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UNIVERSITY TIMES.
Published every Friday morning by the TIMES COMPANY.
E. M. MUMFORD, JUS. D. BOWERSOCK,
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Editorial Staff.
F. E. REED, Editor-in-Chief.
Associate Editors
Associate Elders:
W. D. Ross,
F. C. Scheder,
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W. S. Swank,
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Entered at the Post Office of Lawrence, Kansas, as second-class matter.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
BETA THETA Pi, meets on fourth floor of Opera House block.
of Opera House block.
PIH KAPA Psi, meets on third floor of
Opera House block.
PIH GAMMA DELTA, meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PIH DELTA THETA, meets on second floor of
Opera House block.
SIGMA CHI, meets on the fourth floor
east of the Opera House block.
SIGMA NU, meets in the Eldridge House
block, third floor.
PI BIT PHI, meets every Saturday af-
ternoon at homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, meets every Sat-
dure afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, meets every Sat-
dure afternoon at the homes of members.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION. Manager, Prof.
A. M. Wilcox; Capt. of the Nine, Charles
Voorhis.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, meets in
Snow Hall.
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB, meets in room No.
30 other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION. President, F. E.
REED; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treas-
urer, W. A. Snow.
SCIENCE CLUB, every other Friday at 8
p.m.
POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, every other
Friday at 8 p.m.
OROPHIAN LITERARY SOCIETY, every
Friday at 8 p.m.
ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY, meets
every Friday at 8 p.m. W. D. Ross;
President; Fred McKinnon, Secretary.
FOULBATH ASSOCIATION, meets every Sat-
turd for practice. C. S. Hall, President;
Chas. Wright, Secretary; Schields and
Wixon, Captains.
Y. M. C.A. meets every Friday evening
at 7:30. C. Hall 11. President, L. T. Smith;
Secretary, R. D. Brown.
Y. W. C.A. meets every Friday evening
at 7:30. third floor of U. President, Flora
Newlin; Secretary, Anna McKinnon.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION of the Students
of K. S. U., L. T. Smith, President;
C. P. Chapman, Secretary.
Executive Committee—E. M. Mumford.
Chas. Voorhis, Fred Liddeke.
A schedule of the work in Prof. Blackmar's department has been posted on Prof. Canfield's bulletin board. Each of the chairs created by the division of Prof. Canfield's work, now offers an unusually attractive major course.
We have the champion ball team of Kansas and the champion tennis player of the state, and if the facts were known we probably have champions in many other field day sports. It should be a matter of college pride to see that the best we can do is done on field day.
THE Senior party and Junior picnic suggest the intense class feelings which exists in many American colleges. While we should very much dislike to see class spirits and rivalry amount to bitterness as they do in many places, it nevertheless does seem that all the classes might profitably be organized and might hold at least once a year some entertainment which would bring them all together. Doubtless there are many Freshmen and some Sophomores at present in school who have never even met each other. While more class spirit could
not entirely remedy this fault, it would do much toward it.
University Fees.
The Board of Regents have decided that under the Moody bill no fees for instruction can be charged after the present year. The bill provides that admission into the University shall be free to all the inhabitants of the state, but a sufficient fee shall be charged non-resident applicants. That it was the intention of the bill to abolish all tuition fees is well known, though that the wording of the bill necessarily forbids the charging of fees is by no means clear. But the Board of Regents, however, has decided that the spirit of the bill must be observed, and tuition fees have accordingly been stricken off in the case of all Kansas students.
Such action leaves the department of art and music without support. The last legislature made an appropriation of $600 for the executive and clerical work of the department of music, with the understanding, we presume, that the balance of the salary would be drawn from the fees of the students. But the regents decide that no fees can be collected, thus raising the very important question of the source from which the financial support of this department shall be derived. The University cannot, without great injury to itself, afford to abolish the department of music. To do so would be not only to reduce the enrollment nearly one-sixth, but also to take a line of work which has proved of immense advantage to the institution in attracting students. In view of the speedy abolition of the preparatory department, the University must face for a number of years a decreasing student attendance; it would not seem to be good policy to still further reduce the numerical showing by cutting off a prosperous department now well established.
