The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME V.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 15, 1908
WOULD UNITE TWO SCHOOLS
CHANCELLOR FAVORS ONE HEAD FOR K. U. AND K. S. A. C.
"The University Should Go to Those Who Can Not Come to It," Says Dr. Strong.
Chancellor Frank Strong will complete his biennial report to the governor of the state this week. It will be a lengthy document of about 40,000 words and devoted to a discussion of the work of the University,the needs of the University for the next two years and a thorough review of the relations of the University to the Argicultural college.
In regard to the duplication of work in the university which other schools in the state are doing the Chancellor will say: "The University is a universal institution and covers by law as well as by implication, all of the work which an educational institution of college rank may do except what is made impossible by the organic law of the state or nation." He states that there is but one exception to the statement that the university may do any work that comes within the purvue of higher education and that is in the establishment of a theological school which would be repugnant to the constitution of the state and nation.
UNIVERSITY IS PARAMOUNT
METHODS OF SETTLEMENT
A large part of the report is devoted to a discussion of the legal phase of the state maintaining two schools of engineering and mechanic arts. This is in reply to an article which appeared in The Industrialist, the official publication of the school at Manhattan. To settle the rivalry which now exists between the agricultural college and the state university the Chancellor suggests five possible plans.
(1) To remove both institutions and place them upon one campus.
(2) The removal of the Agricultural college to Lawrence.
(3) The union of the two institutions in administrations.
(4) The agricultural college may be restricted in its duplication of work by legislative action, for the constitution does not prevent such action as it does in the case of the University.
FAVORS UNITING THE HEADS
In the discussion of these possible means of settling the difficulties now existing between the Agricultural college
(5) The agricultural college may be left free to develop into a full rounded university.
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NUMBER 35
WHAT THE UNIVERSITY MOST NEEDS.
BY C. M. HARGER.
The University of Kansas needs more than anything else a series of excursions that will bring to it from every part of the state a few thousand men and women who may see for themselves what a great school does and what it needs. The average Kansan understands but dimly the work accomplished by the University; he fails to comprehend what it means to have 2,000 young men and young women gaining knowledge and inspirationand most of all, he does not realize what a fine investment it is for the state to equip and support a great school. Many universities outstrip ours in material belongings, but none in spirit, in enthusiasm or in the splendid beauty of the school's site. With the high standard of Kansas' aspirations there should be 4,000 students in the University and buildings and teachers sufficient for the proper instruction of them all. I believe that if some way could be devised to bring the representative men and women of each community to the University for inspection of its methods and personal observation of what it offers, there would be an accession of interest and a hearty willingness to build up the University to its full standard of equipment. Kansas needs to become acquainted with its University When it does, it will wonder that it has not demanded more vigorously a larger equipment a breadth of working materials commensurate with the state's development in other ways. No one who visits the University fails to become its enthusiastic advocate—many thousand more should have an introduction.
K. U. has a library with 60,000 bound volumes and 30,000 pamphlets.
K. U. BEAT BAKER
THE GAME ONESIDED BY A SCORE OF 44 TO 16.
Every Kansas man a star—Methodists outplayed at every
stage.
Last Saturday night the basket ball team played its first local game of the season and defeated the Baker five in Robinson gymnasium by the one side score of 44 to 16. From start to finish the Methodists were outclassed and the score was always heavily against them.
For the Jayhawkers every man played a star game and took advantage of every opportunity offered during the game. Bergen and Heizer, centers, took care of their own positions and played all over the court besides. Captain Woodward, Martindale and Wohler played the two guard positions and broke up many a play that otherwise would have ended in a goal for Baker. The forwards were McCune, Johnson and Long and each one of the trio was a whirlwind. Johnson was the star of the game.
The team left on its Kansas trip Monday.
Monday evening the team won the fiast game of their trip by defeating the Normals in Emporia 36 to 25.
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Carruth to Issue Poems.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, William Herbert Carruth, is soon to put before the public his first volume of poems. He has collected and arranged seventy of his own poems into a little book which will be entitled "Each In His Own Tongue And Other Poems."
The book is now being printed by Putnam & Sons, New York, and will be ready for distribution about December 20th.
WHAT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MOST NEEDS
BY HENRY SCHOTT, Managing Editor The Kansas City Times.
In answer to your kind letter, I beg to submit these suggestions:
The University should be supported by a fixed tax, the income growing as the wealth of the state grows. This would put an end to the biennial visit of supplication to Topeka.
The University should be in fact what the law of the state intended it should be: the head of the educational system, with other schools co-ordinate branches. That would avoid the waste of duplication, and happens to be not only the law but common sense as well.
WHAT THE UNIVERSITY MOST NEEDS.
This is not the time for the University to compromise or equivocate. Within the next two years it will be fully decided whether the University is to be one of a half-dozen mediocre institutions or is to be in the Wisconsin-Cornell-California class.
BY W. A. WHITE.
I have your valued favor asking me for my opinion about what the University of Kansas most needs. It seems to me, that the needs of Kansas University now are not so much students, nor buildings, nor football championships, so much as that indefinable something called college spirit. It is bred in a desire not so much to be learned as to be wise. I think the danger of our school and of all state universities is, that they may be mere learning hoppers into which the youths of the states are fed to learn certain definite technical things, such as law, engineering, pharmacy, journalism, chemistry, fine arts and the like. What we need is not lawyers, engineers, druggists, painters and poets, but men and women who can be lawyers, engineers, druggists, chemists, and what not, and still get the best there is out of the world,-the best our civilization offers,-because they have learned to be wise and patient and kind with one another and the world. We need men and women of culture who have skill, rather than, men and women who have merely skill. Our University needs more than anything else so to interest our faculty in the University of Kansas that it will become a religion to them, and this may not be done until the state of Kansas appropriates larger salaries to the teaching force of the University; but give a well paid body of teachers, who will be friends and examples to our studedts, rather than mere temporary preceptors and there will enter into the University a broader college spirit than we now have. That college spirit will make men and women who are capable of enjoying the best that our civilization affords and capable of contributing to that civilization through their professional skill and through their habit of patience, kindly reasonableness in their relations with men; that is more than mere material welfare. Kansas has a right to expect from the State University something more than makers of laws and pills, and molehills, and pictures and rhymes. It has a right to expect from its University graduates, who, as men and women, are willing to sacrifice their comfort and their immediate advantage for ideals. And I feel very strongly that our next development should not reach out towards more students, greater buildings and more gross material substance, but towards a higher ideal of citizenship.