Kansas UniversityWeekly
Editor-in-Chief | GEORGE BARCUS
Associates | C. A. GARDNER
Literary Editor | C. J. HINDMAN
Society Editor | E.W. MURRAY
Athletic Editor | RACHEL PUGH
GUY HARSHBERGER
Local Editor | WALTER J. MEER
Associates :
BLAUNE F, MOORE, FLOYD T, LITFORD, J. H.FREAR G, H.PONES, J.H.LANGWORTH, E.D.GUPPLE, JJO. A.DVILLAN, ED.MICHEM, ANNA WARFEL, GUY WAARD AND FLORENCE RESTO
E. H. McMath, Managing Editor.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, March 9, 1901
CONTESTS AND THINGS.
The seventeenth annual inter-collegiate contest has just been held. The University dropped just as low as possible and took the last place on the program. It is high time for the University either to drop out of the league ingloriously, or to make a glorious stand and do something. This thing of doing things half way should be stopped. If we are to stay in the league let us put our contests on a firm basis and accomplish something, if we are not, let us get out without further disgrace. The Weekly is not emitting gushes of horror because orator Felts did not take a better place on the program, he did well and deserved a higher ranking. Considering everything the students who heard him were proud of him. It is not the orators, it is the way hands are run here that hurts. There is no system to our contests. Felts appeared in the preliminary and won, and had just twenty four hours to get his oration printed and get it into the hands of the judges on thought and composition. He had no time, whatever, to recast or rearrange an oration which he knew was weak. Everybody knows the result. There is an association supposed to run our contests but it does very little running. It does seem that something should be done. Why can not the literary societies elect their representatives in the spring and let them have their vacations and the fall term to prepare their orations, and why cannot the local contests be held by the first of January so that the winner may have time to work over his speech before the inter-collegiate contest in February? This plan will arouse interest in oratory and will guarantee productions of merit that will be an honor to the orator and his college.
Of course we can amble along in the same old way and hold our own fairly well in the inter-state debates, but we can not keep the pace set in oratory by the denominational schools where everything does not run to dancing and card playing. Every other school in the league has literary societies that amount to something, they elect their orators ahead of time and give them an opportunity to do something. It is not because we do not have orators but because our plan is not good that we are always in the rear. This eternal thing of always taking a back place gives the University a poor standing among the schools of the state; it places us on a level or below the smaller colleges, because people who do not know the history of our oratory have the impression that we make pretensions in oratory when in reality half the students in school are absolutely ignorant of the occurrence of the contests. Let us adopt a plan and do something infertile or let us quit trying.
If the pretty Pi Phis have not asked you to buy five copies of their edition, they will next week, so store up a half dollar for that purpose. Their paper will be the handsomest thing you will have an opportunity to pay this year.
Just now all the boarding clubs are observing Lent; so also are the students. There is absolutely nothing happening now-a-days. If your WEEKLY is dry and void of news do not get fussy, but think how it is and remember that the editors are doing their very best. There are no parties, socials or anything in the way of entertainment. There is nothing happening in athletic circles, as the season has not begun yet. Hold your cutting things until after Lent.
The resignation of Dr. Taylor of the State Normal school to accept the presidency of the new James Millikan University, at Decatur, Il., takes another of the leading educators from Kansas. Dr. Taylor has been prominent in national educational circles for many years, and has written much pertaining to the teaching profession that is taken as authority. Millikan is a new school with a large endowment. Dr. Taylor will have a much wider field in his new position and a better opportunity to develop. One by one the founders of Kansas education are drawn away to larger fields, because Kansas cannot pay them what they are worth.
The WEEKLY respects gray hair, age and dignity and did not expect to say another word about the editor of the Lawyer, but in his last issue he boasts so much of the WEEKLY's taking his advice, and is so presuming that the WEEKLY must speak. If the WEEKLY has heeded the advice of the Lawyer or any other paper, or person, it wants to beg the pardon of everybody on the hill. The WEEKLY staff is running the WEEKLY and feels capable of doing the job without anybody's assistance. If the editor of the Lawyer knows anything about running a college paper he is hiding his knowledge under a bushel. Just get a copy of the Lawyer and read
"The WEEKLY in stating in its last issue that it had not been criticised by the department of English, meant the statement to apply to certain particulars only. The WEEKLY must admit that it does hear from the department of English—well, every once in a while."
This statement is direct from the English department. What arouses the ice of the department are such experiences as "pious Baptist," "noulder of Baptist minds," and etc. It is not that Professor Hopkins is a Baptist that he objects, but he rightly thinks the expressions are in poor taste. The WEEKLY will try to be good for a week or two now.
There seems to be a deplorable tendency among our University students and faculty members as well, to endeavor to effect their wants by the circulation of a petition. The custom has become so common and the causes of such little importance that a petitioner finds no difficulty in procuring signers to any paper he may wish to circulate. If the manager of the petition is a man of influence, signers seem to think there is no need of consideration or judgment in placing their names on the list of petitioners. This is a careless and unbusiness-like method and entirely unworthy of University people, and it is to be hoped, after the complication and embarrassment recently incurred, that hereafter, a signer of a petition will at least read over the paper to which he affixes his name.
