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UNIVERSITY TIMES
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Editorial Staff.
F. E. REED, Editor-in-Chief.
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
BETA THETA Pi, meets on fourth floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA Psi, meets on third floor of Opera House block.
PHI GAMMA DELTA, meets in the El
dridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THEA STEB, meets on second floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA CUI, meets on the fourth floor east of the Opera House block.
SIOMA Nu, meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
Pi BERA PHI, meets every Saturday at
afternoon at homes of members.
KAPPE KAPPE GAMMA, meets every Sat
adrual afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION. Manager, Prof.
Baker Mioxick. Capt. of the Nine, Charles
Voorhisl
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, meets in Snow Hall.
SCIENCE CLUB, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION, President, F. E.
REED; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer,
W. A. Snow.
POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
OROPHILLAN LITERARY SOCIETY, every Friday at 8 p. m.
ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY, meets every Friday at 8 p.m. C.P. Chapman President; C.S.Mead, Secretary.
FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, meets every Saturday for practice. C. S. Hall, President. Chas. Wright, Secretary; Schields and Wixon, Captains.
W. W. C. A. meets every Friday evening at 7:30, third floor of U. President, Flora Newlin; Secretary, Anna McKinnon.
Y. M. C. A. meets every Friday evening at 7:30, Room 11. President, L. T. Smith; Secretary, R. D. Brown.
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.
It is said that a Philadelphia soap dealer advertises exclusively in newspapers on the ground that only those who read the papers use that article.
Owing to a change in place of printing we are obliged to break the record of promptness which the TIMES has heretofore maintained.
Through an oversight, notice of the February number of the Review failed to appear in our last issue. The well edited editorial pages and the novel items of the "Month" call for special mention. As a college monthly and literary magazine the Review stands in the front rank.
Another volume has been placed upon the "Kansas shelf," in our library during the past week. This time it is "Kansas Miscellanies," which have formed a theme for our talented Kansan, Noble Prentis. All may be assured of finding this little volume brim full of interesting matter of a type only to be found in "A Kansan Abroad" and other works of the author. In the near future we
hope to give our readers a resume of this volume which is now being prepared at the request of the author.
Is It Consistent.
The TIMES company issues fifty shares and all paid up subscribers can vote in the election of all editors and officers except the business managers who are elected by the stockholders. This we claim to be upon a democratic basis.
The oratorical association of the students of K. S. U. issues fifty shares and all collegiate students can vote in electing all officers. This we claim to be consistent with a democratic principle.
The Courier company issues fifty shares (a majority always being held by two factions) and only share holders can vote for any editors or officers. How is this for inconsistency? Pay your money and take your choice.
we are apt to deplore the fact that two or three times a year the young men of the University become absorbed in college politics. Recitations are either cut or are poorly prepared. If a few neglected lessons were the only evil results, I believe no great prejudice would have grown up against college politics. There is, however, another and more serious evil connected, not with college politics alone, but with all politics. The young men pledge votes; trade votes; and, as they term it, secure votes, and even in emergencies persuade the unsuspecting ladies to recognize the justness of their combination. All this, I admit, is to the discredit of the young men and the University; but this is only our view of the subject. These young men are, or soon will be voters. Unfortunately they go into the world in a year or two to meet a worse state of political life on a larger scale. The inexperienced are very apt to take, without question, the words and council of politicians who have been for some time in the harness. To a typical American politician a man is a vote. Now if a young man is a social, popular fellow, or if he is ambitions for a reputation, he almost invariably enters politics. How he is elected the first time he hardly knows. He may blush a little when he afterward hears the election talked over by the leaders. The leaders, however, seem to think all means legitimate, and our young politian, excusing himself to his conscience on account of his inexperience, is led by his elders step by step into political corruption, from which he seldom afterwards retreats.
If, however, the young man begins his political career among those of his own age and ability, he will be less timid in following the better promptings of his own true nature. He will learn early to read human nature and to measure human strength. While he is learning political trickery he will learn political honor, for the opposing combination will busy itself in disclosing all dishonor not its own. What is the result of this experience? Each young man will enter the world with some ideas of political honor. The office-holding ambition of many young men will have been satisfied and they will enter the world simply as intelligent voters. Others are born politicians and would have entered political life anyway sooner or later. In college young men have matched their skill with their equals, and by close rivalry they have not learned scheming alone, but they also have learned, that a man is never so truly a man as when he is fighting for a righteous cause.
The seniors of the law department celebrated Washington's birthday Friday afternoon. The patriotism and enthusiasm of that worthy body stands unprecedented. Mr. Stebbins in a stirring oration vowed that he would always stick to his country and his friends as closely as a nigger's shirt sticks to a nigerer's back. Mr. Finfrock, catching the spirit of patriotism, announced his intention to suppress his peculiar matrimonial tendencies for one day in order to appropriately solemnize the great day of Washington. Such a heroic example of self-denial could not but set the whole congregation afire, as the chairs, and the overshoes and the mats may well testify. Carpets soon came rolling in from all floors to witness the magnificent exercises. "The room of celebration must be decorated!" There was a general rush into all the halls and rooms to respond to the call of this imperative duty. But at this moment an unpleasant incident occurred, Mr. Enns, a Russian, one wholly incapable of understanding the great principals of the Revolution, locked the door and tried to escape with the key. But the American spirit can never be put down in this way, ten or twelve strong fish siezed the traitor and compelled him to give up the key. After this the torrent of enthusiasm raged undisturbed. Gathered around a fine new desk with hymn books in hand, all lovers of liberty poured forth in rapture, "My Country 'tis of Thee," while Henry Clay looked down upon them with a large smile on his large mouth, and Wm. Shakespeare congratulated himself on having been rescued from the sickly pallor of collegiate mummies, and finding himself in the inspiring company of living men with strong passions and irrepressible energy. There is no joy on this earth that has not some bitter mixed with it, and so you could see the great military William of Germany look down with favor upon happy company below, and Monday following you could see Mr. Crocker look down with a frown to the same company now restored to natural life again. Indeed all human joys are short lived. Shakespeare has left us again, Clay has left us, the carpets, desks and pictures have been carried away, nothing remains but sweet remembrance and two pictures presented to the law department by the kindness of Miss Watson. Many thanks. Please give us a desk too.
