THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
VOL. XII.
LAWRENCE, KANS., NOVEMBER 2, 1893.
No. 9.
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J. L. HARRINGTON, Editor.
M. L. ALDEN, Local Editor.
MACGREGOR DOUGLAS, Literary and Exchange Editor.
L. S. CHAMBERLAIN, Athletic and Amusement Editor.
E. P. LUPFER, Managing Editor.
C. R. TROXEL, BENJ. HORTON.
Business Manager. Circulator.
THE GREAT number of partles given every week mark a tendency toward too great development of the social interests among students. Too much amusement not only keeps the student from his work, and thus thwartes the purpose for which he attends the University, but so satiates the desire for pleasure that it loses its keenness. Too many late hours are not good for the moral or the physical health.
THE ATHLETIC Association should adopt some means of preventing such disgusting exhibitions in the grand stand of the desire to gamble on the result of the game. Several disreputable characters went about the grand stand, crying offers to bet on their favorite teams, and it is very probable that considerable money did change hands. It is within the power of the Association to suppress this abuse; and it should by all means do so.
THE BAKER-K. U. foot ball game has been played and we have been fairly defeated. The teams were very well matched, and the game was well played. But the visitors and the K. U. students showed by their conduct during and after the game that the animosity long supposed to exist between the two schools is not as strong as we have been led to believe. We expect to meet Baker again on the 7 on November, and though we hope to win the game, we hope the same good feeling may continue to exist.
A FEEBLE effort is being made by a few of the Seniors to get the senior class to petition the Faculty to follow the example of eastern universities in obtaining some eminent speaker to deliver an address in place of the old-fashioned Commencement exercises. Such an address would certainly be of far greater value than the papers usually read by memberr of the graduating class. At the latter end of their last year in the University, the students have not time to write something of real value, nor under our present system of training is it probable that they would be able to deliver a good paper creditably if they had it. Almost any man of good ability and large experience can give the graduate an insight into the problems which every successful man must solve that will be infinitely more valuable than the hypotheses of some as yet inexperienced student. If the Seniors take hold of the question with the energy its importance should command and lay their petition before the authorities in time, success will crown their efforts; but if the effort consists of a little desultory talk, we will again have the pleasure of listening to papers which benefit only those who write them.