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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
SOCIETIES.
Science Club—Meets in Snow Hall every hour.
C. Crescent, Secretary C. C.R. Cagnin
Seminary of Historical and Political Science—Meets in room 14, University building, every other Friday from 4 to 6, Blackman, director. Philological Meets in room No. 20, University building, every other Friday at 8 p. m.
Pharmaceutical Society-Meets in the Lecture room, Chemistry building, every other Friday at 4 p. m. A.J. Eicholtz, president.
University Glee Club—Meets in Music
room, North College, every Wednesday
at 5 p. m', and every Saturday at 9 a.
m. Prof. Penny, directory.
Kent Club—Meets in North College every Friday afternoon at 1:30. Admits law students only.
Adelphic Literary Society—Meets in Adelphic hall, University building, south wing, 3d floor, every Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
FRATERNITIES.
Phi Beta Kappa—Honoray collegiate fraternity.
Phi Gamma Delta—Meets every Satur-
day evening on 3rd floor of Eidridge High
Sigma Xi—Honorary scientific fraternity.
Beta Theta Pi-Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House block.
Phi Kappa Psi—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Opera House block.
Sigma Nu—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House block.
Phi Delta Theta—Meets every Saturday evening on third floor of Journal building.
Kappa Alpha Theta—Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
Pi Beta Phi—Meet every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
Kappa Kappa Gamma—Meets every Sat urday afternoon in its hall 2d floor K. Of P, hall.
Memorabilia Club-For the collection of statistics and relations relating to the history of Kansas State University. President, M. W. Sterling; Secretary, V. L. Kellogg.
Signa Chi—Meets every Saturday evening on the third floor of Opera House block.
Oratorical Association of the Students of Kansas State University - President, Albert Fulleston; Secretary, J. W. Park.
University Athletic Association—President, H. E. Copper; Secretary, W. D. Rose; Treasurer, Tamiua Association; Base Ball association and Foot Ball association.
Camera Club—Meets once a month. President, Prof. Williston; Secretary, E. C. Case.
Telegraph Club—President, Prof. L, I. Blake; Secretary, E. Blaker.
Y. M. C. A.—Meets in University building, room 11, every Friday at 7:30 p.m. President, D. E. Potter.
Y, W. C. A.-Meets in university building, north wing, 3rd floor, every Friday evening at 7:30 p. m., President, Virginia Spencer; Secretary, Alberta Corbin.
UNIVERSITY JOURNALS.
The University Review —Editor-in-Chief, E. F. Engel. Published monthly by The Kansas University Publishing Co. The Weekly University Courier —Editor-in-Chief, Mont Hallowell. Published every Friday morning by The Courier Company.
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WELCOME.
Chancellor James H. Canfield:
Your old students and associates welcome you back to the scenes of your former successful labors. Although you have gone to another field you are still one of us, and it is with hearts full of pleasure and friendship that we greet you once more. This day we devote to you. May it add to the already pleasant memories of our past labors and associations.
McCook FIELD is no longer an idle fancy but is almost a reality.
DURING 1890-1 over one hundred lectures were delivered by the faculty of the University of Kansas.
JUDGING from present indications it will soon be Chicago and Leland Stanford Jr., versus Harvard and Yale.
Up to date twenty-seven colleges have reported yellow and gold as their colors. Another argument for crimson.
With two pennants already won and another in sight, the University of Kansas is liable to become over-stocked in that line.
SEVERAL of the state colleges are flaunting the motto, "Brains not Brawn." A combination of both will do very well for our University.
OUR suggestion of the organization of a state college press association seems to have fallen flat for some unknown reason.
The management of Yale has decided that next fall all post graduate courses with the degree of Ph. D. will be thrown open without regard to sex. Yale is the first of the great universities of this country to make this change.
THE March number of the University Extension,a journal devoted to the interests of popular education contains an article written by Prof. F.W.Blackmar on University Extension in the Southwest. The article gives a complete history of the extension movement in all the western institutions but pays especial attention to the work in connection with our own University. It shows the progress that has been made in the west and predicts that while many obstacles will be met with,yet the general result of the movement can not help but be favorable.
If there is any part of a students character that he does not want inspected, he had better not belong to a state oratorical executive committee, or enter the contest as an crator,or edit a college paper.-College Life. Perhaps the editor, Mr.V.C. Cook, speaks from experience.
THE lack of athletic spirit in the college of Emporia is at last accounted for. It has just been discovered that their gymnasium is being used as a poultry yard. Such efforts to increase the endowment of the college are to be applauded.
WESTERN GROWTH.
Only a few years ago every one looked to Harvard and Yale to take the lead in all educational work, and at that time the idea of any western university attempting to rival either of those institutions would not have been entertained for a moment. But the times are changing. Princeton forged to the front, then followed Cornell and the University of Michigan and today the Chicago University and the Leland Stanford Jr., University are making rapid strides in the educational world, not to speak of the Universities of Wisconsin. Kansas and Nebraska, all of which are making splendid progress.
It is true that the eastern institutions have the prestage of their age and traditions, but aside from that the western schools will soon be their equals in every respect. That this is the inevitable result is proven by the fact that many of the eastern educators, men of national reputation, are accepting positions in western institutions. Another example of the western growth is furnished by the purchase of the great Calrary library by theChicago University a few weeks ago. The grand and generous gifts of Leland Stanford and John G. Rockafeller, however, have been the greatest factors in securing the proper recognition of our western universities.
