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UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
Published every Friday morning by the UNIVER-
SITY KANSAN Company.
R D. Brown, Prest. W. A. Snow, Secy.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
J. FRANK CHAGI, Editor-in-Chief.
ABSOCIATE EDITORS:
Albert Fullerton, Emma Bartell,
W. E. Royster, Inz Taggart,
Emie J. Scott, K. Kregg,
Herbert Badley, Carrie Sackett.
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
BETA THETA Pi meets every Saturday evening on fourth floor of Opera House block.
PHI GAMMA DELTA meets every Saturday evening in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI KAPPA PSI meets every Saturday evening on third floor of Opera House block.
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 Opera 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 cKAPPA GAMMA meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA meets every Sat urday afternoon at the homes of members.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION. - Manager, Prof. A. M. Wilcox; Captain of Nine, Charles Voorhis.
PHILIOLOGICAL CLUB meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 5 p. m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION — President, F. E. Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
SCIENCE CLUB, meets in Snow Hall every other Friday at 8 p. m. Ed Esterly, President: E. E. Slosson, Secretary.
SEMINARY OF HISTORICAL AND POLITI-
CAL SUMMER, every Friday at 5pm
OROPHILLAN LTTERARY SOCIETY meets Friday at 8 p. m.
ATHEN.EUM LITERARY SOCIETY meets every Friday at 8 p. m. W. D. Ross.
President: Fred McKinnon, 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 evening at 7:30, room 11. President, E. L. Ackley, Secretary, R. D. Brown.
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. Vorochis, Fred Lidke.
The sad news of the death of Miss Tella Chapman of the present Senior class, was made known to us upon Thursday morning, her death having occurred the preceding evening. Miss Chapman entered the University in '84 and since that time each succeeding year has augmented the number of her friends and admirers, and increased the love which those already formed have felt toward her. Hers was an amible and lovable disposition and her absence from our halls for some six or seven months has been noticed with deepest regret. Now that not only the University but the world as well must love her, we feel a sorrow the more poignant because of our personal acquaintance with her and a consequent knowledge of her many virtues and inestimable worth.
The Washburn Argo has been changed to a semi-monthly.
Mr. F. C. JACoby, who has been editor of College Echoes since its founding will shortly resign his position. It is to be hoped that his successor will be able to conduct the paper as successfully as Mr Jacoby has done.
The University is represented on all three of the city dailies. Happenings on the hill are given under the head of "University Items," in the Journal, "At the University" in the Record, while the Tribune in a way peculiar to itself has plagiarized the head used by the Journal last year, "House on the Hill."
THE Ottawa University Oratorical Association offers a prize of twenty-five dollars to the winner of the local contest. This would be a good example to follow here. There is not an association in the state that is better able to offer a prize than ours. The association pays dividends every year and a part of them should be devoted towards offering a prize as an inducement to enter the contest.
This week we publish the first of what it is hoped will be a series of letters over the signature of "Bess." The young lady who has assumed this nom de plume for the letters she has promised the KANSAN, is one of the most prominent young ladies in the University, and has contributed largely to the University press, although never before under any but her own name.
In her letters she will be the champion of the interests of her sex, but at the same time she will censure any failings or weaknesses that she may observe.
We are glad to see that the majority of the students are falling into the true university spirit this year. They are doing their work in a whole-souled way for the work's sake. This is as it should be. We advise students to forget the usual high school notions as soon as possible. Good grades are all right, but don't work for them alone. If you do not love study for its own sake, love it for the knowledge and the power you will gain thereby. Avail yourselves incidentally of all the means of culture which present themselves here in Lawrence. Attend the hoped for lectures and concerts; cultivate the acquaintance of your fellow students. Let us be true University students.
Much has been said and written during the past year concerning a National University to be located at or in the vicinity of Washington. Much can be said both for and against such a scheme, but there is another plan something in the same line that at present would be more practical and beneficial to the college world, namely a National University system. By a National University system is meant an organization composed of the leading
A National University System.
colleges and Universities of the United States. These different schools, instead of working separately as they do now, could be of assistance to one an other in various ways. Many colleges and universities have certain branches to which especial attention are given, and students pursuing that particular branch of study in one college may become convinced that he could work to better advantage in another and may wish to change. But if he does so, he must take an examination in everything he has ever studied, from his a, b, c's up to the highest studies in the school. No matter how high the standing of the college he leaves, the one he enters will compel him to tell "what route a European tourist would take to visit the five leading cities of the United States," or "How is a president nominated, elected and inaugurated." This is seemingly a small matter and a person's first thought would be that anyone desirous of changing his school would not hesitate because of being compelled to take the examinations, but nine out of ten would not make the change, no matter how well prepared to take the examinations. On the other hand if he could change and have his grades from the school he is leaving accredited at the school he is entering, there would be no hesitation about the change.
As it is now there is no university or college of standing so high that a student can leave and be sure of having his grades accepted by any other college. A student could not come from Yale or Harvard to the University of Kansas and know that he could enter without an examination. Of course he would feel reasonably sure that he would be received and the probabilities are that he would but the committee could, if they chose, compel him to take an examination.
