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VOL. III.
OCTOBER 26,1894.
EDITORIAL.
NO.8.
IN response to the call in our last week's issue, for college verse we have received a couple of metrical compositions which we publish this week. Each of these is good in its way, and the one on Autumn, is we think, entitled to the name of poetry. Further contributions of verse are solicited.
The under classmen should follow the excellent example set them by the Seniors in their recent nutting picnic and have some class gatherings. About the only objection that can be urged against the optional system of studies is, that it tends to destroy class spirit. This tendency can be counteracted, however, by occasional social gatherings of the classes. May the other classes profit by this good example and may the Seniors continue the movement so auspiciously begun.
It is now doubtless too late to hold a tennis tournament this fall. The tennis season is about over and besides this, the holidays from now on will be taken up with football games. Tennis should have been looked after last month, before athletic interest became entirely engrossed in foot-ball, but now that the season has been allowed to pass the only thing to do is to wait until next spring, and in the meantime, prepare to develop the ability to play tennis now latent among the students.
We give our readers this week the rules of the Kansas-Nebraska debate as they now stand, approved by both parties. We also publish the rules for selecting our representatives and the plan adopted by Nebraska for choosing her men. The Nebraska plan is we think, much inferior to ours. It is open to all the objections made to our oratorical association. The Kansas plan will help the literary societies very materially and thus produce trained debaters for future meetings with Nebraska. The committee to which the arrangement of this affair was entrusted has done its work in a very thorough and satisfactory manner.
It makes us a bit envious at times when we read in other college papers of their