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Kansas University Weekly.
THE RETURNING students may be divided into two great classes, and all other divisions are insignificant when compared with this dichotomy These two classes are the tanned and the untanned. Now the tanned student is apt to be somewhat proud of his tan, especially if he obtained it by a systematic course of exposures to the sun's rays, with tan as the only end in view. If however tan was a secondary result his satisfaction is correspondingly decreased, and may even be less than nothing.
The untanned student is likewise proud of his tanlessness, and in proportion to the amount of lotion which he has used in untanning himself. And in the end he certainly has the best of it for strict attention to University duties gradually obliterates the line between the two classes and all are soon moving forward in untanned harmony.
IN DENYING the petition of the music school students relative to the redistribution of classes among the professors the regents have undoubtedly acted for the best interests of the school. Prof. Penny's services in building up and broadening the work of the School of Fine Arts have been invaluable. The classes in Harmony are such as naturally belong to him as Dean of the music school, and now that he is entirely relieved of his voice work, which has heretofore claimed most of his time, he will give to these classes his undivided attention. Each professor in the Art School now has his own department, and all are united in the effort to perfect the work.
THE MOST artistic "Summer Number" which we have received is that of the "Western Collegian." The cover design in two colors represents the student "at home" in the hayfield. The sheaves of grain, however, which lie beside him to indicate that he has been laboring were just left there by a self binding reaper which for lack of space does not appear in the cut. The paper used is of the best quality and the number is well illustrated with cuts and half tones.
BY THE removal from the state of Judge James Humphrey the Law school looses one of its strongest lecturers and most active friends. His place will be hard to fill.
WE ARE glad to note that the lecture bureau is already actively engaged in securing entertainments for this year's course. The work of the bureau last year was satisfactory in every respect, and the course this year will be more popular than ever.
To the Alumni of '96, greeting! This, the first number of vol. III.of the "Weekly" is sent to you as a proof that we are still your friends, though you may have concluded ere this that all the world is against you. We shall be pleased to receive your subscriptions and will try to give "value received."
THE STUDENT who comes early has one advantage over the one who comes late in that he has the pleasure of welcoming the others as they arrive. The practice of some students of coming in several days after school work has begun when there is no necessity for so doing, is an unfortunate one, because they not only fail of making the best beginning for themselves but they interrupt and retard the work of others.
WE ARE in the midst of a time of financial depression which might reasonably be expected to have its effect on the attendance at our various institutions of learning. And yet reports from different parts of the country seem to presage the usual increase in the number of those going to colleges and universities. It is especially gratifying to note that this is true of our own University. And it may be that the explanation of this is to be found in the fact that the people at large are feeling more deeply than for many years their responsibility as citizens of a democracy. They are striving to settle in the best way great questions of public policy, and every man feels the need of that insight, and mental reach and power which an education alone can give.