1111111111111MMIS OM 01111111111111111 =MUM 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 THE JAYHAWKER I I L...................... ammo= 1 on Vol. IV No, 6 A PAPER FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE Kansas State Agricultural College I I Manhattan ..ri: I I I I i 1 I I I I I I April I 1906 =MI 1111111111EIMIlle 1111111 UNIMIN111111110 UMW 1111111111111111 MUM MID 1.111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111.11111111NMOMMIONINIONIIIIIIIIIIIIM 0111111111111111111111111M 4011111111111111 Kansas State Agricultural College I SEVEN FOUR-YEAR COURSES OF STUDY Each leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science, are as follows: 1. Agriculture. 2. Domestic Science. 3. Mechanical Engineering. 4. Electrical Engineering. 5. Architecture. 6. General Science. 7. Veterinary Science. THREE SHORT COURSES Open to students of mature age who cannot, for lack of time or money, take one of the four-year courses. 1. Domestic Science, two fall terms of twelve weeks each. 2. 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DeArmond, Sitka, Alaska. cost of $2,500,000, and rate of trans- ON a steam -boat trip from Seattle, portation can be imagined from the Wash., to Sitka, Alaska, a dis- fact that the road, it is said, paid for tance of eleven hundred miles, itself the first year operated. via the inside passage, so called be- Our article, however, will deal with cause its course is between the main- Sitka and adjacent points of interest. land and many islands, which form a As the ship approaches the village protection against and break the ocean from the north, and just before coming swell that is so unpleasant to most in sight, ones attention is perhaps persons not used to ocean travel, one drawn, by some of the ship's crew, to a is carried for five days through the few Indian huts and a large white cross, grandest, most awe-inspiring scenery in a small bay to the port side of the in the world. Water and snow, vessel. This marks the site of the first stream and glacier, mountain and for- Russian settlement in Alaska, now est combine with the wild rugged coast called Old Sitka. The settlers here were line to present, with the moving boat, all massacred by the Indians in 1801. an ever-changing view, far too grand The cross was erected by the Russian to be painted in words. This coast Church in commemoration of these line is sometimes so near that any boy poor sufferers. could cast a stone ashore from the When the mother country learned ship's deck, and at other times it is of this terrible deed, war -ships were several miles distant. Here the pas- sent to avenge the wrong and to estab- sengers often amuse themselves by vy- lish and protect new colonies. It was ing with each other in guessing which at this time that the present site was way the pilot will next take the boat. chosen and the town as we now know Occasionally a few native huts, the it established, a little more than a cen- lonely cabin of a prospector or fisher- tury ago. After several battles the man, or a Government lighthouse on Natives were subdued and in a short some especially dangerous point, gives time a thriving village was built up. the only hint of human habitation. A stockade was erected around the When Juneau is reached one is im- site and an armed guard kept on ivatch. pressed, however, at the wonderful Ship building and many manufactur- progress made in town building on ing concerns did a prosperous busi- the mountain sides, and can fully re- ness at this time, and especially dur- alize the magnitude of the undertaking ing the early settlement of California, to develop this country, only after a after the discovery of gold, when a trip over the White Pass and Yukon great amount of shipping was done Railroad. It is claimed that this is fromhere to California points. Native one of the greatest pieces of engineer- labor was employed for the most part ing accomplishment in the world. An and at a very low wage, paid prin- idea may be gained from the fact that cipally in rum, which demoralized the the road is a narrow gauge but one savage to a much lower degree. Added 120 THE JAYHAWKER. to this they were taught the use of use, among them the warehouse, bar- the still, and a black molasses was racks, custom -house, and sawmill. furnished them in exchange for furs, The first attraction, entering Sitka fish, and game. From this molasses bay, is the many beautiful islands an intoxicating liquor was made. which protect us from the fury of the When our Uncle Sam purchased the ocean waves. There are one hundred Territory, this was all changed. The twenty-three of these islands, each cov- Glimpse of Walk in Government Park