Kansas University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief:
Guy. C. SEEDS.
Associate:
FRANK JEWETT,
Literary Editor:
• AGNES LEE.
Local Editor:
E. FRANK SHUNS.
Associates:
BERTHA BOWEN,
LACY SIMPSON,
RUTH WHITMAN,
C. E. ROSE,
GERTRUDE HILL,
JOHN FLETCHER,
J. C. BOTTOMER,
H. G. McKEERVER,
Managing Editor:
FRANE P. PRATT
Associate.
JOHN H. KANE.
Shares in the WEEKLY one dollar each, entitling the holder to the paper for two years, may be had of the secretary. A. S. Buzzi, the treasurer, S. R. Mains, or at the WEEKLY OFFICE.
Subscription price 50 cents per annum in advance.
Address all communications to P. P.
Pratt, 716 Mississippi street, Lawrence,
Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence Postoffice as second class mail matter.
LAWRENCE, KAN., OCT. 1, 1898
The Senior law class is to be congratulated on its new president.
A desire of years is to be realized—we are to have a University band.
Problem—The Medics were beaten last week by a Fort Scott high school team. What will K. U. do to them?
The first game of the year will be played with the Medies at Kansas City, October 5. The railroad fare will be low on account of the carnival and every student who can should go to Kansas City and yell for the boys.
In the death of President Schaeffer, Iowa university loses a friend whose interests have been for the best interest of the school. He was an ardent worker for the institution and his influence and energy will be greatly missed.
Perhaps the best football game of the year will be that one played with Ames college at Lawrence, October 15. Ames college been practice about the first of August and is in splendid condition. A great deal of interest has been manifested there and the team is composed of the best men in school.
The WEEKLY has been accused of being a "mugwump." It isn't that. Fairness is ever our motto. An article in the last issue caused much consternation among several members of the senior class, because they deemed the accusation false. Nearly half of the class, however, believe and uphold the author of the article. As to our policy, we would say that it is to be found in the editorial columns. Such articles as the one objected to are submitted by our respondents only after careful consideration, and to be an organ of the school, it is our duty to publish them.
The first number of the Kansas University Lawyer under the new management has made its appearance. When we consider the difficulties under which the Lawyer exists, we must respect those by whose efforts it has its being. A paper devoted to the profession can not have the same support as a paper of general interest, and since the number of law students in Kansas University is small, the circulation of such a publication must necessarily be small. In the case of the Lawyer, the editor-in-chief is also the business manager, and he must publish the paper in connection with his school work. Mr. Kyle is an ardent worker and his publication is worthy of the class and school which it represents.
"Toujours Jeune" at the Home Store,
*x105 Massachusetts street.*
Gulbertson & Thoburn,
Basement of Merchants National Bank
Deliver
ALL KINDS COAL
on short notice and in clean condition.
Tel. No. 84.
CULBERTSON & THOBURN.
What a College Education Cannot Do.
Robert Wilson Neal, who lives down at Lawrence and writes stories and essays and things, has an article in this monh's Western College Magazine, in which he kicks against the prickets because the youth of the land who go to college uncivilized don't get civilized while they are at college. He is surprised that after having taken the college cure for a year or two, young men and women are not made whole of their selfishness. He wonders that they g't away from the college without a religious and moral shaking up that would make them long for the gentle jolting of a trotting plowhorse. He is astonished that they take every chance given them to show what fools some mortals can be, and astounded that college politics is full of cliques and rings by which the student who wants something and wants it bad generally manages to get it, reform organizations, third party tickets, and Seth Low committees bucking against him with the usual fatal results—to the buckers. And he almost despairs when he realizes that the average 'sudent wouldn't give a Spanish bond for information he doesn't see hitched close up to his business wagon,
We reckon he is right in thinking that college education won't civilize a degenerate cuss who hasn't got a little civilization worked in before he goes to college. But it doesn't strike us that that's anything to blame the college for. We never knew cobs to be turned into chopped corn by being run through a feed mill. The expanding youth who hasn't acquired a little unselfishness helping the old man in the cornelfield in summer and wiping his mother's dishes and lugging water for her when he's lazy about home in winter and wet weather, won't learn anything about selfishness by associating with sines and tangents. The earnest buck who hasn't thought a little about God and his own duty before he goes to college isn't likely either to enter a theological seminar or to become a philanthropist through the influence of his college education. College education won't make a respectable citizen out of a weakminded rascal who thinks there isn't any honesty in politics or out of it, or cure the idiosyncracy of the dude who goes to college only for sassiety and despises the fellow who thinks but has hard hands. And it won't make a third rate student care for liberal studies ether, at least if it does it's worth a great deal more yet than we thought.
