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, 632 Massachusetts St.
Editor in Chief,
Wirt G. McCarty.
Business Manager Managing Editor
Earl Campbell. Jesse W. Kayser
Asat' Business Manager
C. L. Van Fleet.
Senior Members of the Board
Mabel Barber
Heten 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; locates 10 cents per line.
Address all communications to The Kansas, 639 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kansas.
Application made for entrance as second class mail matter.
There is still room for some more fifty cents pieces that will entitle the payer to the KANSAN until June.
If the appropriations pass a jollification meeting would be in order. Who's going to start the ball rolling?
Since the snow, checks from home fairly melt, though the snow is deeper than ever. Get in a sleigh frequent enough these days and any sized check will melt.
Last year one local society had one of its own members write up a social function for a Kansas City paper when the reporter wouldn't. The reporter is wondering now if this crowd will do the same thing this year.
In a report in the Kansas City Star Wednesday from Topeka it was stated that the bill for the University appropriations was generally looked upon with favor. This is good news to all 'Varsity students and faculty members because they fully realize the urgent needs of the University.
The arrangements which have just been made for co-operating with Eastern Universities in field work in Geology will give Kansas an added prestige in those institutions. The simple fact of associating with them will bring about an additional respect for our University. The arrangement may eventually be productive of great good to Kansas.
The indoor meet this year in Convention Hall is deserving of unlimited support from the entire University. Last year the meet was successful in every detail and will long be remembered as an event nearly on a par with the Thanksgiving game. The enthusiasm was equally as great and the scenes in the balconies at times reminded one of the stories of ancient Rome in the days of chariot
races. A special excursion will be run this year and a rate of a dollar for the round trip will be given. Kansas never had better prospeets for a winning team on the track and if all of the good men in the University that are capable of making the team come out and practice Missouri will meet another Thanksgiving defeat March 17th.
In writing KANSAN news please use young ladies, young women, and girls discriminately. Don't say ladies when you mean women. Don't use Mr. before the average student's name because it will only be marked out; also don't say city in speaking of a town the size of this.
"It seems that where one college is strong in the government of a school another is weak Washburn has a Dramatic Club that gives theatrical performances, but draws the line on cider at social functions. Baker considers cider harmless but thinks the use of a curtain on the chape rostrum would destroy its sanity"—Baker Orange.
--cause they were not girl secrets. With the summing up of the whole matter there seems to be several mean fellows in the University of Kansas and they all came in through the path from McCook field or by some concealed entrance we are sure. It has been suggested that the KANSAN find out the meanest girl in college and if no more mean men are found a search will be started, although the KANSAN really believes there is not one single mean girl in the entire University.
What part of a young man's life and work in college does him the most good in his career afterward? "A large part of the value of a college education comes from the social intercourse of the students, the reinforcement, the buttressing of character by association," wrote the editor of a great magazine not long ago. Half the speakers who visit our chapel exercise lay great stress on almost the same thing, viewed from the other side—viz: college spirit and college tradition, which are resultant phenomena of student's intercourse one with another. What it all amounts to is this: It is the ability to understand and deal with other people more than the assortment of facts in a man's head that will make him a success in the world.
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There is a demand in the University of Kansas for a good monthly magazine, published by students and featured with student events and student manuscript. Nearly every large college and University in the United States has a monthly 'mag' and oftentimes the "mag" is of more interest and more widely read than the more frequently published newspaper. A magazine here, with some good cuts, several good feature stories each month, some original Kansas University rhyme, and verse bearing the name of poetry, with discreet editorials, would undoubtedly be a success It would, of course, be all dependent upon those in charge and the failure or success would entirely rest upon their efforts and abilities. A clever monthly publication here can be an awakening in the University journalistic world and there is much credit awaiting the men or women who start and successfully conduct the same.
It is a question with the fraternity men that weighs heavily apparently, on some Greek letter organizations whether or not they shall take up debating for the Ewing Herbert cup. About four fraternities want the debates, about three don't want them, and one is inclined to be a little indifferent. There are two sides to the question. If fraternity men want to help a good cause along, and one that every student and professor knows will easily stand helping, they should push the contest for the silver cup. On the other hand fraternities are called upon most frequently to help out in every cause, especially when financial distress is threatened, and some prominent Greek letter men argue that their societies now have all they wish to bear in the way of responsibilities pertaining to the University. In the face of all arguments it would doubtless be a good thing for every fraternity man and a good thing for the University. It wouldn't be a bad idea either to show some appreciation of Mr. Herbert's generosity.
Since the KANSAN found the meanest man in school several others have loomed up on the horizon of baseness and meanness, and according to the numerous allegations there are several who are the "meanest." One student says that the fellow who "emits saliva and allows the same to alight on the floor" is worse than mean. One professor says the same thing. Another complains that the fellow who trips the girls on the hill this snowy weather is the meanest. Ten students in a body came into the KANSAN office with their hands covered with stain and their brows with sweat, and with hands raised in supplication earnestly begged that the editor try and be convinced that they knew the meanest man in the entire University. Some alleged that they knew the meanest man in school but they told the editors in a personal way and "we" promised not to publish the allegations because they were not girl secrets. With the summing up of the whole matter there seems to be several mean fellows in the University of Kansas and they all came in through the path from McCook field or by some concealed entrance we are sure. It has been suggested that the KANSAN find out the meanest girl in college and if no more mean men are found a search will be started, although the KANSAN really believes there is not one single mean girl in the entire University.
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