Kansas University Weekly.
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Editor-in-Chief:
FREDRICK H. WOOD,
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 28, 1898
"Who kicked Sterling?" will go into the category of mysterious problems for solution along with "Who struck Billy Patterson? and Who shot Webster Davis' hat?"
Iowa's refusal to play football with us next fall at Iowa City is at last us sportsmanlike while her counter proposition to play at Kansas City Thanksgiving knowing as she does our standing agreement to meet Missouri at that time and place bears the ear-marks of insincerity.
It is to be hoped that the custom inaugurated last year of opening the store and work rooms of Prof. Dyche for inspection during commencement week will continue. Few students realize the size of our collection of natural botany specimens. A visit to these rooms will be an eye-opener for both students and visitors.
The last issue of the Normal School Owen loudly calls attention to the superiority of the normal in many lines. It might rightly add that the Normal stands in undisputable pre-eminence as the unvullied exponent of impure amateur sport and that it can boast of the most consumate robber ampule in the state. The Weekly has yet to hear of a team playing at Emporia that was not robbed blind.
It is to be hoped that the year will not close without some steps being taken towards the reform of our Oratorical association and our debating management. The WEEKLY is strongly in favor of reorganizing both upon the basis of the present Athletic association. The one is now in the control of a close corporation, the other of a committee with almost plenary power. Both are too far removed from the student body as a whole to be calculated to cause enthusiasm in either subject among the great mass of students. There is only one short week now in which these much desired reforms may be accomplished.
In our appreciation of the generosity of Mr. Fowler, the visible mark of whose public spirit may soon be seen on the campus, we should not forget the gift made to the University some three years ago by Dr. Bell of Kansas City. Because of the niggardly policy of the legislature, it has not yet been possible to make use of Dr. Bell's grant of land. But it must not be forgotten that thanks to Dr. Bell's desire to advance the cause of science, the University is in possession of property in Kansas City Kansas worth well on towards fifty thousand dollars and which when our legislative fathers see fit to take the proper steps will insure the establishment of a high grade medical department. The legislative sight seems to be particularly short sighted in this state in regard to educational matters, and it may be some time before it can be brought to take notice of the importance of Dr. Bell's beneficence, and take steps toward reaping its full benefits. This is the misfortune but not the fault of the generous doctor.
KANSAS IN THE LEAD.
It is not so many years ago that the scholar of standing must show evidence of Eastern training. The man whose
training had been given west of the Mississippi, was at a distinct disadvantage compared with his Eastern educated rival and doubtless would have been anubbed for his presumption in trying to compete with the latter.
The westerner was looked upon as a good fellow, but unoutstanding and uncultured while as for a Western scientist that would have considered an absurdity. But things have changed. Western colleges are coming to the front in science and learning as well as in other matters. Last week's WEEKLY briefly noticed the surprisingly rapid success of three of Dr. Williston's latest pupils in paleontology. Careful examination brings to light the fact that of the younger men now conducting investigations in this branch of science nearly all are of Western breeding and education. It is practically true that of late years the field of research in this department has been closed to the Easterner and has been carried on by the Westerner. Better still it has been carried on to a large extent by young men from our own institution who fresh from the instruction of Dr. Williston find themselves in the very front rank of the generation of scientists.
No, the name of the Sentors' bureus upon the events of the passed academic year is not "Too Much Johnson," but "Bricks Without Straw."
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Wilson Mann A. B. '97 was a visitor at the university on Monday. Mr. Mann is in the mercantile business at Horton and a business life appears to agree with him as much as student life, if one is to judge from an increase in weight even over his last year's form. Mr. Mann will be well remembered for his brilliant work in last year's Senior-Faculty game and for his impersonation of Judge Green in the Senior play.
AMONG THE ALUMNI.
John Galentine Hall, A. B., 195—A. M. (Harvard) during one of his botanical excursions near Boston not long ago, made an interesting discovery. He found a fungus Teichospora traicola, which is very rare and had never been found in America before. Mr. Hall is at Harvard this year studying for his Ph. D.
Mr. Grant, A. M. class of '97 writes from Deadwood S. D. reporting a pleasant and successful year. During the summer of '97 he taught in the Bryant and Stratton Business College of Chicago. In September he went to Deadwood to undertake his duties as principal of the high school there. May 19 he was re-elected for the ensuing year at an advance of $20, making $100 per month.
