THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
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NOTHER of the sons of Kansas University has ended his work untimely and left us forever. The death of Guy Harshberger of the class of '02, will cause regret in the heart of every K. U. student who knew him. One of our University's brightest men, a young man of more than ordinary ability, faithful to his ideals, a never-failing support to his friends, of the highest character, his presence will be sadly missed. Guy Harshberger was a young man who never had an enemy in school and yet he always spoke his convictions. He never did an underhand action. He was clean—he was a man. His monument will be the loving remembrance of each and all of his student and other friends.
THE May Pole scrap question is again up to us. Many students are dissatisfied with the manner in which it has been carried on the past two or three years. Under classmen have stayed out of school several days before the fight for fear of being tied up and hence be kept out of the fight. This interference with school work has led some upper classmen to advise the discontinuing of the May Pole scrap altogether, and the substitution of a contest of Dare Base or Bull-in-the-Pen for the belligerent under classmen.
Why should the annual May Pole Scrap be discontinued? It has come to be traditional for the Freshmen to take their first formal stand under their colors on the 1st of May, and the Weekly would hate to see the old custom replaced by any other form of contest.
The tying up of combatants should be prohibited as it used to be, then the annual May Pole Scrap would be what it was several years ago—a howling, yelling success.
HERE is a movement among the upper classmen to control the May Pole Scrap. Some would even go so far as to eliminate the May pole altogether and just have the Freshmen and Sophomores mix up in a little friendly rough and tumble. The Weekly can't imagine
how the Juniors and Seniors are going to do the marshaling act during the fight without helping one side or the other, in fact, in fights that are past, it has been an uncommon occurrence to see an upper classman who did not manage to get into the game at some stage or other and 1 heretofore all upper classmen have been supposed to be non-combatants.
And think of a May pole scrap without a May pole surmounted by the Freshmen colors! What reason would there be for fighting? What would the Freshmen defend?
This paper admits that it fails to see the reason for any Buttinski work upon the part of the upper classmen. Nor would it change the good old scrap in any way from its former style of procedure. It ought to be rough. There ought to be skinned noses and bruised limbs—that's what makes it exciting to the combatants. The students want the strenuous elements; they love to breathe that old dust that fills the air when the rushing men close together about the pole. They delight in heaving each other about, in picking out a man and besting him in a personal encounter. They enjoy the element of danger, it nerves the muscles, brightens the eye and fills the heart with a courage all unusual. Ask the upper classmen if any one of them would have been one whit less sore in body the next day after a May Day scrap, or have had one black eye, or lascerated wrist the less?
Such contests may have a brutal element in them, for all that they are wanted and are necessary.
And the student who looks upon such a contest and doesn't wish he could stretch his muscles in the thickest of it is only part man and that has the tint of the heathen Chinese.
Let us have the good old-fashioned scrap; let the under classmen make their own arrangements; with the assistance of the upper classmen if they ask it; but let the Juniors and Seniors keep out of the affair unless they go in to fight.
SOME sororities at various colleges have begun to publish themselves as "fraternies," which is somewhat ridiculous, unless perhaps they wish to be considered tomboys. There is no such thing as a Greek letter female fraternity. To be sure the name "girls' fraternity" is easily understood. Why not have a "boys sorority?" Perhaps these are fraternities who would like to be considered sissy-boys Co-education can do many things but it can not make a brotherhood out of a sisterhood.
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THE University of Kansas Press Club has at last materialized and it starts out full of good resolutions upon the part of its members to make itself a permanent and beneficial factor in Kansas University affairs. Such clubs among the newspaper reporters have been highly successful in other institutions and there is no reason why this association of K.U. newspaper reporters should not be of value
to the members and in addition prove a source of assistance to the administration of K. U. on organization having such an object is worthy of a trial at least and deserves success. It is to be hoped that this small beginning may ripen into a press organization of great dignity and influence.
IT IS the time of the year when the college cadet corps begin to polish the brass buttons and do extra drill work preparatory to marching with the old veterans on Memorial Day and incidentally to prove to the general public that they wouldn't have made such a bad appearance themselves at Gettysburg or San Juan Hill.
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS.
The speakers who will make the principal commencement addresses have been procured. The Baccalaurate sermon will be delivered by Prof. T. W. Spring of Williams College, formerly teacher of English Literature at K. U. The alumni address will be given by Geo. O. Virtue, instructor of Political Economy at the Minnesota Normal School and a graduate of K. U. in the class of '92.
J. H. Long, Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern, K. U.'77 will give the Sigma Xi address. The commencement address will be delivered by Hugo Munsterberg, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard.
A KICK.
It has been said that the old bachelors' and the old maids' children were always the best. The same is true of running schools like this one. The students always know better than the Chancellor or faculty committees how things should be run. Yet to one who has been observing things here for a number of years there are several things that need improving very much.
One is the matter of dismissing and taking up classes. The regulations very plainly say that the classes are to be dismissed five minutes before the hour and take up on the hour. Yet it is a fact that many instructors hold their recitations from three to fifteen minutes overtime, thus making the students late to the next recitation. The teacher to whom the student comes late often marks him tardy or gives him extra work as a penalty.
When the explanation is given that they were detained in the previous class, the instructor will reply, "get up and leave when it is time to go," or, "tell the professor that he is keeping you over time," or, "petition the Chancellor to make Professor So-and-So dismiss his classes on time."
These are none of them the students' duty. He runs the risk of incurring his instructor's displeasure if he says anything. The instructors should observe the regulations and not put the students to the annoyance and inconvenience that some of them are put to almost daily. If this will not do, some central power should take control and see that the classes are dismissed on time L.W.H.
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