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The University Courier.
The pleasant evenings are said to be arousing the musical talents of the glee club from their temporary lethargy. The serenaders are abroad in different parts of the city.
IF THE NUMBER of new spring dresses worn on Easter Sunday was equaled by the number of souls converted, the church membership would assume monstrous proportions.
THE REHEARSAL OF "TWELFTH NIGHT," which the COURIER representative has been allowed to witness is more than creditable. The time and effort which has been bestowed on the various parts have more than yielded the expected results. The leading parts are exceptionally good and far in advance of the usual amateur productions. Every student will attend and a large part of Lawrence's population will testify to the real merit of our actors. To the generous assistance of those worthy friends of the institution residing in Lawrence who will contribute in a large degree to the success of the play, the Athletic Association acknowledges its deep indebtedness. The financial success of the production is assured.
THE FOSSILIZED governing power which prohibited the unseemly manifestation of any interest in the athletic field at the straight-laced institution in Baldwin City has been condemned for such uncalled for action by every lover of justice in the State. The baseball field will probably be ploughed up and sown with hay seed; the tennis courts of the college will be covered with moss to be grafted on the backs of any whose zeal is greater toward physical culture than their enthusiasm for theological studies. Such regulations are puritanical in the extreme, and no institution can be esteemed progressive when the administrative body attempts to apply eighteenth century principles to a twentieth century student body. The Baker Blue Laws cast a serious reflection upon the breadth of ideas in the minds of the respectable body which promulgated such monuments of Puritanism.
ONE OF the most interesting features of Harvard's exhibit at the World's Fair will be two plaster casts representing the typical college youth and young woman of the United States.
WHEN YOU see an unusually becoming spring gown worn in a most attractive manner it does not always signify that the owner has been reading "Sartor Resartus," or that she even knows anything about the gentleman who wrote it.
DON'T let the spring fever find a resting place in your bones. It sometimes requires a little determination to overcome "that tired feeling" which generally appears about this time of the year, but when a man is thoroughly in earnest in his school work he has no time to devote to ennui.
IN A RECENT conversation with one of the University alumni, who is at present a prominent instructor in Topeka, the following opinion was given in regard to the present oratorical status of our institution: "It is impossible to understand the lethargy which is manifested by the faculty in regard to this important study. I have always stood by the University and repeatedly advised my pupils of the excellent instruction to be had here, but when the boys in Topeka see the results of the oratorical contest, and understand how little attention is given by the faculty of K. U. to this most interesting study, I feel that I am contradicted by the greatest evidence the University produces of her standing to the people of Topeka, namely: her standing in the oratorical contest. There is only one explanation of the low ranking of the University in the state contest; you have almost no instruction in speaking, no interest manifested by faculty, and no longer any reputation to sustain."
The force and truth of such observations cannot fail to impress itself upon all who have followed the record of the University of Kansas in the oratorical field. Certainly it is a poor one.