Kansas University Weekly
Editor-in-Chief:
GUV, C. SREDS.
Associates:
FRANN JEWETT,
E, MCSHEA.
Literary Editor:
· AGNES LEE.
Local Editor
GERTRUDE HILL
Associates:
BERTIA BOWEN,
LACY SIMPSON,
C. E. ROSE,
E. S. LINDAS,
CURTIS ORSENE
Managing Editor
FRANK P. PRATT
Associate,
JOHN H. KANE,
RUTH WHITMAN,
JOHN FLETCHER,
H. G. MCKEVER,
W. B. GRAHAM,
MARIE MORRIES.
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The regular WEEKLY election will be held Friday, January 13.
LAWRENCE, KAN. JAN. 7, 1899.
After that enjoyable two weeks at home, of course all the students were anxious to resume their studies.
Among the few things which demand the attention of the students now are the oratorical contest, the inter-collegiate debates and the indoor meet.
Those who so ardently besought the council for their premature vacation will have ample time to regret it in the following five months of continuous study.
We acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the Eleventh Biennial Report of the State Historical society. The pamphlet is devoted almost entirely to Kansas and foreign publications.
Statistics show that the University is falling behind, that the appropriations do not increase in proportion to the number of students. This is a most lamentable fact. We sincerely hope for proper treatment at the hands of the State Legislature.
There appears to be a real case of the office seeking the man this year. The office of Editor-in-chief of the WEEKLY is open to the first comer, but no one has yet appeared who destroys this honor. A spirited WEEKLY election is a thing of the past.
The mock marriage ceremony which was held recently by a number of University girls has been successful in removing any lingering doubt which might have been entertained regarding the progressiveness of the modern University girl. These girls will be able to go through a marriage ceremony and a latin declension with about an equal degree of nonchalence.
Education which will make men and women capable of living most complete l this world is not always to be secured in colleges. That knowledge which is most useful is not always the most ornamental and that which is most ornate is not generally the most useful.
True, mere education makes a narrow selfish man. Yet there is a world of knowledge outside of books which one may obtain during one's college career. A proper mixture of book learning and worldly knowledge makes the ideal man.
The Atchison Globe has been poking fun at the faculty of the University of Kansas because some of them are encouraging the students to row on the river. The Globe seems to think scholarship and the ability to row incompatible. The Globe needs to wake up and roll over. The old idea of the pale and sickly student, over his books by the midnight oil, has been stuffed and mounted long ago. And fortunately so for the future scholarship. If scholarship is to keep in touch with the life of the world (and if it doesn't it is of little use) it must have a clear head and a sound liver. The scholar must be strong in body if he is to be sound in thought. Therefore he should row and kick and run and throw and wrestle, and do what ever else will give him good air and good
The efforts of the faculty are indeed commendable. There is a splendid water course and it the students even showed a little interest in rowing it would be but a few years until Kansas University would have a crew that would compare very favorably with her football teams.
circulation. What's the matter with you Mr. Howe, how呀?—K. C. Journal.
Michigan is endeavoring to develop a long distance punter, while Herschberger of Chicago, has already taken Allen in charge with a view to perfecting him in that art. The past football season in the west has demonstrated that punting and consequently open playing is a decided improvement. The value of punting in defensive work as a means of obviating close and hard playing must be acknowledged. Doubtless, in the future as much attention will be given to the development of punters, as was formerly given to the making of the halfbacks. This improvement in the game will eliminate a great deal of the danger, and will make the contest more interesting to the spectators.
SOCIETY.
Miss Gertrude Bailey of Chanute has entered school.
Miss Viah Cross spent the vacation with her brother in St. Louis.
Miss Winslow Hutchinson spent the holidays in Hutchinson as the guest of Miss Loren Leslie.
Frank Banks, who is now at work in Chicago, spent New Year's here with his parents.
Miss Erna Barteldes spent part of the holidays in Neodesha, as the guest of Miss Lucile Cross.
Miss Eva Brown entertained informally Tuesday evening for a number of her Kappa friends.
Mr. Harry Sinclair will not continue his work in the University until the second term
A large crowd of University and High School students gave a very pleasant subscription party Tuesday night in Pythian hall.
Miss Gertrude Hill spent the holidays in Kansas City as the guest of Miss Nellie Trickett.
Miss Minnie Leach visited Miss Margaret Northup of Kansas City during the holidays.
Mr Harry Kohn, '06, is back visiting old University friends. Mr. Kohn is now practicing law in New York.
The committee on the Annual of the Senior class is beginning to do systematic work and the Annual promises to be an exceedingly clever one.
Mr. Will Cookins returned Tuesday from Denver where he has been spending the holidays with his parents.
Miss Burrie Bowersock returned Tuesday from Chicago, after a weeks visit with friends.
