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 HARSHBERRGER
Local Editor ... WALTER J. MEEK
Associates :
BLANNE P. MOORE, FLOYD T. LIFEPOW J. H.FERGAL H. P. FONES, J. H. LAWNWORTHY, ORANGE W. A. GINSEN, A. DREVLIN, ALEXPED SODDON, ANNA WANG, GUY WARD and FRANCE FOREST.
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 second class, the Treasurer, Gso. Foster, the managing editor, or the WEEKLY office.
Subscription price, 50 cents per annum in advance. Single copies $6.00.
Address all communications to E. H. McMath,
Business Manager, Lawrence, Kansas.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 11, 1901.
Last weeks editorial on the passing of oratory in the University of Kansas caused a few of the WEEKLY's most fastidious readers to think that the rearg of scorn was being flaunted in the face of the instructor of oratory. The import of the editorial could not have been more distorted. Why such a meaning should have been placed upon an innocent paragraph is another of those insoluble problems. Professor Vickrey has been in heartfelt sympathy with all that the WEEKLY has said relating to oratory and the WEEKLY has always been in sympathy with the professor and his methods. All that has been done in oratory for the past three years has been owing to the efforts of Professor Vickrey. He has been the life, aid and soul of all oratorical efforts. He is a genuine critic and knows a good oration and how to build one. Members of the faculty who are interested in oratory are giving him the highest praise, and students who have taken his work speak of him only with praise. It is true we have not had much oratory but that it is not the fault of the instructor, that is because students who are capable of writing an oration refuse to enter the contests, because those who do attempt to produce a winning oration in a month or two and because the faculty and the students do not care for oratory. You can not have oratory or anything else unless the people want it and are willing to lend a hand instead of an ugly claw hammer. More than this the divan of oratory in the University is large enough for three men. One man could not make orators even if they were here and the people wanted them. Professor Vickrey has had his time divided among the Freshmen, Sophomores and Junior laws and has had little time to devote to oratory, for, besides his regular work much time has been devoted to debate and here's where his true work shows. There is growing interest in debate and Kansas is striding toward the front. As a matter of fact, debate is preceding oratory in all universities and oratory is on the decline just as it is in Kansas. It is a natural course of things no one can stop. Let it be heralded from the house tops that oratory is静静 sleeping in the sepulcher, and that its end has been slowly and surely coming for lo these many years. Also that with the abolishment of the divan of oratory fades the last ray of hope of its revival. Do not say it was the fault of the instructor that this came about, but thank him for what interest was maintained in the art and be good. The time may come when the Regents and the faculty will want oratory in the University of Kansas, then three men will be employed to do the work and there will be a reformation.
One of the most important enterprises in the life of our University was launched recently, when the Christian Association began a definite campaign for a building. The leading Universities of the country are provided with such buildings and Kausas will not be fat behind. This building will be the center of social and religious life of the students; it will be located near the campus and will be provided with parrons, auditorium and game rooms, society halls and many more features which will make it useful to every student.
There is a general recognition of the need of such a building, a need which the Christian Association have attempted to supply through the maintenance of head quarters during the last two years. However the location of these places has not been convenient. The houses have had the appearance of privacy which has prevented them from being used largely, and has made them quite inadequate to the needs. This experiment has shown, however, that there is a definite mission for such an institution. The Christian Associations have grown to a membership this year of 500 and they are in a position to take aggressive steps toward securing a building which shall become a center for their work. No one will think that the possession of a house of the nature indicated will strengthen the Association only; there is not a student who would reap no benefit while it would be of especial value to the large percentage who have but little social life. The movement will receive the loyal support of every student, while several of the faculty are showing an active interest in the project.
Poor old Missouri won one little ball game on her trip. It was the first game on the tour and was taken from a little college in Missouri which is called William Jewel. It was won by a score of 7 to 4 and William Jewel was in poor, miserable poor form. In all its wanderings through Kansas the M. S. U. team could not find a nine it could defeat. Even Ottawa and the State Normal were too fast for the slow surly Tigers. It is no wonder that T.Morris Anderson, the sporting editor of the M. S. U. Independent,says he writes with a feeling of sadness of the trip of the team of 1901. It would make Job sad. How long at length, O Missouri,will you pretend to play ball; how far moreover will your efforts extend; to what end will your unbrazen effortery display itself? Why do you not enter the high school league and flock in your class. But the writer is not despondent. On the other hand he is sanguine and finds comfort in the fact that last year's team won no games on its trip and one game on the home grounds. "Already" says the writer "the Tigers have won three games and the season is not quite over." O Missouri! Dip your pen in the golden sunlight and record your record in the clear blue sky and then bid base ball a kind good night.