No, college education can't do any of these things, because it can't make a new of an old Adam. Human nature is about as unaltered as a plig's mind when there's a bridge to be crossed. But when a boy or girl goes to college blessed with well-broken horse sense, healthy appetite, a robust interest, and a rugged desire to become less a fool each day, he or she will find there all the improvement there is stowage for, and if Robert Wilson expects any more than this of college education, he had better compress his expectations. We don't believe he does, however. He isn't that kind of a fellow. We suspect that his ostensible criticism of college education is just a roundabout and delicute way of saying that some people get into college whose personal endowment of intellect and ability better qualifies them to set rat traps in a country grocery or to attend populist meetings.—Mail and Breeze.
Anchor Brand collars, two for a quarter at
THE BOSTON. 738 Massachusetts street.
Baths at the Tipton Barber shop are:
1 for 250, 7 for $1.00, 15 for $2.00, 24 for
$3.00, while a ticket for the entire school
year will cost only $5.00. Towels furnished
free and bath open Sunday until
11:30 a.m.
The Lawrence Business college offers special advantages to those University students desiring a knowledge of book-keeping, shorthand, typewriting, etc. Recitation hours arranged to suit the work on the hill. Day and evening sessions.
Students as well as others wanting coal, will find A.J. Griffin's the most convenient and best place to trade. His prices are the lowest, coal the best, and delivery is prompt and satisfactory.
C. L. Edwards, on Warren street, sells coal of all kinds by the ton or car load at lowest cash prices and delivers same in good condition. Telephone 87.
See our line line of Fall and Winter suits.
THE BOSTON. 738 Massachusetts street.
Garden seeds, flower seeds and bulbs at Mrs. Preniss' ,1105 Massachusetts street.
Tailor made clothing at half of Tailor's prices at Ober's,
Picture frames at Hoadley's.
CONGLOMERATE.
If you are running a boarding club and getting a pretty good 'rake off', don't say a word about it, your boards might hear it and seek for greener fields.
Don't it make you feel funny to have a "fat" man chew your "Battle-axe" and smoke your "Duke's Mixture" out on the back steps of Fraser hall, then act like he don't know you when he meets you on the street accompanied by some of his "fat" brether or sister. The tobacco on you.
If you happen to cut a little ice in class politics don't it grind on your forbearance to have the biggest fool in the class get the office itch and keep calling you off to one side in the halls at all hours of the day and confidently tell you how to "work 'em?"
At the beginning of the term we saw a boarding club steward hand his card to a traveling man with two big sample cases in his hands, as he alighted from a west bound passenger.
As he goes to and fro on Mt. Oread,
Prof. Brownell always has a nod and a smile for the passing men who are at work on the new electrical building. He is running for county attorney.
There is a fellow at our boarding club who always sounds his "g" on the end of "ting" and never makes a grammatical error. He is from the State normal.
Did you ever watch a freshman edge around and try to get in a conversation in which Capt. Mosse or Sam Usher were engaged? He wants to stand in with the big guns.
Our idea of a hot time is 'a senior law election.
Does anybody know whether Prof. Adams is staying by the football team this year, through thick and thin, so help me John Rodgers.
When you die do you want some sympathetic friend who is poetically inclined to speculate in rhyme as to your probable whereabouts?
Did you ever notice that there are follows on the hill who claim to be "barbs," who will accuse every "barb" that wears a clean shirt of being a "frat" rusher?
A 'int you getting awful tired of watermelons at your boarding house and do they taste as good served on a plate where you are compelled to eat them with a fork, as they did when you used to steal them out of the patch, eat them without formality by burying you hungry face in their contents of "aqua pura" and then lie down to unpleasant dreams?
Students desiring picture frames, text books, or stationery will do well to visit the store of B.W. Henshaw, 917 Mass. street.
Wm. BEAL
Livery, Hack and Boarding Stable
Telephone 139. No, 812 and 814 Vermont Street.
Lawrence. Kan. Always Open.
G. F. GODDING.
EVENING SCHOOL
No, 812 and 814 Vermont Street.
BEAL AND GODDING, G. F. GODDING.
Lawrence
Business College
On Monday evening, Oct. 3, and continue until April 1st. Sessions held from 7 to 9 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings of each week. A splendid chance for University students to learn something about book-keeping, penmanship, shorthand, typewriting, etc. Full particulars given upon application at office in National Bank building.
Will Open at the
Our Prices Will Save You Money.
Day Classes Also.
I. C. STEVENSON, Princinal
WE HAVE REDUCED OUR PRICES
Note Our Prices on the Leading Brands
SOUVENIR CHINA.
Last January
THE UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE
WE COURT COMPARISON.
The girls admitted to the fraternity were
Placed an order for souvenir china, with t firm in Auxerria. These goods consist of plates, cups and saucers, sugars and creams, dinner dishes, coffee mugs, dessert boxes, boxes, dishware, ashes,盘 and pen trays, comb and brush or toilet trays, tiles, etc. The decorations on the plates are Woodland and Winnimuil. Prices are so low that no one need be without a souvenir of their university days. The prices are not for their enterprise in bringing to Lawrence this elegant display of dainty china. It is only when we look for it, as they are always in all things belonging to a first class book and art store.