Miss Winslow Hutchinson returned from Hutchinson the first of the week after spending the holidays with Miss Loren Leslie.
Prof. E, Haworth spent part of the holiday vacation on work connected with the geological survey in the south and southeast part of the state.
Mr. W. B. Graham has just handed in to the department of American History, a 12,000 word thesis entitled "The Growth of Democracy."
Miss Inez Wightman of Ottawa was on the hill Tuesday visiting friends. She will return home Monday evening.
Miss Laura Thorpe has not returned to school the week on account of a lame arm.
Mr. Roy Sawyer, a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Lincoln, Nebraska, returned to Kansas City Monday evening, after a few days visit with Dr. and Mrs. Howland.
Mrs Hazen and Mrs. Sayre entertained for the members of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity at their Chapter Hall last Wednesday evening.
Monday evening the Betas entertained informally at their chapter house for their young lady friends, Messrs Leveret Adams and Millard Shaler furnished music. The guests were Misses Bertha Miller, Del-Frazier, Loren Leslie, Frederica Bullene, Florence Hawk, Agnes Lee and Grace Bangs.
The Pi Phis entertained some of the new girls Saturday evening at a chaffing dish party in Miss Winslow Hutchinson's rooms.
A recent number of the Tulliad Chronicle contains a notice of the birth of Mr. Emmet G. Allen, a teacher in the city schools of that place. Mr. Allen was a former University student and a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was one of the first student assistants in the
Mr. Charles C. Crew, who was a prominent graduate from the school of engineering in '96, is visiting his parents here. He has been very successful since his graduation, having been one of the chief engineers on a large irrigating ditch recently completed in eastern Colorado. He is now contemplating a trip to Alaska.
library and the news of his death will be heard with deep regret by all who remember him.
Several of the younger society girls in town have started a new club, which they assert will not develop into an interfraternity. The first meeting was held at Miss Eva Brown's Saturday afternoon, when plans for their organization were discussed and arrangements made for their next meeting, which was held Thursday night. The meetings will be held on Thursdays, alternating afternoon and evening. At the evening gatherings, gentlemen will be entertained. The members are Misses Eva Brown, Augusta Flintown, Dell Frazier, Agnes Hanson, Mayne Spencer, Boss Ayres, Florence Hawk and Gertrude Becker.
The young women of the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity entertained Friday evening for several friends, in Journal hall. The affair was very impromptu and the invitations were not issued until late in the week. Music was furnished by Spunder's orchestra. Those present were: Misses Mabel Barley of Chanute, Andrews,Brown, Lewis, Aten, Bowersock, Wilson, Hudson, Cross, McCrory, Morris, Burrie Bowersock, Hanson, Parrot, Grosh, Miller and Harmon, and Messrs. Hayden, House, Beck, Cloyes, Rogers, Reitz, Garver,Sample, Hess, McKnight, Housh, Copley, Peters, Nichols, Fletcher, Taylor, Jones, Williams, Tobey, Smith, Bradford, Bliss, Carroll, Crawford and Hazen.
On a beautiful July morning three little girls were walking merrily down a country road which led through a newly mown hayfield. They were barefooted and the eldest, a child of about nine years, was bareheaded. Her broad brimmed hat was hanging at her back and the wind was blowing the strands of her very white hair into her face. The other two children wore sunbonnets and all three had on long sleeved aprons of some cotton print.
How Elise Solved the Problem
"I tell you girls," the oldest child was saving, "let's cut across the hayfield; see how smooth and velvet it is and we'll get to the brook tots quicker, and besides from up on the hill we can look along the ravine and pick out the very best place for our play-house."
The other little girls agreed readily and the three struck off into the hay field. But, alas, for its deceptive smoothness! The stubbler were sharp and the little feet were tender. But Elsie, the leader, urged her companions bravely on till, at last, they stood upon the summit of the small rounded hill where they all stopped to wipe the persperation from their faces and consider what to do next. Little Nell, the youngest of the three, began to cry with the pain from her scratched feet, and absolutely refused to go further. Though it was only a short distance to the road which they had just left, the remembrance of the stubble made the child as much opposed to going back as to going on.
"Now what are we going to do, Elsie Leonard? You've gone and got us up here and now you can just,get us down," and Laura threw herself down on the grass with a flounce,glad of chance to vent her vexation by throwing the blame on Elsie.
"Well, I guess you want to come as much as I did, so you needn't talk that way. You needn't come if you didn't want to. But then." Elsie added, with the air of a general. "I guess we can get back easy enough if we want to."
Nell, however dried her eyes at Elsie's tone of assurance. She had implicit confidence in her ability to solve difficulties,
"Well, I'd like to know how. We can't carry Nell and she won't walk."
