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Kansas University Weekly
Editor-in-Chief:
LYMAN L. HUMPREFY,
LYMAN L. HUMPREFY,
GRO. L. DAVIS, GRO. BARC US
Literary; Editor:
WEWSTER WILDER.
Local Editor.
E. S. LINDAS.
Associate.
H. H. TANGMAN, D. W. WOOD
E. H. M.COMATH, R. M. EMERY
JAS. A. DEVLIN, J. CLARKE SWAZY,
FRANK MARCHY, VIRGINIA McCRORY,
JOHN H. KANE
Society Editor:
ESTELLE RIDDLE.
Managing Editor.
E. McSHEA. Associate:
WALTER. I. MEEK
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LAWRENCE, KAN., MARCH, 10. 1900
Monday the tickets for the base ball season of 1900 go on sale. They will sell for $1.50. This may seem a little high, but it is not when the base ball situation is understood. There will be ten or eleven of the games on the home grounds. These games will cost from $3.50 to $3.00 unless the fan buy a ticket. Thus it is quite evident that the ticket is well worth the price. But this is only one side of the question. The 'Varsity' is at a big expense in base ball this year. We have never had a coach before, we have never had an eastern trip such as we have this year, no school in the West has ever secured a game with Chicago until Manager Nichols closed the contract the other day. All these things cost money and Kansas must stand up for her team. These games make the 'Varsity known, they give the school a good name, they bring base ball man to Kansas and tend to place the 'Varsity on a footing with the big colleges. Buy two tickets. You are more than getting your money's worth. Besides you are standing up for Kansas. Buy two ticke- and help make your alma mater a name among the big colleges. Buy two tickets and buy them right away so the association will have some money to go on. It takes ready cash to start the string off.
A western oratorical league has been organized, including at present only Minnesota and Nebraska. The movement originated with Minnesota and is certainly the initial step in the advancement of oratory among our western universities. A great deal more interest has been manifested in oratorical contests this year among the western schools than ever before, and an oratorical league is certainly commendable. Kansas has signified her intention of becoming a member of the league, and will no doubt be admitted. In that event there will be two representatives from each school who will take part in the contests.
Last week, Friday, there was a goodly number of students on the hill who were going to the station, if Baker and Ottawa came this way to the contest. Of course these gentleman did not want to do anything to the Methodist and the Baptists, they only wanted to show them a good time while they were in town. It was only the spirit of hospitality cropping out. Baker and Ottawa were so nice and polite and friendly to K. U. last year.
The echoes from the state oratorical contest are still reverberating through the college papers. Kansas university got second place. When it is taken into consideration that most of the other schools of the state would rather see
Kansas university defended than any other school and will do all they can to accomplish that end it will be realized that our institution did well. We might have done better but we are satisfied,
Mr. C. W. Meyers' oration on the Polley of Bismarck, was a mastery effort. It showed a great deal of careful study and hard work. Kansas University is proud of the success that awarded her efforts. It was a close contest for first place between Washburn and Kansas University, and it was very difficult to decide which was the winner. J. Frank Bell of Washburn, was, however, given first place. Washburn is to be congratulated upon her victory.
The withdrawal of Nebraska university from the Western Inter-collegiate football league is much to be regretted. This league as first organized was certainly a good thing. It insured at least two good games at each of the four universities comprising the league. These contests were true tests of merit because the teams were under the same restrictions at each school and all the games were played under the same regulations, why such a league of four adjourning universities can not be maintained, is strange indeed, but it has certainly proven a failure. The Nebraskan Hesperian in commenting upon the action of Nebraska university says
Nebraska can now feel that he is in no way compelled to play return games with other league teams in the same season. The section to withdraw from the western foot ball league taken at the last meeting of the athletic board is commendable in every way. Friendly relations can still exist with Kansas and Missouri and the expenses of a league be dispensed with.
We clip from the State Normal School
Oven the following sarcastic remark:
We clip from the State Normal School
Oven the following sarcastic remark:
The preachers of Lawrence have begun prescribing special sermons for the University people. This is a manifestation of the greatest heroic courage of the age. No doubt the good divines are in earnest, but such a stupendous undertaking evidences a lack of clear apprehension of the magnitude of the task of any reform or amelioration.
The editor seems to have a very bad opinion of the Kansas University but we attribute it to ignorance. We will wager our new hat against his old sky piece that there are more Kansas University students who attend church regularly than there are at the State Normal. Or to be more specific we will make the proposition that the editor of the Weekly has attended church oftener this year than the Oven man.
