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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
SOCIETIES.
Science Club—Meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 8 p. m. President, E. C. Case; Secretary, C. R. Chapin. Seminary of Historical and Political Science—Meets in room 14, University building, every other Friday from 4 to 6. F. W. Blackmar, director. Philological Club—Meets in room No. 20, University building, every other Friday at 8 p. m.
Kent Club—Meets in North College every Friday afternoon at 130. Admits law students only.
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.
FRATERNITIES.
Pharmaceutical Society-Meets in the Lecture room. Chemistry building, every other Friday at 4 p. m. A.J. Eicholtz, president.
Anatheptic Literary Society—Meets in Adelphia hall. University building, south wing, 3d floor, every Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
Sigma Xi—Honorary scientific faculty
Beta Theta Pi-Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House block.
Phi Beta Kappa—Honoray collegiate fraternity.
Phi Kappa Psi—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Opera House block.
Phi Gamma Delta—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldr dge House block.
Phi Delta Theta-Meets every Saturday evening on third floor of Journal building.
Sigma Nu—Weets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House block.
Kappa Alpha Theta - Meets every Satu day afternoon at the homes of members
Pi Beta Phi—Meets every Saturday after noon at the homes of members.
Kappa Kappa Gamma—Meets every Sat uck afternoon in its hall 3d floor. K
Memorabilia Club-For the collection of statistics and relics relating to the history of Kansas State University. Pressroom W. Sterling; Secretary, V. L. Kellogg.
Oratorical Association of the Students of Kansas State University—President, R. D. O'Leary; Secretary, W. H. Riddle.
University Athletic Association—President, H. E. Copper, Secretary, W. D. Ross, Treasurer, N. H. Kutz, Includes Tennis 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, C. P. Chapman; Secretary, H. B. Hall.
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, S. M. Simmons. Published
every Friday morning by The Courier
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E. W. PALMER writes the editorials etc.for this issue.
THE COURIER publishes in another column an article by Rawson Bennett, championing the maize-yellow and sky blue. The Courier votes for crimson as the K. S. U. color, and believes that the athletic color would do quite as well for literary contests. As to imitation, Harvard is a good college to imitate,
THE Baker Beacon seems suffering from indigestion this week and poisons the serene atmosphere with a few biliary belchings that show doughnuts and not the best of food. Both Editor-in-chief and local man are suffering from a diseased liver and need better food. The last is sue of the Beacon has a very foul breath when it speaks as if it would sanction a pugilistic attack upon their visitors next Saturday. The COURIER would like to mention again to the K.S.U. boys that they are gentlemen and not thugs and that when Baker comes up here we can show them the proper way to entertain guests.
WE have often noticed that there is a tendency with many students to quit regular University work before graduation and enter upon the study of the profession they have chosen. We have also noticed that many students enter college full of zeal for the work and keep it up with good pressure for a year or so and then waver, become unsteady and finally drop out, having only had the foundation of an education. This tendency to skip over a part of the course and the weakness which causes a student to lose sight of the goal which he once had high hopes of reaching, are both to be deplored. Neither are conducive to success in after lie'e. The one feels the lack of mental training, the other is oppressed with the failure of his youth which ever acts as a damper to his efforts.
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Those pessimists who are continually harping about the degeneracy of the modern youth, his effeminacy and inferiority compared with his ancestors of a hundred years ago those fellows who are continually making invidious comparisons between ancients and moderns, and speak with contempt of modern manhood when compared with Greeks and Romans, are invited to come and witness a foot ball game and see if we in these degenerate times have not yet some noble specimens of strength and symmetry. Let them but see the shock of the contending rush lines, the straining of every muscle at critical moments, the speed and agility of the runners and without doubt they will confess they were mistaken. We believe that if Caesar himself had run up against a foot ball rush line "old Baldy" and his legions wouldn't have been in it.
