The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 12, 1896.
No 14.
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.
Managing Editor. W.C.CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
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WE ALL know what fun it is to work in a chemical laboratory; to fix up unheard of mixtures, and produce unsmelled of odors, but it is pretty hard to be obliged to take the odor without having a finger in the caldron. This fact is very well appreciated by the classes which recite in the south wing of the main building.
THE HARVARD overseers have started a crusade against bad English. They threaten to publish the entrance examination papers which are the worst in this respect, together with the names of the schools from which the writers of bad English are graduated. President Eliot has always laid great emphasis on the importance of teaching every student how to use the English language, even if he isn't taught anything else. To be sure the majority of people can express their thoughts after a fashion, aided by a more or less elaborate system of signs, but the ones who can really speak or write English correctly and fluently are lamentably few.
DURING THE latter part of next week everyone will be afforded a pleasant opportunity to help swell the pipe-organ fund. The financial success of our coming Fair depends almost entirely upon ourselves. We university people must be the first to attend it, the foremost in patronage and the chiefest of its advertising agents.
It is refreshing to see college spirit expressed as it is unmistakably in the work and persistency of the promoters of the pipe organ scheme. Let us show that we too are not lacking in loyalty to our University. The fund has grown to a goodly size; our organ is almost a reality; one mighty effort and the long sought prize is ours. Let every student enforce upon himself a personal responsibility for the successful outcome of the event of next week. Let us put ourselves to some slight pecuniary inconvenience, if necessary. To succeed we must work unitedly. A little unselfish competition in the way of canvassing will help on the fund and at the same time create an active interest in the Fair. Perhaps, our most effective work can be done before next Wednesday. It is our business to solicit.