THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
LOUIS LAACOSS  Editor-in-Chief
CARL L. CANNON Managing Agent
BUSINESS STAFF;
CLARK A. WALLACE - Bus. Manager
ISAAC E. LAMBERT, - Ass. Bus. Mgr.
HENRY F. DRAPER - - Treasurer
M. D. BAER - Circulation Manager
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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, MARCH 4.1911.
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COMING EVENTS. ◆
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March 10—Indoor Track Meet at Kansas City.
March 15—Sylvia Pankhurst address.
March 23-24-25—High School Conference.
March 31—Engineers' Day.
April 12—Oklahoma debate, at Lawrence.
April 12—Oklahoma debate, at Lawrence.
April 22—Annual Interclass meet
April 24-28—Dr. Zueblin Lectures
 April 28—Junior Prom.
 April 29—Missouri Debate.
 May 5—Sohomore Prom.
 May 6—Interscholastic Track and Field Games.
May 14—Missouri-Kansas Duel
Meet, Lawrence.
lay 21—Fourth Annual Invitation Meet.
May 6-7—May Music Festival.
May 14—Missouri-Kansas Duel
Meet, Lawrence.
SUPPORT THE DEBATERS.
Last year there was a fair attendance at the only debate held here—the one with Missouri. But it is safe to say that the names of the men who represented this University against the other schools could not be told by twenty-five people in school. At other schools the debaters are chosen from a long list of try-outs and much enthusiasm is manifested by the students in their support of the team. Of course there are some who explain this lack of interest by saying that debating belongs to academic schools. If these people will notice the great enthusiasm that is shown by the students at the large colleges in the East they will find that the man who can deliver a public address is given the hearty backing of the entire student body.
The interest in debating at this University has never been in keeping with the importance that this phase of student activity demands. A comparatively small number of the student body try out for the team each year and the support that our representatives on the platform receive is disheartening both to the contestants and to the faculty members who have charge of these affairs.
It is the intention of The Kansan to give all possible publicity
to University debates to be held this year and it is hoped that the men who are to represent this school against Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado will receive the encouragement that their sacrifices demand.
The hair-raising flights of "Dare devil" Evans yesterday indicate that he has never felt the call for the higher life. The aviation meet at Woodland park was somewhat of a misnomer.
In order to keep pace with progress at this institution, we move that in addition to providing clocks in the class room, the authorities furnish alarms for these time pieces in order to indicate the time for rising to sleepy students.
The report that there is much carnage among the faculty in their basket-ball games comes as a surprise. We always imagined that a faculty athletic contest was about as dangerous as a war in Mexico.
And now the New York papers have it that the girls at the University of Kansas play poker for hat pins, jewelry and various other articles of femininity. The gross immorality of the students of this school seems to be shocking eastern newspapers into a distortion of facts that is far more harmful than a quiet use of poker chips. Oh, this college life is Awful! Terrible!
Beginning with this issue of The Kansan, a column of University news clipped from the University Courier will be printed in each Saturday's paper.
The Courier was the University paper published in the '80s. We believe that the students of today will be interested in some of the naive comments that were printed in the Courier and in observing that students have no changed a great deal in twenty-six years.
Reminiscences.
(Exerpts from the Weekly Uni.
From the Weekly University Courier for March 6, 1885.)
There was almost a war in the senior class last Friday.
Helen Bay climbed Mt. Oread Tuesday morning.
John Sullivan went to Topeka Wednesday to "lobby" for the Natural History bill.
Four pious students of the religious convent at Baldwin recently fell from grace in the matter of strong drink and no longer enjoy the liberal society of that liberal institution. Moral: "Beware of infidel schools."
Take your girl to Persall's for oysters, the only first class place in the city.
The price of votes this afternoon.
More professors attend chapel
"What the Courier Would Like to See."
That this is our last and the biggest Pennant and Poster Sale of the season.
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That the issues are often blurred was one explanation of the difficulty offered by Professor Meade. He is assured, however, that public sentiment is rising and he said that it was the special province of college students to thoroughly arouse people as to the basis of the real issues, to the end that conditions may be further improved.
A slicker combination that the juniors had last week.
Prof. Alberta Corbin of the department of German will speak in chapel Tuesday morning on "American Student Life in Berlin University and City." She will tell what the Americans think of the Germans and also what they think of us. She will compare the conditions of students in Germany and American Universities.
regularly.
A big crowd to go to Emporia next week to see Gilmore take the prize.
CITY POLITICS DISCUSSED.
Miss Corbin in Chapel.
Professor Meade Told of Chicago Election in Chapel.
The recent mayoralty primary campaign in Chicago with its large expenditure of money served as an introduction to a discussion of the problems of government especially of the great cities by Professor George B. Meade of the University of Chicago in a chapel address yesterday morning.
"The government has been depending upon the financial interests of the country in one way or another for a long time, but wrong relations between 'big business' and politics has seriously aggravated the evils of the spoils system," said the speaker. "If governmental functions by the agency of political parties are to be conducted in a healthy manner, the people themselves must take a vital interest in the problems and come to the polls," said Professor Meade. "The Oregon methods to make citizens intelligent have been useful in bringing the government close to the people, but it is astonishing to see how difficult it is at times to arouse interest in problems like city transportation which in their very nature are of vital interest to the community."
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OREAD NEWS.
Z. Wetmore, a graduate of the School of Law, is visiting his brother, A. V. Wetmore at the Acacia house.
Prof. F. W. Blackmar, dean of the Graduate School, entertained the members of the Phi Beta Kappa at luncheon Friday.
Charles Ise, who was graduated from the University in 1905, and who played on the varsity football squad, visited here Wednesday. He is now practicing law at Coffeyville.
The Beta Theta Pi fraternity will hold initiation today and tonight for Sidney Walker, Julius Uhrlaub, and Huntsman Haworth.
Prof. W. H. Johnson, the high school visitor, visited schools in Miami, Johnson and Linn counties this week. The towns visited were Pleasanton, Osawatomie, Olathe, Paola and La Cygne.
The exhibition of the girls' classes in gymnasium, which should have been given this spring, will not take place, owing to the extra practice necessary for the drills and dances for the May day fete.
Eight or ten Kansas men went to Kansas City yesterday to attend the District convention the Seventh district of the Sigma Nu fraternity. Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas are the states included in this district.
The meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, was not held last evening. The speaker, Prof. B. F. Eyer, of the Agricultural College, was unable to come, as he is quarantined at his home in Manhattan.
"TIME IS MONEY"
Ethyl Luther, '01, has resigned as teacher of English in the Clay county high school, and has accepted a similar position in the Kansas City, Kan., high school. Her sister, Winifred, '06, who is now attending school at the University of Wisconsin, will take her place in the Clay county high school.
When words fail send her a box of Wiedemann's.
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