UNIVERSITY KANSAN Entered at Post Office, Lawrence, Kansas, as second-class matter. Published every Friday morning by the UNIVER SITY KANSAH Company. M. McKINNON, President. E. W. CALDWELL, Vice President. W. A Snow, Secretary, H. S. HADDLET, Treasurer, EDITORIAL STAFF. H ROBERTS, Editor-in-Chief. LOCAL EDITOR. R D. BROWN. ASSOCIATE EDITORS R. K. Whiteman E. F. Robinson $^{1}$ Maude Marner E. J. Scott, E. Dwight E. Potter Helen Simpson, D. E. Babbitt W. S. Smith, BUSINESS MANAGERS! H. S. Hadley Paul Merrill UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY Societies. 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 Liddke; Librarian, Prof. Marvin; Reporter, W. S. Smith. 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. Blackmar. 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. Carinthy every other Thursday at 8 p.m. President, Miss. Gertrude Crotty; Secretary, Miss Anna McKinnon; Treasurer, Miss Elle Scott. KENT CLUB Meets in Room 4 University building. President, James L. Wallace; Vice President, Porter Administer; Secretary, Wm. A. Foster; Treasurer, Samuel Feller; Sergent-at-Arms, A. L. Getys; 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 Burry; Vice President, Miss Margie Brown; Secretary and Treasurer, Adolph Krebblief. PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. Meets every other Friday at S p.m., President, V. T. Boaz; Vice President, W. S. Amos; Secretary, Miss Laura Grabe; Librarian, J. Simmons; Treasurer, Ed. Youngberg; Executive Committee, J. W. Kennerly; P. Muller; Corresponding Secretary, J. G. Peckham; Correspondent, H. A. Adams. Admits Pharmacy students on'v'. THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY LITERARY CLUB Organized January 31, 1890. Meets in University Club Hall University building, north wing, 3rd floor, every Friday evening at S o'clock President, Howard A. Pears; 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. ADPELHIC LITERARY SOCIETY. Organized Nov. 1, 1889. Meets in Adelphi 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. Phi Beta Kappa, Honorary collegiate fraternity. BETA THETA PL. Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House Block. PHI KAPPA PSL. 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 TUEAT. Meet 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 Saturday afternoon at the homes of members. KAppa KAPPA GAMMA. Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members. ORATOUCAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STUDENTS OF KANASSA STATE UNIVERSITY. President, Jus D. Bowersock; Vice President, W. W. Brown; Secretary, D. Ross, Treasurer, W. E. Roverter, Treasurer, M. E. Roverter, C. H. Sears, W. E. Curry; Committee on non-fraternity shares, C. S. Hall, E. C. Hiskey, D. R. Krebblich. Miscellaneous. UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION President, W. H. Carruth; Secretary, W. H. Carruth; Treasurer. 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 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, Miss Emma Dunn; Secretary, Miss Laura Lockwood. THE UNIVERSITY REVIEW. Editor-in-Chief, H.F.M. Bever. 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 student that pays the best attention in the recitation is the one on whom the greatest good will be accomplished. Nothing is harder to do than to try to pound some fact or principle in the mind of some inattentive pupil. Such students never make the strong, stalwart men in the progress of the world. They simply live and die. No one, save one or two, mourns their decease. They are only ciphers and on the left hand of the figure at that. They are worse than nothing. When attached to any one they are not helpers but will not permit true development. They are like a division by ten. To be something in this world should be the desire of every student. And the best way to be sure of success is to make and adopt a habit of being attentive at all times so that you will be wide awake to every result and circumstance. It is the wide awake men and women that do the marvelous things. It is the attentive person who sees the development of nature and thus discovers the laws. To be wide awake means success.—Beacon. The question whether a college paper may properly discuss political topics is being discussed by several of our exchanges. Perhaps it may be repulsive to the taste of some to do so, as they claim; but we sincerely doubt if it isn't affectation, based on puerile modesty rather than upon a comprehensive conception of what is really appropriate. A college paper is not published for the pleasure of infants, but rather as a medium of public expression for educated young men and women upon all topics of information and culture.—Drury Mirror. This is all very well, but it is not a puerile modesty which should restrain the average college paper from discussing general politics, during the time when a young man is going to school is not the time for him to undertake to give mature and grave decisions on political matters. It is time for him to read and study and think about them. It is the time for him to examine what others have said and are saying about politics. His mind is in the formative period, and not until his opinions are fixed and mature, in his judgment worth anything. With the wealth of newspapers, college students has abundant opportunity to look up political news without making it necessary for the college paper to discuss it. The premature opinions on politics and government often expressed in college papers are commonly called by the sarcastic, "callow." No, the college paper is a peculiar institution. Its business is to interest and inform its readers of what is going on in colleges and among students. Each