The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 24, 1896.
No.12.
Editor-in-Chief:
W. W. RENO.
Associate:
L. N. FLINT.
Literary Editor:
DON BOWERSOCK.
Associates:
J. H. PATTEN. GRACE BREWSTER.
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
C. E. RENCH.
Associates:
W. N. LOGAN, - - - - Snow Hall.
J. H. HENDERSON, - - - Exchanges.
GERTRUDE McCHEYNE, School of Fine Arts.
W. H. H. PIATT, Law.
A. A. EWART, Athletics.
F. L. GLICK, Arts.
E. C. ALDER, Social.
Managing Editor.
J. H. ENGLE.
W. M. FREELAND. - - H. E. STEELE.
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Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
It is noticable that the chapel attendance is greater when the leader talks upon some subject of interest, instead of reading what others have said. The more of the speaker's personality in a public address of any kind, the greater the satisfaction of those who hear, and the greater the benefit to all.
THE SPRING contest in Music Hall next Tuesday evening should be better attended than was the final trial debate. Faculty and students should encourage oratory in the University by their presence at the oratorical contests.
THE INTER-CLASS base ball games will furnish entertainment on almost every Friday afternoon until commencement, and the final struggles of the champions will probably raise class enthusiasm to at least a hundred in the shade.
It was fortunate for all concerned that the Academy meetings were held in the chapel. Many students, not particularly interested, attended during the vacant hours and found the program very entertaining. The large increase in the membership of the academy was very gratifying.
OWEN MEREDITH says: No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife and all life not to be made purer and stronger thereby. No star ever rose and set without exerting an influence somewhere. In accordance with this idea, no action was ever performed without setting into operation a chain of causes and effects which will continue to act and have their influence until the end of time.
ONE OF the many advantages of attending a University instead of a school of lower rank is that the former keeps up with the times. At our own institution the very latest experiments in science are performed before the students. The atmosphere itself seems changed with the spirit of progress and enterprise, and the student is kept interested in his work and encouraged to push out into unexplored field