The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 13, 1896.
Editor-in-Chief:
W. W. RENO.
Associate:
L. N. FLINT.
Literary Editor.
DON BOWERSOCK.
No. 6.
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.
D. D. GEAR, 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.
COLLEGE STUDENTS and college instructors, the very ones who should be so are as a rule not much interested in politics. At the last Republican primary a voter said: "Teachers hardly ever vote. I have a daughter who was quite a politician when she was fifteen years old but now that she has graduated from the University of Kansas and is a teacher, politics does not interest her."
WHAT is the difference between a genius and a fool? Watt was a fool when he watched the tea-kettle, but a genius when he caught the elf who tilted the lid. Newton was an idle, lazy man when he sat in the shade of an apple tree and watched the apple fall, but a genius when he discovered the law of gravitation. Galileo was a fool, a dangerous fool to the people of his time, but a genius to posterity. The same individual may be both a fool and a genius—a fool all his life and a genius after death, a fool at home and a prophet abroad. Geniuses and fools! The genius is a fool until the world gives his favorite project its sanction and approval, while a fool he must remain if the world refuses to recognize him as any thing else.
THE PRACTICE, by persons who were not fortunate enough to be invited, of molesting students who are on their way to class gatherings is becoming very objectionable. Such conduct might be once or twice endured and attributed to college spirit and enthusiasm, but a senseless repetition of the same old tricks year after year can be called nothing but hoodlumism.
THE INDOOR meet tomorrow night will be the most interesting athletic event of the spring semester. If the majority of the students and faculty are in attendance it will be a financial success as it should be.
THE SYMPOSIUM of opinions on the rainy day costume in our literary department this week is well worth attention.
You may read in the countenance of a student, whether his collegiate training is benefitting him.