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PHI DELTA THETA, Meets on second floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPSA PSI, Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
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BETA THETA PI, Meets on fourth floor of the Opera House block.
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KAPPA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
PI BETA PHI, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
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The object apology of the Times last week in regard to its Junior article of the week before is but another example of "how are the mighty fallen!" Indeed it keeps the editors of that sheet busy taking back in one issue what they said in the last. The statement that "a communication written by some wild-eyed individual upon the Junior class election" was run in "by the inexcusable blindness of some one" is quite a compliment to the rising and brilliant young journalist who held down the important position of editor-in-chief in Mr. Reed's absence. Had Mr. Reed's fatherly guidance and control been withheld from the columns of our highly esteemed contemporary for a few weeks longer its meteoric brilliance would soon have gone to light up other worlds than our own.
At the close of the reports and discussions on the Missouri Compromise, Professor Canfield expressed himself as greatly pleased with their thor-
oughness and with the intense interest shown by the members of the class. He said that he very much doubted whether the per cent of so-called public men had as intelligent comprehension of all the pros and cons, the ins and outs, the whys and wherefores, of this great question as was manifested by the class. "And the best part of this is," he remarked "it is their own work not mine, not ideas gathered from some text book but conclusions reached after a careful and critical examination of a large number of original sources of information. It is the independent conclusion of each student that is valuable to him—and the process by which he reaches this conclusion."
As the year is drawing to a close we feel it our duty to say a word about the University and what it offers to the young men and women of the State, who are contemplating entering college next year. The various courses have been enlarged and improved. New chairs and assistantships have been established. The libraries both general and law are being constantly added to, and everything points to the year 1889-90 as an extremely successful one in the history of the University. There is no college in the State that can show as broad, thorough, and liberal courses of study as are presented here. No college can show a finer corps of professors, a more creditable roll of alumni and alumnae,'or a better class of students. The Faculty and students are in closest sympathy with each other, and we believe the character of the work done and of those doing it, excelled in no college or university in the west.
day class of students as you will find anywhere. Moreover the State University is an institution for the whole State and not controlled by or for the adherents to a single denomination. We believe it to be the duty of the people of this State of Kansas to patronize their State institutions above all others, and it should be a matter of pride to every father and mother in the State who can afford to give their children the benefit of a higher education, to send them to the Kansas State University.
For a first class, thorough, higher education the State University is the place to come. And once for all,we wish to contradict any foolish prejudices which may lurk against the University in any part of the State, because of the idea that a "fast set" prevails here, or that the University is an institution for the rich and the aristocratic. Nonsense. As long as Kansas is as democratic as she now is, and as long as her people have the hard sense that they now have, and which they transmit to their children, there is no danger of aristocracy or foppishness at the University. In fact no such thing exists. K. S. U. students are for the most part young men and women of moderate means, and of sturdy common sense. There is no fast set here either. There may be some black sheep among us; such are found everywhere except possibly in a college of arch-angels. But as a class we are as steady, hard working, every-
THERE seems to be a prevalent uncertainty among the students, as to the existence of a Faculty rule to the effect that all students whose term grades average above 90 per cent may be exempted from examination. We have spoken to several members of the Faculty and there seems to be a divergence of opinion even here. Some hold that such a rule does exist, and others that it does not. However that may be, we know that a number of the professors are intending to follow that idea this year, much to the satisfaction of the students. In fact this ought to be the law whether it is or not. It is time we were getting over the antiquated idea of regular term examinations. An educational revolution on the subject is affecting all the college world, and don't let K. S. U. bring up the rear in the reform. The evils of the examination system we all know: Late hours, cramming, anxiety, and then the day of the so-called test; on which the student is often times so nervous that he forgets all his previous knowledge. No, let ns do away with this. Give us quizzes or written recitations frequently during the term, and we will warrant that the character of the work accomplished will be better than under the examination plan.
membership of the Club. Hon. Edward Russell has spoken on Civil Service Reform, Hon. Charles S. Gleed on The Money Value of an Education, Chas. F. Scott on a Session of Congress, Hon. James S. Emery on The Beginning of Constitutionalism, and Professor Canfield on Socialism.
The Political Science Club.
