THE
Semi-Weekly Kansan.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday nights of the school year.
Wirt G. McCarty, Managing Editor
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THE KANSAN
For a long time, for years, the University of Kansas, both students and faculty have wanted a different paper. A very easy matter it is to talk and plan a paper but the hard work begins when the two or three pages of advertising matter are in and the first issue is out. Then is when the work really begins for all concerned on a daily.
The faculty, and students demanded a change and it is now "up to them" to support the new paper. With the combined support the Kansan will continue to run and run until it runs into an eight page daily. In unity there is strength and if this was ever true or will ever be true it is when a college paper starts and depends solely upon the members of the institution to support it. Support does not mean a little one dollar for a whole year's subscription, with a long story of how interested you are in the paper, but support on a college paper means the ever enthusiastic efforts to talk it to students, friends, and above all merchants.
The Kansan hopes to accumulate sufficient funds to keep the business manager and editor out of the poor house and penitentiary and make the printer wear a smile on the first day of each month. In order to do this we must have the support of every student and member of the faculty in the University of Kansas. We must have you let merchants know that you stay by your own paper and are heartily in favor of it and intend to support us through thick and thin By the students we do not mean one student in a big sixteen room house nor thirteen members of a faculty of one hundred and fifteen members on on Mount Oread, but we mean ninety-nine students out of every hundred, and one hundred and fifteen instructors in the University. That is what we mean.
This is not asking too much. You cannot run a railroad with a mule car income and you can not get to heaven with the little red flames scorching the little velvety wings. You must go one way or the other. So neither can you have a good paper and be up to date with the support that the Weekly received nor anything like it. The University of Kansas was ashamed of the paper and not of anyone who worked on it nor of any work done by a member of the staff. The shame was all too plainly laid on the institution that lacked whole hearted support for the paper tho' this alone is the only place that this spirit did lack. Lend a hand, not a hammer.
There were a few merchants, but very few, who "roasted" us
Fall and Winter 1904-05. FASHION'S GREETING.
No efforts have been spared to make this the banner season. The assortments are thoroughly complete. We control the sale of nearly all the best makes of ready-to-wear apparel. Although the prices are unprecedentedly low. QUALITY has not, in a single instance, been sacrificed in order to lower them. Inexpensive clothes as well as the richest—matchless garments—for MEN and BOYS are here in abundance. Every department in this great FASHION CENTER loaded down with the newest ideas from brainy makers, thus insuring satisfaction of every taste.
MEM'S SHOES. the OBER special—combining comfort, style, durability—the equal of any $5.00 shoe sold elsewhere--dull and shiny leather--price $4.00 and $3.50.
STUDENT'S
PHOTOGRAPHER
PHOTOGRAPHER PHONE 535 PINK 719 MASS ST.
when we went around and asked for an advertisement. These very same men would be boodlers or paupers within two months if the University was to be moved from Lawrence. Buy your goods and all else of only those who are our advertisers because it is these advertisers that the Kansan is dependent upon more than any others just at present. Don't be afraid to let a merchant know that you saw his advertisement in this paper. He will think you are a patriotic America; as well as give us a bigger "ad" next month and pay his bill without a grumble.
If the Kansan says something that doesn't just suit you, take your medicine if the shoe fits. It's the truth that hurts. It there is a mistake let us know and all will be made right, right away.
An assistant professor told several straggling freshmen the other day that the next time they came in late they would have to stay out.
This paper will be run differently from what the Weekly was. The staff will be different and the selection will be different. The merit system will be instituted. The Weekly and all that was connected with it are now part of a publication of the past.
The Lawrence World says, Professor Kepner delivered an address at the mass meeting. "Kep" should get all ones on the strength of this.
Down at Emporia College the girls have started to having hen parties. It's up to the boys to institute rooster parties.
There is no reason in the world why the fraternities of this school should not take great interest in the inter-fraternity debates. One's bound to win the silver trophy, in the form of a
If our brothers of the Platte continue to extend the olive branch, as the Lincoln correspondent for the Kansas City Star puts it, Lawrence will have a full grown olive tree very soon. In fact so many olive branches have been extended already that many of the freshmen wanted to know where the Nebraska extension olive tree was located.
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cup, that is offered through the generosity of Ewing Herbert. Kansas needs more debaters. You know this. Fraternities have shown too little interest in such work on the hill and now is a good opportunity for "Frats" to redeem themselves. The cup is worth working for. It is not the cup but the honor connected with it. Why shouldn't a fraternity prize a cup of this kind just as much as any other kind of a trophy, such as cups for athletic championships? Simply the reason is that precedence has not established a debating contest in this school. Nearly every fraternity in Lawrence has one or two good debaters and there is just as much to a good debater that will be of value in after life as to any athletic or other champion.
A full and complete line of UNIVERSITY Books and Supplies a. t.
BOOKSCLLLERS AND STATIONERS.
819 MASS. ST.
Rowlands and Stevenson
RED CROSS PHARMACY 711 MASS ST.
A complete line of drugs, toilet articles, and stationary.
Dentifoam cleanses the Teetn.
W. A. GUENTHER,
Phone 226. 721 Mass. St.
STAPLE AND FANGY Groceries
Club trade solicited
SMITH'S
SMITH'S NEWS DEPOT. Headquarters for Foot Ball Goods, Cigars and Tobacco. 704 Mass St.
DR. F U. EMLEY,
DENTIST
Jackson Building, 929 Mass. St.
Dr. A. R. Kennedy,
DENTIST,
Room 5, Jackson Building
R. E PROTSCH,
The Tailor,
717 MASSACHUSETTS STREET
ED ANDERSON'S RESGAURANG AND CONFECSIONERY Student's Headquarters.
Miss Josephine Searles of Kansas City is a guest at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.