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and if a dozen men are to reap all the benefit, the investment is not a paying one. There ought to be men enough out to make competition strong for places on the second eleven; this would ensure a good 'scrub' team and so encourage the management to arrange a second schedule of games. The more men there are in practice, the more benefit each will derive from it; the Varsity team will be stronger, the interest and enthusiasm will be greater, and we shall all be in the field with a hearty "Rock Chalk."
Mr. Snipper: how many people do you suppose have wanted to read what you clipped from the daily papers on the library tables? And what do you suppose would happen if they were to find you out?
IF THERE were no literary societies or debating clubs in the University, and none were to be organized, we might easily determine who would represent us in the great debate with Nebraska next spring, for it would be a question of each man's present ability. But the ablest man now may next spring be out of the contest. It is almost entirely a matter of training, study and practice. No man can be an orator who has not spoken often in public, and many men may become good speakers by frequent and faithful practice. Everyone who is interested in seeing Kansas win, whether he has any hope of being one of her representatives or not, should be doing active work in one of the societies now; the longer he postpones it, the less profit he will gain from the work. If none
of the existing societies are entirely congenial, or if none of them meet at a suitable hour, why not organize another one? There is certainly room for several more, and the more clubs we have, the merrier will be the contest to select the representatives who shall go to Lincoln and the better will they be equipped to defend our laurels against Nebraska.
THE Lecture Bureau has gone to work very energetically to arrange a course for this season, and will probably soon be able to announce the attractions which are to appear. It may be said now, that there will be three of the best concert companies that ever came to Lawrence, and three lectures, making six numbers on the course. Negotiations are pending with several of the most popular and widely known lecturers in the field, and it is certain that three of these can be secured whose names would make the course a success at double the prices to be charged. And the price will be the most popular feature of all. Instead of being two dollars or more as heretofore, course tickets will be sold to the public for a dollar and twenty-five cents, and to the students for one dollar. The bureau are enabled to offer a first-class course at this low price by giving it in the University Hall, and thus cutting down expenses. With tickets at one dollar and a first-class list of attractions, such as is promised, every student will patronize the course (as a matter of course) and we may expect to see University Hall crowded at least six times between now and next commencement.
LITERARY.
The Eclipse.
Three years ago, at the house of Doctor White, of Montmorency—this tireless specialist in mental maladies, who cures his patients with good care, comfort and liberty, instead of isolation, shower baths and misery—at that time there was at the doctor's house a woman whose mania was peculiar and touching.
This woman, still young, charming and fair of face, imagined that she was the fiancee of the sun. They had plighted their troth, she and the sun, one beautiful autumn day, and the sun had covered his resplendent face with the fleeciest veil of clouds, that he might not dazzle his beloved. From this time forth she was his and he was hers; she had felt on her hand his