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THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL. I. NO. 27.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, JANUARY 14, 1905.
5 Cents per copy
COUNTY CLUB DOINGS.
Many Banquets, Much Loyalty and Great Good the Holiday Order.
The Cherokee County club gave a reception to the seas, faculty and alumni of the Cherokee County High School at Columbus on Thursday evening, January 4, in the high school building. About ninety guests were present.
Prof. Eramus Haworth of the University faculty talked to the company on the change in importance and organization of colleges and universities within the past few years. Professor Haworth is an old resident of Cherokee county, as he moved there with his parents in 1866, and his father, Mr. Elwood Haworth, still lives on the old claim in the southeastern part of the county.
Rev. Frank Jewett, of the University class of 99, spoke on college society.
The club presented a framed picture of the University hill to the high school. Refreshments and games were provided and the affair was an entire success. The Cherokee County high school students are becoming very much interested in the University, and probably twelve or fifteen new students will come to the Universiily from there next year.
MONTGOMERY.
One of the most successful of the banquets given by K. U. students during the holidays was given by the Montgomery students on January 4, 1905, in Independence, Kansas. There were about thirty guests from the senior high school class and all enjoyed themselves thoroughly. There were a large number of alumni present and several good speeches were made.
JOHNSON.
The Johnson County club of the Kansas University, gave a reception in Olathe, January 3, to the Senior class of the Olathe High school and former K. U. students. The reception was held in the Commercial Club parlors and was well attended. The program, consisting of speeches by former and present K. U. students, occupied most of the time Much enthusiasm was aroused by the speeches, songs and yells, and the prospects are that several of this year's graduates will attend the University next year. The fact that "Uncle Jimmie Green" was a former county attorney of Johnson County, was brought out by the old alumni.
County Superintendent L. A. Parke was elected president of (continued on page 4.)
The Osage County club held their first annual banquet at Osage City Thursday night, January 5. Every school in the county was represented and much interest was shown by the seniors.
GLEE GLUB TRIP
Very Successful and a Continuous Round
of Joy.
On the day vacation begun Friday, December 23rd, the members of the University Glee club packed their grins with music and a lot of that indefinable substance known as K. U. spirit and started to distribute it around Kansas. They began and finished a most successful tour of the State towns. It is the first time in several years that a University organization has made so long a tour and with no disastrous results. The trip, socially, was one round of pleasure. Many of the county clubs gave their annual banquet on the night the club was scheduled, and if this was or had been impossible, the students living there No moment was dull for those representing Kansas University. The tour covered a distance of 700 miles, through the southern part of Kansas.
The social side of life was made apparent to the boys at their first stop, Olathe, where, after a pleasant reception by K. Ustudents, at the rooms of the Olathe Commercial Club, all were invited to a party given by the sophomore class of the Olathe High School.
The first long ride of the trip was between Olathe and the next stopping place, Iola. A small but appreciative audience greeted the club there.
Sunday was spent in Chanute, where by the courtesy of wilbur Lapham all were pleasantly entertained Sunday evening. After the concert Monday night the Jefferson County club gave its banquet with the Glee club as guests. During the stay there several members of the club visited the smelters and other objects of interest.
The words Kansas University seemed to open the doors of everything anyone wished to visit, though ordinarily closed to outsiders.
At Parsons, after the concert, which was given in the beautiful New Elks Theatre, all were invited to an oyster supper tendered by the students and graduates there. Prof. C. E. Hubach, Henry Asher, and Alva Bernhard spoke of the advantages of our University and did it so well that they, with R. U. Hoover, were unanimously appointed speech makers for the rest of the trip.
At Winfield, the Cowley County club gave its banquet. Most of the officers were unavoidably absent, but Jess R. Hoel acted as toast master.
Newton was the next place of entertainment, where at the home of M. Warkentine a K.U. (continued in page 4.)
KANSAN PLANS.
Proposed Plans of Reorganization.
At the last Editorial Board election of the Univhrsity Weekly Publishing Association it was agreed by the candidates on both tickets that a radical change in the plan of managing the University paper was necessary and that the basis of the new plan should be to make membership in the editorial board dependent upon competition, and thus to insure that all members should be interested and capable, and presumably efficient and active. Thus it is hoped to meet the cardinal objection to the old plan; that board members chosen solely to represent some University interest have as a rule contented themselves with representing that interest in a purely ornamental way, so that two or three or half a dozen willing workers have always been compelled to do the work intended for sixteen. A further and perhaps equally serious objection to the old plan is that it does not insure that the men placed in charge of the student publication will be the men best qualified to assume the responsibility and most completely prepared for it by their previous experience.
How best to make the proposed change is a hard problem to solve; and it is far easier to formulate a new plan of management than it is to engineer the transition from the old to the new. During the present term a body of competitors has been called out and set to work covering the University news field as reporters, and furnishing perhaps the greater part of the news matter that has appeared in the KANSAN. Almost all of these competitors have shown ability as well as energy; and therefore there is available, whenever a plan for using it is adopted, a supply of excellent and proved material for filling vacancies in the Board.
To secure a plan the Board appointed a committee consisting of the Chaffcellor, Prof. E. M. Hopkins, Prof. W. W Lawrence, the managing editor and the business manager, to prepare one and report to the Board. That committee has reported a general plan based on a comparison of the systems of other Universities, and has suggested also some details of a possible method of getting the plan into practical operation. The Board has unanimously adopted this general plan for recomendation to the stockholders at their next meeting; and the action of the stockholders will determine the next step to be taken.
In substance the plan is as follows: All Board members are to be chosen in their freshmen and sophomore years, in a series of competitive contests extending through those years are to remain on the Board until the end of their college course, and are to share in the profits, if any, in proportion to the degree of their responsibility and the length of their term of service. A full Board will consist of five seniors, five juniors, and five sophomores, each of whom has been chosen in his freshmen or sophomore year.
At the beginning of the first term of each college year, a competition will be opened to members of the freshmen class. Candidates will be assigned to general and special duty as reporters, and at the end of the term the two men whose printed work has been greatest in quantity and best in quality will be appointed to the board on probation. A similar competition will be open during the second term of the year; and at the end of that term two more freshmen will be appointed on probation. All these appointments become permanent after satisfactory service of one term.
During the first and second terms of each year, competitions will be open to members of the sophomore class for the filling of vacancies that may arise through the non-return or non-service of members. All these contests will be for places on the news department of the board. For the business department a separate competition will be open to the freshmen in the middle of the freshman year, to last for one year. All competitors in this contest will will receive a commission on business done whether they are successful or not. At the end of the competitive period, continued on page 4.
FRAT MEN REFUSED.
Debating Council Won't Admit Fraternity Representatives.
The inter-fraternity debates have aroused a very noticeable interest in debating work among fraternity men. At the last meeting of the debating council the advisability of admitting fraternity representatives was discussed. The opinion is almost unanimous among the present members that unless the fraternities organize and maintain an active literary society, they should not reasonably expect representation in the council.
As they are at present conducted, no one of the fraternities is in any sense a literary organization or does any work that belongs to such a body. It is difficult for the council to see any valid reason for admitting to the council men who do not represent a regularly organized literary association. If the Greek letter orders of the University wish a voice in this work, some of the debaters claim they should maintain a society that encourage it.