One of the most successful imitations in the history of the fraternity was held by Pi Beta Phi last night at the home of Miss Gertrude Hill. By reason of its location this house is particularly well suited to initiations and the chance passer by was certainly edified by what he saw there last night. Every feature of the evening was a success. The mock initiation was exceptionally grewsome and blood curdling, the ritual unusually impressive, and the cooky shine and farce which are characteristic of Pi Phi initiation were particularly jolly. The girls who distinguished themselves in the latter were: Misses Gardner, Bullene Baker, Taylor, Bangs, Smith and Hutchinson.
The fraternity people have been so occupied this week planning and holding their fall initiations that there has been very little other social gaiety where gaiety is usually found.
The exceedingly warm weather too has somewhat weakened the interest in society which is usually so manifest at this season.
SOCIETY.
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Collars...2c
Cuffs...4c
HIGH ART FOOTWEAR.
J. S. Turner Co.'s regular $7,00
Ladies'.
J. S. Turner Co. s regular $750
Shoe. Our price $5.00
Gents'.
The 'Knox' Shoe sold at $4.00.
Our regular price $4.00
OBER
Hand sewed ... $3 00
Machine sewed ... $2 50
"Catlin's Best" the best shoe on earth for $3.50
Our Star Line
The "Regent" $3.50 shoe
Our regular price $2.95
BOOK CHRISTMAS equiv
3.50 shoe on the market. SPECIAL PRICE
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The "Rock Chalk" equal to any
D *Armstrong & Co.'s* shoes sold in your city at $4 loo at $5 loo.
Our regular price $3.00 to $4.00
Our Star Line
Your choice for $2.50
"Rochester Shoe" Co. of
Rochester, N. Y., regular price $3 to $4.
Our price $2.50 to $3.50
CLOTHING CO.
821 Mass.
The "Cincinnati" shoe, stand
Our price $2.00 and $3.00
Moloney Bros.'
Regular $2.50 shoe.
Our Price $1.75
CATLIN & KNOX SHOE CO..
We carry above goods in all colors, styles, sizes and lasts from AA. to EE. We are agents for the nine leading Rubber companies and can suit anybody.
"White's Favorite"
The best shoe ever sold
For $2.00
823 MASS. ST.
Misses Nettie Manley, Minnie Leach, Ted Bullene. Frances Hawk, Loren Leslie and Mame Spencer.
By invitation of Mrs. Hill and as a climax to the evening's fun the whole fraternity stayed all night at the Hill home.
The young women of Kappa Kappa Gamma have found it more effective to do away with the mock initiation and substitute in its place an elaborate banquet with appropriate toasts. The ceremonies held last night at the home of Mrs. Tracy Learnard were unusually impressive in character and particularly so to the five girls who were for the first time allowed to don the little golden key The new members are Misses Stella Aten, Edith Parker, Edith Parrot, Jane Harrison and Esther Wilson.
The Phi Delta Theta initiation tonight promises to be an interesting one. Messrs. Murphy, Wise, Jewett and McMath will be the victims. Sam Jackman and Lonnie Wilcox are in for the occasion.
Sigma Chi has already held its initiation; that of Phi Kappa Psi will occur next week. There is no definite date set for those of Kappa Alpha Theta, and Pha Gamma Delta.
John Francis will be in town next week.
Clifton Devereux has entered school.
A very pleasant reception to students was held last night at the Friends church. Miss Olive Lewis is spending Sunday in Topeka.
Miss Emma Herwich, of Humbolt, is visiting her sister, Mrs. R D. O'Leary.
Devered has entered school. Lee Davies, of Kansas City, Kansas, has put on Beta colors.
The Entre Nous club will be entertained Saturday night by the Misses Case.
Miss Mabel Sayre was on the hill Thursday.
One of the most interesting announcements of the season is that of the engagement of Miss Alberta Winnek to Mr. A. E. Wardner Jr., '98. Both the young people are very well known and their engagement is something of a surprise to their friends.
The Phi Psis are spending the last of the week in Topeka, the guests of their Topeka members.
Mrs Fred Buchan (nee Smith) will accompany her husband to Manila.
Frank Banks is now working in Chicago in the office of the auditor of the Santa Feroad.
Irving Hill of Neodosha will visit at the Deta house next week.
Jus Bowersock was in town this week. The class of 1900 will revive the old custom of having a junior picnic. On next Saturday they will spend the afternoon and evening at Bismarck grove.
Miss Emma Florsheim is spending Sunday at her home in Kansas City.
Miss Emma Hendrick's oo and Mrs, Flynn are visiting their sister Mrs. O'Leary. Miss Henrich is on her way to Topeka to take a course in Kindergarten.
Miss Emma Hyde is spending Saturday and Sunday at her home in Leavenworth,
Miss Ellen Allen went to Topea Friday to visit at her home until Monday.
It is the universal opinion of the students that Hi Henry's minstrels was one of the best companies that ever came to Lawrence.
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