THE KANSAN.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Thursday morning and Saturday night of the school year.
Office in University Library building.
Wirt G. McCarty, Managing Editor
N. P. Sherwood, Circulation Mgr
Subscription price, One Dollar per year strictly in advance.
All subscription money due at the end of the year and all advertising accounts not paid will be subject to sight draft.
Address all communications to The Kansan, Lawrence, Kansas.
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Bender the star quarter back for the Nebraska foot ball team was married in Denver while the Nebraska foot ball team was there. He had to do something to drown his troubles.
The KANSAN has been running for just one month with this issue. Last year in the editor's platform several declarations were made. The following have been carried out: the leading papers in every town of 6000 or more make up our exchange list, and this includes the three Kansas City and two Topeka papers; but little editorial comment finds its way into the news columns; a circulation manager has been appointed; the KANSAN has an office in the Library building; half of the merit system is established; a box is already to be placed in the main hall for all complaints or other matter for the interests of the paper; some Kansas City advertising is coming in; and last but not least the KANSAN is trying hard to get news that is news and to get it while the same is news. Reports by wire have been arranged for. This has been done not only by overcoming the ordinary difficulties, but in the face of the severest political contentions.
There are two sides to the proposed inter-fraternity debates. Since the last issue of the KANSAN there has been considerable objection raised to the debates by some of the fraternity men in the University. One thing suggested is that the fraternities have too many points of contention now. A man cannot do as good work with many important questions on his mind
as he can with only one. So it is with a fraternity. There are athletic contests here now and many other things that have a strong tendency to detract the fraternity man's attention from his books. Then when a fraternity does go into a matter where considerable time and energy are required, one or two members "flunk" on account of their part in the project and the fraternities are blamed with having a set of poor students, and epithets of laziness are in order. Then there is the money side. If a fraternity is going into the debate, it is going in to win, no matter what the cost is. The first thing we know instructors from Kansas City and even from Chicago will be employed to tutor the debater. It will be done. More money than would be required to place a fraternity man in training in a Chicago conservatory for a whole summer has been spent here within the last six months for the laurels that go to the victor. It would be done again. Anything that is worth working for is worth going after with all the strength and energy that one possesses. And so it is in a fraternity. If a fraternity goes in to win there is no wire at which the course ends. The only thing that will suffice is the hare and human houn ls in the great race for vain glory are the worst kind.
"The Freshmen of K U are certainly having a hard time of it. Any person that even looks like a Freshman gets hazed and one fellow got his legs paralized in a class fight. Now comes the report that some of the candidates for admission are being rejected because they have not three years of required German. What trouble people do get into when they begin wrong and in the wrong place."—Washburh Review.
SHE CRIES ALOUD.
"Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall." Waskburn has it figured out that the little Topeka college with its few hundred students and "great" foot ball players will soon have another victory over Kansas, will get all of the Freshmen from here, will have "frats" that will be "frats," in
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The Washburn Review is rather to be pitied for the slurring remarks for, "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord but they that deal truly are His delight," for, "Be thou not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them."
place of so-called organizations that are said to exist now at the capital town school, will have more graduates than the University and in fact will supersede the greatest institution of learning in the state.
The KANSAN doesn't let the croakings and babblings that are so repeatedly poured out from Washburn bother it, and the University never has. "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction."
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Washburn has such a wonderful of religion down there too and K. U. has none; (according to Washburn). Heaven knows that Washburn is the only place where the praises of the institution eminate from. But there is just as much religion to the square foot at the University as at any other school in Kansas and there are many many more square feet in the University. The University has a larger number of active workers in the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. than any other school in the state, and the foot ball team here is not supported by a local order of Elks or helped by the same. The only thing the matter with the little college down the line is that the Washburnites want to be in a class with higher institutions and no one can overcome the impossibility of putting the Topeka school in the University class. Consequently the little college has taken it upon itself to "butt" in and is getting a remarkable welcome of cold feet.
Because one man kicked a field goal and won the game from Kansas last year, Washburn has never failed to mention it three times a day at the school and the only papers that ever reflect upon the score are some Topeka papers, and the only reason for
that is, local papers have to support local institutions.
No! Washburn is severely troubled with tumefication of the human part ordinarily supposed to be above the shoulders.
The thing for Kansas to do as a starter is to take a large delegation, the band and the best football team in the state, to Washburn on the 29th day of October and administer one of the worst defeats to the little college of the blue and white that the said little school, once heard of before, ever had. Kansas can and will. Then Washburn will store her honey in the hives, weave a web over the entrance of her great cave, or do some other drone act and will then sleep for a year or more.
Hundreds of Topeka people want to see Kansas win. They are sore because of Washburn's "enlargement of the cranium."
Washburn needs to be shown, the little college of the capital town deserves it, and "the Lord is far from the wicked but he heareth the prayer of the righteous."
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