UNIVERSITY TIMES
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. Webb,
C. S. Hall, A. Fullerton,
W. L. Taylor, Fred Funston,
Gertrude Crotty, Emma Bartell,
Anna McKinnon, W. P. Barrington.
Business Managers.
F. W. BUTLER, WM. HILL.
Entered at the Post Office of Lawrence, Kansas, as second-class matter.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
BETA THETA Pt, meets on fourth floor of Opera House block.
PII KAPPA Pai, meets on third floor of Opera House block.
PHI GAMMA DELTA, meets in the El dridge House block, third floor.
PHI DHI THETA, meets on second floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA CHI, meets on the fourth door east of the Opera House block.
SIGMA Nu, meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
Pt BETA PHI, meets every Saturday af-
ternoon at homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, meets every Satur-
d 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.
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.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, meets in Snow Hall.
Science CLUB, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY, meets every Friday at 8 p. m. W. D. Ross, President; Fred McKinnon, Secretary.
POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, every other Friday at 8 p. m.
OROPHILLAN LITERARY SOCIETY, every Friday at 8 p. m.
FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, meets every Saturday for practice. C. S. Hall, President Chas. Wright, Secretary; Shields and Wixon, Captains.
Y. M. C. A. meets every Friday evening at7:30, Room 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.
Executive Committee—E. M. Muntford,
Chas. Vohrich, Fred Liddekke.
Democratic rule this week. The easy flowing, inimitable style of H. F.M.Bear will be noticed to beam forth from our columns.
On with the Annual, "Let joy be unconfined"—and also the pens of the several editors.
Our neighbor seems to have begun a series of editorials on Religion, Plan of Salvation and Orthodoxy. We also remember that a large and ferocious animal once meandered into a china shop.
Several complaints have come to our ears of late, as to such and such things which THE TIMES has neglected to notice. Many requests have been made to us to agitate in our columns, this or that project, to right many supposed wrongs, to criticise this or that "manner of doing things."
To all such we would say again, that it is our desire to make Time Times, truly a student's paper. And if you have any article of news, which you wish to see in print, just whisper it in the ears of one of our reporters, and it shall be printed. If you
have any views to express, any eulogy or philippic. any bits of verse or gems of thought, which are struggling for utterance, our columns are open to you. And last, but not least, if you wish to read the news, the latest and the best, not clouded by prejudice and weak with age; if you wish to know what the students of K. S. U. are doing and thinking about, why take THE TIMES.
Contests.
The TMrs believe it to be a matter of deep regret that contests at K.S.U. have fallen into—in democratic phraseology—innocuous desnetude: not by the will of the students, but by the order of the faculty. We believe it to be a great mistake. K.S.U. is a grand institution. Loved by all her students, she has a record to be proud of, and a future filled with brightest prospects. But with all this, she is rivaled, yes surpassed, in several points by the smaller colleges of our State, especially in interesting and profitable contests.
Look at Washburn. Every month her students have some kind of a contest; a prize debate, a contest in declamation or oratory, or a splendid musical entertainment given by her students. What is the result? Their college life is not a monotonous drudgery. These friendly contests keep up the interest in all literary work. There is not time for any rust or depositions of dust. It creates a rivalry, an activity that ever keeps alive the college spirit. And is time thrown away that is taken up in preparation for these contests? A book-worm might say, yes. Then deliver us from worms. Ask those who have taken part in contests. Their answer will be, that they have derived more benefit from these contests than from any text book they have ever studied. And contestants are generally the best class of students.
It is these contests that have given Washburn her Brewster, and threaten to send his peer to Lawrence, next February, to again take off the prize. It is this college life and activity that made such a grand showing for her at Emporia last month. There was her orator, her glee club, her cherubs, her banners and colors, and almost every one of her enthusiastic sons and daughters were there to sound her praises. Going out of the hall that night we heard the remark, "This, just as an advertisement, has been worth one thousand dollars to Washburn College," and so it was. We do not wish to disparage our own University spirit, in this comparison, for "Mr. Rock Chalk" cannot be outdone in loyalty, when the time and place call for it.
