Kansas University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief:
HILLIARD [JOHNSON.
Associate:
FREDRICK H. WOOD,
Literary Editor:
ELEANOR GEPIART.
Society Editor.
JOSEPHINE SHELLLABARGER.
Local Editor
ARTHUR JACKSON.
Associates;
Associates:
GERTRUDE CHAPMAN, A. H. PARROTT,
ARGHIR HOGG, JOHN FRANCIS.
FRANK MCAY, J. M. LEE.
ALVAH SOUDER, J. O. HALL.
HERRIET GREISINGER, G. C. SEEDS.
R. G. KMUNNIE, JOHN KANE.
Managing Editor:
C. F. Roeh
Associate:
P. S. ELLIOTT.
Shares in the weekly one dollar each, entitleing the holder to the paper for two years, may be had of the secretary, Miss Rhobe Moon, the treasurer, Frank P. Pratt, or at the WEEKLY office Subcription price 50 cents per annum Address all communications to C. E. Rose, Lawrence, Kansas.
Official Organ of the Kansas College Press Association.
Entered at the Lawrence post office as second class mail matter.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JAN. 22, 1868
If you believe in a University Literary magazine, attend the meeting Monday in Room 14.
Western Homes has suspended publication and thus passes another Kansas magazine. The lesson of it is that Kansas readers prefer to spend their money for literature, and not for the fostering of second rate local talent. The day of the community magazine has passed.
It is difficult for a Kansas man to understand the athletic situation in the state university of Iowa. The anomaly of no candidates for football manager—or of no candidates for anything and everything for that matter—does not come within our experience. And this is as it should be. The condition is healthful, giving boundless opportunity for the survival and selection of the fit.
The WEEKLY is in possession of enough facts to prove that an attempt was made on the part of a few, a very few, frat-struck girls to form a chapter of Alpha Phil, that the girls of the Entre Nous whist club were considered good working material, that few of the girls of Entre Nous had a hint o' the sense, that those who were approached refused to have anything to do with the new frat, that no member or members of the Entre Nous whist club were concerned directly or indirectly in the project. And so ciled the Alpha chapter of Alpha Phil. Peace to its ashes!
Mr. Bowersock is inclined to exaggerate the importance of fraternity people to the University. Whether or not it has been their "pace" that has killed them, they are fast dying off. And with their decline in numbers their manners have strangely changed. It is not unusual now for a fart man to speak to a barb on the street with almost human civility. The degeneration in blue blood has affected even the girls. The sorceries fell from a haughty height when they publicly acknowledged that a fart pin attached to the vest of a young man is not the ultimate badge of morality and virtue.
In another column of the WEEKLY will be found a communication from J. D. Bowersock in reference to the drinking question generally and the editor of the WEEKLY especially. The sophomoric utterances of the WEEKLY seem to have offended Mr. Bowersock. The WEEKLY criticised the method of stopping the drink habit and not the idea that something should be done against it. The editor of the WEEKLY has been in the University for so ne time, but has never heard of any complaint from the Barb girls about drinking at Barb parties, and there is some society outside of the fraternities, notwithstanding that Mr. Bowersock is of the contrary opinion. It would be lamentable indeed if the "reputation and character of the school" were "indissolubly bound up" with the sham aristocracy of the fraternities. But since Mr. Bowersock wants to make this a fraternity and not a University affair, it is out of our scope. We criticised the action taken only for fear it might reflect on the whole university.
Higher Education(?)
President James A. Hart, of the Chicago baseball club, is beginning to favor the idea of a baseball university to teach young aspirants for baseball fame the national game. He has doubts as to whether the scheme will ever be carried out, but will help it all he can when he is sure responsible men are behind it. He says the Spalding Land Association will furnish the university with all the ground it can use just outside the city limits.
"We find it very hard to get good players," said he, "and I think a baseball school will be just the thing for the National league. A great many young men who graduate from the large colleges are anxious for base ball fame. They do not care however, to begin in a minor league and work their way up, but want to jump right into the big league. If we had this college we could be sure when we signed a man that he had qualifications for the place.
"I think Anson, if he was dean of the university, could tell inside of a month whether a man was it to play in the big league. If a man could not qualify for the National League he might do for one of the minor leagues. I am in favor of the plan, although I do not know anything about it aside from what I saw in the papers. Many like schemes have been tried before and failed."—Inter Ocean.
Prentice Not Guilty.
The Biddy Book is a series of illustrated sketches after the Palmer Cox style, and relates how the Biddies went in search of their recruit spouses, the Brownies; and the author of the book is Sydney Prentice, of Lawrence. Prentice is a graduate of the state university and has done a good deal of work on the college patterns — Toneka Mail and Breeze.
Sydney Prentice is not the author of the Biddy Book. That crime in verse must be laid elsewhere. Prentice is the illustrator, and the Biddy Book would be far more clever and popular if the illustrations were all it contained.
