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Kansas University Weekly.
THE FISHERMAN drops his net in the eddies and the fish that come there to escape the rush of the waters outside are caught. Likewise the man who seeks life's eddies of inactivity is in the greatest danger of the snares of evil.
A good many people in Kansas complain about the extravagant salaries that are paid the members of the Faculty at the State University; and yet Vernon L. Kellogg, who resigned two years ago to go to Leland Stanford University, is now getting just three times the salary that was paid him at the Kansas University, and he is given all the time he wants to pursue his own studies. The facts of the case are that the average of the salaries paid at the Kansas State University is below the average paid at any other institution of similar standing in the United States. Iola Register.
It is natural for the student to look at things in an interrogatory spirit. This has been exemplified many times within the last few days in connection with the work of macadamizing Adams street in front of the library. As to the propriety of quarrying out many yards of hard native rock in order to fill the hole with macadam we would not attempt to judge. We do not however, regard it as a presumptuous attempt to improve on nature, but are content to await further developments which may enlighten us.
BICYCLES SEEM to be more popular this year than ever, at least among the students and faculty of the University, a large number of whom have bought new wheels this spring. There will probably be a correspondingly louder demand for good roads and streets, and much might be accomplished in this direction by a united effort on the part of those who ride bicycles. But in order for the wheelmen to command public sympathy and support in their efforts to obtain better roads they must observe carefully the laws of the road. Reckless riding especially after dark should always be avoided, and great care should be taken to avoid collisions or accidents of any kind.
WE HAVE always been disposed to look upon boarding clubs as a great blessing, since they provide good food at reasonable rates, and besides bring many young people into friendly relations. But there has grown up in the clubs one practice which for various reasons can not but be deplored. This is the practice of betting; not money, nor even pocket knives—for that would exclude the young women—but pie. Not any certain number of pies, but pies by the week and even month. Now in the first place this practice is evil, because of the danger in which it places the health, perhaps the life, of the winner, especially in those clubs where pie is abundant. And this argument is not answered by the statement that the loser's health is in the same degree benefited for experience proves that sudden abstinence is almost as disastrous as over indulgence. And furthermore this practice stimulates the latent but omnipresent desire in man to get something for nothing, which feeling we have always been taught strenuously to oppose.
FAULT is sometimes found with the library, because it does not contain a greater number of modern books. But there is no possible remedy for this unless those who are dissatisfied will make a liberal contribution to the library funds. The classical works and books of reference necessary to carrying on the work of the University must be purchased first, and then it will be possible to pay more attention to modern literature. It may be feared that before that time shall arrive our modern books will also have become classical, but we look to the legislature for relief.
THE UNIVERSITY of Chicago was expected to be modern in every respect and entirely free from the retarding spirit of conservatism permeating the very walls and atmosphere of those institutions of a like nature which have been old these many years and perhaps centuries. And if the presence in the faculty of Chicago University of professors who are not afraid to express the most radical views on all pressing questions may be taken as an indication of the general tone of the university then the expectations of the founders have certainly been fulfilled.