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UNIVERSITY KANSAN
Published every Friday morning by the UNIVER
SITY KANSAN Company.
M. McKINNON, President.
E. W. CALDWELL, Vice President.
    W. A. SROW, Secretary,
    H. S. HADLEY Treasurer.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
H ROBERTS, Editor-In-Chief.
LOCAL EDITOR.
R. D. BROWNS.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
H. R. Whitman,
Martie Sminger,
Dwight Porter,
D. E. Rabbit.
BUSINES' MANAGERS:
H. S. Halley.
Paul Merrill.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
SCIENCE CLUB Meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 5 p. m. m. president, E. E. Slosson; Vice President, E. Case; Secretary, M. A. Barber; Treasurer, Fred Liddeke; Librarian, Prof. Marvin, Reporter, W. S. Smith.
Societies
SEMINARY 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. Black mar.
PHILIOLOGICAL CLUB. Meets in Room No. 20 University building, every other Friday at 8 p.m. President, Miss Anna McKinnon; Secretary, Dr. Wilcox; Treasurer, Jus D. Bowersock.
DER DEUTSCHE VEREN. Meets at the residence of Prof. Carrath every other Thursday. Grotty p. Secretary. Miss Amy McKinnon; Treasurer, Miss Effie Scott.
KENT CLUB. Meets in Room 4 University building, President, James L Wallace; Vice President, Porter Editorin; 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 CLUB. 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 Krebblah.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. Meets every other Friday at 5 p.m. President, V. T. Boaz; Vice President, W. S. Amos Secretary, Miss Laura Grabe; Librarian, J. Summons; Treasurer, Ed. Younggery Executive Committee, J. W. Kennerly P. Muller; Corresponding Secretary, J. G Peckham; Correspondant, 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. Peairs; 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, third 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.
Phi Beta Kapps. Honorary collegiate fraternity.
BETA THETA Pl. Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House Block.
PHI KAPPA PST. 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 CHI Meets every Saturday evening on the 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 ST.
DENTES OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY.
President, W. Jus D. Bowersock; Vice Pres-
ident, W. Jus W. Brown; Secretary, W. D.
Ross, Treasurer, W. E. Rovetter; Executive
Counselor, W. E. Rovetter; Sears, W. E. Curry; Committee on non-
fraternity shares, C. S. Hall, E. C. Hickey,
D. R. Krebblah.
UNIVERSITY ATLITHEC ASSOCIATION—President, W. H. Carruth; Secretary, F. Loyden; General Council of Associations; Genesis Association, Buse Ball Association and Foot Ball Association.
CANERA CLUB meet once per month
Personnel : H. S. Bailey, Secretary E
E. Slapson
TELEGRAPH CLUB, President, Prof.
L. I. Blake; Secretary and Treasurer, W.
S. Franklin.
Y. M. C. A. Meets in University building, Room 11 every 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.
THE UNIVERSITY REVIEW. Editor-in-Chief, H.F.M. Beur. Published monthly by THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY.
University Journals.
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.
The Board of Regents transacted some important business during their last session. V. L. Kellogg of '89 is appointed assistant in entomology.
A contract has been let for repairing the foundation to the central portion of the main building. Two years ago the south wing was fixed and now the center is found to need the same attention. It is strange indeed that such a large building should have been erected on a hill top without extending the foundations down to the solid rock. Yet that was the case.
The Regents also established two new courses, one to be known as the Latin-English course, and the other as the General Language course, in which any two languages desired may be selected by the student. These two courses will lead to the degree of A. B. The object is to establish a better connection between the University and the High Schools.
WELL the year is about over for us. How thankful we shall be. How thankful the profs will be, as they serenely pack their trunks, pocket their salary and depart for the effete East to spend their summer vacation. The students will be everywhere. Some of them will canvass the wretched inhabitants of their native burgs as book agents; some of them will "take responsible positions" some will till the soil; some will drive delivery wagons,—and more will stay at home. No one will be more thankful for the coming of vacation than those unfortunate individuals who have to get out the college papers, who go to bed dreaming of "copy," "ads" and similar technicalities. For the remaining brief weeks of the University year we have one recommendation to make to every student, and that is, look out for your health. Don't stay indoors too much. When you feel "mean" or "run down," don't dose yourself up
with a lot of spring tonics, but get out doors and do something. Take some part in athletics. Tennis, base ball, rowing, cycling and dozens of other outdoor exercises are open to you. There is nothing a student needs so much when the warm spring weather comes around, after six months of confinement within heated rooms, as good vigorous exercise taken every day. It is worth more than all the "blood medicine" in the world.
The Inter-State contest is over, and Kansas is the winner. This is a victory of which we should be proud indeed. Whatever we may have said or thought of Mr. Naylor's oration, it certainly has been good enough to win him the first place. We are glad of it. We congratulate Washburn, and we congratulate Kansas. The victory is no less our victory than it is Washburn's and we rejoice with all other loyal Kansas students that a Kansas man has at last won the first place in the Inter-State Oratorical Contest. Kansas seems to be on top this year. We understand that the man who won second place is also a Kansan, so it seems we have monopolized things. How much we would all have liked to seen Harvey Bear where Naylor stands; how much we would have liked to rend ourselves with enthusiasm over a man from K. S. U., as the champion. Yet now, after the contest is all over, fairly tried and fairly won, we think we show the heartiest enthusiasm for Mr. Naylor's victory when we say that we feel as good over it as though he had gone forth to Lincoln from the walls of the old State University. Congratulations, again Naylor—shake hands
The trip that two hundred and sixty or more of our students made to Topeka last Monday to help Washburn celebrate Naylor's victory,—or rather Kansas, victory, will we hope be productive of good results. We hope it will tend to a greater community of interest between the two institutions. We hope the students of Washburn and K. S. U, will become better acquainted with each other, and that some time we may have the pleasure of receiving a similar delegation when the fortunate day comes that a K. S. U, man wins an inter-state contest. Washburn may justly glory in being the first college in the state to win first place for Kansas in the inter-state contest, and we congratulate her with all our hearts. We hope the splendid out pouring of K. S. U. enthusiasm demonstrated as nearly three hundred of us trod the damp streets of Topeka last Monday night in long columns of yelling, singing, whistling and horn blowing students, may tend to bring Washburn to understand that we are in hearty sympathy with them and their orator. We have shown them what we can do to and they have shown us they are good hosts and excellent and hospitable entertainers. In the name of our students, the KANSAN
extends its hearty thanks to the Washburn students for the very pleasant reception extended us, and we hope the time will come when we can return the compliment.
