THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
VOL. XI.
LAWRENCE, KANS., MARCH 30, 1893.
No.26.
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T. D. BENNETT, Editor-in-Chief.
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REPEATED FAILURE is the price of every ultimate success.
THE COURAGE of persistence is the strong factor in the attainment of of every high or worthy aim.
THE SEVERAL addresses which have been delivered before the law school this year have been excellent in every respect. The Dean is certainly to be congratulated upon his success in this line. The next address will be given by Mr.S.W.Moore of Kansas City on the subject of railroad law. Mr. Moore is a graduate of the institution and occupies the position of assistant attorney for the Santa Fe railroad in Missouri. We may safely predict an interesting address.
THE SOCIETIES of the University are gradually manifesting a renewed interest in literary work. No branch has been more neglected and none is more applicable to the necessities of practical education.
The Seminary, Language Conferenc, Adelphic and Kent Club are all well attended and there is a notably increased merit in the programs presented by these societies. The advantages of active membership in a wide-awake literary society is not impressed strongly enough on the students. The superficial discussion of any subject should be prohibited, but a scholarly treatment of the facts, whether in debate or an address affords a most excellent training to any one with enough energy to take hold in earnest.
The necessity of the ability to think logically and clearly, while addressing either a company at dinner or a crowded hall is growing every day. Over fifty per cent. of the public offices and positions of trust in the civilized world are held by college bred men, and nearly every man in such positions has felt the need of the ability to speak in public without embarassment or hesitation.
The want of proper training in this line is one of the most deplorable defects in our University, and the literary or debating society affords the only means of acquiring such training.
The oratorical star of the world is declining. The flights of brilliant oratory, which have characterized the bygone centuries of war, reformation and political agitation, find no necessity for existence in quiet and prosperous advancement of the present day, but instead