The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 19, 1896.
Editor-in-Chief.
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH,
No 15.
Literary Editor
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA GATTRELL LYNN, SYDNEY PRENTICE,
PROF. E.M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Associates:
PERCY PARROT, - - - - 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.
Managing Editor. W.C.CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
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Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
THE UNIVERSITY sends out no glee club this year to carry music through the land during the Christmas holidays. It is too bad that this is so. There is musical talent enough in the University to make a first class club, but there has not been enough interest shown in the matter to justify any attempt at organization. We can only hope that it may not be so next year.
THE NAME Country Club seems to have been only provisionally adopted by the band of peripatetics who took their first trip over the untrodden landscape last Saturday. The WEEKLY appreciates the difficulty which confronts this company of intrepid perambulators in their nameless or misnomenical condition, and hereby offers to send the paper free from now until June to the one who shall furnish this ? with a suitable name. All names must be left at the WEEKLY office, with the composer's name also on a separate sheet of paper. "The committee" of the—? will judge as to which is the best.
THE Forum for December has an article on The Drawbacks of a College Education, which contains a number of points worth considering. One drawback is that the student is apt to acquire a love of doing the agreeable. His freedom in choosing what he shall do while in college; the ease with which he may get through if he is so disposed, are likely to make him incapable of doing cheerfully the hard and unpleasant things which he is sure to encounter in later life. Again, an education is apt to train the judgment at the expense of energy. Clearness of vision brings to light so many difficulties in the way that action is discouraged. Thirdly, the knowledge gained is said to be generally not practical—a statement now pretty well disproved. And lastly, education develops individuality, but not social efficiency. It creates an exclusive class, unwilling and unable to take an active part with their fellows in the business of life.
It is well that we should be reminded of these dangers which beset us, for it is in the student's power to avoid most of them if he will, and it is the duty of a college not to destroy freedom, or train the judgment less, or discourage the