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Kansas University Weekly.
OUR LOCAL editor did not interview Li Hung Chang during his recent visit to this country. His failure to do so however was not because of any reluctance to tell his age or income or anything else that the inquisitive old Chinaman might wish to know; but was due to other obvious difficulties. The Earl professed to admire many of our institutions. May he have a goodly number of years in which to work for their adoption in his own country.
FOOT-BALL practice reveals the fact that there is only a small number of the old players back this year. But there is no need for discouragement on this account. It does not mean that we are any less likely to make a glorious record in the games this fall. It means simply that we are somewhat handicapped, that new material is to be worked down, soft flesh to be changed into iron muscle, that minds are to be trained to act quickly and in unison. It means harder work for the coaches and harder work for the new men but in the end a crown of victory.
CHANCELLOR SNOW in his remarks Friday morning spoke of the gradual raising of the requirements for admission to the University. There is along with this a constant enlargement of the freedom of students in choosing their courses, which is no less a sign of development in an institution of learning. It is necessary that the standard for admission be high before many of the studies can safely be made elective, for a student must be somewhat matured before he is competent to select what he shall study. There is a temptation to take those studies which will be enjoyable whether or not they are likely to prove most beneficial, and in fact it is often difficult to decide what will yield the best returns. It is a pretty safe rule, however, and yet a rather indefinite one, to choose as broadly as possible; to be sure that there is no important line of work wholly ignored. If this is done there is little danger that later specialization will result in narrowness.
IN ANSWER to many inquiries we print the following extracts from the Constitution of the WEEKLY Publishing Company. The Constitution will be printed in pamphlet form and issued to stockholders in the near future, and will also appear in our next number.
Art. III. Sec. 2. The life of a share shall two years.
Sec. 5. The shares shall be issued by the secretary of the company.
Sec. 6. Each stock holder is entitled to receive the paper free of charge during the life of his share.
CHAPEL SERVICE is one of the advantages of the University; as much so as any course in the curriculum. The student owes it to himself to attend chapel as well as to attend classes. The chapel services can do as much to develop a well rounded character as any study in the University. And yet these meetings are wholly neglected by some, and attended in a sort of hap-hazard way by many others. The student should form a habit of going to chapel regularly; whether it be every day, or every other day, or once a week. But anyone who contents himself with attending once or twice a week should recognize that he is making less than the most of his opportunities.
DURING THE Summer political events of great moment have taken place in the United States. No one could fail to be interested in the remarkably sudden and radical changes in the aspect of political affairs. The young men in the University who expect to vote for the first time this Fall have been especially interested, and with the great majority of people everywhere have felt the necessity of forming intelligent opinions on the questions at issue between the different parties. Such persons should not allow their studies to absorb their attention wholly, but by careful reading and unprejudiced discussion should seek to form clear ideas upon the present political situation.