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, $99 Massachusetts St
Wirt G. McCarty, - Managing Editor
N. P. Sherwood, - Circulation Mgr.
Earl Campbell, - Business Manager
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The piking of the band Tuesday killed what would have undoubtedly been the most successful mass meeting that has been held this year. The refusal of the band to play at that meeting has caused no little indignation on the part of many and the severe censuring that the tooters of the brass instruments are getting heaped upon them is every bit deserved. The band gets more free graft off of the University than any other organization and now the band is not doing any more good for the University and at this rate will do more harm than all other organizations put together. A band in college is supposed to get out and help enliven the students and stir up enthusiasm, and the band is the only thing that can do it. The members here get railroad fare, passes to the games and the like, and in the face of all, unpardonably piked. The KANSAN has been the band's best friend this year and has stood up for that body every hour of its life, but at this rate the band will not get, and won't deserve a friend in the entire University.
What will be the issue in Chapel after the football season closes?
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The Chapel exercises of the University are the only meetings in which all the students are at liberty to get together. These exercises are of benefit in many ways and every student should aim to be present each day.
The status of the 'grafter' in K. U, is hard to define. He works, studies, eats, and sleeps in a hurried manner. He rises early, carries papers, washes dishes or milks a cow, changes his clothes add appears at his classes no worse for his experience because it will help him onward and upward in life.
There could be a marked improvement in the atmosphere in the "stag" clubs in Lawrence. The boys sometimes forget themselves and their language and actions do not speak well of their bringing up. Boys when they are alone are apt to get boisterous but at the table they should at least try to be polite.
Some of the students do not
realize that the library is a place to study and not a place to talk and gossip. There is hardly a day passes that the librarian does not have to request some person to stop talking. When one wants to study it is very annoying to have a person nearby giggling or laughing. University students should know better but some of them do not seem to.
While there is some criticism of the libraries a big kick should be registered on the hours that the Law library is open. Ordinarily one wishing to use one of the "big books of weighty opinions" has to camp in Frazier hall until he can catch a librarian or a professor with a key and then it is sometimes a long wait for admission to the inner realms of the student of the big books,
The main library should be open Sunday for many of the students have no other time to read the magazines and newspapers. Take for instance an engineer who is earning his way through the University. His only day of rest is Sunday. All his time on week days is taken up. Maybe he will steal a moment from his studies to glance over a magazine or newspaper, but he cannot read them as he would like to if he had the time. One person could manage the library on Sunday and it would not cost much but how much pleasure it would give to some is immeasurable.
The University of Kansas needs better gymnasium facilities; not only a little better, but a great deal better. In fact, we should have two gymnasiums, one for girls and one for boys. The present system by which no choice of time is left the students cannot work as good results as if there were two "gyms" open all the time. Physical education is not a matter of a few minutes work once in a while. It comes only after constant and painstaking practice which our present accommodations will not permit. Other State Universities have seen the importance of two gymnasiums, and have provided them. Why not Kansas?
The display of interest and enthusiasm on the part of the faculty would be a discredit to the county schools that existed in the days of Sleepy Hollow and Icabod Crane. While it may be true that we have some Icabod Cranes here still they should help, at least a little, in increasing the college spirit of Kansas University. At two mass meetings this year only one professor was to be found and his loyalty is admired by every student present and it is the common remark, "K. U. would be a whole lot better off if there were a few more of these professors who would spare a few minutes to furthering affairs of the Uaiversity that create a good impression on the outside world."
The recent "anti-hat tipping" agitation in some of our sister co-educational institutions is without doubt the most ridiculous and reprehensible proposition that has come to light in the college world for some time. It is difficult to see how the college men arrived at the conclusion that such conduct would be justifiable. The only possible excuse for such an idea is unpardonable laziness or foolishness. A lady should be treated with all respect anywhere and everywhere, "co-ed" or not. The man who refuses the outward marks of respect to her, even though he does meet her several times a day is a discredit to the masculine part of the human race which likes to be called gentlemen.
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The severing of debating relations by Nebraska is thought by some to be a step of retaliation because Kansas severed athletic relations. The KANSAN is not disposed to believe this, though it does seem there is some truth in it since Nebraska has assigned no plausible excuse for the action. The notice came as a big surprise here. It was supposed that debating circles at Lincoln possessed the same feeling of friendship for Kansas that Kansas has possessed all along for the Nebraskans in debate. However, a debate with Illinois, Indiana, Iowa or some other University further East would prove a greater attraction and would create more interest.
--tion that has come to light in the college world for some time. It is difficult to see how the college men arrived at the conclusion that such conduct would be justifiable. The only possible excuse for such an idea is unpardonable laziness or foolishness. A lady should be treated with all respect anywhere and everywhere, "co-ed" or not. The man who refuses the outward marks of respect to her, even though he does meet her several times a day is a discredit to the masculine part of the human race which likes to be called gentlemen.
Every student who has the price of a railroad ticket and enough to pay his way into the game should go to Kansas City today and do a little rooting Get enthusiastic. You will get old some day and then you will look back on the happy days when Kansas fairly "swamped" old Missouri at Kansas Clty as a happy sequel to the turkey and cranberry sauce of 1904. We have a team this year that all should be proud of. Kansas, the entire state, should glory in the remarkable example of athletes that have defended the Kansas goal line this season. It is now the final game and your last opportunity to show your appreciation of much good, hard, honest, work. Be loyal and true and in ten years from now you will look back on the occasion as one of supreme happiness.
Editorials and news items are very frequently handed in to the KANSAN which contain "roasts" that are not the result of any careful consideration. There seem to be some who like to "roast" more than others. No friends were ever gained by "roasting" and it will not pay to start to criticise papers, men
or decisions because they do not agree with you. This is a public University that is open to criticism by Kansas editors in whatever way they see fit to render their words of praise or condemnation, whether just or unjust. One county paper if long established and has a good following can do more harm to us than is ordinarily supposed. The University paper might "roast" such a county paper but it would only incense the editor and make matters worse. Innumerable unjust criticism has been heaped upon the University this year just as it always has. It would not amend matters for the KANSAN to retaliate with continuous scoring of these editors and papers. Let them go. The Topeka Capital feels called upon to defend Washburn. Let the Capital defend Washburn. A University paper by picking quarrels and promoting general dissatisfaction at home and abroad can do more injury in a month than can be repaired in ten years. Therefore when any criticisms are to be made please "handle with care" or it probably will go to the editors waste basket.
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OBER,
The Clothier,
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