The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 21, 1896.
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No.
Editor-in-Chief.
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH,
Literary Editor:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA 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.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, Charles A. Wagner or secretary, Percy J. Parrott. cents per annum in advance. communications to W. C.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE ability of President Canfield has been found great enough to warrant the erection of an administration building on the campus of Ohio university.
VERY FEW of the young women in the University are subscribers to the Weekly, a fact that we are loath to admit and unable to account for. The literary department is surely
not too profound nor the local page too frivilous for this class of readers, and the only explanation left is that there is something lacking rather than something wrong. Is it a "side talks with girls" column that is needed to make the Weekly worthy of your patronage, young women? If so we will request the associate editor to assume a pseudonym and open such a department at once. Let your wants be known, for the Weekly's motto is "we serve."
"FOR HUMANITY and our students" is the motto of those engaged in what is known as the College Settlement work among the poor and ignorant classes in cities, a work which commands the sympathy of anyone who becomes acquainted with it. The plan is to establish and keep open, settlement houses in the tenement or slum districts of cities and to fit up these houses with reading rooms and gymnasiums. The men in charge endeavor to interest the people, especially children, who visit the houses, and by means of talks and games to develop their weakened bodies and neglected minds. The work can hardly be engaged in by under-graduates except where a college is situated in a large city. In Chicago Rev. Graham Taylor is at the head of the movement, which, however, is not carried on entirely by students. Nebraska university seems to be favorably situated for the work and has organized a College Settlement committee which is making active preparations to enter the field. A few former students of Kansas university are conducting houses in different places, and it has been proposed to carry on the work in Kansas City with the University as headquarters, but as yet no satisfactory plan for doing this has been formed.