paper is expected to be an organ especially devoted to the interest of the institution from which it comes, and if it an swers that purpose well that is all that is demanded or expected o it. THE following clipping was handed to us the other day by one of the professors, and is astonishing indeed. We have heard of men plagiizing from famous speeches and from addresses by prominent statesmen, but the Nebraska orator is charged with plagiization from common every day college orators. This is too bad. Every year we hear of such occurrences, and the discovery of this, if the charge be true will be a blow to Nebraska Wesleyan and should bury her orator out of sight: "Something of a sensation was created here, to day, by a disclosure in an evening paper in reference to the coming inter-state college contest, which will be held May 1. Nebraska is represented by George A. Ferguson, of the Wesleyan university at Lincoln, an... he is now in Chicago under training. He is a young minister, and was chosen in the usual way through a contest with representatives from other colleges in the state. It has been discovered now that his oration is chiefly a plagiarism from the orations of Charles I. Coffin, of Asbury, Ind., University, and Owen Morris, of Carleston college, Minnesota, delivered by them at the interstate meeting at Jacksonville, Ill. The state association is likely to be called upon to take some action in the matter." Once again as the end of the year approaches, we wish to make a slight protest against the habit of over doing Commencement. The state of things is just this. There are two weeks at the end of the term which are virtually wasted, examination week and Commencement week. We believe time taken up in the examinations is a waste of time but shall not discuss that point now. What we wish to protest against is the filling up of over a week with a lot of senseless exercises, whose only value is to wear everybody out. It is a fact that a large per cent of our students leave Lawrence immediately after the spring examinations, since the Commencement exercises possess no particular interest to them, and if they remain in Lawrence they can do nothing, and at the same time have a week's extra expenses to pay, which can be saved by leaving directly examinations are over. It is also a fact, that a large number of the professors start off on their vacation trips just as soon as the term's work is closed, and do not remain for Commencement. Now why is this thus? The reason is plain. We have too much Commencement. The exercises are spread over a great length of time and are far more numerous than are necessary. Take for instance the schedule of exercises for this spring as printed is this year's catalogue: May 29 to June 5, Thursday to Thursday, inclusive—Annual Examinations. clusive—Annual Examinations, June 5. Thursday—Commencement Concert, School of Music. June 6. Friday, 8 P. M.—Anniversary, Literary Societies. June 8. Sunday, 8 P. M.—Baccalaureate Sermon. June 9. Monday, 10 A. M.—Anniversary Exercises, School of Pharmacy. June 9 Monday, 10 B. P. M. University Oration, an Address before the Literary Societies. June 10, Tuesday, 10 A. M.—Commencement Exercises, Law School. 8 M.-Oration before the Law School. June 11, Wednesday, 10 A. M.—Class-day Exercises. 3 P. M.—Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association. 8 P. M.—Oration Annu 8 P. M. - Alumni Oration. 8 P, M — Alumni Celebration 8 P, M Thursday, 10 A, M — Commencement Exercises. Now here are twelve different exercises, coming in rapid succession, and which are evidently intended to represent the University in all its departments. But is this necessary. Is it necessary at least to spread over so much surface what might be condensed into two or three days. A reform in this line is gradually working its way into all the larger American colleges in the way of simplifying the exercises Commencement. We do not advocate the German method in which there is no "Commencement" at all as we understand the word, but we do advocate and believe that the long, tedious, and useless parade which occupies the last week of the term is an unmitigated bore. What is the reform we would suggest? Just this, cut the Commencement exercises down to three days. On the Sunday before Commencement let there be a Baccalaureate sermon. On Monday let there be Class Day exercises, and if necessary a University oration. On Tuesday let there be the regular Commencement, and in the after noon the Alumni reunion and banquet. But how about the literary societies and their exhibitions? Let them decide every year, as they have done this year, not to give any. Literary Society June "exhibitions" are a chestnut at K. S. U. Again somebody exclaims, how about the commencement exercises of the different schools. The Law and Pharmacy schools, and the rest,—how are they going to be represented? Easily enough. Let all their individual graduating exercises be condensed into one. Let the graduates all file up on Commencement day and receive their diplomas in a body. Let a representative or two from each department or school, deliver brief orations, or better still, let a distinguished orator be selected to address them. Thus would our Commencement exercises be simplified and condensed into what is actually necessary, and money, and time, which amounts to the same thing would be saved. We do not flatter ourselves that what we say will have any influence towards the end we desire, but if it wakes up the students a little to the real common sense of the case a reform may come some time. If you feel lazy take a sail; if you feel active a row. DICKSON School of Shorthand. 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