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February 7,1896.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 7, 1896.
No.1.
Editor-in-Chief:
W. W. RENO.
Associate:
L. N. FLINT.
Literary Editor:
DON BOWERSOCK.
Associates:
J. H. PATTEN. GRACE BREWSTER.
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
C. E. RENCH.
A. B. BATES, - - - - - - - Arts.
J. H. HENDERSON, - - - - - Exchanges.
F. H. JOHNSON, - - - - Arts.
D. D. GEAR, - - - Law.
A. A. EWART, - - Athletics.
F. L. GLICK, - - Arts.
E. C. ALDER, - - Social.
Managing Editor:
J. H. ENGLE.
Associates:
REELAND. - - H. E. STEELE.
W. M. FREELAND. - - H. E. STEELE.
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STUDENTS, faculty, alumni and friends of the great University of Kansas, All Hail! Beginning with this issue of the KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY, if we can make this paper truly representative of the University, we shall spare no effort to do so.
May our Pegasus be shod with sharp-calked shoes, enveloped in a heavy coat of mail, and its rider armed with the latest improved
weapons for offensive warfare. Not that the WEEKLY will seek trouble, but that fearlessness and independence are necessary if it will truly represent University life.
Many, or at least, a number of abuses find refuge within the shadows of the University, which should be exposed to public view. Many excellencies also exist which should be duly noted.
With these few remarks, we start out across the field of journalism—and may we never be turned into a pillar of salt!
THE JUNIORS are to be congratulated for planning to give a promenade. Class spirit, this year, seems to be at a very low ebb. The Juniors however, flash forth like a meteor on a dark night and dazzle the other classes.
Few students wear the University button or pin. The sunflower in gold, with a crimson center and the letters K.U. in sky blue and corn yellow—the University colors—against a crimson background makes a very pretty badge.
NUMBER one, volume four of the Lawrence High School Budget comes to us bright and newsy. Under the direction of its able managing editor, it will certainly well represent the Lawrence High School and should prove financially successful.
THE establishment of a law firm in Lawrence by fourteen members of the Senior Law Class is a happy combination of theory and practice. The firm has already secured considerable business, although it has been organized but a short time. The chief aim of the firm is to defend in the district and justices' courts those persons who are unable to pay regular practicing attorneys.
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The habit of cursorily glancing over the daily newspapers in the library is probably of as much importance as a regular course in the University. As we live in the world and in fact are a part of the world, it is well to keep in touch with it. Isolation tends toward stagnation. The influence of current events is a potent factor in the development of character.
SOME INTERESTING data concerning a medical school in the University have been collected, and will be published when time and space permit. Suffice it for this time to say that with but little additional expense a medical school, second to none west of the Mississippi, could be established here by the opening of the next school year. In fact a medical school is as much if not more necessary for a true University than a law school,a pharmacy school or a school of music.
THE OPINION which we have lately heard expressed, that debate can take the place of oratory in Kansas University is certainly very erroneous. The Kansas-Nebraska debate should in no wise lessen the interest in oratorical contests. Debating and oratory are not identical in their aims, nor do they require the same sort of talent. The successful debater is frequently not the best orator and vice versa. Both oratory and debate should receive more attention here than they receive at present and neither should be neglected for the other.
THE Lotus for February by far excels any other number yet published. The illustrations by Borie of the Chap-Book and Charpiot of the Chicago Echo are very fair. A pretty narrative, "The Legend of Guadalupe" by Mrs. J. K. Hudson of Topeka deserves especial mention. The art plate in eleven colors accompanying this number reveals great beauty and delicacy of expression. The poetry, although of a light character, is very entertaining. The literary matter of the Lotus is in old Jensen type, reduced, and many of the advertisements are in Caxton type. This imparts to the magazine a very attractive appearance.
IN Popular Astronomy for February the leading article is, "A New Theory of the Surface Markings of the Moon" by Prof. E. Miller of the University of Kansas. There have been three theories current regarding the markings of the moon but Prof. Miller introduces a fourth which seems more reasonable than the other three. The article is very interesting.
THE INDISCRIMINATE use of the word professor is much to be deplored. In daily life we hear of Prof. Smooth, the patent medicine man or of Prof. Bolero the tonsorial artist. Even students are very lax in the use of this title of distinction.
Associate professors in our own University and even assistants and instructors receive and sanction this title as a mode of personal address--and in fact seem to enjoy it.
It would be worthy of the democratic spirit existing in the United States and especially in the University of Kansas for all our University instructors to discountenance the use of this term and recognize only the plain but honorable title of Mr. Even the president of the United States is satisfied to be called Mr. President.
WHAT STUDENT has not made a mental classification of the instructors in the academy, college or university which he attends. There are plodding professors, whose tenure of position is considered by bright students to be either an anomaly or a joke; student professors, who are held in the highest esteem by all students; and pyrotechnic professors, who are little known or little respected by the students, but who like to pose before the public. Last of all, there are the professors who are well and favorably known to both the students and the public—who are genuine professors and men of the world combined. If there were more instructors of the latter class in the colleges and universities of the United States, we should not so often hear the remark, "Even a college professor could understand that."
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LITERARY.
Winter Poetry of Longfellow and Whittier.
Winter Poetry of Longfellow and Whittier. In the year 1807 were born two Ameriean poets, each of whom has won a large place in the hearts of American readers—the one for his deep human sympathy, the other for his love of nature and freedom. They were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Longfellow was reared in a home of culture and carefully trained in school and college. Whittier knew nothing but the rustic, almost unlettered life, and rough farm work of his quaker home, until he was nineteen years old. At that age Longfellow graduated from Bowdoin College.
Longfellow's boyhood memories were of the beautiful town of Portland, with its busy wharf and bay, and of the wooded hills that reach back and far away to inland plains. He remembered the bustling life of the sea-port as well as the solitude of the forest, where, perhaps, on some hilltop, he climbed a barren oak and gained the grand prospect of the Atlantic lying blue and calm, or worried and tossed by storms.
Whittier's recollections of boyhood days are much narrower as to horizon and more meagre as to events. The Whittier homestead is described as being in a little pocket of a valley, so shut in that not even the nearest farm-house is visible.
But there were the woods and neighboring lakes and the wild scenery, and Whittier grew up among them, living as near "nature's heart" as the Bard of the Avon, and he loved his native lakes as much as did Wordsworth or Coleridge. No short poem tells more completely the story of the boyhood of the poet, his study, work, and pastimes than "Snow Bound." This is a beautiful winter idyl suggested by Emerson's "Snow Storm." From the poem itself, we learn that it was written in later life, when the snows of time had whitened his locks and years had hallowed and sweetened the memory
days long since gone by. By the time we have read eight stanzas we have the scene well before us as to detail, though not as to latitude and longitude. We do not know that it is in Massachusetts, but we do know that it is within sound of the ocean, and that it is shut in by hills—wooded hills, covered with oak and hemlock.
The first seven stanzas are devoted to the description of the gathering snowstorm, and of the scene after the storm. The perspective is limited, but sufficient for a perfect picture. The foreground is represented in detail, but the details are not wearisome. When the picture is finished, we know the place from the barn with its old horse, its cattle, its sheep and its chickens, to the brush-pile and the bridle-post, grotesquely togged in cap and frock of snow. Even the brook is not forgotten, though its voice is choked and hushed in smothering snow.
The interior of the farmhouse is given as much in detail and before the readers is half through the poem, he has made the acquaintance of the family, of their nearest friends and of all the household pets. He easily imagines himself one of the fireside group, watching the simmering cider and the sputtering apples as he listens to the stories told. It is a picture of a simple life of rude comfort and content.
Speak the name of Whittier and most of us will recall dimly or vividly, something of "Snow-Bound." But who would remember Longfellow as the poet who wrote "Woods in Winter"or "Afternoon in February." These are short poems, lacking the elements of interest found in "Snow Bound." Each stanza is but a glance from under our cap as we hurry along against the sharp wind. In the third line of the first stanza, Longfellow says:
"With solemn feet I tread the hills." But in the two preceeding lines he says:
"The winter winds are piercing chill,
And through the Hawthorne blows the gale, "
When we remember that though a young man at this time, he was not fond of the frolics
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of the young, we are more inclined to think of him as not enjoying the situation but as getting over the hill at a shuffling pace, hands deep in overcoat pockets, shoulders up, and ears tucked under coat collar.
In the second stanza he hurries our fancy off through a stretch of woods—somewhere—and makes a remark to the effect that sunbeams are gladdening those solitudes, if it is not very warm. In the next there is a glimpse of a dead oak, with icicles hanging to its branches, and we are reminded that the vine twisted around it's trunk was beautiful in summer when the wind blew soft and warm. In the following stanza is seen a party of skaters:
"Alas! how changed from the fair scene
When birds sang out their mellow lay,
And winds were soft and woods were green. "
In the last stanza he says it is not so bad:
- * Wild music is abroad.
Pale desert woods!"
and in a little apostrophe to the
"Chill airs and wintry winds"
he professes to like their sound. And he did enjoy it, for about the same reason that his Teutonic ancestors could endure the rigorous pleasure of wallowing in the snow drifts on the southern shores of the Baltic, simply because he had grown used to it.
In this poem there is no determined perspective and the foreground is uncertain. Contour is lacking. Each stanza is a vignette which may have been sketched in America, England or on the continent. All are void of color except that one which has a dash of green.
"Afternoon in February" is superior to "Woods in Winter." It is logical in order and more definite in outline, but illogical, unnatural in circumstance. It ends more gloomily than "Woods in Winter," the heart throbbing,
"And tolling within,
Like a funeral bell."
The poem is lacking in all joyous motion that would influence the reader's spirit, though there is one flash of color that lights up the scene with dazzling brilliancy:
"Through the clouds like ashes,
The red sun flashes
On village windows
That glimmer red."
One would be almost inclined to speculate as to the sequel of the fourth stanza, if that mournful procession had not appeared:
"While through the meadows
Like fearful shadows
A funeral train."
Slowly passes
As it is, the gathering shadows and storm close round. We are in sympathy with the sound and scene. After a moments reflection, however, we are struck with the inconsistency and unnaturalness of the situation. The shades of night are overtaking the mourners ere the last solemn rights can be performed, and as the scene is swallowed up in the sea of darkness, the bell goes tolling on like the gong of a phantom ship, sunk in mid-ocean.
In mechanism, these three poems are much the same, but different in proportion. As a matter of course, in general the same objects of nature receive the same attention. But Longfellow's share of Anglo Saxon melancholy is seen in the absence of adjectives and adverbs of cheer. There is more lively motion in "Snow Bound" and more color. Though neither poet could give much variety of color to a winter scene. Whittier has more and a greater variety of sound.
There are two very apparent reasons for the disparity between these productions of Longfellow and "Snow Bound." One reason partly includes the other. First, the spirit in which they were written is different. "Woods in Winter" and "Afternoon in February" seem to have been produced from immediate or recent impressions, therefore there is lack of clearness. Both lack the mellow ripeness which comes with memory, and that power and choice of expression which is aided by distance of view. In "Snow Bound" the hardships, the dreariness and cold are half forgotten in recalling scenes now almost sacred.
Second, Longfellow is not a nature poet in one sense of the word; his is the realm of
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books and study; his contemplations and reflections are from his study window, as it appears in "Afternoon in February" and "A Rainy Day." But if he had undertaken a winter
idyl at a mature age, who could say that he could not have made it equal in merit to "Snow Bound," or his own poem, "My Lost Youth."
EXCHANGES.
Mr. Sickman is a freshman in Colorado University. The college paper reports that he "has been confined at home by sickness." We should think he would be!
The L. A. W. Bulletin presumes that since Henry George has joined the L. A. W. he is opposed even to the single tacks in his bicycle path.
The State Normal Salute is as enthusiastic as our own students are over Mr. Claasen's chances for winning in the state contest. We thank the Salute for its interest and assure it that its confidence in Mr. Claasens is well-placed.
Chronicle (University of Utah): This is leap year, girls, and as you will not have another chance for eight years you had better begin to rustle. At least six of our instructors are yet fancy-free, and there is not one married man on the Chronicle staff. Come early and avoid the rush.
Young man sees her pretty hair,
Before him in a pew,
Tries to get a glimpse of her;
Just as he ought to do.
When she turns her dainty head,
Offering one brief look,
He turneth white, he turneth red,
'Good Heavens,'tis the cook!
— Alkali Ike.
Fools and Fools
"O Lord, be merciful to me a fool!"
Pathetic was this small jest of the poet—
Yet be thou still more merciful, O Lord!
To him who is a fool and does not know it.
- Ex.
The January number of the Lawrence High School Budget is a bright and interesting publication, well printed and well edited. We should like to be permitted to remind our young friends, however, that it is an exhibition of bad taste and usually of bad judgment, as well, to insert items such as these:
"How did that note ever get out of George's pocket?"
"A certain middle girl isn't writing notes as much as she used to, why? Oh, 'cause."
"A certain Junior boy is very fond of treating some of the girls to gum."
Hot, adj. The most difficult term in the whole college vocabulary to define. Used as a synonym for almost every known adjective and a few adverbs. A local poet says:
"A man's hot when he's happy,
He's hot when he's sad,
He's hot when he's pleasant,
He's hot when he's mad,
He's hot when he's young,
He's hot when he's old,
He's hot when he's hot,
He's hot when he's cold."
It is used when ever you wish, and means anything, everything, or nothing. In fact, it's a hot word.
"Woman is a theory, man is a fact. Theories are pleasanter than facts."
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star," The student wildly cried, As on the glaring ice he took A fearful, jarring slide. Princeton Tige
—Princeton Tiger.
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ATHLETICS.
That every dog has his day is a familiar expression but why it is true is a question that baffles even the ingenuity of the 19th century. Its truth is recoghized alike by the politician, the statesman, the preacher and the sporting man. It must too be evident to the student of nature, and the student of the modern college has it forcibly suggested to him at every turn. The daily routine of class work, of lessons well prepared and sadly recited, and vice versa, is only part of the University education. College life would indeed lose much of its attractiveness if the class room should be the "head and the all, here." It is the society, the fraternity the associations incidental to the college work that make the University; and the student who refuses to affiliate himself with these interests, misses the highest development at his command.
In relation to these associations it is that we would make a particular application of our aphorism. First we notice the intense struggle of the literary minds for recognition through the University reviews. For some weeks they delight the student body with witticisms and pretty fancies woven into delicate verse. Then our interest centers in the election of an editorial board of some college paper. Then the sturdy and stalwart Athlete dons his canvas suit and shin guards, and we think we shall never cease to admire him; but after the Thanksgiving game,the foot ball player rolls up his mudy suit
and disappear from public view. The orator is scarcely given a chance to make his bow before he is hurried into oblivion by the eloquence of the debater who wishes to know if England is wrong, and if Cuba is right. Meanwhile the Glee Club endeavors to secure an opportunity to charm and entrance us all, but alas! their songs are never heard beyond the secret council chambers. Now we are approaching the days of base ball, track athletics and the indoor meet. This is at least their opportunity. We hope that what has been recited will not tend to discourage; it is intended to do just the opposite. It is the desire of the Athletic board and the officers of the respective clubs that this year in spring athletics shall be the most notable one we have ever had, and to that end they have set to work. What is needed is the faithful co-operation of the student. There is every reason why the coming athletic teams should be just as popular as was the foot-ball team. The fault lies with the contestants themselves. The teams will receive due recognition and support if they will train conscientiously and make the best showing they can. Negotiations are now in progress looking toward a field day with Missouri at Kansas City, and with the University of California for a day of meeting at McCook field. The names of every student actively interested in Athletics should be handed to Coach Cowan, or to any member of the committee.
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LOGALS.
Will you attend the state oratorical contest? The Category dance was a successful affair despite the unfavorable weather.
Miss DeWeise revisited the University Tuesday.
The Betas will entertain their alumni Saturday evening.
No loyal student should fail to attend the state oratorical contest at Topeka.
Miss Edith Manley, '93, is editor of the leading Republican paper in Buffalo, Wyoming.
Mr. F. A. Bowker, president of the class of '95, has returned to begin the study of medicine.
Mr. McCorkle had a visit from friends one day last week and showed them about the University.
Prof. Dyche has an interesting article on "Walrus Hunting in the Artic Regions" in the current Cosmopolitan.
A large number of students attended Dr. Quayle's lecture at the Methodist church last Friday night.
The registrar says that the failures for the past term were fewer than ever before, in proportion to the number of students.
Prof. Cowan filled the pulpit at the First Methodist Church last Sunday in the absence of the pastor, Rev. J. W. Somerville.
The Junior Promenade is undoubtedly the coming event of the season. It will be given at the Pythian hall on the 6th of March.
W. J. Krehbiel, formerly a University student and editor of the Students' Journal, has just been made telegraph editor of the Topeka Capital.
The Leap Year dance Saturday last was very successful.
W. E. Atchison of Wichita, visited his son, W. C. Atchison, last week.
Mr. Ralston, a Kansas State Normal man, has entered the University.
The Classical Museum was too cold for occupancy several days last week.
Miss Maude Landis entertained a few of her friends at cards last Friday night.
Students are economizing in every possible way this week to pay for their new text books.
Miss Gertrude Spaulding entertained a number of her friends Thursday evening.
It's nice and does what it says it will. —Woodwards Borealine for chapped hands. If you shave try it instead of bay-rum.
A new quartette is in training. The members are W.K. Smith, R.R.Price, J.G. Hamaker and Willis Henderson. They expect to give special attention to serenading.
It has been suggested that possibly the peculiar and somewhat unpleasant odors that linger in the south wing of the main building are due to the "dead languages" taught there.
The WEEKLY now has a home. The room in the basement of the main building, just under the Treasurer's office, has been fitted up for the use of members of the editorial staff. Office hours are from three to five daily.
F. J. Lange, '93, is studying the dialect of Oldenberg, Germany, at Harvard this year. He was in Oldenberg, his native town, a part of last year collecting material of value to him in this work. He contemplates another visit to Oldenberg the coming summer.
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Mr. Fred Northup spent Sunday at his home in Kansas City.
A number of students spent the time between terms out of the city.
A friend of A. M. Myers from Peabody visited the University last Saturday.
The men's class in Physical Culture now answers to roll call three times a week.
Clyde Miller, Harold Smith and Irving Hill went to Topeka Saturday to hear Salvini.
Students, do you buy your coal of Griffin? He is in a position to give his customers perfect satisfaction.
The city papers report the stealing of parts of the fence around McCook Field. The guilty persons should be found and punished.
Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, late of Belleville High School, but more recently of the State Normal School have enrolled in the Arts school.
Miss Evangeline Sinnott, formerly a University student, but more recently of the Ladies' Seminary at Oswego has enrolled in the Junior class.
Professor Dyche delivered a lecture in Emporia Thursday night. Mr.R.C.Gowell had charge of the Zoology class during the absence of the professor.
The students of the oratorio are reported to be making gratifying progress. The semi-weekly rehearsals are devoted chiefly to "The Creation" which will be rendered at the close of the year.
For railroad tickets to the oratorical contest at Topeka see W. W. Reno or B. B. McCall. If a sufficient number of tickets can be sold a special train or at least two or three coaches will be engaged. Price of tickets, 80 cents for round trip.
See the valentine novelties at Smith's News Depot.
Mr. Rudolph Caughey spent Sunday with friends at Emporia.
Prof. Engel's twelve o'clock German class is an especially large one.
A class in Greek has been organized for New Testament study.
Miss Eva Way finds hosts of friends to greet her upon her return to school.
Miss Lewelling has re-entered classes. She has been teaching near Arkansas City.
Miss Watson is ill with symptoms of malarial fever and is unable to be at the library.
DON'T SMOKE! But if you will smoke, use good cigars. Woodward has the best.
The prospective Phi Beta Kappas are modestly congregating about the anxious seat.
W. J. Madden has returned to complete the year's work and graduate with the class of '96.
Mr. Grover, a University student in '89 has returned and will enter the preparatory medical course.
Miss Grace Duff is among the popular students who have returned to take the second term's work.
Mr. C. E. Kimpton, Arts, '96, of Holton, Kans., is spending a week with his friends in the University.
In one of his classes last Saturday Prof. Marvin gave as the first and only requirement in the expected quiz, "Take twenty-eight pages in the textbook for Monday."
The work on Adams street from Tennessee street to the University is progressing as rapidly as could be expected, considering the weather. When it is finished the street will be one the best thoroughfares in this part of Kansas.
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The Senior class will give a party at Pythian Hall, Saturday evening, Feb. 8th.
The yell of the members of the German Club attracted considerable attention at the oratorical meeting.
"Come back! Come back!" he cried in grief,— Thus through the hall he blubbers,—
"'And I'll forgive you, wicked thief. My rubbers! Oh my rubbers!
Mr. C. M. Sharpe, besides carrying full work in the University, on alternate Sundays occupies the pulpits of the Christian churches at Homewood and Hillsdale.
The Y. M. C.A. and Y. W. C.A. held a joint meeting last week. It was an interesting service. The two associations are expecting to accomplish much before the end of the year.
The Bailey Rubber Glove Cleaner sold at Raymond's drug store puts the spots on soiled kid gloves "out of sight." Even white kid slippers are said to regain their pristine glory.
It is unnecessary to lift the scalp to properly cleanse it. The use of Sprath Dog Soap is all one needs to do the work nicely. Funny, isn't it, for Raymond to recommend dog soap for that purpose. But we know it's all right.
