Kansas University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief:
HILLIARD JOHNSON.
Associate:
FRANK L. SHELLABARGER.
Literary Editor:
ETHEL A. HICKREY.
Associates:
ELEANOR GEPHART, J. SHELLLABARGER.
Local Editor.
ARTHUR JACKSON.
Associates:
GERTRUDE CHAPMAN. A. H, PARROTT,
ARCHI HOGG. TOM CHARLES.
FRANK MCKAY. J. M. LEE.
ALVAH SOUDER. J. O. HALL.
HERIERT GREISINGER. CARL L. COOPER.
R. G. McKINNIE. W. W. DOUGLAS.
Managing Editor:
C. E. ROSE.
Associate:
Associate:
P. S. ELLIOTT.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCT. 30, 1897
"A paper must have something in it" says a western college journal. And then it goes on and fills its pages with nothingness.
Among the candidates for governor, Ex-Senator Chas. F. Scott appears to be more than a possibility. Senator Scott is a K. U. graduate and in other respects a good man.
The editor of the Atchison Globe remarks: "We are tired of hearing of smart young men; they seldom amount to anything." Which is a big consolation to most of us.
Topka is talking about establishing a celluloid collar factory. Several of the society leaders at Washburn have agree to patronize the new institution so the success of the enterprise seems assured.
After a succession of disappointments the M. S. U. Independent was able to dig out its rooster the other day and exhibited the proud bird on its front page. Here, M. S. U., shake. We are glad to see you win.
When play began at the football game this afternoon Chancellor Snow will be found on the sidelines enthusiastically shouting for K. U He is always there at such times Yet some people wonder why we win so often.
Mr. McKinnie has been manager of the football team for two weeks. During this time he has made ninety dollars clear money from the Glasgo game and has collected seventy dollars of board money, Good work, Mr. McKinnie. You are a rustler.
After all, the members of the Baker faculty knew what they were doing when they called off that game with K. U. It would deprive us of lots of fun but save Missouri a vast amount of unpleasantness if President Jesse would follow their lead.
The girls are already sending in items for the Woman's edition of the WEEKLY. The other day the editor asked one of the reporters to "write a stick" on a certain subject and the dear girl inquired whether a yard stick or a broom stick was wanted.
New York is in the throes of a great municipal campaign and next Tuesday's election will decide whether Tammany is to remain a back number or will again be in power. K. U. is less interested in this contest than in the football election of next year. It is a little early in the game, but the candidates for the management are already appearing.
The have-as-little-enjoyment-in-life-as possible editor of the Washburn Reviews contributes this item:
We have several times noticed accounts of "hops" given by some college class or society in different institutions. This may be alright but we think our college is extremely fortunate in not being able to chronicle any such intellectual and elevating (?) affairs. We do not know of any distinctly Christian college in our state that has this social feature.
The Weekly Leads as Usual
This is a piece of newspaper enterprise seldom exhibited by a college journal. The great fault of the average college paper is that it contains little news, is devoid of enterprise and publishes little that the average person really cares to read.
On page one, of this number of the WEEKLY is a full, complete, and accurate account of today's great football game.
The K. U. WEEKLY seeks, first of all,
to be a newspaper. That is why it is so
popular, and is a welcome weekly visitor
in hundreds of homes.
Are You Going to Vote?
County elections will be held in every county in Kansas on next Tuesday and every K. U. student who is qualified to do so should go home and vote. The exercise of the right of suffrage is not only a privilege every citizen is enabled to enjoy but a duty he should be forced to fulfill.
In a country like ours where the ignorant and illiterate voter swares the same power at the polls as the educated, it is especially important that every man who has enjoyed the opportunity for University study should make the profit he has derived felt for the public good.
K. U. students will not, and ought not to all vote alike. The University is a forum when every question of public moment is considered from every point of view and it is neither to be expected nor desired that all students should arrive at exactly the same conclusions as a result of the research they have made.
A man does not always graduate from the University an advocate of the same political principles in which he formerly believed. University study is a broadening process. Whatever ticket he purposes voting if he has reached his decision through careful and impartial study and investigation, and is prepared to cast his ballot for that ticket conscientiously, he owes it to himself and to his fellowmen to vote accordingly.
