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 Fraser Hall, room 16a.
Down Town office, 639 Massachusetts St.
Editor in Chief,
J. W. Kayser.
Business Manager Managing Editor
Earl Campbell. R. L. Douglas.
Asst' Business Manager
C. L. Van Fleet.
Members of the Board
Frank H. Blackmar
H. W. Davis
Howard Farnsworth
Herbert P. Green
Wallace F. Hovey
Frank L. Guy.
Wess M. Arnold
W. G. McCarty
Alma Manley
Subscription price, One Dollar per year,
strictly 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 5 cents per line.
Address all business communications to Earl Campbell, 304 W. Adams.
Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress March 3, 1879.
If you don't like the way the KANSAN is run don't be afraid to say so to the editor or members of the staff. We are trying to run a paper to please the student body as a whole, and any criticism or suggestion from anyone will be received with gratitude.
The campus of the University of Kansas now comprises nearly 160 acres. You should go in the Chancellor's office and see how the landscape artist has planned that the University will look fifty years from now. We are more optimistic in that regard now than Chancellor Marvin was twenty years ago when he told Dr. Snow, who had said "Chancellor we must be making arrangements for new building;" "Doctor, you nor I will never see any more buildings on this campus."
C. L. Edson, a former editor of the University paper, and the greatest poetic genius that ever came from Oread's halls had the following poem in the Sunday edition of the Star.
THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.
In the furrows the Ages have turned
Have the seeds of the harvest been sown,
From the heart of the world where they burned,
Their fruitage is springing full blown.
Let the sickles of sorrow outweep
Till in windrows lies fallen each head.
Quick, Sower! Your grain you must reap,
Ere it reaps you, instead!
From the fields there is echoed a cry,
And trembles the world with a moan.
See, Reaper; the whirlwind is nigh!
Humanity cries for its own.
The Hills of the Past, do they shake?
Hear the hoarse-throated thunders outchime!
Lo! the glow of the lava awake
In the crater of time!
Its light, how it reddens the sky!
O, Tyranny, tremble and quake!
The night of your dreams has gone by.
Wake, Russia, awake!
For, lapped in the white-tongued flame.
Where the thunders unceasing out-roll,
The angels of Hate and of Shame Are forging a nation its soul.
From the stench of the blood and the ooze
Up-springing the lilies appear,
And wet with men's tears as with dews
In her majesty Freedom draws near!
C. L. EDSON
General Funston is in town today and a Funston anecdote is in order. It is told that when Fred and his older brother were on the farm down in Allen County that one day the father went to town and left the boys a certain amount of corn to plow. Each was to plow a part, but when the older brother got his share done Fred was not willing to come out of the shade to take his turn. A clod throwing and wrestling match was the result, during which the horse with the plow attached wandered off across the field. In the meantime Farmer Funston was bringing home an uncle who had just come in from the east. As they climbed the hill overlooking the field where the boys were plowing the fond father was dilating on what good boys he had and how much work they could do, but he had hardly uttered it when he looked down the hill and saw the old gray horse aimlessly eating corn and down below his two model sons engaged in a heavy clod throwing battle.
GLIFANED.
The student's Herald, of Manhattan, and the Baker Orange both state that there was not quite so much occasion for a splurge over the statement made by the Governor that a diploma from Washburn was better than a deed to a Shawnee county farm. The Governor has made the same statement at both of these instiiutions. It might be curious to find out at what other colleges he has made the same remark.—K. U. says ditto.
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Reporter—Any news today?
There will be a duet recital given by Mrs. Blanche Lyons and Mr. Hubach, April 11.
All kinds of paper cut to any size at Boyles', 639 Mass., St.
Dean—Did you hear of those two freshman they had up before the disciplinary committee yesterday?
Reporter—What were they u- tor?
Dean—For tearing down the hill.
And the Dean has been chuckling ever since.
Professor Samuel Williston, professor of paleontology of the University of Chicago, who used to teach at K. U., declares that the human race will be extinct on the earth in the course of a few million years and that it will be dominated by birds. We are willing to accept his theory if he will tell us whether or not crowds will inhabit the black belt, Birds of Paradise will live in New York and Jay Haws will populate Kansas.
The Engineers issued the M. S. U. Independent last week, printed it in green ink and gave the following notice a conspicuous place. "Whereas, St. Patrick is known to have been an engineer, and whereas the 17th of March has by long custom been set apart as a day in his honor, therefore, be it resolved that we, the students of the Engineering department of the University of Missouri, refrain from our usual labors on that day. That we celebrate in the name of St. Patrick and wear his favorite color. That this order go into effect from this day forth through all time. That any engineer violating this order be 'chi-chied.'"
The reports from Kansas City indicate that Kansas mostly "also started" last Friday night.
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Information as to rates, train service, etc.
address
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J. C. LOVRIEN,
ASSISTANT GENERAL PASSEYGER ABSENT.
KANSAS CITY, MO.
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889 Mass. St.
Phone 52.
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