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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.
H. C. WATERS, Editor.
Paul Harvey, Managing Editor.
Clinton Kanaga, Business Manager.
Ralph Harman, Ass't. Bus, Mgr.
Ralph G. Cole, Circulation Manager.
Members of the Board:
Ralph Spotts,
Fred M. Lyon
Joseph Murray
Henry F. Draper
O. E. Markham
O. R. Baum
Earl M. Fischer
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 check stand.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1909
EDUCATION DOES NOT ALWAYS PAY.
The law student who wrote the article in the Topeka Capitol questioning whether a college education pays and answered in the negative should have qualified his answer by telling who he is. If he had so done we might have been able to judge whether or not the failure he admits he has made so far in life is due to the education or to the man who has received the education. The writer says he has supported himself while attending the University and as a result has been snobbed and looked down upon by other students. Anyone acquainted with conditions at the University knows that if he has been snobbed it is not because he worked but because of some other reason. In working his way through school the one who wails his lot is not different from hundreds of other students in the University of Kansas, and they are not snobbed. In fact they hold the high positions in school among the student body. They join fraternities the same as the student who comes are with a fat allowance from his father. In fact the two men in the University who have held more positions of honor than any other two students at present in the University both have worked their way through the University.
The student says he could not get a salary of over forty dollars a month from anyone after spending five years in college. Well he is the exception to the ordinary student. There are undoubtedly a number of students in the University who are not worth even forty dollars a month, and education cannot increase their earning ability. All the seed in the world scattered on the Sahara desert would not increase the value of the barren soil, neither will all the seeds of education sown on the intellectual barrenness of some brains help to bring forth that which it takes brains to produce. Yes, it is true that education does not always pay.
Now and then, when we forget, something impressive, dramatic, tragedical occurs to remind us that there are questions all around demanding attention of those who have a desire to improve the lot of their fellows. Such events are not unknown even in the University. Within the last two days one has occurred. The lot of the freshman is not an easy one. He is in a new position, he is constantly harrassed by fears that are groundless, he broods over things which grow as the imagination dwells on them, he is dejected, despondent, sometimes overworked. Is it any wonder that he sometimes is tempted to commit deeds which he will regret through life. Is it any wonder that less than half of the new students return the next year. By the building of dormitories the lot of the new student can be greatly improved and the communal associations will make more attractive a college life which is now remembered by many students, who drop out after the first year, as a place where pleasure abides not, and where the students never cease from trouble.
If the students of the University are desirous of securing some vacations during the coming term start an agitation to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of a few of the great scholars and statesmen who were born just a century ago this year. Here is a partial list: statesmen, Lincoln and Gladstone, the two greatest of England and America; in music, Mendelssohn and Chopin; in science, the greatest man, perhaps, of all time, Charles Darwin; in the world of letters, Edgar Allen Poe, Alfred Tennyson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Kingston, the historian, and Edward Fitzgerald who translated The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The University Missourian says that every Tiger on the team would have given a goodly slice of his monthly allowance for the football which Bluck kicked out of the grounds at the Thanksgiving game. And it's a safe bet that many a Tiger has sadly reflected how much larger that same allowance might have been if Bluck had only kicked a few more into Prospect Avenue the same way.
Many specimens of skulls lately imported from France have been put in the museum for the use of students. Several forms of animal life from "snakes and toads" up to domestic animals are shown.
TO USE MUSEUM MATERIAL.
Students in Comparative Anatomy to Study Shells.
The case is in the west corridor on the upper floor of the museum, and on the opposite wall a collection of photographs of restorations of fossil animals is being placed.
They will be of special interest to students taking comparative work.
Seniors—Rates are now on Squires.
Is the way we deliver to you our pound Stationery. It is a saving to you. Keeps your Stationery free from dust and you get quality and quantity.
Neatly Boxed
50 CENTS
Buys enough Paper and Envelopes to last you a long while. Better step in and let us show you. No trouble to show goods.
Rowlands' College Book Store
Nettleton & Thompson Bros. Shoes
Included in Ober's Remodeling Sale. Your chance to buy these celebrated Shoes at cut prices.
All $6.00 $4.95
Shoes cut to .
All $5.00 $4.35
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All $4.00 3.25
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All $3.50 2.95
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All $3.00 2.45
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All $2.50 1.95
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Men's or Boys' COME IN A HURRY!
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.
AUTO AND HACK LIVERY.
818-10-12-14 Vermont. St.
Both Phones 139
Carriage Painting and Trimming.
Francisco & Todd
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 Onio Street. Both Phones No 35.
A. G. ALRICH
SMITH'S NEWS DEPOT
Printing, Binding, Engraving. Copper Plate Printing, Steel Die Embossing, Rubber Stamps Seals, Badges. 744 Mass. St.
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.
L. E. SOMAN & 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.
KEELER sells the Hammond Typewriter, the best machine. Big bargains in second-hand machines of other makes.
J. A. KEELER, 827 Mass. St.
CITY Y. M. C. A.
Bowling Alleys, Gymnasium Plunge, Reading and Game Room. . . .
Special Student Membership.
MOAK BROS. & SHARPE
Eldridge House Barn
Livery, Hack and Boarding Both Phones 148. Lawrence, Kansas J.DONNELLY N.DONNELLY Donnelly Bros., Livery, Boarding and Hack Stables.
All Rubber-Tire Rigs.
Both phones 100 Cor. New Hambira & Winthrop Sts
Get your Photo on a Postal finished in 10 minutes,3 for 25 cents AT THE
POSTAL GALLERY
800 Mass. St. W.A. STANDLEY, Mg