The Kansas University Weekly.
Vol. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10, 1896.
No. 5.
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:
Snow Hall.
L. HEIL, Exchanges
DAISY STARR, School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. Law and Social.
WILL McMURRAY, Athletics.
E. C. ALDER,
C. A. ROHRER, Arts.
WILL WOOD,
Managing Editor.
J. H. ENGLE.
Associate:
W. C. CLOCK.
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THE FIRST year or two in the University is sometimes much like a fight in the dark. Things do not arrange themselves in any comprehensible order. The work does not seem to have very much purpose nor any definite end. Happy is he who never forgets that "behind the clouds is the sun still shining," and who "learns to labor and to wait."
LAST YEAR it was officially agreed to substitute for crimson, which up to the time of this agreement had been the college color, the combination of crimson and blue. It was not to be expected that the dear old color, which for years had expressed Kansas University sentiment as neither yells nor sorrowful faces were so capable of doing, should be instantly relegated.
At the K. U.-Abilene football game some of the students wore the new colors, and a great many clung to the old. Now, we should not question the wisdom of making the change; we are assured that sufficient argument in favor of it was brought to bear, and that a majority of both the athletic association officers and of the members of the Faculty fully sanctioned the action. Our duty is plain.
Try them on,—the crimson and the blue. Perhaps, you will feel uncomfortable at the first wearing of them—just so would you feel in a new suit of clothes; you can as easily accustom yourself to the former as to the latter.
Let us accept the new colors gracefully, heartily, speedily: and when once we have put them to their important uses, they shall have become as dear to us as is our Rock Chalk.
THE ALUMNI Association has taken a step in the right direction. The scholarship which they have established will do an inestimable amount of good, and may serve as the beginning of something better in this direction. Anyone who improved his opportunities while in school can never become unmindful of the benefits which he there received, and will not hesitate, when circumstances permit, to help others who are struggling for an education.