The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. IV. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 20, 1897. No. 3.
Editor-in-Chief.
HAROLD W. SMITH,
Associate:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Literary Editor:
WALTER H. SANFORD.
Associates:
L. HEIL, PAULINE LEWELLING, ETHEL HICKEY,
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.
Managing Editor.
C. E. ROSE.
Associate:
THOMAS CHARLES.
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THE REINSTATEMENT of regent Rogers is an action which has elicited in university circles nothing but the most favorable comment. His removal from the board of regents was simply a disgraceful piece of political machination. No man studied more than did he to serve the best
interests of Kansas University; and his present attitude toward the Appropriation Bill is assurance that he still cherishes the institution. Mr. Rogers has been vindicated; and we at the university, irrespective of political alliance and prejudice, are glad of it.
IN CONNECTION with the subject of muddy weather it is a great satisfaction to notice the increase in the number of rainy-day dresses worn this year over last year. Last year comparatively few girls wore this neat and comfortable costume but this year there are more, and they are on the increase. The advantages of this costume have been told two often to need repeating now. It is certainly refreshing these days to see the fair wearer of this short-skirted hygienic dress as she trips daintily along with both hands free from their wonted task of holding up a long and mud-bedraggled skirt.
It is a great pity that we do not oftener have the opportunity of hearing such men as President Carter of Williams College, who lectured to us Wednesday night. The Lecture Bureau as a rule can not obtain men of his kind for us as they are too busy to travel in the lecture field. The benefit of obtaining a man like President Carter here is to certain degree mutual. It is well for us to keep in touch with Eastern progress in methods and in thought. There, with their numerous good colleges and their contiguity to the great cities they have advantages over us which we would do well not to underestimate. On the other hand it is a good thing for these representative Eastern educators to obtain a better knowledge of us. They will go back impressed with the fact that some good work is being done in Western colleges, and this will tend to do away with the glaring inaccuracies which are sometimes made with respect to us and our