THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF: Paul W. Harvey, Editor-in-Chief Edgar Markham, Managing Editor BUSINESS STAFF: Ralph Harman, Business Manager R. K. Johnston, Assistant Bus. Mgr. Joseph W. Murray, Treasurer Carl Erdle, Circulation Mgr. MEMBERS OF BOARD: 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 business communications to Ralph Harman. Business Manager. 16 West Adams Street, Lawrence, Kansas; all other communications to Joseph W. Murray. 1129 La. St., Lawrence, Ks. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance; one term, 75c ; time subscription, $1.75 per year. Office in Rasement of Fraser Hall. Phone, Bell, K U 25. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1909 A GREAT FIELD FOR A STUDENT COUNCIL. The outlook for a student council is brighter than it has ever been before, because now for the first time the University is working together with the men of the student body to bring about its organization. But with all this it will take careful handling of the matter to bring about success. The new movement's greatest danger of failure will lie in any effort the students may make to have specific powers delegated to the council from the beginning, before it is known where the council's greatest field of usefulness will lie. It is especially important that at the outset no authority be asked for for the council which the faculty can not grant, thereby starting trouble at the very beginning. The new council will have its hands full for the rest of this year at least if it devotes its whole attention to devising means whereby the men of the University can be assembled together at frequent intervals with a view to getting them in the habit of doing their loafing and visiting all together once in a while instead of dividing into little cliques and crowds as they always have done. That is a field in which the new council would not conflict with any authority already established, and where it could do a service for the students which must be rendered before a student council will be in position to represent the students to the best advantage. Last night for the third time in as many years Coach Hagerman led his track athletes against Missouri, and for the third time his band met defeat. Coming to the University when small interest was taken in track and when the track team was only a name Hagerman by hard and persistent work has been able to develop fair squads and has laid the foundation for a great future in track athletics. Handicapped as he has been by the fact that nearly all his men came to the University without previous training, Hagerman has worked against odds and obtained results. At the expiration of this school year there will be a vacancy in the position of track coach, for Hagerman has resigned and will take up his work in California. The athletic board and the department of physical training can make no greater mistake than to fail to obtain the services of a good coach to take Hagerman's place and put the athletics of the cinder path and the field on a plane with the influence and importance of the University in all other lines of endeavor. A coach should be obtained who can be in Lawrence during the entire school year so that the athletes may work out from the day that school commences. There is a good man not far away, an experienced and successful coach in track and basketball who would come to Kansas with proper inducements. A start should made at once to land a man to carry on the work Hagerman has started. University Notices. The senior class will give a party April 8. Tryout for freshman debating team in Fraser Hall April 12. The Orchestra will give a concert in Chapel the evening of April 1st. The Y. W. C. A. will entertain the girls from Haskell next Wednesday afternoon. "As You Like It" will be played by the Thespians at the Bowersock Opera House on April 2. The Jayhawker baseball team will play the Haskell Indians on the Haskell diamond Monday afternoon. Dean Kayes, Grays Cathedral of Topeka, will speak in Vesper service Sunday at 4:30. Special music from Chopin. The Marcella Howland Memorial Scholarship is open to young women of the junior and senior classes of the college. Applications for this scholarship for the year 1909-10 will be received until April 15. Committee: Professors Galloo, Hyde and Oliver. The Masque Club presents "In the Bishop's Carriage" at the Bowersock opera house Monday and Tuesday nights. Report of Y. M. C. A. Conference. In reporting the recent Y. M. C.A. conference at Topeka at the regular association meeting Thursday evening. E. G. Corwine made special reference to the address by "Dad" Elliott on the objective points of Y. M. C.A. Elliott spoke of how the organization supplemented the work of the church. It also trains and develops men and enlists them in definite Christian service. Roy Speer reported on other phases of the Conference. Report of Y. M. C. A. Conference. Sporting Goods Just Received-A nice line of Baseball Goods and Tennis Goods. PRICES JUST RIGHT ROWLAND'S College Book Store. 1401 Ohio St. All Right Boys, TID will cut your hair right. 812 Mass. St. White Front. TAKE YOUR TIME TO IT. Will Still Be Opportunities When You Get Out, Says Dr. Henson. Dr. P. S. Henson, of Boston, entertained and instructed a large audience in chapel Friday morning with an address on the importance of taking more time for laying the foundation for life's superstructure. He rebuked the tendency of young people to get the false notion that all the great opportunities will be gone before they get a chance at them. Looking back through the 77 years of his life he sees many marvelous things have been accomplished in the world in that time but yet more startling advances are ahead of the younger generation. He urged his hearers to be loftily ambitious at the same time that they took plenty of time to accomplish their ends. The things of the greatest worth are the things of slowest growth. New Verein Ruling. The officers of the German Verein wish to call the attention of the members to the ruling made two weeks ago whereby any member who is absent from three successive meetings without being excused by the president or other officer of the Verein shall forfeit his membership. New members will be admitted on the recommendation of the faculty of the German department and election by the members of the Verein. STUDENTS SHOULD TAKE THE HINT. All students, ladies or gentlemen, expecting to attend the track meet in Kansas City this week, take the hint and call up 1400. K.U. Pantatorium. Pecan, walnut and roast almond crisp candy at Wiedemann's. --jor a course in Bookkeeping, Shorthand. Typewriting and Penmanship. Lawrence National Bank Building. Telephone 717. Ice cream all styles at Vic's. Let the O. K. Panatorium 830 Mass., upstairs order your spring suit and save you money. Have you seen the new bordered stationary at Stevenson's Book Store. The latest fad is having your Lunches served at the Fairfax after the dances. See them for prices. Buy your toothbrushes at Raymond's where you can find a good selection as well as various tooth powders. ATTEND THE LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas. THE Saratoga Billiard Parlor. Everything new and first-class. Finest line of Cigars in the city. 710 Massachusetts. CASH paid for secondhand Shoes and Clothing DAVE LITWIN, 1015 Mass. St. Citizens Light, Heat and Power Co. COOK, HEAT AND LIGHT WITH GAS Dr. A. R. Kennedy DENTIST Room 5, Jackson Building phones, Bell 1515 Main; Home 34 STUDENTS, do you want prompt service and good work done on your laundry? If so, call Wilder Bros'. Custom Laundry. Both phones 67. SPEAR & HANSON, K. U. Agent. 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. Bidg. Residence Lawrence Hospital and Training Sct loc. 1201 O.ho Street. Both Phones No. 35. 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