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Kansas University Weekly.
THE HIGH place taken by Mr. B. B. McCall in the Kansas-Nebraska debate last Friday evening shows that Kansas University is still to maintain her proud name in the battle of ideas. Mr. McCall, by earnest application, breadth of ideas and skill in debating has won first place from Nebraska for himself and for Kansas. We predict that this will not be Mr. McCall's last great success in debating.
He who seeks one thing in life, and but one, may hope to achieve it before this life is done; but he who seeks all things wherever he goes only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, a harvest of barren regrets—Owen Meredith. And like-wise he who has a divine aim while pursuing his University course will far out-distance in the race of life the student who passes his entire time at college without an aim, without a purpose.
A GIRL in the University remarked to a member of the staff the other day that last year she was obliged to withdraw from the University because, as her recitations were from eight until one o'clock, the strain was too great for her. The committee on arrangement of recitations will do well to consider seriously the idea of abolishing classes from twelve to one o'clock. Not a single student, so far as we have been able to learn, favors them. The members of the Faculty also, to a great extent, are opposed to them.
AT THE third semi-annual election of editors for this paper which occurs next Friday, one editor-in-chief and ten members of the editorial board will be elected. We hope that every stock holder in the company owning this paper will exercise his right of franchise and elect editors who are capable in every way to make the paper a literary and financial success as well as a clear reflector of University life. The present staff have labored hard for the WEEKLY and think they can cosncientiously say that they have done their duty. The nominations for editors close to-day, Friday.
THE LOTUS for May the first contains no "comment." Mr. Hilliard Johnson has ceased the editorial supervision of the magazine, owing to the fact that he expects to leave within a month for his former home in California. In other respects the Lotus maintains its usual high standard. The stories by Mr. Everett and Mr. Whitzel are exceptionally good. John Kendrick Bangs contributes an amusing poem. Mr. Clark's Indian cover design is remarkably effective.
THE PROPOSED Kansas University daily has vanished into the distance and gloom. The time has not yet come for a daily paper in the University of Kansas unless four or five energetic fellows will give their entire time and attention to its publication. Not until the University becomes so strong that each separate school can furnish a number of capable men inclined towards journalism, will a daily paper here be desirable and practicable. It would be obliged to use "patent insides" and as days frequently pass without anything of especial interest occuring within the precincts of the University, these would often be needed. It would be obliged to be apologizing continually for its existence.
Another Munchausen Tale.
THE DISCOVERY is reported, on what seems to be good authority, of a living horse encased in the solid granite of Southern Kansas. When found he was very thin, as though he had been encased in the rocks for some time, and very thirsty, after having passed through the metamorphism to which the rocks had been subjected. It is hoped to obtain this living fossil for preservation in the museum of University curiosities.
I dont vouch for the foregoing; I only give it as another contribution to the Munchausen tales that have been published in some of the late numbers of the WEEKLY. Perhaps the editor can certify to its correctness.
S.W. WILLISTON.
FOR THE above contribution to our Munchausen department we thank Dr. Williston. We hope that other instructors in the University will contribute stories as good as this one.