WOODWARD'S PICCADURA IS THE STUDENTS "BOSS CIGAR."
UNIVERSITY KANSAN
Eaten at Post office, Lawrence, Kanas, as second class matter.
Published every Friday morning by the UNIVERSITY KANAN MANSION.
M. McKANNON, President.
E. W. CALDWELL, Vice President,
    W. A. *NOW*, Secretary,
    H S. HADREY, Treasurer,
EDITORIAL STAFF.
H. F. KOREURS, Editor-in-Chief.
LOCAL EDIT 8.
R D. BROWN.
ASSOCIATE
R. E. Whitney R. E. Fobbsen
Maude S. eringer Fila J. scott
Dwainy P. Potter Heen Simpson
D. E. Babbitt W. S. Smith
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
C. A. Peabady, Frd Pockering.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
SOCIETIES.
SENIOR CHAIR Moats in Snow Hall every other Friday at 8, m. president, P. A. Williamson; Secretary, Robert Rutledge; Treasurer, W. S. Franklin
SEMINARY OF HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. Medic in Room 14, University building, every other Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. Director, Prof J. H. Caufield; Vice Director, Prof. F. W. Blackmar.
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB. Meets in Room No. 20 University building, every other Friday at 8 p.m. President, Miss Amos McKauon; Secretary, Dr. Wilcox; Treasurer, Jus D. Bovescux.
DER DEUTSCHE VERENE. Meets at the residence of Prf. Carruth every other Thursday at 8 p.m. President, Miss. Gertrud Crotty; Secretary, Miss Ann McKnison; Treasurer, Miss Elie Scull.
KENT CLUB. Meets in Room 4 University building. President, James L Wallace; Vice President, Porter Edminson; Secretary, Wm. A Foster; Treasurer Samuel Felder; Sergent-at-Arms, A L Getts; Executive Committee, James Nichols, Albert Gaughey. Admits Law students only.
PHARMACISTRYAL SOCIETY. Meets every other Friday at 5 p.m., President, V. T. Baz; Vice President, W. S. Amos; Secretary, Miss Luura Grab; Librarian, J. Simons; Treasurer, E. Youngberg; Executive Committee, J. W. Kennerly; P. Muller; Corresponding Secretary, J. G Peckham; Local Correspondent, H. A. Adams. Admits Pharmacy students on vv.
THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY LITERARY CLUB Organized January 31, 1890 Meets in the University building, north wing 32 floor, every Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Admits all students in the collegiate department.
ADALPHEN LITERARY SOCIETY. Organized Nov. 1, 1889 Meets in Adelphio H4.1, University building, south wing, 3rd floor, every Friday evening at S ockell President C. P. Chapman Vice President, C. S. Griffin; Secretary, E. P. Fisher; Treasurer, H R. Linville Critic, G. O. Virtue. Admits all non-fraternity students in the collegiate department.
FRATERNITIES.
BETA THETA P1. Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House Block.
PHI KAPPA PS1 Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Opera House Block.
PHI DELTA THETA  Meets every Satur-
day evening in A. O. U. W, Hail.
PHI GAMMA DELTA Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eidridge House Block.
SIGMA CHI Meets every Saturday evening on the 4th floor east, of Opera House Block.
SIGMA NU. Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House Block.
PET BETA PHI. Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPE ALPHA THETA Meets every Sat-
afternoon at the homes of memb-
rgs.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA. Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STUDENTS OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY President, Jus D. Bowersock; Vice President, Wus D. Brown; Secretary, W.D Ross; treasurer, W.E Rowers; ex-commander, M.E E. Meyer; H.Sears, W.E.Curry; Committee on non fraternity shares. C.S.Hall, E.C.Hickey, D.R.Krebbel.
UNIVERSITY ATLETHIC ASSOCIATION—President, W. H. Carruth; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow. Includes Tennis Association, Base Ball Association and Foot Ball Association.
CAMERA CLUB meets once per month. President. E. H. S. Bailey; Secretary, E. E. Slosson.
