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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
The University DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Assn. National Election Board. Member of the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Ad-
New York City, 420 Madison Ave.,
Editor-in-Chief ... Clarke Thomas
Managing Editor ... William T. Smith
Asst. Man. Editor ... Marian Minor
Asst. Man. Editor ... John Finch
Sports Editor ... Joel Right
Society Editor ... Alan d. Stewart
Society Editor ... Marjorie Burtschen
Picture Editor ... Wallace Abbey
Wire Editor ... Charles Hayes
Business Manager ... Kenneth White
Advertising Mgr. ... Elizabeth Brown
Bacon Adv. Mgr. ... Bettie Bacon
National Adv. Mgr. ... Ruell Reddoch
Circulation Mgr. ... Martt Morriss
Keeping the Score
Did you ever attend a basketball game where there was no score board? Remember what a hard time you had keeping track of just what the score was and just who was ahead?
Maybe you as a new student have been "sweating out" orientation week? Perhaps you've also taken part in rush week. Without a scoreboard, you are probably really wondering just what the score is.
Where does one find out how to get into organizations on the campus? What about the dance this Saturday night? Just what is the procedure of registration and enrollment and getting started in school? Where do you learn the score?
The Daily Kansan is your scoreboard. It furnishes you and all its student readers with the answers to these questions and the countless others that will come up this school year.
This issue of the Daily Kansan gives you information on subjects that are uppermost in your mind this week end. For example, it tells you how to get in the various organizations which are making up their rosters now.
The Daily Kansan will give you news of campus affairs throughout the year. You will know the score about what's going on at the University from its columns. With its United Press leased press wire, the Daily Kansan brings news of the nation and of the world in a quick, easy-to-read form.
Perhaps most important of all is that the Daily Kansan offers you a chance to voice your opinions, and promote these into action on important student issues. We act as your sounding board of opinion.
We of the Daily Kansan welcome you as new students to the University.
We believe that we can help you during the years you are here by being your "scoreboard." It is our hope that the material you read in our columns will aid you in a happy and worthwhile college career.
Edgar Guest has written, "It takes a heap of living to make a home." These days it takes a lot of looking to find a home.
A fraternity man was overheard to say, "As far as I can see, this whole rush week pledging business could just as well be handled by lottery."
Public Postcard
Dear Committee Members,
Orientation Week Committees, Campus
To all of you who have worked so hard planning a profitable and interesting orientation week, we want to extend thanks. Remembering only too well the week we went through that experience, we want to let you know how much all your efforts are appreciated.
Yours truly University Daily Kansan
How to Make Friends
Do you want to widen your circle of friends here at the University? How about a chance to participate in worthwhile activities? Would you like to be with an organization here that has ties with your home and hometown?
The youth groups sponsored by the churches offer you a chance to meet and make friendships with other like-minded students. You are given opportunities to work in worthwhile activities and projects.
The churches of Lawrence have programs for college students which will give you these opportunities. Their capable ministerial and student leadership will help you round out your college life.
Get-acquainted suppers, picnics, and parties as well as lectures, discussions, and forums are offered by these groups. Worship and song services give you a tie with the church you attended at home.
Your church youth group will sponsor an athletic team in the University intramural tournaments. In this and other ways you may get valuable leadership training.
Why not visit the church of your choice Sunday and make working with its student organization a part of your college life?
How It All Started
"Three professors, a lecturer on hygiene, and a janitor."
This was the entire staff of the University on a September day exactly 81 years ago, according to its first catalog. On September 12, 1866, the University of Kansas held its dedication services and began registration and enrollment of new students.
The name of one of the faculty members is known to every University student. F. H. Snow has his name perpetuated in the home of the hall of natural history.
The first building of the University was a 50 feet square, two-story structure on the north brow of Mount Oread. The ten acre tract on which it stood had been set aside 10 years earlier by Amos Lawrence (for whom the town was named) as the site for a state school.
Corbin hall now stands where the first group of 55 enrollees began their collegiate education. Of this student body 49 were from Douglas county alone.
The University was the third state university in the United States to admit women. There were 26 women in the first group of enrollees.
Enrollment and registration on September 12, 1866, must have been as hectic and full of uncertainties as it is today. It was found that a two year college preparatory course had to be hastily arranged. Not one of the 55 new students was qualified to take college work!
Then there was the Independent who said, "This rush week is all Greek to me."
The latest mispronunciation by a new student — "Hooch" auditorium. And in Kansas too!
This is the time of year when colleges begin working their way through students.
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