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interest. The only thing that will give the needed general physical culture to our students is well a appointed gymnasium. Now ever since the writer has been in this college, he has heard it said that we needed a gymnasium, that the legislature ought to appropriate money to build and furnish a gymnasium. But no one, to the best of his knowledge, has ever made any systematic effort to obtain such an appropriation. This, then, is part of the business of the Association, to concentrate and direct the influence of the University and its friends toward the attainment of this much desired end.
For this purpose the Association must have earnest support and proper aid from all students. To do his part is to the interest of each one of us.
There is some talk of consolidation between the two papers. If fair terms can be agreed upon this is a good move, The strength now put upon two papers will produce one far better than either, if united. Those who are active in promoting this change desire to establish a paper that will represent the University as a whole, not a particular clique or combination of cliques. Then may each one feel, not that he is a member of the Courier or Review company, but a member of Kansas State University. We hope that both parties will be fair and reasonable and not let factional strifes and fraternity jealousies work against the common good.
The last number of the Beta Theta Pi has not as much of general literary interest as usual. The poem "A Night in Norse land" is quite good, and the two historical articles "The College of New Jersey" and "The Revolutionary Treaty with France" are well written. In a general review of
the fraternity press we find the following item that may be of interest to some of our readers:
"The issue of the Shield for January is especially notable for two extraordinary chapter letters that savor of old times, when every fraternity man's hand was raised against his neighbor, and rivals were never mentioned except as targets for slander and abuse. One of these letters is from the chapter at Wabash College. * * * The other is from the University of Kansas, and takes as the subject of its unkind solicitude the chapter of Phi Gamma Delta there. The most touching bit of its attention runs as follows: 'Who are those little boys running around with Phi Gamm pins on?' This question covers the point exactly. The Phi Gamm chapter here is composed of a set of little runts, and, literally speaking, it would take just about two of our picked men to exterminate the whole crowd.' Petty feuds like these are very amusing to those outside of them, but are debasing and quite beneath the gentlemanly tone that the fraternity press should try to maintain."
We quote also this concerning the Phi Gamma Delta: "The opening article, "The Educational Power off Fiction," marks the beginning, we suppose, of the literary development yearned after by this organ. The editors should distinguish carefully, however, between literary articles and mere homilies. Prize essays and prize orations are usually heavy reading, and too immature in thought to be valuable. The prevalence of them in most western college papers makes these publications more useful for paper weights than anything else."
The Courier's compliments to Beta Theta Pi, but this was not a prize essay. Further, we think the editor of Phi Gamma Delta should have given credit to the Courier for that article. For was it not written by our Senior editor?