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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 10, 1895.
No.18.
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.
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It is a source of great satisfaction to the University and its friends to learn that Hon. C. S. Gleed has been appointed regent.
AT THE meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science in Lawrence last week, over half the papers presented were by students and members of the faculty of the University.
THE INTERESTISG paper on "Openings for Women College Graduates," which we were permitted to publish in the last issue, was written by Mrs. Howland of this city.
THE RE-ELECTION of Professor Carruth as president of the Central States Modern Language Conference is a fitting recognition of the important part which he has taken in its organization and a source for congratulation in the institution which he represents.
LET NO one neglect to cast his vote in the election next Friday. The polls will be open in some room of the main building throughout the day, so that each one can choose the most convenient time for performing the duty, and every stockholder should take part in the selection of the staff for the coming term.
THE FOLLOWING paragraph, clipped from an article in the New York Evening Post on "Women Students at Yale," will be pleasant reading for Kansas University people:
"Perhaps the most important achievement of the women students, however, is that of Miss Laura E. Lockwood, who is now engaged in her final year's work. She is preparing as her thesis "A Lexicon to the Poetical Works of Milton," a few pages of which she sent some time ago to London for the approval of Macmillan. It was accepted, and will be published simultaneously in London and New York. The publishers have agreed to assume all the expenses of printing and to pay the author a royalty. Prof. Cook will write an introduction. Miss Lockwood took the degree of A. B. at Kansas University in 1891. The work on her forthcoming volume is not complete, and it will not be published till the fall of 1897."
The Lexicon will occupy in Miltonic literature, a place corresponding to that of Schmidt's well known Shakspere Lexicon in Shaksperean literature. It will be uniform with the three volume octavo edition of Milton's works.
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IN THE intercollegiate chess contests between Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton, Harvard was the winner, as usual, and the papers which a few weeks ago were filled with whole columns of foot ball, now publish the old familiar three line paragraph recalling Harvard's unbroken record of victories in intellectual contests. However, the real value of such things is not to be judged by the amount of space given them in the newspapers, and the Harvard men have the consolation of knowing that the foot ball player's glory tarries not long with him.
THE OTHER day, while in the vicinity of the depot, we heard a party of students from some neighboring college enlivening things with their yell while waiting for a train. Although we were only a few hundred feet away, and the yell was given with great enthusiasm, the most we could make of it was something like this; "Bow-wow! Bow-wow! Bow-wow-wow," repeated indefinitely. Then the baggage-man said "Rock Chalk" and the magic words were heard and recognized on the opposite side of town. One man yelling "Rock Chalk" can hold his own against all the "Hoo-rahs" and "Hi-rahs" invented.
IN THE recent vacation, the University has lost one of its instructors, still a student, a most profound and earnest seeker after truth, a thorough scholar, a talented young man, of whom his professors and friends expected great things in future years. Modest and retiring as such gentle spirits are by nature, Frank Menet was not well known to many, but in the small circle of his chosen and intimate friends, his influence was all the stronger, the wealth of his companionship the greater. In their lives, his life lives on, the memory of him will ever be an inspiration and encouragement to them in their strife for the true and the noble. We add a few words from one of the nearest of those friends:
"How long indeed shall we miss the presence of Frank Menetl In the twenty-five years of his life he developed a character whose
influence will not be easily forgotten and whose beauty will always command our love and admiration. He was not one who made himself known to everybody, but to those who were proud to claim him for a friend he opened his heart without reserve. As a classmate, as a companion for a long tramp across the country, as a confidant, or a fellow thinker, no one could wish for a more thoughtful or delightful friend than Frank Menet."
THOSE WHO expect to contend for the honor of defending Kansas University's laurels against Nebraska's orators can now begin work in earnest. As announced in our last issue, the subject for the debate is: "Resolved, That the Initiative and Referendum as provided by the law of Switzerland should be introduced into our system of government." The subject is a very broad one and one upon which a great amount of material may be found, and the contestants cannot begin the work of preparation too early. Nebraska's representatives have already been chosen and they will assuredly work hard to redeem themselves from the defeat of last year. We shall expect to see plenty of men searching for Initiative and Referendum literature and we hope there will be an abundance of contestants in the preliminary local debates. The winners will have the New York alumni prizes and all the glory they desire.
The University students and friends of Chancellor Snow are to be given an opportunity of hearing an account of his recent European trip. At the request of a number of friends the Chancellor has consented to give a lecture well illustrated by stereoptican views and the date decided upon is Friday, January 17. A small admission fee will be charged to the lecture. The entire proceeds of which will be used in the furnishing of a boarding hall for the young women of the University. The students will thus be given an opportunity of hearing an interesting lecture and at the same time assisting in a worthy University enterprise.
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Each in His Own Tongue. BY WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH.
A fire-mist and a planet,—
A crystal and a cell,—
A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell;
Then a sense of law and beauty And a face turned from the clod,
Some call it Evolution,
And others call it God.
A haze on the far horizo
The infinite, tender sky,— The ripe rich tint of the corn-fields,
And the wild geese sailing high,— And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the golden-rod, Some of us call it Nature,
And others call it God.
Like tides on a crescent
When the moon is new and thin, Into our hearts high yearnings
Come welling and surging in, Come from the mystic ocean,
Whose rim no foot has trod, Some of us call it Longing,
And others call it God. A picket frozen on du'
A mother starved for her brood, Socrates drinking the hemlock,
And Jesus on the rood;
And millions who, humble and nameless,
The straight, hard pathway trod, Some call it Consecration,
And others call it God. [New England Magazine Nov. '95.]
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LITERARY.
Tell me gentle traveller, thou Who hast wandered far and wide Seen the sweetest roses blow. And the fairest rivers glide Say, of all thine eyes have seen Which the fairest land has been?
Lady, shall I tell thee where Nature seems most blest and fair, Far above all climes beside? 'Tis where those we love abide; And that little spot is best Which the loved one's foot has pressed. Saâdi.
When first, on mother's breast a helpless child I saw thee weep, while all around thee smiled. So live that, sinking to thy last long sleep, Calm thou may't smile, while all around thee weep.
Hafiz.
Yet Ah, that spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!
The nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows?
Would but the desert of the fountain yield One glimpse, if dimly, yet indeed, revealed, To which the fainting traveller might spring, As springs the trampeled herbage of the field!
Would but some winged Angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded roll of fate And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate!
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To group this sorry scheme of things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits—and there Remould it nearer to the hearts desire!
Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain—This life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is lies, The flower that once has blown for ever dies.
Whether at Naichapter or Babylon,
Whether the cup with sweet or bitter run,
The wine of life keeps oozing, drop by drop,
The leaves of life keep falling, one by one.
RUBAIGOT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
Letter to an Undergraduate.
The busy piping of the meadowlarks in our backgarden, and the green tinge of the hillsides, yellowish now because the grass leaves are thin and scattering over the dead growth of last season, but getting greener every day, suggest a looking over of my out-of-doors books. The beginning of a new year of plant and bird and insect life is a very fit time for such a pleasant business. But the Kansas Campus isn't growing greener, and is growing browner? And the birds are gone and the insects dead? Then so much fitter the time for turning to books remindful of green grass and bird song, that we may not forget quite that all the year is not December time.
My neighbor of the adjoining bachelor's rooms doesn't like out-of-doors books. I do. You may not, and your chum may. It is a good deal in taste, and some deal from acquaintanceship that we like the sort of reading we do like. If your tastes are not too thoroughly real to preclude their being influenced by other men's likes and dislikes; or if you are not yet wholly reserved for Pope and Ben Jonson, make just a trial of a Burroughs chapter or a Mowgli tale. You may find it what you have been feeling for, or you may not. The Mowgli tale will win you; perhaps because of its adventure; perhaps for its wolfboy more boy than wolf, or for its greatness of story-telling style; but if you like the Burroughs talk of bees and birds, then you are in mood and inclination to find refreshment and lively pleasure in the writings of half a dozen present day American nature lovers. Bradford Forrey, Olive Miller, Maurice Thompson, Frank Bolles ad er company, are names probably little
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known to you, but whose bearers give delight, with their sketches of ramble and peering, to many a lazy but appreciative lover of woodsy sights and smells and sounds.
So much of our student reading is that miserably unsatisfying, heart-breaking, and mostly prenicious "information reading." Read for pleasure, or study. To study is not necessarily to study the few courses you may have undertaken for the college year; but it means, or it does in this letter, to read long and deeply of the subject hit on. "General culture," "wide information," are not the result of cramming digests or compends of facts; and compends of information are what a surprisingly large part of our student days "library" is composed of. "Art and the Formation of Taste," (I quote from the back of a little duodecimo on my own shelves!) will form no taste in art. "How to Judge a Picture," another little by-path to "general culture," has not made me nor any one else a judge of pictures. "A History of French Literature," in thin octavo for 65 cents, may have a few dates of French authors birthdays, and of those of their probable parents, in convenient shape for reference, but there is little knowledge of French Literature to be squeezed out of its poor thin covers.
We probably have enough study on hand during our undergraduate years with caring for Political Economy I and German II. Let us read them for pleasure; for that high pleasure which comes in thrills of sympathy and exaltation, from a perception of the motives of great ideal hearts; thrills of love of nature, from a glimpse of her beautiful and mysterious laws and lives; thrills of excitement from the feverish following of a story of adventure or imagination; thrills of admiration for the force, or the rhythm, or the keen pertinence of the style of a master of language. Out of such reading comes something very much more worth while than the evidently shallow, obviously learned by rote, painfully parrot-like pipings of the ready made critical poser of the once-a-month club for the study of history, literature, economics, science and the fine arts. General information is not culture; rather culture is exact information, and the genuine critical perception of a thinking and feeling mind. Exact information comes from study; and an active, sensitive, perceptive mind from stimulating, genuinely loved reading.
If I have drifted from my invitation to out-of-doors books, to incoherent cries about books in general, it is because I know that few college students will read of rambles in woods and meadows as long as the never satisfied demands of duty hold them to the painful perusal of ready reckoners of the sciences and philosophies. If somebody in authority would but call a halt on the making of ready reckoners; but nobody will. Next best, perhaps, is the standing up in place of reformed general information drunkards to give testimony for the cause. Of these I would be one. Eager Freshman, cramming Sophomore, anxious Junior, hopeless Senior, forget the necessity of half-knowing all things; read this Christmas time, the noblest story, the most woodsy out-of-doors book, and the most exciting tale of adventure you can find.
VERNON L. KELLOGG, '79.
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EXCHANGES.
Those Golf Suits Again.
The weaker sex is often said To imitate the stronger, But if we stop to think a bit; 'T will not be said much longer; For man now follows woman's way And imitates her humors Why, every college man you meet Parades the streets in bloomers.
— Ex.
Oft in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chains hath bound me,
I think of jokes I might have sprung
When many were around me.
For all this wanton waste of wit Constructively I weep,
And often in the stilly night I kick myself to sleep.
—The Wabash.