Within twenty years the Mount Orca will be grooming and trembling under the weight of twenty-five imposing edifices, 3000 studentels and 200 professors will daily amble up its steep side. The appropriations will be such amounts
as would dumfound the present board of Regents; the courses of study will be as varied as those of any college in America. The graduates of the University will be better known than they are now and its athletes will be competing with the best schools in existence. All these things will come about because the people of the commonwealth of Kansas are recognizing the significance of a great educational center, because they have pluck and backbone and are prosperous and willing to pay for the education of their children, and because every year the better cultured class of men are finding their way into the legislature. It will be worth something to have a degree from the University then and it will take harder work to earn one. There will also be changes in the University itself. The organizations will be run on different plans and will look at things differently. The Y. M. and Y. W. will turn out foreign missionaries and ministers to uncultivated lands the literary societies will have on their roils the names of men destined to become famous in letters. The Eta Pi will be the leading fraternity; the Betas will be running a turkey incubator and entertaining the bells of Mars at their annual “pull!”; the Sigma Chi will be lay readers at Haskell the Phi Delt's will perhaps have an imposing chapter house, the Phi Psis will have Sunday school classes and will pay rent for pews at the Episcopal church, the Phi Gaus will have roused up, the Sigma Nus will be famous for their piety and the T. N. E. will be called the Cold Water League The Kappus will be doing associated charity work, the Thetas will give election dinners for the foot ball section and the Pi Phis will support misSIONes in the Philippines rather than give spring partits. The WEEKLY will be supplanted by the Daily Maroon, the Lawyer will be a weekly and the Auto mobile will be called the Flying Machine.
SOCIETY.
The Phi Psia have pledged Mr. Joe
Ramsey of Topka.
Mr. R, C. Russell and Mr. Porter Foones are wearing Phi Delta Phi colors.
The Sigma Chis passed a very pleasant evening with a smoker at their chapter house, Friday.
The Phi Gams are wearing colors for Mr. Charles Kimball of Parsons.
Miss Gertrude Boughton gave a delightful afternoon to the Pi Phis Friday in honor of Miss Louise Moore, of Kansas City, Mo.
The Kappas held initiation Friday evening at the home of Miss Katherine Searls for Misses Lewelling and Rehn.
Last Saturday evening the Utopia club was entertained very charmingly by Mrs. Cora McCullom Smith. The evening was quickly and delightfully spent in college songs, solos and readings.
Miss May Copley entertained with a dinner party Wednesday evening in honor of Louise Moore, who is visiting Gertrude Boughton.
The new German club was entertained Friday evening with a musical given by Messrs. Lucile and Constance Carruth Mr.Hood, Messrs. Frank and Howard Carruth from Washburn college, who were visiting their sister Lucile.
Phi Delta Phi held initiation Thursday night at the home of Prof. Higgins for Messra Prey, Russell and Fones. After the initiation they adjourned to Wiedemann's, where a sumptuous banquet was served.
Miss Louise Aldie entertained a small company at whist Friday evening. A most pleasant time was enjoyed by those present, who were: Misses Graham, Sexton, Havens, Campbell, Flinton, Rice, Williams, Spencer, Copley McCrary, Moore, Messrs, Davies, Bradley, Burford, Nichols, Henley, Tilford, Milo Jones, Hegler, Newman, Merrill, Lovelace, Seddon, Devereaux, De Dano
The Betas gave a hop Friday evening at their chapter house, in honor of their new men, Messrs. Emery, Hindman and Gramly. The Betas and their friends were Misses Warfield, Moore, Rice, Sexton, Leland, Plumb, Rankin, Alder, Armsby, Lehman, McCrory, Morrison, Barnett, Fraser, Messrs. Lovelace, Leonard, Bliss, Ed. Bliss, Nichols, Simpson, Davies, Burford, Cross, Shialer, Copley, Baxter, Toby, Sallee, Goddard, Felgar, Humphrey, Emery, Hindman and Gramley.
One of the jolliest parties of the week was given Friday at the home of Gertie Bailey in honor of Miss Wisherd, of Cottonwood Falls. The girls went out in the afternoon and cooked a delicious supper, each girl preparing one thing. To the supper they invited the boys, and a prize was given to t he one who guessed correctly the most girls with their corresponding dishes. Those present were Misses Gering, Sue Gering, Kelley, Griffiths, Barrett, and Wisherd. Messrs. Smith, Rameys, Idle, Hindman, Carey, Garrison, and Russell.
College Press.
On the afternoon preceding the contest at Ottawa, the College Press association held its annual meeting in the parlor of the Occidental. The editor of the WEEKLY was elected president for next year, and the editor of the Winfield Courier secretary. The association chose the Midland delegates to prepare a new constitution and make plans for the admission of college papers whose institutions are not represented in the intercollegiate league. The contest goes to Winfield next year and the Press association will meet on the afternoon before the contest. Each paper will present a discussion on some phase of college journalism, and then the club will repair to the banquet room until time for the contest. There was much interest shown in the association this year.
After the business meeting the association enjoyed an informal spread and proceeded to get acquainted.
The Golf Club.
There is so much interest in golf now that Prof. Sterling, chairman of the executive committee and president of the club, is thinking of extending the present course to the west and adding at least three holes. Every warm day the course is too crowded for convenience. The local club will have meets with Leavenworth and Topeka, and perhaps will meet Kansas City on the home grounds. There will also be some good matches between local teams if they can be organized. Professors McClung and Sterling will perhaps act as captains of the rival local teams.
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