Kansas University Weekly.
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HILLIARD JOHNSON
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Society Editor
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ARTHUR JACKSON.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JAN. 15. 1898.
The new frat with true Barb spirit is not exclusive. It is asking "most anyone that looks willing."
There is consolation in the fact that there may be a few Barb girls left even after the organization of Alpha Phi.
The girls already regret the hasty action taken at their mass meeting. Their intentions were good, but they were ill-advised.
Turning a whist club into a fraternity is a novel idea, one well worthy of the brilliant minds which compose the Alpha Phi.
The Alpha Phi seems to be having a hard time to gain recognition from the other securities. The Barbs will be glad to recognize it at once.
The faculty are investigating oratory in the University. This may even induce a visible presence of the faculty at the contest on Friday night. The contest will be free.
The Topesa Capital advises a press censor for the Washburn Review. The cause was a grossly indelicate editorial which appeared in the latter paper anent the "college lead."
The dedication of the pipe organ last evening was filly imposing. Never before has a University audience been treated to so grand a concert. That it was by home talent speaks volumes for our growing music school.
The athlete election despite a spitted contest, ended in a writable love feast. It is useless to try to keep very far apart those truly interested in University athletics, especially when such wise selections are made for the three managers and the captain of track athletics.
The election yeaterday was an evident endorsement of the policy pursued by the WEEKLY board during the past term, and the new editor announces that he will continue the policy of giving the students a newspaper. Mr.Wood is well qualified for the position which he takes with the beginning of next term, having had experience in high school journalism and in literary work during his four years' course at Kansas University. The unanimous vote given Mr. Wood attests the confidence in him of the WEEKLY stockholders and the University public.
We notice with a thrill that that there is a pleasant row on between the Coyote of Emporia and the Baker Orange. The Orange struck first, the blow was carried and a vicious home thrust given by the Coyote in these words:
"In speaking of the Coyote the Baker Orange remarks: " Its mission seems to be to furnish 'soreheads' and chronic kickers a place to vent their feelings." From an artistic point of view it would be a real nice thing for a few 'soreheads' show you what it's like to be a Baker to the Orange several things about getting out a college paper. The Orange is the worst looking paper that is published in the state."
Mistaken Solicitude
No good can come of the action taken by the mass meeting of the women's fraternities. If the evil have existed which it was the purpose of the meeting to decry the wrong method was employed to remedy it.
Mass meetings and indignation assemblies are at best clummy weapons for reform. They are not the way to get at the sound and sober sentiment and judgment of the people. American humor has taught us to laugh at cranks, fanatics and martyrs. Men who die at the stake nine times every year with feline perversity soon lose public sympathy for their sacrifice. They may die sincerely eight times, calling forth, peraps, a tear or two, but the ninth time is pretty apt to be the anti-climax, provoking doubt of the efficacy of the sacrificial fire.
The mass meeting in question was proposed by outsiders who knew nothing of the existence of tha evil which they were so zealous to correct. They were badly misinformed if they really believed that drinking is common at fraternity parties. But even admitting that there are some who so far forget the respect due to ladies at a social gathering as to indulge in liquors and taint their breaths, the better way would have been to ostracize the offenders rather than to bring the frawnitions as a whole into public disrepute. It certainly would have been far more ladlike and far more courageous for the young women to refuse invitations to the boys who do not behave like gentlemen than to take refuge in the cowardly makeshift of a mass meeting. The three Thetas who alone voted against the resolutions of the mass meeting took this view of the matter. They do not wish to be understood as countenancing drinking at parties; neither do they wish to call public attention to their moral endeavors. Heroic measures to correct an exaggerated evil may make a good cause ridiculous and nillful good influence. It is to be hoped the action of the girls will not have an opposite effect to that intended
The Nebraskaan in writing an account of the league meeting says that the Kansas delegate sent a report to the daily press to the effect that the awarding of the pennant was indefinitely postponed. The Kansas delegate sent out a report that the league indefinitely postponed action in regard to the Kansas-Nebraska game, but said in his report that the pennant was awarded to Nebraska because she had scored more points aalmst Missouri than Kansas had. The Nebraskaan however, failed to state that Kansas had a letter from Walter Camp which said that such a game as the Kansas-Nebraska contest could only be called an unfinished game. But then of course Nebraska claims that Walter Camp has no standing in the west.
--added the aims of fraternities. I never knew
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Things have changed here since Will White went to school and tried in vain to break into West Lawrence society. Hand-me-down dress suits and rented rubbers have long ceased to be an item in a young man's wardrobe. But since Will has become a great man he can afford to be pleasantly reminiscent of his cheaper days before he discovered what the matter is with Kansas.
