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Vol. III.
No.16.
January 9,1897.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 9, 1897.
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Happy New Year!
BURN A little evening oil for the next two weeks and it will not be necessary to use so much of the midnight brand just before examinations.
"This is a fair as never was another," said Faust on the Brocken; which may have been true then, but would hardly be credited now by anyone who visited the rink.
OF ALL the dead poets who are grossly mistreated by college aspirants for the laurel, Edgar Allen Poe has the most cause to be disgusted, and we shall be much surprised if some of the parodists do not find him waiting for them on "yon bank" of the styx, armed with a pair of tongs and a toasting fork. The latest begins something like this: "Hear the warbling of the cats, Infant cats."
A CHEMISTRY building is the first and greatest need of the University. The work of the chemistry department can hardly be carried on at all in the present quarters, and the health of the students and professors is in constant jeopardy. It is with the young men and young women of Kansas that the University buildings are being filled to the doors, and the people of the state can not well refuse to grant that for which they themselves have created the need.
THE FACTS contained in the Report of the Board of Regents will be a revelation to many who had no idea of the actual cost per student of running the University, nor of the relative expenses of the University compared with institutions of the same rank in other states. Every student should read the Report. First in order to be informed, and second in order to inform others whose ignorance of these facts makes them indifferent to the needs of the University.
THOSE HAVING friends or relatives who will be members of the coming Legislature should induce them to spend a day in Lawrence, and become acquainted with the University and its needs. Those who are the least friendly to the University are the ones who know the least about it. A careful and intelligent examination of its affairs is all that the University needs to secure the undivided support of the members of
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the Legislature. Invite them to pay you a visit, entertain them while they are here, and have the satisfaction of knowing that you have done something to advance the interests of the institution which is doing so much for you.
It is the thing just now to make fun of New Year's resolutions. The newspapers are straining themselves to be funny on the subject. True the custom is an old one, perhaps even old fashioned, but the jokes are almost as old, and have been repeated ad nauseam. To be sure there is an abuse as well as a use of New Year's resolutions. But the custom on the whole is good, its effects are usually good, and it might well be carried out by everyone in sober earnest.
THE TOPEKA Capital is moved by the trouble in oratorical circles at Washburn to call for the abolishment of oratorical contests. The fact that every year or two somebody is caught plagiarizing seems to the editor of the Capital sufficient grounds for doing away with college oratory entirely. If this principle were carried out in all the affairs of the world; if everything which has evils connected with it were abolished, what would there be left? When an institution good in itself is found to have become somewhat corrupted the sensible thing to do is not to cry out for its destruction, but to endeavor to bring about reforms. The Capital seems to recognize the need of training in oratory for it says, "Among the statesmen of the country, orators are sadly lacking since the war." A following sentence expresses the same thought, but draws a most startling conclusion: "when experienced and disciplined men are so deficient in oratorical ability as to excite general comment how absurd college contests appear." More logical, at least, it would have been to say, "how vital is the necessity of encouraging these college contests in every way, that the next generation of statesmen may not be so sadly deficient in public speaking." But the Capital thinks that the college student is not capable of originating great ideas, and is thereby forced to plagiarize. The first part of
this statement may be true. But let a student choose some instructive subject, let him go to the masters of thought and get their opinions, let him weigh these opinions, and express his conclusions in the best language he can command; even then, though few of the thoughts be original, he will be greatly benefitted by his work, and he is in no true sense a plagiarist. The place of oratory can not be taken by debating; the orator is debater on both sides and also judge. His oration he aims to make a work of art; there is inestimable worth in this. Because a few men throw honor to the winds and attempt to take an unfair advantage in the contests is no reason for abolishing contests. There are a few who will never learn that honesty is the best policy. Certainly, however, those that have been caught plagiarizing would subscribe to the old maxim, and those who have stolen and not been caught we believe would do the same.
Beginning with this issue the WEEKLY will be sent to all the High Schools in the state. To this large body of new readers the WEEKLY wishes to introduce itself as the modest and veracious chronicler of events at the University. It hopes to make many new friends throughout the state, not for itself only but for the institution which it strives to represent.
The University extension movement seems to have been a failure. The purpose which it was designed to carry out, i.e., that larger means of culture be brought within reach of people engaged in the occupations of every day life, was in every way a worthy one, but for some reason the movement did not accomplish its work.
M. S. U. took fifth place in the State Oratorical contest. The orator who won talked on Progress, and as this is a subject which is lately attracting some little attention among Missourians, especially those living near the Kansas line where the contest took place, it was decided to give him the prize.
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Eitgragy.
A Comparison of Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound" with Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound."
We know upon the testimony of Mrs. Shelley that Shelley while engaged in the composition of "Prometheus Unbound," was a close student of the Greek tragedians and that he was, by the sublime majesty of Aeschylus, "filled with wonder and delight." He read the Greek language with ease and became deeply imbued with the Hellenic spirit as other poems than "Prometheus" attest. The character of the rebellious Titan was especially attractive to Shelley as he was himself a child of the Revolution and was forever "kicking against the goads" of custom and convention. He was pleased to regard Prometheus as a fitting symbol of that revolutionary spirit which he so much desired to see prevail in the world.
In his treatment of the subject Shelley was deeply influenced by Aeschylus, not so much in his thought as in the general literary form and spirit. There is no shadow of plagiarism, but there is visible that unconscious imitation which a great literary genius compels from those who read him. In his preface Shelley duly acknowledges this influence but expressly disclaims either the intention or desire to be Aeschylean in his effort. He intended no restoration of Aeschylus' lost drama "Prometheus Unbound" for, says Shelley,—"I was averse from a catastrophe so feeble as that of reconciling the Champion with the Oppressor of Mankind." Let us without further preface, proceed to the direct comparison of the two dramas, looking at them first from the point of view of literary form and dramatic structure, and afterward from the standpoint of dramatic materials and the moral problem toward the solution of which the action tends.
In both dramas the lyrical element abounds. This feature Shelley makes much more prominent than Aeschylus and the lyrical parts in "Prometheus Unbound" enter more intimately into the
structure of the drama than in "Prometheus Bound". Shelley has done well to call his production a lyrical drama for indeed the lyrics constitute its strongest and most beautiful parts. There is in "Prometheus Unbound" a marvelous variety of verse forms—thirty-six distinct forms in the lyrics alone. It is in this poem that Shelley has demonstrated his right to be considered one of the greatest of English lyrists. In the drama of Aeschylus there is but little variety in the verse. This fact, so far from being a defect is rather a perfection, for we must consider that the chorus in Aeschylus takes no part in the action but is simply a spectator. Its emotions are called forth as the action proceeds upon the stage and inasmuch as all the action is upon the same plane of sentiment, centering about the suffering of Prometheus and the cruelty of Zeus, we can not expect upon the part of the chorus a varied expression of emotion. Hence the verse forms are somewhat monotonous. Aeschylus has in this regard shown artistic genius.
The chorus in Aeschylus' drama is of the regular Greek type and does not depart from its usual functions. In Shelley, on the contrary, the chorus parts are sustained by a great variety of actors. The Oceanides, Panthea and Ione are the principal chorus characters but in addition to these there are choruses of spirits, echoes, fauns and fairies. Moreover, the chorus characters frequently enter into and further the action. They seem to regard themselves as vitally related to the protagonist and to regard their destiny as bound up in his. They are not mere sympathizers nor mediators. They are either his allies or as in the case of the furies, his tormentors. Note how the chorus characters help on the action; Panthea with messages from Prometheus goes in quest of Asia, her sister. She finds her waiting in a beauteous Indian vale and, having delivered the message, Panthea and Asia, together
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drawn by the echoes, start upon a journey which finally brings them to the dark abode of Demogorgon. This vehement action of the chorus characters makes possible the great variety of verse forms as the emotions of the characters vary from love to hate and joy and pity and hope and exhilaration.
Shelley's poem has the modern divisions into acts and scenes but the great lyrical parts also mark very distinct divisions in the development of the drama. The scene changes ten times during the progress of the play. The drama of Aeschylus conforms to the regular Greek type except that there is no prologue.
Coming now to the materials which enter into the two dramas, we find that Shelley has used a much larger number of characters than Aeschylus and has in every way made his drama more complex. In Shelley too, even those characters which bear similar names to the characters in Aeschylus, do not represent the same moral qualities. Aeschylus dealt with characters which to the Greek people at least were real while Shelley's characters are mere abstractions clothed in the old mythologic nomenclature. Shelley has in fact created a new myth by making ancient symbols stand for the modern conceptions generated by the French Revolution. This point will be more fully considered when we come to discuss the moral problem as it appeared to the two poets.
A striking difference is seen in the way the two poets deal with Nature. Aeschylus looks upon Nature as dead and insensate. He has not the modern romantic conception of Nature as animated and in sympathetic relation with Man. Indeed, none of the Greeks had this conception. Though the Hellenes believed themselves autochthonous they seemed to have gotten rather far from the maternal bosom. Though they peopleled the haunts of Nature with innumerable divinities of divers orders, yet they did not spiritualize Nature herself. Gods presided over Nature and were in certain natural objects yet Nature as a whole was not spiritually conceived. Shelley upon the other hand was Nature's darling child. He dwelt very near to Nature's
heart and had a nature most delicately attuned to the harmonies heard in her spacious auditorium. As we learn from "Adonais," he was pantheistic in his conception of the world. Hence the use made by him of Nature in "Prometheus Unbound." The Earth and the spirits of Nature are represented as sympathizing with Prometheus and as trying to strengthen him in his contest with Jupiter. All such conceptions are absent from Aeschylus.
Another noticeable difference is the absence of color in "Prometheus Bound" and its superabundance in "Prometheus Unbound." The former preserves a dull sombre tone throughout while the latter glows and blushes with color. Yet Shelley has not thrown in these colors merely to beautify and enliven. They serve to unify the drama. There is a gradual and definite progress in the introduction of the color-lights. As the pathway of the just "shineth more and more even unto the perfect day" so the lights in this poem increase in brilliancy through all the degrees from blackness and darkness relieved only by the sheen of "moon-freezing crystals" up to the full blaze of celestial light at the transfiguration of Asia.
But it is when we take a general view of the two dramas in respect of the moral problem, that their greatest difference appears. In order to grasp this contrast it is necessary to distinguish carefully, the ideas for which the principal characters stand in the two poems. Prometheus, the central figure, is represented by both dramatists as in antagonism with Jupiter, the ruling power; but while Aeschylus conceives the antagonism as a real one between two actual forces, Shelley represents it as a conflict between one entity—the human mind—and its own shadow. In Aeschylus Zeus represents the supreme authority of the universe while Prometheus is a symbol of the finite will in rebellion against the Law. To Shelley, upon the other hand, Jupiter is the personification of custom—the crystallization of early ages of human thought which humanity has outgrown and which it struggles to throw off. Man's emancipation from these fetters, according to Shelly,
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is to be effected not by violent revolution but by passive endurance and the mighty power of Love.
From these conceptions it will readily appear that the moral problem can not be identical for the two poets. Aeschylus labors to effect a reconciliation between the two antagonistic forces by the submission of the finite will to the supreme Law upon terms which sustain the majesty of the latter while preserving the dignity of the former. This, we may believe, he succeeded in doing, in his lost drama, "Prometheus Unbound." Shelly, on the contrary, proposes to overcome the antagonism by vaporizing one of the antagonists. Humanity is to be undeceived and made to see that it has been its own tormentor—that the enthroned tyrant of custom and law is but a fiction and that the only law of the world is Love. Shelley believed that all evil is the creation of the human will and that the creating power can also disannul. The means and process by which the human mind accomplishes its own deliverance form the content of "Prometheus Unbound." A discussion of the poem does not seem to be within the scope of this paper, inasmuch as no comparison can be instituted between it and the drama of Aeschylus.
Let a few remarks now be submitted upon the plots of the two dramas. In Aeschylus the story is very simple. The action is slight and proceeds right onward without halting to the culmination, where the drama abruptly closes. In "Prometheus Unbound," owing to the greater number of actors, the plot is more complicated. There is abundant action and some suspense. We find ourselves wondering how it will turn out. After the climax has been reached, Jupiter dethroned and Promethus loosed, the drama declines rather tediously. The sinking of the Sun is not nearly so glorious as its rising. However meritorious the latter part of the drama may be in itself, as lyrical poetry it seems to me to disfigure the production as a whole. The "living happily ever afterward" conclusion, greatly detracts from the grandeur
and sublimity of the first three acts. O, that Robert Browning might have written the latter part of "Prometheus Unbound!"
"Strive and Thrive"-cry "Speed, fight on, fare ever. There as here." C. M. SHARPE.
A Dream by the Sea.
The little waves are sobbing
In their little chapel-caverns in the cliff.
Father Tide brings them in
From their dances on the shore,
To the little chapel-caverns in the cliff.
Never failing, twice a day,
Leave the little waves their play
Hide and seek and leap frog gay;
Leave them all and to the little chapel-caverns
Come to pray.
Come to pray for the good ship
Striving with the wind,
And to weep for the lost souls
Groping in the sea;
Come the little waves sobbing
To their little chapel-caverns in the cliff.
A One-sided Quarrell and its Outcome.
The old lady sat by the west window of her tiny kitchen, the afternoon sun streaming in on her wrinkled face and reflecting in the big bowed spectacles before her keen small eyes. She held a half knit stocking in her clumsy worn hands, and the needles clicked as she at last secured the stitch which she had lost while watching to see what the grocery boy left at Mrs. Wiggins.
"There was coal-oil and starch"—she remarked to her daughter Jane, who was sprinkling the clothes. "Starch," why she got starch week before last, then those flat irons! flat irons! and her husband only makes forty dollars a month. They will die in the poor house, all of them I never owned but one flat-iron in my life. It is simply ridiculous I shall just tell her what I think of her. I wonder what she will be getting next."
The needles clicked for a few moments, then she spoke again, "Jane you just run over and borrow those two irons and we'll smooth out these clothes before dark."
LUCY VAN HOESEN.
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The Pipe Organ Fair.
For a period of some six years, the project of a Fair for the purpose of raising money for the purchase of a pipe organ for University hall has been more or less discussed. The Fair is now a thing of the past, and proved to be an event wholly successful in every way, and one which in better times would have brought in almost enough money to have paid for the organ. It will ever remain a pleasant memory in the minds of those who participated in the good time, among them being the governor-elect, four members of the board of Regents, nearly all of the professors, the prominent business men of Lawrence with their families, and a large percentage of the student body. Its success was assured last October when the young ladies' fraternities, the Y. W. C. A. and the Euterpe Society promised their assistance. An effort was then made to secure the co-operation of all University organizations, which resulted in the following selection of booths: Candy—Pi Beta Phi; Ices—Kappa Kappa Gamma; Japanese—Kappa Alpha Theta; Christmas—Euterpe Society; Oysters—Y. W. C. A.; Dispensary—Medical club; Poster show—Art club; Books—Y. M. C. A.; "Dyche" trophies—Engineering club; "X rays" —Electrical Engineers; Checking—Kent club; Contributors—Adelphic literary society; Barnums'—Athletic association; and last but not least, "Eden Musee"—Phi Kappa Psi. The ladies of the executive committee, Mrs. Chancellor Snow, Miss Blackmar, Mrs. Hodder, Miss Lynn and Miss Brown worked hard for the fair, and looked principally after its social features; of the gentlemen Mr. Clark took charge of the artistic arrangements; Mr. Moody, the finances; Mr. Whitman, the floor plan; Mr. Kenyon, the ticket selling; Mr. Davies, the interests of the schools; Mr. Harold Smith, the voting contests; while Mr. Penny acted as general manager. The work progressed with facility. The first contribution came from the young ladies' athletic entertainment so successfully carried out by Mrs. Clark at Library hall. The second came from the door receipts of the Christmas concert (a criticism of the concert appeared in our last
issue). The Fair opened on Wednesday afternoon Dec. 16th and was in full swing for three nights with ever increasing interest. On entering the rink, one was impressed with the artistic effect of the decorations, the booths and their general arrangement, the pretty costumes of the young ladies, and the excitement and gaiety everywhere apparent. It was impossible however to go very far and particularize until one had broken away from the persuasive spell of the "swell fakir" of the "Eden Musee," until he had followed the graphically pictured contents on the exterior, and had investigated the charming illusions and monstrosities on the inside. This was decidedly the most entertaining feature of the Fair. The tent was always full of people having a jolly time in spite of the persistent demand of each "freak" that you take its "photo" home with you. The athletic boys had a change of program each evening with many novel features, and the two "solicitors" kept things lively at this end of the room. In the centre was the most beautiful of the booths—that of the Pi Phis. It was an octogon in green and red festoons with beauties in white aprons always ready to serve. Then came Prof. Clark's Poster show—a well arranged display of the best, latest, and most successful posters. When this was inspected, then it was possible to properly see the great ice palace of the Kappas to which Rohe had given a decided "Montreal" flavor. The attractive oyster garden of the Y. W. C. A. underneath, the tableaux stage above, the beautiful stairway entrance to the "hall of the ices," the charming "maidens of ye olden time," the living expressions of the lemon and the orange with their red tongues, together with the little fairy, all made this booth decidedly the most original of them all. The entire corner on the right was occupied by a most delightful Japanese conception—the lattice work, decorations, the "Jap" girls. The gypsy tent with its wierd occupants made the Theta booth the prettiest attraction in the room. In the opposite corner was the dainty doll and holly display of the Euterpe girls.
Next to them, the book booth of the Y. M.
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C. A. next, the interesting arctic curiosities kindly loaned the Engineering boys, by Prof. Dyche. Opposite were displayed the many contributions from Lawrence and Kansas City merchants. Next came the Mr. Davies' drug store, the shocking water and startling X ray, of the Electrical engineers, and the turning lathe run by Mr. Ward.
Among the entertainment features were Mr. Farrell's University orchestra which discoursed excellent music; Mr. Marshall's men's chorus in some well rendered selection; Mr. Clark's realistic foot ball statuary with selections from the antique, and Mr. Buch's orchestra in an excellent program the last evening of the Fair.
Two very successful features of the Fair were the rendering of the cantata "Joan of Arc" by the Oratorio Society at the Baptist Church, and Miss Brown's tableaux at the Rink. The excellent chorus singing, the superior solo work of the young singers Miss Stanford and Miss Starr, and of the veterans, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Farrell, the ever artistic piano accompaniment of Mr. Preyer, and the excellent work at the organ by Miss Lichtenwalter, were all enjoyed by the large audience. The principal attraction at the rink on this last evening was the series of tableaux upon the subject of the cantata, "Joan of Arc," under Miss Brown's direction. In these the skillful hand of Miss Brown was seen in the posings, costuming and groupings. Mrs. Penny made an ideal "Joan", and the series gave a vivid picture of Joan's career. The fair promises to realize some $350.00 for the organ, and will enable the committee to order its construction this month.
Are Chemists Scientific ?
Before answering this question it will be necessary to decide just what is meant by scientific. If it means that all results must be stated mathematically, then chemists are not scientific; but in that case physicists, biologists, botanists are also not scientific. But a man would be very rash who would make such a statement, especially in the presence of a number of these.
It seems to me that any man who is carefully,
logically, and systematically seeking after the truth is scientific and taking it in this sense chemists are undoubtedly deserving of the title of scientists.
It is of course the aim of all sciences to be able to express their results mathematically. But Astronomy is the only one which can even approximate this, Physics comes next, Chemistry third, while Geology, Biology, and Botany can as yet scarcely do anything in this direction. There are two principal reasons for this; first, Astronomy and Physics are older than any of the rest; second, they have simpler things to deal with. But if chemists keep up their present ratio of advancement they will soon be up with the physicists for they are making very rapid progress especially along the border line between Physics and Chemistry. They have developed a satisfactory theory of solutions that explains osmatic pressure, the lowering of the freezing point, and raising of the boiling point. They have determined the molecular complexity of gases and liquids and are now searching for some method which will be applicable to solids.
The theory of the conductivity of electrolites has also been greatly advanced by chemists.
By This We Know Just Where To Go.
Tennyson could take a worthless sheet of paper, write a poem on it, and make it worth $65,000—that's genius. Vanderbilt can write a few words on a sheet of paper and make it worth $5,000,000—that's capital. The United States can take an ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp upon it an "Eagle Bird" and make it worth $20.00—that's money. A mechanic can take material worth $5 and make it into watch springs worth $1,000—that's skill. A merchant can take an article worth 75 cents and sell it for $1—that's business. A lady can purchase a 75-cent hat, but she prefers one that costs $27—that's foolishness. A ditch-digger works ten hours a day and handles several tons of earth for $1.25—that's labor. The printer of this paper could write a check for $80,000,000, but it wouldn't be worth a dime that's rough. Any one can go to C. A. Rohrer and purchase a share of KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY stock—that's common sense.
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Locals.
Oh what is more ludicrous than dignity on ice.
Oh what is more ludicrous than dignity on ice.
Miss Mildred Paulen will not return to Lawrence.
Miss Alpha Bigley is unable to return to school.
Freshman classes in Trigonometry began last Tuesday.
The Betas will give a party at their house Saturday night.
The preliminary contest will be held Friday night, Jan. 22.
Miss Maxwell spent the holidays visiting her parents in Iowa.
Several sleighing parties were out the evenings of last week.
S. S. Brown of Wichita was in Lawrence before the Holidays.
Prof. Dunlap entertained his Shakespeare class last evening.
Percy Daniels class '96 engineering, was on the hill Thursday.
Rehearsals for the production of The Rivals will begin next week.
Miss Elodie Norris of Garden City has entered the University.
Miss Etta Gildemeister will not return to Lawrence this winter.
Mr. Willard Ransom has gone to Cornell to remain the rest of this year.
Prof. and Mrs. Clark gave a Twelfth Night party last Wednesday evening.
Miss Rhoda Field spent the holidays in Herington a guest of Miss May Cooke.
Miss Agnes Thompson visited Miss Helen Metcalf in Topeka during the vacation.
Miss Louise Towne will be absent from school for two weeks on account of weak eyes.
Victor Boone and Arthur Ide visited Iowa friends and relatives during the vacation.
Miss Mildred Paulen will not return to Lawrence.
Miss Alpha Bigley is unable to return to school.
Freshman classes in Trigonometry began last Tuesday.
The Betas will give a party at their house Saturday night.
The preliminary contest will be held Friday night, Jan. 22.
Miss Maxwell spent the holidays visiting her parents in Iowa.
Several sleighing parties were out the evenings of last week.
S. S. Brown of Wichita was in Lawrence before the Holidays.
Prof. Dunlap entertained his Shakespeare class last evening.
Percy Daniels class '96 engineering, was on the hill Thursday.
Rehearsals for the production of The Rivals will begin next week.
Miss Elodie Norris of Garden City has entered the University.
