THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL.I. NO.29.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, JANUARY 21, 1905.
TRACK TEAM AT WORK.
Extensive Preparations to Defeat Missouri at Kansas City.
Butler is to have charge of the squad of pole-vaulters and men trying for the broad jump. Morrow has the high jump and hurdles.
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The fourteen men who expect to try for the sprints have met several times recently in the boxing room and made arrangements for indoor training They will meet every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4:30 in the Gymnasium. A starting rack will be erected and every man will be in condition to run when the season opens.
A track team for the Spring term has been organized. At a meeting last week, the best men of last year's team were chosen as leaders to train new men. Bailey, the Captain o the track team will train the long distance runners and Finch will instruct sprinters. Driscoll will have charge of the middle distance runners.
Ackarman, the trainer of the men who wish to handle the weights, will have to start at once in preliminary work to get in good condition early.
Every man will do his best to win from Missouri at the Kansas City indoor meet, March 17.
VALENTINE VS. HARGER,
Anyone who has heard Mr. Valentine lecture cannot but notice the contrast of the two men. One editor would be taken by one unacquainted with him to be a merchant, banker, a business man rather than an editor; while the other might be judged to be a college processor, rather literary and scholarly in his manner. On said to the rising young newspaper men and women: "Watch your style, write good English, make readable, interesting stories, there is always a place for them." The other said: "Be exact in the conduct of the business of your paper, know how much per inch your paper cost; anybody can write who has an ordinary education."
Each of these men is an editor of a small town paper. Both have made a success of the newspaper business financially and otherwise. But the different ideals which they have advocated as in the foregoing may give some hints as to what makes a successful editor, though perhaps after all they come to the same thing ultimately just as with all successful editors.
Clark Jacoby, general clerk of the House of Representatives of Kansas. and Clyde Hossford of Paola, spent Sunday at the Alpha Tau Omega house.
VALENTINE'S ADDRESS.
Another Editor Scores the Journalists.
Hon. Del A. Valentine, editor of the Clay Center Times, lectured on the "Country Newspaper" Thursday, to the class in Journalism. Mr. Valentine is at present Clerk of the State Supreme Court and president of the Kansas Day Club, but gives his chief attention to his Weekly in Clay county.
He said in part: "I was employed in a bank for a number of years and drifted into newspaper work by chance. But the training I got in the bank has been the most valuable part of my education in the newspaper business. The exactness, the application, I learned there has made it possible for me to edit a country weekly with profit. In the twenty-tour years that I have been in the newspaper business, my paper has made more money on the capital invested than any bank in my town-The Country Weekly will pay you if you run it right. I know of no business where as sure profit can be realized on as small capital. But you must pay close attention, study its business side, for it is that part of a newspaper that makes possible the editorial page."
Mr. Valentine spoke farther on the technical equipment necessary in a country newspaper office. He closed by admonishing those present "to become newspaper men and women, not journalists, for the newspaper man hires the journalist, while I never heard of a journalist hiring a newspaper man."
Professor L. E. Sayre gave a short introductory talk on anti-Diptheretic serum, from the pharmacist's view-point. Prof. M. A. Barber delivered a lecture, illustrated by stereoptican views, telling of the various forms of bacteria, and the method of preparing the various anti-toxins from animals inoculated with them. Prof. Barber also described the progress made in bacteriology and anti-toxins, from the time of Pasteur to the present day, and told of the work being done along this line in the Kansas University laboratories.
PHARMICS ENTERTAINED.
The Kansas University Pharmaceutical Society met Wednesday evening in the pharmacy museum. A number of invited guests were present, and the program was one of the most interesting ones that has been given this year.
After the lectures, refreshments were served, and the Pharmics and their guests had a social good time until the electric lights went out and compelled them to adjourn.
PHI PSI'S BIG CONVENTION.
Will Entertain Chapters of Fifth District
Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Kappa Psi is making preparations to entertain the District Convention of the Fifth District of the fraternity, which will meet in Lawrence April 26, 27 and 28
On the evening of the 26th. the active chapter will give a smoker. The annual spring party takes place on the 27th. The convention closes on the night of the 28th with a banquet at the Coates House in Kansas City The chapters of the schools that will be represented in the convention are: the State Universities of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and California, Beloit College and Leland Stanford University.
THE KAPPA PARTY.
The long established reputation of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority as ideal entertainers was sustained in the very pretty party given Saturday night in the new Fraternal Aid hall at which about one hundred and twenty couples were in attendance, including many guests out of town. This was the first sorority party ever given in the new hall and if the others to follow maintain the standard of social pleasure and happiness set by the Kappa Greeks the reputation of Kansas University girls as the best hostesses in the state will ever grow.
Upon entering the large hall guests were greeted by Miss Maude Olender and Harry Hart, Olga Newlin and Dode Henley and Miss Eva Hirst and John Fleishman. Shortly after nine o'clock the grand March started, led by Miss Eva Hirst and John
leishman. A program of twenty-four selections was danced out to the music furnished by Zieler's orchestra of Kansas City.
A delightful course dinner was served in the large salon. Among the out of town guests present were: Miss Mary Gray, Gay Shephard, Maud Proudfit, Mamie Maher and Messrs Frank McKnight, Ralph Nelson, Fred Seddon, and Ray Clifford, of Kansas City; Miss Margaret Going and Miss Charlotte Nelson, Topeka; Miss Marie Williams, Newton; and Miss Grace King, of Holton.
Miss Mamie Maher returned to her home in Kansas City today, after a visit with friends here. She was accompanied by Miss Mary Bitting.
The Track Team has lost a valuable man since the holidays. G.A.McGrath, of Carbondale, who made five feet, six inches on the high jump went home last week.
NEW DEBATING COUNGIL.
Independents and Frat Men in Together.
This morning in Physics building the Athenian Senate was organized by 21 men of the University who are interested in placing the debating and oratorical interests of the University on a higher standard and firmer basis. J.A.Hoel,who represented Kansas at the National Oratorical contest last summer in St.Louis, is the one person to whom all the credit for the new organization belongs.
The new senate plans to have regular meetings and to have all debating and oratorical interests of the University converge in such a manner that the new society will be by far the strongest literary club in the entire college. Social affairs, including dances and dinners will also be given.
The charter members are: Jesse A. Hoel, C. O. Pingry, George Benson, R. C. McCormick, John A. Johnson, J. R. Givens, J. Winter, Blood, Albert Beach, W. J. Lucky, Paul Wall, D. J. Sheedy, Manley Michaelson, N. P. Sherwood, P. A. Montgomery, Wirt McCarty, Carl Ackarman, W.W. Parker, Jim Woodford, Chas. Ise, E.C. Brookins and Hal R. Lebricht.
NEW KIND OF CLUB.
Students Organize Tonight.—Eleven Hash Houses.
The socialist tendency in the University is shown by the organization of a co-operative boarding club which consists of forty members.
Last term twenty men organized a small club at 1214 Kentucky street. They elected W.B. Tribble, a senior pharmacic, as president, and D. Nichol, an engineer, as steward After several weeks of experimenting they succeeded in arranging a bill of fare similar to that of the trainingtable, which satisfied everybody and cost each member only $2.00 per week.
This term two cooks were employed and the membership increased to forty. The success of the venture is best shown by the fact that when twenty new members were wanted, many more than that number presented themselves for membership during the first day after the club voted to increase its numbers. The club will move to new quarters as soon as suitable rooms can be had.
STOCKHOLDERS' NOTICE.
There will be a meeting of the KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY next Friday, in enapel, at 12:15, to adopt the new KANSAN plans.