The University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief, CHAS, HARKER RHODES,
Associates {... WILL R. MURPHY,
Literary Editor ... M. N. MCNAUGHTON,
Local ... RAY CLIFORD,
Society ... HELEN WILLIAMS,
Athletic ... GENE SALLEE,
Business Manager ... J. M. RADER,
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Myron L. Humphrey, Anna Warfield, J. Schroeder, N. P. Sherwood, H. H. Tangman, C. A. Gardner, A. M. Seddon, W. C. Hawke.
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Address all communications to J. M. Rader, Business Manager, Lawrence, Kansas.
LAWRENCE, KAN., SAT, MAR 22, 1902
TO THE BOARD.
To those members of the Staff and Board whose duties, inclinations, or social distractions evidently conflict with WEEKLY work, these words apply.
The laxity and general apatty of the Board members is as notorious as it is indefensible. The idea has gained prevalence with the average member that duty to the WEEKLY ceases with the verdict of the election. "Heaven is not reached by a single bound," and the absolute rest comes only after years of toil. A position on the Board, brings with it an implied pledge to the student body, of willingness and intention to work and a desire to assume a proportionate personal responsibility in the management and conduct of this paper. So long as the present harmful precedent remains, and the students who aspire to the council of the mighty, cling to the customs of their predecessors with Chinese persistence, the WEEKLY can hardly rise to rise from the plane of medicoerity. The general public hardly realizes the remission of their representatives. However ridiculous and incredible it may appear, the truth still remains, that there are some members on our board and staff who have not submitted one line of copy directly to the editor or in any way assisted the sub-editors to advance their departments in general interest. They are about as much use to the paper as the vermiform appendix in watermellon time. Approached by the editor with some assignment, they are astounded by his presumption and masking with difficulty their outraged pride they answer that "they have no time." Or when the flanges of this excuse have worn too thin for safe locomotion, they become suddenly uncertain of their literary powers and their manifest good intentions are stifled by flushes of overmastering modesty.
Their name in the sub-heading indicates a share in the work accomplished. In this respect every issue of the WEEKLY indirectly falsifies. This parasitical existence should bring some promptings of personal pride. But since it does not, and since continuance in office under such circumstances cultivates a pernicious tendency, the editor would suggest either work or resignation.
The conduct of the WEEKLY is submitted to a board of sixteen. If every person was zealous and loyal to his individual duty and was individually responsible for the work in his several departments, the issue of this paper would cease to fall as a burden upon the few. The student body is well cognizant of the fact that both available time and at least slight literary ability are or should be the tests for eligibility to our board. Why these positions should be striven for by those who possess neither of these requisites remains an unsolved problem to us.
In our midst there are hundreds of students mentally qualified to do this work and who, moreover, are desirous of an opportunity for practice in journalism, their prospective profession. Lack of reputation or "graft" and too much sincerity of purpose, alone, have withheld them from these coveted openings. Due to the dereliction of the board, the Editor has been compelled to rely on these persons almost exclusively for departmental notes. To them the present system in vogue is a manifest injustice. Their efforts merit some meed. The present represent board members should awaken to the fact that they are interlopers. And when this idea dawns with dazzling brilliancy upon their busy brains, they should either get to work or resign.
THE JAY HAWK QUILL.
The need of a distinctly literary magazine at K. U. is some thing that every student's recognizes. The Weekly does not attempt to be anything more than a newspaper and it heartily approves any effort to issue a literary publication here in the University. The Jayhawk Quill undertakes to give K. U. a magazine that shall represent the best literary talent of the school and shall till a place in University affairs that has been too much neglected. The March issue—the first number of the new magazine—is a very neat piece of work. While it lacks the startling uniqueness of the Automobile, it has more solid merits of its own. No doubt each succeeding issue will present varying phases of our student's literary activity, and the hitherto unheard voices of our Longfellows, Bryants and Kiplings will find in the "Jay Hawk Quill" a means of reaching the public ear. The work in this first issue promises a style that shall be agreeable to the most critical. Nor does it seem that originality and spirit will be altogether lost.* We do not believe that it is necessary to violate all the rules of literary taste in order to be original and attractive, and we trust that the Jay Hawk Quill will continue in succeeding numbers to bear us out in this.
If the new magazine is to succeed it will be not alone by the efforts of its editorial staff, but also through the co-operation and support of the student body. If a magazine of this kind is allowed to fail it will be through carelessness and neglect on the part of those who are bound by college spirit to support it. We commend this new periodical to
The following clipping from the Missouri Independent furnishes food for thought and contemplation:
our readers and urge them to give it the encouragement that it merits. R.
Kansas University and Baker University are saying uncomplimentary things about each other now on account of a debating contest. Baker won the debate and is doing a good deal of rejoicing over the victory, but because some K. U. man, or more likely, some outsider, handled one of the Baker rooters pretty roughly, the Baker people are calling the Jay Hawkers a lot of rowdies and toughs. Of course this is unjust. The better class of students at K. U. are not responsible for such rowdyism, and could not prevent it. But K. U. made a mistake in debating Baker. They were out of their class and the accident of defeat gave a would be rival chance to make great and unreasonable claims. This little unease is an circumstance shows the wisdom of Missouri's policy in refusing to debate any but state universities. With others it is everything to lose and nothing to win. When we win a debate from Kansas or Nebraska we don't at once set up a claim that M. S. U. is a better school than K. U. neither do they when they win from us. The only reasonable claim to make is that for the time we had three better men than they had. But when a smaller school wins from a state university they at once claim that they are doing just as good or better work than the state institution. Baker is now pointing to the results of the recent debate to prove that its English department is stronger than K. U.'s, a fact that had been in question some time ago. No institution should debate with another that is not aboye such little strutting. If they are acknowledged equals there is no need for and will be no such foolish boasting To win a debate does not make the school in all departments better than the loser.
In view of the recent resolution of the Juniors to confine the attendance of the "Prom" within proper limitations, the Committee on Invitations is meeting with embarassment in manifest form. Here is a sample proposition: Two years ago a certain student was a Junior and paid his "Prom" assessment. Last year he attended that function as a Senior. Failing for some reason to graduate with his class, he is in school at present and as a result the Committee are debating his eligibility to an invitation.
The Athletic Association contemplates the placing of Base Ball Season Tickets on sale soon. The schedule this year is heavier than usual and will consequently involve greater expenses on the part of the management. It is earnestly hoped that the student body will manifest in their tangible support a proper appreciation of the strong attractions offered. This branch of athletics is worthy of our most zealous enthusiasm, and it should not be hampered by financial embarrassment.
To develop local enthusiasm and create a healthful diversion, the local clubs should arrange a schedule of athletic contests. The approach of spring will render out-of-door sports especially delightful and their enjoyment should not be confined to the Association schedules, or inter-fraternity challenges. The enticing environs should lure our clubs to out-ofdoor suppers, with the additional attraction of some rivaled contest.
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To the memory of Mrs. May Sexton Agnew, who died recently in Manila, the Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity will erect a very beautiful monument. Arrangements have been made whereby an alcove in Spooner Library will be set aside for the fraternity and in *it* will be placed by them a large number of books for student use. This collection of books will be replenished and renewed from time to time. A fund entrusted to the Chancellor, the Librarian and the President of the Fraternity, has been established for the maintenance of this laudable memento. The interest from this fund only, will be expended in the purchase of books. Such a worthy gift will receive universal approbation.
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