Penelope, Ulysses' wife,
Her suitors to delay,
With tireless hand undid by night
The work she did by day.
But students here at Hallowe'en
Reverse the program quite,
For other men undo by day
The work they did by night.
He offered me his heart and hand, Whereat I laughed and said him nay; But soon I found that when he went He took my happiness away.
And so I wrote a little note— "Dear Jack," it ran, in sweet design,
"In love is't fair to change one's mind?"
"'Tis,' he replied, "and I've changed mine."
— Tuftonian..
Joy is a bird with dazzling wings, With plumage bright and gay; Caged in the heart it trills and sings A merry roundelay.—Ex.
He crossed the ocean many times Without a thought of fear;
He crossed the rugged Alpine range,
He crossed the desert drear;
He crossed the Brooklyn trolley tracks Nor trembled for his life—
And yet he doesn't dare to cross His little brown-eyed wife.
Kansas City Journal.
"Take away woman," shouted the orator, "and what would follow?" "We would," said a man at the back end of the audience promptly. Ram's Horn.
The exchange department is not the place for cheap compliments, if, indeed, there is a place at all; it is not a sparring ground, neither is it a funny corner. It is the place for cream of wit, beauty and wisdom.
Witty things are as easily lost as the pearls slipping off a broken string, but a word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It is a seed which, even when dropped by chance, springs up into a flower.
A student was recently expelled from the University of Michigan, for sending false reports to a daily newspaper. Student correspondents all over the country might take warning and see that their reports contain nothing detrimental to their college.
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LOGALS.
W. H. H's. Lament.
Tis gone, yes, gone, and who can sight My red nocturnal-robe?— My comforter on weary nights, My peaceful, calm abode.—
For aches and pains it was my cure; In politics my guide—
In foot ball games, on Glee Club tour My friend, whatere betide.
Thus, woe to me, went with the robe. Good luck and Fortune, fair.
And I'm like Samson, known of old Whose strength went with his hair.
Then hearken, thieves, to my appeal, (In this I do not flirt)
Return to me—and I'll not squeal My long lost Crimson shirt.
M. Z. Kirk was called home during the holidays by the death of his brother. It is barely possible that he will return as several of the family are very sick.
Do you want the first volume of the K. U. WEEKEY bound? See the managing editor.
Kraus is now the Lord High instrument smasher at the Physics building—Vice Reno, resigned.
The shops were shut down through the entire vacation, and there was no heat for the Physics building.
Visitors were quite plentiful on the hill last week. The Kansas Academy of Science was in session Friday and Saturday.
Galbreath has again entered school after an absence of six weeks, owing to poor heath. We are glad to note that he is much improved.
Prof. Blake spent the Holidays in Boston and New York, visiting relatives.
Two of the current measuring instruments were sent East for repairs last week.
Lee attended the Grand Opera in Kansas City last week.
Chas. and Roy Fletcher visited in Topeka Christmas week and received on New Years.
Paul Anderson who has been ill with diptheria has re-entered school.
We have another Barb politician now about the halls. Some one said that he was Al. Garretts shade, due to similarity.
Ferguson, Jr. Law, was married Christmas week and is now teaching school.
Buchan '95 who took Law at North Western this last fall is now reading in his father's office in Kansas' City.
The Junior Law Class has taken up "Schouler's Domestic Relations."
Sprague has entered the Pharmacy department and will graduate with the class of '96.
Bishoff ex-'95 was on the hill yesterday.
Jack Carrigan Law '95 has taken unto himself a help-mate. He and his wife visited the University Holiday week.
Higher Education.
"What are you taking, Horace, dear, At the college on the hill?"
"Well, you know, I took hats last year, And I'm taking rubbers still."
A. R.
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Missouri Withdraws.
At the meeting of the representatives of the colleges forming the Western Inter-collegiate Football association held Saturday December 21st, at Iowa City, Missouri university withdrew from the association, because the protest of the game with Nebraska was not allowed. This did not disrupt the league and a schedule of games between Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa was arranged just the same. The Nebraska-Kansas game will be played in Lawrence. The usual Thanksgiving game between Kansas and Missouri will occur in Kansas City.
Mr. R. K. Moody was elected president of the association, and Mr. Fred Cornell of Lincoln, Neb., general manager. Kansas was awarded the pennant for the season just closed ond a $200 silver cup for winning it.
FRANCIS GRAVES MENET.
Born August 22nd 1870 Died December 22nd, 1895.
Although feared and anticipated by a few for some time, the news of the death of Frank Menet will be a shock to his many friends. He passed away peacefully in his mother's house on Sunday, December 22nd, at 1 o'clock. Friends had been concerned about him since last summer, but no one realized how soon he would succumb to the attack of disease. About the 1st of November he was obliged to resign his work at the University—as he hoped temporarily—and it has since been generously carried by his fellow instructors. But his decline was not to be checked by the best medical aid and the tenderest care.
Frank Menet was born in Lawrence, spent his boyhood here and graduated from the high school at sixteen. A few years later he was in the Santa Fe offiees in Topeka, but resigned this work to pursue the long cherished hope of
attending the University. Here his excellence in the use of English procured for him employment in the English department even before his graduation, and last summer he was appointed assistant in English. Though he had done more than enough for the first degree, this had not yet been conferred upon him, he would have received the bachelor's with the master's degree at the next commencement. He was a member of the Unitarian church.
Mr. Menet was a young man of whom those who knew him best expected an unusual future. He had exceptional talent both as an artist and as a writer, and with his profound earnestness and keen mind would have made valuable use of these talents. He was a rarely refined and gentle character, and though less widely popular because of his shyness, was deeply loved by a circle of young people of similar tastes whose wholesome life, generous ambitions and mutual helpfulness have been a source of comfort and pride to their fellows and instructors at the University. The loss of one such clean and earnest man means to those left behind a sense of added responsibility,
"Tis he is fortunate. His course is run. For him no terrene future; fate will spin No tangles more for him, his finished life Lies spread before us luminous and clear. And on the fabric not a single stain. No evil laden hour waits at his door. Wishes and fears alike he has outlived Is ruled no longer by the fickle stars."
-W. H.C
The Women's League. will be at home to the young women of the University on Saturday afternoon, January 18, at three o'clock at the Chancellor's house.
State Historical society meets in Topeka January 21. Addresses will be delivered by Gov. Morrill and Hon. Eugene Ware.
Georgie Brown will have a class in dancing. It will begin January 20.
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Oratorical Contest.
The local contest will occur January 24. All those, intending to enter should at once give their names to the executive committee, Mr. W. C. Atchison, and W. H. Mason, or to the President.
Four copies of each oration, without the name of the writer, must be handed to some officer of the Association on or before January 17.
L. N. FLINT, President.
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting.
The Kansas Academy of Science met at Snow hall January 2. Only routine business was transacted at the first metting. In the evening the retiring president, Mr. Warren Knaus, of McPherson, delivered an address. He gave a systematic review of the scientific papers presented to the academy since its organization. A very favorable impression was thus obtained of the sum total of scientific work that has been done by members of the academy.
At the morning session today a number of interesting papers were presented on general topics. Prof. D. E. Lantz, of Manhattan, gave a paper on the frosted poor-will, adopting a view that it is only a variety of Nuttall's poor-will. The principal evidence adduced was an observation of both forms in the same nest of young birds.
Prof. E. B. Kneer, of Atchison, gave a description of the nearest approach yet obtained to practical photography in colors.
Mr. A. J. Smith, of Emporia, described and exhibited an ingenious and simple clinometer devised and constructed by himself.
Prof. Miller, of the University, presented a resume of the several theories of the orgin of the so-called lunar volcanoes, and added one of his own which seemed to be more plausible. Prof. Miller seemed to hold that in all probability the formations on the moon's surface have resulted from various causes, chief of which might be called the "moon-spot" theory.
An interesting account by Prof. Blake of his
experiments on telephonic communications with light-ships was read, in his absence, by Prof. Dunstan. Photographs of the special forms of apparatus devised were exhibited.
Prof. Franklin exhibited specimens of argon and helium prepared by himself and showed their spectra, prefacing this by a brief account of their discovery.
Just before the close of the session A. H. Thompson read short sketches of the lives of Prof.D.H.Robinson,Prof.Robt.Hay and F. B.Ashton three members of the academy who have died since the last meeting. The following resolutions were adopted :
WHEREAS, In the dispensation of an All Wise Providence our brothers and co-workers, David H. Robinson, Robert Hay and F.B. Ashton have been removed from our midst by death, therefore be it
Resolved, That we place on record an expression of our great love and the sincere regret at their untimely decease.
Resolved, Also, that we express our appreciation of their worth and our high estimate of their accomplishments and work in their chosen fields of service.
Resolved, Also, that we extend to the bereaved families in their hour of sorrow and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to them.
A. H. THOMPSON,
F. H. SNOW,
E. B. KNEER.
In the afternoon papers on geological subjects of much interest were presented and at 5:30 Prof. Sayre gave an address on Serum Therapy.
At the afternoon session of the Kansas Academy of Science January 3 the following papers were read: "Experiments in Rainmaking," Prof. T. H. Dinsmore; "A Polish Glacial Rock Near Topeka," J. T. Lovewell; "Cone in Cone Structure," H. J. Harnly; "Closing of Michigan Glacical Lakes," B. B. Smyth; "The Flint Hills, an Object Lesson in Physiography," E. Haworth; "Horsebacks in Coals of Cherokee and Crawford Counties," W. R. Crane; "Salt Beds of Kansas," M. Z. Kirk, read by E. Haworth; "Irrigation in Cheyenne county," W. N. Logan; "Water Storage in the Dakota Formation in
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Kansas," S. Z. Sharp; "On Extinct Bison in Western Kansas." S.W.Williston, and "Serem Therapy," L.E.Sayre.
During the session officers for 1896 were elected: President, Prof. D. S. Kelly, of Emporia; first vice president, S. W. Williston, of Lawrence; second vice president, D. S. Lantz, of Manhattan; sargeant, E. B. Kneer, of Atchison; treasurer, Dr. L. E. Sayre, of Lawrence.
The closing session was held January 4, at which papers were read as follows: "Notes on Discharge of Kansas River since 1881," E. C. Murphy; "A theory of Absorption Spectra," A. S. Dunston; Harmonies of the Chemical Elements," B. B. Smythe; "Some Geometrical Theorems," Arnold Emch; "Notes on Kansas Cleoptra," Warren Knaus; "Notes on Injurious Insects." W. A. Snow; "The Dakota Formation in Western Kansas as a Water Producting Terrian," E. Haworth; "Geology of Shawnee County," J. W. Beede; and Stratigraphy from Atchison to Washington Counties," E. B. Kneer.
The committee offered this resolution :
Resolved, That the Academy express to the Kansas University and friends their high appreciation of the kindness extended in the generous entertainment of the Academy and visitors; and to the Science club for the very acceptable and substantial introduction into the mysteries of the "It."
