THE KANSAN.
Kansas.
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, 639 Massachusetts St.
Editor in Chief,
Wirt G. McCarty.
Business Manager Managing Editor
Earl Campbell. Jesse W. Kayser
Asst't 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.
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Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 194, Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress March 3, 1879.
If some people who are fond of criticising the work and efforts of others had the same work and half the responsibilities they would go and jump in the Kaw.
Have you heard the report regarding the faculty committee which it is alleged was chosen to inquire into the reason for so many failures under a certain instructor.
There is one man who holds a responsible office in this institution that is so "sour" and sulky and answers so ungentlemanly at times that there is talk of a petition to have him removed.
Rumors of investigating committees seem to be filling the air. There is one now to be formed, so debaters allege, to reveal the true facts of the case and flud the reasons why Nebraska discontinued debating relations with Kansas.
The KANSAN will begin next Sunday and run a "Lion's Mouth" column on Sundays. It will be devoted to "kicks" and all criticisms, and if you have any to make hand them to the editor-in-chief or mail them No one will know the writer.
You can usually tell when one school is jealous of another. It is especially evident in some college papers. This is true of one or two KANSAN exchanges that bear the "ear marks" on all sides of "Jealously for the University of Kansas."
The KANSAN has so far been unable to find the meanest girl in the University. One is promised for next Sunday. Prospects are that there is only one at all mean, therefore she must be the meanest. However it is probable that some will be found in a very short time. The meanest man in the University it seems is the one that knows so little about railroad passes and a few other varieties.
The man who wrote the poem
About the white and driven snow
Never had to cross Tennessee
With the mercury ten below.
Much credit is due the University professors who so ably defended the students in the recent trial. Credit for an unlimited amount of hard work is especially due Prof. Higgins who worked unceasingly days and parts of many nights preparing evidence and shaping his case so as to clear the three students, not because there was a sum of money as a reward but Prof. Higgins is an old Kansas student himself and is well aware of the trials and persecutions that the average classman of this institution has to undergo.
The new Topka Conference rules are all most satisfactory to the University, with the single exception that they were not made stringent enough. Kansas will play under more strict rules anyhow than any other college team in the state and today there is less doubt about the absolute purity of the University's athletics than about the purity of athletics of any college in Kansas that even aspires to be in the University's class. The Chicago Conference rules will be lived up to here and even a color of professionalism will not be tolerated. This is, and has been, for several years, the verdict of those in charge.
UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS RISING.
J. L. Herrington, of the class of '05, who has been managing engineer for Hunt and Co. in New York city for the past four years has accepted a position as chief engineer of the Montreal Locomotive and Machine Co. of Montreal, Canada. Mr. Herrington has been connected with important engineering concerns in Kansas City, Pittsburg, Pa., and New York since his graduation from the University.
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PHELLOW IN OUR PHOLD.
And Pooler is his name.
Plucky, phull of phire and philect,
He is noon the phield.
There is a phellow in our phold,
Of quite phenomenal phane.
His shootball pheats are often told—
And Reefer is his name.
And when "they" think they have us beat,
Their phate is really psealed.
He never breaks his training Nor phailis in any way,
Nor phails in any way,
To withhold the pleasure of Kernu
To "phix" the phoes of Kansas. He wears a well earned K.
And when his course is phinished
His pheats we'll ne'er phorget,
We can't express our gratitude,
can express our gratitude,
Nor cancel all our debt.
And now they've made him captain
I tell you what's a phace!
In a phew short years, we'll surely wish
We had our quarter back.
— M. D. H.
U. SOLDIER PROMOTED.
Lieutenant Adna Clark of the class of 1900, who is now stationed at Ft. Flager, Washington, has been ordered to report to the government training station in Virginia to take a course in artillery tactics. The order has the effect of a promotion.
Lieutenant Clark intends to do some work in the summer school as a preparation for the course. He enlisted in the Kansas volunteers just before graduation and served for some time in the Philippines.
A DELIGHTFUL COMEDY.
Frank Bacon has struck the key note for all lovers of amusement. Last year he started out with his play, "The Hills of California," while he did not make a great deal of money he made a reputation for himself and play that is causing him to fill the theatres everywhere he goes. It will be difficult to point to a more successful play than "The Hills of California." The reason for this is simple: Mr. Bacon has a quaint personality that is going to place him where he belongs—in the tront rank of America's greatest actors.
There will be seen chickens that get, cows and horses. in tact everything that will be seen on a well managed farm will be found in "The Hills of California" which will be played at the Bowersock opera house on Tuesday, February 21.
"Way Dow East" Lottie Blair Parker's idyllic play of New England farm life comes to the Bowersock Opera house on Monday, February 20th. It appeals not to a limited class, but to everybody with a spark of sympathy, a liking for an interesting story and a relish for good wholesome fun. There are many reasons for its popularity, its pathetic theme, its genial humor, its charming pictures of country life, its quaint characters and striking realism; but its more potent element undoubtedly in the strong humane interest that permeates every scene. To this, all classes and creeds must yield their sympatty. Miss Parker's work so admirably produced under the skillful direction of Mr. Joseph Grismer, will be interpreted by a cast that have been especially selected for their different characters. Seats now on sale at Woodward's Drug store.
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