THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year. by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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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.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1908.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
At the University of Nebraska every candidate for a class office is required by the University rules to announce himself a stated time in advance of the election. The date of the election is known a considerable time in advance, and by this means every member of the class has a chance to take part in the election and to know just what he is doing. Here at the University of Kansas the "old school" of politics still flourishes, with packed caucuses, "dark horses," and hurried elections, and the trail of the gum shoe is over it all. Whether this is the best political training that can be given men who are expected after they leave the University to play the game of politics under the most enlightened primary and election laws of any state in the country may well be doubted.
Up to the present time fewer than four hundred students have taken out membership in the University Hospital Association. The executive committee has decided that it will be impossible to carry out the plans of the association with a membership of less than 700, and unless 350 students join between now and the middle of October, the money of those who are now members will be refunded and the association will be given up for this year. The advantages of the association are unquestioned and the rate is so low that every student ought to take advantage of this means of insuring himself against financial loss in case of sickness.
Some recent events in class politics on the hill recall the remark of Walt Mason of the Emporia Gazette that the first Ananias club was organized by the psalmist David, who said in his haste that all men are liars. The situation is unchanged today, Mr. Mason says, except that now statesmen after due deliberation assert what David said in his haste. It is too much to say that all students are liars, but if the game laws
of the State were revised to include an open season for all members of the Ananias club, it is feared there would be an awful thinning out of class politicians.
At the University of Missouri an interesting experiment is being carried on in connection with the new school of journalism there. The "laboratory" of the school is the University Missourian, a six column daily paper. In addition to covering the University news field, the paper has a telegraphic news service, to give the students training in editing telegraph. Walter Williams, the head of the school of journalism, is a member of the Board of Curators, and has evidently been able to secure all the financial backing he has needed for the new undertaking.
One of the freshman class tickets, which had its mush room growth in a single night and burst upon the gaze of an astonished world this morning consisted of three men from Kansas City, Missouri, and one girl from Paola, Kansas. Can this be the appearance, in the third generation, of a habit which was much in evidence in the territorial elections of Kansas?
FROM OTHER COLLEGES.
Birkner, a sensational performer on the Cornhuskers second eleven in 1907, will be depended upon by Coach Cole of N. U. as a choice of a kicker for the coming season. Some fifty candidates have reported for practice.
The enrollment at the University of Minnesota has passed the 4500 mark, showing an increase of only 200 students from the enrollment of last year.
The second week of the fall term of the Kansas State Agricultural college opened with a total enrollment of 1616, the largest opening in the history of the college and representing almost every county in the state.
Admission to the football games at Nebraska this year will be fifteen cents apiece.
During the summer about seventy-five alumni of Greek letter societies in Kansas City formed a Pan Hellenic Club. Thirteen college secret fraternities were represented in the meeting which resulted in the organization of a permanent club. The new organization will be run much on the same order of the University Club.
Baker University has been given an increase of $37,000 endowment.
With Ames, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wabash on the schedule we might ask with William Allan White "What's the matter with Kansas."—Daily Nebraskan.
Bethany was promised that football should be reinstated this fall and now, when the students return, they find it ruled out once more.
Announcement has been made that Colorado University is the recipient of a $75,000 gift from Senator Guggeheim. The donation will be used in the erection of one of the finest law buildings in the west.
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Football practice at Iowa opened with a record breaking bunch at work. Sixty-five men were on hand and coaches Catlin and Griffith put them through unusually stiff practice for an opening day with nearly two hours of running signals, punting, and studying new plays.
The Purdue Exponent opens its first issue with an arraignment of the "tightness" of the entering student body. It appears that only twenty-five per cent have subscribed for the paper in contrast to fifty per cent last year. The freshmen are the worst offenders so far. In conclusion the Exponent announces that unless half of the student body subscribes, the Purdue daily will be a thing of the past.
A new publication is to fill a patent need in University circles at Syracuse this year. It will be called the "Syracusan" and will take the field as an illustrated monthly magazine.
Entomological Field Survey.
Prof. S. J. Hunter together with his assistants, W. S. Griesa, Victor Chesky, and Wm. Glenn, are complying their reports of the field survey which was carried on the past summer for the State entomology commission. The work was conducted in the southwestern part of the State. Their report will be finished by December. W. S. Griesa will leave tomorrow for southwest Kansas to complete the field survey for the State entomology commission. He will be absent several weeks and will complete the work as far as Englewood.
Coach Quigley is Quakling.
Coach Quigley of St. Marys, who umpired the football game Saturday, was a visitor at the Sigma Chi house over Sunday. He is not over enthusiastic over the prospects at the Catholic school for a gridiron team, as only three of last year's men are working out. A number of the old players left school to become priests.
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University Student Dies.
Miss Edith Goodwin died at her home at Detroit, Kansas Friday afternoon from nervous collapse. The funeral was held yesterday. Miss Goodwin was graduated from the College with the class of '08 and had planned to return to the University for her master's degree this year.
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