The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 3, 1896.
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, }
WILL WOOD, } - Arts.
Managing Editor:
J. H. ENGLE.
Associate:
W. C. CLOCK.
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Address all business communications to J. H. Engle, Lawrence, Kansas.
No. 4.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
WITHIN A few days the athletic election will be held, and the managers of the different departments of athletics will be chosen. It is therefore fitting that we should make our customary resolution to put into office only those who are qualified, and who are anxious
to do something for the cause of athletics. It is also our duty, when election day comes, to keep this resolution. We do not want an athletic board that will resolve itself into a foot-ball committee of the whole. We want two managers of track ahtletics who will do something for track athletics. We want a boating committee which will at least make an earnest effort to arrange some boat races; and a tennis committee which will revive this neglected sport and if possible arouse enough enthusiasm to justify the holding of a tournament. Let merit be the standard applied to every candidate, and let no man accept an office unless he recognizes that there are responsibilities connected with it, and unless he is willing to assume these responsibilities.
ONE LITERARY society for eight hundred students! One student in a dozen doing something in the line of public speaking! What about the other eleven students? Are they all accomplished speakers? Can they all think on their feet? Can they express themselves clearly and concisely? Are they already sufficiently versed in parlimentary law? Are they conscious of their ability to measure their intellectual power with that of others? If not, why this indifference? Everyone will grant the need of development in these lines. And where is this development to be attained if not in the literary societies? Certainly not in the class room, nor the study, nor in the library, nor at the club, nor on the athletic field. Why do not more students look at this matter in the true light? Why let a feeling of timidity at making a start, or worse yet a feeling of pure laziness prevent the fulfilment of an important duty.