend of the University in Lawrence (they are all friends but three) expect K. U. to play Winning ball this year. Just as we do in Dry Goods.
Alabama.
It is four years since "Alabama" was produced at the Madison Square theatre, New York, and since that time it has been one continuous success. The author, Mr. Augustus Thomas, at that time was entirely unknown except to newspaper men, as a brilliant, descriptive writer. In one night he became famous, and since then has produced several successful plays. "In Mizzoura," in which Mr. Nat Goodwin has added to his laurels, is the work of Mr. Thomas, as well as "Reckless Temple," "A Man of the World," "The Burglar," and the new play, "The Capitol," about to be produced by James M. Hill at the Standard Theatre, New York. But the success of "Alabama" is not entirely due to the exquisite beauty of the play, it is also due to the fact that the high standard of the company has always been maintained. When the play is produced at the opera house next Wednesday evening the fol-
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lowing well known and clever people will be seen:
Frank C. Bangs, Clement Bainbridge, George B. Miler, Edward B. Kelly, Dwight Allen, Robert Connes, Frank Binkhurst, Will Wadsworth Zoe Halbert, Adelaide Sawyer and Charlotte Crane. The latter is better known as Lottie Bowes. She and Mr. Will Wadsworth are Topeka people, and formerly attended the University here; where they still have many acquaintances and friends.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE.
The bearer, Mr. J. H. Patten, is the duly elected managing editor of the projected students' paper,
THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
The company that undertakes the publication of this paper is organized on a basis that meets the full approval of the Faculty of the University. All factions and interests are or may be represented, and the plan of organization guarantees a clean, creditable and representative Kansas University Journal. THE WEEKLY will have the support and approval of the University, and any other undertaking in this field will be discouraged.
I commend Mr. Patten and his assistants to the advertising and business public.
F. H. SHOW.
W. H.CARRUTH, Chairman Advisory Com.on University Papers.
Athletics.
Our foot-ball sky is brightening with each successive journey of the sun! In truth it has not at any time been clouded with doubt or uncertainty. But "tings are comin' our way," and when the season opens in earnest, it will find adorning the McCook field gridiron, the finest galaxy of players that has ever united to battle for Kansas University. This is not fancy but the inevitable conviction of anyone who cares to study the matter. The strength of the team can be seen in the individual players, and there is a larger list of candidates to choose from than ever before. There is not a position
in the game for which there is not more than one candidate, and the relative merits of these cannot be easily determined.
We must not become self-satisfied because of our apparent strength, and grow indifferent to the practice. We are in a bigger class today than we have ever been, and if we win it must be by constant and faithful work. It is the duty of anyone and everyone who can play to put on a suit and come out to daily practice. Let us not stand back on any selfish ground, but bear in mind that it is for Kansas University, and not the glory of any individual or individuals that the team is made up. It is a wrong and mean spirit in a man who says that he cannot make the team, or thinks he can't, so he wont go out to help the others. We should each do cheerfully what we can to help along the interest of the team, and those who can't do anything else can come out and yell.
Those who are anxious to make the team should remember that it is not yet selected and will not be until every one is given a trial.
Hamill has arrived and has started playing in dead earnest. He is larger than he has ever been, weighing 216 pounds, and yet is very active on his feet. Pope is in shape to play a better game now than last year, when it was new to him, and he is doing so. Walker is playing a stubborn centre, and is backed by Griffith, the Texas centre, who plays a hard game, but appears light for centre. Agnew and Phillips are putting up a game at the ends that will be hard to improve upon. Agnew is weighing only 146 pounds, but he dodges beautifully, and goes around the ends very much in Steinberger style Phillips tips 163 pounds. He protects himself well in running and is a hard tackler. Hill and Kennedy are well able to take care of quarter. Each one plays such a clean shifty game that it would be difficult to say which does it better. Voigts is developing in excellent form. He has been playing half in such energetic style as to cause considerable comment. He is a big man, standing six feet one inch, and weight 175. Fletcher and Piatt are playing tackles with more energy and better results than has been done for some days. Hester has been under the
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weather for a couple of days, and Hess has been filling his place in very creditable fashion. Outland has on a suit again and will be in the game again soon. Burney continues to hit the line with terrific force, and is hard to turn down. Kaul has never played before and puts up a stiff game. We want "Grandma" Griffiths in the line, and hope to see him out in the near future.
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The K. U. library files of last year's student publications are incomplete. It is desired that all who are interested in preserving these publications in bound form exert themselves to supply the librarian or any of her assistants with any or all of the following missing numbers:
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Two of the most distinguished scientists, in their particular fields, in the United States, have been at work here in the west this summer on the United States Geological Survey, and by great good fortune the University has secured promises from each of them to deliver a lecture here before returning to the east. The men are Prof. G.K.Gilbert, chief geologist of the United States survey, and Prof.F.H.Newell, chief of the bureau of hydrographic investigation. Prof. Gilbert's subject will be "Coon Butte, an Arizona Crater," under which he will tell of the volcanic mountains of the country,
and Prof. Newell will speak of "Water Supply," both lectures being illustrated with the lantern. The gentlemen have great reputations in the east as lecturers, and they should be greeted by large audiences when they come, the latter part of this month. They will probably appear under the auspices of the Science Club or the Sigma Xi Society.
The young women of the University should all attend the Woman's League reception Saturday in order to make the visit of the Kansas City Collegiate Alumnae as pleasant as possible, and also to hear Mrs. Martha Foote Crow read her paper "Woman and Higher Education," which is certain to be very interesting.
Was it a case of telepathy? We suggested harrowing McCook field, and the work was done before we could print the suggestion, but too late for its recall. By way of reparation, we hope a similar result may come about when we urge more men to appear for practice. If the Varsity eleven has an easy time playing Kansas men, it will quite likely have a hard time with Missouri or Nebraska. The men must have something to push against to develop their pushing powers. The eleven best men—the men who do the best in practice games—will be chosen for the team, but they will remain merely our eleven best individual players, unless eleven or twenty-two others turn out every evening to give them practice and experience, give them training in team work and make them truly a team. And after all, the winning of three or four match games, while it is certainly the incentive, should by no means become our sole aim and end in playing football. The idea in this, as in any other game fostered by the University, is to furnish exercise to the students
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and if a dozen men are to reap all the benefit, the investment is not a paying one. There ought to be men enough out to make competition strong for places on the second eleven; this would ensure a good 'scrub' team and so encourage the management to arrange a second schedule of games. The more men there are in practice, the more benefit each will derive from it; the Varsity team will be stronger, the interest and enthusiasm will be greater, and we shall all be in the field with a hearty "Rock Chalk."
Mr. Snipper: how many people do you suppose have wanted to read what you clipped from the daily papers on the library tables? And what do you suppose would happen if they were to find you out?
IF THERE were no literary societies or debating clubs in the University, and none were to be organized, we might easily determine who would represent us in the great debate with Nebraska next spring, for it would be a question of each man's present ability. But the ablest man now may next spring be out of the contest. It is almost entirely a matter of training, study and practice. No man can be an orator who has not spoken often in public, and many men may become good speakers by frequent and faithful practice. Everyone who is interested in seeing Kansas win, whether he has any hope of being one of her representatives or not, should be doing active work in one of the societies now; the longer he postpones it, the less profit he will gain from the work. If none
of the existing societies are entirely congenial, or if none of them meet at a suitable hour, why not organize another one? There is certainly room for several more, and the more clubs we have, the merrier will be the contest to select the representatives who shall go to Lincoln and the better will they be equipped to defend our laurels against Nebraska.
THE Lecture Bureau has gone to work very energetically to arrange a course for this season, and will probably soon be able to announce the attractions which are to appear. It may be said now, that there will be three of the best concert companies that ever came to Lawrence, and three lectures, making six numbers on the course. Negotiations are pending with several of the most popular and widely known lecturers in the field, and it is certain that three of these can be secured whose names would make the course a success at double the prices to be charged. And the price will be the most popular feature of all. Instead of being two dollars or more as heretofore, course tickets will be sold to the public for a dollar and twenty-five cents, and to the students for one dollar. The bureau are enabled to offer a first-class course at this low price by giving it in the University Hall, and thus cutting down expenses. With tickets at one dollar and a first-class list of attractions, such as is promised, every student will patronize the course (as a matter of course) and we may expect to see University Hall crowded at least six times between now and next commencement.
LITERARY.
The Eclipse.
Three years ago, at the house of Doctor White, of Montmorency—this tireless specialist in mental maladies, who cures his patients with good care, comfort and liberty, instead of isolation, shower baths and misery—at that time there was at the doctor's house a woman whose mania was peculiar and touching.
This woman, still young, charming and fair of face, imagined that she was the fiancee of the sun. They had plighted their troth, she and the sun, one beautiful autumn day, and the sun had covered his resplendent face with the fleeciest veil of clouds, that he might not dazzle his beloved. From this time forth she was his and he was hers; she had felt on her hand his
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burning kiss, and now she lived for him alone.
The sun was her joy,her glory,her triumph; she arose at the very moment when he cast his first rays in the heavens; she fixed her eyes upon him,and saluted him with her gaze,as the birds salute him with their songs,as the river salutes him with its murmur,as the rose salutes him with his perfume.
The fairer nature was at sunrise, the calmer the heavens, the happier was the poor woman. Was it not her divine lover who sent in all places warmth and light?
Was not he king of the world, the master of creation? The soul of the world was her soul, hers!
Thus, in a perpetual and divine ecstacy, she gathered his faintest beams. The higher the sun mounted in the heavens, the more her poetic enthusiasm increased. She could scarcely be induced to take her daily repasts, so absorbed was she by her celestial passion. It was necessary to tell her that her divine lover had gilded these fruits, had yellowed this grain, had ripened these grapes. Thus she had a right to seat herself at this immense table which the sun loads with viands on his journey.
She made libations to the sun, she poured milk in his honor in the morning and emptied her glass to his health. Then when the day was fading and the sun gradually disappeared in the Seine, she became as restless as the wife of a poor fisherman, whose husband has been long absent and who hears the roaring of the sea.
“What will happen to my beloved? God grant that he may not wound himself on the way!"
Strange and happy madness; sweet delirium! To know that her soul was attached to heaven by a sunbeam; to have no other passion than that, a serene sky; to know nought to fear save the clouds veiling the star of day; to be happy whenever nature is happy; to open her soul to the sweet warmth as does the earth, and to receive its benificent influence; to sing softly a song to her love, and to be jealous only of the grass of the fields.
Such was the life of this poor woman for two
years. Not that she was without her griefs; for when winter came and she saw the face of the sun grow pale and tremble under the snow, like a young man wounded to the death, when she saw this immense glory obscured by thick clouds—as sometimes happens to the greatest men on the earth below, whose glory is obscured by envy—then the unhappy woman became the saddest of human creatures.
No more smiles, no more songs. Do you not see her lover who freezes and trembles up there, resting his weary head on the icy mountains?
How long and sad seemed the winter days! It was a real incredible suffering, a passion such as the privileged companions of great, unhappy men experience.
The loftier her lover's station the more impatiently she endured the great grief of seeing him humiliated, obscured, trembling, misunderstood, vanquished, captive.
It was like the grief of the mother of the Emperor when she saw her son chained to his rock in the middle of the sea. But the grief of this noble mother is an eternal grief. Her fallen star will never rise again. The sun is more fortunate; his defeat is transient; he has soon pierced the thickest cloud; he is victor, he returns, behold him! The sun has twice each year his hundred days.
When, in springtime, the poor woman found again her lover as she had left him; in the month of May when she saw him again, resplendent as ever, and all the leaves flashed at his coming like the spark under the hammer of the smith, then sweet joy returned to her heart; then she quitted her mourning; she put on her gayest dress, she sang her sweetest song.
"Rejoice in the heavens and on the earth; rejoice, stars of the firmament, and you, waves of the river! You, angels above, and you, men below, rejoice! My lover, the sun, was ill, and he is well. He was absent, and he has returned!"
And in truth all nature obeyed the poor woman; all nature rejoiced.
This happy mania lasted ten years without being cured. But the woman was so happy!
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Why cure her of her happiness? She died three years ago, and her death was as touching as her life.
It was a beautiful autumn day, at noontide. The sun cast upon the earth and upon his beloved his purest rays.
Seated on the turf near the great apple tree, she watched the progress of her august lover in the heavens.
Never had the heart of this woman been more filled with love; never had her gaze been more tender; never had her dream so approached reality.
They understood each other so well—she and her lover the sun. She had for him so penetrating a gaze, and he for her. He advanced so slowly through the azure fields, doubtless to watch her on her knees before him. But, oh heavens! Suddenly this powerful ray of nature is stopped. Suddenly the sun disappears, not as formerly, by degrees on the bank of the river, after having shaken the brilliant dust from his robe and his feet; but he stops suddenly; he hides himself; he is no longer visible!
Where is he?
"Yes," she cries, "my lover is with my rival! Yes, he is faithless! Yes, he has departed in the daytime and will not return!"
And, as she lived only for him during the day, to salute him in the morning, to sing to him in the springtime, to admire him in the summer, to bless him in the autumn, to mourn him in the winter, to love him at all times; the poor woman, seeing him disappear thus suddenly, without knowing where he was going, without knowing whether he would return, the poor woman died during the eclipse, died of jealousy, of despair, and of love.
She had been dead scarcely a moment when the sun, freed from his innocent encounter with the earth, pursued his tranquil way. But he was too late. All this drama was finished, and the immortal lover, once the object of so ardent a passion, touched with his rays only closed and unseeing eyes.
Yes, she was indeed dead, for this mournful sunbeam, this mute plea for pardon, did not awaken her.—Translated from the French of Jules Janin.
ATHLETICS.
K. U.-Midland Game.
The K. U. boys walked all over and around the stalwart young men from Midland College in a game of foot-ball on McCook field Saturday. When a final reckoning was taken the score stood 56 to o. From the way things were going it looked as if we were out for a century run, and every man in the team wanted to make a touch-down "just to see how it would feel," but the Midland boys quit to catch the train.
While the score is all one way, the game was an exceedingly interesting one. It is certain that a snappier game was never played on McCook Field. The men would scarcely have time to recover their positions after a scrimmage before Quarter Hill had the next play called.
The play was so lively throughout that after the first half the Midland boys became winded, and touch-downs came as fast as little politicians after new administration jobs.
Those who witnessed the game were delighted with the showing the new men made. Those who didn't see it we hope will know better next time.
The line-up for the first half was as follows: Walker, C.; Kaull and Pope, guards; Piatt and Fletcher, tackles; Agnew and Phillips, ends; Hill, quarter; Hess and Burney, halfs; Hester, full.
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end; Kennedy went to quarter, and Hess and Burney gave way to Williamson and Voigts.
This is what the Atchison press calls a mean trick: "Every time a K. U. man got tired a fresh man took his place," says the Globe. Why pshaw, Ed., we weren't trying to run up a big score against you. Just come down and gaze on "Shorty" Hamill and Outland, who were not put in the game, if you think we didn't act nice.
The game was too fast to detail, i. e., there is too much of it. Charlie Fletcher at left tackle played a remarkable game, and for hard, stubborn, aggressive work was the star of the day. He was worked a great deal, too, but never failed to make a gain when called upon.
Burney at half put up a teriffic game. Everytime he hit the line there was a gain. The Midland boys could scarcely pull him down when he got under headway. He scored the first down on a pretty dash around right end. Hess was in the game all the time, and three different times dropped on to a fumbled ball. His interference was good and he tackled well. Phillips and Agnew played capital games at end. Agnew's end plays reminded one of Steinberger. He has not learned to protect himself as well but follows his interference nicely.
And such interference! When Hess made his beautiful run for 25 yards the way in which he was blocked by Hester and Hill was a sample of fine team work.
Phillips played a strong end and tackled viciously. He is hard to down and will not quit rolling over the ground until two or three men get on top of him. Hill plays as heady a game as is seen anywhere. He is always cool though energetic. His 35 yard return of a good kick-off was a beauty. Hester played his old form game, but was away off in his goal kicking. Piatt had a "phenom" opposite him in the person of Berger. He is an immense big fellow and kept the captain right at home for awhile, although Bill managed to get away several times to play to a good gain. Pope and Kaull made all kinds of holes in the Midland ranks, and Walker held his man solidly.
In the second half Williamson set the crowd wild by making two touch-downs in the same graceful fashion he used to do. Voigts carried two men on his back over the line for a touchdown. Kennedy and Smith were not given much chance but played good ball.
The Midland boys played a hard, up-hill game,the best work being done by Stough, Shultz, Frank and Berger.
Touch-downs.
