THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
Editor-in-Cief... ROSCOE CHAMBERS
Associates { .RAY BARTON
                  .ANTHUR BAYSE
Literary Editor... MARY BURWELL
Society Editor... VERA HULL
Athletic Editor... HARRY HORN
Local Editor.
Business Manager ... J. R. BRADY
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THE SPIRIT that overcomes; that subdues; that progresses—this is the spirit that came to Mount Oread with the advent of our new chancellor. For a year it has flourished and gained strength, and has won for itself a response in the breast of every follower of the crimson and the blue. It has manifested itself in an outburst of enthusiasm for all university institutions, and at the same time it has appeared in the general better discipline and closer regard for authority. On the football field it has let the team know that it was supported; in class and school contests it has let the chancellor know that he was respected. It's in the air. We all feel that the year past has been the best the University of Kansas has ever known.
The students entering now are particularly fortunate in coming under the influence of this new spirit at its period of germination. At first it arouses them and helps them, and then, in turn, depends upon them for its perpetuity.
While this spirit has taken hold of nearly every department of university life, and has made itself deeply felt everywhere, there seems to be one interest that has not yet been fully awakened by it. One of its first and most tiring of its friends has been the UNIVERSITY WEEKLY, yet this alone has failed to obtain the assistance of its protege. The student body has not been in sympathy with the UNIVERSITY WEEKLY. It is said that it has not deserved support. We of the WEEKLY say that without support it cannot be made acceptable to the student body. We have tried to make it a more worthy paper in order to justify and win support. The WEEKLY would like to have the student body support it and see if it will not become a more worthy paper. If a reader finds mistakes that he thinks may be remedied, let him send his suggestion to our office; we shall be only too glad to make use of them. If he finds something worthy in it, let that also be known.
In other institutions the university paper is the mainspring of university affairs. Everybody takes it. Everybody is glad to contribute to its columns. It is as eagerly read as is the good daily of the city, and indeed stands very much in the same relation to its readers. These conditions must exist here before the development of university spirit can be said to be complete. Let the spirit with which we
Let the spirit with which we
support athletics extend to our WEEKLY. If it fails once, let us look upon it with the same charity that we look upon the defeat of our football team, knowing always that there is another time coming; and that if we still are loyal, it must, impelled by our confidence in it, become all that we wish it to be, and take its rightful place as a most important link in the chain of university interests, commanding the assistance and the adherence of all.
THE CHANCELLOR'S chapel talk on the UNIVERSITY WEEKLY as a means of furthering university enthusiasm has aroused much thought and favorable comment among the students-particularly those who are subscribers to the WEEKLY. Numerous suggestions have been made by those interested in the affairs of the paper, and the management, itself, has already begun to lay foundations for a reconstruction which seems likely to be permanent.
The career of a college paper varies according to the ability of the management and staff, and to the interest and support of the faculty and students. If it be supported entirely by advertising and subscriptions, it may be a success financially, but it will probably be a failure as a medium of university news and university interest. On the contrary, if the paper does justice to the news and matters of interest to students and faculty alike, it must have less conspicuous advertising and more financial support from the university, not merely as a subscriber but as a contributor and business support.
The question has come up how to appoint a staff competent to shoulder the responsibility and to furnish their share of material. Politics has been responsible in the past for the election of some assistant editors and reporters who took little interest in the work. If political parties run the WEEKLY, let it be the socialist or the populist parties of the university. Let every student and every member of the faculty feel that the paper is his to criticise or to encourage.
One plan for selecting a staff has already been suggested and is undoubtedly a good one. It is that the staff for each year be selected by the staff of the preceding year, and that they be chosen from the news or literary contributors of that year, according to their ability and willingness to do the work. With such a staff and with an editor duly elected every year by the subscribers, there is no reason why the faculty as well as the student body should not use their assistance toward making the UNIVERSITY WEEKLY a real university newspaper, magazine, guide and, if need be, an almanac of the university year, a dynamo which shall generate that current of university spirit that has been talked of so much.
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He (savagely) —I think I ought to know my own mind!
She (sweetly) —Yes, you certainly should know that much!
Questions and Answers.
"Ask Us no Questions and We'll Tell You no Lies."
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Senior: Ifwhile walking down the street on Sunday morning, one were to question you regarding the definition and use of language proper, what would you say?
Angeline:—In an essay I wrote, the expression, "it made the air look very sick," was marked through with red ink. What in your opinion is wrong with the expression?
Angeline—You say "it made the atmosphere look very sick." How can you think of the atmosphere being 'sick'? However, when I come to think about it, I do remember of reading somewhere of an ill wind.
Since language was given to us for the concealment of thought permit me to congratulate you on being so perfect a master of English,
Question: If one were to ask you to drop him a line, which line would you drop.
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Freshman—What is a sleeper? Freshman,--Your question is quite indefinite. You should have stipulated "human" or "Pulbman." However, I shall attempt an answer. You will no doubt recall that Peter Piper was a gentleman who picked a peck of pickled peppers. Now, strictly speaking, a sleeper is one who sleeps. A sleeper is that in which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which the sleeper runs while the sleeper sleeps. Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper carries the sleeper over the sleeper under the sleeper until the sleeper which carries the sleeper jumps the sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the sleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper on the sleeper, and there is no longer any sleeper sleeping in the sleeper. So there!
Drop the sucker a good one by all means. I suggest this: "Unconscious as the sunshine simply sweet."
Washburn—A good old orthodox friend of mine wants me to send him some good advise. Can you suggest anything appropriate?
It your friend is actually good and old and orthodox the following poem might possibly be appreciated:
When it's time to shuffle off,
An' you have done yer mission,
Put yer trust in Providence,
But—call a good physician!
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