TELEGRAPH CLUB. President, Prof.
L U Blake; Secretary and Treasurer, W.
S Franklin.
Y. M. C. A. Meets in University building, R om 11 every Friday at 7:30,
p. m. President, E. L. Ackley; Secretary,
C. P. Chapman.
Y. W. C. A. Meets in University building, north wing, 3rd floor, every Friday evening at 7:30, p. m. President, Miss Emma Dunn; Secretary, Miss Laura Lockwood.
UNIVERSITY JOURNALS.
THE UNIVERSITY REVIEW. Editor-in-Chief, H F M. Beer. Published monthly by THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY.
UNIVERSITY KANSAN. Editor in Chief H F. Roberts. Published every Friday morning by the UNIVERSITY KANSAN COMPANY
THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER
Editor-in-Chief, J. C. Fox Published
every Friday morning by THE COURIER
COMPANY.
LET no University student be seen without the colors to-day.
All together now;—Yell ROCK CHALK, JAY HAWK, K. U. u-u-u.
STAND shoulder to shoulder tonight boys, for the glory of old K. S. U. and her splendid orator.
To might will witness a battle of collegiate giants. We welcome the other colleges of the State with open arms to their Waterloo.
YELL with all your Chest capacity, students of K. S. U. for the man who is to represent the State of Kansas to the Interstate Oratorical Contest.
STUDENTS of the K. S. U. remember that we are the hosts. Let us entertain so that every visiting student will go away with a good word for the hospitality of the State University students.
The contest. The contest. All else has been forgotten during the past week. Studies have suffered, and every thing has had to yield to the great and growing excitement and enthusiasm, over the approaching event.
We have lost from our file the issues of the KANSAN for Oct. 11, Oct. 18 and Dec. 19, and the issues of the Courier for Nov. 1, and Dec. 19. Can any one supply them? We would like to suggest here that every student will find it a good thing to keep a file of the college journals.
ALL contributions and communications intended for the editorial pages of the KANSAN, must be handed to the Editor-in-Chief not later than Tuesday of each week, in order to appear in the paper. All locals and personals will be handed to the Local Editor, Mr. R. D. Brown.
NOTE our new college directory. We have made some new arrangements in the order, and have made a number of corrections and insertions. If any one notices a mistake in the directory we request that it be mentioned to us. A directory of college organizations in order to be worth anything, must be accurate and complete to date. We shall endeavor to keep this one so.
Those interested in the University Athletic Association are endeavoring to organize a State Athletic Association. Requests have been sent out to the principal colleges in the State, requesting them to send delegates to Lawrence for this purpose, at the time of the Oratorical Contest next Friday. We hope this move will meet with success.
We propose to publish at times in one of our columnsshort sketches of articles appearing in the current literature in the reading room pertaining to colleges and universities and their work. Our idea in this will be to bring to the attention of these students who are not in the habit of running through the periodicals regularly a sort of an index to current topics of interest.
THE Washburn College faculty have refused to permit the young ladies of that institution to attend the Oratorical Contest. While this is a matter of no material moment personally to K. S. U. students, yet it seems rather peculiar, and would seem to be a rather unpleasant reflection on the town of Lawrence and the University students, who are to be the entertainers. It is rather strange if a college like Washburn is afraid to permit its young ladies to attend an Oratorical Contest at the University of the State of Kansas.
We wish to prepare and present to our read rs as soon as practicable a sketch of the history of the literary societies which have sprung up in the University. Part of the necessary information can be compiled from old files of the University papers, but much of it must come from individuals. Besides the regular literary societies now in the University, there are, or have been a number of smaller clubs organized for literary purposes by the students. We would like some information in regard to them. We th.nk we can, by bringing up the past in this way, indicate to the literary societies now existing, wherein their predecessors have failed. We would therefore solicit all available information from either students or alumni in regard to the early history of the societies. Among other things we would like the date of the founding of Orophilian. It was organized some time in 1870, but we have been unable to find the exact date. Send us in any other items of interest on the subject that you may know.
