UNIVERSITY KANSAN
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Published every Friday morally by the UNIVER
SITY KANSAN Company
M. McKINNON, Presl. ent.
E. W. CALDWELL, Vice President,
    W. A. SNOW, Secretary,
    H. S. HADLEY, Treasurer,
    EDITORIAL STAFF.
H. F. ROPERTS, Editor-in-Chief.
LOCAL EDITOR.
R. D. BROWNS.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
R. I. Whitman, E. F. Robbinson,
Maude S. ringer, Fille J. rettson,
Dwight K. Potter, Helen Simpson,
D. E. Rabbit, W. S. Smith,
BUSIL E. S. MANAGER.
C. A. Bobbin, Paul Merrill.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
Societies
SCIENCE CLUB Meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 8 p.m. m president. E. E Slosson, Vice President E. Case Secretary, M. A. Barbier, Treasurer. Fred Liddkee, 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.
PHOTOLOGICAL CLUB Meets in Room No. 20 University building, every other day at 8 p.m. in President, Miss Anna McKenzie, vice president, Willow, Treasurer, Jus D. Boussard
DER DEUTSCHE VEREN. Meets at the residence of Prof. Carruth every other Thursday at 5 p.m. President, Miss. Kristine B. Tressler, Ms. McKinney; Treasurer, Miss Eileen Scott.
KENT CLUB Meets in Room 4 University building, bulling, President, James L Wallace; Vice President, Porter Edmison; Secretary, Wm. A Foster; Presurer, Samuel Feller; Sergent-at-Arms, A L Getty; 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 o'clock p.m. President, Music Building, Brentwood, President, Miss Margie Brown; Secretary and Treasurer, Adolph Krebblief.
PHARMACUTICAL SOCIETY Meets every other Friday at 5 p.m. President, V. T. Boaz; Vice President, W. S. Amos Secretary, Miss Laura Grabe; Librarian, J. Simmons; Treasurer, E.J. Youngberg Executive Committee, J. W. Kremery P. Multer; 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. Pears; Vice President, I. H Morse; Secretary, J. E. Biker, Assistant antSecretary, 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 S o'clock. President. C. P Chapman Vice President. C. S Griffin; Secretary, E. P. Fisher; Treasurer, H R Laville Critic, G. O. Virtue. Admits all non-fraternity students in the collegiate department.
Fraternities.
BETA THETA Pt. Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House Block.
PHI KAPPA 3st Meets every Saturday on
blocking on 31st floor of Opera House
Block.
PHI GAMMA DELTA Meet every Saturday on 3rd floor of Eldridge House Block.
PHI DELTA THETA Meets every Saturday
day evening in A. O. U. W. Hall.
SIGMA CHI Meets every Saturday evening on the 4th floor east, of Opera House Block.
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.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STUDENTS OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY President, Jus D. Bowersock; Vice Pre
sident, W. W. Brown; Secretary, W. D. Ross; Treasurer, W. E. Rowter; Executive Committee, M. E. Hickey, C H Sears, W. E Curry; Committee on non fraternity shares, C. S. Hall, E. C. Hickey, D. R. Krebchiel
UNIVERSITY ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION — President, W. H. Carruth; Secretary, F. B. bolognì; Treasurer, S. Snow; chancellor, National Association, North 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 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. Beer. 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.
Tug subscription lists for the Athletic Association have been called in. We do not know the full amount subscribed, but hope it will amount to enough to give the Athletic project a good start.
THROUGH an in advertisement the greater portion of Mr. Whitman's column was crowded out of the KANSAN last week. We shall endeavor to prevent any such mishap in the future. The Athletic column is to be an established feature and will be filled with fresh and interesting material each week. The name of Mr. Whitman as editor is assurance enough as far as that is concerned.
THE Literary Club held its first meeting with a program last Friday evening. The club is now an assured success. At Friday's meeting a large number of young ladies were present, and about twenty members signed the constitution. The club is paying off the expenses of the contest between the late societies of Orophilian and Athenaeum The piano and other furniture in the hall, formerly belonging to Orophilian society, have descended to the Literary Club. A debt of about $10.00 remains to be paid on the piano. After these various expenses are squared up the club will go on unhampered by the ghosts of the past. The founding of the Literary Club was no small task. It required a great deal of perseverance and energy, but the plan bids fair thus far to be an established success. One word of warning will not be out of place. Keep college politics completely out of the club elections. We believe this is the principle that the members intend to follow. The plan of work adopted we gave in fall in our last issue. It is broad and liberal, and its good effects are already beginning to be seen. We are glad to see one thing in the workings of the K U. L C., and that is the obliteration of all fraternity divisions. That is right. The only
way to run a good literary society is for each individual member to do the best work possible, without regard to the actions of others. The moment you bring the clique or the ring into the literary society, that society is as good as dead. That has been the case in the past at K. S. U. and the thing to be done now, is to learn by experience.