The following persons were elected to membership: J. W. Stailey, Lawrence; Elsm Bartholomew, Rockport, Kan.; C. N. Gould, Maple City; W. G. Riste, Phillipsburg; Chas. S. Caldwell, Topeka; T. D. A. Cockerell, Las Cruces, N. M.; H. C. Welty, Tobeka; E. E. Tyler, Lincoln, Neb.; Chas. H. Sternberg, Lawrence; Dr. G. P. Grimsley, Topeka; W. R. Crane, Lawrence; W. N. Logan, Beloit; J. W. Wilson, Effingham; E. S. Riggs, Lawrence; Barnum Brown, Carbondale; Lottie E. Cray, Council Grove.
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At noon the Academy adjourned to meet at Topeka during the holidays in 1896, immediately after the meeting of the State Teachers' Association.
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Today tennis is as popular in America as it has ever been anywhere since the beginning of its history. It's rules, like those of all other games, are subject to slight changes from time to time, as are also the size and shape of court or racket. But for the last two centuries it has been played substantially as now. It has been called the game of kings—a fitting title. But all tennis lovers will agree that it is even more the king of games. H.M.B.
The appointment of C. S. Gleed upon the Board of Regents was a pleasant surprise to University people.Ever since his student days
here, Mr. Gleed has been a warm friend of the University and his friendship has often been of substantial benefit to the institution. He has once before served as regent. Three of the present members of the Board are old students who are rendering eminent service to the state and the University in return for the benefits they received while here.
The lecture before the Kent club last Friday by Jubge C. L. Dobson of Kansas City, on the subject of "Law Reform" was very interesting and much appreciated. Under the existing case system, the law of this country is increasing in bulk at an alarming rate and has already assumed extremely unwieldy proportions. The facts are no longer a matter for argument, the only question is as to the remedy. Judge Dobson favors complete and-systematic codification of the whole body of law. We do not propose to discuss this, but we may say that it certainly does not conduce to the improvement of the law nor to the advantage of lawyers that the text-books which are placed in the hands of the student should be mere digests of the various confused masses of the law—and most indigestible books, at that. With the reform of the law, it is to be hoped that most of the text-books now in use will be retired. The more thoroughly the general principles are impressed upon the student's mind and the less he is burdened with minor details at first, the better lawyer will he be, and consequently, the more valuable citizen.
The Oratorical Situation.
One week from to-night will occur the local oratorical contest, and soon thereafter will follow the annual election and meeting of the stockholders. It is time for the student body to be considering whether it will quietly remain
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away from the first, as usual, and devote all its time, energy and enthusiasm to the second, or whether the time is not ripe to dispense with the whole and engage in something more profitable. The proposition to give up the oratorical contest is no new one here, but has been more and more strongly urged during the past two years and has received a steadily increasing support, and yet sentiment seems to have crystallized much more rapidly elsewhere, for it is reported that at least two other institutions will withdraw from the state association this year.
Locally, interest in the oratorical contest has been decreasing of late years; that is, if the attendance at the contest and the number of contestants may serve as indications. The explanation of the situation may be found, we think, in a little paragraph which we read in one of the exchanges early in the fall; it was merely a local item stating that half a dozen students of that school were already hard at work practicing upon their orations. It requires a long time to write a winning oration; not so much in gathering materials, for very few facts or arguments are necessary, but in perfecting the language and filling in the fine words and high sounding phrases which are supported to constitute the oratory. Then night after night and week after week of patient practice in delivery must follow before the
work of producing an orator is complete. It takes too much time to gain an end of too little value and the University man realizes that he can derive but little benefit from the process. The same amount of energy turned in a slightly different course will profit him much more.
The oratorical contest develops very little real oratory; it does offer some inducement to the essayist and he generally wins the prize. Furthermore, the dominating desire to win at all hazards, and the attempt to display a fertility of invention and a richness of vocabulary which are the legitimate product only of years of study and development, leads the contestant irresistibly toward that pitfall of disgrace from which no one seems to be safe—plagiarism. We believe that very few knowingly become guilty of this charge; collegemen are rarely found guilty of like offences in any other field of rivalry; it is the fault of the system, and so long as we continue to encourage it, we must charge ourselves with the shame and suffering of the many who fall. The sacrifice must be stopped. Apparently the only way it can be done is by abolishing the oratorical contest. Other colleges and universities are doing so, let K. U. keep well to the front. The time is propitious. We can easily turn all our energies to the system of intercollegiate debate. Let us join issue in the new forum with our proper rivals, the neighboring state universities.
LITERARY.
History of the Game of Tennis.
It is early morning in Lousaune. A party of newly arrived Americans, wishing to efface the unpleasant recollections of a long day's ride in a crowded compartment, start from their pension for Lake Geneva, to all appearances only a short distance away. Ten minutes brisk walking, however, is sufficient to convince them that appearances are at their old tricks. The fresh mountain air seems to call up visions of steaming coffee with rolls and honey, and the stout old lady has just begun to think of suggesting a hasty retreat, when a turn in the road brings before her eyes the first familiar sight they have rested upon for weeks. It is a row of tennis courts,—of scrupulously clean, asphalt tennis courts, with beautifully regular snow-white boundary lines—and the boy of the party instinctively clinches his hand over an imaginary racket, while his small sister asks innocently, "Oh, do they play tennis in Switzerland?"
In Switzerland! Why, the sun peeping over the mountains there, could tell, if he wished, of a glorious game he has been watching be-
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tween two English lads in Tokio. And further, that there is not an hour in the day when some one of his struggling rays does not light upon this familiar grouping of white lines. And further still, that ages ago, on the banks of the Nile, or perhaps the Ganges, or perhaps in the Assyrian capital, Ninevah, this noble game had its beginning in the rude sport of idle children, tossing and batting dried gourds back and forth. We know this to be true, for years afterwards these young Assyrians, grown to manhood, carved uponstone representations of one of the favorite sports in their childhood; and these sculptured slabs exist today, silent witnesses.
Tennis was played by the Greeks under the name of sphairisis; and by the Romans also, who called it trigon. It is interesting to read of the boy Magistrate, Marcus of Rome, playing at trigon with his young companions, and trying to keep the pila flying with the stoical determination which characterized him all through life; of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, causing coins to be struck bearing the device of athletes engaged in serving and receiving the ball, and using their hands for bats.
I have spoken of the batting of the ball with the hand; for it was not until the middle ages that rackets and nets, those essential features of modern tennis, were first used. The ball was struck with the hand, as the French name of the game jeu de paume very plainly indicates. The first racket was merely a glove to protect the hand. The strings were stretched across the front of the glove. The invention of the handle was the next step; and after this, change in size, shape and stringing were all that were necessary to evolve our modern racket. Then as to the courts, those opposite were first divided by a cord stretched across the middle. Afterwards a fringe was added, but not until the beginning of the eighteenth century was a net used at all similar to the one in vogue at the present day.
Early in the fifteenth century tennis was exceedingly popular in France among all classes, but a few years later we see a marked change
in this respect. The rules of the game became more complicated, the occasions more costly, and the courts the most elaborate affairs imaginable. They were made of carefully laid blocks of stone, were sometimes entirely enclosed, sometimes only roofed over. Ornamental galleries and railings abounded. The game became an indoor sport, and such an expensive one that the middle and lower classes were shut out from it altogether. Only the nobles could afford courts; but among them the game was soon so popular that they wanted to keep it entirely to themselves, along with all the other good things of life, and finally succeeded in having an edict issued forbidding it to every untitled subject.
In England, all this time, tennis had been keeping good pace with its neighbors across the channel. Its English name was partly derived from the French verb tenez, which was shouted by the server as he first sent the ball into the opposite court. The game was as popular in England as in France, and more exclusive, if that were possible. Edward III and Henry IV were veritable tennis enthusiasts, and it was a favorite amusement with monarchs of England, France and Germany. Henry II was probably the best player among the French kings. Henry of Navarre, it is said, rose at daylight, after the massacre of St. Bartholomew, to finish a game begun the day before. Henry VIII was as devoted to it before he became stout as he was to matrimony afterward; and perhaps the most royal set of tennis ever played was one in which he and the Emperor Charles V were matched against the Prince of Orange and the Marquis of Brandenburg, while Lord Edmund Howard and the Earl of Devonshire "shacked" balls and "umpired the game."
The latter was not so easily done in those days. The method of counting, though not wholly dissimilar to that employed today, was so complicated by rules and regulations that the royal young princes were forced to provide attendants to keep track of the score.
But the royal princes did not keep this royal game to themselves much longer. People be-
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gan to realize that tennis was properly an outdoor sport; that any smooth stretch of turf or beach offered as good opportunities for a skillful game as the best equipped in-door court; that in it were combined an almost perfect exercise for all the muscles with a singular charm for girls as well as boys. And with this realization the royal monopoly was forever at an end.
The Dream Prince and the Mystic Tongue.
Some time last spring his Majesty, the King of Siam sent to each of the leading universities of the United States thirty odd looking volumes, bound in yellow leather and saturated with Siamese erudition. The "Bachelor of Arts" made so bold as to declare that no one in the country could "unlock the combination." Fortunately the worthy king did not forget the University of Kansas when bestowing his favors, and a complete set of the highly-prized volumes was forwarded to Miss Watson. Shall we leave them undisturbed in their resting place, to be buried under the dust of years, wrapt in spider web shrouds? Perish the thought! They cannot be called light reading, I grant. But with the aid of all the dictionaries to be found in the library—French, German, English, Spanish, Latin and Greek—with a speaking knowledge of Japanese and an ardent desire to learn Italian—with the Encyclopodia Brittanica, Brockhams conversations-Lexicon and La Grande Encyclopedia in easy reach—with a genuine and insatiable thirst for knowledge and the indomitable courage and perseverance so lauded by high school graduates one can in the course of six months or so, actually read one page and a half of this masterpiece of Siamese literature, at any rate, I did, and to encourage others to similar achievements, I thereby publish the result of my labors. This will gratify the King of Siam, and he will doubtless subscribe for the WEEKLY.
The following will be found in the twenty third volume, page 271. The title is "The Dream Prince and the Mystic Tongue."
Once upon a time there lived in the fair land of Auronia a beautiful princess. Every one
who looked upon her loved her; high and low, rich and poor, bowed before her shrine. The gifted poet Xylanthus extolled her charms in seven hundred sonnets of wondrost beauty; even the old necromancer, who spent his days in concocting mixtures of strange potency, likened the light of her eyes to the blue radiance of sulphur burned in oxygen. She was beautiful, beautiful!
All the princes of the realm were suitors for her hand; but not one of them pleased the princess. "He will come some day, my dream prince," she said in a tongue of mystic meaning.
One day a king of great wealth presented himself at the court of Auronia.
The princess' father was pleased and bade his daughter smile upon the king.
"He has wealth untold my daughter," said the old prince. "You must marry some day. The king is young and handsome. Surely you could learn to love him."
But the princess shook her head.
"Is there any one else whom you love?" cried the prince in sudden fear.
Then the princess smiled a strange smile, and repeated softly these words:
"He will come some day, my dream prince, and will was me in a tongue of mystic meaning."