THE athletic fame of American universities has attracted notice from the French Government. They have sent Pierre de Coubertin to study athletic systems at Yale, Harvard and other colleges for the benefit of the French university.
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Go to Taylor's for carriages.
It is not necessary to give you a salutatory, readers of the KANSAN on entering upon the work of the paper this term. The old staff has done its work well, has made its bow and has stepped out. The labor of maintaining a weekly paper which shall be a credit to this University remains now with us.
What We Have To Say.
Now what can you do. You can subscribe for one thing. If forty issues of the KANSAN are not worth fifty cents to you, you are no loyal student of the University. Besides your subscription we want your interest. The columns of the KANSAN are always open for expressions of opinion from any student, and if you have anything you would like to see printed, that bears on matters of interest to students we will publish it for you.
We do not propose to enter upon a wordy and grandiloquent discourse on the manifold and lofty duties which belong to an editor of a college paper. Some college papers like to talk about this. We do not. We have seen too much of college newspaper work to be affected in that way. The poetry is all gone out of it. What we want to say to you, patrons and readers of the KANSAN is just this. You owe something to your college papers. They are managed gratuitously in the interest of the University and its students. The work and expense involved in their maintenance is considerable. There is little honor and less pleasure connected with their management. We don't get any credit for it in grades, and precious little in any other way.
We wish to have the students feel free to contribute. An editorial page, or local page that has every line contained in it, written by a single individual will be tiresome, because there is apt to be no variation of style. If you, students of the University, will do these thi gs, we will give you in return, a fair and impartial journal, which will be a representative of your interests and of those of the University.
The Question of the Weekly Papers.
Prof. A. G. Camfield has scored the K. S. U. weeklies some pretty hard hits. We recognize how eminently just they are, and we heartily agree also with the sentiments of our contemporary the Courier in regard to the matter. We have observed that the weekly papers here have been to a large extant crude and raw, and have had no particular standard of literary excellence.
We can trace this fact we think to three causes. 1st, Lack of time. 2nd, Lack of money. 3rd, Lack of interest by the students. As to the first, the work on the college weeklies must necessarily be hastily gotten up and put together because our numerous other University duties give us little time to give any attention to the proper preparation of matter for the college press.
As long as this is the case, and as long as the faculty allow no relaxation of University duties for newspaper work, how can you expect a paper thoroughly representative of the best culture and thought and life of the University—and surely there is much of this, and it deserves to be well represented. Then as to the second point, it takes money to run a college paper, and no small amount of money either. The papers here, with their advertising and what they manage to eke out in the way of subscriptions usually just about pay expense. Sometimes they do better than this, oftentimes worse. With the income available we cannot issue papers which are elegant and attractive from a typographical point of view. We have to issue them on newspaper and with news type. There can be no doubt that when an editor knows his article will appear on a neat, handsome, artistic sheet, gotten up in good style, he will naturally take more pains with it than otherwise. Here is then another reason why greater pains are not taken in the preparation of articles for our weekly papers.
Lastly the students as a whole have very little interest in the success or failure of the papers. They rarely contribute, and are more inclined to carp at the editor than to lend a hand. In a word, there are always more students who know just exactly how a college paper ought to be run, than there are students who can be induced to undertake the work of its management. We are not complaining of our fellow students. They have much to do; much to occupy their time and attention. But we can truly say there is no University interest in the weekly papers except in so far as they fill a local page with plenty of news and "spicy" locals.
We are frank to say we would like to see a change,and we will do the best we can,but professor,we cannot promise you a sweeping alteration in our Univer ity weekly journals under existing conditions.
An elegant all linen bosom re-enforced back, and front unlaunered shirt for 50c at Bromwell's.
Go to Donnelly Bros., for hacks.
Special attention paid to students.
Fresh meat at Chas. Hess, 937 Mass. street.
Go to Field & Hargis for bargains in all kinds of books.
Students should give Andy Reed a trial. He is the most accomodating barber in town. Try him and be convinced.
Full dress ties for Party and Ball Wear
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