Preserve, Sitka, Alaska, stockade was torn down, one block- ered with spruce, hemlock, cedar, house being preserved as a memento alder and wild crabapple trees. On of the time. The stills were all des- the larger of the islands the Navy De- troyed and rigid laws enforced against partment has erected coal bunkers, and the giving or the selling of intoxicants there have coal stored for her ships in to the Indians. Under this rule the case of an emergency. In town the native Alaskan is peaceable, self-sup- Greek church usually receives the first porting, and energetic. Many of them attention of the visitors. This is an are deserving of citizenship, being imposing log structure, and yet would more worthy than many of the foreign- hardly be thought to hold the most ers that are granted the privilege un- valuable robes, church paraphernalia der our Government. The Christian and equipment in America, but it is so missionaries, with their schools, must claimed. Some of the robes are heav- receive a great deal of credit for this ily trimmed with silver and gold laces. development, however. One crown the priest wears during cer- Sitka is now a town of eight hundred tain services is gold, richly set with inhabitants, half of which are Indians, diamonds and other precious stones. the remainder being whites and Rus- Every one, on coming to Sitka, takes sians. Many of the log buildings a walk through the Government park erected during the early existance of preserve to Indian river and the to- the place are yet in good repair and in tem poles, for it is the most beautiful THE JAYHAWKEP. 121 walk in Alaska. On the way, how- ones time, who hasn't seen such, to ever, we must notice the Sitka Train- study these. ing School for native children. This The walk through the park is a school, supported by the Home Mis- gravel one winding in and out among sion Board of the Presbyterian the spruce hemlock trees, which arch Old Russian Blockhouse, Silks, Alaska, church, has done in the past thirty it with their overhanging limbs. Here years and is yet doing a great work in and there one is given a view of the educating and teaching these people water, islands, and distant snow peaks, the ways of civilization. It is a board- then again is shut in by the forest ing -school for both sexes. There are trees. The preserve, aside from the fourteen teachers and workers connect- walks, stands as the Russians left it. ed with the institution, which has at The large timber was all taken away present an enrolment of one hundred by them; the great stumps now stand- twenty-five scholars. While here, one ing tell the tale. There are sixteen of must not neglect to see the Sheldon the totem poles in the park, huge ugly Jackson Museum. This museum con- things, carved in all shapes of hidi- tains mainly old Russian relics and a ous forms of animals, birds and fishes. collection of such paraphernalia and 'Each pole traces the tribal ancestry of impliments as the natives used before some individual, perhaps a chief. those of the white man were known to The river is a beautiful mountain them. It is worth a half -day of any stream, flowing perfectly clear, ice- 122 THE JAYHAWKER cold water. Here it is interesting to K. S. A. C. Tid-bits. watch the native boys have a feast. AA T their reunion, which occurred With a gaff hook, a salmon -is c. aught, March second, the Washington and after a pretence at cleaning-, it is K. S. A. C. Alumni enjoyed, as put to boil in sea water over a camp a variation in their usual program, a fire. Any old can that will hold water treat in the form of a real old-time answers for a cooking utensil. In a society paper, "K. S. A. C. Tid-Bits." few moments the feast begins, nothing The paper was edited by R. S. Kel- more is desired. logg, '96, and was liberally contributed On coming to Sitka one should - to by the K. S. A. C. people in and make a trip to Mt. Edgescomb and if about Washington. Mr. Kellogg's possible climb to the -mouth of the thoughtfulness prompted him to send crater. This mountain is situated on the paper, after it had served its pur- an island sixteen miles west of Sitka pose at home, to the editors of the and is 3800 feet high. There are two JAYHAWKER, who have enjoyed every distinct craters here, each very inter- word of it. Like the society papers of esting but difficult to reach. old, it is a mixture of sense and non- Another interesting place is the sense, on subjects wise and otherwise, Sitka Hot Springs, about eighteen and calls vividly to mind the dear old miles south of town. The greatest society days that are to us now only a trouble in making this trip is the open cherished memory. We regret that sea that must be crossed, and which is we have not space