THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
SENIOR
LOUIS LACOSS    Editor-in-Chief
GEORGE MARSH    Managing Editor
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BUSINESS STAFF:
BUSINESS SI STAR
CLARK A VAILLAC. Manager
IRE E. LAMBERT. . Asst. Bus. M gr.
EARL POTTER. . 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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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12.1911
COMING EVENTS.
Dec. 15 — Friday, Law "Sorim"
Genevieve Smith, harp soloist.
Dec. 22, Friday-Jan. 8, Monday
—Christmas vacation.
Feb. 19-26—C. Alphonso Smith of the University of Virginia will give series of lectures.
DO YOU WANT A DAILY?
It has been suggested by one communicant to the Kansan that the average student has no time to read a daily such as would be published if the plans of the Kansan are carried out, and that there is not sufficient "hill" news to justify the increase in the number of issues.
Evidently a false impression has been gained. When the announcement was made that if we would have a daily we would secure telegraph service, it was not intended that the Kansan should attempt to compete with those large dailies who chripicle the happenings of the world at large. It is not intended that a daily Kansan should carry a telegraphic account of the war in China or the latest revolution in time that he cannot find some Jamaica.
By its prospective telegraph service the Kansan hopes to keep in close touch with all the large universities of the country and by a system of exchange it is hoped to carry daily briefs of what our sister institutions are doing. It is in this particular that the daily Kansan will differ from the Daily Missouri. This latter publication fills the office of both student and city paper and it has grown to be much more of the latter than of the former. The daily Kansan will never do this.
As to the assertion that there is not enough news to fill a daily paper, a visit to the "back room" of the Kansan office will convince the most skeptical. Last Saturday there were almost three columns of news set up that were forced out of the paper for lack of space. And this is not an unusual occurrence.
Do you think the Kansan can run on good wishes and lots of news? Every issue of the Kansan means an actual outlay of cash and the "ads" have to come in order to make the paper pay for itself.
Some students say to cut out some of the "ads" and print the news that is left over. How long do you think the Kansan could exist if it were not for its "ads"?
Surely there is no student on the "hill" who is so pressed for time that he cannot find a motime in which to scan a daily paper that will tell him of all the "doings" of the University.
Think over this daily Kansan proposition. If you have any suggestion, write us.
The Kansan must become
CHRISTMAS OPPORTUNITIES Every Day a Special Day
From now until Christmas our counters will contain many specials at greatly reduced prices===an inducement to do your Xmas shopping here.
A FEW SUGGESTIONS: K. U. STEINS, Etc., PLAQUES, VASES, PILLOWS,
BANNERS BOOKS, JEWELRY, BOX CHOCOLATES
Rowlands College Book Store
daily and every one must do his share
Have YOU PERFORMED YOUR PART?
REVIVAL OF BASEBALL.
Those who feared that baseball as a college sport in the Missouri Valley was dead, will probably find some relief in the action of the conference of Missouri Valley colleges which met here last Saturday. For several years the conference has been standing up so straight on the baseball proposition that it has been in danger of falling over backward. In an effort to eliminate entirely any trace of professionalism the conference has been so strict in its ruling that it almost killed the game as a college sport. Nebraska, Washington and Drake had declared that it was impossible for them to put a team in the field that would comply with the conference rulings.
But under the proposed rules men who have had real experience in the national game will be allowed to represent their university. Summer baseball to some extent will probably be allowed and the fact that a man has received some monetary consideration for his services will not bar him from participating in the games with other colleges. The general idea of the conference members was to exercise more leniency regarding the game.
Probably the conference recognized that unless some steps were taken this year there would be no baseball. Their action will tend to make the game flourish and every college in the valley will put out strong teams this year.
TOMMY JOHNSON.
One moment let the battle rest,
And wild applause to quiet yield
A requiem for the gamest dead.
That ever strode the checkered field.
Now let the waving pennons droop
And hush the battle trumpets' roar
As friend and foe the head bow low,
For Tommy Johnson is no more.
Pharmics Receive New Material
The captain of the Kansas host
Lies cold upon his snowy bier;
The peerless knight whose magic skill
The generous bleachers loved to
cheer.
That city knew his ebbing strength
That knew him in his flush of pride:
That day the same that marked the game.
The day that Tommy Johnson died.
Whose spirit rules the Kaias' teeth
enough through his form in death be
**cold.**
Arouse, ye "grids" of "Old Mizzon."
To meet the mighty foe of old.
Now blow the horn, renew the strife,
And let Mount Oread rise supreme,
As all her sons new courage take
With Johnson watching over his
And let the meanest man be brave,
The weakest heart beat fast and
strong;
Prof. L. E. Sayre, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, received a more complete set of Bacterial Vaccines, Tuberculins and Diphtheria Antitoxin from the H. K. Mulford Manufacturing company of Philadelphia. The set is mounted in a handsome case and will be placed on exhibition.
With Johnson watching o er his team
In years to come the Valley game
Shall have such kings as those of
At thought of him who, spent and weak.
This firm produces every va-
yore,
but none shall be so dear as he—
The gamest fighter is no more.
W. N. RANDOLPH.
Rules hero of the field so long.
Judge J. C. Ruppenthal of Russell, Kansas; delivered an address yesterday before the School of Law of the University on "Cooperation among Lawyers."
Kansas City Star.
1.
riety of serum, antitoxin and bacterian which are important remidal agents in the treatment of various germ diseases.
J. O. Jones who has been in the employ of the Idaho Irrigation Co., has returned to school.
Christasm Photos. Squire's Studio.
The Aeacias have pledged Oliver Rhine, a junior law from Washington, Kansas.
The committee on "Criminal Procedure" in Kansas is holding a meeting at the University today. Those present at the conference are Attorney General Dawson, Judge J. C. Ruppenthal, and Professor Higgins.
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