Archie Hogg is doing good work as assistant coach.
Hester has scored the first drop kick of the season.
Williamson has shaved his mustache. It was a "good effort," but the boys were afraid of it.
Hon. J. W. Gleed, Chas. Scott, Eugene Ware and the Chancellor attended the practice the other evening.
Steele and Cox are two of the scrub men who play a game that is just a shade different from the first team play.
From present point of view there will be but one big game at McCook field this season. Iowa plays here Oct. 30th.
Voigts has gone home and will not return until after Christmas. He was a promising candidate and everyone will regret his leaving.
Why were there so few girls out to the Midland game? The girls are always an inspiration to the players, so they should show their appreciation of their powers.
Dr. Blair of Kansas City, an old K. U. graduate has made this generous and patriotic offer. Any of the foot-ball men who became disabled in the play he will visit and treat gratuitously.
Iowa beat Northwestern Saturday 36 to 0. This speaks well for Iowa, and comes in the nature of consolation to K. U. Northwestern has four old Baker players in her ranks.
The news of the sad misfortune that has come to Earl Steinberger, the brilliant right end of last year's team, was received with universal regret at the University. Steinberger was wellliked, and he may feel assured of the genuine
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sympathy of his many friends at Lawrence. The injury which resulted in the amputation of his leg, he says was not caused by foot-ball play.
The practice of this week has been brisk and sharp. The event of course has been the appearance of Games, the law student, in the field. He is an old player, and last year played a brilliant end for Baker. He will be a brilliant addition to the team. Hamill has not been out for several practices, but will be on hand all right. Two new men of promise are Harley and Williams. Harley is a big man and is playing a strong guard. Williams has played two years with Outland and shows up well.
Mr. Hugh Blair, an ardent and admired enthusiast of the University athletics, the other day collected two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars from the citizens of the town to help defray the expenses of the foot ball season. We take this occasion of extending to Mr. Blair and the generous citizens of Lawrence, the sincere gratitude of the athletic department, faculty, and students of the University. We are sadly in need of an appropriation for the athletic department, and if we are to maintain our position among the Universities, we must have one by next year. As it is we are out for the foot-ball honors. We have the material, if the good people of Lawrence stay by us, we will have the coveted championship.
The annual election of the athletic board was held Tuesday, the result being as follows: Base ball committee, Prof. E. D. Adams and H. W. Wagner; foot-ball, C.A.Burney and W.H.H. Piatt; track athletic, W.T.Walker and W.J. Squire; tennis, C.W.Miller and Thos. Wagstaff; boating, Coach Cowan and A. Clark; at large, Dean "Jimmie" Greene. The meeting was characterized by an entire absence of the turbulent scenes which have hitherto attended the elections. There were no schemes perpetrated, no wild harangues, and one person who had the termerity to rise to a "question for information" was forced by the awful silence which answered his call, to sit down humiliated. As will be seen, the ticket is a liberal one.
Dr. Esterly seldom misses a practice.
The new suits and crimson stockings are things of beauty. Good eye, Mitchell.
Phillips and Hess, candidates for end and half, are from the Lewis Military Academy, Wichita.
Armor is improving slowly. He hopes to be out soon, but will hardly be able to play again this season.
Piatt has locked the odd stockings he has always worn away in his trunk, and now dons the regulation crimson.
Outland has not been idle during the period of his injury, but for the second eleven has proven a capable coach.
There is not a busier man on the team than Trainer Palmer. He is faithful and efficient and it will take a "crack-a-jack" to replace him.
Seven of the foot-ball team are aspirants for the Glee Club. Outland has almost as good a range in singing as in playing foot-ball He sings without apparent effort from second bass to first tenor.
The Missouri University on last Monday beat the Sedalia Athletic club by the small score of 10 to o. The report says the work of the Missouri men was discouraging. This may be true, but we will continue to work as hard as if Coach Bliss had said their playing was extra.
A tennis tournament has been arranged at last. Oct. 12th, is the day set for the preliminaries, and the finals will be called the Saturday following, Oct. 17. The place of meeting is not yet decided upon. An entry fee of 50c, will be charged, to defray expenses. Any one desiring to enter either the singles or doubles will hand his name to the chairman of the committee, I. Hill.
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LOGALS.
Price is a pledged Sigma Chi.
The Pi Phis initiated Saturday evening.
Billy Perry returned to Belleville the first of the week.
H. E. Riggs '86, visited the University Halls this week.
C. A. Burney is president elect of the Jr. Law class.
R. D. Brown was in Lawrence last Saturday on business.
Major Schockley spent several days in Lawrence last week.
The English History class had its first test last Thursday.
The tennis committee are going to arrange for a tournament.
Earnest Blaker, class '93, was down to see the game Saturday.
Mrs. Ayers gave a dinner to a few of her student friends last week.
Friday, October the 25th, has been set apart for exercises in remembrance of Professor Robinson.
The Knights of Pythias gave an opening dance in their new hall last Tuesday evening. It was a most pleasant affair and reflected much credit on the lodge.
Try the Peerless Steam Laundry, Alva Lander, Agt.
The finest line of Cigars and Tobacco always in stock at Smith's News Depot.
Cora L. Faulkner is again in school. His ankle is still weak, which necessitates his using a cane.
A game of foot ball is about to be arranged between Lawrence High School and the Emporia High School.
Miss Maud Springer has been in Lawrence several days visiting her Kappa sisters and her many friends.
Students, subscribe for the official K. U. WEEKLY. Only 50 cents per annum in advance. W.N. Logan is our solicitor.
Shellenbarger, who played foot ball with the University team last year, will act as coach for the Emporia college team this season.
The Atchison Globe spoke quite complimentary of Fletcher's gentlemanly conduct in the last foot-ball game. How much did the article cost you Charles?
Prof. Dyche will remain two weeks in New York mounting specimens and curiosities for the museum of natural history and will then come here. He has with him two meteorites, one weighing three thousand pounds, the other eight hundred pounds.
What Every Man is Looking for.
THE BEST. And when it's in Furnishing Goods, Gloves, Canes, Umbrellas, Etc., if he's posted he comes here. Nothing too good for our trade and the prices are right—for both you and us.
J. OTIS HUFF & CO.
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Jaccard's Kansas City
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Silver Studs, . . . 30c.
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The Pi Phi's initiated eight young ladies into the secrets of the Fraternity last Saturday at Mrs. Gibbs. This outcome of the fall rush is certainly a good harvest.
E. I. O'Bryon '94, Principal of the Newton schools is now very ill at his home on Tennessee Street. He was taken down with typhoid malaria over a week ago.
The University Science club met last Friday afternoon for a business meeting, the first regular meeting of the year will be held next Friday afternoon in the chemistry lecture room at 5 p. m.
E. A. Steinburger, a member of the class of '94, who had his leg amputated at the hospital in Kansas City last month, does not trace the loss of his limb to any injury that he received on the foot ball field.
Send one to your pa and ma. One what? One of those Lawrence Albums. Get them of Stewart in basement of main building. Over 200 pictures of Kansas University, Lawrence and Haskell Institute. One half usual price Only 25 cents each.
The cry comes "more news." That's it exactly. It is our cry also,—but nothing will ever happen if something don't take place. Locals are pretty hard to find and personals are scarce, unless we say, as we can of almost every student, 'so and so is studying faithfully.'
Miss Bowersock entertained a few of her friends last Saturday evening in the usual royal manner which attends any social undertaking at her home. A most enjoyable time is reported by all and much stress was laid upon the fact that amusement stopped at precisely half past eleven.
If you want a Walking Cane go to Smith's News Depot and see the largest line in the city.
It doesn't make any difference whether you are warm or cold your case can be attended to by A. J. GRIFFIN.
It is said "clothes make the man." That is not strictly true! But if you want to be as near the clothes made man as possible see Hollingbery & Son the Merchant Tailor 831 Mass. St.
The Misses Towne returned Wednesday from the Kappa Alpha Theta convention at Syracuse, N. Y. They made the trip in the interest of the fraternity. Stopped at several universities along the way, and report a very prosperous state of affairs among the Theta chapters in the east.
The Board of Regents of the University met last Friday evening. The regular routine of business was transacted. The matter of filling the vacancy caused by the death of Judge S.O. Thacher was left with committee on law. The salary of Miss Hannah Oliver was raised from $900 to $1200 while she temporarily has charge of the department of Latin Language and Literature.
Mitchell county is one hundred and ninety miles from Lawrence, and is represented by the following students: John Outland, Lee Kaul, Ralph McKinney, W. N. Logan, J. A., E. H., and H. E. Simpson, M. E. Gilmore and J. W. Tucker. While the following are former residents: C. A. Masters, W. C., C. S., and E. Pope, J. E. Thompson and J. W. Hullinger. If there is another county equidistant having as large or a larger representation, speak up.
Smith's News Depot is headquarters for Base Ball and Athletic goods.
STACY,
ADAMS
& Co.
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We make a special effort to keep up to date footwear. Our stock was never so complete as now.
BULLENE SHOE CO.
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Music Notes.
On Monday evening occured the second meeting of the Oratorio Society, conducted by Prof. Penny and consisting of about eighty voices. Haydn's Creation will be studied, the only expense to members being the purchase of a copy of the Creation which will be found at Bell's music store. Next Monday evening will be the last opportunity to join. Below will be found the program of the Faculty Concert given as a farewell to Prof. K. Geza Dome who will be remembered as instructor of the violin. Particularly noticable among the numbers of a more than ordinarily pleasing program were the delightfully rendered selections of Prof. Preyer this being his first appearance since his return from abroad.
The Concert Course tickets will be one dollar for a ten weeks course. No single admission being sold.
The Seminary this week will be in charge of Miss Reeder. The subject will be "To Whom are we Indebted for Piano Technic?"
PROGRAM.
PROGRAM.
Back Gounod—“Ave Maria,” arranged for piano, violin and organ.
MR. PREYER, MR. FARRELE AND Mr. PENNY.
Dome—Hungarian Fantasie, “Past and Future.”—For violin
Mr. DOME.
Campbell—“Thou art the one.” For Baritone.
Mr. FARRELL.
Mendelssohn—“Presto e Capriccio” For piano.
Scgambati—“Moccata.”
Mr. Preyer.
Schubert Remenyi—“Serenade.” For violin.
Chopin—“Mazurka.”
Mr. DOME.
Romberg—“Adagio and Rondo.”—For two violins.
Mr. DOME AND Mr. FARRELL.
Schubert-Liszt—“The Erl King.”—For piano.
Mr. Preyer.
Bazzini—“Elegie.”—For violin.
Mr. DOME.
Fesca—“Adagio.”—For piano, violin and organ.
Mr. Preyer, Mr. FARRELD AND Mr. PENNY.
Engineering Notes.
Griffin the Coal Man.
Albers is a mathematician and electrician.
Hancock plays the pipe organ in the Lutheran church.
The Juniors are studying Mechanics of Engineering.
The Physics building was crowded during the entire evening of the reception.
There are ten Seniors in the Engineering school. Five civil and five electrical.
Penfield will have charge of the heating apparatus for the physics building.
The seniors under Mr. Dunstan, are designing dynamos, and will take up transformers later.
The Sophs. are looking troubled. Quizzes in descrip and conics are coming forth.
Armor is finally able to be about with the aid of crutches. He expects to be on the hill by Monday.
Will Reed is still at his home in Topeka. His brother is now slowly improving, and may recover.
A new 45 K. W. generator of General Electric Co.make was placed in position at the shop this week.
Galbreath, Wagner, Plumb and Squirs went on a nutting expedition to Washington Creek last Saturday.
Agnew was laid up two days this week with an ulcerated tooth, caused by a kick received in one of the practice games.
Voights received word from his father that he was wanted at home, and left Tuesday. He will be back about Christmas.
Friday the Electrical Seminary elected the following officers for the present term: Squire, President; Albers, Vice President; Kraus, Sec.
DID YOU EVER STUDY
Science of Footwear? It is a question of great interest to students. It affects their "standing" at college. It's
GREEKOLOGY
to many. They think that "If the shoe fits, wear it." We study all branches—Style, Durability and Cost help the wearing of a shoe, and we can always fit our patrons. Extreme styles. We advance the season, others follow.
CABEL & HICKMAN, 21 East 11th St., KANSAS CITY, MO.
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Griffith's Faust.
Several decades have now passed since the Faust of Goethe was pronounced the best acting drama of the modern stage. During that interval nothing has been produced to render this criticism less just, and with the exception of "Francesca de Rimini" by George Alfred Bokor, there is no acting tragedy, out of Shakespeare worthy to be placed by its side. Its story is of such vivid interest that its recital will bear numberless repetitions, and it is a significant and happy fact that this popular play conveys none but the most impressive lessons of purity, worth and virtue. The principal character of the tragedy is necessarily "Mephisto;" as portrayed by John Griffith, it is a most tireless and demoniac spirit of evil. Few actors who have attempted this characters are as fittingly equipped as he to perform this role. Being possessed of unusual physical gifts, a robust voice, a magnetic manner and accurate conception of character, and being one of the intellectual type of actors, Mr. Grifflth has a rare combination of elements essential to create and establish a lasting success.
Scientifically "Faust" as represented by Manager Church's company, is a most magnificent production and should win the approbation of all play goers at the Opera House where it will be presented next Tuesday evening.
A large 60 feet baggage car is employed to transport the accessories for this production and it is needless to mention here that what promises to be the grandest scenic and calcium revelation is none other than Griffith's produc tion.
Notice.
Prof. Martha Foote Crow of Chicago University will read a paper on Woman and Higher Education at Library Hall on Saturday afternoon Oct. 12th, at 2 o'clock. All University
young women are invited to be present. After the reading of the paper a reception will be held by the Women's League to which all present are invited.
The members of the Collegiate Alumnas will return to Kansas City by the 5:22 train.
Department of Entomology.
The entomological cabinets have been enriched by some 8000 mounted specimens of insects collected in Wyoming during the past summer by Mr. W. A. Snow and Mr. Hugo Kahl. Many Species new to science are contained in this collection. Another important addition has been made in the collection of 2500 Finney county insects collected during this season by Mr.H.W.Menke. An interesting collection of the principal Coccids or scale insects which infest fruit and forest trees in California has lately been received, by exchange, from Prof. Kellogg of Stanford University.
I. C. G.
We have an excellent line of Staple and Fancy Groceries especially adapted to Students' Clubs. Besides getting the best quality of Grocejies you get the lowest prices.
The Indiana Cash Grocery is the students' place to trade.
I. C. G.
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Communication.
Mr. Editor:
Among your last week's locals I find the following:
"At a meeting of the Senior Law class last Tuesday, Jerry Simpson introduced a resolution asking the Law School 'to boycott Lawrence merchants because they would not advertize in the law paper,' but it did not pass."
And I wish to inform the public that it is false.
In the first place, no such resolution was offered to the Law School. The following is the exact wording of the resolution introduced and laid on the table:
"Resolved: That we, the Junior and Senior classes of the Law School, in joint session, do each and all of us pledge ourselves to give our patronage to those merchants who are friendly to and do advertise in the K. U. Lawyer."
In the second place, I stated, both before and after reading the resolution that it was of no interest to me, and that the business manager of the paper had written the resolution and requested me to read it. I even voted against it. J.A.SIMPSON.
Gondolier Mandolin Club.
The best music at the most reasonable price will be furnished for receptions and dances. Leave orders with Olin Bell, Fred Soxman or Ross Whitlow at Weaver's.
Removal Sale.
Students can buy their school supplies at a great reduction at J. S.Boughtons for the next ten days, I am about to move and wish to close out my entire stock.
STUDENTS' SHOEMAKER,
Go to the Old Reliable
JAS. E. EDMONDSON, 815 Mass. St.
ARTISTIC DRAPING.
Hall, Stages or Parlors draped for parties, balls, etc. . . . . Prompt and Satisfactory Service.
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The Largest Stock of WOOLENS for Fall and Winter at KUNKEL'S.
Suits to Order from $13.50 upwards. 740 Mass. Street.
RIDDLE & TOPPING,
823 MASS. STREET.
Fine Teas, Coffees, Spices. Choice Crackers,
Bulk Olives, Pickles, Groceries. Telephone 15.
HEADQUARTERS FOR : : : :
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' SUPPLIES.
803 Mass. St. UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE.
Cosley,
Jeweler and Optician. 337 Mass. St. Fine Watch and Jewelry Repairing.
RICHMOND
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CIGARETTE SMOKERS, who are willing to pay a little more than the price charged for the ordinary trade Cigarettes, will find THIS BRAND superior to all others. These cigarettes are made from the brightest, most delicately flavored and highest cost Gold Leaf grown in Virginia. This is the Old and Oriental Brands of Straight Cut Cigarettes, and was brought out by us in the year 1875. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, and observe that the firm name as below is on every package.
