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Kansas University Weekly.
IT is to be regretted that a larger audience did not attend Chancellor Snow's lecture on his trip to Europe, last Friday evening, both because of the disappointment to the young women and because the lecture itself was a treat which none should have missed. The Chancellor spoke in an informal, and hence doubly attractive manner, of the places he visited, and the lecture was illustrated by a large and well selected series of lantern views. It is to be hoped that the lecture may be repeated under more favorable conditions.
WE LEARN that a proposition has been made to the athletic board looking to the erection of a windmill and the putting in of a water system for the sprinkling of McCook field. While it would no doubt be a nice thing to have the dust kept down, we can hardly believe that the directors will consider the matter seriously. After the strenuous efforts made last fall to restore the treasury of the association, the subscriptions solicited from all quarters and the raising of the admission fee to the Thanksgiving game, the directors are in duty and honor bound to husband their funds most carefully and to strive to keep their word that the money received shall run the association till next Thanksgiving. If they are economical in their expenditures and yet fail to meet the legitimate
and necessary expenses of teams, the public will probably make a further contribution, but the result will be very unpleasant for the directors if they spend the money in riotous living and windmills.
THE POLITICIAN may find a satisfactory explanation in the statement that it was "the slick thing to do" or that it was "part of the combination," or he may be content to let the matter stand without explanation, but the average student, whose chief interest is absorbed in his studies, finds it difficult to understand why a man should be elected to an important and responsible managership when he has registered in school only thirty minutes before the time set for the election and confessedly in order to make himself eligible to the office. It seems strange that out of the hundreds of students who have been here since the opening of school the athletic board should be able to find no one worthy to manage our baseball team for its brief season, but that it should be compelled to ask an outsider to enter school for that purpose. If the office—hunting and office—holding classes in the University have become identical and there are more places than they can hold, it might be an accommodation to them and a relief to the University to dispense with some of the offices.
LITERARY.
For Examination Week.
Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,
But oftimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
—Longfellow.
Thou who stealest fire,
From the fountains of the past,
To glorify the present; oh, haste,
Visit my low desire!
Strengthen me, enlighten me!
I faint in this obscurity,
Thou dewy dawn of memory!
— Tennyson.
Habe nun, ach! Philosophie,
Juristerei und Medicin,
Und leider auch Theologie,
Durchaus studirt, mit heissem Bemühn.
Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Thor!
Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
— Goethe.
My mind lets go of a thousand things Like dates of wars and deaths of kings. Aldrich.
But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll.
— Gray.