COLLEGE WOMEN.
In the Athletic World, Baker and Washburn are becoming skeptical of the old saying, "all things come to him who waits." Our motto is 'Go after them'; and it has always been a winner.
Perhaps this view of the question will not please the elite college journals of the east, but the indisputable fact remains, however, that the east is rapidly losing their once boasted supremacy in the educational world and that the west is going to the front with gigantic strides.
Granting that in a few more years the west will equal the east in college facilities it does not necessarily follow that the custom of the western boy taking advanced work in the east will be discontinued. On the contrary the custom will continue to grow. But if it is beneficial for the western boy to spend a year or two in the east the same will hold true of the eastern boy in the west. It is a fact that there is a great diversity of ideas and customs between eastern and western people. Then why not make an equal exchange of students each year. The only hindrance to such a move would be the prejudices of the eastern people. They have an idea that they hold the citadel of higher education and that it is absolutely impregnable. This state of affairs will not continue much longer, however, The western pluck and energy will soon force them from their narrow-minded position, and they will be compelled to recognize their worthy equals. When this is accomplished all will be well.
The east will come west and the west will go east.
It is curious to note that the form of education which women seem just now most anxious to obtain is almost purely literary. At a time when men are loudly complaining that Oxford and Cambridge have almost cut themselves off from the active life of the country, and that by neglecting the practical study of law, medicine, surgery and technical production they have resolved themselves into what would be called at a continental university a gigantic "faculty of arts," women are crowding to these discredited institutions and eagerly taking up the abandoned "arts" as the latest and most complete form of intellectual life open to them. While men are beginning to assert that they can no longer afford the luxury of a university education, that they must leave that either to the men of leisure or the future schoolmasters and teachers, women turn to it as perhaps the most practical opening left to them. Perhaps they are right. It is not impossible that in time women's hands may have a great share in the higher secretarial and educational work of the country notwithstanding the fact that there is no form of opinion more fluctuating than the Views of Women as to their place and possibilities in life.—London Snectator.
From out of the midst of the lurid glare caused by the communications which appeared in the last two issues of this paper comes the welcome news that the contract has been let for the grading of McCook Field, the work to be completed by the first of May. A grand stand, club house, and fence will then be erected, the extra expenditure in the fixing up of the field to be about twenty-five hundred dollars. In a short time we will have an athletic park that is worthy of the University of Kansas.
FROM present indications the University of Missouri will be moved from Columbia to Sedalia. Sedalia in many respects is the better location for a university, but it seems like starting anew to break away from the old place. However the move will bring our Missouri sister nearer to us and consequently the rivalry between M. U. and K. U. will become much stronger.
PROFESSOR SNOW says it is the isosomatritici that is hurting the wheat. Its real name is isosomatritici erorocehalatitus, but the professor calls it isosomatritici for short. —Victoe Murdock in Wichita Eagle.
If color counts for anything, Marsh Murdock should be K. U.'s candidate for governor. His hair is almost crimson and he is proud of its color.
THE CONCLUSION.
To the Editor of the Courier.
The recent snow proved quite a damper for the baseball enthusiasts.
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Two weeks ago your readers were entertained by an unfair partisan attack on the present athletic board of the University. Last week a champion of the present regime came forward and to our great delectation proceeded to annihilate the writer of the previous week. I have no desire to discuss the points at issue between them, but only to call the attention of all friends of athletics in the University to the general unfairness of both writers, and to the evident purpose and tendency of their dispute.
On the other hand it was unfair for the second writer to dub the previous athletic board, whose deliberations were presided over by one of our fairest-minded professors who has worked earnestly and impartially for the cause of athletics much longer than any present student has attended the University; a board which managed our part in the organization of the Triangular League and in it won our first pennant; a board which without expense to anybody secured and placed in position our gymnasium apparatus, small though it be; a board which almost consummated the arrangements carried out this year for the purchase of the McCook Field, and elected the present manager of our foot ball interests under whose administration all our glories in that line have been won—it is unfair, I say to call that board an "illustrous brass colared predecessor," "an assumptuous and obtrusive clique, hercetofore reigning supreme," etc., etc. The writer of that article knew very well that no clique has reigned supreme in athletics here in the present generation.
Now a word as to the purpose and tendency of this particular discussion. Both writers are evidently extremists in their respective parties, and they are both anxious to win supporters for their own extreme views. Such partisans exist everywhere, but it is a sad thing for an institution to have its policy directed by them. They are not the exponents of the true athletic spirit in the University. They are attempting to divide the house against itself to gratify personal ambition or spite. The true friends of athletics should be followers of neither.
It was unfair for the first writer to attempt to rob the present administration of all the credit of our successful foot ball campaign; it was unfair for him to blame the board for delay in the matter of grading the McCook Field, as is evident to any one who has given the matter a life attention. It is not at all likely that the writer was ignorant of the fact that this business was entirely in the hands of the University endowment association.
The cause deserves the undivided support of all. It was such support which made our glorious victories in baseball last spring and in football last fall possible. For such
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