THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas. EDITORIAL STAFF: JOSEPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief EARL FISCHER -- Managing Editor BUSINESS STAFF: HGMER BERGER - - Business Manager CLARK WALLACE - Asst. Bus. Manager HENRY F. DRAPER - - Treasurer J. E. MILLER - - Circulation Mgr MEMBERS OF BOARD. LOUIS LACOSS CARL CANNON WILLIAM E. HAMNER Entered as second-class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kausas, 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 Homer Berger Business Manager, 1406 Tennessee street Lawrence, Kan.; al other communications to Joseph W. Murray, 1129 Louisiana street, Lawrence, Kansas. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance; one term, 75c; time subscriptions, $1.75 per year. Office in BASEMENT of Fraser Hall. Phone, Bell. K U 25. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1910. COMING EVENTS. May 21, Missouri Track Meet May 19-20, Senior Play. May 28, Missouri Valley Meet May 28—K. U.-Oklahoma. Ten nis. COMMENCEMENT. The editor of the Graduate Magazine is devoting a good deal of the space in his publication now to advertising the many pleasures and advantages of Commencement, in an effort to bring back as many of the alumni as possible to enjoy the festivities and ceremonies of that occasion. In an editorial in the April number he expresses distrust of his ability to persuade more than five hundred of the thirty-five hundred alumni to come back. The proper person for such work, he feels, would be one possessed of a few years' experience as advance man for a circus, a few more as colonization agent for a railroad, followed by a term as advertising manager for the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. He continues: "There is nothing the matter with Commencement as an 'attraction.' Nobody who comes ever complains about the, show as he leaves at the end. Those who come once return again and again. The difficulty is to induce any of the three thousand to break, just once, the habit of staying away. The plain truth as told in the conservative style of this magazine seems unable to do it. That is where the Proper Person would come in. A convincing argument that the spending of a week on Mount Oread would enable any alumnus to double his income would bring a good many. A guaranty, with appropriate testimonials, that the Commencement week sunshine, together with the air and altitude of the campus, and the gentle exercise of parading to and from dinners and class functions, never fails to cure the most stubborn of chronic ills, would undoubtedly cause a large defection from the ranks of the three thousand. The promise of a side-show in which the Board of Regents, in a cage might be fed raw pig skin by the spectators would draw the athletically disturbed. An adequate description of the street ear ride from the depot to the Gymnasium, showing how tame by comparison Bright Angel Trail performance really is, would supply the irresistible part of the advertising for a good many. And so on. But in the absence of the Proper Person, the Magazine will be limited to the same old story and will look for the same old five hundred back in June-with a few new ones just for good measure." The raising of a scholarship fund by the Women's Student Government association is worthy of going on record as one of the greatest events of the school year. The faculty members and students who devoted long hours of hard work and weeks of careful planning to making the performance of "Alice in Wonderland" a success deserve not only the thanks of the students who will receive financial benefit from their labors, but of the whole University public. They have given an object lesson in directing student effort into channels where it is productive of permanent good. The light of publicity is to be turned upon the financial standing of University organizations by the enforcement of the rule requiring that the books of all organizations shall be submitted to a University auditor. The Kansan believes the students have a right to know in detail how the affairs which they have entrusted to student managers are being conducted. Publicity can do no harm and there is every possibility that it may do much good. A MUSICAL PROGRAM. Given in the Chapel Yesterday Morning. A musical program took the place of an outside speaker at the chapel exercises yesterday morning and every one present went away feeling he had listened to one of the best concerts of the year. It had been announced that Mrs. Mabel Gore Gleed of Topeka would play, but sickness having impaired her strength so that she felt unequal to the effort, she had secured Prof. C. A. Preyer as her substitute. By request Professor Preyer played the "Hungarian Fantasie," accompanied by Miss Maude Cooke. To say that Professor Preyer played with his usual ability is sufficient explanation of the pleasure with which the audience received the selection. Mrs. Gleed, who was graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 1887, was, however, able to be present and play the accompaniment for the violin solos by Mise-Fowler of Kansas City. Mise-Fowler's selections, Legendes and Mozurka, by Wieniowski, were so enthusiastically received that she responded to an encore with Humoresque, by Dvorak. The Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity entertained the Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity at a banquet at the Eldridge house last Thursday night. The Phi Beta Pi fraternity was lately installed in the University and the banquet was the welcoming of the old fraternity to the new. Medics Entertain Pharmics. Thespians Elect. George Richardson, recently elected president of the Thes plans, resigned yesterday to become next year's manager, and Tommy Johnson was elected to the presidency. Prof. J. E. Boodin Talked to Y. M. C. A. Thursday. SPOKE ON DEMOGRACY. In speaking on "The Habit of Democracy," at the Y. M. C. A. meeting Thursday evening, Prof. J. E. Boodin gave the men some characteristics of true democracy. Poverty is no necessary element in the members of a genuine democracy, as it is the spirit and not the material condition of life which determines. Boorishness has no claims, but on the contrary chivalry is the mark of the true democrat. Camera Club to Meet. Professor Boodin cited Ambas sador Bryce as a high type of the men with the spirit which he commended. He also mentioned Professor Jesse Macey of Grinnell College is a characteristic member of the real democracy. Professor Boodin closed by presenting Jesus Christ as the example for all who would exemplify the spirit which he advocated. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Camera club will be held Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the lecture room of the Chemistry building. The program for the evening will be a lecture and practical demonstration on printing from negatives by Ralph C Shuey. This meeting will not only be for the members of the club, but also for all people in the University who are interested in the subject of photography. Here We Are Again! Leading the whole procession. This time with about 75 totally different effects in of every conceivable shape, style, weave and weight. Some fancy, some plain and all of unusual quality and tone. Choose from all Straw Hats $1.00 to $5.00 A fresh shipment just received. These delicious Candies are selling at only Allegrettis Chocolates 60 cents per pound Smith's News Depot HILLIARD & CARROLL. 709 MASS. ST., Phone 608. "Meet me at Smiths." RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. Four Thousand Bulletins on Sub ject Have Been Issued. Four thousand copies of a twelve page bulletin concerning the religious activities at the University of Kansas have just been received from the state printer and will be promptly mailed out over the state. The larger number will be sent to the seniors of the high schools of Kansas. The bulletin will also be mailed to the newspapers and ministers. After an introductory statement of the relations of the religious organizations to the students and statistics concerning their church membership and preferences, the bulletin presents the various activities in more detail. The daily chapel exercises, the vesper service, the Bible Institute and other religious weeks are described as the part of the work most directly under the supervision of the University authorities. A picture of students in chapel and one of the exterior of Fraser hall are given. The student religious organizations which are mentioned along with a brief presentation of their purposes and work are the Young Men's and Young Women's Christion Associations, the Volunteer Band, the Missionary Union, the Religious-Philosophical Union, the Christian Science Society,and the Catholic club. May Install Student Council. The students at the University of Arkansas have started a movement to institute a student council at that school. A request was recently received at the University asking that copies of the constitution of the student council here be sent for examination by the promoters of the Arkansas movement. A. E. Meier, Princeton, '02, will coach the Tiger nine for the rest of the season in place of Clark who is leaving to play with the Albany league team. Meier coached the 'varsity team two years ago. Every student at Harvard here after will be compelled to pass before his junior year a special oral examination on reading of French or German prose. 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