A few additions have recently been made to the University orchestra. Mr. Seeds and Mr. Taylor are the latest who have joined that body. It seems that the appearance of the orchestra is to be expected regularly in chapel every Friday morning.
Prof. Carruth, Saturday evening, delivered a lecture upon Modern German Literature and Poets, before the Young People's Society of the Westminister Presbyterian Church of Kansas City. Mr. Hanford E. Finney, a wellknown Kansas University man is president of the society.
The many who have been interested in "The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," now running in Harper's, will be glad to know that the author of it is announced. Vol. VI of the National Encyclopedia of American Biography gives it among the works of Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark Twain.)
There will be a meeting of the University Republican Club next Wednesday evening at the Court House to elect officers.
Republicans!
B. B. McCALL, President.
The January Agora contains an illustrated article on Mr. Woodward's art gallery by Prof. Marvin.
The final trial debate for the purpose of choosing three persons to represent the University in the Kansas-Nebraska debate will occur Friday evening, April 3. The competitors will be S. J. Homer, Geo. Kingsley, W. E. Griffin, A. McMurray, B. B. McCall and R. L. Netherton.
The Senior class of the Law School has passed a resolution asking the Faculty to unite all the schools in a single one-day program commencement week and instead of having student speakers, to invite some well known orator or public man to address the graduating class.
W. P. Harrington, a former University student, now of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, has been chosen orator of the Memorial Day services held to commemorate the death of Senator Stanford. As scholarship and ability to prepare and deliver an appropriate address are the factors determining the selection, the appointment is a very great honor.
Will C. Atchison, '98, vice-president of the State Oratorical Association, went to Topeka last week to attend a meeting of the executive committee of that association. Preliminary arrangements were made for the state contest which will occur Feb. 21st. The University was apportioned one hundred and fifty seats in the parquet and dress circle and two boxes at the opera house where the contest will be held. The University will furnish part of the music for the occasion. There seems to be a renewal of interest in oratory in all the colleges of the association and everything indicatas that the contest will be one of the most successful of recent years.
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Mr. Milton P. Helmick of Baker, visited friends at Kansas University Monday. He reported that there was an exciting oratorical contest at the Methodist school last week. The regular local contest was held Saturday night. Chas. B. Dalton, won first place, and Wilbur F. Denious, second. Mr. Dalton represented Baker in the state contest two years ago and received fifth place.
Adelphic Program, Feb. 7, 1896. Essay Miss Mabel Bennett. Autobiography Mr. Breese Declamation R. McWilliams Extempore W. E. Griffin Debate: Question, "Is skepticism a greater evil than credulity?" Affirmative, Hall, Tate Miller. Negative, Myers, Homer, Robinett.
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The Adelphic Debate.
An unusually large audience greeted the Adelphic Society orators in their hall Friday evening. A number of addresses of unusual force were delivered upon the proposition: "The United States is in more danger from the higher classes than from the lower." The competition was very close. Mr. A. McMurray,Mr.J.A.Simpson and Mr.W.E.Griffin defended the cause of the common people, against Mr.G.W.Ellis,Mr.C.T.Neihart and Mr.U.S.Guyer.The judges, Prof.Templin,Rev.W.S.Banker and Prof.Haworth gave first place to Mr. Griffin and second place to Mr.McMurray,with honorable mention of Mr. Guyer and Mr. Ellis.
Death of George W. Penfield.
George Penfield, who has been seriously ill for several weeks, died at his home in Topeka on Monday morning last. The intelligence of his death was received with profound sorrow by his many friends in the University.
George Penfield was a Junior in the School of Arts, and a prominent member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. A genial smile and a kind word was always his greeting to his friends, and his unaffected manner made him a social favorite, while his faithful performance of his class duties won him the respect of all his instructors.
Resolutions expressing sympathy have been sent to his parents by the fraternity of the University accompanied with floral tributes from the Phi Gamma Delta and Theta Nu Epsilon.
The following resolutions were passed by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity:
Whereas, It has pleased our Almighty Father to take from our midst one of our fellow students, be it
Resolved, That we, the members of the Phi Delta Theta, have lost a kind and faithful friend. Be it also
Resolved, That we tender our deepest sympathies to his beloved brethern of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
PHI DELTA THETA.
Birthday.
(GROUND-HOG DAY.)
This day when ground-hogs stir themselves, And saunter forth from gloomy realms, A signal corps,
Some few and twenty years ago, Did I 'mid cheerless wind and snow, Set foot on shore.
As often as this day rolls round,
And wood-chucks issue from the ground
To prophesy,—
Though shadows fall across our path, Foretelling storms in all their wrath, There comes no sigh.
We bless the day that we were born And have no fear to face the storm In all its strife.
Dark clouds of gloom will never fall Save where they hear a welcome call We make our life.
[Dale Gear author] — Dalonzo.
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Toward the Light.
A weary traveler wends his way alone.
The king of the day descended from his throne
Draws close the curtains round his royal bed.
And over all their luster soft is shed;
While pearl cloud pillows deftly edged with gold
And half revealed by crimson draperies fold,
And purple bars across the flaming west
Lock fast the chamber of the day king's rest.
The river moves with restful silent flow. Reflects each rosy tint and after glow. And one lone boatman seeks his craft to guide Adown the sunsets river's golden tide. The crested hill top lifts its lonely height From autumns glories blent in fading light, As if to ask the bright stars looking down To give but one to deck its burnished crown. The dark comes on; the rising night winds sigh A weary, lonely traveler passes by.
Oh, autumn traveler, on the way alone
Thou still dost seek the day king's shining throne.
Perhaps no sunset curtain's rosy fold,
No pearl tint pillows defly edged with gold
Shall guide or aid thy journey toward the lights,
Perhaps to lose thy way in gathering night.
But as the gleaming stars look softly down,
If but one tiny one may deck thy crown
Its meaning only thus—"Thou well hast tried
Thy part to do," then art thou satisfied.
—Birdie M. Baxter.
-Birdie M. Baxter.
Debate of the Kansas University Debating Club.
Last Friday evening Jan. 31, occurred in the Law lecture room a battle of giants. Great was the din occasioned by the champions and great their enthusiasm. The question was, Resolved that the United States is in greater danger from the higher classes than from the lower. The debate was held for the purpose of choosing representatives for the final debate preliminary to the Kansas-Nebraska debate. The judges, Prof. Hopkins, Mr. Gowell and Mr. U. S. G. Plank, awarded first place to B. B. McCall and second place to R. L. Netherton, with honorable mention of Mr. J. O. Lane.
Economic Seminary.
At the meeting of the Economic Seminary, February 3d, an article on "Tenancy in the United States," in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, was reviewed by Mr. George Kingsley, Jr. Mr. McCrosky reported on articles in foreign magazines and Mr. Bell reviewed an article on sociology.
Mr. T. J. Madden, the well known Senior law student who left the University some time ago, was married to Miss Blanche Griffith at Axtell, Kans., last week. They will be at home in Smmerfield, Kans., after February 12th.
Law Notes.
"Show us the man what trowed that brick," or in other words, who says the Law School is undeserving of representation at the coming Senior party? We are of the same flesh and blood as are you! O ye of the "Kindergarten Department!" We worship in the same chapel, we drink at the same water tank,—then why this perceptible discrimination. Furthermore, admitting that the world would no longer wag without you, yet, Dear Seniors, we too have had more or less to do with the wagging of the University. We won in the Nebraska debate, you share in the glory and still shout "how we apples swim!" We have lifted our end and yours too, on both grin-iron and diamond. We are at present represented in every act and action, fact and faction connected with the University. We own the Review. We have an interest in the WEEKLY. We manage foot ball and base ball and captain base ball and track athletics—we—we—(why it makes us stutter to recall it) we said there shall be no library fee and there was none, and we are unworthy to be represented at your coming party! Moreover, judging from the readiness and rapidity with which you appoint, discharge and reappoint Play Committees, there is trouble brewing and you will soon be in sad need of a discreet judge. We cannot dance, we don't play cards, or indulge in marbles for keeps, besides, our solemn faces are as long as a law recitation. Therefore Dear Seniors, reflect, reconsider, and if you cannot give us a full-fledged representation, at least permit us to send several of our best men to the back door for a hand-out.
"JUNIOR VON LAW."
Oratorical Association.
At the election of the University Oratorical Association last Friday the following officers were chosen: President, B. B. McCall; Vicepresident, F.E.House; secretary, Miss Criss Mr.F.H.Johnson was indorsed for the secretary and treasurer of the State Association.
On Tuesday of this week the stockholders of the association met and elected the following officers: Executive committee, A. McMurray, R. T. Osborn, A. G. Clarke; treasurer, J. M. Lee; share adjusters, E. G. Simpson, W. C. Atchison, C. H. Loomis. The executive committee was instructed to examine the accounts of the several treasures who have served since the organization of the association.
The first of the week the change of reference
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books, incident to the beginning of new courses in the various departments, was made in the library seminary room.
It is much regretted that the Topeka Capital no longer comes to the library reading room. It is greatly missed.
Mr. W. O. Galbreath, of the Senior class, school of engineering, has left school on account of his health. He will return next year.
The proofs of the art plates accompanying the February Lotus are preserved in the studio of Professor Clark, in the north dome of the main building. The picture was printed in eleven colors, requiring an equal number of plates which may be examined by anyone who is interested.
Miss Emma Hoag, a special student, and Mr. Clark Pickard, of Iowa, were married in this city Wednesday evening. They will make their home in Iowa.
"It," the annual banquet of the science club, will be given in the basement of the Chemistry Building, Friday evening, Feb. 14th. A program of special interest has been arranged for the occasion.
Dr. W. S. Williston began a series of six University extension lectures at A.O.U.W hall in this city, lat Thursday night. The lectures will be illustrated and will treat of extinct vertebrates with special reference to evolution.
Prof. D. H. Holmes, successor to the late Prof. D. H. Robinson, took charge of the Latin department at the beginning of the new term. Advanced Latin and German classes will conjointly use a seminary room in Spooner Library.
Library Notes.
A little book just on our shelves is The Art of Newspaper Making by Mr. Charles A Dana. It is published by D. Appleton & Co., of New York, and is itself a good example of the art of book making, being very dainty and tasteful in its make up. It contains three lectures entitled "The Modern American Newspaper," "The Profession of Journalism," and "The Making of a Newspaper Man." Those interested in journalism will no doubt wish to read this book, the result of the wisdom and experience of "Dana of the Noo York Sun."
Two valuable acquisitions have been made to our books on architecture. One is the Dictionnaire Raisonné de L'Architecture Francaise du
XIe au XVIe Siècle, by M. Viollet-le-Duc (10 volumes), an exhaustive and authoritative work on the subject. The other is a Catalogue of the Avery Architectural Library of Columbia College. This library was founded in 1890 in memory of Henry Ogden Avery, Architect. The book was presented to the Library of the University of Kansas by Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Avery and the Trustees of Columbia College in the city of New York. G.
SINCE THE football season has closed, would it not be in order for the treasurer of the Athletic Association to make a financial report so that the student body could see how the financial part of the business of the Association has been conducted during the past six months and how much money is in the treasury.
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No.2.
February 14, 1896.
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The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 14, 1896.
No.2.
Editor-in-Chief:
W. W. RENO.
Associate:
L. N. FLINT.
Literary Editor:
DON BOWERSOCK.
Associates:
J. H. PATTEN. GRACE BREWSTER.
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
C. E. RENCH.
Associates:
A. B. BATES, - - - - - - Arts.
J. H. HENDERSON, - - - Exchanges.
F. H. JOHNSON, - - - Arts.
D. D. GEAR, - - Law.
A. A. EWART, - Athletics.
F. L. GLICK, - Arts.
E. C. ALDER, Social.
Managing Editor:
J. H. ENGLE.
Associates:
W. M. FREELAND. - - H. E. STEELE.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, J. E. Smith, or the secretary, C. J. Moore. Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance Address all business communications to J. H. Engle, Lawrence, Kasas.
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WHAT has become of the pennants won by the University in the games of the Triangular League? They were once prettily arranged on the walls in the Treasurer's office but now have disappeared. The last,heard of them they had been on exhibition in Browning, King & Co.'s store at Kansas City and then displayed for a long time in the Beta Chapter house. Where are they now?
Much enthusiasm will be shown at the state oratorical contest at Topeka. If the University wins first place the capital city will not be large enough to hold us.
Some students seem to think that putting their feet on the table, tilting back their chairs and spitting on the floor are accomplishments, and show to advantage in a public library. Such conduct is disgraceful.
If another word pronouncing contest is to be held in the University this year, would it not be well for the proper authorities to make the necessary arrangements and announcements in the near future. The contest of last year was profitable to all concerned.
.
LAWRENCE should be deserted for Topeka next Friday evening by all students. If eight or nine hundred students accompany our orator to Topeka, he will undoubtedly win and the same number would then have reason to attend the inter-state contest which also occurs in Topeka this year.
THE discovery by Professor Roentgen, of Berlin, that the human skeleton within a living body, coins within leather purses or metals behind wooden blocks can be photographed by means of the light produced by a Crooke's tube has recieved practical demonstration at Harvard and at the University of Michigan.
The moot senate should be reorganized this year. A knowledge of parliamentary law, so essential to the public man, can not be so readily obtained in literary societies as in a moot senate. If some student would agitate for the organization of such a body, no difficulty would be encountered in securing names of prospective members.
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THE RECEPTION in the East of crimson as our athletic color is not so favorable as it might be. We are considered as trying to imitate Harvard in this regard at least. Why not be original? Col. J. J. McCook, for instance, who gave us McCook Field and who is one of the strongest friends the University has ever had, suggests that we adopt crimson and black or crimson and blue as our athletic colors. Neither of these combinations is used by any other college, or at least by any other college of distinction. Again we remark, why not be original?"
WHAT a change takes place in the appearance and expression of a student during his Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior years. The Freshman, as a rule, is timid, reserved, and during the first part of the year clearly shows that he is not in touch with his environment. The Sophomore is more self confident and has learned to wear an academic air. The Junior seems to own the University, but the Senior at last begins to get a true comprehension of life, realizes that he knows but little and represents but a small part of the world. This transformation during the short period of four years is almost as wonderful as the metamorphoses of the butterfly.
THE first American flag unfurled in Kansas was raised somewhere in the northwestern part of Republic county near the Nebraska line at an old trading post called Pawnee. This trading post was established by the Spanish at a very early day and then abandoned. When Gen. Zebulon Pike was returning from his western trips of exploration, upon which he discovered the peak in Colorado which now bears his name, he found the Spanish flag floating from the deserted fort and replaced it by the stars and stripes. The fort gradually crumbled to ruins and even the location of it has been forgotten. Mention is made of Pawnee fort in the history of the Lewis and Clarke expedition. A very laudable effort is being made to discover the exact site of this fort in
order that the ground upon which it stood may be purchased, distinguished by a suitable monument and presented to the State of Kansas. If anyone knows where information regarding the exact location of this old fort can be obtained, the citizens of Republic county would be greatly pleased to hear from him.
Midland College at Atchison will probably be admitted to the state oratorical association in the place of the State Normal which has withdrawn from the association.
THE University of Kansas has a fair chance of winning first or second place in the State Oratorical Contest. As many of the students as can do so should accompany our orator to Topeka and encourage him in every way possible. Great inspiration can be obtained from timely cheering and the consciousness that your friends are listening to every word you say with interest and admiration.
THERE is something inexplicably strange in divers instances in the effect a collegiate education has upon students. Many boys and girls, at least, while obtaining a collegiate training if not in later years, become fashionable and blasé, and detest the common affairs of the very world in which they must live. Work, they think, is beneath their dignity and a man who performs manual labor, is considered beneath their notice. Perhaps they will not recognize such persons on the street. Labor is not a fault or a crime. Why not greet those who labor, and fellow students especially, with a cheerful smile, a pleasant word and thus help them onward and upward. If it were not for the many collegiate students who recognize and make daily practical demonstration of their relief in the universal brotherhood of mankind a collegiate education from this point of view would be undesirable. Let us all try to be fraternal. Distinctions built upon assumed dignity or self esteem are artificial and reveal only that those who believe in them are not broad minded.
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LITERARY.
It is only within the last two or three years that basket-ball has been played to any great extent. It was started as an indoor game, but it is now played nearly as much out-of-doors as within the gymnasium. Its adaptation for being played both within and out of doors is a great advantage, as there are few active, interesting games that can be played the year round.
When played within the gymnasium, usually the largest rectangular place obtainable is used. The baskets are circular in shape, about two two feet in diameter and one foot deep, and are fastened upon the wall ten feet from the floor. The mouth of the basket must be in a horizontal position. The regulation ball is a round foot-ball, eleven inches in diameter. When played out-of-doors the size of the field depends upon the number of persons playing. The average field is a little larger than a tennis-court. Here the baskets are placed upon poles so that the mouths are ten feet from the ground.
Two teams, each consisting of at least five men, are needed to play the game. There must be one center-man, two goal-keepers, and two guards on each team. The guards stand at the goal of the opposing team, their duty being to try to prevent their opponents from making a "goal," to get the ball when they can and then to send it back to their own goal. The object of the game is to make as many "goals" as possible, as each "goal" counts three points.
The ball is put into play by the umpire, who, standing in the center of the field, throws it. The ball must be caught by one of the centermen, and then it is in play. The center-man who catches the ball throws it to one of the goal-keepers on his own team. The guards may stop the ball before it reaches a goal-keeper or after it has left his hands, but must not knock it out of another's hands. It is considered a foul if any one holds the ball for longer than five seconds, also if any one kicks
the ball intentionally, knocks it in any way but with the open palm, runs with the ball, or holds another person to prevent him from getting it. When a foul is made, "time" is called by the umpire and the side making the foul must give the other side a free throw at the goal. The ball is then given to the umpire who starts it again. The game is played in two-halves of twenty minutes each. To be a good player one must be very accurate and quick in throwing and catching the ball. The main interest of the game depends upon this.
When played within the gymnasium great skill may be shown in throwing the ball against the wall and ceiling so that it will rebound at a certain angle. Those accustomed to playing within-doors get so used to practicing this method of play, and so interested in it, that they feel that the game played out of doors would not have half so much interest. But out of doors there is the freedom and fresh air missed within and that seems to compensate for the advantages given by the walls and ceiling.
There are now few colleges with well equipped gymnasiums that have not their basket-ball teams, and many colleges with gymnasiums too small for basket-ball have grounds where the game may be played in pleasant weather.
The game is especially well adapted for girls as quickness and accuracy count instead of muscular strength. In girls' colleges in the east where physical culture is compulsory in the Freshman and Sophomore years, one of the greatest events of the season is the match game which is held each year, between the Freshmen and Sophomore classes. All of the classes turn out in full force to see this great game. Often each class adopts some particular dress for this occasion. For instance, the members of one class may all dress as nuns, those of another may all wear white, so that the spectators present a very attractive appearance. Each team is vigorously cheered by the members of its class, and in case the Freshmen win a victory
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over the more experienced Sophomores, their joy is almost unbounded. In spite of the rivalry existing, there is none but the best of feeling between the two classes. It would seem very funny to persons accustomed to watching match games of foot-ball, to hear the girls apologize to each other in case they bump together during the game, or to hear a girl say, "I beg pardon, but I believe that is my ball," or "excuse me, did I step on your toe?" Such occurrences are however not uncommon in the course of the game. The girls seem never to forget to be careful not to hurt each other, no matter how exciting the game may be.
The rules of the game are such that women
and men may play upon almost an equal footing. At least when men and women play together the men do not seem to be greatly bored by the poor playing of the women.
Would not this be an excellent game to introduce into our own University? There is certainly plenty of room for good fields, and baskets and balls ought not to be hard to obtain. We have physical directors who would probably be glad to instruct students in the game. There is not a single young man or young woman in the University who would not be greatly benefitted by playing, once in a while, a lively game of basket-ball.
EXCHANGES.
Strange Circles.
Nature works in circles,
Every one agrees;
Trees grow out of doors;
Doors are made from trees.
- The Earth.
What is it speaks to us in dreams?
Is it a voice from Evermore,
Or is it something that we ate
The night before?
Central College Gem.
The Students, Salute, published in the State Normal, styles itself "the only weekly paper in the greatest school in Kansas."
"Ah, goo! ah, ga! Bglb, glb, bah, ahah!" cried the baby.
"By Jove, isn't that wonderful!" exclaimed the delighted father, "that's our old college yell !""—The University Chronicle.
College Life, is one of the most entertaining of our exchanges, although representing probably the smallest school on our list. We are tempted this week to clip their exchange column and run it in, bodily, as part of the WEEKLY.
The first college paper printed in the United States was at Dartmouth college, with Daniel Webster as editor-in-chief.
It is to be deplored that Kansas colleges have not some centrally-located city without a college of its own which might serve as a neutral battle ground for the opposing forces in the state Oratorical contest. For instance, when Washburn does not win, there is something pathetic in her sudden disappearance which could not be if Topeka were not her own college town.
This year there is a new trouble at Washburn occasioned by the desire of two college papers to publish the orations of the contestants. The Mid-Continent has usually done this, but The ,Reporter,a new paper,is making a hard fight for the privilege this year.Both papers have sent representatives to the various colleges in the association to secure their support.As a friend of the rival papers we should like to suggest that the interests of Washburn college would be more effectually promoted by some such amicable adjustment of their differences as to take the contest number "turn about."
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"All history repeats itself," A proverb claims, I've heard, But when in class I'm called upon It never says a word.—Ex.
Puer et Puella, Ambulant together, Magna sub umbrella, Vocant de the weather.
