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Kansas University Weekly.
THE UNIVERSITY ball tonight should be attended by all University students who believe in training the head as well as the feet, and vice versa.
THE ACTION of the athletic association in securing pleasure boats for the use of the University girls in athletic training is an excellent one. The girls need physical training as well as the boys and this is a pleasant and scientific way of obtaining it.
IF THE north star, Polaris, were to go out today its light would nevertheless be visible to us for fifty years hence. But if we ourselves are not making the greatest use of our collegiate opportunities it will be much less than fifty years before other persons become aware of it.
WE NOTICE a growing tendency among small colleges and Western Universities to copy Eastern exchanges. They even clip Eastern exchanges from Western papers just to have it appear, it would seem, that they are on familiar terms with such schools as Harvard, Princeton and Yale.
ITWOULD be of great educational value to every student if in the course of the year he were obliged to earn his own expenses for one or two months. This might be hard to do for the first or second time, but the experience gained would amply compensate for all effort expended in this direction.
THE ESTABLISHMENT of a medical school here might well be considered seriously by the regents at their meeting this week. Four more instructors in anatomy, histology and the theory and practice of surgery with a small appropriation for apparatus would make possible a well equipped shool of medicine.
THE ATHLETIC Association should provide courts for the lovers of tennis. This game is very attractive, and advantageous for exercise. It, more than any other sport should interest the University girls. In fact tennis tournaments this year between University girls would be a pleasing feature in athletics.
THE IDEAL man is one who is active, energetic and cordial toward everyone. He does not "cut" acquaintances because they wear old clothes nor does he imagine himself to be of a higher social order than those about him. He is a man who is free from selfesteem or self-importance, and yet has a limited amount of pride; he is extremely tolerate of the opinions of others and yet stands fearlessly for what he considers to be right. In short he is a man who has high and noble ideals and seeks to make them real in himself.
THE SUPERSTITIONS in which we have grown up, when we come to recognize them as such, do not for that reason cease to have power over us. The fancies of youth never cease to influence our character. A certain man in earlier years had a foolish idea that it was wrong to "cut across" streets on Sunday; and even today he feels a strong instinctive tendency to keep on the walks on Sunday. Not all are free who scorn their chains.
A visit to the girls' classes in the gymnasium was made the other morning and showed that they are receiving excellent training. The foil practice was interesting and entertaining. The girls stood in two rows facing each other, and fenced as if they knew something about this noble art. A skillful thrust made by one half of the class disarmed the other half, and the pretty maneuver was then repeated by the other side.
A Passing Thought.
By J. W. Hullinger.
Many a farmer boy trudges along the meadow path never noting the dew-drops at his feet till they have thoroughly soaked his cowhide boots. But the lover of nature scents their fragrant freshness from afar; now stooping, he tenderly lifts the dew-laden crest from the shoulders of the weeping beauty. He beholds thereon tears shed for nature's parched thirst; sees spherical beauty in their form, crystalline gleams in their reflection and calls them his unstrung pearls.