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 Kanagia, Business Manager.
Ralph Harman, Ass't. Bus. Mg.
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.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 23,1909
A CHANGING VIEW OF EDUCATION AND THE STATE
Professor Robert Kennedy Duncan, in his report on the relations of the University of Wisconsin and the people of the state, tells of an instance when the university was attacked by certain interests, whose greed had been curbed by the university legislative bureau, of trade unions coming to the defense of the institution. Such an anomolous condition means more for the future of education than is at first apparent. This favoritism comes from the labor union world because the state university has taken an interest in the everyday lives of the people of the state. It has abandoned the ages old idea that education should be for only the fortunate few. The right to believe as one's conscience prompts, the right to a voice in government long ago passed from the hands of the few to those of the many. And now education, the necessary complement of both, is getting into the hands of the people. In Wisconsin at least it is going into the factory, the mine, the workshop, out on the farm, wherever men labor that all may live. It begins to realize that the materiality of education is the only fact that at present concerns society and that however good the vague something known as the spirituality of education may be, it can never come to the great mass of men until their material condition has been elevated. Education has always started at the top of the social rung, where least needed, and left all other classes void of its benefits. But in Wisconsin there is a reversal of things. First, the university is trying to extend the boundaries of the educated class; secondly, it is not waiting for the people to accept applied science, but through the legislative and administrative channels of the state is forcing the people to accept the imperious dictates of scientific government and social conduct.
If the report which Professor Duncan brought back from the state of Wisconsin could be read by every voter in the state of Kansas it might mean a transformation in the purposes of the State University which will result in a few years in changed ideals for society.
The more one sees of the rules that are being made in colleges over the country for the conduct of co-eds, such as forbidding the wearing of "peeka-boo waists,""pastel shades of hosiery" and so on the more one is inclined to believe that all such rules are more prudish than prudent.
Is it an example of the irony of coincidence that at about the same time that two score students are failing at the beginning of their career Phi Beta Kappa is electing to membership those who have been most successful at the close of a college career.
IS NOT POPULAR.
Anti-Fraternity Bill Stands Little Chance of Becoming Law.
Reports from Topeka indicate that Representative Ravenscraft's bill to abolish fraternities in the University is not taken very seriously by the legislators. There are numerous fraternity men prominent in all factions of that body, and none of these are anxious to proclaim that the societies with which they were connected so nefarious that a law is needed to wipe them out. The "barb" legislators are disposed to spend their time on bills which they regard as of more importance to the state.
The bill, which was introduced into the House this week, provides that the board of regents shall deny to all students belonging to fraternities the privileges of the school. Failure to enforce this provision is punishable by a fine of $100 to $500.
May Festival Plans.
Plans are being perfected for the annual May concert of the Fine Arts school, which will be given the first week in May. The main attraction will be the Royal Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra of sixty-five members which is touring this country for the first time. The orchestra was formerly directed by Webber, Schumann and Wagner. Three or four singers will accompany the orchestra. Three concerts will be given.
Prof. A. M. Wilcox will lecture at 10:15 Tuesday in the Classical Museum on the reproductions of Mycenaean objects lately acquired by the university. He will also repeat the lecture at the same hour and place Friday for those who cannot attend Tuesday.
Wilcox On Grecian Art.
Prof. S. J. Hunter, of the entomological department, went to Topeka Friday to appear before the Ways and Means committee concerning a bill of appropriations.
Did it occur to you that "Quiz Week" is about here and that you should own
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No Holiday Quiz Week.
The University council has decided that there will be no holiday Friday, February 5, after quizzes. This decision was made because of the extra holidays that will be given later in the term. Holidays will occur on February 12, the one-hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, on Washington's birthday, and on two days at Easter. The consideration of the violation of the council's order by the Masque Club will be taken up next week.
The From Classes, The From Schoolis, and The Student as he Is Seen by Others—new posters at Boyles, 725 Mass.
Sam Ainsworth has returned to the University to complete his course in the Engineering school.
Pay Less--- Dress Better.
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