The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 16, 1897.
Editor-in-Chief.
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH,
Literary Editor:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA GATTRELL LYNN, SYDNEY PRENTICE,
PROF. E.M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Associates:
PERCY PARROTT, - - - - Snow Hall.
L. HEIL, - - - Exchanges
DAISY STARR, - - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - Law and Social.
WILL McMURRAY, - - Athletics.
E. C. ALDER,
H. P. CADY,
JOE SMITH.
No 17.
Managing Editor. W.C. CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, Charles A. Wagner or the secretary, Percy J. Parrott. Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance. Address all business communications to W.C. Clock, Lawrence, Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
IN ANOTHER column we print a list of alumni who were present at the University reunion held in Topeka at the time of the meeting of the State Teachers' Association. The number of the University faculty present at the meeting was however comparatively small. Perhaps the reunion was not well advertised. It is always a pleasant affair and would be much more so if a larger number from the University could make it a point to attend.
A SCHOLARSHIP in an Eastern university usually means the cancelling of charges for tuition. Kansas University offers such a scholarship to every student in the state.
SLOWLY but surely the metric system is gaining ground in the United States. It is a pity that a system which has so many advantages over all others cannot be more quickly adopted; but like every other improvement or new idea it has to take its place in the struggle for existence and fight for every foot of ground which it gains.
WE ARE glad to notice that the usual talk about drawing out of the state oratorical association has not been indulged in this year. The number and ability of the students who have entered the local contest is an effectual rebuke to those who would do away with even the small opportunity and incentive now offered for the development of talent in oratory.
Did you see that sun-rise the other morning, you who have eight o'clock classes? And did you really look at it, and drink it in, and feel the inspiration of it, or did you just give it a glance as you raised your eyes to the clock in the Physics building? Would that we might forget the clock once in a while, and the classes, and studies, and everything but the sun-rise, the beauty, the glory, the blessing in it! But so many of us are blind.
It is an old saying that anything which depends for its support on the students of Kansas University might as well commit suicide. Like most old sayings this one is only partially true, and yet how seldom it is that we see the students entering heartily and as a body into any one thing, though it may be recognized as for the common good. Until we get into the hab-