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 HARSHBERGER
Local Editor ..WALTER J. MEEK
Associates ;
BRAUNK F. MOREO, FLOYD L. T. LIFEBORN J. H. FREDERIC H. P., FONES, J. H. LANGWORTH, ED. OUPDJE, JSO A. DEVILYN, ED. MICHUEN, ANNA WARFIELD, GUY WARD AND FLORENCE FOREST
E. H. McMath, Managing Editor.
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Business Manager, Lawrence, Kansas.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. April 13, 1901.
It is noticeable this year that there is a closer friendship between fraternity and non-fraternity people. The fraternities are inviting a greater number of non-fraternity people to their parties and vice versa. This is a step toward the brotherhood that is needed in the 'Varsity'. There is no cause for the fraternities posing as the bloated aristocracy or the lauded oligarchy of the school. Fraternity people are not usually not much smarter than any body else, nor much better looking, nor have they much more wealth or influence. Of course they make a greater show but shows do not count for much in the cold, cutting old world now a days. The time will perhaps come when the Regents will see fit, for the benefit of the University, to do away with fraternities and secret orders, then there will be a closer bond of friendship among all University students, there will be less of society, more of work and the University of Kansas will occupy a place three or four degrees higher than it does now. If this change comes, good and well; but if it does not there should be a greater and a stronger tie between those who are members of a fraternity and those who are not. It is unity of interests and of ideals that makes an institution prosper. There can not be such unity until all of the hill sees it to flock in one class. When all attend school to profit by attendance when some things are removed that attack more than students, and when this feeling or real brotherhood appears, it will be better for the University. No one on the hill has more than two feet so let all move out of the same plane.
Monday the Varsity nine opened the base ball season at Ottawa with the Ottawa University team. It was the initial game for both teams. Ottawa played a fast safe game. The Ottawa battery is better than it ever was before and the whole team is made up of first-class men. The Varsity nine played in good form scoring only three errors during the game. The game was an eye-opener to all who were fortunate enough to see it. It showed that Kansas has material that will develop into a splendid队 before the first of May. This game was the first time that all the men have really been together. The work of McCampbell at second was particularly good. He promises to be one of the stars of this years team. White at shortstop is also a star, he is a new man in Varsity base ball circles but he has already won a home. The whole team played well, defeating the strong Ottawa team by a very small margin. The game was just what was needed to stir up the Varsity and arouse waning enthusiasm which is still being dampened by winter and continuous rain.
The officers and members or the Phi Beta Kappa invite all members of the University, faculty and students, and people of the city as well, to hear the lecture by Dr. Rogers next Tuesday evening in University Hall. Dr. Rogers is a specialist in Egyptologist and Assyriology, and has just issued a large book on Babylonia and Assyria that is praised by competent students as the best thing in that line that has yet appeared in English. The lecture will be a popular account of the excavations and discoveries in Egypt with especial reference to the results arrived at from a study of a large number of letters lately found on tablets. Every one should take advantage of this opportunity to hear an interesting account of a subject that is now so prominently before the public both for its intrinsic value and for the light it throws upon so many important questions of today. The lecture is free, and if the University shows that it appreciates the liberality of the Phi Beta Kappa, the society will probably be encouraged to do something.
In its last issue the Oven from Emporia ran a half page illustrated poem entitled "K. U, versus K. S, N." It is a love poem. A varsity man went to Emporia to see his sweetheart and the girls where she roomed playnaks. They k hpt the lovers apart until a late hour by means of bolted doors. It was very late when the Varsity man shinned the porch post and won out. I overs always win. The poem is true ethically, as we are taught that true love always conquers obstacles. The Oven does not mention names in the poem, but in another column it says that D. R. Reid from K. U was visiting friends in the city Sunday. The Oven is all right, it is warming up wonderfully.
Since the Pi Phi girls had the Weekly all the schools are following the example set by the Varsity. Now the Minnesota girls have brought out the prettiest edition that has appeared this year, and the Normal girls are to bring out a scherching hot edition of the Oven, The Central High school girls had an edition and so it goes. Some schools have only one good edition a year and that is the one issued by the girls. Of course that is easily explained.
Invitations to the Junior promanade come out Monday. They are the noblest invitations of the season. The Juniors are brim full of energy and do things in the proper style. The prom will be the most elaborate of any for many years. The Juniors are sparing nothing to entertain the royal class of 911 in the best possible manner. The Juniors can give parties successfully if they can not always do other things, such as hat band affairs, in an approved manner. The Seniors will forget all the past when they see how royal the prom is to be and love them in the same old way.
A good move is being started by the boating club. The object is to make boating more popular. The club has arrangements with the boating house by which practically all the boats on the river will be at the service of the club if fifty members can be secured at two dollars each. By this plan any member of the club can use a boat as much and as often as he cares to. It is a good thing, help it along.
With this issue the WEEKLY loses one of its best men. Mr. Edward Copley, law school reporter. Mr. Copley has gone west for a six months sojourn. He will return in the fall and resume his work. The WEEKLY staff wishes him a pleasant, profitable vacation.
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In his last issue the esteemed editor of the Ottawa Campus did not knock but once on the K. U. WEEKLY. He is a good fellow.
Next issue of the WEEKLY will be in charge of the editor's right-hand man, C. A. Gardner.
Tribute to Spring
Heigho! heigho!
The wild winds blow,
From the north dark clouds are drifting
Through the frozen air,
All everywhere
The fleecy flakes are sifting.
At last, at last,
The winter's past;
With palid days of mildness,
Oh, welcome spring,
With the icy swing,
And the bracing blasts of wildness.
We sing! We sing!
O spring, sweet spring,
Our cheeks with life are glowing;
Our eyes are bright
And our hearts are light
When the gales of March are blowing.
At last, at last,
The winter's past;
With pallid days of mildness,
On, welcome spring,
With the icy swing,
And the bracing blasts of wildness.
PERRY PENPOINT.
PERRY PENPOINT of Kansas.
He was a crack Latin scholar,
And had mastered modern Greek
For a paltry wagered dollar
He learned II brow in a week,
Sanskrit, and Antique Phoenecian.
Or the scripts of Yucatan.
Were as simple as addition,
To this language—learned man.
Patoi's race pronunciation,
Father's race pronunciation,
Amid the Christian alphabet.
He knew, well to fifty nations,
He could speak their tongue and yet.
Finally his learning failed him.
And his thoughts and spech were 'off',
For no language gift avoided him,
With the dialect of golf—Ex
With the dialect of golf.—Ex.
Mr. and Mrs. Abuzo D. Wilcox are here from Muscotah.
Ten Responsible Men
Wanted for the summer to handle Nave's Topical Bible,
The greatest seller on earth. 20,000 topics full and complete.
Bishop McCabe Says;
"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 $8,100 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. Kersliner (students) and see this book.
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