Miss Etta Gildemeister will not return to Lawrence this winter.
Mr. Willard Ransom has gone to Cornell to remain the rest of this year.
Prof. and Mrs. Clark gave a Twelfth Night party last Wednesday evening.
Miss Rhoda Field spent the holidays in Herington a guest of Miss May Cooke.
Miss Agnes Thompson visited Miss Helen Metcalf in Topeka during the vacation.
Mr. Dwight Potter class '92, stopped in Lawrence last Wednesday on his way to Princeton.
Nine of the University professors attended the Teachers' Association in Topeka last week.
Miss Elsbeth Ehrsam did not return to school. She will devote the remainder of the year to music.
C. C. Brown class '96, who is teaching in the Olathe High school, spent the vacation in Lawrence.
Dr. D. E. Esterly class '90 one of the leading oculists of the West has recently located in Topeka.
Bishop Millspaugh has appointed Mr. Attwater of K. U., rector of the Episcopal church in Olathe.
Prof. Miller read a paper on Mars before the Kansas Academy of Science which met last week in Topeka.
The usual Y. M. C. A. meeting was held Thursday night at the Watkin's Block. A good meeting was reported.
Young ladies seeking missles to throw at late callers should choose bricks and clubs, not slippers and other souvenirs.
Chancellor Snow is attending a meeting of the presidents of the Western state universities now in session in Madison, Wisconsin.
Let every loyal student come out to the oratorical contest. An excellent program has been secured. Special music will be provided.
At a recent meeting of the Topeka board of education Miss Anna Banks class '95 was elected assistant principal in the Eighth Grade.
Miss Florence Branham who attended the University last year, was married Dec. 14 to Dr. J. E. Kanavel, Cripple Creek, Colorado.
H. Jay Withington '95 visited his Beta brethren and friends Monday. He is employed by a civil engineering firm in Chicago on some bridge work.
Miss Louise Towne will be absent from school for two weeks on account of weak eyes.
Victor Boone and Arthur Ide visited Iowa friends and relatives during the vacation.
Mr. Dwight Potter class '92, stopped in Lawrence last Wednesday on his way to Princeton.
Nine of the University professors attended the Teachers' Association in Topeka last week.
Miss Elsbeth Ehrsam did not return to school. She will devote the remainder of the year to music.
C. C. Brown class 196, who is teaching in the Olathe High school, spent the vacation in Lawrence.
Dr. D. E. Esterly class '90 one of the leading oculists of the West has recently located in Topeka.
Bishop Millspaugh has appointed Mr. Attwater of K. U., rector of the Episcopal church in Olathe.
Prof. Miller read a paper on Mars before the Kansas Academy of Science which met last week in Topeka.
The usual Y. M. C. A. meeting was held Thursday night at the Watkin's Block. A good meeting was reported.
Young ladies seeking missles to throw at late callers should choose bricks and clubs, not slippers and other souvenirs.
Chancellor Snow is attending a meeting of the presidents of the Western state universities now in session in Madison, Wisconsin.
Let every loyal student come out to the oratorical contest. An excellent program has been secured. Special music will be provided.
At a recent meeting of the Topeka board of education Miss Anna Banks class '95 was elected assistant principal in the Eighth Grade.
Miss Florence Branham who attended the University last year, was married Dec. 14 to Dr.J.E.Kanavel,Cripple Creek, Colorado.
H. Jay Withington '95 visited his Beta brethren and friends Monday. He is employed by a civil engineering firm in Chicago on some bridge work.
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Miss Gertrude Boughton spent the holidays in Topeka.
Mr. Michener of the Y. M. C. A. will be in Lawrence next Thursday.
Miss Della Frazer returned Tuesday from a two weeks' visit in Kansas City.
Mr. A. A. Ewart who has been very ill with typhoid fever is reported better and will soon be able to attend his classes again.
Mr. Arthur Hill, a former student and graduate of the University married Miss Hattie Cross at Neodesha, the 22nd of last month.
Miss Lingah Anderson and Professor Ness of Baltimore were united in marriage Tuesday, Dec. 19th at Morganville, Ks., the home of the bride.
The Women's League will be "at home" to all young women of the University on Saturday afternoon Jan. 16th. Place to be announced later.
The names of those who have so far signified their intentions of entering the preliminary oratorical contest are Miss Reed, Messrs. Carney, Sharpe, Gray, McMurray, Ellis.
Mr. Percy Daniels '96, visited the University Thursday. Mr. Daniels was on his way to Topeka where he hopes to obtain a position as door-keeper in the House of Representatives.
Prof. Hodder is to again give his lecture on "Early American Caricature." Those who have never heard this lecture and seen its illustrations should avail themselves of this opportunity.
An organ has been received from Farrand & Votey to be sold at the pipe organ fair. Although it came too late for the fair it is now in the treasurer's office and will be sold to the highest bidder. The highest bid so far is by George Foster $38.
The various classes which desire to participate in the series of inter-class debates must report the names of the representative before Jan. 15 so that the committee may have time to select a date for the preliminaries. Prof. Dunlap will receive the names.
Specifications have been received from every prominent organ firm in the country for the University pipe organ. It is to be an electric action, with 3 manuals detached keyboard with electric cable, so that the organ can be played from any part of the hall.
The "Walking club" for a short time at least will consider itself "snowed under." Those however who have enjoyed the first two excursions will be only too anxious to continue them and the first pleasant Saturday will see the "Walkers" out in full force again.
Mr. Russell R. Whitman '93, was, this week, chosen as one of the staff of the Kansas City Star. The department of the paper which Mr. Whitman will represent is an entirely new one and the confidence which the Star feels in Mr. Whitman's ability is to say the least very complimentary.
Profs. Carruth and Canfield attended the meeting of the Modern Language Association in St. Louis, Dec. 28th-31st. They report a very pleasant and successful meeting. Prof. Carruth was re-elected President, and Prof. Schmidt-Wertenberg, of the University of Chicago, Secretary.
Chapel Notes.
Prof. Sayre has been the leader this week Rev. Mr. Somerville, pastor of the Methodist church, will lead next week.
Dwight Potter, of the class of '92, now a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, was a visitor Tuesday morning.
The aim of Tuesday morning's talk was to show that there was a material influence of religion, an influence that could be estimated and measured. Wednesday morning's talk illustrated that by showing the great cost of penal and charitable institutions, the greater part of which could be saved by religious influence. That this is recognized more and more by religious associations and churches, resulting in wider work by them, was shown Thursday morning.
The need and power of personal work in getting religion incorporated in public life was the subject Friday.
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Notice.
The date of Murat Halstead has been changed from the 17th inst. to the week of the 25th inst.
K. U. Reunion at Topeka.
The State Teachers' Association which meets at Topeka each year contains among its members many alumni and former students of the University. Whenever such meet a reunion and general good time is in order.
At the last faculty meeting before the holidays, Profs. S. J. Hunter, S. W. Williston, and A. S. Olin were appointed a committee in charge.
On Tuesday, Kansas University Headquarters were established in the room at the southwest corner of Representative hall, where students called, registered and found location of friends in the city. About one hundred placed their names on the roll. This room was decorated with college colors and pictures of University buildings, and various University organizations.
On Wednesday evening after the lecture, a reunion of all students and friends as well as members of the faculty was held in the diningroom of the Copeland. College stories, comparisons of the past year, and a general renewal of friendship characterized the evening. Such informal gatherings, prove both pleasant and profitable. The K. U. students over the state who are teaching are prominent in educational circles and their influence is always needed for the University.
Messrs. Clock and Reed of the senior class rendered much valuable assistance in making this affair a success.
Cora M. (Cherry) Mettner.
Died Jan. 3rd. 1897.
The class of 1880 loses its third member in Cora M. (Cherry) Mettner, who died of consumption at her mother's home in Lawrence, on Sunday, January 3rd. Mrs. Mettner was born in Ohio, in 1858, and came to Lawrence at the age of fourteen. She graduated from the Lawrence High school and entered the University where she was known as a modest, light hearted and amiable young woman. She
was one of the few who disclaimed any other ambition than to be a helpmeet and housewife. She found a field for this ambition in her union with Mr.F.F.Mettner in 1884,and realized it with conscientious fidelity.She met death with the same gentleness and patience that she manifested through life.
Mrs. Mettner was a birthright member of the Friend's Society; the funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Dixon assisted by Ex-Chancellor Marvin. With her husband Mrs. Mettner leaves one son Carl. Among the floral memorials was a bouquet of pinks and roses from the class of '80.
English Literature Prize.
Among the prizes in English Literature announced last year in the English Bulletin was one of twenty dollars in books;a set of Green's "Short History of the English People," new edition, illustrated by Mrs. J. R. Green and Miss Kate Norgate. This was to be awarded to that member of the Junior or Senior class who should present the best characterization of an English author of the Victorian period in any department of letters—literary, philosophical, or scientific; the essay to be not less than 2000 words in length, typewritten, and submitted to the department of English on May 1, 1896.
At the time stated, but one manuscript was handed in, and the prize was withheld until the giver, Mr. Arthur B. Barteaux of New York, could be consulted. It has finally been decided to reopen the competition on the same terms as before, except that the manuscript already handed in is to be retained and examined with the others that may be received. The date for handing in manuscript will be May 1, 1897; and the judges as before, Chancellor F. H. Snow, Mr. B. W. Woodward, and Col. H. L. Moore.
The books offered have been received from Mr. Barteaux, and it is hardly too much to say that the set is a magnificent one. It has been carefully edited, and profusely illustrated with copies of odd antique pictures, chosen not to show the best of English art in successive periods, but rather to show the development of what
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may be termed popular illustration in successive periods. The set is in four volumes, uncut, and have been placed in Miss Watson's office at the library, where it may be examined by all interested. Some members of the faculty have expressed a desire to compete for it; but, with the exception mentioned, only members of the Junior and Senior classes will be allowed to do so. E.M.HOPKINS.
Science Notes.
Dr. Williston has completed a restoration of a Pterodactyl.
Prof. Barber is preparing a paper containing the results of his observation on the relations of parasitic insects to plants.
Chancellor Snow delivered a lecture on December 31 before the Territorial Teachers' Association which met at Oklahoma City.
The Botanical department has added to its collection of plants a number of specimens from the universities of Harvard and Cornell.
The students of K. U. will be glad to hear of Dr. Williston's election as president of the Kansas Academy of Science for the ensuing year.
W. D. Hunter, the assistant of the eminent entomologist Bruner, of Nebraska University, spent several days at the beginning of the holidays studying our collection of Syrphidae.
The Entomological department received during the past week, a splendid collection of beetles from George A. Ehrman, of Pittsburg, Pa., and a number of rare specimens of Lepidoptera from Mr. Engel of the same city.
The Kansas Academy of Science met in Topeka on December 31. Among those present from K. U. were S. W. Williston, who spoke on "The Pleistocene Deposits of Kansas;" W. C. Stevens, who presented a paper on "The Fertilization of Asclepias Cornuti;" E. H. S. Bailey, on "Kansas Mineral Waters;" L. E. Sayre, on "The Utilization of a Common Weed;" E. Miller, on "Mars and his Moons;" S. J. Hunter, on "Injurious Insects;" H. P. Cady, on "Experiments with Liquid Ammonia;" W. M. Whitten, on "Rocks used in the Manufacture of Cement Plaster."
Fine Arts.
Miss Clara Trout has again taken up her piano work.
Miss Pampel will conduct the Seminary next Wednesday.
The next afternoon recital will be given Jan. 20th instead of Jan 13th.
Miss Lichtenwalter has returned from Toledo, Ohio, where she spent part of her vacation.
Miss Mollie Madden who studied voice with Prof. Farrell in 1894 has returned for further study.
The next lecture in Aesthetics on Fine Arts will be on Japanese Art by Prof. Clark, next Wednesday.
The students were happily surprised on their return to find the office room at Music School furnished anew through the kindness of Miss Frederickson.
During the vacation Prof. Preyer and family went to Leavenworth; Prof. Penny attended the Teachers' Association at Topeka; and Prof. Farrell spent part of his time in Leavenworth.
Buy your stationery of Keeler.
C. W. Straffon, the druggist, is sole agent for the Harwood Guitars and Mandolins.
GREAT
Reduction Sale
- - ON -
Overcoats
- - AND -
Ulsters
- - AT -
BROMELSICK'S.
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Library Notes.
The library was open every day during the holidays, except Christmas and New Year's day.
Thirteen daily and ninety-five weekly Kansas papers, and about 275 magazines are regularly received and placed where the students can have access to them.
Miss Watson spent the two weeks' vacation with her sister in Chicago. She visited, while in that city, the museum recently opened at the Newberry library, showing a very interesting collection of early books, manuscripts and incunabula.
The library is indebted to Miss Kate Stephens, of New York, for nine books in the Eclectic English Classics series, edited by Miss Stephens and published by the American Book company. Miss Stephens is an honored alumna of this institution. A bright article in the January number of the Bookman is signed by her name.
Chemical Notes.
Prof. Franklin spent a portion of the vacation in Colorado examining some of the mines and smelters of that state.
Quite a good deal of work was done by various members of the department during the vacation. Prof. Bailey and Mr. Whitten analyzed a number of samples of gypsum,Mr. Davies worked on water analysis,Mr.Palmer on hard cider,and Mr.Cady on nitrogen iodide.
Overcoats.
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We are closing out the finest line of overcoats ever brought to this city.
M. J. SKOFSTAD,
THE AMERICAN GLOTHIER.
824 MASS. ST.
Call on Keeler for stationery.
A full line of tablets and stationery is on sale at Tracy Learnard's.
It will pay you to see Straffon for anything in the music line.
Call and see the fine line of pictures which Tracy Learnard is now showing.
Go to Tracy Learnard's for School Supplies. Well selected stock. Low prices. 710 Mass., street.
Give your typewriting work to C. E. Rose, 716 Miss. street.
American Club skates for ladies and gentlemen in all sizes and kinds, full stock on hand. Padlock Hardware Store, Chas. Achning, 822 Mass. St.
The Misses Edmondson are making a sweeping reduction on all their millinery. (Over Faxons.)
J. B. Shearer & Co. are offering any cape in their Store at just one half former price, what more can you ask, better come quick for choice and size. They are Leaders in Price for all kinds of desirable goods, give them a call.
Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
The Best Place to buy Handkerchiefs Gloves—Fancy Articles, Silk Dress Goods and Coats is at INNES'.
MANDOLIN AND GUITAR.
I have had 17 years of experience in teaching Mandolin, Guitar and Banjo, and when you come to me for instructious, you have the satisfaction of knowing you are receiving the best, and that you are not being experimented with. My Studio it at
829 Mass. Street (up=stairs).
R. S. SAUNDERS.
Passon's Bazaar.
DEALER IN
Toys, Notions, Queensware, Glassware Tinware and Household goods.
732 Massachusetts Street.
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Cough Tablets, all kinds, at Leis Drug Co's. LaVelle's Dentone for cleaning the teeth and hardening the gums, at Leis Drug Co's.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students with coal and wood at the lowest prices. Offices: 1007 Mass. Street. and West of National Bank.
Go to Jaedicke's for skates. New line of skates just received at Jaedicke's. Stop at the University Barber Shop for a first class shave, hair cut, etc.
Barney & Berry skates for sale at Jaedicke's. Jackson's Steam Laundry, Kansas City, Mo If you send your work to us it will be returned to you Friday, in season for the entertainments.
ALVAH SOUDER,
OREAD PLACE, Agent.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students the coal and wood at the lowest prices. All kinds of fine stationery at 710 Mass., st. Buy your Teas and Coffees of W. S. Everett, the only Tea and Coffee house in the city. 745 Massachusetts st.
K. S. U. Bouquet,
The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume on the market.
For sale only at
Barber Bros., Drug Store.
The Smith News Co. is headquarters for athletic supplies.
Typewriting, W. F. Laycock, 1032 Vt. st. Copying on typewriter, W. F. Laycock. Go to Smith's News Stand for your canes, late periodicals, etc.
Examination and consultation free by the
OSTEOPATHS
Every afternoon in their new quarters, corner of Warren and New Hampshire.
BIGSBY AND BECHTEL.
Buy Your Rubbers
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ALSO YOUR SHOES.
Lawrence Cash Grocery, Corner Kentucky and Lee Streets. Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fresh and Salt Meats ORDERS SOLICITED, PROMPT DELIVERY. J. E. DAVID, Prop.
The Copetand,
Ninth Street and Kansas Avenue. TOPEKA KANS., J. C. Gordon, Owner and Proprietor.
Winship Teachers Agency (New England Bureau of Education) 3rd. Somerset St. Boston. Oldest, and most reliable in New England. One fee registers in both offices H.C, FELLOW, Western Manager. TOPEKA, KANS.,
E.J.LANDER,
Bakery.
Call on him at 719 Massachusetts Street.
A. REINISCH.
Kansas Bakery,
RERTAURANT, BAKERY AND LUNCH COUNTER. 818 Mass. Street.
FULL LINE OF UNIVERSITY TEXT-BOOKS JUST IN. The University Book Store,
L. M. GIBB, Proprietor.
The Coonrod & Smith Business Colleges
Are the best. Four schools under one management; Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., Atchison and Lawrence, Kansas. Courses of study practical. Instruction thorough. Joint system of business practice. Rates reasonable. Students enter at any time. Write for catalogue containing full information. Address either school or I. C. STEVENSON, Principal, LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
LAWRENCE GAS CO.
Will supply students with COKE at reasonable rates.
EAST HENRY STREET.
STUDENTS!
Twenty per cent less on all heavy suits and overcoats for 30 days only.
744 MASS. ST. ROBINSON & SPALDING One Price Clothiers.
MODEL MEAT MARKET. Doleshal Bros.. DEALERS IN
FRESH AND SALT MEATS. Poultry, Fish, Game and Oysters.
CLUB TRADE SOLICITED. 718 Mass. St.
OTTAWA STEAM LAUNDRY.
Excellent Workmanship. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
C. A. BURNEY, Agent.
JONES & MULLANY Dealers in
FRESH AND SALT MEATS.
826 Mass. Street. Telephone 63.
McCURDY BROS., GROCERS. Staple and fancy Groceries. CLUB TRADE SOLICITED.
933 Mass. Street. Telephone 65.
Go to the Old Reliable
STUDENTS' SHOEMAKER JAS. E. EDMONDSON, 915 Mass. St.
Point YOUR ORDERS FOR
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Schmelzer Arms Co.
The largest and cheapest Sporting Goods House in the West. 710-712 and 714 Main Street,
KANSAS CITY, MO.
CULVER'S
...CASH GROCERY,
639
MASS. ST.
The Club Grocery of the City. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY WAY.
TELEPHONE 77.
WILLIS'
PHOTO STUDIO,
933 MASS. ST.
Wm. Wiedemann
Oyster Parlor.
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Fine Confections.
The Wilder Bros. Shirt Co.
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SHIRT MAKERS
----AND----
GENT'S FURNISHING.
Rules for self measurement and samples sent on application. All measures registered. Our laundry work is not surpassed in the West.
SIMPSON & KELLEY,
University Solicitors.
1027 MASS, STREET.
MORRIS THE PHOTO ARTIST.
EVERYTHING THE LATEST SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS 829 MASS. STREET.
★STAR BAKERY,★
HENRY GERHARD & BRO., PROP'S. WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF UNIVERSITY PEOPLE. . .
Suits $18.00
That knock the shine off of anything else that ever shone in Lawrence at Mc Connell's.
SHOES NEATLY REPAIRED. Good Work and Cheap.
O. F. HARSHMAN.
1017 $ \frac {1} {2} $ Mass. St. (Deaf Mute. SECOND HAND BOOTS AND SHOES BOUGHT AND SOLD.
GRISS EPLEY
Has the best Restaurant in the city. Students give him a call.
R. B. WAGSTAFF,
DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries.
CLUB TRADE A SPCIALTY.
947 Mass. Street. Telephone 25.
C. L. EDWARDS,
INSURANCE AGENT
ALL KINDS OF COAL. WARREN ST., 2D DOOR WEST OF MASS. ST.
CHAS. HESS,
MEAT MARKET.
Choice Fresh and Salt Meats Always on hand 941 MASS. ST.
Telephone 14...
DONNELLY BROTHERS.
LIVERY, FEED & HACK STABLES
Corner New Hampshire & Winthrop Sts. Telephone No.100.
THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE
Gives better results than any other American Company.
J. R. GRIGGS, Agent,
Lawrence. Kansas.
HOME BAKERY,
J. H. JOHNSON, Prop.
West Warren St., LAWRENCE, Kan Short Order Meals a Specialty. Fresh Confectionery and Cigars on hand.
SEE ROBERTSON BROS.
For anything in the line of furniture. Odd pieces a specialty, also practical Undertakers and Embalmers.
808 AND 810 MASS. ST.
ABE LEVY AGENT.
MIDWINTER SALE.
Caps, Gloves ...and... Overcoats.
at ABE LEVY'S.
WOOLF BROS. LAUNDRY GO.
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BEAL & GODDING
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McClure & Simpson. OUR AIM: The Best Quality at Cheapest Prices
Special attention to club trade.
1023 MASS. ST. TELEPHONE 15.
ZUTTERMEISTER'S OYSTER PARLOR.
For fine confections and home made candies give him a trial.
VOL. I. B. II. III. IV. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. Y. Z.
'OLIN BELL,
Shaw Pianos, Bay State Russell Pianos, Washburn
Western Distributing Agent for
Other First Class Pianos. Schwarzer
PIANOS TO RENT.
Easy Payments if desired.
Mandolins and Guitars.
Special Prices to K. U. Students. OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE, Ks.
CONSOLIDATED BARB WIRE CO.
PLAIN WIRE, BARB WIRE.
WIRE NAILS, BALE TIES,
LAWRENCE. KAS.
CULBERTSON & THOBURN.
OFFICE: Basement of Merchants Nat'l Bank.
COAL AND WOOD.
GIVE US A CALL OR TELEPHONE NO. 84.
NIC KUHN,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
PRICES AS CHEAP AS ANY PLACE. Corner Warren and Mass. St., Over Wagstaff.
Hollingberry & Son.
THE PRACTICAL TAILORS
Can dress you in the Best Materials and most approved style for the least cost.
841 Massachusetts St.
AP ASTRA PER ASPERA
Vol. III.
No.17.
January 16, 1897.
The Kansas University WEEKLY.
The only official and authorized weekly publication at the University of Kansas.
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Office: Merchants Bank Building. First Floor.
Telephone 195. Lawrence, Kansas.
F. D. MORSE, M. D.
Residence, 1041 Tenn. Street.
Office, over Woodward's Drug Store.
PROF. SAMUELS,
The Great Occulist.
606 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas. Persons having trouble with their eyes will do well to consult him.
