Kansas UniversityWeekly Editor-in-Chief...GEORGE BARCUS Associates. { C. A. GARDNER { C. J. HINDMAN Literary Editor...E. W MURRAY Society Editor...RACHEL PUGH Athletic Editor...GUY HARSHBERRER Local Editor...WALTER J. MEEK Associates : BLAIN E. F. MOORE, FLOYD T. L. TIFORD J. H. FELDER, H. P. FONES, J. H. LANGWORTHY. GENE SALKER, J.NO. A. DEVLIN, ALFRED SEDONN, JOSEPH HEELS, GUY WAUD, AND FLORENCE JONSO E. H. McMath, Managing Editor. Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second-class mail matter. Shares in the WEEKLY $1 each, entitling the holder to the paper two years, may be had of the secretary and treasurer, Geo. Foster, the man of the office, Lawrence office. Subscription price, $0 cents per annum in advance. Single copies 5 cents. Address all communications to E. H. McMath, Business Manager, Lawrence, Kansas. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 13, 1901. The WEEKLY has always been silent concerning honesty in politics in the University. It is not because the University politicians are overly honest, but because the matter has been overlooked. The University is a little world in itself. It is a good deal like the big cold world when it comes to politics. Things in the University go just as they do in the big world, the man who has the backing and the crowd pushing him gets the jobs. It is sad to relate but merit counts for very little in the University. Everything is slated a year ahead. This organization takes base ball manager, another WEEKLY editor, another foot ball manager. When the time for election comes the organization puts up its arm and he is elected. He may be a good man and he may be as much out of place in the new job as a fish in a tree. But that makes no difference. The slate plan is all right if the right man is up, but he is not always found out. This plan has its advantages in that it keeps down hard feelings and useless fights. There is no particular fight on the slate plan, but there is a fight when a man agrees to do a thing and fails to keep his promise. Honesty is the one thing necessary in school politics, just as in world politics. A man can make himself an object of scorn and distrust by playing false in school politics just as by being untrue to his friends in world politics. The statesman is a statesman because he is a leader, has id as and is honest. In this way the student may become a statesman. By being dishonest he may soon be known as a hypocrite and a liar. There is too much of a tendency in the University to gain ends by any means. It is better to gain honest whether you win or whether you lose. For years the Kansas-Missouri people have paid enormous sums for the use of Exposition Park in Kansas City for the Thanksgiving game. This year the management is trying every resource to obtain some suitable place where the game can be played and where the management will not be robbed. Managers Foster and Heatherington were in Kansas City Wednesday and are thinking something of building a park if a suitable place can be found. The latter plan is certainly a good one. Of course the park would not pay for itself in one or two years, but it would in time, and would be a good investment. It is nothing more or less than robbery when the managers of Exposition Park received seven or eight hundred dollars for the Thanksgiving game. The Athletic association of west Missouri and Kansas are not financially able to pay such exhortant sums as are annually exacted for the privilege of one game. Any plan to avoid such expense should be considered. The advisability of building a park should be seriously considered by both schools. It takes money to run athletics, and if money is saved by some new plan, let that plan be adopted. Thursday afternoon the 'Varsity nine played a game of ball with a strange lot from Nebraska that was a mighty good team. From the place where the WEEKLY man sat it looked as if the Nebraskans played a better game than the renowned Kansas nine. It is hard to explain just how it did happen, but it seemed that the Kansans were in awfully fast company. They found difficulty in hitting the long Nebraskan and the Nebraskans did not find much difficulty in hitting the thick Kansan. The Kansans were down in the mouth because they did not get to play Emporia and the field was heavy and the Nebraskans took a strong lead, and it was not until the ninth that the Kansas nine fully broke the hoodoo. We try to console ourselves that our team is just about as good as the Nebraskas team, but that we played against the will of the gods and a combination of dishetening circumstances. No other team has taken a game on the home grounds, and no other team will this year. In the past term the WEEKLY has been trying to revive oratory, but recently it has given up and in the last two issues has buried the lost art. But now Dr. Bardick, the University orator, makes a loud speech in mass meeting in which he says oratory is not dead and that the WEEKLY is in error. Of course the Doctor may have meant that debate is not死暗; in that case the WEEKLY agrees, but in the case of oratory it most stoutly denies. The WEEKLY has watched the pulse of the institution very carefully for the past three months and has seen oratory pass from among the things that make up university life. It is too bad that all minds cannot agree. The Kansas-Colorado debate is over and we have won. The speakers naturally get all the credit for winning. But like the "man behind the gun" there were two other men in the University who shouldered the responsibility of the financial steering. Mr. Wilson, chairman of the executive committee and Mr. Dickinson, Treasurer, have atten'd to almost every detail in the management of the debate, and made it possible. The WEEKLY takes of its hat to these gentlemen. Thursday the council re-admitted the nina exiled sophomores to the ranks. The boys had been given thirty days but the council generously cut ten days from the sentence. It was a wise act. The sentiment of the students was against such severe action. No action was taken by the students, for they were sensible enough to know it would only complicate affairs. The council showed its wisdom and its generosity by cutting down the time of suspension. The WEEKLY is a little in doubt concerning which way to comment on the spring oratorical contest. A Freshman Arts won out over the old time University orators. His subject "The Star of the