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THE KANSAS UNIVRESITY WERKL.
Editor-in-Cntief   EALPH ELLIE
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       E. B. BLACK
Sporting Editor  FEDA N. GULLETTE
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Society Editor  MABEL BAEBER
Literary Editor  CHAS. L.VANFLEET
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THE WEEKLY wants more news. The editorial staff is limited in numbers and all the University happenings do not come directly under their eyes. It will be considered a great favor if every student who knows an item of interest will report it to a member of the staff or leave it at the desk at the check stand. It is the intention of this paper to publish all the interesting things that happen at the University.
For another thing there may be some literary light in school who has been hiding himself under a bushel. This publication is looking for your kind. The Weekly is not making a bid for spring poetry exactly, but it can use some literary copy and would like to have submitted anything in the shape of jokes, verse or stories that would be suitable for a college paper.
THE WEEKLY has never advertised itself as a publication devoted to furthering the interests of matrimony, nor has it ever offered inducements for matrimonial advertisements; but the receipt of a "query" regarding an affair of the heart, has so appealed to its sense of duty that one of the members of the staff has been appointed to take charge of any correspondence of this character and it is the hope of the Weekly that its well meant advice may staunch the wounds of many a shattered heart and soften the bitterness of the unfortunates that may have offered up everything upon the alter of unrequited affection.
MISSOURI University has offered prizes for a new university yell and a university song. Our neighbors evidently think that the "Tiger! Tiger! M. S. U.!" is a "hoodoo." It may be suggested that if Missouri still desires the name of some animal in their cheer, that since establishing the chair of Poultry the word Turkey might supersede the striped "varmint." The change would be especially appropriate for the Kansas City game.
THE WASHBURN REVIEW desines that a fitting reception should be given Baker and Ottawa when they come up to Topeka for the Oraterical contest. If reports from all
past State contests are correct Washburn has always been anything but icy in receiving these sister schools.
PROF. FRAZIER is busily engaged interesting students in the coming oratorical contest. The new departure in the style of the contest should find greater favor than the old style oratory. It really is little wonder that interest in college oratorical contests has decreased to such a great extent in the past ten years. People had begun to grow slightly weary of having the same old themes rehearsed and rehearsed each spring. It seemed to make but little difference what the subject of a man's oration was, he invariably brought in the ancient Greek and Roman before he had reached his third paragraph, and then came the fearful race down to the middle ages, here a slight pause for a panegyric upon medieval chivalry; again with a running start he would carry his audience madly through the remaining centuries to the present, when with perspiring face and wilting linen he would raise his voice and hands in a peroration, which if it did not succeed in impressing the judges as a burst of true eloquence, at least was effectual in awakening any napping auditors and left an open field for his successor.
It matters little how well prepared it may be, a set speech is falling into disfavor. There is too much of the mechanical about it. The speaker is not natural either in enunciation or gesture, and he always gives the impression of being compelled to make certain movements and gestures at particular words and phrases in his discourse.
This growing unpopularity has led to the introduction of the new style of oration, where the speaker does not commit his words to memory, but takes a subject and studies it carefully and then presents a discussion upon it. Many of the leading colleges and universities have adopted this new idea and it seems that the old style oration will soon be relegated to the number of things that have been. In the future, ideas and thought rather than figures of speech and elocutionary ability will be the predominant features of the oratorical contest.
This year marks the beginning in the new style of contest at Kansas University. If the increased interest in oratory this spring is any criterion, the coming contest will be a great success. Every man and woman who can do anything in an oratorical way should enter this contest and see that Kansas has a representative second to none at St. Louis.
KANSAS HAS been held up time after time as the state of freak legislatures. We have been accused of having legislators who couldn't count, others who couldn't tell cots from leather couches and even some that were so color blind that they would occasionally get the state's money mixed up with their own. One time we had a representative who in speaking
of a railroad said "The blasted thing ain't got 'ary termini at nary end" and another introduced a bill making water melon stealing a felony, but thank Heaven, it is left to an Iowa man to want to put a Chair of Matrimony in the State University.
Iowa is possibly not so much to blame; they heard about Chairs of Journalism, Poultry and Stock raising in neighboring universities and the Hawkeye state is nothing if not up-to-date; so casting about for something to make a new chair out of in their state university they happened to think of matrimony. The idea sounded well and would probably prove a great drawing card for the university. Hence the introduction of a bill in the legislature to endow a chair of matrimony.
If the proposition materializes we will likely see the time arrive shortly when each male graduate of Iowa University will be presented with his diploma wrapped in a blue ribbon and in addition the Director of Matrimony will also give him a bride, possibly also trimmed in blue ribbon. Then will the college graduate, indeed, be ready to go forth and battle against an unkind world
The Modern Language Journal Club
At the meeting of the Journal Club of the language departments, Friday of last week, Prof. Walker read a paper on Latin syntax, and Miss Galloo, Mr. Bryant and Mr. Raymond discussed recent contributions to the scholarly magazines. Mr. Muenter discussed the new Germanic Museum at Harvard.
X. Y. Z. DEBATING CLUB.
There was an unusually good attendance at the X. Y. Z. club meeting last Saturday evening, and the meeting was interesting and animated. The program was opened by a parliamentary drill by Elder. An extemperaneous talk was given by Bender. The debate was on the subject Resolved, that the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States has not been justified. The discussion was participated in by Cowdrick and Coleman for the affirmative, and Earlart and Stuessi for the negative. The debate centered about the results of giving the franchise to freedmen at the close of the civil war. The decision of the judges was given in favor of the negative. The literary program was closed by an eight minute speech by Tritt. Mr. Tritt discussed the situation in the far East, and the probable outcome of the Russio-Japanese war. An important business meeting was held at the close of the program.
At nearly every X.Y.Z. meeting this year, visitors have been present. Guests are always welcome at the meetings of the club, and a cordial invitation is extended to all who are interested to make themselves at home in the X.Y.Z. club room on Saturday evenings.
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