If you anticipate entering the oratorical contest next year you will do well to peruse an article which lately appeared to the length of a column and a half in the editorial department of the Newton Republican, for if our friend Norton should ever be selected as judge in the state contest it is evident that such pessimistic articles as some which predominated in the recent contest would be severely cut if not entirely disfigured at his hands.
One might infer from the unmerciful manner in which he criticised their disquisitions on foreign immigration that he was fearful lest he, together with all of his friends hailing directly or indirectly from the Emerald Isle, should soon be deprived of citizenship, or else forever banished from this land, if such sentiments were allowed to go unchallenged.
He waxes warm and grows eloquent in deprecating the fact that five out of the six orations delivered in the contest were merely tyrades against the existing status of national affairs and bore almost entirely on the dark side of our political and social system. While we believe that to some extent such harsh criticism was prompted by the feeling that somebody put tar on the Irishman, "yet there was method in it" and the coming orator will do well to take some time for deliberation before selecting his theme.
Spurred on by the defeat the Ottawa Campus urges the would be orators of Ottawa University to begin at once to prepare their orations for next year's contest. It is a good suggestion and one that our orators should heed.
No one need expect to carry off the honors of our contest without the most diligent study of their theme and constant practice for months, not weeks. It is safe to say that none of our orators in the local contest had given more than three or four weeks to their preparation and practice—some even much less. To this fact principally we can attribute our defeat. It was only after having taken part in eight local contests and one state contest that Mr. Brewster succeeded in capturing the first honor. When we remember these we sometimes long for the old system of prize contests, for it was in these that our Leachs and Crane gained that polish and experience which led them on to victory. But we still have our literaries for laboratories, and there is no reason why K. S. U's. orator should not represent Kansas in the next year's Inter State. Then boys get to work, select your theme and during the summer vacation if need be shear one side of your head and like Demosthenes of old, retire to a cave never to come fourth till all impediments and shortcomings shall have been overcome.
Sen. Moody's efforts in behalf of the State University were crowned with success last evening when the senate with but one opposing vote adopted the report of the conference committee with reference to a disagreement between the two houses. It is now in order for the university to place the promised wreath of laurel on the brow of the senator from Linn. —Capital-Commonwealth.
Yes, Senator Moody will always be remembered as a staunch friend of the university. It is through his untiring efforts that we can to-day congratulate ourselves upon the fact that for a time at least our institution will not be at the mercy of the unscrupulous politician.
Altogether Kansas claims to take a leading part in putting women on an equality with men, the members of the Law Department of the Kansas State University have so far represented only the male sex. The young
ladies of this state are certainly more timid than their sisters in Michigan, where twenty-four women graduated as lawyers from the university.—K. C.Journal.
To-morrow the noisy band of legislators will be turned out of their feathered nest to return to their constituents and tell in wonderous words of the deeds they have done in the last few weeks.
What have they actually accomplished? To be sure they have gone over the whole field—resurrected all the dead bills that former legislators had discussed pro and con and decided to be worthless and inexpedient. They have investigated the beef combine and found the rumors to be groundless and they have put in their time and voted appropriations to pay their own salaries, which if advanced on the European plan would have been stopped some time since.
All this they have done and very little more. They have made liberal appropriations for charitable institutions, but have neglected, and in some instances sadly neglected, state institutions, the upbuilding of which tends to lessen the necessity for those of the former class. In the cases of the State Normal and Agricultural college the near-sighted parsimony is most noticeable. For these they appropriate barely enough for the running expenses.
Toward our own University, the best institution of learning in the west, they have been a trifle more lenient, although far from liberal. A large part of those, who some choose to denote as our Kansas Solons, seem to have been especially interested in securing the passage of some "pet" bill and were willing to sacrifice the public good for personal or local gain.
As long as such men represent our people what dependence can be placed in the fairness and impartiality of our laws and appropriations? Happy we may well be to have secured the attention of that body during one of the few intervals when their better judgment held sway and secured the passage of Mr. Moody's bill.
Such motives undoubtedly prompted the vituperations of that well known Jay and called forth the unreasonable statement that during his entire college course he had never been inside the college library.
The S. S. S. Club were most excellently entertained at the residence of Mr. Riggs in south Lawrence, last Tuesday evening. Progressive euchre was the order of the evening. At the proper time the card playing ceased, and all partook of an elegant lunch, after which amusements were again resumed for a short time. Earl Smith and Miss Allie Mason took first honors, while Mr. Collins and Miss Earl succeeded in capturing the "boobys" Everyone on departing declared Mr. and Mrs. Riggs princely entertainers.
Art Lecture.
Mrs Peter Emery will lecture in the Art Room to-night, on the Madrid Gallery. This lecture will be followed by one by Mrs. Sophia Grubb. The instructors in Art have earnestly endeavored to make the course of Art lectures a success, and it is to be hoped that all who feel interested in Art will show their appreciation of these labors by being present at the lectures.
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