The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-06-19


became too crowded In 1870 the city
of Lawrence voted 500, 600 IN bonds for
the erection Of new building, which
was opened in Decent Der, 1872. The
university suffered from grasshOpPers
and the financial depression OF the time.
and it was not until a year after the adj
vent of Chancellor James Marvin, IN
November, 1874, that prosperity shone
brightly upon it
Prof Arthur G. Garfield contributes
an excellent account OF student life at
the university. It is of course interest
ing chiefly to those who are or have
been intimately connected with the in
stitution. In his analysis of student
life at this university he finds an alb
sence of what is known as ''class spir-
it" which, he believes, is the almost
necessary consequence of the very
mixed class relations of most students
in the earlier years and of the diversity
of courses and wide range of electives
in later times. He finds that it is the
fraternity which has been by far the
most important unit within the
in politics Almost all those So
cial events which have a well
marked university character have been
due to some one or other of the frater-
mites. The receptions and parties that
belong specifically to the student world
ana are reg quarry recurring 10dbu4CS u
the social year are frate rnity parties
and receptions There have been nine
fraternities in the university, six be-
longing to the young men and three to
women. About 100 of the 221 cOllegi-
ate undergraduates at the present time
are members of fraternities.
Prof. D. II. Robinson, of the chair of
Latin and the senior member of the
faculty, contributes a chapter of renai-
ii
nection with the university. His first
Renaissance is of the first call made
by Prof Snow and himself upon Chan
cellOr Oliver. He thus describes this call:
''We desired from the Official head of
the university definite instructions in
relation to opening the institution the
coming week. Greeting us very kindly
the chancellor invited us to his study.
The air was thick with tobacco smoke.
Regent Starrett was present, smoking
pipe with a stem about six feet long.
Six or eight similar pipes and large
pouch of tobacco were lying on the
table. The men were evidently hail
fellows we'll met, and We're having the
jOlliest kind of time. Our coming had
broken off one of StaPrett best stories
and he could tell good ones. Politely
declining to join in the smoking, farther
than was absolutely necessary, we
tried Co state our business. But
no; that interrupted story must first
be finished. It was a good story and so
well told that we had to have another
to match it The fun then grew fast, if
not furious, one story provoking an
other in rapid succession, and the air
all the time growing thicker and bluer
until we, poor fellows, half sick, finally
insisted that we could stay no longer
| and asked what preparations we should
| make for the opening of the university
| 1 think we expected, in rather vague
way, some general instructions about
| the reception of students from high
| schools upon examination and from
| other institutions upon certificates Our
| genial chancellor, after considering a
moment kindly gave US our instruc-
tiOns-the most unique, presume, ever
! given by the head of a great institution
| to his colleagues. Speaking with a
strong Scotch accent, which 1 shall not
! try to indicate, he said: I would ad-
| wise you, young gentlemen to go to
| Mr.. Jaedicke's gun shop and hire
some guns, and to Mr.. O'COnnor's livery
| stable and hire some saddle horses and
go away back on the hill and hunt
prairie chickens. You may be gone two
or three days. This will be as good
| preparation for your work next week
as you can make Saying this he dis
missed us. We were somewhat sur
pT1SeCs TO say the least. ms advice
though somewhat cOngenial to our in
clinatiOns, seemed, however, scarcely
to fit the question. We were not We
sufficiently experienced in university
work to see the relation between hunt
ing prairie chickens and preparing
questions for entrance examinations
Bowling to our chancellor's wider ex
perience we took our departure, non,
the WISER
. | In regard tO the oDeuiuor ~ +Ia sas
sion Prof. Robinson continues:
= AT last the expected morning came
= September II, 1856. The faculty wen
all present early. No one else, how
ever came for some time, except two o
three noisy carpenters, who We're a
: work on the stairs Soon p few boy
and girls from town came stragglin,
| in, and after awhile a few more
l Later still came those from create
: distances-from Grant, Walzardsa, Kar
i vyalza, and some, I think, from far-o1
Palmyra All townships in DOugla