In the past few years there have not been wanting those who have been ready to make sharp attacks on the University because of the scant facilities and accommodations here affered to young women; yet a former regent publicly stated in University hall that it was especially for the young women of the state that the department of music had been established. If this department be cut off, the result can be easily foretold.
There would seem to be but one business-like method of meeting the difficulty; and that is to make sufficient appropriation from the funds of the institution to carry on the work of the music department. If by law the students may not be charged fees, then the University should meet the emergency by making sufficient appropriation to maintain the work, or else abolish the department; and whatever else is done or not done, the people of Lawrence and the state will not consent to have this particular line of University work cut off. —Tribune.
Who has in charge the selection of men for the field day "Tug of War?" This will be one of the most exciting contexts in the whole lists of sports if proper care is taken to select the right men and give them training enough so that they can work together. At Harvard the men are chosen for the class "Tug of War" at least
six weeks before the time when the contest will occur, and are placed in special training. The fraternities in K. S. U. should begin to select their men and some barb should take it upon himself to see that a team of non-fraternity men is chosen who will do the cause justice. Hickey come to the front.
Sun-Flowers.
Do not think, amiable reader, when you glance at the subject above, that it means a formal disquisition on the last year's "Sun-Flower" of K. S. U. Chose flowers are perennial and have asserted their immortality by rubbing against Shakespeare on the library shelf. Sun-flowers such as skirt the oads and by ways; sun-flowers that make the farmer boy sweat in a frumentess endeavor to drive them from the corn field; sun-flowers that drink in the malaria and spread a smile over the features of "Sunny Kansas"—these are the sun-flowers to which the subject refers. There is a pretty mythological story relative to the origin of the sun-flower. Did you ever near it, reader? You didn't! Then isten. Clytia was a beautiful golden haired damsel who fell violently in love with Apollo, the sun. Clytia was mortal; Apollo was immortal and rejected the advancements of an inferior. Poor Clytia became so infatuated she could not take her eyes from Apollo. She watched him as he rose in the morning, she watched him mount the sky—all day she watched him. At last she became rooted to the spot. Her body gradually assumed the form of the sun-flower stalk and her face and golden tresses gradually merged into a nodding flower. We can see why the sun-flower always follows the course of the sun. On even the hottest days there is a juice exudes from the stalk, moistening the leaves. This juice is nothing more than the tears of Clytia. Ye student of Botany, pluck a sunflower this fall, think of its origin, press it well, and add it to thy herbarium.
No Class Day.
For the past few days the Seniors have been considering the advisability of dispensing with the regular role of class day exercises.
It has been the desire of the class to substitute some other entertainment for the regular "batch" of orations etc. which are usually ground out on the ordinary Class Day, and this the class of '89 propose to do. With this idea in view the class met on last Wednesday and decided to abolish the regular Class day and endeavor to make it a day of social enjoyment instead of devoting it so exercises so allied to the commencement day.
There are many points in favor of this change and it is surely a step which will reflect much credit on the class of '89.
ONE of two things is true. Either final examinations in the University should be abolished or else compulsory attendance at recitations should be abolished. We think it is safe to say that no Professor holds a chair in the University who cannot tell whether a student who recites to him every day is or is not worthy of being credited with his work without going through the farce of an examination. If such a professor does hold a chair he ought not to hold it. If, as is the case at Cornell and many other eastern schools, attendance at recitations was not compulsory, examinations would have a use and their perpetration upon students would be excusable, which cannot be the case while compulsory attendance is required.
Reading.