Very slippery via,
Pedes slide from under,
Puer now upholds her,
Lightning and thunder.
Cadit on the ground Sees a lot of stellae, Adolescens hastens To aid his Puella.
"Rustice!" exclamat Relidque me a lone, Numquam dice mihi 'Till you for this atone.
Non diutius do they
Ambulant together,
Numquam speak as they pass by
Non etiam de the weather.—Ex
LIBRARY.
A number of books have lately been added to the department of American Literature. Among these we shall mention first Lowell's Last Poems, selected and published by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton. In reviewing this book the London Athenaeum has to say, "Lowell was never, in any proper sense of the term, a first-rate, or even a second-rate poet," and, "That he should ever have seemed to the American critic or the American public a poet of national importance is, perhaps, the severest criticism on itself that the American nation has ever made." Notwithstanding these severe words, we are sure our students will be interested in these poems, the last from the pen of our admired poet. It is a very pretty volume, with its broad margin, rough edges and bright red buckram binding. The gilt design on the front cover is the work of a Boston artist, Mrs. Henry Whitman.
We should mention also the Poetical Works of Edward Clarence Stedman and Select Poems of Sidney Lanier as among recent acquisitions.
To the ten volumes of Thoreau's works already on our shelves has been added Autumn, uniform with the rest in size and binding. We have also just received a little volume of poems from the "poet naturalist's" pen.
Another book which we are pleased to mention in this list is Mr. Richard Watson Gilder's Five Books of Song, a collection of his poems in one volume. It also is an attractive book mechanically, prettily bound and pictorially decorated. "H. de K," who is given credit for the decorations, is the poet's wife.
Riverby is the last addition to the Riverside edition of the works of Mr. John Burroughs, making a set of nine volumes. We notice that the works of this author are soon to be issued in England by Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. It will be a handsome edition, containing several portraits of the author, etched title pages and printed from new type on paper made expressly for this edition.
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LOGALS.
Mr. T. F. Carver, of Pratt, Kan., and Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Knapp, of Peekskill, New York, were among the distinguished visitors at the Library this week.
Chancellor Snow visited Hutchinson last week where he delivered a lecture before a farmers' institute and an address to the teachers of the high school.
Hon. Sidney G. Cooke; of Herington, the father of Misses May and Carina Cooke, has been favorably mentioned as a Democratic candidate for Governor.
Mr. Dwight E. Potter, '92, is the son of Hon. Thos. M. Potter, of Peabody, who has been prominently mentioned as a Republican candidate for Governor.
The base ball game which was to have taken place in April between the University of Michigan and the University of Kansas has been declared off. No suitable date could be arranged.
Two University would-be Nimrods trudged through the woods and over the prairies of the country about Lawrence all last Saturday. It is needless to say that their story is the old story of a long hunt and no game.
A postal card was received by Secretary Moody the other day addressed to Professor State University, Lawrence. It says: "Respected friend, please send me your catalogue concerning the law—and cost. Yours resp'y."
A student quoted a few lines on sleep from Shakespeare's Macbeth to another student (number two) the other day with the remark that he had written them for publication. Student number two said: "That is very poor stuff to put in a paper."
Mr. E. E. Rush, 95, who has been teaching in the Lawrence High School, has resigned to accept a position as instructor in algebra in the High School at Kansas City, Mo., at double the salary he received here. Mr. Rush is the sixth University graduate on the present corps of the Kansas City High School.
Prof. L. I. Blake performed, before his class in Physics, some interesting experiments with the electrical arc Tuesday. The powerful current from the University dynamo was sent successively through carbon, copper, zinc and iron. The different colored lights produced were very beautiful.
Mr. E. F. Engel's class in Freshman German the largest in the University this term contains more than one hundred members. Prof. Olin Templin's class in Sophomore Logic is also a large one, there being about eighty students enrolled. The class in advanced English Composition numbers seventy-three.
D. Thomas Long, M. D., surgeon and oculist, who has charge of the Kansas Baptist Hospital at Topeka, has had successful experience in his profession and is worthy the confidence of any member of the University. Any one desiring to see him professionally may do so by calling at his office, at 616 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas.
A queer tribe of erratic students has been discovered within the precincts of the University, who call themselves Bohemians. They meet in a place called Buzzard's Roost, the whereabouts of which is yet unknown. There are about fifteen or twenty of these "Weary Wraggles," and none but literary freaks can join the tribe. It is vaguely understood that they are preparing poetry, and the philosophical belief of each Bohemian for publication.
The WEEKLY acknowledges an invitation to be present, today, at the inauguration of Dr. George MacLean as Chancellor of the University of Nebraska. The University of Kansas having furnished her sister University a most illustrous and successful Chancellor, feels especially interested in his successor. We can but express the hope that the University of Nebraska may long retain as its head one so scholarly and widely known as Chancellor McLean.
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All aboard for Topeka for the state oratorical contest.
Mr. David Lakin is said to be steadily improving.
The Juniors have taken up "Bills and Notes" by Norton.
The students of mathematics have organized a "Pi" club.
Mr. D. C. Kelley spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City.
The examination in Constitutional Law was given this week.
Mr. W. T. Reed, '97, was in Topeka the first of the week.
F. L. Gilmore, Engineer '98, spent Saturand Sunday at his home.
Mr. S. R. Fisher, of Baker, visited friends at the University this week.
The Sophomore class in draughting has just begun a course in coloring.
Some preparations are being made for the usual spring base ball games.
The Junior Pharmacy class has taken up the study of Qualitative Analysis.
Uncle Jimmy is again with us, having returned last week from a flying trip East.
Mr. E. S. Campbell is temporarily absent from the University at his home in Anthony.
Miss Thatcher, who has been studying the organ in the school is quite ill at her home in Topeka.
Mr. C. J. Solt, of Barnes, registered in the University last week and has entered the Law School.
Fourth attraction of K. U. lecture bureau February 21, at University Hall. Original Tennesseans.
Prof. A. S. Olin delivered a lecture at Ottawa last Saturday evening on the subject, "Education of the Body."
J. F. Messenger, '95, is teaching in the Hutchinson High School and is reported to be doing excellent work.
All aboard for Topeka for the state oratorical contest.
Mr. David Lakin is said to be steadily improving.
The Juniors have taken up "Bills and Notes" by Norton.
The students of mathematics have organized a "Pi" club.
Mr. D. C. Kelley spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City.
The examination in Constitutional Law was given this week.
Mr. W. T. Reed, '97, was in Topeka the first of the week.
F. L. Gilmore, Engineer '98, spent Saturand Sunday at his home.
Mr. S. R. Fisher, of Baker, visited friends at the University this week.
Some preparations are being made for the usual spring base ball games.
The Sophomore class in draughting has just begun a course in coloring.
Uncle Jimmy is again with us, having returned last week from a flying trip East.
The Junior Pharmacy class has taken up the study of Qualitative Analysis.
Mr. E. S. Campbell is temporarily absent from the University at his home in Anthony.
Miss Thatcher, who has been studying the organ in the school is quite ill at her home in Topeka.
In German VI. deutsch ist gesprochen.
Miss Linnae Jackman, of Chapman, has enrolled in the Music School.
The state oratorical contest takes place at Topeka next Friday night.
Prof. Preyer attended the Symphony Concert last Tuesday in Kansas City. He reported it a very good concert.
Prof. H. W. Cowan has completed the individual tests and measurements of the boys in his physical culture classes.
The third quarter's concert course tickets are ready for sale at Music Hall.
Mr. W. H. Clark, '98, spent Saturday and Sunday at his home in Warrensburg, Mo.
Misses Fannie and Arma Kelley gave a party last Friday night in honor of their sister Miss Artie Kelley of Burlington.
Original Tennesseans, University Hall February 21, Friday evening. Fourth number on the University lecture course.
The Hall rejoices in a new janitor Mr. Cellard a student, has accepted the post and is filling it to the satisfaction of all.
Dr. J. E. Talmage, president of the Utah State University, is this week visiting his former classmate, Prof. E. H. S. Bailey.
The Oratorical Society meets twice a week for final rehearsals. The orchestra under Prof. Farrell's leadership, is a valuable addition.
Prof. Blackmar's Sunday class School is receiving training in special work. Individual members are now assigned topics upon which to report.
The exchanges of the Weekly are on file in the office of the paper and can be read by students any day from 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
In a letter to Chancellor Snow from Berlin, Prof. C. G. Dunlap says he is in good health, is working hard and has just been elected a member of the Berlin Society for the Study of Modern Languages.
Mr. C. J. Solt, of Barnes, registered in the University last week and has entered the Law School.
Fourth attraction of K. U. lecture bureau February 21, at University Hall. Original Tennesseans.
Prof. A. S. Olin delivered a lecture at Ottawa last Saturday evening on the subject, "Education of the Body."
J. F. Messenger, '95, is teaching in the Hutchinson High School and is reported to be doing excellent work.
In German VI. deutsch ist gesprochen.
Miss Linnae Jackman, of Chapman, has enrolled in the Music School.
The state oratorical contest takes place at Topeka next Friday night.
Prof. Preyer attended the Symphony Concert last Tuesday in Kansas City. He reported it a very good concert.
Prof. H. W. Cowan has completed the individual tests and measurements of the boys in his physical culture classes.
The third quarter's concert course tickets are ready for sale at Music Hall.
Mr. W. H. Clark, '98, spent Saturday and Sunday at his home in Warrensburg, Mo.
Misses Fannie and Arma Kelley gave a party last Friday night in honor of their sister Miss Artie Kelley of Burlington.
Original Tennesseeans, University Hall February 21, Friday evening. Fourth number on the University lecture course.
The Hall rejoices in a new janitor Mr. Cellard a student, has accepted the post and is filling it to the satisfaction of all.
Dr. J. E. Talmage, president of the Utah State University, is this week visiting his former classmate, Prof. E. H. S. Bailey.
The Oratorical Society meets twice a week for final rehearsals. The orchestra under Prof. Farrell's leadership, is a valuabie addition.
Prof. Blackmar's Sunday class School is receiving training in special work. Individual members are now assigned topics upon which to report.
The exchanges of the Weekly are on file in the office of the paper and can be read by students any day from 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
In a letter to Chancellor Snow from Berlin, Prof. C. G. Dunlap says he is in good health, is working hard and has just been elected a member of the Berlin Society for the Study of Modern Languages.
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Law Notes.
At a joint meeting of the two classes last Saturday morning, W. J. Watson was elected to the position of managing editor of the Lawyer, made vacant by a resignation.
The question, "should our laws be codified?" was debated in the Kent Club Saturday morning. Messrs. Pearson, Ashwell and Simpson presented the argument for the affirmative side. The rebuttal was furnished by Messrs. Holler, Pope and Homer. The decision was in favor of the negative.
Miss Ella Russell and Miss Alberta Minnek are new vocal students under Prof. Farrell.
School of Fine Arts.
The piano course has been somewhat lightened, several studies having been made optional. This gives the students a chance to attend better to their special study. There is the greatest necessity for this as Prof. Preyer will hold a very severe test examination in pianforte playing at the end of the term. Those failing to pass cannot enter an advance class next year.
Prof. Engel has organized a German Conversation class among his music hall students which is very interesting. Prof. Farrell has had a very flattering offer to sing in one of the largest churches in Chicago. He has not decided yet whether he will accept.
There are five new art students in Prof. Clarke's studio. He has also formed an interesting free-hand drawing class on Thursday morning, open to Freshmen music students. Mrs. King, organist of the English Luthern church is taking organ lessons from Prof. Penny. Seminary this week was conducted by Miss Weidemann, subject "pianoforte teaching." The usual student's recital will be held next Wednesday, February 19th. at Music Hall. An enjoyable programme is being prepared All who care to come will be made welcome.
Adelphic Meeting.
Students, do you buy your coal of Griffin? He is in a position to give his customers perfect satisfaction.
At the regular meeting of the Adelphics last Friday night a short but interesting literary program was followed by a debate upon the question "Is skepticism a greater evil than credulity?" The debate was decided in favor of the negative. The following officers were elected for the coming term: President, A. McMurray; secretary, Miss Nellie Criss; critic, C.A.Burney; censor,M.A.Limbocker. At the next meeting the debate will be upon the question, "Is the Modern Theatre a Detriment to Society?"
A University Ball.
That's the idea exactly, and whoever introduced it deserves a chromo. A University ball; not a Ro Kappa Tau, Phi Ghi or any other Greek-letter fraternity affair, but a students' party on the broad-gauge plan—come one come all. At the rink—just the place. There may the members of all schools and the members of all fraternities undisturbed, participate in pleasures. For why not? Since we all alike participate in the exercises of the classroom, can we not alike participate in social doings? At the rink there is room for all. The floor is roomy and a full brass band can be accommodated on the platform. In all seriousness, this call for a students' party is a movement in the right direction. Not many years since the non-fraternity student attended few or no social gatherings. Now, however, they rent Pythian Hall and use it to excellent advantage. One by one the bars have been lowered and at last, not to our surprise either, some broad-minded student has come along and removed the entire fence by suggesting that we give a University ball.
Mr. W. R. Crane, '95, is temporarily filling the position in the Lawrence High School made vacant by the resignation of Mr. E. E. Rush.
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Prof. L. I. Blake has accepted an invitation to deliver the annual address at the commencement of the Kansas City Medical college this year.
The great social event of the season-a University ball—will occur some time in March at the armory. Music from Kansas City will be secured.
Of the six contestants who are to take part in the preliminary to the Kansas-Nebraska debate two are law students and the other four are from the Department of Arts.
For railroad tickets to the oratorical contest at Topeka see W. W. Reno or B. B. McCall. If a sufficient number of tickets can be sold a special train or at least two or three coaches will be engaged. Price of tickets, 80 cents for round trip.
"Young man," said the Professor on examination day, to the student who had been using a translation of Cæsar throughout the term, "will you kindly occupy this front seat? We will follow the example of our illustrious author who always placed the cavalry in front."
A class in Oratory consisting of about sixty members has been organized by Mrs. Clark and will meet in University Hall every Thursday at 4 o'clock. The work is optional and is not a course in the school of arts but credit for a certain number of themes and forensics will be allowed to those taking it.
The reception given by the class of '96 Saturday night at Pythian Hall was successful in every way. There were present more than sixty Seniors and about thirty invited guests from other classes and from the Faculty. There was the usual good natured attempt at interference by a few of those who were left in outer darkness, which created some excitement and was of special interest in particular to a few Seniors, but only augmented their happiness when once they were safely received within doors. An informal reception was held from eight to ten, after which dancing was in order. At twelve o'clock the company dispersed.
The Kansas University Quarterly.
The January 1896 number of the Kansas University Quarterly, recently, issued contains a most interesting list, of contributions, eleven in number, mostly on entomological and geological subjects. Several of the papers were presented at the last meeting of the Kansas Academy Sciences.
During the few years it has been published, the quarterly has already established itself as "indispensable," and its exchange lists contain the names of the most valuable journals, both of the United States and abroad. Almost daily some prominent scientific library asks for a full set.
The Quarterly has done much to place the University of Kansas in its proper light, as one of the great Universities of America.
Language Conference.
At the meeting of the Language Conference last Friday Prof. A. G. Canfield reviewed Mr. Wm. Dean Howells' "Traveler from Altruria." He said the first question to be asked is, what shall the work be called? Is it a novel, an essay, or what? The work depicts the surprising experience of a man from Altruria while on a visit to America, which he has always heard spoken of as another Altruria, the home of freedom equality and chivalry. He is continually learning the difference between our pretensions to equality and the facts. The story is interesting as illustrating the change from the radical realism of Mr. Howell's earlier writings. In the discussion that followed the point was made that in the dialogue of the story there is a resemblance to the Socratic form of dialogue.
Prof. A. M. Wilcox then spoke of Alfred Austin, the new poet-laurate of England. He is rather a seeker after the writing of poetry than a genuine poet. The real spirit of his poetry is absent from his work. It would be a pity, however, to spoil a good poet by making him poet laureate.
The Kappa Alpha Thetas will give their annual party at the K. of P. hall, Friday, April 17.
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Mr. A. R. Bell was called home by telegram.
Mr. S. H. Bradford has resumed his work at the University.
The Phi Delts will give an informal hop at their hall Saturday night.
A number of pictures will soon adorn the walls of the English Seminary room.
The tickets for the Junior Promenade will be placed on sale Monday, February 17.
The meeting of the Students' Republican Club was postponed to Saturday evening.
The Kappa Kappa Gammas have decided upon April 10, as the date for their Spring party.
Quite a number of the students enjoyed an informal dance at Pythian Hall Monday last.
Mr. and Mrs. Collins, of Topeka, and their daughter, were the guests of the Betas last Saturday.
Mr. J. B. Cheadle has returned to the University to complete the work of his Sophomore year.
The Department of Music announces a recital of "The Creation" by the Oratorio Society, February 7.
Some of the professors passed themselves off as Freshmen last Saturday evening in order to elude the Junior "Vigilance Committee."
Cards are out announcing the marriage, February 20, of Mr. John A. Prescott, '88, to Miss Grace Canfield, of Wichita Falls, Texas. Mr. Prescott is a member of the Phi Psi fraternity. He was a fine student during his University covrse. Since his graduation he has been engaged in business in Boston and Kansas City. He has the best wishes of his many University friends. Mr. and Mrs. Prescott will reside in Kansas City.
Chancellor's Reception.
Chancellor and Mrs. Snow will give a reception to the students and members of the Faculties of the five schools of the University in Library Hall on Friday, February 28, from 8 to 11 p.m.
The It Club held its meeting Thursday evening, instead of Friday as previously announced.
Mr. W. E. Hazen, assistant cashier of the Watkins National Bank listened to part of Prof. F.W.Blackmar's lecture on "Money" Tuesday morning.
Prof. and Mrs. Wilcox and Prof. and Mrs. Sterlihg receive the students of the Greek Department this evening at the home of Prof. and Mrs. Wilcox.
The Juniors have been credited with the "fruiting" done on the streets last Saturday night, but as each Junior is able to prove a satisfactory alibi the real culprits are still unknown.
The prize offered in the Department of English for the best essay upon Tennyson's Princess has not yet been awarded, as the third judge, Hon. C. S. Gleed has not yet sent in his report.
It has been maintained by some, since the Senior party, that in Matthew 7-20: "By their fruits ye shall know them" may be found a direct reference to the Senior class. There is without doubt good foundation for such a statement.
Prof. L. I. Blake has recently been making experiments in the line of the new photographic discovery by which invisible objects can be photographed. He has photographed the bones of his hand by the means of a Tesla coil with most satisfactory results.
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ATHLETICS.
The Indoor Meet.
The third annual indoor meet of the University will take place some time next month, possibly March 14, at the rink, although final arrangements have not yet been completed. The meet this year will include some events that have not before received recognition, the horizontal bars and poles, having been added. Besides there will be the three classes in boxing and wrestling, the shot put, the hitch and kick, and the standing and running high jumps. This will make twelve events in all, and quite a complete program.
In the way of prizes an innovation is promised. The donated prizes will be reserved for the field and track events, and the winners of the indoor events will recieve cups with the name and occasion engraved. There will be a first and second prize for each number, making twenty-four prizes to be offered. In order to facilitate matters, and get the new students entered in the sparing meets, the committee has appointed captains from the different schools and classes, whose duty it shall be to look
after the available men in that section of the University. The captains are: Seniors, Schroeder; Juniors, Hester; Sophomores, Guy Sipmson; Freshman, Sanderson; Law, Hogg and Foster; Medics, Outland; Pharmacy, Mason.
Realizing what an influence the girls have in University affairs and believing that their active interest in athletics would serve as an incentive to the contestants, the committee has appointed four honor captains from the ladies. Miss Allie Rohe represents the Seniors, Miss Don Bowersock, the Juniors; the Sophomore class will rally to the support of Miss Fannie Kelly, and the Freshmen will do honor to Miss. Lucy Riggs. In this way it is hoped to work up some class spirit in the spring meets. The various events will be scored by points and a handsome cup will be given to the lady captain of the class securing the greatest number of points.
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Has Missouri Withdrawn?
An item of unusual interest to Kansas University was the one sent out the other day from Columbia to the effect that the Athletic Association of Missouri Universisy had repudiated, by a unanimous vote, the action of their delegate, Mr. Cory, in withdrawing the Missouri University from the Western Intercollegiate Association.
Mr. R. K. Moody, who is President of the Association, has received a letter from Judge Lawson, of Missouri, in which he states that Mr. Cory assumed authority that was not delegated to him in withdrawing Missouri from the Association, that while Mr. Cory was elected delegate to the meeting at Iowa City, he was not given instructions to act as he did, and that since by a unanimous vote the Athletic Association of the Missouri University repudiates such action, he considers Missouri is still a member of the Association.
The situation is an unfortunate one, and seems to resolve itself into a question as to the power of the delegate. Mr. Moody thinks the question is a delicate one. Inasmuch as we are to play the annual Thanksgiving game with Missouri, it is to our interest to have both clubs governed by Association rules. If the question is left to avote Missouri may be excluded, as neither Nebraska nor Iowa feel that they are under any obligation to Missouri for past favors.
It has been suggested that Missouri realized that she couldn't get games scheduled with the big schools of both the East and West, and so to secure herself wishes to remain in the league. However, as Judge Lawson says the league has been struggling for years, and for its success he has been an ardent co-worker.
Anyhow it all seems very strange when we think of that $15,000, of Coach Thorn as full back, and of the Tigers bucking Yale! HEADQUARTERS FOR : : : :
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February 21, 1896.
