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, 393 Massachusetts St.
Editor in Chief,
J. W. Kayser.
Business Manager Managing Edton
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
Minnie Owens
Roy Moore
Roy Roberts
Omer Miles
Alma T. 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.
One of the interesting features of the May Graduate Magazine is an article on the "Oxford Under-graduate." written by E. W. Murray, the Kansas Rhodes scholar at Oxford.
Professor Dunlap says one of the curses of our country is the exhorbitant prices that are charged to hear operas and high class plays. The manager of the senior play started the reform of this evil when he admitted to any part of the house Thursday night for 25 cents.
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As a father to his son, was the talk of the Chancellor to the students Friday. Never was a more sincere, heart to heart talk given in chapel. Fairly and openly he met the problems that need settlement and there was not a sentiment he expressed but the student body echoed back.
Nebraska, with all her faults and short comings, was permitted to take part in the Big Nine track meet soon to be held in Chicago.
It looks very much as if the representatives from Nebraska would be admitted into the Big Nine Conference before another year is past.
One of the proposed amendments to the constitution of the athletic association is to admit undergraduates, who have been awarded K's in any sport, free to all athletic games held on McCook field. This is an amendment that should carry for it is an undoubted fact that our athletes are not given the honor they should receive from the student body. Probably if our athletic management makes those K's on the front of the sweaters a pass into all games that it will be a beginning in the right direction. This proposition was brought before the present board last winter by one of the student members but was never acted upon.
The suggestions on the change of our debating system, made by the Chancellor Friday morning have been thought of for some time by the men interested in that sort of work. We have outgrown the society system. A man should no more be compelled to be a member of a literary society in order to represent the University in debate than that he should be a member of a club football team. We should have a University Debating association that elects the debating council just as we do the athletic board. The council in conjunction with the faculty committee on debating should have absolute control of our interstate debates. This will not in the end injure the literary societies for when the men of the University get interested in debating they will go into the societies for training as they are practically the only place where that can be obtained.
Lawn tennis is a national game. It is the most popular outdoor sport there is, as it furnishes one with exercise neither too excessive nor too moderate. Every large up-to-date educational institution in the United States possesses at least four well made courts for the use of its students, and a large high school can scarcely be found which does not have tennis courts, clubs and tournaments, why cannot we have these things? Hundreds of students in the University love to play, some do, the majority do not, for lack of of courts. Are the tennis men always going to stand back, be disheartened by lack of proper University encouragement, and give all the road to La Crosse, baseball and track? The only way to awaken interest is to start something. Why could we not have a permanent K. U. tennis club, have yearly student tourmanants for the tennis championship of K-
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Let every tennis player come here next year with the idea that something has got to be done and will be done. Do not wait any longer. Inter-collegiate tournaments, victories and trophies will all come later when once we have a permanent tennis student organization.
The present business manager feels as though he has been greatly handicapped this year in keeping up the financial side of the KANSAN. This is due mostly because of the change in the manner of running the paper. Nearly all of the subscription money was paid in last spring at the election, which went out with the old system. The business manager states that there has not been enough money paid in for subscriptions during this school year, to defray the expenses of the printing, alone, of one issue of the paper. There are some few, of course, who have received the paper all year, and still owe for it. Such subscription money should be paid in at once, because it is going to be a very difficult matter for the paper to end the year out of debt because it has no big election upon which to depend. There seems to be a general trend toward a daily, and a great many think the paper as it has been the past year, is not a fit representative for the University. Now the paper is and will be just what the student body makes it.
While the paper has advanced greatly this year in its advertising, it is very evident that a daily is impossible, depending upon advertising alone. The success of a paper depends as much if not more, upon the business manager's part as upon the editorial side, because the printers have a foolish idea that they must be paid for their work.
Let every member of the faculty, each student and alumni appoint himself as a committee of one to see that next year we have the best paper possible. You can do this by subscribing by paying your subscription, then it is certain that everyone will be a subscriber.
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