UNIVERSITY KANSAN
Entered at Post Office, Lawrence, Kansas, a second class matter.
Published every Friday morning by the UNIVER
SITY KANSAN Company
R. D. Brown, Prest.    W. A. Snow, Secy.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
J. FRANK CRAIG, Editor-in-Chief.
LOCAL EDITOR.
H. F. Roberts.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Albert Fallerion,    Emma Burtall,
W. E. Rowsley,    In z Taggart.
Ella J. Scott,     Fred H. Kellogg,
Herbert Hadley,    Carrie Sackett.
BUSY E. S MANAGERS:
Harold Barnes,    W. H. Riddle.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
BETA THETA Pi meets every Saturday evening on fourth floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA PSI meets every Saturday evening on third floor of Opera House block.
PHI GAMMA DELTA meets every Saturday evening in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA meets every Saturday evening on the second floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA CHI meets every Saturday evening on the fourth floor east of the Opers House block.
Sigma Nu meets every Saturday evening in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
Pi BETA PHI meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THEETA meets every Sat urday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAIPA KAPPA GAMMA meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION. Manager, Abe Levy; Captain of Nine, John Davis.
PHILIOLOGICAL CLUB meets in room No.
30 every other Friday at 8 p. m.
UNIVERSITY ATHELIC ASSOCIATION President, W. H. Carruth; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasure, Chas. B. Voorhis.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION — President, F. E.
Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer,
W. A. Snow.
OBOPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY meets Friday at 8 p. m.
SEMINARY OF HISTORICAL AND POLITI-
CAL SCIENCE, every other Friday at 8 p. m.
ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY meets every Friday at 8 p. m. D. H. Spencer President; Miss Corbin, Secretary.
SCIENCE CLUB, meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 8 p.m. P. A. Williamson, President; Rob't. Rutledge, Secretary.
CAMERA CLUB meets once per month. E.H.S.Bailey, President,E.E.Slosson, Secretary.
FOOT BALL ASSOCIATION meets every Saturday for practice. C. S. Hall, President; Chas. Wright, Secretary; Shields and Wixon Captains.
Y. M. C. A. meets every Friday even ing at 7:30, room 11. President, E. L. Ackley, Secretary, C. P. Chapman.
Y. W. C. A, meets every Friday evening at 7:30, third floor University President, Emma Dunn; Secretary, Laura Lockwood.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION of the students of K. S. U. L. T. Smith, President; C. P. Chapman, Secretary; Executive Committee: E. M. Munford, Chas Voor iis, Fred Lideke.
THE OLD VERSION.
"Woman is but a delusion,
Said a bachelor with a shrug;
"Yes," quoth one, without confusion,
"And men oft delusions hug." $K_{n}$
THE REVISED VERSION.
"And" quoth another one close by,
"This may you also say as true.
Though the woman may appear shy,
Delusions of hug men too."
The successful contestant tonight will be the representative of Kansas at Lincoln, Neb., next May.
In another column will be found a history of education in Kansas by Noble L. Prentis, which recently appeared in the Kansas City Star and which will undoubtedly prove interesting to all friends of education
THERE are over 500 students in the University. Two dollars from each one will give us the best athletic grounds possessed by any college in the west.
WHAT has become of the new girl's fraternity? Has it been absorbed by one of the girls fraternities already existing or has it become discouraged by its first attempt at spiking?
SOME of the Business College students give much cause for complaint by dropping missiles on passing pedestrians. Their military company of which they are so proud might be put to good use in bringing the miscreants to time.
PROFS. F. W. BLACKMAR and J. H. Canfield were elected to the board of directors of the State Historical Society, for the ensuing year, at the meeting in Topeka Wednesday.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for the entertainment of the visitors at the state contest and every endeavor will be made to make the occasion enjoyable to all visitors. One of the halls centrally located, will be rented and the visitors given free access to it throughout the day. Visiting delegates will be supplied with tickets by the committee having the matter in charge.
DEPAUW Adz. Ex-President Andrew White is reported as recently saying that our institutions of learning are in a better condition than ever before; that there is a greater tendency among students to study and less to dissipation. The causes, he says, are not hard to find; more time is devoted to athletics than formerly and men who excel in these things must perforce be temperate. There is strong argument in this for encouraging athletics here. Much surplus time and animal spirits that were formerly spent in devising schemes for worrying one another and the faculty, now find relief on the ball ground, in the gymnasium and tennis court. If these things be true, which they no doubt are, the conclusions are so evident that the wayfaring man, though blind, might see them.
THE election of Calvin S. Brice to the Senate of the U. S. from Ohio brings to mind again the part college men are taking in the affairs of the world. Mr. Brice was a graduate of Miami University in the State that has just honored him with the title of Senator. He was one of the poor boys of the school but was one of the popular students He never had his money in his own possession but had to have all of his bills for board and room rent paid from a sum entrusted to Prof. Bishop by his father. Bills for anything but the necessities of life were always refused payment for his father who was a Presbyterian minister' did not believe in a too generous allowance of money for college boys. Whatever opinion one holds of Mr. Brice's political opinions and methods his ability and energy must win the admiration of all,
A criticism of the KANSAN is seldom found in any of the numerous exchanges received that does not take occasion to suggest that the KANSAN would be improved by an exchange column, and recently several of our subscribers have suggested the same thing, and we feel more disposed to make reply to the suggestion when made by our subscribers than when made by our exchanges. Not that we do not value the good opinion of exchanges but because the staff of the KANSAN primarily desire to make the paper acceptable to subscribers and believed that the space generally given to an exchange column could be filled to better advantage with something else. This conclusion has not been jumped at without good cause, but was made after a careful examination and consideration of the college papers running exchange columns.
