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village, its inhabitants of various incomes and expenses, the two not always in the same proportion. Club boarding, very popular of late, reduces the cost, without reducing the quality of living. Expenses are lower here than at similar institutions in this country. Many of our boys work their way through college and a still greater number have earned their means before coming here. As a rule those in the higher classes have the heaviest outlays. With tuition free and expenses light as they are at the University, every young man can provide himself with a higher education if he has the determination.
The intense and violent discussion over the University, being waged by a number of the State papers, will not have the injurious effect some timid persons imagine. It is bringing the University before the people, where it belongs. When the election of Regents and the matter of appropriations are in the people's hands we shall have nothing to fear. Our faculty is one of marked ability and our alumni, none as yet of middle age, are making rapid advancement in their vocations. The present discussion is bringing these facts out. If reform is needed in any line, we are ready for it. In the meantime, misrepresentation will fall harmlessly to the ground.
The State Young Men's Christian Association held its meeting in Lawrence last week, our old friend, F. H. Clark, in the chair. Despite the ridicule occasionally heard, we can say that the college association here has proved itself a pushing and useful organization. Its members have proven the morality professed by the association to be a thing of practice as well as of creed.
Certain persons seem terribly worried because students take an interest in politics. Students haven't any business with politics anyway, you know. Don't know enough, you know. Better read Thucydides, Xenophon and The Christian Fathers. Then, when they have graduated and gone out in the world, they won't be hampered with political opinions but can just study up the platform of the party which happens to be in power. Thus they will always be pretty sure of an office. Any student who reads a newspaper—that is, anything later than the Spectator or the Tattler—is on the direct road to perdition.
Students as well as citizens are under much obligation to Manager Bowersock of the opera house for the excellent companies he has brought here this year. Of course, theatre-goers have to pay for the companies, but there is great satisfaction in knowing that when you pay for amusement you are not to be swindled by a miserable, eleventh-class show. In return, such actors as Lacy, Miln, Templeton, and McWade have been liberally patronized by the students.
The Lawrence Journal is making a fuss because the students have to climb Mt. Oread-an exercise entirely too violent for the organisms of our scholars. We would suggest for the benefit of the Journal that the University be moved down street and the chapel fitted up as a dormitory.
It is rumored that a certain gamewe will call it billiardshas become so fascinating to some students that the Faculty will have to drop notes to their parents. These epistles will afford a relief to the frequent letters from Lawrence calling for money.
Some anonymous writer drops us a card asking if we are in favor of protection for Bacon. No, we are not. As long as they have free-trade in Turkey we are not in favor of salting it on Bacon.