THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
Christmas Souvenir Number.
1903.
Editor-In-Chief  ROSCOE C. CHAMBERS
Sporting Editor CHARLES W. LOVELACE
Local Editor  RAY BARTON
Society Editor  MARY LAKE JOHNSON
Business Manager  M. X MCNAUGHTON
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The WEEKLY wishes its readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
TWICE A YEAR, at the close of the first and second semesters, an election is held by the share holders in the KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY who are active students at the university. At this election the editor-in-chief, the business manager, and eight members of the board are elected. There are sixteen members on the board. At each election the past editor-in-chief, business manager, and eight members of the board retire in favor of the new officers. From the sixteen members on the board, two associate editors, the sporting, local, society and literary editors are appointed. This constitutes the executive board.
The KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY is, in a way, a political paper. The elections are controlled by politics, and the supreme end in nominating the candidates for office is a political end. Certain factions nominate certain men who are chosen either because honor is due them or because some honor is due the factions which they represent. Little or no serious thought is given to whether or no the candidates are even anxious or capable of filling their positions should they be elected. Sometimes a faction will have a certain man whom they suspect of having some 'literary ability' and whom they think would make a good editor-in-chief. He is nominated and, possibly, elected. A business manager is not so hard to find. The financial end of the entire paper belongs to him. He stands the losses, should there be any; he takes the profits, if there are any. The editor-in-chief gets-anything. He has the honor of being editor-in-chief.
Under such conditions, the editor, should he accidentally have the interests of the paper at heart, is greatly handicapped. On account of self preservation, the business manager is obliged to make the paper pay. He sells advertising space in almost any part of the paper the advertiser demands. And advertisers are lacking in scruples. As a rule the business manager sells all the advertising space he can and then asks the editor to fill the remaining space as rapidly and as gracefully as he can. Most editors feel and rather enjoy a sense of responsibility, and give considerable time and thought to the editorial page. It is well to
state this, lest it might not be realized otherwise. After the editor has ground out two or three editorials, he locates the various sub-editors and members of the board and begs them to come to his rescue and to save the paper. Possibly the sympathy of one or two tender hearted members of the board is awakened, and they promise to help him out. Their help generally rests in their promises. But then they are not fully to blame; they get nothing out of it—their names will be printed among the executive board just the same. Saturday night finds the business manager and editor-in-chief and possibly a friend, filling up space in the paper. Sunday morning the illustrious KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY is in circulation, and the business manager, the editor-in-chief and the printer are at home in bed, thanking their stars that the paper has been printed and is no worse than it is—possibly it could not be. Such are the conditions under which the paper has been published for too long a time, and such were the conditions when the present editor-in-chief came into office.
There are a great many people who criticise the WEEKLY and who have expressed a desire to see a more respectable paper at the University. The present editor-in-chief is one of them. He blushes for the paper regularly once a week. His only consolation is in thinking that if those who criticise the paper had to run it under the adverse conditions they would join with the business manager and editor in thankning their stars that the paper is no worse. This article is written for those who criticise
When the present editor stepped into office, he had made up his mind to try to reorganize the paper—to put it on a basis that would make it a better paper and worthy the name it bears—a paper that would keep abreast with the 'new university spirit.' He made known his intentions but was given such a rebuff by those who insisted that the Kansas University Weekly could never be controlled by any thing but politics, that he peacefully retired thinking that it was hard enough as it was to get out the paper, let alone bringing about a reorganization. Two board meetings were called. At the first there were seven present; at the second there were four. Assignments were made for the different fields to be covered for the following week. At the end of the week one assignment was heard from, and that was in the form of notes to be 'written up' by the editor. There have been no board meetings since then. What is the use? The editor's time is limited—he has none to waste. And besides, their is a chair of journalism at the University of Kansas. Why not have the embryotic journalists exercise their ability on the paper? The editor is grateful for this opportunity to thank Professor Hopkins both for his valuable assistance and the interest he has taken in the paper. The editor also wishes to thank the class in journalism for the service they have rendered him;
and in particular he wishes to thank Ralph Ellis and Ray Clifford. And while boquets are being distributed, the editor wishes to thank Charlie Lovelace, Ray Barton, Will Shaw and Mary Lane Johnson for the work they have done on the paper.
