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KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
Kansas University weekly.
Editor-in-chief. .Nettie E. Manley
Associates. ( Cecil P. Leland
) Elizabeth Warren
Literary Editor. Eleanor T'Miller
Society Editor. Mary Spencer
Athletic Editor. Mildred Chadsey
Local Editor. Loren Leslie
Exchange Editor. Mary Kellogg
Reporters,----Minnie L. Leach, Edith Riffle, Jeanette
Ware, Olive M. Gundry, Elsie Evans, Mary F. Dudley,
Mable McLaughlin, Eva Olin, Ruth Williston, Kate Lin-
more, Clara Denton, Rea Wilson, Nell Morrison.
Managing Editor. Inez Plumb
Assistant. Mary C. Copley
Shares in the WEEKLY $1 each,entitleing the holder to the paper two years,may be had of the secretary and treasurer, Geo. Foster,the managing editor,or at the WEEKLY office.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second-class mail matter.
Subscription price, 50 cents per annum in advance. Single copies 5 cents.
Address all communications to E. H. McMath, business manager, Lawrence, Kansas.
The top o' the mornin'to you.
Lawrence, Kansas, March 16, 1901.
As we cannot claim to be sons of Erin,we shall omit the regular St. Patrick's Day editorial,and dismiss the subject with our best wishes to the wearers of the Shamrock.
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With the crocuses,jonquils,daffodils and tulips the athletes of the spring-time have bloomed in sweaters of rich and various hue. They rival the creations of the Parisian milliner. The color scheme is a reminiscence of Joseph's coat. Does the class in aesthetics care at all?
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If you are an athlete of lofty aspirations, do not hide your light under a bushel because the President has vetoed the University appropriation bill and the Gym has been postponed. The spring athletics offers a good chance to get the kinks out, clear the complexion, and straighten the shoulders. There is another session of Congress, so cheer up!
In the name of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity we wish to express our gratitude to the Weekly editor for his generosity in giving us this opportunity to give a lift to the scholarship fund. The Weekly staff have kindly given us the benefit of their experience and offered us assistance in many ways. We hope they will not regret placing their paper in the hands of novices this week.
These are the days of miracles. In a few days the trees will be green again and it will seem that they have always been so. Now, we look
at their stiff bare branches and we cannot stretch our imaginations back to the time when we looked up into a soft leafy bower of leaves. But, whether the trees are bare or green, to our limited grasp of life about us, it seems that they can never change.
The local disturbance over the blue hat-band was merely aperitive. The main course will be served on the first of May. There was no plan of campaign and the result was a guerilla war, which served no other purpose than to harass the enemy. The disagreeable blue still meets the eye of the unoffending public at every turn, and life goes merrily on.-And yet something still rankles in the senior's heart.
In order to correct any misconception that the Weekly readers may have, from the various allusions to the Pi Phis in the editorial columns of the two preceding numbers, we print on another page the Pi Phi picture. We think the gracious editor will recognize at once that, although 'pretty' is a good word it has been misapplied. Would not the substitution of 'practical' or 'popular' be more fitting and equally pleasing to his fancy for alliteration.
The following arraignment comes with better grace from the editors of the special edition of the Weekly, than it would from the regular editorial writers. We doubt not from the tone of "Growls," that chivalry, alone, has prevented the editor from giving the thought utterance. Should coeducation eliminate scraps from college life or should coeducation be eliminated from college scraps? Scraps are a part of the inheritance of barbaric customs from which modern education has not yet freed itself. We feel that, in its natural and gradual evolution, education will in time be relieved of these vestiges of barbarism, and that a crusade against scraps is unnecessary. We do, however, take up the hatchet when the issue is university women in scraps. The rough treatment that some young women have received in May Day and other class scraps clearly shows that no deference need be expected from the other sex when mob law rules and might makes right. It ought not to be expected. The ungentle usage she receives does no more violence to a university woman's dignity than her own act of participating in the fray. We should like to see the gentle art of scraping practiced by men only.
It will not be necessary to waste any more time weeping and wailing because we have not a supply of born orators, or at least, an orator who has spent hours pacing the banks of the Kaw, with the three pebbles in his mouth. If we cannot orate we can debate. The Nebraskans themselves must admit this. It is becoming evident that the students take a more lively interest in debates than in oratorical contests. Doubtless one reason for this lies in the fact that there is more excitement in downing, in argument, opponents of real flesh and blood, rather than the straw man, that the forensic orator sets up to knock over. It is more fun to win a match game than to beat Colonel Bogy. In addition, the element of team work enters into the debating
contest and calls out better support from students. Foot ball, in which team works counts most will always arouse the most college enthusiasm. Possibly also the debate has more adherents because it appeals to students as being a more practical form of literary practice than composing the well-rounded periods of the oration. It demands that a man think with mathetical exactness. He has to demonstrate his propositions. It appeals especially to the lawyer and politician as practical. The growth of education makes specializing necessary and the natural result is that students transfer their allegiance from the general literary societies to the department clubs, and these supply a certain amount of literary practice. We venture to predict, however, that the debate will have a place in modern education, and that debating contests will not drag out a crippled existence propped up by the protest and lament of the editorial column.
NEWS OF FRATERNITIES.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity has just granted a charter to a local fraternity existing at the University of Colorado, at Boulder.
The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity last year established six new chapters.
Among the prominent members of the alumni of Phi Delta Theta are Eugene Field, Ex-president Harrison, Gen. Fred Funston and William Allen White.
The Sigma Chi chapter at Cornell university, have just put up a most beautiful chapter home on the campus there. Mr. George Ade, who writes "Fables in Slang" is a member of this fraternity.
Kappa Alpha Theta is to have a new song book. A new catalog is also to be issued.
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is remarkable for its beautiful fraternity chapter houses. This last fall two very fine buildings were just completed which add to the beauty of the city.
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Beta Theta Pi and Omega Epsilon have also entered the field there with new chapters.
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Pi Beta Phi fraternity is to have a convention in Syracuse, N. Y., some time next summer. Their new catalog is to be published soon. A chapter was established last summer at the University of California and the girls are now living in a chapter house.
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The Columbian chapter and the New York alumnae of B (-) II gave a dinner to Mr. Benjamin Barker Odell Jr., governor of New York, on February 1, at the Waldorf-Astoria. It was a brilliant affair and many guests were present. To see eminent men in public life laying aside for a time their duties to do honor to their fraternity is a thing to be noticed.