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UNIVERSITY KANSAN
Entered at Post Office, Lawrence, Kansas, as second-class matter.
Published every Friday morning by the UNIVER-
SITY KASSAN Company.
M. MCKINNON, President.
E. W. CALDWELL, Vice President.
W. A. SNOE, Secretary,
H. S. HADDEY Treasurer
EDITORIAL STAFF.
H ROBERTS, Editor-in-Chief.
LOCAL EDITOR.
R. D. BROWN.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
R. R. Whitman, E. F. Robinson.
Mandie Sorringer, Ernie J. Scott.
Dwight E. Putter, John Simpson.
D. E. Baudoin, W. S. Smith.
RESIDENT SMANAGERS:
H. S. Haddey, Paul Murrell.
H. S. Hadley. Paul Merrill.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
Socletles.
Science Club Meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 5 p. m. President, E. E. Slosson; Vice President, E. Case; Secretary, M. A. Barber; Treasurer, Fred Liddeke; Librarian, Prof. Marvin; Reporter, W. S. Smith.
SENIARY OF HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. Meets in Room 14, University building, every other Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. Director, Prof J. H. Canfield, Vice Director, Prof. F. W. Blackmar.
PHILIOLOGICAL CLUB. Meets in Room No. 20 University building, every other Friday at 8 p.m. M. President, Miss Anna McKinnon; Secretary, Dr. Wilcox; Treasurer, Jus D. Bowersock.
DER DEUTSCHE VEREN. Meets at the residence of Prof. Carruth every other Thursday at 8 p. m. President, Miss. Gertrude Crotty; Secretary, Miss Anna McKinnon; Treasurer, Miss Eilee Scott
KENT CLUB. Meets in Room 4 University building. President, James L. Wallace; Vice President, Porter Administrator; Secretary, Wm. A. Foster; Treasurer, Samuel Feller; Sergent-at-Arms, A. L. Getty;s; Executive Committee, James Nichols, Albert Caughey. Admits Law students only.
Music Clun. Meets on second and fourth Wednesdays of each month in Room 30, (Music Room). University building, at 3 o'clock p. m. President. Miss Ida Burr; Vice President, Miss Margie Brown; Secretary and Treasurer, Adolph Krehbiel.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. Meets every other Friday at 8 p.m. President, V. T. Beaz; Vice President, W. S. Amos; Secretary, Miss Laura Grabe; Librarian, J. Simmons; Treasurer, Ed. Youngbery; Executive Committee, J. W. Kennerly; P. Muller; Corresponding Secretary, J. G. Peckham; Local Correspondent, H. A. Adams. Admits Pharmacy students only.
THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY LITERARY CLUB. Organized January 31, 1890. Meets in University Club Hall University building, north wing, 3rd floor, every Friday evening at 8 o'clock President, Howard A. Pearls; Vice President, I. H. Morse; Secretary, J. E. Baker, Assistant Secretary, C. H. Sears; Treasurer, H. F. Roberts, Executive Committee; H. F. Roberts, R. R. Whitman and R. D. Brown. Admits all students in the collegiate department.
ADDELPHIC LITERARY SOCIETY. Organized Nov. 1, 1889. Meets in Adelphic Hall, University building, south wing, 3rd floor, every Friday evening at 8 o'clock. President C. P. Chapman; Vice President, C. S. Griffin; Secretary, E. P. Fisher; Treasurer, H. R. Linville; Critic, G. O. Virtue. Admits all non-fraternity students in the collegiate department.
Fraternities.
BETA THETA PI. Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House Block.
Phi Beta Kappa, Honorary collegiate fraternity.
PHI KAPPA PS1. Meets every Saturday evening on 2d floor of Douglas County Bank building.
PHI GAMMA DELTA. Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House Block.
PHI DELTA THETA. Meets every Saturday evening in A. O. U. W. Hall.
SIGMA CIR Mesta every Saturday evening
at 4th floor east, of Opera
House Block.
Sigma Xi. Honorary scientific fraternity.
SIGMA NU. Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House Block.
PI BETA PHI. Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA Meets every Sat urday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA. Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
Miscellaneous.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STUDENTS OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY.
President, Jus D. Bowersock; Vice President, W. W. Brown; Secretary, D. Ross; Tremaineur, M. W. Bowes; Executive Director, M. W. Hodge, C. H. Sears, W. E. Curry; Committee on non-fraternity shares, C. S. Hall, E. C. Hickey, D. R. Krebblie.
UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
President, W. H. Carruth; Secretary, F.
H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
Includes Tennis Association, Base Ball
Association and Foot Ball Association.
CAMERA CLUB meets once per month. President, E. H. S. Bailey; Secretary, E. E Slosson.
TELEGRAPH CLUB. President, Prof L. I. Blake; Secretary and Treasurer. W S Franklin.
Y. M. C. A. Meets in University building, Room 11 meets Friday at 7:30.
p. m. President, E. L. Ackley; Secretary, C. P. Chapman.
Y. W. C. A. Meets in university building, north wing, 3rd floor, every Friday evening at 7:30, p. m. President. Secretary: Secretary. Miss Laura Lockwood.
University Journals.
THE UNIVERSITY REVIEW. Editor-in-Chief, H.F.M. Bear. Published monthly by THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY.
UNIVERSITY KANSAN. Editor in-Chief
H F. Roberts. Published every Friday
morning by the UNIVERSITY KANSAN
COMPANY.
THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER,
Editor-in-Chief, Walter J. Sears.
Published every Friday morning by THE
COURIER COMPANY.
We might whisper a suggestion in the ears of the professors this spring if we thought it would have any effect. The suggestion is,—do away with examinations as much as possible. Make class work and quizzes through this past term be the criterion of the knowledge of your students, and if they stand above 90 per cent. excuse them from the intellectual farce of examination.
The last issue of the Hesperian contains cuts of the buildings of the University of Nebraska.
Much speculation is rife concerning the outcome of the ball game which is to take place to-day between the Seniors and the Faculty. This is the big picnic of the year. It is as good as a circus to see it. Every student who fails to see this great game will miss the best thing of the college year. It will be funnier than a comedy and more interesting than a professional game. We have not figured out what the score will be, but somebody says it will average about 45 to 50, with a doubt existing as to which will win.
So our ball nine has at last won a game. The William Jewell college boys are the victims. Evidently the hard practicing which has been going on lately is beginning to have its effects. Next, we believe, come games with the McCooks of Leavenworth, and then the Emporia nine again. If our ball nine continues to improve, we have no doubt but that it can win in at least one of the Emporia games. As to the Levenworth nine, they are almost professionals, and the chances for winning are in their favor. We hope the boys will do thir best to bring up the K. S. U. base ball reputation to the place it occupied several yeas ago.
Now is the time to take a row.
We have recently read the winning oration in the Missouri State Contest, which took place shortly before the Inter-State. The subject is "Gladstone." It is one of the best orations we have seen, and gives a very good and appreciative estimate of the value of the great statesman's life and work. We often see criticisms directed against eulogies as contest orations. It is often claimed indeed that the eulogy is not a high class mental production, and that with a judicious use of fine and resounding phrases, an oration may be made in which little mental effort is expended, and which makes a very fine show. This is true to some extent, but it is possible to write a eulogy in which the best powers of oratory can be brought forth. Surely there is nothing so inspiring as to rouse a great audience to an enthusiastic appreciation of a statesman's genius. It is of far more value to do this than to appear as a youthful prodding upon the stage through the exposition of some deep and unfathomable abstract philosophical subject which sounds very grand and sublime, but which has no more substance or practicality than the air. Grace, dignity, and power are all necessary to a good oration, and is there any thing better to which these three can be applied than to a study of the life and work of a man whose influence on humanity has been as great as Gladstone's. Human nature, elevated and extolled with a study of its workings in the form of statesman or orator appeals most strongly to our sympathy. After all it is not of so much importance as we think it is that the world about us should be enlightened by the exposition of great fundamental truths. People prefer to hear these from other lips than those of the immature collegiate, and if the said collegiate would always stick close to the concrete, and the near instead of the abstract and the remote the result woul be more satisfactory.
We notice with some surprise that the Washburn Reporter exchanges with Samuel Johnson. At least a sentence credited to that gentleman appears in the exchange columns of last week's Reporter. —College Life.
