Kansas University Weekly.
317
Prof. E. Haworth was at Fort Scott on business connected with the state geological survey.
Miss Margaret Northup of Kansas City, Kans. ,visited this week with her brother, Fred Northup.
Kansas-Nebraska Debate.
A question that should be of great interest to the student body and to the faculty of the University at the present time, is that of the Kansas-Nebraska debate. Nebraska has thoroughly demonstrated that she is able to make her part in the debate a success, both from a financial standpoint and from general interest of all concerned.
As we expect to hold the debate here next year, some decisive action should be taken immediately to insure interest on our part and to provide the financial support necessary to carry on the debate.
We can conceive of no more efficient plan than to place the final debate, when held here on alternate years, in the University lecture course. That would give the course a diversity of entertainment and would be quite an attraction to certain classes of students in the sale of course tickets. Surely no one could be so little interested in a contest of this nature as to refuse to purchase a course ticket because the debate was placed under the management of the Lecture Bureau.
From fifty to seventy-ffve dollars will pay all necessary expenses of the debate and if we secure half the interest that Nebraska has shown, which we no doubt could do with such a plan, there would be a considerable sum to the credit of the Bureau.
Some may say that this plan is impracticable, that the debate and the lecture course occupy totally different fields, and have no interests in common. To that we say, both are supposed to be in the interest of the entire University body and if the two can be blended, if we can combine both so as not to impair the success of either, we see no valid reason why such action should not be taken.
B. B. McCALL.
WELLSVILLE, KANSAS, May 11, 1896. UNIVERSITY WEEKLY,
Lawrence, Kansas.
"The present staff have labored hard for the WEEKLY." (I quote from an editorial on page 296, Vol. II, of the WEEKLY). So they have. And they have sent out a paper that, as a former student, I have enjoyed reading from the "Ad Astra Per Aspera" to the statement about that "nice sweet butter to lubricate that dry bread, at 1300 Massachusetts street." I don't believe in post-mortem eulogies.
Yours truly,
CLARA BOSWORTH.
The Chess Tournament.
The second series of games in the chess tournament was played in the Y.M.C.A. rooms last Friday evening. J.D.Gehring acted as referee as on the first evening.The games resulted in a decided victory for the University teams. Although the city team was one game ahead from the first evening the score at the close of the playing showed our team three ahead.
The University team won games as follows: A. S. O'Connor defeated U. S. Plank and D. W. Hazen, J. H. Fletcher defeated D. W. Hazen, L. B. Olsen defeated S. Phillips and A. K. Hoge, C. J. Moore defeated W. R. Castes, A. Dillon defeated R. A. Hazen, and O. A. Bayless defeated J. H. Magaw.
The city team won the following: A. K. Hoge defeated A. Dillon, S. Phillips defeated J. H. Fletcher, C. A. Hazen defeated C. J. Moore, W. R. Castes defeated J. H. Fletcher.
The score for the evening was University 8, City 4. Total score, University 11, City 8, draws 3. The best score by individual players are: Olsen 3, O'Connor $2\frac{1}{2}$, Fletcher 2, Moore 2, Bayless $1\frac{1}{2}$. Among the city players the best scores are: Phillips 3, Castes 2. The games Friday evening were much better than the week before, nevertheless C. J. Moore sacrificed a game by an inexcusable blunder in the opening. The third series will be played to-night.