THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
Editor-in-Clef.  ROSCOE CHAMBERS
Associates }  J. H. WILSON
Sporting Editor.  ARTHUR HAYER
Local Editor.  C. W. LOVELACE
Local Editor.  RAY BARTON
Society Editor.  MARY L. JOHNSON
Literary Editor.  MARY BURWELL
Business Manager.  M. N. McNAUGHTON
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STUDENTS may be divided into two classes—those who work and those who keep others from working.
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NO ONE doubts for a minute the truth of the statement that pride goeth before a fall, but the recent ice and snow on the Adams street hill has led many students to believe that pride also goeth after a fall.
SO FAR as is known the University of Kansas has made no resolution for the New Year. The making of resolutions seems to be left to the students. And since, after all, the students are really the university, it may be well enough for us to look about and make a few resolves for the good of old K. U. What a fine thing it would be if every student would make up his mind to do something this year that would really benefit the university—that would make the university better off for his having attended it. What if our athletes, and our actors, our orators, our debaters, our musicians, our everybody were all working unselfishly for K. U. What would we not accomplish? What would happen if we would all resolve to simply stop "knocking" for a year and would support student enterprises? Or if we "knock," knock in the right way—knock the hissing accent off our sky-rocket yell, for example, and the long drawn out groan at the close of our melodious Rock Chalk! Jay Hawk! K. U.! What if every one would resolve to just stop "grafting" for a year—would work less for self and more for the university—would spend the profits derived from various student enterprises on the university itself—would buy uniforms tor our band, and help improve McCook field? Would not every one and everything connected with K. U. be better off, and the kingdom of heaven be just a little nearer at hand?
Dr. Francolini of Rome, publishes a statement declaring that the source of the Clitumnus, a small Umbrian river sacred to the ancient Romans, may contain radium. He bases his opinion on a description by Pliny and on passrges in the works of many writers from Virgil to Byron and Carducci. The waters at the source of the river are the color of violet.
BULLETIN.
TUESDAY, JAN. 12.
Col. O. E. Learnard lecture before the class of Journalism at 11:15.
THURSDAY, JAN. 14,
B. J. Sheldon's lecture to the class of Journalism at 11:15.
Greek Symposium in Physics hall at 4:30.
FRIDAY, JAN. 15.
Dr. Edward A. Stiner's lecture on Textile Hunting.
Dr. Edward A. Stiner's lecture on Tolstoi in University hall at 8:00.
INTERCOLLEGIATE NEWS.
The St. Louis Exposition management has made an appropriation for the construction of a barracks and parade grounds for the use of military organizations and cadet corps who visit the World's Fair. Military campaigns from the colleges throughout the country are to be invited to avail themselves of the use of the barracks. Exhibition drills are to be given by the different college companies.
At a meeting of the University of Wisconsin students who are patrons of the livery men of Madison, a proposition was considered to form a protective association to compel the owner of the necessary adjuncts to social functions to be more reasonable than they now are in their scale of charges. If necessary the students are determined to boycott the grasping liverymen and in future walk to the college dances. It is claimed that the prices for livery in Madison are exorbitantly high. An inter-fraternity committee to consult with the men who control the supply of carriages has been appointed.
Northwestern University is offering courses to business men. It believes that many men who can distinguish the good and bad points in a business proposition are sadly outclassed in the intricacies of English grammatical construction. To give business men who desire a taste of college education an opportunity to improve their composition, the university will next quarter offer "extension courses in practical English." The courses are named "Good English for Business Men;" "Business Methods of Teaching English;"and "Literary Composition."
A Pan-Hellenic Whist Tournament is the latest amusement devised at the University of Iowa. The fraternities think that a whist tourney would create as much heat and blood as the base ball inter traternity league. The men of Iowa are said to be expert in manipulating trumps and aces, and a lively time is assured the contestants. The tourney will be held at the beginning of the Winter Quarter. An interfraternity bowling league is also proposed.
The "Jackson Club" of the University of Indiana is planning a political banquet in January at which William Jennings Bryan will speak.
An inter-fraternity bowling league has been formed at the University of Wisconsin.
The Sigma Nu fraternity has completed the erection of a new chapter house at the University of Illinois. There are twenty rooms in the building. A large hall room is on the top floor. The cost of erection is $20,000.
THE CHARGE OF MY DAD.
Half my coin, half my coin,
All my coin gone dad;
All for expense of mine,
Went the six hundred.
Forward three hundred!
Was there a man dismayed?
'Twas my dad when he paid
Ont the six hundred.
1.
11.
Dared I to make reply?
Lest he should ask me why.
This spent for fun and pie.
For a table.
Gone my six hundred.
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Maidens to right of me,
Maidens to left cf me,
Maidens all around me,
Worked me and plundered;
Smiled at by every belle,
Easy they worked me well;
Inside I feared them;
There I am forced to tell;
Want my six hindered.
Went my six hundred.
IV.
Flashed all the coin did I,
Flashed all this coin and why?
Cause at the foot ball game
They worked me just the same.
All the girls wondered.
Sitting in "two fr" smoke,
Despiring am I broke,
Busted and ruined.
Reeled from the awful stroke,
I and the girls have broke,
Shattered and surrendered.
Roll on.
By loss of six hundred
V.
Duns on the right of me,
Duns on the left of me,
Duns from behind me,
Dunned and plundered.
Stormed at by landlord's wife,
Chased with a butcher-knife,
Scared to an inch of life.
Why this awful raid?
Cause the room rent is not paid.
Send me a check, will you?
Send me three hundred?
Then a letter drew,
Hit him in the three hundred.
When can my debts be paid?
O, the wild charge is made!
Gone was the farm to smash,
Lost by my spending rash,
All of my daddy's cash;
All I had plundered.
--in the city, are here and at NO FANCY PRICES either. They are elegantly made and fit to perfection.
All I had plundered.
AN ESSAY ON HABIT.
A school master once said to his pupils that to the boy who would make the best piece of composition in five minutes on "How to Overcome Habit" he would give a prize. When the five minutes had expired a lad of nine years stood up and said: "Well, sir, habit is a bad thing to overcome. If you take off the first letter it does not change 'abit.' If you take off another letter you still have a 'bit' left. If you still take off another, the whole of 'it' remains. If you take off another it is not totally used up, all of which goes to show that if you want to get rid of a habit you must throw it off altogether."
He won it.
A member of one of Princeton's famous teams of the "eighties" attributed the success of "old Nassau" to the absence of secret societies. The tenor of his opinion was that at Princeton every one is imbued with the spirit first and foremost of duty to his college, and that this results in bringing the best men to the front; the necessary implication being that at the university the choice of members of the team is in no way influenced by the prejudice of social connections, as might be the case at some other colleges, where, other things being anywhere near equal, the society man would have the advantage. This opinion was not concurred in by the Harvard men or the Yale men, who declared convincingly that secret societies had no such prejudicial influence at those universities.
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