In nine cases out of ten the man who does the most for his college is the least appreciated man in school. If the foot ball manager has a good team the students say he is a good fellow and that is the last of it; if he has a poor team, no mild words come to him; only jeers and taunts and he says this is a cold old world, people are heartless and cruel. The same is true with the base ball manager, the captain and the general manager of athletics. No one knows unless experience has taught him, just how much time it takes to act as captain or manager of a track team. As a matter of fact it takes more time than any two subjects in the circumcum but no body seems to know this or to appreciate the work of the man who is making sacrifices. The most overworked men on the bill are the general manager of athletics, the captains and managers of the athletic teams. But no one sympathies with them or gives them a warm hand shake in appreciation of their work. It is very easy to show appreciation, and a little encouragement is worth a whole lot sometimes. It is only discharging a debt which we owe our brothers to say a kind, encouraging word occasionally. It is a common courtesy which one part of humanity owes to another.
Saturday night the 'Varsity nine returned from its eastern trip. It was a good trip. The boys had lots of sport and showed everybody that Kansas has a team that demands respect. All the college papers speak most highly of the Kansas boys, both as gentlemen and as ball players. The trip was highly successful both from the point of view of winning and the developing Kansas athletics. The boys won just half of their games which is doing exceedingly well on a trip. From the other side, people in the east are beginning to hear of Kansas in base ball. Our trips are better each year, better games are scheduled and Kansas is gradually working into first class college base ball circles. There is no reason why Kansas can not have better trips each year and no reason why we can not soon play with Wisconsin, Michigan and Chicago and take in other large schools on a more extended tour. It is determination that wins and that is what the Kansas base ball men have.
The Weekly has always been in favor of short entertainments. A program of an hour is much better than one of two or three hours and is much more enjoyed. The Y. W. girls are the most sensible lot on the hill when it comes to giving entertainments. Their programs last about an hour and a quarter. No one gets tired in that time and no one is glad when the program is over. Everybody would have enjoyed one two more numbers Friday night and for that reason people said it was a good concert. It is much better to send people away with just enough or not quite enough than to give them too much. Why not follow in the foot steps of the Y. W. girls and give programs that white men can enjoy, especially when the weather is red hot? Everybody take notice.
In its last issue the Students' Herald of the Agricultural College bewaits the loss of the game to K. U. The Herald says the loss was owing to the fact that the farmers lacked cool heads at critical moments. This may have been the true reason. In case it was we suggest that the lassies of the "ag" school might go into the garden after this, pluck some healthy cabbage leaves and place them in the lids of the "ag" players. Cabbage leaves are cooling and will keep off the sun, so says the agricul-tural editor.
There are four men on the hill who are trying to raise mustaches. These same mustaches greatly resemble a foot ball game. It is the stale joke of eleven on a side. These men are bashful and despise the public gaze, but the aesthetic editor says their names shall appear in type next week if they do not consult a barber.
In the athletic columns appears a mention of foot ball, along with the schedule for next year. Kansas has never had such a schedule before. There is a better run of games for next year than any western team has ever had. Kansas also has a mighty good coach for next year and a very careful management. If the 'Varsity does its part Kansas will make a better showing in foot ball than ever before in its history. But to do this every member of the faculty and every student must do his part. Everybody must support the team. Every man who can play foot ball will need to get out and work. McCook field should be alive with foot ball men. There ought to be a hundred men trying for the 'leven; there ought to be nine-hundred and ninety-nine tickets sold.
Try W. A. GUENTHER
FOR
Fancy and Staple Groceries, Fruits, Candies, Tobacco and Cigars.
721 Mass
Phone 226.
$900 YEARLY to Christian man Rr woman to look after our growing business in tibi 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.
体格检查 健康状况 营养状况 生长发育 睡眠状况
EDWARD BUMGARDNER, M. D. D. D. S.
DENTIST,
Office 809 Massachusetts Street,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Telephone 209 2-rings.
DR. B. H. LESLIE
Office, 745 Mass. St.
Residence, 101-4.
Office 'Phone,195.
E. SMITH, M. D.
Residence, 920 Indiana.
Office, 723 Mass. - Phone 247.
All calls answered day or night.
GEO. F. GODDING. Livery, Hack and
Livery, Hack and Boarding Stable.
No. 812-814 Verment St.
Telephone 139.
Laurence, Kan
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. Morris wholesale house, Cincinnati, Ohio. Ill. usated catalogue 4 ct stamps.
Will sell this month for 25c. 917 Mass. St.
A Variety OF K. U. VIEWS in CARDS and PAPER WEIGHTS
G. C.
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.
WOLF,
Ten Responsible Men
"It far excels any book of the kind ever issued."
One student sold 26 copies in one week, another 27 copies, another 31, and another agent sold 131 copies in one month, that being $1,000 worth.
We pay a salary. Don't contract with others before May 1, when I will be in Lawrence.
A. N. WYCOFF, Field Manager.
Call on James E. Boyle or F. O. Kershner (students) and see this book.
Wanted for the summer to handle Nave's Topical Bible. The greatest seller on earth. 20,000 topics full and complete.
Bishop McCabe Says;
[b棕I粕jI粱g棕q恭g婶q铆q铆q铆p阉p朦v|紫
海绵纸 海绵纸 海绵纸
EDGAR WRIGHT.
EDGAR WRIGHT,
DENTIST,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Office hours: 8 a.m. to p.m.
Office 743 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!!
---