NEXT Tuesday morning at half-past 12 o'clock is the date announced on the bulletin board by the Chancellor, for a mass meeting of the students to be held in the chapel. The faculty have by a vote decided to place the conduction of chapel exercises in the hands of three professors and two students, the latter to be chosen by the student body in mass meeting. The object of this meeting to be held next Tuesday there will be the election of two students to fill these positions. We do not know how many deep laid "schemes" are being concocted for the capture of these responsible positions, but one thing we do see, and that is this. The faculty wish to arouse a greater interest in the chapel exercises and to induce a greater number of the students to attend. It has seemed incompatible with the breadth and liberality of a genuine University, and a State University at that, to compel students to attend religious exercises. Such a method is not followed in any of the great Universities. Men come to college now at a mucn more advanced age than formerly. Their characters and religious views, if they have any, are usually tolerably well settled, and the formality of attending chapel exercises has no particular effect upon them. In fact, in most colleges where such exercises are compulsory, they are endured as a bore which has to put up with. They bring no restraining moral influence to bear. In a denominational college this is possible to a slight degree, but not in State institution. However there is a side to regular chapel attendance on the part of all the students which is beneficial, and that is the regular association or assembly in a single body, of the whole mass of the students. We believe that to be a good thing, and an excellent thing. Now at the University, but few of the students attend chapel regularly, and consequently it is rare that the whole body of students is found assembled together. Once in a while we have a mass meeting in the chapel or something of that kind, which brings us all together. Otherwise we are all scattered at our special or individual work. But comparatively few of the faces we see become really familiar to us. We see each other passing to and from classes, and in the halls, but that acquaintance which comes from seeing every other student in a certain place every day at a certain time,—this we do not get. All announcements which are usually made to the students assembled in chapel, are conveyed by means of the bulletin boards. So that nothing remains of chapel exercises but a brief religious service which an average of about thirty or forty out of nearly six hundred students attend daily. We wish for the sake
of the good which comes out of the general assembly of the students that something could be done to make chapel attendance regular and large.
Athletic Girls.
When we meet boys and girls, especially girls, outside a gymnasium, we wonder if that sort of training is doing them any good. Certainly there are no visible evidences; they walk along as meekly as lambs, and I have yet to see a girl or woman jump on or off a street car or spring over a muddy crossing, though so many girls can do more than that in a public hall before thousands of spectators. In seeing those young women exercising with Indian clubs, I wondered why any one should be ungraceful if such a drill as that were possible, why girls do not carry themselves better than they do, and if I had ever met these limber and graceful creatures in the street. The young women who jumped over horizontal bars and swung themselves like acrobats, head downward, showed that proper training might develop any woman into a model of athletic grace.
It has been a scorn and reproach for women that they could not climb a stone wall nor run upsteirs without losing their breath, but all things are possible under this training; and, in spite of petticoats, no gymnasium pupil can now hesitate to go down a fire escape nor to cross a field occupied by cows of a too-inquiring disposition. This good, if no other, grows out of physical development, and though the children of today still look as thin and pale as ever, the children of-to-morrow are bound to show great improvement in bone and muscle, thanks to this new culture. There are other ways of improving the human race, but until the world dares undertake them send the weaklings to gymnasiums and let them learn how to use their arms and legs.—Boston Herald.
Saved from a Snake by Her Dog.
While gathering dandelions in the woods near her home a few days ago little Mary Buckman, the 15-year-old daughter of Hiram Buckman, a well to do farmer in the upper part of Northampton county, was chased by a huge snake, and was only saved from its fangs by the timely interference of the family dog. The little girl had gathered a handful of flowers when a huge woodshite snake darted out from the trunk of a fallen tree.
The child ran toward the farmhouse with the writting serpent in hot pursuit. Just before reaching home the snake was at her heels, and her mind was almost gone. The big family bull dog jumped the yard fence, and started to the rescue. The snake fastened its fangs in one of the dog's bind legs and coiled itself around his body. The dog succeeded in getting hold of the snake's throat, and then the conflict for life was soon over. Since the occurrence the girl has been troubled with nervous prostration.
The snake when measured was over eight feet long, and its body was larger than a man's fist.—Philadelphia Record.
They Have Been Using Old Telephones. A somewhat singular situation has been developed in Philadelphia. During the past few months the American Bell Telephone company has had detectives at work in that city for the purpose of discovering "bogus" or outlawed telephones. Over 200 have been discovered, and many of the users thereof, including liverymen, doctors, dentists, druggists and fuel dealers, have been summoned to appear in the United States circuit court. These bogus telephones are in all probability the remains of the plant of some former competitors of the Bell Telephone company, and some two years ago the company brought exactly the same kind of suit as that now in progress against a number of business men, some of whom are now on the list of delinquents. They were all released upon the promise that they would not use the infringing instruments. It is hardly likely that they will be treated as leniently this time.—NewYork Sun.
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