Taken at its worst the fraternity girls tainted merely the members of the young men's fraternities and these compose less than one-tenth of the membership of the University.
Whatever may be said of the girls' mass meeting, it may have been unwise, it was n't disgraceful. The use of intoxicants at parties is disgraceful, and if a youth has such a habit, he should be tabooed.
And so Mark Hanna was elected senator and one more blow given to the masquerade of treachery, hyporythmia and deceit in the name of reform!
If you are an orator attend the contest next Friday evening. If you are not an orator, attend it anyway.
Miss Laura Lockwood, who will receive her degree of Ph. D., in June, has prepared as a thesis for the doctorate "A Lexicon to the Poetical Works of Milton." Some two years ago she sent specimen sheets of her book to London for the approval of Macmillan & Co., who immediately accepted the work, agreeing to assume the expenses of its publication and to pay the author a royalty. The volume is now practically completed and will be published in a few months.—New York Sun.
The 'after-clap' of a great moral movement is pretty apt to indicate what kind of a movement it is.
Book by Miss Lockwood
Miss Lockwood is a Kansas University girl, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She obtained her degree here in '91.
CORRESPONDENCE
The Annual Again.
Matters pertaining to the Senior Annual have taken the shape anticipated by the manager, and for which preparations had been quietly begun. This statement is not made in a boastful spirit, but to set at rest the mind of "a Junior."
To the Editor.
Although the manager advised the board to be "reticent" he may, without impropriety, say that a glance at the personnel of the board ought to assure the friends of the Annual that the subject matter of the forthcoming work will be of superior merit. The manager will spare no expense to make the form worthy of the subject matter.
But the manager has a confession to make—he admits that he is "densely ignorant" of any rule whereby a member of one class may publicly call to account the officers of another class higher or lower. In an old book which "a Junior has probably heard mentioned in lectures on literature there is the precept, 'Who art thou that judges another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or failth.' Very cordially.
THE MANAGER.
LAWRENCE. Jan. 11, 1898.
To the Editor of the WEEKLY.
"It was with apprehension that I read the recent article and press comments in the daily papers about the liquor crusade of the fraternity girls. Society must have sally degenerated since I left old K. U. These articles amount almost to scandal. At first I refused to believe that such a state of affairs existed, but when professors were called upon to express opinions, some of them praising the girls in their work, it seems there must have been some foundation, however small, for the report. When "soriorities" take up such a crusade, and publish their intentions openly there must be dire need of reform. This crusade is confined, apparently to fraternity circles; the boys cannot refuse the demands of Bacchus just before or even during some swell society ball. The idea of a tipsy student at a Pythian hall reception for out of town friends is indeed shocking! But could not these reforms have been carried on secret? Was there any necessity for publishing it to the world that such an extreme measure as boycott had to be employed by the girls to make their chosen brothers act like gentlemen even on special occasions? If the revolt was unprovoked and created merely to attract attention, it will certainly prove a sad experiment. The interest of the university should have been considered paramount to all others. Such a report, if unfounded is certainly not the result of mature thought. Our school is the pride of our state and it is disagreeable to think that she should be disgraced for the cleansing of a Lawrence fraternity society."
The primary principle of fraternities used to be and I suppose, still is. "To better man and woman."
The idea of publishing such vices and the avowed intention of curing them by the cold shoulder method is unique to say the least. The cooperation of newspapers, sectarian schools, and politicians who decry the school as a "hotbed of rottenness" can hardly be relied upon in the matter. Is it really true, as one of the professors says, that almost one-tenth of the students are addicted to drink? The fraternities do not comprise one-fifth of the students, and yet they must possess a considerable number of the above mentioned one-tenth to come so distinctly under the observation of the girls. The papers containing articles derogatory to the University have been circulated through hundreds and thousands of homes in the past week. The articles are topics of general discussion. People only half advised are apt to jump at conclusions. Many parents are anxious about the welfare of their children, whom they sent here to school with perfect assurance that they would be free from temptation. Fathers who contemplated sending their childern here to school will be slow to do so after having read such an exposition.
And now comes the report that several West Lawrence girls are indignant over having their names signed to the resolutions which were published in the Capital. This makes the matter seem more than ever a fake. If the girls really had the interests of the young men at heart, they would have no hesitancy in signing any article which might benefit the men. Now that I think, it occurs to me that it has been common with all fraternity girls to be inflamed with some desire to do something odd, to create talk. Perhaps this crusade was launched with that intent. The move was proposed and put through on the spur of the moment, for I believe that on calm reflection they would have cast the plan entirely aside. Altough I was always a Barb, I respected the aims of fraternities. I never knew
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