THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year. by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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R. L. Douglas, Editor.
Roy Moore, Managing Editor.
Frank H. Blackmar, Business Manager.
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H. W. Davis,
Howard Farnsworth,
Wallace F. Hovey,
W. W. Marshall,
Alma Manley,
Minnie Owens,
Emery Trekell,
May V. Wallace,
Carl Young,
Roy Roberts,
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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.
SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1906
The voice of the spring poet is stillled—the sound of sleigh bells and bob-sleeds has put him out of business.
The freshmen at Nebraska blossomed out in gaudy new class caps the other day in the crimson and white of the University colors. Wonder if the recent blizzard didn't make these ice-cream "lidlets" look like less than thirty cents?
Manager Lansdon is trying something that is almost an innovation in the southern baseball trip, coming as it does so early in the season, and before the team has had the benefit of even any good field practice. The schedule is not one that would try the metal of the team late in the season, with the exception of the Texas game, which will show our boys the pace it takes to win. The trip, with the excellent training it will give means a very strong team this year, for we have the material to work with.
The athletic board has been having a heated discussion about the color of the new baseball suits. When Manager Lansdon ordered the new suits he consulted the baseball men about their preferences, and in accordance with their wishes, ordered the suits of grey material, which is so popular with all teams on account of its servicibility. After the suits had been ordered, and were on the way, an agitation was started to have the order rescinded, and to have the suits of the traditional crimson which has always been the distinguishing mark of the Jayhawker teams. But the suits were here, and the board has decided to have them dyed the regulation crimson. Various statements have been made about the matter, to the effect that the team did not want the new color, and that Manager Lansdon was acting without authority. As a matter of fact he was simply exercising his power to equip the team, and he did it in accordance with
the preference of the boys themselves. The only question involved is the relative value of servicability and tradition. The grey suits are cleaner than the red. Other schools have given up the colored suits, just as they adopted the servicable football suits for wear and not for color. The sentiment in the board, however, is strongly in favor of holding to the time honored crimson suits.
Nebraska has taken up with the general assessment plan as the only way to ever raise the debt which she has been piling up under the old season ticket plan. The fee which the Daily Nebraskan is urging is four dollars each, for students of the University. The student tax is bound to come to all important schools and colleges sooner or later, for it is the only way to keep all departments of a large and growing institution interested in all the lines of the work which the various organizations stand for. The proposition which the students and faculty managers outlined is just what our organizations need to place them on a strong foundation of general support. So far no one has been found who would "knock" on the proposition, which is in itself a fact worthy of notice. When the petitions are circulated through the University as they will be before long, every loyal Jayhawker, who believes in student enterprise should try to be among the first to put his name on the list, and pledge himself to pay the fee so long as he stays in the University.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Wednesday March 21:
Miss Kate Riggs will address Y.
W. C. A.
Friday March 23:
Regents will meet. Dr.Moffat will speak in chapel. Dr. Moffat will lecture.
Sunday March 25:
Vesper service.
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"GET AWAY FROM THE FACTS"
William Allen White Tells How to Write Stories.
William Allen White, the most successful Kansas writer of short fiction, talked to the Quill Club Thursday on some phases of the science and the art of story writing. Mr. White's talk was perfectly informal, being largely in the form of answers to questions by members of the club and others, and was based entirely on his own experiences in writing short fiction and character sketches.
Mr. White said that in his judgment the two great requisites of a good short story are two parts of character and one part of fiction. "In writing up a story," he said, "get away from the facts upon which your story is based. The closer you stick to the facts the farther you are from the truth." In speaking of the typical American story, Mr. White declared that it is essential that the practical things should enter into the telling. "The society novel cannot be vital in America until we have a large leisure class who get their money simply by writing a check on the bank, as the typical stories do. And I may say that I hope that day will never come. What you must put into your stories is how the hero or the heroine makes his or her living, how he pays his board. Another thing I don't like is the preponderance of the love story in our short fiction. Popular writers pay altogether too much attention to that short period of life. There are too many other things just as important and interesting in life, which are almost neglected for this branch of fiction."
Mr. White told of the way in which he collected the material for his political sketches which have been very popular. "Such writing is photographic in exactness," said he. "In getting the information I discount what a man's friends say just forty per cent, and what his enemies say, by ninety per cent, and there is the truth every time."
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