TO ABOLISH FEE SYSTEM AT U. OF K.
"MAKE SCHOOLS FREE,"
SAYS GENERAL SEARS.
Lawrence Citizen in Washington Interview Urges Legislators to Discontinue Fee System.
General W. H. Sears of Lawrence gave out an interview at Washington, D.C., this week urging the abolition of students' fees and the establishment of a free University in Kansas. The Kansas delegation in congress is said to be much interested in General Sears' views. He made public in the last interview the following letter from Chancellor Strong, written following a previous interview on the same subject:
"Lawrence, Jan. 5, 1911.
"Dear General W. H. Sears: I was interested in reading the dispatch from Washington in the Topeka State Journal in regard to your views about the fees charged at the University of Kansas. I wish to thank you for the same, and say that I have seen some indications of a movement to largely increase the fees charged at the University. I hope that you will be interested against the movement.
"To increase the fees at the University for the purpose of raising revenue is simply to put a tax on boys and girls who in large numbers pay either a considerable part or the whole of their way through the university. Large fees are a direct blow at the poor man and his children and are contrary to the interests of democracy.
"I do not object to a small fee so long as it is not large enough to be in any sense a tuition. It should not be a burden even upon the poor man and his children, but should be just enough to keep out the floaters or those who are not seriously interested in education, and whom the state could not afford to spend its money upon. Thanking you again, I am sincerely yours."
"FRANK STRONG,
'Chancellor.'
"Every member of the Kansas legislature should read the Chancellor's letter on this important subject, which is a message of hope and opportunity to the poor boys and girls of the state," said General Sears. "The text, the key note of this magnificent letter is found in this sentence: 'Large fees are a direct blow at the poor man and his children, and are contrary to the interests of democracy.' This is a trumpet call to the voters of the state to restore this great University to the children of the people who, while they are now paying more than half and perhaps two-thirds of the taxes levied for its support, are too poor to send their children to it and pay the excessive fees charged.
"In other words, most of these poor boys and girls need the money that is now taken from
them for fees, to pay for their books, board, clothes and incidents, during the school years.
"Rather than turn one poor, eager, ambitious boy away, who might become great in the field of science, invention or discovery, and, so enrich the world for all time, as Edison has done, rather than refuse him admittance, I would make this great, proud University absolutely free forever.
"Present this grave question to the members of the Kansas legislature in its true light, and I believe they will vote unanimously to abolish all fees, and at the same time give the University enough money for the maintenance so that the fees will not be needed.
"State Senator Louis P. King of Cowley county was right when he said: 'Small as my taxes are, I would gladly pay $1 a year more for the sake of a free University for the poor boys and girls of this state.' This is the sentiment that should actuate the members of the Kansas legislature today. The perpetuity of free government depends upon the widest possible extension of free education, and the higher the training that can be given the masses, the more surely will republican institutions endure."
Notice. Freshmen!
The following members of the freshmen football team will please report at Smith's News Stand on Monday evening at 7:30 to order class sweaters:
Zabel, Stuewe, Daniels, MacVay, Trickett, Yoeman, Magill, Bramwell, Dimmitt, Weidline, Campbell, Delaney, Parker, McGeorge, Kennedy, Helvern, Shope, Phillips, Lewensohn, Guilfoyle, Chesky, Keyser, Strickland.
New York University announces an evening course in journalism, under the direction of Dean Joseph French Johnson, in which instruction will be given by practical newspaper and magazine men, prominent in their respective branches. The courses include news writing, newspaper making, magazines and trade journals, current topics, newspaper practice, editorial writing and criticism, magazine writing, and special feature work and narrative writing
An amendment to the state constitution providing for the transfer of the last two years of the Medical school of the University of Colorado from Boulder to Denver, Colorado, is now pending before the people of that state.
Marian Young, who was a sophomore in the College last year, is teaching in Independence, Kan.
If you appreciate cleanliness, good fruits and syrups,try a glass of soda water at our sanitary fountain. O.P.Barber & Son, druggists.
A big music sale now at Bell Brothers. All the latest music for 9 and 15 cents.
A big music sale now at Bell Brothers. All the latest music for 9 and 15 cents.
The agricultural department of the University of California has sent out through the Sacramento valley a demonstration train of six cars.
FROM OTHER COLLEGES
The plan to unite the mining college of Minnesota and the state Mining School is highly disapproved by Regent Horland, of Minnesota.
In the medical school at Penn there have been courses established which have for their purpose the study of tropical diseases and their remedies.
By a majority of over sixteen to one, the Associated Students of California voted to reestablish rowing as an inter-collegiate sport in their University.
The new $195,000 library at Ohio State is under way. The contractor is ready to begin work and the building should be ready for use in the fall of 1912.
The students of the University of Michigan presented the battle in acknowledgement of the support given Michigan's eleven at ship Michigan with a silver bugle the Pennsylvania game last year.
Men pledged to the Indiana Senior honorary society wear a distinctive headgear. It is called the "Jaw Bones" hat, and is made up of the colors of the society—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and purple.
A student of the University of Utah was recently arrested and taken to the station to prevent his injuring himself, as he was thought to be insane. It proved, however, to be merely an initiation prank.
The engineering department at Wisconsin has received notice from the government that upperclass engineers and graduates will be eligible in case of war to commissions as officers in the engineering corps.
The Christian Association of the University of Pennsylvania has inaugurated a crusade for the education of foreigners in the poorer districts of the city. Classes have been established in English politics and American history. Twenty students from the University are already engaged in the work.
The Yale Alumni Weekly has been changed from private ownership to representative management. The owners have transferred the stock of the publication to a graduate corporation called the "Governors of the Yale Publishing Association, Incorporated."
Students in mathematics in the freshman class in the college of liberal arts of the University of Pennsylvania compete each year for a prize of $50. This prize is offered by the class of 1880 and is awarded to the man who makes the best average in examinations in algebra and geometry.
Ohio State stands a chance of getting into the "Big Nine" of the Western Conference if Michigan continues to hold out. There are at present eight institutions in this conference and they have passed rulings prohibiting contests with outsiders. It was thought that this would force the Wolverines to return and make it again the "Big Nine." Dr. Evans of Ohio State says that the students are all anxious to see the University a member of the Conference and it looks as though this could be brought about as State is certainly in a class with Purdue, Iowa and Indiana.-Oberlin Review.
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Student at Kansas Day Club.
Harry C. Allphin, a senior in the School of Law, will speak at the Kansas Day Club banquet that will be held at Topeka Tuesday evening, January 31 in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of the state into the Union. He will represent the Seventh Congressional district. His subject will be "The Young Republicans."
The Unitarian Church.
Preaching service at 11 a. m.; Sunday school at 12 o'clock; come to the opening exercises to see the pictures and hear the talk on "Art and Artists of Florence," given by Dr. Newport; classes for students in the German Bible by Dr. Newport, on social questions by Dr. Carruth; young peoples' meeting at 6:45 p.m.; leader, Dr. Clark; our attitude is "Truth for authority and not authority for truth." You are cordially invited to these meetings. P. M. Bennett, minister. Anna R. Manley and Frank E. Wells, student pastors.
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SUNDAY DINNER, JANUARY 29.
The College Inn, the popular College Cafe 12:30 TO 2:00 O'CLOCK.
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