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VOL. III.
NOVEMBER 9,1894.
NO.10.
During the campaign just past there have been few political speakers here who have not taken occasion to make various statements concerning the supposed political teachings of the Department of History and Sociology, with such added remarks, commendatory or otherwise, as comported with the politics of the speaker. It is very much to be regretted that the men to whose care the difficult duty of civil administration is entrusted—the politicians—should be so warped by partizan passion as to be unable to believe that the men of other parties may be honest in their opinions or may have valid arguments in favor of some of their views. Many politicians do not seem to know that political economy is the study of universally valid natural laws upon which, as a basis, each student may build his own political theories. It seems to be entirely beyond the comprehension of the political speaker that anyone can take a non-partizan position upon economic matters and teach his students to see the truth-the weak and the strong points of both sides.
One of the speakers to whom a Lawrence audience has listened this fall is reported to have said that the University should teach a certain political dogma favored by his party! Such a plan is worthy of the fellow
we cannot recall his name just now—who endeavored to bridle Professor Ely. It is equalled only by the mediaeval attempt to prevent men from thinking that the world is round. It is the height of demagogism. However the good sense and tolerance of the people of Kansas is too great to sanction any such plan for inculcating narrow dogmas instead of universal truths. Their love of intellectual freedom and activity will never allow the cause of free and unhampered research to receive such a set-back as would be given by the adoption of an arrangement like that suggested by the speaker referred to.
At the University of Minnesota there is a custom which might be introduced here with excellent effect. It is, an annual Thanksgiving reception, given by the Senior and Junior classes to the rest of the school. Such an institution would promote a close and mutually helpful acquaintance between the upper and lower classmen, and cultivate a broad and enlightened class and University spirit in the breast of every one participating. We have, it is true, the very useful and pleasant Chancellor's Reception, which has been unavoidably postponed this year, but it is not enough. It can serve as but lit-