A. W. CLARK, M. D., (Harvard '84.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence 1224 Tennessee Street. Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
E. D. F. PHILLIPS, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office 745 Mass street. Telephone No.82.
Residence 1301 Conn. street.
A. J. ANDERSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and residence 717 Vermont St. Tele.124.
C. E. ESTERLY,
DENTIST.
Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
EDWARD BUMGARDNER, M. D., D. D. S.
DENTIST 809 MASSACHUSETTS STREET
809 MASSACHUSETTS STREET.
HAROLD McCRORY, D. D. S., SURGEON DENTIST.
Office over Faxon's Shoe Store.
WHEN IN KANSAS CITY
Stop at the St. George European Hotel. Connected with J. A. Staley's Restaurant.
STEAM HEAT. 932 MAIN ST. POPULAR PRICES.
New and Second Hand Goods.
C. J. Ericksen,
Tables, Chairs, etc. to rent for parties.
Give him a call.
DAVIES,
THE STUDENTS TAILOR.
A full line of fall suitings just received. Call and see him before investing. At the old stand.
CUT FLOWERS, PLANTS SPECIAL PRICES TO K. U. BOYS BIRD & GIMLER,
FLORISTS., 1112 MAIN ST., KAN. CITY With STRAUSS-LIPSIS MILLINERY CO. TELEPHONE 2396.
WATKINS NATIONAL BANK.
Capital, $150,000. Surplus, 15,000.
A general banking business transacted. Exchange on all principal cities of the world. = DIRECTORS: - -
J. B. WATKINS, President,
C. A. HILL, Vice President,
PAUL R. BROOKS, Cashier.
W. E. HAZEN, Asst. Cashier.
JACOB HOUSE,
J. L. JONES,
ALBERT HERNING.
SILVER
Accard's
Novelties
25 cts. to $5.00. KansasCity
Kansas City
RICH JEWELRY, DIAMONDS SOLID SILVER. 100 Engraved visiting Cards and Plate only $1.50.
KANSAS CITY, - - MISSOURI.
LAWRENCE NATIONAL BANK UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY,
CAPITAL, $100,000.
Does a general banking business and issues bills of exchange on all the principal cities of Europe.
J. D. BOWERSOCK, R. W. SPARR,
President. Vice President.
WALTER L. HOWE, H. E. BENSON,
Cashier. 2nd Vice President.
::: DIRECTORS. :::
J. D. BOWERSOCK, R. W. SPARR, F. W. BARTELDES,
H. L. MOORE F.A.BAILEY, H.S.HALL,
J. H. GLATHART, A. HENLEY, W. R. WILLIAMS.
The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 16, 1897.
Editor-in-Chief.
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH,
Literary Editor:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA GATTRELL LYNN, SYDNEY PRENTICE,
PROF. E.M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Associates:
PERCY PARROTT, - - - - Snow Hall.
L. HEIL, - - - Exchanges
DAISY STARR, - - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - Law and Social.
WILL McMURRAY, - - Athletics.
E. C. ALDER,
H. P. CADY,
JOE SMITH.
No 17.
Managing Editor. W.C. CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, Charles A. Wagner or the secretary, Percy J. Parrott. Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance. Address all business communications to W.C. Clock, Lawrence, Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
IN ANOTHER column we print a list of alumni who were present at the University reunion held in Topeka at the time of the meeting of the State Teachers' Association. The number of the University faculty present at the meeting was however comparatively small. Perhaps the reunion was not well advertised. It is always a pleasant affair and would be much more so if a larger number from the University could make it a point to attend.
A SCHOLARSHIP in an Eastern university usually means the cancelling of charges for tuition. Kansas University offers such a scholarship to every student in the state.
SLOWLY but surely the metric system is gaining ground in the United States. It is a pity that a system which has so many advantages over all others cannot be more quickly adopted; but like every other improvement or new idea it has to take its place in the struggle for existence and fight for every foot of ground which it gains.
WE ARE glad to notice that the usual talk about drawing out of the state oratorical association has not been indulged in this year. The number and ability of the students who have entered the local contest is an effectual rebuke to those who would do away with even the small opportunity and incentive now offered for the development of talent in oratory.
Did you see that sun-rise the other morning, you who have eight o'clock classes? And did you really look at it, and drink it in, and feel the inspiration of it, or did you just give it a glance as you raised your eyes to the clock in the Physics building? Would that we might forget the clock once in a while, and the classes, and studies, and everything but the sun-rise, the beauty, the glory, the blessing in it! But so many of us are blind.
It is an old saying that anything which depends for its support on the students of Kansas University might as well commit suicide. Like most old sayings this one is only partially true, and yet how seldom it is that we see the students entering heartily and as a body into any one thing, though it may be recognized as for the common good. Until we get into the hab-
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it of doing this we need not expect to have any college spirit. Why not turn out to the coming oratorical contest and rouse things up a little? The program is unusually good; the association is slightly in debt and needs help; the orator who wins needs to feel that the students are back of him. Let's turn out and be enthusiastic for once.
THE NEW catalogues of Harvard and Yale Universities contain some interesting figures. Harvard has 3,674 students in all departments, a gain of seventy-four over last year. Yale has 2,495 as the total enrollment, which is eighty more than were in attendance at that university last year. The Yale faculty seems to be growing more rapidly than the student body, as there were thirty-seven new instructors elected during the past twelve months, about half as many as the total increase in students. This suggests the fact that in Kansas University just the opposite condition exists. The number of students is increasing much faster than the number of instructors. Sometimes the work suffers in consequence of the overcrowded classes, but usually such classes are divided, and the professor, perhaps already overworked, is compelled to put in another hour every day.
THE HIGH schools of the state have made noticeable improvement in many directions during the past three years. Not only has the character of the work done in these schools been improved in many instances, but a spirit of progress has manifested itself in other ways. One of these is the increase in the number of inter-high school affairs of various sorts, such as athletic games, debates, and oratorical contests. Almost anything of this kind which will bring the high schools into better acquaintance with each other, and broaden the interest of each in the others is to be encouraged. Another sign of progress is the steadily increasing number of high school papers. Every high school which is situated in a town of medium size can afford to have a paper of some kind. It takes energy and enterprise to run a good paper even if it is
a small one, and many young men are receiving valuable training in this direction.
As the University advances the high school must advance also. The young men and young women which they send out each year must be a little better equipped than those sent out in the years before, they must be a little better prepared to perform successfully the work of practical life or the higher educational work in the University. This fact seems to be generally recognized. Progress is the order of the day, and the next few years are to be filled with the realization of large hopes.
Two or three Kansas newspapers have lately formed an alliance for the extermination of "fakes and jim crows." Most newspaper editors are now engaged with larger game such as Turks and Spaniards, but these two or three not being jingoes are compelled to uncork their pugnacity in some other way. But let the jim crows be annihilated; we don't care. It is evident at the start, however, that these iconoclastic sportsmen wouldn't know a jim crow from the American eagle for they seem to have the idea that college papers are jim crows. They say that advertising in college papers—in fact in anything but their own columns—doesn't pay; that the merchants are burdened with the support of a lot of useless sheets which do them no good. Whatever may be the conditions in other college towns, in Lawrence there are a thousand students who spend their money with Lawrence merchants. Practically all of these are either subscribers to or readers of the Weekly. If any advertising pays why not advertising in the Weekly? When there were three or four University papers the merchants had a right to feel burdened; but they do not feel so now. The Weekly carries the "ads" of the best business men in town; it is conducted on purely business principles and if the competition is too sharp for our contemporaries let their grave-stones be erected.
CHARLES F. THWING aptly says that a university is a mother of men rather than a nurse of scientists.
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Elibraqy.
The Incident in Short Story.
A ramble through chaos, (with apologies for some slight digressions.)
When I take down my 'Easop' it is only to read the fable, to me the application is tiresome and profitless. But a philosopher might enjoy the fable as much as I, though he propounded for hours upon the moral and went into the "ologies" to find a lengthy discourse in which to wrap it. Now, my dear moralizer, why did you enjoy so much the characters and their doings in this simple fable? Ah! In reading the story there are chances of discovery that are pleasant. To find a good thing that is new is more exciting and more pleasant (yes, and more of an achievement) than a mere re-discovery of a good thing that has been known to be good or truthful for generations. Therein lies the secret. The story which embraces the incidents, the motives, and the actors are new or newly applied; but the moral or the application is—well, there is seldom but one way of telling the truth, the whole etc. and that is the only way, the oldest way.
I think that I have mentioned the 'story' as containing, the incidents, motives, and characters. Allow me, if you please, to reverse this order. Naming first the characters and motives and the incident last. There is also another feature ever present, and which varied, changes the whole plot. This feature is the 'scene.' On it depend the characters, motives, and actions. Take any plot of a novel, short story or drama and change the scene of action and you have new men and women with new or changed motives and impulses, changed by language, customs and environment. Transpose the feelings that move the hero or heroine of a plot whose scene is among the (four-hundred) of New York city, into the breasts of a man or maid among the southern 'crackers' in the mountains of Georgia; touch the spring of action and lo what do we have? A new story. Here we give
up the mystery of the inexhaustible supply of plots among the modern short story writers. "There is nothing new under the sun;" said Solomon; but if he had lived till now he would not only have been 4500 years old,but he would know that at least some things have not shown all of their many changes to the sun.
Then laying aside the novel, I shall deal only with the incident in the short story. Though the novel, of which there are so many kinds in this age of books, would furnish an inexhaustible field for the subject of incident. I remember one especially in which the only incidents recorded in the whole fifteen chapters were the fits of profuse weeping by both the hero and heroine—it was truly an admirable book of lamentations.
When the short story finally came to stay it went through all the stages and changes that its older brother (or is it parent?) the novel had gone through. Its first timid venture into the field of fiction was in the disguise of the serial story. The timid serial pleased the public, made eager about that time by the publication of the 'Pickwick Papers,' and it proved a 'phenom.' The first publishers and authors seeing its success, improved the opportunity rather more than the stories, and at once began an extensive manufacture of these insults to the art of literature.' Serials have by popular demand become gradually shorter and shorter. Yet, (not forgetting that some of our best fiction has appeared first in this form) many of these lengthy "continued in our next" legends are yet written and published by magazines, 'grewsome monuments to human imbecility.' The short story that evolved from these stupendous piles of manuscripts are many, in kind and degree. In these the incidents, often without reason and but slightly connected, are the main material; and entertainment is therefore their chief purpose. Among this class falls some of our best short stories such as Hop Smith's Sea
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stories, and Harte's Western tales. Pure description without emotion or motive they are; and with a liberal allowance of pictures the most cultured of us sometimes read them, with all of a child's enjoyment. The finest productions from the camera will not portray dramatic action like the oil upon the canvass; and so it is with the mere descriptive story; a master must ply the brush or the story takes on the tone of mere newspaper hash.
Neck and neck with this class of stories, tales of adventure and misadventure, under the wire of incident comes the short romance and love story. "And their name is" more than "legion." Here we find a market for perpetual trade in the emotions. Ah! This drowsiness of love. Ah! This enchantment! The enchantment of hate. Fellow feelings that bind the sensitive souls of men to romance. Enough. Here is motive. The author has but to create his characters and the scene and action will follow as long as writers possess insight, imagination and the faculty of story-telling.
Although at this decade of the century the historical in the novel is an out-worn anachronism yet in the short story it holds an important place, a sacred seat as it were-though like King Lear this doesn't keep it from being fouly dealt with sometimes. In the historical story, incident alone is the secret charm of the narrative. History gives to it the enchantment of the babble of truth. Historical personages may lead the parade but their characters depend upon Action, who rides, covered by the cloak of probability.
Omitting for awhile the story which portrays customs, real life and character. A story in which incident of times stands in a frame of the author's making, as 'result;' or in which incident, character and enviroment are twined together into 'cause'and 'result' until they are inseparable—a good story—. Debarring these I say there remains the short story of purpose.
This is a creature born into the world to work its readers. There are some people yet in the world of literature who accept as valid the old superstition that 'problem novels' are readable. Well there are 'problem short stories'
and sensible persons will tell you that they possess at least one virtue that the 'problem novel' does not. They are short. The only people who get pleasure out of such a class of poorly masked "anarchy," "socialism," or "political economy," are giddy young people who know trouble only at second hand and to have some new kind of emotion must devour disagreeable literature to get it. In such a class of stories the incidents are always insignificant in their ability to entertain or interest the reader, or the pitiable tool of some overdrawn logic which its author has tried in vain to veil. For in many cases the trick is transparent, the veneering too thin and the opposite result is obtained.
As an antidote for the effect of the above named style of short story, I would prescribe a few stories or sketches of modern Scotch life. In these the action is slight, but is so blended with ideal character studies and homely virtues that the three seem one; and a sweet and romantic sentiment is established.
After the romantic story comes the realistic for entertainment, and in advance of it for good wholesome instruction. This style of story telling requires of its author, (a slight store of which the reader must also have) some insight into human nature, and the workings of the heart and mind; and though the imagination is little required a slight touch of it will do no harm to the writer. If the characters and incidents are well developed, the story if it attempts no moral tussle with social sins, may ever be dull without profundity or didactic without discernment and yet be what some day will be classic. You laugh! Pray why not classic? We moderns are clever enough and as long as we limit ourselves to cleverness no one need laugh nor yawn.
With the realistic story, however, there is one danger, (often passed unnoticed in the romantic story) the events as well as the characters are liable to be overdrawn or far-fetched. A hackneyed complaint no doubt, but is there ever more cause for it than now? The triumph of the short story is at, or nearing, its height. Triumphs that are as exhilarating and evanescent as a glass of champagne, but its sober moments
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will be like the recovery from a debauch. Modern invention and progress has put the world of events at the author's disposal and we daily see the abuse of this privilege. Shall the short story mean degredation and ruin for our literature? No. For good literature will live; though a certain class of people has sprung up amongst us (or is it a mania that has attacked every one) whom you might talk to an entire evening without imagining that they had read a book until they term some of the newest books, not over six months out as "old fossils."
Another trait that the short story has fostered in the manner of scene and events is the spirit of the occult. The minds of the present generation of readers seem to be bewitched to a deep and very precocious passion for mediaevel and black letter literature and occult philosophy. These states of affairs are not new by any means, but the great demand has exceeded the supply and as a result the story writers have met this call with imitations. Unlike the old mystic tales, these new ones have a latter way of doing business. The imagination is not taken by assault but merely cheated.
The great demand for light reading has also brought into prominence a fault that has existed for years. It has caused every striking or otherwise interesting event to be taken as a foundation for a story. The true author forms his plot (or should appear to do so) by placing his characters and scene and causing the plot to seem to unfold itself naturally. But in many of the stories of to day (and yesterday also, for that matter) events and incidents stand pointing like finger-boards towards one main point or climax. So much machine work towards an end often cause the author to make the mistake of assigning inadequate causes to important results. The end of the story may however be an open secret which does not dull the edge of a delightful reader's relish.
In ending allow me to state that there is a class of modern writers who prefer that the richness of their culture should be judged by the perfection of their style rather than by their wealth of literary allusions and the scope of their
insight or imagination. For them the present is a struggle along a fine line of righteous but narrow conditions. Their fate rests on tomorrow; but the story, and the short story especially, is the life of the present embodiment of fiction, and probably literature. And, as long as necessity does not drive its author to lower depths there to soil him, and render itself powerless to produce the finer shades, it will live. It may be realistic in its incidents and sentiments without becoming vulgar or unwholesome in tone or it may stretch the cords of truth to give us surprises cleverly managed; but beyond these it must not go. The sentiment may suffer (and has) and become tainted, but let the action, the life of the story, become indecent and the story will at once be branded as 'trash.' We say the novel appeals to all classes. Does the short story? It does; but there are different kinds of novels and different kinds of short stories. When you are taught fiction as you are taught mathematics and languages, bad fiction will have no attraction for you.
ROBT. E. EVERETT.
Over the Wave.
Over the wide wave wearily winging The wee bird came;
Bearing nor plume nor note of singing,
Nor even a name.
Yet from the sky was the black fear driven,
Despair from the wave.
Hearts beat again with the new hope given,
Laughed at the grave.
Hope came the wee bird wearily bringing Over the wave. —N.N.T.
At one of our state institutions of learning the college paper uses such jokes as these, and the editor still lives to do more:
Sunday School Teacher—"What does A. D. mean?"
Pupil一“I don't know, but I guess it means after dinner."
Teacher.—"What was the Spanish Armada?"
Student.—"It was a big ship seven miles wide and thirty miles long."
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Locals.
Prof. O'Leary has resumed his work.
W. W. Reno went to Ottawa Tuesday.
Mr. Lon Silver has returned to school.
Mr. Blackshire has returned to school.
Mr. Waltmire was on the hill Tuesday.
Miss Lynn went to Kansas City Friday.
C. L. Fay will return to school next term.
Alvin Gates returned to school Wednesday morning.
H. E. Steele returned to school Wednesday morning.
Prof. F. N. Hair, of Baldwin, was in the city Tuesday.
Miss Edith Davis spent Sunday at her home in Topeka.
Why didn't the Juniors give their party in Library Hall?
Miss Rhea Woodman of Wichita has entered the University.
Harry Seckler of Leavenworth will return to school this term.
A subscription party was given in Johnson's hall Friday Eve.
There is to be a young lady in the Oratorical contest this year.
Miss Edith Clarke went to Topeka to attend the Inauguration.
Miss Rogers went to Topeka Monday as a guest of Gov. Leedy.
Carter Wilder of K. C. Mo. was a visitor on the hill Thursday.
The Lorelei quartette will sing at the Oratorical contest Friday night.
The Junior class gave an informal party in Music Hall last evening.
Miss Clara Lynn visited Miss Francis Moon in Topeka over last Sunday.
Miss Ella Anderson has returned to school after an absence of nearly two months.
Mr. Pike Caughey of Iowa will visit his cousin Harold W. Smith this week.
Chancellor Snow lectured Tuesday night at De Soto on the "Wonders of the Yosemite."
Mr. Harley of the Lawyer has just returned from a four weeks' vacation spent in the West.
Mr. Moulton has been appointed guide. He fills the vacancy caused by Mr. Bright's promotion.
Mr. Jno. Watson a new cadet at West Point will soon enjoy a two months furlough in the West.
Charley Katherman was absent from school this week on account of a severely sprained ankle.
Prof. Templin lectured Tuesday evening before the Medical society. Hypnotism was the subject.
The Young Woman's Christian Association will hold the annual election on Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Mr. Walter Hammons, of Iowa State University, spent Sunday in the city, a guest of Mr. Crooks.
Miss Blakley who spent the holidays in Junction City, returned to the university Wednesday.
Mrs. Dale, who has been in Lawrence visiting her daughters returned to her home in Belleville last week.
Miss Alpha Bigley returned to Lawrence last week but was taken quite ill and has again left for her home.
F. J. Weilep, whose father is quite prominent in legislative matters of the state, has entered the Law school.
Mr. Bert Potter, the famous Northwestern half-back stopped off in Lawrence last week on his way to Evanston.
Last Monday evening Mr. Netherton enter-
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tained a number of his friends at a photographic dark room social.
Miss Ruth Whitman has been unable to attend classes this week on account of sickness.
The Greek Symposium met on Thursday, Jan. 14, Prof. Wilcox lectured on Excavations at Mycene.
Miss Helen Perry class'96, who has been visiting in Lawrence left last Monday for California where she will spend the winter.
Among thirty West Point Cadets who were "plucked" at the recent examination two were from Kansas and two from Missouri.
Mr. Anderson A. Ewart, who is sick at his home in Kansas City is said to be improving slowly, it is not known whether he will return.
The first rehearsal of the grand production of The Rivals was held Wednesday night. This play will be one of the great social events of the season.
U. S. Guyer will not return to school this coming term. While at home last vacation his father was killed and his presence at home is now required.
Last Monday, a number of the students of the Latin department met to form a "Latin Society." They mean to publish a paper, the only one of its kind in the West.
The committee on schedule for the coming school term has about completed its work. The committee consists of Prof. Engle, chairman, Prof. Templin, and Prof. H. B. Newson.
Those wishing a picture of "Harrison's Head Quarters" or of Mr. Hugh Cameron as he unceremoniously ordered the Walking Club off his premises can obtain it of A. S. Stewart.
The Oratorical contest occurs next Friday night, and promises to be a very interesting affair, as the talent which has entered is good. A good musical program will be interspersed.
A pamphlet edited by Prof. E. M. Hopkins on Suggestions for the Teaching of English Classics in the High Schools, has just been published and is now being distributed to all the various High Schools throughout the state.
The map, which is now being made under the supervision of the Walking Club committee, will soon be completed and the Walkers will have the opportunity of proving their ability as explorers in re-discovering old historical points and finding new ones.
For those students wishing to make up any Latin work and those desiring to review Caesar, Cicero and Virgil, a class will be organized next term by Professor Holmes, to meet probably at 5 o'clock. Advantage should be taken of this opportunity.
Although quite a number of the university professors and students received the invitation of Mr. Hugh Cameron, published in the Journal, Saturday Jan. 9, to join him in his walk to Topeka: owing to the inclementy of the weather and church duties few were able to respond. The invitation was a kind one however, and although unable to accompany him, the Walking Club hopes that his trip proved a pleasant one.
The heads of the eleven north-central State Universities held a meeting at Madison, Wis., for the purpose of talking over State University matters. A very succesful and profitable session was held. A committee was appointed to consider the question of foot-ball as now played,consisting of Chancellor Snow, President Draper, and President Adams. The universities represented were Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin Illinois, Michigan, Ohio.
Mr. Hall Riddle, assistant in Mathematics at the university of Minnesota, was severely injured last Saturday evening in a collision between a train and a street-car. His skull was fractured over the forehead and several severe wounds were found on the back of his head and neck. Physicians feel however, that his injuries will not prove fatal. Mr. Riddle is well known to the older students of the university, having graduated here in '93, and this unexpected accident proved a great shock to everyone.
Voights is wearing Phi Gam colors.
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Notice.
Murat Halstead will appear in University hall, Saturday January 23. Tickets may be reserved at Bromelsick's the Thursday preceeding.
Lecture course tickets are still on sale at Bromelsick's and at Stewart's in the Basement.
Chapel Notes.
Rev. Goddard, pastor of the Methodist church at Olathe, led Wednesday morning, speaking of some of the lessons of his own student life that seemed likely to apply here.
Rev. Somerville led the rest of the week, speaking Monday morning of the characteristics of true manliness, showing Tuesday how how it stood the test of poverty and business and political life.
The subject of Thursday morning's talk was decision of character, and of Friday morning's "hitting the mark."
Prof. Carruth will lead next week.
Law Notes.
The Seniors are pursuing Torts under S. A. Riggs. The course will last about three weeks.