ALLEN & GINTER,
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It is Funny
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The handsome Dress and Business Suits we are making to order for $20 and $25 are not only all sheep but they are the finest kind of sheep.
F. B. Robinson Tailoring Go.,
824 Deleware St. Just below the Junction.
KANSAS CITY, MO.
R. B. WAGSTAFF,
STAPLE AND GROCERIES FANCY FRUITS AND OYSTERS.
Telephone 25
847 Mass. Street.
SPECIAL PRICES TO CLBUS.
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Jones,
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J. M. JONES, 706 Mass. St.,
Will Save Clubs 20 per cent in GROCERIES and MEATS.
Call and see how busy he is.
Get a Nice Fall Suit of O. P. Leonard.
ZUTTERMEISTER'S Fine Confectionery, ... AND... ICE CREAM PARLOR.
Roberts & Culver.
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STAPLE and FANGY . . .
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No. 914 Mass. St.
Telephone 16.
CHAS. HESS,
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CHOICE MEATS, SUGAR CURED HAMS AND SAUSAGE.
941 Mass. St. Telephone 14.
J. W. O'BRYON, D. D. S., DENTIST.
Nitrous Oxide Gas administered when desired.
Over Bell's Music Store. 845 Mass Street. Lawrence, Kansas.
CHRIS. EPLEY'S. The STUDENTS' RESTAURANT AND LUNCH COUNTER OYSTERS IN ALL STYLES.
DONNELLY BROTHERS. LIVERY, FEED & HACK STABLES.
Corner New Hampshire & Winthrop Sts. Telephone No.100.
Telephone 141.
807 Mass Street.
C. A. PEASE & SON.
We kill our own Beef, make our own Sausage. and pack our own Pork.
MR. LOUIS BUCH, Violinist.
For a thorough course of Violin Instruction apply to No.1004 New Jersey St.
Willis
933 MASS. ST.
PHOTO STUDIO.
Telephone 113 for ALL . KINDS OF COAL.
Bruce Lumber Co.
HOME BAKERY,
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West Warren St. Lawrence, Kan.
Short Order Meals a Specialty.
Fresh Confectionery and Cigars on hand.
ED
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Is the best in the city. A choice line of Candies, Cigars and Fruits always on hand.
This Space Paid for by Geo. Davies, the Students' Tailor.
CULBERTSON & THOBURN.
Basement of Merchants Bank, can make you a good price on COAL.
Telephone 84...
SAVAGE'S BAKERY
Is the best place in Lawrence to get PIES, BREAD, CAKES, ETC. Goods Delivered Promptly.
Wm. Wiedemann
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Mandolins and Guitars.
PIANOS TO RENT. Special Prices to K.U. Students. 'OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE,KS.
Phoenix
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Do you want a Wheel just a little better made and a little higher grade than your friend's?
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Vol. I.
No. 8.
October 18, 1895.
The Kansas University WEEKLY.
The only official and authorized weekly publication at the University of Kansas.
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VOL. I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 18, 1895.
No. 8.
The Kansas University Weekly is published every Friday during the collegiate year by the Kansas University Publishing Company.
Shares one dollar each. Every student and instructor may be the holder of one share upon application to the Treasurer, Joseph E. Smith, or the Secretary, Harold Smith.
Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance. Address all business communications to Jas.H. Patten,1537 Tennessee Street, Lawrence, Kansas.
Wilbur Gardner . Editor-in-chief
J. H. Henderson Associate
C. A. Burney Associate
D. D. Gear Local Editor
A. A. Ewart Associate, Athletic
A. V. Schroder Associate, Engineering
Ruth Whitman Associate, Arts
C. J. Moore Associate, Arts
Hilliard Johnson Associate, Arts
H. E. Steele Associate, Arts
Grace Brewster Literary Editor
Don Bowersock Associate
Alice Rohe Associate
Prof. Adams Associate
Jas. H. Patten Managing Editor
W. N. Logan Associate
C. C. Brown Associate
Entered at Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
ALTHOUGH THERE were always good front seats unoccupied at the games of the tennis tournament, the interest among players was strong. The numerous entries necessitated a great many preliminary contests and there were several very close and interesting games. We are glad to see tennis brought forward again by the University, and we hope the committee will continue their work in its behalf. It is expected that the final games of the singles will be played on Saturday, and there should be more spectators, for the playing will undoubtedly be good.
EUGENE WARE's flag-raising speech at Topeka, in which he declares very vigorously for war as a promoter of patriotism, has stirred up considerable discussion among the people of the state. A very good debate might be gotten out of the question by some of the literary and debating clubs of the University. Whether Mr. Ware be right or not, there is one less expensive patriotic agency of which more might be made. And that is by the display of "Old Glory." It is dear to everyone; but when it floats from a staff, not when stowed away in a patent moth-proof bag. The enthusiastic demonstrations of patriotism at the recent Louisville gathering were aroused partly by the lavish display of the national colors in all parts of the city. The University possesses a fine flag which we have seen a few times upon "state occasions," and it presents a very inspiring sight too—one which we should like to see oftener. There have been many notable days in the history of our state; why not mark the anniversaries by letting that flag wave from the main building? And having put up the flag, let the chapel exercises of that morning be commemorative of the event. It would probably often be possible to have the story of the day told by some eye-witness or actual participant in the deeds commemorated. Thus would patriotism be kept alive in us by the inspiration of the flag and by the spirit of emulation aroused in us by hearing of the brave deeds of our fathers.
THE EDITOR visited the Pharmacy school a few days ago, and learned several things which had been only rumor to him before. This important department of the University, having nearly a hundred students, is confined to the basement of the Chemistry building, this base-
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ment having been excavated and fitted up after the building had been erected, as it was not at first intended to be used. At the time of our visit, the laboratory was occupied by the Junior class, and there was very little room for visitors; every bit of space seemed to be occupied, and many of the students had no more than "elbow room" in which to work. Two things are very essential in a laboratory—air and light; and both are very limited in this Pharmacy cave. The ceilings are so low and the means of ventilation so poor that the smoke and vapors from the experiments practically all remain in the room, impeding the light and making breathing an absolute discomfort—at least to those who habitually breathe air. And then the walls, which were not built to withstand moisture, are constantly damp—drugs have frequently to be replaced because they are ruined by the dampness. Even when kept in cases specially lined to keep out moisture, the drugs often become mouldy and worthless. This condition of things demands attention and action. The regents and others interested, we hope, will do their best to see that the next legislature provides a remedy. If the School of Pharmacy is to continue growing and improving as it has in the past, and keep pace with the institution of which it is a part, it must have more room and better facilities.
LITERARY.
Hermann and Dorothea.
Hermann and Dorothea is a combination of the Idyl and the Epic. Fixing its character from definitions of these two styles of poetry, found in the Century dictionary, it would seem that Goethe's poem falls in the class of the middle epic or poetic tale as contrasted with the higher or heroic epic. It may also make "Epical pretensions to the laurel" in length, metre and treatment.
In theme it is an idyl like the "Cotter's Saturday Night" and has the idyllic simplicity of incident and of statement.
Considered as an epic one can claim for none of its characters the heroic proportions that would entitle it to rank with the Iliad and that ilk, unless we should except the somewhat amazonian figure of Dorothea. At any rate the term of epic occurs in Tennyson's "Princess" linked with qualities which Dorothea is known to have possessed; for we read:
"Take Lilia then for heroine clamored he
And make her some great princess six feet high Grand, epic, homicidal."
Now Dorothea while no princess to be sure, is yet presumably six feet high and notoriously
homicidal—slaying upon one occasion four masculine marauders of the most warlike nation in Europe.
There are some resemblances between Dorothea and Evangeline. Both are helpful and practical and have great presence of mind in adversity, but Evangeline is more spirituelle than Dorothea—has more faith and imagination. This comes more visibly to the front when they are seen in love. It is at once felt that Dorothea deserves comparatively little credit for taking up with such a nice boy as Hermann. Gabriel, on the other hand, is nothing; or, at most it can only be inferred that he may be a "some what" when he is seen to win the vows of so fair a creature as Evangeline. But what shall be said of her ideality, which can take an ordinary nullity and make it chiefest among ten thousand and altogether lovely, and of her faith, which can preserve this image even into old age.
The poet shows an acquaintance no less with Homer than with the Hebrew scriptures for we read in the 14th chapter of Judges "And Samson went down to Timmath, and saw a woman in Timmath of the daughters of the Philistines,
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now, therefore get her for me for she pleaseth me well." Later on too in the book there is the same mention of "Linen" and "changes of raiment" with the difference that Goethe has conceived the daughter of the Philistines as possessed of marvelous strength.
It seems questionable however whether this Homeric and patriarchal coloring to a northern Epic is not like sewing new cloth into old garments. An instance can be taken to make this objection a little more concrete. For example Hermann, in the passage which tells of his meeting with the emigrant train is made to say:—
"There fell to my notice a wagon fitted together out of sound trees, drawn by two oxen, the largest and strongest of foreign lands."
Whether the typical Greek on seeing a movers wagon would think at once of the quality of the timber out of which it was made is open to question. Their bards evidently did. But to put such an epithet into the mouth of Hermann is to make his fancy work in a manner foreign to German methods. It is as plump and unbeholfen as if he had exhibited his Apotheker with pipe still in his mouth but clothed in patriarchal or Hellenic vestments, in the Spartan kilt or the Roman toga.
These criticisms would apply rather to the artificial epic in general, than Goethe's Epic in particular, for as a work of art it is very nearly perfect. Containing the "quiet unfolding" "vivid sensuousness," and "clear perspicacity" in the whole as in the particular, which according to Schiller, is the prime requisite of the epic composition.
In the main the naturalness of the poem is genuine. It consists of the essential characteristics and modes of thought of the bourgeois types of which he treats, but he compels no realization that the same heart beats in the peasant as in the prince for here it does not. These sequestered lives are not agitated by like joys and sorrows as those of another estate. Love is here a placid unexciting experience. Romantic ardor is not known. Now while such poetry is natural, it is a mistake to suppose that because it finds its inspiration among such surroundings and people of such a narrow emotional range, it is intrinsically more natural than that which prefers scenes made various and discursive by the motives, attractions and complex relations of a highly developed society. The rudiments to be worked with are the same in either case, but in the former the incidents in which they must be displayed are comparatively uniform and commonplace. To get rid of a superficial and misleading theory we should remember that it is not in provincial conditions, but in full development and intricate relations when tested by many vicissitudes that call into play more completely its energy, faculties, finesse and emotions that human nature offers the richest material to a writer. Bourgeoisie affairs with their apothecaries and inn-keepers may be transiently attractive in turning from an existence of larger outlook and more strenuous effort, but it is a mistake to accept their routine and monotony as better than the restlessness and aspiration that exist elsewhere, or as more suitable to the purposes of art. Verse of this kind is in the main flat, state and unprofitable.
How then shall we explain the degree of interest which this poem has obtained among the German people? There may be various causes, but it can perhaps be set down as one of the principal ones that the homely people of Germany are seldom so pleased with an ideal by which to improve their lot as they are charmed by any poet who is willing to depict them as better off than the educated and well conditioned classes, and to represent their narrow, dull and petty lives as a reproduction of the golden age.
This tendency to prefer subjects essentially plain and even ugly and uncongenial to men's most vivid interests and intense activities, is an effect of the national warping of the German character and misses entirely the American spirit which cherishes incessant activity as the method of individual and social improvement. G.I.SPAUDING
G. L. SPALDING.
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A Wedding and a Festival.
Despite the omenious thickening of the mist up the canon, and the freshening of the breeze, which sets the aspens all a quiver, Sunday night has brought it's usual quota of visitors to the ranch house. The tables in the long dining room, where the company assembles, have been moved close to the wall and covered with snowy cloths. An air of expectancy prevails. The organist, already at her post, blinks in the bright light which floods the room; the minister sits with eyes tightly closed, in apparent oblivion to all mundane things. Occasional impatient murmurs are succeeded by long periods of silence. The rain begins to fall softly. Suddenly the organ peals forth the stirring old Sunday School tune:
"Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war."
And down the long room the bridal party charges, out of step, breathless, in a mad endeavor to keep time to the lively strains of the martial wedding march.
They wheel into place at the farther end of the room. with the scared look of recruits facing the cannon for the first time. The bride and groom, close on the heels of the advance guard, take their place in front of them. The music stops, the minister regains consciousness, the ill suppressed murmur of amusement which greeted thebridal party subsides,and the ceremony begins.
The groom, an ex-driver of the L stage, assumes an air of stolid indifference, as though marrying were an every day affair with him. His eyes rest in a fixed and stony gaze on some invisible object at the opposite end of the room, apparently endowed with all the awful power of the Medusa. His voice seems to stick in his throat and is dislodged only with a violent effort. When it does issue forth in a stentorian "Yes, sir!" (which takes the place of the more
conventional "I do") every one in the room jumps.
The brides poor little plebeian face is flushed red with embarrassment. She feels more at home in the kitchen, among the pots and pans; that is her world, and the rim of her dishpan bounds her narrow horizon. She lisps "Yes, sir" in a scared, appealing voice, when the minister asks the all-important question. She never once during the ceremony raises her eyes from the floor.
It is over at last and the bridal party breaks ranks. While congratulations are being tendered to the newly married pair, the bridesmaid and groomsman take to flight. Base desertion! But the bride and groom manage to servive the loss of their body guard, and clasp hands while all unite in singing that good old hymn:
"Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish; Come to the mercy-seat. fervently kneel;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish,
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal."
Singularly inappropriate for a wedding, perhaps. But in the last verse all are asked to the "feast of love." And, as the organist took pains to explain, the hymn was intended as a solace to the disconsolate few to whom invitations to "feasts of love" of a more satisfying sort had been denied by an all-wise Providence.
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ATHLETICS.
The Emporia Squabble.
The alleged game of foot-ball at Emporia Saturday last was a disappointment to every one apparently, and was certainly unsatisfactory to the University players.
The final score is announced 10 to 0 against Emporia. The game was conducted after the old fashioned manner of playing—there was more kicking—but unfortunately not of the ball. The trouble occurred over the rules that should govern the game. Shellenbarger coached his team under last years rules known as the Harvard—Pennsylvania rules. The rules adopted by the Inter-collegiate circuit, of which we are a member, are the Yale-Princeton. These rules are to be played under in the games with Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas. The Yale-Princeton rules are less brutal and were drawn up to eliminate the more dangerous plays.
When Shellenbarger called back his ends to execute the mass play, the most cruel one of the old standard rules, K. U. justly objected. The Emporia boys were as determined that the play should be allowed, and finally submitted after wrangling an hour and a half. Whether or not the Emporia umpire then felt he had a grievance is not known. Any way his eyesight became badly dimmed, which naturally affected his judgment. Seven times during the first half he advanced the Emporia team ten yards on off-side play, while we were not given a yard on such a play. But that's reasonable isn't it? We have been practicing team work only six weeks, and the Emporia team had been coached as much as ten days! That's a matter the Emporia correspondent overlooked. Only twice during the entire game did the University have the ball for three consecutive plays.
It would certainly have been better policy to have allowed Shellenbarger to use his mass play, and thus have saved the report sent out that we used questionable means to defeat an inferior team. Besides it was Shellenbarger's business to know what rules the University were training under and to conform to them. The
report that the Emporia broke K. U's.line everytime they hit it, is wrong. Their right tackle was a big fellow and played stronger than Fletcher could hold. It was there Emporia broke the line, and only there. The boys say Shellenbarger never played a better game in his life, but that under favorable conditions the University could run up as large a score as against Midland.
The Team Reviewed.
There will probably be no game played Saturday. Two weeks from Saturday, Nov. 2, the inter-collegiate games begin. Iowa will meet K. U. on McCook field, and Missouri will buck with the Nebraska boys at Omaha. By that time the men who are to battle for Kansas football honors will have their names announced. This will not be the end, only the beginning, though it is a matter of much interest. There have appeared so many excellent athletes for representation on the team that the final selection is no easy task.
We take it not amiss at this stage to attempt a "critical analysis" of the candidates. It is valuable to know the strong points of the players, and it is well for each man to have a proper respect for his own ability. It is equally as important that each man should be as deeply impressed with his short comings, that he may improve and develope.
Two more new men VamPelt and Foster have come in during the week. Neither has played foot-ball, and it is unfortunate that they are so late in the season as each gives promise of good work. Foster stands 6 feet $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches, and weighs 195 pounds. He is quick on his feet, and is catching onto the game nicely. He is a formibable candidate for guard. VamPelt is just a little heavier than Walker, and is lacking in experience.
