THE UNIVERSITY
COURIER.
Vol. XI.
LAWRENCE, KANS., FEBRUARY 23, 1893.
No. 21.
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EDITORIAL BOARD.
T. D. BENNETT, Editor-in-Chief.
J. F. MESSENGER, 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. R. WHITMAN,
Business Manager. Circulator.
The manager of the crew at the naval school at Annapolis has challenged the U. of Penn. to a race on the Severn above Annapolis, June 10.
The man with his moral plane at such an altitude that he cannot endure or understand the frailties of common mortals, is the first to excite suspicion. The one we all love is he who is ready with quick perception and sympathy to help us correct our errors.
If a popular and unprejudiced vote of the audience at Topeka could have been taken, Julius Weidling would have been almost unanimously declared the choice of the assembly as the one best qualified to represent Kansas in the inter-state contest.
TRUE oratory is that which inspires conviction in the audience; it is not the ability to express thought or voice sentiment, but the ability to make the expression suit the thought.
MEN are often like wagons; those whose tongues are loose rattle along at a great rate, and are apt to be adjudged unsound, but those which endure the greatest strain make the least noise.
The test of oratory has been changed by the brilliant management of college oratorical contests to a test of literary ability. The recent state contest has fully demonstrated the fact that the speaker who carries conviction with his utterance, who moves his hearers, and calls forth simultaneous applause, has no show with the literary genius, whose delivery, however mediocre it may be, is consistent with the canons of prescribed form.
In recommending that $12,000 of the Spooner bequest be set aside for the erection of a Chancellor's residence, the senate committee acted most courteously and justly. For years a Chancellor's residence has been a necessity to our rapidly growing University, and it now seems additionally appropriate that Chancellor Snow should be the first to occupy it. For through him did our institution receive this most magnificent gift—the largest, indeed, ever bestowed on a state institution. The Courier feels that it but voices the sentiment of the students and friends of the University in affirming that no wiser nor more just disbursement of the funds could be made.