But while Washburn compared to K. S. U. is as a mole-hill to a mountain or an ant to an elephant, yet we believe we can learn a great deal from the lesson she taught us at Emporia, and from her college spirit at all times. It does not work up just before the State contest and then work down again, but it keeps up at high-water mark the year around. And it is these numerous contests and entertainments that keep alive this spirit and develop all latent talent, until it ceases to be latent and becomes very active, indeed.
Now let us look at ourselves.
Where are our contests? Echo answers from without the faculty chambers—Prohibited by Law. Where are our glee clubs, our entertainments, our lecture course, our literary contests? These too, seem to be prohibited by law. Oh, yes, we are too busy working for 1's and getting 3's, too busy stealing books and quarreling over honors. When will this twaddle cease? When will we awake from this stupor—this troubled dream?
Some day we hope the "Contest Edict" of last year will be revoked, and that it will be remembered that there is just a little of this world, outside of the two lids of a book. Factions, let them be among the students, but let them only meet in friendly rivalry, with one object and one purpose. Schemes and combinations would then give place to true worth and talent. And an opportunity would then be offered to show the blood we are made of. For if united, with the purpose of making the best of our advantages, there is no college or university, not only in Kansas but in all the West, that can defeat us in any field of action. We have the material, that is certain.
Let us think of this, and in spite of all disadvantages begin with a determination to hasten the day when K. S. U. shall be a model University in every respect.
The Annual
Hurrah! Hurrah!! Hurrah!!! We are to have an Annual. It is so denominated in the bonds. The officers have been chosen, and sufficient funds have been guaranteed to insure its issuance. The University is to be congratulated. After several annual attempts, success has crowned the efforts of 1889. Bickerings and jealousies have been placed aside and the students for once are almost united. We are sorry we have to say almost. Of course there are bound to be some "who wont play" if they can't have their choice of games.
Such childishness is part of human nature. It cannot be helped. So on with the Annual. May it be a credit to the University, and it will be.
With White and his able corps of assistants to push the pencil, and with two such rustlers as Street and Morris, to look after the dimes, there is no such word as fail. Accept the greeting of the Times.
The Regents Meet.
The new Board of Regents held their first meeting last Monday evening, when an organization was effected as follows:
Vice-President, M. P. Simpson ; Recording Secretary, C. S. Gleed; Auditor, C. R. Mitchell ;
Committee on Instruction: C. S.
Gleed, W. C. Spangler, J. F. Billings,
Committee on Libraries: W. C.
Spangler, C. S. Gleed, J. A. Lippincott.
Committee on Finance: M. P.
Simpson, Joel Moody, C. R. Mitchell.
Committee on Buildings and
Grounds: Joel Moody, J. A. Lippincott,
C. S. Gleed.
Committee on Lands and Endowments: J. F. Billings, C. R. Mitchell, M. P. Simpson.
Tuesday morning the salaries of the professors not stated in the bill were decided upon. In the afternoon the method of spending the money in the Department of Natural History and Physics was fixed upon according to rulings, on the basis of the Moody bill, which takes effect next year.
Committee on Reports and Publications: M. P. Simpson, C. R. Mitchell, J. A. Lippincott.
How the capacity of the library room may be increased if at all; when, where and by whom the $5,000 for books shall be expended. in what proportion it shall be distributed among the departments, were questions that were but slightly discussed. The whole subject was referred to the committee on library for consideration, with instructions to report at the next meeting of the Board.
Chancellor Lippincott signified his intention to resign, but no formal resignation was handed in. At his suggestion a special committee was appointed to inquire into the matter of the chancellor's successor, and report in the future. Mr. L. L. Dyche was elected a professor to have charge of Anatomy, Physiology and Taxidermy. Mr. Will C. Stevens of the class of '85 was elected assistant in Natural History. Prof. J. H. Canfield was at last given a prospective assistant, the professor to retain charge of the department. The next meeting of the Board will be on April 30.