Walker, centre, continues to play a hard game and while lacking in avoirdupois may be relied on to play the best game he can.
Hamill has gotten down to active practice,
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and while now a little rusty will be a mountain of strength to the team.
Pope plays too high, and instead of getting down to his man, plays back, thus giving an opportunity to cut the line.
Hester is tackling brilliantly, and hits the line well, but is slow in kicking the ball.
Captain Piatt must learn to bridle his enthusiasm. Off-side plays are due to over interest but are fatal to the success of a game.
Phillips plays out too far at end, and as a result doesn't get into all of the plays as he should. He is a good tackler and runs well.
Games needs practice on catching the ball, but otherwise he is putting up an excellent game.
Fletcher plays in a strong aggressive manner, but is not so strong on defensive work.
Agnew gets into the play quickly, and follows his interference well, but does not protect himself.
Smith is an energetic player, but must learn to control himself before he can play foot-ball. Hill plays a heady game at all times and blocks the runner well. Kennedy does good work all the time and will make a splendid substitute at quarter.
Outland's ankle is about well, and he has been doing excellent work behind the line. He is a little slow in getting under headway, but handles himself well, using both his head and hands to clear the way.
Hess does not always catch the signals quickly enough, and hits the line too erectly. He tackles nicely.
Burney has not practiced this weeks His work has been admirable. He starts quickly, keeps his head well down, and clears the way in good shape.
Kaull has always played a plucky game, but is too light a man for guard. He should be shifted to another position.
Harley, guard, is stocky and strong weighing 186 pounds. He is new at the game, and does not get into the plays.
Touch-Downs.
Williamson was never in better condition, or never played more brilliantly. We can only hope he may meet with no misfortune.
Jim Kelsey was in town Wednesday. He has about recovered from his rheumatic attack.
Tom Mastin of Kansas City, who has been engaged to coach the halfs will be here next week.
Armor viewed the practice the other evening from his buggy. He is pleased with the prospects of the team.
Gear has returned to school after a successful season of base ball experience. He has pitched for the Winfield and Enid, Okla. teams.
Prof. Greene, President of the Athletic Association has issued an order compelling lookerson to stay off the field. It is a timely suggestion and has been well met.
A clipping from the Missouri University Press after commenting on the injuries that have befallen Armor and Steinberger, adds, "but the Jayhawkers will probably be out in the old time form Thanksgiving day." Well, yes, just what you'd notice.
A circular is being passed among the students asking for financial support for the foot-ball team. This is a good opportunity for the college spirit to assert itself. We want to beat Missouri, and to do it we need funds to defray current expenses. The town people and faculty have been very generous, and the students will be now, that they are solicited. Every little helps so do not neglect to put down your name.
Any one who has ever gazed on the classic features of Mr. Will White of the Emporia Gazette will be puzzled to know how he could have the consumate nerve to ridicule the physiognomy of any of the K. U. players. He also gives us the startling information that K.U. scored an "earned touch-down but failed to kick it through the goal posts. If we may be permitted we would observe that Mr. White is a better success at clipping "Kansas Notes" than as a foot-ball critic.
Students, subscribe for the official K. U. WEEKLY. Only 50 cents per annum in advance. W. N. Logan is our solicitor.
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LOGALS.
Clark Kelly spent Sunday in Olathe. There is one lady taking Junior Law.
Try the Peerless Laundry. Alva Souder, Agt.
Prof. Sayre was unable to be on the hill Monday.
Prof. Brownell taught the Junior Law class Tuesday.
Another lot of Library Fees were paid off Tuesday.
Foster, Hamill, Van Pelt, et al. are enrolled in school.
A. F. Sherman spent the first days last week in Topeka.
The Pi Phi's gave a very pleasant dance last Friday evening.
Virginia Spencer has been studying in the British museum.
Horton and Laken both Topeka boys visited at home Sunday.
Wagner, of base-ball fame, is rooming in North Lawrence.
Professor Blackmar treated all his classes to quizzes last Friday.
Percy Daniels, now in school, is running for surveyor of Crawford county.
Students can obtain good photos of all the University buildings of Magaw.
Ralph Valentine was visiting University friends last Friday and Saturday.
A number of the Friend's from the Yearly meeting visited the University this week.
Monday night the Astronomy class was on the hill viewing the heavens through a telescope.
Miss Moon, one of the honored guests at the Pi Phi party, visited a few days with her sister the first of the week.
Reed, who was called home a week ago by his brother's sickness, is again in school and settled down to work.
The first informal party in the new hall was given last Friday night by the Pi Phi's. Several out of town guests were present and par-
took of the feast of entertainment prepared by the ladies of the fraternity. The fact that the Pi Phi's gave the hop warrants us in saying that every person present 'had a good time.'
The "Old Familiar Faces" are surely returning. Dean Foster came Tuesday, Kelsey will be here in a few days.
Prof. Carruth informs us that there are 36 teachers of modern language in the educational institutions in Kansas.
The Y. M. C. A.club voted on Monday to go nutting to-morrow. They will take their lunch and make a picnic of it.
Miss Edith Manley, '93, who is now in Wyoming, recently had published in the Youth's Companion an article on the Indian troubles in that territory.
The tennis tournament seems to be a great interest to many. It is a noticable fact that some of the old veterans are having to yield to the young talent.
The 'Agora' will hereafter be published in Lawrence, monthly, under the management of Fred McKinnon. Mr. Dewey will still continue as Editor-in-chief.
Why not have a University band. Let every musician who can blow a horn, lend his aid to the movement and the K. U. band will soon be a household word among us.
Russell Whitman, aside from his regular work on the K. C.World, has been acting as press agent for the Auditorium, and also as representative for the siege of Vicksburg.
Jack Latimer, C. E.'95, is now with the surveying corps of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf R'y Co. He visited at home last Sunday and left the next morning for Sallisaw, in the Indian Ter.
The Lecture Bureau has secured two numbers. On Saturday evening, November 23rd, The Slayton Jubilee Singers, nine people, will open the course. They come with the highest recommendation having successfully filled a three weeks engagement at the auditorium in Chicago
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during August. The next number, Dec. 6th, will be Geo. B. Williams, the celebrated Shakesperian reader, who gained such favorable comments here last spring.
Mr. Rench, a special, who is mail clerk on the Kansas City and Wellington route, went to the city Friday to make a couple of trips, after which he will receive another thirty-days' leave and return to his work on the hill.
Mr. J. A. Lahmer, '95, who has been with the U. S. Coast and Geodetic survey in central Kansas, started Monday morning to Sallisaw, Indian Ter., where he will join a surveying party for the Pittsburg and Gulf railroad.
Prof. V. L. Kellogg has recently published "The Phylogeny of the Lepidoptera," reprinted from the American Naturalist, "The California Phryganidian," reprinted from the proceedings of the California Academy of Science and "Elements of Insect Anatomy" in conjunction with Prof. J. H. Comstock.
The Barb boys have come to stay. They gave their first dance in Merchants Bank hall Friday night. The party was almost entirely made up of new students, but this did not detract from the pleasure of the evening. About twenty couples participated in the dance until the hour grew late, when bidding one another come again they reluctuantly quit the hall.
Now and then some student shows remarkable ability in a certain line. This time it is Cora L. Faulkner. He has developed great mesmeric power, and seems to be able to hypnotize the most obstinate subjects, several students have succumbed to his superior will power, and remained in the cataleptic state until Mr. Faulkner saw fit to return them to their senses.
Engineering Notes.
Squire is playing full back on the scrub eleven.
J. Lyle Harrington, '95, spent Sunday evening in the city.
One of the alternators is now kept running from 8 a. m. until 6 p. m.every day.
Grandstand Jimmy, late of K. U., late of Winfield, late of Chicago, has returned to the
University and will take up the study of law. Jimmy thinks Chicago the finest city in the west-a good place.
Those awful quizzes in theory of electricity have begun and the juniors and seniors again have careworn expressions.
H. F. Taylor, who is employed by the Kansas City Pittsburg & Gulf R. R. in Louisiana is reported as being very ill with typhoid fever. Danna Templin also is employed by the same company and is now working in Iowa.
A regulating value has been placed in the main steam pipe which will regulate the pressure of steam for heating the library independently of the other buildings; and the fall of 25 ft. in the return main is utilized to force the condensation back into the boilers against their own pressure. It is expected that this device will do away with the difficulty that was experienced last winter in heating the library building. The valve was especially designed and put into operation by Mr. F. E. Ward, foreman af the shops.
Professor Dyche.
The New York Herald of October 6, devotes a full page to an illustrated article by Prof. Dyche telling of his expedition to Greenland, the Peary Relief Expedition, and Lieut. Peary's vain attempt to reach the pole. Prof. Dyche says: "The Arctic fever is a peculiar disease and needs a great deal of cracked ice to allay it," but as he had billions of tons of that article on hand every day for a good many weeks, we may hope that he is convalescent by this time.
Leaving Gloucester May 16, he reached Holsteinborg, Greenland, just within the Arctic Circle, on June 9th and remained there, making collections until picked up July 21st by the Peary relief ship, Kite, on her way north. By August 5th, Peary and his companions had been found and taken on board and the return voyage commenced. Several stops were made to collect specimens, and the Kite did not arrive at St. Johns, N. F., until September 21st.
"As a result of the expedition the American Museum of Natural History and the Kansas
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State University will receive twenty-four walrus, including old bulls, cows and calves, and four complete skeletons; three complete narwhale skeletons, twenty-five seals, several polar bears, a number of reindeer and some smaller mammals, a general collection of between two and three hundred skulls of various Greenland animals, seven or eight hundred bird skins and twenty-seven hundred eggs, together with large ethnological collections, all secured north of the Arctic Circle."
English Department Notices.
The first Sophomore themes will be returned on Thursday, October 24, at Room 22, 12 to 1 o'clock.
Junior and Senior forensics except special papers will be returned at the same time and place.
The fourth lecture on forensics will be given at 5 o'clock on Wednesday, October 23, in Snow Hall lecture room.
E. M. HOPKINS.
Cleopatra.
The immense Cleopatra production will be seen at the opera house on Saturday, October 19. This is not only the finest spectacle on the road, but Miss Lewis is supported by a star cast. By special arrangement here the prices will be the dollar scale. The barefoot ballet, danced in the third act, is the most startling novelty of the season. The dancers dance in the truly Egyptian style, and this ballet is not only the greatest sensation, but one of the most beautiful pictures ever seen on the stage. The groupings are a series of art pictures, and the tableaux a succession of dramatic episodes. The music though light is
harmonious. The ballet is graceful and characteristic. The ballerinas are pretty and young.
A Grand Dramatic Production.
There is more interest taken in the Cleopatra production which will be seen at the opera house on Saturday, October 19, than in any presentation seen here this year. The barefoot ballet is a sensation. The picturesque in drama can go no farther than it is carried in the production of Cleopatra, as it will be presented by Miss Lillian Lewis. Every opportunity is taken advantage of to make the play Pictorial. Music, ballet, tableaux, beautiful adorned by and adorning voluptuous costumes color and light.
From Clarence H. Sears, Chillicothe, Ohio.
We had a very pleasant call from Prof. J. H. Canfield a few weeks ago. He addressed the County Teachers' Association, which was the occasion of his visit, and he was incidentally shown some attention by the O. S. U. fellows in town. He is the same charming, enthusiastic man and of course, delighted everybody. I understand that the University starts off under his management with an increased enrollment and promises of great success.
Human Hearts.
On Friday, October 18, at Bowersock's opera house, we will have the dramatic event of the season. On this occasion will be produced with the original caste and scenic effects the beautiful play of "Human Hearts." The company is under the sole direction of Mr.H. C. Miner and it comes direct from his New York theater.
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The Societies.
(What they are doing)
The Historical Seminary was opened today in the lecture room of the Physics building. Prof. Blackmar gave an address. As usual the seminary will meet at 4 p.m.every alternate Friday.
The Science Club met in the Chemistry building Friday and listened to instructive talks by Prot's. Newson and Marvin. At every meeting students of scientific work can become much enlightened.
The Pharmacentical Association elected officers Friday. This society meets every Friday in the Chemistry building and enters into the discussion of papers and questions which are of immediate value to all Pharmics.
A new Debating Society was organized Friday evening in the Law Lecture room. This will give additional opportunity for the display of oratorical ability and increase the interest in the literary work from the established fact that "competition is the life of trade."
The Language Conference met last Friday and elected officers for the ensuing school year. Also interesting remarks were made by Prof's. Carruth and Wilcox. This society meets in the Greek room every second Friday at 4 o'clock and enters into the discussion of papers which will be of interest to all students of modern language.
The Kent Club is again in prosperous organization, and ere long the debate between Webster and Hayne will be surpassed membership to this club is open to lawyers alone. It meets every Saturday morning in the Lecture room, and renders a program both interesting and instructive. The question of 'Trial by Jury' will be discussed at the next meeting. Visitors are welcome, and will be assured kind treatment.
The Adelphic, under the guiding hand of Mr. Wells, had a rousing meeting Friday evening last. The literary program was carried out in a commendatory manner, and the debate on the question of Woman Suffrage was contested in an able manner. This society meets in the German room each Friday evening and welcomes all students. The next question for debate is "The Millionaire is Detrimental to a Republican form of Government.
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Prof. Dunlap sends the following German greeting to Prof. Carruth from the summit of the Brocken:
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d. 12. Sept. 1895.
Geehrter Herr Professor:
Leider ist es neblig, und wir haben keine Aussicht, aber wir freuen uns sehr den Brocken zu sehen. Wir sind ganz wohl. Es grüssst.
Ihr Freund,
C. G. DUNLAP.
A Swiss Postal.
A card has been received from Prof. Bailey, dated Wengen, Switzerland, Sept. 8, 1895, and giving the address to which the WEEKLY shall be sent for him. The "carte postale" itself is curious in that the side for the address is printed in three languages: "Côte réservé à l'adresse," "Nur für die adresse," and "Lato riservato all' indirizzo." Likewise the name of the country appears as "Suisse," "Schweiz," "Svizzera," and so with all the printed inscriptions upon the card.
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October 25,1895.
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DAVID HAMILTON ROBINSON.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 25,1895.
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AFTER the memorial service had been definitely arranged for, we sent requests to a number of Prof. Robinson's old pupils for short letters suitable for publication at this time, and we give herewith the replies which have been so far received. The kindly interest which those asked have taken in assisting to make the feature a creditable one is a most pleasing assurance that the Professor still lives, in spirit, even here below among mortal men. '75,'76, and '78 vie with the eighties and the nineties, all eager to join in honoring their old teacher
and mutual friend. So long as a student shall live who sat in the Professor's classes, the memory of him and of those days will be a pleasure and a help.
We regret very much that considerations of space and times should have compelled us to shorten some of these communications. However, we think we have included the best and the most distinctive part of each letter, omitting, for the most part, only repetitions in one, of the sentiments of another. We wish to express our thanks to those who have so kindly contributed these letters, although we feel certain that most of them came from love and respect for the Professor.
THE University has paused for a day in the midst of its regular work, to pay tribute to the memory of its three lately departed friends, and we deem it worthy to devote this issue to the occasion, as the best memorial which we, in our humble way, may offer in honor of these noble men, who have done so much, in their several ways, to build up this institution to what it is. Their work is the monument of their worth. But we can say nothing of them which has not been better and more fitly spoken by their old and intimate friends whose words we publish today. They are the men who may rightfully speak at this time, and to them we listen.
We are indebted to Mr. Fred. B. MacKinnon of the Agora, for the loan of the excellent cut of Prof. Robinson which appears in this issue. The cut is from the latest photograph taken of the Professor.
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MEMORIAL SERVICES.
Kansas University, Oct. 25, 1895.
ADDRESS BY CHANCELLOR F. H. SNOW.
It was in the capital city of the Swiss Republic, in full view of the lofty range of the Bernese Alps with their white-crowned summits emblematic of eternal peace and eternal rest, that I received the overwhelming intelligence of the death of my long tried friend and associate, Professor David Hamilton Robinson. I had not been prepared for the sad intelligence by the anxious watching and waiting and hoping for a different result which would have been mine if I had been informed of his condition from day to day. Indeed the death of no member of the faculty could have been to more unexpected. On the 10th of June, when he came to bid me farewell upon the eve of my departure for my vacation trip, he presented so marked an appearance of sturdy health that I congratulated him upon his youthful mien, his clear eye and ruddy complexion, the absence of silver threads in hair and beard, and the quick, energetic step which made him seem not one day older than fifteen years before. I little thought that night that never again should I receive the cordial grasp of the hand nor look into the brotherly eyes of him who for twenty nine years had been my constant companion and most efficient coadjutor in the great work to which we both had consecrated our lives.
