The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 20, 1896.
Editor-in-Chief:
W. W. RENO.
Associate:
L. N. FLINT.
Literary Editor:
DON BOWERSOCK.
Associates:
No. 7.
J. H. PATTEN. GRACE BREWSTER.
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
C. E. RENCH.
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.
Associates:
W. M. FREELAND. - - H. E. STEELE.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, J. E. Smith, or the secretary, C. J. Moore. Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance. Address all business communications to J.H Engle, Lawrence, Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
MOST STUDENTS find it difficult, if not impossible, to follow with the same interest and appreciation thoughts which are read to them from a book that they do those which come fresh from the speaker's mind. This principle is exemplified almost every day in chapel and class room. To follow and appreciate a reading is excellent training for a student, while to recast and re-present is excellent training for a speaker.
THERE is need of a few more sidewalks between University buildings.
THAT DAY is lost, in which we have not gone one step farther onward and upward.
THE MANY primaries and conventions that are being held in Lawrence at the present time are arousing, in University students, more than ordinary interest in politics. Probably more students voted at the last primaries than at any other for several years.
PROFESSOR CARRUTH's term of office as city councilman expires next month. That he will be renominated is almost certain, yet it is the duty of every student qualified to vote to attend the Republican primary which occurs Friday, March 20th, to nominate a councilman and cast his ballott for W. H. Carruth. Lawrence has never had a more faithful councilman than Prof. Carruth nor one more devoted to her interests.
OWING to the fact that this is the year for a presidential election many students who have pledged allegiance to one of the political parties are already making active preparation for the campaign. And this suggests the question whether the University political clubs have a good or an evil influence. It has often been objected to these that they instill into their members a spirit of partizanship which tends to destroy what is much to be desired—independent thinking and voting. But this is certainly not true to any great extent. Almost all of the students who join these clubs do so in accordance with their earnest convictions. And it is by agitating political questions and thus causing many young men to form intelligent opinions upon them, that the clubs do a great deal of good.