Kansas University Weekly.
THE ONLY OFFICIAL AND AUTHORIZED WEEKLY PUBLICATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL. XII.
Geo Davies, The Student's tailor.
has received a new line of offe spring goods. He will run a SUITITORIUM in connection with his tailor shop. Clothes cleaned, pressed and kept in perfect order for $1.50 per month.
The Excelsior Pantitorium.
BILLY WILLIAMSON Handles all the standard brands of Cigars, Pipes and Tobacco. Manufacturer of the celebrated Baby Ribbon." 913 Massachusetts.
Watkins National Bank
Capital $100,000.
Surplus $20,000.
C. A. Hill, V. Pres.
C. H. Cush, W. E. Assy.
DONNELLY BROS.,
LIVERY, BOARDIING,
and HACK STABLES.
All Rubber Tire Rigs.
Co. th and New Hampshire. Phone 10
EASTERN STAR BAKERY
EASTERN STAR BAKERY Fine Pastries and Buns. Sweet Cakes a Specialty. Parties supplied.
'04 CLASS PINS '04
The official class pin at
HESTER'S.
Optician. Jewele
F.AEWING
Manufacturer of best ICE CREAM Finest ICE CREAM SOBA in the city 5 cents, pure MEXICAN CHILL, also full line of finest Candies Cigars and Tobaccos. 1027 Mass. St. Phone 525 Green.
ALEX E. PROTSCH, SR.
Artistic Tailor, Over Meierhoffer and Wilder's. 901 Massachusetts Street
A. P HULTS,
DENTIST.
No. 735 Massachusetts Street.
SAGURDAY.MAY 7.1904.
Chas. L. Hess.
Meat Market.
941 Mass. St. Telephone 14.
Spring Poetry.
Spring Postity.
As our expenses are nit,
We can buy you a gift.
And spot cash is the cry.
So your pocketbook we'll fit
With the groceries you git.
Should you come to us to buy.
KATHERMAR'S CROCERY
1301 Ky. St.          Phone 618 Whit
Call and examine the new 1904 Model Bicycles. Prices from $16 to $90. Anything you want.
Lawrence Bicycle Co. 905 Mass, St. Phone Pink 254
Reasonable Charges. Phone 13 NICOLSON AND HAND,
Successor to Geo. F. Godding.
LIVERY, HACK, and BOARDING
STABLE.
RUBBER TIRED RIGS.
Lawrence, . . . Kansas.
PROT SCH.
TAILOR.
717 MASS. STREET
FRESHMEN VICTORIOUS
First Year Men Defend their May Pole Successfully Against Sophomores.
THE ENGINEERS PLANT A ROCK.
The freshmen won a decisive victory over the sophomores in the annual May pole scrap last Monday morning. At no time were the first year men's colors in danger.
The freshmen hoisted their colors about 1:00 a.m. Monday and stayed in a body about the pole waiting for the sophomores. About 7:30, people began coming up the hill and in true old style fashion the freshmen required all comers to salute the pole. A few who refused were captured and taken up to the pole, where after looking into the face of the tar with which it was covered, they usually smilingly submitted. Finally a few laws began to arrive and the freshmen immediately weakened in their desire to compel everyone to take their hats off to their colors.
Still the sophomores did not arrive and the freshmen began to fear, or hope, that their enemies were not coming. Finally about 9 o'clock the sophomores came over the south side of the campus and made a rush for the pole, endeavoring to circle the freshmen with a long heavy cable. That was the end—the second year men never got to the pole. Freshmen fell on them from all directions and in a few minutes nearly all the sophomores were lying about the pole, tied hand and foot.
Nearly all the sophomores were tied up when a half dozen in an express wagon came tearing up and endeavored to attach a hose to one of the large hydrants, expecting to drown out the freshmen, but they had not enough force to attach the hose to the water plug and the triumphant freshmen captured the hose and carried it triumphantly into their camp. At 10 o'clock the whistle blew, the freshmen turned the sophomores loose and took their colors down—the May pole scrap was over.
The engineers placed a four ton rock on the campus early Monday morning, bearing the inscription, ENG. During the freshman-sophomore controversy, a number of laws endeavored to move it by means of a cable, but the rock was cemented to the surface rock in the ground and refused to budge. Several of the legal fraternity then came up with tar and threw a generous portion upon the rock of the engineers. A short mixup between the two schools followed but was soon stopped.
Forty foot ball candidates have reported for spring practice at Yale.
ATHLETICS.
Kansas Takes Another From the Hawkeyes.
THE CANDIDATES FOR BOXING HOLD PRELIMINARY CONTEST.