The Glee and Mandolin Clubs
Favorable action by the University Council with regard to the proposed concert tour of the Glee and Mandolin clubs is hoped for and confidently expected.
The musical organizations are composed of gentlemen and men of honor and they are as anxious to uphold the high standard of the University—morally and otherwise—as is any member of the faculty or any student.
Prof. Penny, Manager and Director Robinson have worked hard to bring together a superior glee and mandolin club and, the Council willing, the organizations will visit the leading towns of the state during the holidays.
Next to a winning football team a good musical club is the best traveling advertisement a university can have. Our musicians should be given every encouragement possible.
A man was killed on a New York gridiron the other day and anthur crusade against football has been started. Statistics show that more than seventeighths of the deaths in the United States last night occurred in bed. It we are to abolish football because of its fatalities it is certainly logical that the habit of going to bed should also be prohibited by law.
Thereat mass meeting of students yesterday morning demonstrated that the good old fashioned K U. enthusiasm has not all been spent. A large quantity of was let loose at today's game and it was the cold, original, genuine, name-stamped on-the-bottle article
It isn't necessary to say "thank you" for favors received, but you are not apt to receive many more of them if you don't express your gratitude either by action or by word.
SHARPS AND FLATS.
Mosee is a standing rebuke to the popular report that Englishmen cannot play football.
Nor is it necessary to tip your hat when you pass a girl whom you know—at least some University young men seem to think so. No doubt, in their own estimation it gives them a certain dignity, it shows that they are no respecters of worldly trifles, but that they are seriously engrossed in trying to unravel the riddle—whatever that may be—and like to show that they are. No, it isn't necessary for them to tip their hats with particular emphasis on the necessary—but nevertheless they are losing somebody's respect if they do not do it. It is the little things that count, and one save the out and out genius—and they are few and far between in K. U.—can afford to disregard them.
He was a frat boy and she was a barb girl. She was a real little thing he thought, and he really would have liked
to be friendly with her, but of course he couldn't do much under the circumstances. If they met when he was alone and no one near to see the awful deed, he spoke to her quite politely; but ah, how different if he was with some of his frat. friends. Then he played the part of the Levite and the priest, and passed her by on the other side.
"The desire to dance is a relic of our old savage nature," said the professor of sociology. "I should think it was, the way some people do it," groaned the girl whose toe still ached from being stepped on the night before.
It was a conscientious student indeed who did not forsake his book when the man with the hand organ and the monkey stopped before the library building the other afternoon.
The boarder who was never satisfied and who would have grumbled if the nectar of the gods had been set before him, wrestled awhile in silence with his part of the chicken, then he ejaculated: "Well you can talk all you want to about how nice it is to 'chew a neck,' but I think it grows monotonous myself!"
The class in ethics were discussing a case wherein Mr. A. hired Mr. B to do a piece of work for $2.50. Mr. B did the work but said it was worth only $2. Mr. A insisted that he should take the whole amount and forced it on him but finally Mr. B threw the half dollar into Mr. A's wagon and went away. "Which was right?" was the vexed question which the class was trying to decide. Finally one young man back in the corner raised his hand. "Professor, what became of the half dollar?" he asked.
A few years ago if a young man wearing a vivid red, green or blue necktie appeared at the University he was regarded as having a very crude taste and immediately classed among the "chumps." Now-a-days an adornment of this kind is a sufficient claim for him to be classed as a "sport"
"Yes, Professor I am especially interested in your line of work. In fact I come to the University chiefly in order to get it. I am now putting about seven hours a day on it." the professor beamed and immediately made up his mind to give a 1 to this deserving student. The young man who had said the same thing to two other Professors went off to watch the football practice.
The man who had been initiated the night before dragged himself fairly into the room. He was scarred with acid burns and covered with bruises and his voice was hoarse from having begged for mercy from his tormentors. But an enthusiastic smile spread over his mutilated features, "Yes," he gasped I think my new brothers are such a gentlemanly set of fellows.
Don't attempt to relieve your mind by telling every one you meet that you have to carry four studies and are making up entrance Latin and have a Junior forensic due on Friday and are expecting a quiz the next day. Your friend wont sympathize with you a bit for he probably has more such trouble himself than one finite mind can grasp.
