THE KANSAS UNIVRESITY WEEKLY. Editor-in-Cbrief RALPH ELLIEN Associates { } { A. H. BAYNE } E.B. BLACK Sporting Editor. FRED A GILLETTE Local Editor. J.W. KAYSER Societyy editor MABEL BARBER Literary Editor. CHAS L.VANFLEET Business Manager. M.N. MCNAUGHTON REPORTERS. J. B. Rieman, Geo Hansen, Wm. Shaw, Bert Beach, O. A. Zimmerman, Ray Barton, J. E. Brady, Mary Burwell, Earl ampibell. Entered at Lawrence Post Office as second class mail matter. Shares in the WEEKLY $1.00 each, entitting the holder to the paper for two years, may be had of the Secretary and Treasurer, GEORGE FOSTER or of M. N. MCNAUHTON, Business Manager. Subscription price 50 cents per annum in advance. Single copy 5 cents. Address all communications to M.N. M.nCaughton, Bus. Mgr., Lawrence, Kum. THE great majority of athletes who work for places upon the various teams do so with the hope of being ultimately privileged to go with the team upon its season's tours. This is a laudable ambition. It is just that men who put forth the effort our athletes do should be rewarded in some such way. But everyone must remember that the University can not afford to support losing teams. If the track men of the past have always had a trip during the season it is right that the track men should have a trip this year. To earn it they must work for it. It is no more than right that the track men should show what they can do before demanding long and expensive trips. Kansas has the material for an extraordinarily good team this spring. Now is the time to develop it. If we get together a bunch of good fast men, a few fast hurdlers and some good heavyweight men, we would be in a position to compete with the best teams of the neighboring states. If the men prove themselves worthy the trip will come. Besides this, men ought to realize what an honor it is to win a "K". At the present time it stands for the highest honor in athletics. It is an honor to wear the emblem of your college which is held in the highest esteem by those who can not wear it. The Track "K" is the hardest to win, standing as it does upon individual merit alone, and should be consequently the one most sought for. If the men will work faithfully it will create a confidence in the team. The athletic authorities are willing to do the best they can but they must know that they will have a good team. At the present time it is up to the men who wish to make places. Let them put forth some good hard work and rewards in the shape of honors and trips will follow. "SUCH ACTION on the part of the students is positively damnable" was the rather inelegant but forcible expression of a Colorado University professor, in commenting upon the fact that only nine per cent of the students attended the oratorical contest at that institution last week. The Weekly may deprecate the usage of such language on the part of the professor but it certainly agrees with the sentiment expressed. University students owe their institution their support in all university affairs. It matters little whether the student is personally attracted by the contests of his institution or not, he should lend his presence at least to them. The surest way to check the influence and growth of any educational institution is for its students, and faculty too for that matter, to show utter indifference to such affairs. Those who do interest themselves in school contests, whether they be of an oratorical, athletic or musical character, cannot do their best unless they know that they have the unqualified support of their fellows in what they undertake. What sort of inspiration could one of our debaters expect to receive, if when the first contest comes off, he should look over the audience and see only fifty or a hundred of his fellow students there. It is this feeling that he has the confidence of the entire student body that makes the representative of a university put forth every effort of which he is capable, in a contest against other colleges. If his institution does support him in spirit, the students will be on hand to encourage him, and not stay at home and not, in the event of losing the contest, say they would have gone to the contest but they knew their university would be defeated. The best way for a university student to show that he is a university man and that he is interested in his school is tor him to attend the affairs that the institution has an interest in. FEW months ago the student body of K. U. nearly went into spasms over the remarks made by a Harvard graduate to the effect that the tunes of our college songs were not original but consisted of airs taken from songs of Eastern institutions. Perhaps our indignation at the audacity of the gentleman's words, from our own Chapel platform too, was heightened rather than lessened by being compelled to admit to ourselves that the statement was true. It is lamentable that such a thing should should be true of our university songs. Why can't we have a song that belongs exclusively to Kansas University? There ought to be a half dozen people in the music school who could originate a creditable musical composition, and as for words, Mt. Oread might furnish inspiration for Miltonic lines from the hand of any one of numbers of budding K. U. poets. Numbers of small colleges would consider it a disgrace to have it said that they did not have at least one song which belonged to them individually and alone, and we too, should feel ashamed that Kansas University the head of our state public school system, has to set words to other colleges' music. It would be a most gratifying thing to K. U. students and faculty if those who have talent in a musical way should go to work upon a college song and initiate its singing in the coming May Festival. PARSONS COLLEGE as a Dancing Academy" is the title of an editorial in the Jefferson County Republican, of Fairfield, Iowa. It appears that the little college Fairfield has given two college parties in a hall down town this winter and upon both occasions the students danced. Of course the county paper could not let such questionable actions upon the part of the students go unencured. It is needless to remark that the Parsons college students were very thoughtless to cause the pain to the Fairfield paper that was occasioned by their terpsichorean ventures. In extension of their transgressions it may be said that they probably didn't think of the terrible consequences that could but result from such an unseenly entertainment as dancing. It appears that at an evening party their might be other means of passing the time away pleasantly. Checkers is an interesting game; and dominoes; some young people are never so happy as when engaged in the pleasant and scientific game of Tiddle-dewinks; others lean toward pussy wants a corner and Post-office. All of these are good old fashioned games and would in all probability meet the unqualified approval of the "Republican." The "Weekly" extends its sympathy to the students of Parsons college and hopes that they will remember their faults and be more careful in the future. Let them have nice little parties but remember not to dance, for it isn't nice at all—not at all. INTERCOLLEGIATE NEWS. Continued from page I. The Mississippi State legislature has taken a stand against college fraternities. A bill will be introduced to abolish traternities in the universities and colleges of Mississippi. The University of California, famed alike for class scraps and track teams, has rather outdone itself in the matter of undergraduate encounters. According to reports, the freshmen recently decorated a venderable negro, 'Majah' Waters, in a senior plug, a gaudy costume, and a big sign, "Boycott the Sophomore Minstrels." The seniors naturally objected to the use of the class plug for an advertising sign, and secured it after a foreible argument. The freshmen led away their advertising sign, but soon returned it with an imposing plug hat. The sophomores now helped out the seniors and the combined forces not only got the second plug hat but the advertising sign as well. They also got most of his gaudy clothes, whereupon the venderable old negro climbed the nearest spreading oak and called for the college president. The 'Majah' finally escaped and has refused to be an advertising sign for the freshmen any more. New Belts, Fancy'Ribbons, Veil Hose, New Gloves, New Spring Shirt Waists. A. D. 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