THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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Joseph W MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
Fraser FISCHER - Managing Manager
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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.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1910
NEW PLEDGING SYSTEM
The fraternities of the University of Kansas have a large job out for them in meeting the requirements that have been asked by the Chancellor in his letter of last Tuesday. The old system has been in vogue here ever since there were fraternities, and of course, like every system of long standing, it will be hard to alter. Fraternity men generally seem somewhat taken aback by the magnitude of the change they will have to work out.
It is to be hoped that when the time actually comes to put the new system into effect it will be found not so hard of accomplishment as is now anticipated, and that it will be attended by fewer inconveniences than fraternity members now fear.
That it will work out in ultimate good to the University is an opinion that has long been held by many of the most competent observers of the conditions here That consideration is the one which has actuated the Regents and that result, if attained, will be all the justification the change needs.
Good is expected to come to the University in two ways under the new system: the standard of scholarship, which is of vital interest to a university, will be raised; and a condition which has been a source of criticism of the University throughout the state will be remedied.
When these two results have been brought about, the University will have taken a long step forward.
the students of the University are to have a chance to express their views on football at a meeting called by the student council That resolutions will there be adopted asking that football be retained as one of the branches of sport in the University of Kansas is apparent to anyone who has taken the trouble to sound student sentiment. As students are more closely interested in the game than anyone else, it is entirely proper that their views be communicated to the Board of Regents which is considering legislation that will affect the game. Now it is up to the students. Every man in the University should come to the mass meeting in order to make the sentiment expressed at that assembly representative of the student body as a whole.
TEACHING THE TRUTH.
"Investigation has disclosed nothing that would warrant the charge that Anarchistic, Socialist, or other dangerous doctrines are being taught in the University," says the Board of Visitors of the University of Wisconsin, in a report just made to the Board of Regents. That the fact should be as thus reported is, to our mind, entirely satisfactory in itself but the censorship implied in the investigation is a matter that suggests serious questions, says the New York Evening Post. Unloudly, the teaching at a state university, or at any university should be sober and responsible and should not include the spreading of any revolutionary propaganda; but if the Board of Visitors is going to watch out for "socialistic" doctrines, and blackist professors whose teaching is favorable to their spread, there will be a kind of restraint on honest and independent thought in the social and political sciences which will go far to undermine the character of the entire body of teaching in this domain. The range of doctrine that may be called socialistic is extremely wide, and reaches from government ownership of railroads all the way to communism. The best way to treat the question opened up by this state of things is to appoint only men of conscience and ability to the professorships in economics and political science and then let them tell the truth as they see it, without fear of personal consequences. Then, if the judgment of a given professor is against Socialism, or any particular kind of degree of Socialism that judgment will have weight and influence; but if the judgment is part of the price he must pay for the privilege of holding his chair, how can it command public respect?
WILL SPEAK AT GRINNELL
Prof. J. E. Boodin Will Make an Easter Vesper Talk.
Professor J. E. Boodin will attend the meeting of the Western Philosophical association at owa City next Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26, and will deliver an address before that association on "The Nature of Truth." On Easter Sunday he will speak at the Easter vesper service of Grinnel College. Professor Boodin formerly-taught in Grinnell College and holds its beautiful Gothic chapel and permanent vesper organization as the ideal toward which the University of Kansas should work.
Any Christian young man in Idaho or North Dakota may now obtain a college education free by agreeing to never so long as he lives to touch intoxicating liquor tobacco in any form, or "other narcotics." This premium on abstemious living is provided by the will of Charles Botsford, a Boston merchant, which was filed for probate yesterday. Mr. Botsford left more than $100,000, and after making several minor charitable bequests the will orders that the residue of the estate shall go to educate the youth of Idaho and North Dakota who will sign the pledge stipulated. Botsford spent a part of his life in the northwest
An Education Free.
The students and alumni of Jackson county will hold a banquet at Olathe Saturday, March 26. Registrar George O. Foster will speak.
WILL SELECT MATERIAL.
For the New Administration Building.
A committee, consisting of Chancellor Strong and Regents Hopkins and Gleed, was appointed at the meeting of the Board of Regents last week to investigate the matter of material for the construction of the new administration building.
The new building is to have a smoothly dressed surface, and for that reason it is believed that the native stone which is quarried on the site of the new structure and in the vicinity will be unsuitable. The native stone dakes and cracks too easily when the surface is dressed.
The committee will investigate the posibilities of other building stone. It is believed that stone which will fill the requirements can be quarried near Lecompton. In case no suitable stone can be found at small expense, pressed brick may be used.
SPOKE TO Y. W. C. A.
Student Volunteer Representative Sketched World Problems.
At the regular Y. W. C. A. meeting yesterday afternoon, Mr. J. L. Murray, national educational secretary of the Student Volunteer Association. talked about "Students Interest in the World Problem." "We should be especially interested in world affairs now," declared Mr. Murray, "because this is a strategic movement which is presenting world problems."
The situation in Korea, China, Japan, India, and Turkey was sketched by Mr. Murray to show how the countries of the far East were in a time of unrest and change. Miss Helen Janes sang a solo.
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ON "GOOD GOVERNMENT."
A. C. Mitchell Spoke to Good Government Club.
Hon. A. C. Mitchell, '80, of Lawrence, was the speaker at the meeting of the Good Government club last night. Mr. Mitchell took as his subject "Good Government" and reviewed the questions that are now attracting the attention of men who wish to improve government. He talked about the conservation of natural resources, the idea of the "square deal" in politics, and the ideas underlying representative government. Mr. Mitchell is an "insurgent" Republican and in answer to a request by a member of the club, he outlined the aims of the "insurgent" movement.
Mr. Mitchell is a candidate for the Republican nomination for congress in the Second district, against Congressman Charles F Scott, '81.
MAKING JEWELRY.
Manual Arts Class Has New Silver Handicraft.
Work in silver is a new feature of the girls' class in manual arts. The students hammer and etch silver pins, hatpins, cuff-links, and other pieces of jewelry. The work is entirely new in the University, as heretofore they have worked only wood and brass.
The silver comes in sheets and is sold to the students for sixteen cents per square inch.
Conducted Settlement Work.
Miss Cornelia Hardeastle and Miss Ethel McNitt of the School of Fine Arts, conducted the work this afternoon at the settlement house, at 1022 New York street Last Tuesday at the first meeting there were seventeen children present. The work is conducted the same as settlement work in the larger cities.
IN OTHER COLLEGES.
The history department of the University of Washington has received from a friend in Seattle, a collection of seven old newspapers ranging in date of publication from Feb. 17, 1791 to Feb. 6, 1817. One, the "Ulster County Gazette," dated January 4, 1800, is devoted almost entirely to expressions of condolence and regret by leading men of the day on account of the death of George Washington.
The Michigan Daily is waging a campaign for further sanitary drinking fountains before the warm weather begins. Since the health-menacing cups were abolished some time ago, there are only two buildings in the Michigan campus where students can get a drink of water.
The Aero club of the University of Pennsylvania has sent a letter to the various aero clubs in other universities asking them to join in an inter-collegiate aeronautic convention to be held in Philadelphia, April 1 and 2, to effect a permanent organization.
The University of Washington Daily is to have one column each week devoted especially to the interests of women of the University by reporting the doings of their sisters in other colleges.
A class glee club is the latest organization to break out at Michigan. The sophomores have been the first to get together on the proposition.
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