to publish the whole usually rough. There are three of of "Tid-Bits;" from the whole it is these springs near together. The wa- hard to choose which articles shall be ter has mineral properties, the prin- given place. The following are only cipal one being sulphur. Eggs cook a part of the good things we found. quickly in the warmer spring, while The unsigned articles are from the pen the cooler one is but luke-warm. Near of the editor of "Tid-Bits." to these is another spring sending forth EDITORIAL. pure, cold water. These springs are Motto: All things come to him who hustles situated on a hillside, about three while he waits. hundred feet above the sea, at the head Eleven years have passed since of a pretty little bay, completely pro- the writer occupied public gaze as the tected from the ocean swell. It is a editor of a journal similar to the beautiful place and an ideal location present one; and to tell the truth, he for a sanitariun. has no desire that history shall repeat Of all the attractions to the tourist, itself in this case. On that eventful none prove more interesting than the occasion he wielded the goose quill Indians themselves: but I doubt if the and the scissors for the Hamilton native is more interesting to the tour- "Recorder" and inflicted a produc- ist than the tourist is to the native, tion of forgotten length upon the un- especially if the tourist is a curio suspecting society. Finally he finished buyer as most of them are. During. and took his seat, feeling that he had the tourist season the natives sell made a deep impression. He certainly most any old thing at a good price, had, for he was immediately put on as a curio. The greatest harvest, how- trial in Hamp. fashion and fined fifty ever, is reaped by the women, on bas- cents with great and enthusiastic una- kets. The baskets woven by these na- nimity: The only consolation we got tive women are works of art, which out of it was that C. F. Doane received art is rapidly being lost. a similar sentence as a coconspirator. That's why he is on our staff to -night. Only the heartless are hopeless. You can't keep a good man down. THE JAYHAWKER. 123 It is but fair to the audience to say We seek wealth, Why? That we may that we didn't seek this job and that possess power. We seek position to distinction was thrust upon us without obtain power. We seek standing, re- our consent. If you don't like the re- putation, fame, that we may wield sult, you have our sympathy, for nei- power. ther do we. However, the ways of ex- Power lifts us from the abyss of im- ecutive committees are inscrutable, and potence and nothingness and enables you. will have to stand it this time. us to attain our ends, to make our im- Next year we'll have a different com- press upon the world, to build our- mittee. selves deathless monuments, to live in We had intended to write an editor- history. ial for this moral journal that would And whence comes power? From the go down to future generations as a infinite, inexhaustible ocean of energy, classic, along with the pr6achments of without beginning and without end. Fra Elbertus and the dissertations of Man may become a conduit through the reincarnated Elijah, of Zion City; which this power will flow. Given but just as we were keyed up to the this and we have, on the military field, right pitch our neighbor's rooster the Alexander, the Cmsar, the Napo- awoke-and so did we. Our neighbor leon; in literature, the Shakespeare; is in the War Department. Conse- in poetry, the Homer, the Vergil, the quently all there was left to be done Milton; in invention, the Stephenson was to expend twenty-six cents for and Edison; in oratory, the Demos- postage and call upon the faithful thenes and Phillips; in commerce, the members of this association for help. Marshall Field; in science, the Darwin; They responded nobly and the editor in philosophy, the Aristotle and Spen- hereby takes off his hat to them-met- cer; in politics, the Lincoln: in truth aphorically. seeking and finding, the Socrates; and The opinions expressed and the in things of the spirit, the Jesus of theories advanced in the following Nazareth. pages are not vouched for by the man- To the extent that man is "liberally agement of "Tid-Bits." They are educated" his connection with this spontaneous eruptions from the sub- ocean of power is perfected and his conscious realm which appeared when capacity to achieve results is enlarged. the lid was raised, and having once And it is results the age demands been set down in cold print, may be and needs. Not "What school have considered literary orphans waiting you attended?" "At whose feet have to be adopted by whosoever can you sat?" "What degrees have you