"Who is your dream prince?"
"He comes to me in my dreams," replied the princess, and "he speaks a beautiful language. I cannot understand it. But when he comes he will teach me to speak it too."
daughter
The king went away in a fury, and married the princess of a neighboring realm. Shortly afterward the prince of Auroria received a declaration of war from the offended king. The struggle which followed was a long and bitter one, and many a gallant warrior bit the dust before the prince, victorious at last, but with army sadly shattered, returned to his sorrowing people.
The news which greeted him at the threshold of his palace robbed his victory of all its sweetness. During his absence his daughter had married a stranger from the far country of
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Athletium. The youth was very pleasant to look upon, and spoke a strangely beautiful language, so said the Lord Chancellor. But the prince beside himself with rage, ordered that the youth should be put to death at once, and that his daughter should be shut up in a dungeon until he should see fit to release her. This cruel order and the stranger youth from Athletium the Lord Chancellor reluctantly executed. The princess overcome with grief put an end to her own life.
Here is the verse from the immortal poet:
Of the beautiful language which the stranger youth taught the princess, only a few fragments remain, carefully preserved among the archives of Auronia-a verse from some immortal poet of the far country of Athletium, and eight goodly proverbs, all in the beautiful princess' own hand writing.
Let the two base hits from home runs refrain.
Let the two base hits from home runs refrain,
And beware least they fumble the grounders again.
For though high flies should block the line drives of the plate.
And the passed balls of bases wild pitches await,
You may bet, you may bunt a foul ball if you will,
Yet the balks of the infield will steal a base still.
And here are the eight goodly proverbs:
1. You may lead a man to the plate but you cannot make him bat.
2. Well run is half done.
3. Pride goeth before a foul.
4. One three bagger does not make an inning.
5. A ball in the hand is worth three in the bush.
6. A rolling catcher gathers no applause.
7. Umpires never hear any good of themselves.
8. Little pitchers have big ears. G.H.B.
LOGALS.
John Nicholson was on the hill Monday.
Funston will ride the Phi Psi goat.
The Phi Psi's gave an informal party last Saturday night.
The auditing committee of the Regents met Tuesday.
Prof. Williston is quarantined. Two of his children are sick with scarlet fever.
Prof. Hopkins did not hear his classes Monday on account of illness.
Miss Pettijohn of Olathe visited with Miss Wilder last week:
The Unitarian girls gave a musicale and dance Thursday evening in Journal Hall.
Miss Georgia Wilder '93, called at the University Monday.
Thornton Cooke '93,visited his sisters this week.
Adrian Sherman found a heart. Any young lady who will prove the property, and give him her hand, may have her heart.
The latest addition to the museum is the groupe picture of the football team.—Smith edition.
All parties in the University interested in chess are requested to meet at the Y. M. C. A. rooms at 8 o'clock Saturday, January 25, for the purpose of organizing an University Chess Club.
Young ladies when a young man calls for you do not keep the hackman waiting 15 or 20 minutes. He usually has his evening program previously arranged, and a 15 minute delay at one place will disappoint several other parties.
Last year the plan was inaugurated of having the Law School represented on the program of the State Bar Association by some member of the Senior class. The representative is chosen by competition. This year there were eleven contestants for the honor, and Judge Humphrey has selected as the best thesis, that written by Archie Hogg upon "The Potent Factors in the Development of Modern
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Law," and Mr. Hogg went to Topeka Thursday to read his thesis before the Association. Mr. Hogg was recently elected president of the class and the class is well pleased with his success.
Miss Gildemeister has cast her lot with the Thetas.
Prof. Cowan insures a physical chart and a stiff neck to all who take the muscular test.
Mr. Brady is recognized as the leading wit of the Adelphics.
Part of the class in painting are now at work on designs for the Columbia bicycle posters.
A very attractive model from the Junior class is now posing for the class in painting from the head.
Prof. Adams' eyes were dazzled by the brilliant raiment of one of his English history girls last Friday morning.
Some of the recitation rooms in the main building would make good cold storage warehouses.
The members of the P. F. G. club gave a party to their gentlemen friends last Friday night.
The candidate is abroad this week. Kansas life in minature, in all its phases, may be seen in and around the University.
A Freshman girl is wearing a large piece of ourt plaster on her chin this week. Cause,ective sidewalk and an iron fence.
The usual increase which occurs at this time of year in the department of drawing and painting has already shown itself. The preparatory department is crowded.
Prof. Haworth has secured the publication of 1,500 bound copies of Volume I of the Reports of the University Geological Survey on the Stratigraphy of the Carboniferous Area of Kansas.
The local oratorical contest January 24th.
Mr. Gilbert of the music school has a class in vocal music in school house No. 6, just southwest of town.
Volunteers are needed in the painting school for models for portrait painting. Beauty is not absolutely essential, but if the model is a man, the girls would probably rather have him handsome and then if it is a young lady, the Professor would rather have beautiful subjects for the class.
At the Historical Seminary last Friday afternoon the members of Prof. Blackmar's class in Political Economy, who had made special study of various phases of money and banking questions, reported the results of their investigations. Papers were read as follows: "Free Coinage of Silver," Mr. Stewart; "The Gold Standard," Mr. Campbell; "Credit,"Mr. Opp; "The Bank of England,"Mr. Hill. The reading of Mr. Walton's paper, "The National Bank Act" was postponed until a later meeting.
The state board of Irrigation has decided to issue a preliminary report of their progress and will have published 10,000 copies. This report will include a preliminary report by Prof. E.Haworth on the Geological conditions controlling the water supply of the west; and also will contain a report by Dr. S. Z. Sharpe, president of McPherson College, on the water bearing properties of the Dakota sandstone area.
You can have the first volume of the K. U. WEEKLY bound very reasonable by placing your order with the managing editor.
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A. W. Mann and "Cincinnatti" Campbell from the Arts Department are the latest additions to the Junior Law class.
Since the Junior Law class took up "Domestic Relations" the law library has been crowded afternoons by members who heretofore have been entire strangers to the book shelves. What's the excitement?
Judge Green has been compelled to be absent several days from his classes on account of death in his family. Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, mother of Mrs. Green, who has been residing in Lawrence for several years suddenly departed from this life last Sunday afternoon at the Professor's home on Tennessee street.
Judge Humphrey of Junction City, member of the law faculty, on last Monday commenced a series of ten lectures on Constitutional Law to the Junior class. The Judge is a very entertaining talker and the students are much interested in the work.
The Law school is to be well represented in the preliminary contests of the different debating clubs of the University. Out of twenty-seven contestants the number of laws who wish to debate with Nebraska is eighteen. Last year K. U. was ably defended by three students of this department.
Roy Fletcher will enter the law department. He wishes to be well versed in "Domestic Relations.
One of the features announced last year by the State Bar Association was that an annual contest should be held among the members of the Senior Law class of Kansas University for the purpose of choosing a paper on some law subject to be read before it in its annual meeting held at Topeka. Of some fifteen contestants Mr. Archie Hogg won first place. His thesis was entitled "What have been the potent factors in moulding modern law?" Mr. Hogg, through hard work, has won the distinction of being among the best students of the law class, the members of which feel proud of being represented by so able a man on the Bar Association's program.
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AS ANNOUNCED last week, it is proposed to organize a chess club at the city Y. M. C. A. rooms Saturday evening. All who play the game should be present. A chess tournament at this time of the year ought to arouse considerable interest, and with an organized club to forward the project, it would be possible to arrange for some intercollegiate contests.
THROUGH AN oversight quite a blunder appeared in our last issue. The first paragraph on the editorial page, signed "H. M. B.," should properly appear as the conclusion of the "History of the Game Tennis," under the
literary department. If our readers will return their copies to this office, enclosing return postage, the managing editor will have the paragraph cut out and pasted in the proper place.
It is very embarassing for a person to come upon the hill a few days before the newspaper election and find his name posted conspicuously as a candidate for an office which he has not sought and may not desire, and yet we know that this has occurred at both elections. Those who are making nominations should consult the wishes of the proposed candidate beforehand and avoid the possibility of placing them in an awkward position.
"The Civil Government of Kansas" is the title of a very neat little volume of one hundred pages recently issued from the press of Eldredge and Brother, Philadelphia, written by Prof. F. H. Hodder. The book opens with a very interesting brief sketch of the history of Kansas down to the adoption of the Wyandotte constitution and the admission of the State into the union January 29,1861. Then follows a plain and concise explanation of the machinery and workings of the government in state, county, township, school district and city. The method of levying and collecting the various taxes is also shown. The last chapter is devoted to "Party Organization and Elections," the operations of which are very clearly displayed. In an appendix is printed the constitution of the state. The book is a very clear and concise exposition of the government which most closely effects the people, and it has received most complimentary notice by the press of the state. It is to be hoped that teachers and school boards will show as ready an appreciation of an excellent text book.
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IT is to be regretted that a larger audience did not attend Chancellor Snow's lecture on his trip to Europe, last Friday evening, both because of the disappointment to the young women and because the lecture itself was a treat which none should have missed. The Chancellor spoke in an informal, and hence doubly attractive manner, of the places he visited, and the lecture was illustrated by a large and well selected series of lantern views. It is to be hoped that the lecture may be repeated under more favorable conditions.
WE LEARN that a proposition has been made to the athletic board looking to the erection of a windmill and the putting in of a water system for the sprinkling of McCook field. While it would no doubt be a nice thing to have the dust kept down, we can hardly believe that the directors will consider the matter seriously. After the strenuous efforts made last fall to restore the treasury of the association, the subscriptions solicited from all quarters and the raising of the admission fee to the Thanksgiving game, the directors are in duty and honor bound to husband their funds most carefully and to strive to keep their word that the money received shall run the association till next Thanksgiving. If they are economical in their expenditures and yet fail to meet the legitimate
and necessary expenses of teams, the public will probably make a further contribution, but the result will be very unpleasant for the directors if they spend the money in riotous living and windmills.
THE POLITICIAN may find a satisfactory explanation in the statement that it was "the slick thing to do" or that it was "part of the combination," or he may be content to let the matter stand without explanation, but the average student, whose chief interest is absorbed in his studies, finds it difficult to understand why a man should be elected to an important and responsible managership when he has registered in school only thirty minutes before the time set for the election and confessedly in order to make himself eligible to the office. It seems strange that out of the hundreds of students who have been here since the opening of school the athletic board should be able to find no one worthy to manage our baseball team for its brief season, but that it should be compelled to ask an outsider to enter school for that purpose. If the office—hunting and office—holding classes in the University have become identical and there are more places than they can hold, it might be an accommodation to them and a relief to the University to dispense with some of the offices.
LITERARY.
For Examination Week.
Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,
But oftimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
—Longfellow.
Thou who stealest fire,
From the fountains of the past,
To glorify the present; oh, haste,
Visit my low desire!
Strengthen me, enlighten me!
I faint in this obscurity,
Thou dewy dawn of memory!
— Tennyson.
