The University Weekly.
Editor in Chief, CHAS. HARKER RHODES
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LAWRENCE, KAN., SAT. APR. 19, 1902
EADS IN DRESS.
Men of all times have had to deal with effeminacy in manifold form. Fop, macaroni, sport have found their circle in all civilizations. Literature sacred and profane deal with their ostentation. Even among the primitive tribes were found those prone to depart from the conventional dress of their day, dye their "gestring" a gaudy hue, bedeck their bodies with grotesque forms and sally forth to "eut a'dash." Or in later times we find the Roman dandy hanging his toga with studied negligence and assuming a raiment distinquished from prevalent dress.
Fads have their day, and fleeting, ephemeral, like the whim that devised them, few survive for permanency. The life or activity of a people, is not necessarily indicated by its ingenuity in inventing fads or its readiness to adopt them.
Instead of seeking to cultivate naturalness, and abandoning the prerogative of the untutored, many college students, for some unaccountable reasons, feel justified in promoting public predjudice against them, by assuming some distinguishing dress, manner or speech.
One of the latest appearance in K. U. in the fad line is the "stock." The girls should rightously resent this invasion upon their wardrobe. Their distinctive dress is becoming more limited every year. The next fad booked is "Kilts." Stocks, shirtwaists, and kilts, ecco homo!
The WEEKLY does not assume to dictate local fashions nor is this article to be construed as a personal tirade. We think that such absurd fads neither enhance personal beauty nor increase popular esteem. As fads they are decidedly effeminate, their tendency is toward the "Cissy." Should fads like these persist, become prevalent and have unhindered sway, by the year 1975 colleges will have to inaugurate departments of college spirit, work required, to get such a shockingly masculine thing as a college yell.
The uninitiated would think that an epidemic of throat disease was ravaging the student body. These stocks with which the students swathe their necks would find practical use in the Red Cross service as emergency bandages but here where such an exigency will hardly occur, they seem out of place.
The Base Ball Season open auspiciously. Victory has claimed us for her own. In the games with the K. C. Blues we were clearly outclassed, but in the inter-collegiate games so far we have more than "held our own." The attendance at McCook has been encouraging. But there is a noticeable lack of enthusiasm even when our team is victorious. The suppression of cheering and other legitimate expressions of spirit and interest, should not be encouraged. At every game the hill side is mottled with black forms of paissitical life which from this vantage point views the game without the least qualms of conscience. Such dishonesty needs no comment. Any student loitering on the hill or peeping through the crevices of the enclosure while a game is in progress, makes a great reflection up on his self esteem.
The editor implores the public to excuse the typographical errors that creep into this paper. The editorial columns have been especially unfortunate in this respect. The meaning of sentences has often been entirely perverted and the context destroyed by ludicrous errors. The deliberate substitution of words often occurs and the editor, later perusing the paper often finds that he has unconsciously made contributions to orthography not recognized by Webster or WorcesterDear reader, when hereafter there flashes before your startled gaze nonsensical combinations of letters or words. please do not attribute their presence entirely to the editor's deficient English.
The members of the Senior Play Caste are holding regular rehearsals in the Chapel under the direction of Miss Georgia Brown. The permanent assignment of parts has been made and the members are now giving themselves to assiduous drill. While nothing official has been given out for publication from inside sources we have incidentally learned that this year's play bids fair to surpass all former efforts of this sort. This school year has been peculiarly rich in local history and crises. From this wealth of material, competent hands have selected suitable portions and embodied them into a play of absorbing interest.
Those students interested in nature and plant study should arrange to accompany the Botany expeditions that, headed by Profs. Stevens or Baker, make excursions into the country every week. While these parties are primarily given for the classes in Botany, all students interested in such work are cordially welcome to join. Plant life is in a very interesting stage of development at present and much profitable information is to be gained by these outings.
There is danger in too much profundity. People who in their broadness attempt to harmonize all the subtleties of life or make the spontaneous outbursts of different natures conform to some stereotyped theory run great danger of destroying individuality. Men who can reconcile to one standard the grace of God and the wife of the devil should be watched.
The failure to receive your paper last Sunday was due to some misunderstanding as to the payment of the postage, and the postal authorities withheld the issue until the next day. The mistake was fully an oversight and the management keenly regrets the inconvenience occasioned.
