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The Kansas University Weekly.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 27, 1897.
VOL. IV.
Editor-in-Chief.
HAROLD W. SMITH,
Associate:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Literary Editor WALTER H. SANFORD.
L. HEIL, ETHEL HICKEY,
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Local Editor:
W. C. CLOCK.
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.
CARL COOPER,
ALVAH SOUDER,
C. A. ROHRER.
No.8.
Managing Editor.
C. E. ROSE.
Associate:
TOM CHARLES.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, Charles A. Wagner or the secretary, Percy J. Parrott.
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Official Organ of the Kansas College Press Association.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
UNIVERSITY MEN again figure in politics. At the recent primaries we held the balance of power. Professor Blackmar was renominated for the school board, and Professor Olin is his opponent.
THERE OUGHT to be a sidewalk, of a temporary nature at least, between the main building and the physics building. The latter is easily accessible during cold or dry weather, but soon the spring rains will render paths and drives impassable to pedestrians.
THE CUSTOM of inter-class base ball was successfully revived last year. It now behooves us to arrange such games and to begin practice for the ensuing season. Class captains should see to the organizing of efficient teams. Class athletic contest often brings out, for regular university teams, material which otherwise might have remained undiscovered.
THE Few Yale students who sent best wishes to Corbett previous to his fight with Fitzsimmons incurred deserved reprimand for their presumption in misrepresenting college opinion on prize fighting. Although Yale overdoes athletics, she has never sanctioned the prize fight; and the recent action of some of her undergraduates regarding the Carson City contest was imprudent and disloyal.
At the last convention of the College Press Association a resolution was introduced to petition the faculties of the various educational institutions represented at the meeting for fuller support of college journalism. It was suggested and voted that a certain amount of work on a college paper ought to be credited as a full term study in literary courses. No one would question the justness of a petition to such effect, but any one can see that the granting of the same involves impracticabilities. The amount of newspaper work equivalent to a full study must be exactly determined. The press convention came to a very ambiguous conclusion on this point; it specified clearly enough on a