Habe nun, ach! Philosophie,
Juristerei und Medicin,
Und leider auch Theologie,
Durchaus studirt, mit heissem Bemühn.
Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Thor!
Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
— Goethe.
My mind lets go of a thousand things Like dates of wars and deaths of kings. Aldrich.
But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll.
— Gray.
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Be good, dear child, and let who will be clever— —Kingsley.
Of making books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
— Ecclesiastes XII, 12.
Knowlege is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells. Cowper.
Oh fret not after knowledge!—I have none And yet my song comes native with the warmth.
O fret not after knowledge! I have none And yet the evening listens. He who saddens At thought of idleness cannot be idle, And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
—Keats.
While memory watches o'er the sad review— Campbell.
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Women as College Professors.
Amid the advance making in women's education there is at present rife in some communities a movement against the appointment of women to college professorship. The so-called argument used to support this movement slips easily from tongue to tongue. Enunciators of it speak it dogmatically, and seem not to question if it be wisdom or verbiage.
To your question why are not women appointed to vacancies in women's colleges, or in colleges termed co-educational? The answer is that women are not yet fitted for college chairs they have not yet had the advantages which men trained to special work have had.
Now this assertion is easily made—it costs
no more than another-and in the rush and hurry of life it has strangely enough come to gain a certain credit and credence. But is it an answer?
Women as a body, college women as a body, may not have had opportunities of education that men have had. But the question is not with women as a mass compared with men as a mass, with college women compared with college men. It is with a few specific women and a few specific men—with a few women who have given themselves to special graduate work compared with a few men specialists.
But more often these venders of popular nations go further and add: "No woman has shown herself competent to fill a chair of history, like that for instance in Chicago University." To this to the reasoning mind naturally arises the answer: "Has any woman ever in this time and land had a chair of history, like that for instance in Chicago University, to show whether or not she can fill it?" Men are called to college chairs before they have attained reputation by publications in the line in which they work.
Why should not the same chance be given women? It is through the repose and learned ease a college chair gives that the man puts out his best work. Before such a condemnation of women specialists is lightly made, would it not be wise first to see if the assertion is true? Truely the painfulest feature in the case is that we hear such sentences and pronunciamentos from college women—from whom if from any one we should expect calm judgment.
"No people," says Mr. Cable, "ever learned to vote except by voting." No man or woman since the world began ever filled any place of responsibility except by taking the place and meeting the responsibility. Human nature rallies to and fills the demands made upon it, whether the nature be in man's or woman's form. There is no reason to suppose that the appointment to a penny chair in a penny college or to a great chair in a great college will supervene the law.
If we glance at the past of education in our time and country we shall see how little "suc-
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cessful" men and women have shown of their capacity to fill a place, to teach or to administer, before the power to do so was placed in their hands. Perhaps we might begin with the new president of the University most talked of at present. As a professor at Yale had he ever shown the organizing power which has characterized his steps in his new position? But on account of that should he have been condemned as unfit or incompetent for his present place? Take another man—him under whom Harvard has changed its ideals and aims within the last quarter of a century. Could any one forsee the breadth of action that has characterized his course when he taught chemistry at Boylston Hall? Surely none but the most discriminating. "It takes a genius," says the old adage, "to catch a genius."
To come to women who have shown themselves competent—to those only who fill public positions and hence may be adverted to. Did any one forsee when the president of Bryn Mawr was studying fifteen years ago at Leipsic that she would manage and develop with much ability the college over which she now presides? Or did the former president of Wellesley, when she taught history and aided Moody and Sankey revivals in the beginning of her life at the college, evince the tact and advisory capability that marked her afterwards?
In the instances I have quoted the individual responds to his or her environment in answer to the appeal which time and circumstance put upon him or upon her. It would be illogical to suppose that these were the best four fitted for the four positions out of our population of
sixty millions. There are doubtless scores of men who could have done as well as these men have done and scores of women who could have done as well as these women have done. Fortune and chance happened to put these duties in their hands and our thanks are due them that they have answered the demands so nobly.
We are so much the creatures of sentiments floating in the air, of ideas caught flying,—we are every one of us so much a result of the spirit of our time that he would indeed be vain glorious who thought his accomplishment a result of himself or his brain unaided.
But some glib opponent says the instances we have cited have nothing to do with the trained specialist—it is the trained specialist who are lacking. What then means the European study which has been pursued by many women for many years? Does it not mean the same or equivalent knowledge with men? When I was in Berlin fourteen years ago many women had been before me in special studies. Bismark had closed the Universily to women. But much else of private hearing and study could be had. And now when Dr. Bosse, the Prussian Minister of Education has granted to sixty-seven American women the right to listen to lectures at the University of Berlin—when fifteen women students heard lectures at Göttingen last winter—upon what ground shall the assertion rest that we have not well grounded specialits for women's, and co-educational colleges? KATE STEPHENS '75
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LOGALS.
Don't forget that next week is quiz week.
The Juniors are laying plans for a promenade. The Phi Psis entertain at Frazier's Hall, February 14.
The Senior class is meeting regularly and making extensive preparations for something next spring.
M. Z. Kirk will probably return the last of February.
W. N. Logan left last Saturday to take charge of the Hartford High School during the absence of Supt. W. D. Ross. It is complimentary to Mr. Logan to be chosen as a relief for Supt. Ross.
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Prof. A. G. Canfield entertained the Thetas at tea on Saturday evening.
The St. Louis Republic of a late date contained a very flattering notice of Miss Mame Berry who is singing in one of the large churches of that city.
In the Globe-Democrat yesterday was a long write-up of western poets, and Prof. W. H. Carruth and W.A. White are two well known Lawrence men who were prominently mentioned.
Contrary to German and Austrian precedents, the University of Budapest has opened its doors to Hungarian women and will confer upon them its degrees. Women will enter only the departments of Philosophy, Medicine and Pharmacy.
The following item was handed the Journal Monday morning. There has been another fraternity started, sub rosa among the girls of the University. Its name is Alpha Pi Chi, and it is understood it has quite a large number of initiates.—Lawrence Journal.
Last week through Inexcusable negligence the proof of the literary article "The Dream Prince and the Mystic Tongue" escaped correction. There were numerous typographical errors which destroyed much of its brightness and clever treatment.
Tuesday, in response to the earnest wishes of the University council as voiced by Dean Green in a little talk to the class, the Senior Law class voted to instruct its committee to withdraw from before the council its request that R. G. Ingersoll be invited to deliver an address before the class at commencement, and the class will present to the Dean a petition circulated some time ago asking him to invite Chauncey M. Depew to make the address.
Tuesday the new Editorial Board organizd and elected J. H. Engel Managing Editor, Miss H. M. Bowersock was chosen Literary Editor, Mr.C.E.Rench will be Local Editor. It was the unanimous opinion of all that in the future any one on the Editorial Board not doing actual work would be removed.
The old Unity Club has been reorganized by the young people and will be made interesting for University students. The club meets Sunday evenings at 7:30 in the parlor of Unitarian church. Last Sunday Prof. Wagner gave a review of Max Nordau's book, Degeneration, which has lately aroused so much interest. Beginning next Sunday, the club will make a study of the great religious leaders from the time of the reformation to the present.
A text book for work in university classes has been prepared by Professor E. L. Nichols and W. S. Franklin, both well known as Kansas university men. It is entitled "The Elements of Physics," and is in three volumes. The first is devoted to "mechanics and heat," the second to "electricity and magnetism," the third to "sound and light." Professor Franklin is a Kansas man and is getting at the head of the physics science in the United States.
The Woman's league of the University gave a reception at the home of Chancellor and Mrs. F. H. Snow on Saturday afternoon. There was a good attendance of the young ladies of the University and the feature of the afternoon was the question box in which the girls asked all sorts of questions about social matters, which were answered by a committee composed of Mrs. Hodder, Mrs. Adams and Miss Galloo. There were refreshments served and the afternoon proved a very pleasant one for those who were out.
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Notes of the State Teachers' Association.
It is doubtful if there is any other body of professional workers who gather as frequently, or in such large numbers, or who enjoy their meetings as much as do teachers, especially Kansas teachers. Professional improvement is the ostensible purpose of their coming together; but often the desire to visit new scenes, to renew old or make new acquaintances, or to secure work, is at least equal to the desire for specific intellectual improvement. And in all these ways such meetings are of great benefit to the teachers, most of all to the rank and file, whose breadth of view is too often narrowed to the immediate sphere of their local activities.
The holiday meeting of the Association was not unlike those that have been held in Topeka annually for the last dozen years. There were about a thousand teachers in attendance—nearly one-tenth of the entire teaching force of the state. The program was of more than average strength, but contained none but the usual features-papers, discussions, round tables and lectures. In the aggregate, of course, there was a vast amount of material offered, some of which was very raw, but, for the most part, of real value, capable of proper and helpful assimilation by the hearers.
The plan of work adopted by the Association is very practical. There are five general sessions and two sessions in which the Association breaks up into five departments—College and High School, District and Graded School, Primary and Kindergarten, Music, and County Superintendence. In addition to these departments there were special round table discussions for City Superintendents, High School Principals, and for teachers of History and Sociology. Three of the five general meetings were mainly occupied with set addresses; the other two with papers and discussions on general educational
subjects. The department meetings were entirely given to papers and discussions along the special lines of interest for the various departments. The round tables were devoted to informal discussions of special topics.
The social element is a delightful feature of association meetings. Scores of friends, classmates and former associates meet here, perhaps for the only time in the year. The graduates and former students of many of the colleges of the state had special reunions after one of the evening meetings. Kansas University reunion was more largely attended than ever before and was an exceedingly pleasant affair. Chancellor Snow gave a short address in his happiest manner, and there was an abundance of good talk, reminiscent and otherwise, and college songs. The increasing number and the excellent quality of the University men and women who are worthily filling good positions in the teaching force of the State are a just source of pride to the University and its friends.
The most entertaining feature of the Association was the lecture on "Buttoned-up People," by Robert McIntyre, of Denver. The strongest address was the lecture on "The Professional Training of the Teacher," by President Jonn W. Cook, of the Illinois State Normal University.
Below are condensed some of the salient points developed in the discussions and general outcome of the association :
1. The necessity of reform in the certificating of teachers was strongly urged.
2. President Taylor and others made a clear presentrtion of child study as a necessary foundation for the teaching process.
3. President Dietrich's inaugural address emphasized the importance of moral culture as an element of education.
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4. The importance of the study of literature in schools of all grades was insisted on.
5. The advantages accruing from the study of Latin by all high school students was clearly presented.
6. The independent district system with its inequality of taxation and its inequitable discriminations in educational privilege received the censure it deserves.
7. A strong committee was appointed to formulate and present to the next legislature needed reforms in the school law of the state.
8. The large place given to music on the Association programme and the appreciation with which it was received show the susceptibility of teachers to sweet sounds, and indicate the educational value of singing as a feature of school courses of study.
ARVIN S. OLIN.
The New Managers.
