THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year. by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall.
J. W. Kayser, Editor.
C. L. Van Fleet, Business Manager.
R. L. Douglas, Managing Editor.
Frank H. Blackmar.
Assistant Business Manager.
Members of the Board:
H. W. Davis,
Howard Farnsworth,
Wallace F. Hovey,
W. W. Marshall,
Roy Moore,
Alma Manley,
Minnie Owens,
Emery Trekell,
May V. Wallace,
Carl Young.
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Simpson Building, Kansas City, Kansas.
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Entered as second class mail matter
September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence,
Kansas, Postoffice under the act of
Congress; March 3, 1879.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20,1905
The Christmas time is a peuliarly attractive season of the year. It is the time when the more sordid things of life are put aside and men give themselves to the contemplation of that which is noble and generous and worthy. It is almost uniformly a time when families get together and the absent ones return to the hearthstone and meet upon the old familiar ground. It is the time when the failures of the unfortunate are forgotten and the triumphs of the successful are not allowed to protrude themselves into the common Chirstmas spirit. For a very large number of us, the season is a distinctly hallowed one and the observance of Christmas Day with all its attendant joys and memories has had much to do with the persistence of the Christian belief in the world. If Rome had had some such festival in which all sordid ambitions and despotic
desires were drowned in the overwhelming sentiment of peace and love and goodwill to men, that empire might still be existence. The moral effect of such a festival is beyond calculation and it would be a sorry day indeed that should see its decay.
It is an especially happy time for the students of the University of Kansas. Almost without exception they withdraw to their homes and pass the Holidays with their families or with the families of friends and collegemates. Then University organizations of one kind or another have their meetings to arouse enthusiasm for University life. Some of the pleasantest gatherings the Chancellor comes in contact with during the year are the county club meetings in which the students and graduates of the University get together and revive University loyalty and enthusiasm. The Christmas season, therefore, is worthy of our grateful recognition and we should approach it with thankful hearts and reverent minds. We should make it indeed a festival of joy, peace and good will; a true anniversary of the coming of our Lord which has meant so much to us as individuals and as a race.
CHANCELLOR STRONG.
The Kansan board takes pleasure in presenting this week the annual Christmas number to its readers. In a few days the students will scatter all over Kansas to spend the Holidays with father and mother. Take one of these special numbers with you and the folks at home will know more about the University than you could tell them in a week.
Wishing its readers the Merriest, Merriest Christmas and a Happy New Year the Kansan with this number ends the first year of its existence and enters upon its second with faith in the present and hope in the future.
A Suggestion.
The ability to write as fast as a man can talk is an accomplishment any person can master if an honest effort is made Few people realize the value of this accomplishment, and i planning their course of study ignore the consideration of course in shorthand.
An active member of the N E. A., a college president, owe much of his importance to his ability as a stenographer. All conventions and committee meetings his services are demand as secretary, and in his reports can be found not on the routine of the meeting, by the reports in detail.
Did it ever occur to you whan an advantage you would have in your school work if you were able to take in full the cla lectures? In all research work how much time do you lose writing out your notes? The time might be saved by writi ng the notes in shorthand. The knowledge of shorthand is a inestimable value to the lawy in taking notes from his opp nent's speech, or in outline some important plea of his ow and to the reporter in taki interviews, convention report including the speech of the da and notes in general.
The difference between business college and any other school, is in the course of study presented, and the method presentation of this course. accomplish anything in a business college, you must we just the same as at any schoand to accomplish much, y musl work hard.
On considering the question do you not think that you o it to yourself to master a course in shorthand before you c your education completed?
The Lawrence Business College offers you as thorough course in shorthand as can be found in any school. The system taught is not some new perimental kind, but is the used by many of the country greatest stenographers. The holder of the world's record speed writes this system. The teacher of shorthand in Lawrence Business College an experienced teacher, an pert in his line, having made special study of shorthand with a view of teaching it. Ada
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