THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
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Ottawa girl—"I think it's just real mean that "Shorty" Hamill's music lessons don't come on Monday-there now."
The Harvard-Pennsylvania game takes place November 29th. It promises to be the hardest fought of this season's gridiron contests.
Nebraska defeated Ottawa, 6 to 0, which goes to show that some members of the latter eleven are better musicians than they are foot ball players.
"The result of the Ottawa-Nebraska game is good evidence that Gen. Toomey has not yet recovered from his attempt to sing at a recent Baldwin Methodist church festival.
The Missouri Tigers defeated the Hawkeyes, 32 to 6. Iowa barely averted a shutout, her one touchdown being secured on a fluke. This will make the Thanksgiving game with K. U. a decisive one for the Tigers. If Missouri should lose that game, it would mean a tie with Nebraska, for the latter is certain to win from Iowa. If the tie should ever be played off, we predict that the Nebraska boys will walk off with the pennant.
If we have not done anything else this year, we have at least learned one valuable lesson, that is: Never again to play a professional foot-ball team. There is nothing to be gained by it and it injures our amateur standing. All our defeats this year may be traced to one source—the game October 27th with the Baker-Ottawa professionals. There was no excuse for the game, except a false deference to public opinion which seemed to demand that the 'Varsity match itself in foot-ball against a paid team collected from the best foot-ball material in the West. Ottawa had already been defeated by a score that unmistakably showed her inferiority! $350 and her reputation was all it cost Ottawa to retrieve herself. Kansas University generously tendered her services for nothing. The result was a tie game that satisfied no one, but left the 'Varsity in a deplorable condition. Kansas University refuses to countenance professionalism in her own team; she should demand the same good faith before scheduling games with other universities.
The October Quarterly.
"We hate to beaten but we hate worse to have every one in town blaming us when we did all we could."-One of the eleven.
The Kansas University Quarterly for October, lately issued, makes a very creditable showing for the school. Professor Newson contributes "On the Hessian, Jacobian, Steinerian, Etc., in Geometry of One Dimension." Professor Murphy treats of "Irrigation along the Arkansas in Western Kansas." This article is fully up to date and thoroughly reliable, as the information upon which it is based was obtained by a trip through that region in July last Besides describing the various large irrigation systems, the professor has something to say of irrigation by use of windmills and of the under-flow in the valley. H. W. Menke contributes a carefully compiled "List of the Birds of Finney County," May H. Wellman has "A Study of the Prothorax of Butterfies" and W. A. Snow, in "American Platypezidae," writes of some of the rare diptera obtained during the past summer by the University expedition to the Magdalena Mountains, N. M. Arnold Emch contributes "On a Special Class of Connected Surfaces." The last article is "Foreign Settlements in Kansas" by Professor Carruth. This is the continuation of an article in a previous number of the Quarterly and is illustrated with a map of the state, showing at a glance the locations of these settlements.
Y. M and Y.W.C.A.Reception.
On the evening of Friday, the 16th, Mrs. D.C. Haskell, assisted by her daughters, received the members of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations at her pleasant home, east of town. Notwithstanding the coldness of the weather, Mrs. Haskell's parlors were, throughout the evening, filled with young people, every one of whom was having a fine time. Dainty refreshments were served and, with conversation and music, the evening passed all too quickly.
The Editor.
The editor sat in his sanctum Letting his lessons rip. Racking his brain for an item Stealing all he could clip.
The editor sat in his class room As if getting over a drunk. His phiz was clouded with awful gloom For he'd made a total flunk. —University Chronicle.