THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
Vol. XI.
LAWRENCE, KANS., JUNE 7, 1893. No. 36.
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EDITORIAL BOARD.
T. D. BENNETT, Editor.
C. R. TROXEL, Local Editor.
E. F. ROBINSON, Literary and Exchange Editor.
E. P. LUPFER, Athletic and Amusement Editor.
J. A. Rush, Managing Editor.
W. H. H. PIATT, R. W. HUTCHINSON,
Business Manager. Circulator.
THE SENIOR class will be represented in a few weeks in almost every profession or trade in the category. The idea that the college student is fitted for nothing but books has given way to the better thought that the college student is fitted for anything he choses to follow. Only an industrial course can give a student any amount of practical experience but with the foundation of a literary or scientific education the student is ready to analyze or understand more readily and more thoroughly whatever vocation to which he applies himself. The annual commencement day of a university does not herald the advent of thoroughly trained and experienced men but it does announce the fact that here are the men most eminently qualified to be trained in any department of the school of the world.
COMMENCEMENT TIME. The beginning of another epoch in the life of the college student. The semi-annual period of anxiety and fear is over for the fortunate beings whose claim for a sheepskin is at length allowed. The squabbles and scraps of the college politician will be regulated by the members of at least one class to the dusty memoranda of the past. The strife and the daily routine of preparing lessons are indefinitely postponed by the graduates of '93. Success attend you our friends; may the preparatory work of the last four years yield the richest fruit in the ultimate success and happiness of all the chosen class.
Who hath profited the most? The question can only be answered by the result of coming years which alone can determine the real answer. The mass of students are divided into two classes, the mechanical and methodical student whose work is continuous and confining, and the easy going, erratic man whose lessons are perfect one day and perfect failures the next. Nearly every body will say that great results can only be accomplished by constant application in our particular line of work, the specialist is the greatest of all, but there is an honest merit in the labor of the all-round man; his education in school may be scattering and more or less superficial, but he has educated himself in many ways, he has been to social events and learned the customs and usages of the world about him, the responsibility of his school work has never weighed upon him as it has on his neighbor the book worm but the general result of his college career has been of more practical benefit than would his efforts when confined to books alone.