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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 HARSHBERG
Local Editor ... WALTER J. MEEK
Associates :
BLANKS F, MOORE, FLOYD L, TIFERID J, H. FELGAR, H. P, FONES, J.H, LANGWERTHOF, E.D.UPPLEY, JSO, A. DEVLIN, ED. MICHEN, ANNA WARFIELD, GUY WAARD and FLORENCE WOUND
E. H. McMath. Managing Editor.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 20, 1901.
Some weeks ago the WEEKLY published the opinions of a few of the members of the faculty on the advisability of and plans for renewing the spirit of oratory at K. U. The staff has been too busy to take the matter up further and no one of the faculty or students has taken hold of the affair, therefore it is right where it was before. The faculty would like to see the students take an interest and take the lead in all kinds of mental contests with other Colleges and Universities where the members of that distinguished body will not be held directly responsible for the financial or other failure of the attempt. They can do nothing however without the co-operation of the student body. The fact is the students are not interested in exactly that line. It very seldom happens that any one feeling sufficient confidence in his own ability to enter the debates have anything to do with Oratorical Contests. In the first place the students of Kansas University are preparing themselves for the practical men and women and do not feel that they have the time to spend of developing an art when is out of date and which the people of today reject as impractical. There was a time when people read little and enjoyed having some one paint the picture of some grand glowing theme in all the beauty of the language and present it with flowing eloquence and graceful gesture. But now people read these things in their own private study where they can assimilate better. The times demand men who can present their thoughts on useful subjects in an intelligible manner, and if he has good ideas able to convince his hearers. This ability will never be acquired to any extent in developing such themes as "The Fall of Rome," "All Rome Guilty of its Nero" ete. But when one takes up the questions which are puzzling the statesman of today and tries to convince his hearers to his views then he is acquiring an ability which will make him a practical man and one who will be appreciated. The Oratorical Association may be organized and reorganized, prizes and rewards may be offered, but until we get something that the energetic and ambitious men will take hold of, the thing will remain dead. In order to get such men interested we must offer them something which they can see will be of benefit to them. The debates do this to an extent and our strongest men are found in these contests. However there is another kind of practical public speaking besides debate — the kind which is used more than any other. This is used in public addresses, political speeches, etc. They may contain argument but are not debates. There are no contests in this class of public speaking here, for
the simple reason that we do not have such contests with other schools. Why not arrange for a contest of this kind with some neighboring University such as Iowa State, with whom we hold no contest at present. Arrangements could be made for extempore contests or speeches on up-to-date subjects The decline of oratory is not peculiar to Kansas University but is felt in all up-to-date schools. The Nebraska Hesperian recently published an article on the decline of oratory in that school Iowa is a practical up-to-date school and would doubtless be willing to make arrangements for such a contest as indicated above. The Weekly moves that the secretary be instructed to correspond with Iowa in reference to this matter.
The story on the last page of this paper was written by Mr. Charles W Kimball, of Parsons, a freshman in the School of Arts. The story is an interesting and merited one. It was published in the St. Louis Globe Democrat, Mr. Kimball is one of those students who attends strictly to his own affairs and does not pose as a society man, consequently his work is not as well known among the students as among many people outside of the University. He is a writer of short stories and has already acquired a name in the literary world. Perhaps there were many of the students who read this story in the Globe but did not think of the author as being one of us. Mr. Kimball's short newspaper stories have appeared in such noted publications as the Washington Post, New York Sun, Philadelphia Press, St. Louis Globe, New York Sun, etc. The Strand Magazine, of London, england, has just purchased one of his stories on "A Picture of the Stand Tower." This will appear perhaps next month. It gives stories and incidents connected with the painting of the class numbers on the standpipe and will be fascinating to those interested in the fricol of the students and especially to all Kansas University students who have ever taken a turn at the perpendicular play ground. Mr. Kimball has just supplied the Black Cat with a story to come out in the next issue. The story is entitled "Handle With Care." It is written concerning a porcelain torpedo boat, an article worthy of the title given the story. A large number of his stories are purchased by the McClure Syndicate and brought into publication through that company. While Mr. Kimball has acquired considerable prominence as a writer of short stories, he has only been working in that line since he has been in school here this year. His first work consisted of writing a short story for a little magazine at his home town after returning from a naval service of fifteen months in the late war. He afterward decided to try journalistic work and last summer secured a position with the Star where he remained until school began. He is now Lawrence reporter for that publication.