Something Concerning Exchanges.
Having a designated amount of space to fill each week, when interesting items cannot be found, indiscriminate cipping is the result and the column is filled with a lot of rubbish that interest no one and that have been published annually, in the majority of the college papers since they came into existence. Having a new exchange edit each year he does not recognize the hoary, whiskered chestnuts as the same ones that served his predecessor and they are brought into service again. When high school student the editor used to receive occasionally a copy of a college paper and the following paragraphs were a source of much interest:
It is stated that one in 5,000 takes a college course in England, one in 2,000 in the United States, one in 615 in Scotland, and one in 213 in Germany.
The average circulation of college papers in the U. S. is about four hundred.
Only ten per cent of Cornell's graduates have been women, yet they have won sixty per cent of the fellowships.
There are nearly 50,000 students in the collges of America.
The average expenses of students at Harvard are $800 per year.
They were interesting to a high school stu ent, but after reading them year after year, and week after week since it has been our privilege to examine papers from other colleges such items become exceedingly monotonous.
The University of Mexico is said to be the oldest University in America, proceeding Harvard by fifty years.
Another item that is beginning to show signs of old age is.
About fine years ago this item was one of news, but since the proposed institution is already established and is in its third year of successful operation it is time the above should be called in.
The widow of President Garfield has given $10,000 for the establishment of a University in his honor at Wichita.
There are, however, a few exchanges that are able to maintain
Without conducting a column devoted to exchange notes, we have endeavored to give our readers all the events of interest that have been happening among the colleges and feel confident that this has proven more satisfactory than an exchange column would.
exchange columns that are creditable to the paper but they are very few. Prominent among these are the Hesperian, (University of Neb) Pulse, (Grinnell College,) Oberlin Review, (Oberlin) and the Adz (De Pauw) There are other papers undoubtedly, that maintain good exchange columns, but the above list includes all such that are on the KANSAN's list.
EXCHANGES from other colleges all report the progress being made on the Annuals of the various colleges. What is the matter with the annual here? Why is nothing done towards getting out our annual this year? We cannot afford to let another year go by without the issue of an annual.
A REPORT has been received from Vienna that the Star of Bethlehem would appear this year. The appearance of this star has been predicted for every year since 1884 and should it appear this year it woul be the seventh appearance of it since the time of Christ. There is some doubt however of the authenticity of the report and concerning the subject, Prof. Pickering of Harvard says:
"I can scarcely believe that this story emanated from the astronomers at Vienna, for had there been the slightest intimation of the appearance of this star it would have been cabled to us at once, as is always done in the case of astronomical news gathered in Europe. The report is probably the unauthorized revival of an old rumor that this star, erroneously called the 'Star of Bethelehem,' was to make its appearance, but as this statement has been made several times since 1884, when the star was looked for by some astronomers, there is doubtless nothing in it. The star referred to was the one discovered by the Tycho Brahe in 1572, and was named for him. It appeared quite suddenly in the constellation of Cassiopeia, and had a brilliancy greater than that of any of the planets, so much so that it was visible in the day time, for certain seconds. It was believed by some that this star had appeared in the same position 312 years before, or in 1260, and assuming, this interval of appearance to be correct, it would have been visible about the time of the Christian era and it was thus termed the Star of Bathelehem.
"If its return was after 312 years, the time of its reappearance would have been in 1884, but nothing has yet been seen of it, although many observers watched for it at that time. Such a phenomenon at the present day would have the highest value to astronomical science, for by the use of modern instruments observations could be taken and information gathered that would be of the greatest assistance in a series of experiments, now in progress. There is, however, so much doubt in the matter that it is of but little use to surmise as to the star's appearance."
Grades.
The time for the semi-annual examinations has now come, and doubtless there will be more good hard work done this week than has been done any week of the term. The thought uppermost in the minds of the majority of the students is what their grades will be. All take a just pride in obtaining high grades, nearly all strive that they may obtain such grades. It is often the case that more care and study is given to this end, than to the pursuing of one's studies which is thus made the means to an end. We review, we cram, we worry, and what for? Not that we may improve ourselves, not that we may broaden our minds and become better and more cultured men and women, but that the professor may make upon our grade books a single straight line instead of ten. Enough has been said about abolishing the grade system. It still remains as a part of our student life and indeed as a much more important part than we may think. But while we still have this system we should let it benefit those of us who need the impulse it gives, but not allow it to be detrimental to those who come here for earnest work. How much better it would be if we could do our work honestly, but not with a fear of obtaining a two or a three and then have time to read the papers, do collateral rea...ing and take a real advantage of the large library which is ut our disposal.
Literary work, which also is so sadly neglected here, might then give the mass of our students that ability to speak well and easily in public, which is no small part of a practical education. However nine tenths of the students have not the ability to make ones in their regular work and do much else. Not desiring to have a grade book full of twos or to be considered poor students, they neglect an important half of their education and confine themselves strictly to their text books. The matter is made worse by the extra work which some of the profs, lay upon their students and which must also be thoroughly well done in order to obtain the desired grade.
Institutions as well as other things get into ruts, and certainly the students of K. S. U. are in a rut, in which they neglect literary and other work for the sake of grades Would that we might forget them and seek in their stead education!
Don't fail to do your duty towards the Athletic Association. If you have not already subscribed something do so at once, so work may be began as soon as the weather will permit.
The shooting gallery at 908 Mass. street, is offering a $7 cash prize for the best score, and a $3 prize for the second best in high shots made during the week beginning Jan.20th.
Full dress shirts and full dress Neckwear at Bromelsick's.
Go to A. J. GRIFFIN'S for Cleanest and Best COAL at Lowest Prces.