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amount of practice. It is no slight affair. The neglect of parliamentary practice and expression is sure to place the student in an embarrassing position and bring, as retribution, loss to his interests. The present societies have made their work felt on all occasions. Yet they only contain a small amount of the splendid material in the University and the impending debates, in which the honor of our noble Alma Water is at stake, demand the most rigid cultivation of our powers.
"How long we live, not years but actions tell," said one writer. Is this not equally true of college life? How long our school life is, not years but work accomplished tells. How long a boy is in school, years do not tell. There are men who have been in college only one year, if measured by time, who have been longer than others that have gone to school for five years. Our school life is not measured by length of time we have gone to college, nor the number of books we have studied, but it is measured by the amount of work thoroughly done.
CLASS GAMES, if taken hold of and conducted in the proper manner, would prove an unqualified success. There are many reasons why a series of football games between the respective classes would not only prove interesting and amusing but also of the highest benefit to the University in general. We are sure there are many men in the University who would like to indulge in such contests, and if such be the case, there is no particular reason why such games should not be held. They would be accompanied by a friendly show of class spirit. These contests are held at other colleges and have proven successful; why cannot we hold them at K. U.?
THE MANAGEMENT of the COURIER-REVIEW has no regard for the effusion of the airy brained disgruntled politician. Our position upon the staff were not entrusted to us for the gratification of personalities. It was not the intention of our constituents that we should make these columns loathesome to readers by venting our
spleen against those who do not concede to our wishes. The college press should be free from personalities. The individual should not be dragged into its columns, simply on account of one man's narrowness. What an impression a paper in which half the editorial and local space is devoted to a personal attack must make upon the ardent supporters of the University! What a source of pleasure it must be to the generous people of Kansas who are laboring to have their beloved University on a par with other similar institutions, to read of the antagonizing attitude of the students toward each other.
SOME DISSATISFACTION has been expressed on account of the conflicts that occur in the program of the studies of this term. While it is true that those conflicts are the source of great annoyance to many students, yet if we look into the matter carefully we will find there are no conflicts of any two required studies The Faculty in making out the program are hampered in various ways. The lack of room and a sufficient number of instructors in the various branches make these conflicts unavoidable. It is evident that under existing circumstances the Faculty have followed the best possible plan, that of having no required studies conflict. If they attempted to make a program that would meet the approval of all the students regardless of the work required in the classes it would destroy all system and give general dissatisfaction.
THERE ARE many places smaller than Lawrence, and which have no educational facilities, where a lecture bureau is successfully maintained. Some students say they hear enough lectures in the regular work of the University to satisfy them. The lectures afforded by the University Lecture Bureau are, however, of such an entirely different nature that we cannot see why they should not be appreciated by all. Such lectures have as much educational value as anything we study. Nothing will give a person such a general idea of history, drawn ones attention to the progress of the world in