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UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
Entered at Post Office, Lawrence, Kanras, as second-class matter.
E published every Friday morning by the UNIVER
FITY KANSAN Company
R D. Brown, Prest.
W. A. Snow, Sec'y.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
J. FRANK CRAGO, Editor-in-Chief.
LOCAL EDITOR:
H. F. Roberts.
ABBOCIAT# EDITORS
Albert Fullerton,
W. E. Royster,
Effie J. Scott,
Herbert Hallley,
Emma Bartell,
Inz Taugart,
Fred H Kellogg,
Carris Sackett
BUSIN-E-S MANAGERS:
Harold Barnes, W. H. Riddle.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
BETA THETA PI meets every Saturday evening on fourth floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA PST meets every Saturday evening on third floor of Opera House block.
PHI GAMMA DELTA meets every Saturday evening in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA meets every Saturday evening on the second floor of Opera House block.
Sigma Chi meets every Saturday even ing on the fourth floor east of the Opera Mouse block.
SIGIA Nu meets every Saturday evening in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
Pt 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.
PHILIOLOGICAL CLUB meets in room No 20 every other Friday at 8 p. m.
UNIVERSITY ATHELETC ASSOCIATION
President, W. H. Carruth; Secretary, F.
H. Kellogg; Treasure, Chas. B. Voorhis.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION. President, F. E.
Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer,
W. A. Snow.
SCIENCE CLUB, meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 8 p.m. P. A. W. Williamson, President; Rob't. Rutledge, Secretary.
SEMINARY OF HISTORICAL AND POLITI-
CAL SCIENCE, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
OROPHIAN LITERARY SOCIETY meets Friday at 8 p. m.
ATHENE.UM LITERARY SOCIETY meets every Friday at 8 p.m. d. D. H. Spencer President; Miss Corbin, Secretary.
Foot BALL ASSOCIATION meets every Saturday for practice. C. S. Hall, President; Chas. Wright, Secretary; Shields and Wixon Captains.
CAMERA CLUB meets once per month E. H. S. Bailey, President, E. E. Slosson Secretary.
Y. M. C. A. meets every Friday even ing at 7:30. room 11. President, E. L. Ackley; Secretary, C. P. Chapman.
Y. W. C. A. meets every Friday evening at 7:30, third floor University President, Emma Dunn; Secretary, Laura Lockwood.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION of the students of K. S. U., L. T. Smith, President; C. P. Chapman, Secretary; Executive Committee: E. M. Munford, Chas. Vooris, Fred Lideke.
MR. PAUL WILKINSON has had charge of the KANSAN this week.
YESTERDAY'S Kansas City Journal contains a number of University items. For a display of consumate ignorance concerning the University several of the items are unsurpassed.
The Baker Beacon in a recent issue makes an able defense of country colleges in small towns and asserts in a manner, hardly to be disputed, that Baker is the best University in the West! Also that Baldwin has about the best society to be found. These statements of the Beacon, like all, are subject to doubt.
The University of Nebraska has abolished the grade system. This is a move in the right direction. Grades are a poor incentive for good work.
D. A. VALENTINE, editor of the Clay Centre Times, has been appointed to the Board of Regents, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Hon. J. F. Billings. The appointment gives universal satisfaction.
LET's see, was it not the Review that was so strongly in favor of St. Louis as the seat of the World's Fair? It is not positively known whether or not the aiding and abetting of the Review was in any way connected with the rapid falling off of the prospects of St. Louis.
THE successful contestant tonight will be representative of Kansas at Lincoln, Neb., next May.— K. S. U. KANSAN.
THE KANSAN is becoming noted for its joking qualities. It said the same thing last year, you know.— Baker Beacon.
What an imagination the editor of the Beacon has.