The last meeting for the current year was held Friday evening, and in spite of the storm, attracted a fair attendance of representative students. The report of the work of the Club for the year just closing was read. The membership has been forty-three. There have been fifteen meetings. Ten of these were devoted to regular programs which includes reports on the State Legislature, the United States Senate and House—when these are in session; Finance and Industry, and Foreign Events and Diplomacy. To these are added two papers on assigned topics, generally taken from current magazine literature. The five special meetings have been occupied with "Talks" by gentlemen outside the
Among the papers presented by students during the year may be noted: American Factory Life American Party Conventions, A National University, Australian Ballot System, Australian Tariff Experiment, Control of Immigration, Is Housekeeping a Failure, Labor in Pennsylvania, Local Government in England, Making and Un-making of Criminals, Manual Training in Public Schools, Official Interpretation of Trusts, Railroads and their Business Relations, State Aid to the Poor, State Trials in the Reign of Charles II, Special Phases of the November Elections, and The Ballot in England.
It is proposed to re-organize the Club next year, and make it a sort of general bureau of advice, suggestion and criticism for topic and theme work; the club to have the first readings of matter prepared under its assistance. With the division of the old chair of History and Political Science and the enlargement of the work by the creation of the chair of American History and Civics and that of History and Sociology, the membership and efficiency of the Club as well as its interest to outsiders will be greatly increased.
The gravity with which Professor Canfield, who is the Ko-Ko of the Club as far as absorbing all offices, is concerned, read the assumed reports of the "Secretary," the "Auditing Committee," and the "Executive Committee" Friday evening afforded the students much amusement.— Tribune.
COLLEGE politics are at a discount just now. Everybody has stopped wrangling for the rest of the year, and is working for K.S.U. Field Day, Commencement, etc., are attracting greater attention than the perennial politician. No more lobbying in the halls, no more surging of angry faces in Room No. 11, no more scheming and wire-pulling for three long weeks. The white-winged angel of peace is hovering with out-stretched pinious over the domes of old K.S.U., for it is too hot to fight. Lets go in and get some ice cream.
'A White Umbrella in Mexico,"by Mr. Hopkinson Smith. Hough-
Cornell has raised the standard for passing examinations from 60 to 70 per cent.
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Robort Louis Stevenson declares that all experience is a great book, and it matters not whether we read it in "Chapters XX which is differential calculus, or chapters XXXIX which is hearing the band play in the garden." Mr. Hopkinson Smith has devoted a summer to the delightful idleness so charmingly celebrated by the author of "Virginibus Puerisque."
Leaving behind him the "Sad Sincerity" which oppresses most writers of this decade, Mr. Smith has wandered through Mexico at his own sweet will, hobnobbing with the sacristans of her dusty churches and sharing oranges with street urchins in her sunlit squares.
The record of his wandering makes vivid to us "The charm of this semitropical Spanish iife." The balconies above the patios trellised with flowers; the swinging hammocks, the slow plash of the fountains, the odor of the Jasmine wet with dew, the low thrum of the guitar and click of the castanet, the soft moonlight half-revealing the muffled figures in lace and cloaks."
In the back ground of the picture to be sure, there lurks the somber shadow of the peon, and Mr. Smith does not seek to conceal his dark presence among the holiday maskers. He has chosen to give us the air played by the band in the garden and not the problems in calculus. Then let us avail ourselves joyfully of the permission to be merry.
Yet though catanets tinkle and roses bloom, there is a darker side to life in Mexico. Mr. Smith likes to tell with bated breath of his hairbreadth escapes from what might have proved dangerous situations He likes to tell these stories and we like to listen to them.
The villains he meets are the villains of the opera. Bouffe transplanted from green baize to real sod, to give us assurance that the good old race of robbers did not die out when Margianna poured boiling oil on the forty ill-fortuned thieves who labored too faithfully in "Thieves vocation."
There are some slips in the English of "A White Umbrella in Mexico," but it is hardly pleasant to dwell on the faults of a book which has given us so much real pleasure. Mr. Smith has helped to make life better worth living. Can Professors of the Dismal Science do more?
Japan is to have a regular baseball league. Bats and balls have been ordered from New York.
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