UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
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RICHARD GARDNER...Managing Editor
J. EARLE MILLER...Sporting Editor
RUBBELLE H. CLARK..Asst. Sporting Editor
EARL POTTER...High School Editor
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MONDAY, MAY 6, 1912.
SATURDAY'S EXTRA
Saturday evening the students received an extra sporting number of the Daily Kansan covering in complete detail the track and field meet on McCook field, the varsity baseball game with the Emporia Normals Saturday afternoon and several of the more important social functions Friday evening.
This special high school sporting edition was made possible by the work of the sporting editor of the Daily Kansan and his staff of reporters who sacrificed the good time other students were enjoying in entertaining their visitors from home, and wrote stories of what they saw, in order to make the paper of the evening.
Sacrifice often describes the work of the men who heel the news for the paper. Last fall when the best football games of the season were being played on McCook field, two of the Kansan reporters were required to remain at the office in order that the students might read a story of the game that night after returning from the game.
The best track meets are handled in the same way and many of the good speeches in chapel exercises are missed because the reporters are sacrificing some of their time for the good of their paper.
The picture of the baseball team that appeared on page four of Saturday's paper was published by the Daily Kansan through the courtesy of the Kansas City Post.
JOBS
Only twenty-one days remain before the student must plunge into the fateful week of final examinations and quizzes at the close of the year. So much must be done in the next three weeks—enjoy the fine spring weather when there is no great incentive for work anyway—explore the Kaw beyond the first bend north of the landing and serenade industrious "grinds" cooped at their work in their rooms.
For more than three hundred students, this is the fourth time that they have managed to exist through this part of the year at the University. For them another question that but recently has risen to great magnitude in their minds is uppermost now.
"What shall I do after I am graduated?"
They can plainly see approaching from afar the entrance to a long white road that stretches away to "the land knows where." What are they going to do after they have been graduated? So many seniors today have not the slightest idea of what they will make a life work after leaving the halls of higher education.
When they first entered the University, that road was barely discernable—there was plenty of time. They were attending the University—in some way or other the University was doing something for them—injecting into them an intangible essence of ability that would unfailingly make them better men and women when the time came for them to earn their own bread and butter. At the end of the long white road then there was a haze of glory.
Now after nearly four years of the joys, sorrows, cares, worries and enthusiasm of the undergraduate life the senior stops before this final plunge. Of what use after all is the four years of education the senior has acquired, and he is apt to ask himself just how it will gain for him all that it is vauntingly accredited with.
He is at the place where he must make a practical application of his education. He must get a job doing something for himself. Those who have thought about this phase of University life,—have planned their courses—will experience little trouble, but the number of men who are thinking of their work for the first time is woefully large and each one has to get a job too.
A survey of the contests in which the University has taken part in the last few weeks would seem to indicate that this is K. U.'s winning year. Here's hoping the winning streak will last until Missouri has been placed in the "also ran" list, in the meet next Saturday.
As a sort of test for the voter preliminary to the trying times attendant upon the big election next fall, the student voters in the University will be put through a series of local competitions at the polls that in themselves will make things pretty warm around the campus. The Student Council election this spring is very close, and the election of an athletic board following that, will merely keep the students in voting trim for the contest over the new athletic constitution that the Council is framing.
DISSECTING THE HEROES
Why is it that the investigators of history will not permit even the best established heroes of the world to rest in peace? What kind of a passion is it that leads them forever into questions of what cereal Julius Caesar ate for breakfast and what kind of dress Cleopatra wore at afternoon teas?
The only reasonable answer to these questions is furnished by the fact that most human beings are a little jealous. They are not willing that we should have our heroes without any thought of their possible vanities. They insist that all our heroes must have feet of clay.
We should really prefer to think that George Washington told merely the plain, unvarnished truth when he said he cut down the cherry tree. We do not like to think that he was boasting about it. It is also very disappointing to think that we have followed that Napoleon's fat old fellow, more like a poly-Poly Beau Brummel than the hero of many wars.
There is no comfort at all in the news that the account books of Chevalier, who was the tailor of Napoleon I, have just been discovered, giving the "Little Corporals" history from July, 1805, to June, 1809. The first thing that the iconoclasts dig up is that Napoleon was very hard on his clothes. He was growing so fat in one year that all the buttons flew off his coat, and he had to have a new back sewed into his coronation coat. Six pairs of trousers and two jackets had to be enlarged that year. He grew such a large bay-window effect in front that his hunting coats had to be loosened all around.
It also appears that Napoleon was a "tight-wad," as the popular saying goes. His habit of cutting down bills submitted to him was so well known that his tailors always put the bills for repairs pretty high so as to leave plenty of leeway for purposes of compromise.
But after all, these matters do not change history in the slightest degree, and they do not lessen the achievements of Napoleon. It is immatural whether he was fat or lean when he met the late Lord Wellington at Waterloo. It is also unimportant whether he used a straight blade or a safety razor. The tendency to judge heroes by the kind of clothes they wore and by their table manners seems, however, to be invicible as the suffragette movement—Washington Post.
A special to the Kansan this morning from Lincoln announces that Kansas has won first place in the Inter-State Oratorial Contest and Illinois second.
From the University Kansan, May
2, 1890.
HOW THE OLD BOYS
W. E. Higgins, principal of the North Topeka schools, visited Saturday with the Phil Deltas and other friends.
H. S. Hadley has taken C. A. Peabody's place as business manager of the Kansan.
The money subscribed for the athletic field is being rapidly collected. When this is all in, the fund will amount to about seven hundred dollars.
The senior's tree seems to be growing in spite of fate and green paint.
The sophomores painted the town last night.
AMERICAN INTEREST IN TRACK IS OF RECENT DATA
Popular In The Armies Of The Civil War. Columbia University Had First College Track Team.