Kansas took the second game from the Hawkeyes on Saturday by a score of 10 to 6. Both teams hit hard and fielded well, Kansas having the better of the argument in both departments. Our boys won the game in the third and fourth innings by knocking Yessler out of the box and piling up a total of 8 runs. Iowa played a good up-hill game but was unable to overcome the lead taken by Kansas. Pyle made his first appearance on the 'Varsity and acquitted himself with honor. The showing made by K. U. in the two Iowa games is gratifying to the fans and much is expected of the team in the future.
Score. R H E
Iowa 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 6 8 6
Kansas 0 1 4 4 0 0 1 0 * 10 12 3
Batteries-Iowa, Yessler, Cretzmeyer and Brekke; Kansas, Pyle and Royer.
The baseball game which was to have been played between K. U. and Friends University today has been postponed owing to the condition of the field. The game will be played next Thursday.
A boxing tryout between candidates for the boxing club was held in the gym yesterday afternoon at 4:30. The bouts were tour in number, each to go three rounds.
The first go was between Scott and Cunnick, the former easily outpointing his adversary.
Goddard and Rogers took the principal parts in the second contest, Goddard getting the decision.
The third contest was an evenly matched affair between Dove and Shaw and it took the fourth round for the judges to decide that Dove was the winner.
Heinzman and Morrow put on the mittens for the fourth go and they showed themselves adept in the art of boxing. After the third round Morrow was given the decision by the judges, a decision with which the bystanders were far from concurring in. The finale of this preliminary
WEEKLY ELECTION
The finals of this preliminary contest will probably come off some time next week.
The term election for editor-in-chief, secretary and treasurer and eight members of the board will be held next Friday. Two regular tickets have been nominated, embracing the following: Editor-in-chief, McCarty and Kayser; secretary and treasurer, Geo. O. Foster; board members, Misses Gatlin, Alder, Jenkins and Bechtel, and Messrs. Gentry, Morgan, Bruner, Riley, Purton, Leinbach, Scherer and Lapham.
DOD GASTON'S TALK.
J. E. House Makes a Few Pointed Remarks about the Newspaper Business and its Devotees.
J. E. House of the Topeka Capital, delivered a lecture to the class in Journalism and the Conference of Sociology and Economics, Thursday afternoon at 4:30, on "Newspaper Writing." This lecture was given at the time and place of the Sociology and Economics Conference. He didn't have a roomful to hear him, but his talk merited a crowded chapel, for he said some good things an those who failed to hear him missed something worth while.
Mr. House said that the idea that newspaper writing was a profession is a mstake, that it is a microbe and that a good newspaper man never recovers from the little pest. The newspaper reporter usually has many of his ideals shattered and cannot be a hero worshiper. He comes in contact with so much of the dark side of human nature that he is likely to become pessimistic and often acquires a good humored contempt for human kind
"There are two kinds of reporters," said Mr. House, "the one who feels for his stuff and the man who digs tor news. The first is the man who usually writes bright, attractive articles and the second is the good news gatherer. Imitation of others' style never gets anything. A man should cultivate individuality in his writing. There are probably 500 reporters who can write as good fables as George Adc but no man will ever attain his success because he wrote them first."
Mr. House spoke of the ability to see into all the phases of a news story, saying that there was some pathos and humor in nearly every one and that the good writer always brought out such points. He said further: "If there is humor in a situation unbend enough to get it in your story; if there is pathos,
NO.30.
pull out the tremulo stop on your typewriter."
Regarding a reporter's fidelity to his paper, Mr. House said "Keep your word to the public rather than keep on good terms with your paper; be honest; be decent."
In conclusion he urged that men should not go into newspaper work as a commercial proposition, not that there is not often money in the business, but that a man to be successful must love the work itself better than the dollars.
E. T. CUTLER LECTURES
E. T. Cutler, the Kansas City correspondent of the Associated Press delivered an open lecture to the class in Journalism in Blake hall Monday evening upon the "History and Organization of the Associated Press." No lecture in this series has been of greater interest than this one.
Mr. Cutler told of the immense scope of this news gathering agency, how it had grown from a modest association of a few New York dailies until now it gathers and distributes 90 per cent of the telegraph news and has for its news territory the entire world. It is not a commercial enterprise, but a co-operative association and all of the $2,000,000 which come in as revenue annually, is spent in paying employees and collecting news.
There are 800 regular employees in this great news gathering machine and many more space correspondents. 800 daily papers in this country alone receive associated press news.
The association sends out 50,000 words or about 35 columns of telegraph news every day. The telegraph rental bill amounts to $100,000,000 annually.
Mr. Cutter also spoke of the many new inventions which tend toward the greater facility in the transmission of news.
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