Kansas University Weekly Editor-in-Chief: HILLIARD JOHNSON. Associate: FRANK L. SHELLLABARGER. Literary Editor: ETHEL A. HUCKEY. Associates: ELEANOR GEPHART, J. SHELLLABARGER. Local Editor. ARTHUR JACKSON Associates: GERTRUDE CHAPMAN. A. H, PARROTT, ARCHIE HOGG. TOM CHARLES. FRANK MCKAY. J. M. LEE, ALVAI SOUDER. J. O. HALL. F. L. SHELLBARGER. CARL L. COOPER. R. G. McKINNIE. W. W. DOUGLAS. Managing Editor: C. E. ROSR. Associate; P. S. ELLIOTT. Shares in the weekly one dollar each, entitling 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 WERLEN office. Subscription price 50 cents per annum in advance. Address all communications to C E. Rose, Lawrence, Kansas. Official Organ of the Kansas College Press Association Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class mail matter. LAWRENCE KANSAS. OCT. r6, 1897 A Woman's Edition The young women of the University will have full charge of the WEEKLY for November 13. The proceeds of the issue will go to help pay the debt of the Athletic Association. This was decided at the meeting of the Board held yesterday, and by the enthusiastic way in which the idea was taken hold of we are hopeful that the efforts of the women will meet with deserved success Miss Ethel Hickey will be editor-in chief, and Miss Josephine Shellabarger will be managing editor. All young women who are interested and desire to be on the staff are requested to hand their names to Miss Hickey or Miss Shellabarger. Literary editors, reporters, athletic editors, proof readers, and business rustlers are needed. Here is an opportunity to help the Athletic Association and to have a lark (the newspaper business is a constant lark) at the same time. An Echo from Nebraska If the girls do right well with this edition we may leave the WEEKLY in their hands. An article in the Hesperian on "College Leadership" reminds us of those bad old days in Kansas before we got good. It is pungent in places,containing much about "politics, dirty, bad, villianous politics!" It describes a class without naming it whom we suppose is composed of fraterity students, since the Hesperian in climes to the other side of the argument. This class of course, seeks spots, self, exaltation and "pulls," is for faction and for winning at all hazards. Its leaders are shrewd and sheep at the trade. "The other class," continues the Husperian, "is composed of men who desire the best good of all, who think as individuals, and conclude as single persons. In their ranks thence is a singleness of purpose but diversity of method, commonness of object but different plans of attaining it. Few of them are able to lead yet the majority are unwilling to be led, anxious to win, but indisposed to accept the means of victory. They frown at organization, despise method, assume to dislike anything that savors of unified action. If anyone appears to lead he is envied and his plans disapproved. If he rises above the crowd, he at once becomes the object of criticism and may be charged with 'bossism.'" The Hesperian appears to have no sympathy with these men that kick against the pricks. It believes in disciplining the mob. "If they are too stiff-necked to submit to leadership that can win, it is but just retribution that they lose." The Hesperian is too severe. Kickers live by kicking. The affliction is congenital. But while the students of pathology pass by the kickers without condemnation, we may yet hope there'll come a time some day when the kickers shall all kick themselves into heaven. It would appear that there are some students who insist upon forcing their lack of patriotism to general attention. It should not be necessary to keep repeating the fact of the indebtedness of the Athletic association, and the need of making use of every means to replenish the treasury. There should be no kick against expedients however inconvenient to the student. The expenses of our winning team must be met. Two dollars is little enough to pay for the privilege of seeing Iowa defeated, even were there no other games on the home grounds. Students must be loyal. Let us hope that the kickers were merely thoughtless. By the action of the Council in advising that the debate with Missouri be held on some other night than that of Thanksgiving and in some other town than Kansas City. it should not be inferred that we fear the warlike spirit of the Missourians. the advice was given because the anticipated exuberance of the Kansans and the humiliation of the Tigers after the day's football victory and defeat might not anger well the success of an in eluctical contest. In fact the Kansas crowd will not feel like arguing that night, and the Missouri boys surely would not be able to listen in patta-ce. The argument on the gridiron will amply suffice for both parties for one day at least. A postponement will give more time for preparation and will add to the enthusiasm. And to prove that this change is suggested in all candor and cheerful confidence, let the first annual debate be held in Columbia. Chancellor Snow's suggestion that the debaters for the inter-state contests be chosen from the societies exclusively, the idea being that this will stimulate interest in the societies and increase their membership, is thoroughly commendable. It is certainly time that the faculty do something to further