The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. IV.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 20, 1897.
Editor-in-Chief.
HAROLD W. SMITH,
Associate:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Literary Editor:
WALTER H. SANFORD.
Associates:
L. HEIL, ETHEL HICKEY,
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Local Editor:
W. C. CLOCK.
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.
CARL COOPER,
ALVAH SOUDER,
C. A. ROHRER.
No. 7.
Managing Editor.
C. E. ROSE.
Associate:
TOM CHARLES.
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Official Organ of the Kansas College Press Association.
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HARVARD AND Michigan have recently employed the honor system in examinations with unmistakable success. Kansas University ought to follow their example and take the initiative among western schools in this matter.
THE INDOOR Meet was a success; it now remains to arrange an equally meritorious field day program.
WE NOTE that the legislature has granted permission to the Lawrence Transportation company to extend its tracks within the University campus. A street car line up Mount Oread has thus far always been one of those vague, indefinite things which the future holds enticingly forth and to which we never attain. Most people have been accustomed to think of it in the same way as they do of the arrival of the millennium or of the opening up of a royal road to knowledge. But this act of the legislature seems to mean business, and the proposed line may become an actual, concrete, reality. That will suit everybody. On with the work!
THE SENIOR class should of a right contain the intellectual leaders of the University. The members of that class should take the lead in all reforms and in all student movements. They have had the benefit of three years of college training, and if this does not make them prominent in the mental life of the institution, that training has to a considerable extent been a failure. It is gratifying to note that our present Senior class is showing a disposition to realize its responsibilities and to assume that position here which, by nature, belongs to it. We expect that class to set the example for the rest of the school to follow. Therefore it is a matter of congratulation to the class of '97 that in the local oratorical contest the first three places were taken by Seniors; and in the recent inter-class debate the two winners were both members of that class.
THE ACT of the Advisory Committee on Athletics barring all boxing events in the recent Meet was of doubtful expediency and one al-