The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. IV.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 8, 1897.
No.14.
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.
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WE UNDOUBTEDLY have a better base ball team this year than we have had for some seasons. Thus far we have been quite agreeably disappointed, too, in the quality of games scheduled.
WE HAVE concluded that a little less literary and editorial material in these spring issues might make the WEEKLY more readable.
A GENERAL election of officers of "THE WEEKLY" company will be held next Friday. It is the duty of every share-holder to take part in it.
THE LAST PROOF sheets of the catalog are in the hands of the publisher. By the latter part of next week the catalogs ought to be ready for distribution.
THIS TERM has been a hard one for our business manager. Our prosperity depends upon the students and the merchants. If students refuse to subscribe and merchants will not advertise, how can we publish sixteen pages of reading matter?
WE ARE in receipt of a copy of "Cap and Gown," a book of college verse compiled by F. L. Knowles. The publication is an artistic and finished product. "THE WEEKLY" by the way, contributes modestly to the volume. In his preferatory note Mr. Knowles makes some keen remarks about college verse. While it seldom pretends to the dignity of poetry, he thinks that college verse contains a great many genuine poetic touches. It is suited to the point of view of undergraduate days. In the work of collecting material for his book Mr. Knowles has made the following general observations: i. Among college people there is a lack of fondness for the sonnet and a lack of success in writing it. II. French forms of light verse are very popular,-the rondeau, the ballade and triolet. III. Purely sentimental verse is rarely written in women's colleges. College girls write in a reflective, moody strain, and are not so successful at humor as boys.
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