THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
Paul W. Harvey, . Editor-in-Chief
Edgar Markham, . Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
BUSINESS
Ralph Horton . Business Manager
R. K. Johnston . Assistant Bus. Mgr.
Joseph W. Murray . Treasurer
Carl Eldy . Circulation Mgr.
MEMBERS OF BOARD:
Ralph Spotts  Earl L 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.
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THUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1909
Through the kindness of the Kansan Board, the sophomore journalism class is issuing this number of the University paper. The class assumes all responsibility for any statement made in this issue. The editorial staff for today follows: Ralph Spotts, editor-in-chief; Earl Fischer, managing editor; Frank Motz, assistant managing editor; George Bowles, athletic editor; Stella Cornell, society editor.
THE COLORADO DEBATE.
Saturday evening in Fraser Hall the first interstate debate of the year will be held. At that time the representatives of Kansas will engage with the forensic artists of Colorado. They will fight an intellectual battle—a game as hard as any gridiron contest ever fought.
Every University student should feel that it is a privilege as well as a duty to attend this interstate contest. A debating team needs support and encouragement as well as athletic teams and they should have it. To prepare a University debate is no holiday affair—it is the hardest kind of work. And then to speak to half an audience is disheartening, to say the least.
Let the boys know that there are two thousand students behind them, wishing them success. Kansas must win the first debate of the year and your presence will help do it.
The women of the University have shown much enthusiasm in organizing themselves in an effort to control the collegiate activities of the girls and to promote closer social relations. In this respect, it might be said that they are ahead of the men of the University. Many of them feel that they should have some representation upon the student council committee.
THE MARRING OF CHAIRS
In 1856, Amos A. Lawrence of Boston, after whom Lawrence was named, said,"On Mt. Oread you shall have a college which
shall be a school of learning and in which shall burn the light of liberty, which shall never be extinguished until it illumines the whole continent."
Since that time, the University of Kansas has advanced by leaps and bounds towards the fulfillment of that inspired prophecy. The liberal appropriation for the next two years will be another impetus to its rapid development. The organization of a successful student council will mark another epoch in the history of this University.
But one great reform must come before the institution can make further progress. If this reform is not made, the future of the University is dark, indeed, and its star of hope must grow dim and disappear. The cause of alarm is this: a professor of the University has willfully and deliberately marred the arm of at least one classroom chair; and some students have been guilty of the same offensebut then, man is an imitative animal.
Should this practice continue it will slowly and surely undermine the welfare of this school. It must be stamped out. The future of the University demands it.
The appointment by the Chancellor, of a committee to make plans for a student council should not be taken as a signal for the cessation of activity among the students for that organization. In order to get such a council, the co-operation and hearty support of every student is needed.
The student council at Michigan has passed a ruling that all students shall rise and bare their heads whenever "The Yellow and Blue" is sung or played. At a recent Michigan-Yale concert in Detroit, not a Michigan man arose when his college song was played. With the first strain of the Yale song, every Yale man in the building arose and remained standing until the piece was finished. The effect of such a contrast can easily be seen.
This most commendable custom should become established at the University of Kansas. When a person rises to the music of his college song he is not making himself conspicuous nor is he doing a "sissy" stunt. Nothing could be more indicative of the real love and loyalty that a student has for his Alma Mater.
Steele of Missouri is a great two-miller. But his ability as a long distance runner was hardly an excuse for his laughing and sneering at his opponent, whom he was able to pass.
How's this for financiering? A Literary organization of the University has offered a prize of $5 for the best paper submitted by a Freshman. But in order to compete, each competitor must subscribe to the publication of the organization.
There is no graft one half as good as honesty.
"RELATIONS TO YOUR COLLEGE."
This article has been going rounds of the college press. It is full of truth and excellent advice.
"Your college is just what you and your fellows make her. Welcome to standard high
"Keep her standard hig
"Do not criticise her failings but work to remedy them.
"Give her some return for all she gives you. If she provides you with the opportunities and the influences suitable to manly development of character and intellect, she has a right to expect you to make good use of them.
"Do not be blatantly telling outsiders what a fine college yours is, but give them a chance to see what fine material she turns out in the way of men.
"Support her teams but do not bet on them; do not place your fellows in the category of race horses or game cocks.
"The college gives you your name; be ashamed to disgrace it.
"Do not talk about college spirit and then continually act in a way which shows that you
do not know even what it means. You could as consistly boast of family honor while in the act of disgracing the family name. True college spirit is a fine thing to have, but its roots must find nourishment deep down in man's better self.
"Remember that all members of visiting teams are your guests and at all times and under all conditions treat them as such.
"Never be ashamed to confess your Alma Mater and never do a thing for which she can rightly be ashamed of you.
"The men who are most prominent in the world and who have the interest of their Alma Mater most at heart are not the ones who make themselves the most canspicuous when they return to visit her. Don't let appearances deceive you."
"Sense, sincerity, simplicity are the college man's 'Three Graces.'"
The students at Princeton University have formed a club for the study of wireless telegraphy. Why not be up-to-date and study aeroplanology.
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