Kansas University Weekly
Editor-in-Chief:
HILLIARD JOHNSON.
Associate:
FRAN L. SHELLABARGER.
Literary Editor:
ETHEL A. HICKEY.
Associates:
GREG GRAUFLE, J. SHELLAR
ELEANOR GEPHART, J. SHELLLABARGER
Local Editor.
ARTHUR JACKSON
Associates:
GEBRUDE CHAPMAN. A. H, PARROTT.
ARCHIE HOGG. TOM CHARLES.
FRANK MCKAY. J. M. LEE.
ALVAN SOUDER. J O. HALL.
F. L. SHELLLASARGER. CARL L. COOPER.
R. G. KMUNNIES. W. W. DOUGLEAS.
Managing Editor:
C. E. ROBB.
Associate:
P. S. ELLIOTT.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCT. 23, 1897.
It looks like another "never defeated" team ___
No. Klondike is no relation to our bug
ology professor.
Young man, our advice to you is:
Don't bet, but if you must, don't put up
your money on Missouri.
Probably the greatest humorist on earth is that funny man on the Kansas City Star who writes items about the K. U. Glee club.
The Topeka Capital is conducting a contest to determine who Kansas' greatest men have been. K. U.'s candidate is Gov. Charles Robinson.
No, we hardly believe that Mr. Stryker's attempt to snatch the language of Julius Cuesar baldheaded will throw any of our props out of a job.
The refusal of the Methodist ministers to let the Baker University boys play football is making absent marks every day at that institution.
There is every reason to believe that the number of engagements made and broken at the K. U. this winter will reach the usual high figure.
A newspaper dispatch says that Will White is taking baths for his obesity. Will should return to K U. and go into training under Dr. Woodruff.
Yes, inquiring subscriber, we believe the woman's edition will be a crackerjack. It will be the hottest edition of a paper ever published at a western university.
The signature fluids are not all dead yet. Several dozens of them put their names and addresses on the register at the University last week. Squedunk and Rantoul were both represented.
A Baptist state convention is a good thing. Some of the brethren attended chapel one day last week and, of course, all had to tell their experiences. As a result some of the recitations the next hour were cut in half.
The Interior, a religious paper, says that the number of Presbyterian students in attendance at K. U. is larger than the aggregate attendance at the three Presbyterian colleges in the state. Presbyterians, as a rule, are people of excellent judgment.
There are no fake schemes connected with the WEEKLY. We give no chromos or encyclopedias. We have no voting contests, and there are no coupons to cut out. Our purpose is to conduct a live, up-to-date, newsy newspaper, to publish "all the news that's fit to print."
Some of the men's fraternities should be more careful in sizing up their men before they decide on the mode of rushing to employ. One frat recently queered itself with a man it was after by the kind of a party it gave for him. The frat that got him took him to church and introduced him to the pastor and all the deacons.
The Oratorical Contest
For several years interest in oratory at the University has been on the decline. The contests have been more poorly attended each year and it has become a difficult matter for the members of the Oratorical association to meet the necessary expenses for the fall and spring contests. The chief reason attributable for this lack of interest is that Kansas, for years he has been unable to win first place at the annual contest in Topeka.
It has been repeatedly urged, therefore, both by members of the faculty and the student body, that the Oratorical association should be dissolved, and that the University concentrate all of its forces in debates.
Through the efforts of our representative on the state executive committee, however, the place of holding the annual contest this year was changed from Topeka to Lawrence. Enthusiastic delegates from eight different colleges in various parts of the state will visit this city the last week in February and it will be our to see that they are properly entertained and that our University is well represented. While the visitors are here everything in town will be theirs—everything but the championship. That must stay at home.
The Oratorical association is preparing ing to begin the campaign. To accomplish the results desired work must commence at once. Let the craters get down to business immediately and hold the local contest as soon as possible.
Kansas Must Defeat Iowa
Now comes the Iowa game. The hard-
est contest of the year is before us. The
struggle which will go a long way to-
wards determining western supremacy on
the gridiron will be played on McCook
field Saturday.
