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Worthy of notice are the mus¬ eums, both the industrial and natural history. The latter contains about 10,000 specimens. The University li¬ brary contains only about 8,000 vol¬ umes. A liberal appropription would do some good here. TIIE MILITARY DEPARTMENT In accordance with the provisions of the act under which it was founded, a U. S. army officer is detailed at the University as commandant and pro¬ fessor of military science and tactics. All of us take a great interest in drill, —sometimes, we’ll admit, not a very pleasant duty. The corps of cadets comprises two battalions of three companies each, to say nothing of the staff. There is also a cadet band, reputed to be the best in the State, and a bugle corps. According to the last annual report of the Secretary of War, the University received a higher rating than any other insti¬ tution in the United States. Do you blame us for being proud of our military department? CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS In this respect we are not behind. The literary societies are doing excellent work. The halls on the fourth floor of University Hall are well furnished and well kept. Each has its own library and piano, and many are the high old times up there on dark nights. The average expenses of a student are not more than $250, with board at Buchanan Hall, or $300 in town. And at this figure a student can live well. The students publish two periodicals, The Ozark , a monthly magazine, and The Cardinal. We are not very conceited about it, but we do think they represent us pretty well, don’t you ? The various fraternities and sororities are flourishing. And, by the way, we have heard that one fraternity refused to enter the University ‘because it was too small.” Well, such ignorance is pitable. Too bad, indeed. We’re sorry, really. Among other organizations is the Science Club, which holds meetings every two weeks. The Sociology Club is also in a splendid condition, and its roll is steadily growing. The University Oratorical Association holds annual contests, and meets at spasmodic intervals for the purpose of electing officers i vi i Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi V or transacting business. It sends each year a representative to the intercollegiate oratorical contest at Little Rock, along with a special train and a mile or so of cardinal bunting and a band. Just at present the Glee Club is making things howl, and inci¬ dentally doing a little howling sua parte. It is about thirty-five strong, and contemplates a tour of the State at some future time— possibly after the next presidential election. Athletic interests are looking up. The University Athletic Association consists of the football team, baseball team, tennis club and the athletic club. It is in this department that we have been behind. If the legislature would but make some appropriation for athletics it wouldn’t take us long to develop some remarkable prowess ! As it is we have a record to be proud of. Our eleven could only arrange for three games last season, but we lost none of them, and made a total score of 42, against our opponent’s o; and this was done by men who did all their school work, drilled three times a week, and virtually trained themselves. That speaks pretty well, doesn’t it ? And we are all right in the other athletic sports. A track team was organized in March, and has done splendid work. The gym¬ nasium is supported entirely by the students; never a cent has the legislature furnished for it. The tennis club is growing, and more and more interest is being taken in athletics as a whole. Give us an appropriation, O ye men who do such things! Let us have a physical di¬ rector, a gymnasium and an athletic field, and then, me- hcrcule , we’ll show you a thing or two. social life The social influences that are brought to bear on the University students is the best that could be desired. The town is strictly prohibi¬ tion, so no danger can come from that source. The fac¬ ulty does not object to a student’s having all the fun he wants,provided he gets his lessons and acts a gentlemen. Indeed,
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The University of Ur Kansas YOU Come up from the south over the ’Frisco and are whirled along among the Ozarks instead of the fertile cottonfields of the Arkansas valley, you come at last to a region prettier than you had thought our State could boast. The flying train gives vou but short glimses of green clad hills and winding Valleys ; of streams flow¬ ing like liquid crystal along their rambling beds, and rocky cliffs whose gray moss proclaims the ages they have stood. Suddenly the train turns out of a narrow valley and instead of mountains vou see a broad plain where all is life, and far off in the distance, set like a crown upon a rounded hilltop, the University of Arkansas. Placed as it is in the very center of the finest fruit country in the world, surrounded by the pure air and cooling breeze of the Ozarks. the University enjoys a salubrity of climate that is rarely to be met with. The health of the students is excellent, and every precaution is taken to guard against disease. The University was founded in 1S71, under the provisions of the United States government appropriating land for that purpose. Its first class was graduated in 1S75, and eight of its members are now living. Since its foundation its growth has been something remarkable. Accord¬ ing to the catalogue for 1S96T97 it boasts an enrollment of S50, thus placing it among the largest in the country. This year it is expected that the total enrollment will be something over 900. As regards equipment, though the legislature has not been so liberal as it might be, still we are very well off. The Law and Medical depart¬ ments are at Little Rock, the Branch normal at Pine Bluff, and the others at Fayetteville. The University graduates students prepared for practical work in scientific agriculture, in engineering (electrical, civil and mechanical,) or makes them practical chemists, geologists, botanists or entomologist. The laboratories are thoroughly equipped with modern apparatus for work in seven different sciences, and are among the best in the South. The engineering laboratories are also well equipped, besides the ‘‘shops,” as they are called, for instruction in wood working and forging There are full courses of instruction in seven different languages, besides English and Anglo-Saxon, in mathematics, logic and astronomy, in the various natural and mental sciences, in history, in pedagogics, economics and sociology, in music, and in art.
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