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Kansas University Weekly.
A CONSIDERABLE interest in the Nebraska-Kansas debate was evinced by the attendance at the last of the preliminary contests.
WE NOTICE in the April Lotus an announcement of Prof. Clark's resignation as art editor of that publication and subjoined thereto complimentary a note of regret from the publishers. Through Prof. Clark, Kansas University is particularly identified with the inception and growth of The Lotus. His enthusiasm and artistic capability were potent in bringing it to the notice of polite circles; and since its attainment of permanent popularity, he has more than sustained his reputation as an illustrator of keen and comprehensive ability. Let us congratulate ourselves upon his success.
THE WORK of dramatizing "The House Boat on the Styx" is completed and rehearsals of the same for the Senior play will begin at once. Mr. Bangs, the author has been forestalled in the dramatization of his book. The labor of adaptation has been tedious and perplexing notwithstanding the fact that the work possesses inherently the qualities of a subtle farce-comedy. The piece, as it comes from the hands of the play committee, is slightly tinged with localisms and otherwise largely amended. The plot is unconventional; there is no "star" part; the cast is large. The play is unmistakably a fit vehicle for rollicking Senior wit and jocosity, and we look forward to the event of its production with great expectancy.
THE REPORT of the outrageous action of the Agricultural College Board of Regents is almost incredible. Henceforth, nothing of partisan origin can surprise us. We are now in a receptive mood. Come on, with your harangues on the corrupting influences of politics, with your books on degeneracy, with your editorials on aberrant Kansas. With the accession of new regime the Agricultural college will cease to be. In its stead there will spring into full grown existence a school for the promotion of propagandism wherein the chief text book will be the record of party achievements. The Dothebay Hall method will doubtless be employed in the inculcation of party creeds and of the principles of political science. The wages which have customarily been allowed the student for work on the college farm will be materially reduced in order that he may feel the pinch of privation, may realize the advantage and arbitrariness of capital, and that he may become imbued with the doctrines of ultra-radical populism. A kindergarten system of political economy is certainly an innovation. Our present type of politician is a much more resourceful manipulator than any of his predecessors. As a companion working principle with the gerrymander he has lately invented the device of reorganizing state institutions. The next decade will witness the result of its application—we shudder at the spectacle prefigured. We extend sympathy to the students of the Agricultural college for the untimely loss of President Fairchild and of other professors undoubtedly beloved of all connected with the institution.
Eilqraquy.
How it Happened.
Alex struck a match on the porch railing and lighted his cigarette. He puffed at it for a moment, making the red light glow through the darkness, then tossed the burned match over the balustrade and blew out a cloud of mistily luminous smoke.
"So this is the end of it?" he said.
The girl was leaning back in a rocking-chair; the quick spurt of the match had given a glimpse of a serious, sensitive face with solemn dark- ringed eyes. "Yes," she assented.
"Well," commented Alex after a silence of several moments, "it was very amusing while it lasted."