The University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief, CHAS, HARKER RHODES,
Associates, { ... WILL R. MURPHY,
Literary Editor ... M. N. MCNAUGHTON,
Local ... RAY CLIFFORD,
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Athletic ... GRNE SALLEE,
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LAWRENCE, KAN., SAT. MAY, 24, 1902
PRACTICAL POLITICS.
Our defeat in the track meet last Saturday at the hands of Missouri was complete and overwhelming. Our men were simply outclassed owing to lack of training. They did nobly under the circumstances and we should appreciate their efforts. Owing to the showing made the management thought it prudent to cancel our engagement with Nebraska, because defeat seemed inevitable and two such losses in one season might prove disastrous to future welfare in this branch of athletics. Hampered by lack of facilities, coaching and proper direction, we can hardly hope to make a creditable showing against institutions that do enjoy such advantages. Dr. Naismith is competent, loyal and enthusiastic, but cooped away in a dingy basement, and furnished with a limited supply of crudest apparatus it is impossible for him to make much showing, try as he may. He possesses the power of detecting promising ability and developing the new material as only few directors can. He encourages the boys to earnest practice in the face of our limited facilities and surmounts the many obstacles with courageous skill. He deserves a gymnasium where he may exercise his powers properly and make an adequate showing for his ability. Every year the prospects for a gym shimmers on the horizon like a deluding mirage only to fade away with the rising sun. We believe that if the people of Kansas appreciated the crying need of a gymnasium at K. U., not another year would pass without provision being made to supply us with one. We have many promising politicians among the student body. Many can wield great influence with their local legislators. Let each student then consider himself a duly authorized delegate to lobby for K. U. Identifying himself with local politics let him arouse sympathy and interest in this great institution; let him make the constituency realize the obstacle that impede our progress, and finally consent to no candidate who is not avowedly in favor of more liberal policy on the part of the state toward K. U. Great good can be accomplished by such a procedure. So whoop it up for a gym.
A DANGEROUS ZEAL.
Flushed with victory or incited with the desire to secure the supremacy of a faction at any cost we endanger the welfare of the enterprises we seek to serve. The following article clipped from the Knox Student contains excellent thought along this line.
Even in a time so broad and generous as the present when life in every phase is beginning to be less selfish than formerly, one may occasionally hear about college and from lips of students, such remarks as the following in regard to some candidate for office, "Anything at all to beat him." A question as to the motive which prompted the above remark and remarks of like character, would in very many cases disclose the fact that the man "to be beaten" was the best one for the position, viewing the case from the standpoint of the best interests of the student body, and that the only opposition that existed had its source in a wild sort of fanatical partizanship as narrow and shortsighted as it is disastrous to the general welfare and growth of student institutions. Such remarks are a strong condemnation in themselves and bespeak a nature entirely out of harmony with the best spirit of the time. There is nothing admirable in blind selfishness and wherever it displays itself, whether in our college relations or without college, it is alike disgusting. The one who feels that in displaying such a spirit he shows a true loyalty to himself or to his friends, simply shows that he is unable to see beyond the confines of the present moment. Such a one should endeavor to burst his shell and learn that the world is larger than himself and his. The college man or woman who can not see beyond the horizon of his or her own little circle toward the infinitely broader horizon, where student life becomes merged into the greater life for which this is but a preparation, has missed the mark widely, and, if he retains such a restricted view, will be forced to find his friends among those of like selfish instincts. Our first consideration should be for the good of our college broadly considered, and loyalty to it need not mean disloyalty to a lesser circle to which we may belong. There is a proper adjustment which permits the fulfillment of every real obligation, and this it should be our purpose as college students to realize in spite of the very few who advocate something less because they can see nothing more.
K. U. needs a college song. If the genius can be found who can compose us music as stirring and quickening as the yell Rock Chalk his name will become famous in the archives of this institution. Every college of note has its distinctive song—music that the bands strike upon the gridiron at some crucial juncture of the game, sustained by a thousand throated accompaniment from the side lines, where sways a living wave of colors. We should
A COLLEGE SONG.
have our own song to sing at our ratifications, at our mass meetings and at student functions public or private."Carmen" has not the stirring irrepressible quality that such a song should possess. Let the music have a quickening, thrilling effect, powerful in itself to win victories in struggles of doubtful issue. The structure of both words and music should be such as to permit substitution for local events as the occasion may demand. It would be well for the fine art school to encourage compositions along this line.
A level-headed article from the Baker Orange.
