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Kansas University Weekly.
IN THE intercollegiate chess contests between Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton, Harvard was the winner, as usual, and the papers which a few weeks ago were filled with whole columns of foot ball, now publish the old familiar three line paragraph recalling Harvard's unbroken record of victories in intellectual contests. However, the real value of such things is not to be judged by the amount of space given them in the newspapers, and the Harvard men have the consolation of knowing that the foot ball player's glory tarries not long with him.
THE OTHER day, while in the vicinity of the depot, we heard a party of students from some neighboring college enlivening things with their yell while waiting for a train. Although we were only a few hundred feet away, and the yell was given with great enthusiasm, the most we could make of it was something like this; "Bow-wow! Bow-wow! Bow-wow-wow," repeated indefinitely. Then the baggage-man said "Rock Chalk" and the magic words were heard and recognized on the opposite side of town. One man yelling "Rock Chalk" can hold his own against all the "Hoo-rahs" and "Hi-rahs" invented.
IN THE recent vacation, the University has lost one of its instructors, still a student, a most profound and earnest seeker after truth, a thorough scholar, a talented young man, of whom his professors and friends expected great things in future years. Modest and retiring as such gentle spirits are by nature, Frank Menet was not well known to many, but in the small circle of his chosen and intimate friends, his influence was all the stronger, the wealth of his companionship the greater. In their lives, his life lives on, the memory of him will ever be an inspiration and encouragement to them in their strife for the true and the noble. We add a few words from one of the nearest of those friends:
"How long indeed shall we miss the presence of Frank Menetl In the twenty-five years of his life he developed a character whose
influence will not be easily forgotten and whose beauty will always command our love and admiration. He was not one who made himself known to everybody, but to those who were proud to claim him for a friend he opened his heart without reserve. As a classmate, as a companion for a long tramp across the country, as a confidant, or a fellow thinker, no one could wish for a more thoughtful or delightful friend than Frank Menet."
THOSE WHO expect to contend for the honor of defending Kansas University's laurels against Nebraska's orators can now begin work in earnest. As announced in our last issue, the subject for the debate is: "Resolved, That the Initiative and Referendum as provided by the law of Switzerland should be introduced into our system of government." The subject is a very broad one and one upon which a great amount of material may be found, and the contestants cannot begin the work of preparation too early. Nebraska's representatives have already been chosen and they will assuredly work hard to redeem themselves from the defeat of last year. We shall expect to see plenty of men searching for Initiative and Referendum literature and we hope there will be an abundance of contestants in the preliminary local debates. The winners will have the New York alumni prizes and all the glory they desire.
The University students and friends of Chancellor Snow are to be given an opportunity of hearing an account of his recent European trip. At the request of a number of friends the Chancellor has consented to give a lecture well illustrated by stereoptican views and the date decided upon is Friday, January 17. A small admission fee will be charged to the lecture. The entire proceeds of which will be used in the furnishing of a boarding hall for the young women of the University. The students will thus be given an opportunity of hearing an interesting lecture and at the same time assisting in a worthy University enterprise.