BASKET BALL.
The Varsity basket ball five met a defeat at Lincoln last week but won a game at Omaha. The team is all right and if it had a good gymnasium in which to work it could show us as strong a team as any. Basket ball can never be what it ought to be at Kansas University until this much needed gymnasium is built! What is true of basket ball is equally true of baseball and football.
K. U.-Normal Debate.
The Alpha Senate of the Normal has accepted the challenge of the Kent Club of the K U Law school, to a debate May 12. W E Lyon, J P Burion and R G Magill were elected last Saturday to represent the Normal. The debate will be held in Emporia and the question submitted by K U—State Normal Oven.
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SOCIETY.
The mad whild of the past few weeks is over. With the coming of the Lenton season the rush of parties has ceased for a time. After the gayness of last week, a lull has settled down which is broken only by the mild pleasures of sleigh riding, beating and an occasional quiet card party. However, the sleigh rides of the past week have had all the wild joy which novelly can afford, and the two days of vacation given us through the kinky offices of this unusual fall of snow, have beea gladly welcomed, and put to the best of use in the enjoyment of those sports so unaccustomed, to Kansans.
Some of the Batas enterta and their girl friends at the Beta house last Saturday. Sidney Griggs and Ed Carroll were here from Leavenworth. The evening was spent in dancing, and time speed quickly to the rhythm of good music. Those present were Misses Hutchinson, Morse, Frazer Saxon; Moore, Morris, Graham, Leslie, Bulleen, Pugh, Cross and Rankin, and Messles, Chiles, Carroll; Griggs, Tobey, Bradford, Salles, House, Copley, Simpson, Nichols, Cross, Barnett and Adams.
The Theta Katsup last Saturday evening was given at Miss Louise Alder's. The girls were entertained by a series of pantomines. A sheet was stretched in the wide doorway between the two parlors and on this by shadows, were represented three stories: "Lord Ullin's Daughter," "A Jealous Man's Revenge" and "Lord Lovell" were enacted. After this a set of questions was given each girl. Each sentence was to be answered by some word beginning with "cat." Rachel Pugh passed this examination and was awarded the prize, a dainty little cup and saucer. Coffee and sandwiches were served.
In "The Little Minister" Tuesday evening there were two extensive line parties. About eighteen Sigma Chis occupied the dress circle of the parquet, while thirteen Thetas appeared in the second row of the balcony and a number of Phi Pais and Betas made up a box party.
Miss Lucy Chapman entertains seven tables at cards this evening for her friend, Miss Blanche Wakefield of Kansas City. It is a tourist party. The score cards are regular railroad tickets and are stamped with the name of the station to which each person is destined. These stations are represented by the tables, each of which bears a different name, and at each one a different game will be played', high-five, whist, seven-up, casino, hearts, euchre and grand. After a sufficiently long journey, there is a stop of "fifteen minutes for dinner," at the lunch counters arranged in the dining room. The prize is a very pretty picture, a graceful head framed in a narrow brass frame.
Mrs. O. P. Barber entertained at whist on Saturday afternoon of last week the active chapter of Theta girls. Her daughter Mrs. Gomer Thomas of Kansas City and Miss Lena Sutter of Abilene were the guests of honor. At the end of an afternoon of doubtful contest the score cards with their bows of black and yellow were examined and easily placed Miss Cora More the winner. Dainty refreshments were served. On Monday afternoon Mrs. Barber entertained the tow in Thetas who are no longer in the active chapter.
Last Saturday evening the Misses Ayres entertained delightfully a party of twelve at dinner. The occasion of this pleasant affair was the birthday of their brother Darwin Ayres. He, by the way, has the honor of being the youngest student in the University and this was his sixteen th milestone. Those present were Misses Mary Copley, Mary Spenser, Frederica Bullene, May Septen, Lucy and Elizabeth Ayres; Messrs, Sallee, Silver, Anderson, Adams, Parent and Ayres.
Last Friday night at Pythian hall the Sophomores gave their second party. It was highly successful, for everything was well arranged, and all pronounced it most enjoyable. There were no decorations, but the balcony was invitably arranged with couches and settees and cushions galore. There were card tables and various games for those who cared to make use of them. Then for the dancers there was excellent music furnished by Mr Newhouse with his mandolife, together with Osborne's orchestra. Punch and wafers were served throughout the evening. About fifty were present.
