The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. IV.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 29, 1897.
No.17.
Editor-in-Chief.
HAROLD W. SMITH,
Associate:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Literary Editor:
WALTER H. SANFORD.
Associates:
L. HEIL, PAULINE LEWELLING,
ETHEL HICKEY,
Local Editor:
CARL L. COOPER.
Associates:
ARCHIE HOGG, - - - - - Alumni.
PERCY PARROTT, - - - Snow Hall.
WM. H. CLARK, - - - Exchanges.
DAISY STARR, - - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - - Law.
WILL McMURRAY, - - Athletics.
H. E. DAVIES, - - Pharmacy.
ALVAH SOUDER,
C. A. ROHRER.
Managing Editor.
C. E. ROSE.
Associate:
TOM CHARLES.
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Official Organ of the Kansas College Press Association.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
A vast improvement over last year in the work of the Oratorio Society was noticeable last Wednesday night.
THE EXPERIMENT of holding public commencement recitals of the School of Music at
University Hall has proven eminently successful.
KANSAS HAS always been prominent in athletics, but it has neglected one branch thereof for which it has excellent facilities. Boating, as a college sport, has never been popular here. Occasional vain attempts have been made to arrange regattas. We ought to have a crew. Other inland colleges have them, and give them royal support. Our boating course is par excellence; our athletic rank among the colleges would insure us recognition as oarsmen. Rowing ought to be very popular with some of our foot ball men. After their season they are apt to become inactive in athletics. Boating might induce them to work themselves out a little in the spring. We trust that next year the Athletic Association may see fit to take up the "crew" idea.
A NOTEWORTHY publication of recent date is a map of the vicinity of Lawrence, issued by the Kansas University Country Club. The purpose of this club is by this time well known. The publication of a county map attests in part the fact that the organization has realized its end. The map is a "descriptive guide, pointing out many of the chief places of natural or historical interest." It is published in small folder form and is very neat and simple. In a note appended it is requested that all who are in any way interested in the Country Club and its work shall send in such information as will lend to the improvement of the map. Corrections are also solicited. The first edition of five hundred copies is about exhausted and the second edition will be on sale before the close of the term. The original map will soon be