EDITORIAL.
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DESERVED SUCCESS.
Among the various boys who have gone from our institution there are no two whom the University regards with greater pride and greater expectation than Charlie and Will Gleed; or, as the papers now have it, Chas. S. Gleed, Esq., and Professor J. W. Gleed. After holding for many years a place of high trust with the A., T. & S. F. R.R., Charlie has just accepted the editorship of the Denver Tribune, one of the most influential papers in the West. Though not a graduate of the University, as is often stated, he has always been one of its most ardent defenders. Suffering disadvantages endured by few, he has pushed his way through the densest ranks and taken his stand in the very front. We are very glad he is back at the editorial desk; it is where he belongs. Few writers can express admiration in a prettier manner or rebuke cant with more cutting bitterness.
Will Gleed is now attending Columbia Law School, New York city. When he finishes his course it is safe to say that he will be better prepared for his profession than a majority of lawyers are after a lifetime of practice. Graduating here in 1879, he went East and spent his summer's vacation at the Boston School of Oratory. In the fall he took charge of the elocutionary department in the University. In 1882 he was elected professor of Greek, which position he held one year and then went abroad for study. Last fall he returned to this country and entered Columbia. He has delivered a number of lectures both in this state and the East; and has contributed with great success to the public press.
Judging from their remarkable progress n the past ten years what may not be expected from these boys in the next ten?
A MODEL SOCIETY.
One of the most noticeable features of the State Teachers' Association at Topeka, was the exhibition of the Engineering Society of this University. The display of drawings and estimations was of no more surprise to the teachers than it was to the students who had gone up from Lawrence. Few of our regular students appreciate the quality of work done by the engineering boys. There is no vociferous declaiming from the chapel rostrum; no button-holing voters in the halls; no calling members from their classes; no personal fights; nothing of this kind to constantly remind one of the society's existence. Its business is engineering, not electioneering. The exercises consist of papers on original experiments and discoveries, essays on popular scientific subjects and lectures from professors. All the dues received are devoted to buying scientific magazines. Experts at Topeka pronounced the exhibit of the society the finest they had ever seen from the hands of students. A still better evidence of the accurate and thorough work done by the engineering boys is the fact that they have secured better positions than those from any other department of the University. The society furnishes an example which might well be imitated by its literary sisters.
Next Friday afternoon an Athletic Association will be formed by the students. This movement, if successfully carried out, will be of the greatest benefit to the University. We venture the assertion that there is not an institution, the size of ours, in the United States, where there is not an association of this kind. The University has greatly degenerated in the matter of athletics within the past few years. We once had one of the finest base ball clubs in the State and knew not what defeat meant. Let us retrieve our past reputation,
The Courier, always seeking to improve, comes out this issue in aesthetic dress.