It was in the first week of September in the year 1866 that our pathways became so intimately connected.—only a few days before the formal opening of the University on the 12th of the same month. We lost little time in calling upon the chancellor, the Rev. R. W. Oliver, to ascertain what arrangements needed to be made for the proper inauguration of the course of study. We were not a little surprised to learn that nothing had as yet been done and that not much could be accomplished until after the beginning of the term. On the arrival of the third member of the faculty, however, Professor E. J. Rice, we were able to hold full faculty meetings and to make the best possible provision for the care of our classes. In those few days before the assembling of the students many important problems relating to the educational management of the University were considered and solved, and Professor Robinson was always ready both to lead and to follow, in whatever direction a wise and energetic policy might seem to point. The inaugural exercises were held in the only building then provided for the use of the institution—the building now known as North college—and the carpenters had
hardly completed the finishing of the stairway when the citizens of Lawrence and the State crowded the upper hall to listen to Judge Thacher's eloquent address. The erection and equipment of this building without doubt required a greater amount of self-sacrifice and generosity on the part of the friends of higher education in those pioneer days than the erection of any one of the subsequent structures which have taken their places on Mount Oread in later and more prosperous times. Judge Thacher, in speaking of this building remarked that 'its dimensions were satisfactory, its proportions symmetrical, its workmanship and finish unexcelled; so solidly constructed that the fiercest storm which ever sweeps over Mt. Oread fails to jar its walls and so conspicuously located above the markets of trade, barter and commerce as first to attract the eye of the visitor to our city, proclaiming by its exalted position the immeasurable height there is in the unfolding and expansion of the mind above the ordinary avocations of life."
The southeast room of the first story of this structure was occupied as a study by Professor Robinson and myself during the first two years of the history of the institution. It was here that many serious problems connected with the management of the students and the development of an educational policy were discussed and decided. Here on every afternoon except on Saturday, and on nearly every evening until 11 o'clock the two young professors devoted their energies to both general and special studies which should enhance the value of their instruction to the young men and women of Kansas and prepare them for the future advancement of the then preparatory school to a rank somewhat in accordance with its name. At the beginning of his university career Professor Robinson had charge of the instruction in both the Latin and the Greek, his chair being designated as the chair of ancient languages. From the very outset, however, he announced his preference for the Latin language and declared to me his ambition to become a Latin professor of the highest attainments. He never for an instant wavered from this determination, and when in 1872 the department was divided by the appointment of the brilliant Byron C. Smith to the chair of Greek, Professor Robinson was enabled to devote his entire attention to the language, the literature and the archaeology of the ancient Romans. That he was successful in his life's ambition in spite of the limitations imposed by the paucity of the library facilities of the University and the meagreness of his own salary in the early days, is abundantly substantiated by the loving testimony of hundreds of his sorrowing students and by the phenomenal length of his professional term
of service. It was a fitting recognition by the board of regents of the value of a long life of self-sacrificing devotion to the higher education of the young men and women of Kansas, when at the completion of a quarter of a century, alike of University history and of his own connection with that history, the salary of Professor Robinson was raised above that of his colleagues.
If I were called upon to name the most conspicuous trait in Professor Robinson's character I should give first place to that rare fidelity to duty which characterized his every action. Carlyle has well said "He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognize her royal features under a week-day vesture." Every day of Professor Robinson's life was an eloquent witness to his faithfulness of spirit and of deed. From Sunday morning to Saturday night of every week of the year his virtuous living was an inspiration to all who knew him. He splendidly illustrated that constant fidelity in small things which has been well denominated a great and heroic virtue.
As a member of the University faculty he willingly undertook his share of the detail service essential to the management of a well ordered university. The advancement of a university largely depends upon the harmonious cooperation of all the different elements of which it is composed. The freedom from dissension and the willingness to bear the burden of necessary routine duties which characterize the present board of instruction have resulted from a general cultivation by its members of the spirit of fidelity to common obligations which so conspicuously marked the career of our departed senior professor. For many years he was secretary of the general faculty and no darkness of night or inclementy of the weather was sufficient to keep him from his post at the secretary's desk, although a two and a half mile walk was to him the necessary accompaniment of every meeting. Whenever a public lecture or other University exercise required attendance in University hall he considered it almost a religious duty to be present. If urged to remain at home on such an occasion, on account of fatigue or an impending storm, he would invariably sav that it was incumbent upon him to show his personal interest in whatever might be of profit to the students. If by his presence he could awaken in a single student a greater interest in his legitimate University work he was amply repaid for a third journey to the summit of Mt. Oread.
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It may be said in short that in every form of activity which the life of Professor Robinson touched, the value of constant faithful attention to little things was fully illustrated and emphasized. "Our fates from unmomentous things may rise like riyers out of little springs."
I am permitted to quote from a letter from one of his college classmates, with whom, while at Rocnester university, his association was so intimate that the two young men were known as David and Jonathan. They were inseparable companions whose mutual affection of the strongest type continued unbroken for forty years: "My love for him has always passed the bounds of brotherly affection. Thrown together at a time in life when our natures were being moulded and our characters fashioned with common aims and a common ambition, we thought and planned and grew together, and in many respects became one in life, in purpose and in hope. This to me has become a habit of life. Our relations were so intimate and our constancy so great that no other soul on earth was like him to me. I am proud to say that in all our intimacy and lifelong friendship I never knew him to do or say a single thing that would bring a blush to a mother's cheek. In all our boys frolic and fun, in all our habits, there was never a mean thing thought or done, or anything that transgressed any strict rules of morals or violated the purest law of Christian life. We lived and observed a high standard in life, and were controlled by the highest moral principle. To live Christianly became a habit of life. Our affection for each other was founded upon the profoundest respect."
Another prominent feature in the character of Professor Robinson was the breadth of his mind, the largeness of his intellectual vision. Although from the beginning a special student of the Latin language and literature, and justly finding the glory of his professional life in the perfection of his knowledge of his chosen subject, he was always deeply interested in other departments of learning. It may be stated as a proposition incapable of refutation that no man can know the most that can be known about any one subject who has not given some serious attention to many other topics. An apt illustration from the field of science, philosophy or general history will never come amiss in the Latin lecture room, and Professor Robinson well knew how to enliven a dead language by excursions into the living world. He had not only the rare ability to bring the nineteenth century into the presence of ancient Rome in the class room, but the still more rare capacity to carry the Latin tongue into the every day world of business. This capacity was aptly illustrated by his publication of a unique Latin text book for students in pharmacy, which is the standard authority in the United States among druggists, and being the only one of its kind has no rivals in the important field which it occupies.
Although not a technical student of science he was always interested in scientific subjects. During my own investigations of the bird fauna of Kansas he was frequently my companion in the field excursions which are essential to a practical knowledge of the subject, and his own satisfaction when a new species of feathered inhabitant was discoverer in Kansas territory was almost equal in kind and intensity to that of the professional ornithologist. By these expeditions into prairie and forest he brought to a high degree of cultivation that love of nature and of nature's children whom was an inherent element of his character His love of art was also intense, and his discriminating criticisms of art productions were highly appreciated by his art-loving friends. During a fortnight spent with him in the enjoyment of the works of art at the Columbian Exposition I learned to respect and admire his quick perception of the excellence and the defects of the artists of all nations. He was especially a lover of good landscape painting and could easily distinguish the work of the genuine artist who had put something of his own soul into his painting, from the mere copyist, who had not only failed to catch the inspiration which animates the heart of nature, but was also unable to communicate to his work an inspiration which he himself did not possess.
It is entirely beyond my power to give adequate expression to the sense of personal bereavement which we have experienced in the withdrawal of our friend from the scenes of his earthly life. Lowell once said 'Life is the jailor, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.' But Professor Robinson was not a prisoner in the midst of surroundings which were irksome to him and from which he felt it a joy to be liberated. Blessed with the most generous
gifts of a happy home, which had not been broken by the removal of any one of its members, living in the daily enjoyment of a most congenial profession, full of enthusiasm for the development of this great educational enterprise, coming constantly into helpful relations with scores of young men and women, life to him was a boon to be carefully guarded and retained to the longest possible limit of time. But this was not to be. May we not believe that the Providence which protects us from real harm kindly withdrew our friend from future earthly evil and allowed him to pass into his immortal inheritance in the full possession of his powers, without the antecedent prolongation of months and years of suffering and decline which precedes the termination of so many lives. A Christian optimism must hold that in the large view of events it has been well with him who has left us so suddenly. Plato approximated to the truth of Christianity when he declared that "no one knows whether death which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good." The Christian view exalts to an assured belief the glimmering suggestion of the Greek philosopher, and we may with confidence assert that life has now become far more glorious for our despaired friend than was possible under the limitations of his earthly environment. And sometime we may rejoin our departed fellow student and beloved teacher—
For "Love will dream and Faith will trust (Since He who knows our need is just) That somehow, somewhere, meet we must, Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees! Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!"
ADDRESS BY JUDGE JAMES HURMPHREY.
When a good man dies whose life has been distinguished by many years of useful and honorable activities, a distinct personal loss is felt by all who have been brought within the circle of his fluence. But while the inspiration of a personal presence is missed, and there results a cessation of those activities which have been the outflow of the potency of that life, the effect of every useful act done and the elevating influences emanating from it are not lost, nor has death served to diminish the sum or the active operation of those moral forces which that life shed abroad over the community.
The individual dies, at least to the world. but the total sum of existence is eternal In all the changes and transformations through which the universe passes, not an atom of matter, nor an
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electric spark whose glimmer is but for a moment, nor the fairest light that reaches the earth from the remotest visible star is lost. God's power and dominion over all the vast domain of mind and matter will remain undiminished to all eternity.
If we cannot conceive of the annihilation of a grain of sand, or a diminution of the mass of the material universe, or of the sum of the forces that pervade it, how can we conceive that death, as we see it, can extinguish a human soul? Or how can we conceive that the moral influences diffused through a community by a beneficent life can ever cease to operate through an endless chain of existence? We are immoral, not only in individual existence but in the moral forces that we set in motion through individual activities. And so our departed friend though dead yet speaks h, and the influence of that life in its multiform manifestations, upon which we meditate today and from which we seek lessons of wisdom and courage, will continue to operate unspent to the latest time
Solon O Thacher was born August 31, 1830 in Hornersville, New York. His primary education was received in the public schools of his native county. His further education was continued in the Alfred academy, and completed in the Union College, in which he received a thorough classical training. He subsequently prosecuted a course of legal study in the Albany Law School from which he graduated in 1856. Thus, in addition to being the lineal inheritor of those traits of mind and character—mental acuteness and moral earnestness—which develop and strengthen in a long line of puritan ancestry, he brought to the active duties of life a preparation and equipment that insured a high degree of success.
His country needed his services. As he entered, fresh from the schools, upon the stage of active life he was confronted with the commencement of a new political era for the United States. The Whig party had performed its mission and had sunk into decay. That party had performed great services to the nation It had given expression and form, and imparted strength and vigor to the sentiment and spirit of nationalism. It was firmly planted upon that interpretation of the constitution which regarded that instrument as constituting the American states one indissoluble Union. That doctrine had taken deep root in the northern mind and had become entrenched in the federal judiciary. The pro-slavery interests, intensely jealous of outside interference with slave institutions in the state wherein they existed, had clung tenaciously to the opposite doctrine of each state possessing the right to determine for itself the validity of the acts of the national government,
and to acquiesce or not as best suited its own policy or convenience. The Whig party had performed this further service for the nation, it had by compromise measures and repeated concessions to the slave interest postponed the final issue which the existence of slave institutions in the midst of a government whose guiding and central principle was human freedom and civil liberty, rendered inevitable, until the spirit of nationalism, fostered by the Whig party, had time to embody itself in a new and more aggressive organization. This was realized in the organization of the republican party, a party that rapidly absorbed the best brains and blood of the northern states, and which, inheriting the best doctrines and traditions of the Whig party, brought to their interpretation an enlarged spirit of liberty
It seems but a natural sequence that Solon O. Thacher, endowed with the generous sympathies engendered by a liberal education, entering upon the responsible duties of life at the commencement of this auspicious period, should be found assisting at the birth of a political party destined to a great career. Accordingly we find him representing a constituency in the state of New York in the first convention called in that state to organize the new party, through whose instrumentality not only should human slavery vanish from these states, but the righteous breath of its leader, Lincoln, should blast the spirit of slavery everywhere and impart a new impetus to the civilization of mankind,
Two years later, in 1858, he came to Kansas where the preliminary skirmish of the impending battle was on.
Congress was still dallying with the Lecompton constitution. For three years slavery had existed in fact, as well as by force of law, in the territory of Kansas The territorial legislature that convened in Lawrence in 1858, abolished the slave code and adopted a body of laws congenial to free institutions. The work of laving the foundations upon which should be built the superstructure of a new state had yet to be done. Kansas had already indulged in constitution manufacture to a considerable extent, but more for political effect than with a well founded expectation that the fresh production would become the fundamental law of a great state But now it was clearly seen that Kansas would range herself with the northern phalanx of states, and the work of forming a constitution adequate and adapted to a new and expanding state was to be seriously entertained and entered upon.
It may serve as an index to the mental force and solidity of character of Judge Thacher at that early period of his life to note the fact that, though in 1859, his residence in Lawrence had covered little more than a year, he was chosen by a constituency the most distinguished in the territory for devotion and sacrifice for the free state cause, and which furnished the leadership in the movement that resulted so auspiciously for Kansas, to represent them in the convention that formed the constitution under which we have lived for thirty-four years.
That his part in the formation of that instrument was conspicuously useful would readily be inferred from the composition of the convention. With a few exceptions the members of that convention were neither statesmen nor lawyers. They were for the most part men of respectable ability and character, but who had never meditated deeply upon the nature of government, the philosophy of its constitution and the distribution of power to its several parts by means of written constitutions, so as to preserve a harmonious balance between them. But these things had occupied the thoughts of Judge Thacher, and as a student of history he knew the nature of the limitations necessary to be imposed upon the exercise of power to guard well the rights and liberties of the people.
The constitution then formed has servied the state well Its phraseology is comprehensive and clear, and nod faculty has arisen in giving it satisfactory interpretation. It needs no radical touch to bring it up to the full measure of our present requirements.
Among the bright young men who were Judge Thacher's associates in that important public work were Senator Ingalls, Judges Kingman. Burris, Simpson, and the late Governor John A. Martin.
Of the five judicial districts into which the state was divided by the Wyandotte constitution Solon O. Thacher was elected judge of the fourth district. He entered upon the duties of that office upon the admission of the state to the union in January 1-61, and continued in the office up to 1864, when he resigned to accept the nomination of the republican union state convention, in September of that year, for governor. Judge Thacher succeeded to the high and responsible office of judge of the fourth judicial district while still a young man. His mind, however, was already well matured, and his reputation was high both among the members of the bar in his district and the profession generally. With a large mind well stored with legal learning, a patient habit, an affable bearing and a love of justice he possessed those qualities that make a successful jurist.
Judge Thacher was a consistent and steadfast adherent to the principles and policies of the republican party but not a blind follower of all the arts and methods employed in the name of that party. In 1864 he was tendered and accepted a nomination for governor at the hands of
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A man can at times render a better service to his party by declared opposition to its methods than by a servile obedience to its behests. Many other republicans joined Judge Thacher in this revolt, the immediate result was doubtless considered by many a failure, but its purpose was not barren. It caused many thoughtful men to pause and to perceive that the habiliments of patriotism were unfit garments with which to clothe corruptionists and plunderers. The veterans in this bad business were beyond the touch of reform and were soon overwhelmed with the weight of their own transgressions.
It would greatly transgress the limits assigned me for this address to speak in detail of Judge Thacher's frequent services in the state legislature, either as a member of the house or senate. I believe that it is strictly within the bounds of truth to say that he was more frequently a member of that body and had more to do in fashioning the laws under which we live than any other man in Kansas.
It is of high importance that men of legislative experience and skill should be sent to that body. The laws which emanate from it furnish to the the people of the state nearly all those regulations which concern the possession, use, enjoyment and transmission of all kinds of property, the regulation of those personal relations which are involved in municipal law, the determination of the measure of local self government to be lodged in the subordinate divisions of the state, and the roles to be observed in all domestic concerns that come within the purview of legal relations, besides the management of those public institutions which in all progressive states, are placed under the fostering care of the government. There is scope for usefulness in the state legislature of a high order. Even within the scope of the constitution that body may inflict great mischiefs or confer inestimable benefits upon the people. In every legislative body there are many selfish schemes to be circumvented and many remedial and beneficial measures to be transmuted into law. But it is very rare that occasions arise in the course of state legislation to call forth the full exertions of the powers of an able man. He can be most useful in the practical work of legislation by eschewing an ambition to be brilliant and by cultivating in a quiet and unobtrusive manner the confidence and good will of his fellow members. In the observance of this practice lay much of the effectiveness and success as a legislator of Judge Thacher.
