The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 1, 1895.
No. 10.
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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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A LACK of space in last week's issue compelled us, at the last moment to omit a few of our "Robinson Letters". They are printed in this issue. We hope others will forgive us, even as we spared the printer whose calculations failed.
IN THESE days of optional studies when each student pursues some special line of work, it is of great value to have as many lectures as possible of general interest, in order that the student may keep in touch with work in other fields
than his own, and not become narrow-minded in his views. So we are glad to see such men as Prof. Raymond and Prof. Gilbert brought here to address University audiences, and we hope that others may be secured during the year.
WE ARE glad to see the governor come down and investigate the University a little for himself. It shows that he is interested and anxious to do what is right. And being so minded, he cannot help but be the better friend for his visit of a day among us.
ONE ENTIRE page of last week's Mail and Breeze is devoted to an account of the University, illustrated with pictures of the buildings and leading members of the faculty. The article is written in the usual lively style of that paper and gives a very fair and comprehensive view of the institution.
It is hard for one who is just beginning to comprehend the full reality of life, to think of death; for one who has felt the joy and the inspiration that come from the companionship of a strong-bodied, clear-minded, open-hearted fellow student to see that young friend suddenly stricken down. To think of him as dead who but yesterday departed from these halls, smiling, hopeful, confident, eager to be busied in the service of his fellows,—it is indeed a heavy sorrow. But even as our sense of loss is the greater because of the worth of him we mourn, just so is there the greater solace in recalling the good use to which he put the few years that were given him.
Edward O'Bryon came to Kansas University because it could best fit him for the noble calling in life which he had chosen. He appre-