THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Konsas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year. by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall.
Phone, Roll K U 23.
H. C. WATERS, Editor.
Claud A. Clay, Managing Editor.
Clinton Kanga, Business Manager.
Ralph Harman, Ass't. Bus, Mgr.
Ralph G. Cole, Circulation Manager.
Members of the Board:
Ward H. Cole, Judith Connelly
May V. Wallace, Ray Loofbourrow
Paul Harvey, Henry F. Draper
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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, APRIL 8. 1908.
IS THE "COLLEGE SPIRIT"
PASSING?
Not rarely is it heard, generally from the older students, that the students of the University do not display the same intensity of college spirit as they did in this institution a few years ago. And there is some apparent truth in the statement so often made. A real live college spirit is a thing to be desired in a school, but of course it usually carries along with it many things which are not so desirable. It is the distinctive atmosphere of Yale or Harvard that is remembered by the graduates of those institutions long after many of the things learned in books have vanished from memory. It is the traditions, the venerated institutions, the odd customs that cluster around European universities that make them the sought after of all schools. The University of Kansas is a growing school, yet in its infancy, but it can not afford to have that "business college" atmosphere about it with which it at present seems to be somewhat afflicted. Of course in the rapid pace of the commercial age the old college life, with its community interests and well defined characteristics, is rapidly passing away, but nevertheless it is a thing worth retaining as long as possible. Perhaps the building of dormitories would do much towards bringing back the "college spirit" that seems to be almost a thing of the past.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The decision of the Junior class not to fill out programs will be of no avail unless it is observed by all the members of the class. It is on the part of the class an act of courtesy to observe and of course it would seem out of place for any of the invited guests to break the rule.
At the Junior class meeting yesterday every girl present voted to "cut out" cabs on the night of the junior prom. Unnecessary to say the boys of the class appreciate this show of
Talk about seizing opportunity by the horns. The Chancellor certainly took advantage of the full attendance at chapel Monday to get in a few words of advice and rebuff.
sacrifice—anyway to the extent of $1.50.
Columbia University has a student who has been a fully matriculated undergraduate for twenty-seven years. He receives an annuity as long as he stays in school. Graduation means the loss of this. He has taken five degrees,has deliberately flunked in chemistry seven times and has seen President Butler of that school rise from a freshman to the head of the institution. If Kansas had one or two good permanent students
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like this one, they could have life positions on the student council.
The Baker student who won the first prize in the state oratorical contest by using a purloined oration published an apology in the Baker Orange in which he says he "didn't think about the results." If he would cut off the last three words his statement would ring more true.
The attendance of faculty members at chapel Monday morning was the largest of the year, all of which goes to show that human nature is the same whether found in the student body or in the faculty.
The fact that the laboratories were to be closed Monday afternoon, that a good many of the professors had announced that there would be no school Monday afternoon, and that the German Verein changed its meeting time, and then the fact that there was no holiday coming, would seem to indicate that the song sung in chapel did not make a great hit with the Chancellor.
The Oklahoma Umpire gets off the following in an editorial on the coming debate with Kansas:
"We have them on our home grounds, as it were, and if we will only stand on the sidelines of the intellectual gridiron and cheer our logician giants as we cheer at a football game doesn't it look as if we should win? Inspired by five hundred seats full of college spirits our debaters will work wonders."
It is to be wondered what the Kansan debaters will do when they see this extraordinary sight.
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