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The Kansas University Weekly.
Vol. II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 21, 1896.
Editor-in-Chief:
W. W. RENO.
Associate:
L. N. FLINT.
Literary Editor:
DON BOWERSOCK.
Associates:
J. H. PATTEN. GRACE BREWSTER.
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
C. E. RENCH.
W. N. LOGAN, - - - - - Snow Hall.
J. H. HENDERSON, - - - - Exchanges.
MISS GERTRUDE McCHEYNE, School of Fine Arts.
D. D. GEAR, - - - Law.
A. A. EWART, - - Athletics.
F. L. GLICK, - - Arts.
E. C. ALDER, - Social.
No. 3.
Managing Editor:
J. H. ENGLE.
Associates:
M. FREELAND. H. E. STEELE.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, J.E.Smith, or the secretary, C.J.Moore Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance Address all business communications to J.H Engle, Lawrence, Kasas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
A CONVENIENT time has not yet been found in which to present statistics concerning the founding of a school of medicine in the University. A few questions however are very suggestive. How many Kansas physicians took their M.D.degree in our state? How many students obtain medical training in Kansas? How many leave Kansas annually to attend medical schools in other states?
LESSING in Nathan der Weise says: "The iron pot if lifted from the furnace by a silver tongs would believe itself a silver vase." To how many does this apply?
GOETHE says that a genius is related to his time only by his defects. The relationship between some of our University geniuses and their time is closer than the relationship of brothers.
THE Y. W. C. A. established a girls dormitory at the beginning of the present school year; an action which presages something of importance yet to come in this direction. The dormitory is located on Park avenue, west of Massachusetts street. The association has made this beginning unaided, and certainly merits the commendation of all.
EDUCATION effeminates. 'Tis true, pity 'tis true. The tendency of modern education is to develop the mind almost, it would seem, at the expense of the body. So much is said about athletics developing the students physically, but how many students participate in athletics? A few students receive excessive physical training, while many others receive none at all. Is the brightest student of a class usually a robust looking person? Or on a broader basis, are the best students as a rule physically strong? One of the greatest problems of modern education is to combine mental and physical development harmoniously in every student. Compulsory athletics will not accomplish this purpose. Some physical exercise. not too violent, which will appeal with absorbing interest to every student, must be introduced to strike a balance between these two necessary modes of training—the physical and the intellectual.
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THE regents, faculty and students of the University of California have united on common ground to arouse more interest in their school. They have adopted the happy plan of making the institution externally more attractive. They have set out first to beautify the campus by placing settees here and there, erecting several drinking fountains and laying out walks about the college buildings. Why could not this idea be carried out by the University of Kansas.
As a classification of instructors has been made it may be well to classify the students also. "Order is the first great law of the universe." First, there are "swell" students, who come to school for social purposes, and think that a high collar, immaculate shirt front, tooth pick shoes and a suit of the latest cut are the first essentials of a student. Then there are indifferent students, who come because they are sent and frequently they develop into students of the first class. Then there are the mediocre students who plod along conscious that many about them are more gifted mentally than they, but resolve to succeed nevertheless—and they usually do. There is a class of students in every University hard to name,—those who study hard, do the best they can, and yet find the struggle almost beyond their strength. The ideal students are those who are neither continually going to a funeral nor to a circus. They are jolly, sociable, and have a pleasant word and a smile for every one. They do not get the highest grades nor do they get the lowest. They, more than any others, originate the interesting things of University life. The book worm needs no mention. He is buried among his books and is forgotten. The bright students are those who learn readily, grasp ideas before their classmates and as a rule try to show that they are brighter than the students about them. They may well remember however that the slow train reaches its destination just as certainly as the fast one, is less liable to accidents, and usually carries a heavier load.
The large majority of students in the University who are not taking a technical course have in view for themselves in future years a professional life. The practice of law attracts many students although not so many as a few years ago. Journalism is now finding greater favor than ever before. The bright, sociable, energetic journalist has indeed probably more influence in every day affairs than any one else. He wields a free lance and woe to the injustice and wrong which comes to his notice. A number of students study medicine, or are preparing to enter the ministry after leaving the University. It is very well to study medicine, law and such professional branches but why is the field of business almost entirely neglected. We venture to assert that there are not twenty-five students in the School of Arts who look forward to a business career. Why is this? Does education unfit one for business or is the educated man above becoming a business man. Commerce rules the financial world and certainly finance is not to be disregarded. Moreover, the greatest philanthropists of the United States and Europe have been men of business. Great wealth for benefactions can, as a rule, be obtained only through business channels. If a capable, energetic educated man enters the business world his chances for success in life are probably better than those of the journalist, doctor or lawyer.
The idea of changing the University athletic color from crimson to crimson and black or crimson and blue is finding favor in unexpected quarters. Some of those who were very active in securing the adoption of crimson are now in favor of a change. And why should they not be? The University is well able to stand alone in any direction and certainly in athletics. We are original in other University actions, why not be so in choosing our athletic color? We owe nothing to Harvard. We have ideas of our own. Then why not use them? A meeting of the athletic association should be called in the near future to consider a change in our athletic colors.
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LITERARY.
Is Peace A Dream?
BY P. A. CLAASSEN.
A darkened chamber—a death-bed scene—and one of the world's noblest men is breathing his last. He has comprehended nature in its deepest meaning, he has penetrated the depths of human existence, "he has thought God's thoughts after Him." And yet, as he gazes into the mysteries of the Unknown, as the veil of Eternity is being lifted, he whispers his dying prayer: "More Light!"
Expressed or unexpressed, realized in part or striven for with unsatisfied yearning, these words have been the prayer, the object of the ages of human existence. Ever pressing onward with a motion as continuous as the passage of time, humanity has climbed higher and higher to nobler conceptions, to wider vistas. However dark and bloody the records of the dominion of human violence, passion, and greed, we can yet clearly see, how through all generations, like a golden thread,
"An increasing purpose runs.
And the thoughts of men are widened
With the process of the suns."
This progress has been by no means a material or intellectual one alone. As from the Alpine heights of a new and better humanity widens further and further the horizon of a new and better morality, so there must come a time when the sun of Thor's day shall have set,when "man-slaying,blood-polluted,city-smiting Mars" shall have been dethroned,and the Prince of Peace shall reign over a new earth, redeemed from its selfishness and sin.
The history of mankind is the historoy of wars. The whole earth is but an immense altar where life is immolated without end, without measure, without respite. This has led historians to the bitter conclusion, that war is the natural condition of the world. Granting man's beastly propensities however, is it less true that his civilization is determined by the extent to which his evil dispositions are subdued? War is a resort to brute-force, where reason and the divine part of our nature are rudely dethroned. The issue decided by war is not right and justice, but physical superiority. The conqueror may, like Brennus, throw his sword into the scales and balance them in his favor. But is the true moral relation changed? When the equilibrium is restored, the balances will return to their former position. But even if they should be destroyed there are scales of eternal justice whose equilibrium is never disturbed. They will still register right and truth and the world's history will finally prove the world's judgment.
No mind can comprehend the material waste and destruction of war. No words can express, no canvas can picture its horrors. Not the pen of a Carlyle, nor the colors of a Doré could give a true conception. War is a theme where exaggeration is impossible. Bring your imagination into play. Watch man after man fall. Look upon the green grass crimsoned with human blood. Listen to the moanings and groans of the dying. Mark these writhing, mangled forms. Gaze upon the pallor and anguish of these faces to whom death is more merciful than man himself. Then realize that these are men,—the images of Divinity. What crime is theirs? Why should they writhe and suffer? Is their death voluntary? Are they willing participants? Measure who can the doleful light of distress that radiates as from a bloody sun, penetrating innumerable homes! Give the height and the breadth and the depth of this infinite sorrow! What must have preceded the times when madness follows agony?
But more dreadful than material loss and social degeneration are the moral results. What moral debasement must ensue when every human feeling must be renounced, when reason must be abandoned, when passions like so many blood-hounds are unleashed and suffered to rage, when crimes stalk abroad in soldier's garb, unwhipped of justice! How can daily organized murder make man anything but wild and ferocious? His hand is blood-stained. He has against his will, it may be, pierced a man against whom he has no personal enmity, a man beautiful and noble perhaps, a man made in the image of God. The effect of the terrible scene can never be effaced from his memory. The tiger and the hyena in the nocturnal depths of his own soul are unchained. He thirsts for more blood; he rages in wild fury. The two beings within him wrestle for supremacy, the man from heaven who shudders at such scenes, and his dismal counterpart that rejoices at writhing and destruction. Which will conquer, where
"The gates of mercy shall be all shut up; And the fleshid soldier rough and hard of heart;
And the flesh'd soldier rough and hard of heart.
in liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell;?"
And to what effect is all this misery, horror and destruction? All the wars of Russia and
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Turkey have brought the Eastern Question no nearer its solution. The ownership of Alsace-Lorraine, for one thousand years an Eris-apple of contention, has not been determined by innumerable wars. One result has ensued: a hate, a bitterness has been engendered which outlasts generations, which will yet be the sad heritage of the ages to come. But what the armies of France and Germany, in organization and equipment the grandest the world has ever known, have thus signally failed to do, namely: definitely decide one single unimportant question, that "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind" has done completely in almost one hundred instances during our century alone. A better way has been last. Reason has conquered, and found at reason is king.
None have condemned war more than great warriors themselves. "War is the business of barbarians," said Napoleon. "All the devil there is in man comes out in battle," said General Hooker. "War is barbarism and cannot be refined; it is all hell," said Sherman. "I hate war," said Grant, and expressed upon another occasion his firm conviction, that there are no differences between nations which, if approached in a spirit of fairness and justice, cannot be peaceably settled.
War is not only an insult to human intelligence and reason, a virtual denial of God's existence; it is also clearly in direct opposition to the spirit of the Christian religion. The Gospel forbids vengeance, war demands it; the Gospel says: "Love your enemies!" war says: "Kill them!"—the former: "Bless!" the latter; "Curse!" one, "Forgive injuries!" the other, "Avenge them!" Love pervades the Gospel, hatred pervades war; love is of God, hatred is of the devil; peace has its origin in heaven, war in hell. Well may Milton locate the invention of military engines and weapons in Satan's dismal abode. Well may Byron have him laugh long, and loud and wild, as he gazes upon the gory field of Leipsic-
"Running so red
and makes him exclaim,
with the blood of the dead That it blushed like the waves of hell."
"Methinks, they have here little need of me!" No, the pure priniciples of Christianity can never be made to harmonize with war. No war can be conducted on Christian principles. War outrages all ethical systems. It obstructs civilization. In its attempt to supress evil by evil it is a failure—a crime.
But patience. The morning dawns. Not in vain has the steady light of the blessed teachings
of Christ been shining through the centuries. The fruitege of the Gospel of Peace is now at hand.
The day that Victor Hugo saw in prophetic vision, when the nations of Europe, without losing their distinctive individuality, would blend in a higher unity and form a European fraternity; when war between St. Petersburg and Berlin, between London and Paris, would seem as impossible as between Laon and Amiens; when bullets and bombs would be replaced by ballots; when a sacred arbitrament of a great Sovereign Senate, which shall be to Europe what the Parliament is to England, shall decide all questions of difference; a day when canon will be exhibited in our museums as instruments of torture are now, and men will wonder that such things ever could exist;—that day is certainly approaching.
Viewing the present gigantic armaments, it may seem absurd, to speak of the United States of Europe. But things as great have been accomplished. A small company of "Friends," two-hundred years ago, issued the first feeble protest against the traffic in human flesh. Yet that protest swelled to irresistible power, and slavery for a generation has been a thing of the past. A few despised Quakers assembled around the English shoemaker to profess that Christ intended His Gospel of Love to be exercised in national as well as in private life. Today millions echo and follow that same doctrine. In the Roman phraseology "stranger" meant enemy. How has the world changed, now that we begin to realize that we are men, the children of one common Father, united by a more sacred bond even than we are as citizens! And, thanks to God, the world still moves, and rapidly. We live in the most impetuous current of events that ever swept along the river of time. A year now often effects the work of a century. The inventions of dynamite and melinite, of Maxim-gun and smokeless powder, the vast resources, the immense number of men involved, make the prospect of any war so horrible, that even the most courageous or reckless of statesmen shrink from the dreadful responsibility. Science has destroyed war as it was, and made it murder. When, as is true of a recent discovery, a single explosive can shatter an ironclad, and promises even to destroy an entire army, war must of necessity recoil on itself to its own extinction. Personal heorism has become ineffective. Intellectual development abhors the arts of destruction. Every new increase of the standing armies makes an outbreak less probable; every new invention makes the
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risk more terrible; every coming year makes the burden less bearable. Thus the Charybdis will swallow its own waters. The great sin of Europe will devour its own progeny. Disarmament, the logic of events, must come.
But even should a war come, yet reason must conquer. The Spirit of Truth that has contended with and conquered so many fallacies and mistaken dogmas, will not go down before this gigantic evil of evils. It is only gathering strength and intensity from resistance. Wrong cannot prevail against right, hatred against love, error against reason and the strength of an enlightened conscience.
All the evidences to the contrary notwithstanding, that great Sabbath of Nations, when they shall learn to war no more, is sure to come.
A reign of universal peace may seem the wild dream of a visionary, but "we are such stuff as dreams are made of." All the great achievements of civilization were once derided as visionary, and but three years ago, with unprecedented pageants, the whole world was celebrating the triumph of a dreamer. Even as the power of the ancient Roman Empire was doomed in its hour of unchallenged supremacy when the Prince of Peace lay in his manger at Bethlehem, so the spirit of militarism, now apparently at its highest, is in reality losing its iron sway over the minds of men. Before the sword can be finally sheathed, it may be that the soil of Europe is again to be drenched in blood. The darkest hour in the history of the world may be yet to come, but it will be a darkness that presages dawn. We know not when war shall cease.
To our brief span of mortality the period of strife yet to remain might seem long, knew we its duration, but to Him in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday, it is nothing. We clearly see His bow in the clouds, and it is a covenant of peace.
"Down the dark future, through long generations. The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations. I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace!"
Washington as a Soldier and a Statesman.
The world makes no mistakes in the recognition of true greatness. The final rewards bestowed upon men are ever commensurate with their just deserts. He who stands for something positive and right, a great soul through whom thousands speak, wins applause and fame unsullied and unbroken though turned about by the mighty tides of time.
The unselfish deeds of heroism and the unrewarded, self-sacrificing lives of intrepid, fearless men, have shaped the fortunes and destinies of the race. These are the characters whose names shall not perish from the earth. These are the characters who shall live the hope and the inspiration of the world.
Their deeds are written in letters of gold. Lips touched with the divine fire of eloquence pronounce their praises. Lofty monuments proclaim in a language more powerful than that of spoken words their undimished glory. These men have not died. No man ever died who was fit to live. No man who ever stood for a great principle is numbered with the dead, but abides ever in the hearts of those whom he lived to bless.
Such is Washington to every American citizen, and such he shall be. He is so endeared to the hearts of the American people that they love his very faults, few as they were. For this reason his birthday, the 22nd of February, has been declared a national holiday and set apart as a fitting season for recounting his noble deeds and the resulting blessings upon the present generation.
The recognition of this day is a duty incumbent upon both old and young. To the mature the history of Washington is familiar. It is the first lesson children learn at their mother's knee. Then in maturer years they learn what an important part he played in the making of our country.
What a model life! How replete with purity and truth. What strength of virtue! What grasp of intellect! Indeed, had he not the purest soul that ever abode in a tabernacle of clay? He moves before us like some grand embodiment of virtue and power. Whether bowed in fasting and prayer before God in behalf of his country or making his way through the broken ice of the angry Delaware, in the midst of a midnight storm; whether facing the enemy or wearing the wreath of victory, he is the same self-contained, noble minded man. We rob his character of much of its brilliancy if we entertain the idea that many have formed of his over meekness and gentleness of disposition. On the contrary he was, when a boy, of excitable temperament; when a man, of strong and terrible passions. But he had these passions so completely under control that but few knew of them.
Unlike many other great men of our country Washington was of a wealthy family. He himself early came into possession of property sufficient to place him among the wealthiest in the land. He had a beautiful home, a retinue
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of servants, carriages and horses, everything included belonging to an aristocratic home of that day. His manner was always grave and dignified. His conduct on all occasions, both public and private, was strictly modeled according to the etiquette of his time.
Yet there was no affection in his disposition. His dignity was natural, nor did it prevent him from sympathizing with his fellowmen of every station. His tall commanding figure well lent itself to the calm, almost severe majesty of his deportment. In that pale face and in those blue eyes was a world of slumbering energy. He loved the retirement of his home at Mount Vernon. It was his harbor of repose where he repeatedly furled his sail and fancied himself anchored for life. No impulse of ambition tempted him from it; nothing but the call of his country and his devotion to the public good.
The American Revolution will forever remain a mystery both to the student and to the historian. Such an unequal contest is nowhere recorded. On the one side were wealth, power and discipline; on the other their direct opposites. To bring harmony out of discord, to produce strength out of weakness and to create resources where they did not exist, was the work of Washington in this great struggle. Without arms or ammunition, with nothing to rely upon but the justice of his cause and the protection of Heaven, he entered the unequal contest. The trumpet of war sounded through all our peaceful settlements, calling the artisan from his bench, the farmer from his plow, the man of wealth from his repose. Then it was that Washington stood serene and hopeful, his clear calm voice heard above the tumult, inspiring hope and courage. Never before or since has so much depended on a single man, for the fate of a continent rested on the issue of the struggle.
There are many well versed in military affairs who point out mistakes in Washington's management of battles and campaigns, calling them violations of good tactics. Judged from the modern standard of warfare,the criticisms may be just. But where is the leader of modern times who made fewer mistakes or with such limited means accomplished such great results?
To begin with raw recruits under a system of short enlistments which precluded these recruits from becoming veterans without a consolidated government to lean upon, without means, without arms, surrounded by the suspicious and
despondent, to keep the field against one of the strongest nations on the face of the globe and finally to overwhelm his adversaries and win the independence of his country, required a man of no ordinary genius and a warrior of transcendent ability.
Patient and watchful, provoked into no rashness, frightened into no delay, cautious in his his approach, bold in his onset, orderly in his retreat, he moves at the head of his brave but ill-furnished and distracted army. But his excellent generalship is not his strongest quality. As a warrior he may be surpassed, but as a man he is without a peer. Equal to any crisis, successful in all his undertakings, faithful in every trial, without a spot on his name, the history of the race cannot match him.
It is a deplorable fact that a military life almost always leads men to turn their backs upon virtue. But not a stain clings to Washington. He was ever the same great, noble, pure man; whether on the tented field, in the legislative hall or in the quiet retirement of Mount Vernon.
Washington was an intensely religious man. That brow which would have awed the Roman Senate in its days of pride was bowed to the dust before its Maker. Both in prosperity and in the darkest hours of adversity his soul trusted in its God.
Behold him moving through the wretched hovels of Morristown and Valley Forge. Witness his anguish of soul as he notes the awful destitution of his patriot band; the frozen earth for a pillow, the vaulted skies their covering and filthy rags their clothing. With what pain he beholds those conditions which he is powerless to ameliorate. The load is more than he can bear. Slowly he makes his way to the silent forest; now he kneels and that voice never known to falter in command is choked with emotion, as he prays in behalf of his suffering army and his bleeding country. No grander sight was ever seen. His prayer was uttered in firm reliance upon the Name that is above every name. No more earnest prayer was ever offered, and none was ever more completely and wonderfully answered. Inspired by its beloved leader, that poor, suffering, neglected legion, shook the very earth under its glorious advance and a new nation was built upon the new continent of America.
When at last the struggle was over it was pleasant to see how easily Washington passed from his position as commander of armies to become a quiet country gentleman.
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During that chaotic period when we were ruled by the Articles of Confederation Washington was still the main stay. To him more than to any other, do we owe our present constitution. It was he who suggested and secured the convention which adopted it. It was he who presided at that convention and who brought all factions into harmony. It was then that he like Caesar thrice refused the kingly crown. But for the nobility of his character, we should today be a king-cursed nation, instead of a free republic that has, for 106 years, been the admiration of the world.
When at length the constitution was adopted and the election of a president became necessary, there was but one choice. He who had been the country's savior was unanimously chosen its protector. Thus he was again called from his peaceful retirement at Mount Vernon where he had hoped to be left at ease until he should "sink to peaceful repose with his fathers."
His ride to New York was the scene of one continued oration. At every village, hamlet and city, he was greeted by cheers and floral offerings. All these demonstrations he received with his characteristic dignity. He well understood the fickleness of human nature. He realized that those same shouts of praise might under less favorable circumstances be changed to execrations.
His inauguration took place April 30,1789 in the presence of both houses of congress. Then was born a nation destined to influence the jurisprudence of every commonwealth on earth. But, like every other human institution this nation had to pass through its formative period. There faced Washington and his cabinet an empty treasury,a broken credit and a war-ridden country.
The issue was a serious one. The undeveloped resources of the new nation were almost limitless, but it required the hand of civilization to transform those wild prairies and dark forests into prosperous and happy homes.
Then it was that Hamilton came to the rescue. "He touched the corpse of national finance and it immediately sprang into lusty life." This first and greatest difficulty overcome, others vanished like mists before the morning sun. Soon the smoke of the factory, the hum of spindles and the sound of the hammer told that the republic of the people, for the people and by the people was a reality. From that day to this our progress as a nation has been phenomenal. Neither foreign
perfidy nor civil dissention could prevail against it. It has withstood every trial, and every day of its history it becomes stronger and purer, and the grandest gift of the age is citizenship in our own republic.
