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. 630 Massachusetts St
Wirt G. McCarty, - Managing Editor
N. P. Sherwood, - Circulation Mgr.
Earl Campbell, - Business Manager
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This week is a long drawn out hour of suffering to most students and many wonder if it is real joy to the "profs."
Indications are that the new plans for the KANSAN will run smoothly. Here's hoping that all's lovely.
We wonder if it takes much scratching and clawing over in Missouri to get a Tiger appropriation granted from the legislature.
Colder weather may make the blood thin but the past week has made several "soles" thin to go with 'varsity student's thin blood.
One more week and the old term is over. It is certain that time waits for no one and the blue pencil factories still continue to do business.
The question is—Are there more limbs bruised and bones broken climbing the hill in the winter than there are hearts "——" in the balmy days of spring?
The University of Kansas has and intends to retain the most friendly feelings towards all other institutions in the state. This includes the Baldwin and Topeka colleges.
There is still room for workers on the KANSAN and if there is any one that wants to prove that he or she is willing to work, now is the time to get in on the ground floor before the term is over.
At the meeting of the stockholders of the old WEEKLY, now KANSAN, to be held next Friday, at noon, any questions as regards the new plan will be gladly answered and all information desired will be given.
There is an old story going the rounds that there was never an editor in the history of the University that was not glad when his term on the Weekly was over. This year it has been a semi-weekly.
No one will deny that there could be room for improvement in the basket ball team, but whose fault is it? The men now playing are all good players and only lack a little training. On the other hand there are many other larger men and experienced
players in the University that should get out and make the team.
The University of Missouri asks the Tiger legislature for an appropriation of $878,933. What would the august Kansas fathers think down at Topeka with a bill like that before the house and none of Carrie Nation's weapons around with which to cut it down all at once.
After a heavy snow it is almost impossible for a student to climb the hill to the University without getting a bad fall. Only last week a student fell on the side-walk and cut his knee cap so badly that he was confined to his room for several days. Even when there is no snow the side-walks are so slippery that it is hard work for one to even stand up on the incline.
There is an ordinance compelling property owners to clean their side-walks but it does not seem to be strictly enforced. Thus a person ascending the hill is apt to fall and receive serious injury owing to the negligence of property owners. The University should see that the walks are cleaned or that ashes are sprinkled on the snow so that the people who have to go up the hill two and three times a day are certain they can get up without falling and fracturing any bones.
**MORE SOUR GRAPES.**
The Normal and the College of Emporia, are engaged in a heated editorial controversy as to who is K. U's., friend. With this established there would still remain the question as to which would be better off.-Baker Orange.
"The above is another echo of College Normal discussion which was started by a short article in the K. U. KANSAN. The affair has progressed thus: The KANSAN published an article commenting on the kindly feeling existing between K. U., and C. of E. The College Life quoted it as a thing of interest to the students of C. of E. The Normal Bulletin felt slighted and drew the Normal into the discussion by some comments unfavorable to the College. This comment was answered editorially in the College Life and the trouble stopped for a time. Now the Baker Orange comes out with its comment and the Washburn Review expresses its opinion by publishing the quotation from the Orange.
Baker was never known to let an opportunity slip to say say something mean about K. U. She has taken this chance to cast a stone at her old rival but K. U, doesn't feel bad at all. The old English proverb well says, "Stones and sticks are flung only at fruit-bearing trees." College Life.
NEW BUILDINGS A NECESSITY.
Doubtless a great cry of "extravagance" went up from a part of the population of Kansas when it read the list of appropriations necessary for the University, prepared by Chancellor Strong. Many people may think that $300,000 is an enormous sum to grant to a
school. These people should pay a visit to the University, and they would be convinced that the accommodations are totally inadequate to our absolute needs.
EXAMINATION SIGNS.
Instructors, too, stay up late at night preparing lists of puzzling questions to strike terror to the heart of the innocent undergraduate. Dark hints in the class room telling of the coming conflict between teacher and student in which will be decided whether or not the lordlady will have to put out her "room for rent" sign in a few days.
Twice a year, just after New Year's and immediately before Commencement, the signs of coming examinations are apparent. Many students are forced to accept positions, varying from cashier in "papa's bank" to that of cashing (overcoat) checks in a hotel, on account of certain warnings received from their instructors in regard to the precarious condition of their work. Others who have not as yet received such warnings, but who have uneasy feelings in their hearts, lock themselves in their rooms, after putting "busy day" signs on their doors, and are seen only when they are dashing to or from their classes.
One comes shivering home at 3 o'clock in the morning from an annual Spring party or from a night's coasting, thinking of neglected studies and coming "quizes," his way is illumed by lights gleaming o'er the snow, which comes from numerous upstairs rooms, showing that others, besides himself, will pass with glorious records.
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