In accordance with a prevailing "stile," flowers carry pistils more or less concealed. It is strange that the rarest gems of plant life, paragons of purity, models of beauty should thus be culpable in the sight of human law. Solace for the frailty of man should be found in this fact.
A rumor is current among the lower classmen that a postponement of the annual May Pole scrap until May 2nd, the remnants of the ranks consider it prudent to defer the affair until something interesting can be provided for the expectant public.
Some people cannot see a live joke. Only after it is dead, the humor extracted, and the careass embalmed with subtle refinement can they detect its presence and then by the odor.
If indexes are faithful indicators of financial standing, some of our poets must have been overwhelmingly in debt. They ode nearly everybody of consequence.
The irate papa who uses his pedal extremity to artificially accelerate the pace of the lingering suitor, need not of necessity be club footed.
Nature is capricious in the lavish bestowal of her bounty. She often provides the drunkard with a perpetual nosegay.
Printers have a landable purpose in life. They are ever trying to make a good impression.
"Why speak of fear!" exclaims Horace confidently, "have we not an 'Ode to Breeches?' "
"Yes, this is a big undertaking," said the embalmer; as he shifted the 350-pound corpse.
Many are the students who follow the advice of the hen and "Cut, Cut, &c."
There are some people whose minds are so active, their brains have no time to think.
The Boers should be a proud people. Every woman is a Du(t)chess.
President Jesse Defends Students.
Missouri University is experiencing a crises similar to ours. It seems the Sophs attempted to break up a Freshman banquet and a live "scrap" ensued. The affair was a simple exhibition of student zeal misdirected. The papers, however, took the matter up, maliciously magnified the affair and flung it abroad in under-score headlines for universal misunderstanding. At this junce-
ture President Jesse felt it incumbent upon him to give out a statement correcting the slanderous reports and in a measure defending the conduct of the students. The following extract from his article taken from the M. S. U. Independent:
In closing, let me say that while the conduct of some of our students on the evening of Friday, March 21, was undoubtedly reprehensible and worthy of punishment, many worse things happen on the campus of many universities every week. I would rather that my son should have done the worst thing that was done here that night than he should get drunk, or defile himself with women, or lie, or cheat on an examination or in a recitation, or win his neighbor's money in a game of cards. These things are happening in universities so often as to excite very little attention from the general public. In fact, when for some of these offenses we visit punishment here, many men rise to rebuke us, saying that such things are not startling in young men. But in my opinion these offences are high among those that damn souls. To try on a campus to break up an entertainment of fellow-students merely as a joke, and to go further in the attempt when op position appears than was first intended is a thing that merits punishment, but it is not to be compared with deliberate living cheating, debauchery or with many other things that are lightly esteemed by men generally.
Not to be Repeated.
Owing to an unsatisfactory contract the Dramatic Club has decided not to out "Shore Acres" on the boards again. At the urgent request of some of the leading merchants of the city, the Club had decided to repeat the performance, a certain stipulated sum of the proceeds to go into the Club treasury, and the remainder of the receipts to be applied toward banqueting the Surgeon's Association which convenes here soon. The next proposition of the merchants split the Club's share of the receipts in two, but they decided to go ahead. When the final contract came to be signed, however, the Club found that the presentation of the play risked a personal outlay, and all idea of repetition was abandoned.
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Mr. Noisinger Called Home
New Saratoga Pool Hall
Owing to the sad death of his sister, Mr. Rolland E. Nofsinger will not return to school again. Mr. Nofsinger is famous among football men as K. U.'s invincible right end, and his ability and prowess on the gridiron had won for him the captaincy of the coming team. In the loss of Nof. K. U. athletics suffer. He was a man to be depended upon in whatever position assigned. Whether goaded by defeat or victory he never lost his head but played an even steady game. Those acquainted with his home life, and the affection he bore his sisters can sympathize with him now in his hour of grief.
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Kansas City Medical College
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KANSAS CITY, MO
DIRECTORS
J. H. VAN EMAN, M. D. President,
W. C. TYREE, M. D. Vice-President,
T. I. BATTLE, M. D. Secretary,
D. R. PORTER, M. D. Treasurer,
E. W. SCHAUFFMAN, M. D.
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ANDRW L. FULTON, M D., DEAN.
ROBT. MCE. SCHAUFFLER, M.D. SECRETARY.
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