The meeting called for Monday to discuss plans for the continuance of the Idler should be largely attended. You may not like the policy of the Idler, pursued in its first two issues. If not, come to the meeting with other plans formulated. There are varied possibilities for a University magazine. Perhaps it should be a sober review, perhaps it should contain stories merely, perhaps it should attempt a lighter vein. There are many who would like to see a magazine modeled after the popular Life. Others would like a magazine of original literary research, wherein might be published translation done by the Anglo Saxon class or the classes in German, French, Spanish, Latin and Greek, and which might contain critical notes on literature new and old. Still others pooh-pooh at idea of a college magazine at all, averring that there is no place for such a publication, that such a publication cannot have an original merit of its own. And this is quite a question. Critially the average college magazine taxes to the deep foundations the most liberal scholastic faith. But all these questions will come up for discussion at the meeting Monday, and if you attend you can add the mite of your testimony to their settlement. At any rate you may learn something by attending the meeting.
Kansas City Journal: Some Kansas newspapers, as well as some Kansas City newspapers, are making a display of ears in their comments on a recent attempt to check the serving of intoxicants at student parties in the University of Kansas. We know of no decent and same people who wish their children to contract drinking habits, and the parents of Kansas will certainly be thankful for any influences brought to bear to discountence such habits. One might conclude from some of the comments referred to that most of the young men of Kansas are drinkers; whereas, in fact, the mass of the rank and file in all classes are total abstainers to a degree never known in former generations. Young men who tipple are looked upon by employers in nearly all lines with suspicion, and they generally warrant this suspicion. Civilized people have professed to be proud of being guided by the refined instincts of women. Good for the girls of Kansas university.
Is a literary magazine a possibility in Kansas University? Attend the meeting Monday and try to settle the mooted question.
After withstanding the wiles of Alpha Phi, who would doubt the loyalty of the Barb girls?
Now that the new frat is dead, who killed Cook Robin?
The new frat failed to fraternize.
CORRESPONDENCE.
A Friend of th+ Frate To the Editor of the WEEKLY
I have read with much regret and a little surprise, the frivolous (funny?) (7) God save the mark) press notices referring to the meeting of ladies who desired to banish liquor from social events given by young people associated with the University. To be specific, the meeting had to do with fraternities only. To read the editorial entitled "Mistaken Solicitude" in the University WEEKLY of January 15th, gives one e not only feelings of regret, but something akin to contempt of one who calmly states that the "solicitude" of good women which leads them to try to prevent young men becoming drunkards is "mistaken," and that American humor has taught us to laugh at "martyrs." American humo has much to answer for, but it has not yet sunk as low as the seeming ignorance or malice contained in the sentences referred to would indicate. I know something of Sophomoric assurance and buncombe and make due allowance for it, but this is no excuse for positive mis-statements in an "official" literary paper representing to some extent, a great school. The meeting was not a secret one, nor was it for the public or the "press". It was directly brought about by an article in the UNIVERSITY WEEKLY (some weeks ago) calling attention to this same matter. There was implied if not direct obligation on the part of each one present that it should not be made a public or a newspaper matter. No courage was required by any "three" to vote against resolutions offered by the meeting for no "three" so voted. A standing vote was at one time taken and "three" ladies did not rise either for or against. If the "three" intended to stand up for their "convictions" then their courage was lacking.
Now what are some of the facts as understood? A great school belonging to a great state, the large majority of whose citizens are ardent temperance people, is located at Lawrence. The institution invites and the state approves the gathering in of the flower of the young men and women of Kansas. Greek letter societies, college fraternities, can only be organized, as it were, in the shadow of the college. The active members must be students, hence the "Frat" is of the college, a part of it, though it may be in no sense officially recognized. Annually the town and the school is stirred up by the force and intensity of "rushing"—the effort to secure the best and most desirable men for the "Frats." The reputation and character of the school and in a measure that of the people of the town, is indissolubly bound up to a large extent, with the fraternities. To a marked degree, the "frats" dominate in the society affairs of both town and school. In the language of the boys 'they set the pace,' and the true mothers of the state many of whom will go without comfortable wraps this winter in order that the boys may have the advantages of a University, have a "solicitude" that their sons learn not the pace that kills.
For years, to some extent, at some of the "hops" given under the auspices of and by the boys' fraternities, there has been drinking of liquor. The fact has been known and commented upon, and in certain quarters objected to for years. Quiet measures, remonstrance and entreaty have been time and again resorted to. The writer gave his boys notice that if he had knowledge that their "Frat" permitted any thing of the kind, he would publicly withdraw them; and he also warned and entreated members of other fraternities to have some regard for their "Alma Mater", if they had none for their mother at home.
There are always a lot of loafers about a fire who can tell the regular firemen how to best fight the flame, and after the burning accuse them of "mistaken solicitude" point to the bravery of the "three" who threw a looking-glass out of a fourth story window and then carried a sofa pillow safely down stairs. Finally, having tried the "grass and turf," the ladies decided to ascertain if there was any virtue in more solid missiles, and they assembled peaceably for what? To send flannel "westskets" to the Africans under the equator, to purge the slums of London, to reform the world? Oh no, that would not have been "mistaken solicitude." They assembled quietly, un-ostentatiously to place a ban on one social error right here in Lawrence. They made no reference to what private parties should do or should not do. No private or personal right was sought to be restricted. But they said and plainly, that no association that derived its life through the University should voluntarily and publicly place before its young men and women guests and members, strong drink. If there is a "Frait" that has never done anything of the kind, all honor and praise be unto it.
Let me state my firm conviction. The protest of the ladies, this "mistaken solicitude," will gain its end. Which "Frat"
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