In order to do the pyrotechnic in a manner worthy of the glorious victory which our orator is going to win at the state contest. Wash burn's crowd must go to Lawrence in good organization and discipline prepared to beard K. S. U. in heden, and make the University halls re-echo our Washburn war cry. A good yell is the embodiment of college patriotism, and will arouse more enthusiasm for the coming struggle than will any other agency possible. Let a mass meeting be called to choose and practice a yell. If the yell which we had last year is not satisfactory, get another one.—Reporter.
Yes, it is the yell. Let all loyal K. S. U. students turn out, the 14th prox., and as heretofore show the colleges how to yell, Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk K. U.
In the Review for January is an article from the pen of Prof. A. G. Canfield concerning college journalism in general and K. S. U. journalism in particular. The Professor deals admirably with so delicate a subject and his paper is well received, But we think that the first point to be considered is that of time. Attempts have been made at various times to have work on the University journals substituted for work in the English department; but to no avail. So then he who would enter college journalism must expect to "get up his copy" as best he can outside of the line required for his regular three studies. This lack of time results disastrously to the "make up" of the paper. The editor in-chief on being presented with articles for publication by persons not regularly connected with the paper frequently allows some of them to appear, which on mature deliberation he would see would result to no good to the character of his paper and perhaps work evil to the college where published. There are two classes of college journalism; literary and local. The above remarks of course refer to the latter.
HESPERIAN.—Some time ago the Senior class of the University presented a petition to the faculty asking that commencement orations be done a way, and that instead an oration from abroad be secured to address the assembled multitude on commencement day. The faculty have not taken action on the on the petition, so far as we know. If they have what we say may be taken as justification of that action, if favorable, or as a protest against it, if unfavorable. Such a petition, from a class approaching that day which has by time-honored custom come to be day of days for parade and superficial shows of accomplishments, means something. It would not be just to ascribe the action to laziness, to desire to avoid extra work, for the experience of years has shown that to write a graduating oration is a privilege to be striven for, not refused. It is a chance to appear distinguished above one's fellows, to be the cynosure of many eyes. It is, in a sense, an opportunity to represent the institution which has given all the wealth of knowledge which is displayed; to show to the world what a man may become who drinks at this particular fountain of learning. Is a little paltry work to weigh equally in the balance against these privileges? Thousands of commencement orators answer. No more can we ascribe the action to a feeling that the class has no member fit to set before the public as a sample of what a college man or woman should be. Was there ever a class graduated which did not include several such paragons? No., these reasons had little weight in bringing the class to decide against graduating orations. Rather they had come to feel that this mediaeval custom was out of place in the practicality of the present age. It is a survival, and even survivals have limits to their usefulness and proper term of existence. The class of '90 has in sober judgment deemed that limit now to be reached. They have felt that the tinkling rhetoric and the gay flowers, the fine clothes and the admiring audience, are perhaps fitting accompaniments of the lighter pleasures of the college course, but are out of place at the moment when those pleasures are to be exchanged for the stern realities of earning one's living. The exaltation at the close of college life, but makes the contrast greater between the glories of that day and the meanness of the country school or clerkship which follows. They fail to see the necessity for an institution of learning to have an annual "opening" like a mullinery shop or a dry goods store. They fail to see the relation of the pomp and parade of commencement to earnest striving after knowledge. They fail to see that it is just for the public to expect a man to put an epitome of four year's learning, and the result of mental training for a like period, into a ten minute oration. In a word, they refuse to be judged of the world by one brief, dazzling appearance, but prefer to be approved or condemned according their work as men and women, parts of society, is good or bad. The faculty may not see these things in the way we have put them, but we know that some of them are favorable to the granting of the petition. We hope that all feel so, and that the class of '90 may be the first to go out of the University in a sensible, business-like manner, free from all the cant, hypocrisy and vanity so characteristic of the ordinary commencement. Then will the jealousy, wrangling, and heartburnings of aspirants for grauduating honors be stilled. Then will the pique of doting and offended parents have no cause for existence. Then too will graduates be less likely to consider themselves conquering heroes, turned loose for the world to pay hemage to. If this be not the year when custom is to be left in the lurch, and commonsense is to prevail, we pray that our immediate successors may put their case more strongly, and receive the consideration due to the merits of their request.
