The Kansas University Weekly.
Vol. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 9, 1897.
Editor-in-Chief:
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH,
Literary Editor:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA GATTRELL LYNN, SYDNEY PRENTICE,
PROF. E.M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
PAULINE LEWELLING.
Associates:
PERCY PARROTT, - - - - Snow Hall.
L. HEIL, - - - Exchanges
DAISY STARR, - - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - Law and Social.
WILL McMURRAY, - - Athletics.
E. C. ALDER,
H. P. CADY,
JOE SMITH.
No 16.
Managing Editor. W.C.CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
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Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
Happy New Year!
BURN A little evening oil for the next two weeks and it will not be necessary to use so much of the midnight brand just before examinations.
"This is a fair as never was another," said Faust on the Brocken; which may have been true then, but would hardly be credited now by anyone who visited the rink.
OF ALL the dead poets who are grossly mistreated by college aspirants for the laurel, Edgar Allen Poe has the most cause to be disgusted, and we shall be much surprised if some of the parodists do not find him waiting for them on "yon bank" of the styx, armed with a pair of tongs and a toasting fork. The latest begins something like this: "Hear the warbling of the cats, Infant cats."
A CHEMISTRY building is the first and greatest need of the University. The work of the chemistry department can hardly be carried on at all in the present quarters, and the health of the students and professors is in constant jeopardy. It is with the young men and young women of Kansas that the University buildings are being filled to the doors, and the people of the state can not well refuse to grant that for which they themselves have created the need.
THE FACTS contained in the Report of the Board of Regents will be a revelation to many who had no idea of the actual cost per student of running the University, nor of the relative expenses of the University compared with institutions of the same rank in other states. Every student should read the Report. First in order to be informed, and second in order to inform others whose ignorance of these facts makes them indifferent to the needs of the University.
THOSE HAVING friends or relatives who will be members of the coming Legislature should induce them to spend a day in Lawrence, and become acquainted with the University and its needs. Those who are the least friendly to the University are the ones who know the least about it. A careful and intelligent examination of its affairs is all that the University needs to secure the undivided support of the members of