THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL.I. No.33
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FEBRUARY 4, 1905.
K. U. REPRESENTED.
Many Graduates of Our Law School Hold Important Positions.
The Kansas State Bar Association met in Topeka last Wednesday. The K. U. law school was well represented both by its alumni and by its undergraduates. The election of officers took place immediately after the banquet. The following K. U. men were elected officers of the association for the ensuing year; C. W. Smith, '76, president; L H. Perkins, '80, vice-president.
Each year the members of the Senior class of the Law School hold a contest. The judges are chosen from men outside the University. The best man is chosen to read a paper before the Bar Association. This year James A. Brady won in the contest and his paper before the Association was on "Suicide and the Law." F. H. Wood, a Senior Law, also read a paper on the "Aben Land Law in Kansas." Dean Green said to a KANSAN reporter: "There was a large number of old University men at the Association. Many of them hold good positions. Several are county attorneys for their respective counties, many are probate judges and a number of them are in the legislature."
The following alumni are in the legislature. E. P. Rochester, '00, J. W. Holdren, '98, E. K. Robinette, '97, and C. D. Dale, '00. These last two are from Kansas City, Kansas, W. S. Kretsinger, '98, is secretary of the senate Clyde Alphin,' 02, is reading clerk in the senate George Hayden, '98, is a senator
ORATORY.
A mass meeting of students will be held Monday in Chapel, at 12:15, to discuss the feasibility of trying to secure the final contest of the National Oratorical League in this city. Twelve Universities—Miami University, Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, South Dakota, Montana, Utah, Washington and Kansas State Universities—are at present in this league. Colorado University is anxious to secure the final contest and is willing to offer a good bonus in order to bring it to that state. Kansas is the most centrally located and should have the final contest. The only difficulty in the way at present is the securing of a sufficient guarantee to insure the payment of expenses.
The number of students taking English Literature this term is unusually large, so that an extra morning session has been organized.
Poof, A. S. Olin has begun a new class in his department, known as secondary education in America.
AN ENGLISHMAN'S VIEW OF AMERICA.
Eustace Carey, a member of the Society of Chemical Industry, who recently visited the United States, with that society, writes his impressions of this country in a recent article. It is well to see sometimes what others think of us. He says:
"In fact, I may say here that if there is one thing more than another in which the Americans appear to be interested, it is education. Their Universities are numerous. Their professors are strongly alive to modern requirements and thoroughly up-to-date in their methods—in fact, more than one University is attracting students from Europe and from all parts of the civilized world. I don't mean to affirm that education is all that the American citizen cares for; for it goes without saying that he has a great appreciation of the almighty dollar, but the accumulation of a pile does not satisfy even their millionaires, who love their country, and labor almost night and day to develop its resources, and are keenly alive to educational requirements, and give like princes to educational establishments, in order that the young men and young women may be well equipped for the struggle of life.
This feeling is not only that of the well-to-do, but it is shared by the working people, who are eager to take advantage of any schools within their reach, and they have one immense advantage over the majority of the people in this country—that if poor they are not ashamed to be poor, they are not ashamed to take an opportunity of earning their living and improving their position at occupations which many of our young students would despise. In this connection, I may mention the case of a young man with whom I came in contact at the St. Louis Exposition. He was a Canadian, and during his summer vacation he presided over a cigar stall, selling cigars for a living, with the expectation of putting a little money by to help him in his university career in winter. This kind of thing has been done in Scotland we know, but one does not see many such cases in England.
Chancellor Strong says that the bill which was recently introduced into the Legislature by Representative Schermerhorn, of Cherokee County, which provides for the establishment of a School of Mines at Galena to be a branch of the State University, and appropriates $20,000 to maintain it for two years, is not a University bill and that the University authorities have no interest in it.
NOT A UNIVERSITY BILL.
Subject for Essays to be announced Next Week.
BRYAN PRIZE.
Professors Bartow and Sayre went to Kansas City this morning.
The subject for essays in competition for the Bryan prize will be given out sometime next week. It is probable that the subject will be the question of the "Open Shop." This is the same subject that Kansas debates with Missouri and this will doubtless give interest to the debate, for if a competitor does not make the debating team, he may yet try for the prize.
Hon. W J. Bryan gave $250 in trust to the regents of the University. The interest from this was to be given to the student of the University presenting the best theme on some principle of our government. Last year the amount was not awarded, but held in reserve to be joined with this year's interest in order to make the prize larger. It amounts to something like $30 at present
FRIDAY'S CHAPEL.
5 Cents per copy.
Alfred C. Millican, inter-collegiate secretary of the Prohibition Society spoke in Chapel Friday morning. He said that this country has several problems to deal with, such as corruption of the officials who make and enforce the laws, and also international complications; but that the one which most affects the well being of the country at large and its future progress is not one of society, but an individual question. When the liquor problem is solved many others will take care of themselves.
Kansas, he says, has set an example for other states to follow. She has put her foot down and has furnished a striking example of the way to deal with this question. But the result cannot be brought about in a day, it must be step by step. The people cannot make laws which are not enforced by those who are in power because they are not in sympathy with the movement but the people should elect to those places only officials who will do their duty and see that corruption does not exist.
M. S. U. INVESTIGATION.
A committee from the Missouri legislature has been down to Columbia this week investigating some supposed irregularities in the conduct of the girls dormitory. This dormitory was established in order to cut down the expenses of girls attending the University but it has not accomplished its purpose. The investigation has brought out the fact that board in the dormitory cost about $5.00 a week, which is higher than in some of the private families.
Herbert P. Green, 108, made a business trip to Kansas City Friday evening.
THE PREVENTION OF PAUPERISM AND CRIME.
Prof. F. W. Blackmar lectured on "The Prevention of Pauperism and Crime," to the students in Economics Thursday afternoon. The lecture was in substance practically the same that Professor Blackmar gave before the State Board of Charities in Topeka not long ago.
The professor is strongly in favor of the "Juvenile Court" and the non-jailing theory for youthful offenders. Only in extreme cases should a boy under sixteen years be sent to jail with hardened criminals.
in speaking of pauperism, Professor Blackmar commented on the fact that in ordinary conditions there are ten million people in the United States who are in object poverty. "I am not a socialist or an anarchist," said he, "but it appears to me that this condition is sufficient cause for both socialism and anarchism. Among the things which I would urge as remedies are: forcing industry to pay sufficient wage to buy a comfortable living; and the prevention of the importation of pauper laborers into this country."
KANSAS WINS TWO.
Kansas Defeats Oskaloosa Twice but Loses to Des Moines.
The Kansas University basketball team defeated the Oskaloosa Y. M. C. A. team in two games by scores of 37 to 14 and 56 to 21. The University team had the better team work and excelled especially in passing the ball. These games were played on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
On Tuesday evening the University team played the Des Moines Y. M. C. A. team but were defeated by a score of 37 to 19. The Des Moines players were rough and our boys are considerably bruised as a result. William Miller the little center is playing an especially fine game for the 'varsity in every game thus far and Milton Miller, his brother has only had six goals made off from him during his trip. The thermometer stood at 25 degrees below zero at Des Moines so the boys are certainly getting a touch of cold weather. Friday night they played the Ottumwa Y. M. C. A. but the result has not yet been learned. The last game of the trip will be played Saturday evening against the Fairfield National guard team and the team will return home on the noon train Sunday.
George Willis, of last year's class, came in from the southern part of the state Friday night. He will begin work in the University Monday and will have the tutorship of our class in Latin.
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