UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
There are no gains without pains
there help, hands, for 1 have no lands or
nocks
GOV. WOODROW WILSON
The University has welcomed many noted men to address the student body, but the visit of Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey last Friday was of peculiar interest to all university people. All his life Mr. Wilson has been a university man; he is doubly interesting at present because he is a university man in politics, and because he is a candidate for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party this year.
Wilson is a great scholar and statesman. He is a great thinker who knows how to do things. As president of Princeton University he became a powerful progressive leader in educational affairs; as governor of New Jersey he has accomplished most remarkable things for the people of his state. Even with a Republican senate in the state legislature to oppose him, Governor Wilson has succeeded in fulfilling every pledge of the Democratic platform on which he was elected.
Woodrow Wilson is a man with the highest purposes. He is a man with firm convictions of the noblest kind. He is heart and soul a democrat.
Governor Wilson is a powerful speaker because his thinking is clear and his language is forceful. He is an orator of the modern school He has definite opinions, and his opinions command respect. It is fitting that the students of the University should consider the visit of Dr. Wilson to Mt. Oread an event of the first magnitude.
William Allen White has appeared during February in three leading publications of the United States, The Saturday Evening Post, the Outlook, and the University Daily Kansan.
A CREW
With two feet of snow covering the ground and with a foot of ice on the river, it may seem inappropriate to suggest that the University ought to have a rowing crew. The "Kaw" offers every possible advantage for this sport and contests with Washburn, the Agricultural College, and colleges that are situated near large bodies of water.
Rowing in most of the Eastern schools is a major sport and takes equal rank with football, track, and baseball. At Cornell it is the big sport of the university.
Coach Sherwin says that one of the things that puzzled him when he came to the University from Dartmouth was that with all the facilities that the University has for good crew work no effort is made by the students to add this sport to their athletic curriculum.
And why not? An effort is going to be made this week to ascertain whether or not the students desire a crew.
Think it over.
ANOTHER ONE GONE
Once upon a time, someone with a lump in his throat muscled, "one by one the leaves are falling." Just so today a number of ambitious studies
form a mournful chorus, the burden of whose songs is "one by one the grafts are falling," with an addendum, "and those now left are mighty 'ew.'"
The recent announcement that the management of the Glee club is henceforth to be on the honor basis the profits of the club to be turned over to the Students Enterprise Association, will cause keen regret among a number of University men who haddesign on this little "graft."
It was not many years ago that to manage the Glee club meant to make enough money to take one mar through a year of school. Within the past few years this has been changed somewhat, but until the recent action of the club there was still a trace of the old system.
However it is all changed now and by the action of gleemen themselves they have placed their manager among the list of University notables who are now serving their Alma Mater for honor, glory, and renown only.
For some reason an editorial that had been prepared for the special German edition of Friday was not printed, but its sentiment is so good that it will not be amiss to print it today. Here it is:
Hoch der Kaiser!
'Raus mit 'em!
Ach dau lieber Augustine.
One pleasing feature of Governor Wilson's speech was that he began on time, and an unpleasant thing was that he quit on time, too.
He—Is the Physics clock right?
She—Sure, the hands are right where they were the other day.
ROWING AT COLUMBIA
ROVING AT THE COLUMBIA Spectator has the following to say on their crew schedule:
The schedule prepared by the management for the crews, is the most comprehensive in several years. The most noteworthy part about it is that we are to row one of the big colleges—Princeton, before June. We have not done that since the last Harvard race—we have not had a chance to pull past a Tiger eight in a good many seasons. They are just taking up the sport again, but, although it is too early to get much of a line on them, we won't exactly be rowing novices. An important thing is that the race will be near enough to our graduates in New York for them to attend— those who find Philadelphia and Poughkeepsie too far. When they do see it it will mean more interest on their part in rowing and other athletic affairs here. The schedule will keep the crews busy—but it all leads up to highest efficiency and to our being first across the line in June.
There is one man in the freshman class now at Princeton who evidently has not heard that Princeton is aristocratic and full of distinctions based on wealth. He is a bootthek, the son of a Greek cobler. The lad saved up $350 by shining shoes in a big city and then came to Princeton last fall in the class of 1915. And he is shining shoes to put himself through college. His chair is set up on the campus at the east end of Nassau hall and he says that he has met with a warm response in the season tickets he has sold. Princeton admire a man like this and are helping him through.—New York Sun.
IN a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to his heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great tail an car of corn he was taking to the nest
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
"Why not come and chat with me,
'Why the Grasshopper,' instead of toiling
at the lawn," she said.
"I am helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Aud. "and recommend you eat."
"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; "We have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper took no food, and found itself dying of hunger, when it was the last distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.
"Not that I love the Freshman less but the Sophomore," said the landlady as she slipped an extra lump in the latter's chocolate. — Texas Coyote
Fresh—Say, what is a stag?
Boph—Say, stag, my child, is a beast
bobph—Say, stag
Prof - And what do you call the man who makes the allegation?
Illinois Siren.
Junior Law - Why er a the
nigator.
—Michigan Gargoyle.
Old Grad—So you met my son at college, have you?
Fresh- Sure, we sleep in the same philosophy class.
Columbia Jester.
Bible Student (preaching his first sermon)—"Yes, friends, I am trying to follow the divine injunction to cast out the sick, heal the dead, and raise the devil." —Columbia Jester.
