UNIVERSITY KANSAN
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Pu- Hished every Friday morning by the UNIVER
SITY KANSAN COMPANY.
M. MCKNONSON, Presi' ent.
E. W. CALDWELL, Vice President.
W. A. SNOW, Secretary.
H S. HADLEY, Treasurer.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
H F. ROBERTS, Editor-in-Chief.
LOCAL EDITOR.
R D. BROWNS.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS!
R. R. Whitman.
Maude S. singer,
Dwight E. Pouter,
D. E. Dabbat.
BUSI E'S MANAGER:
C. A. Peabody,
Fred Pickering.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
SOCIETIES
SCHOLER CLUB. Meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 8 p.m. President, P. A. Williamson; Secretary, Robert Rutledge; Treasurer, W. S. Franklin.
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.
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB. Meets in Room No. 20 University building, every other Tuesday at 8 p.m. President, Miss Anna Tidy at 10 a.m. President, Wilcox; Treasurer, Just J. D. Bowersock.
DER DEUTSCHE VEREIN. Meets at the residence of Prof. Carcach in every other Thursday at p.m. Pres. Scott at his office. Sr. Assistant Miss Anna McKinnon; Treasurer, Miss Elle Scott.
KENT CLUB. Meets in Room 4 University building. President, James L Wallace; Vice President, Porter Administrator; Secretary, Wm. A Foster; Pressurer Samuel Feller; Sergent-at-Arms, A L Getty; Executive Committee, James Nichols, Albert Caughey. Admits Law students only.
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. Simmons; Treasurer, E.L. Youngberg; Executive Committee, J. W. Keenlery, P. Muller; Corresponding Secretary, J. G Peckham; Local Correspondent, H. A. Adams. Admits Pharmacy students only.
FRATERNITIES.
ADAPLICHI LITERARY SOCIETY. Organized Nov. 1-1, 1889 Meets in Adelphi H4.1, University building, souta 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. Linville; Critic, G. O. Virtue. Admits all non-fraternity students in the collegiate department.
THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY LITERARY CLUB. Organized January 31, 1890. Meets in the University building, north wing 3rd floor, every Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Admits all students in the collegiate department.
BETA THETA P1. Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House Block.
PHI KAPPA PSI Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Opera House Block.
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.
Stoma Chi Meets every Saturday evening on the 4th floor east, of Opera House Block.
SIGMA NU. Meets every Saturday evening
on 30th floor of Edible Ridge House Black
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.
KAPA KAPPA GAMMA. Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STUDENTS OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY President, W. Jus D. Bowersock; Vice President, W. Jus B. Owney; Secretary, W. D Ross; Treasurer, W. E Roes rr.; Executive Director, W. E Roes rr.; Sears, W. E Curry; Committee on non-fragrant shares, C. S. Hall, E. C. Hickey, D. R. Krebblich.
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 Presid-nt. 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.
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, J. C. Fox Published
every Friday morning by THE COURIER
COMPANY.
WE publish this week the winning oration of the State Oratorical Contest, delivered by S. W. Naylor of Washburn.
WELL it is all over. The University has regained its normal condition. The other colleges have welcomed their representatives returning with the coveted spoils. We hope our friends from abroad will long retain pleasant recollections of the State University and its students. As to the decision of the judges we need say nothing, save that in the minds of the majority of those who heard the contest, it was decidedly "rank." Washburn has our congratulations, but we weep for the way Kansas will get left in the Inter-state Contest.
The University owes much to those who are willing to strain all their eane gies in these contests to uphold the glory of K. S. U. The work and worry involved in these oratorical affairs is great. The honor is reciprocal. The University honors a man by sending him to the contest, and the representative in turn honors his institution in doing credit to himself. The University honored Mr. Bear by sending him as its representative and well did he return the honor. Every University student owes him a vote of thanks. That he was not awarded the rank he deserved was not his fault. Decisions are not always rendered according to the merits of the case.
CAMBRIDGE does not believe in the color line. It is well known that the Harvard class of 1890 has chosen a colored man as its class-day orator; and a few days ago a colored woman, who has long taught in the public schools, was promoted to the principalship of one of its best schools, which bears the name of "Agussiz." Let the college towns of the South hear the message which the oldest college town of the Nation would send."