East," was well handled but it was one also that appealed very strongly to the ministers who acted as judges. It was a good contest and the novel thing about it was the fact that a Freshmen Arts won from all comers. The Athletic board which is seven hundred dollars in arrears, has kindly consented to permit any student who may pay his expenses to enter the track events in Chicago in June, and represent the University of Kansas. The students are taking advantage of these golden opportunities. Of course the board would gladly send representatives, but it is in debt. THE BUILDING MOVEMENT. There is no college in the state where the literary societies meet in rooms so uninviting as our own here at K. U. Attractive society halls ought to be possessed by these organizations here. The building which the Christian associations propose to build will be one which will be generally useful as a students' headquarters. An attractive auditorium, seating perhaps 500, society halls, parlors, game rooms, dark room for kodak fiends, in fact something for every student. The associations are planning for "K U. Sundays" during the coming vacation. Students will use a church service in which to present the existing conditions of Christian work at the University and to suggest the needs, among which this building movement will be prominent. A strong Christian work here will rebut the one argument which is used by denominational colleges against us; there will be found surely some friends of the institution who will recognize this and will devote a part of their wealth to the purpose of erecting a building which will provide increased facilities for such a work. The movement must begin with the students and before anything can be expected from outside of Lawrence the people here must give generously. The experience in various colleges where buildings have been secured goes to show that where the canvass is pressed in a strong manner, locally, that outside support is sure to follow. Every student ought to be interested in this movement. Y. M. C. A. The meeting Sunday will be in charge of the Senior members. An interesting service is assured all men who attend North college at 2:30 Sunday. A series of "K. U. Sundays" is being arranged for the summer to be conducted by association people in their home towns. The plan promises to be a strong advertisement for the University. Work on the handbook is being prosecuted and the committee promises even a more creditable publication than the one last year. The cabinets of the two associations were delightfully entertained at the home of Capt. and Mrs. Haskell, Saturday evening The Christian workers of the University owes a great deal to the active interest of Mr. and Mrs. Haskell. The Bible classes closed the year's work last Sunday morning. Our association is fortunate to have its quartette chosen to furnish the music at the Lake Geneva Conference in June. There are 160 colleges represented which makes this special distinction of peculiar value. At least three more men besides the quartette will be in attendance from here. The Employment bureau has commenced work for next year and has done considerable business. The meeting Wednesday was led by Miss Gussie Hall who reviewed the book "Winsome Womanhood" by Mrs. Margaret Sangster, as the topic for the afternoon. It was a practical book, helpfully discussed, and formed a good basis for the meeting. A committee to select the delegates to the conference at Lake Geneva, was appointed and will report next week. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. Committees from the two associations are at work on the hand-book which is to be sent out for new students during the summer and distributed at the beginning of the term next fall. Very pretty invitations were issued this week for a Japanese afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. house Saturday, when Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Kilworth will tell of their travels in that country. The invitations were painted by a number ot University girls and are unique and attractive. There will be a meeting of the South Lawrence Tennis Club, at its courts on Adams street, on Monday, May 20, at 5 o'clock. All members are earnestly requested to be present, for important business is to be transacted. Tennis Club Meeting H. F. JONES, Pres. G.M. SHARRARD, Sec'y Try W. A. GUENTHER — FOR — Fancy and Staple Groceries, Fruits, Candies, Tobacco and Cigars. 721 Mass Phone 226. YEARLY to Christian man or woman to look after our growing business in this and adjoining Counties, to act as Manager and Correspondent; work can be done at your home. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope for particulars to J. A. Knight, General Manager, Corcoran Building, Opposite United States Treasury, Washington D.C. EDWARD BUMGARDNER, M.D. D. D. D. S. DENTIST, Office 809 Massachusetts Street, LAWRENCE, KANSAS. Telephone 209 2-rings. DR. B. H. LESLIE DR. B. H. LESLIE Office, 745 Mass. St. Office 'Phone, 185. Residence, 191-4. E. SMITH, M. D. Residence, 920 Indiana. Office, 723 Mass. - Phone 247. All calls answered day or night. Livery, Hack and Boarding Stable. No. 812-814 Vermont St. Lawrence, Kan Telephone 139. GEO. F. GODDING. WANTED. Take Notice, Students ! Reliable man for manager of Branch office we wish to open in this vicinity. If your record is O. K. here is an opportunity. Kindly give good reference when writing the A: T Morriswholehouse house, Cincinnati, Ohio. Ill. ustrated catalogue 4 cta stamps. A Variety OF K. U. VIEWS in CARDS and PAPER We have a large stock of Geo. C. Whitman's box papers, in cream, heliotrope, azure and blue colois, 35c. quality, we will sell this month for 25c. G. C. WOLF. Between dances drop down to the 917 Mass. St. WEIGHTS --- --- For Refreshments. 山 --- 17 --- We Handle all Kinds of Summer Drinks, Cigars and MINERAL WATERS The only place in the city for fancy drinks. LAWRENCE DRUG CO. Eldrence House block, Lawrence, Kansas. --- LAWRENCE, KANSAS. EDGAR WRIGHT. DENTIST, LAWRENCE KANSAS Office hours : 8 a. m. to p. m. Office 7:3 Massachusetts Street, W. L. Anderson's Bakery . . Best bread in town. 915 Massachusetts Street. Experience has taught us that if we wish to please our customers we must strive to give them a variety. Nobody wants printing exactly like their neighbors work. Too much sameness is unattractive to the eye. --- NEW TYPE! NEW DESIGNS!! NEW WORK!! ---