H. P. Butcher was re-elected principal of the Olathe high school.
Seniors Who Will Teach.
The following seniors have obtained positions in the public schools of the state for the following year.
C. G. Messlery, superintendent of the Osage City high school.
W. M. Keyser, principal, same place.
Eleanor Gephart, teacher in Valley Falls high school.
G. W. Stevens, principal of the Guthrie high school.
C. E. Shutt, principal Beloit high school
Miss Anna Edwards, 95 principal of the Minneapolis High school is visiting Lawrence friends this week.
J. O. Hall, assistant princepal Olathe high school.
K. S. U. buquet is the most lasting and fragrant perfume on the market. For sale only at Brerber Bros' Drug store, 909 Massachusetts street.
Three of these reverend seniors in the play, it is asserted, have ordered hacks to be in waiting for them at the stage entrance. The performance will be timed so that these actors may jump into their carriages and take the 10:45 train for the west, before six late members of the audience may catch them. The diplom of these seniores will be sent to them.
Mr. J. O. Hall has been elected assistant principal of the Olathe high school. This is the position Mr. C. C. Brown, Arts '96, has held for two years. Mr. Brown declined to be a candidate for re-election and d expects to attend Harvard next year.
Seniors to M+k> Their Escape.
The Seniors are busy practicing faithfully for their play to be given Wednesday night.
Mrs. Henry Smith and Miss Josephine Mary of Augusta will visit George Smith during Commencement week.
SOCIETY
Mrs. E. Miller entertained Friday afternoon in honor of her daughter, Mrs. Barnes of Denver.
Jim Suyder's mother and sister will be here for commencement.
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The Pi Phis gave a very delightful hop Friday night in journal hall. The dance was given as a farewell to those members of the fraternity who will not return next year. The music was by Saunders. The gentlemen entertained were Messrs. Swett, Murray, Francis, Campbell, Robinson, Williams, Beck, Chamberlain, Parent, Poebler, Hopkins, Copley, Wilcox, Shaler, Housh, McKnight, Nicholson, Wilder, Griggs, Rafter, Reilly; Cockins, Curry, Allen, Stanley, Banks, Harris. Cloyes, Woodward.
The Phi Pais gave a very pleasant hop last Friday night at their chapter house. Miss Vassie James of Kansas City was the guest of honor. Other guests were Misses Ayres, Lee, Brown, Naylor, Bullene, Ted Bullene, Hill, Stone, Hutchinson, Pierce, Smith Messrs. Wilcox Parent, Poebler, Campbell. Walker.
The Freshman Botany class went out to the lake on the ro o'clock train Saturday morning. They spent the day hunting specimens.
The class in Eighteenth Century Literature met Friday for the last time this year. Prof. Jones will start for Amherst the first of the week. The classes will prepare a critical analysis of a poem instead of a final examination.
The class in Bacteriology is now working on the germs of Asiatic cholera, diphtheria and typhoid fever.
WHO IS ROASTED
This Is What Fearful Youths and Maid e of the 'Varsity Are asking of the Santors.
As the time for giving the Senior play draws nearer the members of that august class grow more and more reticent in regard to their dramatic effort. The cast is rehearsing every day at the opera house, but fortune, indeed, would be the visitor who could hide himself away from the watchful eye of Manager Walker and listen to the rehearsal.
Never before has the Senior play been wrapped in so much mystery. Never before has the Senior class been so afraid that something might get out about the play or so particular that nothing should get out.
They have, to be sure, given out the name of the play,
"Bricks without Straw;" but what does that tell? Almost anything from a problem story to a Vaudeville show might be named "Bricks Without Straw." They have also said that the play will be a burlesque on the events of the academic year, and will be chuck full of roasts, but that doesn't tell much either. What the fearful youth who has laid himself open to joshing during the winter is now asking himself, and incidentally every senior of his acquaintance is "Am I roasted?"