At the Unitarian church Thursday night under the auspices of the alumni Pi Phis was given the beautiful choral production, "In a Persian Garden." It was for the benefit of the Pi Phi scholarship. The music was rendered by Professor Farrel with Mr Runcie, tenor, Mrs Fullerton, soprano, Mrs Weakley, alto. They rendered the following program: "Oh Vision Entrancing," Mr. Runcie Duet "Ein Zweigsang," ("Meyer Hahmud") Mrs. Fullerton, Mr. Farrell; Song "Ga-
vote from Mignon" (Thomas) Mrs. Weakley, Song "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind," (Sarjeant) Mr. Farrell; Song "The Swallow" (Del Aqua) Mrs. Fullerton. This was followed by the "Persian Garden." The words of Omar Khayam's beautiful poetry as translated by Fitzgarald are set to music by Liya Tehmann. This has been a very popular production in the east this winter. The music is excellent, and was well rendered Thursday evening, so that every one went t away highly pleased.
Some of the Phi Delt boys entertained their girl friends Thursday evening of last week at the Phi Delt house. The evening was passed at whist. A pretty feature of the evening was the score cards. They were done in pen and ink by one of the boys, decorated with the card spots, and tied with the fraternity blue and white. The honor prize was a box of marsh mallows with the colors.
The New York Herald is authority for the following figures, on the best educated state in the union, based on the number of pupils in attendance at the schools.
The Best Located State.
"Illinois leads the United States in learning. There are 23,787 students enrolled in the Sucker state.
"New York comes second. Kansas is third. Her figures are 13,007. The Keystone institutions hold 11,306 persons who are being familiarized with the higher forms. Ohio is close up. Her record for students of this class is 11,239. And then comes a point for the southerners. Tennessee stands fifth. They run to learning down in Dixie. Tennessee has 7,139 students to her credit. Missouri is sixth, with a showing of 6,531.
"So much for the higher education. Now try the same question as applied to the common schools. Where does the greatest per centage of enrolled scholars obtain? You might as well save yourses if the trouble of guessing. You would hardly pick it out in a dozen trials. Kansas, Bleeding Kansas. The home of the populist, the cyclone and the corn crop! Considered with regard to its total population, the enrollment in Kansas is really remarkable. The number of scholars of the public institutions are 370,240.
Following Kansas comes West Virginia, where the number of enrolled scholars is 236,188, which is 27.27 per cent of the population. And then comes Utah, where there are 70,878 scholars, a percentage of 26.75. And then comes Iowa, with a percentage of 26.31 and again Tennessee where 25.66 per cent of the population are enrolled scholars. Mississippi is sixth, with a percentage of 25.38 to her credit. Massachusetts has a percentage of only 15.93, and New York isn't much ahead of the bay state, for its figures are 17.56. Verily, there is more common school education in the west and the south than was dreamed of in the eastern philosophy."
Annual Fellowships for Women
Young women who rre intending to do graduate work will be interested in knowing that the Association of Collegiate Alumni consisting of over 2,000 women graduates from the leading universities and colleges in the United States encourage advanced study among college-trained women in a substantial way.
It has awarded annually for the past five years two fellowships of $330 and $500 respectively, the first for American and the second for European study.
The Woman's Educational association of Boston is working along the same lines and for 1900—1901 will give one fellowship of $450. ?
All women graduates of Kansas university are eligible to compete for these prizes.
One of these fellowships was held in 1894 by Prof Ida Hyde, and any young woman who contemplates doing graduate work would do well to try for one of those fellowships. Dr. Hyde would be glad to to give any further information concerning this matter. We hops to hear soon of some K. U. girl being a successful applicant. The fellowship offered for the coming year pays the tuition at Berlin university.
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Visitors registered this week: E G Oson, Indianaola, Iowa; H A Lamphear, Hot Springs, Ark; Moll Lamphear, Plattsmouth, Neb; N Bosye, Waverly; Lloyd Medes, Kansas City; Mrs James Palmer, Kearney, Neb; Hs H V Clark, Sunnyside; Jean Palmer, Kearney, Neb; J M Evans, Petersville, Ky; Alvan S Vincent, Emporia.
Prof E DjAdams will lecture to the Graduate Students association Tuesday on "The Transvaal Question."
Prof C D Guald leaped last night in Osage City, on "Shakespeare."
A petition was circulated among the Lawrence citizens to have Prof. F.O. Marvin become a candidate for councilman in the second ward.
Mr H S Carr has designed a dynamo which is manufactured by the Warren Electrical company.
Miss Marie Nelson spent the vacation at home in Kansas City.
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