University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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The Fortieth Milestone. THE best part of the annual progress of the University, as of the institution in general, is not material and visable. It is to be found in the annual increment of earnestness and sturdiness and power in the stu- dents, in the growth of capacity and zeal in the teaching force, in the knitting of closer relations be- tween the University and the people of the State. The year now closing has been a satisfactory one in these directions. In particular has there been a growth in the loyalty of the students to the highest interest of the University. They have come to feel as men and women their responsibility for the good name of the school. This feeling has led to the abolition, by common consent, of the good-natured disorder of class conflicts, a course of action which has aroused wide and favorable comment in the state and without. The tone of student life tends constantly to become more intense and business-like. There is a distinct and growing determination to correct abuses in athletic and social circles. In the latter line some hopeful experiments have been made. The near future will see the restriction of formal functions to temperate hours and suitable seasons. In athletics the University of Kansas has not in the past few year? suffered from as great abuses as many other institutions, and consequently the demands of the public sentiment of the country for reforms will involve less radical changes here. Bui such changes will be made as wisdom and experience have shown to be desirable and Kansas will not be found lagging in the forward movement. Not for some years has the University been represented by so responsible and conscientious a students ' journal. The relations of students and faculty have been most cordial and helpful. Outwardly the year is marked by the completion and dedication of Green Hall, by the formal opening of the Medical School, by the completion of the Medical Pavilion of the Eleanor Taylor Bell Memorial Hospital, and by the beginning of work on the Auditorium-Gymnasium, and the Clinical Laboratorv of the Eleanor Taylor Bell Hospital, both of which will be finished by another Commencement. Systematic work is now being pursued toward the developement of the grounds, beginning with Oread Avenue. That hitherto unsightly approach to the Universitv will with the summer become a creditable forecourt of the main campus. WILLIAM HERBERT CARRTTH.

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CHANCELLOR FRANK STRONG.

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BOARD OF REGENTS HON. WILLIAM A. WXVITE, Emporia. HON. THOMAS M. POTTER, Peabocly. HON. ALEXANDER C. MITCHELL, Lawrence. HON. SCOTT HOPKINS, Horton. HON. FRANK G. CROWELL, Atchison. HON. THOMAS W. BUTCHER, Wellington. CHANCELLOR FRANK STRONG, Lawrence.