THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY WREKLY.
Editor-in-Crief...RALPH ELLIS
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THE LARGE percentage of University people at Jacob Riis' lecture Tuesday night should be a source of gratification to those interested in K. U. It indicates that our students are not so deeply plunged into their text books that they forget to keep an eye upon the outside world and what it is doing.
Probably the greatest public question in our country today is "Municipal Government," and the solution of the problem is yet to be worked out. The greatest agitator in the country for better city government and the uprooting of political corruption and boss rule is Jacob Riis, and every citizen of the United States should have an interest in what such a man has to say upon civic conditions and their results.
The university student who does not take every opportunity possible to acquaint himself with the questions of public, moment fails in his duty to his University. The public school system was perfected, not for the benefit of the individual, but for the ultimate good which its establishment would be to the nation. The State University should turn out citizens before scholars, and if a man does finish the institution without having some ideas of citizenship and feeling some interest in his nation's welfare and method of government, he has not performed his duty to his State nor been true to his fellow man. He is not the type of broad minded man that the institution will point to with pride in the future and say: "He belongs to us; we made him and he's a credit to us."
THE INDOOR track meet between the Universities of Kansas and Missouri, which is to be held in Convention Hall in Kansas City on March 19 is a new departure in Western athletics. Indoor meets in the East are very common and arouse a great deal of enthusiasm and there is no reason why meets between the Jayhawkers and the Tigers in the city at the mouth of the Kaw should not be successful in every way. The greatest obstacle in the way of such meets is the lack of interest in track athletics in Western universities. Track meets are in many ways the prettiest of all athletic contests and deserve a higher place than is given them by most students.
Good track men are harder to find than good foot ball and base ball players. It takes a great deal of hard, conscientious training to develop a runner, a pole-vaulter or a jumper and there is little in the training to make it attractive. Unless the honor of belonging to a track team is considerable, few men care to try for places in it. At Yale and Harvard and the Eastern colleges the track athletics are made much of and men consider it a great honor to win track letters. Until similar conditions exist here the track team will not be strong and the indoor meets cannot succeed. Students owe it to the University to manifest more interest in the track team and to give more encouragement to candidates.
This spring Fay Moulton, an alumnus of K. U. and a Yale runner of wide repute, will devote as much of his time as possible to coaching the team. Mr. Moulton wants it distinctly ununderstood that he will take no money in compensation for his services, for he takes great pride in keeping his amateur standing. Since one of the old students is so much interested in our track team, every student ought at least show enough interest to do all in his power to boom track athletics and to make the indoor meet successful. A trip to Kansas City to see the meet would be a very enjoyable outing and there will be special rates for the event so students should begin to plan to go.
WE HAVE a real live base ball coach this spring. Manager Plank has secured the services of James Durham, of the Kansas City Blues, one of the best pitchers in the American Association and an all around ball player. Mr. Durham arrived last Thursday and at once began work with the candidates.
This is the first time Kansas has had a regular base ball coach and the team has always showed the lack of coaching. Base ball requires team work as well as foot ball but of course much more depends upon individual excellence. Coach Durham will work with the men individually a great deal and teach them the proper way to go after the ball. In batting also the men are much in need of coaching and Mr. Durham can do a great deal of good in giving the men pointers on how to wield the stick.
Since the athletic board has gone so far as to secure a coach it is up to the students to give base ball most loyal support this spring. The schedule is a fairly good one and every one ought to turn out to see all the games on McCook field at least.
THE FACT that the Ottawa contingent feared that the Topeka auditorium would not be large enough for the State Oratorical contest would indicate that the Baptists are more numerous by one or two than they used to be, or that they intend to take the town along for protecting against belligerent Washburn students.
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ECTURES, as a rule, do not appeal wey strongly to the average student, unless they deal with subjects in which he is directly concerned. The moments not employed in hard study are usually spent in some form of recreation. With most students it is either work or play, there is no middle ground.
Many persons, however, are beginning to enquire into the value of such a policy. A disagreeable bookishness is sure to gather about the student who is always buried in a book; while on the other hand, there is certainly a loss when one's time is taken up with pure recreation. That the popular lecture fills a middle ground there can be no doubt. The lecture as a source of information has other advantages; it is usually not only first hand, but is up to date. A text book must of necessity be several years old before it can get into general circulation. On the other hand it is possible for a lecture to be colored by, though it does not include, the events or the discoveries of the day on which it is delivered. The value of this up-to-date information should be carefully considered when compared with that gleaned from text books.
Time is certainly not lost when spent in gaining inspiration from a lecturer who perhaps has devoted a lifetime to secure such knowledge at first hand.
MISSOURI University students seem to be having a fearful time over what they term "faculty interference in student affairs," brings to mind difficulties of the same nature which Kansas University used to have semi-occasionally away back in the past under the Disciplinary committee regime.
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FROM THE NUMBER of freshmen who have gone into training it is evident that something is going to be doing either in athletics or on May day.
THE MINNESOTA University freshmen have chosen green and white for their class colors. It's gold bricks to peanuts that they call it "Nile green."
The X. Y. Z. club met as usual last Friday evening. A good attendance was present and business commenced at once. Livers led parliamentary drill, devoting the time, very profitably, to convention organization and procedure. Extempore talks were given by Coleman and Finch. The question, Resolved that the present system of taxation should be supplemented by an income system, was affirmed by Robertson and Leinbach and denied by Ashbaugh and Tillotson. The judges favored the negative. The officers elected for the next term are: Livers, president; Elder, vice-president; Logan, secretary; Petit, sergeant at arms. Mr. Elder was elected to fill the vacancy on the board of directors. One of our best men, Mr. Cowdrick, is no longer with us. The club wishes him success.
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