THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
PAUL W. HARVEY - Editor-in-Chief
EDGAR MARKHAM - Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
R. K. JOHNSTON - Business Manager
HOMER BERGER - Assistant Bus. Mgr
JOSEPH W. MURRA - Treasurer
CARL EDDY - Circulation Mgr
MEMBERS OF BOARD.
ROY K. DETRICH HENRY F. DEAPER
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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Office in Basement of Fraser Hall.
Phone, Bell. K U 25.
SATURDAY, JAN. 15, 1910.
How grateful we all should be for the notice from Professor Miller that there is no likelihood at all that Halley's comet will strike the earth. For some time now we have not been able to enjoy placid slumber on account of vague but sinister thoughts of the demolition of the earth by the monster comet. We have even been afraid to peer heavenward lest we should see the great rover making this way. As it is now, however, when the comet heaves in sight of the naked eye next May we will be able to look it squarely in the face with the courage of one who knows not fear.
"Kansas looks good for the championship of the valley in basket-ball," is the word put out by all the wise ones. Now the wise ones are all good fellows, and they mean well, too, but we don't take much stock in them of late. Do you remember the stories they circulated before the recent, lamented calamity in the last days of the month of November? After this we will wait to see, and not form a conclusion in advance.
At this time of year the poor senior realizes how futile it is to continue battling with the odds that beset him. This realization comes when he hunts through the catalogue for the easy courses and discovers that he has taken them already. Sweet memories of the days of old alone keep him up under his new burden.
There are slow schools and slower schools but the slowest one on record has recently come to light. At Colgate, it is claimed, when a student is afflicted with the seven-year itch it is said he has the Colgate spirit.
Wants Worn-Out Machinery.
Supt. F. E. Ward of Fowler shops is asking for worn-out and broken machinery of all kinds to be brought to the shops for the boys to repair. When the machinery has been put in good condition again the owner may have it by paying the expenses of repairing. If the owner does not want the machinery it will be sold and the money will go to pay the cost of repairing.
Magazines of every description and we take subscriptions, at Smith's News Depot.
BIDS WERE TOO HIGH
Plans for K. S. A.C. Gym Must Be Cut Down.
The contract to build the new $100,000 gymnasium at the State Agricultural College was not let this week, as had been intended, as the bids were all too high for the plans and specifications drawn by State Architect Chandler. The letting of the contract attracted a large number of contractors from all parts of the state. The highest bid was $128,000 and the lowest was $95,000, but the latter did not include the plumbing and heating which will be an expensive feature of the gym as there are to be two swimming pools. The appropriation made by the Legislature last winter was $100,000 and the contract will have to be within this limit. Mr. Chandler will make the changes necessary to make the bids lower and the final contract will be let on February 7.
No Chemictl Club.
There was no Chemical club meeting Wednesday afternoon. The meeting was postponed till next week to let the chemicals hear Dr. M. A. Barber's lecture on the "Tubercle Bacillus." Next week Henry Kohman, who holds the National Master Bakers' Association fellowship, will talk on "Salt-Rising Bread."
SECOND WEEK OF our Semi Annual Clearance Sale of Clothing, Suits, Overcoats, Odd Pants at 25 to 40
per cent discount
Manhattan Shirts, Sweaters Underwear and dozens Other Items Included.
YOU
BETTER
HURRY
Ober's
NEAR TOP OF OUTFITTERS
GOOD
CLOTHS
SHOP.
LET'S ALL BE HONEST NOW
GIRLSWOULDSTOPALL CHEATING IN QUIZZES.
Will Start a Petition—Signers Will Agree Not to Give or Receive Help.
"Honesty" is now the war cry of the women's student government association.
In anticipation of the coming quiz week, a movement has been started and is being energetically pushed to get before the girls of the University the matter of cheating, and to ask them to take a definite stand against the practice. The question has been informally discussed in the council, and a committee appointed to draw up a resolution which will cover all forms of dishonesty in college work. Judith Connelly, one of the district chairmen, proposed the following resolution:
"Whereas, we, the undersigned, discountenance all forms of dishonesty in college work and wishing to see the honor system established in the University of Kansas, we do hereby pledge ourselves, neither to give nor to receive help in examinations, quizzes, tests or exercises, written or oral, or reports of any kind given by instructors to form an estimate of the character and quality of the students' work for the term."