The Seniors are given until the end of this term to hand in forensics.
H. A. Lamb and Oscar Schmitz both went to Topeka Tuesday upon errands of a political nature.
Several law students attended the Inauguration ceremonies in Topeka.
Law students desiring to enter the Kent Club preliminaries for the Debate should hand in their names to A. M. Jackson.
A bill is to be introduced in the legislature to admit all graduates of this department to practice in the State Courts without examination Amen!
Adna G. Clarke is now deputy clerk of the District Court under Chas. Tucker.
The Seniors Thursday voted to extend an invitation to W. J. Bryan of Nebraska to deliver the Commencement address before the Law school.
Last Wednesday the Athletic Board elected Chas. W. Fletcher, Base Ball manager; C. Voights, Manager Track Athletics and Sanderson, Capt. Track Athletics.
Athletic Election.
Fine Arts.
The class in Drawing and Painting commenced work from the portrait this week.
The students are anxiously waiting for pleasant weather so that they can take up outdoor sketching.
The Seniors are preparing for their examination with a strong determination to get "ones" if possible.
Miss Kelley of Kansas City has enrolled as a special in piano for the coming term.
Miss Sara Thrasher of Prof. Clark's department went to Topeka to spend Jan. 11th.
The Lorelei quartette and Miss Starr will sing at the Oratorical contest Friday evening.
Miss Hattie Greisinger, whose playing was very much appreciated while studying piano with Prof. Preyer in 1895, has decided to return for post-graduate work this coming term.
The Misses Hardings of Topeka,were the guests of Miss Agnes Lapham last Tuesday and Wednesday.
There will be a recital at Music Hall Wednes Jan. 20th, the first one since vacation.
Prof. Clark's lecture on Japanese Art, Jan. 13th, was one of the many treats in the lecture course on Aesthetics, Criticism, and History of Fine Arts.
He is an admirer of the Art of Japan. He said, "Tis probable that no nation as a whole is more artistic and has more of a love for the beautiful, than Japan. All classes from childhood are refined to art." Their art is suggestive rather than representative; decorative rather than pictorial; assymmetry takes the place of the old fashioned idea of symmetry; their work is not minute but every stroke is sure and suggestive, this latter coming from scientific knowledge. Gekko is their greatest artist at present. How to make boquets is a part of their etiquette. Their arrangement of flowers is very artistic.
One of his last points discussed was, oddity when refined, is pleasant to one's taste.
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W. W. Reno '93 has been engaged for the last few weeks in getting out a special number of the Lawrence Gazette containing a business review of Douglas Co. for 1896.
Malon Zimri Kirk, formerly a student of the University and now financial agent of Penn College, Iowa, visited the University, Wednesday. His mission was to find a man to fill a vacancy in the department of Geology in Penn College Mr. B. L. Miller was chosen for the position and will leave for Iowa at once. Mr. Miller has completed the work necessary for the degree of B. S. and he would have graduated this year.
The following Alumni of the University were present at the reunion held in the Copeland hotel at Topeka at the meeting of the State Teachers' Association: C. C. Brown, Laura Radford, Josie Wilson, W. N. Logan, Eli Cann, H. C. Fellows, W. C. McCrosky, D. R. Krehbiel, H. P. Butcher, E. T. Hackney, J. R. Thierstein, Anna Edwards, L. A. Lowther, Geo. E. Rose, Florence Reasoner, E. E. Rush, J. H. Sawtell, F. H. Olney, S. A. M. Young, R. T. Madden, Florence E. Parrott, B. K. Bruce, Kate Blair, C. H. Nowlin, Grace Eaton, M. L. Field, L. P. Ellis, T. E. Dewey, Dr. Howell, E. C. Little, Mary Barkley, J. E. Dyche, M. E. Hickey.
Names for the Country Club.
mes proposed for the so-called Country Club, in response to the Weekly's offer to give a term's subscription for the best name, are as follows: Walkers, Peripatetics, Perambulators, Bye-byes and Go-gos, Coxey's Cousin's Country Club, Walking Club, Wandering Willies and Weary Wilheminas, The Walkers that walk, Cameron's Bluffed, Weekly Wandering Weary Walkers, Ancient Order of United Walkers, Royal Order of Rural Rovers.
THIS IS ONE OF THEM.
Mixed: "George, have you and Jimmie been fighting again?" "Well, Jim hit me." "I didn't nuther. He hit me first." "No such a thing. He hit me before I hitted him." "He's telling you a story, mamma." "Didn't you hit me first?" "No, I didn't you hit me first." "No, I didn't—you dodged!"
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Report of the Board of Regents.
The tenth Report of the Chancellor and of the Board of Regents has just been published. The Report covers the year 1895-96, and is full of interesting information concerning State Universities in general, and Kansas University in particular. It may not be generally known that the University of Kansas has a smaller annual income than any other institution of the same standing in the United States, that it pays smaller than the average salaries, and that it graduates its students at the smallest per capita cost. The facts presented in the Report amply sustain this statement. Nebraska, with half the assessed valuation of Kansas, and a million less population, and practically the same number of students in the regular collegiate departments of her University, expends $31,324.25 more than the University of Kansas in thirteen principal departments common to both schools.
Interesting tables are presented showing the growth of the University along different lines. The registrar's books show that an enrollment of nearly 1,000 students will be reached before the close of the year. The number of books published by different members of the faculty during the past two years amounts to ten.
The most imperative needs of the University are stated to be a Chemistry Building, a Natural History Building and Electrical Engineering Shops. These buildings are made necessary by the increase in the number of students, which has increased from 474 in 1890 to almost 1,000 at the present time.
Taken all in all, the Tenth Biennial Report is very gratifying to the friends of the University, but shows that if it is permanently to hold its present prominent place among State Universities, more generous provision must be made for its support.
A New Course.
At its last meeting the Board of Regents added to the curriculum of optional studies a teacher's course in Entomology. This is to meet the requirement for native studies now
found in many of the schools throughout the state. The subject of Entomology is one easily introduced and conducted in the public schools; The various stages of development of insects such as the butterfly are always a source of interest to the young observer and results, President Jordon said before the National Teachers' Association at Buffalo, in better mental culture than much of the rote teaching now in vogue. This course will consist of lectures, practical exercises and fixed excursions. It will be given during the second term every day at 2.
Snow Hall.
The paper recently read by Prof. Stevens before the Kansas Academy of Science attracted a good deal of attention, and favorable criticism. The paper was entitled Asclepias Cornuti, and was freely illustrated by a number of slides from photographs which Prof. Stevens had taken from his observations upon the plant. The following are a few of the points presented.
The Asclepias Cornuti is the common milkweed which is so familiar to all of us. It is a strong and vigorous plant and conspicious for the number, size and odor of its flowers. The filaments and anthers are broad and coherent and are joined at their apices with a fleshy outgrowth from the stigmas. From the filaments large bodies grow out in the form of hollow cups which preserve the nectar that has been produced at the bases of the filaments. The pollen is arrested in its development, so that the grains instead of separating remain in what might be called a pollen tissue, and there the pollen tissues or pollinia as they are called which are formed in the adjacent cells, become connected by entirely new structures.
The most interesting part of the plant is the mechanism to insure cross fertilization by insects. The evolution of the nectar producing tissues arose far back in the history of the family. The nectar together with its strong honey fragrance has had much to do with the development of the flower. The agencies at work in modifying the flower, are insects, principally butterflies, bees, and wasps. Notwith-
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standing the peculiar construction of the flower these insects are well adapted to gather nectar and while doing so are bound to insure the fertilization of the flowers which could occur in no other way. So insects and flowers have undergone changes side by side by mutual contact.
Two theories have been advanced as to the variation of plants. Both of which can be illustrated in this plant. Prof. Henslow maintains that plants have an inherent capacity to vary but not an inherent tendency. All plant structures arise from the response of inherent capacity to some outside influence. Thus nectaries have arisen from punctures of insects seeking the juices of plants, and the various irregular carollas from the weight and pressure of insects clinging to them. On the other hand Darwin and Wallace maintain that there is not merely an inherent capacity but an inherent tendency. Those variations which are useful, survive. While those which are not pass away through natural selection.
On account of the peculiar construction of the flower the plant is entirely free from small insects which would not assist in its fertilization. The nectar is reserved for the large insects, as the Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera which alone are able to secure a crossing between different plants. Prof. Stevens in his observations has found numbers of small insects that have perished because they are unable to break away from the nectaries while he has never seen a large wasp, moth or bee permanently caught. From his investigations Prof. Stevens maintains that plants not only have an inherent tendency to change. All the varied forms of plants are the results of natural selection and not of a specific kind and degree of irritation for every species of variation which must be the case if Prof. Henslow's theory holds.
A REVIEW
from the Zeitschrift fuer die oestreichischen Gymnasien; 47(1896), 8-9, p. 723.
Die mit Praepositionen zusammengesezten Verben bei Thukydides. Von Dr. phil. David H. Holmes, Berlin, Weidmann 1895. gr. 80,47, SS. Preis I Mk. 60 Pf.
Zweck und Gang vorliegender Arbeit sind zum Theile hoechst eigenartig. Zwar bedient sich der Verf. der in syntaktischen Untersuchungen herkoemmlichen statistischen Methode—es sie gleich hier bemerkt, dass die gebotenen Zusammenstellungen den Eindruck unbedingter Zuverlaessigkeit erwecken—; er weiss aber mit den gewonnenen Frequenzzahlen in einer Weise zu operieren, die zu ueberzeugenden Resultaten bezueglich der Principien fuehrt, welche der Composition von Verben mit Praepositionen zugrunde liegen. Insoferne also bietet H. principiell Neues, und man darf sich fueglich darueber wundern, dass die Bedingungen, unter denen sich im Griechischen Verb und Praeposition componieren, noch nicht zum Gegenstande so eingehender und allseitiger Darstellung gewaehlt wurden. Angesichts dieser Thatsache beruehrt es uebrigens seltsam, dass H. ueber die Wahl des Autors, aus dessen Sprache er seine Saetze ableitet, nichts verlauten laesst. Wohl mag er der Ansicht sein, es sei von selbst einleuchtend, dass nur ein Schriftsteller einer vorgerueckten Sprachperiode, wo die lose Verbindung von Verb und Praeposition der wirklichen Composition gewichen ist und die verfolgten Zwecke geeignet sei.
Das Untersuchungsmaterial ist in vier statistischen Tabellen untergebracht. Die erste enthaelt die monoprothetischen Verba nebst ziffermaessigem Nachweis ihrer praepositionalen Composition, die zweite die diprothetischen und triprothetischen Verba, die dritte die praepositionalen Combinationen, welche Verbindungen mit Verben eingehen wie $\dot{a}\nu\theta\nu\pi$, $\dot{a}\nu\tau\alpha$ usw., $\dot{a}\nu\tepsilon\alpha\alpha$, $\dot{a}\nu\tepsilon\epsilon\kappa$ usw., und die vierte endlich die Statistik der einfachen Praepositionen, d. i. Zahlenangaben ueber die Verbindung der einzelnen Praepositionen mit ihren Casus, ueber das Vorkommen der Praepositionen in mono-, diund triprothetischer Composition, ueber die Ex-
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clusiva, d. i. Verba, die sich ausschliesslich nur mit je einer bestimmten Praeposition verbinden (vgl. ἀπокτείνω), ueber ἀπαξ ειρημενα, ueber die bevorzugten Verba, d. i. Verba, die von gewissen Praepositionen zur Composition besonders haeufig herangozogen werden (so ἡκνοῦμαι von ἀπὶ da sich die Composition ἀφικνοῦμαι unendlich haeufiger als ἂξ (δι-) κνοῦμαι findet) usw.
Hiemit sind die wesentlichen Gesichtspunkte gegeben, in die sich die Untersuchung vertheilt. "Ausdehnung und Verstaerkung" des Simplex durch die Composition wie in àπαλλάσω, èπi- (προσ)-βοηθώ, προσδέχουμαι usw. fuehrt zur Ausschliessung, zur Vorliebe eines Verbs fuer eine bestimmte Praeposition, so dass es alle anderen Praepositionen meidet (àπокτείνω, κατακαίω), diese wird nun zur Usurpation, zur vollstaendigen Verdraengung des Simplex durch das Compositum (άννοιγνυμι); eine andere Folge der Bevorzugung einer oder einzelner Praeposition ist der Bedeutungsverlust seitens der Praeposition, was zur Di- und Triprothesis fuehrt.
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January 23,1897.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 23,1897.
Editor-in-Chief.
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CLARENCE SPELLMAN. Law and Social.
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It is much to be regretted that the prize offered at the fair did not bring out a college song. Where money will not avail, the only thing left is love. Will not someone, just for love of the University write us a song?
THE TRUSTEES of Baker have finally decided to allow the students to engage in all intercollegiate games except football. The latter
game in accordance with the resolution adopted recently by the Kansas College Presidents' Association will not be played by any of the denominational colleges in Kansas.
HOW TRUE it is, as we heard a member of the University remark some time ago that we who are in the University do not realize at all how many we are. We come straggling up to classes at different hours and go straggling down again in little squads and battalions, and never stop to think that we are really an army. All the students in the University might go to chapel on the same morning; but there wouldn't be room for any visitors except perhaps on the front row down stairs or the back row of the gallery. If the students should take a notion to join hands they could form a line from the main building to the general delivery window at the post office. But we never do join hands any time, for any purpose; we never do all attend chapel on the same morning and it seems a pity that we do not.
WE HAVE sometimes thought that the alumni were not doing as much as they might do to encourage literary effort among the under-graduates of the University. It seems that they might with little inconvenience to themselves establish a number of prizes for original work in composition of various sorts. But after all, what inducement have they to do so when they learn that a prize of twenty dollars' worth of books to be given for the best "'characterization of some English author of the Victorian period" has simply been ignored by the members of the two classes to whom it was offered? What a commentary is this on our energy and enterprise! What a reputation for active scholarship it gives us! Probably it will not be so again this year. There ought to be at least twenty-five essays handed in.
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THERE ARE in the University too many text book fiends, and too few real students. It is not a very difficult thing to swallow a text book but there is not very much satisfaction in it, and less good. The student who gets his knowledge in this way violates the laws of his own mind; he is a bungler in the use of the tools which nature has given him. Moreover the facts which he acquires are merely stowed away, piled up like potatoes in a bin. Most of them are entirely disconnected and unrelated, and are consequently all the time falling out through the cracks. The real student should be an independent critic of all that he reads. He might well forget for a while that there is any such word as authority. He should be always looking for relations between the old and the new in his experience. Association is now recognized by all to be the best and the most natural aid to memory. The first requirement of the student is of course that he work; but to succeed he must work intelligently
VERY FEW students have any idea of the many places of historical interest situated in and about Lawrence. Places about which are associated the memories of many stirring events of early days. Perhaps one half of the students know that a few hundred yards southeast of the main building, on the brow of the hill, may yet be seen the remains of some old breastworks thrown up in war times to serve as a point of defense in case of attack from the hostile guerrilla bands. Four miles southeast is Franklin which has decreased considerably in size since the fifties, when it was the scene of many exciting events. A few miles northwest is the place where Fort Titus was located and where perhaps the first bloodshed of the civil war occurred. There are many other similar places within easy walking distance of the University. The most of them can be located by referring to the histories, especially Dr. Cordley's History of Lawrence, but some can be found only by inquiring of the early settlers, a few of whom are yet among us. The Country Club we believe intends to undertake the
task of discovering some of these spots. The work will not only add interest to the excursions but will be valuable in itself.
A RECENT Chap-Book contains an interesting summary and criticism of the various answers given by the leading American newspapers to a set of questions sent out by Chicago University asking among other things, whether a journalist should have a college education, and what the relative values of the different studies are to one preparing himself for journalism. The New York Evening Post does "not believe Latin, Greek, French, German, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and History are of any value to a journalist, as a journalist, journalism being what it now is." To which the Chap-Book agrees, calling attention to the fact, however, that journalism is now in a "vicious condition." The Chicago Tribune thinks that a journalist is born, not made, that the most important knowledge for him to acquire is that of the English language, and that a "keen nose for smelling news" is the most desirable journalistic quality. This last statement the editor of the Chap-Book takes exception to, and in a paragraph of delightfully refreshing invective chastizes the "blackguard brood" of "domestic spies, eave droppers, and scandal-scavengers" who befoul the pages of the daily press. "A journal should be something more than a kinetoscope. It should stand for the purest politics, the best art, the best literature, and the cleanest sport." There is no royal road to success in journalism. "The successful journalist is a specialist," and should take up at least one subject such as politics, the currency question or dramatic criticism, and master it in every detail. Then he could write intelligently.
The University of Chicago will not be much enlightened by the very contradictory answers to its questions. It may be forced to conclude that journalism can not be taught. Certainly the press needs to be brought more under the control of cultured and concientious men, and it is well that universities should begin to do something more than they have heretofore done to bring about such a condition.
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Literacy.
"That Sheldon Girl."
(A PERSON I DISLIKE. )
Well, now if that isn't Frances Annie Hooker across the street, she that was Frances Sheldon. 'Pears to me my eyes must be getting bad or she looks as young as she did when she visited in town several years ago.
Law me, is she —? yes—no, she went on by. I didn't think she would stop at this house. She never did have any love for me, or I for her, for that matter. 'Twas always cat and dog between us ever since that first day she came to school when we were children. She came to town with her folks one day, and the next day she started to school, and while she was standing there all rigged out, waiting for the teacher to come, I just asked her if she wouldn't like to chew my spruce gum awhile. I always had a givin' kind of spirit. But she instead of taking it, she sorta' peeped out, "No, thank you, Miss," kinda' scornful I thought, so I just took it out of my mouth and rubbed it into her yellow hair that was hanging down her back for all the world like "Little Red Riding Hood's" we see in the pictures. Well, she didn't say much. I guess she daren't, but she gave me one look, kinda' mad and proud; and to this day she never has spoke to me except once as I shall tell you. She always gave me that "way down yonder" hating look until I naturally took to hating her too.
I used to write things about her on the blackboard up high where she couldn't reach; but Jerry Simpkons nearly always rubbed them out, and then she would give him a little nod and smile which would make him blush. This meddlesomeness of Jerry's only riled me more and more; because Jerry walked home with me from singing school every Friday night, and had told me more than once when he gave me pepper-mint drops that he liked me. Queer, but Jerry never did tell me this except when he
gave me pepper-mint drops. Once when he told me this I tried to smile and nod like that Sheldon girl; but I guess it didn't look right in the moonlight, for Jerry sat right on Deacon Miller's stone fence and laughed 'till the tears came, and then he said, "Sallie Higgins, you ought to go with a show." Well I got real mad and told him that he could just take his old pepper-mints and about face, and that I was show enough to go home alone. But we made up again except Jerry didn't give me any more pepper-mints. He took me to several parties during the next few years, and I had begun to think that as I was out of school and he was training to be a teacher, (the next year), I had begun to think that probably he would begin the pepper-mints again, when who shall start to singing school but that yellow haired Sheldon girl.
In she comes with the preacher's daughter, all decked out in her boarding school finery, (where she had been at school all winter). "I allow," says I to Martha Garratt who sat beside me, "I allow that fine feathered birds can't always sing." I expect that they must have heard me, for the preacher's daughter, she that is now the second wife of Neal Garratt, says to Frances something about "crows croaking." But Frances just gave me that look of hers and said something about "good for evil."
Well, who should come in and sit down by her but Jerry Simpkons and he the best man singer in Milkville. She wasn't singing 'cause she didn't have a book, and he just gave her one corner of his book. Sing! Well you ought to have heard her, or them rather. 'Twas so beautiful that everybody in the church had to forget their manners and turn around or crane their necks to see. You see her voice was trained, and she being naturally kinda' sweet, just chimed in with Jerry's voice, who, sa I said before, was the best man singer in
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Milkville. I had to sit and take it every bit, and I—well I never did sing much.
After church I crowded around with the rest of the folks congratulating and praising thosevo's singing, and I says kinda' loud, "Thatice cost a heap of money didn't it, Miss Shel-?"" She sorta' lifted her eyebrows and thenin one of them smiles and nods said, "Mr.impkons' is natural however." At this everybody laughed, except me, and Jerry he turnededder than ever.
Well, Jerry he seen Frances home that night and every night after that; that is, her and the preacher's girl, for they were always together, and where he took one he must take the other. I did everything I could to get Jerry back to coming to see me, but it did no good. I talked about them and made fun of them. I could have slapped that Sheldon girl, if she had had any fighting blood in her, but she didn't seem to have. Once when I marched past her right haughty like, I dropped my pocketbook, and with holding up my head proud like, I didn't seem to see it fall. What do you think she did? She just picked it up, and running after me with a "Beg pardon, Miss Higgins," she brought it to me. I was so mad I just snatched it without so much as a "thank you."
Well, the upshot of it all was that I failed to get Jerry Simpkons for a husband. And not being extra good looking, most men not preferring red hair and freckles, I have as yet failed to get a beau and it is not likely I shall ever be any luckier, seeing as I am going on—well I shan't tell my age. And all through the actions of that Sheldon girl. Oh, no! She didn't marry Jerry. She married a fellow from the city, and Jerry, seeing he had not much claim on her, more than he had on the preacher's daughter too, couldn't say much. He pined a little at first, and I just thought I would wait awhile before I began to console him. While I was letting him pine, he up and married a girl from over at Cats Corners; and the Sheldon girl, she that was then Mrs. Hooker, sent them an organ for a wedding gift. Oh! How I hate that Frances Annie Hooker—she that was Miss Sheldon. EDNA EVERETT.
William Winter, the Poet.
No biography of William Winter, the poet and dramatic critic, has as yet been written, so we have only the bare outline of his life as contained in the general cyclopedias of authors.
He was born in Gloucester, Mass., 1836 and graduated from the Harvard Law school in 1857. But shortly after graduating he gave up law for journalism and began his career as an author by writing for the New York newspapers and contributing articles to the various magazines. He was at one time greatly interested in politics and was also a successful lyceum lecturer. In 1860 he married Elizabeth Campbell. His family consists of five children. In 1880 he had the very sad misfortune to lose his son, Arthur, who was killed while coasting. He was a boy of remarkable genius and beauty and in commemoration of his death the poet established the Arthur Winter Memorial Library at the Academy on Staten Island.
Winter's publications began in 1854 with a little volume entitled "The Convent and other Poems" which he dedicated to Longfellow who was for many years his intimate friend. Other books followed at comparatively short intervals: "The Queen's Domain and Other Poems" in 1858, and "My Witness, A Book of Verse," in 1871. His principal prose works are "A Sketch of the Life of Edwin Booth" published in 1871, "The Jeffersons" in 1881, "English Rambles" in 1884, and "Henry Irving" in 1885. He is said to be a master of English prose and to excel as a critic of dramatic art in which he has but few rivals. It is as dramatic critic to the New York Tribune that he is best known. This position he has held since 1865 and in connection with his work has made several interesting trips to Europe.