But it was not the gratification of a personal ambition that drew Judge Thacher so often to the halls of legislation. He never went without personal sacrifice to his own interests, for he was always a busy man, and he never busied himself about trifles. That his concern for the prosperity and welfare of the state was a matter of never ending solicitude with him is well known to those who knew him. But more especially was he attracted to that arena by the love he bore and concern he felt in the success of this great institution of learning. For years this institution had come to lean on that strong man to worthily present to the legislative body its claims and needs.
The people of Kansas have never manifested a lack of disposition to give adequate support to their schools and institutions of learning, and the equipment and high grade character of this University attests the liberality of the people of Kansas, and their appreciation of the value of that character of citizenship which a liberal education tends to establish.
But every institution of the kind needs a friend at court to advocate its claims to public support, and secure for it that sustenance necessary to its growth and development.
In Judge Thacher this University had a friend who listened to its minuteest appeals and whose loyalty never faltered. He not only esteemed it a privilege to work for it but he justly felt that it was an honor to be connected with it.
The duties of the legal profession absorbed the greater portion of Judge Thacher's active career. In these he achieved a high degree of success both as a practitioner at the bar and in the emoluments which success brings. During this period Judge Thacher became a familiar figure in many courts both state and federal. This indeed was the work for which he had made special preparation, and it absorbed the best energies of his life.
A lawyer's professional fame is not always in proportion to his ability.
Much depends upon his environment. The larger portion of the business that comes to a lawyer is disposed of without unusual effort. It is the cases presenting unusual features and peculiar difficulties, and upon which great interests, either public or private, depend that demand that order of ability which lawyers of high rank alone possess. Such was the case of the state vs Medlicott. This case presented novel phases. It involved an issue of life and death. The prosecution was conducted with great vigor and ability. The solution of some of the leading questions in the case was attended with doubt and difficulty. The testimony was very voluminous and, in portions of it, contradictory. There was a large amount of expert medical testimony which had to be dealt with and sifted with a skillful and discriminating mind. The case attracted marked and wide attention, as well from the novelty of the questions presented as the relations and character of the parties involved, and the great ability of Judge Thacher, who was the leading counsel in the case, and the masterly skill displayed placed him in the front rank of the legal profession. In saying this of Judge Thacher I need not disparage in the least able counsel who were associated with him in the case. There were no difficulties too great or problems too intricate in the practice and administration of law for him to deal with. He had studied law not by piecemeal or in detached portions with a view of making a specialty of one part to the neglect of other departments, but he had a comprehensive view of the whole field of jurisprudence. To his mind it was a coherent system evolved through the long ages of the past from the deepest ethical conceptions of the human mind, and its great purpose is to enable men to live in the presence of their fellows in security and peace.
He was a well rounded lawyer, entertaining a lively sense of the grave responsibilities attaching to the profession. The last words he addressed to the law students of this University in June last were finely expressive of this. How little we thought then that those words of grave wisdom constituted the final advice of a master to his disciples.
"Young men," said he in impressive tones, "deal honestly with your clients. Before you take them into court, satisfy yourselves by careful inquiry that they have rights to enforce and wrongs to be remedied. Do not add to their perplexities by introducing them to fruitless litigation. Be honest and candid with the court. While it is your duty to seek to serve with faithful diligence the interests of your clients never forget that justice and truth have supreme claims upon you. A legal victory gained at the expense of these is too
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dear" Such was the substance of the advice addressed by Judge Thacher to the young men whom he had instructed in the class room in the science of justice.
Judge Thacher was competent to take important public employments. He was a man whose knowledge of public affairs was extensive and he possessed a profound understanding of their significance. The commission conferred upon him by President Arthur in 1884, as one of three commissioners to the South and Central American States was a recognition of this fact. The primary object of that commission was to promote a closer intercourse and friendship and more extensive commercial relations between this republic and the states of Southern America, an object the importance of which can hardly be over estimated,
It is conceded that the chief work of the commission dayolved on Judge Thacher. The other members, if I mistake not, returned to this country before the commission had completed its inquiries, which, however, were prosecuted to a final conclusion and an elaborate report made by Judge Thacher.
If the labors of that commission have not borne the fruit that was expected of them,this is to be attributed rather to the lack of a continuous consistent public policy touching those relations than to any defect in the work of that commission.
Indeed the effect of the labors of the commission have since borne fruit in the awakened interest manifested by those states in the subjects which occupied its attention.
Judge Thacher was a large personality. He filled a large space in the public mind, a space that expanded as time went on. He never resorted to those arts commonly used by those who seek public prominence, to enshrine his name in a halo of superficial brilliance. He possessed the power to be brilliant, but he preferred to be useful. His public addresses are models of a chaste sober eloquence, their purpose is to instruct not to dazzle. His prepared as well as his impromptu addresses are free from bombast. He never magnified small things for the sake of effect.
He was a modest man. I do not recall in mv intercourse with him any reference to His personal successes at the bar, or his public services. I do not recall any instance in which he indulged in self glorification. He seemed contented to let his work speak his silent praises
He possessed ambition, but an ambition chastened by a deep sense of responsibility. He did not actively seek public position and yet did not shun it when that opened the way for usefulness to his fellow citizens.
His talents were developed in various directions. His large experience, quickness and accuracy of judgement and un
flinching fidelity to his convictions of right and duty fitted him for high executive functions. His scholarly training, the mental discipline through which he had passed, rendering prolonged and consecutive thought the fixed habit of his mind, a mind well stored with rich and various learning, an intimate acquaintance with legal principles, and a profound understanding of their bearing and significance, together with a love of justice and rectitude of purpose, admirably fitted him for high judicial service. At nearly all elections for United States Senator, in late years, his name has come up by a sort of spontaneous and involuntary suggestion as a fit candidate for that honor.
If that honor had come to him he would have served his beloved country with fidelity and usefulness.
In all the relations of life his walk was blameless He was considerate and kind and helpful.
In trying to delineate a life we cannot view it in its wholeness. We see but portions of it. We gather up a fragment here and another there and we study their significance. We see a young man pursuing with patient industry a prolonged course of difficult studies, and we say he is of a grave character. We see him espousing generous principles and entering with enthusiasm upon the service of the public and we say he is patriotic. We see him diligently working out a successful career in business or professional life, and we conclude that he is a man of talent and solidity of character. But the influence of a thousand acts in that life which have escaped our observation has gone out into the world and none but the eye of omniscience can trace and measure the circle of that influence.
A good life is a benediction, the memory of which is to be cherished forever more.
ADDRESS BY REV. RICHARD CORDLEY.
Governor Charles Robinson will always stand among the prominent figures in Kansas history. He seems to have been prepared by the experience through which he had passed for the place he was called to fill. Christian people would say he was was prepared by Providence for the work Providence had for him to do. Others would state it differently, perhaps, and say he was the product of the historic process of which he formed a part. But with us the historic process is nothing more nor less than the movement of that higher thought which prepares for the emergencies it is designed to meet
Governor Robinson was a native of Massachusetts, born in 1818. He was educated in the schools of his neighborhood and in Amherst college. At the beginning of his judior year his eyes
failed and he left college and never returned. He soon after began the study of medicine. He practiced his profession for several years with great success. In Springfield, Massachusetts, he was the partner of Dr. J. G. Holland, known in literature as Timothy Titcomb. In 1847 he removed to Fitchburg and began practice there. He was there in 1849 when the discovery of gold in California created such a sensation all over the land. Dr. Robinson went to California as surgeon with a company of gold seekers from Massachusetts. They went by the long and tedious overland route. They purchased their teams in Kansas City and passed up the Kansas river. They climbed the spur of the hill northeast of the university and looked over what was to be the townsite of Lawrence from university hill. When five years later the Kansas question came up he recalled what he had seen and was able to speak with authority of the country and its promise. When he had been in California awhile he encountered a state of things which involved some of the same conditions he met in Kansas. Settlers in Sacramento had taken government claims and were improving them as farms, when some speculators secured one of those elastic Mexican titles which they undertook to stretch over all the good land of the valley, and so rob these men of their homes. The courts were owned by the speculators and the settlers had no recourse. Dr. Robinson took the part of the settlers and put himself at their head. In the conflict which followed the mayor of Sacramento was killed and Dr. Robinson was severely wounded. Though almost in a dying condition he was arrested and indicted for murder. He was confined in a prison ship for several months before he could get a trial. When at last a trial was given him he was acquitted, and he was the hero of the hour. The speculators and their venal courts were defeated and the settlers secured their homes.
This experience specially fitted him for the larger and more complicated operations in which he afterwards took so prominent a part in Kausas. It not only prepared him, but it marked him for it, and attracted him to it.
In 1854 it was determined to attempt to save Kansas for freedom according to the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska bill itself which was intended to enslave her. The Kansas-Nebraska bill provided that the people of the territory themselves should determine whether she should be slaye or free. Then said the people of the north, we will settle Kansas with freedom loving men, and so make her free. The friends of freedom in New England organized the New England Emigrant Aid company. This company chose Dr. Robinson, on account of his western experience,
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to lead in the movement. He came out with the second Boston company in September, 1854, and made his home in lawrence. Thus these immigrants had the benefit of his large experience and wise counsel, which were of great service to them. But the unique service he rendered which tested the man and proved his capacity in statesmanship was in the political complications of the next three years. The story has been told so often that it seems like repeating household phrases to tell it again, yet I must tell again in briefest outline, to make the point I am aiming at: March 30, 1855, an election was ordered by Governor Reeder for members of the first territorial legislature, who were to frame the first laws for the new commonwealth. Of course all regarded this as a very important election. The result of it might settle the whole question. How that election would have resulted if the people had been left to themselves, no man can tell. They were not left to themselves. Men from Missouri, in large companies, and armed to the teeth, poured into all parts of the territory, took possession of the polls in every precinct of any consequence and voted, electing the legislature in defiance of the people. The number of votes cast exceeded by more than two to one the entire voting population of the territory. Here in Lawrence there were 1,034 votes cast, while the entire voting population was only 369. So here in Lawrence where the community was almost unanimously free state, the pro-slavery candidates were chosen by a majority larger than the whole legal vote of the place. The legislature thus elected by Missouri votes, very consistently adopted the Missouri code of laws entire. In the matter of slavery, however, they went beyond their model. They enacted a more extreme slave code than existed in any state of the union. To aid in the escape of a slave was made a crime to be punished with death, while to express an opinion adverse to slavery was made a felony to be punished by at least five years in the penitentiary. The whole thing was an outrage unparalleled in history.
What could the free state men do? To submit to the outrage and live under such laws would be a degradation not to be thought of. To resist them by force would be mad-men. The legislature had the forms of law. Their work was recognized by the territorial officials and was recognized also by the national administration at Washington in which Franklin Pierce was president and Jefferson Davis was secretary of war. If carried to the supreme court of the United States it would have been sustained there, for Chief Justice Taney voiced the judgment of that court. The gloom of despair settled upon not only the free state men of Kansas, but upon
the friends of freedom all over the country. It seemed as if the matter were settled and Kansas was already a slave state.
In the midst of this bewildering perplexity, Dr. Robinson's judgment rose to its supreme height. He proposed the masterly policy of repudiation without resistance. "Let us denounce the election as an outrage, the legislature as a usurpation, and the laws passed as a foreign imposition. But let us commit no crime, and let us use no violence. Let us ignore their laws, neither appealing to them, nor using them, nor in any way recognizing them, but let us carefully abstain from everything that shall put us in the position of law breakers. Let us stand firmly in our position, and suffer whatever may come upon us in consequence. Then let us wait till we can get a hearing from the larger court of the American people. Let us suffer wrong if we must, but let us not do wrong." A favorite phrase of his was: "Suffer and be strong."
This became essentially the policy of the free state men. They just ignored what they denounced as the bogus laws "They stood aloof from the leghl machinery devised by them. They brought no suits into their courts; they attended no elections called by their authority; they paid no attention to their county organizations; they offered no estates to their probate judges, they tried no causes by their justices of the peace. they paid no tax levies made by their authority. Yet they were careful to do no act which should lay them liable to the laws they contemned." Thus the free state community stood for two years, practically a distinct commonwealth within the commonwealth, ignoring the laws back of which stood the territorial government, the national administration and the army of the United States. Yet so wisely did they maintain themselves that the "overt act" for which their enemies were watching, which should subject to the penalty of treason, was scrupulously avoided. So in two years they accomplished a successful revolution and wrested the power from the hands of the desperate men who were determined to enslave the state.
It was a difficult position to maintain. The temptation was a most irresistible, on one side to temporize and lose the vantage ground they had gained, and on the other side to rush into excesses which would precipitate a conflict. To stand firm in their chosen policy and yet avoid excesses required a clear and steady hand. They had them both in Dr. Robinson. He never wavered nor flinched. Yet his counsel was always for moderation and peace. The result of this policy was, that what they called the "bogus laws" were practically nullified. No slave holder dared bring his slaves into Kansas notwithstanding the severe laws
protecting slave property. When the time came to repeal the slaye code there was no slavery existing in the territory to embarrass the situation. There were exasperations hard to bear, and complications hard to unravel, but the moderate middle ground chosen at the beginning was never swerved from to the end. The wisdom and courage which led through those turbulent years, avoiding the dangers on either side, is worthy a place in the record of the world's diplomacy and statesmanship. The man whose steady counsel, more than anything else, accomplished this result was Governor Robinson. When history comes to measure events by their importance, she will put the name of Charles Robinson high in the scales of diplomatic generalship. Whether any other policy would have made Kansas free no man can tell. But the policy that did accomplish that result was suggested by Governor Robinson, and was matured and interpreted and applied by him during the two turbulent years when the question was at issue. He will always, therefore, be a marked figure in the history of Kansas.
The qualities which were so conspicuous in those turbulent times always characterized him in practical affairs. Men will differ as to his political career, and as to the soundness of his speculative opinions. But as to the soundness of his judgment in practical emergencies there will be no difference of opinion among those who knew him. If any difficult thing were to be done you could safely trust Governor Robinson to do it. In the bye-gone days, whenever this community came to a serious emergency they always turned to Governor Robinson for counsel, and he never failed to find a safe solution. A writer who attended one of the great free state conventions in 1855, has this to say of Governor Robinson: "The president of the convention was Governor Charles Robinson. From the first he had been considered the leader of the free state movement, and was looked to for counsel in every difficult emergency. He was always cool and clear-headed in the midst of danger, and no emergency ever disconcerted him. He was a man of fine presence and large experience. In the popular sense of the word, he was not eloquent, but he had a way of talking to a crowd in such a plain, straightforward manner, that few men carried conviction more readily than he. He was usually conservative, preferring to gain his end by management rather than by force. It was largely due to the moderate counsel of such men as he that there was not more violence and bloodshed during those critical times. He was a good presiding officer, and in the stormiest debate he was never bewildered."
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of Governor Robinson in his relation to this University. At the outset I may say that Governor Robinson's interest in the University was much older than the University itself. He had a college in his thought long before there was the slightest sign of one on the ground, or even on the statute book. In that perhaps he was not singular. Most of the early settlers of Lawrence regarded a college as one of the things they must aim at in building the town. It was the common thought of them all. This is shown by the fact that there were three separate movements in this direction before the University took form, and the University became the heir of all three. But Governor Robinson was the exponent of this idea more than any other man, and was more steadily and constantly pressing in that direction. He kept the idea alive, and joined effectively in every effort in that line. Very early in the history of the settlement Amos A Lawrence, of Boston, after whom this town was named, set apart $10,000 toward the establishment of a college in Lawrence. This money was loaned out and principal and interest were to be available whenever any project for a college was mature enough to make it certainty. This fund lay as a constant invitation for propositions in this line. Its existence was a large element in every movement made, and a large element in the final location of the State university at this place. Governor Charles Robinson was the custodian of this fund, being a very particular freind of Mr. Lawrence. I never have heard the statement made, but I am very sure I am right when I say that it was Governor Robinson's suggestion and influence which induced Mr. Lawrence to set the fund aside for that purpose. I am all the more sure of this from the fact that Mrs. Robinson belongs to the Lawrence family and was naturally intimate and influential in the Lawrence home.