Washington's character was majestic in simplicity, massive in grandeur, and colossal in strength. As a warrior he was incapable of fear, but made no boast of defying danger. He fought for a cause, not for renown. Glory, had no place in his aspirations. To act justly was his instinct, to promote the public weal was his constant effort, to deserve the affections of good men, his ambition.
Let us conclude by quoting the glowing tribute of Irving to our hero. "The character of Washington may want some of those elements which delight and dazzle the multitude, but it possessed fewer inequalities and a rarer union of virtues than ever before fell to the lot of man. Prudence, firmness, sagacity, an overruling jndgment, courage that never faltered, patience that never wearied, truth that disdained all artifice and magnanimity without allov.
"His fame stands apart from every other in history. Shining with a truer lustre and a more benignant glory. Magnanimous in death, the darkness of the tomb could not obscure his brightness. He still lives on earth in his spotless example, although his spirit is in heaven.
E. K. ROBINETT.
Life.
Stern Time begins; 'Tis He who wins The weary race.
We first descry With startled eye, A mighty hill.
For good or ill We scale the hill To look beyond.
A furious trial To stop awhile, But all in vain.
We reach the crest, We find no rest, But look aghast!
An endless strife;
A fruitless life,—
Now all is o'er.
W. W. RENO.
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Phi Beta Kappa.
The Phi Beta Kappa fraternity was founded by students of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, the 5th of December, 1776. Its object was the promotion of scholarship and friendship among its members. In 1779 charters were granted for chapters at Harvard and Yale, and gradually the society was established in almost all the older colleges of the eastern states. The feature of secrecy which belonged to it at first, as to the other Greek letter fraternities, was after a while relaxed. Elections to it were not made till the last year of the course, and became a reward of excellence in scholarship. In this way it became an honor fraternity, and election to it was among the coveted distinctions in those colleges where chapters existed. For a long time its oject of promoting friendly relations and a feeling of solidarity among the scholars of the country was in some measure defeated for lack of a central organization, and in the middle of the century the life of the society rather ebbed. But the organization of a senate of the united chapters and of a national council meeting once in three years has remedied the want mentioned, and the last twenty years have seen a renewed activity of the fraternity and many new chapters. At present the chapters number forty, and Bishop H. C. Potter of New York is president of the united chapters. Election to the Phi Beta Kappa is based upon scholarship, though it is not absolutely determined by grades, and not more than a fourth of any class may be chosen.
EXCHANGES.
Chicago University has a glee club consisting of ladies.
"A funny break" is what they call it at Princeton when a man cracks a joke.
An inter-fraternity fight is serving as a diversion in the University of Michigan.
Class spirit is a good thing; so is a locomotive. But if you turn the thing loose and let it go without control, there is no telling where it will stop or what harm it will do. -Ex.
The new management or the WEEKLY have received most gratifying recognition from our exchanges. We have neither the disposition nor the space to publish all of these notices. To remain worthy the confidence of these friends is our chief ambition.
To Trigonometry:
"If there should be another flood,
For refuge hither fly.
Though all the world should be submerged, This book would still be dry."
Cruel, heartless, inconsiderate thrust from the Drury Mirror: "Scientists claim that cigarette smoking leads to idiocy. We do not know how true this is, but we are satisfied that idiocy leads to cigarette smoking." Western statistics seem to confirm the lady editor's conclusion.
Athletic item from Will White's Emporia Gazette: "Emporia's football players are supposed to be very lucky. Yet within the past year there have been two arms broken; two spines strained; one concussion of the brain; one hand mashed; one shoulder sprained; five faces cut; seven eyes injured. In Kansas since football became a fad, there have been five deaths; one leg lost; one face bone broken; nine arms broken; two legs broken; three ribs broken. It costs too much. It is a brutal game. The best people in Kansas are against it. In Emporia, the teachers and fathers and mothers are against it. There should be a law passed against it."
The honor system of examination is a vital one to college students, and anything in regard to it is always of interest. The system is now in vogue in all the southern colleges, and in a great many of the north. From its past history it seems to be destined to spread till its use becomes universal. It is the only true and honorable ground on which the relation of students to professors can be based. Princeton is the chief exponent of the system in the north. It has been in successful operation there now for three years. U.of P. Courier.
Daily papers are published in the following universities: Cornell, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Leland Stanford Jr., Princeton, Brown and Wisconsin.
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LOGALS.
Mr. A. R. Bell has returned to the University.
Prof. Wilcox was unable to be at the University Monday.
Miss Laura Hyde of Ottawa visited Miss Nicholson the first of the week.
Professor Haworth gave a very interesting talk to the Civil Engineers Thursday.
President Murlin of Baker occupied the pulpit of the First M. E. Church Sunday morning.
Prof. H. W. Cowan has made out the physical charts for those who have been measured.
The Iriquois dance held in the K. of P. Hall last Tuesday was declared very enjoyable by all present.
A number of students of German have of late been attending services at the German Methodist church.
The gentleman who left his hat in the office of the English Department last week is invited to call and prove property.
A "committee on fun" has been appointed at Washburn College, Topeka, to devise pranks for the State Oratorical contest.
The February number of the Agora will be on sale next Monday. Its table of contents promises some very interesting reading.
The editorial staff of the WEEKLY is this week strengthened by the accession of Miss Gertrude McCheyne who will report from the School of Fine Arts.
Mr. W. N. Logan has returned from Hartford where he served as principal of the public schools during the illness of Mr. Bloss. Upon his return he was promptly chosen to a position upon the editorial staff of the WEELY. He will report from Snow Hall.
It has been suggested by one of our professors that a new pronoun ought to be added to the English vocabulary. When a young child is spoken of as "it" the feelings of the parents are often injured and yet as far as the language is now concerned there seems to be no way out of the difficulty. As a remedy for this defect, a combination of the pronoun "she" and the objective case of the pronoun "he" has been offered as a substitute. The word desired would then be found in the new pronoun "shim."
Mr. MacKinnon's departure from the University is a source of regret to his many friends here. He has been connected with the University for about eight years. He entered the sub-freshman class in 1888. The following year he was made an assistant in the library, which position he held while pursuing his University work. In his junior year he gave up these duties to become Chancellor Snow's private secretary. In every relation he has proved himself capable and efficient. His sound judgment, even temper, gentle yet firm bearing and pleasing personality are characteristics which will serve him well in whatever business he engages. He is a prominent member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and a favorite in University society. He will be greatly missed.
The Kansas City Star of Sunday gave Prof. L. I. Blake considerable space, in connection with his experiments in the new photography. The photograph which he took of the skeleton of his own hand was shown.
The Greek symposium was held last week for the first time this term. The hour was occupied by Prof. M. W. Sterling who read a paper on "The Time of Miltiades and Themistocles."
Messrs. J. G. Hamaker, W. K. Smith, E. K. Robinette, and Willis Henderson made up the quartette which sang at the city Y. M. C. A. meeting Sunday.
Some of the Sophomores have been prophesying that the "moaning of the tide" will be heard even in Lawrence on the night of the Junior Promenade.
An effort is being made to manufacture half tone plates in the Universsty. If the attempt succeeds, the University can be well advertised with accurate pictures at little cost.
Mr. Charles S. Hambleton, a former student in the University is principal and superintendent of the DeSoto schools.
Prof. E.M. Hopkins gave another lecture in his Extension Course series last Saturday at Independence.
Because of the Oratorical contest at Topeka Friday night the Adelphics met Thursday evening.
The Phi Beta Kappas will initiate their new members Monday evening.
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Will boat races be held this year?
The tennis and base ball season is coming on apace.
Miss Carina Cook spent Sunday in Leavenworth.
The University ball will be given March 27th, at the Armory.
At least sixteen students are maintaining themselves by selling papers.
Mr. W. H. Sanford spent Sunday at his home in Kansas City.
A Law student has suggested to Prof. Dyche that he should get out an injunction against Dr. Nansen.
The registrar has begun work on the new catalogue. He will have it ready for the press early in March.
At the Historical Seminary last Friday Prof. E.D. Adams gave an interesting talk on the recent Transvaal troubles.
Rev. Dr. J. A. Lippincott, Chancellor of Kansas University from 1883 to 1889, is now pastor of a church in Philadelphia.
It is probable that room five in the main building will be fitted up for the registrar's office next year. The room now used for that purpose is much too small.
Chancellor Snow went to Lincon, Neb. last week to be present at the installation of Dr. G. E. McLean the new chancellor of the University of Nebraska.
At the Economic Seminary Monday the current magazines were reviewed by Mr. W. L. Myers and Mr. J. F. Hall. Mr. C.E. Rench reported on current legislation.
Mr. Fred MacKinnon, who has been private secretary to Chancellor Snow for the past three years, has resigned to accept a responsible position with a Chicago publishing firm. Mr. MacKinnon has during his connection with the University, made many friends who regret to have him leave.
The University Republican Club met last Saturday evening and elected these officers: President, W. H. Piatt; vice president, J. E. Clock; secretary, Fred Stanley; treasurer, R. J. Hopkins; executive committee, Alford, Martindale and Parrott; sergeant-at-arms, McMurray. Much enthusiasm was manifested at the meeting.
Adelphic Meeting
At the meeting of the Adelphic last Friday night the installation of the newly elected officers was followed by the inaugural address of Mr. A. McMurray, the new president. The literary program consisted of a Shakesperian recital by Mr. Thos. Harley, a valentine by Mr. S. J. Homer, an essay by Mr. J. M. Lewis and an autobiography by Mr. I. K. Parks. The debate upon the question, "Is the modern theatre a detriment to society?" was decided in favor of the affirmative.
The New Phi Beta Kappas.
At the annual election of members to the Phi Beta Kappa society last Saturday night the following Seniors were selected for membership: J. H. Patten, J. H. Henderson, W. C. McCrosky, B.B. Breese, C.C. Brown, Grace Brewster and Mabel R. Hall.
Chancellor Snow has received from the Agricultural department at Washington, D. C. a package of more than one hundred specimens of plants constituting a set of the collections made by Mr. Frederick Funston while he was in Alaska. The plants will be placed in the University herbarium.
The students matinee Tuesday afternoon is a happy thought on the part of Prof. Dyche's manager. Many who do not wish to be out at night or who have other engagements for the evening may thus be accommodated.
According to a new rule of the Faculty, after this year no student will be classed above Freshman until all entrance requirements are complied with.
All students and members of the Faculty are invited to be present at the Chancellor's reception in Library Hall, Friday evening, Feb.28.
Miss Josephine Berry '92, of Waterville, attended the Phi Psi party last Friday evening.
Three of the newly elected Phi Beta Kappas are members of the WEEKLY Editorial staff.
Mr. John H. March, of Topeka, spent one day last week with Mr. Schuyler Opp,'97.
Mr. L. H. Bradford spent several days last week at his home in Topeka.
There are over one hundred members of the University Y. W. C. A.
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Mr. John M. Cloyes '98,received a visit from his father last week.
Miss Eleanor Gephart '98, spent last week at her home in Valley Falls.
Doane Bros. put up a good talk about bicycles in another column.
See Prof. Dyche in his Arctic costumes at the Opera House Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Mr. P. A. Classen, our orator, delivered his oration in the chapel Thursday morning. It is needless to say that there was an unusual attendance.
Next week Weaver will put on sale some advance lines of new style shirt waists. Better get in before these are "picked over."
Professor F. W. Blackmar is announced to deliver his lecture upon "Socialism," March 7th, before the Dickinson County Teachers' Association at Abilene.
University Folks Meet.
E. C. Little entertained the ex-State University attendants at his home Saturday evening after the lecture, making the affair a reception to Prof. Dyche and Hon. E. F. Caldwell as well as an occasion for the gathering of those who have attended the University and their husbands aud wives. About thirty were present and were most hospitably entertained.
( Abilene Reflector. )
Prof. Dyche's lectures throughout the state have been uniformly well attended. People like the recital of adventures, particularly when rendered in the Professor's inimitable style.
A Prompt Response.
The following is a specimen letter taken from Frank R. Stockton's Ready Letter Writer:
"From a father to his son at school, in answer to a letter asking for an increase of pocket money.
My dear Joseph: Your letter asking for an augmentation of your pecuniary stipend has been received, together with a communication from your preceptor, relative to your demeanor at the seminary. Permit me to say, that should I ever again peruse an epistle similar to either of these, you may confidently anticipate, on your return to my domicile, an excoriation of the cuticle which will adhere to your memory for a term of years.
Your affectionate father.'"
Read This Letter.
KANSAS CITY, MO.FEB.18th, 1896
Dear Sir:
With the progress that is being made in Fine Tailoring, as well as in other branches of art, it is found necessary in order to get Individuality into clothing to make them, as it were, on the man who is to wear them. As it is not convenient for students to come to Kansas City to try on their clothes before completion; in order to give them the benefit of a "try on," I have arranged to come to Lawrence every week for that purpose and may be found in the Gymnasium every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3p. m.
I shall make it a practice to press and keep in repair clothes of our own make which will be brought to Kansas City and returned the next week, free of charge.
F. B. ROBINSON,
824 DELEWARE ST.
Prof. Dyche brought with him from the Arctic regions ten walrus skins, two walrus skeletons, two narwhale skeletons, four caribou skins, five polar bear skins, ten seal skins about one hundred and fifty skulls of Greenland mammals, a collection of North Greenland fowls, three hundred bird skins, over twenty-five hundred eggs, a number of nests and a collection of rocks characteristic of Greenland.
Have you seen the Leggin-hose? They are stockings that look like hose. They are so dressy that they are simply irresistable. New York, Boston and Washington pronounce them a grand success. Just what you want for rainy day or bicycle suit. Nothing cumbersome about them. See them in Weaver's hosiery department.
The students' matinee at the Opera House Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 will prove an entertaining occasion for all who go. Admission 15 and 25 cents.
Park Williamson, '90, is at the University doing special work in the Civil Engineering Department.
The Art department occupies heights supernal—in the north dome of the main building.
The Stearns bicycle is sold by Doane Bros. See their notice elsewhere in the WEEKLY.
Tooth brushels by the thousands at Woodward's.
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Prof. L. I. Blake lectured at Kansas City last Friday evening.
Mr. Herbert Hadley '92, who is now practicing law in Kansas City, was in this city last Sunday.
Southern Greenland in the afternoon and Northern Greenland at night. Next Tuesday by Prof. Dyche.
Such a great variety of new black goods for waists, dresses and separate skirts as Weaver is showing is rarely seen outside of a large city.
Prof. E. Miller last Sunday addressed a large and attentive audience of men at the city Y. M.C.A.rooms, on the subject: "Is life worth living?"
Have you seen the Leggin-Hose at Weaver's. They are just what you want to wear with your rainy day suit. By all means stop in at the store and see them.
A society for child study has been organized in this state and it is probable that a local organization will soon be formed. Prof. A. S. Olin is much interested in the subject.
Students attending Prof. Dyche's lecture Tuesday afternoon should not fail to call on Secretary Moody and get students'tickets which they can exchange at the Opera House for 15 cent admission tickets.
University students desiring to avail themselves of the 15 cent rate to the matinee lecture by Prof. Dyche must obtain a ticket at the Secretary's office so that the management may know who are students and therefore entitled to the students' rate.
A girl is apt to speak well of the store where she gets a good article. The many girls who wear "Foster Kid Gloves" make lots of friends for Weaver's store. There is a great deal in fitting gloves and Weaver's glove girls know how to fit gloves to perfection.
A New Extinct Species of Bison.
A discovery of much interest has been made in western Kansas of an extinct species of bison, the skull having an expanse of nearly four feet. The bison has not yet been identified with certainty but seems closely related to a species already well known. The bison skeleton, that of a bull, will be mounted shortly in the University museum.
A Proposed Scientific Expedition.
Prof. S.W. Williston has been invited to become a member of a scientific expedition which will leave New York next September for a five months trip to Asia, Africa, and the East and West Indies. He will probably accept the invitation as he considers the opportunity a valuable one. The expedition will be under the leadership of Prof. Hite of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, who was a prominent member of the Peary relief expedition last year. Prof. Hite was formerly in the University of Kansas.
The object of the expedition will be scientific research. The plan of its projectors is to invite as members, professors of the leading colleges of the United States, who will afterwards deliver lectures on the literature, languages and geography of the countries visited. Prof. Williston has been offered the appointment of geologist of the expedition. The steamship "Ohio," of the Great American Steamship line has been chartered for the trip and is now undergoing extensive repairs in preparation for it.
The itinerary of the expedition will be through the Mediterranean Sea; up the Nile to the Pyramids; through the Isthmus of Suez to Bombay, Java, Sumatra and Australia, and return via Madagascar and the Cape of Good Hope to the West Indies.
Everybody knows of Prof. Dyche as a hunter and naturalist. He has brought down with his unerring rifle every kind of large North American animal except the musk ox. In the Artic regions the seal, the caribou or wild reindeer, the polar bear, the huge walrus and even the narwhal fell victims to his deadly aim. For three hours on one occasion he fought for his life against an infuriated mob of walruses. With the finest photographic outfit that could be procured in New York City Prof. Dyche took 482 views in that far away country—the only real first class pictures ever brought from the Artic regions. Every phase of Artic scenery and life will be illustrated by the use of a stereoopticon and the latest modern improvements of electric or calcium light, giving to the pictures a most realistic and life like effect.
The students' matinee Tuesday afternoon is a happy thought on the part of Prof. Dyche's manager. Many who do not wish to be out at night or have other engagements for the evening can thus be accommodated.
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Library.
Traill's Social England, the fourth volume of which has just been received, is a very interesting work. It tells of the progress of the English people "in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners from the earliest times to the present day." The plan of the whole is that of the editor, Mr. H. D. Traill, but the material is furnished by various writers, each a specialist in the subject assigned to him. The result has been described as "an encyclopaedical social history." Some eminent names appear in the list of contributors. The work has been criticised as lacking in continuity and smoothness, but it contains much valuable matter and will be of great service as a book of reference. Two more volumes are yet to come.
The Library has been fortunate in securing a complete set of Education, a monthly magazine published in Boston, "devoted to the science art, philosophy, and literature of education." The set contains fifteen volumes. As this magazine is now on our subscription list, the set will hereafter be kept complete.
Another important acquisition is a set of the Bulletin of the Nutall Ornithological Club, eight volumes. This magazine was published from 1876 to 1883, when its name was changed to The Auk.
917 MASS. ST.
We have received the first three volumes, those for '92,'93,and'94,of The Mineral In. dustry, its Statistics, Technology, and Trade in the United States and Other Countries. This is a statistical supplement to The Engineering and Mining Journal, and is edited by Mr. Richard P. Rothwell, editor of that magazine. Other volumes will be added annually.
A useful set of reference books has recently come into the possession of the Library, The Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army, in 16 large quarto volumes. These were sent to Mr. Wagner of the Department of Pharmacy, who kindly turned them over to the Library. The Catalogue, the work of Dr. John Shaw Billings, is a fine piece of bibliography and a very complete index to medical subjects.
Dr. Billings is just now prominent in the public eye, having been appointed chief librarian of the consolidated New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations.
ON'T FORGET that you can get your TEXT-BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS, FINE STATIONESY. and FOUNTAIN PENS. AT HENSHAWS',
(From the German )
Benefits, quietly, purely given.
Are like the dead, in the grave still living.
Flowerets, which withstand the storm.
Little sun', shining ever warm.
About a University Man.
Mr. H. F. Taylor who was in the Engineering Department of the University last year and is now working on the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad with headquarters at Shreveport, La., recently met with an interesting experience. Not long since he was placed in charge of a bridge construction company. Upon taking charge he ordered longer piles to be driven, as he thought that the piles which they were then driving were too short for safety. This the foreman refused to do, and sent for the contractor who had charge of that division. The two of them joined in refusing to drive longer piles, and Taylor was firm in insisting that they should do so. The contractor came to Kansas City to see the civil engineer and have Taylor discharged, but the engineer went down in person to investigate the matter, and the outcome of it was that the foreman was discharged and the contractor ordered to obey any instructions Taylor might see fit to give.
The "Trademark" is a Havana cigar that Woodward sells for a nickel. It is a great bargain.
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There will be another election of members to the Phi Beta Kappa society in June.
Mr. C. H. Mathews, of Kansas City, is visiting his cousin Mr. H. W. Schweder this week.
Prof. L. L. Dyche was at Junction City Friday of last week, where he delivered two lectures, one in the afternoon and one in the evening on his experience in the Artic regions.
The Science Club "It," last Thursday night, was perhaps not as good as usual but still it was a jolly affair. None who were there will soon forget the cheese or the stories.
If we had a few more buildings on Mount Oread the hill would not seem to increase so in heigth as the spring days come on. Bring up your strength to the level of the hill by taking a bottle or two of Raymond's Iron Tonic.
Some Things We Would Like to Know.
If the athletic officials are proud of their pictures in Sunday's World.
If the Glee Club enjoyed that trip they didn't take.
Why we don't have some more leap year parties.
If Prof. Blackmar was serious when he said that what some tribes consider moral, others looked upon as vice, and vice versa.
If girls attending the Indoor Meet should be accompanied by chaperones.
Why the dates for the Jubilee Singers and the oratorical contest don't conflict.
If term exposures of the brain by the new process of photography will eventnally do away with examinations.
If a hack with one team of horses costs $1.50 on a moonlight night how long a fellow's allowance will last in bad weather.
If the burning of midnight oil is what it's cracked up to be.
