Kansas University Weekly
Editor-in-Chief:
FREDERICK H. WOOD,
Associate:
JOHN H. KANE
Literary Editor:
AGNES LEE,
Associate:
CREATIVENESS
Local Editor
Guy, C. SEEDS
Associates:
FRANK SWETT,
A. H. PARROTT,
JOHN FRANCIS, J.
J. M. LEE,
GERRTUE HILL,
JOHN FLETRCHER,
J. C. BOTTOMMER,
FRANK JEWKTT,
Managing Editor:
J. O. HALL,
Associate.
FRANK P. PRATT
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEB 12, 1898
If you are interested in base ball, go down to the rink and try the team.
What will future Junior Law classes do for a respite when the Hillmon case is finally settled?
Keep your voice in trim and get your colors ironed for the State Oratorical contest, February 25.
--colleges of a whole state in oratory, if anything can be an incentive. It is all very proper for us to confine our debates to Universities of our own size, for in a debate but two sides can be represented. Where a dozen institutions can be represented as in oratory the present arrangement is more feasible and desirable from an oratorical and financial point than any other that could be devised. If we are to continue our efforts in oratory let us by all means continue in the association and instead of busying ourselves as to how account for our continued defeat by smaller and weaker colleges, get to work in dead earnest to go in and win.
Might still makes right in some quarters of the highly cultured east. The University of Pennsylvania Freshmen will test their right to adopt and smoke class pipes by a tug of war with the Soops.
The announcement that the Symphony orchestra of Kansas City will give a concert here next Friday afternoon is a piece of news which should make glad the heart of every music lover in the University. This concert will undoubtedly be the greatest musical treat of the year and it is to be hoped the hall will be filled to overflowing.
It is announced that Fred Funston will give his first lecture on Cuba here at the University. This is not only a piece of good fortune for the University but it insures Col Funston for his initial lecture an audience more friendly and appreciative, at least more demonstratively so, than could be found elsewhere. No audience so delights to honor a public speaker as a crowd of college boys gathered to cheer on alumnus of whom their university is proud.
That the University of Kansas is proud of Fred Funston goes without saying. He is just now our most talked of and at all times our most unique alumnus. Nor is this the first time Col Funston has been before the public. His trip through the Death Valley of California some years ago gave evidence of his endurance and pluck, while his explorations in Alaska made alone at great hazard of his life across an uninhabited and unexplored portion of our dominions have been of great educational value.
These adventures and his recent exploit in Cuba not only surround his life with a setting of enchanting romance but make him as a man to be depended upon. The WEEKLY prophecies for Col. Funston a successful lecture tour and promises him a hearty welcome when he makes his apin Lawrence.
Certain discussions are perennial. With the customary kick on term grades, and the usual twaddle on social dissipation just preceding the Lenten season, comes always the ever-returning question of withdraw from the Oratorical association. If it is wished to stifle what little interest in oratory has already manifested itself here then by all means withdraw.
If it is thought wise to still further foster orateur at K U. then let us stay in the Association. The oft-proposed plan of an Oratorical association between State Universities to take the place of the present arrangement is but idle talk.
The present includes the inter-state feature as well as the state contest. Because our representative never reaches the inter-state is not the fault of the system but ourselves. There ought to be enough incentive for work in the possibility of representing the
The 'Varsity "K."
The proposed amendment to the constitution of the Athletic Association providing for the awarding a "K" to members of Varsity teams, and restricting the right to wear University colors on the sweaters to members of teams and substitutes is a step which should have been taken long ago. Such graceful little marks of honor for our athletic representatives have been too long absent from our college life. The student body at large has been generous with cheers, prodigal with bonfires, but any official recognition in the way of individual trophies has been lacking. Of late years the Athletic Association has even failed to keep a list of records made at the annual field meet. It is extremely doubtful, too, if a complete file of the members of Varsity football and base ball teams of years past could be found.
All this should be remedied. While the spirit of vain-glory should not be catered to, the opposite evil of total absence of substantial appreciation of effort must be avoided. Nothing will prove a greater incentive to work for the athlete than the simple 'Varsity K' on his sweater.
This matter should not stop here, however. Debaters and orators should also be awarded trophi s of a substantial character, which may be preserved as a memory, not only of former forensic success, but of their college's gratitude. As it is now, a three-line paragraph in the daily press, a half a column in the WEEKLY, and the passing remembrance of friendly hand shakes are all the University's representatives in inter-legiate contests of brain and muscle have to show for weeks and months of faithful physical or mental train g.
AN EDUCATIONAL MEE ING.
Mr. Philip Knollton's Plan for Qn3
Mr. Philip Knollton who furnishes the patent outsides for educational papers of twelve counties in Kansas was at the University this week in the interest of a plan which, if successful, will give all the people of Kansas an educational monthly. The State University, State Agricultural College, and State Normal School are each asked to furnish two columns every month for the publication. The advertisements are to be such as to permit the paper to circulate free.