appreciate them. The copywright taken?" but "What can you do?" is privilege is waived and exchanges the question the eager, critical world are expected to appropriate the is asking, and rightly asking, of him sparkling gems of thought and the who claims to be educated. scintillations of wit which fill these The question may be asked in a pages. narrow spirit. It may seek an answer THE WORTH OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION. which can be given not by the seer, the A liberal education-What is it? poet, the prophet, the philosopher, the An education is a drawing out and liberator, or the saint, but by the slave development of the powers. A liberal alone. But the question itself is right. education is a liberating of these The world wants doers; men who can powers; strengthening and perfecting make two grass blades grow where but them and making them not the masters. one grew before, or "two clear ideas but the servants of the sovereign, un- where one hazy one grew before;" who conquerable man. can feed the hungry, clothe the naked, 124 THE JAYHAWKER heal the sick, instruct the ignorant, through the introduction of two unus- liberate the enslaved, inspire the des- ual motions. The young ladies tried ponding, make the desert blossom and to pass a motion to visit the Hamp. so- hasten the coming of the Kingdom of ciety in a body, but the boys voted Good on earth. unanimously against it and it failed to Whoever can do any one of these carry. There were mutterings that the things is, to the extent that he can do girls would make the visit on their own it, an educated man. The book fetish hook. The boys brought forward a has had its day. The notion that only resolution to the effect that it was the he is educated who has taken a pre- sense of the society that greater efforts scribed course, and received certain should be made to obtain a larger grades on certain tests is dead. The membership of ladies in the society so educated man is the whole man, the that every boy would have a square complete man, the man of power. Cer- deal. The girls, aided by the young tain studies, disciplines and experi- men who already had steadies and to ences may aid in attaining this com- whom the motion therefore did not ap- pleteness and power; but the process peal, made such a determined fight is subordinate-a means; the end is against it that it was lost. the power. Owing to the fact that in previous And what is this end worth? What debates, where a young lady and a is it not worth? What is anything young main were upon the same side, worth? Before it, all things else pale it had been hard to get them to agree into insignificance. It is this that among themselves, and in this manner makes the man among men; the citizen made the debate ridiculous, it was de- of the world, of all worlds, and of all cided that in the future the boys should time; the inhabitant of eternity.-Thos. be put on one side and the girls on E. Will. the other. REPORT OF A MEETING OF THE ALPHA The program for the afternoon was BETA SOCIETY IN THE YEAR 18-. short. The debate upon the question This session of the society was of "Resolved, That coeducation is de- particular interest because of the at- moralizing and has not proven to be tempt to inaugurate certain innova- a success," was not taken up because tions in keeping with the dual gender no one could be found to argue on the of the members. The advisability of affirmative side. Senior Failyer gave having two presidents, male and fe- a Numerous talk on organic chemistry male, was discussed with great anima- and Freshman Carleton read an essay tion. It had been generally under- on "Galvanizing Wheat to Prevent stood that the privilege of holding Rust." The society then sang "God down the presidential chair should be Be With You Till We Meet Again" divided between the boys and girls. and passed the motion to adjourn This failed to work satisfactorily be- without the usual debate.-C. F. cause the boys, by putting up their Doane, '96. best looking man, induced the young A CRITICISM. ladies to give them the fall term, and There is one friendly criticism that so they naturally received the spring may be justly given to the manage- term as well. The girls suggested that ment of the College. This relates to there be four terms in the College year the make-up of the Board of In- in order to give a fair basis for the struction. As listed in the last Indus- division of official honors. The mat- trialist, it is composed of seventy- ter was finally left open for reflection nine persons, ranging from President and future discussion. Nichols to Janitor Lewis. The Faculty The meeting was further enlivened proper contains but twenty-six full