THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
VOL. XII.
LAWRENCE, KANS., DECEMBER 7, 1893.
No.14.
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J. L. HARRINGTON, Editor.
M. L. ALDEN, Local Editor.
MACGREGOR DOUGLAS, Literary and Exchange Editor.
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E. P. LUPFER, Managing Editor.
C. R. TROXEL, BENJ. HORTON.
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DON'T TRY to read everthing in the library. You cannot do it. Read broadly but read thoroughly. Read the best only on your subject; and absorb the thought; don't commit it to memory. Knowledge gained in that way may be easily acquired, but it isn't worth much after you get it.
THE Students' Journal raises a faint cry over the lack of interest in oratory by the University authorities. Though we do not believe they have done, or are doing their duty in that respect, we do believe that the Lord helps only those that help themselves. If the students of the University of Kansas will not try to help themselves by making use of the opportunities they possess, they cannot justly blame the Regents for failing to establish a chair of oratory when it appears that it is not wanted.
SAM WELLER said he always thought dignity a very nice thing to see when one is out walking, but a great many of our students seem to be unable to tolerate it even on such occasions. We often hear people called prigs because they are sufficiently well bred to have some dignity.
WHAT HAS become of the committee appointed by the Senior class to frame a petition for permission to obtain some eminent speaker to take the place of the usual commencement orations? Has it fallen by the wayside or among thieves? or has it just fallen asleep?
UNDERSTAND YOUR own strength and then act as though you knew you possessed it. If you have not confidence in your own ability nobody else is likely to have confidence in you. It is all very well to be modest, but do not be too modest. In this age people have not time to seek jewels.
In its last issue the Students' Journal very unjustly criticises the Lecture Bureau upon the manner in which the reservation of seats for the lecture by Henry Watterson was conducted. Complaint is made because those who came after eight o'clock were allowed to draw from the numbers remaining, for a place in the line; and it is insisted that everyone should be early; the very trouble which the present plan was intended to remove. The Journal states that the person who drew number two and took his place at the head of the line came a half hour late, when really he was there long before eight o'clock. It is true that the crowd was kept waiting for a few minutes but the Bureau was not in the least to blame for the delay.