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The reception of last Thursday evening, in honor of Prof. Leverett W. Spring, was but a slight expression of the esteem in which he is held by the people of Lawrence and the University. Prof. Spring, during his ten year's residence in Lawrence, has won for himself an enviable reputation. As a minister and as a professor, his success has been marked and uniform. As we look at the work which he has done, the high moral influence which he has exerted, we can not help feeling that his loss to the University will be irreparable. Prof. Spring is one of the few men who have no enemies. To know him is to be his friend. Nothing but good wishes will attend him to his new field of labor.
The University has always enjoyed the name of having students who were in every respect gentleman. If, however, we may judge from the confusion in the back part of the chapel on last Friday evening during the musical recital, the University is hardly worthy of such a distinction. Nevertheless, we are happy to say that the disturbance referred to was caused by a very inconsiderable portion of the gentlemen—male students, I should say—of the University. Persons who prefer to hear themselves talk, to the execution of classical music, should seek an auditorium outside the contest room. By so doing, they would accommodate themselves and confer a favor on the music-loving public.
The committee on arrangements for Field Day are meeting with good success. We expect the contest to be held on Friday, June 14th, will surpass in interest all former occasions of a like nature. The business men of Lawrence, and others, have responded generously, and the winning athletes will receive substantial recognition.
We desire to call special attention to the class "rope pull." Ten men
will be selected from each class for this event. The Seniors and Juniors will first pull; after them the Sophomores and Freshmen. The two winning teams will then pull for the championship. The classes should select their men at once and begin practicing.
There should be a large number of entries for each event. No one stands preeminent as an athlete in any one event, so there is a reasonable chance for any who may contest.
A man who has debts and can't pay them is to be pitied and assisted, but the man who can pay them and doesn't, is despicable in the extreme. We hear a good deal about what constitutes a gentleman, but after all it can be safely said that a man who pays his debts and keeps his word possesses at least three-fourths of the requisite qualities. With especial force this applies to students, for no class of people obtain credit easier or oftener. And with their dealings with one another, the line on money matters is loosely drawn. It is not often that students wilfully destroy the confidence which is placed in them. Yet sometimes this is the case, and such cases are too often passed over without censure or rebuke. We see men who are heavily in debt keep right on spending money right and left, without apparently care about their indebtedness. What is to be thought of a man who, while owing just debts to others, does not intint his own gratifications? He is devoid of any sense of right and justice. What is to be thought of a man who steps up deliberately week after week and takes a paper without any thought of paying for it? He differs only from the sneak thief in that he commits robbery with a brazen effrontery which adds insult to injury. It seems to be a common idea that whatever one steals from a corporation is so much shrewdly gained. Yet in truth, it is robbery pure and simple. And then, it does beat the world how some persons who are honorable and upright in the majority of their dealings, still act most contemptible about a few things. Through the efforts of a few individuals, journalism in the K. S. U. has been raised to a standard far superior to that of other institutions above us in other respects, and this has been done too, without the co-operation of the majority of the students. Now all we have to say, if you want to take the college papers, take them and pay for them. Don't go sneaking around to try to get the managers to give you a copy every week, but pay your subscription like a man, and you will get more than your money's worth. We have known some to have taken papers regularly without paying for them, and then think they have done something smart, while al they did was to impose on a misplaced confidence in their honor. We have a large paying circulation, and do not care for dead-head subscribers. All the students enjoy reading the Courier, and certainly ought to show college spirit enough to pay their subscription to it, if they do not care to aid it in other ways.
Incidents and Accidents.
The Kansas City Times gives Prof. Spring a good send off in last Sunday's paper.
