THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University or Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Sacrured night of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall Phone, Bell, K U 25.
Roy Roberts. Editor
Wallace F. Hovey, Managing Editor.
Robert H. Worline, Business Manager.
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Allen W. Dodge, Circulation Manager.
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Carl H. Young.
Ward H. Coble.
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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, JAN. 15, 1908
COMMENCEMENT WEEK
The seniors held an important meeting yesterday to get their plans underway for commencement week. With an early start and good leaders, it is hoped that '08 will work an innovation in the manner of graduation celebrations at the university. Here has been the most severe criticism of the university year, the failure to make out of commencement what should be made out of it. It should be not alone a week devoted to exercises, appropriate to the graduation of some three hundred young men and young women of Kansas who have completed their college course and are to go out into the world with the training and ideals gained by a university career. It should also be a week of renewing of college loyalty and college friendships by the hundreds of graduates who have gone out from the university in previous years.
It is true every commencement week does bring back scores of faithful alumni and each year this number is becoming larger and larger but it is no where near commensurate with the hundreds and hundreds of alumni scattered over the state who do not come back to visit their alma mater. Other large universities make a gala week out of commencement and the alumni would no more think of missing a graduation than a freshman would the opening address at the beginning of the school year.
Why do graduates of the University of Kansas not come back every year to visit their university during commencement in such large proportions as those of eastern schools? Because there is nothing to draw them back more than at any other time of the year. As soon as the university and the graduating classes provide a celebration worthy of the occasion, more of the alumni will come back. And each alumnus that comes back will bring another. For as the number grows larger and larger and the certainty of meeting friends and
classmates again become surer and surer, the class reunions will become tremendous affairs.
It is to be hoped that '08 will start this movement toward providing more fitting exercises for commencement week or improving those we already have.
Our old enemy the Cornhuskers, are to be here Friday and Saturday of this week to battle with the Jayhawker five for the basketball supremacy of the two universities. Nebraska has a splendid team and it is going to take the hardest kind of work on the part of Captain McCune's squad if Kansas is to carry off the victory. Enough has been said. Whenever the Jayhawker rooters won't turn out by the hundreds to help beat Nebraska at anything, the university will be a very different sort of school from what it is today and Kansas will produce a different brand of loyalty and enthusiasm than it prides itself on now.
Miss Alberta Clarke entertained her mother Mrs. A.Clarke of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and her uncle, S. W. Higley of Phoenix, Arizona, Friday.
In the Language of the Poet---- "We Need the Dough."
Rather slangy to be sure, but it fits the case perfectly.
It simply means that we have more Suits, Overcoats, Trousers, Hats and Haberdashery than we want at this season of the year, and that we need the "Money" worse than we do the goods.
It's against the rules of this up to the hour store to carry stock from one season to the next.
We've cut the prices on everything---and the Man who has his eye on his purse will proceed to invest.
Now to the point.
It's a bonanza for you ---a Jonah for us.
Come, see how badly we "Need the Dough."
A chance of a life time.
Clearance Sale
Quiz Books
No.1 Theme Paper 15 cents a pound.
5 for 10 cents
Second half term books are coming in as fast as Professors leave their orders.
University Book Store
Both phones 206. 803 Mass. St.
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SOCIETY AT IOWA.
Social Affairs in Control of Dean of Women.
At the University of Iowa all social affairs are under the direct control of the Dean of Women. Not only must she be given notice of each party or dance before it is held but a list of the chaperons must also be presented to her for approval. The university encourages students to hold their social functions in its armory and it makes a charge of ten dollars an evening for the use of the hall. But whether students hold their parties there or not they are controlled by the same regulations. All except four large class parties are required to close at twelve o'clock. The four exceptions have their time extended until two.
FROM OTHER COLLEGES.
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University Hall, the main building of the University of Oklahoma, burned down during the holidays. Class work has been resumed without delay. Five years ago the only building of the University of Oklahoma burned down and since that time a new building has been put up every year at Norman.
Amherst College is to receive $106,000 by the will of D. Willis James, the philanthropist who has left $1,000,000 to charity.
The faculty and students of Michigan University are working against the saloons of Ann Arbor.
The Michigan students who remained at Ann Arbor during the holidays were entertained at the Michigan Union club house every day.
The "Big Nine" will play seven games next year instead of five if the athletic associations of the schools endorse the change.
John Weller, captain of the Cornhusker football team and center of the basket ball five has secured a government position in Panama and leaves N. U.Monday.
A. Ross Hill, the new head of Missouri University who succeeds Richard H. Jesse, has held positions in Nebraska, Wisconsin Normal, Missouri and Cornell.
At a "Hard Times" party in Chicago University the use of cabs was made a misdemeanor.
K. U. Student in Peru.
Willard E. Ransom, a student in the Engineering school in 1895, and now Chief Engineer of the Peruvian Southern Railway in South America, is visiting at the Phi Psi house. He leaves today for home at Ottawa.
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