If the seniors are going so dramatize "Ships that Pass in the Night," or burlesque "Trilby."
The Oratorical Contest.
There is time before going to press to give but a brief report of the state oratorical contest which occurred at Topeka this (Friday) evening. Our orator won several very flattering grades on thought and composition but the first honors were taken by Mr.C.B.Dalton of Baker university. Mr.F.L.Platt of Washburn and Mr.H.W.Randolph of the College of Emporia tied for second place.
The judges on thought and composition were, General J. C. Caldwell, Lieutenant Governor J. A. Troutman, and Prof. O. E. Olin of Manhattan. Rev. C. B. Mitchell of Kansas City, Mo., Ex-State Superintendent Geo. W. Winans and ex-Chief Justice A. H. Horton were the judges on delivery.
NOTES.
The contest lacked much of the college spirit which has characterized former contests.
Mr. Frank House sang a pleasing solo.
An overcoat containing the only copy of Gov. Troutman's grades was stolen before the result was announced. This incident may yet effect the final rank of some of the orators.
Phi Kappa Psi.
That twenty young men can successfully hold the position of entertainers and receivers was well demonstrated by the gentlemen of the Phi Kappa Psi last Friday evening. The Pythian hall, beautifully decorated with the pink and lavendar, the fraternity colors, was the reception room. The music was furnished by Carl Busch's orchestra of Kansas City. Many young men and women from Kansas City, Ottawa, Topeka and elsewhere added to the pleasure of the occasion. Light refreshments were served throughout the evening. The young men were aided in receiving by Mrs. H.G.Schaum.
Students, do you buy your coal of Griffin? He is in a position to give his customers perfect satisfaction.
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School of Fine Arts.
A very successful recital was held at Music Hall Wednesday afternoon. Most of the numbers were well rendered. It is probable that there will be a recital every week after this month.
Prof. Farrell is organizing a class in accompaniment playing. This is something that as a vocalist he is eminently well fitted to teach, and as his terms are very reasonable it is hoped a large class may be formed.
The Old Folks concert entertainment under the direction of Mr. Marshall proved to be a great success. The "Singin' Schule" is to be repeated in the near future. Miss Bertha Whitaker acted as pianist.
Miss Drake's physical cultute class for children is well worth seeing. The little ones show that they have had excellent training and look very attractive in their costumes. The class meets at half past one.
Prof. Clark, in addition to his University classes, visits Leavenworth every Saturday. In the morning he teaches at the Art League and in the afternoon has a class of sixty public school teachers. He is having marked success in introducing his system into the public schools.
Marked Characteristics
One of our marked business characteristics is the setting apart of Friday as our bargain day. We make extraordinary low prices and have something new all the time. We stand in our business very much as the University does in education-at the top. Glad to see K.U boys and girls. INNES.
Mr. E. S. Tucker, the University photographer is selling prints from a Roentgen photograph. It is a representation of the human hand and in it the bones can be very plainly seen.
AHEAD OF TIME
The '96 STEARNS
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The 1896 models of the Stearns bicycle, concerning whose features there has been widespread curiosity are now being shipped to the principal Stearns agencies throughout the United States A handsomer line of bicycles it is difficult to conceive. The light road wheel. Model "A" scaling at $22\frac{1}{4}$ lbs.. incorporates in its constructions many improvement over the standard Model "A" of 1895, the differences, however, being mainly in detail. The tubing in keeping with the demands of the hour, is of larger diameter. The rear diamond tube runs upward at a straighter angle, bringing the rider further forward over his work. The Model "A," as well as the other gentlemen's mounts of the Stearns wheels, is fitted with Stearns improved detachable sprocket. Stearns adjustable handle bar and the new Stearns adjustable seat post, which combines all the advantages of the "T" form with a much neater appearance, and of much less weight. Any gear from 60 to 84 inches is furnished, and all wheels are equipped with Stearns flat cranks, either 6, $6\%$, $7\%$ or 8 inches in length.
The regular finish of all Stearns wheels, except the Model "C," will be orange with black as an option. The Model "C." is regularly furnished in black, with orange as an option. Palmer tires will be the standard equipment. E.C. Stearns & Company being licenses under Palmer patents, and are manufacturing Palmer tires for their exclusive use. Stearns Model "B" is the prototype of Model "A." except it is built heavier throughout for riders who desire a wheel suited practically to any kind of rough use. Model "D" is a dainty diamond-frame ladies' wheel designed particularly for use with the rational costume. The Stearns Special Racer and Tandems are received with equally as much favor. M.C. Stearn & Company will have no reason to be dissatisfied with the reception of the entire line of Yellow Fellows. The Stearns is certainly not surpassed in construction or finish. Its 1896 models are revelations of the possibilities of scientific and artifistic cycle building. DOANE BROS, 010 Mass. St., are the local agents,
Model "C," the dainty dropframe ladies' wheel at 23 lbs., typifies all that is best in the construction of amount of this kind. It is regularly furnished with $ 21 \frac{1}{2} $ inch frame.
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Prize Essay on Tennyson's "Princess."
The prize of $25 offered for the best essay on Tennyson's "Princess," by Messrs. Arthur B. Barteaux, Ed. F. Burnett and Wm. M. Thacher, of New York City, has been awarded to Mr. Richard R. Price of the present Junior class. The subject of Mr. Price's essay is 'Woman in Tennyson's Princess.'" The judges were Chancellor Snow, Mr. B. W. Woodward and Hon. C. S. Gleed, and were in substantial agreement as to the papers submitted. The essays were all very creditable; and in particular that by Miss Bertha B. Schafer, entitled "A Study of Tennyson's 'Princess'" came very near winning the honors from Mr. Price.
Prices broken unmercifully! You probably realize that merchants are needing wealth to pay their debts. You doubtless realize also that bad weather and muddy streets are not conducive to good business. Per contra these are the reason why we have launched deeper into cutting prices than ever before Our new goods are here or in transit. We ask that you be kind enough to call and see these as well as to get your share of our bargins.
GEO. INNES.
The Electrical Seminary this week elected the following officers: President, W. J. Squiers; vice president, H. W. Schroeder; secretary, H. F.Cox.
Pan-Hellenic.
But this time it was not the PhiSigma-Beta-Delta-K. F. L. kind, but the real alpha beta gamma delta epsilon, straightahead-to-omega, in-it-for-classic-business, fellows who had their time last Friday night. In short the students of the Greek department were entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Wilcox and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Sterling at the residence of the former. After being formally received the guests were presented—according to a very pretty custom—with a morsel of delicious jam served with a small tumbler of water. After a general social hour Mr. Sterling served a printer's "pie" of Greek mythology. A general stirring among the sepulchres of many a long mouldering hero and divinity followed. After a splendid course of refreshments, Dr. Wilcox took a place at the piano and sweet music's power did fuse the hearts of all. With much gratitude, and breathing still the classic air, the guests departed feeling the Greek department knows how to entertain.
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ATHLETICS.
Miller
PROF. J.W.GREEN,
President of the Athletic Association.
William
MR. R. K. MOODY, Treasurer of the Athletic Association.
How We Stand.
We take pleasure in printing Treasurer Moody's report of the financial condition of the Athletic Association for the year ending January, 1896. The report must be gratifying to the officers of the Association, and all friends of the University as well. We are sure it will also be gratifying to those who opposed the dollar admission to the Thanksgiving game, for they cannot fail to see that that was our salvation.
The treasurer feels deeply obliged to the local editor who asked two weeks ago if it were not time to hear the treasurer's report, for it had not occurred to him that the report would be of particular interest to anyone!
The auditing committee of the Athletic Association submit the following report of bills paid by it. All expenses are paid through this committee, except such as are incurred by managers while taking teams on trips or in settlement with visiting teams. The managers pay such expenses from the proceeds of the game, and immediately after the game hand the balance to the treasurer of the association, with an itemized account of the receipts and expenditures. In the brief segregation, which is attached to the
report as of possible interest, the item "traveling expense" stands for expense on trips, where there were little or no receipts, or for individual trips taken to arrange games.
E. D. ADAMS, Chairman Auditing Committee.
Report of the treasurer of the Athletic Association of the University of Kansas from Oct. 1st, 1895 to February 13th, 1896.
alliance on hand Oct. 1st, 1895... $ 383 74
t. 2, A. O. Garrett, foot-ball... 3 50
t. 5, net receipts of Midland games... 24 82
t. 9, Hugh Means, catchers mit... 2 25
subscriptions received from F. H. Snow... 20 00
J. W. Green... 15 00
L. I. Blake... 15 00
Beta Fraternity... 15 00
Jr. Law Class... 13 25
R. K. Moody... 10 00
E. C. Franklin... 5 00
E. M. Hopkins... 5 00
E. D. Adams... 5 00
L. E. Sayre... 5 00
G. B. Penny... 5 00
H. B. Newson... 5 00
C. M. Watson... 5 00
A. G. Canfield... 5 00
W. B. Brownell... 5 00
J. A. Farrell... 5 00
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Oct. 26, game with Indians, net... 5 57
Nov. 2, Iowa game, net... 65 09
Nov. 12, sale of old foot-ball... 2 00
Nov. 28, Thanksgiving game, net... 1781 39
F. P. Kaull, acct. of Mgr. Mitchell... 1 25
M. Z. Kirk,... 2 00
$2434 36
Amount paid out from Oct. 1st, 1895 to Feb.
13th, 1896, including vouchers 1 to 81 inclusive,
a detailed account of which I will refer to report
of chairman of finance committee... 1651 44
Balance Feb. 13th, 1896 $ 782 92
Respectfully submitted,
R. K. Moody, Treasurer.
No. 1, Oct. 8, 95, R. B. Wagstaff... $ 2 90
2, 8, 95, Alex. Lewis... 2
3, 10, 95, J. F. Schmelzer... 96 05
4, 14, 95, Law. P., & Heat'g Co. 9 08
5, 14, 95, L. R. Merys... 6 99
6, 14, 95, L. R. Merys... 7 50
7, 14, 95, A. G. Spalding... 2 64
8, 14, 95, Lawrence Journal Co. 2
9, 15, 95, R. R. Mitchell... 90
10, 16, 95, R. R. Mitchell... 2 10
11, 16, 95, R. R. Mitchell... 8 20
12, 17, 95, R. C. Manley... 2 35
13, 17, 95, Sands & Co. 40
14, 17, 95, R. K. Moody... 40 40
15, 21, 95, Hugh Blair... 62 35
16, 23, 95, Kan. Water & L. Co. 10
17, 28, 95, R. K. Moody... 5 70
18, 29, 95, R. R. Mitchell... 2
19, 29, 95, R. R. Mitchell... 2 15
20, 30, 95, H. W. Cowan... 1
21, 30, 95, W. S. Pope... 5 05
22, Nov. 3, 95, R. J. Merys... 48 75
23, 5, 95, L. R. Merys... 27 13
24, 6, 95, G. R. Merys... 4
25, 7, 95, J. Edmondson... 4 90
26, 7, 95, J. A. Dailey... 3 60
27, 13, 95, R. R. Mitchell... 2 89
28 to 30, Dec. 2, 95, J. D. Smith... 127 23
31, 2, 95, Menger Shoe Co... 87 05
32, 2, 95, E. Willis... 75
33, 3, 95, G. Palmer... 122
34, 3, 95, J. Merys... 7 82
Total $1651 44
The preceding items classified as follows:
1 {Base ball and track athletic equipment
Numbers 2, 3, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 28, 67 $246 57
2 {Foot ball equipment and repairs,
Numbers 4, 16, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 36,
40, 41, 43, 51, 54, 56, 59, 61, 63, 64, 75,
77, 78, 80, $423 65}
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3 $ \begin{array}{l}Training tables,\\ Numbers 1, 34, 39, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, \\ 53, 58, 69, 71, 73.\end{array} $ 390 59
4 Expense of trainers, cook, and laundry.
Numbers, 5, 6, 18, 21, 23, 24, 33, 52, 62,
72. $ \begin{array}{l} $ 467 64
5 Traveling expenses.
Numbers, 10, 20, 35, 38, 49, 50, 60, 74, 79. $ \begin{array}{l} $ 57 85
6 Unclassified.
Numbers, 8, 9, 11, 17, 19, 21, 27, 37, 55,
57, 65, 66, 68, 70, 76, 81. $ \begin{array}{l} $ 65 14
Total
By a mistake at the other end of the line Captain Charles Armor's picture did not appear in the World's Sunday edition. However there is no grievance, as Charlie says he is particular into what gallery his likeness is placed!
No suffering appeals to mankind like that of the innocent, and the printer above all others, has it in his power to sacrifice a fellow having the best of intentions. In our last issue we expatiated upon the ingenuity of the track athletic committee in appointing, from the ranks of our girls, an honorary committee of four members, one from each of the four classes of the school, to whose support will rally the contestants of the various
classes. We wish again to emphasize the appointment of the honorary committee, and disclaim any knowledge of the selection of an "honory committee," as the type setter reported.
The lady committee idea is meeting with popular favor. It is pronounced a good thing by everyone, and what is most encouraging, it is receiving the favor of the contestants themselves. It is not fitting that the Indoor Meet should degenerate into an entertainment for the sporting fraternity. These spring meets are made up of events that represent the wholesome and skillful branch of physical culture. With the assistance, or even with the moral support, of the girls, they can be made the most enjoyable features of all the athletic contests. If any are doubtful concerning the active support of the girls, just let them watch the developements next week.
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Abilene did the handsome thing by Prof. Dyche Saturday. In the afternoon the young people filled the opera house and came away so delighted with the pictures and the lecture that they drove the old folks out to see and hear the evening's entertainment. At each preformance Mr. Dyche was treated generously to applause.
Dyche's climax was the statement that he hoped to put the Stars and Stripes and the Kansas Sunflower on the North Pole. That pleased the audience. No lecturer who has been here in years left a more satisfied audience than did Mr. Dyche.Abilene Reflector.
The University may well be proud in the possession of a scientist of such sterling traits of character, and such exceptional endowments for great work and undertakings in the fields of scientific adventure as Professor Dyche. It may also proudly congratulate itself upon the discernment to discover such a character, and the genius to educate it to the present high standard of efficiency, all of which advantages it obtains in the person of Chancellor Snow. If the people of Kansas do not already know it, they ought to find out that the University at Lawrence has the material for the best museum in the world, and that the greatest genuis in this line of work in any country is Prof. Dyche. —Kansas City Star.
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VOL. II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 28,1896.
Editor-in-Chief:
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No. 4.
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THE IMMORTAL Shakspeare says that coming events cast their shadows before. The shadow of the coming School of Medicine in the University is so dense that it can be seen at midnight when the stars are veiled by clouds and the moon is absent.A medical school is as sure to come as the rising of the sun to-morrow. The outlook is favorable that the next legislature will make an appropriation for the purpose.
THE BUSTS in the hallway ajoining the German rooms would be more attractive and instructive if properly labeled. From the names now written upon these in lead pencil one would be justified in assuming that they represent University students.
THE GRADUATING class albums in the possession of the Memorabilia Club are now slowly but surely passing toward that formless state from whence they came. Those now in possession of the University will be of no value or interest twenty-five years hence. Why are they not placed in the library for inspection so that the present student can see what an improvement he is over those who have gone before him?
THERE SHOULD be more occasions for University students to meet together socially. A student may attend classes every day for a month and not meet many of his fellow students. There is variety in University courses as there should be and each student is engaged in his chosen work, but there should often be assemblages of the entire student body so that each student may broaden his acquaintance with others and become familiar with their ideas.
THE STATE oratorical contest was perhaps less interesting this year than usual. Several of the orations were well written, yet none were especially oratorical or especially striking. Mr. Platt, of Washburn, the winning orator had as his subject the life of James Lane of early Kansas fame. Mr. Platt will represent Kansas in the inter-state contest at Topeka in May and will find no more loyal supporters than the students of the University of Kansas.
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THE CONTEST at Topeka last Friday evening showed clearly that the University is not distinguishing itself in oratory. Rather than be defeated annually by a number of minor colleges, would it not be better to withdraw from the state oratorical association? The president of the local oratorical association is in receipt of a letter from the state universities of Nebraska and Dakota asking our University to join in an oratorical league with them and the state universities of Missouri, Colorado, Iowa and Minnesota. Whether we should be members of any association of the kind is of course the question.
THE LARGE majority of students in the University who are not taking a technical course have in view for themselves in future years a professional life. The practice of law attracts many students although not so many as a few years ago. Journalism is now finding greater favor than ever before. The bright, sociable, energetic journalist, has, indeed, probably more influence in every day affairs than any one else. He wields a free lance and woe to the injustice or wrong which comes to his notice. A number of students study medicine, or are prepairing to enter the ministry after leaving the University. It is very well to study medicine, law and such professional branches, but why is the field of business almost entirely neglected? We venture to assert that there are not twenty-five students in the School of Arts who look forward to a business career. Why is this? Does education unfit one for business, or is the educated man above becoming a business man. Commerce rules the financial world and certainly finance is not to be disregarded. Moreover, the greatest philanthropists of the United states and Europe have been men of business. Great wealth for benefactions can as a rule be obtained only through business channels. If a capable, energetic, educated man enters the business world, his chances for success in life are probably better than those of the journalist, doctor or lawyer.
AN INSTRUCTOR in the University said the other day that a few of the students in his classes had the courage and good sense to call him Mr.
WHAT is necessary in the make up of a winning oration in a state oratorical contest? One judge on thought and composition gave the the young man from Winfield first place while another gave him seventh.
THE HABIT of some University girls of wearing their hats in class is very discourteous to the other members of the class to say the least. This gives the impression that the recitation is merely incidental and worthy of but a few minutes' attention.
THAT THE University has sufficient talent to write editorials for a dozen college papers is shown by the following samples written in about five minutes by members of the Advanced English Composition class—and without previous notice.
It is with pardonable pride that our University notices the loyalty of her graduate students. This loyalty has seldom been better shown than in the offer of a prize by Messrs. Barteau, Burnett and Thacher, of New York city, for the best essay written by a University student upon some literary topic. The gentlemen intend to make the prize an annual one; and their interest in the literary work of this institution is fully appreciated. H.M.
THE STATE oratorical contest for 1896 is now a thing of the past, so far as the State University is concerned. We have met the enemy and have again been compelled to bow to the intelligence and superior ability of various schools throughout the State. Already some are beginniug to say: "Let us withdraw: we don't want to remain with the Oratorical Association." We must say that in the present state of affairs such a statement is the climax of absurdity. We have laughed at the smaller schools on every occasion and yet when we are brought into contest with them in oratory invariably we have to carry the ragged end of the colors. We cannot withdraw in defeat. Pride compels us to remain until we can produce a winning orator. Then it will be possible for us to withdraw gracefully. A.A.E.
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THE UNIVERSITY is in need of a special appropriation by the legislature for library books. We have a magnificent home for what books we have, and ample room for the many more which we need in every department of research and investigation. The books we have are admirably selected and their number is increasing, but our instructors and students are still considerably hampered in their work.
J. H. P.
Now that a University Chess Club has been organized, it is probably not out of place to say a few words about what it may accomplish. In the first place this game cannot but be highly beneficial to those who participate in it. Chess is a game that requires great care and much thought. A tournament with the city chess club and with other colleges will develop pleasant acquaintanceships and result in valuable mental training as well. C.J.M.
ONE OF the urgent needs of the University, at the present time, is a good lunch room, for the benefit of those students who bring their dinners. It is certainly very trying to those who have recitations in both morning and afternoon, and whose only intermission is the dinner hour, to be obliged to eat their lunches either in a small, badly ventilated room in the basement, or else out of doors. On pleasant days the latter course is very agreeable; but all Kansans know that there are many days when an "out-door lunch" would be, to say the least, unpleasant. E.B.
It may be amusing for those who are already assembled in a class room at eight o'clock in the morning to see belated students come rushing in flushed, excited and out of breath, just too late for roll-call. It is, however, not so amusing to those who are late. It is almost impossible for the average student to have his breakfast served before half past seven o'clock. Allowing twenty minutes for eating, but ten minutes are left in which to climb the hill and reach the class room. It is acknowledged by all physicians that violent exercise immediately after a meal is unhealthful. It is evident, then, that eight o'clock is too early an hour for a class recitation. G.L.
THE UNIVERSITY should withdraw from the Inter-collegiate Oratorical Association. As we have no chair of oratory here, our orators, as a rule, are not trained sufficiently to take rank with the representative orators of other contesting institutions. Usually our orator either trains himself as best he is able, or he has the help of some friend and then goes to the intercollegiate contest and is given fifth or sixth place. The public reads the newspaper report of the contest and learns that the State University has taken sixth place. It does not know that little attention is paid to oratory here, and judging the whole institution by its rank in the oratorical contest, they conclude that the University is inferior to the other contesting colleges. This kind of advertisement is decidedly unfortunate. Another very serious objection to the present oratorical contest is the disgraceful demonstration which usually takes place each year, and in which our own students often play a prominent part. This brings down upon our students the censure of the newspapers and does much to injure us. For these two reasons especially we should seriously consider the advisability of withdrawing from the association. C.C.B.
THE NEED of a medical department in connection with the University is beginning to be felt more and more with each succeeding year. The recent action of the Missouri Board of Health in disbarring three or four of the smaller medical colleges has shown that there are too many second-class institutions of the kind here in the West. Graduates from such schools cannot but injure the profession. On the other hand a great many who attend these schools do so only because they cannot afford to go to the Eastern schools where tuition and living expenses are so high. Now, a high class medical school could be established here in the University without very much additional expense. We have most of the laboratory facilities, we have competent professors, and resident physicians, and we have a bequest of one hundred thousand dollars only waiting for acceptance. Such a school would retain in the State all the money which is annually carried East by medical students, and at the same time greatly elevate the standard of such schools in the West. W.F.N.
