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THE HESPERIAN
EXCHANGE BRIC-A-BRAC.
The University Lookout, notwithstanding its name, is not
a paper of great pretensions. But this docs not mean that
the Lookout is not deserving of some credit for its attempts to
supply the hankering of Chatanooga students after intellec
tual pabulum. Many of its features interested us consider
ably, and we herewith express our belief that the exchange
editor will make a mark of some kind in his work. The
Lookout sho ld allow him to fill with original matter
a large portion of the space it now devotes to reprint. Space
in a college paper has a certain value to editors, if to nobody
else, and it is really wrong to fill it up with chestnuts and
bonowed or stolen rot of other kinds.
The HESrERiAN notices that some of its exchanges are
already agitating themselves over the subject of intercollegi
ate oratory. Now it is about time for the blinking 0;vl from
a sectarian college of this state to get in its work. Owing to
the fact that a man from the kindergarten took third place
last year, the bird may be expected to have a good deal to
say during the year; certainly it will be more justified in
opening its head than in former years when its champions, in
competency come near costing the reputation of the entire
outfit up there. We still shudder when we consider how
close a shave it was. Hut The Hesi-erian will patiently
bear the painful ordeal of cxaming the Owl's words of wise
advice and the suggestions it may feel entitled to give the
association, owing to the fact that its man took third place
in the contest last year. Indeed, it will be a pleasure for
The HesI'ERIAN to hope that the OzoPs man may take third
place again this year. It is considerable of an honer to win
third place, and we hope the Owl will not fail to punch its
man up incess. ntly, that he may not fall below the required
third.
One of the most praisworthy articles we have seen in any
exchange for some time, appeared in a late number of the
sErgus, under the caption, "True Import of Socialism." Ev
idently its author has not made the mistake, commonly com
mited by immature minds, of falling enthusiastically in love
with either side of a highly important question. He fairly
and impartially reviews the problem, displaying a remark
able knowledge of the circumstances and principles out of
which .the new movement has grown. The Hesj-ekian be
lieves that a careful study of the problems presented by our
present social conditions is one of the most profitable tasks a
student may set for himself. Nine-tenths of the college men
who have eer heard of the word "Socialism" arc content to
rest in the belief that it is the name of a movement whose
disciples and teachers make dynamite bombs by day and by
night plot for the destruction of society and its institutions.
In truth the greatest minds of this age have not found it be
neath them to investigate the new theories; the whole lrena
of modern thought is toward these problems. No student
can afford to slight or neglect what in the near future will
certainly concern him as a citizen and a member of society.
Therefore The Hesperian is glad to compliment the con
tributor to the jEgis upon the fruits of his labor.
This paper has not the honor of receiving the Round
Table in exchange, but is occasionally permitted by some of
its charitable friends to see a letter or two from that expon
ent of Wisconsin culture. We suppose it is only an outcome
of a natural law that insignificant schools founded and main
tained by religious denominations should cxnibit a mortal
enmity and jealousy toward legitimate institutions of higher
education. At any rate we have seen it exemplified many
times, both at home and abroad. A paragraph we have seen
reprinted from the Round Table leads us to believe that that
paper may be afilictcd with the feeling wc have mentioned.
Vc arc sorry to find it necessary to remind the Dcloil sheet
that it is not its put in. When it remarks upon the condition
of affairs in Nebraska which has permitted the state to be
represented in the interstate oratorical association by the
little school at Crete, it speaks of a matter concerning which,
it is evidently in dense ignotance. The University of Ne
braska has never felt inclined to be spiteful towards Doanc
college. Assuming that life is too short for such things it
has pursued the even tenor of its way, unmindful of the fact
that there was cither a Doanc college or an oratorical associ
ation within a thousand miles. But wc have no desire to
reopen this subject for the benefit of the Round Table, and
that paper and the Owl arc perfectly welcome, so far as we
are concerned, to any consolation they may gain by patting
each other admiringly on the back. In conclusion wc cannot
refrain from congratulating the Round Table upon the ability
with which it has succeeded in concentrating the very es
sence of irony and sarcasm into that paragraph concerning
"wheelbarrow universities," etc. A tremendous indict
ment, certainly, to proceed from a papei representing an
institution of such standing!
As The HEsrERlAN hoped the Courier, of Kansas uni
versity, has declared its position in college politics and cer
tainly in unmistakable terms. But the Courier certainly
grows worse and worse. A whole page of a late number was
devoted to the reviling of a new paper which has lately made
its entrance upon the stage at Lawrence. We desire to say
that in no college paper which wchavc seen in the past three
years and we have carefully examined a good many have
wc met with anything of a character so contemptible and so
disgraceful to its editors and the student public which it
claims to represent, as the rot printed on that editorial page.
The Hesperian cares not whether the Courier or the Times
represent barbarian or fraternity elements, the fact remains
that the Courier's treatment of a contemporary and a next
door neighbor is beneath the attention of a man, who lays
any claim to self respect or a desire to better himself by college
culture. No matter what may be the merits demerits of the
Times, the Courier insignificant as is the place it occupies
by its own right has no grounds for opening its little head
in such a manner. The Courier may point with pride to the
record of several editors who have been in times past con
nected with it, but right here its present editor forever bars
himself from any just right to be named as an equal of his
more or less famous predecessors. The Hesperian does
not desire to take the word of the Courier for the character
of the Times. It further must insist upon repeating its con
viction that if the new paper is not fully as good or better
than its reviler, then indeed must culture in the University of
Kansas be at a lamentably low ebb. Wc desire to see the
Times live and prosper, and will gladly exchange with it at
any time. That the "babies" of the element in the 'Univer
sity of KansAS which has no further use for the Courier can
not maintain a college paper we are not ready td admit; that
two fraternities monopolize all the journalistic ability in that
institution is, really, too absurd for belief by any one who
has ever examined the Courier. But no matter what the
politics of the Courier, let it show by its printed
work that it is worthy the respect of its readers, and
The Hesperian will be as ready as ever . to ac
cord it an honorable place among its exchanges. In the
name of all that the Courier vcrcrates let it end its miserable
contention with others who are at least as good as itself.
SSEUBB