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THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas
Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall.
Phone, Bell, K U 25.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
H. C. WATERS, Editor.
Paul Harvey, Managing Editor.
Clinton Kanagua, Business Manager.
Ralph Harman, Ass't. Bus, Mgr.
Ralph G. Cole, Circulation Manager
Members of the Board:
Ralph Spotts,
Joseph Murray
O. E. Markham
Earl M. Fischer
Fred M. Lyon
Henry F. Draper
O. R. Baum
C. P. Fisk.
Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance; one term, 75c; time subscription,
$1.75 per year.
Address all communications to Clinton Kanaga, 1029 Kentucky Street.
Ralph G. Cole has exclusive charge of the circulation of the Kansan, and all complaints concerning non-delivery etc., to be effective must be made to him, at the cheek stand.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1909
It is only a question of time until the University will be forced to build dormitories and commons to provide for the students and enable them to live at nominal cost. The fact is plain that living is higher in Lawrence than in other school towns and is higher than it ought to be. We do not pretend to know who gets the surplus, but one thing we are sure of, and that is that the students foot the bills.
Since the story on living expenses in Lawrence was published in Thursday's Kansan, the subject has been much discussed. The property owner affirms that taxes and the expenses of keeping up property are so high that he must charge high rent. The renter says he must charge high prices for the rooms and the student reaches in his pocket and settles the account.
The boarding house keepers assert that they sell board at the lowest possible price,the commodities they must use being so high that to lower the price of board would mean financial ruin. However that may be, the student is again in the little end of the horn.
Such schools as Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Chicago University protect the students from being held up. The university commons furnish board for almost cost and the dormitories keep room rent down to a fair figure.
As the term-end draws near when the University student body has to go through the ordeal of final quizzes, a spirit of even more than the usual feverish activity is manifested on the hill. This is visible particularly in the laboratories and shops.
Today "from morn till dewy eve" the clang of anvils and the hazy rumble of machinery emanated from Fowler shops as the engineers made haste to get their shop work in shape before the fatal day of reckoning. In the chemistry building from scores of flasks, crucibles
and retorts diabolical and noxious fumes arose and hung upon the murky air while anxious students marked down results in laboratory note books.
The casual visitor who looks in on University activities between now and the first of February will not be likely to go away with the impression that the students here are a bunch of gilded idlers.
Is there something about the ozone of Mount Oread that makes a man a politician? Not to mention the students who have gone out and made goverders and senators of themselves, one of our professors was recently elected national president of a great scientific society at a time when he was two thousand miles away from the place where the election was held. Not one in a thousand of the gentlemen who pride themselves on being practical politicians ever has things so well fixed that he can put a continent between himself and the seat of war and still win out.
With the championship of the state safely put away the Jayhawker basketball team has started on its conquest of the Missouri Valley. It is early to prophesy but the decisive victory over Nebraska last night at least shows that Kansas must be reckoned with in the games of the basketball league.
A new style of whirlwind finish will have to be invented for the basket season if that end of it is to go any faster than the beginning.
In just exactly five weeks from now the annual agitation in favor of quiz week reform may be expected to break out.
Two Men for Oklahoma Debate to Be Chosen Then.
DEBATING TRYOUT MONDAY.
The Debating Council met in Green Hall Thursday afternoon. It was decided to hold the first preliminary contest in debating on January 14. In this tryout the members of the team that will debate with Oklahoma are to be chosen. Each contestant will be given eight minutes.
The question for debate is: Resolved, "That the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States should be repealed." Kansas will defend the affirmative side at Lawrence. Two men will represent the University.
All persons who desire to enter the Oklahoma tryout are requested by the debating council to leave their names at the office of Prof. W. E. Higgins in Green Hall.
The Missouri and Colorado tryouts will not be held until after examination week.
J. J. McShane, a former engineer at the University, is now with the Kansas City Structural Steel Co. He is in the drafting department with headquarters in Argentine.
Anything in the short order line at the Fairfax. Open after all shows and dances.
Who Needs Shirts?
911 Mass. Tailor
Schulz
Do you remember those beautiful pastel shades and novel stripe effects which attracted so much attention in our display of Manhattan Shirts just before Xmas? Well, these are also included in our present Shirt Sale. You see, we're giving you the best we have; in fact, our whole stock of Manhattans is marked down, except only the plain whites. Better get yours while the assortments are full.
All $1.50 Manhattans now $1.15
All 1.75 Manhattans now 1.38
All 2.00 Manhattan now 1.48
All 2.50 Manhattans now 1.85
Eighteen dozen smart shirts, formerly sold at $1.00, $1.25 and a few at $1.50, now marked for quick clearance at
69 Cents
REMODELING SALE
Student Headquarters at ED. ANDERSON'S.
Dr. A. R. Kennedy DENTIST. Room 5, Jackson Building. Phones, Bell 1515 Main; Home, 344
Your Baggage Handled.
Francisco & Todd
AUTO AND HACK LIVERY.
818-10-12-14 Vermont. St.
Both Phones 130
Carriage Painting and Trimming.
G. W. JONES, A.M., M.D.
GENERAL PRACTICE.
Special attention to diseases of the stomach surgery, and gynecology.
Suite No. 1, F.A.A. Bldg. Residence Lawrence Hospital and Training School
1201 Ohio Street. Both Phones No 35.
A. G. ALRICH
Printing, Binding, Engraving, Copper Plate Printing, Steel Die Embossing, Rubber Stamps Seals, Badges. 744 Mass. St.
SMITH'S NEWS DEPOT
Headquarters for Students in Athletic Goods, Pipes, Tobacco, Fountain Pens and Stationery.
Swede Wilson's Pool Parlor
EVERYTHING MISSION 728 Mass, St.
E. G. SOXMAN & CO.
THE BEST PLACE TO GET YOUR CHILI, ICE CREAM AND CIGARS
Short orders a specialty. 1031 Mass. St.
Home phone 385; Bell 645.
Send your Laundry Work to Woolf Brothers Laundry All bundles called for and delivered. OSCAR DAHLENE, AGENT. Phones: Bell 203, 2295; Home 203, 728.
The Watkins National Bank.
Capital $100,000
Surplus $40,000
Undivided profits $20,000
J. B. Watkins, Pres. C. A. Hill, V. P.
C. H. Tucker, cashier.
W. E. Hazen, assistant cashier.
Protsch The Tailor
The Peerless Cafe Open Day and Night. Quick Service.
SMITH HALL
635 MASS ST.
Thoroughly Remo●eled; Homelike and Convenient, Kitchen with Gas Range; Accommodates 75 Couples easily. Call Bell Phone 1705
George Smith.
J. DONNELLY N. DONNELLY Donnelly Bros..
Livery, Boarding and Hack Stables.
All Rubber-Tire Rigs.
Both Phones 100 Cor. New Hamburg & Winthrop St
Get your Photo on a Postal finished in 10 minutes,3 for 25 cents AT THE
POSTAL GALLERY
800 Mass. St.
W. A. STANDLEY, Mgr