William Winter has never seriously directed his best efforts to the writing of poetry. He says of himself that the "poetic impulse has been felt by him as a passion but seldom been used as a conscious purpose." So we cannot expect to find in his verse the excellence and artistic perfection which marks our greatest poets, but must view it from his own conception
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of its value as simply "an addition to that old school of English lyrical poetry of which gentleness is the soul and simplicity the garment."
In 1888 he collected all of his poems which he still wished to preserve and published them in a little volume called "Wanderers." In his preface to this collection he says that "most of his poems have drifted into life of their own accord, and therefore, and because their frail existence must be so doubtful, he has ever viewed them as Wanderers and so describes them here to be. It has seemed to the author of these poems that they are the expression of various representative aspects of human experience, and that therefore they may possibly possess the inherent right to exist."
As we take up the little book and read the poems he has given us there we find a great many which certainly do possess that essential "inherit right to exist."
Refinement in thought and beauty of expression are qualities common throughout. Sometimes a stanza has a finish and polish that reminds us of Tennyson, as in "Dream Thoughts" where he speaks of the sunset as
"The last, sad light, so loath to pass
It weeps upon the golden grass."
And again, in the same poem,
"Slow pales the light; the day declines;
The night-wind murmurs in the pines;
The stars come out, and, far away,
Across the sweetly sleeping bay
One snow white sail, by sunset kist.
Fades slowly in the ocean mist."
The musical element in his verse is more rarely found. There is never any suggestion of Poe's studied harmonies nor even of Longfellow's simple melodies. And yet we find here and there a certain kind of musical expression which the last stanza of "Love's Refuge" will perhaps illustrate more clearly than any other. In it the rhythmical flow of words makes us almost hear the "low lament:"
"Set your face to the stars, fond lover.—
"Set your face to the stars, fond lover.— Calm, and silent; and bright, and true!— They will pity you, they will hover Tenderly over the deep for you. Winds of heaven will sigh their dirges, Tears of heaven for you be spent, And sweet, for you, will the murmuring surges Pour the wail of their low lament."
This is also a good example of the retrospective sadness which is a very noticeable feature of every one of the poems. Whatever the subject that has inspired him, William Winter always sees the sorrowful side of it. His love sonnets are never bright and cheerful. Always as in the little poem "Relics" he seems to feel that
"He grandly loves who loves in vain:"
In "Love's Requiem," he says
"Bring withered autumn leaves,
Call everything that grieves,
Call everything that grieves,
And build a funeral pyre above his head!
Heap there all golden promise that deceives
Beauty that wins the heart and then bereaves,
For Love is dead."
"At the Ebb Tide" seems to contain his conclusion to the whole matter, especially the last verse of this stanza:
"Gaunt sorrow claims her, heart and brain;
She bears the burden of the cross;
She hears the solemn dirge of pain,
The sad, old song of love and loss."
Not only love but every phase of human life is touched with melancholy:
"One lesson comes to all that live,
One final truth their lives declare,—
That earth has nought but toil to give.
And nought to teach but how to bear."
No message could be more helpless than this, and again in "The Undertone" he seems to sound the very keynote of despair—
"It sobs far up the lonely sky,
It faints in regions of the blest—
The endless, bitter, human cry.
—And only God could tell the rest."
With Winter, death is only the "dreamless sleep." He can not look beyond it with cheerful hope, but, like Bryant, he questions the future and asks
"But is it rest to vanish hence,
To mix with earth, or sea, or air?
Is death indeed a full defense
Is death indeed a full defense
Against the tyranny of care?
Against the tyranny of
Or is it cruellest pretence ? "
And again in the "Night Watch" he asks
"When will this night of death be o'er? When will the morning break?"
At best, what follows our present life is to him only "some mysterious better land."
"He cannot tell us,—none can tell What waits beyond the mystic veil."
Naturally his elegies contain some of his best stanzas, as the one spoken in Washington on Decoration Day 1880, which is also one of his longest poems. The graves of the dead soldiers of our civil war was just the subject to inspire Winter to write in his tenderest and noblest vein, and this "Elegy" seems to me to be the choicest of all his poems both in expression and sentiment. He there speaks feelingly of our lost heroes:
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"High were their deeds o'er whom our hearts are weeping!
Safe bides their fame in all men's love and praise ! Hallowed the mould in which their dust is sleeping. And sweet the memory that has crowned their days. "No more of lingering doubt, nor stern denial, Nor baffled toil, nor slow, embittering strife ! But now, at once, the crown of earthly trial,— The long, long summer of eternal life!"
And then, in closing, he calls upon all Nature to bow with our nation in its grief:
"Breathe low ye murmuring pines, ye whispering grasses!
Ye dews of summer night fall softly here!
Be sorrow's sigh in every breeze that passes,
And every rain drop be a mourner's tear!
"And O, ye stars, ye holy lights that cumber
The deep of heaven, pour benedictions down!
Shed your sweet incense on this sacred slumber-
Bright as our love, and pure as their renown!"
Even though the mournful strain is the most prominent in all the poems, still it is this which gives to them their chief beauty and we can scarcely conceive that William Winter without being pathetic could have been a poet at all. His poetic gift is evidently for the writing of laments and dirges. It is true, we tire of such constant melancholy, and if we read on continuously in the little book, the hopelessness depresses us and we are very apt to think that even the sentiment at times is common place.
Whatever faults the poems may have they at least possess the two elements, which alone he claimed for them, gentleness and simplicity. We feel after reading them that the poet has known only that sunshine which turned very quickly into shadow; and that he himself must have touched deeply the chords of human suffering to be so much in sympathy with the rest of the sorrowing world.
Let us leave him with the exquisite little poem which suggests the sad undertone of all his verse and which he calls "Asleep." I.
"He knelt beside her pillow, in the dead watch of the night,
And he heard her gentle breathing, but her face was still and white.
And on her poor, wan cheek a tear told how the heart can weep.
And he said, 'My love was weary—God bless her! she's asleep.'
II.
"He knelt beside her grave stone, in the shuddering autumn night.
And he heard the dry grass rustle and his face was thin and white,
And through his heart one tremor ran of grief that cannot weep.
And he said, 'My love was weary—God bless her! she's asleep.'"
NELLIE C. BORING.
Psychic Evolution.
We matched that game with Iowa And trained to baffle fate. At Omaha Thanksgiving day We had our mutual skate. But fate had foreordained it so The score stood nothing to zero.
Though virtual victory for us The pennant waved for Iowa We'd play the draw and clear the muss Hence chose last Saturday. We played with vim and iron will, But beef scored six against our skill.
Now that the foot-ball games are o'er We'll train our beef to brains And fill our brains with richer store To bleach athletic stains We'll swipe the Jay Hawks in debate Or blush to own we're from the State. —Hesperian.
A Freshman wrote a letter home,
The weather he said had been clear.
But what he dreaded most of all
Was its Hazy atmosphere.—The Sibyl.
That woman has no aim in life,
A thoughtful person owns,
And if you don't believe it, sir,
Just watch her throwing stones.
The Rose Technic.
Why it is Better.
Tis better to have loved and lost The poet sings in plaintive rhyme, Of course it is, for then you can Make love another time.
An Idle.
A tramp was sitting 'neath a tree,
It proved to be a peach;
A luscious one upon a bough
Was just beyond his reach.
Upon his back he laid him down,
His forehead he did mop,
He said, "By gosh, I guess I'll wait,
Until the fruit doth drop."
Miss E. G.: "Say, can any of you girls tell me who were the members of S.W.U. quartette last year?"
Miss H. G.: "There were four but I don't remember the names."-Ex.
There were ninety-four candidates for positions on the Harvard Freshman foot ball team this year. — Ex.
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Locals.
Mr. John Collins went to Topeka last Friday.
Mrs. Carruth took charge of the Faust class Tuesday.
The Pi Phis are wearing colors for Florence Parrott, '95.
The second term schedule has just been posted this week.
Fred E. Buchan of Kansas City, was a visitor on the hill Monday.
Quite a number of students will attend a K. P. dance Friday night.
Prof. Blackmar was unable to meet his classes the last of the week.
The Phi Delts gave an informal hop at their hall last Friday evening.
The "go-as-you-please" whist club met with Mrs. Wm Ayres Friday eve.
The Senior class will hold a party in Library Hall, Saturday evening, Feb 6.
Will Atchison has just accepted a position on the staff of the Wichita Eagle.
The "deutsche Verein" held an exceptionally interesting meeting last Thursday.
Last Sunday evening Prof. Blackmar lectured to a large audience in Kansas City.
Miss Gertrude Chapman spent last Saturday and Sunday visiting friends in Baldwin.
The Seniors will give an informal party in Library Hall on the evening of February 6th.
The Senior class has decided to adopt Bang's "House Boat on the Styx," for the Senior Play.
Frank Robertson holds the subscription list for the Bell's Band Ball at the Rink next Monday night.
The Senior girls held a meeting last Thursday at five. Curiosity is running high as to what they intend to do.
The fraternity parties will probably all occur earlier this year. In some instances the halls have already been secured
Mr. John Collins went to Topeka last Friday.
Mrs. Carruth took charge of the Faust class Tuesday.
The Pi Phis are wearing colors for Florence Parrott, '95.
The second term schedule has just been posted this week.
Fred E. Buchan of Kansas City, was a visitor on the hill Monday.
Quite a number of students will attend a K. P. dance Friday night.
Prof. Blackmar was unable to meet his classes the last of the week.
The Phi Delts gave an informal hop at their hall last Friday evening.
The "go-as-you-please" whist club met with Mrs. Wm Ayres Friday eve.
The Senior class will hold a party in Library Hall, Saturday evening, Feb 6.
Will Atchison has just accepted a position on the staff of the Wichita Eagle.
The "deutsche Verein" held an exceptionally interesting meeting last Thursday.
Last Sunday evening Prof. Blackmar lectured to a large audience in Kansas City.
Miss Gertrude Chapman spent last Saturday and Sunday visiting friends in Baldwin.
The Seniors will give an informal party in Library Hall on the evening of February 6th.
The Senior class has decided to adopt Bang's "House Boat on the Styx," for the Senior Play.
The Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. will organize a Missionary class next Sunday afternoon.
Prof. Dunlap addressed the Zodiac Club on Wednesday afternoon on "How a Picture Conveys Ideas."
The Junior Laws challenged the Seniors to a snow-ball fight Wednesday. The Seniors came off victorious.
Professors Adams, Blackmar and Hodder were elected members of the State Historical society Tuesday.
Grant W. Harrington, editor of Hiawatha Democrat, class of '87, is clerk of the railroad committee in the Senate.
Miss Dryden received a short visit from her father, mother, and brother Tuesday. They were on their way to Kansas City.
Claudius Chalmer Stanley who has just resigned his position at Topeka as Bond Clerk entered the Law school Monday morning.
Solon O. Thacher, T. Dwight Thacher's son, entered Freshman Tuesday morning. He has been attending the St. John's Military School.
At a meeting held last Monday afternoon, the Seniors elected R. L. Stewart, manager of the play and Roy Osborne, manager of the Annual.
Tuesday's papers mention the death of Mrs. David Matteson of Abilene. She was the mother of "Billy Matt" our great athlete and coach.
Mr. Fred Harris and Mr. B. D. Woodward went to Topeka Tuesday to arrange for the repetition of the Phi Psi "Freak Show" at the Pure Food show.
Mr. A. A. Ewart will probably not be able to return to the University until next Fall. He suffered a relapse soon after the holidays and although, at present, steadily improving will hardly be in condition to return by the beginning of the Spring-term.
Frank Robertson holds the subscription list for the Bell's Band Ball at the Rink next Monday night.
The Senior girls held a meeting last Thursday at five. Curiosity is running high as to what they intend to do.
The fraternity parties will probably all occur earlier this year. In some instances the halls have already been secured.
The Y.W.C.A.and Y.M.C.A.will organize a Missionary class next Sunday afternoon.
Prof. Dunlap addressed the Zodiac Club or Wednesday afternoon on "How a Picture Conveys Ideas."
The Junior Laws challenged the Seniors to a snow-ball fight Wednesday. The Seniors came off victorious.
Professors Adams, Blackmar and Hodder were elected members of the State Historical society Tuesday.
Grant W. Harrington, editor of Hiawatha Democrat, class of 87, is clerk of the railroad committee in the Senate.
Miss Dryden received a short visit from her father, mother, and brother Tuesday. They were on their way to Kansas City.
Claudius Chalmer Stanley who has just resigned his position at Topeka as Bond Clerk entered the Law school Monday morning.
Solon O. Thacher, T. Dwight Thacher's son entered Freshman Tuesday morning. He has been attending the St. John's Military School.
At a meeting held last Monday afternoon, the Seniors elected R. L. Stewart, manager of the play and Roy Osborne, manager of the Annual.
Tuesday's papers mention the death of Mrs. David Matteson of Abilene. She was the mother of "Billy Matt" our great athlete and coach.
Mr. Fred Harris and Mr. B. D. Woodward went to Topeka Tuesday to arrange for the reptition of the Phi Psi "Freak Show" at the Pure Food show.
Mr. A. A. Ewart will probably not be able to return to the University until next Fall. He suffered a relapse soon after the holidays and although, at present, steadily improving will hardly be in condition to return by the beginning of the Spring-term.
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A "Freak Party" was given by Miss Hattie Ayres last Friday evening in honor of the members of the Phi Psi "Side-show." The party was a very enjoyable one.
Harry Whitney who was called home about five weeks ago by the death of his father has been again bereaved by his mother's death which occured on the 13th.
Frank Hupp, a Freshman, did not return to school after the holidays, but has gone West to look for a location in the cattle business either in Western Kansas or in New Mexico.
Prof. W. H. Carruth delivered an address on the "New England Emigrant Aid Society as an Investment Society" before the State Historical Society, at Topeka, last Tuesday evening.
Prof. Engle has been going about his work this week with an unusually pleasant look, the cause—he says in explanation—is that the name Engle has been handed down to the coming generation.
R. E. Campbell, '94, who has been dangerous ill of typhoid fever at McAllister,has fully recovered and has resumed his position as an assistant to Attorney McLowd of the Gulf Railroad.
Frazier Hall has been put in good condition and is for rent for dances and gatherings of any kind. It is said to be the best hall for dances in the state. Apply of R. Stewart or L. O. McIntire.
If eminently successful here "The Rivals" will be presented in several neighboring towns— C. H. Miller and H. W. Smith went to Topeka and Emporia Saturday to perfect arrangements to that effect.
The condition of Mr. Hall Riddle, who was injured in a street car accident two weeks ago, remains about the same. Physicians consider the critical point past however and have great hopes for his recovery.
According to the constitution of the Oratorical Association the annual election of officers will be held next Friday at 12 m. in Chapel. Anyone wishing to transfer a share should see
the committee or some officer of the Association at once.
The editorial board for the ensuing semester met Wednesday at twelve o'clock for the election of editors for the various departments on the board. Mr. C. E. Rose was elected managing editor; Mr. W. E. Sanford, literary editor; and Mr. W. C. Clock, local editor.
Mr. McMurray, '96, of K. U., now teaching at Humboldt, was in attendance at the Teacher's Association last week. Mr. McMurray will be remembered among our students as a most elegant speaker—the Kansas-Nebraska debate last year.—Hesperian Neb.
Oliver Phillips of Leavenworth, will represent the Senior class of the Kansas University Law school on the program of the State Bar Association this week. The decision was announced Friday morning, after an examination of the theses submitted had been made by a committee from the Association.
Last Wednesday's papers contain an account of the marriage of Miss Mabel Hall, class of '96 to Mr. Dana Templin, class of '93 at the residence of the bride's parents on Ohio street. Mr. and Mrs. Templin left for Kansas City where they will make their future home. Mr. Templin is in the office of J. A. L. Waddell, the well known Kansas City engineer.
A. S. O'Connor who left Lawrence some weeks ago has been heard from. He told no one of his intended departure and nothing had been heard of him, till last Saturday when his father in Grenola received a despatch from Southampton, England. The despatch stated that he was about to start for Cape Town, South Africa, and that he expected to become interested in a gold mine there. He said nothing about returning and evidently expects to remain some time as he ordered his mail to be forwarded to Cape Town.
No reason is assigned for O'Connor's trip to Africa except that he has naturally a roving disposition and a dislike for staying long in any one place.
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The Day of Prayer for Colleges Jan. 29th will be observed in the University under the auspices of the Y.W. and Y.M.C.A's. Dr. Marvin will address the students at Chapel, and the two Associations will hold a union meeting in the Epworth room of the Methodist church from 7 to 8 p.m. There will be good music on both occasions. There should be a large attendance of students.
The Senior class has already commenced its plans for Commencement week. The play has been selected, the form of the Annual has been chosen, the necessary officers and committees have been elected and each member of the class has some part in the work. Commencing early, as they have this year, the Seniors feel that they have obtained an advantage over the preceding classes and hope to excel all former efforts.
The University may lose the services of Prof. Emch, who has been assistant in Graphics for the last two years. A cablegram was received last Friday announcing his election as professor of Mathematics at Biel in Switzerland. Prof. Emch is one of the University Faculty whose work has been noticed in foreign publications a number of times and it is that which has brought him the offer of a new position.
Kansas Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi is very gratified at the announcement that they have a new sister chapter in the Women's College at Baltimore, Maryland. Alpha was chartered on January 9th, 1897, with seven charter members and two pledges. With the co-operation of the five alumnae members from other chapters, who are in the city, Maryland Alpha bids fair to be a not unequal contestant for honors at the Women's College.
Mr. P. S. Elliott, of Washburn, entered the University Monday morning. Mr. Elliott will be remembered as the winning orator in the recent preliminary oratorical contest at Washburn and against whom the charge of plagiarism was brought. It seems as though a fight had been made on him simply because he was a member of one of the two factions in the
college, the man taking second place in the oratorical contest being a member of the opposing faction. Mr. Elliott then thought it advisable to withdraw altogether, hence his coming to the University.
Friday the 15th inst. Representative E. T. Hackney, '95 introduced into the house a bill to provide for the erection of three new buildings on the University campus in addition to the annual appropriation for current expenses. The bill provides for the expenditure of $180, ooo to be expended as follows: Chemistry Building $60,000; Natural History Building, $100,000, and Electrical Engineering Building $25,000. It seems good that the University should be remembered by her sons in her hour of need. May she ever be worthy of the respect and devotion of those who have tarried within her gates.
A bill will be introduced in the legislature which has the approval of the committee on legislative matters of the State Teachers' Association, that will be of great moment to the University graduates expecting to teach. The bill is entitled an Act Concerning Teachers' Diplomas issued by the University of Kansas. The bill provides that all graduates with the degrees of B.A., M.A., or Ph.D., who have taken in class at least three terms work in Pedagogy and satisfactorily passed examination thereon, a Teachers' Diploma which shall become a valid certificate to teach in any district or city school in the State of Kansas on the filing of a verified copy of the Diploma in the office of the chairman of the city or county examining board.
Copying on typewriter, M. F. Laycock.
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MANDOLIN AND GUITAR.
I have had 17 years of experience in teaching Mandolin, Guitar and Banjo, and when you come to me for instructions, you have the satisfaction of knowing you are receiving the best, and that you are not being experimented with. My studio is at
829 Mass. Street (up-stairs).
R. S. SAUNDERS.
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Chapel Notes.
Rev. C. Rowland Hill, Arch-deacon of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Kansas and Professor of Chemistry at Salina, conducted the services Monday morning and spoke of the value of the reading and study of the Bible.
Prof. Carruth led the rest of the week, reading a continued story "The History of Thomas Tucker" by Rose Terry Cooke.
Prof. Hodder will lead next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Macomb attended chapel Monday morning.
Chemical Notes.
Mr. Wagner gave the Seminary a very interesting account of the origin and method of manufacture of the Rookwood ware. This beautiful ware is acknowledged by every one to be one of the greatest advances ever made in the art of making pottery. Those who visited the World's Fair will probably remember the beautiful specimens of Rookwood pottery exhibited there at that time, the ware being almost entirely made in shades of red or brown but now it is turned out in all shades from white to black.
Prof Bailey has gone to Galesburg, Ill. on business.
The Chemistry and Pharmacy departments are setting eggs and counting the chickens with more confidence than ever before because they are going to have a new building to raise them in. It is like the boy's woodchuck it's got to come.
Fine Arts.
Miss Maud Miller's sister is spending a few days with her before going to Ann Arbor where she will study vocal and elocution.
Prof. Penny's class in Aesthetics will hereafter meet in the classical museum instead of Physics building.
ment are especially urged to be present.
Miss Maud Miller will conduct the Y. W. C. A. song service next Wednesday at the university. Following are the names of those who will take part on the program: Miss Winnek, Mrs. Willis, Miss Loton, Mrs. Mitchell, and Mr. Gilbert. The young ladies of the music depart-
The Music Club met in Mr. Preyer's room Tuesday evening, for the study of Brahms, Rheinberger, and Max Bruch. Brahms was discussed in a very able manner and the latter two were the subjects of Miss Spencer's interesting paper. The other numbers by Mr. Farrell, Misses McCheyene, Skofstad and Brown were highly appreciated. Mrs. Dunlap and Mr. Farrell having heard Brahms play, while they were abroad, added some very interesting incidents.
Miss Abbie Noyes, a graduate of Music School, class of '95, has been in Chicago one year and a half continuing her musical studies under W. C. E. Seeboeck and Calvin B. Cady, giving special attention to the art of teaching. She has just returned and is now ready to receive pupils. While under Seeboeck she made exceptional progress and was the only one out of seventy-five pupils chosen to give a recital, which was given April 24th, 1896 at Steinway Hall. Lawrence is proud to claim her.
A Call for Coals.
When you shall need a load of coals To keep you nice and warm, Pnone 97-J. L. Bolles He'll send it, shine or storm. 021 Massachusetts street and new yard 800 Vermont street.
NEXT TO A MAN
comes his underwear,
that comes cheap at
BROMELSICK'S.
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The Would-be Tough.
If I were to enumerate all the various kinds of people I dislike, I would probably include in the list that class designated by the provincial term, tough. Yet I am not sure that I dislike this class as a whole. There are so many good-hearted, whole-souled fellows among them, whose honesty and fidelity we would never think of doubting. If a man is good natured, minds his own affairs, and treats me well, I am almost sure to like him, no matter what his morals may be.
But there is one class of people whom I thoroughly dislike; they are those who are coarse and rude merely because they like to be so. They go by various names—toughs, roughs, rowdies, or hoodlums; but the term, would-be tough, gives one the best idea of the class. They range in age from sixteen to twenty-five years.