At the regular monthly meeting of the Athletic Board on Tuesday last the managers of the Athletic teams for the ensuing year were selected.
C. A. Burney, who did faithful work on the football team last year at half back was chosen to wield the destiny of the jaykawkers on the gridiron.
Mr. Wilder Metcalf was solicited by the towns people to accept the management of the team. Mr. Metcalf is pre-eminently fitted for the position as he has a good business capacity, which he refused to expend in that direction.
Hugh Means succeeded himself as base ball manager. Means proved himself last year to be a capable manager.
Adrian Sherman was elected Captain, and Anderson Ewart manager of the track athletics, so prepare ye high jumpers! [Crowded out of last weeks; small edition, M. Ed.
Kansas University Weekly Election May 17,1895.
Vote for Editors in Chief as follows:
Vote for Editors in Chief as follows:
Wilbur Gardner... 46
F. N. Raymond... 5
Jno. H. Henderson... 43
D. D. Gear... 27
Vote for Treasurer:
Jos. E. Smith...106
Vote for Secretary:
Harold W. Smith...102 Votes for Editorial Board as follows:
votes for Editorial Board as follows:
Prof. E. D. Adams...171
Grace Brewster...115
B. B. Breese...52
Irving Hill...57
Ruth Whitman...78
Helen Perry...57
James H. Patten...186
T. B. Sears...23
Alice Robe...75
Frank L. Glick...46
A. A. Ewart...146
Don Bowersock...113
W. N. Logan...87
C. C. Brown...72
E. S. Riggs...55
C. J. Moore...87
F. H. Johnson...144
C. A. Burney...112
Arthur McMurray...30
A. V. Schroder...112
J. E. Steele...152
Therefore according to article IV, section 13, the following are the hold-over members of the editorial board next term: Gear, Henderson, Adams, Ewart, Brewster, Patten, Steele and Johnson.
The Economic Seminary held its usual meeting last Monday. Reports were made by Hall, McCrosky and Patten. The organization is gradually growing, and is accomplishing much that is of great benefit to its members.
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Kansas University Weekly Election, January 17, 1896.
The result was as follows:
Editor in chief.
Treasurer.
Jos. E. Smith... 91
Secretary.
C. J. Moore... 90
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Prof. E. M. Hopkins... 68
Eugene C. Alder... 97
J. H. Engel... 153
Don Bowersock... 62
C. E. Rench... 94
W. M. Freeland... 61
May Gardner... 44
L. N. Flint... 98
A. B. Bates... 95
Rudolph Caughey... 26
J. O. Hall... 51
Will McMurray... 45
F. L. Glick... 78
H. G. Pope... 34
Owing to Prof. Adams' resignation the Editorial Board will be composed of the following: A. A. Ewart, D. D. Gear, J. H. Henderson, Grace Brewster, F. H. Johnson, H. E. Steele, J. H. Patten, Prof. Hopkins. E. C. Alder, J. H. Engel, Don Bowersock, C. E. Rench, W. M. Freeland, L. N. Flint. A. B. Bates, F. L. Glick.
Prof. Cowan is making an individual physical examination of the members of his classes. He has a special apparatus for testing the various muscles of the body, and puts the boys through one at a time. He records the results of the tests on a printed chart which shows the normal proportion between the different muscles. Some very unequal developments have been found and the lines upon the chart bear a striking resemblance to the isothermal lines on a physical geography map, or to those on a diagram showing market prices of wheat and corn through twenty years of alternate financial prosperity and depression.
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MADE A TOUCHDOWN.
A Game of Foot Ball in Which a Stove Came Out Victorious. (From the Chicago Tribune.)
A. T. Smith, a football player on the Chicago University team, played a brief game with a gasoline stove yesterday morning in which his future career as a football player was seriously impaired by the loss of his chrysanthemum hair.
The game was called at 7 o'clock at Smith's home, No. 5522 Madison avenue. The ball used was the regulation gasoline can filled with fluid. The hired girl put the ball in play by pouring gasoline from it into the stove while the burners were lit. Smith made a rush around the right end of the stove and got the ball started for a five-yard line outside the door. He fumbled the ball and the stove tackled him by the hair and scored a touchdown.
Smith then took the ball, and broke through the interference for a water bucket, where he touch goal with his flaming locks. The bystanders became excited by the game and rushed on to the field and the game ended in great confusion and with $20 worth of damage to the surroundings. The score:
Touchdowns—Stove, 1.
Off-side play—Stove.
Injured - Smith.
Time of Game—Five minutes.
Kicked goal—Stove.
Kiched himself—Smith.
Colors—Stove, black and red; Smith, black and blue.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Debate.
Far more interest is being taken in the Kansas-Nebraska Debate this year than ever before. Last year it was difficult to get even a sufficient number of debaters for the preliminary contests. This year all is changed. The list of those intending to try for a place is very large in fact, some twenty-seven in number. The Kent club leads with twelve contestants; the Adelphic society follows with nine; and the K. U. Debating Club enters six.
The first preliminary contest will be held by the Kent Club on January 25, and the following question will be debated: "Resolved, that the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine as applied to the Venezuelan dispute will justify an Anglo-American war,"
The Adelphics and K. U. Debating club on January 31st will separately debate: "Resolved, That the United States is in greater danger from the higher than from the lower classes."
It will probably take one or two inter-society debates to choose contestants for the final preliminary which will be held in the chapel during April. All the judges have not as yet been chosen for the minor contests.
Oratorical Contest.
There is a great improvement this year in the interest taken in the Kansas University Oratorical Association, and the result is that five able men have entered the contest, and each one will be supported next Friday night by a body of enthusiastic admirers.
The contestants are: R. R. Brewster, A. McMurray, A. J. Bales, P. O. Klassen and G. W. Plummer. The judges on thought and composition are: Dr. Cordley, Dr. J. H. Dougherty, of Kansas City, and Professor H. B. Peairs; and on delivery; State Superintendent Stanley, Mr. B. W. Woodward and Judge J. Q. A. Norton. The sentiment in favor of withdrawing from the State Association seems to have almost entirely died out and probably no attempt in that direction will be made this year.
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Misses May and Conne Cook spent Sunday at Leavenworth.
The new foot-ball management is busy working up a team for '96.
Dave Laken who has been ill with typhoid fever is now sitting up.
Clay Lyons was in town Saturday. The fever has left him somewhat paler and weaker than it found him.
This was the rather startling announcement that brought out a full attendance at the Senior meeting Wednesday.
Prof. Hodder read a paper, "The Making of Kansas," at the annual meeting of the State Historical Society at Topeka Tuesday.
There will be a base ball game with Ann Arbor on the home grounds April 18. Let the base ball aspirants get into the gymnasium at once.
The physical examinations of the members of the classes in Physical Culture are in progress and will continue until about the middle of February.
James Kelsey is one of the active workers in the Hiawatha Y. P. S. C. E.—Who says the University has no religious influence over the students?
The Kent club had a very exciting session on last Saturday morning. The question for debate was: "The United States would be justified in going to war with England in order to uphold the Monroe doctrine." The affirmative and war side was ably represented by Messrs Cowden and Gear, and from the hearty applause that followed each speech it appeared that the members were willing to shoulder the musket on the spot. This, however, is no reflection on the negative side of the question, for it was up held in eloquent speeches by Messrs. Kingsley and Watson. After the debate the election of officers, who will guide the destinies of the Kent club for the next four weeks, was held and resulted as follows: President, C. H. Elting; Vice-President, J. F. Jacobs; Secretary, D. D. Gear; Sergeant-at-arms, Foresman.
Be on the HILL at five o'clock For the Seniors WILL have a meeting For discus SING Senior play.
A. W. Foster, brother of the tall tackle, is one of the most successful lawyers the class of '90 sent out of the Law School. He is at present holding the office of Justice of the Peace at Omaha, Neb.
The second regular semi-annual election of the K. U. WEEKLY Publishing Association was held in room No. 4 of the University on last Friday. There was to be elected an Editor-in-Chief, a Treasurer, Secretary and nine members of the Editorial Board, one of the latter to be elected for one school term to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Adams' resignation. There were about 115 votes cast. W. W. Reno was elected Editor-in-Chief; Jos. Smith, Treasurer and C. J. Moore, Secretary, they being the only candidates for those offices. There were fourteen candidates for membership on the Board. The following are the new members elected in order of the number of votes received: J. H. Engle 153 votes, L. N. Flint, E. C. Alder, A. B. Bates, C. E. Rench, F. L. Glick, Prof. E. N. Hopkins, Don Bowersock, W. M. Freeland. Mr. Freeland having received the least number of votes of those elected will fill the unexpired position of Mr. Adams' term, retiring at the close of this school year. The new board met Tuesday at 12 o'clock and elected J. H. Engle, Managing Editor; C. E. Rench, Local Editor and Miss Bowersock, Literary Editor. It was decided to hold frequent meetings of the board during the coming term and an effort will be made to secure a room for staff headquarters. At a meeting of the heads of the departments Wednesday the members of the new board were assigned to places as follows: L. N. Flint and J. H. Henderson, assistants of the Editor-in-Chief; A. A. Ewart, Athletics; D. D. Gear, Law; F. L. Glick, Library; E. C. Alder, F. H. Johnson and A. B. Bates, assistants to the Local Editor; Miss Brewster, Prof. Hopkins, and J. H. Patten, assistants to the Literary Editor and W. M. Freeland and H. E. Steele assistants to the Managing Editor.
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The Woman's League was "at home" to the young women of the University last Saturday at the the Chancellor's residence. A "question box," which had been placed in the girls' cloak room at the main building for the reception of questions on etiquette and propriety, was opened and the questions answered and discussed. This idea proved to be an excellent one and furnished most interesting and profitable entertainment for the afternoon.
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John J. McCook, who was one of the receivers of the Santa Fe, has written to Governor Morrill congratulating him upon the appointment of Hon. Charles S. Gleed as a member of the Board of Regents of the State University. Mr. McCook says:
"I wish to congratulate you and the State upon what is looked upon here as the most fortunate selection for what we consider about the most important appointment in the State of Kansas.
"The services rendered to the University and in that way to the State by Mr. Gleed during his former term are well known and recognized here at the east. * * *
"In this section of the country he has the personal regard and esteem of all who know him, and his intense interest in the University has communicated a generous enthusiasm upon that subject to many beyond the borders of your State. * * *
"I am very proud to have received a degree from the University of Kansas and my interest in its success, and all that that means, for the present and future generations in Kansas, makes me grateful to you for this appointment."
A student in Political Economy is losing sleep over an ambiguous sentence that he found in a volume on "Profit Sharing." It reads: "The basis of division at Gloucester, the great fish market of America, gives the crew one half the net proceeds and the owners the other half." He would like to know how, in this particular industry, the net proceeds can be distinguished from the gross proceeds. Will some one help him out of the difficulty.
It is reported that Pope and Querry, Senior Laws, will go into partnership after graduation and practice in southern Missouri.
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No.21.