The injustice of such a state of affairs cannot but be apparent to every one, and if a remedy could be suggested, it should be given due consideration. The remedy here proposed, may be open to objection, but until some objection is made it will be held as valid. The greatest difficulty that has presented itself is the method for putting it into execution. To get it started the two or three colleges of the country might join in an association that wil freely accept each others grades. Let them afterwards elect to membership any other college whose work they are willing to accept as equivalent to their own. In this way the leading colleges and universities would soon join in the association and it would no doubt prove beneficial to both themselves and their students.
CONSTITUTION.
Kansan Meeting.
Last Friday at 1 p.m. a large number of students met in University Hall to organize the KANSAN Publishing Company, and to adopt a constitution. The meeting was large and enthusiastic and the following is the constitution adopted:
Sec. 1. This company shall be known as the UNIVERSITY KANSAS Publishing Company.
SEC.2. The stock in this company shall be limited to sixty (60) shares and shall be valued at 50 cents per share.
ARTICLE I.
Sec. 3. No person, not a regularly enrolled student of the Kansas State University, shall be allowed to hold shares in this company.
Sec. 4 At no time can members of the fraternities hold more than forty shares in this company.
SEC. 5. No fraternity, or members of any one fraternity can hold or control more than ten (10) shares in this company
ARTICLE II.
Sec.1. The officers of this company shall consist of a president, vicepresident, secretary, treasurer and two business managers
Sec. 2. The duties of these officers shall be such as are given i.a Robert's Rules of Order, with additional duties that this company may authorize.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the business managers to publish the UNIVERSITY KANSAN to the best of their ability, and they shall make a report at the end of each term or whenever demanded by the company, of all receipts and expenditures incurred in the publishing of said paper.
Sec. 4. For their remuneration, the business managers shall be entitled to all the profits accruing from the publication of the UNIVERSITY KANSAN
Sec. 5. The editorial staff of the UNIVERSITY KANSAN shall consist of an editor-in-chief, a local editor and ten associate editors, elected by the majority vote of the stockholders and the student sudscribers, provided that no student shall be entitled to vote unless he has paid his subscription for the year in which the election is held; proved further, that the student shall pay his subscription at least ninety (90) days before the election, to the business managers.
ARTICLE III.
Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the editor-in-chief t edit the UNIVERSITY KANSAN, with the assistance of the associate editors.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the local editor to take charge of the local and personal columns of the UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the local editor and associate editors to perform any work upon the UNIVERSITY KANSAN imposed upon them by the editor in-chief.
ARTICLE 1V.
SEC. 1. All officers and editors shall be elected at the regular meetings of the UNIVERSITY KANSAN company, to be held upon the third Friday of September and the first Friday of February.
SEC, 2. These officers shall be elected for one term, and shall hold their offices until their successors are elected.
Sec. 3. This constitution shall not be changed except by a two-third ( $ \frac{3}{2} $ ) vote of all the shareholders of this company.
Sec. 4. All parliamentary questions arising in the affairs of this company shall be decided by Robert's Rules of Order.
erary talent in the University.
Athenaeum.
The first meeting of Athenaeum this year was held in the society hall last Friday night. In every way the meeting was a success. The program comprised some of the best lit-
President Ross called the meeting to order and delivered the address of welcome, extending a "friendly greeting and a hearty welcome" to all the old members and to all who wished to join. He spoke at some length of the advantages to be, and that had been derived from participating in literary societies. This address was excellent throughout.
C. P. Chapman recited with force and feeling one of Longfellows's poems. E. W. Palmer read a well written essay. Harold Barnes delivered an oration on the subject of "Energy and Patience." Both of these productions were considerably above the ordinary.
Hervey White read an essay on a subject of interest to all—Barbs and Frats in K. S. U. The writer appeared to be quite familiar with his subject and treated it in a style immensely pleasing to the barbarian horde present. The essay was well written and contained much truth.
A. F. Fullerton described the present condition of Ireland.
After the transaction of some unimportant business the society adjourned.
Resolved, That this country is in more danger from the Machinations of Anarchists and Foreign Enemies than from the Accumulation and Concentration of Wealth.
After five minutes' recess the debate on the question:
H. B. Hall and H. E.Riggs were on the affirmative; H. A. Hadley and E W. Palmer on the negative.
Seminary of Historical and Political Science.
This new association will embrace all of the best features of the Political Science Club, besides several new features. From his two years' experience with the Political Science Club, Prof. Canfield is able to accept only those features that have proven to be practical. Under the new management the Seminary is expected to be even more interesting and valuable an adjunct to the department, in the future, than the Political Science Club has been in the past.
The Political Science Club has been succeeded by the Seminary of Historical and Political Science. This new society has been organized by Profs. J. H. Canfield and F. W. Blackmar. The membership of theociety is limited to the department of History and Political Science, students having two or more studies in that department being active members and those having less than two studies being associate members.
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