In every movement toward a college made in Lawrence, Governor Robinson was a prominent actor. There were three such efforts before the State university was suggested. He was active in every one of them. Whether the movement was by the Presbyterians or the Congregationalists or the Episcopalians, he could always be depended upon to cooperate. Though he belonged to neither of these bodies, he cooperated with each one of these in turn, willing to join with any body of men who were aiming to build a worthy college. He was a member of every one of their boards of trustees, and an active sympat thizer with their plans. When the State university was proposed and the other plans all merged in this, it was in full accord with his ideas, and he joined in the effort with great earnestness. He offered to turn over to the state the funds
of which he was the custodian and also to add still larger donations of his own. The beautiful site on which these buildings stand was his gift to the state. If the state were as wise as he was liberal, she would lose no time in securing the entire circle of the hill, and thus come in possession of the most magnificent site of any university in these United States of America. She would thus literally round out the noble gift of the first governor of our state, and do a deed for which all the future would call her blessed. It would be an act whose significance would be more marked with every year that passed
Governor Robinson's interest in the University was not confined, however, to gifts of money or land. He gave it also time and thought. He was always ready to give it his personal service whenever that service was called for. He was a member of the first board of regents, and I am not able to say for how many terms after that he was his own successor. In his capacity as regent he was untiring in his attention. He was not only present at the meetings of the board but he spent time and money and travel in aid of the institution. When the first faculty was chosen he proposed the name and secured the election of a young man in Massachusetts as professor of natural science. Then he used his best arts of persuasion to induce that young man to accept the position offered him. That young man came and entered upon his work and did it so well that he distinguished himself and the institution with which he was connected. So among the contributions of Governor Robinson to Kansas university we may very properly include her honored chancellor, Frank H. Snow.
While the name of Governor Robinson is written upon the early history of this state in letters that can never be effaced, because they penetrate the very substance itself, his thought and life are also wrought into this university in a way that must endure, because they are a part of the very foundation and structure. His name is linked with the very first thought of a college in Lawrence and can be traced down the whole history of its development. He seemed to be following the plain logic of events when he made this institution the final heir of the estate he lost behind him. He showed in his last act where his heart all along had been. He wished his last gift to go where his chief interest had been. He seemed to realize that this was his best monument, and only followed the instinct of his life when he crowned it with his last benefaction.
The day will come when Kansas will build a monument to the man who led her counsels and her hosts in the struggle that made her free; who was her first governor when that struggle ended, and she took her place among the stars; and
who was so important a factor in the founding and unfolding of her chief institution, her great University. Where and what shall that monument be? The place it would seem, should not be a matter of question. It should be, not in the cemetery where his bones are resting, but on the spot where so much of his life and thought were centered, on the piece of ground which his own liberality gave to the state for a noble purpose. Then what shall his monument be? A shaft of marble or a column of brass would be an impertinence in honor of a man so emphatically a man of deeds. Let it be in line with his leading thought, with the work which more than any other will commemorate him. Let it both proclaim and enlarge the work which crowned his life. In closing therefore I would like to suggest a monument by which Kansas could honor herself, and honor him, and at the same time enlarge the institution on which his heart was set. It would be a monument which would express his practical and progressive character; which would express his love of science and of original research, and which would express his interest in higher education. I would suggest that the people of Kansas build on this hill what shall be known in all time to come, as "The Robinson Observatory of Kansas University."
ADDRESS BY HON. E. C. LITTLE.
Me ipse consolor et maxime illo solacio, quod eo errore careo, quo amicorum decessu plerique angi solent. Nihil mali accidisse Scipioni puto: mihi accidit, si guid accidit; suis autem incommodus graviter angi non amicum, sed se insum amantis est.—De Amicitia.
I comfort myself with this solace that I am free from the error by which most people are wont to be grieved at the loss of their friends. I think no evil has befallen Scipio; to me it has happened if any has happened—and to be greatly grieved at one's own misfortune is the part of one who loves not his friend, but himself.
This phrase of Cicero's has received the approbation of twenty centuries of philosophy. The most credulous has inscribed it in his creed. The most sceptical has written it among his axioms. The pessimist, remembering the past, reaches that gloomy conclusion. The optimist, looking into the future, registers that fond hope. Cheered by this doctrine the crusader mounts the walls of Jerusalem inspired by this anticipation the peaceful devotee kneels at the altar. The savage fanatic chants it in his war-song on the upper Nile. The cultured scholar writes it in his thesis by the Isis. Every class, clime and century unite in this belief. Nevertheless its naked statement is an impeachment of the goodness of nature.
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If death is a fortunate release then life is a waste of time. Unless there be men whom we can call happy before they are dead, the great Author of the universe has committed a crime in permitting our appearance here. But here and there are discovered lives which challenge this gratuitous assumption, reaffirm our confidence in the great Architect and preserve the self respect of mankind. So we come to commemorate the character and to mourn the departure of one who has so lived that he is equally prepared to face a larger future of immortality or to stand on the record he has made in that little span between the cradle and the grave, if he should
"Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking Morn of toil nor night or waking."
David Hamilton Robinson was born among those lakes where the first American nation, the ancient Iriquois Confederacy, made its home, in a region of unsurpassed natural beauty. Sprung from a race of farmers, his blood was clean, his step firm, his shoulders broad, his enthusiasm undimmed by any inherited taint of morose cynicism resulting from too familiar acquaintance with mankind. Raised on a farm he grew to young manhood with a modesty of demeanor, a confidence in human nature, a loftiness of ideal and a purity of character which he never lost. "His strength was as the strength of ten because his heart was pure," Graduating in 1859 from Rochester University, he sat at the feet of Dr. Anderson, one of those big brained, great hearted, white souled teachers, such as he himself became, who hold the young men of America to the high standard of the builders of the republic.
After a few years of probationary discipline, in 1866 he began his life work where Oread's gentle summit crests the silvered, sylvan, winding valley of the Kaw. From the wooded hills which overhang the Neckar Heidle berg's alumnus beholds a scene less fair. The state-ly towers of Oxford overlook a territory no more historic than the country of John Brown of Kansas, where began the great struggle for freedom So here in such an environment, to David H Robinson and his compeer and colleague Francis H. Snow par nobile fratum fell the duty of founding and developing an institution of learning which should stand for all time as the proudest ornament of a state, the source of the noblest inspiration of the young men and young women of the commonwealth of Kansas, herself no mean dowered daughter in the sisterhood of states.
Perhaps the distinguishing feature of Professor Robinson's character was that he never lost his personality in his profession, never sank the teacher in the mere instructor, was always a man and never a pedant The eager student found in his chair no pulseless machine,
yielding and requiring so many revolutions an hour, but a sympathetic individuality that appreciated the difficulties and comprehended the aspirations of the heart that hoped and the brain that powdered behind the dusty pages of a Livy, the sprightly leaves of a Horace, or the thoughtful covers of a Seneca. In that class room no regular army moved with measured tread and automatic precision from the camps of Ceasar to the comedies of Plautus. But young men and young women grew as the tree grows in the sun and rain, as his classic Rome grew from the ploughed furrow of Romulus to the marble palace of Augustus.
His was a hand that never lost its warmth, a heart that never lost its kindness and an eye that seldom lost its twinkle. The studied sentences of more pedantic professors, will be hidden in the dust of time when his quaint and kindly humor is handed down from generation unto generation of students. Somehow, somewhere, sometime, this man had learned that education is only a means to an end, study a fortification of character, scholarship a tool for an artisan, culture an ornament to intellectuality. Therefore, while he delighted in those whose talents shone most brilliantly in the study of classical literature, he kept quite in touch with those who reached his goal more laboriously. With him character secured as much consideration as talent.
His recitations were enlivened by a certain home-like and wholesome friendliness which was an expression of natural sweetness and soundness of his nature. He always kept track of college affairs and often recurred with friendly and complimentary jest to the exploits of some hero of a day of college life. He never failed to appear and encourage the University champions in their contests with schools from a distance. Carefully honest in his distribution of honors, position, wealth, influence, friendship never swayed him in the discharge of his duties or the assignment of the honors of his classes. Yet one sometimes thought that duller students received from his good will, by better grades than their attainments suggested, the encouragement which their industry deserved and their meager talents needed. He was by instinct, habit and acquirement a typical college professor of the best sort, thoroughly in accord with the spirit of college life. As his unstudied and charming personality won the good will of all his students, so his simple, unassuming dignity commanded and received their perfect respect.
Modest in his thinking, retiring in his habits, the general public seldom had opportunity to realize the scope of his attainments, and the high order of his talents. His careful and cosmopolitan scholarship not only gave him a thorough mastery of Latin language and Literature, but also an intimate and familiar acquaintance with all good literature and good thinking. Never intruding his information, only after a long and close acquaintance did one begin to appreciate the variety and extent of his learning. He had a playful manner of considering topics other men discussed solemnly, that misled those who failed to understand that his half humorous, half cynical methods sprang from a consciousness of sufficient strength and ample resource. His judgment of intellectual distances was always accurate, his conception of his own powers and possibilities always correct and clear.
Professor Robinson's extensive contributions to the prose and versified literature of college and club life would have been received with favor by a larger audience. With less talent men of more ambition have attained high place in literature. Essentially a modest man, never stung by ambition to excel, only actuated by a determination to do his duty, he ventured only into those fields where duty called him. He possessed an equable temperament, a perfect poise of character which made the battle of life for him almost a holiday parade. Others beat the wings of ambition against the gates of opportunity in vain endeavor. He took stock of his resources with judgment, selected his field with care, and achieved absolute success. He knew that the laurels fame bestows are crowns of thorns, that every dollar added to a competence is a care. So ambition never gave him a sleepless night. Avarice never clenched his open, generous hand. Envy never disturbed his serene and manly soul. The close of his life found him in full possession of all those things which Macbeth tells us should accompany old age, aa honor, love, obedience, troops of friends. He never courted applause and he never feared criticism. A man of fine scholarship, thorough culture and high character, he was equal to every responsibility of life. He so lived
"That when his summons came to join
The innumerable caravar, that moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall
take
His chamber in the silent halls of death.
He went, not like the quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and
soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approached his
grave.
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him and lies down to pleasant
dreams."
Fortunate in every walk of life, his domestic relations were peculiarly happy, as those favored students who were admitted to his home circle well knew. There they learned the "true pathos and sublimity of human life." Twenty-six years ago he married in a kansas village as sweet and noble a woman as ever lived "on this bank and shoal of time."
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A loving family grew up round an ideal fireside. Truly his path was through the green pastures and by the still waters, His successes and blessings came while he was in the prime of life. To most men the crown of life only comes when their feeble hands must lay it down.
The splendid clouds that hail the dawn
Ere touch of noon, are long since gone.
The gentle says that prophet night
Are lost with day's retreating light.
And every sound and every sail
Are fled 'fore we can fairly hail.
And peace and rest, best gifts of fate,
Immortal gods, ye grant too late.
A modest competence, a reasonable income, congenial pursuits, the respect of all his acquaintances, the affection of all his familiars, a successful career, a perfect wife, a happy home.
These be his honors, and some young eyes dim
For Love's sake more than fame's, for him,
for him
If Cicero's future of the philosopher and the devotee has anything better for such a man I do not know what it may be.
But there is an end for all things mortal. Death comes to the just and the un
"A flash of the lightning, a break in the wave.
just, the fortunate and the miserable alike.
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. From the gilded saloon to the bier and the
shroud, Oh why should the spirit of mortal be Proud?"
That stately and familiar figure will be seen in the halls of our alma mater no more. He lives in the hearts, the hopes and the deeds of the alumni of this University who best understood his talents, appreciated his labors and loved the man.
The eye of youth glows and kindles down the golden vistas of the future. The ear of age bends low to catch the dying echoes of the broken harp strings of the past. Youth with eagle glance watches the glittering car of day upon the eastern hilltops. Age with lingering look sees the weary steeds drag the dusty chariot to the eternal shores of the western ocean. The foot that sprang so eager from the cradle, stops reluctant at the coffin.
On a stone beyond the Alleghanies is carved, "Thomas Jefferson, author of
the Declaration of Independence, of the statutes of Virginia for religious freedom, and founder of the University of Virginia." We are assembled to honor the memories of Robinson the chieftain, who founded our commonwealth of Kansas, of Thacher the statesman who wrote its laws, of Robinson, the teacher who established its University. We cannot add one lustre to their fame. Their work was coequal and complementary. They will be so remembered. The past is secure. The future welfare of Kansas depends on the training of its youth. Never will it fall to worthier hands than his who has just laid down this duty. This great University is his monument. If the sons and daughters of Kansas who owe so much to him could write on these walls, his epitaph would be such as he loved old school, old fashioned, simple and sincere as was he,
David Hamilton Robinson, Professor of Latin Language and Literature
Born June 24,1837,Died July 21,1895.
He was a scholar and a gentleman who never sought an honor and never shirked a duty.
Letters from Pupils of Professor Robinson.
There were but five members of the faculty when I entered in January, 1869, and of these, two have been in the constant service of the University ever since; until last summer. Now one of them has laid aside his work in this world, after twenty-nine years of faithful service. Those of us who knew him in those early days hold him in grateful remembrance.
Perhaps the most grateful experience which comes to me on my occasional visits to Alma Mater is the cordial greeting from my old teachers. We shall miss the hearty clasp of the hand, the quiet smile, with which Professor Robinson greeted his former pupils. His long and faithful service should endear him to all connected with the University. When we recall how faithfully he worked, year after year, always at his post from first to last, with no sabbatical year for rest and foreign travel, we feel that he deserves to be classed with the other pioneers of our great West, who toiled that others might reap the fruits thereof in after years.
GERTRUDE BOUGHTON BLACKWELDER '75.
By the death of Prof. Robinson, the University of Kansas has lost one of its ablest professors, and the State of Kansas, a distinguished educator. As students we loved him; as boys we admired him; as men we honored him. Nothing can be said at the "Robinson Memorial
Service" which can do justice to the many qualities which endeared him to his students and his colleagues. One can but bow his head in reverence, and humbly acquiesce in God's will being done. FRANK G.CROWELL,'88.
Miss Ethel B. Allen recalls some of the Professor's Latin jokes with which he enlivened the class-room:
Quis crudus enim lectus albus et spiravit, or the more celebrated inscription,
I sabilli haeres ago
Fortibus es in aro,
Nosce Mari, thebe trux
Votis innem?  Pes an dux.
With the sharp eyes of affectionate memory, I can still plainly see the merry twinkle in his eyes as some serious-minded, unsuspicious student labored to reduce these to the noble cadences of Cicero or Virgil.
But our dear Professor's particular specialty was the inimitable manner in which, walking up and down before the class, he would narrate in polished Latin, some contemporaneous exploit performed by some member of the class, and by him supposed to be quite unknown, at any rate to the Faculty. Once it was a duck-hunting trip to the lake under the leadership of "Dominus Fuscus," now revered by his parishioners as the Rev. Edward Brown. He has probably long since forgotten both the trip, resulting in one mud-hen and a dip in the cold waters of the lake, and the subsequent
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narrative, but in my memory both the Professor's keen enjoyment and amusement and the embarrassment of the surprised "juvenes," of whom he discoursed, are very vivid.
ETHEL B. ALLEN, '82.
During the greater portion of my college course I was under the instruction of Prof. Robinson and I do not remember ever to have heard him speak a single unkind or inconsiderate word. Even criticism and censure, when they came from him, always came tempered with a genial kindliness. He was a superior instructor in the learning of the books, but he was still greater as a teacher of uprightness and courtesy and generous consideration. The passing away of such men is always a shock to the community in which they lived, and when that community happens to be a community of young men and young women, it is an irreparable calamity. R.D.BROWN,'92.
Professor Robinson's work was well and faithfully done. He leaves a record which will live as long as there shall be a University of Kansas. The old students will ever remember the quiet humor and the good fellowship which he continually extended towards his pupils.
One by one the ties which closely bind us to the University are being severed. The old student, in Prof. Robinson's death, loses a staunch friend and faithful adviser. With his work ended, it seems as if a chapter of our own college life had indeed ended. A few more such changes and the old volume will be closed.
SCOTT HOPKINS, '81.
I am glad to be asked to contribute to your memorial edition in honor of our dear old teacher, Professor Robinson. He was an accessible, affable, genial man, to whom one spoke freely without arriere pensee. He was never envious of the good fortune of others, and was always sympathetic in their adversity. Many of my University acquaintances, after they have left the school and state, have, like myself, kept up their acquaintance with the school and interest in it largely through Professor Robinson. He was a true friend himself and he made true friends in return. I know of no higher praise to speak of any man.
