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Kansas University Weekly.
IN THE past five years at least there has probably never been a time when all the students of the University were assembled together.
THE SOPHOMORE class, not to be surpassed by the Seniors or the Juniors in any direction, will give a class party tomorrow evening which will establish for themselves a reputation as social beacon lights in the University. Success to the Sophomores.
THE ANNUAL spring contest will occur in Music hall next Tuesday evening. Every instructor in the University and every student could well attend this contest. The orations to be delivered will be interesting and the contestants are well known in the University.
THE ACTION of the Jockey Club in giving the net proceeds of their races to the Students' Loan Fund is very commendable. The races were entirely burlesque and were greatly enjoyed by those who witnessed them. Other organizations could well imitate the example of the Jockey Club in increasing the Students' Loan Fund.
ALMOST WITHOUT exception the student upon entering the University makes a serious mistake, as he either eschews society entirely or follows a social life greatly to his detriment. The University is not sui generis so that it demands of the student a deportment essentially different from that of the high school student, nor does the student who ever pursues lofty ideals need to change his manner of life upon entering the University.
THE SPANISH play to be given by the Senior class this year will present student life in various phases. The play will be localized somewhat but will in no manner be a burlesque as many plays given by preceding graduating classes have been. The net proceeds arising from the reproduction of this play will be given to the Students' Loan Fund. This Senior class will also publish an annual, rather as a souvenir than as a comprehensive portryal of University life.
FROM PRESENT indications the word-pronouncing contest will not be repeated this year. This is to be regretted as a contest of this kind is of great practical value to all concerned.
THE WINDOWS in the University chapel rattle so much on a windy day that the use of the chapel for oratorical purposes under such circumstances is almost impossible. Last year at the final trial debate, and last week at the meeting of the Kansas Academy of Language and Literature, the windows made so great a noise that the persons sitting back of the middle aisle could hardly understand the words of the speakers. This has been a source of annoyance, for a long time and should be remedied.
THE ATTEMPS, heretofore made, to establish a school of medicine in the University, have been independent of the University itself. Now that the Alumni Association of the University is exerting its efforts to secure an appropriation for a medical school here, something definite and important will be done. Our Alumni Association numbers among its members many of the brightest, most energetic and most capable men in Kansas, among whom are three of ourRegents. When they decide upon a course of action important results will follow.
WHILE a student was riding in a railway train the other day a man about thirty years of age, dressed in a plain but neat suit of clothes, sat just across the aisle. A faded alpaca umbrella was at his side. His careworn, weatherbeaten face indicated that he had been living a life of hardship and toil and that the struggle for existence had been well nigh beyond his strength. His countenance would lead one to believe that he never smiled. Yet, thought the student, many college men give their opportunities and their pleasures to the efforts of just such men as this: and there will be a debt to pay when the college student enters into the world where this man toils.