THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
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The college makes a football team, and it is college spirit and loyalty that will pervade that team. A University divided into factions that take a lifeless interest in the eleven, that yell over a victory and kick over a defeat with equal vigor, will never produce a winning team. There should be throughout the college such a spirit of loyalty that the eleven will be enthused and each man feel that he is fighting not for himself but for the honor and glory of old alma mater.
Such a spirit would bring out on the field not a dozen men, but scores. It would make a man work to hold his position from the beginning to the end of the season. There would be no lifeless, half-hearted playing on the part of the man who thinks he has a cinch on the position. And, too, the side lines would be filled with an enthusiastic body of supporters who came to cheer, not to coldly criticise the playing.
A large portion of the old team and substitutes will return. Meanwhile, it would be well to keep an outlook on the promising material that is likely to enter the University from the preparatory schools. Every man can help in this. Use your influence to induce men to enter K. S. U. rather than some one of the smaller institutions of the state.
Now what are the prospects for next year? The past season has given us a good deal of valuable though bitter experience by which we can profit. The material here is good; better than many an eastern college of established reputation possesses.
It seems probable that the services of a thoroughly competent coach will be obtained. Now a coach alone will not bring victory. He must have the backing of the University. What the captain and coach say must be final. They should have control of the style of play, methods of work, and selection of the men. You may be assured that they will do nothing but what seems wise and for the best interests of the team. And they should be supported by the prompt, willing efforts of every man. This means hard work, every night, rain or shine.
Despite the handicap of the past season, Kansas has shown that she can play good ball, and that she has in her the right sort of spirit. The first half of the Michigan game proved this.
Next fall the crimson will again come to the front; and you will see Captain Williamson head the champions of the southwest; and mayhap in the not far distant future of the West.
A word regarding amateur sport may not be out of place here. There seems to be a growing tendency among some of the western institutions to import paid players from other colleges, and to play professional coaches as regular members of their teams. Michigan, Nebraska, and Baker are the most open offenders in this direction. That there is no rule forbidding such action is no excuse for so doing. It is a practice wholly subversive of the interests of true amateur sport, and should be stopped.
There has also been an unfortunate amount of dispute and wrangling over questions of refereeing and umpiring, manifesting too much of that spirit which
says, "Win a game fairly if you can, but win it anyway." It is a spirit wholly unsportsmanlike.
It should not be forgotten that college athletics are supposed to be carried on by gentlemen. Kansas as the leading college of the southwest must take a lead in these matters and keep at a high pitch the tone of amateur athletics.
F B. DAINS.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS GLEE AND BANJO CLUB.
Scarcely does the football season end with the disbanding of the teams after the final Thanksgiving day struggles, than college organizations of another kind suddenly come forth to mingle with melody and rhyme in the gladness of the Christmas holidays. It is very appropriate that Glee clubs should make their appearance at this, the merriest time of the year.
However, although the Glee and Banjo clubs come into prominence so suddenly, it must not be thought that their formation is an easy matter. Ever since the first days of October the members of the University Glee and Banjo club have been working away steadily to make the organization worthy to represent the University of Kansas. Starting with much better material than that possessed by former clubs, the Glee club has given its whole attention for at least half the time to voice culture, before the practice of pieces was taken up at all. The result is that the quality of voice of the whole of this year's club was equalled by only two memmers of the club of last year. Prof. Penny says: "The Glee club this year, is musically far ahead of any previous club going out from the University. Each voice has been selected with great care, and all the members have received private instruction from me. Mr. Farrell has brought the Mandolin club to a high state of perfection and its music will be entirely new. The club will be greatly strengthened by the presence of Mr. Farrell as solo violinist and Mr. Sears as elocutionist. The program is sure to please, as it contains some of the latest musical hits." But the reader may judge of the program for himself:
1. We are the Jony Gay Students Lacome
   Glee and Banjo Club.
2. March.
   Banjo Club.
3. Serenade Glee Club.
4. Seventh Concerto for Violin.. De Beriot
   Mr. Farrell.
5. Bedouin Love Song Quartette Pinsuti
6. “British Patrol”...
   Banjo Club.
7. “Old King Cole”.
   Glee Club.
1. “Harwood” Gavotte Banjo Club...Wheeler
2. Violin Solos, a b.
   Mr. Farrell.
3. “Insect Exterminator”
   Glee Club. Rowley
4. “Intermezzo Mascagni
   Banjo Club.
5. “Phyllis” Steele
6. Special—“The Midway”
   Mr. Sears and Glee Club.
7. Medley and Carmen of K. U Penny
   Glee and Banjo Club.