THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kawasan
Kansas.
Published every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday of the school year. by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall.
Phone, Bell, K U 25.
H. C. WATERS, Editor.
Claud A. Clay, Managing Editor.
Clinton Kanaga, Business Manager.
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Ralph G. Cole, Circulation Manager.
Members of the Board:
May V. Wallace, Judith Connelly
Paul Harvey, Ray Loofbourrow
Joseph Murray 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
Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1908.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Tuesday, May 19:
Miss Frances Houlton, graduating
piano recital.
Wednesday, May 20:
Inter-Fraternity debate, "Student
Control."
Thursday, May 21:
"Nawab of Zu Zu," first night.
Friday, May 22:
"Nawab of Zu Zu," second night.
Saturday, May 23:
K. U. Canoe Club regatta.
May Fete on Campus.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
And still the matter of "Student Control" seems an elusive thing that is far off in the future. Juniors may give farces in which it is the central thing, seniors make it a feature of their play, the fraternities are going to debate on this thing of misty, visionary existence known as "student control." But where, oh where is the student control? A committee was appointed. They met and met and talked and had splits on weighty questions such as "woman's rights" and finally adopted a system for the establishment of a council. Then the big mass meeting of students came and there were thirty or forty enthusiastic students present. A big meeting was to be held in chapel this morning going on the assumption that students would attend at chapel time when there was nothing else to do. But alas, the faculty saw an opportunity to strike a finishing blow to this student control business which was even then tottering in the balance. The faculty refused to surrender their privilege to occupy the chapel, but insisted upon their historic rights of having one of their number make a speech to the students. And still the vague, uncertain—certainly unrealized student control breeze is in the air, but even its friends have begun to believe that it is built somewhat on the plan of a midnight dream.
Those few supersensitive youths who object to the word "agricultural" in the name of the state school at Manhattan do not seem to be getting much
At the present time the athletic authorities will recognize only the records made on McCook when making a list of the record holders. It is much more difficult to make record breaking time on strange athletic fields than it is on McCook and if an athlete cuts a few seconds off of a previous record he should be given the title of record holder no matter where he runs. Guthrie ran the mile two seconds faster at Columbia Saturday than the distance has ever been covered on McCook. By all that is just and right he should be given the title of University record holder for the mile run.
favorable comment from the press of the State on their plan to drop it. Every country editor knows a bunch of husky young fellows in his neighborhood who are not ashamed of being farmers and who he knows have the stuff in them of which the best citizens are made. Consequently the country press of the State has joined in "roasting" the aesthetic young men up at Manhattan who are so greatly pained by the mere suggestion of manual labor and contact with the soil.
Where is the promised reform in the "quiz" system that was promised just before the beginning of this semester? The question of changing the method of holding examinations was brought up then and discussed and the faculty decided that it was too late in the term to take any action. Examination week is almost here again and still nothing has been done. Well, when quiz week is several weeks off we don't need any methods of holding examinations, and when quiz week comes—well, then it is too late to arrange one, so there you have it.
The Senior play which comes Thursday and Friday night promises to be one of the best plays that have been presented in years. It has the advantage of being strictly original with the Senior play committee, of which R. L. Douglas is the chairman. It is full of clever hits on local people and that is what takes in a university play.
Well if the student council doesn't just now seem in a solvent condition, those who had a part in it should be consoled when they think of how much free advertising they have secured for the University in the paper over the state.
"The Scoop Club chose a mighty bad time of the year to make a war on the beer sellers of Lawrence. Why did they pick out the hottest days of all the year?" said a thirsty looking student as he climbed the hill yesterday.
E. E. Stephens was at his home in Wyandotte county over Sunday.
WANTED—A Spanish teacher to give private lessons. Home phone 6872.
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IN THE COLLEGE WORLD.
Washington and Lee University has started a college political paper called the Democrat. It is the only college democratic weekly in the south.
Wit from College Life, Emporia College:
He—I am rather more in favor of the English than the American mode of spelling.
She-Yes?
He—Yes, indeed; take parlour, for instance, having u in it makes all the difference in the world.
The Chancellor of the University of Nebraska says the T. N.E.fraternity should be expelled from the institution.
The engineering course at Minnesota University has been lengthened to five years.
Many Trees on Campus.
Mr. Crocker intends to have one or more specimens of every forest tree native to Kansas some place on the campus. Among the larger trees which are already growing are, the locust, hackberry, sycamore, coffee-bean and several kinds of elms.
Under the direction of E. F. Crocker, superintendent of buildings and grounds, about two hundred young trees have been planted on the University campus this spring. These trees were secured from the woods near Lawrence and include hickory, cottonwood, mulberry, willow, ash, wild cherry, red-bud, bass-wood and three kinds of oak trees.
Large Order of Fire Clay.
The University has placed an import order to the amount of $3,000 with the Denver Fire Clay Co. This importation includes material for the chemistry and pharmacy departments and for the medical department at Rosedale. The consignment will come by way of Galveston or New Orleans and will be released here by a customs official from Kansas City instead of passing through the New York custom as has been the practice.
Joke Number Three.
The Lawrence Elks are as a rule noted for their interesting entertainments, but the farce given the other night was said to be a dry affair.
Dr. A. R. Kennedy
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Paul Carson, a freshman in the college, was taken to his home in Dodge City, Kansas. Sunday night ill with the typhoid fever.