The idea is for each district chairman to discuss the matter with the girls of the districts, and then call upon them for their individual signature to the resolution. It will then be taken up before the regular mass meeting and acted upon.
"It will probably meet with more opposition than the 10:30 rule," said Alma Manley, a member of the resolution committee. "The faculty is with us in the movement. They agree that the honor system would be an excellent thing for the Uni sity and certainly worth work ing for."
Left Trouble in Their Wake.
Waterman's new self-filler Fountain Pen, at Boyles'. This is the very perfection in a self-filer. Let us show you. Boyles, 725 Massachusetts street.
At the basket-ball game last Saturday night, the "gallery gods" assembled early before the door of the gymnasium, as is their wont. Janitor Dave Miller was 47 seconds late, however, in unlocking the building, so the gods, in order to relieve their outraged feelings, rushed the doorway. Result : the treasurer of the University pays out $3.00 for a new door glass. The aperture is boarded up at present, awaiting the glazier.
Ruby Briggs, Addie Jackson Walter Mayer and Tom Caldwell who attended the Student Volunteer convention at Rochester, N. Y., spoke at the Methodist church Sunday evening in place of the regular services.
Spoke at M. E. Church.
Father of Student Dead.
Mr. John Madden, father of Pauline Madden, of the College, died at his home in Mound City, Kansas, January 10, after a lingering illness. He was editor of the Mound City Republican.
Initial Stationery 50c
Box.
Something New.
ROWLANDS' COLLEGE BOOK STORE
DISCUSSED FARM PAPERS.
Topeka Man Told Important Branch of Publishing Business.
E. W. Rankin, the advertising manager of the Arthur Capper papers, at Topeka, spoke to the newspaper class Wednesday morning on "Farm Papers." He mentioned among important farm papers, "The Farm Journal," of Philadelphia, which has a circulation of 700,000. The advertising columns of this paper are filled three months ahead of the issue and the two owners are supposed to clear $150,000 a year. He also told about the Orange Judd Publishing Co., of Springfield, Mass., which is the largest publishing house of strictly farm papers in the world. "Wallace's Farmer," of Des Moines, Iowa, has a circulation of 113,000 a year.
In speaking of the growing importance of the farm papers as a medium for advertisers, Mr. Rankin stated that in a single issue of one of Capper's papers, "The Missouri Valley Farmer," more advertisements were carried than in 31 issues of the Topeka Daily Capital. Many of the highest class of advertisers, such as "The Waltham Watch Co.," "Automobile Companies," and "The National Cloak and Suit Co.," of New York, use the columns of the farm publications.
The Capper establishment at Topeka employs 550 men, pays $15,000 a year for postage,spends $75,000 a year on advertising, and employs besides many high class solicitors in some of the large cities of the country.
Chemical Society Meeting at Kansas City Tonight.
Mr. Rankin learned the printing trade while in college, then studied the advertising business under Long & Strickland, one of the largest advertising agencies in the country. Afterwards he worked for a St. Paul publishing house, from which place he came to Topeka. In parting Mr. Rankin extended an invitation to the entire class to visit the Capper building at Topeka.
The January meeting of the Kansas City Section of the American Chemical Society will be at Kansas City, Mo., in the new Y. M. C. A. building, at Tenth and Oak streets, this evening. The meeting will be devoted to a discussion of the food laws from all points of view.
Prof. H. L. Jackson will speak on the "Food Law and the State," and other papers will give the point of view of the government and of the jobbers. Professors Bailey, Sayre and Willard, and Dr. Crumbine will take part in the discussion.
DISCUSSES FOOD LAWS.
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Home Phone 3992
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AT SMITH'S HALL
Every Tuesday, commencing Oct. 12.
Dancing taught 8 to 9. Social dance
9 to 11:30. Shanty's Orchestra. Miss
Leora Strahl. Admission 50e.
GO TO
Dancing School
Ed. Anderson's RESTAURANT
FOR YOUR
Oysters, Cigars and Candies.
MARTIN'S STEAM LAUNDRY
The Students, Gorsuch and Mayer,
agents, Either Phone 498
HEADQUARTERS 1108 KY. ST
Frank Koch
The Tailor
727 Mass. St.
The Corner Grocery in the Student District. WM. LA COSS. Everything fresh that the market affords. Both phones 618. 1333 Ky.St
The Grand BEST Motion Pictures 736 Mass. St.