Yes, and we also notice it exchanges with Alice Cary, Victor Hugo and President Eliot of Harvard. The Reporter seems to have a snap. We shall now endeavor look intellectual and endeavor to get some of these people to exchange with the KANSAN. We wonder if we ought to mark the copies we send "with the compliments of the author." We wish to conform to all the literary regulations. We shall, however, decline to exchange with any dead people. We do not wish to take an unfair advantage over them, Poor Victor Hugo. How he would roll over in his coffin to know that he had effected an entrance to the exchange column of a Kansas college paper.
Bamboo music racks at Fluke's.
AWARDS FOR PRIZE ESSAYS. In conformity with the report of the judges. The American Protective Tariff League hereby announces the award of prizes to senica college students of 1890 for essays on the subject:
The Application of the American Policy of Protection to American Shipping engaged in International Commerce.
The first prize of $150 has been awarded to John Ford, Cornell University, N. Y. The second prize of $100 has been awarded to Carrie R. Gaston, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. The third prize of $50 has been awarded to Thomas A. C. Spillane, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. A silver medal for a meritorious essay has been awarded to W. H. Young Brown University, Providence, R.I.
REPORT OF THE JUDGES.
Edward H. Ammidown, President DEAR SIR: The undersigned appointed by the American Protective Tariff League to determine the award of prizes for the best essays by senior students of American colleges on
ae Application of the American Policy of Protection to American Shipping engaged in International Commerce,
Commerce, respectfully report that we have unanimously awarded the first prize for the essay by "Jefrom." The second prize for the essay by "X. Y. Z." The third prize for the essay by "T. A. C. S." We have also awarded a silver medal for the essay by "A Protectionist."
Very truly yours,
RICHARD T. ELY,
NELSON DINGLEY, JR.,
WILLIAM W. BATES.
A. FOSTER HIGGINS.
Next year the legislature meets again, and friends of the University are beginning to count up the needs of K. S. U. for presentation to the august body. We were fortunate in what we obtained from the last legislature—much more so indeed than the other state institutions. We have now a regular fund of $75,000 a year collected by taxation. This is sufficient for the running expenses of the University. Many people doubtless object to paying this tax. Though this $75,000 looks large in a lump sum, as a matter of fact the portion of this sum which each tax payer has to bear is very light indeed, and he would not feel it if the amount were doubled. But aside from the regular running expenses, the University needs enlargement. We are outgrowing our surroundings. We need more room. The number of students is rapidly increasing, and the space we occupy is becoming more cramped every year. To begin with we need a library building. The library is being increased at the rate of about 2,000 volumes a year, and the rooms now occupied by it are becoming too small. Yes we should have a fine library building the first thing. Then we need a building for Physics and Engineering.
and in time a Pharmacy and Medical building. In course of time also we hope to see on Mt. Oread a hall of Law and Political Science. But these latter things are too far off to look forward to with mucn confidence. One thing is certain, every thing but the literary or collegiate courses should be removed from the main building. We have grown so that the regular courses use the whole building, and the departments of Physics, Law and Engineering, which now occupy rooms in the main building should have separate buildings of their own. When the time comes that these departments are moved out of the main building, it should be entirely refitted throughout. This summer the centre portion of the main hall will be repaired at the foundations as the south wing was two years ago. Without expecting all these above mentioned improvements to come at once we hope a start toward them will be made next year, in the form of a Library building. And we hope sincere that as soon as the University obtains a Library building, some one will be employed to go through the Library thoroughly and make up a complete card index, which is more than the present librarian is able to do with the present limitations on her time, and her numerous duties to perform. Now what can students do towards helping in this work. Just this. If any of you have friends or relatives who will enter the next legislature, you will do a good service for your University if you will go to these and interest them in it and its workings, so that when the time comes, if it does come, to apply to the legislature for a new building or anything of the kind, they will be more favorably disposed than they would otherwise have been. This is the kind of work the alumni are expected to do, and they do it gladly; let the students help as much as is in their power.
Base ball goods of all kinds at Smith's.
Fluke has all the latest Sheet Music.
Boys if you must smoke,smoke good cigars. Smith keeps them.
Buy a Harwood guitar and learn to play of Fluke.
The Most Perfect Fitting, Most
Base Bail warms you up and Leis' soda water cools you off.
Chimes of Normandy and other popular operas at Fluke's.
Rowing is the best exercise for developing the arms and shoulders that can be found.
Durable and the Most
Economical Shirt to Buy.
WM, BROMLINCK, Sole Agent.
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