The Missouri Independent came to to the WEEKLY desk Thursday morning being delayed to give an account of the great debate between Missouri and Kansas University. Mr. Howards associates might get pointers on promptness by coming over to Kansas. The WEEKLY was in the mail eighteen hours after the debate, containing a full account of the contest, telegraphing facilities were so poor at Columbia that we did not hear from there until 10:30 Saturday morning. Nevertheless the Independent had a fine write up and was perfectly willing to give the visiting boys all that was due them. It contained a good synopsis of all the speeches on both affirmative and negative, also gave an account of the ability displayed by the different debaters McMath made a bit with the boys over
East and they ranked him as the Kansas Gun. While McMath took third place in the preliminary, he easily ranked as best speaker for the negative while at Missouri Mr. Cheadle they ranked as second man for Kansas, his references to Uncle Sam and his large family of boys seemed to please them, but they could not understand his charts. Mr. Tolan made a good speech. He evidently did not do what we all know Tolan is capable of doing or they would have been more impressed with his fiery talk and strong logic. It was evidently an off day for him. He was one of the team of three which beat Missouri last year, and if here will no doubt ditto next year. The Independent says Missouri may be short on foot ball but she is certainly 'long' on debates. This we do not deny. One of the strongest teams of the Kansas University went against them and were overcome, therefore the natural conclusion is that the pukes can debate a little on the side. That Missouri team was undoubtedly a good one and certainly won the hearts of the three Jay Hawkers who debated against them. You have our regards Missouri.
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Tuesday morning all the fans on the hill were roaring on account of the write up in the Kansas City papers, of the Monday ball game. The accounts were entirely misrepresentative and did not give honor to whom honor was due. McCampbell the star of the team was credited with two errors, Curry at first was not treated nice and so on through the entire line up. But worse than this these imbecile newspaper men reported the score as a tie when in fact the 'Varsity won by a score of five to four, as shown by the official score. Besides this some of them asserted that there was no score. Worse than this one of the so called reporters, a K. U. man, started the fuss by declaring to the Indians that the score was a tie. It was all a useless fuss because a few amateur reporters who do not know a base ball from a golf stick got it into their heads that they should show off. It is strange, 'tis passing strange that the Kansas City papers can not have men who if they do not know the game could at least attend to their own business and take the result of the official scorer who has forgotten more concerning the sport than many hope to know soon. The Indians knowing the true score gave in like gentleman and conceded the game to the 'Varsity.
The Baker Orange mustered up courage enough to make a short remark about the WEEKLY. The English in our columns does not seem to suit that modest, prim, little publication. It says: "A paper does not have to be up to the standard of an essay, but it should, especially if it be a college publication be kept within the limits of good taste." We wonder if the Orange wishes to give the WEEKLY a few private lessons in good taste and proper language. We don't know whether the editor of this model little sheet wrote the article to follow the fashion of the Olathe Register of criticising the WEEKLY or did so in a spirit of revenge for remarks about the garter ad which surely must be offensive to the little blue-eyed Methodist maids. All we can learn is that he came at us with a roar. If he ever had editors worthy of note, or if the paper contained news items other than book and garter ads, and a good write-up of the Sunday school, or if the editor himself were of sufficient importance, the WEEKLY would speak to him and show him the folly of getting funny. The WEEKLY does not pose as a model of perfect English, etc., but it does claim the title of newspaper with a staff perfectly capable of running same.
This week the paper is edited by the devil. In a short editorial last week you were told that the editor's right-hand man would edit the paper. The distinguished chief decided he must learn to trip the light fantastic in preparation for the Junior prom, therefore put the matter of the Weekly in hands of the printers devil. He is succeeding beautifully. The waltzs and two-steps he has executed in the halls of the main building during the last week are indicative of the aptitude with which this noted pupil takes to the "step." The staff wishes him the best of luck in acquiring the graceful art and is sure he took the place at the prom which is beating the editor-in-chief.
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