During the present administration the WEEKLY has endeavored to make itself of interest to the students and to all concerned. It has undertaken to keep abreast and to voice the 'new university spirit.' It has striven to observe proportion and form in its columns. It has tried to keep advertisements off the first page. It has tried to be student-like and dignified. It has tried to be serious and light-hearted. It introduced a department labeled 'Smile!' The editor thought that if such a department was introduced it might inspire the minds of the University wits to produce and hand in original jokes. But alas, the editor has to resort to his scissors to bring forth jokes. He has been left to work out his problem-alone.
And so, gentle reader, be lenient-do not criticise too severely. And if you have any college spirit, blush with the present editor for being responsible for such a poor paper. Our University deserves a much better paper, and we are all to blame because it has not.
THE CHAIR of Journalism must also teach its students the science of making seven hours' sleep last for four days.
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$ \textcircled{5} $ Don't be enterprising. You run the risk of making the paper a success.
THE KANSAS-MISSOURI game at Kansas City Thanksgiving day, ended one of the most peculiar foot ball seasons that K. U. has ever had. Never before has a K. U. team been the source of so many varied surprises to its supporters.
At the beginning of the foot ball practice, everything looked dark for K. U.'s success. Coach Weeks found only a limited number of green men ready for work. It seemed that Kansas had again arranged a schedule, the playing of which would result in a list of defeats. Only four of last year's team played in the first game with Emporia College, but the final score was more than gratifying to the Kansas foot ball enthusiasts. Students began to talk of further victories, of what had happened in '99, and to encourage them further. Upon the same day Hicks came back. The Manhattan game, though won by a large score, created no surprise. The K. U. supporters expected it. "Nothing can beat us," they said. "Our team is all right." And then the enthusiastic support from the student
body flagged in earnestness
The Emporia Normal game turned the feeling of confidence in the team to one of consternation. The game, tho' won, was won by such a narrow margin that the student body was dis heartened and began to predict future failures as generally as they had prophesied victory a few days before. The victory over Colorado again raised the hope of K. U., supporters to the highest pinnacle only to be dashed to the ground by the defeats from Haskell and Washburn. The Oklahoma and Nebraska games testified to the fact that our team could play championship foot ball. Then, finally came the Thanksgiving game, when Kansas expected to retrieve all former mustortunes by overwhelming Missouri. The outcome was anything but gratifying to K. U., for only the brilliant work of Pooler kept the score from being a tie.
The season as a whole has been more than successful, when the outlook at the beginning of the year is taken into consideration; but there has been something lacking throughout. Of course at the time of the initial game it was generally felt that we could not hope to win all the games, but the later development of the foot ball team seemed to offer greater hopes of success.
Perhaps the erratic work of the foot ball team was caused more by the fluctuating spirit of the student body than any other one in a game. As long as the team was victorious, the students were wild with enthusiasm, but when their opponents began to make gains over K. U., the cheering from the Kansas supporters greatly decreased or stopped entirely. In the last half of the Nebraska game, although the adherents of the red and blue outnumbered the Nebraskan delegation ten to one, the K. U. team received less support from the side lines than the Nebraska boys.
Again when the Kansans suffered defeat, it was easy for the students to blame individual players and criticise the coaching methods. That every man on the team could and did play ball has been plainly shown in many contests; and that the coaching was of the very first quality is evinced by its success over the long-victorious tactics of Conch Booth.
No foot ball team can achieve success without the earnest cooperation of the university students. As long as the team is a university team, there are almost no obstacles which cannot be surmounted; but where the foot ball team becomes a separate entity from the great body of students, when either loses confidence in the other or when that confidence is not continually strengthened and its necessity remembered, only failure can result.
It is not too early, now, to think of next season and its duties. The work in base ball and track athletics will soon begin. Let us get together; we all have the same end in view, all desire, only, that success may attend all athletic efforts at the university; that these in turn may contribute to the greater honor and glory of old K.U.
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