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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.
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 Rowles
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1909
All the state universities are busy at this season entertaining and coaxing the state legislatures to give them enough money to continue their work for the next year or two. In Indiana the legislature has probably greatly impeded the progress of the state university by cutting the appropriation by more than half, at Colorado the appropriation committee, after long and weighty consideration, has recommended that the appropriation for the university and other higher educational institutions except the state Normal school be cut. The same report advises that the state institutions for the insane, the criminal and the delinquent be granted in full and in some cases increased. It appears that about the only states which have received a liberal appropriation are those schools that are supported by a mill tax. In those states the legislature does not have the decision to make whether or not the University shall or shall not be supported. The amount of money received by the school increases as the valuation of the state increases. Until such an arrangement is made to provide for the support of the University of Kansas it will be necessary for the state institutions to be supplicants at the feet of the legislature. It will be necessary for the head institution of the educational system of the state to play the sycophant politician.
In Colorado there is a resolution before the state legislature which is being strongly opposed by a number of friends of the state university. It provides that the university professors shall be eligible to participate in the Carnegie pension fund. In Nebraska the legislature has passed such a resolution, and as a result W.J.Bryan severely censured the legislature for taking advantage of what he terms private charity. Now Kansas has given its independence a black eye by consenting to allow Carnegie to pension its educators who have worn themselves out in the service of the state. At Colorado the objection to the proposed action of the legislature is based on the prudish ground of "tainted" money. Of course such an argument sounds senseless when it is considered that the same tainted money has established
a library in almost every large sized community in the United States.
But there does appear to be a good reason why a great commonwealth should not accept of the generosity of Carnegie or any other private citizen. Is not the state of Kansas able to care for its superannuated servants? Why ask, or even allow, a private individual to perform a function which is so manifestly a duty of the state to perform?
PHI PSI BANQUET.
Celebrated Thirty-Third Anniversary of Chapter Here.
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity celebrated the fifty-seventh anniversary of the fraternity and the thirty-third of the local chapter here, at the Eldridge house Saturday evening.
The dining hall was decorated in the colors of the fraternity, pink and lavender. An eight-course dinner was served. Shanty's orchestra, seated behind a bank of palms, furnished music during the evening.
Prof. F. W. Blackmar was toastmaster. Fifty persons were present, including these out-of-town guests: James Searls, Marvin Creagor, Joe Dyer, William Dyer, T. F. Kiefer, Frank Blackmar and William Calvin of Kansas City; Ed Gelwix and Frank Merrill of Topeka; Dwight Davis of Stanford, Calif.; Fred Rea, Hiawatha; Fred Stocks, Blue Rapids, and Wright Russell of Austin, Texas.
Class in Mining Law.
A class has been organized in mining law and is being conducted by Professor H. W. Humble of the law faculty. The class meets every Friday morning in Green Hall and is open to all students that have attained junior or senior standing. The subject is one of the requirements of the Mining School and is given every third year.
Left guard Maddox of the Washington basketball team, was elected captain of the 1910-11 team after the game yesterday afternoon. Maddox is one of the best players on the Washington squad and played good basketball against McCune in the two games here.
Maddox is Washington Captain.
Wallace Pratt has left for Yocimento, Kansas where he is acting chief of the United States Cement plant.
The Acacia fraternity will hold initiation tonight for Bernard Stocks and Prof R. D. Landrum.
--the weather is bad, When you don't have to study,
Arthur L. Corbin, '94, has been raised to the grade of full professor in the Yale University law school, with a salary of $4,000 a year.
Milton Ross and Fred Hand of Parsons visited Sunday and Monday with Herbert Jonte and Dan Cadmus. Mr. Ross was president of the freshmen class last year.
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KEELER sells the Hammond Typewriter, the best machine. Big bargains in second-hand machines of other makes.
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Roscoe Ponsler returned Monday evening from a few days visit at his home in Iola.
Miss Margaret Lynn, of the English department, returned Monday evening from a short visit in Tarkio, Mo.
G. D. Corwine, of Mulvane, Kas., is the guest of his brother, E. G. Corwine.
Burton S. Root '07, physical director of the Westport, Mo.
High School visited with relatives in the city Monday.
John Johnson, a freshman in College, spent the week end at his home in Formosa.
Eugenii Barnes spent Sunday at her home in Kansas City.
Miss Gale Gossett spent the week end at her home in Kansas City.
Maurice Briedenthal was in Kansas City over Monday.
Miss Nancy Fisher has been visiting friends at Baker during the vacation.
A. M. McAdams visited over Monday with Leslie Zoellner at Tonganoxie.
A number of members of the Buchanan Club were in Kansas City last Saturday evening for a party given by the Misses Ethel and Elsie Luther.
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EVERYTHING MISSION 728 Mass. St.
About the handiest place in town to trade is at McColloch's Drug Store; it's the place where so many people buy their Post Cards.
Seniors, do it now before it's too late. Have Squires take your picture.
Try the orange ice at Wiedemann's.
MOFFETT is giving the same quality and service here that made the reputation of the Chicago studio, which for that reason still bears his name. The studio has been remodeled and made the finest in the state. Every customer satisfied and work finished as promised. 829 Mass. St.