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Kansas University Weekly.
THE ONLY OFFICIAL AND AUTHORIZED WEEKLY PUBLICATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL. XII.
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YEAR'S OF THE
WORK Y.M.C.A.
The Practical and Religious Work of the Association Which Gives It a Place in the University.
BY E. B.BLACK.
This week a new Cabinet takes charge of the affairs of the Y. M. C. A. for the coming year and it is only proper that a report of the work for the year just passed should be given at this time.
The work of the retiring cabinet necessarily includes the completion of some of the plans of the cabinet that retired in April 1903. This is true on account of the fact that the change of officers occurs when the school year is only three-fourths over, and plans made for the whole year must be carried out.
On September first the work opened up in earnest. Mr. C. W. Petit, '03, of the University of California, had been called to the general secretarialship of the Association, and he, together with a few of the Association men who had come back before the school year began, started the active work of the fall campaign. After a canvas of the student section of town, a card catalogue of rooming places was made and kept at the house for the use of students. The employment bureau work was also taken up early in the year and a thorough canvas was made of the city for places where men could work and carry their University course at the same time. Few persons, either students or those who secure student help, realize the importance of this phase of Association work: perhaps no one ever fully appreciates it except the man who comes to town with a few dollars and the determination to stay a year at the University.
The parlors at the house, with the games,reading material, etc., were put to good use by men who found the week between their arrival and the opening of the University a rather tiresome period.
to the general student body.
About eleven hundred copies of the Hand Book,published each year by the Association were distributed at the first of the year.
The Association parlors hvae been open to the men at all times during the year, and in addition to this several receptions have been given for the men alone. Aside from these, joint reception with the Y. W. C.A.have been given both at the house and in Snow Hall. Two of the receptions at Snow Hall are annual affairs, and all of them are a source of enjoyment
The regular Bible and Missionary courses have been running all year. We owe much to Mr. and Mrs. Payne for their interest in these classes and for the amount of time they have taken from their own work with the University Bible Chair to devote to ours. Mrs. Payne has had charge of the Mission class in Beach's "Dawn on the Hills of 'Tang;'" when this book was finished the class began the study of the lives of pioneer missionaries.
Two meetings per week have been held during the year, the Thurs lay evening meeting is the regular business meeting of the Association and is intended especially for Association men. Our Sunday meetings this year have been addressed by members of the faculty and prominent business men of the city as well as by the pastors of the various churches. We were very fortunate in having E. T. Colton of the International Committee with us in February for three meetings, open to all men of the University. Mr. Colton's visit did much to strengthen our work here and to mark out more definitely the general plans of the Association.
Through the efforts of Mr. J. H. Burress, Mr. F. V. Steele, director of the Schubert Club of Kansas City, Mo., was secured to present the program at the Annual Y. M. C. A. Concert in January. This was one of the most successful concerts we have ever given.
The work of the Association for the year compares favorably with regard to numbers and results with the work of the past few years. The work undertaken was perhaps greater than that of any previous year, our budget amounting to $1300.00. The success of the year's work is due to the generous and loyal support of the faculty, students, alumni and friends of the University.
Today the K. U. baseball team plays Haskell on McCook field. The K. U. team will be selected from the following men: Royer, C. Morgan, Allen, Henry, Wilson, Woodford, Dean, Diesem, D. Morgan, Sexton, Gillett and Brown.
Did "The Leap Year Girl" propose to you?
ATHLETICS.
K. U. Starts Base Ball Season by Tak ing First Game From Haskell— Success of Inter-Colastic
Meet Assured.
The first scheduled game for the University base ball team was played Saturday, April 2, with the Haskell Indians and resulted in a victory for Kansas by a score of 7 to 3.
The game was not an errorless one by either team but for the first game of the season was as much as could be expected.
The game to be played with the Emporia Normal at Emporia Thursday, was called off on account of rain.
The Inter-Scholastic Track Meet to be held on McCook Field April 29th is progressing faster than was expected.
Seven high schools have already expressed their desire to enter this contest; the Central and Manual Schools of Kansas City, Mo., the Kansas City, Kansas, High School, and the high schools of Lawrence, Beloit, Carbondale, and Ft. Scott.
This is one of the modes chosen by Chancellor Strong for the advancement of athletics and also of bringing the high schools throughout the state into closer touch with the University, and should receive the support of every student and instructor on the hill, because this will certainly be of benefit to the University.
The State Inter-Collegiate Track Meet will be held here April 23d.
The track men are out every night possible and are getting into good shape, being very much encouraged over the outcome of the in-door meet with Missouri.
The date for the Missouri field meet has not been definitely set.
Colorado University has been trying to get a date with K. U. for a track meet out there but it has not yet been decided wheth they will be given one or not.
There is a movement on foot by the Universities of Kansas and Missouri, Kansas City Athletic Club and the Kansas City Y. M. C. A. to get an amateur athletic field in Kansas City.
The proposed site lies north of 47th street and between Harrison and Campbell. This is a very suitable tract of land for an athletic field, being nearly level and large enough for all purposes of an amateur athletic field, and most of all can be purchased for a very reasonable sum.
The different institutionsentering into this movement are on the most friendly terms and as they have several meets in Kansas City each year it will be a money-saving proposition for them, as the per cent charged for the use of the athletic parks there is excessively high.
NO.26.
THE PLACE OF THE Y. M.C.A.IN THE UNIVERSITY.
A University Affair and on a Par With Other Student Activities.
A state university, because of the method of its support, cannot include in its course of study normal religious instruction. Every state university, however, fully appreciates the importance of the religious instruction of boys and girls. State universities also believe very strongly that in them should be full opportunity for development of the religious side of students. This opportunity must come through the voluntary association of students for that purpose. Compulsion is fatal to true religious thought and life, and upon the basis of freedom and voluntary association state universities have developed a type of religious life which is strong and pure and wholesome. In fact it is a question whether there is not developed in them a stronger and more viril type of christian men and women than in other institutions.
The University of Kansas, both as regards its teaching force and its student body, believes in this voluntary development of the religious life. It is the attitude of the administration that it is not the function of the university as a state institution to seek in a formal manner to change the religious or political views of students who come to it; that they should be accepted as they are, and given every opportunity and encouragement to develop their religious life on the basis of their home teaching. It also believes that it can well be left to the voluntary student organizations to encourage such students as have not been interested, to take a decisive stand in religious life.
The most important student agency for the religious life of men is the Y. M. C. A., which stands for the evangelical type of religious work to which either actively or by association the great majority of the students of the University are most closely allied. The whole atmosphere of the University is friendly to a religious association of whatever type it may be. I would mention three functions of a university Y. M. C. A. The first is to deepen the religious life with which students may come to the University and to interest such others as have had no specific religious experience. On this I have already spoken with some detail. Second, the Y. M. C. A. may act as a sort of club house and center of social life for many students who for vaious reasons not at all prejudicial to them do not enter social organizations. Third, the Y. M. C. A. acts as an employment bureau and performs a function of great value to many Continued on page6.