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UNIVERSITY TIMES
Published every Friday morning by the TIMES COMPANY.
E. M. MUMFORD, JUS. D. BOWERSOCK, JR.
President. Secretary.
Editorial Staff.
F. E. REED, Editor-in-Chief.
Associate Editors.
W. D. Ross, M. W. WIXON,
F. C. Schraeder, F. W. Webb,
C. S. Hall, F. A. Fullerbom,
W. L. Taylor, Fred Funston,
Gertrude Crotty, Emma Bartell,
Anna McKinnon, W. P. Harrington.
Business Managers.
F. W. BUTLER, WM. HILL.
Entered at the Post Office of Lawrence, Kauai, as second-cass matter.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
BETA THETA Pi, meets on fourth floor of Opera House block.
of Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA Psi, meets on third floor of Opera House block.
PHI GAMMA DELTA, meets in the Elldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA, meets on second floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA PHI, meets on the fourth floor east of the Opera House block.
SIGMA NU, meets in the Elldridge House block, third floor.
PI BETA PHI, meets every Saturday afternoon at homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, meets every Saturday 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 School Hall.
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB, meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION, President, F. E. REED; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
SCIENCE CLUB, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
OROPHILIAN 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.
FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, meets every Saturday for practice. C. S. Hall, President; Chas. Wright, Secretary; Schields and Wixon, Captains.
Y. M. C. A. meets every Friday evening at 7:30, Room 11. President, L. T. Smith; Secretary, R. D Brown.
Y. W. C. A. meets every Friday evening at 7.3), third floor of U. President, Flora Newlin; Secretary, Anna McKinnon.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION of the Students of K. S. U. L. L. T. Smith, President; C. P. Chapman, Secretary.
Executive Committee—E. M. Mumlord,
Executive Committee—E. M. Mumford.
Chas. Voorhis, Fred Liddeke.
Murat Halstead, by a unanimous vote of the board of Regents of the State Agricultural College, has been invited to deliver the commencement address of that institution on June 11. Can it be that this is a political straw of any significance?
At last we are to have a joint debate between two societies. The Kent Club challenged Orophilian to a joint debate and the latter society accepted the challenge. The Kent Club elected Mitchel and Crane to represent it; Orophilian elected Street and Copper. In addition to the debate Mr Enns will read a paper, and music will be interspersed throughout the program. The question selected by the debaters, is, Resolved, That the present system of municipal government in the United States is a failure. This is a good question and with the men to handle it whom the societies have selected, the debate will, no doubt, be one of the most interesting discussions of the year. The debate will probaly be held in Orophilian hall. It should be well attended by the students. This is the first debate of the kind
that has been held since the literary societies began to wane, and it should not be the last one. For it is in just such debates as this that K. S. U. used to train her orators that have so often led her to victory in InterCollegiate Oratorical Contests.
In the masterly address on "The government of cities," delivered by C. S. Gleed, at the sixth annual meeting of the State Bar association, in Topeka, in January last, the full text of which appears in the recently published proceedings of the meeting, among a number of very interesting and valuable things ably discussed, Mr. Gleed makes a statement which will, we are confident, excite the pride of every true Kansan. It is this: "Kansas has sent a young man into the world from her university, as a chemist, who has done more to give Chicago good water and pure milk, and pure food generally, because of his work in the field of chemistry, and in his exposure of the various frauds in the food line, than any other influence at work in the great city. I refer to John H. Long, formerly of Johnson county.—Atchison Champion.
John Harper Long, above referred to, was graduated from the University with the class of '77 and is at present professor of chemistry in Chicago Medical College. He has made many inventions and has conducted research in his special department which has placed him in the foremost rank of American chemists. We are proud to own him. He is one of the brightest lights in K. S. U.'s long list of honored alumni.
We are in receipt of Vol. I No. 1 of the Wesleyan Lance, a very neat well edited news and literary journal, published by the students of the Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina. This institution, although young in years, already has a faculty composed of men, who, in point of ability and experience, rank far above many of older and better established colleges. It requires but a glance at their publication, The Lance, to determine what class of students Kansas Wesleyan has enrolled. We find the editorial board composed largely of the delegates to the State Oratorical Convention at Emporia last February. They are of that wide awake energetic class who believe in pushing their institution into prominence by their individual efforts. It was such a spirit which gained for them (unanimous) admission into the State Association. Right here we might say that as K. W. U. has one of the best instructors in elocation to be found in the West, it will be well for other institutions to guard well their laurels for K. W. U.'s representative in next years contest will doubtless surprise us all. As for the Lance of course it cannot equal our Review but we predict for it a brilliant future. We have it on our "list" and will be pleased to receive it monthly. Vive le Lance.
Six inside views of the University are being engraved for the Annual. New engravings of the different buildings will also be used. These two things alone will make the Annual the best advertisement the University has had for many years.
College Preparation for Newspaper Work.
[Continued from last week.]
Many other arguments might be advanced to show how essential a knowledge of printing is in the newspaper work; but how is the college student to attain this knowledge? Opportunities may not be abundant in all colleges, but there are no colleges so remote from cities and large towns that some opportunity is not available. A half holiday spent once a week in practice at the case of some well equipped printing office will result before four years are up in some solid acquirement. Vacation might be wholly or partly utilized in the same way. I have often wondered why college boys do not print their own publications. There is a great scramble every publication day among college editors to get together funds enough to pay the printing bill. If the editors would learn the most essential part of their business this expense might be saved, or, what is perhaps better, it might be paid to those of their number—and there are always such—who find it equally hard to pay their own bills. Thus the local college printing office can be made an additional opportunity for impecunious students and would thus accomplish a double object. Good journeymen printers in large newspaper offices earn from $15 to $25 a week, and many of them graduate to the editorial force. There is no more rapid road to the editorial chair for an educated man than that through the printing office.