The would-be tough likes to walk with a slouching, swaggering gait, not because it is nice or natural, but because he wants everybody to know that he "don't care for nothin'." He has a few peculiarities in dress. His hat must be white; for dress wear, a soft straight brimmed one; for work, a broad brimmed one, with a leather band. He keeps his coat collar turned up—it looks careless. If the weather will permit, a big muffler or silk handkerchief is worn around his neck. When at work he substitutes a bandana, which is fastened in front with a ring.
This young man, who, by the way, lives in the country, may be found at every public gathering in the neighborhood. During the winter time, if there is not a literary society or a spelling school, or a dance to attend, he goes to a revival; not that he is interested in any of them, unless it be the dance, but because he must go somewhere. "Been out every night this week" is one of his favorite expressions. He always sits in the back part of the room, chewing tobacco and making great pools of spit on the floor. It is useless to remonstrate with him for indulging in this filthy habit. Polite requests are useless, threats only anger him.
He pays little attention to what is going on except when a comic song is sung or a humorous recitation is given. Then he indicates his approbation by vigorously stamping on the floor, shrill whistles, and loud laughter.
As a rule the would-be tough is ignorant almost to the verge of illiteracy. But this misfortune does not trouble him. He even boasts of his indolence and worthlessness while in school. His lack of education is made up for by a bountiful supply of self-conceit. He is rude and overbearing to the weak, fawning and cringing to the strong. His conversation is mostly profanity. There is no culture or refinement about him; he is low, coarse and grovelling. C.C.W.
Rosabel Morrison in Carmen" at Bowersock's opera House, on Thursday, January 23.
No play of recent years has attracted as much universal interest as "Carmen." Its story is from the heart and its interest is intense. Its success is inter-national although but two actresses have been found thus far who could thoroughly realize the possibilities of the character. One of these is Rosabel Morrison, who has been known to American theatre-goers for her artistic performance of "Marguerite" in "Faust." Her "Carmen" is reported to even excell her "Marguerite." She has produced the new play without regard to cost, and has added the now famous Eidoloscope to the equipment, with which is produced the famous bull fight in the last act, which lasts continuously for fifteen minutes showing every phase of the savage Spanish pastime. This performance is of especial interest to the cultivated and refined. The story of "Carmen" by Prosper Merimee one of the "Immortals"of the French National Academy is a modern classic. The production is as interesting from a spectacular point of view as it is from a literary and histrionic standpoint. Seats on sale Wednesday morning.
Bishop Fowler is to lecture at the First M. E. Church in this city Friday Jan. 29.
Latin Notes.
The first number of the Latin Notes made its appearance this week. It is the only publication of its kind in existence and reflects great credit not only on the Latin department but also on the University. The WEEKLY wishes it a prosperous and successful future.
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EXCHANGES.
Young man: "I was thinking how much I resemble your carpet—always at your feet."
Young lady:—"Yes, you do resemble my carpet a good deal-I am going to shake it real soon."-Ex.
Girard College, Philadelphia, is the richest in the country, having over eleven and a quarter millions of endowment. The poorest is Milligan College, at Milligan, Tenn., which has only about $300 in productive funds.—The Integral.
The Smith News Co. is headquarters for athletic supplies.
Yale annually buys $7,000 worth of books for her library. Harvard spends $16,000 for the same purpose, and Columbia $43,000.—Ex.
Ohio Wesylan University rejoices in having lost but two foot ball games this season.—Ex.
Lafayette and Lehigh have cancelled their foot ball engagements on account of a squabble. Ex.
Typewriting, M. F. Laycock, 1032 Vt. st.
President Elliott, of Harvard, prophesies that fraternities will sometime cause universities to be broked up into colleges, as in England. -Ex.
Announcement of Keene's Engagement.
Thomas W. Keene, the eminent tragedian, accompanied by Charles B. Hanford will no doubt be cordially welcomed at the Bowersock opera house, Tuesday, Jan'y 26.
The eminent actor plays such parts as Shylock, Hamlet, Louis (XI, Richard III and Richelieu and thus keeps alive in the memory of the younger generation of play-goers the noble ideals which charmed and elevated their fathers. Mr. Keene is not a blind follower of stage traditions. He has been a careful student of historical subjects and made such changes in all his plays, as seemed to him to bring the situations and the stage business nearto the historic truth. As the authorities have shown him his heroes, so has he depicted them.
He has mounted his plays with the same purpose and has had his costumes made according to the best authorities, so that his company shall wear only such dress a would have been worn by the persons they represent. The stage accessories are built with the same purpose. It has been decided that Mr. Keene shall play "Hamlet". Seats at Leis Drug Store, Saturday morning.
News from the College World.
They send invitations at Washburn written in poetry(?). Well, that leaves some consolation for the fellow that is left out, he don't have to read it.
The fellow who misappropriates rubbers has made his appearance at the University of Utah. It is all right if he only does not come back the first rainy spell.
At Annapolis they play foot ball by electric light.
Since the faculty at Baker has suspended the foot ball boys in skating season all the "preps" in school have commenced to fondle the pig skin.
Senior- Do you know that they have a kind of money in Oklahoma three pieces of which make a dollar.
Soph-No. What is each piece worth thirty-three and a third cents?
Senior-No. One piece is worth fifty cents the other two are worth twenty-five cents a piece.
Bishop Fowler is to deliver his great oration on "Abraham Lincoln" at the First M. E. Church Jan. 29. The great speaker needs no introduction. His lecture on Lincoln is one of the grandest addresses to be heard anywhere.
A. GIFFORD, M. D., ASSISTANT SURGEON OF U.P.R.R.
Office 917 Mess. Street. Telephone No.24.
Residence 116 Quincy Street. Lawrence, Kansas.
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Cough Tablets, all kinds, at Leis Drug Co's.
LaVelle's Dentone for cleaning the teeth and hardening the gums, at Leis Drug Co's.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students with coal and wood at the lowest prices. Offices: 1007 Mass. Street and West of National Bank.
Go to Jaedicke's for skates. New line of skates just received at Jaedicke's. Stop at the University Barber Shop for a first class shave, hair cut, etc.
Barney & Berry skates for sale at Jaedicke's.
Barney & Berry skates for sale at Jaedicke's. Jackson's Steam Laundry, Kansas City, Mo. If you send your work to us it will be returned to you Friday, in season for the entertainments.
ALVAH SOUDER,
OREAD PLACE, Agent.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students the coal and wood at the lowest prices. All kinds of fine stationery at 710 Mass., st. Buy your Teas and Coffees of W. S. Everett, the only Tea and Coffee house in the city. 745 Massachusetts st.
K. S. U. Bouquet,
The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume on the market.
For sale only at
For sale only at Barber Bros., Drug Store.
C. W. Straffon, the druggist, is sole agent for the Harwood Guitars and Mandolins.
Buy your stationery of Keeler.
Give your typewriting work to C. E. Rose, 716 Miss. street.
Katie Emmett.
American Club skates for ladies and gentlemen in all sizes and kinds, full stock on hand. Padlock Hardware Store, Chas. Achning, 822 Mass. St.
Wednesday, January 26, Katie Emmett will present at the Bowersock, her greatest success, "The Waifs of New York." This will be Miss Emmett's re-appearance after an absence of four years from Lawrence. As an exponent of boys' parts, Miss Emmett stands alone, being the only soubrette on the American stage playing this line of business. The play is one that has made several fortunes for its owners, and its hold upon the theatre-going public is as strong as it was several years ago. It deals with life in New York, and the characters are well known types of the citizens of Greater New York. The scenic effects are all new, and represent such well known places as the Tombs Police Court, City Hall Park, Trinity Church, Paradise Alley, Five Points, and other representative spots of the great city. Many pleasing and novel specialities are given during the course of the play. Miss Emmett will have the support of an excellent company of sixteen people. Seats on sale Tuesday morning.
Go to Tracy Learnard's for School Supplies. Well selected stock. Low prices. 710 Mass., street.
RUSSEL & METCALF MONEY TO LOAN
REAL ESTATE.
FIRE
LIFE
FOR RELIABLE
INSURANCE
Go to A. L. SELIG.
TORNADO ACCIDENT
Calling Cards, latest designs AT GAZETTE OFFICE.
East Henry St.
FULL LINE OF UNIVERSITY TEXT-BOOKS JUST IN. The University Book Store,
L. M. GIBB, Proprietor.
The LAWRENCE BUSINESS COLLEGE
is one of the famous Coonrod & Smith chain of business schools located at Kansas City, and St. Joseph, Mo., Lawrence and Atchison, Kans. Book-keeping, Short-hand, Typewriting, Penmanship and all common and commercial branches are thoroughly taught by competent instructors. Thousands of former students and graduates in positions. Students may enroll at any time. Write for catalogue containing full information to I. C. STEVENSON, Prin.. Lawrence, Kans.
Call on Keeler for stationery.
A full line of tablets and stationery is on sale at Tracy Learnard's.
It will pay you to see Straffon for anything in the music line.
Call and see the fine line of pictures which Tracy Learnard is now showing.
Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
The Best Place to buy Handkerchiefs Gloves—Fancy Articles, Silk Dress Goods and Coats is at INNES'.
Popular Low-Price California Excursions.
The Santa Fe Route personally conducted weekly excursions to California are deservedly popular. About one-third saved in price of railroad and sleeper tickets as compared with first-class passage.
The improved Pullmans occupied by these parties are of 1896 pattern and afford every necessary convenience. A porter goes with each car, and an experienced agent of the Company is in charge.
The Santa Fe's California line is remarkably picturesque, and its middle course across the continent avoids the discomforts of extreme heat or cold.
Daily service, same as above, except as regards agent in charge.
For descriptive literature and other information; address G. T. Nicholson, G. P. A., A., T. & S. F. Ry., Chicago.
LAWRENCE
CASH GROCERY.
Groceries, Fresh and Salt Meats. Cor. Lee and Kentucky Streets. J. E. DAVID Prop.
Go to the Old Reliable
STUDENTS'SHOEMAKER,
JAS. E. EDMONDSON, 915 Mass. St.
Point YOUR ORDERS FOR
Football and Athletic Goods
...AT...
Schmelzer Arms Co.
The largest and cheapest Sporting Goods House in the West 710=712 and 714 Main Street,
KANSAS CITY, NO.
CULVER'S
... CASH GROCERY,
639
MASS. ST.
The Club Grocery of the City. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY WAY.
TELEPHONE 77.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
L. S. STEELE, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Abstracter of Titles,
REAL ESTATE AND LOAN BROKER LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Wm. Wiedemann
Oyster Parlor.
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Fine Confections.
The Wilder Bros. Shirt Co.
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SHIRT MAKERS --- AND --- GENT'S FURNISHING.
Rules for self measurement and samples sent on application. All measures registered Our laundry work is not surpassed in the West.
SIMPSON & KELLEY, University Solicitors.
1027 MASS. STREET.
MORRIS
THE PHOTO ARTIST.
EVERYTHING THE LATEST SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS 829 MASS. STREET.
★STAR BAKERY, ★★
HENRY GERHARD & BRO., PROP'S.
WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF UNIVERSITY PEOPLE. . .
WILLIS'
PHOTO STUDIO.
933 MASS. ST.
SHOES NEATLY REPAIRED.
Good Work and Cheap.
O. F. HARSHMAN.
1017½ Mass. St. (Deaf Mute SECOND HAND BOOTS AND SHOES BOUGHT AND SOLD.
MODEL MEAT MARKET. Doleshal Bros. DEALERS IN
FRESH AND SALT MEATS,
Poultry, Fish, Game and Oysters.
CLUB TRADE SOLICITED. 718 Mass. St.
R. B.WAGSTAFF,
DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries.
CLUB TRADE A SPCIALTY.
947 Mass. Street. Telephone 25.
C. L. EDWARDS,
INSURANCE AGENT
ALL KINDS OF COAL WARREN ST., 2D DOOR WEST OF MASS. ST.
CHAS. HESS,
MEAT MARKET.
Choice Fresh and Salt Meats
Always on hand . . . . . . 941 MASS. ST.
Telephone 14. ...
DONNELLY BROTHERS.
LIVERY, FEED & HACK STABLES Corner New Hampshire & Winthrop Sts. Telephone No. 100.
THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE
Gives better results than any other American Company.
J. R. GRIGGS, Agent,
Lawrence. Kansas.
HOME BAKERY,
J. H. JOHNSON, Prop.
West Warren St., - - - Lawrence, Kan.
Short Order Meals a Specialty. Fresh Confectionery and Cigars on hand.
SEE ROBERTSON BROS.
For anything in the line of furniture. Odd pieces a specialty, also practical Undertakers and Embalmers.
808 AND 810 MASS. ST.
LAWRENCE GAS CO.
Will supply students with COKE at reasonable rates.
ABE LEVY AGENT.
EAST HENRY STREET.
McCURDY BROS., GROCERS.
Staple and fancy Groceries.
CLUB TRADE SOLICITED.
933 Mass. Street. Telephone 65.
WOOLF BROS.
LAUNDRY GO.
WILL McMURRAY, Solicitor Goods called for and delivered.
BEAL & GODDING
KEEP THE
POPULAR LIVERY STABLE.
Telephone 139.
McClure & Simpson.
OUR AIM: The Best Quality at Cheapest Prices
Special attention to club trade.
1023 MASS. ST. TELEPHONE 15
ZUTTERMEISTER'S OYSTER PARLOR.
For fine confections and home made candies give him a trial.
H. G. BROWN
'OLIN BELL,
Shaw Pianos. Bay State
Western Distributing Agent for
Russell Pianos, Washburn
Other First Class Pianos. Schwarzer
Mandolins and
Easy Payments if desired.
Guitars.
PIANOS TO RENT. Special Prices to K. U. Students. 'OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE, Ks.
CONSOLIDATED BARB WIRE CO.
PLAIN WIRE, BARB WIRE.
WIRE NAILS, BALE TIES,
LAWRENCE. KAS.
CULBERTSON & THOBURN.
COAL AND WOOD.
OFFICE: Basement of Merchants Nat'l Bank.
GIVE US A CALL OR TELEPHONE NO. 84.
The Copeland,
--in New England. One fee registers in both offices H. C, FELLOW, Western Manager.
TOPEKA, KANS.,
Ninth Street and Kansas Avenue.
TOPEKA KANS.,
J. C. Gordon, Owner and Proprietor.
Winship Teachers Agency
(New England Bureau of Education) 3rd. Somerset St. Boston.
Oldest, and most reliable in New England. One fee registers in both offices H.C, FELLOW, Western Manager.
AU AMERA PER ASPERA
Vol. III,
No.19.
Last issue of Vol.3. January 30,1897.
The Kansas University WEEKLY.
The only official and authorized weekly publication at the University of Kansas.
JOURNAL PRINTING OW
LAWRENCE.
W. S. BUNN, M. D. ALFRED HULTNER, B. S. M. D.
DRS. BUNN & HULTNER,
Physicians and Surgeons.
Office: Merchants Bank Building. First Floor.
Telephone 195. Lawrence, Kansas.
F. D. MORSE, M. D.
Residence, 1041 Tenn. Street.
Office, over Woodward's Drug Store.
PROF. SAMUELS,
The Great Occulist.
606 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas. Persons having trouble with their eyes will do well to consult him.
A. W. CLARK, M. D., (Harvard '84.)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence 1224 Tennessee Street.
Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
E. D. F. PHILLIPS, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office 745 Mass street. Telephone No. 82.
Residence 1301 Conn. street.
A. J. ANDERSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and residence 717 Vermont St. Tele. 124.
C. E. ESTERLY,
DENTIST.
Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
EDWARD BUMGARDNER, M. D., D.D.S. DENTIST 809 MASSACHUSETTS STREET.
HAROLD McCRORY, D. D. S., SURGEON DENTIST. Office over Faxon's Shoe Store.
WHEN IN KANSAS CITY
Stop at the St. George European Hotel. Connected with J.A.staley's Restaurant.
STEAM HEAT. 932 MAIN ST. POPULAR PRICES.
New and Second Hand Goods.
C. J. Ericksen,
Tables, Chairs, etc. to rent for parties.
Give him a call.
DAVIES,
A full line of full suitings just received. Call and see him before investing At the old stand.
THE STUDENTS TAILOR.
CUT FLOWERS, PLANTS.
SPECIAL PRICES TO K. U. BOYS
BIRD & GIMLER,
FLORISTS., 1112 MAIN ST., KAN. CITY With STRAUSS-LIPSIS MILLINERY CO. TELEPHONE 2396.
WATKINS NATIONAL BANK.
Capital, $150,000. Surplus, 15,000.
A general banking business transacted. Exchange on all principal cities of the world.
- - DIRECTORS: - -
- DIRECTORS: - -
J. B. WATKINS, President,
C. A. HILL, Vice President,
PAUL R. BROOKS, Cashier.
W. E. HAZEN, Asst. Cashier.
JACOB HOUSE,
J. L. JONES,
ALBERT HERNING.
Novelties accard's
Jaccard's Kansas City
Caccard's
Kansas City
25 cts. to $5.00.
RICH JEWELRY, DIAMONDS SOLID SILVER. 100 Engraved visiting Cards and Plate only $1.50.
KANSAS CITY, - - MISSOURI.
LAWRENCE NATIONAL BANK. UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY,
CAPITAL, $100,000.
Does a general banking business and issues bills of exchange on all the principal cities of Europe.
J. D. BOWERSOCK, R. W. SPARR,
President. Vice President.
WALTER L. HOWE, H. E. BENSON,
Cashier. 2nd Vice President.
::: DIRECTORS. :::
J. D. BOWERSOCK, R.W.SPARR, F.W.BARTELDES,
H. L. MOORE F.A.BAILEY, H.S.HALL,
J. H. GLATHART, A.HENLEY, W.R. WILLIAMS.
The Kansas University Weekly.
Vol. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 30, 1897.
No 19.
Editor-in-Chief.
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH,
Literary Editor:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA GATTRELL LYNN, SYDNEY PRENTICE,
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Associates:
PERCY PARROTT, - - - - Snow Hall.
L. HEIL, - - - Exchanges
DAISY STARR, - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - Law and Social.
WILL McMURRAY, - Athletics.
E. C. ALDER,
H. P. CADY,
JOE SMITH.
Managing Editor. W.C. CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, Charles A. Wagner or the secretary, Percy J. Parrott. Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance. Address all business communications to W.C. Clock, Lawrence, Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
WHEN THE play is over the audience does not care to hear an epilogue. We do not believe our readers care for any resume of the volume of the Weekly which is completed by this number. They do not care whether we have "tried to do our duty" or whether we "recognize our short comings" or whether we "resign our pen conscious that our work must speak for itself," and so we shall not commit ourselves
on any of these points. We desire simply to thank the students, and members of the faculty, for their uniform kindness to the retiring board of editors, and to bespeak a like treatment for those who shall have charge of the paper for the remainder of the year.
A few "young" people persist in disturbing chapel service by their gossip and giggles, but they will be older bye and bye.
EVERY ONE is gratified at the success of the oratorical contest. The crowd was larger than usual; there was more than the usual amount of enthusiasm; and the contest itself was close and spirited. We have a right to be encouraged and to look forward with hope and confidence to the meeting at Topeka.
NEBRASKA BOASTS that she lost the least in football this year of any team in the league. We suggest that hereafter two pennants be awarded; a small one to the team which wins the most games, and a large one with plenty of gilt and two or three extra tassels on it, to the association which has the smallest deficit at the end of the season.
BASE-BALL AND track athletic interests are beginning to come to the front. The indications are that there will be plenty of good material for making a base-ball team, though some of the strongest men of last year are not in school. It is none too early for the managers of these interests to begin making preparations for the coming season. Everyone wants to see the University represented this spring by a first class base-ball team.
WE HAVE reached the end of another stage in our journey up the hill of knowledge, and we are permitted only a moment to take breath
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and prepare for a new and greater effort. To some the term just ended was the first day of their travel on the higher way of learning, and many have been the steep and stony places of the road. But they ought not to be discouraged. There are promises of smoother walks and broader prospects on ahead. To others the term just beginning is the last day of the little journey which they used to think would bring them to the top of the hill. But the hill has expanded into a mountain, the heights are far far beyond. Yet they should not be discouraged. To live is to climb and toil.
THE FIRST report of the proposed reduction in the University appropriation was not taken seriously by anyone except perhaps by those who were so situated as to know something of the blind and unreasoning character of some of the men who exercise a considerable power in the lower house. The danger is now apparent to all, and perhaps before this reaches our readers the narrow minded policy of false economy will have triumphed and the cause of higher education in Kansas will have suffered an irreparable injury. In the face of the earnest recommendations of the Govenor, and in spite of the plea and arguments of the press of the state and all parties interested and disinterested who really know anything about the administration of the University's affairs or have the ability to take a broad view of things; in spite of it all certain members of the legislature have stubbornly clung to their little theories of finance and their short sighted policy of parsimony, and the crowd of "reformers" have blindly followed them. But at this writing hope is not yet gone, calmer reflection and a more open minded investigation of facts may yet serve to avert the danger, and establish the University more firmly than ever in its position of pre-eminence among like institutions of the country.
THE GREEK students of Drury College are going to take revenge on Sophocles for the months of weary toil which he and his compatriots have caused them. They are making preparations
to perform his play Antigone.
Latin Notes "to promote in general the establishment of scholarships in the University and in particular to benefit the D. H. Robinson scholarship fund" could not have a more worthy object. Western universities have been slow to get hold of the scholarship idea, in fact they have been busy doing things more necessary for their establishment on a broad and enduring foundation. But the time has come when more attention can be paid to the founding of scholarships. Some Western states are already ahead of Kansas in this matter. Missouri has a state law by which two per cent of all estates not reverting to direct heirs is applied to a scholarship fund for the students of the state university. And only recently several thousand dollars were added to the fund in this way. Some such law as this is probably what Latin Notes means by its motto on the first page: "The state ought to establish scholarships in K. U."
There are now three scholarships in the University: the one supported by the Alumni Association, and the two for post-graduate work in Latin secured from Lawrence citizens by Prof. Holmes. If the matter were brought to their attention the people of Topeka would probably make up a scholarship for the benefit of the students from Shawnee county who are attending the University; and so with other cities and counties. While it is true that Kansas University virtually gives a scholarship to every student, in that it makes no charge for tuition, yet it is also true that the expenses of attending school here, while below the average, are more than many can afford. Moreover it often happens that those who graduate from the University with honors and who would like to take post-graduate work are prevented from doing so by the feeling that they ought not any longer be an expense to others. The scholarships are especially for such students. They will increase the demand for advanced work, and encourage the taking of higher degrees, and thus cause an improvement in the work of the University.
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Charlemagne.
[First place in the preliminary contest was given to Will T. McMurray, who will represent Kansas University in the State Oratorical contest to be held in Topeka Feb. 26].