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Primus: "What prompted you to leave college.
Secundus: "The faculty."—Ex.
Tis strange, to say the least,
In this advanced hour
That the grinding mill of college
Is still run by "horse"-power.
- The Stentor.
The University of Michigan Daily actually finds every day interesting material for publication. Mr. Harrison, the editor, is a Kansas man.
To demonstrate quickly and easily how perversely absorb 'tis to sound this name Cowper, As people in general call him named super, I remark that he rhymes it himself with horse trooper. James Russel Lowell.
Si flunkeamus
Nos petamus
Altissimos ramos
Unde pendeamus.
— College Life.
The best two exchanges on our list, from a typographical stand point, are from Texas—the "An-X" and the Monthly from Southwestern University. Both are monthly publications, the former edited and managed exclusively by "co-eds.," and the contents of each are as satisfactory as its typographical appearance.
"You seem sad, my red-skinned brother," said the missoinary.
"Red-skinned brother's heart heap sad," said the noble son of the prairie. "White man shoot better, fight better and now Injun hear college yell. He know Injun can't war whoop for sour apples. Waugh!"—Ex.
"Hast thou a lover," asked he "Oh. maiden of the Rhine?"
She blushed in sweet confusion,
And softly faltered "Nein."
He felt rebuffed, and knew not What best to say, and then A sudden thought came to him,
And he pleaded 'Make it ten!"—Ex.
A young lady in the University of Minnesota writes a plea, in the Ariel of that college, for the co-education of men. She says: "May we live to see the day when men knock at the doors of Wellesly and Bryn Mawr and, upon admittance bear the magic name of Coeds."——
Washburn students last year rendered in a Greek play in the original Greek, and this year they have played Minna von Barnhelm in German. Why should Kansas University allow her enterprising competitor to surpass her in theatrical as well as in oratorical performances?
A local poet wails:
Lives of lovers oft remind us That we may ere many moons, In departing have behind us Footprints on our pantaloons.
—Exchange.
A thoughtful boy in English III,
One day said, "I'll allow, sir,
I've heard a cat purr merrily,
But I've never heard a Cowper,"
—Dodo, in University Chronicle.
The Salute of the State Normal limits the proportion of its space devoted to advertising matter in a way several other college papers could imitate to their benefit. Topeka Capital in "Comments on College Papers."
Perhaps the Capital cannot always tell, maybe it is the business men of Emporia who limit the Salute's advertising.
"Say, mamma, we boys ought to have one of these pancakes in our nine."
"Why my dear?"
,,'Cause its the hardest batter in town."
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LITERARY.
A Study of The Princess.
The science of criticism is even now in a somewhat chaotic state, wanting so far a clear and universal standard of excellence which shall be to it as is the law of gravitation to Physics or Astronomy. The critic who will not light his path by the glare of his own prejudice walks indeed in semi-darkness and uncertainty. When the work to be judged is poetry, for which the mind of man has not even an adequate definition, with what a double hedge of difficulties is his path beset! Mathew Arnold in his admirable essay on "The Study of Poetry," has put forward some novel and delightful tangible ideas; the methods he proposes for arriving at a true and universal estimate to what is fine in poetry are clear and surprisingly practical; yet one who attempts to handle such a poem as Tennyson's Princess with the implements he suggests may as well try to weigh moonbeams and star-dust in a grocer's scales.
The Princess, Tennyson's longest poem, was first published in 1847. Four succesive edition were given to the public, in all of which more or less important changes were made, the edition of 1853 being the text as it now stands. It is, as the author says in the Prologue, and as unfavorable critics have loved to reiterate, a medley; it is more; it is grotesque. A thin wire of Greek aesthetics, wrapped with the colors of mediæval England and galvanized with a current of modern ideas, is woven into a lattice of square and scroll and arabesque through which peep the sad eyes of Tragedy and wry-faced Comedy side by side. A bad tragedy is ridiculous and good comedy is often full of pathos, but here the two join hands. It is merely a poet's whim?
The versification of the poem, which bears the Tennysonian stamp of perfect finish throughout, has several noticeable characteristics. Tennyson's mind was permeated with the spirit of Old English poetry; as a consequence, we find alliteration used constantly with skill and splendid effect.Lines like these,
"With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,
And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair"
tickle the ear, but in this,
'Sweet thoughts would swarm as bees about their queen'
or this,
"the lark
the alliteration heightens immeasurable the effect. Then there are many passages rhythmically irregular, in which the sound carries the sense, which Professor Hadley says are not excelled by Milton or Virgil. Thus—
"And in the blast and bray of the long horn And serpent throated bugle, undulated The banner."
Or,
"Myriads of rivers hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms And murmuring of the innumerable bees."
Not unlike many of Tennyson's poems, The Princess was received with disfavor by critics in general. "Delta" of Blackwood's Magazine thought its faults "so many and so glaring and often so apparently willful" that he "as a sincere admirer of Tennyson could almost wish the poem had never been written." Another reviewer of about the same time, 1855, condemned it out of hand for its subject, i.e. "the noise about womens right which even now ceases to make itself heard anywhere but in that refuge of exploded European absurdities beyond the Atlantic." Now, this harmlessly severe critic was wrong. The idea of the higher education of women originated in America, as one writer, a loyal British subject, says, "in the sweet visions of the New England Transcedentalists," and was not a scrap which fell to us from the overloaded tables of the milords and miladies of England or the Continent. The choosing of this theme was only an instance of the poet's prophetic instinct. Girton and Newnham stand to prove what a change has since come to England in its attitude toward women, and in America,—"but that," as Mr. Kipling would say, "is another story."
The theme of The Princess is the now much discussed problem of the proper sphere of woman, with all the conflicting ideas that phrase
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suggests. To bring these jarring elements together, the author adopts the not new device of making one set of characters tell the story of another set. The Prologue and Epilogue show us an English scene. Sir Walter Vivian is giving a festival to his tenants in the baronial grounds of Vivian Place. The family, the ladies, young Walter and some College friends, meet for luncheon on the lawn. Here beside "a Gothic ruin and a Grecian house" amidst "a talk of college and of ladies' right," they tell a story to pass away the time. One dreamy young collegian, who has been all morning poring over the book of the chronicle of the house of Vivian, wherein he reads how, of old, a lady-warrior defended and saved her castle from a wicked king, begins. The story follows of a Princess who, betrothed in childhood to a neighboring Prince, when she is grown will none of him, but runs away to build "an University for maidens." The Prince, with two companions, comes to seek her; they don feminine apparel and enroll among her pupils. Soon they are discovered and wrathfully ejected; in draggled feminine garments the Prince seeks the tents of his father, the two kings having meanwhile encamped in battle array close by. A fight ensues in which the Prince is defeated and wounded; the University becomes a hospital for wounded soldiers and the Princess Ida and her pupils a corps of nurses.
"Love in the sacred halls
Held carnival at will and flying struck
With showers of random sweet on maid and man.
The Princess, "grand, epic, homicidal," grows to be human and woman; the climax of interest and poetic fervor is reached and we are brought back for our adieu to the glimmering twilight of an English garden.
The characters are drawn with bold outlines and delicate shadings and with somewhat of realism. The Southern King Gama so blandly polite, "airing a snowy hand and signet ring" says to the Princess who comes seeking his betrothed:—
He complacently bemoans his daughter'ssw aywardness; amuses his guests with an account of the
"awful odes she wrote,— Too awful, sure for what they treated of, But all she is and does is awful"
"You do us, Prince,
All honor. We remember love ourselves
In our sweet youth: there did a compact pass
Long summers back .a kind of ceremony—
I think the year in which our olives failed."
and courteously offers him letters of introduction to his runaway bride. In contract, and not less clearly drawn, is the Northern King, the Prince's father, who blusters
"we ourself
Will crush her pretty maiden fancies dead In iron gauntlets;"
and thus derides his love-lorn son:—
"Boy, when I hear you prate, I almost think That idiot legend credible. Look you, sir! Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They love us for it, and we ride them down. Wheedling and silling with them! out for her
Wheedling and siding with them! out! for shamel"
Cyril is a good characrer and well conceived; not very noble, perhaps, but a practical and likeable fellow; the sort of a fellow who sees life as it is and yet likes it pretty well. He is in fine contrast to the Prince, and his good sense and good humor bring the reader a grateful feeling of relief. He sees clearly how absurd is Lady Psyche with her baby clinging to her skirts while she lectures on evolution,yet is falling in love with her all the time. Florian is not a strong character-study and has apparently no especial value in the development of the story.
Lady Psyche is a pretty type of the young mother, "with three castles and plenty of leisure." Like many of our own time, she may be almost unbalanced in her devotion to the nebular hypothesis, ceramics, Ibsen's, plays, or another fad; but she finds surely enough, when it comes to the test, that her baby comes first. Lady Blanche,
"of faded form and haughtiest lineaments And all her tresses falsely brown"
with "wintry eye," a "vulture throat" and "haggard smile," is everything that is unlovely in woman. I am sorry, for the sake of realism and artistic effect, that Tennyson did not make Lady Blanche a soured old maid; it is evident that her heart was stranger to the love of which the poet sings; but we should thereby have missed the cap-stone of that lady's repulseiveness,
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the line in which she calls her dead husband a fool. Her daughter Melissa is sweet enough to need no other reason for her existence. Many reviewers have complained of a lack of color in the character of the Prince. In truth, the only thing about him worthy of remark is his attitude toward the Princess, and I complain not of a lack of color in the Prince, but of an atmosphere of unreality which surrounds them both. This unreality persists until the last canto is reached, wherein the Prince becomes a man instead of a dreamy, impossible youth, and the Princess a real though ideal woman. Mr. Dawson thinks that the Prince is in some respects a personation of the poet himself, and all critics seem to agree that Ida is a fine portrayal of a noble woman. Noble the poet certainly wishes to portrait her, but the portrait is not lifelike. Let her be compared once with Guinevere, with whom the reader lives and suffers, and we shall see that Tennyson could make a lifelike woman and that he did not so in The Princess. The Princess Ida or, such a woman as the Princess Ida, never existed and never will; and I believe the poet intended her to represent an idea, as he did the Prince. It is because of this, that they represent ideas instead of flesh and blood beings, that they seem unreal. Now, the whole poem has for its motif an answer to the so-called woman-question, and seems to me to be of a sort of a fortiori argument against the absurd and useless discussion of woman's rights. The poet said: "Nature made men and women; I think she will take care of the rights of each. Let me teach you. I will make a Princess, strong in intellect and will power; and I will make a Prince, weak, dreamy and all affection. Behold! the old, old story. If with such a man and such a woman Nature works her complete will, how much more shall she rule under normal conditions. For Nature rules the world."
And so it comes that neither the Prince nor the Princess are studies from life; neither is real or lifelike and neither is invested with that peculiar and unmistakable air by which an author makes us recognize his hero, or his heroine. But the Prince is not the hero nor is the Princess Ida the heroine. But one character is brought prominently before the reader, shielded from every accident of ridicule or defeat and carried through every conflict unscathed; but one wears that radiance which is the heorine's right. It is the little child, Lady Psyche's baby, who is the heorine.
This is easy of proof. Take the intercolary songs : the first one,—
"As through the land at eve we went,
And plucked the ripen'd ears,
We fell out, my wife and I,
O we fell out I know not why,
And kissed again with tears.
And blessings on the falling out
That all the more endears,
When we fall out with those we love
And kiss again with tears.
For when we came where lies the child
We lost in other years,
There above the little grave,
O there above the little grave,
We kissed again with tears."
The power of the child, the strength of the love that childs calls forth, is stronger than pride and lasts beyond the grave. The second is the mother's tender lullaby:—
"Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
Father will come to thee soon.
Father will come to his babe in the nest.
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep."
Wife and child again, the mother sings to her badly out of her own heart while her thoughts roam away to its father on the wind of the Western Sea. Next is the well known bugle song, beautiful but less simple in conception, the real meaning being scarcely reached until we find the word grow in the last stanza.
"O love, they die in yon rich sky.
They faint on hill or field or river;
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and forever."
Again a song of married love which gives "a unity for the family. In the first song a unity through the past, in the second a unity through the present, and in this a unity for the future."
The fourth song is the one which, charged with the feeling of the singer, changed the story of The Princess from burlesque to earnest.
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"Thy voice is heard through rolling drums
That beat to battle where he stands;
Thy face across his fancy comes
And gives the battle to his hands:
A moment, while the trumpets blow,
He sees his brood about thy knee;
The next, like fire he meets the foe
And strikes him dead for thine and thee."
The memory of wife and child at home follows the soldier to the battle field and nerves his arm to fight. The fifth,--
"Home they brought her warrior dead Shenor swooned nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, She must weep or she will die."
Then they praised him soft and low,
Called him worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe;
Yet she neither spoke nor moved.
Stole a maiden from her place,
Lightly to the warrior stept,
Took the face cloth from the face;
Yet she neither moved nor wept.
Rose a nurse of ninety years,
Set his child upon her knee—
Like summer tempest came her tears—
'Sweet my child, I live for thee.'"
The most beautiful of all, this tells of the power of the child upon the woman, strengthening her to live when all the joy of her life is gone. The final song, Ask me no more, no more, is in the same strain. No woman may put away from her that love of home, of which the child is the final result and cause.
I have given much space to these songs not alone for their relation of keynote to the whole poem, but because of their lyrical perfection. One sings them unconsciously and almost hears the harp. To me they are the sublimation of excellence in poetry and are only equalled in the English language, at least, by the songs and shorter poems of Robert Burns. They were inserted because, as Tennyson himself says, "the public did not see that the child was the true heroine."
But it is not alone in the songs that the child is plainly indicated as the heroine. Constantly recurring passages point to the fact, and Ida herself confesses the baby's power when she says to her brother,-
indeed I think
Our chiefest comfort is the little child Of one unworthy mother which she left; She shall not have it back: the child shall grow To prize the authentic mother of her mind. I took it for an hour in mine own bed This morning: there the tender orphan hands Felt at my heart, and seemed to charm from thence The wrath I nursed against the world."
The first four cantos of the poem are distinctly humorous. Tennyson, chivalrous as he ever is, must laugh at the female University and even at the august, but ridiculous, Ida. He makes the garrulous landlord thus describe the "University for maidens:"—
"His daughter and his housemaid were the boys; The land he understood for miles about Was tilled by women; all the swine were sows. And all the dogs—"
He makes Ida add a postscript to an already lenghty war despatch. Again, in the precipitous flight of the Princess and her maidens, after Cyril has trolled his tavern ditty and betrayed himself and the Prince
"then another shriek
'The Head, the Head, the Princess, O the Head!'
For blind with rage, she missed the plank and rolled
In the river."
The last three cantos are as distinctly serious. Mr. Stedman pronounces the tournament scene at the close of the fifth book an approach to Homeric swiftness and "the most vehement and rapid passage in the whole range of Tennyson's poetry." The close of the seventh canto, where the Prince and the Princess seem ot lose their vague impersonality and become breathing man and woman, marks the climax of poetic feeling and at the same time sets forth the only simple, practical and commonsense view of the woman question. Is not this the "sanity of true genius?" The Prince has lost his "haunting sense of hollow shows" and the Princess stoops to listen while he says:—
"The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink Together, dwarf'd or godlike, bond or free: For she that out of Lethe scales with man The shining steps of Nature, shares with man.
His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal,
Stays all the fair young planet in her hand—
If she be small, slight matured, miserable,
How shall men grow? but work no more alone!
* * * * * * * * * * *
For woman is not undevelopt man,
But diverse: could we make her as the man,
Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this,
Not like to like, but like in difference.
Yet in the long years liker must they grow;
The man be more of woman, she of man;
He gain in sweetness and in moral height,
Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world;
She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care,
Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind;
Till at the last she set herself to man,
Like perfect music unto noble words."
It is the mixture of humor and solemnity, of burlesque and tragic, in the poem that gives ground for the principal charge that critics have made against it—that of incongruity and lack of unity. The lack of unity disappears with a
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close study of the poem, and, in the nature of the subject. Tennyson says in his own defense, "If women ever were to play such tricks, the burlesque and the tragic would go hand in hand." Is not this true? What more absurd, yet pathetic spectacle today, than a woman who flings her destiny, her womanhood, away and spends a lonely and loveless life, riding her hobby horse astride to prove that she is a man.
Mr. Dawson can hardly be right in saying that the Princess is to Tennyson's other poems as Gray's Elegy was to his lesser ones. It is not greater than the Idyls of the King, if it is, indeed, superior to Maud or In Memoriam; but it has matchless beauty and fascination, and it has, above all, a noble purpose. It makes the jangling discords of the "Woman Question" into music; it brings home to the heart what Emerson says—"For nature is everywhere having her will and cannot be baffled;" and it makes us sure that the millenial prophecy is true which says that Heaven shall one day be to men in this earth, and into it "a little child shall lead them."
BERTHA B. SCHAFER.
The Soliloquy of A Waste Basket.
On a certain day of Indian Summer, a Sophomore was seated at his desk wrapped in deep meditation. His appearance showed perplexity. Soon, mechanically, he picked up his hat and left the room. In deep abstraction he crossed South Park and walked down Massachusetts street. He greeted none of his friends, for he saw them not; and at last oblivious to all around him, he seated himself in the shadow of the old wagon bridge.
The rumbling of wagons and the "cling- clong" of the street-cars were lost to him, lost in his deep consideration of the theme that was due on the following day. Scarcely an hour had passed when a small, shrill voice sounded from the pier. Our Sophomore bent his ear to listen; and again the voice spoke. "What a change invisible Time, in his onward march, has wrought in the past few centuries. There were formerly no bridges over this river and no University students sat upon its banks, racking their brains over the preparation of their themes.
"In fact, there is little here to remind me of my early days. This stream has drawn into its bed as a turtle into its shell, since I left here in my youth. It used to swell out above all these low-lands. There was no bottom to the river water, and one could not see across it,when I
was young."
As the voice made this statement concerning the Kaw River, doubt flashed through the mind of the Sophomore and was as quickly indicated by his mien. Noting the cynical air of his hearer the voice continued. There can be no mistake about it. The courses of streams do not change, even if they shrink from rivers to brooks. I spent my youth in this vicinity, and for many years lived on a large hill that rose out of the water south west yonder, and which you students now call MountOread.
"What a contrast the present picture of high civilizations presents, when compared with the scenes of my youth. I well remember being tossed about in my infancy upon the turbulent waters in this neighborhood. With my ill fateed companions I spent many days in this sad plight; and it was with most grateful hearts that we welcomed the sight of beloved Mount-Oread, at whose foot we were wafted ashore.
"In those days the land was fertile and it was not long until we attained luxuriant growth. Not only was there nothing to mar our happiness; but everything was conductive to enjoyment. With ease we could bathe our foreheads in the water at our feet, or warm our waving hair in the sunlight overhead. Many pleasant hours we spent in watching the black bass sport and play, and in listening to the singing of the birds. All nature was given over to the pleasant pursuit of happiness. Man had not yet appeared upon the scene to encroach upon our rights.
"Years rolled on, and we were still undisturbed, except by the receding of the water, which caused our habitations to be moved down the slope. One day one who was a relative, as we afterwards ascertained, paused at our dwelling place to rest. He had been paddling down the river for days and had startling tales to tell us of his adventures with the Red Man. These were to us new; but it was not many years before the copperhued man, killing the deer with his arrow, or catching fish with his crooked stick, was a common sight.
"The Indian boy not long pursued his roaming habits, before he was displaced by the encroachment of the white man". At this moment the sranger who had been soliloquizing upon the changes time had wrought, was carried from the abutment by the current, and passed over the dam just as the Sophomore awoke to find staring him in the face a "Waste paper Basket."
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LOGALS.
The Juniors had quite a lively meeting Monday.
Mozart Symphony Company, March 20, in University Hall.
The Barbs will give a dance at Pythian Hall Saturday evening.
The Becker club gave a dance at the Journal hall last Saturday.
The Betas gave an informal hop at their chapter house last Friday.
The chemical seminary meets every Thursday afternoon at four o'clock.
Mr. Harry Fox, of Atchison, visited his Phil Gamma Delta brethern this week.
Ducks are in. It will be in order now for some one to go out and shoot himself.
A political census is being taken. It may prove useful in the campaign next fall.
Prof. G. H. Failyer, of the Kansas Agricultural college visited the University last week.
The Pharmaceutical Society will meet at 2:30 Friday afternoon in the Pharmacy lecture room.
Prof E. H. S. Bailey brought with him from Germany, specimens of peat, brown coal and briquetts.
Large audiences were in attendance at Prof. L. L. Dyche's lectures Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Prof. E. C. Franklin gave an exhibition of Rocky mountain views in the Physics building on Wednesday.
"Shorty" Hamill, the invincible "hole maker" of last year's foot ball team was in Lawrence Sunday.
The Eastern Kansas Medical Society of which Dr. W. S. Bunn of Lawrence is vice president, will hold its April meeting in one of the University buildings on Mt. Oread.
Mr. E. E. Slossen, '90, professor of chemistry in the University of Wyoming, has an article in the New York Independent of last week, entitled, "Relative values again."