The great American game of base ball seems to have taken quite a hold on the students lately. Some transitory interest has also been awakened in tennis. I am glad to see this, and hope it will lead to the firm establishment of athletics in K. S. U. A Yale graduate, lately speaking to me of western colleges and the University in particular, praised our intellectual attainments, put pointed out our great lack of physical development. We are doing very well here now, however, and everything gives promise of a good exhibition on field day. But why follow up only one or two sports? Football was well started a couple of years ago, but for some unknown reason is not played at all now. Both the Junior and Senior classes have good balls some where or other, which ought to be brought out. It is the duty of the persons who have these balls to turn then over to the classes, and they should do it immediately. We have such a fine race course on the Kaw here, too that it seems a shame to let it go neglected. We were going to have some sculls and a crew put in training at one time, but the rascality of some persons connected with the notorious Athletic Association of two years ago, defeated this excellent scheme. Let us not be damned however, that we have failed in some instances, and with Sana meas i corpere sano for our motto, let us march be ever onward till K. S. U shall stand even with the best institutions in all college affairs.
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I heard a good story during the recent meeting of the Oratorical Association. The narrator held a prominent position last year in the Indiana State Association, and had charge of the arrangements for the contest. He had been working hard the afternoon before the contest, and was just ready to take supper with a few friends, when a rap summoned him to the door, and a man announced to him that A. J. Beveridge, the contest from DePau, wished to see him immediately at a hotel quite a distance away. Tired and hungry though he was, he hastened to the hotel where the champion orator of eight states, the member of the great fraternity of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the proud Senior from DePau, made the following fitful request: "Mr. ___, I wish that you would instruct the janitor of the opera house to turn down the gas very low when the contestant from the State University speaks, and turn it up again when I speak." It is needless to add that the gentleman returned fully convinced that all great orators are not great men.
There was a marked increase over last year in the number of fraternity men, both in the convention and in the contest. The fraternities were represented as follows: Phi Kappa Psi, three in the convention, one orator; Sigma Chi, two in convention; Delfa Tau Delta, one in convention, one orator; Delta Kappa Epsilon, two orators; Phi Delta Theta, two in convention; Chi Psi, one orator; Beta Theta Pi, one in convention. Some of the orators in the above list acted also as delegates. Notwithstanding the array of fraternity talent present, the "barbs" cleaned the
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In looking over the annual catalogue, I am glad to see that the wormy chestnuts about "plain substantial food" and "not eating in the presence of books," have been wisely omitted. The catalogue, on the whole, is better arranged in the smaller details than usual, though improvements might still be made on much of the old standing matter.
table completely. They got both of the prizes in the contest and every officer elected by the convention.
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Last Monday morning was bright and clear. All things were favorable for a large attendance at chapel. We attended, and found thirty-four persons present, seven members of the faculty included in the number. At the opening of the second door the number was swelled to a grand total of forty-one. Not infrequently the attendance in chapel is even smaller than that. It is evident to every one that the interest in chapel exercises is constantly diminishing. We speak the truth in saying that the average chapel attendance is not one-fourth what it was three years ago. This may be accounted for, in part, by the fact that the aggregate enrollment of students in the University is less than it was at that time, and also by the fact that preparatory students, of which class we then had a large number, are more at liberty to attend these exercises than more advanced students. Still, this explanation hardly seems satisfactory. Something is out of joint. What this something is, we do not assume to assert. This much, however, is evident: The morning exercises are lacking in interest. No national or patriotic songs are sung, party questions are not permitted to be discussed; no carefully prepared remarks are addressed to the students by the faculty or chancellor; no morning lectures are delivered on special topics. These are some of the things which are not done. It may be that these considerations point out the error; they may suggest a remedy.
Twelve to Twelve.
A large crowd gathered Wednesday afternoon to witness the game of ball between the University club and the Lawrence club. The game was hotly contested, and was the best game that has been played here this season. Both pitchers were hit hard, one home run and two three-base hits being made. McBride pitched and Davis caught for the University club, while Shugero and Reynolds formed the battery for the city club. The score stood twelve to twelve at the end of nine innings, and both sides being willing, the game was called a tie. Another game will be played in the near future.
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