THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
Editor-in-Chief ... RALPH ELDIN
associates } ... A. H. BASYR
    E. B. BLACK
Sporting Editor ... FRED A GILLETT
Local Editor ... J. W. KAYSE
Society Editor ... MABRI BARBER
Literary Editor ... CHAS. LVANFLEET
Business Manager. M. N. MCNAUGHTON
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HE annual May Day scrap between the Sophomores and Freshmen is over. The "honah" of both remains immaculate and the erstwhile belligerents will occupy the remainder of the year reciting to one another the bold deeds of 'Jim' or the extraordinary prowess of 'Jack.'
Some of the remarks apropos of the contest are far more interesting than the scrap itself. One member of the University has expressed himself to the effect that he considers such affairs much more brutal than prize fights, and that in the East where he comes from such contests would not be allowed at all. Of course it may be very brutal to tie men up, but the boys seem to like it.
Much talk is heard from some members of the faculty and from a few students in the presence of the faculty, to the effect that the May-day contest should be abolished. The WEEKLY does not desire to see the fame of Kansas University smirched and if these contests work injury to the school, it is but right that they should discontinued unless it can be shown that they are productive of beneficial results which outweigh the evil ones. The WEEKLY believes this to be the ease. Whoever heard the University cheers given last Monday after the contest was over will have to admit that there was more spirit in them than there has been before, this year. That is one good result then—a tendency to promote: college spirit
Again such class affairs bind the members of the classes closer together-brings them all into nearer relations and promotes good fellowship among them. There is always more class spirit evidenced among Freshman and Sophomores than among upper classmen and this can in a great measure be traced to the clashings between the Freshmen and Sophomores.
It is a fact that in some of our eastern institutions they do not have such rough and tumble physical contests but in schools where they don't the students are inclined to run to other excesses which have far worse results. The college student has a surplus of energy which, cannot be worked off over college textbooks and when the supply reaches the blowing off point,
he's going to exhaust it and it's pretty hard to find a better way than to allow him to do it in a class scrap.
IT IS NEARLY TIME for another Weekly election and all nominations have been filed. Too much care cannot be taken in the choice of the editorial staff of the college paper. First they must be workers, second they must have the interest of K.U.at heart; third, they should be capable.
University politics should be forgottin in the choice of these men. The publication of a successful University paper should be considered and the best men for the purpose should be chosen regardless of the political clique to which they may happen to belong. The plan of putting up tickets with half of the names on merely because they can control a few votes is not conducive to the best interests of the "Weekly."
There are many good men from which to choose and every "Weekly" voter should cast a ballot only for those whom he knows will be faithful workers if electe'.
THE SENIORS want to be excused from final examinations. They set forth that they are put to so much extra exertion the last term in getting out the Jayhawker, writing and staging the senior play, preparing class day and commencement exercises, deciding whether or not to wear caps and gowns, selecting class pins and maintaining their dignity on the side that they really have no time to bother with quizzes which might possibly prove fatal in the most severe cases.
The Weekly believes that there is a good deal of logic in their argument. When a student has run the gauntlet of term quizzes seven times and has escaped in a sufficiently good state of preservation it does seem as if he should be let off from the lastone with a good scare at the most. There are a great many demands upon a senior which other classes do not encounter. The last term should be the most enjoyable of the eight terms of the course, for after June 10, life in all of its sternness will stare the newly born intellectual giant in the face. There will be little time for mith and laughter and the graduate will often long for the friends of his college days. If the regular routine of examination week has to be looked forward to with the same dread that it always has had there is little joy to be gotten out of the last month. And to add to it all, spring is here. Real, live spring with its full quota of side attractions. It has been pretty hard for a good many underclassmen to get through this season and one can easily imagine the plight of... senior who is continually thinking of the fact that this is his last chance and he must make the most of it. Mount Oread was never more beautiful, the golf links were never quite so green and soft, the lilacs never gave off quite such a sweet perfume, the rocks and stumps were never
warmer and more inviting and the songs of the birds were never so charming. Then too the average senior is very apt to imagine that his friends were never quite so dear and so indispensible during his college year. Very often this is all imagination but that fact does not affect the senior as he makes his dates and runs up his bills.
The faculty should take all these things into consideration in acting upon the petition of the senior classes. Few of them were ever so taken up with their studies as to be absolutely impervious to the demands of human nature and it is a safe bet that they were still victims of some of the frailties of man when they were in college. If they were not they are ashamed to admit it now and can easily see their mistake.
If its influence I as any weight in the matter, the Weekly would be very glad to place itself upon record as being heartily in favor of doing away with the formalities of examinations for the seniors and letting their fates depend upon their class work for the term. It would be a good thing for all concerned and would make the graduating class all the more loyal to old K. U.
THE FIRST annual High School day at K. U. last Friday was so successful in every respect that it should certainly be made a yearly affair. Nearly eight hundred high school students, three hundred from out of town, enjoyed the morning visiting the various departments on the hill and the inter-scholastic field meet in the afternoon was the center of such enthusiasm and interest as has rarely been seen on McGoofi field.
The high schools which sent athletic teams to this meet, not knowing what sort of athletes they would have to be pitted against, deserve special credit, and unstinted praise should be given to the schools who having only one or two athletes sent them anyway. That is the sort of spirit that high schools should have. The students from such institutions are the very ones that K. U. wants when they are ready to attend college. The yeoman service performed by the Carbondale, Osage City and Anthony men will long be remembered.
Let us continue the observance of High School days every year, so that the University may become acquainted with the high school and the high school brought into closer touch with the State University.
COWBOY prom, was given a short time ago by Michigan University students. The men appeared at the function attired in true cowboy fashion with the usual complements of spurs bonbanas and colts, and the ladies in short corduroy skirts, blouse waists and sashes but it reports are true here the likeness to a cowboy dance closed. Everyone knows that this is only a preliminary preparation for the true cow-puncher function. The real essence of the affair is what follows. What real cow-man cares
to attend a "feet shaker" where he can't show the delicacy and precision of his markmanship by snuffing the lights with his .44, or take a fall out of the "varmint" that dares to dance with the jiltsy" on whom he has put his ear marks?
The "Bronch Buster" delights to rope the moverick who trespasses upon his chosen range and to pick a scrap with the half man whose ambition is satisfied with the dog's work of tending the merinoes. Nor did the write up of this Michigan society function say a word regarding the red-ink high balls with which the "caller" at the real real range shin-dig is wont to lubricate his speech box.
No Michigan students may have thought they had a cowboy dance but with comparison to the old original article it must have appeared as the white rabbit to the mountain lion or the timid coed to a fire eating engneer.
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