PROF. BAILEY has been recently making an investigation as to the methods of conducting chemical laboratories in some fifteen of the leading colleges of the country, especially state institutions. He finds that in the majority of cases appropriations are made directly for carrying on the laboratory, while in a few the bills of the department are simply presented for payment to the Treasurer. More than half of these laboratories are self-supporting, but it is notable in such cases that the expenses to the individual students are greater. In all but two cases deposits for breakage are required of students, and any balance unexpended is paid them at the end of the term. This amount varies from $2.00 per term of fourteen weeks to $25.00 per term, and in several a general laboratory charge of from $10.00 to $70.00 per year is made for material consumed. Many other practical points and suggestions have been brought out by the correspondence.
The Right Kind of Enthusiasm.
PITTSBURG, Kans., Jan. 23. '90.
EDITOR KANSAN: I have been very much pleased by the efforts of the students of the University to establish a gymnasium at the University. I, as a prospective student next year, and as one which has tested the inconvenience of being without a place to take exercise at the University before, am heartily in favor of pushing this scheme to a good end. I am not on the ground to help push the good cause, but as I am not, the next best thing to do is to send in my subscription. Enclosed you will find draft for five dollars ($5), which place on the subscription list. Please give my regards to the boys and tell them that I expect to be up to the University to the Oratorical contest. Yours truly,
GEO. H. PLAYTER.
See the Princess, the latest Hair Curler, at Raymond & Dick's.
The Kansas Crusade.
Ex-Governor Robinson was greeted with a crowded house at the meeting of the Unity club last Monday night; extra seats had been provided and all were full. The Governor took for his subject Eli Thayer's book and taking it for granted that many of his hearers had not read the book, he quoted from it to a considerable extent. The principle topics were first—What did the Emigrant Aid Society do to make Kansas a free State? Second—Did the Garrisonians do as much towards the abolition of slavery as they claim? These with a talk about John Brown and his Kansas work and Jim Lane introduced incidentally gave spice to the talk which did not claim to be a lecture but a home-like discussion of the early history of Kansas. Gov. Robinson was in his best mood and held the close attention of his audience from first to last. B. W. Woodward and others took part in the discussion that followed, giving their experience in some of the incidents mentioned. The meeting was a decidedly pleasant and profitable one and it seems a pity that every young man and woman in the city could not have heard it. Unity Club does excellent work in giving our citizens an opportunity to hear some excellent lectures and its cordial invitation to all is responded to heartily. Papers by John Hutchings, Judge Emery and Prof. Blake are announced in the near future. Next week will be devoted to the drama, when the club will present Howell's capital farce, "The Garroters."
OUR pen is too feeble and our brain is too weak to adequately describe the first session of The Hes. perian election held on Monday last. Suffice to say that the two candidates for editor-in-chief were H. C. Peterson from the Unions and J. B. Fogarty from the Delians, supported by the Paladians. The freedoms of both candidates were numerous and they were mostly present—vociferously present. A ballot was taken, then a supplementary ballot, and at last the highways of the earth were raked to make an appendix to the ballot. Then after an hour of pleasant parliamentary (?) exercise, in which "points of order" seem to predominate, an adjournment was carried by one vote, after the ballot on the editorship had been announced, under protest, to be Forgarty 59, Peterson 51. Fogarityities claim the legality of the election and the Petersonites claim illegality. Every indication points to a settlement either amicably or by a war of extermination between many days. —Hesperian.
And notwithstanding the fact that the above parties are all barbs The Hesperian devotes most of its editorial and exchange departments in every issue to maligning fraternities and assigning the blame for all college broils to the "wicked Greeks."
Andy Reed gives special rates to students, Twenty baths for $2.
Student's headquarters at Smith's News Stand.