The special train bound for the contest at Topeka, last Friday afternoon arrived at 2:15, with yellow, the Ottawa color, streaming from the engine and strung along the sides of the coaches. It did not take long to lower the yellow from the engine and hoist the crimson in its stead. But to tear the Ottawa colors from the cars was a great task, for Ottawa students with their canes patroled the space before the colors while numerous smiling but determined Ottawa girls stood guard over the yellow from above. But these availed nothing against the irresistable onset of the University boys.
Mr. Archie Hogg, '94, has been chosen private secretary to Chancellor Snow, to succeed Mr. Fred MacKinnon, resigned. Mr. Hogg is well known by all the members of the University and is himself thoroughly familiar with the interests of the institution. No more fitting selection could have been made.
Some of the participants in the "scrap" at the Sante Fe depot last Friday returned home hatless. However, Mr.Wing, came back with a cap and a hat neither of which he had ever seen before. Nearly all who were in the scrimmage carried away yellow trophies which were said to have been imported from Ottawa.
This year for the first time the students in Organic Chemistry have an opportunity to take laboratory work. Although this is optional with the students taking this course, a large number of them have elected laboratory work.
Prof. A. S. Olin delivered an address before the Douglas County Sunday School Association which met in North Lawrence last Friday and Saturday.
At the Historical Seminary this afternoon, the subject "National Banks" will be discussed. Papers will be read by Mr. Clyde Walton and Mr.R.M.Robinson.
There will be a meeting of the Editorial Board Monday at 5 p. m.
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The Chancellor's reception tonight.
Miss Gertude Bouhgton is visiting in Topeka this week.
The Adelphic society now meets regularly on Thursday nights.
The family of Dr. S. W. Williston has again been quarantined on account of scarlet fever.
Mr Lewis Heil,'97, returned Monday from Topeka where he attended the oratorical contest and visited his home.
The Kansas City dailies of this week were generous in their praises of our Mr. Dudley Eaton, the charming first tenor of University Glee Club fame.
Rev. Dr. Fenn of Chicago conducted chapel exercises this week. The Doctor possesses a pleasing personality which gives an added charm to his instructive and inspiring words.
In the battle for colors, at the depot last Friday afternoon, Mr. W. T. Walker was struck on the head with a heavy cane by an Ottawa student; whether purposely or accidentally is not well known. It was a severe blow. In the evening Mr. Walker became worse, but by Monday he had recovered sufficiently to be in attendance at his classes.
The University Republican club met Wednesday evening at the court house to nominate of a delegate to represent the club at the State Republican convention at Wichita next month. This convention will choose the Kansas delegation to the National Republican convention at St. Louis. Mr. R. J. Hopkins was selected as the representative of the club.
A jolly quartette of University students, consisting of Messrs. J. H. Outland, Jno. Dryden, P. R. Stout and W. K. Smith, were the lions of the occasion, last Friday evening, at the Tonganoxie Friends, Academy, where they were invited to furnish the music for the midwinter commencement, and to enjoy the banquet. Mr. Smith's bass attracted special attention as it always does, and with the careful training which his voice is receiving, we predict for him a successful career as a singer.
Prof. Stevens is preparing to try some interesting experiments on growing plants; he is trying to find out why the stem of a plant grows up while the roots grow down. He proposes to eliminate to a degree, the influences of light and gravity by allowing these forces to be applied to the plant from all directions alike. The will do this by revolving the plant on a vertical and on a horizontal axis at the same time. This is one of a series of experiments the Professor has been trying, some of which have given very interesting results. For this test he has purchased an Edison motor and will run it by storage battery.
Between four and five hundred students, besides a large number of other Lawrence people went down to the Santa Fe depot Friday to see the Baker—Ottawa train pass through on its way to Topeka. The large number of ladies present inspired the chivalry of the gentlemen to what may perhaps be termed a questionable degree.
The WEEKLY is now the only weekly publication in the University of Kansas. If you are as proud of it as you seem to be, send a few copies to your friends at a distance. Twenty-five cents will secure a subscription for the remainder of the school year.
At the meeting of the Economic Seminary on Monday, Prof. F. W. Blackmar reviewed Prof. A. G Warren's "American Charities" and Mr. C E. Rench reported upon current Economic legislation.
Secretary U. S. G. Plank of the city association last week conducted the half-hour's meeting of the University Young Men's Christian Association.
Mr. P. A. Claassen, University orator, and Mr. Arthur McMurray, Kansas University delegate to the State Oratorical Association, went to Topeka a day early to be ready for the fray.
The K. U. Lawyer will hereafter appear monthly, thus leaving the WEEKLY without a single weekly competitor.
Prof. A. M. Wilcox returned to his classes Monday after an illness of several days.
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Students buy their canes at Smith's News Depot.
You will get the best of everything at the lowest prices at Straffon's Drug Store.
Messrs. Brown, Riggs and Ballanger are temporarily doing the work of Prof. Williston's former assistant, Mr. Overton, who resigned to enter the ministry.
Hollingbery and Son, Practical Merchant Tailors, have their Spring goods open for your inspection. The goods, styles and prices are the best the world affords. Please call at 841 Mass. St.
Miss Gertrude Hunnicutt, a graduate of the School of Arts has developed into a brilliant singer in the East where she has the offer of a number of creditable and renumerative engagements.
Illustrated weeklies constantly on sale at Smith's News Depot.
The Agora shows rare taste in selecting the original for its frontipiece from among the ladies of the University. Call again, gentlemen of the Agora. Our supply of charming specimens is by no means exhausted.
Weaver will hold a local silk sale beginning Tuesday next and lasting one week. Need any?
A Mososaur discovered by Chancellor Snow some years ago, valued for having in a good state of preservation a part of its fossilized skin is a very valuable specimen. Mr. Barnum Brown who is describing the paddles of this specimen has found the membrane connecting the phalanges.
THERE IS NOT A SUSPICION of uncertainty regarding the popularity of Shirt Waists this season. They are destined to be the craze and will not be denied. Weaver is fixed for you. He has recruited an army of them, of all styles, all sizes, and all shades and degrees of color and quality, Of every known material and many as yet unknown to you. The skirmish line of this army of waists is here and on dress parade for your inspection. Those with the Gotham collars and Bishop sleeves at $100 each are rapid sellers.
On Monday evening an elegant little reception was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kilworth to the members of the "Professors' Table"—as runs the phrase current with Mrs. O'Bryon's boarders. The guests consisted of Messrs. H. B. Newson, G. Wagner and J. W. Hullinger; Misses Watson and Gillham, and Mr. and Mrs. O'Bryon. Souvenirs and mementoes of the hosts' European trip were highly enjoyed, interspersed with such stories, anecdotes, witicisms and droll sayings as such a concourse of intellect is capable of producing. Mrs. Kilworth was assisted by Mrs. Powers, who rendered some very touching recitations. Elegant refreshments were served in abundance. Mrs. Kilworth is a daughter of Mrs. O'Bryon and Mr. Kilworth is connected with the Watkins Bank. Their snug little home was a charming place to "wile the hours away."
Gentlemen, this spring like weather should remind you of the fact that your wardrobe needs replenishing. Don't delay but place your orders at once where you will obtain the best and latest for the least money. 841 Mass. St., Hollingbery and Son, Practical Merchant Tailors.
Students buy their canes at Smith's News Depot.
Mr. Marmoru Jio has an article in the Electrical World of Feb. 8, describing a new kind of ladder, a jointed pole affair, notably light and easily managed.
Illustrated Weeklies constantly on sale at Smith's News Depot.
Sigma Xi.
At the annual election of new members to the Sigma xi, the honorary scientific society of the University, the following persons were chosen for membership: under-graduate members, Geo. R. Albers, C. C. Crew, R. C. Gowell; graduate members, A. S. Dunstan, Hugo Kahl.
For base-ball and athletic goods go to Smith's News Depot.
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For base-ball and athletic goods go to Smith's News Depot.
Messrs. Saunders, Bunker and Gowell are preparing for exhibition the skins of bears collected last fall by the Department of Natural history. The group will consist of three old males, one female and a cub.
The University has received an interesting addition to the museum from Mr. Ossian Guthrie of Chicago, a slab of wood from a white oak tree which was supposed to have been buried ever since the glacial period.
The next morning after the oratorical contest at Topeka as an instructor in the University was reading a Topeka Capital, a student interested in the result of the contest, asked, "Who won?" The professor, deeply absorbed, enthusiastically replied, "Fitzsimmons knocked him out in the first round."
There is a student in the Senior Law class who entered school the first of December without a dollar to pay his expenses and with no prospect of assistance from any one. He has thoroughly reviewed the work of the first semester of school, has paid all of his expenses, and at present is making more than his expenses although carrying on full work in the University.
Deutsche Nachrichten
Student: Wie gehen Sie, Herr Professor?
Professor: Auf zwei Beine.
Student: Herr Professor, es thut mir leid das sie so viel Leichtsinn gebrauchen.
Die Studenten in Deutsch VI sind sehr zufrieden dass Deutsch inder Classe gesprochen wird.
Um ein Uhr als se Zeit ist heimzugehen, möcht der Student oft sehr gern dem Professor sagen: Herr Professor, dürfen wir kein mittagessen haben?
Einige der deutschen Classen sind zu gross. Die eine hat über hundert Studenten.
Wir schreiben nicht viel dieses Mal, da es unser erster Versuch ist. Wir werden wohl das nächste Mal mehr zu sagen haben.
School of Fine Arts.
Mrs. Jenness Venter will lecture at Music Hall, on the afternoon of March 3, to ladies only, and in the evening to both gentlemen and ladies. She will bring a number of beautiful costumes, for the purpose of illusrating her lectures.
Prof. Penny has been unable to meet his classes owing to an attack of the grip.
The Jubilee Singers' concert last Friday was attended by most of the music students and was enjoyed as an entertainment.
The Seminary this week was led by Mrs. Cowden. It was a general information Seminary and many interesting points were brought out upon various subjects relating to music.
Mr. Fred Penfield of the electrical engineering department has made several excellent negatives of the bones in the human hand by the Roentgen process of photography. The Crookes tubes used were made by Prof.E.C Franklin.
The class in Logic last week became so large that Prof. Templin found it neccesary to change its quarters. It now recites in the lecture room of Snow Hall.
Snow Hall.
The members of the histology class have taken up the subject of section nicking. By the use of a new process of staining they hope to secure better results than have heretofore been obtained.
Mr. M. Z. Kirk is making drawings of the machinery used in the salt industry of the state. These drawings will be used in Mr. Kirk's thesis on Kansas salt.
The beautiful photographs of the scenery along the Santa Fe route in Arizona and New Mexico which have been placed in the rooms of the Department of Geology by Prof. E. Haworth, contribute much to the attractiveness of the rooms.
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Library.
About fifty volumes of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, beginning with 1870, have been added to the Library. This is one of the most valuable additions that have been made to the department of science for some time,
A new book which should be mentioned at this time, because of the recently renewed interest in its author, is The First Crossing of Greenland, by Fridtjof Nansen, two volumes. It is translated from the Norwegian by Hubert Majendie Gepp, lecturer at the University of Upsala, and contains a short biographical introduction by J. Scott Keltie.
Another new work is a very carefully prepared new edition of The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, three volumes. It is reprinted from the original of 1810, and is uniform in size, style and binding with the History of the and Lewis Clark Expedition, four volumes, which was received two years ago. Both these works are edited by the well known scientist, Mr. Elliott Coues.
Valuable Relics.
The great University of Kansas has not passed through more than twenty-five years of existence without accomplishing great results.
One has only to go on an investigating tour about the University to find many things interesting and valuable. In Prof. Backmar's room, for instance, two relics of great value are kept. These are two long tables, which it has recently been discovered, were found in one of the tombs of the ancient Mound-
builders, and which are believed to have been carved by prehistoric savages.
Their markings, indeed, could hardly have been carved by the Mound-builders. Here, on one of them, are curious heiroglyphics, Phi Kappa Psies, and Beta Theta Pies, the characters so old that they are covered with moss. There "The Relation of Popular Education to Patriotism" appears, a theme which must have been discovered by Pericles in his cradle. Here is the "Conquest of Principle", showing that this conquest took place almost at the beginning of time. We do not find, "Is Peace a Dream?" and the conclusion is evident that in ancient times there were no dreams of peace.
At another place on one of these tables, appears the cut of a large and imposing "Barb."
This shows of course that barbarians existed in pre-historic times. Hold! Our imagination immediately carries us back to the time when a wide sea of buffalo grass covered sunny Kansas, when little "Barbs" the ancestors of our present "Independents" roamed the plains unterrified.
Yonder is carved the figure of a wild looking fellow kicking a foot-ball. This simple representation is of untold value to science, as it proves beyond a doubt that foot-ball did not, as currently believed, originate in England but was more or less one of the intellectual pastimes of pre-historic men. Again, with the assistance of a well developed imagination, conclusions of the utmost importance can be drawn from this carving. The little foot-ball clearly demonstrates the existence of colleges and universities in pre-historic times.
But why attempt to describe that which is beyond description. The tables are accessible to all and are amply able to speak for themselves. R.
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Dr. Gunsaulus Coming.
It is officially announced that Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, of Chicago, will deliver the Commencement Day address at the University. The addresses which it has heretofore been customary for members of the graduating class to deliver upon similar occasions, will be dispensed with. The Senior class as well as other members of the University are to be congratulated upon this change.
Concerning Argon and Helium.
The elements, argon and helium, discovered some months ago, are probaly attracting as much if not more attention in the scientific world than the Roentgen process of photography. The way in which these elements were discovered is very interesting and shows the great accuracy of scientific experiment. Lord Rayleigh, a physicist in London for a number of years had been determining with great delicacy of measurement the specific gravities of permanent gases. In calculating the specific gravity of nitrogen, he found that the specific gravity of nitrogen taken from the air was slightly different from the specific gravity of nitrogen taken from a chemical compound. The air nitrogen was invariably a little heavier than the chemical nitrogen. The only conclusion to be drawn was that there was something in air nitrogen heavier than nitrogen itself. This was the clue that led to the discovery of argon.
As it was very hard to isolate this mysterious gas from nitrogen, Lord Rayleigh called to his aid Prof. Ramsay, a London chemist of distinction, with whom he continued the investigation.
Each scientist, however, worked separately and with a different method. Lord Rayleigh burned
up air nitrogen with a series of electric sparks, while Prof. Ramsay removed the nitrogen by passing air nitrogen over red-hot magnesium. Both found argon—a remarkably indifferent gas,194-10 times heavier than hydrogen and so far as is known will not combine chemically with any other element. It composes about one per cent of the atmosphere. Its spectrum is very beautiful, having especially distinctive lines.
Prof. Ramsay, while searching for argon in chemical compounds, discovered another element, helium. In the spectrum of the nitrogen obtained from the mineral clevite, he noticed a brilliant yellow line corresponding exactly to a line in the solar spectrum ascribed by Herschel in 1868 to a hypothetical element, helium. The discovery of an element in the sun known before it is known upon earth, illustrates very beautifully the certainty of scientific conclusions.
Helium, next to hydrogen, is the lightest gas known, produces a bright, brilliant, beautiful spectrum and requires a greater degree of cold for its liquefaction than any other element.
Prof. E. C. Franklin has prepared, in the chemical labortory, both of these elements and has tubes containing them which can be examined by any one.
McCLURE & SIMPSON,
(Successors to Riddle & Topping.
Sell the Best Goods at Lowest Prices. CLUB TRADE SOLICITED.
Telephone No.15.
923 Mass. St.
DR. W. S. BUNN, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE-Corner Warren and New Hampshire Sts. Telephone 195.WALNUT PARK PRIVATE HOSPITAL,Telephone 44.
Office Hours, 2 to 4 P. M.
CLASS PINS. CLASS MEDALS. LAPEL BUTTONS.
Engraved Visiting Cards, Monogram Papers, Wedding Invitations.
Jaccard's Kansas City
NOVELTIES IN SILVER AND GOLD. Tend for Samples and prices.
1034 MAIN STREET.
S. H. McCURDY'S
New CASH GROCERY,
937 Mass. St.
A bran new stock of groceries.
Prices as low as the lowest.
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO CLUBS.
Don't forget that... A. STORM, 918 MASS. ST..
SELLS THE
MAJESTIC STOVES and MALLEABLE ZINC BURNERS. Chancellor Snow, and Professors Sayre, Penny, Hodder, Wilcox, Cowan and others are among his recent purchasers.
Notary Public. L. S. STEELE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Abstracter of Titles, REAL ESTATE AND LOAN BROKER, LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Go to . . .
A. W. TETER & SON
For Your . .
Meats and Groceries.
They can sell cheaper to Clubs than any otler Firm in town.
Read This Letter.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.FEB. 18th, 1896.
Dear Sir:
With the progress that is being made in Fine Tailoring, as well as in other branches of art, it is found necessary in order to get Individuality into clothing to make them, as it were, on the man who is to wear them. As it is not convenient for students to come to Kansas City to try on their clothes before completion; in order to give them the benefit of a "try on," I have arranged to come to Lawrence every week for that purpose and may be found in the Gymnasium every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
I shall make it a practice to press and keep in repair clothes of our own make which will be brought to Kansas City and returned the next week, free of charge.
F. B. ROBINSON,
FINE
PAPER.
CORRESPONDENCE
824 DELEWARE ST.
"The name of the Whiting Paper Company on a Box of Stationery is a guarantee of Excellence."
WHITING'S Woven Linen is the latest triumph in the art of paper making, and is the correct paper for fashionable society use. A soft surface, pleasing to the eye and easy to write on. It is the leading spring paper, and there is no question but that all dealers will have a specdy call for these goods.
This is ONE of the Whiting papers that came in our recent shipment of new papers from the East.
TRACY LEARNARD,
710 MASS. STREET.
Pythian Hall,
635 Mass. St.
FOR PARTIES AND RECEPTIONS.
THE BEST DANCING FLOOR IN THE STATE.
Call on or Address:
CHAS. ELWELL, Trustee.
Santa Fe City Office.
SCHMELZER ARMS CO.
PECK & SNYDER ICE SKATES.
GENERAL ATHLECTIC AND SPORTING GOODS.
CATALOGUE FREE.
541 AND 543 MAIN ST., KANSAS CITY, MO.
WILLIS
WILLIS PHOTO STUDIO.
903 MASS. ST.
Wm. Wiedemann
米
Oyster Parlor.
米
Fine Confections.
HOME BAKERY,
J. H. JOHNSON, Prop.
West Warren St. - Lawrence, Kan.
Short Order Meals a Specialty. Fresh Confectionery and Cigars on hand.
A. J. ANDERSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and residence 717 Vermont St. Telephone 124.
Jones,
Everyone has has heard of the illustrious Jones family.
J.M.JONES,
706 Mass. St.
Will Save Clubs 20 per cent. in GROCERIES and MEATS. Call and see how busy he is.
DONNELLY BROTHERS,
LIVERY, FEED & HACK STABLES
Corner New Hampshire & Winthrop Sts. Telephone No.100.
SHOES NEATLY REPAIRED Good Work and Cheap.
O. F. HARSHMAN.
1017 1-2 MASS ST. (Deaf Mute.)
Second-hand Boots and Shoes bought and Sold.
TRIED AND TRUE.
TRIED AND TRUE.
First Class Repairing of DONE AT Watches and Jewelry W. M. ROWE'S. Nearly twenty year's work in Lawrence proves the fact.
EDWARD BUMGARDNER, M. D., D.D.S.
DENTIST ...
909 MASSACHUSETTS STREET.
A. L. ASHBY,
No. 914 Mass. St.
Telephone 16.
DENTIST,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
HERMAN JAESCHKE,
Nice Fresh Bread for Boarding Clubs a Specialty.
The BAKER
GOODS DELIVERED.
Thudium Bros.,
. . Fresh and Salt Meats. . .
TELEPHONE 121. 804 MASS. ST.
E. D. F. PHILLIPS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office, 745 Mass. St., upstairs.
Residence, 1301 Conn. St. Telephone, No. 82.
University
Students desiring to get instruction in Book-keeping Shorthand, Typewriting and Penmanship can be accommodated at the Lawrence Business College with out interfering with University work. Charges reasonable.
A. G. C0NRAD, Principal.
BUY YOUR Shoes
AT Mason's.
Large Assortment. Popular Prices.
NIC KUHN.
FASHIONABLE TAILOR.
WOOLF BROS.
WOOLF BROS.
LAUNDRY GO.
DE LEVY, Agent. A. McMURRY, Solicitor
GOODS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED.
Dealers in all kinds of Coal. Students' trade Solicited.
Prices as Cheap as any Place.
LAWRENCE, KS.
836 MASS. ST,
H. R. SOXMAN & CO.
NO. 842 MASS. ST.
The Cash Shoe Store
FOR
Fine Shoes and Rubbers,
AT LOW PRICES.
H. HUNZICKER.
BOLLEY
'OLIN BELL.
Western Distributing Agent for
Shaw Pianos. Western Distributing Agent for Bay State.
Russell Pianos. Washburn
Bay State Washburn
Other First Class Pianos. Schwarzer
Mandolins
and
Easy Payments if desired.
Guitars.
BEAL & GODDING
PIANOS TO RENT.
Special Prices to K. U. Students.
'OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE, Ks.
KEEP THE
Telephone 139.
POPULAR LIVERY STABLE.
TOPEKA'S BEST LUNCH AND COFFEE ROOM IS
F. A. WARREN'S Lunch and Short Order House.
~730 Kansas Avenue, Topeka Kansas.
If you want some nice sweet Butter to lubricate that dry bread, stop at
A. K. HOGE'S,
Telephone 40.
1300 Massachusetts Street.