We can show a parallel to this right here. The class orator of the class of '89 from K. S. U. was a colored man, Sherman A. Harvey, and he did himself great credit. In our opinion he made a far better speech than any of those who had commencement app-ointments. Harvey was a classical, and a bright, intelligent man, and was well liked by all the students who knew him.
The Oratorical Contest
[Journal.]
A college audience differs in some small, and yet rather important respects from other gatherings of hearers. For example, the ordinary church congregation does not find much use for able-bodied, full length tin horns. Nor does the average lecture course assemblage indulge in well-intentioned but unmistakably disturbing and distracting cat calls and whistles. And yet the writer remembers a certain Republican state convention in Topeka which did not differ so very greatly from the rare old time had last night by the college youth of Kansas.
Dr. Hoss, getting a little venderable, to be sure, but with a heart swelling with the passing years with a feeling of good fellowship for college boys, utters a brief invocation. Brief, hence unanimously considered excellent. * * * Did you ever hear college boys sing? If not, do it. They may not sing remarkably well, but their singing counts just the same because it suggests to every harer the time when he belonged to the "Paulomathean quartette" or the "Jollybobs" (C) & Club. The University boys who sang last night sang well. They were applauded.
Self-possessed Pres. Hyden, a newspaper man by the way, being connected with the Kansas City Globe, introduces a pleasant looking young man in a cutaway coat as H. Lee Prescott of Kansas Wesleyan College, located at Salina. What a tale of villainy that mild mannered young man, well trained by his master in elocation, unfolded. This cloacutionary trainer who took such excellent care of his protege is Prof. Scott of the Wesleyan. Mr. Prescott finished and a queer little cry rose several times repeated from the center of the Hall. Salina, mind you, had but thirty students to tell Prescott is a college "journalist" being editor of the Wesleyan Lance, a bright college paper.
"S. W. Naylor of Washburn College," said Pres. Hayden, and a rather old college boy, good mustache, full forehead, Prince Albert coat, and evident confidence in himself, cams forward and told us how the Puritan and the Cavaliere are combined in the modern American. I had read that oration and found it striking—it is a powerful one—but Washburn's favorite did not make it any more striking by his delivery of it. He talked well—when he spoke about Daniel Webster he was really eloquent—but he lacked magnetism whatever that is. He was, indeed, in terrupted by applause, but the Washburn yell was too apparent. But when he stopped, the first real applause of the evening was sprung on the unsuspecting town people who were fortunate enough to have seats in the Hall. Those deep bass tin horns were handled in professional style, and Naylor smiled as the pulsating air beat against his flushed checks. Those Washburn "rebels"—they are just out of the throes of a regular South American picnic, you knew—are good fellows, and after all patriotic enough when it comes to supporting a student representative. Naylor, they say, is to be a missionary. He looks it. He is already a veteran on the rostrum, having won two oratorical contests and been in two others."
"Mr. H.F.M.Bear"—what a fearful din that was—said smiling President Hyden, and after a few minutes in which the pride of the University tried to srow his friends into silence, his wonderful, thrilling voice uttered "Government is a necessity of society." Harvey Bear, editor-in-chief of the University Review, loved and admired by a student world, slight of build, narrow, drawn, classic face—enrust, so earnest—no wonder the roof and walls of the old Hall trembled in their response to the hasty cries of the University crowd. The "Rock-Chalk-Jay-Hawk" was too much for the "Wau-Wau Washburn" which had just preceded it.
"Shall The Illiterate Vote?" Yes, said H. L. Parker, of Ottawa University. What a big fellow Parker is. Where we
newspaper fellows sat how could we help noticing his large feet? But he was right firm on them. Mr. Parker was earnest, and evidently meant just what he said. But if good intentions were all that was necessary in these affairs, more of us could win tin horn and catcull applause. Mr. Parker was ponderous, but his oldish head, quite innocent of capitfy attachments in a well defined region made the ponderousness seem natural enough. Mr. Parker omitted one paragraph of his oration—at least another paragraph appeared in the prin ted paga before me.
Those Baker girls, women perhaps, with their sweet and well trained voices, after inviting us to "come and join the dance" were in their turn invited to "come again." They came, and that real hoary but always acceptable ditty relating the troubles of one, "Simple Simon" amused the great audience. The Misses Hunt, Nicholson Buckner and Mrs. Pershaw will be remembered.
