University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Foreword. After thinking of the many weaiy hems this book has caused us to spend, we cannot help wondeiing whether it was not rather the irony of fate than the delightful dream of the work that led us to attempt to prepare the Jayhawker of 1908. Still theie is joy in hoping that within these coveis there may be found something that will bring a smile or a fond recollection to some, or possibly a diffeient jihtse of the Unive: sity and its life to otheis. If by chance you find fnythinj tkver herein, think of the Class of ' 08; and ss to the other kind, we beg your tender mercies. Remember, it is of you and your deeds that we have wiitten. ■1 . .i;

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The College. xf The College was the fiist school established in the Univeisity of Kanscs, end for many yeais was the only school. In this school the student finds an oppor- tunity to obtain a genercl education clong a variety of lines — no speci:il course in it being preset ibed. It is the couise v.hich is intended to lay the foundation for all other schools at the Univeisity, cs it adds polish to the young man or woman whose ultimate plans are to gain a professional education. In the College are found a divetsified class of students: some enteiinj it for the lofty purpose of acquiring a finished education ; some because they have heard that courses in Economics, Sociology, and Geology are easy picking ; others because they have no purpose other than to attend the University, and they just fall into the College; and still others who have tiied the Engineering School or School of Medicine and, having failed, they ate hunting a school where they will not have to work so hard ; and, last of all, there are those who wish to become peda- gogues and they seek the College. At Commencement times there are as large a variety of students graduated as there were who entered. Some become mer- chants after having taken Professor Boynton ' s couise in Business Management ; some, having taken up the courses in Philosophy, become agnostics and. hesitating before each step in life, they ask themselves the question, Why? and mat v el at the aesthetic view-points of everything in nature; others acquire the sleeping habit in Sociology, end go thru life with it. We might go on character izing the various cksses, but it suffices to say th?t within the College the student can gain nearly if not quite every kind of knowledge. F aser Hall was the original home of the College, and £S soon as the other schools can occupy buildings of their own, it will again be for the College alone. 4