THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
OUR BASE BALL TEAM seems to have succeeded in extricting itself from the "slough of despond" into which it fell early in the season. The showing in the Iowa games and in Tuesday's game against the Quakers, was a most pleasant surprise to the students, and Captain Sexton and his team are to be commended.
The season began very unfavorably and there has been much bad weather to prevent practice and postpone games. It is hard to keep up interest in the game under such circumstances-but the team has succeeded in doing it and the men are playing together well now. The two new pitchers are doing first-class work in the box and they are being well supported by the team which, under the new placing of the men, is playing a clean fielding game.
In view of the fact that the team is doing so well it seems no more than right that the students should turn out to the games and show their appreciation. At the last Iowa game and the Friends College game there was hardly a respectable sized corporal's guard in the grand stand including the members of the band. Many students wonder why we cannot have better teams and blame the players, but the fact is that one of the prime requisites in college athletics is student support and the team has a right to expect it. The team is now playing good baseball and the Weekly extends a cordial invitation to the students to try to get out to at least one game before the season closes.
IN THE current issue af the North American Review of Reviews, Mr. Joseph Pulitzer shows the benefits to be obtained by students in the College of Journalism which he recently endowed,Mr.Pulitzer insists that the young man who enters the field of Journalism is best equipped for newspaper work if he studies along certain lines of college work,which are not at present arranged in most colleges to suit the particular necessities of the newspaper writer. These particular br utches include law, physical, science, political literature, history and theory of taxation, capital and labor
problems, modern languages and statistics.
A western daily says of Mr. Pulitzer's article that Mr. Pulitzer does not appreciate the fact that the college man, five years after he has finished his course, has forgotten the most of his college education. That is, that before the newspaper man could use his information he would have forgotten it. This editorial goes on to say that the four years training which a man receives in a University is not wasted.
It is a trifle hard to see how the writer of this criticism can harmonize his two conclusions. If a university training is of a great benefit to a man, a specialized training will certainly help him even more. He will have at least learned to work along the particular lines in which he intends to perform his future labors and that should make his future work a great deal easier than if he had to start into the work a complete stranger to its contents.
The Weekly is inclined to believe that Mr. Puitzer knows as much or nearly so at any rate about the newspaper business in all its departments as even the best of our western editors and Joseph Pulitzer is not a man who is in the habit of starting unsuccessful enterprises. It is certain already that the principal of Journalism can be taught in Universities and our conservative newspaper editors will have to admit before many years that men can be taught to write news in several other ways than doing it while over a compositor's case.
THERE seems to be a certain collection of students in the University who consider it their duty to make witty annotations upon the signs posted on the bulletin board. Just who these students are the Weekly does not know but it cinerely hopes that the guilty ones are Freshmen and that they will have time and opportunity to reform before leaving the Institution. There is nothing very funny about the majority of the remarks written on the notices. They are for the most part very commonplace and reflect no great honor upon the authors. All year the Weekly has been very much in need of good, original jokes and if these kind decorators would use some of their cleverness in writing something good for publication they would be doing a laudable work for the University and would not be doing anyone any injustice, for readers are not required to enjoy the jokes published.
The University bulletin board is a place reserved for the posting of notices of all kinds and these notices are entitled to some respect. When a person loses or finds anything and a notice is posted up it is poor taste, to say the least, to change the wording of the notice in such a way as to possibly make it worthless merely for the purpose of provoking a smile among the under classmen. The habit is not a very vicious one but it is one that the majority of the students could easily dispense with;
HERE ARE organizations and organizations among K. U. students, but there is one that deserves considerable more than it receives. This is the University, band. It is a student enterprise through and through. It has never received assistance from the University nor even from the student body outside its immediate members. The interest which the rest of the student body takes in the band men is usually limited to passing various left-handed compliments upon their rendition of musical compositions, but the plucky band boys keep grinding away, using what music they can beg, buy or borrow and do their best to make a creditable showing.
The present band has been faithful throughout the year.
Every foot-ball game saw them on the field, putting forth every effort to instil spirit into our players and inspire enthusiasm among the rooters. While students were keeping their hands warm in overcoat pockets, the K.U. wind jammers with stiffened fingers worked their valve freezing instruments. Every base-ball game no matter how hot the sun sees them marching up Massachusetts street advertising the game
Such devotion to university interests deserves more commendation than it receives. There should be a fund raised to assist the boys in their band work. It seems that even some arrangements might be made whereby an instructor could be provided for the K, U. band. The Weekly thinks that their efforts this year merit the interest of the entire university and it hopes that the near future way see the K-U. band given the same recognition and support that other University organizations receive.
THE WEEKLY election is over and a new editorial staff has been selected to publish our university paper. Before the beginning of their work next year some arrangements for the reorganization of the present constitution should be made
The Weekly believes that a majority of the stockholders are in favor of such action.
It goes without saying that students will do better work if they get something in return for their efforts. The chancellor and faculty of the University are willing to cooperate with the Weekly stockholders in a reorganization of the management and publication of the paper Arrangements may be made whereby reporters will receive university credit for work done upon the Weekly.
Again, it is growing more and more apparent that some sort of merit system should prevail regarding the selection of the Weekly staff. The men who work faithfully as reporters are the men who should be given the important positions upon the paper. This system can easily be put into practice.
The University is growing; the prestige of the institution is widening; its influence is becoming greater all the time. Let us not allow this student publication to fall behind, but extend
its influence and usefulness by putting it upon a broader and firmer basis and make its staff officers something more than positions to be sought for by University politicians.
The time is ripe; the new board is strong in its youth; let them make a start for reorganization.
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