In early Greece records of athletic triumphs were kept on urns and vases; in Rome athletic contests were chronicled in sculpturing on buildings; but there was no record kept in writing of the best athletes. In more modern times athletics have taken a different turn. Changes from time to time in the last century have been made in the events of track contests and in the contests themselves, and little record has been made of them.
"Organized track athletics in the colleges and universities of both England and America is of recent development," according to Mr. Jones, of the University of Missouri who has prepared a thesis on track athletics, "yet its true origin in many of the schools is a perplexing question on account of the fragmentary records kept.
FIRST MEET IN ENGLAND IN 1812 "The first place that track athletics are found in the English schools is at the Royal Military College at
Sandhurst. It is claimed that semi-annual field meets were conducted there as early as 1812 but no records were kept of them until 1840. The famous cricket run was founded in the late 1830s by theletic meet consisted of the steeple chase, sprints, scurry and hurdle races at Eton.
"Dublin University in Ireland was the first school on the island to organize athletics. This was done in 1857, but at earlier dates matches between members of rowing clubs were held.
"Organized track athletics in Scotland were common in the seventeenth century. Not until 1866, however, did the universities take up the sport and organize to promote it. In that year the Edinburgh University Athletic Club was organized. Other universities in Scotland were quick to follow the example.
PHENOMINAL RECORDS
"There are two periods in America that influenced college athletics. The first period was marked by a vague general interest in track athletics and other sports and extended from the early days to about 1860, when it took on a more definite form. The first American athlete of fame was George Seward of New Haven, Conn. Many tales are told of his ability as a runner; some, no doubt, are overdrawn. In 1844 he visited in England, where he competed in various races, making wonderful records and winning all races under the 440-yard run. According to a newspaper of the time, he won the 100-yard dash in 9 seconds; the 120-yard dash in 11% seconds and the 220-yard dash in 19 % seconds.
FIRST OXford MEET
"The track first meet in England was held at Durham University in 1852. The history of intercollegiate athletics between Oxford and Cambridge universities began in 1864. This was ten years before the first intercollegiate meet was held in America. The events in this meet were: 100-day dash, high jump, 440-yard run, 12-year hurdle, mile run, running wide jump, 220-year hurdle and two-mile steeple chase. Cambridge won the meet by taking four firsts events out of the eight.
"The first international meet in the British Isles was held March 26, 1877. It was between England and Ireland and out of twelve events,
FIRST OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE MEET
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
But how can I live without my books? I really seem to myself cripped and only half myself; for if, as the soldier's members, surely books are the limbs of scholars. Corasius says: Of a truth, he who would deprive me of books my friends would take away one or two of them. I will even say all desire of living.
BALTHASAR BONIFACIUS RHODIGINUS.
RAN 11½ MILES AN HOUR
RAN 11% MILES AN HOUR
"The second great athlete of international reputation in this period was Louis Bennett, a Seneca Indian, who was called Deerfoot. He was a distance runner. In 1863 he established five records in England, several of which stand unbroken today.
A London newspaper of the time contains an account of a match there in which the Indian was to run eleven and a half miles in an hour. He won the match and had sixteen seconds to spare.
CIVIL WAR DEVELOPED ATHLETICS "The Civil war played a very important part in the establishment and development of track athletics as well as of all other college athletics. In their leisure time during the war, the soldiers were in the habit of engaging in friendly athletic contests among themselves. At the conclusion of the war, much of these soldiers sentenced as students various colleges and exerted great influence in organizing college athletics.
It was not until the war was well over and all was settled again that modern athletics in the colleges began. Nor was it until in the seventies that widespread interest was aroused.
GORDON BENNETT OFFERED PRIZES
GORDON BENNETT OFFERED PRIZES
"The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of America, founded in 1876, was the outgrowth of the Saratoga games which were organized in 1873. They gave the first great stimulus to athletics here. James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald, was responsible for the Saratoga games. In 1873 he offered a trophy for the winner of a two-mile race at Springfield. The list of events was extended and subsequent meetings were held in 1874 and 1875 in connection with the intercollegiate regatta. In 1873 three colleges competed in the 2-mile event only; in 1874 eight colleges competed in five events; and in 1875 thirteen colleges competed in five events.
"The early history of college athletics in America shows that it has had an irregular development, a sort of wild, free growth. Faculties in many cases failed to wisely direct athletics at their beginning. In some schools the faculty paid little or no attention except in the way of discouragement.
COLUMBIA HAD FIRST COLLEGE TEAM "Columbia University in New York was the first college in America to introduce track athletics. The first meet in Columbia was held in Brooklyn in June, 1869. The second meet was held in the fall of the same year. The events consisted of the following: 150-yard dash; mile walk; 200-yard hurdle race; running long jump; running high jump; standing long jump. In 1871 to add the three-lead race and the steep-leash and from then on the events were increased from time to time. After this date track meets were held annually in the spring and fall. An annual appropriation of $200 was given the short at Columbia.
"The organization of track athletics in American colleges followed fast upon the example set by Columbia University. The dates for some of the more important of the Eastern colleges are: Yale 1872, Pennsylvanian Princeton 1873, Princeton 1874, Harvard 1874, Princeton won the intercollegiate meet of the American colleges."—University Missourian.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
Take a dash of water cold
And a little leaven of prayer
A little bit of sunshine gold
A little bit of sunshine gold Dissolved in the morning air;
Dissolved in the morning air;
Add to your meal some merriment
And a thought for kith and kin:
Add to your meal some merriment
And a thought for kith and kin;
And then, as a prime ingredient
A asterisk of粗壮香味 is.
A plenty of work thrown in;
But spice it all with the essence of love
but space it 'an with the essence or love
And a little whiff of play;
Let a wise old book and a glance above
a well spent day"
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