SIX LITERARY SOCIETIES
DEBATING COUNCIL HANDLES ALL SCHOOL DEBATES
Men Can Gain Practice in Speaking in the ClubsVarsity Debating on Merit System.
Great opportunities are offered at Kansas University to those desirous of practice in public speaking and parliamentary drill. Six literary societies offer work along these lines.
The X. Y. Z. Debating club meets on Friday afternoons on the fifth floor of Fraser hall. Debating constitutes the main part of the program. The officers of the club are C. C. Merrillat, president; L. E. Overman, vice-president; Louis La Coss, secretary and J. T. Shannon, treasurer.
The Cooley club is a debating and oratorical society whose membership is limited to the students of the law school. Meetings are held every Friday afternoon. The officers of the club are G. W. Thiele, president; O. H. Lee, secretary; and Harvey Starbuck, treasurer.
The annual debate between the X. Y. Z. and the Cooley clubs will be held after the holidays. The subject to be debated will be the initiative and referendum question.
The Adelphic literary society was permanently re-organized this fall with these officers: J. W. Harbeson, president; J. S. Vernon, vice-president and Otto Apollo, secretary and treasurer. Meetings are held on Fridays at 4:30 in Fraser hall. This society aims to advance interest in all kinds of literary work, including debating.
The Athenian Senate meets every two weeks. The purpose of the senate is to give practice in general literary work. The Athenian officers are W. E. Brown, president; T. R. Gowenlock, secretary; and J. H. Atwood, treasurer.
The Kent club is another law society. Programs consisting of debating, extempore speaking and orations are given every month. The officers are S. M. Johnson, president; R. H. Yankee, vice-president; and Max R. Wiley, treasurer and secretary.
The Burke club meets every two weeks. Most attention is given to debating. Theodore Shannon is president.
The Quill club is a small organization of members of the junior and senior classes who are recommended by the faculty of the English department as showing ability of doing original composition work of some merit. The officers for this term are Willard Wattles, president, and Miss Myrtle Brobst, secretary-treasurer. The club holds its meeting at 4:30 every Tuesday afternoon and regular attendance of each member is expected. The programs ordinarily consist of the reading of the work of a few of the members and criticism by the other members of the club. A Quill will be published early next spring which will contain stories and various original articles selected from the work of the membership during the year.
All debating work at the University is in charge of the Debating Council. This body is composed of two representatives from the six literary societies and three members of the faculty. All preliminary and interstate debates are held under the supervision of this council. The officers are C. C. Merrillat, president; J. H. Simminger, vice-president; O. C. Hull, treasurer; R. H. Spotts, recording secretary; and Professor W. E. Higgins corresponding secretary. The members of the Council and the societies which they represent are: Adelphic, L. E. Overman and R. H. Spotts; Athenian, R. O. Douglas and R. E. Butler; Burke, O. C. Hull and A. F. Livers; Cooley, M. O. Locke and C. C. Merrillat; Kent, J. H. Simminger and L. L. Carroll; X. Y. Z., Robert Worline and R. C. Johnson. The faculty members are Professors W. E. Higgins, W. H. Carruth and D. L. Thomas.
Three interstate debates will be held this year. Kansas debates with Oklahoma on the question, "Resolved, that the fifteenth amendment should be repealed." Oklahoma debates here on the negative side. Colorado debates here on the question, "Resolved, that the United States should encourage a merchant marine by bounties and subsidies." Kansas has the negative. The same question will be discussed with Missouri at Colnmbia. In this debate Kansas will have the affirmative. The preliminary tryouts for these debates will be held in January.
Sigma Xi Lectures in February.
Professor A.G. Webster, head of the department of Physics in Clark University has been secured by the Sigma Xi scientific societies of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa to deliver the annual circuit addresses at those institutions.
The eastern educator will be at the University on February 8,9 and 10 and will deliver addresses on each afternoon at 4:30. Professor Webster is perhaps the greatest American authority on the subject of sound and he will dwell much upon this particular realm of his chosen science. The first lecture by the Clark professor will be experimental,the second historical and the last philosophical. The addresses will be popular.
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"CHRISTMAS," said Brown to the Brown family at the supper
Brown to the Brown family at the supper table, "while it isn't celebrated in exactly the same style as when I was a boy, is still the same old Christmas—the happiest and most looked for day of all the year by children in every land. I remember how our folks used to cook and bake for a week and how the house was decorated with cedar boughs and holly, and how great logs of wood were hauled in for the fireplace Christmas eve. My, what an evening of pleasure and mirth it was, and how we all gathered in front of the wide fireplace and sang and told stories and watched the flames as they danced and then disappeared up the chimney, and what an evening of expectancy it was! We could hardly close our eyes in sleep thinking of Santa and what he would bring to us while we slept. Some people say that Santa Claus is a myth, but I say he is real for although I never have seen him I've seen his pictures thousands of times and only today, while in McCOLLOCH'S DRUG STORE, I noticed Post Card Pictures of my jolly old friend. I say, LONG LIVE SANTA CLAUS!
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