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Town Topics.
Societies in General, and the New Society in Particular.
The new literary society is now fairly under way. Every one wishes it success. It has been written about and commented upon almost enough of late, but we would like to add a few remarks, even at the risk of being told it is none of our business. In the first place, boys, you have chosen a good name. The Kansas University Literary Club. That sounds well. It is dignified and broad. It indicates what you are, and what you are going to do, and it doesn't savor of the country lyceum. It has been our observation that the smaller and the more insignificant the college, the bigger the names of its literary societies. You have done well in choosing an English name. The English language is good enough without going into the dust of Greek and Roman antiquity to find a title. You might have called the society y the Hyperborean the Metagathean, Callithumpian Deuteronomy or Onomatopoeian These are high sounding names, and we have seen worse in our exchanges. You might have done this but in doing it you would have buried the society on the spot.
In our opinion, a society which finds it necessary to express its literary longings in a fourteen syllable name, has very little strong material back of it, as a general thing. It is like a pasture with a high tight-board fence all round it, but no grass inside.
Now if there is any thing we would like to suggest to the literary societies in general in the Univer ity it is to "get out of the woods." All around you lie the fallen and decaying trunks of dead societies. Get out from among them. Get out of the underbrush of "lyceums" and "literaries" (if there is anything abominable it is a "literary.") Get out into the open air where you can see your way. Don't stay in the dark and in the swamps, and let the moss grow ov r you. Do good work, and you will encourage others to join you who never thought of entering a literary society. Put your work on a high plane and keep it there. Another good scheme is to get out of the rut of the iron clad program. The literary societies here in the past, would have about fifteen pieces of various kinds on their program. They could do this safely because they could generally depend on it that from a third to a half of the
members assigned would not perform. To the new society we would suggest not to do this. Have fewer subjects, but have those good and well carried out. It would be a good thing also if you made your programs tolerably flexible, so that it would be possible to vary your work somewhat.
If again we may be permitted to suggest something to the new literary society (which we have no business to do of course) we would say, have a reasonably simple organization. The evidence here in the University goes to show that the societies and clubs which have the simplest organization, and the least of the drum major-militia-general-fuss-and-feathers posmosity about them which so often comes in the rear of that dire fatalistic incubus known under the name of "Constitution and By Laws," have done the best work, and have been the most successful. The shores of collegiate life are just strenn all over with the corpses of literary societies, over whose remains might be erected a headstone with an epitaph something like this:
DIED—Gradually, from the over effects of a Constitution and By Laws of 25 articles and 139 sections with a Preamble and Bill of Rights attached; complicated by a chronic attack of eighteen officers and a cast iron program of seventeen subjects.
And to carry it further the account of the funeral would tell us something like this. "All that remained of the dear deceased society was carried to the cemetery in a match box, but the Records, Archives, Minutes, Reports, Rules, Regulations, Laws, By-Laws, Constitutions, Amendments, Reports of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, Comptroller, Register General, Auditor, Attorney General, Critic, Reporter and Sergeant at Arms, together with the unfinished business and new business were gently piled away to repose in undisturbed security and dirt on six big shelves in the library, where they will be pored over by future generations in a horn."
WE clip the following article which we think is well worth the while of students to read. It is often said that Americans go to school to graduate. It should be remembered that the graduation, and the name of "college man" implies very little to most men unless there is stuff back of it:
"When you get out of college young man, get clear out. You can get back for half a day or so at any time—at a boat race, a foot ball match, at Commencement—whenever there is a reasonable excuse; but in your daily walk and conversation be something more than a college man—be a citizen. Be even an alderman, if you can. Take the world to be yours, as Bacon took all learning to be his, and don't forever limit your view of it by what was once visible from some point in New Haven or in Cambridge. Go and be a man somewhere. Don't be satisfied to
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be a mere "graduate" for all time. Of course you owe your alma mater a debt that you are always ready to pay, and a loyalty that should have no breaks in it. When you have grown to the size of Daniel Webster, and your Dartmouth asks you to defend her in court, you are going to be proud when you do it. That is all right. You can't do too much for her, or do it too well. If you accumulate any reputation that is worth having, feel honored indeed when she offers to share it with you, but don't be too persistently anxious to strut in her plumes to the disarrangement, it may be, of worthy men who have no claim to any similar privilege" — "The Point of View," in February Scribner.
Smith has the best cigars.
Barn Opposite Lawrence House.
Andy Reed is popular with the students. Give him a call,
Calla Lily toilet Preparations at Raymond & Dick's.
Full dress shirt and underwear at Bromelick's.
Get your stationary, newspapers and writing tablets at Smith's.
Field & Hargis for papers and magazines.
Go to Andy Reed's for a first class hair cut.
J. L. Taylor has the best hacks in the city.
Students will find first-class men always on hand at Chas, Hess, 937 Mass street.
The Eidridge House barber shop is the popular shop. Gregg & Johnson proprietors.
Call at the Star Meat Market for anything in our line and we will please you.
Hot and cold baths at Gregg & Johnson's.
Little Lord Fauntleroy next Saturday afternoon by the U and I club Students will be politely treated and promptly served at Taylor's lavery Barn opposite Lawrence House.
Go to the Star Meat Market for fresh meats.
Hair cutting and shaving, neatly
done at Gregg & Johnson's.
A fine line of pocket cutlery at Smith's.
Go to Andy Reed for a good shave or hair cut.
Fresh Lime Fruit Tablets to clear
ones throat at Raymond & Dick's
At the Opera House next Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Little Lord Fauntleroy will be presented.
Call at the Star Meat Market and get our rates to clubs. Lowest in the city.
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Studio at 615. Mass. Street
Baths cheap at Gregg & Johnsons
Silk Vest in fancy patterns, the very latest styles at Abe Levy's.
Shaving and hair cutting neatly done at Andy Reed's.
Peanut Wafers are the latest at Raymond & Dick's.
Gregg & Johnson are popular with the students. When you want a shave or a hair cut give them a call.
The people of Lawrence will be treated to Little Lord Fauntleroy next Friday evening and Saturday matinee.
Students buy the "Monarch" shirt. It is the most perfect fitting the most durable and most economical to buy. Wm. Bromelsick sole agent.
Next Friday evening and Saturday matinee the U and I club will present Little Lord Fauntleroy at Bowersock's Opera House.
Field & Hargis is the popular book store. We have a large stock of everything in our line, and sell at the lowest prices.
BOWERSOCK OPERA. HOUSE
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An Evening of Music and Humor in the
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Three Musical Stars.
The Brilliant Violinist.
MISS OLLIE THRBETT.
The Noted Swedish Tenor.
MR. GUSTAVE TALBERT.
And the Accomplished Pianist,
MR. FRANK DOWNEY.
Seats on sale at Crew's, Friday.
Prices—35c, 50c, 75c and $1.00.
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Beots and Shoes FOR STUDENTS LOW FOR CASH.
Winter Goods to be Closed Out Very Cheap.
Family Shoe Store. MASON'S.
CHAS. HESS MEAT MARKET.
Call and get our rates to Clubs.
Satisfactory prices and firstclass meat at 937 Mass St.