In an old ivy-walled church at Aix-la-Chapelle there is a lonely tomb. Its place is marked by no stately monument and but for its very lonliness it might pass unnoticed. A simple, moss-covered slab of stone bears the two words "Carolo Magno."
At these words the cold, dust-laden walls of the cathedral vanish; the streets of the staid old German town are again filled with all the pomp and splendor of a conquering army. The very mountain peaks, "those grim sentinels of the past ages," seem to lift their gray heads higher into the blue vault of Heaven, for they too are proud of the remembrance of the time when "Saxon kings from Britain, Saracen, Emirs from Spain, Lombard Dukes from Italy and the wild Slavonian chieftains" flocked to Aix-la-chapelle" to pay homage to the "greatest man of early European times,"to the master mind that shaped the destiny of the world, Charles the Great or Charlemagne.
The name attracts our thought to the formative period immediately following the final dissolution of the Roman Empire. Rome the once proud mistress of the world had met the inevitable end of all despotic governments. The thundering tramp of Gothic Legion and Vandal hosts was no longer heard; those barbarian hordes had worked their will upon the decayed and dying civilization. The arts and sciences of Greece, fostered by Rome had been almost entirely destroyed by the successive waves of barbarism that had swept over them. Even Christianity seemed to have well nigh lost its civilizing power. A sombre cloud of desolation was fast settling down over all Europe. There were two forces at war with one another; the one, the instinct of separation, disorder and anarchy caused by the ungoverned impulses and savage ignorance of the barbarian invaders; the other, the inner longing of the better minds for a formal unity of government. Upon the result of the struggle depended the fate of Europe, and the fate of Europe was the fate of the world. It was indeed a crisis in human affairs, but in answer to the cries of a dying civilization a mighty helper appeared in the person of Charlemagne.
were joined together in one mighty empire. Civilization was again revived.
In him Christianity found a new champion. The arts and sciences gained a protector. By him, the wild nations scattered over Europe
Taking up the scepter of his father and entering upon the administration of the affairs of Europe, he found his inheritance merely a collection of races scattered over the vast area from the Baltic to the Mediterranean sea. There was no cohesive force to bind together that vast aggregation of tribes; no common centralized power to which they might look for their laws. Learning for them was to be found only in the teachings of a few fearless mission monks. They, in the spirit of a good cause, had braved every danger to carry the Divine message to those ignorant northern people, whose rude and simple hearts had not yet felt the power of the Christian religion that was to "lay the foundation of modern nationality and develop European civilization." They made their homes in the gloomy recesses of the forest. They knew no law but that of the sword. To be great in war was the one ambition that ever stirred their savage breasts. Disorder reigned supreme.
But Charlemagne recognized the evils of the time and conquered them with that indomitable will which stamped him as "the greatest man for war and policy the world had known or was to know until a thousand years had elapsed." He clearly perceived the mighty power for conquest that had been given him in the command of such an army as that with which Charles Martel had defeated the followers of the "False Prophet." But he did not seek to become a mere military leader. His was a nobler and a grander mission than to climb to the throne of a world-conqueror over the bodies of his slaughtered soldiers. To Christianize as well as subjugate was the mission of Charlemagne.
But if you would not doubt his military genius, follow him through his numerous campaigns. See him as he hastens to the North to repel an invasion of those stubborn war-like Saxons or to the East to suppress the rebellious Slavs. See him flying to the South to drive back the infidel hosts of Mohammed who are fighting with the terrible religious fanaticism of the East, threatening to overrun Europe and blot out the last trace of Christianity. See him pressing over the Alps into Italy to aid a suppliant Pope, conquering the Lombards and placing the "iron crown of Lombardy" on his own head; and then, considering well the magnitude of these achievements, form your own estimate of the military genius of the man.
But the supreme greatness of Charlemagne lies in his solution of the perplexing problem of
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European government. It is this that distinguishes him from the mere wielder of the sword and places him as the brightest star in the galaxy of empire founders. With the instinct of a true warrior he had united under one scepter those many wild races, but it was with the colossal mind of a statesman that he welded them into a national confederation. Laying his hand upon the confusion and disorder of the time he "invoked the specter of departed law," and it became once more a living presence. A wave of his magic wand and the voice of anarchy was silenced. In response to his command learning and Christianity forsook the shaded cloister and came forth to instill into the hearts of that dark age the sublime truths that were in store for humanity.
The eyes of the world were upon the mighty Teuton who was gaining such a power over the West. His court was crowded with ambassadors to do him homage. The people of the far East sought his favor. Then came the great event of his life, aye the greatest event of the middle ages, Charlemagne, the barbarian warrior, was crowned by a Christian Pope with the imperial diadem of the Cæsars, and hailed as emperor by the assembled thousands. In that moment the wave of the "Teuton met the Roman." The life-blood was infused into the sluggish veins of the South. At that moment was laid the corner stone of the empire that was to be an influence in Europe for centuries. "That moment modern civilization began."
While the great emperor lived he preserved intact the empire which he had created but when the government no longer felt the magic power of his guiding hand it crumbled to decay. His institutions and his laws were trampled in the mire by his degenerate descendants. The funeral dirge of Charlemagne became the deathknell of the civilization which he had for a time revived.
Then Europe plunged into the chaotic darkness of feudalism and centuries elapsed before she again returned to view the dawning light of the new era. All that then remained, the story of the earthly greatness of Charlemagne, was the simple moss-covered slab in the old vine-covered church; but his example still lived in the minds of men. His spirit still shone as a guiding star in the midst of darkness. He had turned the tide of civilization and though it was stemmed for a time it only waited until it might again flow on with new impetus to redeem a lost world.
Oh Charlemagne, thou man of genius, mighty
master of armies, changer of the nation's destiny; thou didst perform thy mission well on earth. In the midst of disorder and anarchy thou didst rear the citadel of thy power. Thou didst build a despotism indeed, but based upon the church of God whose corner stone was Truth and whose spires did point despairing humanity to the kingdom of that loving Master who rules on high. Thy spirit was touched with the holy fire that descended in days of old to light the sacrificial altar of the praying prophet of Carmel. With the holy cross emblazoned on thy banner; the cause of all humanity thy cause, and Christ thy battle cry, white winged Victory perched upon thy sceptre and the Queen of Peace sat at thy right hand. Calumny may assail thy name and weak-minded censure be thy curse, but thy motives, oh mighty emperor, were above reproach. The path which thou didst tread with such majestic step, that it led thee to wield the sceptre of the world was bathed with no innocent blood. War was thy necessity not thy choice. If thou didst slaughter, it was to punish the enemies of Truth. If thou didst war it was in the defense of Truth. Thou was a friend of Knowledge. In an age of barbarism thou didst stand as an example of highest culture. In an age when savage cruelty dominated the hearts of men, justice and mercy tempered all thy dealings. When ignorance and superstition combined to assail Christianity's sacred castle thou didst stand as the conservator of God's law. The "Ruler of Nations" found in thee an obedient servant. The people found in thee a friend and Europe a benefactor.
When history shall have grown so old that it is no longer reckoned by epochs, and when those now living shall have long since sunk into the oblivion of a voiceless past, there will appear to the eyes of future generations three representatives of true human greatness, separated each from the other by an interval of one thousand years and standing for the three great epochs in the world's history. Turning their gaze backward through the ages first to them will appear Cæsar, the bright and consummate genius of early civilization. Then resting their eyes for a moment upon a more modern civilization they will see Washington the immortal "Father of his country," Defender of liberty. In honor of whose name will ascend the praise of millions of grateful hearts. While midway between these two and not surpassed in grandeur by either, there will appear, as the representative of the middle ages, seated upon a throne of power, clothed with royal majesty, a colossal figure. And the angel of
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light will descend and trace in letters of gold above his head, "Charlemagne, the great and peace-loving emperor of the Romans."
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The Rising or the Setting Sun?
[Second place in the preliminary contest was given to C.M. Sharpe.]
"The earth moves," cried Galileo; and we in this restless, rushing age have added, 'the world moves forward, ever realizing better and nobler things.' Glorious empire has been won. Neither the infinite nor the infinitesimal has been able to stay the onward march of man's all-conquering genius. What was thought to be simple has been shown to be compound; and what was thought to be complex has been proved simple. Old foundations have been destroyed and new ones laid. That which was high has been brought low; and that which was humble has been exalted. Behold what Man has wrought!
That these things are evidences of activity none will question: but not a few earnest and thoughtful minds will deny that there has been progress. Progress, they will tell us, is movement toward a goal. It is not revolution about a fixed point, nor is it oscillation between stationary terminals. It is necessary to the idea of progress that humanity shall consciously advance toward the realization of an end satisfi highest demands of the human press must therefore these just
Whatever be our theory of life, it must in some way stand related to the interests of Man. No ethical system can find acceptance which is not some phase of the idea of human well-being. It is plainly true, moreover, that the most popular phase of the idea is that expressed in terms of happiness. We are endowed with that insatiable craving for enjoyment and behold the world in which we live offers bounteously the means with which we may satisfy our desires. Surely God has not dealt with us as in the
Hellenic myth the Olympian dealt with Tantalus. Let us therefore "take the good the gods provide us." The utmost degree of happiness should be our aim.
This argument has ever appealed to the popular mind with convincing force; and, by reason of the life resulting from its practical acceptance, the doctrine has found place in modern scientific thought. For the scientific method is one of observation; and scientific laws are merely general statements of the manner in which phenomena regularly recur. Political Economy, borrowing its fundamental conceptions from Biology, observes the phenomena of the economic organism. It sees the children of men, in pursuit of happiness, competing among themselves for the possession of those material goods which are supposed to be the indispensable conditions of well-being. It learns from History that such has ever been the conduct of mankind; and upon this data it constructs its theory. Men will ever seek their own interests. The strong will be fat and flourishing, while the weak will decline and finally succumb. The law of Natural Selection obtains in the social as in the physical world. Nay, stress and strain must ever accompany progress, and so far from the strife ever being discontinued it must continually wax fiercer and fiercer. 'The race is to the swift and the victory to the strong.'
In harmony with this theory we see in society a continually widening divergence between groups and classes. Extremes of wealth and poverty meet our view. From these social and material differences result envys, strifes and bitternesses. In the face of increasing wealth there is increasing discontent. Science and invention have accomplished wonders but to the toiling multitudes their creations seem to bring bane rather than blessing. The result has thus far been to bestow upon some few a luxury, while mere existence is made more precarious for thousands.
To stem this on-rushing tide of social woe cer-
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tain methods are proposed—such as profitsharing, co-operation and state socialism, for all of which large claims are made by their advocates. We can by no means admit that these are specifics for the complete cure of social ills, yet we may frankly acknowledge that they contain about all the promise at present visible upon the industrial horizon. But are they not merely anodynes which at best can afford but a temporary and partial relief, and which contain within themselves the possibility of evils more fearful than those they are meant to assuage? For these associations are professedly to be founded upon the principle of self-interest, and nothing, so far as we can see, forbids a transference of the old strife to the new order. What reasons have we to suppose that an economic fuedalism will prove more favorable to human happiness than did the political feudalism of medieval times? Will Justice, Mercy and Love dwell more fully in the hearts of men when organized for their material advantage than has been the case in the struggle among individuals? There is no reason to believe it. The theory of association upon the principle of self-interest has been proven hollow and false. It can offer no hope to the aspirations of humanity.
To discover its golden age human imagination has ever looked backward to the infancy of the race. No longer is that delectable retrospection possible for by the clear light of scientific demonstration we see, when thus we look, the naked, shivering savage slowly and painfully emerging from the dense glooms of animalism. "Yet hope springs eternal in the human breast," and aspiring Man though he may no longer dream of return to an Eden lost turns his vision toward new Edens to be won. But his vista abruptly closes in mist or darkness. "He looks before and after and pines for what is not." He is unable to hope that there will be a dawn such as there has never been and no premonitory gleams of which he can discover amid the present gloom. In vain does the popular thoughtlessness of the world ceaselessly cry, 'Peace! Peace! All is well!' In vain do
sleek, well-fed poets sing the glories of the struggle and exhibit the disciplinary value of pain and sorrow. Suffering humanity cannot appreciate these truths. They seem but as the "barren sophistries of comfortables moles." In spite of optimistic exhortation a dull, leaden pessimism born of disappointed hope is rapidly enveloping human thought within its gloomy folds.
Are we then to abandon the high hopes which have nourished the courage of humanity? Shall we dissipate our aspirations in the dizzy dance of death or endure our hopelessness with the stolidity of despair?
We shall do neither; but believing in our heart of hearts, that Omnipotence is also Goodness, we will deny the universal validity of those principies which have led us into regions of thought so dismal. In opposition to Political Economy resting upon its foundations of Natural Science we will deny that selfishness and strife are the supreme laws of the world. In the name of Humanity's sovereign will and quenchless hope we will say unto Chemistry, 'Back unto thy bases and salts,—we are men, not atoms.'—And to Biology we will say, 'Concern yourself with plastidules and cells, of these you are master; but of mind and spirit thou knowest not nor can.' We will deny the legitimacy of that process by which are deduced from primitive stages of progress law for the interpretation of all subsequent development. We will revise the dictum of Rousseau and instead of saying "Back to Nature" we will say 'Forward to Nature.' We will refuse to admit that any observation of Simiads or Mollusks, however thorough and accurate, can yield principles upon which to elaborate a system of ethics for men. Instead of going back to the Tertiary or Paleozoic periods for our principles and then saying—These be the measures of all possibility for thee O Man!—We will take our stand upon the highest pinnacle reached by human thought and say to Man—Come up hither. We will interpret the lower through the higher. How foolish would we deem that pilot who should seek to steer by the line of foam
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lying in his wake rather than by the ready stars.
Rather than trace out the painful pathway that has led to the present "slough of despond,"—rather than follow it on until we plunge into a gulf of fathomless night, we will retrace our journey under the guidance of a thought enunciated by the great Huxley: "Whether from the brutes or not, Man is assuredly not of them." We will hold that conception of Man to be truest which commends itself to the highest reason and utmost spirituality of the race. For the embodiment of that ideal we shall go to Him in whose praise all tongues unite and in whose royal presence the world in reverence stands. However much both heart and reason bid us adore Him as the Son of God, it is only necessary for our present purpose that we consent to crown Him King of Men. Let us regard Him, if you please, as the highest product of the evolutionary process—the finality toward which the species has ever striven. Must not we upon this view place upon His brow the "royal diadem" and bow before His Majesty?
What then has the ideal man to say touching those principles necessary to a synthesis of individual or social life? What are the maxims upon which His own life was lived? Came He to the world seeking His own glory or gain? Listen: "The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give His life as a ransom for many." What said he concerning greatness? "He that would be chief among you let him be your servant." Not a word smacking of the spirit of modern economics. No strife or competition as to who shall get most but as to who shall give most.
found to have issued from an insistence upon that which ought to be rather than upon that which is. Humanity heeds not those voices which say 'go,' but those which say 'come.' He that has been lifted up it is, that draws all men unto Him.
Does any one say that this philosophy though very fine and very heroic, is thoroughly impracticable and hence not to be seriously proposed as a remedy for the ills that beset us? Are we met by the objection that these considerations are ideal, while the conditions which confront us are real? Alas, when shall we ever learn that the secret of all true progress lies in the assertion of the ideal as opposed to that which is called the real. All reform will be
The philosophy of Christ so far from being impracticable is in harmony with the general constitution of things. In the light of His teaching turn we now to the contemplation of Nature. See the constant interchanges and interactions between the multitudinous factors and forces throughout her ample range. Nothing exists from itself yet evermore persists through sacrifice. The spring bursting forth from beneath the rock gives up its waters to the brook. The brook goes singing merrily among the reeds and over the pebbles to pour its liquid treasure into the river. The river with majestic flow bears its silver volume downward to the sea. But even here there is no hoarding. The sun sends down his golden buckets and draws the waters into the clouds. The cloud, driven by the wind, sails across the landscape and touched to compassion at sight of the parched earth dissolves in showers of sacrificial tears. And yet it has not perished. It shall live again in the gladder music of re-animated life and in the thanksgiving of the human heart.
To this idea of self-sacrifice the world must surely come. All other principles have been tried and found wanting. The fair ideal so securely thorned upon the reason and conscience of the race is gradually asserting its dominion. The streaming mists of sophistry and the darksome clouds of materialistic thought cannot much longer contend with the pure white light streaming from the Sun of Righteousness. "The night is far spent," and soon will come the dawn of a new cosmic day in whose splendor redeemed humanity will unfold a beauty and power of life realizing the encomium of Israel's sweet singer: "Thou hast made Man a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honor."
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Locals.
Now these be the days of quizes.
Miss Poff has been ill the past week.
Mr. Ralph Haufman was in the city Tuesday.
The Senior Laws are reviewing Torts this week.
Reg. Brewster does not expect to be in school the second term.
Miss Emily Allen spent last Sunday at her home in Topeka.
Dr. Holmes has been sick this week and has met none of his classes.
The Sigma Chis attended the funeral services of Hall Riddle in a body.
Miss Willa Rogers of Topeka visited friends in Lawrence the first of the week.
Miss Cory will not be school next term but will return to her home in Drexel, Mo., Tuesday.
R. R. Keeley was called to his home in Augusta last Saturday by the illness of his mother.
Clyde Miller and Harold Smith will go to Kansas City Saturday to order costumes for The Rivals.
Miss Lewelling of Witchita, and Miss Cook of Davenport, Iowa, were guests of Pauline Lewelling last week.
Chas. Pettyjohn of Olathe who attended the University in '93 visited friends in Lawrence the first of the week.
Many students attended the excellent performance of Hamlet Tuesday evening despite the fact that it was quiz week.
The Senior Laws take up Fetter on "Equity" next Monday. Hon. David Martin Ex. C. J. of the Supreme Court will conduct the class.
Mr. Harry Sullivan the Ghost and First Player with Keene is a white Cloud boy. He was on the hill Wednesday with Mr. Reg. Brewster.
The caste for the rivals is now complete and they are rehearsing three nights per week. They expect to present the piece Feb. 20th.
Miss Agnes Hanson who is visiting friends in Newton, will return next week.
Mrs. Shawl entertained the Kappa Gammas with an informal reception last Saturday.
E. B. Spiers while exercising in the gymnasium Tuesday morning sprained his ankle and has been using crutches the balance of the week.
Clinton J. Moore who attended the University in '95 visited on the hill Monday. He is now editor and proprietor of the Oketo Herald.
Thomas W. Keene considers the young man who played Laertes in Hamlet as the most promising young actor on the American stage.
Grant Harrington, 189, editor of the Hiawatha Democrat, is to be Senator Harris's private secretary in Washington. He will not give up his paper.
J. L. King was relieved of his overcoat Tuesday morning. He left his coat in the cloakroom of the Library and when he returned for it, it was not.
Chancellor Snow has received an invitation to deliver the Commencement address before the graduating class of Plattsmouth High School, Nebraska.
Baker will probably not enter a man in the State Oratorical contest this year. President Murlin says that not very much interest is taken in oratory there this year.
It may be of interest to know that 57 per cent of the students are church members and that 73 per cent of the girls enrolled are members of some denomination.
One day last week an unusually observant visitor was being shown through the buildings and after having completed his tour of inspection asked to be shown the campus.
Miss Caughey was compelled to return to her home in Horton Wednesday on account of ill health. She will probably be able to resume her school work within a few weeks.
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Mr. A. M. Jackson put on Beta colors Thursday.
Miss Maud Crowder is wearing the Kappa colors.
Mrs. Stocks, wife of Senator Stocks is visiting Mrs.C.P.Grosvenor who entertains the Kappa Gammas Saturday in her honor.
The Law School decided to have an orator for Commencement and is to negotiate with W. J.Bryan—who if present will speak Tuesday morning of Commencement week.
The Chancellor will lecture Thursday night at Belle Plaine on the Distribution of Animal Life; Friday at Conway Springs on King's River Canon; Saturday at Wellington before the Teacher's Association on Higher Education.
Prof. Franklin has been granted a six months leave of absence. He expects to leave at once for Costa Rica where he has obtained a position as expert chemist for a mining company. The company is composed of Denver and Topeka capitalists.
Professor Emch has at length decided to accept the professorship of Mathematics that has been offered him in the Biel Polytechnic School, Switzerland. His resignation takes effect the first of February, and he will be in his chair February 20th.
Prof. Haworth received specimens Tuesday morning indicating the discovery of gold in one of the Western counties of the State. He has received specimens from two different sources from the same region. He will leave for the West sometime within the week.
Dr. Edward Bartow of Williams College has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Prof. Franklin's departure for Costa Rica Dr. Bartow comes to the University with very high recommendations from Pres.Carter. He will enter upon his new duties Monday.
President Carter of Williams College, Mass., will be in Lawrence February 17th. He speaks at Lincoln February 16th which is charter day for the Nebraska State University.
President Carter and Chancellor Snow were
classmates in Williams College and graduated from Williams in 71. This class has since been known as the "president's" class; among its members being four college presidents and numerous professors.
The auditing committee of the Board of Regents has been auditing the treasurer's account for the first quarter. They were in session Tuesday and Wednesday. F. G. Crowell, H. S. Clarke, and J. P. Sams constitute the committee.
Prof. Newson has just received from the library of the University of Chicago a package of books containing several volumes of Acta Mathematica. These volumes contain an important series of papers by Poincare on subjects connected with Prof.Newson's investigations. He is required to pay the express charges both ways and may keep the books three weeks.
Thursday was observed as the Day of Prayer for Colleges by the Y.M. and Y.W.C.A. Chapel exercises were conducted by Ex-Chancellor Marvin and a male quartette rendered some excellent music. In the evening from 7 to 8 a meeting of the two societies was held in the M.E. Church, Gomer Thomas being the leader. Special music was rendered by the Misses Riggs.
Prof. Blake lectured before the Medical Society last Tuesday evening on "Matter, Motion, and Energy" from the physiological view. The members of the Medical Society were so well pleased with his lecture, that they will probably endeavor to obtain him to give them a series of lectures this coming term.
Chapel Notes.
Prof. Hodder has led this week, and has read some excellent selections from sermons of Dr. Kepworth of Boston.
Thursday being the day of prayer for Colleges, the exercises that morning were arranged accordingly by the Christian Associations. Rev. Dr. Marvin made an appropriate address, and there was special music by a male quartette consisting of Messrs. Peairs, Wilson, Marshall, and House.
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Fine Arts.
There will be a recital at Music Hall Wednesday Feb. 3rd, at 4:15 p.m.
Seminary last Wednesday, was led by Miss Alberta Winnek. Technique was the subject. Miss Agnes Lapham, whose technique is superior to the average pupil, played a selection in illustration of the Leschetitzky method taught by Prof. Preyer.