Dr. S. W. Williston, professor of historical geology and vertebrate anatomy in the University of Kansas, has decided to accept a similar chair in the University of Chicago, at a salary of $3,500 a year. There are other members of the K. U. faculty contemplating changes for the sake of increased salaries. Most of these, like Dr. Williston, are specialists of note and we are sorry to lose them from Kansas. It seems that some way should be devised by which a sufficient salary to retain them could be paid. It is interesting to note, however, that K. U. spends nearly three times as much as B. U. per student, most of which is in salaries paid to the professors. It does not argue, though, that smaller salaries should be paid in K. U., but that they should be increased in both schools. These professors are worth as much to the yonug people of Kansas as to those of any other state. To make the application right here at home—Baker people and all her friends should see that enough funds are provided to pay suitable salaries to our professors. We have the best and other folks know it and want them.
The WEEKLY is not averse to "puffing" local enterprises and sacrificing space if need be for their interests. However it does think that these institutions thus benefited should reciprocate with proper courtesy. The editor is not grafting when he expects to be supplied with comps that he may attend the performance and write it up. That is only a customary courtesy. Some of our local managers have been negligent of their duty in this respect, almost to impoliteness. The comps to be given to the WEEKLY unless in definite payment of ads and thus strictly pertaining to the business department, should be furnished the editor for his distribution. Please be more thoughtful hereafter, and save the editor unnecessary embarrassment.
We of ten hear of coffers filled with gold. Is this the origin of the phrase cough up?
"Ex."—one who.
"Coffer"—one who coughs.
Hence the expression to cough up has its present meaning.
The time is nearing when the regular members of the flunk brigade begin to phalanxious.
The Pharmic is one of the (pill) ars of K. U.
1. Why is the when?
QUIZ IN PHILOSOPHY.
2. The infinite includes the finite. Explain how the whatever can comprehend the notwithstanding.
3. Where does the when transcend the why and universally coordinate the pneuma?
4. Can a tabula rasa Malebranche?
5. Discuss in polysyllabic concatenation the primal phenomena of idealistic illimitable **s*
Monday of this week Dr. Snow sent out to over a thousand of the leading entomologists a printed list of North American Coleoptera offered for exchange by the Entomological Department. He is beginning to receive a large correspondence relative to this circular and hopes to effect some important exchanges soon.
The announcement of fellowships in the University of Chicago for next year includes the names of three recent graduates of the University of Kansas. S.C. Emley, $^{\circ}$00, has been appointed fellow in bacteriology; W.J. Baumgartner, $^{\circ}$00, fellow in zoology; and O.H.Brown, $^{\circ}$02, fellow in physiology. The University of Kansas has been extensively represented on the list of fellows of Chicago University since the establishment of that institution, and now numbers several of its recent graduates among the regular instructors in the larger school.
At a recent meeting of the Geological Society of London the honor of election as foreign correspondent of that society was conferred upon
Dr. S. W. Williston, professor of historical geology and vertebrate anatomy in the University of Kansas. This is the highest honor conferred by that society, and is regarded as a mark of unusual distinction, having been held by only six Americans since the organization of the society in 1860. It was conferred upon Dr. Williston in recognition of his extensive work and publications in paleontology, which have gained for him an international reputation as a scientist. His collection of fossil vertebras in the Kansas University museum is in some respects the most complete and valuable in this country, and has led numerous European paleontologists to visit the University in recent years. Dr. Williston has just been invited to take the chair of Vertebrate Paleontology in a prominent eastern university at a salary $1000 greater than his present salary at the University of Kansas. He is also offered a prominent position in a large eastern museum.
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THE
Kansas City Medical College
Established 1859.
KANSAS CITY, MO
DIRECTORS
J. H. VAN EMAN, M. D., President,
W. C. TYNEE, M. D. Vice-President.
T. J. BEATTIE, M. D. Secretary.
D. R. PORTER, M. D. Treasurer.
E. W. SCHAUFFLER, M. D.
Officers of Faculty.
ANDRW L. FULTON, M. D.
DEAN.
ROETN, MCE. SCHAUFFLER, M. D.
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Well known Lecturers.
Carefully conducted demonstrations and Quiz classes.
New Pathological Salonatory with abundant opportunity for practical laboratory diagnosis.
New Operating Amphitheatre and Clinic Rooms in St. Joseph's Hospital.
Large Obstetrical Clinic with many opportunities for students to personally conduct cases.
Has graduated classes for over 30 years. Alumni well established throughout the West.
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