The University Kansas.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOSEPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FISCHER - Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
HOMER BERGER --- Business Manager
CLARK WALLACE - Asst. Bus. Manager
HENRY F. DRAPER ---- Treasurer
J. E. MILLER ---- Circulation Mgr
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M. D. BAER RALPH SPOTTS
GEORGE MARSH PAUL E. FLAGG
FRED B. FOULK
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY, 28, 1911
COMING EVENTS.
Feb. 3—Post Exam. Jubilee.
Feb. 3—Bethany vs. College, at Lawrence.
Feb. 4—K.C. A. C. vs. Kansas at Lawrence.
Feb. 10-11 -Nebraska vs. Kansas at Lawrence.
Feb. 16.—Prof. E. B. Titchenor in chapel.
Feb. 17-18—Missouri vs. Kansas, at Columbia.
Feb. 20-21—Iowa vs. Kansas, at Ames.
Feb. 22—Grinnell vs. Kansas,
Grinnell.
Feb. 22—Washington's Birthday Holiday.
Feb. 22-23—"The Bachelor," by Thespians.
Feb. 23—Cotner vs. Kansas, at Lincoln.
Feb. 24-25—Nebraska vs. Kansas, at Lincoln.
That it is the duty and privilege of the state to make education in the higher schools of learning absolutely free, "that not one poor, ambitious boy may be turned away from their doors,"" is the stirring idea advanced by General W. H. Sears of Lawrence in an interview given out at Washington this week. The question of fees at the state schools was discussed to some extent before the present session of the Legislature convened. There was a movement on foot to increase the fees now required of students at the University. The system of charging nominal fees is pursued in nearly every university of the Middle West, and in only one—Nebraska are the fees lower than at Kansas. The fees in the College of the University of Kansas are so low that it is unlikely that a hardship is worked upon any student but it is the belief of The Kansar that if any change is made the fees in the professional schools might well be lowered. An increase at any point might keep
some students away who otherwise would come. Fees help to eke out the income of the University, but Chancellor Strong has said that their chief use is in excluding the "floaters" and irresponsibles who ought not to be allowed to take away the instructors' attention from the students who have a serious purpose. They do not need to be larger than they are at present to perform that service. The idea of a University education absolutely free has much to commend it. Even the "floaters" and irresponsibles are given the ballot and have the other duties of citizenship incumbent upon them. The ideal of the State University is to prepare students for citizenship and even the classes excluded by the fee system might be made better citizens by an attendance at the University, however brief it might be
"Are you a real student, or are you merely attending school?" asks the Daily Nebraskan. This is the time of year when the answer in some cases is likely to be 'Neither.'
The visit of Norman Hapgood to the University has stirred up a considerable amount of healthy discussion among the students as to the real value to society of the causes to which Mr. Hapgood is devoting his journalistic talent. It was known in advance that Mr. Hapgood held some political ideas that may be called radical. Mr. Frank P. Walsh, who came to the University as the Y. M. C, A. speaker Thursday night, said more startling things, however. Probably they were startling chiefly because people generally have come to regard lawyers, as a class, as the conservators of the established order and as opponents to radical change. Mr. Walsh's address ought to go far toward removing any impression that lawyers are necessarily blindly conservative. He showed that in the progress of society there is work which no one can do so well as they. The visits of such men as Mr. Hapgood and Mr.Walsh are of the greatest benefit to students, giving the study of social problems the reality of living issues rather than reducing them to the dead level of purely academic questions. University students have reached an age when they must think for themselves. They can make better use of their book learning if they are visited frequently by men "from the firing line" who will arouse interest, argument, and support or opposition. A live idea in a student's head is worth a thousand stored away in books.
Why should the students, through their representative, the Student Council, shrink from the work of determining the eligibility of participants in student athletics? Is it because they are not in sympathy with the rules of eligibility, or because they regard such rules merely as a means of maintaining the respectability of the University before the other hold that it is the proper thing to
members of the conference, and disregard them if it can be done safely? If eligibility rules are at present unfair, it is the duty of students to agitate until they are made fair. Once the rules are agreed upon, the students should be willing to enforce them. To claim in public that the rules are observed while at the same time privately winking at their violation is as unbecoming to students, to use a mild term, as any other form of double dealing.
FROM OTHER COLLEGES
Forty-seven per cent of the students at Michigan are nonresidents.
A squad of one reported for the Freshman cross country team at Penn this fall.
Andrew Carnegie has g,ven $40,00 to the University of South Dakota for a library.
The new biology building at the University of Indiana was dedicated January 20.
M. I. T. is having trouble with electioneering at the polls for sophomore book board.
The University of Vermont has received a gift of $7,000 from the Rockefeller foundation.
Iowa medical school is to move to Des Moines, where more clinical material is obtainable.
A six-year course in conservation of resources has been established at the University of Michigan.
Of the 2,000 men in attendance at the University of California, only 350 are members of fraternities.
The basket-ball team of Cornell is to play twenty-one games this season, twelve of which are to be home games.
The Dramatic society at Tufts is known as the Pen, Paint, and Pretzels. It will present a play dealing with college life.
Prof. Josselyn of the School of Education spoke at Hutchinson Friday, January 27, in his series of extension lectures.
The Williams aeronautical society has ordered a biplane glider from the C. and A. Witteman Glider Co., of New York.
The students of Michigan now have to pay a library fee of $2. The money will be devoted to the purchase of new books.
A woman who hoped to take a course in vocal and instrumental music, registered in the winter agricultural course at Missouri.
The University of Caleutta, the largest educational corporation in the world, examines 10,000 students a year.
Miss Edith Sealy, of Kansas City, Mo., is spending the week with her sister, Marie, a freshman in the College.
Swimming is a requirement for graduation at Syracuse for both men and women. The course must be taken in the freshman year.
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KICKS.
Against Hissing.
To the Editor of The Kansan.
I move that this be declared the open season for the idiot who tries to express his school spirit by hissing the basket-ball official when a decision adverse to the home team is made. The game laws are being stretched entirely beyond their original intent when they are made to protect this kind of college animal. The worst of the situation is that he thinks he is covering himself with glory when as a matter of fact he is only making an ass and a cad of himself, and bringing humiliation to those who have any respect for decent behavior. There should be a committee appointed to clap the lid on when next this noisy nuisance starts to insult the official and disgrace the University.
—ENTHUSIAST.
Greeks First in Medicine
Prof. A. M. Wilcox of the Greek department was unable to speak on "Ancient Athens" be fore the Greek Symposium Friday afternoon, but will give the lecture later. He is sick with the gripe and is unable to leave his room. However the other two lectures on the program were delivered. Edmund Cressman, a graduate student, reviewed Doctor Osler's opinion of the Greeks. According to the speaker the Greeks were the first to use preventive medicine and were highly civilized. John P. Shea, also a graduate student, talked on "The Tribute of a Great Lawyer, Geo. R. Peck of Kansas.
E. H. Comstock, professor of mathematics in the University of Minnesota, visited at the Acacia house last Sunday. Mr. Comstock is the Grand Vice-President of the Acacia fraternity, and was on his way to Boulder, Colorado, to install a Chapter at the University of Colorado.
Fred W. Ott, a middle law, and Ralph Cone, a freshman in the School of Law, made a business trip to Kansas City, Mo., last Saturday, with the viev of locating there in the real estate business.
According to the annual report of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, there are now socialistic societies in seventeen of the leading colleges and universities of the country.
A New York University graduate with the class of '67 has received the gold medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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