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THE KANSAN.
The official paper of the University of
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, $93 Massachusetts St.
Editor in Chief,
Wirt G. McCarty.
Business Manager Managing Editor
Earl Campbell. Jesse W. Kayser.
Asst Business Manager
C.L. Van Fleet.
Senior Members of the Board
Mabel Barber
Helen Alder
A.I. Beech
F.A. Gillette
Noble Sherwood
Junior Members of the Board
Frank H. Blackmar
Roy Douglas
Howard Farnsworth
Herbert P. Green
Wallace F. Hovey
Frank L. Guy.
Subscription price, One Dollar per year,
trictly in advance.
All subscription money due at the end
of the year and all advertising accounts
not paid will be subject to sight draft.
Advertising rates: 25 cents per inch per
insertion; locals 10 cents per line.
Address all communications to The Kansas, Mass. St., Lawrence, Kansas.
Application made for entrance as second class mail matter.
If those pupils just enrolled wish to keep abreast of the times they should start right and subscribe to The KANSAN.
The KANSAN is in need of financial support just now more than anything else. If you are not a subscriber here is a good cause that you can help along.
There are a few students in the University who go to chapel for chapel talks only. These talks are not from the rostrum though and are not enjoyed by only the two, or possibly three, who do the talking. It is gross discounty to a speaker or presiding officer at any meeting, in chapel or anywhere else, to continually whisper and converse in the audience. This is not directed to the Freshmen alone.
Numerous college papers published special football editions. It seems that special editions are becoming a sort of fad and each college, and high school, is trying to out-do the other with a special edition of the paper. The present editors and business manager threaten to jump in the Kaw if any one ever mentions special edition again.
On the merit system the Freshmen doing work on the KANSAN should be more cordially welcomed into the innermost realms of the KANSAN courts. The Freshmen are the ones who have done the work this year when all others refused and it is the opinion of many of the present board members that the Freshmen should hold the more responsible positions if meritorious work is to be estimated in the new machine.
There is one professor, rather so-called, on the hill who has a horrible reputation for "flunking" students." The KANSAN is thinking of running a cartoon of this one man, but we will have to take some more nerve tonic just now.
The meanest man in the University has been found. He goes down into the girl's lunch rooms and helps himself to the delicious boxes of eatables there. Sometimes his conscious hurts him or he has had a late breakfast for he only takes an orange or a banana or probably a choice piece of pumpkin pie. At other times he has no such qualms because he eats everything in sight and searches the corners for more as he did last Friday when four lunches were devoured entirely. The snow probably gave him an appetite.
If the Athenian Senate does the things which it has set out to do and lives up to the principles it has embodied in its constitution it will do an inestimable good in the University. It should succeed for it has in its membership some of the brainiest men from the College and the Law school. Such an organization has long been needd by law students. They have no literary society, worthy of the name, and although the new organization is not restricted to any school it will draw mostly from the Law school because Law students are more at home in that kind of work than most students.
The KANSAN has been informed that all chaperons in Lawrence who are not dead have gone on a strike. Breathless news for some girls who would not stick their foot in the snow without a chaperon to see that the little girl didn't fall in and never get out.
At Michigan the fad of putting University of Michigan labels on their suit cases and trunks is the latest and most engrossing of all fads at that institution. The Michigan Daily has it figured out about right when it says these labels are good advertisements for a school just as pins and other letters are.
This is the time of the year when the liverymen wear a smile that can be seen for many blocks away.
It is strange how some colleges and high schools have girl's basket ball teams and others have ladie's basketball teams. Judging from one or two exchanges there are some lady veterans of two or three wars in certain schools on the basket ball team
If all gas companies in Kansas charge like the Lawrence Gas Co., we would say tor Heaven's sake bring on the Standard.
Some of the girls in the University advocate a basket ball team that can play and have exhibition games that the men are allowed to attend. The press is not so unjust as to accuse the girls of carelessness in modesty if they play and there are few influential men or women in the state who would criticise the University girls for their healthful indulgence in the great sport. The girls say that other schools over the state have teams and play exhibition games and then ask why it would be worse at the University.
There is a regrettable lack of departmental news that reaches the editor's desk. The KANSAN wants all the news of all departments and there are reporters whose duties include every department in the University. Of course news will be overlooked at times and if any one in any department ever has any news the KANSAN will be glad to get the same and publish it in the next issue. The only request is that the news be "boiled down." Personals are also good at any time in the different schools and The KANSAN will be a happy recipient of all department news.
There is a growing tendency of many in the University to agitate the resumption of friendly athletic relations with the University of Nebraska. This would undoubtedly be a very plausible step on the part of the athletic board and there is little doubt that Nebraska would accept a good and reasonable proposition from Kansas. Nebraska needs large gate receipts like a game with Kansas at Kansas City would undoubtedly mean and from reports eminating from the Lincoln college there should be more consideration of this subject by those having the matter in charge. The most expedient course for the emination of difficulties between Kansas and Nebraska seems to have the two colleges agree upon an abitter who shall settle all difficulties. An arbitration board has also been suggested.
Dr. Canfield was the man who used to stir up the members of the legislature and the politicians generally by his ideas of the tariff question. It used to be declared by each legislature that unless Dr. Canfield resigned or quit promulgating his Free Trade ideas that no appropriations would be forthcoming. In those days a man's politics was of more importance in Kansas, than his religion.
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The Time Limit Set.
Thousands of dollars worth of high grade Merchandise to be sold this week.
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Clothing. Hats Shoes. Furnishing Goods.
Saturday the last day of the Big Sale
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SOME ITEMS ABOUT THE BASKET BALL TRIP.
The total number of points scored by the Basket Ball team on its recent trip North was 217 against 218 for its opponents. They lost five games and won two.
The first five games played were very clean but some roughness entered into the other two. All the boys report that they had a good time even though the thermometer registered thirty degrees below zero at some places.
William Miller was the star of the team in all the games. Although only five feet six, this little center outjumped his opponent in every play except in the first game. At Ottumwa his opponent was six feet five. The crowd laughed when they shook hands at the beginning of the first half, but the laugh was the other way when he jumped above the other man and sent the ball toward K. U's., goal.
Home Bakery and Candy Kitchn. Everything choice.
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AND THE SOUTHEAST, AND TO Kansas, Oklahoma Indian Territory Texas AND THE SOUTHWEST.
Reached most conveniently by this Route.
Round Trip Homeseekers' Tickets at rate of ONE FARE plus $2, on sale first and third Tuesday of each month.
The Famous Health and Pleasure Resorts,
EUREKA SPRINGS
AND HOT SPRINGS,
ARKANSAS,
Reached most conveniently by this Route
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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AGENT,
KANSAS CITY, MO.
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Capital $100,000
Surplus $20,000
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C.H. Tucker, Cashier.
W.E. Hazen, Asst. Cashier