The Kansas team thus far, has been very successful, and we have been led to believe, not without reason, that it would prove to be a championship eleven. Kansas snowed under the Medics and defeated with painful ease the team that walked over the Missouri Tigers.
Iowa has been playing football also, however, and her followers are as proud of her past record and hopeful of her future success as we are in regard to our team. Iowa surprised herself and the world by defeating Northwestern, a team that plays annually with Chicago and Michigan and elevens farther east.
One week from today the contest, will be be fought and it will be a battle, royal.
battle royals.
Dr. Woodruff and Mr. Wagonhurst, the coaches of the respective teams stood side by side in the Pennsylvania line last year. Each gentleman is particularly anxious that his pets shall defeat those of his old mate.
But Kansas must win, and she will. Dr. Woodruff savs so, and so does Bert Kennedy; so say we all of us. If there are 1200 students in the University, just 1200 students should attend next week's game and 1200 voices should help cheer the crimson and blue on to victory.
Dr. Woodruff has done his full part. The football team may be trusted to do do theirs. Now let every student do his.
William J. Krehbiel, who was a University student a few years ago, is one of the many K. U. men who is making a success in newspaper work. He served as telegraph editor of the Topeka Capital for two years and has lately become editor and proprietor of the Newton Daily and Weekly Republican. Krehbiel is bound to reach the top.
The eastern papers are discussing the relative prospects of Princeton and Yale in football this year. Better call off the newspaper discussion and let Prof. Hopkins and Prof. Wilcox fight it out between themselves.
The Woman's edition of the WEEKLY will serve to show to the world what the Kansas girl can do when she tries. Every K. U. student should order at least one extra copy to send to his friends back cast. ___
Did you ever notice how queer it seems when anyone speaks out loud within the sacred precincts of the library reading room? The other day a group of visitors met in the middle aisle of the reading room. There were introductions and hand shakings. They were very glad to see each other and they told each other in loud clear tones which resounded through those walls like paper clear down into the seminary rooms and the book stacks. All the busy readers looked up with varied expressions of surprise, amusement and horror and every one looked at the librarian at the desk to see
Now that Colonel Bobby Wells has accepted several invitations to make political addresses it is safe to assume that he has begun to do some thinking on that county attorney question.
SHARPS AND FLATS.
what she was going to do about it. Of course as they were visitors she couldn't do anything but her face expressed a good deal. Even the goddess of the lower regions rushed forth at the unusual sounds, with an expression which said "Now I've got you!" only to retire in chagrin when she found out who was making the noise. Then the visitors with one last peal of laughter which made the walls ring for an hour, departed in happy unconsciousness of the sensation they had created.
In one students' boarding club, there have been by actual count sixteen separate and distinct love affairs which have begun, reached a climax and gone the way of all mortal things since school began.
To a student who really wishes to get the best there is in his University course and who carefully treasures up all the opinions of his professors as means to that end, it is somewhat confusing to hear one say, "Keep up with current literature in the best magazines, and new books that are coming out all the time. It is then you get the real spirit of the times." While another says with equid firmness "Read no book till it has withstood the test of time and criticism. Be ashamed to be seen reading magazines or the latest novel when you are not thoroughly acquainted with all the grand classics of our language."
The first month of school is over, and many is the freshman who has packed his trunk and in trembling tones told his landlady that "he was very sorry, but he guessed he'd have to get nearer the University," or any other possible excuse he could think of.
A society young man who is so unfortunate as to wish to call separately on on three charming young ladies, all in the same house, has been greatly embarrassed by having the wrong one appear at the door thus causing awkward explanations and an unpleasant time all around. He has now adopted the scheme of wearing on his manly bosom whenever he goes to that house, a placard inscribed "To see Miss Blank" or "Miss Dash" as the case may be. The plan works finely and we would recommend it to all who are in similar difficulties.
It was very amusing to see some few students who do not take the WEEKLY try to read the account of the football game in the copy which was posted on the WEEKLY bulletin board in the main hall. They would slide up to the paper with an air of studied unconsciousness, read a few lines, then in the guilt of their consciences, imagining that some one was watching them and thinking how cheap they were, they would suddenly be lost in a perusal of the chapel bulletin or in abstract meditation. Why don't they subscribe to the WEEKLY and preserve their self respect?
