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THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
Editor-in-Chief...RALPH ELINI
Associates...A. H. BANNE
E. B. BLACK
Sporting Editor...FRED A. GILLETTE
Local Editor...J. W. KAYSEY
Society Editor...MAELBARBER
Literary Editor...CHAS. L.VANFLEET
Business Manager...M. N. MCAUGHTON
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WITH THIS issue of the Weekly the present editorial staff makes its final bow to the readers of the Weekly and gets off the stage.
We're not going to use a column of valuable space to enumerate the things we have done; in fact after considerable thought upon our regular weekly performances we have a sneaking doubt as to whether we could fill a "stick" upon the subject.
We haven't any apologies to make either, we've done what we were able to do under the circumstances and only regret that it could not have been more.
Outside the regular staff, the Weekly is deeply indebted to Marvin Creager and Roscoe Chambers, members of the Class of Journalism, for their work upon the paper this term.
The men who have been elected for next term are in every respect eminently capable for news paper work. The editor-in-chief elect, Mr. McCarty has done probably twice as much actual newspaper work as any man in school and with his able board, the Weekly predicts that next year the school will have the best paper that K. U. ever had.
Some of the Seniors seem to think that since they pay a regular enrolment fee they are giving all they ought for their college
courses and with that as their argument, are opposed to paying the regular five dollars. The laws, for instance, say that they have to go to Topeka and pay $10.00 to the Supreme Court besides paying $25.00 enrolment fee each year. This is true, but they should not forget that the expenses incurred before the Supreme Court are entirely independent of the University. The law school does not engage to admit its students to the bar and that is what they pay for. Their admission to the bar is a recognition of their capabilities by the law fraternity of the state. They are not asked to pay anything for their degree of LL. B. from the University. The expenses entailed in the securing of the admission to the bar would correspond to the expenses an art or an engineering graduate might incur in securing recommendations or fitting up an office.
The question resolves itself into this proposition: Save five dollars and have a one horse commencement, or spend it and have the regulation K. U. graduation. In all probabilities the law will be so changed at the next session of the legislature that the graduation fee may be be collected and if this class does not pay it, it will have the rather unenviable distinction of being the only class which put a five dollar bill in the way of a commencement. College days are the best part of a man's or a woman's life and they should be filled with the pleasantest of memories. Nothing should be left undone which will cause the student to look back upon his college career with less fondness. Maybe he won't get the actual value of his money in ice cream, sandwiches and sheep-skin, but the commencement week exercises are something that cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. Of course the graduates must keep within their means but this can be done, and it is hoped that this year's classes will not hesitate longer in deciding to pay the money and make this commencement a success.
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NEXT WEEK marks the end of college life for another class at Kansas university. The '04 people will then make their bow to the world and start out to make their place in it.
The Weekly has not received any conclusive evidence that this is the best class that has ever graduated from K. U., but it has picked up the idea some place that it is as good as the best.
After long and careful consideration the '04 people have concluded not to sneak upon this old world and take it all at once. In fact, the altruistic spirit is so strong in this galaxy of intellectual genus that they may never selfishly seize the highestworldly positions. Another thing that has been definitely settled is that no one shall use his sheepskin or the blue ribbon there surrounding for any purposes of intimidation nor by their means in any way endeavor to force an entrance into the great world.
But there's one thing that the Weekly believes to be true about this class and that is that American citizenship standards will not suffer by their entrance. They are a good lot of boys and girls and they've got it in them to do a whole lot of good after they leave K. U., and the Weckly feels that they will live up to their capabilities.
They will never be troubled with having to enroll in the school of experience. They will be forced to enter the great school of the world. There will be no genial professors to advise them in their studies; it's each one for himself and a quiz every day. There will be no dean to warn laggards that they are nearing the danger line. They can never look far enough into the future to see the completion of their work and no one will ever tell them whether they are making passing grades or drawing flunks in the school of life, until it's all over.
The Weekly will not hazard a guess upon the number of honor students in the school of experience that the 1904 class will furnish but everyone has the ability to do his work in such a manner that when the Great Chancellor shall call him up for his final examination he will have no fear for the outcome.
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NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT marks two great events of the last term of the school year—the putting on the boards of the Senior Play and the appearance of the '04 Jayhawker.
For four weeks the larger number of the Senior class have been hard at work rehearsing. For almost ten times four weeks the Senior play committee has been putting in every extra moment in writing and perfecting this student histrionic production.
The play this year is along entirely new lines—being a real play depicting real life and not simply an aggregation of conglomerate horse play and roasts. Whether or not the play meets with hearty approval, the class deserves credit for its attempt at something better than the common place Senior play.
Regarding the Jayhawker, there is no question but that it is the best class production of its kind ever gotten out at K. U. The brightest people of the class have put forth their best efforts to make the Jayhawker what it should be and they have succeeded. Everything in the book is the best of its kind, from the best drawings to the hardest roasts. Not only is the book readable, but it is good to look upon from the outside, and every K. U. student will feel the necessity of owning one the moment he sees it.
PROF. CARRUTH hit the exact truth in Chapel Thursday morning when he said that university students could do more toward interesteng people in the university during vacation than all the advertising literature sent out by the institution.
More than that if a student is really patriotic to his university he will endeavor to interest every prospective college student that he knows, in K. U. Every student should consider it his duty to say a good word for his school when the opportunity presents itself. The man who can't do this but contents himself by casting continual slurs at his institution has something the matter with him or he's in the wrong school.
Let every K. U. student make himself a committee of one to bring back a new man toK. U. next fall and the 2000 mark will be passed before the end of next year.
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