Off came the little aprons and into the sleeves went the bare legs. Long wisps of hay, left by the rake, served as strings to tie up the sleeves like bags and there stood three comical little figures all ready for their triumphal and novel descent.
"I know what we can do girls," Elsie announced triumphantly after a moment's pause.
Old Jake, who was coming along the road with a jug of water, stopped in astonishment.
Little Nell and Laura wee: both much interested at this new and entertaining proposal and began to follow Elsie's example.
"We can take off our aprons and put our feet in the sleeves and roll back to the road," and suiting the action to the words she began to unbutton her blue pinafore.
"Well, I swan! What be them things a comin' down that 'ere hill?" he said to
Elisie, of course, started off first. "Hold up your head and keep your eyes shut." she shouted back, "and you won't get hurt a bit. It's lots of fun!"
Wm. BEAL
BEAL & GODDING, Livery, Hack and Boarding Stable
Having purchased my partner's interest in the Clothing firm of Robinson & Spalding, 744 St. St., at a sacrifice, I will at once inaugure a cleaning up sale that is ample and to its proprietor, and everything goes in this great Clothing and Furnishing Gifts sale at our cent discount of actual values. I bought them cheap; you can own them cheap.
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Lawrence Business College.
Established in 1869, oldest commercial school in the state but not too old to do good thorough work in any subject pertaining to accounts, including
An excellent opportunity is now offered to students of the University to do work along this line. Classes arranged to suit recitations on the hill. Enter any time in day or evening sessions. If interested, come down and see us.
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AND
Elsie spied Jake first and ran toward him as fast as her somewhat inconvenient garb would allow.
himself and putting his jug down he shaded his eyes with his hand, the better to watch the three animated bundles, rolling down toward him. Great was his astonishment when the three strange objects reached the road, to see them get up and to recognize in them the little girls he knew so well.
"O Jake, give us a drink of water we're awful thirsty."
Jake went up the road chuckling to himself.
Notice.
"Wall, what that 'are Elsie don't think of ain't worth thankin' of"
Why the pickerich hurted our feets, lisped Nell, "and Eilie told us to do that way and it didn't hurt at all."
Students who have not deposited at the office of the department of English the themes and forensics hereofore given out, should place these papers on nile with the department at once. This refers to all papers of the present term.
"Wall, I'd like to know what you younguns were up ter rolling down that 'ereh hill that a way?" questioned Jake goodnaturedly holding up the jug that the little girl might drink.
A. T. MORRIS, Cincinnati, O.
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Mandolin and Guitar.
Mr. R. S. Saunders, the thorough and practical teacher of guitar, mando in banjo, violin and zither, is located at 829 Massachusetts street. Parties wishing instructions on the above named instruments will do well by calling on him. Mr. Saunders has had about nineteen years experience as a teacher. Call for catalogue.
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An immense line of Fall Hats at prices that defy competition at M. J. Skofstad's, 824 Massachusetts street.
Bien linen collars for 15 cents, 2 for 25 cents; to 10 cents or 3 for 25 cents at M. J. Skoftstad, 824 Massachusetts street.
I. C STEVENSON
PRINCIPAL.
About Debate.
The committee on interstate debate in its meeting just before the holiday selected one of the five questions submitted by Missouri. The question selected is: "Should the United States adopt the British Colonial policy in the government of its recent acquisitions?" In "recent acquisitions" should be included Hawaii as well as Porto Rico and the Philippines. In a meeting Thursday the following resolutions were adopted: t.e.
Fourth: "All representatives shall be chosen on Saturday, Jan. 28."
First: "The following organizations and departments shall be entitled to send representatives to the final contesting debate as follows. The Kent Club, two; the Adelpic Literary society, two; the Snow Literary society, two; all other Literary societies combined, two; The Art department, four; the Law department, two; all other departments combined, two.
Secondi: 'The committee strongly recommends that all representatives be chosen by preliminary contests.
Third: "No student shall entermore than one of the preliminary contests.
The committee has also sent a list of five questions to Nebraska and expects to receive the selected question in a few days.
All students expecting to enter these contests should take note of these resolutions and make the arrangements to enter some preliminary contest.
CHAS. VICKREY, Pres.
W. J. BAUMGARTNER, Secy.
Mythological Comparisons.
In the course of the conversation, which turned on mythology, the chancellor said he could never endure Apollo, who flayed Marsyas from conceit and envy and slew the children of Niobe for similar reasons. "He is the genuine type of a Frenchman, one who cannot bear that another should play the flute better than or as well as himself."—"Bismarck Memoirs" by Busch.
It used to happen in Java that, owing to want of transportation facilities, the inhabitants of one part of the island might be starving while those of another had as much rice as they could eat. Railways have remedied that state of affairs.
The first permanent military force in England was the king's guard of yoomen, established in 1488.