A Wail.
The occasional growls from the Times regarding professors holding their classes over time, do not seem to have the desired effect. There are only two or three serious sinners in this respect, but they trespass enough on the patience of their students, to make them weary of life and seriously impaire their digestion, —if it happens to be the one o'clock bell. Let us hope and pray that the guilty ones will use a little caution hereafter in this matter, and consider the fact that the first bell does not ring merely for fun, or to wake up the sad-eyed guide, or to surprise the visitors from the rural districts, but to warn the instructor, that it is time to assign a lesson to his class and let them go joyfully on their way.
Spring Is Here.
So saith the calendar. So saith the green backed almanac, for the trees are beginning to shoot, and the flowers will soon be armed with their small fire weapons. So saith Webster, for it is the season of the year when plants begin to vegetate. Yes, Spring is here. Soon the "bare foot boy with cheeks of tan," will be abroad in the land, and the melodious "vent dubbs," "play you for keeps," and "three times and out" will be at its height. Not only the bare-foot boy, but the big boy,—whose bigness is an obstacle to the bareness of his feet—he, too, will soon be heard from. The tennis fiend will soon begin his racket—no pun intended—and "love-all," "deuce" and "net" will be with us once again. The graceful youth in tight fitting garments of white will soon be running for home, or "striking out," so some one else may take his place. The young maiden—notwithstanding the failure in the ice crop—already begins to long for cream. And the young maid-
en's fellow already begins to shiver. The contagious fever, so prevalent at this time of the year, has made its appearance and is claiming its victims by thousands. The weary student hath not his lessons. He feeleth tired. These moonlight evenings he leaveth his books, knowing that they will not walk away, and finding some fair companion, he promenadeth for several hours under the quiet stars.
This is the vernal season of the year when the prep. begins to count the days until the spring vacation, when he can go home and see his ma, and who can blame him? Soon the Freshman will walk the fields in search of flowers. But beware of groups of two. Science has many times been conquered by sentiment. The Freshman's spring time is a critical period in his life. The Sophomore and Junior pursue the even tenor of their ways.
But the noble Senior now dawns his plug and longs for more worlds to conquer. But amid all these pleasures and gayeties, these sports and games, these moonnight walks and midnight serenades, there sits alone in his room the poet, mightiest of all coining his verses on the "Advent of Spring." But enough. The calendar is right, the green backed almanac is right, Webster is right. The season of spring is at hand. Bring on your poems.
A K. S. U. Man Again at the Front.
Though not personally acquainted with R. W. E. Twitchell, the subject of this sketch, we believe we voice the sentiment of the entire student body in congratulating him on his success so far in life. Though Twitchell, known to the old students as "Twitch" left school in his Junior year, he soon commenced the practice of law and has made quite a success of it in Sante Fe N. M. At present he is district attorney and acting solicitor general for N. M. and we believe he is a candidate for secretary of the Territory, under the new administration. The other day he rendered a decision on the beef inspection law in N. M. He declares the present law in force, in the territory, unconstitutional, and at the same time that the law in the hands of the combines will prove a veritable boomerang and do only injury to the community it was designed to protect.
When ever a K. S. U. boy makes what, we in the west, call a "strike" in the world, the old student, who has not seen as much as the top of the towers on the main building for years, rejoices with the undergraduate. Both are animated by the same feeling,—that of rejoicing over anything that may add prestige to the name of K. S. U. Though the old student who may happen to know the lucky one, during college happy days may also feel a personal gratification engendered by friendship. The student of to-day may possibly make up for this in youthful enthysiasm.
Although a little previous, perhaps, THE TIMES would like to make a suggestion in regard to commencement week. It will do to think over at least. Several persons in and around the vicinity of Lawrence, have already manifested their intention to hear Senator Evarts. The front seats of the chapel will probably be pretty well
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