Wednesday. December 20,1911.
THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
Page Three
KANSAS HAS HAD A PAPER SINCE 1874
SEVEN PAPERS HAVE BEEN ON CAMPUS SINCE
First Edition of Semi-Weekly Promised an Eight Page Paper.
(By Charles Benton)
Since the year 1874, the students of the University of Kansas have had an official paper controlled by the student body. The first paper published by undergraduates was the "Observer of Nature." This was the organ of the Natural History Society, and was edited by William Osburn. 77.
The next year a new paper called the Kansas Collegiate, an enlargement of the "Observer of Nature," appeared. Both papers were issued to the same subscribers under the same management. The Observer limited itself to scientific articles, and the Collegiate devoted itself to literary articles and news. Charles S. Gleed, edited the Collegiate and William Osburn the Observer.
After the spring of 1876, the Observer ceased to appear. The Collegiate continued to hold the field until 1878. In that year, two rivals appeared, the University Courier and the University Pastime. The Collegiate which was under the management of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity excluded other fraternities from having a voice in the paper. Then the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity organized the Courier. The Pastime was a private venture inclined to sensational news, and was published fortnightly. It lived until April 16th, 1879.
The Courier, on account of lack of support was withdrawn in 1879. The Collegiate took possession of the Courier and became the Kansas Review.
For two years the Review held forth in full sway without a rival. But in the fall of 1882, the Courier was revived, again as a revolt against the exclusiveness of the management of the Review, and continued to appear every night until commencement 1884, when dissention in its ranks disbanded the paper.
In the fall of 1884, it was revived and ran as a weekly. At first the Review opposed the Courier with a weekly called the News, but the Courier proved the stronger and the Review was suspended. In the following year, a quartel led to the splitting of the Courier into two sections. The Phi Gamma Delta controlled one Courier and Mr. John Sullivan the other. The paper controlled by Sullivan sold out to the Courier the next spring and the two were united again.
Kansan Appears
A paper known as the Times and published by non-fraternity men was the rival of the Courier for the next year but did not reach a second volume. The successor of the Times, the University Kansan, proved a worthy foe for the Courier for the year 1889-'90.
At this time, in the days of compulsory chapel attendance on Friday, the students and faculty began to see the advantage of an official school paper. One Friday chapel was devoted to the boosting of the embryonic paper, and speeches were made by the Chancellor and a number of the students. The members of the faculty divided the chapel into sections and made a personal canvass of the entire student body soliciting subscriptions for the weekly. The next year the Kansan and the Courier were united
After running for a number of years as a weekly the same proposition confronted the editor anow, that of expanding and improving the Kansan. The movement was started by Wirt McCarty and pushed so hard that it was soon carried. September 17, 1904, the first issue of the semiweekly appeared.
into an eight page daily." This true publication appeared every Thursday morning and Saturday night. The editors who so successfully generated the semi-weekly Kansan are as follows in order: Wirt McCarty, J. W. Kayser, R. L. Douglas, Carl Young.
In this issue the editor writes an editorial as follows: "The faculty and students demanded a change and it is now 'up to them' now to support the new paper. With combined support the Kansas will run and run until it runs
For four years the little semiweekly steadily improved with the increase in interest given by the students. On May 5, 1908, the Kansan became a tri-weekly. The first publication was under the management of H. C. Waters. It was tried more as an experiment and proved so successful that it was continued. The following men were editors of the tri-weekly in their order: H. C. Waters, Paul Harvey, Jos. W. Murray, and Louis LaCoss.
This is the evolution of the Kansan which started a little paper containing scientific articles, branching out to deal with University news, and issued at irregular intervals. Then development into a weekly, a semiweekly, and then into a triti-weekly. Now after three successful years with the three issues per week, the prophecy of the first editor of semi-weekly Kansan is coming true, "The Kansan will run and run until it runs into an eight page daily."
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