It is not the "social" element as has been so often suggested, which has injured the literary societies here in the past. The society element has to an extent done this. There is a great and a recognized difference between social life and "society" life. Let us by all means cultivate the social life of the University, and one of the ways of cultivating it is in the literary society. We think the great trouble with a large class of the students here, is that they give up social enjoyment for society pleasures. It is true "and pity' tis, 'tis true" that the "society" so called of K S. U. has held aeft from participation in the literary society because they were "old fashioned," took in everybody," were "tiresome," "poky" etc. Now the plain bold truth is just this. The work which it is possible to do in a first-class literary society, and the benefit you can get out of it, will be worth more to you in after life ten times over students, of K. S. U., than all the parties you can attend in a year. Parties, balls and "society" life generally will take you money, will occupy your time, but they won't develop your brains. Your may be able to handle cards like an expert, but it wont help you to handle men. Now we believe in moderation in all things. We don't believe in a student being a "jay" or a recluse, and we don't believe in a student being a dude or a top either. The golden mean can be found without much trouble, and in the golden mean alone lies the realm of good sense. What we have to say, we say to all alike Don't because you are a nonfraternity man, refrain from ever showing yourself in society when an opportunity offers; don't because you are a fraternity man confine yourself to what you consider "fashionable society. Get out among people. Get out among people. Be a live student. Be a rustler, and be a gentleman. Join a literary society and do good work in it. It will freshen you up. It will teach you to respect your fellow students. It will show you more sides of University life than you have seen before.In the past, it must be acknowledged, that the more fashionable part of the fraternity men have injured the literary societies by remaining outside and sneering at them: that another class of fraternity students have injured the literary societies by using them to further political schemes. It was reprehensible in both We are glad to say, that to-day this spirit is passing away. Fraternity men and nonfraternity men alike are working in
the literary societies, and a sensible, reasonable spirit is taking the place of the folly and narrowness of the past.
The Washburn Argo seems to think that an ungenerous jealousy prevented us from giving due credit to the Washburn orator, Mr. Naylor. That was not the idea. We are always glad to yield gracefully and cheerfully to our sister colleges when they walk off with the honors, if we think those honors deserved. It was not at all in the spirit of bitterness engendered by defeat that we made our comment in regard to Washburn's orator. We had then, and we have now the same opinion. We do not consider Mr. Naylor an orator of pre-eminent merit by any means. He is a manufactured orator. His oration was well written, it is true, and well composed. But when a man revises and re-revises, and speaks and re speaks, the same production six or seven different times, for as many different occasions, he ought to be able to bring it to a state approaching perfection, certainly. Constant hammering will make the coldest iron hot. The idea in Mr. Naylor's oration was moreover not new. Henry W. Grady's speeches are still fresh in our minds—too much so, unfortunately, for Mr. Naylor's oration, which suffers by comparison, for we cannot help but compare. What we think about "The Puritan and the Cavalier" is just this. A man well along in years, but without any brilliant oratorical talent, was determined to make a mark for himself as an orator. He took a familiar subject, treating a phase of our political life, and built an oration upon it. Year after year he hammered away at it, we are told, until the construction and composition had become well nigh perfect. And what is it? Why it is a well written composition, filled with platitudes on government, and a general rehash of past politics. Into this at appropriate points, was introduced a plentiful infusion of quotations, and the whole enlivened by the borrowed fire of Henry W. Grady, and A. W. Brewster of Washburn. There you have Naylor's oration. Add to this a stiff, rather impressive, but by no means eloquent delivery and you have Naylor, the orator.
This is the truth as we see it. We shall no doubt be censured and "sat down on" for expressing such heresies. College audiences are quite apt to swallow as the highest perfection of oratorical art, a clever combination of political maxims and formulas, combined with the oft reiterated doctrines of our great national documents and the sentiments of our great statesmen. They are good, and they are standard; but they represent no original ideas in the minds of those who incorporate them into their college orations. We do not condemn or mean to "run down" the Kansas orator, simply because he did not come from K.S.U. But when we are attacked for the stand we take, we do not mind stating the grounds
for our honest opinion. What we need is more honest opinion, even if it be unconventional. We have no desire to conceal our true opinion under a lot of fulsome flattery, as seems to be the tendency among some of the college papers.
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