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.
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 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 Flavel Robertson
George Bowles
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1909
Some members of the faculty are inclined to believe The Kansan too aggressive in asserting that the costs of living are higher at the University of Kansas than they are at other schools and much higher than they should be. These professors, however, are invariably comparing the University of Kansas with eastern colleges where the cost of living is of course higher than it is in the west and most of them are basing their judgment upon the cost of a college education a number of years ago when it was only the very well-to-do who could attend college. We know the cost of living is thirty or forty per cent. higher here than at Missouri and at the smaller colleges in this state. The University Missourian proved by the quotation of prices in Columbia and other Missouri towns that the prices of food commodities were from five to fifty per cent. higher in Columbia than in other towns. Yet board is cheaper there than here. If the matter were sifted to the bottom it would probably be found that no fault would attach to the boarding house keepers of the town. The first cause for the high prices would be found in the unreasonable price of groceries and produce as compared with prices in other portions of the state. Secondly, there are too many clubs in Lawrence. For every club, whether it has one or twenty members, a house must be rented and the regular number of persons employed to do the work. As for the question of rent there is no doubt as to it being in many cases unreasonable. The idea of the upstairs of a private residence renting for a hundred dollars or more a month, almost enough to replace the house each year, is nothing but extortion.
Baker, in her eternal search for an excuse for defeat, says that it is owing to the courts on which her basketball team played that the team has suffered so many defeats. From the University of Washington on the far off northern storm swept coasts of the Pacific to the University of Virginia where gentle southern zephyrs are playing amongst new blown sweet scented flowers that same doleful and despairing wail is going up. No, Baker, you are not alone in being of the opinion
that this is a land of bad basketball courts—a land where the courts are so bad that none can win but the home team and it only after it has become inured to the hardships of its own court by hard, long practice.
With three games won and two lost the basketball team has returned from its invasion into the land of the enemy. An even break with such teams as represent Missouri and Washington, playing on their own courts, and backed by supporting rooters, is as good a record as could be expected from even so great a team as Captain Woodward heads. Upon their own stamping grounds the Jayhawkers have been invincible, on foreign courts they have more than held their own. The Washington games this week will decide the issue of the championship of the southern division. Washington has a chance to take the banner but the chances and the records seem to favor Kansas.
At the University of Nebraska they are having about as much trouble as we here in Kansas are having. Yesterday the state legislature visited the university, and an anti-fraternity bill is up before the legislature. At Nebraska all the employees at the state house did not accompany the legislature on the sight seeing trip as the university and capital are in the same town and the ride was too short to appeal to the psuedo-statesmen. ___
The bringing to the university of collections of art such as that now on display at the University should be a means of encouraging an appreciation of the beautiful in the University. Kansas has made a reputation for a good many things but has never yet been accused of being artistic. A great University like that of Kansas should pay at least some attention to the cultivation of the aesthetic.
The Topeka Capital says a University girl screamed when given a tip by a member of the legislature at the dinner in the gymnasium. But pray who wouldn't scream at such an unusual sight as a legislator parting with money when on a junketing trip.
The annual County Fair, which was to have been given this year by the Y. M. C. A., has been postponed indefinitely. Instead, the members of the association will hold a series of Olympic games in the gymnasium on March 6. Some of the best athletes in the university will perform. Everyone should keep the date open.
Olympic Games March 6.
Walter Wolcott, electrical engineer '08, who has been with the Burns-McDonald Electrical Company in Kansas City,has entered the University to do some graduate work.
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If you miss your breakfast, get it at the Peerless Cafe. Anything, always.-1009 Massachusetts street.
Wool Shirts
ON SALE:
Blue,
Wine,
Wine,
Red,
Grey,
Khaki,
Tan.
20 per cent Discount
Saves Laundry Bills.
SPALDING'S 807 Mass. St.
FOR WOMEN SCIENTISTS.
Mrs. S. T. Robinson to Maintain a Table at Woodshole.
Mrs. S. T. Robinson of Lawrence is offering an opportunity to all women who graduate from the science department of the University to do research work. The offer applies more directly to those who have specialized in botanical work.
Mrs. Robinson is supporting a research table at one of the largest and finest laboratories in America. This institution is located at Woodshole, Mass. Any women who desire to avail themselves of this opportunity will address Mrs. Robinson at Oakridge, Lawrence.
Kansan Writing Up Universities.
The Independent has been publishing a series of articles on the present condition and future prospects of the larger universities of the United States. These articles are written by Edwin E. Slossom, one of the editors of the magazine. Mr. Slossom was graduated from the University in '90 and from the graduate school in '92. Articles on Harvard and Yale appeared in the issues of January 7 and February 4 respectively. Mr. Slossom will take the other universities up according to their rank.
Track Candidates To Meet.
All candidates for the track team will meet with Coach Hagerman in the gymnasium, Saturday, afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Board and Rooms.
Board and rooms at 1605 Tenn. St. Boys or girls. Bell phone 2094.
The Peerless-after the show or dance.
We like to do little jobs of repairing. Gustafson the College jeweler.
Seniors—remember the date that your picture must be in for the annual. See Moffett at once and have them made. 829 Mass. St.
We appreciate the fact that we have most of the college trade, but would like to have more. Come here and you will be pleased with us and yourself. Gustafson the College jeweler.
Your Baggage Handled. Francisco & Todd AUTO AND HACK LIVERY.
818-10-12-14 Vermont. St.
Both Phones 139 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 Oh.o Street. Both Phones No 35.
A. G. ALRICH
Printing, Binding, Engraving. Copper Plate Printing, Sleet Die Embossing, Rubber Stamps, Seals, Badges. 744 Mass. St.
The Watkins National Bank.
DONNELLY
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.
DONNELLY N. DONNELLY Donnelly Bros.,
Livery, Boarding and Hack Sables. All Rubber-Tire Rigs. Both Phones 100 Cor. Newhamshire & Winthrop Sts.
Send your Laundry Work to
Woolf Brothers Laundry
All bundles called for and delivered OSCAR DAHLENE, AGENT Phones: Bell 203, 2295; Home 203, 728.
Swede Wilson's Pool Parlor EVERYTHING MISSION 728 Mass. St.
CITY Y. M. C. A.
Bowling Alleys, Gymnasium
Plunge, Reading and Game
Room. . . . .
Special Student Membership.
Special Student Membership.
Open Day and Night. Quick Service.
The Peerless Cafe
THE
Saratoga Billiard Parlor.
Everything new and first-class. Finest line of Cigars in the city. 710 Massachusetts.
COOK, HEAT AND LIGHT WITH GAS
Citizens Light, Heat and Power Co.
Hot or cold sandwiches at Vics.
Moffett—Photographer in the 800 block—If you have not been there ask your friends about it and make your appointment early. Either phone 312.
Lost-A gold watch Monday, February 15, '09, between Hiawatha Cafe and Fraser Hall, from 800 block to 1400 block on Massachusetts or from 1400 Mass. to Fraser Hall. Finder please call up Bell phone 1216 or call at 845 Alabama. Reward. See B. Leventhal, owner.