THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas
Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall. Phone, Bell, K U 25.
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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.
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1908.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The inter-class track meets do more than anything else to foster school and class spirit. These annual contests go a long way toward taking the places of the old time scraps.
The ministers of Lawrence have put the "skidoo" on the Merry Widows at church services. If the fad continues to flourish the poor fellows in the back row will be forced to get on stilts to see the chapel speaker.
Has the student day agitation died a natural death? If we are to have a student's day this school year, it is high time to assert ourselves. We can have a day of our own if we ask for it. Where are those lusty throated individuals among the student body, who lead student spirit at the University? Why not get busy?
Nearly every week from the chapel platform the students are told that if they only work hard and graduate equipped with a lasso as it were, they can get a strangle hold on the world without much trouble and have their names written in the school histories of the coming generations. Thus weekly reassured we all enter into the wearisome strife with renewed grit and determination.
The feasibility of not making out programs prior to a dance, was amply demonstrated at the Sophomore Prom Wednesday night. Words of praise are coming from every side regarding the admirable manner in which the programs were handled at this event. The large crowd present was thoroughly congenial and no one experienced the finding of a full program immediately after they were given out.
The Washburn debate last night went still further to demonstrate that there is something radically wrong with debating at this institution. There is a weakness some place and it is not with the debaters themselves. The fact of the matter is that our debating teams are not trained as well, for some reason or other, as the teams of our smaller sister institutions. The University should see to it that her debaters are drilled so well that they can hold their own with all opponents, as far as oratory is concerned.
The students of the University of Kansas are in every sense men and women and they should have a certain self-government, especially in matters that concern the students alone. However, each student receives yearly from the State the equivalent of several hundred dollars. He should in some way compensate this debt. He must conduct himself moderately and temperately. There are certain prime matters, concerning both the students and the state, in which the state, as having most at stake, should maintain the balance of power.
The University of Kansas has far outgrown its chapel. Its crowded capacity is only about one thousand and on big chapel days it is impossible to accommodate all the students enrolled in the University. When a noted speaker appears many down town friends avail themselves of the opportunity to attend chapel, and seats are all filled before ten o'clock. Consequently the nine o'clock classes come to chapel only to find the seats filled and they
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must either stand or not attend the exercises. It is to be hoped that better accomodations will be procured for our large chapel days.
Carlson Still Leads Sluggers— Play Haskell Monday.
ST. MARY'S TODAY.
Today the baseball team goes to St. Mary's to meet the strong Catholic Team. The Catholics always make a bid for the college championship of the State.
Monday afternoon the post poned game with Haskell will take place on the Haskell field.
Batting Averages.
| | A. B. | B.H. | Av. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Harvey | 15 | 1 | .066 |
| Doubleday | 14 | 3 | .214 |
| Young | 17 | 4 | .235 |
| Jennings | 14 | 2 | .143 |
| Carlson | 10 | 4 | .400 |
| Angney | 14 | 3 | .214 |
| Gibbs | 11 | 3 | .275 |
| Rockerfeller | 14 | 3 | .214 |
| Hoffman | 6 | 2 | .333 |
| Harlan | 4 | 0 | .000 |
| McLenan | 3 | 1 | .333 |
A Citizen Injured.
Mr. Thomas Sears, a citizen of Lawrence, was seriously injured Thursday day evening by falling into the ditch enclosing the Medical Building. Mr. Sears upon feeling sick, during the Max Bendix Recital, left the chapel. He was confused as to the entrances and wandered toward the Medical building, thinking he was on his way home. His cries for help brought relief and he was sent to his home in a cab.
Kemp to Women's Clubs.
Harry H. Kemp, the poet, made quite a hit while in attendance at the annual meeting of the state Editorial Association at Emporia last week. He addressed several of the leading women's clubs on the American poet, Sidney Lanier. He also discussed the sonnet before a class in English Literature at the State Normal.
Gets Fellowship in Bread Baking.
Harry A. Kohman, a senior in the college, has been granted a fellowship in Industrial Chemistry by the National Association of Bread Bakers. The fellowship lasts for two years and pays five hundred dollars a year. Kohman will try to find some way to improve bread baking or to lessen the cost of bread baking.
Civils Humble the Miners.
Yesterday afternoon the Civil engineers defeated the Miners in baseball in a very one-sided contest. After the game the mathematicians of the class got together and by slide rule calculations finally arrived at 15 to 1 as a conservative estimate of the score.
Last Vesper Service.
Tomorrow at 4:30 in the chapel the last Vesper service of the year will take place. There will be no address but in addition to the regular program a selected choir of twelve voices will sing.
Home made strawberry shortcake at the Hiawatha.
Have seen the pictures in the show case at Squires studio?
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