Chancellor Snow was seen by a WERKL reporter. He said, "If material is adapted to suit men of average education such a paper would be a good thing. It would bring the state institutions in contact with the people. We receive a great many inquiries about the courses of study at the University. Country people do not even know that tuition is free. We publish ten thousand catalogues yet they reach not more than six thousand families. With such an educational paper we could reach one hundred thousand families within six months."
Ad $\rightarrow$ lphic
The following excellent program was rendered by the Adelphic literary society Saturday evening.
rendered by the Adelphic literary society
Saturday evening
Declaration —Mr. Decker,
Vocal solo—Miss Laughlin.
Select reading—Miss Nellie Criss.
Instrumental music—Miss Pampell,
Story, Chap. 3 - M. Olston.
The subject for debate was: "Resolved,
That morality has increased with the ad-
vance of civilization."
Affirmative—Messrs. Towerer and Foulks.
Negative—Messrs. Kritzinger Reeder.
The attendance at the Adelphic is always small, and it is only the active members that keep it alive. It would seem that since the number of poor speakers in the University is so large, the attendance and interest in literary societies would be greater.
BOOKS AND THINGS
Carruth's William Tell.
Instead of making chapel attendance compulsory would it not be a good thing to oblige the students to attend some literary society in a certain period.
Plants, cut flowers and floral decorations. Luther Green Houses, south Mass, street.
The department of entomology has just issued a bulletin on scale insects injurious to orchards. Special mention is made of the San Jose scale. There are 10,000 copies.
A recent work of wide and accurate scholarship from the University of Kansas should be noted. This is Prof. Carruth's edition of Schiller's "William Tell" with introduction and notes. That this work was solicited from Prof. Carruth by Macmillan and Co., in face of the fact that there are already American college editions galore of this classic, speaks well for the edito s reutation among publishers. The preparation of a college edition of a German classic involves much more both of originality and labor than the casual reader of such a work might suppose. It means a thorough research into the sources of the work, literary and historical, into the history of its composition; reviews of criticisms contemporary with the work and later, investigation of texts, and finally, the exercise of critical judgment as to the passages demanding annotation and as to the interpretation of difficult lines. All these points and others have been adequately covered in Prof. Carruth's sixty pages of introduction, and fifty pages of notes. The new work will strengthen the editor's reputation in this field of scholarship already well established by his "Wallenstein" of 1894, (Holt and Co.)
The "Tell" is a neat piece of book-making, with good illustrations.
The University Quarterly
The rumor that the regents intend to cut down expenses at the University has caused considerable anxiety among the professors for fear that the first cut shall fall upon the Kansas University Quarterly and that publication be suppressed.
Professor Wagner was seen by a Weekly reporter, and when asked what he thought of the possible suppression of the Quarterly he said: "I hardly anticipate an action of this kind by the regents. The amount appropriated for the maintenance of this publication is but $600, and that amount of money is hardy ever entirely consumed." The only expense of the magazine is that of the mechanical work, all the contributions he furnished by professors and friends of the University. Exchanges are sent to all parts of the United States, and to institutions of learning throughout all Europe. In return for these we receive scientific journals and bound volumes. The subscription price of the journals received ranges from $1 to $30 per annum, and the value of the books we receive in return for our publication can hardly be estimated. The other day I counted up thirty volumes we had received of late, among which was one with a cost of $11. It is difficult to estimate the value of our exchanges. I am able only to state it approximately. It was estimated at $1,000 per annum about six months ago, and since then a large number of valuable additions have been made to our list. Present prospects are very flattering, and lead me to hope that by the end of the year we shall have added a hundred more. Each one of the new exchanges adds but little cost to the Quarterly, but makes the value of the investment so much greater. The exchanges received give the latest discoveries in science and are of vital importance to our professors and students. If they were not received in exchange, the state would be obliged to purchase them. Furthermore, this publication gives a national and international reputation to our school.
FOOT-BALL GOS3IP.
Gossip as to next year's football team is already in the air. The University council at its session last Thursday, confirmed the selection of Dr. Woodruff as coach for next season made some time ago by the athletic board.
Dr. Woodruff to Coach in'98.
Rumors of material are rife. Sam Usher, the most constant, faithful, all-the-year-round football "fan" in the United States, has a number of men in training now. Among them are Simpson who played substitute end this year, and put up a fine game in the second Medic game at Kansas City; Buzzi, who played substitute on the other end; Avery and Blockberger, tackles; McKay, substitute fullback; Wheeler, who the knowing ones say will make center next year, and Buttomer, who played wayback on this year's team, and is slated for the same position next year. Sam says as far as material is concerned, the outlook for next year is fine, and he thinks we will have a "crackerjack."
