THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY
Editor-in-Chief ... RALPH ELLIIS
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U. athletes last Friday night at the indoor meet again showed what they could do in defense of a losing proposition. The knockers at the University who have been insisting that we have no track material are silent. Without a training table; without a systematic course of coaching; and with only a straggling line of supporters, our boys went against Missouri's vaunted athletes and were only defeated by five points.
It seemed to be the general opinion among Kansas students that our boys would win nothing; that they were going to Kansas City simply to be shown up by the track team from Missouri. The long and careful coaching which the Missourians had received and the unswerving support which they have from their student body was all that kept them from being defeated. Had the Kansans received the same sort of preparation the outcome would have been different.
All honor is due the K. U. track team for their showing. Individually and alone they have been compelled to work and excepting for the few visits from Coach Moulton they have been almost unaid.d. I is to be hoped that the team's efforts will be appreciated and that something will be done for the track men in the future. If this does result, the Weekly thinks it knows of about three meets that K. U. will win this spring.
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THE WEEKLY has a pro- test to make to the athlet ic authorities of K, U. It doesn't pretend to be much of a publication, but it has the welfare of the University of Kansas as much at heart and is as much interested in University affairs as any other newspaper. And moreover it considers that as much courtesy is due it from University authorities as to any other paper.
At the indoor meet every Kansas City paper had a representative on the floor of Convention Hall-down on the field where they could get records of events correctly and see things to the best advantage. The Weekly representative wasn't allowed in the sacred precincts but was compelled to see what he could from a box and depend on an announcer for the result and time of the races.
Now the Weekly doesn't wish to be understood as thinking itself in the same class of publications as the metropolitan dailies of the city, tho' it was able to report the final score correctly, which one Kansas City paper with two representatives on the floor failed to do; but it does think that it deserves as good treatment as any publication on earth or off it. At the present writing the Weekly fails to recall the name of any paper that does half as much toward encouraging University athletics as it does. It makes little difference what sort of an athletic team may be representing K. U., this paper is expected to support it and does support it. For that and other reasons it would in return like to be supported.
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THE COMMERCIAL spirit of the age is fast invading the long standing conservatism of the college and the university. The decision of the Kansas University faculty to establish courses next year in Banking, Insurance and Domestic Economy apparently indicates that Greek, Latin, Philosophy and the other old standbys of the classical educational course are being gradually thrust aside for courses that will be of material benefit to the student after he has left his Alma Mater. It seems to be growing to be the general opinion that a student cannot afford to spend four years in studying courses that will not assist him in luring unto himself the almighty dollar after he has obtained his diploma.
The rapidity with which this new order of things has come about presents food for thought. At present perhaps only a common sense stage has been reached, where it is felt that every boy and girl should know something of the really practical affairs of life before they complete their academic studies.
But if this commercial wave continues to its height, it bids fair to sweep away the long honored classical university. It is within the realms of imagination to see a century hence no vestige of the modern higher institution of learning. Instead we may have huge factories which turn out business men and house keepers made to order along particular lines. The courses in Economics will be replaced by others which will instruct in the best methods of forming trusts following the Morgan text book or short courses in preparation for becoming walking delegates and union organizers; the English course to consist of lessons in writing patent medicine advertisements and a thorough course in writing bank checks and drafts; and the fierce foot ball player instead of sporting about the gridiron will learn the latest methods of rushing banks and tackling Wall street combinations.
The girls too ir their domestic science department will give up their German and French to learn how to carry on a winning conversation with the Irish cook and to make angel food with a thermometer; the servant girl
problem will take the place of mathematics; and the experimental study of various brands of breakfast foods will serve for her laboratory work.
Of course the "prep" department will be filled with embryo messenger boys with brass buttons, and little girls carrying big bunches of housekeeper's keys will listen with wide-eyed meekness to lectures on how to train the young. Greek and Latin may be used, but only for the purpose of anathematizing the dullards who are not able to become millionaires.
T SEEMS to us that it is almost time for another plea for a new K. U. song. The matter has not been brought up for some time and "lest we forget" the Weekly wishes to remind the sons and daughters of Oread that there is room at the front for a large bunch of song writers. Nothing does more to arouse enthusiasm especially at gatherings of alumni and at meetings of county clubs over the state than rousing songs. What we need is something with an abundance of life both in time and words, at the same time we believe that the songs should be of a distinctly college brand.
It is said that the Marseillaise was worth more to the cause of the revolutionists in France than an army would have been, and a good song for K. U. would have a similar effect upon the new University spirit. Why not pass the hat around among the students and alumni and collect some money to be offered as a prize for a suitable song. Sometimes a monetary bait does much toward bringing people out of their lethargy.
CHE MEMBERS of our faculty find it hard to decide upon what shall constitute a proposed course in domestic science. Some hold that students should be given special instruction in the making of angel food, while others maintain that graham bread is the only healthful diet. It is to be hoped that a compromise may be reached at an early date, as many of the young women of the University are anxiously awaiting an opportunity to put their culinary abilities to a test. The Weekly hereby serves notice that the department need not attempt to curry favor with the sheet by sending any burnt offerings to the office. We suggest that when the course is established students be detailed to the various boarding clubs for practical experience.
THE METHODIST conference retained Rev L.H. Murli; as president of Baker university. The Weekly extends to the Methodist school its congratulations. President Murlin has done a great deal for Baker and will in all probability do more before his connection with the institution ceases.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give Washburn $40,000 for the erection of a new library building. There is a rumor in Topeka that President Plass has decided to accept this little gift.
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