THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
Editor-in-Chief... RALPH ELLIE
Associates ... A. H. DAVY
E. B. BLACK
Sporting Editor... FRED A. GILLETTE
Local Editor... J. W. KAYSER
Society Editor... MABEL BARBER
Literary Editor... CHAS. L.VANFLEET
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THE MAY Musical Festival will be under the auspices of Kansas University, May 27 and 28. This will be one of the great events of the present year in University affairs. The affair will not only be participated in by the best musical talent of our University but the Chicago Symphony orchestra and five of the most distinguished soloists of the country will also take part.
The festival will be the peer of any similar musical undertaking ever held in Kansas. The school of music, faculty and students have been working for months to perfect their part of the program. It deserves the support of every K.U.student.No one can afford to miss an opportunity to hear such an entertainment and much less can a university student, where by so losing he is failing in part in his duty to his school.
Let's get that new university spirit out and wear it to the May Festival and assist in making this first great musical event of our University so successful that it will be made an annual affair.
THE CLASS in journalism at Chicago University has just printed an eight page metropolitan daily known as the "Vincent Daily" in honor of the professor who is conducting the course. Members of the class were assigned to the various runs on the street, copy was handed in promptly on time and the forms were locked at 1:15 in the morning which is in good time for a morning paper.
The "Vincent Daily", force consisted of political and editorial writers, a Washington correspondent, sporting, society, and telegraph editors, police, undertakers and court reporters. The reporters covered their runs so thoroughly that two scoops were scored on the Chicago dailies and the "profesh" were given some effective eyeopeners. Political reporter Wormser's letter from Springfield was copied in the
Inter-Ocean and the Jamegon murder story was in demand by call the Chicago papers. A few more experiments of this nature may result in a slight change in the general opinion that college work in journalism all a mistake. When a journalism student to scoop the Chicago papers on murder stories and get on the inside of political stuff that the Tribune and Record-Herald can not get, it seems as if the benefit of journalism courses is pretty thoroughly established.
THERE IS too much tendendey among American colleges to ignore new schools and to assume because they have no traditions of long standing, no ever victorious football team, record breaking sprinters, or champion hammer throwers, that the school is weak and that the students are a poor outfit. New schools must be recognized by the older institutions to a certain extent before they can haveany prestige.
Washington University of St. Louis is an example. Before Kansas began negotiations for athletic relations with the St. Louis university very few students here knew anything about the new institution but now we know that it is a growing school and one which is destined to become a factor in the western educational system.
We have had another example of this fact this last week, The University of Arkansas sent its base ball team here for two games with Kansas. According to popular opinion we would expect to see nine lanky ungainly, lantern jawed, cushion footed, individuals, chewing natural leaf tobacco, dipping snuff and wearing homespun clothes and coon skin caps. But the Arkansas base ball nine compared very favorably with any team which has played on McCook field this year and the students of K. U. now have a much better opinion of our razor back neighbors on the south east.
Similar investigation would undoubtedly reveal the fact that after all there are very few colleges in the land that are not good. The more schools there are the better off the larger schools will be and we believe in recognizing and encouraging the new institutions.
PROF. EDWARD MacDowell gave as his reason for resigning his position at the head of the department of music at Columbia, that "as far as general culture is concerned, college graduates are the merest barbarians. Not a spark of idealism left." The New York World in an editorial has taken issue with the professor upon the subject and insists that the college student is scarcely as bad as the aesthetic professor would paint him. "The personal ideal of honor among college students," says the World, "was shown, when the student body at Princeton united through their representatives to detect and to aid in punishing five students who were preparing to cheat at an examination."
Perhaps Professor McDowell was dissatisfied with the college students because they did not gush about the ideal all the time. It used to be the general custom for every little college oration to have a considerable amount of its substance devoted to the future millenium, which was ever
upon the eve of arrival and the idyllic state whose threshold humanity was about to cross. Or perhaps the professor would return to the good old times, when the university student supported himself by begging his daily rations and celebrating a full stomach by a little broad sword play.
The university man has not lost sight of the ideal, but he does more and talks less about it than formerly. Many people do not understand the university student because they will not. He is always a democrat—he scoffs at empty show and useless ceremonies, but he is usually a gentleman and a gentleman doesn't go very far wrong.
IT IS QUITE the fashion to become effusive over the beauties of Mount Oread and to admire and talk about the beautiful view. The university is certainly to be congratulated upon having such a beautiful site for its buildings. Nature has indeed been indulgent and we all appreciate it. But nature can not do everything and it seems too much has been expected of the dame in the way of beautifying Mount Oread. As one walks up Mount Oread on Mississippi street he cannot but admire the imposing buildings and green grounds. Dyche Hall stands out in the foreground, it's beautiful to say the least but as one approaches more closely he sees the natural beauties of the weed patch and old cornfield, which form the north part of the campus. A little closer inspection reveals an old dumpground with a wealth of tin cans, rags and other rubbish. There is no grass to be seen, only the dried stocks of last year's weed crop, and this year's growth is getting a good start. Of course we cannot expect too much in the way of beautifying the campus but the expenditure of a few dollars would at least make the approach to the university look respectable. There is no good excuse for such a spectacle as that presented by the weeds and trash north of Dyche hall. Many visitors come up Mississippi street to visit the university and their impression of the place is almost sure to be prejudiced by the appearance of this plot of ground. The weeds might at least be cut down and it seems as if it might be possible to sow a little blue grass or even clover in their place, anything would be better than the weeds. After this has been done if the university still has money to spare on landscape gardening the big pile of yellow clay which was thrown up when the excavation was made for Dyche hall might be smoothed off a trifle and some steps taken to starting vegetation upon it.
NOT SO VERY long ago the students at the University of California had a Labor Day. On that day the students appeared on the campus in working clothes and carrying picks and shovels. The day was spent in beautifying and improving the university grounds. Why can't the students at the University of Kansas do something of this
sort? The wretched approach leading to our athletic field is in sore need of attention and a picturesque little bridge might be built over the creek to take the place of the half rotten boards which are there at present. Just as soon as students begin to work for the university, will the fine quality of university spirit be developed.
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