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Kansas University Weekly.
U. of K. at Lake Geneva.
The University Young Men's Christian Association was represented at the Students' Conference at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, in June, by Willis Henderson who was regularly chosen as a delegate, and by J. H. Engle, who went as a substitute for Walter Douglas.
Lake Geneva, a beautiful body of water about four by ten miles in extent, whose native and artificial surroundings simply beggar description, is situated about two hours' ride northwest of Chicago. Y.M.C.A.Camp lies in the very shadow of the new Yerkes Observatory, whose rising towers speak with hopeful significance of the days that are to be. Thoughtful students found little room for rude aspersions against accumulated wealth in the presence of such munificence so near their plain yet charming camp.
Our delegates speak with enthusiasm of the rare advantages for religious, social and physical recreation there afforded. Religious instruction and meditation, conferences upon methods in association work, lectures on the merits of the various professions and callings as life work for young men, rambles singly or in groups over the delightful hills which skirt the clear and placid lake, contests in light athletics, rowing and bathing daily except Sundays, were the agreeable and wisely varied means of turning the outing to good account.
The most altruistic will concede that it is a rare experience to spend ten days among three hundred strong young men without hearing an oath, or even hearing a story of unquestionable propriety, without observing the scent of liquor or tobacco, and also without observing any of the cant which has served to make the religious life so distasteful to many otherwise excellent young men, yet this is no exaggeration of the situation at Lake Geneva.
It is but just to expect that the delegates who enjoyed these rare advantages will succeed in reflecting a due degree of helpful sympathy into the lives of their fellow students.
Miss Martha Snow, who has recently returned home, and Miss Emma Barber, who lingers during these hot weeks with friends at Milwaukee, were the Y. W. C.A.delegates to a similar conference of young women at the same place in the early days of this month. They seem equally delighted with the work of their conference and the association will doubtless find cause to regard their expenditure a wise one. J. H. E.
From An Alumnus.
Judge C. W. Smith,'75, of the 34th Judicial District, writes as follows in a letter regretting his inability to be present at the Alumi Reunion:
"It has been a disappointment to me not to be able to visit Alma Mater at the period of her flowers and ceremonies. Though it has been twenty years since I bid her halls 'good bye,' I have as warm a feeling for her as at the time of leaving. I am glad to know that she is becoming strongly intrenched in the good will and esteem of the people of the State. I have six children whom I hope to see receive certificate of work well done at the hands of her faculty some time in the not distant future."
Judge Smith has occupied the honorable position which he holds for several terms and is one of the most respected judges in the state of Kansas.
The members of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations have in press an admirable little hand-book containing valuable information concerning the University. It is vest pocket size and is carried by many students as a ready reference book throughout the year. A copy will be mailed any one upon application to the president of either association at Lawrence, Kansas.
Within the period of a single school generation, four years, there has been at the University an interestig coincidence in names; W. W. Brown, S. S. Brown, C.C. Brown and E.E. Brown all being familiar figures on Mt. Oread.