THE KANSAN.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Thursday morning and Saturday night of the school year, by the Kansas University Weekly Publishing Association.
Office in University Library building,
Down Town office, 630 Massachusetts St,
Wirt G. McCarty, - Managing Editor
N. P. Sherwood, - Circulation Mgr.
Earl Campbell, - Business Manager
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ON COLLEGE FRATERNITIES.
In his annual address to the students, President Schurman of Cornell sounded a note of warning to the fraternities and it so well fits some instances of life here that attention is called to the following:
"I think that the fraternity life at Cornell is in many respects the most ideal arrangement for the lodging and feeding and social intercourse of students that has ever been devised in the history of the University. I think that small groups of students who live in these fraternity houses and meet one another as brothers give one another a social and perhaps a moral help which can be got in no other way, and I know they form lifelong friendships which are the source of much happiness and of help in the struggle for life in after years. Let no man therre say and I appeal to my attitude toward fraternities in the past to confirm me—that I am hostile to fraternities, but I want on this occasion to express a note of warning, to give vent to a feeling of anxiety which has for some time disturbed me. I feel that our fraternities are laying stress too exclusively on prominence in athletics, in class events and in student affairs. Now I am not saying that all these things should not be considered, and that fraternities should not select some men because they are distinguished as baseball players, football players or oarsmen, or because they are jolly good fellows. But I do say that the doom of the fraternities is sealed, if they do not at least put on an equal footing with these the men who distinguish themselves in scholarship and science, which are the primary objects of our University. I have a suspicion, which some investigation in statistics tends to confirm, that the average standing of the fraternity men is not so high as the average standing of the men outside. Now, gentlemen, what I want is that while you gain from these fraternities all the good they are capable of giving you, and it is a large and important good, you shall not overlook this other great consideration and belittle as 'mere grind' students who are distinguished as
Why cannot Kansas University have some of the old customs that obtain and hold a permanent place in the hearts of Eastern colleges?
Our class "scraps" are the
only thing to which we can point which connects us with the earlier days of the University, and the fact that the result of these scraps is generally a foregone conclusion robs them of much of their interest.
Some Eastern schools have their "sing night" when all meet on the Campus to sing over the college songs in the light of a huge bonfire and get acquainted with the Freshmen.
At Michigan, the barbecue, with roasted beeves, potatoes, and plenty of cider is the big Fall affair, and for days before, the customary form of salutation is, "Bring your tin cup."
The place for all the big rallies at Yale is "at the Fence." Here for years the students' have met on the afternoon of each season's first football practice, and headed by the band, they have marched to the Athletic field and given the squad a big sendoff.
The Michigan Juniors have a bench of their own, and calls for Junior meetings are issued to be held not in Room 12, or 14, but "at the Bench."
The Faculty Circus at Nebraska and Minnesota comes as regularly as does the opening of school.
It would be safe to wager that Kansas is the only educational institution in this part of the country that has not a "Lover's Lane," a fact which should single it out for distinction.
All the same, it cannot be denied that these customs and institutions add much to the spirit of a school, and the loyalty of a graduate to his college.
An alumnus, when he looks back to his college days, does not allow himself to think so much of the hours he spent in Chemistry IV, or in Professor X's class in Education, as he does of the time when his class "licked" the class of '89 in the biggest fight the school had seen in years, or when the staid old Dean was ringmaster of the circus.
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927 Mass. St., Room 6,
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839 Mass. St.
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PICTURES and NOVELTIES
is the place to get your
Let Kansas University students see what they can do along this line. Make some suggestions and they will be heralded to the students in these columns.
The number of graduates of the University who were elected to office in the last election indicates that the training in college politics secured here has some value in National and State politics.
1,400 ENROLLED.
What's the Matter With Kansas? Wonderful StrideS of University Evidenced on All Sides.
The University has the largest enrollment this year it has ever had. There are 1400 students in the different schools, 31 of whom entered during the month of October. The University is becoming better prepared and equipped each year to care for the student body, and this has a tendency to attract those seeking higher education.
Another aid in increasing the attendance is the many county clubs which have been organized for the purpose of placing the advantages of better reparation for life work before the high school seniors, and then recommending the University of Kansas as the best institution in the state to attend for that purpose. This was Chancellor Strong's plan and it has accomplished its aim very well.
The State Institutions are sending out a larger proportion of students than all other institutions combined. They are doing a good work, and the legislature ought not to scant in its appropriations for educational institutions.
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Tell them you saw their ad in the KANSAN.
HIGH SCHOOL MANUAL OUT.
The new High School Manual published by the University shows that 155 high schools of the state offer courses that prepare students for the Freshmen class of the University. All preparatory work is done in these high schools. The preparatory department was discontinued by the University in 1889.
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