THE YELLOW AND THE
EDITOR COURIER: I see in the columns of the Courier many references to a proposed change in the University colors. I also regret to observe that the Courier apparently takes the sides of those who desire to throw aside the modest and significant maize and blue and substitute therefore the flamboyant and meaningless crimson.
BLUE.
I can easily understand how, in the light of recent events, the Kansas University boys may be bubbling over with a desire to "paint the town red," but this seems no sufficient reason for discarding the colors borne with honor for so many years. Permit me, therefore, in the name of the old students of Kansas University who are scattered over the land and whom circumstances debar from being heard at commencement reunions or through the Alumni Association, to entera respectful protest against the proposed change, which seems to be based on no other ground than a mere hunger for novelty.
The present colors of Kansas University, maize-yellow and sky-blue, are significant, beautiful and appropriate. The blue may be taken to represent Kansas skies and the yellow, her harvest fields of ripened grain. Everyone reared in Kansas, as I was, has gazed with frequent delight across her wide fields boasting in the sunlight of her trans lucent sky and knows and feels the appropriate symbolism of her University colors. If the correct shades maize-yellow and sky-blue, be obtained the combination is beautiful in itself as well as significant.
Then there is the fact that these colors have been in use so long. A natural sentiment makes us cherish usages that are old. I am the last man to cling to old usages merely because of their antiquity, but in this case I can see no just reason for a change. And I am sure I voice the feeling of hundreds of old students when I say that by us this proposed change will be viewed with sincere regret.
Ten years ago this present month I donned for the first time the maize and blue and was proud to wear them. How long before that
In many things we of the past were perhaps not equal to our successors. The University was not so large nor so flourishing then. The student body was, perhaps, not so active nor so enterprising as now. Esprit de Corps of class and college has grown. But we of the '80's did the best we could make life worth living in the Kansas University and to uphold on every field the honor of Alma Mater. We humbly hope that our efforts then contributed a little to help you of the '90's to do more and be more than we could do or could be. And it does seem a little hard to us now to see the usages of our day entirely abandoned and the colors we were proud to wear discarded as unfitting.
they were in use I know not but I have an impression that they were the colors of the first two classes graduated. I wore those colors with pride on every occasion, in Lawrence and out of it. There lies before me as I write these lines the soiled and crumpled knot of maize and blue I wore the night we came back in triumph from Baldwin, bringing home Leach victor in the state oratorical contest. I am sure that I should not feel at all at home nor natural in donning the gaudy crimson, if it be adopted, when on some future day I return to see some other well-won triumph or to watch another class go forth into the world.
Imitation may be a compliment to others but it is not therefore desirable. The adoption of crimson would be an avowed imitation of the Harvard color. It may be said that maize and blue are the same as the colors of Michigan University. That is not literally true and even if it were the Kansas colors were not adopted in imitation of Michigan's but are similar by a mere coincidence. Michigan University's colors are yellow and blue and the yellow in use at Ann Arbor is not the maize shade but rather approaches a canary. This I know, as I am entitled to wear the emblems of both Universities.
For all of these reasons I prefer to stand by the old colors. Of course I am not now a member of the student body and have no right to dictate its course. But for the sake of old times I sincerely hope that Kansas University will continue to fly the maize and blue and bear them to victory, whether in the field of athletics or of scholarship.
RAWSON BENNETT.
Margouette, L. S. Mich., Nov. 17.
Marquette, L. S., Mich., Nov. 17, 1891.
LET every student make up his mind to go to Baldwin Saturday. The game there will be the test of our foot ball team. The Baker team is without doubt a very strong one and our fellows to beat, need a large delegation to cheer them.
We would kindly suggest to Chancellor Canfield of Nebraska that he adjourn chapel again, this time in favor of the foot ball men. They need it for they were badly "Doane" up a few days ago.
THE proud standard of the Nebraska State University foot ball team went down before Doane College November 14, score 12 to 14.
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