THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL
Paul W. Hill
Editor-in-Chief
Elear Markham,
Managing Editor
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BUSINESS
Ralph Hammond. Business Manager
R. K. Johnston. Assistant Bus. Mgr.
Joseph W. Murray. Treasurer
Carl Eddy. Circulation Mgr.
MEMBERS OF BOARD:
Ralph Spotts Earl M. Fischer
O. R. Baum Henry F. Draper
Flavel Robertson George Bowles
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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1909
CONTROLOFCOLLEGIATE ACTIVITY
Most of the students in the University want a students day; most of the members of the faculty are willing that there should be a students day. Apparently there are no opponents to the new scheme. But despite the general unanimity of opinion the students day is probably about as far in the hazy future as it ever was. The governing system at the University is woefully incomplete because there is no institution or body to register the wishes of the student body and the faculty members and give their desires a quick execution. With a council of students and faculty to oversee undergraduate affairs the students day would have become a permanent feature long ago. With a council the nefarious system of class politics that is calculated to train University young men gum shoe methods and make ward bosses out of them would long ago have been abolished. The faculty, or some institution about or within it that few students know the nature of, is supposed to make rules for the student body. Yet the faculty, in a day of reform and purity in politics, has allowed an antiquated election system to persist; a system which generally chooses about the worst possible men for class offices and allows a dozen members of one class to sneak out in the woods and elect their officers, permits a group in another class to hold the election unannounced, and in fact forbids not methods in politics that would make "Bathhouse John" and "Hinky Dink" sit up in wonder and amazement. It seems to us that the next work of the Chancellor should be to establish a council of students under some kind of faculty control. In that way alone can many needed reforms be instituted, and what is more vital and to the point, only by giving the students a larger voice in school affairs can the well nigh dead school and class spirit be revived.
The success of the band concert last night provokes the thought that the University made a wise provision when it decided to encourage a band by providing it with a leader and giving it a share in the associated student enterprises. Aside from the fact that the band is indispensable at all games, meets, and other spectacular features of university life it is worth many times what it costs both to audience and performers for the band to appear on the concert platform to render a formal program.
Missouri is beginning to worry about the indoor Convention Hall meet on March 26. In fact several doesters concede the contest to Kansas. Dr. Monilaw even believes that Missouri is about due for a drubbing. All of which looks mighty bad for the success of the Jayhawkers.
Dean Templin quoted a noted woman as saying that "The life of a woman was a tragedy." A girl who flunked and was put out by the same Dean defines it as: "A comedy of errors."
Scoop Club to Meet.
The Scoop Club will hold a meeting tonight at the Allemania Club house. Prof.E.W. Murray will be the guest of the Club.
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Others $12.50 to $30
Sporting Goods
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Prices Just Right.
ROWLANDS
College Book Store
1401 Ohio St.
University Notices.
Last Junior party of the year March 19.
Senior party in Fraternal Aid Hall Friday night.
The Canoe Club will meet at 12:15 in room 15, Monday.
All senior pictures for the annual must be in by March 19.
H. C. Herman speaks at the Y. M. C. A. tonight at seven o'clock.
Track meet Friday at 8:00 in Gym between Baker University and K. U.
Scoop Club meets at 1200 Tennessee street tonight, at 8:00 o'clock.
The junior Pharmics give a banquet at the Eldridge House this evening.
Mechanical Engineering Society meets at 1301 Ohio St. at 7:00 this evening.
The Adelphic Literary Society meets in the Greek room, Friday, March 12.
Bishop Thomas F. Lillis, of Leavenworth Diocese, will speak in Chapel Friday.
The senior girls will give a Saint Patrick's party in the gym next Saturday night.
May Fete Committee will meet at Prof. Gray's residence at 7:00 o'clock, this evening.
Lee has received a fresh line of crushed fruits and syrups. They are fine. Try them.
Various kinds of shaving lotion for sale at Raymond's Drug Store, 831 Mass. street. Come in and look them over.
When the eye persists in playing upon the face, and the mind to dwell on the character and expression of the subject in a picture, it is evidence of good lighting and correct pictorial composition, but when the eye first surveys all else, and the mind carries more of the surroundings than the character and individuality of the subject, it is evidenced of defective lighting or composition or both; MOFFETT photographs are known in most lrge cities of the world by their quality of lighting and composition that give emphasis to individuality, which is the principle reason for their being sought by magazine publishers. There is but ONE MOFFETT known in the photograph business; he is now at 829 Mass. St.,—formerly the Morris Studio, which has been remodeled and made most modern in the state.
LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas.
jor a course in Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting and Penmanship, Lawrence National Bank Building, Telephone 717.
Base Ball Goods Kennedy & Ernst
826 Mass. St. Both Phones 341
Paper by the Pound, Envelopes to Match
Dr. A. R. Kennedy DENTIST Room 5, Jackson Building homes, Bell 1515 Main; Home
Phones, Bell 1515 Main; Home 344
Your Baggage Handled.
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AUTO AND HACK LIVERY.
818-10-12-14 Vermont. St.
Both Phones 139
Barriage 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.
201 Oho Street. Both Phones No. 35.
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Printing, Binding, Engraving. Copper Plate Printing, Steel 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.
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Donnelly Bros.,
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Stables.
All Rubber-Tire Rigs.
Both Phones too Cor. New Hamshire & Winthrop Sts.
Frank Koch FINE LINE OF Spring Suiting 727 Mass.
The Peerless Cafe Open Day and Night. Quick Service.
TUDENTS, do you want prompt service and good work done on your laundry? If so, call Wilder Bro's. Custom Laundry. Both es 67. SPEAR & HANSON.
Custom Laundry. 604 n phones 67. SPEAR & HANSON, K.U.Agent.
Pie a la mode at the Hiawatha.
Try Lee's creme de month sundaes.
There Were Many Kinds.
Dallas Hanna finished the classification Tuesday of the molluscs gathered last summer during the expedition on the Gulf of Mexico. Among this collection which numbers over one hundred distinct kinds, there are two especially rare specimens, the modiola, which are rare the world over.