EDITORIAL.
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periodical has generally been filled with valuable and interesting articles. Still its standard has not been as high as it would have been had the students felt that the Review was truly a University periodical and not a factional one.
It is very much to be regretted that more of the students did not feel able to attend the banquet in Library Hall on the 10th inst. The toasts were responded to by some of the ablest, brightest and wittiest men in this region and these responses were of great interest and practical value to the young man or woman who is preparing for contact with the world. However, it was impossible to have the speeches at any other time or place than at the banquet, and it was equally impossible to allow any one to attend who did not feel like paying the cost of a plate. We do not think that the majority of the students realized the importance of the occasion until it was past and consequently did not improve the opportunity for hearing "The speech of great men," which, as Chancellor Snow aptly quoted, "is better than great books."
We are sorry to see an inclination manifested in some quarters in favor of combining the Review and Courier. If such action were taken it would certainly be a step backward. The field, method, and attitude of a monthly are entirely different from those of a weekly. The weekly is interested giving the news—and that, too, as quickly as possible—and in discussing current questions and endeavoring to make its readers see matters as it sees them. The monthly on the other hand, strives to give only carefully matured ideas and to look at all matters in a perfectly impartial light; and this attitude is made possible only by a greater length of time between issues, in which to weigh questions carefully. The weekly mingles in the fight, of which the monthly is a thoughtful spectator. In the present case the motive for wishing to plunge the mothly into the fray seems to be a desire to pay off political scores—a most unworthy motive. In conclusion let us state that we should be just as much opposed to the combination were the STUDENTS JOURNAL in the place of the Courier, for such a union as the one proposed can add lasting strength to neither publication.
A Parallel in History.
"The payment of the membership and assessment fees will make the whole cost of protesting against the fee, a little less than the fee itself. There isn't a great deal of benefit to be gotten out of this kind of a move, but it will likely catch a good many who want to kick against the library fee."
As the above quotation from the Lawrence Journal concerning the "Students Protective Association" embodies an objection quite common among those who do not understand the real principles involved in the case, it would seem to merit a reply. We would refer those students who entertain sentiments such as are voiced in the above to a little matter of history that occurred about one hundred and twenty years ago, culminating in the foundation of a great western republic. The tax on tea was not a burdensome imposition, quite the contrary. It was so arranged that the price of tea plus the duty should be less to the Colonists than had been the original price of the tea alone. The tax was nevertheless resisted although there were a great many Tories, who, like the writer of the above, didn't "see a great deal of benefit to be gotten out of this kind of a move." It was for a great principle that the patriots of '76 contended. And it is for the same principle that the patriotic students of Kansas State University are contending today. The Colonists rebelled against taxation under an unjust law. The students of the University rebel against taxation contrary to the spirit and the letter of the laws of the state. As Edmund Burke said, "It is the weight of that preamble, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear," so the students say, that it is the unjust and unlawful exaction and not the paltry fee itself, that they are unwilling to bear. X.
Freshmen who are studying solid Geometry recognize the need of a spherical blackboard. Such a blackboard could be about three feet in diameter. Upon its surface spherical polygons could be drawn that would show the special properties that cannot be shown by means of figures on planes.