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lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five." It would never do, however, to put a student under a barrel and let him keep his horn. Anybody who has shot fire crackers under a tin can would know better than to do that.
WE WERE mistaken last week in saying that the surplus in the Lecture Bureau treasury would be applied to the student's loan fund. The Bureau intends that all the money it receives shall be used for the benefit of its patrons. And, should the surplus be great enough, they will secure an extra entertainment,
THE SENIORS are wrestling with the great problem, whether or not to don that sanctified regalia of erudition-consisting mainly of caps and gowns and arrogance, which is worn in some Eastern Universities, and in some Western denominational schools. It is well this problem is reserved for Seniors; it will require all their mental acumen to settle it.
OLD "SACRAMENTO" is again to be borne to the summit of Mt. Oread. It has been given to the University by the city of Lawrence. But this will not be the first time that the old gun has been on the hill. It has seldom failed these late years to go up sometime during the last night in October and lift up its stentorian voice in honor of Halloween. Two years ago it invaded the campus one night and engaged in battle royal with the totem pole, and the totem pole, alas is no more in the land of the living. Little did anyone think then that "Sacramento" would also soon be laid to rest, its days of service and of folly ended, its voice forever stilled. But so it has come to pass, and it is only the broken form of the grim old warrior which the University is given the honor of caring for henceforth.
THE SECOND "eleven" has been doing good work this year. It has worked long and faithfully for the up building of the first team, and to it will be largely due whatever success the
University team may have this year. There are so many who have been doing faithful work that it is impossible to name them all. Dum, Wagner, Teas, Potter, Curry and Jones as "backs" have given the "Varsity" men plenty of exercise in tackling; Sherman, Smith, Fletcher, Nichols, Worms, Davis, Speaks and Williams have made a line by no means easy to break through or to hold back. Some of the practice games have been as exciting as many of the hard-fought battles with teams of other colleges. In fact it has seemed to some that there was too much of a spirit of rivalry existing between the two teams; a spirit that might lessen the ardor with which the members of the second eleven would support the first. If there has been any such feeling it has been insignificant, and will not diminish the volume of the "Rock Chalk" which will be given at the end of our victories during the season.
ABOUT A YEAR ago two University students, Mr. Clarence Southwick and Mr. Hilliard Johnson, started a Kansas Inter-Collegiate magazine of small but artistic dimensions, and named it the "Lotus." The first number was distinctively a University number, containing contributions from Prof. Clark, Prof. Penny, Miss Brewster, Mr. Prentice and Mr. Johnson, editor. But the "Lotus" jumped at once into the midst of things. It was caught up by the growing enthusiasm for bibelots of its kind, and soon attained an extraordinary and unexpected popularity. The word "Kansas" was quickly dropped from its title, and also a few months later the word "Inter-Collegiate". With its field thus enlarged the "Lotus" passed into the hands of the Hudson-Kimberly Co., of Kansas City who now publish it. It has lately been somewhat enlarged; it is issued monthly instead of bi-monthly, and the price has been increased to ten cents. There seem to be few places where its face is not known; our professors who were in Paris and London this summer saw it on sale there. The cover designs have always been a striking feature of the "Lotus;" that of the October number is especially so. The present editor is Mr. Walter Blackburn Harte, and Prof. A. H. Clarke is illustrator. The "Lotus" exemplifies well the advantage of being born under a propitious horoscope.