Kansas.
THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
AL Paul W. Harvey, Editor-in-Chief Edgar Markham, Managing Editor
EDITORIAL STAFF:
BUSINESS STAFF:
MEMBERS OF BOARD:
BUSINESS STAFF
Ralph Harman, . Business Manager
R. K. Johnston, Assistant Bus. Mgr.
Joseph W. Murray, . Treasurer
Ralph Spotts Earl M. Fischer
O. R. Baum Henry F. Draper
Flavel Robertson George Bowles
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.
Address all communications to Joseph
W. Murray, 1129 La St., Lawrence, Ks.
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advance; one term, 75c; time subscription,
$1.75 per year.
Office in basement of Fraser Hall.
Phone Bell K U 25
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1909
INGRATITUDE THAT IS UNDESERVED.
The people of Manhattan, or some of them, are, it seems, raising a lot of talk about the cut the legislature has made in the budget amount asked for by the agricultural college for the next two years. One of the newspapers there complains that the farmer boys are being discriminated against in favor of the "pampered pets" down here at the University, and winds up a scurrilous diatribe against the University and the legislature in these words:
And then, what makes it more unfair is that when the college fails to do all the work it could and should do, somebody (and he is usually from the university), will say: "The Agricultural college is not doing the work it ought to do."
However that may be, it is safe to say that the Agricultural College is doing some work it ought not to do, to-wit: It is giving a high school education, at state expense, to all the pupils of the Manhattan schools who care to go beyond the eighth grade. The town of Manhattan maintains no high school and has never had one. When the pupils pass out of the grades they go to the Agricultural college prep department. As the prep department is organized only with a view to preparing for the higher work of the school of which it is a part, no attention is paid to languages. Consequently, there is no place in Manhattan where a student may gain regular college entrance standing.
Now if the people of Manhattan are really desirous, as they say they are, of furthering as much as possible the work of the great state school located there, they have a chance to prove it by maintaining a town high school and thus removing from the agricultural college a burden by no means light. For twenty years other towns in Kansas the size of Manhattan have been maintaining high schools costing from $5,000 to $15,000 a year. From this can be figured that state money sufficient to put up several fine buildings has been diverted from its proper purpose of furthering agricultural work to the use of the town of Manhattan. And it also furnishes a partial explanation of why "The Agricultural college is not doing the work it ought to do," if such is indeed the case.
Today a new management is taking hold of The Kansan and will direct it for a year to come. It keenly realizes the advantages as well as the disadvantages of its position. At most an editor is hated by about two-thirds of the people, respected by possibly one-third, and loved by none at all. He mistakes who would direct a newspaper, and direct it right, with the sole end of making friends. If one flatter and pamper a vain humanity he may gain unreal friends at the cost of self-respect; if one back an unjust cause or equivocate at a critical point he may gain a following but no friends; only by meeting issues in a firm, manly manner and by boldly indorsing the right and the just can an editor gain genuine friends. And however few the latter be they make up for myriads of the former.
A movement is now on foot at the University to form a Cosmopolitan or International Club. There are a dozen or more students from foreign countries in school now and they would make an excellent beginning.
There's Class
in every thread and curve of our Spring Clothes for Young Men
Not only are we opening the season with the most advanced line of Suits and Overcoats ever designed for young men, but we have them assorted and exhibited in a way that will win your admiration the minute you step inside the store. It's one of the many innovations resulting from the improvements just completed here and which have made our store one of the finest and best equipped in the state.
BOX Chocolates
Quality Plows Sorority
in $ \frac{1}{2} $ lb., 1 lb., 2 lb. and 5 lb. boxes 40c to 80c lb.
—at—
ROWLANDS
College Book Store
1401 Ohio St.
A Cosmopolitan club has several good points. In the first place the foreign students in their meetings would become acquainted with the customs and life in all countries; their viewpoint would broaden correspondingly. Besides the club would induce other students from abroad to come to Kansas. One Bulgarian at the University has induced four of his countrymen to attend school in Lawrence in the past two years.
The new management of The Kansan has several plans to perfect in the course of the coming year. It shall be our aim to steadily improve the sheet over whose destiny we are sponsor. Before the present school year is ended we hope to enlarge the paper from four columns to five columns and before another year rolls around we expect to see firmly established at the University a good, five column daily publication. The steady growth of the school, and its prospects for the future well nigh insures the success of a daily.
Bananas and Cream at Vic's.
Kansas Is Seventh.
The Graduate Magazine of the University can boast of the seventh largest alumni publication in the United States. According to the Michigan Daily the figures stand as follow for alumni publication circulation: Michigan, monthly, 7,200; Yale weekly, 6,800; Columbia, quarterly, 5,000; Cornell, weekly, 4,000; Chicago, 3,900; Princeton, weekly, 2,800; Kansas, monthly, 2,000; Iowa, monthly, 1,600; and Oberlin, monthly, 1,500.
Dr. W. C. Payne organized a class for the study of the Old Testament Saturday evening. This is a lecture course and was considered a good one by those who took it last year. The work was begun late this year but a complete course will be given.
To Study Old Testament.
Harold Smith made a business trip to Kansas City Saturday afternoon.
Miss Clara Converse visited over Sunday in Emporia.
Up to date post cards at Vic's. Dont forget the SOPHOMORE PARTY next Friday March 5.
Get your ice-cream at Lee's. Gas mantles at Vic's.
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.
A. G. ALRICH
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.
Printing, Binding, Engraving.
Copper Plate Printing, Steet
Die Embossing, Rubber Stamps,
Seals, Badges. 744 Mass. St.
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.
J. DONNELLY N. DONNELLY
Donnelly Bros.,
Livery, Boarding and Hack
Stables.
All Rubber-Tire Rigs.
Both Phones 100 Cor. New Hammshire & Winthrop Sts
Frank Koch FINE LINE OF Spring Suiting 727 Mass.
Try a Banana Special at Vic's.
Ask to see the Harmony Chimes Perfume at McColloch's, The Rexall Store.
WHEN YOU WEAR ROYAL CLOTHES YOU SURE PAY LESS and DRESS BETTER.
If you are not pleased—Take no chances phone 506. We do the rest Lawrence Pantatorium. The oldest and the best equipped shop in the city, employing workmen who make their work a science, each in his own department.
The Sigma Chis had a group picture taken Saturday at Squires Studio.
Cameras and camera supplies at Raymond's Drug Store. This is fine weather to take pictures.
Last SOPHOMORE DANCE March 5, F. A. A. Hall. Admission 75 cents.
If you want a College hair cut, you will have to go to Lee's.
Ice cream cones at the Palace of Sweets.
Sliced Oranges at Vic's.
Toilet articles that will please you at Raymond's Drug Store.
The same standard of efficiency at MOFFETT'S in Lawrence as in Chicago. A reputation that speaks for itself. 829 Mass. St.
No. 93 Hair Tonic, a scalp invigorator and hair promoter sold at McColloch's, The Rexall Store.
Last SOPHOMORE DANCE March 5, F. A.A.Hall. Admission 75 cents.
We have photographed 180 Seniors. Get busy. Squires.
Let HIATT, the CLOTHIER ORDER a ROYAL suit for VOU.
If you want to find anyone, just call at Lee's.