the work of societies. Indifference in the past has been frequently interpreted as opposition, where perhaps none was intended. Moreover, awakened interest in literary societies will do a general good for the University, and honors in inter-state debate will be little enough reward for unrequited laborers of faithful members in the past. In a few weeks the scene from the hill will have changed. Instead of a mass of green, pierced here and there by a church spire, or the gables of a lofty building, there will appear an intricate network of leafless branches under which hundreds of houses may be seen huddled together, vainly seeking protection against a wintry sky. All this is commonplace enough and hardly worthy of remark; for those to whom "a primrose by a river's brim" is a "yellow primrose" and nothing more, will scarcely notice the change until it is fully accomplished, but to the choice spirits who observe much the face of nature, the changing scene is a continual source of delight. The refusal of the State Board of Printing to publish Mr White's opening address is an evidence of Kansas thrill that must be quietly regretted. Economy is one thing, and parsimony is quite another. The literary honors won by Mr. White are something the whole West is proud of. With reason Kansas is proud also but her pride cannot be charged with extravagance so long as Mr. White's essay on "A Western Education," the best work he has done, and given to the young people of the state, is refused publication at state expense. President Jesse's letter to Chancellor Snow published in another column, is a manly statement from an able and fair-minded man, and we correct with pleasure the exaggerated press depot published in last week's issue of the W E KEKL. Missouri's zeal for pure athletes will receive warm commendation and support from Kansas The Students' Herald is a very clever paper. Some of its brightest paragraphs are uncredited reprints from the "Sharps and Flats" column of the WEEKLY. Here is a domestic paragraph from a Penn college paper: "The Ladies" Home Journal is one of the most popular of our exchanges." It is awfully provoking to have a sweet, new girl pin on your rival fraternities' colors, just a day or two after she has promised faithfully to "let you know in two weeks." Yes, it's very provoking; but one of this years' prettiest girls did that very thing just the other day. The Nebraska Hesperian sagely warns its readers not to be mystified by the pomp, the show or the tradition of the Greeks. SHARPS AND FLATS. The Phi Psis have threatened to make A couple of boys who evidently had not played the game, were talking about tennis being "mere girls' play." That reminds us, do you know that the young lady who won the championship in singles of Kansas and Missouri a few years ago, is a member of the junior class. each of their new boys propose to some girl, upon the day of their initiation. Girls, now your is chance—perhaps your last . "Talk about the music of your church balls," said the "Law," as he headed the ush for the table, "to my notion there's so bell to compare with the dinner bell." "Your remarks shock me very greatly," said the "Arts," as he unfolded his napkin. "Even if you entertain these thoughts you should not express them so recklessly. Speaking of pleasant sounds, he resumed a moment later, "when a fellow doesn't know his lesson, and the professor's questions strike nearer and nearer to him, just as he is breaking into a cold sweat, that little ting-a-ling up in the corner of the room is the sweetest sound on earth." There are girls and there are girls in the University, but three types are to be found among them all. They are, "that Smith girl," "nice little Mary Smith," and "Miss Smith." "That Smith girl" is independent. She has a faculty for thinking, or at least people think she has. You do not mind having her around so long as she can help you any with her ideas and her plans, which are sometimes original but almost always eccentric—or aimed to be. After she has gone you call her "queer," and then forget all about her. "Nice little Mary Smith" is sweet. She is charming. You like to talk to her because she is pretty, and because she smiles so sweetly, and because she has such a trusting, dependent way with her. And then, more than that, you like to have the other boys see you talking to her—or the girls too, for that matter—for it gives you a sort of a "pull." "Miss Smith" is "Miss Smith." You can hard,y tell just what her characteristics are. You only know that, after leaving her, you feel that you are a pretty good fellow, after all, that this world isn't such a bad place to live in, and, above all, you do not notice her own goodness but that she makes you good. "Miss Smith" is the girl you respect if you are young, and love, if you are old "Nice, little Mary Smith" is the girl you love, if you are young, and pet, if you are old, and "that Smith girl" is the girl that you expect great things of if you are young or if you are old, and then forget. A student, upon being asked why he had changed instructors in a certain course of study, tersely replied, "Under one Professor you can learn, but under the other you have to." Have you ever noticed the evolution of the University go? As a Freshman she is very, very young