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.
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The head line, "A 'Varsity Press," don't mean that all the girls who give parties this year get in.
A better class of shows make up the opera house schedule this year than usual and there are many that are of particular interest to students.
We all know where Governor Hoch stands when it comes to higher education and proper provision for maintaining institutions of higher learning
Here is a prayer that was heard recently. "Out fathers who art in Topeka, legislators be thy name, thy kingdom come with a nice big sum, and gloried be the game."
The Emporia College and the Normal are discussing editorially which institution is the best friend of the University. It's a wonder Baker or Washburn don't come in on the goat's milk diet route.
If the state legislature knew what the amount asked for meant, not only to the University of Kansas, but to the state and to them, there would certainly be no hesitation in granting the full amount.
A meeting of the stockholders of the Kansas University Weekly Association will soon be held to adopt the plans published in the last issue of THE KANSAN. Any objection will be heard and the plans will be subject to change at that meeting.
The Y. M. C. A. needs the support of every young man in school this year, if the work as planned is to be carried out. Every one in the University should be in sympathy with the work of the association, whether he is a member or not. You can give the Y. M. C. A. material assistance by doing without one cab ride or a half dozan cigars each month, for awhile, any how.
The University has now reached the stage where a large number of its graduates occupy seats in the house of representatives at Topeka, and it will probably be these men, who are acquainted with the most urgent needs of their alma mater, and those men who have visited her and have seen the crowded condition and the necessity of an appropriation of the full amount asked, who will be most earnest in their efforts to get the bill passed without a deduction of one cent.
As yet no definite reason has been assigned for the suicide of Ed. K. Brown. It was certainly not a lack of friends, because Brown was a popular man with a large number of 'Varsity people though this was only his first year. He was not lacking in intelligence and was not burdened with any bad habits. His financial support was all that could be asked and why he should pursue such a course as to end his life is a strange and unexplainable act that is mourned by many.
The suicide of E. K. Brown of the '08 class is one of the sadest incidents that has occurred in connection with the University for a long time. His action was undoubtedly due to an undue morbidness over failure in class work, and is very likely to give a false impression of the University's attitude in such matters. It is on the whole very regretable, and resulted from a failure to see the proper relations of college life to the life of the outer world.
"The fact that the KANSAN of Kansas University in an article pronounced the College of Emporia the University's best friend and thereby slighted the Normal, seems to be worrying some Normal supporters. The pressure was so great on one that he has given veat to his feelings in an article entitled, "A Comment," in the Normal Bulletin. The College is accused of courting K. U.'s., favor for the reason that it is envious of the Normal which (as the writer says) always defeats the College in match games. To say the least the writer's memory is exceedingly short, but probably that is all that can be expected of one who is getting an education "while you wait style," as it were by a sort of "quick lunch" process. Anyone who is acquainted with the history of the two schools knows that College victories are far more numerous than those of the Normal. But the idea of the College being envious of the Normal is as bad as accusing the Normal of being envious of the grade schools. Is a school that prepares men for an A.B.. degree to envy a school whose highest purpose is to turn out nothing but a horde of Kansas school teachers?
A COMMENT ANSWERED.
The writer then proceeds in his comments by getting down on his knees to K. U., as it were, and with the look-at-what we have-done-for-you air, begs some favor from the University. He offers K. S. N., as a manufacturing concern for K. U., and asks some recognition of the fact. The writer says, "Two-thirds of the Normal football team will be playing in K. U's., team within two years," and then asks, "How many C. of E. men are there playing in K. U's., team?" The College is glad and proud to answer with the writer, "None!" Why should they? The College and K. U., are practically doing the
same educational work as far as regular college course is concerned, while the Normal doesn't pretend to advance to the same educational stage as does the State University. It is very natural for a Normal student with his preparatory education to go to K.U. for the purpose of further development, but there is nothing at K.U., except a professional course for a graduate of C. ot E. The reason no College men enter the professional courses at K.U., is because they feel that after completing a college course they can afford to go to some more highly equipped school than the State University to finish their education. These are the reasons why none of the C.of E. men are playing on K U.'s, team, K U., has always treated the College as a sister institution, not as a "benefactor," as the writer desires the Normal to be called. This is the way the College wishes to be treated. The Normal may be the humble servant of K.U., a sort of factory which prepares raw material for further development, but the College of Emporia, by the right already mentioned, can call itself K.U.'s, friend, a sister institution, asking nothing, giving nothing, and in the end producing men who, in intellectual capacity, are equal to those graduated by the University.
By this article the value of the Normal is not depreciated. As a Normal school it is one of the best, if not the best in the country. But to talk of a school whose course is no higher than a good high school, as being a rival of the College, is a joke. The Normal does good and efficient work as far as it goes, but it does not go very far. The College starts about where the Normal stops in the educational world and continues to a place equal to any college in the country. The graduate of the Normal is prepared to teach children, the College student is taught to live with and for his fellow men. The College and Normal are both educational schools, but that is all the farther the comparison goes."-College LaTe
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