CHAPEL NOTES.
The subject Monday morning was the desirability of contentment, but the danger of excessive contentment; Tuesday morning, the possibility of a moral harmony in the midst of great intellectual diversity and the duty of recognizing that men who differ from us have the same high purpose as ourselves; Wednesday morning, the inability of external improvements to make society what it ought to be, and the necessity of an internal and spiritual renovation, of a purification of motives and purposes; Thursday morning, the duty of judging men by the whole tendency of their lives and actions and not by the single lapses here and there that show the temporary frailty of an otherwise good man; Friday morning, the religious aspect of nature.
The leader this week has been Rev. Dr. Howland, pastor of the Unitarian church.
The many friends of Richard R. Price, president of the class of '97, will be sorry to learn that his mother died, after an illness of three weeks, at their home in Hutchinson last Sunday. Mrs. Price attended the commencement exercises last June and made many friends while here. So far, sad events seem to be contemporary with important events in Mr. Price's educational career. His father died the year he graduated from the Hutchinson high school and now his mother's death occurs shortly after his graduation from the University.
Richard Price Afflicted.
Mr. Kitchell, of the firm of Kitchell & Marburg, of Topeka, is studying law at home and taking the examinations with the senior class at K. U.
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IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Notes of Interest to Mechanical
Students.
In a pamphlet recently published by the Department of the Interior under the head of 'Water Supply and Irrigation papers of the U.S. Geological Survey' is a report of Prof Murphy's on his work of the summer of '96. The article is entitled 'Windmills for Irrigation' and shows the result of his experiments on the windmills in this state. A study of this article would be very instructive to civil engineering students.
W. J. Squires, E. E. 90 is holding a position in St. Louis. He was one of 125 who took the examination for the place and received the highest grade.
Charles Fletcher, E. E.'97, is holding a position with W. T. Osborne & Co., of Kansas City, Mo.
At the meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science papers will be presented by Profs. Dunston, Rice, Blake. Prof. Dunston's paper is entitled "Vircosity of the Ether." Prof. Blake will present two papers one on "The Equilibrium of Forces in a Film Originally Spherical When Grounded in the Presence of an Electric Charge," and one entitled "Some Problems in Sub-Marine Telephony Without Wires." Prof. Rice's paper, entitled "Calculation of Branches of a Wheatstone Bridge Containing Capacity and Inductance." The only paper on Physics came from K U.
H. F. Cox, one of last year's graduates, paid us a visit Tuesday. He is on his way to his home in Junction City. Mr. Cox has been working for the Ideal Engine company, of Springfield, Ill., since July 15th, but has now accepted a government position in Ft. Bayard, New Mexico, as mechanical engineer.
At the Electrical Seminary Friday October 22, a paper on "The Molecular Theory of Gases" was read by Mr. C. A. Kraus.
Roscoe O'Neill; 97, is in St. Louis.
A, V. Schröder is in Holden, Mo.
FINES ARTS NOTES.
The Euterpe society met this week with Miss Pampel. The program was short but unusually well rendered, and consisted of Schumann's Ansthictie by Miss Wiedemaan; Roff La Fileuse, Miss Weber; Roff Minuet, Miss Fisher, and a reading, "The Swan Song," by Miss Hobson. After refreshments were served, the meeting adjourned.
The second recital will take place Wednesday at 4:30 in Music hall. Miss Fisher will play a concerto by Saint-Saens, which has been heard here and which is looked forward to with universal interest. The other soloists are: Miss Ireton, Winnek, Merrill, Tomlinson and Harold Henry.
The Oratorio society met Monday night and rehearsed the oratorio of Elijah The society needs more voices, and students wishing to sing should join at once in order to practice the selections for the pipe organ concerts. The work promises to be more interesting than ever before as the Elijah is one of the most difficult oratorios ever written. The society meets every Monday evening at 7:30 in Music hall.
Fifty Ten Cent Pieces
Will cover the expense of repairing furniture in the Women's league rooms in the library building. This furniture was a gift from women of Lawrence for the benefit of the young women of the University. As there is no fund for repairs small contributions from those who enjoy the privileges of the room, are solicited. A box for the purpose is placed in the hands of Miss Gillham.
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