It is the man of thought who makes marginal notes in his books—his own, mind you—but it is the young person who takes the privilege of marking others' books.
"What are men to rocks and mountains?" asks Jane Austin, and some dear girl, who probably does not know anything about either has written beneath,
"But what are rocks and mountains without a man?"
And then the young person—it may be a boy this time—who is so very fond of poster poetry of the dismal order, thought he had discovered something particularly gloomy when he marked Aldrich's "Unimely Thought."
"How much the heart can bear, and vet not break," is undersigned twice over. How comforted Jennifer felt she drew her penell along with such user, and thought dismally of Tom taking Maud to the last party, instead of her own sweet self.
And who will bend over my bier?
Then, picking up another volume, we find that some poor fellow, who was a trifle homesciss, has found something comforting in this paragraph: "Which of us that is thirty years old has not had his Pumpet? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth—the careless Sport, the Pleasure and Passion, the darling Joy. You open an old letter box and look at your own childish scrawls or your mother's letters to you when you were at school; and excavate your heart. Oh me! for the day when the whole city shall be bare and the chambers unroofed, and every cranny visible to the light above from the Forum to the Lupauur!"
"I wonder what day of the week—
I wonder what month of the year—
And will it be midnight or morning.
And will it be midnight or morning,
And will it be noon?
He marks it, and adds, "True or 'too true' or some equally weighty phrase expressive of deep thought and varied experience. Of course he is not thirty;
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A timid little Fresman upon being asked if she was having a good time at the University, replied, "Yes, for I keep so busy that I don't take time to see how much better times others are having and so I'm very happy.
No, do not think that it is Hood's Sasaripilla that you need, but an extra large amount of good, hard common sense, and abve all else, do not tell your troubles to your friends or even to your enemies.
I knew a girl once who made a point of having the blues but twice a year, and better than that she possessed the power of driving them away. When you told her the same old tale about how miserably you felt she laughed at you and poked fun at you until you were laughing in spite of yourself; and once I heard her actually scold a girl for appearing continually downcast and pensive, and the scolding had a good effect too.
There are ways, more than one, of "getting through" the University, and one of them is very, very easy provided you have the necessary skill.
he is but nineteen—but then he has had so much experience and has seen so much of the world in his brief college course that he knows all about it, and so he marks it to let the world know that he does.
With a weary, half stiff sigh, you told your friends how miserably you felt, and then it half angered you when they replied that they were feeling miserable too. Of course it did. No one has a right to be miserable at the same time you are, and basides no one on top of earth has half as many troubles as you have. Dear martyr! What a brave soul you are!
Yesterday your eyes were dull and lustless, your mouth had a seriously path tic droop, your shoulders were bent over with the weight of your burdens, your heart was languedly beating with a dull pain, your step was slow and listless; in short you had the blues. You greeted your friends with a wan, sweet smile that was meant to show that you were not of this world, that your heart had been "crushed by pain's resistible power," and that it no longer thrilled with earthly passions but beat instead with nobler and higher aims.
when your friends told their friends how badly they felt, and their friends told their friends how badly they felt, and so the circle kept on enlarging, for the blues are contagious. You, my dear martyr, was the unit you—started it, all.
In the first place, select your classes, and be sure to get the ones that are commonly known as "snaps," then prepare your lessons very well for two weeks and never, under any circumstances, neglect to seize the opportunity to talk. By that time the instructor has found out that you are a pretty bright fellow, and hence forth he refers to you for acquiescence in any statement. We may make. You nod your head when you agree with him—you can always tell when to agree by listening very carefully to the intonation of his voice—and shake it when the disagreement is mutual
When it comes to quiz time—there are others, you know, and there are ways. Well, that is one way to "get through" the University, but—don't do it.
Then you listen with your eyes wide open as though you were literally putting into action Ben Jonson's well known lines and "drinking" the knowledge in "with your eyes."
This week the Phi Psis have served
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