FOOTBALL THROUGH AGES
From review of Parke H. Davies's
Winter II New York Press
"Football." November Bookman. Mr. Davis follows the trail of football until it is lost in the remoteness of antiquity. He marshals abundant evidence to prove that it is the oldest outdoor sport. In the twenty-second chapter of Isaiah is the verse "He will turn and toss the like a ball." This is probably the first allusion to the forward pass. One of the first acts of the Emperor Augustus was to demand a revision of the football rules. His grievance against the game as it was then played, was that it was too gentle, and therefore unfit for the Roman youths destined for military service. He selected a philosopher to effect the change, and this philosopher was the original member of the Rules Committee.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
Germans Played a Heady Game.
The old Teutonic tribes which Caesar found in Gaul, played a gentle game in which they used the severed heads of their foes as footballs.
In the year 1650 football was regarded as a national institution throughout Great Britain. The classic game of that time was a contest waged every Shroyes Tuesday at Chester, a fixture which antiquarians claimed had come down the centuries in commemoration of the day in the year 217 when the ancient Britons formed a great wedge and rushed the Roman garrison out of Chester. In Scotland, James II prohibited football in 1457, and James IV in 1481 ordered that "football and goff be cried down utterly". Instead, these sports increased in popularity. Throughout all Caledonia an candlename day, football was special observance of the occasion. Usually the bachelors were arrayed against the married men At Jedburg, on one occasion, the ball was kicked into the river, but every contest fearlessly followed in and waged the game up and down the river's bed, amid splashes and "bedablements" to the strident aplause of the female inhabitants who lined the river's banks. Thus we see that the injunction to "follow the ball" and the disregard of personal safety, go far back beyond the earlier days of football in Yale and Harvard.
In the autumn of 1875 a team of Etonians came to this country and played a game with Yale at New Haven. Four years earlier the first American Intercollegiate contest had taken place at New Brunswick, New Jersey, between the teams of Princeton and Rutgers. The description of that game is in amazing contrast to the sport as we know it today. The events immediately preceding the game were as primitive as the contest itself. The spectators who had arrived early, appropriated seats upon the top boards of a fence which partly surrounded the field, while the late comers found places on the ground. There was no admission fee, no waving of flags. The famous orange and black was still in the making. But there were college songs, and strange to say, a college cheer, Princeton's booming rocket call, bursting and hissing as it does today. The players arrived a few minutes before three, and laying aside their hats, coats, and waistcoat, stood accounted for the game, the only touch of costume being red turbans worn by the Rutgers men.
Eton vs. Yale in 1873
Yale's Tramp to Glory
top to bottom
In 1872 Yale led illustrious football career in a victory over Columbia, and the following spring Harvard met and defeated a team of
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation to posterity, let him consider what he knows and what he seems to like to know and what omissions he most lamentes. When I am reading a book whether wiser or less aware, it seems to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFT.
Canadian players from McGill University. This latter contest, was properly speaking, the first game played in America under Rugby rules.
On November 11, 1876, Princeton and Pennsylvania met for the first time. It was in this game that football costumes were first worn. The Pennsylvanians appeared in cricket suits of white flannel, and the Princetonians exhibited costumes of black shirts with orange trimmings around the necks and wrists, with a large orange "P" on the wrists. The same month witnessed the second meeting between Yale and Harvard, the first meeting having been won by Harvard in 1875. The Yale Courant concluded its description of the event as follows: "The gay suits of the players, the wrestling, tummling, and running, the equestrian feat of the Harvard captain, Curtis, and the lead over his shoulders by a hard pressed Yale man, lent a pleasing variety to the scene, suggestive of a Roman circ or hippodrome." A suggestion of the feeling in the rival camps is to be found in one of the Harvard periodicals, which gravely informs us that Yale's adherents prevented Harvard from converting Herrick's touchdown into a goal just as the game was closing, by carrying away the goal posts, a statement, albeit, that is gravelly denied by Yale.
High Cost of Football.
In the Yale-Princeton game of 1878 the cost of the field at Hoboken was $300. Its payment provoked severe criticism in the college and public press as a gross extravagance that would inevitably lead to the abolition of the game. Fifteen years later, the rental of Manhattan field in New York for, $10,000 for this contest did not evoke a line. A feature of the year 1879 was the arrival of the germ of training. An editorial in the Yale News called upon Yale players to "reduce their consumption of tobacco, and not stay up night nights lest they be not hardy enough to win."
Need of Rules
Meanwhile, however, the rules governing the game were in a sadly chaotic state. Safeties were made in profusion because they did not affect the score. There were no stated number of downs, to which a team was limited, in advancing the ball a certain distance, as in the contest of 1880, Princeton retained the ball through an entire second half. The first improvement to appear was signals. In the beginning, these consisted of sentences, thus Yale's first signals were two sentences, "Play up sharp Charlie," and "Look out quick Deac." Each sentence indicated a play.
The playing season of 1884 was opened gaily by the Harvard Lampoon which introduced its team as follows: "Harvard will be represented by a team this fall that is light and portable. It can be packed in a handbox and shipped to any point at trifling expense. After a good deal of hard training, it may be possible to send them even by mail provided permission could be obtained to ship live bait through the mail." There seemed to have been grounds for the Lampoon's sarcasm for the Harvard team was defeated by Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale by scores ranging from thirty up to seventy as against nothing for Harvard.
Coming of The Bleachers
It was not until 1897 that the big bleachers arrived. Up until 1891 it was a common sight to see spectators viewing the struggles from boxes or barrels placed against the fence. Those were the days when a team endeavored to play an entire game without the aid of a single substitute. They were also the days of the inexpert sport reporter who wrote his introduction long ahead of time and was likely to inform his readers that "Homans snatched the ball going southbound."
Following a custom now in vogue in the Western universities, Cornell recently formed an Esperanto Club.
The reason watchmakers never have the clock mended when they promised, is because by the very nature of their business they acquire a familiarity with time that breeds a positive contempt for it. Portland Oregonian.
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