The Kansas University Weekly.
Vol. I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 31, 1896.
No.21.
The Kansas University Weekly is published every Friday during the collegiate year by the Kansas University Publishing Company.
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Wilbur Gardner Editor-in-chief
J. H. Henderson Associate
C. A. Burney Associate
D. D. Gear Local Editor
A. A. Ewart Associate, Athletic
A. V. Schroder Associate, Engineering
Ruth Whitman Associate, Arts
C. J. Moore Associate, Arts
Hilliard Johnson Associate, Arts
H. E. Steele Associate, Arts
Grace Brewster Literary Editor
Don Bowersock Associate
Alice Rohe Associate
Prof. Adams Associate
Jas. H. Patten Managing Editor
W. N. Logan Associate
C. C. Brown Associate
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THE TERM examinations are now out of the way, political affairs are fixed for some time, and athletics are frozen up,—now is the season for the literary and scientific clubs and debating societies of the University to be doing their best work and getting up a sufficient momentum of interest and enthusiasm to carry them through the warm spring time to commencement. Now, also, is the time to take up five o'clock lectures again. Every student can well afford to spend an hour each week learning something outside his own line of work; he should seek to follow a course of training the
broadest possible. Where specialization is so common, we need department extension courses. Then, too, there is the Bible. So long as the University is unable to offer any regular courses on the Bible, we believe that a series of five o'clock lectures should be given each year similar to that of last spring, and that such a course will always be fully appreciated by the students.
THE MEMBERSHIP of the publishing company should be increased more rapidly. At present, there is no one sufficiently interested to attend to this matter. It is the business of so many that it has become no one's business, and as a result, our mailing list has been increased principally through ordinary subscriptions while the stock list has grown but little. If it were made the duty of some individual to solicit students to take shares in the company, and a small bonus were offered as an incentive to active work, the membership could soon be doubled.
No. 21.—With this issue the WEEKLY attains its majority, and with the next it will open a new volume under the newly elected management, to whom we resign our trust without any speech-making, only expressing the hope that they may work together for the success of the paper with the same harmony which was shown at their organization. The staff has been well chosen, its members are capable, and under the direction of their energetic chief we shall expect to see them accomplish great things in the improvement of the WEEKLY. In their work they should have the coöperation and assistance of all, for upon that, as much as upon the choice of its officers, depends the representative character of the paper.