The Oratorio Society has introduced the social element into their rehearsals, having an intermission of fifteen minutes, for a good time and some special attraction. Their study is the Creation.
The Euterpe Club will give an open meeting at Music Hall, Thursday Feb. 4th, to which all in the Music school are invited. The election of officers will take place the following Monday at five p. m.
Mr. Jackson, who has been studying vocal with Prof. Farrell has gone home not to return until next Fall.
Prof. Wilcox favored the Aesthetics class with his illustrated lecture on the Recent Excavations of Troy, Tiryns, and Mycenae. The members of the class were very appreciative.
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There was no seminary this week on account of examinations.
The South Laboratory Social-Science Club, gave a very pleasant little "hop" last Tuesday morning in honor of Miss Woodman. Delicious refreshments were served in the daintiest of glass and Royal Berlin porcelain. Each departing guest was presented with a pretty souvenir.
The students in qualitative are working like beevers on their "quiz" solutions while those in quantitative are going along at their same old rate which is not changed by war, famine or pestilence, in fact they seem to fear neither man nor examinations.
Science Notes.
Prof. Dyche spent Monday in Topeka.
Mr. McClung who has been studying at Columbia College returned last week. He will take charge of the class in Histology.
On account of the crowded condition of the museum, a number of geological specimens were placed in the campus to make room for material of more importance.
The Entomological department offers the following studies for next term; the teachers course; a course in invertebrate Zoology; a more general one, consisting of lectures, recitations and original papers, and a special one with laboratory work and theses.
The Zoological department is busy mounting a group of walrus. One specimen, which when captured weighed two tons, is already finished, but will not be exhibited on account of lack of room.
"It."
The Science Club is going to celebrate "It," Friday Feb. 12th. "It" is rumored that "It" will beat anything in "Its" line, ever seen here before,nobody can afford to miss "It." Tickets for "It" will be placed on sale Feb. 1. The sale of tickets will be closed the day before"It" comes off. Can you afford to miss "It?"
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Library.
Library.
The following is a list of some of the books just received:
Muther, Richard. History of Modern Painting, 3 Vols.
Flower, B. O. The Century of Sir Thomas More.
Molineux, Marie Ada. A Phrase Book from the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning.
Rolfe. William, J. Shakespeare the Boy, with Sketches of the Home and School Life, the Games and Sports, the Manners, Customs, and Folk-lore of the Time.
Stockton, Frank R. The Lady or the Tiger? and Other Stories, Pomona's Travels, The Rudder Grangers Abroad.
Howell's, W. D. An Imperative Duty, The Minister's Charge, A Hazard of New Fortunes, A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham, The Sleeping Car, Venetian Life, and Other Farces.
MacArthur, Arthur. Education in Its Relation to Manual Industry.
Wiltse, Sara E. The Place of the Story in Early Education, and other Essays.
Orr, James. The Christian View of God and the World as Centring in the Incarnation.
Fairbairn, A. M. The Place of Christ in Modern Theology.
Maver, William, Jr. American Telegraphy, Systems, Apparatus, Operations, Levy, Maurice, La Statique Graphique et ses Applications aux Constructions, 3 Vols.
Flamant, A, Mecanique Generale, and Resistance des Materiaux.
Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education for the years 1893, 1894, 1895.
The following is a list of some of the books just received:
Muther, Richard. History of Modern Painting, 3 Vols.
Flower, B. O. The Century of Sir Thomas More.
Molineux, Marie Ada. A Phrase Book from the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning.
Rolfe. William, J. Shakespeare the Boy with Sketches of the Home and School Life the Games and Sports,the Manners,Customs and Folk-lore of the Time.
Stockton, Frank R. The Lady or the Tiger? and Other Stories, Pomona's Travels, The Rudder Grangers Abroad.
Howell's, W. D. An Imperative Duty, The Minister's Charge, A Hazard of New Fortunes, A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham, The Sleeping Car, Venetian Life, and Other Farces.
MacArthur, Arthur. Education in Its Relation to Manual Industry.
Wiltse, Sara E. The Place of the Story in Early Education, and other Essays.
Orr, James. The Christian View of God and the World as Centring in the Incarnation.
Fairbairn, A. M. The Place of Christ in Modern Theology.
Maver, William, Jr. American Telegraphy, Systems, Apparatus, Operations, Levy, Maurice, La Statique Graphique et ses Applications aux Constructions, 3 Vols.
Flamant, A, Mecanique Generale, and Resistance des Materiaux.
Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education for the years 1893, 1894, 1895.
Oratorical Contest.
The preliminary oratorical contest was held Friday evening in the Chapel and was pronounced to have been the most successful one held in years here. The audience although not filling the Chapel was much larger than it usuallly is on such occasions and it certainly
was an appreciative one. The orations were interspersed with an excellent musical program consisting of a violin solo, Miss Bowersock, vocal solo, Miss Daisy Starr, and the Lorelei quartette.
Miss Reed was the first speaker of the evening introduced by President House. Her topic was "The Promise of Woman;" Mr. G. W. Ellis came next with an oration on "The Value of Conservatism in Our Republic;" Mr. E. M. Carney of the Law school followed with an oration on "Martyr or Traitor—Which?" Mr. L. C. Gray talked on the subject, "Why Government At All?" This was a very thoughtful production being logical and well built in every way. It ranked third in the estimation of the judges. The oration taking first place was delivered by W. T. McMurray and was a polished effort. He took for his subject "Charlemagne." The decision of the judges met with universal approval. Mr. C. M. Sharpe came last and delivered a most excellent oration entitled "The Rising or the Setting Sun?" He was awarded second place. The following is the list of judges on Thought and Composition; Mr. Mitchell, Dr. Cordley, Dr. Marvin: on Delivery Mr. J. E. Peairs, Prof. Smith, Rev. Banker.
The following is the list of markings:
Thought and Composition. Delivery.
Mitchell 92% 78 85 5 3 4 12 82 81 80 5 5 4 14 26 4 Cordley Marvin M. Rank C. Rank M. Rank Sum Smith Peairs Banker S. Rank P. Rank B. Rank Sum Sum of R. Ellis 93% 72 60 3 5 6 14 80 84 6 4 3 13 27 5 Carney 91 75 80 6 4 5 15 85 80 72 4 6 6 16 31 6 Gray 93 70 90 6 4 3 12 88 94 76 2 2 5 9 21 3 McMurray 94 85 88 2 2 3 7 91 97 91 1 1 1 3 10 1 Sharpe 96 90 95 1 1 1 3 87 92 88 3 3 2 8 11 2
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Murat Halstead.
A large audience was present in University Hall last Saturday night, despite the inclemency of the weather, to hear Murat Halstead, the noted journalist.
Professor Hodder introduced the speaker in a most happy manner, which the speaker seemed to appreciate after his remarkable experience in Topeka the day and evening previous.
Mr. Halstead had chosen for his subject, Cuban Affairs and he spoke interestingly for an hour and a half, stating both the present condition of affairs there and also describing his experience in Cuba during the summer of 196.
He was sent by the New York Journal to write up the condition of affairs as they were then and he spared no pains in getting the facts and stories of both Spanish and Cuban sides.
His talk was by no means in oratorical vein but was a most excellent and graphic description of the country, people, cause of the rebellion and the Spanish attempts at suppression. He also in conclusion stated his views in regard to the attitude of the United States towards the Cubans and while not advocating a radical stand in support of the Cubans he hoped some day in the near future to see Old Glory floating over the land of the oppressed and down-trodden people.
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William Halderman Riddle.
Among the graduates of the Kansas University, class of '93, was William Halderman Riddle, a young man of great promise. A scholar, a christian gentleman, of irreproachable character, he belonged to the best class of noble young men.
Along all lines of study that he pursued, he was mentally strong. Thoroughness was the motto of his life, and a determination to overcome all difficulties was one of the leading characteristics of his mind. Naturally his aims were high. His ambition was to succeed by fair and honorable means. He spurned everything that was low and dishonest.
After his graduation, Mr. Riddle taught Mathematics in the Lawrence High School one year, then went to Harvard University to do special work in Mathematics. He held a scholarship in that University. Shortly before his return to Lawrence from Harvard, last summer, Mr. Riddle was appointed assistant professor in Mathematics in the Minnesota State University. He expected to devote his life to the teaching of his favorite study, and he was certainly well fitted to do such work, for in the University here, in the City High School, and in Harvard, everywhere, his aptitude for Mathematics was plainly manifest.
A fortnight ago, in the strength of his young manhood, in the vigor of life, full of plans and hopes for the future, he was cut down by a terrible calamity, a railroad collision. At the early age of 24, when life's dreams were beginning to become realities, when success seemed to be already within his grasp, the summons came, he closed his eyes, and now he sleeps in the city of the dead. His was a short life, but a strong and a good one.
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The University loses Prof. Emch.
In the departure of Dr. Arnold Emch the University of Kansas loses one of its most promising young instructors. The public is not generally aware of the Mathematical ability and activity of this remarkable young man. When he applied for admission to the University two and a half years ago as a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy he made the statement that he was prepared to conduct any of the advanced courses in Mathematics offered in the catalogue. This sounded like a rash statement coming from a man of twentythree, but the writer soon found upon acquaintance with him that his claim was less than the truth.
His Mathematical ability rises nearly to the level of genius. Educated at the Polytechnicum at Zuerich, Switzerland, he readily absorbed the lectures of such masters of Geometry and Analysis as Fiedler, Frobenius, Hurwitz, Schottky, and others. In certain lines of work such as Synthetic and Descriptive Geometry, Analytical and Graphical Statics Zuerich is without a rival among the Universities of the world. Thus favored by nature and educational advantages Dr. Emch is prepared to do a very high grade of work. There are less than half a dozen men on this side of the Atlantic who can show better equipment than he for certain lines of work. It is very much to be regretted that this University is not yet able to offer to its students advanced courses in the subjects which Dr. Emch is so well equipped to teach.
During his stay at this University he has turned his attention more to pure Mathematics. During the present term he has conducted, outside of his required duties and for the pure love of it, the first course in Theory of Functions ever given in the University of Kansas. His lectures were heard by a large class of our students. He has published eight papers on Mathematical topics since coming to Lawrence, one of these being his Doctor's Dissertation. He is now well launched upon the sea of Mathematical discovery and is rapidly producing original work of a high grade. There are few
men of twenty-five either in this country or in Europe whose promise and performance can measure up to his; there may be others, but the writer does not know of his equal.
In leaving America for Switzerland he is throwing himself into the stream of Old World scientific progress where the competition for recognition and position is much more severe than here; there it is a veritable struggle for existence and only the fittest survive. It is a brave thing to do and but few would care to take the risks. Baring accidents to his career it is safe to venture the prediction that our University's first Ph. D. will do her honor in the learned circles of Europe. We lose a young man of brilliant promise but Switzerland gets back that which is rightfully her own. H.B.N.
Cut Prices On Shoes.
All Men's $5.00 shoes—Calf, Enamel, Cork Sole and Russia Calf for $3.25.
All Men's Calf Welt $3.50 shoes for $2.65.
Corresponding reductions in Ladies Extension Sole shoes-Button or Lace.
Patent Leather Pumps worth $2.50 at $1.90.
Full line of Party Slippers in Black, Satin or Kid.
Bullene Shoe Co.
Boys see to it that the steward of your club gets his Tooth Picks at Raymond's Drug Store. Hard Wood Tooth Picks 5 and 10 c. per box. World's Fair Picks at 10 c. 3 for 25 c. Don't waste matches whittling out tooth picks
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Kansas University Weekly.
C. L. Fay returned to school this morning.
The annual election of the Oratorical Association was held in the Chapel Friday at 12. Frank Swett was elected president, C. A. Burney, vice-president, Miss Gertrude Chapman, secretary, R. L. Stewart, second delegate.
A PRINCETON man has invented a machine for pitching curves with a base-ball. The U.of M. Daily describes it as "a gun which a man carries in his arms, with which he can shoot a base-ball at any speed and give an out-curve, an in-curve, a drop, and a rise, the last, however, being practically a very swift straight ball, for Mr. Hinton has not yet succeeded in over coming the law of gravitation." The gun is intended merely to give practice to batsman, and will probably be of considerable value for this purpose. The next thing to be expected and hoped for is an automatic umpire.
FAUST.
Thursday, Feb'y. 4. Guaranteed personal appearance of Mr. Morrison.
Lewis Morrison will pay his annual visit to this City on presenting his well known and always popular production of Goethe's "Faust" which will never pall upon lovers of things theatric for its story is always bright and entertaining however often told. Mr. Morrison in his conception of Mephisto is a sly insinuating devil, an evil one of such great personality that he dominates not only the play but the players as well. In every scene and act Mephisto is the centre around which all the others revolve and it can be truly said that Mr. Morrison is an idealization of the part in every way. The production of this season will be seen with entirely new stage settings and scenic environment more elaborate if anything than those which
have preceded it in seasons past. The electric effects are still a notable novelty unsurpassed by none and equalled by few attractions that have been given us since electricity came to be such an important factor in stage effects. The supporting company embraces that very talented and winning actress Florence Roberts as Marguerite and White Whittlesey as Faust. Seats on sale Tuesday morning.
Popular Low-Price California Excursions.
The Santa Fe Route personally conducted weekly excursions to California are deservedly popular. About one-third saved in price of railroad and sleeper tickets as compared with first-class passage.
The improved Pullmans occupied by these parties are of 1896 pattern and afford every necessary convenience. A porter goes with each car, and an experienced agent of the Company is in charge.
The Santa Fe's California line is remarkably picturesque, and its middle course across the continent avoids the discomforts of extreme heat or cold.
Daily service, same as above, except as regards agent in charge.
For descriptive literature and other information; address G. T. NICHOLSON, G. P. A., A., T. & S. F. Ry., Chicago.
W
WEAVER'S
Annual Sale of
LINENS NAPKINS TOWELS and CRASHES
Begins Tuesday, February 2, and lasts a week.
Students
Make MONEY by using Cash Customers' Ticket Books, Books free. Office at FAXON'S SHOE STORE.
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Cough Tablets, all kinds, at Leis Drug Co's. LaVelle's Dentone for cleaning the teeth and hardening the gums, at Leis Drug Co's.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students with coal and wood at the lowest prices. Offices: 1007 Mass. Street. and West of National Bank.
Go to Jaedicke's for skates. New line of skates just received at Jaedicke's. Stop at the University Barber Shop for a first class shave, hair cut, etc.
Barney & Berry skates for sale at Jaedicke's. Jackson's Steam Laundry, Kansas City, Mo. If you send your work to us it will be returned to you Friday, in season for the entertainments.
ALVAH SOUDER,
OREAD PLACE, Agent.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students the coal and wood at the lowest prices. All kinds of fine stationery at 710 Mass., st. Buy your Teas and Coffees of W.S.Everett, the only Tea and Coffee house in the city. 745 Massachusetts st.
K. S. U. Bouquet,
The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume on the market.
For sale only at Barber Bros. Drug Store.
Barber Bros., Drug Store.
C. W. Straffon, the druggist, is sole agent for the Harwood Guitars and Mandolins.
Buy your stationery of Keeler.
Give your typewriting work to C. E. Rose, 716 Miss. street.
American Club skates for ladies and gentlemen in all sizes and kinds, full stock on hand. Padlock Hardware Store, Chas. Achning, 822 Mass. St.
Go to Tracy Learnard's for School Supplies. Well selected stock. Low prices. 710 Mass., street.
The new colored leather for shoes are
TITAN CALF
in a rich chestnut. Russian Calf in a dark and ruby color. These we have made up in the $3.00 and $4.00 qualities in the new Coln toe—long drawn out—and Nichols toe, which is shorter and wider more on the Bull Dog order. We have in widths B to E and sizes 51/2 to 10. They have been turned out during the dull time at the factory and appear to have been made with the greatest care.
FAXON the shoe man.
TITAN.
Do
Do You Bathe?
City Y. M.C.A.will give
BATHS for the rest of the School Year to non-resident students for
$1.50. Hot water every afternoon and evening.
W. W. SAVAGE,
W. W. SAVAGE,
Successor to KIRBY & HILL,
Will gladly furnish anything you want in
FINE AND STAPLE GROCERIES.
1300 Massachusetts Street.
A. GIFFORD, M. D.,
ASSISTANT SURGEON OF U. P. R. R.
Office 917 Mess. Street. Telephone No.24.
Residence 116 Quincy Street. Lawrence, Kansas.
FIRE
FOR RELIABLE
LIFE
INSURANCE
Go to A. L. SELIG.
TORNADO ACCIDENT
FULL LINE OF UNIVERSITY TEXT-BOOKS JUST IN. The University Book Store, L.M.GIBB Prepistor
THE LAWRENCE BUSINESS COLLEGE
is one of the famous Coonrod & Smith chain of business schools located at Kansas City, and St. Joseph, Mo., Lawrence and Atchison, Kans. Book-keeping, Short-hand, Typewriting Penmanship and all common and commercial branches are thoroughly taught by competent instructors. Thousands of former students and graduates in positions. Students may enroll at any time. Write for catalogue containing full information to I. C. STEVENSON, Prin., Lawrence, Kans
Lawrence, Kans.
Call on Keeler for stationery.
A full line of tablets and stationery is on sale at Tracy Learnard's.
It will pay you to see Straffon for anything in the music line.
Call and see the fine line of pictures which Tracy Learnard is now showing.
Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
Go to Smith's News Stand for your canes, late periodicals, etc.
The Best Place to buy Handkerchiefs Gloves-Fancy Articles, Silk Dress Goods and Coats is at INNES'.
Frazier Hall has been put in good condition and is for rent for dances and gatherings of any kind. It is said to be the best hall for dances in the state. Apply of R. Stewart or L. O. McIntire.
When you come to Woodward's after those four-for-a-quarter Havana Cigars (special snap) say that you saw them advertised in this paper!
ED. ANDERSON,
Oyster Parlor,
Lunch Counter, Confectionery.
714 Mass. Street.
-- Dealers in --
JONES & MULLANY,
Club Trade Solicited.
FRESH AND SALT MEATS.
Go to the Old Reliable
STUDENTS' SHOEMAKER JAS. E. EDMONDSON, 915 Mass. St.
Point YOUR ORDERS FOR
A
Football and Athletic Goods
...AT...
Schmelzer Arms Co.
The largest and cheapest Sporting Goods House in the West 710-712 and 714 Main Street,
KANSAS CITY, MO.
CULVER'S
... CASH GROCERY,
639
MASS. ST.
The Club Grocery of the City. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY WAY.
TELEPHONE 77.
RUSSELL & METCALF.
MONEY TO LOAN
----ON----
REAL ESTATE.
Wm. Wiedemann
Oyster Parlor.
米
Fine @confections.
The Wilder Bros. Shirt Co.
O
SHIRT MAKERS ---- AND ---- GENT'S FURNISHING.
Rules for self measurement and samples sent on application. All measures registered. Our laundry work is not surpassed in the West.
SIMPSON & KELLEY. University Solicitors.
1027 MASS. STREET.
MORRIS THE PHOTO ARTIST.
EVERYTHING THE LATEST. SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS. 829 MASS. STREET.
★STAR BAKERY,★
HENRY GERHARD & BRO., PROP'S.
WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF UNIVERSITY PEOPLE. . .
WILLIS'
PHOTO STUDIO,
933 MASS. ST.
SHOES NEATLY REPAIRED.
Good Work and Cheap.
O. F. HARSHMAN.
1017½ Mass. St. (Deaf Mute.
SECOND HAND BOOTS AND SHOES BOUGHT AND SOLD.
R. B.WAGSTAFF,
DEALER IN
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
CLUB TRADE A SPCIALTY.
947 Mass. Street. Telephone 25.
C. L. EDWARDS INSURANCE AGENT AND DEALER IN
AND DEALER IN
ALL KINDS OF COAL.
WARREN ST., 2D DOOR WEST OF MASS. ST.
CHAS. HESS,
MEAT MARKET.
Choice Fresh and Salt Meats Always on hand . . . . . . 941 MASS. ST.
Telephone 14...
DONNELLY BROTHERS,
LIVERY, FEED & HACK STABLES
Corner New Hampshire & Winthrop Sts. Telephone No. 100.
THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE
Gives better results than any other American Company.
J. R. GRIGGS, Agent.
Lawrence. - - - - - - Kansas.
HOME BAKERY,
J. H. JOHNSON, Prop.
West Warren St., - - - Lawrence, Kan.
Short Order Meals a Specialty. Fresh Confectionery and Cigars on hand.
SEE ROBERTSON BROS.
For anything in the line of furniture. Odd pieces a specialty, also practical Undertakers and Embalmers,
808 AND 810 MASS. ST.
VII
The Emporia . . .
Steam Laundry
Does the Best, and Cheapest. work in State Collars 2 cts.Cuffs 4 cts.
BEST BUILT IN A HEAVY DUTY ENVIRONMENT.
E. B. Sierer, Agent.
LAWRENCE GAS CO.
ABE LEVY AGENT.
Will supply students with COKE at reasonable rates.
EAST HENRY STREET.
McCURDY BROS., GROCERS.
Staple and fancy
Groceries.
CLUB TRADE SOLICITED.
933 Mass. Street. Telephone 65.
WOOLF BROS.
LAUNDRY GO.
LAUNDRY GO.
WILL McMURRAY, Solicitor. Goods called for and delivered.
BEAL & GODDING
KEEP THE
POPULAR LIVERY STABLE.
Telephone 139.
McClure & Simpson.
OUR AIM: The Best Quality at Cheapest Prices
Special attention to club trade.
1023 MASS. ST. TELEPHONE 15.
ZUTTERMEISTER'S OYSTER PARLOR.
For fine confections and home made candies give him a trial.
M. M.
'OLIN BELL,
Western Distributing Agent for
Shaw Pianos. Bay State
Russell Pianos, Washburn
Other First Class Pianos. Schwarzer
Easy Payments If desired.
Mandolins and Guitars.
Easy Payments If desired. PIANOS TO RENT. Special Prices to K. U. Students. 'OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE, KS.
CONSOLIDATED BARB WIRE CO.
PLAIN WIRE, BARB WIRE,
WIRE NAILS, BALE TIES,
LAWRENCE. KAS.
CULBERTSON & THOBURN.
COAL AND WOOD.
OFFICE: Basement of Merchants Nat'l Bank.
GIVE US A CALL OR TELEPHONE NO. 84.
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The Copetand,
Ninth Street and Kansas Avenue.
TOPEKA KANS.,
J. C. Gordon, Owner and Proprietor
Winship Teachers Agency (New England Bureau of Education) 3rd. Somerset St. Boston. Oldest, and most reliable in New England. One fee registers in both offices H.C, FELLOW, Western Manager. TOPEKA, KANS.,