Kansas University Weekly.
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THE MEETINGS of the Science Club are not so well attended at the present time as those of the Language Conference. In an age of progressive science and decadent literature, it seems strange that this should be.
A MEMBER of our present faculty, several years ago, published a paper on the Ethics of Courtship. Perhaps a study of the Ethics of Law would be even more interesting and profitable including as it would a treatment of the courtesies usually extended by one attorney to another.
TRUE DEVELOPMENT is very desirable yet the means of obtaining it are not always clearly understood. Some students fully realize why they are attending the University while many do not. Some have a fixed object in view toward which they are bending all their energies and others allow themselves to be molded almost wholly by circumstances.
THE FIRST number of the Western Collegian, an intercollegiate monthly magazine devoted to the interests of Kansas, Chicago and Missouri Universities among others has just been received by the Weekly. The Collegian is printed on first-class magazine paper, is artistic in appearance, neat typographically and in addition to an exposition of the influence and importance of Universities which it represents, it contains interesting literary material. The Collegian could well receive the hearty support and co-operation of the students and faculty of Kansas University.
Now that the new catalogue is being prepared would it not be well to make a thorough revision of the list of high schools which prepare students for entrance into the University. Students sometimes enter the University from accredited high schools, entirely unprepared for collegiate work. This is an injustice not only to those high schools which do thoroughly prepare students for our University, but it is an injustice to those students themselves. They enter the University, study hard, and perhaps fail, through no fault of their own, but from mere lack of proper preparation.
WHAT is more natural than that an earnest student, who aims at the attainment of the highest culture and broadest mental vision, should cultivate a better acquaintance than that of the class room with his professors and other members of the faculty whom he recognizes to be his superiors in knowledge and experience. But for some reason the average student forms few such acquaintances during his University course. He may be prevented from doing this by what seems to him a lack of time, or it may be that he has a foolish dread of being thought "too friendly with the Profs." But in any case he will regret in after years opportunities which he has lost.
Would it not be a good plan to change the students' dinner hour? The present one o'clock dinner is a relic of the time when all University recitations were held in the forenoon and when it seemed better to crowd in another hour before dinner than to have afternoon classes. But this is no advantage now as nearly all students especially higher class men have recitations in the afternoon. And the twelve to one o'clock class, which is fatigueing and unpleasant to everyone, especially to those who are obliged to come on the hill at eight o'clock, could very profitably be transferred to two o'clock.
THE MANAGER of the Missouri University foot ball team for last season has an article in the M.S.U. Independent exhorting the students in general to join the athletic association. He says that but sixty-five students belong to their association and that five of their veteran football players will not be with them next year.
ACCORDING TO an estimate based upon the records of other schools; two hundred and fifty students leave Kansas annually to attend medical schools in other states. If a good school of medicine were established in the University it may be supposed that at least one hundred and fifty of these students would attend it