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Kansas University Weekly.
THE FIELD and track athletic events which occur in the Driving Park south of town tomorrow are arousing more than usual interest. A number of the best athletes in the Univesity will participate in the races of the day. The bicycle races will be under the sanction of the League of American Wheelmen. The relay bicycle race will be something novel and entertaining. A large crowd will probably be in attendance at these races.
THE ARTICLE by Prof. E. M. Hopkins concerning the Kansas-Nebraska debate in the WEEKLY last week attracted much attention among those interested in our inter-state debates. As he says, if we wish to continue these debates something must be done at once to insure their financial success. The suggestion that the final debate, when it occurs here on alternate years, should be placed among the lecture course attractions, seems to be a very satisfactory solution of the difficulty. We cannot afford to abandon the Kansas-Nebraska debates.
IN THE base ball game between the Fort Leavenworth soldiers and the University nine, some excellent playing was done by Mitchell, Blackshire and Wagner. They are developing into good base ball men. Outland played a good game as usual, while Foster in left field caught several difficult "sky scrapers" when the sun was shining clearly in his face. Team work was more noticeable than at any previous game. Our boys however need more practice in batting than in any thing else. In fact there is not a single man in the team upon whom we can rely to make a good safe hit when the occasion greatly demands it. If our boys give great attention to practice in batting, we shall soon have a nine second to none in the state.
Four Student Composites.
be considered. If you fuse a certain large, distinct but artifical class of boys in the University together you will obtain such a composite as this: He wears almost invariably during the winter months an immaculate white shirt, an expensive suit of clothes a high collar and tooth-pick shoes.
Of the four prominent types of students in the University, two are found among the boys and two among the girls. The boys will first
In the Spring-time his apparel is louder and more breezy. He is proud, excessively proud, and thinks that if the world does not revolve around him it ought to do so. Upon what basis he rests this arrogant self-esteem, he never troubles himself to ascertain yet he knows that he is a being superior to those around him. He is a fairly good student although scholarship is not his strong point. He is moderately well liked by those about him who realize that he will out-grow this foolish egotism which chance has thrust upon him. He will in no doubt develop into a good man as many others of his type have done before.
The other boy composite is taken from a far greater class of students yet it is just as clear cut and distinct. He does not dress so well as composite number one, probably because he is not financially able to do so. Nor is he afflicted with an undue amount of self esteem, yet both students are of the same flesh and blood. He is more earnest, sincere and candid in his actions. He lacks perhaps a little of the social refinement his contemporary may possess. He has coarser grey matter in his brain than his contemporary yet there is a larger quantity in a more healthful condition. He is a thorough student, does not glitter, nor does he lack that steadfastness of purpose which insures success. He is building a firm foundation upon which to res this future career and in later years composite number one will be one of his clerks.
These composites are not over-drawn but after a little observation and reflection can be made any day by any one familiar with University life. They can not, of course, be applied to separate individuals as they apply to classes and in these classes many exceptions will be found. Next week the two girl composites will be given.