and also very much in evidence. She gurgles with glee at everything said or done, be it serious, comic or indifferent. Her actions are meant to be "cute." She is apt to say some very abrupt or startling things which are intended to make the class laugh, but which fall short of that purpose again and again. As a Sophomore she has suddenly become serious. She feels her importance as a member of a class one year in advance of the Freshman, and the heavy click-of her heels upon the floor as she hastens about with that delightful air of seriousness of purpose tells but half the tale. As a Junior she has broadened. She is not serious as she was last year, nor is she —I beg pardon, there is no polite word for it in my vocabulary—as she was the year before. She is a member of a class now, in the true sense of the word, and not an individual—not that she has lost her individuality but that her selfishness is gone. She has come into closer touch with her fellow students and is "one of them." As a Senior, the *seriousness* has come back to her, but it is tempered with enough optimism and good humor to make the combination a delightful one. Her character has been through the mill and it is coming out better and refined. She realizes what the University has done for her, she realizes that life will be to her that which she makes it. Not only has the Senior girl learned how to study, but also has she learned something of how to live. "Sue, did you see how happy Helen was? You didn't. Why she was beaming all over. Yesterday she was out walking—that is—Jacked walked home with her. He's good looking and wears a golf suit; and don't you suppose they are engaged? You don't? A K. U. case? How provoking! He was a junior, but he could not see very well. No wonder! He had hurt his eyes reading the thoughts of Greeks two thousand years old. One morning as he wandered up the hill he saw a big dark something. \t was speckled with bright OUR OVERCOAT STOCK IS THE LARGEST IN TOWN Comprising Everything New in That Line. W. BROMELSICK. spots—that were neckties, and blue patches—that were cuffs, and brown rings—that were faces, and the dark something grew larger and larger. He lifted his goggles and rubbed his eyes, but they only blurred the more. So he stumbled on, softly quoting Greek verse. At last he reached the main entrance. The mystery was solved. "By Jove!" he stopped to exclaim, "Why don't you men get inside?" Do not tell us that the WEEKLY has no enterprise this year. Only the other day one of the reporters boarded a train for Topeka hoping to interview a certain well known atheletic authority who was supposed to be upon that train. Of course he wasn't or else you would have read it the interview in last week's paper. The reporter came back crestfallen, not even satisfied with having seen Edna Whitney—but speaking about surprise — Alas, it's gloomy, doggie dear— The boys are gone, the towns deserted, The halls are desolate and drear, Where once we talked and some girls They're gone to K. C. will be back in a few days. Pardon the author of this plaintiff wail, and he, she or it will promise faithfully never to drop into "poetry" again. Brown was a great fellow running over with frat. enthusiasm, and Brown had a friend that simply must join his frat. They took long walks, arm in arm, and they had long talks heart to heart. This young freshman was introduced to all Brown's friends, was talked to and talked to and talked about, taken home to dinner, driven to church and given parties. They always went to class together; they had been friends a long time, and the freshman was the 'nicest man in town.' Brown said so. One day Brown came to class late. The professor noticed that his eyes were red, and that he looked grumpy. He did not speak to the freshman either. He cut him dead and went and sat on the other side of the recitation room. Too bad. "Their friendship han ended." Brown said this, too. Why? Why? The freshman joined another frat Of all places in Kansas, Mr. C., think that Olathe is about the nicest, because—well, we don't care to give away an open secret. At any rate, when the professor suggested to Mr. C. that he look up some matters pertaining to the Deaf and Dumb, Mr.C's face began to shine with an inward glow. "Let me see, the asylum is not at Gopea" continued the professor, thinking that the most convenient place for Mr. C. to carry on his research. "No." answered Mr. C. with a smile. No, yes. answered. "Oh yes. -Olathe," and then it was that Mr. C's upper lip began to curve in that peculiar way of his, and that his own favorite color spread itself over his face in a subdued tint. By all means, Olaïte was the most convenient place under the sun to him and that especially during vacation. The reason why? Well 'tis the old, old story, ever new. The saying goes that all the world loves a lover, but coming down to the truth of the matter, we get mighty tired of seeing them around—and especially on the campus. WILLIS, THE PHOTOGRAPHER. 938 MANS. STREET. 933 MASS. STREET. EDWARD BUMGARDNER, M D., D. S. DENTIST 809 Massachusetts street. HENRY GERHARD & BRO., Prop's. STAR BAKERY We Solicit the Patronage of the People. FALL HATS! M. J. Skofstad's, 824 PASS ST. All the latest styles and colors. 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