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THE TERM examinations are now out of the way, political affairs are fixed for some time, and athletics are frozen up,—now is the season for the literary and scientific clubs and debating societies of the University to be doing their best work and getting up a sufficient momentum of interest and enthusiasm to carry them through the warm spring time to commencement. Now, also, is the time to take up five o'clock lectures again. Every student can well afford to spend an hour each week learning something outside his own line of work; he should seek to follow a course of training the
broadest possible. Where specialization is so common, we need department extension courses. Then, too, there is the Bible. So long as the University is unable to offer any regular courses on the Bible, we believe that a series of five o'clock lectures should be given each year similar to that of last spring, and that such a course will always be fully appreciated by the students.
THE MEMBERSHIP of the publishing company should be increased more rapidly. At present, there is no one sufficiently interested to attend to this matter. It is the business of so many that it has become no one's business, and as a result, our mailing list has been increased principally through ordinary subscriptions while the stock list has grown but little. If it were made the duty of some individual to solicit students to take shares in the company, and a small bonus were offered as an incentive to active work, the membership could soon be doubled.
No. 21.—With this issue the WEEKLY attains its majority, and with the next it will open a new volume under the newly elected management, to whom we resign our trust without any speech-making, only expressing the hope that they may work together for the success of the paper with the same harmony which was shown at their organization. The staff has been well chosen, its members are capable, and under the direction of their energetic chief we shall expect to see them accomplish great things in the improvement of the WEEKLY. In their work they should have the coöperation and assistance of all, for upon that, as much as upon the choice of its officers, depends the representative character of the paper.
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THE UNIVERSITY of Wisconsin prepares once in two weeks a Bulletin of University news which is sent free to every editor who expresses a desire to receive it. The bulletin contains University news and information of general interest and is gotten out very cheaply.
We wonder if it would be possible to organize a bureau here for the disseminating of information in a similar way to the newspaper editors of Kansas, thus keeping them reliably posted on matters concerning the University.
LITERARY.
Education in Novels.
(One of the latest of the new academic studies instituted in the United States is a course in modern fiction. The modern fiction class in Yale University numbers two hundred and fifty eight members.London Daily Telegraph.)
The tutor of St. Mary's, Cambridge was sitting in his rooms interviewing a succession of undergraduates.
"Sit down, please, Mr. Jones," he said to the last comer. "I wish to speak to you very seriously on the subject of your work. The college is not at all satisfied with your progress this term. For instance, Prof. Kailyard tells me that your attendance at his lectures has been most irregular."
"Well, sir," said Jones, fumbling with the tassel of his cap, "I didn't think they were important——."
"Not important? How do you expect to get up difficult authors like Crockett and Maclaren unless you've attended a course of lectures on Scotch dialect? Do you know the meaning of 'havers,''gaby,' or 'gammering?' I thought not. Then your last paper on elementary Besantics was very weak. Have you really been giving your energies to your work? Or have you been frittering away your time over other books?"
Jones looked guilty, but said nothing.
"Ah," resumed the Don, "I see how it is. You've been wasting your time over light literature—Homer and Virgil and trash of that sort. But you really must resist such temptations Good-evening."
Jones departed, to be succeeded by another undergraduate.
"I sent for you,Mr. Smith," said the tutor. because your acquaintance with modern realism is quite insufficient. You will attend the course in anatomy lectures at the hospital, please."
A third student made his appearance in the door-way.
"Mr. Robinson, I'm sorry to say that your work has been unsatisfactory. I shall give you a few questions. Kindly take them down as I dictate. You will find pen and ink on the table.
Question one.—Trace the bearing of the history of Mowgli on the Darwinian theory.
Question two—"There were two Trilbys," (Trilby, part VIII.) Explain this statement. What had Mr. Whistler to do with it?
Question three. Give the formulae for the employment of (a) the Mad Bull; (b) the Runaway Horse; (c) the Secret Marriage. What would you suggest as the modern equivalents of these?
Question four. —Rewrite the story of Jack and Jill (a) in Wessex dialect; (b) as a 'Keynote;' (c) as a 'Dolly Dialogue.'
"That will do for the present," concluded the tutor, and as his pupil left the room he seated himself at the writing table and began Chapter XXIX of his "Prolegomena to Three Men in a Boat."—Punch.
Literary News.
Charles Scribners Sons will publish shortly the volume of poems which Eugene Field completed just before his death.
Anthony Hope Hawkins, of "Prisoner of Zenda" fame, has published a new story of thrilling adventures and hair-breadth escapes, bearing the title "The Chronicles of Count Antonio." It is a story of mediæval Italy.
Encouraged by the welcome accorded "Be-
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side the Bonnie Brier Bush," Ian Maclaren has sent into the world a second volume of sketches of Drumtochty life—The Days of Auld Lang Syne—a work characterized by the same mingling of humor and pathos, the same skill in portraiture, and the same keen insight into human character—that is, Drumtochty human character—which distinguished his earlier volume. As the title suggests, the pathetic element predominates; but if "the sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought," so often are the sweetest stories. And in these degenerate days, it is a relief to find something simple, wholesome, and genuine.
Stevenson's unfinished tale "Weir of Hermiston" will appear first in three numbers of Cosmopolis, the promising new London Magazine to be edited by M. Fernand Ortmans, Andrew Lang, Henry Norman, Emile Faguet, and Julas Lemaitre.
Dodd, Mead & Co., will publish Miss Beatrice Harridan's new story of California life.
MacMillan & Co. have just issued Mr. Douglas Sladen's "A Japanese Marriage," which has had a run in England almost equal to that of Trilby. Mr. Sladen is reported to be an advocate of Hedonism and the new woman, and the book will doubtless prove to be entertaining if nothing more.
A Parable.—The little cheese mites held debate as to who made the cheese. Some thought that they had no data to go upon, and some that it had come together by a solidification of vapor, or by the centripetal action of atoms. A few surmised that the platter might have something to do with it; but the wisest of them could not deduce the existence of a cow. From Conan Doyle's Stark Munro Letters.
Alfred Austin, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has been appointed Poet Laureate by the Queen, an office that has been vacant since the death of Tennyson October 6, 1892. Alfred Austin was born in Headlingly, near Leeds, May 30, 1835.
His father was a merchant and magistrate of the borough of Leeds, and his mother was a
sister of Joseph Locke, the eminent civil engineer. Both his parents being Roman Catholics, he was sent to Stonyhurst College, and afterwards to St. Mary's College, Oscott. He took his degree at the University of London in 1853, and in 1857 he was called to the bar of the Inner Temple.
The publication, although anonymously, of a poem entitled "Randolph," when he was eighteen, showed the bent of his disposition, and it may be said, on the authority of Mr. Austin himself, that he ostensibly embraced the study of law in deference only to the wishes of his parents, and from his earliest years was imbued with the desire and determination to devote his life mainly to literature. Publishers Weekly.
Here are the titles of some of the publications of the last few months:
In glancing over the bulletins issued by the various publishing companies, one cannot fail to be impressed by the predominance of alliterative titles. Even the authors of profound scientific treatises indulge in the frivolity of poetic labels for their books.
In the Hollow of the Hills; Later Lyrics; Courtship by Command; The Christian's Consciousness; Nymphs, Nixies and Naiads; Studies in Structure and Style; Methods of Mind-Training; Earth's Enigmas; Archaeology and Antiquities; A Man of Two Minds; A Pitiless Passion; Mammy Mystic; The Rod, the Root and the Flower; Mind and Motion and Monism; Leaves of the Lotus; Sister Songs.
D. Appleton & Co. are to publish Mme. Sarah Grand's forthcoming volume. The title is not yet announced, but she describes the story as the unfolding of a life. She prefers to have it read without a break, and has declined all offers for serial publication in England and America.
Thos. Y. Crowell & Co. will bring out a carefully revised translation of Scheffel's Ekkehard. The volume has been pronounced a gem of bookmaking. It contains an introductory biographical sketch of Scheffel, and all the annotations of (the 138th German edition).
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Kansas University Weekly LOGALS.
Griffin the coal man. Kraus has a new pet again. M. Z. Kirk is in school again. Roy Flecther is a lawyer now. Crook's is now a fledged Phi Delt. Miss Duff was on the hill this week. Jack Hessin has resigned his position. Wagner is the Senior base ball manager. Try the Peerless Laundry. Alva Souder, Agt. Category gives a dance in Journal hall to-ight.
Miss Viola De Weise visited the University Thursday.
The Barbs will give a hop in Pythian Hall this evening.
Smith's News Depot is headquarters for Base Ball and Athletic goods.
The Misses Cook spent Saturday and Sunday visiting friends in Leavenworth.
Walker is studying so hard now that his eyes are becoming weak—so he says.
Dudley W. Eaton, of Kansas City, sang at the oratorical exercises last Friday.
Mortie Snow is a murderer. Askhim about that bird dog of his that used to be.
If you want a Walking Cane go to Smith's News Depot and see the largest line in the city.
Voigts returned to his school work last week.
E. S. Leland, of Washburn College, attended the oratorical contest last Friday night.
Voigts returned to his school work last week Miss Mulvane, of Topeka, is visiting Miss Nicholson.
Robert Wells now shines resplendent in a corn-colored tie.
Phillips has left school but will be on hand next fall for a foot ball line-up.
Van Nuys, '97, has been compelled to leave school on account of his eyes.
Miss Gildermeister, '99, has withdrawn from school, but will return next year.
Prof. Blackmar says his only regret is that he didn't learn to cook when a boy.
Miss Leventon returned Monday to resume her studies in the music department.
Prof. Blackmar believes one should make a practical study of Domestic Relations.
The experimental class in Psychology can tell you just how quickly you can think.
The Sophomore engineers are putting in twenty-five hours on examinations this week.
Athletic item from the dancing school: Burney scored first touch down in the polka practice.
Piatt, Reno and Clark are candidates for the base ball team.--Gentlemen, politicians are not eligible.
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The Kent Club Debate.
Again grand eloquence rends the air, this time in the Kent Club room. Here last Saturday night the whales of the Law School met, and the way they spouted would put to shame their kindred monsters of the deep. The question was the "Monroe Doctrine." A dozen debaters took part, and two out of the twelve were chosen to represent the Kent Club in a preliminary contest vs. the Adelphic Society. These winners were A. J. Horner and George Kingsley. Simpson and Guyer, however, received honorable mention.
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"A man is eloquent in what he knows."
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It makes no difference whether you are too hot or too cold your care can be attended to by A. J. Griffin.
The Sophomores say that the final examinations in English History should be called "Gatling-gun" quizes.
Will Atchison, '98, is acting as Lawrence correspondent for the Kansas City Star during the absence of Clay Lyon.
The world must be coming to an end. Prof. Murphy has dismissed his mechanics class twice in the last two weeks.
George Penfield, who has been very sick at his home in Topeka since the holidays, was improving when last heard from.
The class in Sociology under Prof. Blackmar will get some practical instruction next term. It is proposed to reform the "Smoky Pilgrims."
