The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 13, 1895.
No.16.
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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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ON ACCOUNT of the sickness of the Editorin-chief the Managing Editor attempted the writing of the editorials this week.
THE UNIVERSITY is the place in which you will form those habits which are pertinent to your success or failure in life. More depends possibly upon the strength of character and moral courage cultivated while in college than at any other time. The character of the youth foreshadows that of the man. If you are dishonest, dishonorable and will stoop to any means whatever while in college to obtain your end, your collegians justly brand you with the stamp of infamy and disgrace will follow you and rise up before you in whatever you undertake.
SINCERITY is the one note in a man's life needed to make his whole work a harmony. The man who reaches the people must do so by sincere efforts. The man who reaches any goal of attainment is the man who labors with sincerity of purpose.
ATTEND THE Seminaries, Conferences, Symposiums, etc. You will always feel repaid Were you at the Science Club or at the Historical Seminary Friday afternoon? At one you could have learned all about the Kansas Geological survey of '95, while at the other you could have heard a most able paper on "The English Parliament and the Recent English Elections." Keep in touch with the world's progress.
YES, YOU are doubtless familiar with him. He is the young society blood whose greatest and only pride is that he has been able to work all the different social organizations for a bid to their parties. How shrewd! Always has a nice plausible excuse for you if you don't receive an invitation to the gathering in which he is interested. He never suspects, poor fellow, that there are others who make it just as much a mercenary matter as he does and that seldom if ever he works an individual that the individual in turn does not work him.
How much better it would be if the different social gatherings would follow the example set by the Junior Promenade last year and close at the height of enjoyment, just when all would go home feeling that they never had such a good time. It is certainly harmful to prolong a par-