The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 31, 1896.
No. 8.
Editor-in-Chief.
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH.
Literary Editor
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA LYNN, SYDNEY PRENTICE,
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
JOE SMITH.
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,
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Managing Editor.
W. C. CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
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THE EXCELLENT half-tone of the University buildings which we present this week was made by Mr. Frank Marcy from a photograph taken from the top of the stand tower.
THE PLAN of having a series of inter-class debates seems to be meeting with favor. It is to be hoped that the bulletin boards will soon
be well papered with challenges. These debates need not be carried on merely for amusement; they will be of great benefit to those taking part in them, and arrangements can be made by which the winners in the final interclass debate may be allowed to enter the contest which will determine who are to oppose the representatives from Nebraska University.
ACCORDING TO the Ann Arbor Daily Chauncey M. Depew made a great mistake the other day when he came to Ann Arbor to deliver a lecture under the auspices of the University lecture bureau, and instead of lecturing on some conventional subject, made a rousing republican campaign speech. Mr. Depew probably did not think that he was giving the Ann Arbor people a stone in answer to their request for bread. He was in fact so full of sound money statistics that it would have been simply impossible for him to resurrect any of his old lectures buried beneath the countless strata of sound money argument.
THE ADELPHIC by changing its meeting place from the University to Music Hall has made it convenient for a much larger number of students to attend its meetings. The programs are always entertaining though fortunately there is some room for improvement. More attention should be given to debating, and especial emphasis should be placed on the necessity of careful preparation. The desultory and incoherent harangues of some debaters (in other colleges) are the result of attempts at extemporaneous speaking. Earnest study and preparation are the secrets of good delivery and eloquence. In debating as in everything else not much more can be drawn out than is put in.