Mr. Marshall, who represented the College of Emporia, dear in the memory of the writer, is said to have taken several courses of oratorical training in the Kansas City school of oratory. I doubt that it helped him much. His gestures should never be taught by an "oratorical school," but nevertheless Marshall paid a glowing tribute to "The Huguenots." The admirers of each man were surely entitled to applaud him whenever they saw fit, but the signal to the Colquers should be not so public as to excite derision. How that Emporia crowd whooped when Marshall had well disposed of his "Heroes!" All the tinners, shops in the "Queen of the Neosho" must have been raissacked to furnish material for that band of soprano, tenor, alto, and bass trumpets.
Yates Hill, of Baker University, is a small man but a mighty philosopher. What a glorious, noble sight it is to see an ardent thinking young man teach a multitude. And add to good honest thought, an honest, natural expression and one understands why Hill carried his audience with him. Slight of build like Bear, black hair, expressive eyebrows, and a talking face and so evidently genuine, Hill deserved every bit of applause he got And 250 Baker men were fully able to hold their own when such a common-place thing as applause had come to be, was to be indulged in. This young Baker student intends to perfect his education at Harvard, and enter upon the practice of law.
The State Normal School has an admirable teacher of eleucynation art in the person of Miss Martha Spencer. The representative of the Normal is always thoroughly acquainted with declaratory art, and Robert M. Ruggles, worthy son of an illustrious sire, was no exception to the rule. But 19 years old, this tall, fine-looking, well trained lad told the wonderful tale of Robert Emmet's glorious life. A beginner on the rostrum—he is to be a lawyer and is learning now to argue—yet he has a self-possession creditable in a more experience orator. He says "ed-yu-cator," too, not "ed-chew-cator," which is commonly accepted as a sign of "cult-yure." The Normal students tooted horns, yelled and waved landkerchiefs; at least the girl Normalites did, and the writer was looking at them just as Ruggles finished.
The awaiting of the judges decision seems to be, by tacit consent, given over to all the darnfoallishness that a college student can devise by impromptu efforts. I took occasion to look over the sea of bright, young faces all with eyes front. What a lot of real pretty girls, and honest, earnest-faced boys—Smash! bang! that infernal din, Emperor, Baker, Salina, Topaka and what feats of felling, and growings in the face of gesticolls, until smiling Hyden for stands as calmly as if he never held the doom of many a hope and the granting of many a desire in his hands, Naylor, of Washburn, first; Hill, of Baker, second; and in a very pandemonium closes the seventh annual state oration contest.
K.
Did You Ever Think of This Before?
[Atchison Champion.]
It is, we know, the universal custom of college classes to designate themselves by the last two figures of the year in which they are to be graduated, as, for instance the class of '90, or the class of '99. This being so, what are the boys to do, who in the course of time will be graduated in 1900? To be consistent they will have to say that they belong to the class of '00, which is not only absurd but unpronounceable. Let the college debating societies tackle this momentous question.
It is not our custom to edit the paper with a pair of scissors, but the account of the State Contest as written for the Journal is so much better than anything we could give, that we publish it entire. Those of our readers who did not hear the contest will find it very interesting.
BILL Nye with the Ollie Torbett concert company figured as the fourth entertainment in the University course. The house was packed and a pleasant evening was spent listening to the violinist and the "interruptions" of Bill Nye. The last on the course will be a lecture by George Kennan.
ONE of the noticeable things connected with the event of Friday was the orderly behavior of all the students. It is generally thought that when eight hundred or more students get together in one town, that town stands in danger of being painted a lurid hue. But the students who come to Lawrence last week came as ladies and gentlemen and not a single act of rowdyism did we see or hear of. The enthusiasm was immense and the contest was exciting but everything passed off as smoothly and quietly as though nothing out of the ordinary way was going on. When the University next wlcomes her guests from other colleges, may the occasion be as pleasant as the last.
DIDN'T we University students raise the grand old 'Varsity yell though, when we crowded into the centre of the hall after the contest. Didn't the walls ring and echo with the shout that can throw Baker and Washburn and all the rest into the shade. Some people cannot see the use or sense in a college yell, but the man who has been a college boy once, knows what a tremendous amount of enthusiasm can be developed in whooping a few meaningless syllables till throats are hoarse and lungs are exhausted. We flatter ourselves that K. S. U. has about as far reaching and ear piercing as yell as could be devised, and when we see grave professors, students, alumni and all, joining in the general uproar and each trying to outdo the other, the coolest outsider must be made to feel that there is a great unifying force in a University yell.
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