The reporter who is not a stenographer labors under a serious disadvantage in these days of verbatim reporting. First-class stenographers get from twenty-five to forty cents a hundred words from the largest dailies for well prepared, accurate copy. Compensation is equally liberal for other work outside of journalism. A stenographer should be able to work the typewriter with celerity and write out his notes himself. Otherwise he will be compelled to employ a typewriter assistant and thus reduce his income. Typewriter copy is very popular in all newspaper offices and bids fair to supplant long hand copy in course of time. The Associated Press report in most important offices is now received on the typewriter by operators who write the report direct from the wire. Specials received at the local offices are also manifold or the typewriter for distribution among the newspapers, and the use of this deft machine as a copy producer is bound to increase everywhere. Both stenography and typewriting can be acquired in a college more easily than either of the other two arts mentioned in this article. The taking of ser mons, lectures end recitation notes furnishes abundant opportunity for practice and a welcome variety for the mind. While more easily acquired they are more important, on the whole to the beginner in newspaper work and more likely to be called into frequent use.
The volume of telegraphic news collected and distributed to great journals has increased enormously in the past few years, and in the offices of newspapers of importance the telegraph operator has taken his place beside the news editor as a permanent
fixture. In the editorial sanctums of the greatest papers several wires are manned. The receiving and sending of news matter, as prepared by the reporters and correspondents, is excellent training for editorial work. The "nose for news," as well as style, expression, vocabulary and a knowledge of newspaper methods, are acquired in this way, and graduations from the telegraph table to the editorial desk are common occurrences. During the past few years I have known a number of telegraph editors who have advanced from the key to positions of prominence in journalism, and their success in newspaper work is to a considerable extent due to experience gained as telegraphers. One of these is now the secretary and general manager of one of our largest press associations, which transacts a business aggregating nearly half a million a year. Another is a widely known and highly valued Washington correspondent; a third is the New York news agent of a large Boston daily; still another is the sporting editor of the same paper, while the fifth is on the reporter's staff of a New York journal. The list might be extended at will. Not one of those mentioned above possessed the advantage of a college training. The man who can take an important address in shorthand from the lips of a speaker, and then sit down at a telegraph key and transmit his report to his paper from his note book, is far more valuable to that paper than would be a walking encyclopedia without that special ability. During the great Marca blizzard in 1888, the Boston Globe secured the first news about the situation in New York, beating all its contemporaries by half a day, because its New York correspondent was a practical telegrapher, and knew how to tap a wire and transmit news, as well as how to write.
Considerable progress in telegraphy can be made by the formation of college telegraph associations, and the stringing of wires from room to room. Such an association was a pleasant feature of college life at Williams ten years ago, and the chief operator at New York of one of our most extensive telegraph systems gained his first experience as electritian for the college association, and in "subbing" for the Western Union local A thorough mastery of the science of electricity in the college laboratory, and the amateur practice of telegraphy during four years of college life will prove of inestimable value to the would-be journalist.
Students can further adapt themselves for newspaper work by a study of the newspapers themselves in the college reading room, noting the different methods of treating the same topics by different papers, according to the constituency each has to reach. A good deal can be learned also about such routine matters as paragraphing, punctuation and "heading up" by observing the variety of style which prevails among papers with regard to these matters. Head lines are built for the purpose of calling attention in the most emphatic way possible to the points in the article supposed to be of most interest to the paper's readers. Over news items they are supposed to convey an adequate idea of the contents of the item and bring out
boldly its most startling feature. The student can, for practice, attempt to improve on the headlines in various papers, and can probably succeed in improving them in many cases. Again, he can observe the style indulged in by various writers, and, in forming his own, he must remember that style is often of more consequence than matter, and that some writers, humorists, for example, are of great value to their papers, not so much from what they write from as how they write it. The same rule applies in part to news reporters. Often enterprising searchers for news that one is of most importance to his paper who can write up his article in the most novel and entertaining way. The public appetite for novelty in style is insatiable, and reporting is getting to be almost as much a business of searching after style as of searching after news.—H. H. Fletcher in The Writer.
There has been some talk among the lovers of athletic sports in regard to having a field day. Let the good work go on. Field day is a permanent thing in most of the eastern colleges. K. S. U. without doubt, has some fine athletes, and if only the proper encouragement was given them by the student body, an athletic tournament could be arranged that would do credit to any college in the United States. It will be remembered by some of the older students that in times past, K. S. U. has possessed athletes that have lowered Yale's record in some things, and there is reason to believe that we have as good athletic material now, as we did in the days of old. All that it requires to make a field day a success this year is the assurance that suitable prizes will be offered to the winners. We venture the assertion that each paper in the University, a number of the professors and some of our business men can be prevailed upon to offer a prize for some athletic achievement.
We suggest that the best way to put this movement on foot is to immediately call a mass meeting of the students and select a committee that will take upon themselves the responsibility of making the proper arrangements for a field day.
We sometimes think that judging from the number of times some of us are approached by the ever vigilant college news reporter that there is nothing of interest which can escape him. The same might be said of the exchange editor who is ever and anon clipping from this and that college exchange; but it is quite evident—whether on account of great distance from the seat of action, (during the democratic mail service) or the existence of a new species of hibernating "news borrower", we are unable to state—that the Pacific Pharos beats the record. We notice by the last issue of that paper that "the faculty of K. S. U. have decided to prohibit the students of that institution from delivering chapel orations on political or religious topics". No doubt this was new and interesting to the students of the Pacific University, but for the benefit of our contemporary on the Pacific slope we might say that our chapel rhetoricals have been abolished for two years, and the decision of the faculty referred to was made many years before.
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