J. A. WICKERSHAM,'76.
The pleasantest recollections I have of the very pleasant seven years spent in the halls of K. S. U., are connected with Prof. Robinson. I never think of those old days without seeing again his strong, smiling face, the twinkling eyes that knew how to be stern yet never were. His strongest faculty, as it seemed to me, was
his ability to instil into the minds of his students the same love for his favorite study as inspired his own work. I know that for myself recitation to him was a thorough enjoyment, from "amo, amas, amat" down to the last day; and this I attribute entirely to him, for my recollections of pleasure in other class-rooms are somewhat blurred.
It is fitting that the highest tribute should be paid to his memory; he gave the best years of a good life to the upbuilding of the Alma Mater we all love; he is a living inspiration to hundreds of young men and women who are fortunate enough to have known him.
He is gone and gone with him half the enjoyment with which I always look forward to a visit to the old halls.
SOLON T. WILLIAMS,'80.
There is nothing that stands out more clearly in the memory of my student life than my first attendance in his lecture room. A very meek and humble "Junior Prep," I crowded into the room with others of my class for the first lesson in Latin, expecting nothing more than a mere assignment of study for the following day. But when the mixed and (it must be confessed) somewhat motley throng of youthful aspirants for collegiate learning was seated, he began talking to us about our work and its object; he told us of the power and beauty of the "City of the Seven Hills," of the greatness of the Roman people, of their decline and fall, of their marvelous impression on the laws and customs of the civilized world, of the value and profit to be derived from an accurate knowledge of this great people, and in conclusion he told us that the surest means to attain that knowledge was through the study of their language and literature. The things which he said then, though not new, and doubtless reiterated many times before and since, fell on receptive and attentive minds, and for us all they gave life to the dry bones of a dead language and robed them in the garb of meaning and instruction. I feel that I owe much to that brief talk; it gave an impetus to study and dignified it with a purpose. It gave me also admiration for him as a professor, respect for him as a man.
CYRUS CRANE, '87.
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I am asked for a few words about Prof. Robinson.
Why not measure the greatness of men by the love which they command? I think it would be a good way. I think the greatest men are those who are most lovable. Prof. Robinson was loved by all who had a chance to love him. Among those who loved him were the third and fourth rate students—those neither brilliant nor successful in their studies. Such students are usually made to feel, by their teachers, that they are out of place on the earth and ought to get off and let those who know their lessons have the space. Professor Robinson clearly thought that a man might be stupid in Latin and still be useful and successful in something else quite as well worth while. And so the dull ones loved him as well as those who were competent to measure him as a master of his profession. This was why the dull ones learned of him in spite of their dullness. All pupils, good and bad, took away from his class-room more than they took into it. With him, as with all true men, it was more blessed to give than to receive. This was not merely his theory. It was his practice. He gave everything he had in his life, including his life. About all he got back was love. Kansas gave him little else. She was stingy in the money she gave him and ought to be ashamed of it. But Professor Robinson never called attention to the fact. He did his hard work nobly, took his little money and his much love—sorry but silent about the one, thanking God for the other—lived a blameless life and died victorious, leaving an example worthy to be followed by everybody. Achieving all this he achieved the best and was a success.
C. S. GLEED.
The finest line of Cigars and Tobacco always in stock at Smith's News Depot.
If you want a Walking Cane go to Smith's News Depot and see the largest line in the city.
Send one to your pa and ma. One what? One of those Lawrence Albums. Get them of Stewart in basement of main building. Over 200 pictures of Kansas University, Lawrence and Haskell Institute. One half usual price Only 25 cents each.
Smith's News Depot is headquarters for Base Ball and Athletic goods.
Grifffn the Coal Man.
The K. S. U. Bouquet handkerchief extract is the finest perfume in the market. For sale only by Barber Bros., Druggists.
I have one Tennis Racket which you can have at your own price, also stationeory supplies at bottom figures.
J. S. BOUGHTEN. 1027 Mass. St.
A tooth brush with fast bristles is what you want. Raymond's brush bristles are fast. When you buy a faulty brush of them return it for another gratis.
Students can obtain good photos of all the University buildings of Magaw.
Gondolier Mandolin Club.
The best music at the most reasonable price will be furnished for receptions and dances. Leave orders with Olin Bell, Fred Soxman or Ross Whitlow at Weaver's.
Saunders' Mandolin Orchestra
Is a strictly first-class Mandolin Orchestra which plays all of the standard and popular music of the day with taste and expression. For terms see Mr. Saunders, teacher of guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, and Zither, 829 Mass. St. Leave word at Bell's Music Store.
Lecture Course.
The University Lecture Bureau has secured the following attractions: October 26, Ovide Musin and Company; December 6, Geo. B. Williams; January, Geo. R. Peck, or Henry Watterson and Miss Kate Field; February, Original Tennesseeans; March, Mozart Symphony Concert Company.
This is a good strong course at a most nominal price—only $1.25 ($1 to students), for the six attractions. If worth anything it is worth a dollar. It is an opportunity to hear noted lecturers and to enjoy an evening of wholesome entertainment. It is strictly a University affair and is to be given at University hall. Seats on sale at Bromelsick's.
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It's not what Weaver says that makes his store a good place to buy black dress goods. He recites facts. It's what the people find in the store—what they have found for the past nine years. Did you ever buy as good and stylish black dress goods for 79 cents as he is selling this week? Did you ever see such serges for 25 cents a yard, all wool at that? Did you ever buy such beautiful figured soleils for 98 cents the yard. Do you know of a store in town that begins to do the black dress goods business that Weaver does? It's not the advertising alone that does it. There is something behind the advertisement. Its belief in what Weaver says. That's the secret of it all. Have you visited the store this week?
You will need to keep the crimson in sight from now until victory is won. For K. U. colors come to headquarters. For Coats, Capes, Dresses, etc., Innes' is the place.
Those Fancy Brocades in black at 52 cents the yard, Mr. Weaver says cannot be matched for less than 65 cents the yard. He know, for he went to the New York market to find out Sale closes Saturday.
If your voice is husky use "Frog in your Throat" from Raymond's Drug Store.
Our Medicated Throat Wafers are what you want for that tickling in the throat. Leis Drug Store.
Try the Leis Drug Co's Toilet Cream for whitening and softening the hands.
This sudden change brings colds, and malaria follows when the colds get you down. Better take quinine if you don't see a physician, Raymond's quinine gets there.
Straffon's Drug Store is the most convenient place for you to trade. Your patronage will be appreciated and made profitable to you.
Straffon carries a very complete line of cigars.
Two basement rooms on the south side of the main entrance have been assigned by the regents for the use of the young ladies in the main building of the University. The large apartment is to be used for a study room and the small one adjoining for a lunch room. They are supplied with tables and chairs and shelves in which lunch baskets can be stored. These rooms are ready this week for occupation.
ENAMEL CORK SOLES.
PARKER FOUNTAIN PEN
ELEGANT STATIONERY
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
AT
B. W. HENSHAW'S,
917 MASS. ST., LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
SUNGAL
Johnson & Johnson. Fresh and Meats, Cured
Poultry and Game. 830 Mass. St. Prompt Delivery and Fair Treatment.
WINTER TANS.
The Bullene Shoe Co. PATENT LEATHERS. SCOTCH WELTS.
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Athletics.
As the day for the big games approaches, the practice becomes more severe. The players are worked hard each day, and the line dividing the first and second teams is becoming more pronounced. Coach Cowan has put on a suit, and in a very energetic and practical manner is teaching the new ones the game. Mr. Mastin is improving the playing of the backs. He is strengthening the interference, and showing how to hit the line to the best advantage. Perdue's defeat at the hands of the Missouri Tigers, should serve as an incentive to us. Missouri beat the Indiana giants by playing a quick snappy game, and by kicking the ball often. Alee, Missouri's full back punted the ball for 165 yds., while the ground covered on all the other plays was only 281 yds. Perdue's backs could not kick the ball. There is certainly a forcible object lesson for us in that game.
The Park College game as announced has been cancelled. The Varsity will meet the Sedalia team at Leavenworth Saturday. There has been some complaint that more games are not seen here.
For want of space a more elaborate exposition of the team will not be permitted at this time. The tennis tournament is over looked for the same reason.
Touch-Downs.
Caleman, who was centre in the team of 91 and Moody, last year's right guard visited the University this week.
Dean Foster the old University player has returned to school.
Phillips the promising left end, has been called home by the sickness of his brother. He will return shortly.
Mr. Tom Mastin of Kansas City, one of the best informed men in this part of the country on foot ball matters, has come down to assist Coach Cowan behind the line. His good work is already showing itself.
RICHMOND
Straight Cut
No.1
CARTER
Cigarettes.
CIGARETTE SMOKERS, who are willing to pay a little more than the price charged for the ordinary trade Cigarettes, will find THIS BRAND superior to all others.
These cigarettes are made from the brightest, most delicately flavored and highest cost Gold Leaf grown in Virginia. This is the Old and Oriental Brands of Straight Cut Cigarettes, and was brought out by us in the year 1875.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, and observe that the firm name as below is on every package.
ALLEN & CINTER,
The American Tobacco Company, Successor, Manufacturer.
RICHMOND, - - VIRCINIA.
ARTISTIC DRAPING.
Hall, Stages or Parlors draped for parties, balls, etc. . . . . Prompt and Satisfactory Service.
OTTO LANCHANKE.
DID YOU EVER STUDY
Science of Footwear? It is a question of great interest to students. It affects their "standing" at college. It's
GREEKOLOGY
to many. They think that "If the shoe fits, wear it." We study all branches-Style, Durability and Cost help the wearing of a shoe, and we can always fit our patrons. Extreme styles. We advance the season, others follow.
CABEL & HICKMAN, 21 East 11th St., KANSAS CITY, Mo.
CLASS
Pins and Badges.
100 VISITING
Cards and Plate, only. $1.50.
Jaccard's Kansas City
NOVELTIES OF ALL KINDS
Silver Link Buttons, . . 50c.
Silver Studs, . . . 30c.
1034 MAIN STREET.
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This Space Paid for by Geo. Davies, the Students' Tailor.
Mrs. G. F. Daugherty HAS THE Largest and Best Selected Assortment
OF
MILLINERY!
EVER SEEN IN LAWRENCE,
AND IS ABLE TO NAME YOU
Very Low Prices FOR GOOD STYLISH GOODS.
She carries the largest assortment. She employs the best artists. She gives you the correct style Her prices are the lowest. Her goods are the best.
Call and See Her.
GO to the Old Reliable STUDENTS' SHOEMAKER, JAS. E. EDMONDSON, 815 Mass. St.
Student's sewing and mending done at 828 Ohio St.
HEADQUARTERS FOR : : : :
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' SUPPLIES.
803 Mass. St. UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE.
The Largest Stock of WOOLENS for Fall and Winter at KUNKEL'S. Suits to Order from $13.50 upwards. 740 Mass. Street.
A. J. ANDERSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and residence 717 Vermont St.
Telephone 124.
TO OUR PATRONS. OUR STOCK OF FOOTWEAR Is very complete. Ladies will find overgaiters 35, 50 and 75 cts. pair. We show a large line of fancy slippers in colors.
For School Children.
A shoe called Our Drine Grain Leather,
Both heeled and spring heeled.
Sizes 5 to 8...75 Cts.
“ 9 to 11...90 “
“ 12 to 2...$1.00
MANY OTHER ATTRACTIONS MASON'S.
Phoenix Bicycles
are strictly High Grade.
'96 shipments ready Nov.1, 1895. Frame 22, 24 and 26 inches. One and one-eighth inch tubing used throughout the frame.
FRED A. CLARKE, Agt.
It is Funny
That people don't know between the difference
Sheep Clothing
and "Scheep" Clothing. But they don't, and the only way to be sure is to go to a reliable tailor. The handsome Dress and Business Suits we are making to order for $20 and $25 are not only all sheep but they are the finest kind of sheep.
F. B. Robinson Tailoring Go.,
824 Deleware St. Just below the Junction.
KANSAS CITY, MO.
R. B. WAGSTAFF,
STAPLE AND GROCERIES FANCY FRUITS AND OYSTERS.
Telephone 25
847 Mass. Street.
SPECIAL PRICES TO CLBUS.
We have an excellent line of Staple and Fancy Groceries especially adapted to Students' Clubs. Besides getting the best quality of Groceries you get the lowest prices.
The Indiana Cash Grocery is the students' place to trade.
I. C. G.
I. C. G.
Jones, Everyone has heard of the illustrious Jones family.
J. M. JONES, 706 Mass. St.,
Will Save Clubs 20 per cent in GROCERIES and MEATS. Call and see how busy he is.
Get a Nice Fall Suit of O. P. Leonard.
ZUTTERMEISTER'S Fine Confectionery, AND ICE CREAM PARLOR.
Roberts & Culver.
639 and 641 Mass. St.
Telephone 77.
STAPLE and FANGY... GROGERIES.
GROGERIES.
Caterers to Clubs, etc. Special Delivery.
Residence, 1041 Tenn. Street.
Office, over Woodward's Drug Store.
F. D. MORSE, M. D.
TIPTON'S BARBER SHOP.
836 Mass. St.
A L. ASHBY,
DENTIST,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
No. 914 Mass. St.
Telephone 16.
CHAS. HESS,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
CHOICE MEATS, SUGAR CURED HAMS AND SAUSAGE.
941 Mass. St. Telephone 14.
J. W. O'BRYON, D. D. S., DENTIST.
Nitrous Oxide Gas Over Bell's Music Store.
administered when desired. 845 Mass Street.
Lawrence, Kansas.
CHRIS. EPLEY'S,
The STUDENTS' RESTAURANT AND LUNCH COUNTER. OYSTERS IN ALL STYLES.
DONNELLY BROTHERS. LIVERY, FEED & HACK STABLES.
Corner New Hampshire & Winthrop Sts. Telephone No.100.
Telephone 141.
807 Mass Street.
C. A. PEASE & SON.
We kill our own Beef, make our own Sausage,and pack our own Pork.
MR. LOUIS BUCH, Violinist.
For a thorough course of Violin Instruction apply to No.1004 New Jersey St.
Willis
PHOTO STUDIO.
933 MASS. ST.
Telephone 113 for ALL.. KINDS OF... COAL.
Bruce Lumber Co.
HOME BAKERY. J.H.JOHNSON, Prop. West Warren St. Lawrence, Kan.
Short Order Meals a Specialty. Fresh Confectionery and Cigars on hand.
ED
ED. ANDERSON'S
LUNCH
Is the best in the city. A choice line of Candies, Cigars and Fruits always on hand.
Cosley,
Jeweler and Optician. 837 Mass. St. Fine Watch and Jewelry Repairing.
CULBERTSON & THOBURN,
Basement of Merchants Bank can make you a good price on COAL.
Telephone 84. ...
SAVAGE'S BAKERY
Is the best place in Lawrence to go PIES, BREAD, CAKES, ETC. Goods Delivered Promptly.
Wm. Wiedemann
Wiedemann
米
Ice Cream Parlor.
米
Fine Confections.
Don't wear Ready-made Clothing when you can get a
TAILOR-MADE SUIT AT McConnell's Temple of Fashion .. from .. $18.00 TO $20.00.
C. L. EDWARDS ALL KINDS OF Coal.
Coal.
WOOLF BROS.
LAUNDRY GO.
Warren St., 2d Door West Mass.
LAUNDRY GO.
ABE LEVY, Agent. A. McMURRY, Solicitor GOODS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED.
What Every Man is Looking for.
THE BEST And when its in Furnishing Goods, Gloves, Canes, Umbrellas, etc., if he's posted he comes here. Nothing too good for our trade, and the prices are right-for both you and us.
J. OTIS HUFF & CO.
818 Main St., Kansas City. Mo.
M. M. H.
'OLIN BELL,
Western Distributing Agent for
Shaw Pianos. Russell Pianos.
Bay State Washburn
Mandolins
Other First Class Pianos.
Schwarzer
and
Easy Payments if desired.
Guitars.
PIANOS TO RENT. Special Prices to K. U. Students. 'OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE, Ks.
BEAL & GODDING KEEP THE
Telephone 139.
POPULAR LIVERY STABLE.
STANDARD CYCLOMETER
ONLY $2.00.
For Bicycles. Guaranteed to last during life of the buyer. Repaired free of charge in case of a wreck. Made by N. Y. Standard Watch Company, New York City. who make the best watch in the world.
Special Sale
Men's "Tourists" Hats. $1.50,
Worth $2.50.
P. S. See our OVERCOATS before you buy.
807 MASS. ST.
W. BROMELSICK.