It is also rumored that Bain, our great Indian half-back of 96, who has been teaching school this winter, will be in law school again this fall, and that "Shorty" Hamill, the "hole maker," captain of the 96 team, whose attack of typhoid, left him too weak to get out on the field for this season, will be in the school another year.
The Young Woman's Christian Association and their friends were very pleasantly entertained at the home of Miss Lut her Saturday evening. A word contest, the guessing of drawings upon a blackboard, music and light refreshments all contributed to the success of the evening.
SOCIETY
Miss Gertrude Hill entertained at dinner Friday evening. The young ladies being invited to stay all night. The guests were Miss Bess Ayres, Nettie Manley, Gertrude Boughton, Louise Moore; Messrs. M. D Rafter, Ross Hopkins, Frank House, Arthur Williams and Jack Sheridan.
Last Tuesday, chapel goers were treated to a solo by Miss Martha White of Junction City. Miss White has been studying in Chicago for the past year, and even those who have always recognized the possibilities of her voice, were surprised at the progress she has made since she was last heard here.
Eva Brown attended the Lotus club party in Topeka Friday night
Miss Eva Day, of Atchison, was the guest of Miss Gusta Flintom for the Theta party.
Miss Agnes Hanson will visit Miss Bure well in Kansas City next week
The management is busy arranging games and Manager Jackson has already arranged a game with the Medics at Kansas City for October 3rd.
Miss Edith House entertained the young ladies of Kappa Kappa Gamma last Monday night. The girls passed a most delightful evening with games, songs and dancing.
Mrs. Carl Preeyer entertains the Whist club of which she is a member, next Thursday evening at her home on the corner of Tennessee and Berkley streets.
The St. Cecilian Society is again holding its regular meetings and practicing new songs. Several new members have been added, raising the number of voices to twenty.
Miss Abbie and Mr. W. H. Clark are enjoying a visit from their mother and brother from Warrenburg, Mo.
Mr. St. John, of Evanston, Ill., visited the Y. M. C. A. association this week in the interest of the International Conference of Students Volunteer movement to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, February 24-27 inclusive.
Mr. Will White of Emporia was on the hill Saturday.
Thetas Entertain.
On Friday evening, February 11, the young women of the Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity entertained about 150 guests. The hostesses were assisted in receiving by Mrs. C. E. Learnard, Mrs. J. L.Shellabarger of Topeka, Mrs. Waterman Stone, and Mrs. Samuel Wallace Moore of Kansas City. Rarely has Pythian hall had such a festive look as upon this occasion. The hall was hung in colors of all the Greek societies represented in the University. Each corner of the room was decorated in some unique way, one with oriental hangings and rugs, one was screened off with palms and one contained the punch bowl. The north wall of the room was hung with a great American flag and the red, white and blue color effect was further carried out by the couches and pillows on that side.
The programs were original in design
being ornamented with a facsimile of the fraternity pin and tied with ribbons representing the colors of all the fraternities. Dancing was to the strains of Zeller's orchestra. Throughout the evening refreshments consisting of chicken, sandwiches and coffee were served in the balcony.
AMONG THE COLLEGES.
Cameron Forbes has been appointed head coach of the Harvard football team again next year.
Assistant Secretarv of State Day was a member of the University of Michigan baseball team when in college.
The girls at Stanford University recently issued a woman's edition of the Daily Palo Alto.
Candidates for the track team at Iowa University have been urged to report.
Princeton has made overtures to Pennsylvania for a series of base ball games, but Pennsylvania before meeting its former rival again, will ask for a five years agreement for meetings in all branches of sport.
It is understood that the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Yale and probably Princeton will participate in the conference to be held at Brown before long for the purpose of forming a uniform basis for the regulation of college athletics in the east.
Registration at the University of Wisconsin has reached 1,685.
Dartmouth College's athletic managers are trying to arrange a new foot ball league to comprise Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell, to take the place of the present Amherst-Williams league.
The girl's basketball ball team of the University of Nebraska challenged the girls of Wisconsin to a game, but President Adams refused to allow the match.
The Iowa Vidette Reporter favors a press bureau at the University of Iowa.
Two hundred and fifty volumes have been added to the Law Library at the University of Wisconsin, making a total of 4,500 volumes. Wisconsin spends $1,000 for additions to the Law Library.
Coach Robinson, of last year's Nebraska football team, now at Harvard Law School, is in greed demand for next year. He has been offered the position of head coach at Brown, his alma mater. He is also negotiating with Minnesota and may perhaps be found back at Nebraska.
Iowa and Nebraska will probably meet this year in joint debate.
Herbert F. Roberts, Law '91, has reentered school and taken up a course in Biology.
Plants, cut flowers and floral decorations. Luther Green Houses, south Mass. street.
Miss Daisy Wickstrom of Topeka, is a pledged member of the Kappa fraternity. Mrs. O. E. Hatch of Kansas City, Mo., was a visitor on the hill Friday.
T. B. Henry is registered among the sick.
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