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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
to prevent slugging and all other forms of maliciousness, the undeniable fact still remains that foot-ball is a sport in which further reforms looking toward decreased danger for the players should. if possible, be introduced. The Harvard Advocate in a thoughtful editorial upon this subject, states that slugging and other forms or viciousness cause but a small part of the injuries received "It seems to us that as foot-ball develops, it must necessarily increase in danger to life and limb. For the the development consists chiefly in this, inflinging the greatest mass of men with the greatest velocity on the weakest points of the opposing side. As the interference increases in speed and effectiveness, the injuries must increase proportionately, and it is from the attempts to break up interference that the really serious injuries are liable to result." There is certainly food for thought in the Advocate's view of the line of the game, but we think the number and seriousness of the injuries caused by pure maliciousness is underestimated in the editorial paragraph quoted. Perhaps though it may serve to prevent the reformers from attending too exclusively to but one cause of injury.
ON Wednesday our Glee and Banjo Club started out on what we feel sure will prove the most successful trip ever made by a Kansas University organization. The reason we feel sure is, that the club is exceptionally strong in all ways. The best of the men of previous years are with the club and the new material at hand has supplemented the old very satisfactorily. The boys will give excellent concerts and the people of Kansas will not be slow to appreciate them. The club is the best possible advertisement for the University.
The Oberlin College Glee Club, which will appear in Lawrence on the 26th, is said to stand at the head of college clubs. Oberlin has eight hundred students, about the same number we have, and their department of music claims to be second in size to the New England Conservatory. The appearance of this club will enable us to compare our own with those of other schools. We have no fear that ours will suffer by the comparison.
We still hope that the number of University weeklies may be reduced to one, for the
sake of quieting all factional strife in the University and of lightening the burden upon the business men of Lawrence. However, the prospects for a combination seem rather poor just now, as some of the factions interested in the Courier company say they will consent to no plan which does not give the fraternities half of the offices. To this, as we showed last week, they are not entitled according to any equitable principle of division. It is to be hoped that better advices may soon prevail, and that some plan may be agreed upon which will provide for the distribution of offices upon merit alone, as does the second plan mentioned in the article on "University papers" published in these columns last week.
Every student who has oratorical ability or ambition should prepare to put forth his very best efforts to win in the regular local contest, to be held next month. Let everyone go earnestly to work to bring out the best talent in the University in order that we may join in the state contest.
STUDY WINDOW.
It is a clear, cold, moonlight night. The trees, disrobed of their summer clothing, cast thair naked limbs in dark shadow upon the hard frozen ground. A light wind whispers through the dry, scattered leaves; the faint tread of distant foot-steps, the dull far-away rumble of moving traffic, is borne upon the crisp, evening air. From a grove of trees, whose barren branches, in austere beauty, stretch their black outlines into the clear blue of the heavens, emerge two forms—those of a youth and maiden. The leaves crackle beneath their feet, the wind sighs gently above their heads, the moonlight casts their silhouettes upon the frozen earth. They move lightly over the hard ground, unaffected by the keen air save as it serves to freshen their enjoyment of the night. Then, under the cover of heaven, which has for ages past witnessed similar scenes, the youth kneels, and clasps the maiden's hand within his own. And the heavens glow with a new light; the moon shines in a warmer radiance; the noise of the distant world no longer throbs in the air. For the youth and the maiden alone the earth turns round!