Miss Lucinda Smith returned last week from Leavenworth where she had been teaching in the high school, filling a vacancy. Miss Schaffer had charge of her work on the hill.
A. C. O'Connor, an art student, has been designated the most patriotic student in the University. He has red hair, wears a white collar and a blue suit.
The historical seminary room was in confusion part of this week. The reference books of the courses of the present term were being replaced by those for the next.
A number of University students and a number of the faculty met at the Y. M. C. A. rooms last Saturday evening. A chess club was organized to meet every Friday evening for the present at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. A committee was appointed to draft a set of governing rules. It is intended to have a tournament some time this spring and also if possible to play the city chess players.
An Engineering student works so late at night that his studies are disturbed by the morning crow of a neighboring rooster.
Thursday was the day of prayer for colleges and Rev. Rogers, who led chapel this week, conducted special services that morning, assisted by several other ministers from the city churches.
Roy Lee and Irving Harrison, of Kansas City, visited the University last Friday. Mr. Lee is a brother of John Lee, E. E., '98, and Mr. Harrison is a nephew of Ex-President Harrison.
The Economic Seminary elected the following officers for the ensuing term: President, J. O.Hall; vice president, C.E.Rench; secretary, Miss Snow; executive board, Wallace and Patten. Mr. Rench reported on current events. Miss Hardy reviewed an article in the Journal of Sociology.
The Capital believes that we have original ideas of advertising our university, as the following will show.
The Kansas university law students some time ago unanimously invited Bob Ingersoll to deliver the annual address this year and then sent letters to the newspapers asking them what they thought of it. Yesterday the dispatches stated that the students had, also unanimously, withdrawn the invitation. The unanimity in both cases suggests the idea that what the students wanted was not Ingersoll so much as advertising. -Topeka Capital.
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Experiment In Rain-making.
Prof. Blake treated his class in Physics, on Wednesday, to a miniature exhibition of rainmaking that was quite amusing. He was decomposing water by the electric current in a glass bottle, leading the two gases, hydrogen and oxygen, into a glass dish, where he touched a lighted match to them. After several explosions his supply of matches gave out, and he then tried to disconnect the wires leading to the bottle, the current being too strong to handle with the bare hands, he then called for another match, and like the traditional small boy on the Fourth of July, gave the climax by setting off the accumulated gas. There was a loud report, and wires, stopper and glass tubing flew high in the air. The heavy rain descended around the smiling Professor amid applause of the class. There were three girls in attendance, and, strange to say, they did not scream.
The Topeka Capital Tuesday morning had the following to say of three University students from that city who are now at their homes sick with typhoid fever :
George Penfield has probably the worst case. He has been very ill for several weeks. Sunday night he was much worse, and fears were entertained as to his recovery, but Dr. McGuire believed that there was some improvement in his condition yesterday.
David Lakin has been sick several weeks. Sunday he had a very severe hemorrhage of the nose, which alarmed his friends, but he was better yesterday. Dr. McGuire is attending him also.
Clay Lyon was home from the University several weeks ago on account of sickness. He recovered, he thought, and returned to Lawrence. Last week he suffered a relapse and returned to his home. He is getting along very well now, his physician, Dr. Harding, says.
The largest class in the University and the one most interesting in its personal makeup is the class in English History which will disband this week. It has more than one hundred members. All sorts and conditions of students may be found in it. Nearly every county in Kansas and a few places outside the state are represented. The names of the members suggest several trades and professions. There is a Brewster, a Plummer, a Shoemaker, a Turner, and a Parson. There is also a Shinn and a Wing, a Rose and a Rosebush, and a Bear, a Coon, a Fox and a Campbell. The various nationalities represented in the class may be indicated by the names, Olson, O'Connor and Syder.
A few University girls will give an informal leap year party Saturday night.
“‘A' is a filler, saw dust like.
The fluent orator said.
To him 'tis plain—to us plain that Such filling is in his head.
Eliason Feb. 1st, Opera House.
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Class of '90's Gift.
The gift of the class of '90 to the University has received a very considerable addition in the form of a large folio volume entitled "Illustrated Biographies of Modern Artists," arranged under the direction of F. G. Dumas and published in Paris. The biographies, each by a separate author, give accounts of the life and work of the following twelve artists: Sir Frederick Leighton, J. E. Millais, Hubert Herkomer, L. Alma-Tadema, Paul Baudry, Josef Israels, Adolf Menzel, Carl von Piloty, Hans Makart, James Clarke Hook, Alexandre Cabanel and J. L. E. Meissonier. The text is abundantly illustrated, and there is also a fine full-page etched portrait of each artist, as well as several very beautiful full-page etchings from the best work of each.
It may not be amiss to mention again the other art work, which, with this volume, composes the gift of the class: "The Masterpieces of French Art," published by Gebbie & Co., Philadelphia. This is a set of ten portfolios, containing each a dozen photogravures of the best work of French artists, together with a brief account and criticism of each picture and extended biographies of all the artists. There are also a number of supplementary wood engravings in each portfolio. The work forms a treasury of the best in French art previous to the salon of 1883. The "Biographies" and the "Masterpieces" together make a valuable addition to the art collections of the University, one of which the givers may well be proud.
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Prof. Carruth's New Book.
We copy from the Lawrence Journal the following excellent review of Professor Carruth's latest work :
Scheffel's Ekkehard, with an introduction and notes by W. H. Carruth, Ph.D., professor of the German language and literature in the University of Kansas. New York, Henry Holt & Co, 1895. XXXVII 499 pp.
This book of Professor Carruth's adds another title to the lengthening list of works of the University faculty. It is an edition of one of the best of modern historical novels, prepared especially for the use of college classes. It bears witness to the editor's talent as teacher in the clear conception of the powers and needs of the students to whom it is addressed. Taking for granted the student's familiarity with the general principles and forms of the language, without which he should never be reading such a considerable work as Ekkehard at all, he has not encumbered the notes with grammatical explanations and references, or unnecessarily diverted the attention of the reader from the content and literary interest of the novel. Rather he has dealt with his text and by his treatment forced the student to deal with it as a piece of literature, to be understood and enjoyed as such. Naturally in an historical novel his notes are concerned chiefly with the historical materials which the author used and the local geography of its scenes, and they have been prepared with abundant scholarship and great care. Over the making of them an admirable sense of proportion has presided, and they are always kept subordinate to the text. Such condensation of statement has been achieved that it is remarkable how much information has been put into the narrow limits of thirty-five pages. The notes are supplemented by a map, a portrait of Scheffel, and other engravings, but chiefly by an introduction which opens the horizon of the student and points him to the wider meaning of the novel as connected with the literary movement of its day and as illustrating the imaginative treatment of history of which the historical novel is the product. The discussion of the historical novel which it contains is admirable, and shows what advantage a text book for college classes may derive from having as editor not merely a skillful teacher and accurate scholar, but an accomplished literary artist and critic as well. It will contribute to the view now beginning to be discovered in various quarters, that the novel has earned its right to be considered as seriously as the drama or any other form of literary composition. Altogether this edition of Ekkehard is such as the intelligent and serious reader, whether in college or out of it, will find it a pleasure to have in hand, and we could wish that its circulation might not be confined to the classroom. The publishers have seconded their editor well, and given the book good, clear type and an attractive dress.-A.G.C.
The Orators' Night.
The thirteenth annual oratorical contest came off Friday evening in the University Chapel. Not very many people were present, but there should have been, they would have received entertainment and instruction, too, that would have amply repaid them for their expended time and exertion. At eight o'clock the gavel of President Flint rapped the audience into quiet. On account of the non-presence of William Henry Harrison Piatt the invocation was dispensed with and the quartette for the occasion gave us "Father's Lullaby." It was well rendered, con expressione, with this exception: Sherman's smile is stictly non-lullabyatic in effect. R. R. Brewster then took the floor in defence of "Popular Education," and told us wherein it was a relative, (perhaps cousin), of patriotism. He talked to us twenty minutes by a stop watch, and told us many things we had never heard before, at least in that tone of voice. R. R. has a good voice, and it was not its fault that he didn't win. Let not discouragement sieze us, however, for there is time enough yet and a place for us all—the base ball team will need a strong-voiced coacher on third base. Yet no joking, Mr. Brewster delivered a very fine oration. In his flights of oratory he grew both eloquent and warm, each time concluding by wiping the
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Experiments With Cards, The Obedient Cards, (invented by Eliason). The Enchanted Cane. The Orignion of Vegetation. The Ill Fated Chronometer. A Watchful Enterprise. A Conjurer's Duck Hunt (invented by Eliason). A New Inexhaustible Bottle. A Welsh Rarebit.
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"CREMATION."
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beads of perspiration from his Websterian brow while the Betas cheered. He took his seat mid loud and continued applause.
Dudley Eaton, of Kansas City, who had stopped off that p. m., to see the treasurer of the Chapter House Association on business, followed the orator with a tenor solo. It took well and Dudley had to come again, how glad we were that he brought two pieces of music.
A. W. McMurray then talked to us, slowly but surely, and in a loud voice, on the "Conquest of Principle." Perhaps he rose in air too quickly; maybe he went to Rome too soon; anyway there was some mistake about it. For did not he and R. R. draw straws to determine who of the two should have first and who second place? This fact reminds us of a quotation.—"There is an aphorism of respectable antiquity which seriously advises the producers of poultry to postpone the census of juvenile fowls until the period of incubation is terminated."
Pardon the digression, but this makes us think to mention, right here, that orators should be more explicit in their references to parallel cases. That is to say, when they speak of Greece and Rome they should follow with a parenthetical explanation. How is the audience to know anything about Greece and Rome. We have read of them, and now have a faint recollection that they are or were countries somewhere,—but it sounds so funny to hear Greece and Rome mentioned in an oration,—orators should be more explicit. We suggest that they use foot-notes. Mr. McMurray, on the whole, did well—his voice will be heard some day from the pulpit.
Then the quartette sang the song about Johnny Jones' trouble. They were encored and gave us "Swanee River," and judging from the way they pitched the key the river must have been up so high that Sherman couldn't cross. On the second verse they took a new start as it were and made a Garrison-whip-finish.
A. J. Bales took the floor, and the way he defied John Brown was a caution. The orator was well cheered, for he had arranged for that in the afternoon.
P. A. Klaassen was the fourth speaker. The subject, "Is Peace a Dream," was handled in a cool, logical manner. He presented his thoughts naturally, unaffectedly, with few gestures, and in a clear, sweet tone of voice. The audience thought with him, listened to him, and comprehended all he said. His voice did not drown out his thoughts. When he closed the
people were satisfied, and pools were selling Klaassen against the field, with but few takers for the field.
Frank House then sang to us for which we were duly thankful.
G. W. Plummer, the last of the orators, followed on "The Replacement of Selfishness," and won for himself much praise and applause.
This ended the speech-making, so the judges retired to figure up and render an opinion. In the interim Miss Summerfield favored us with a solo. The decision of the judges, as announced by President Flint was: P.A.Klaassen, guilty, sentenced to go to Topeka, February 21st,—and the band played on.
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