If any one can tell how the writer happened to stumble on this subject he can tell more about it than the writer himself. Having stumbled on the subject, however, the writer intends to stumble all over it. Hence, please open your mouth and take the dose good naturelly; and if the aforesaid dose should happily destroy some of those malarial germs of ill humor, count it salutary. To use new and original quotation, "Reading maketh a full man." This accounts for that exuberance of spirits sometimes manifested on festive occasions and explains to the mind of the writer why it is that the sidewalk is not wide enough for some people—they are too full of reading. George Washington, the paternal father of his country, was however, not very fond of reading. Do you have an idea that he cared about doubling up his little frame over some huge folio and growing pale and wan whilst his companions were participating in the many sports? No! George wasn't that kind of a fellow. He was full of moral rectitude and sound judgement and loved the fresh air. At an early age he took his tape measure and went out surveying. He mixed with the Indians and slept on a pallet or straw. But all this hasn't anything to do with reading.
Some people think Patrick Henry (that fellow who had all those "treasons" hurled at him in the house of Burghesses) was nothing but a green country lanky at that time. That's where some people are fooled. Patrick Henry was a well read fellow and was admitted to the bar after studying only six weeks. What if he did appear a little green at the time; 'green wood makes the hottest fire,' and those fellows who listened to his famous speech weren't particularly desirous of again warming their resentment at the hearth of his eloquence.
Then, too, some people think because Bobby Burns was an Ayrshire farmer and did not graduate at Oxford or Cambridge, that his knowledge must necessarily have been limited. Of course his knowledge was limited, but not as much as they would have us believe. They attribute all his success as a poet, simply to his genius. These people have a very indefinite idea of what genius is. Does any one believe that the "Cotters Saturday night" is from the pen of an inspired but ignorant writer? No, Bobby Burns, with all his "John Barleycorns" and "lasses, O" was well read and an enthusiastic student of literature.
There is a variety of readers. Some people "dote" on blood and thunder stories and feed their imaginations on these till it becomes gorged and their little heads become giddy. Beware, young man! Better be a democrat than a reader of dime novels. The democrats have a chance
for presidency next term and you never will have.
Another class of people devote all their spare time to the reading of newspapers. They begin on the front page and read the whole paper through—Oklahoma specials, hog reports, advertisements, everything. Having perused the entire paper they lay back in their chair, put their feet on the table, long for the next copy, and fall off into a light doze.
Although a person may be the possessor of a fine education—education as far as study in a college course is concerned—yet if he does not add much solid reading to this, he has only built him a house and left it without ornament. Desultory reading, although one may read the best of authors, only leads to a jumble of ideas and a confusion of facts. Systematic reading is what counts. "Education, says Loche, begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him." Those of you who have been reading this little article will notice that you have finished it.
Pic Nic.
One of the most delightful social events of the year was given last Saturday eve., by Misses Lou and Anna Kenyon and Fullerton. As this was almost the first pic-nic of the summer it was hailed by all as an occasion for having a good time, and none seem to have been disappointed. About 4 o'clock in the evening the park was filled with the gay and the merry, each one pursuing his favorite phantom. Tennis, and all manner of pleasant social amusements, were indulged in. An elegant supper was served later on in the evening, which was certainly a credit to the young ladies who provided it. Altogether the occasion will be long remembered by those who had the good fortune to be present. Those present were,
Misses Crotty, Manley, Parker, Henshaw, Buckingham, Mills, Smullin, Kimball, Williams, Fullerton, McKinnon, Springer, Miller, White, McCague, Howe, Lockwood, Price, Morris, Simpson, Nelson, Cocheran, Lyons, Clark, Johnson, Franklin, Powers, and Hair.
Messrs. Smith, Kennyon, Manning, Bear, Brown, Poehler, Manley, Killworth, Franklin, Powers, McKinnon, Ellison, Finch, Davis, Higgins, Riddle, Blaker, Reed, Barnes, Sullivan, Morris, Caywood, Burney, Jacobs, Merrill, Hackett, Culver, Halsted, McCague, Simpson, Fullerton, Watson.
WHEN we reflect upon the result of certain elections this year we can but conclude that you have attempted a revised version of Caesars Commentaries. And this conclusion especially impresses itself upon us when we note that you abolished the hat speech in the Senior class when you found out that you could not elect your man in the Junior class. Look at the text again and then consider the means used to defeat a neutral candidate, and a lady at that, and then go and kick yourselves.
— University Courier May 10, 1889.
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