THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE
Students Journal Publishing Co. KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Ralph W. Cone, Editor-in-Chief. E. E. Waltmire, Local Editor.
Margaret E. Menet, Literary Editor. M. L. Bishoff, Managing Editor.
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
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ASSOCIATES.
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Effie Loader, Local. Gertrude M. McCheyne, School of Fine Arts.
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VOL. III.
NOVEMBER 27,1894.
NO.12.
EDITORIAL
INASMUCH as this is our Thanksgiving number we suppose it is eminently fitting that we should try to tell why we are thankful. As students of the University we are grateful for the increasing prosperity of the institution, for its new buildings-furnishing improved facilities for work,-for its large attendance,and for its promising future. The condition of athletics in the University, too, affords occasion for self-congratulation. The financial condition of the Association is good, there is a healthy interest manifested by the students, and, although our foot-ball team has not the "Never Defeated" record for which we hoped, it has played in a manner of which we need not be ashamed. Though defeated, our team has kept entirely free from all professionalism, the ultimate ruin of college athletics.
As the STUDENTS JOURNAL we are thankful for the support and encouragement we have received; for the degree of success, slight though it be, that we have achieved in striving to truly represent the students and the University: for our handsome new cover:
and for being permitted by the Fates to win the original distinction of issuing a Thanksgiving number without mentioning the name or publishing the picture of that fowl so justly popular, but so overburdened with a load of song and story, at this season of the year.
THE reception given the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. by Mrs. Haskell illustrated quite forcibly the lack of acquaintance between the students of different classes and of different social cliques in the University. It also showed how much could be done to overcome this lack by means of receptions. Social life in the University, being left almost entirely to the management of students, has naturally found its expression in gatherings of different distinct bodies of students, as must come about when a school has so many students that all cannot conveniently be entertained at one time and place. The objection to these cliques, however, is that they become narrow and self-sufficient, not knowing or caring to know persons not in their own circle. Thus they break up the unity of feeling for the University, and, forgetting the solidarity of interest of the