Tantalizing to the last the seniors refuse to give out the cast of characters. The following will take part, but what parts, Heaven and the seniors only know, and they won't tell. Chas. Loomis, Victor Boone, Jack Harris, Alfred Noyes, Harvey Clark, De Vere Rafter, Hilliard Johnson, Arthur Jackson, Wilkie Clock, Cecil Haggart, Asa Canavan, Chas. McGee, B. D. Hammell, H. H. Hess, W. J. Walker, Lawrence Chamberlain, John Sanderson Malcolm Watson, Willis Myers, Mabel McGregor, Alberta Cavin, Leora Crawford, Sara Thrasher, Alice Spencer, Jennie Mershon Nellie Dryden, Carrie Pampel, Mabel Fisher, Rhoda Field, Eleanor Gehart. Advance sale of seats begins Monday morning at Dick Bros. Prices 75, so 25 cents.
A VISIT FROM DR. BELL.
In 1805 Dr. Bell made a grant of land in Resedlea estimated to be worth $500,000 as an endowment for a medical school for the University.
Dr. Bell of Kansas City was in the city recently to see Chancellor Snow.
The Donor of Our Medical School Endowment. Her t is See the Chancellor.
The grant was made upon the condition that a hospital be built in connection on part of the land in connection with the Medical school.
Rosedale is a suburb of Kansas City and the property is situated just across the Kansas line on the Southwestern Boulevard an ideal location for a hospital. The legislature has failed so far to take any steps toward the establishment of either medicine college or hospital.
The greater part of the gift is free from any condition whatever. There is too, a recent decision of the Colorado supreme court, which if followed by our courts would prohibit the University authorities from carrying on their work outside of Lawrence. In such a case it is thought
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AS3CUSIATION "MONEY."
To a much smaller audience than the merit of the performance deserved, "The Masque" presented Bulwer Lytton's "Money." The play was exceedingly well staged and excellently costumed. The acting was uniformly good, above the average of amateur productions and showed intelligent appreciation of the lines and the best of coaching. Miss Charlotte Hobson played the difficult part of Clara with feeling and expression. Claude Stanley looked and acted the part of the highly educated and intensely sensitive hero with appreciative intelligence. Perhaps the best piece of acting done by any of the cast was the character acting of "Sal" Walker whose imprisonation of the Melancholy Graves in mourning for his "Sainted Maria" more than once brought down the house. On the whole from a dramatic standpoint the first performance of "The Masque" was a success and reflects the greatest credit upon its members. The following was the cast.
Want To Turn Proceeds of faculty Game
Over to Student's Loan Fund.
The Senior class had a stormy meeting Wednesday to consider the disposal of the funds accrued from the Senior faculty game. At a previous meeting of the class Lawrence Chamberlain was elected manager of the team and given authority to arrange a game with the faculty. The Seniors played the game on McCook field and resulted in favor of faculty. The Athletic association at their regular meeting decided to let the grounds for the game for $55.90. The members of the class with a philosophical turn of mind moved to appropriate their share of receipts for the benefit of students loan fund. An amendment to appropriate the receipts for the benefit of the Salvation Army was lost. The previous question was moved by Wardner and the receipts are to be turned over to the loan fund. A committee of the class is to be appointed next week to raise the deficit to pay for the
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THE TATTLER.
The Tattler keeps wondering when the students will get over their ward school and high school ways, sufficiently so that they will stop calling the University a school. We all do it. Some of us talk of going "up the hill," but we commonly say "go to school." This very morning the Tattler heard at least a dozen times that there would be no "school" Monday. Even in the columns of this paper our dignified Alma Mater is from time to time mentioned as "school." A young professor who came here the first of the year was disgusted to hear these grown up students talking about "school" as if it were the ward article, but he has pitied, then embraced, for the Tattler heard him saying "school" the other day. At other great colleges like our own one except a brand new freshman says "school," and he would not say it many times. The Tattler wishes that we might scoorn such childlike speech as "fresh."
The Tattler can picture to himself the eagerness which the eighty members of the Junior Class will display when their president distributes the sixty tickets so generously sent by the senior class for the Annual Senior play. Each of the eighty Juniors will want to be one of the sixty to occupy the seats. No one will want to be one of the twenty without seats. Various plans have been suggested among the Juniors but at the end of the discussion there always remain eighty Juniors and sixty seats. And, twenty of the Juniors are dissatisfied. No one has presumed to criticize '98. The Juniors all feel that what '98 has in its benefience decided, is right. They are merely enleaving by the mathematics that they have had to make sixty increase to eighty, or eighty decrease to sixty. With what success, we shall see Tuesday night. The Tattler hopes he may be there to see.
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