K. H. Libary
Kansas University Weekly.
The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. X.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1901.
NO.15.
FOOT BALL.
MY DEAR UNDERGRADUATES!
AN ALUMNUS OF '79 OFFERS SOME SUGGESTIONS.
MY DEAR UNDERGRADUATE:
I am informed that the Christmas number of this paper is to be a foot ball number and, therefore, this epistle which I am asked to write shall touch upon the matter of college athletics.
I am pleased to know that you are all so thoroughtly alive to the necessity of developing and strengthening your mortal bodies. It is certainly your duty to build up for yourselfs all the physical health and nervous endurance possible. You probably have no idea how much success, even in the intellectual avocations of life, depends upon mere physical strength and endurance; and if you are not looking for "success," but only for usefulness and moderate contentment in the world, still for these you are equal-
seems a very hearty and, barring accidents, a healthy game, and if you are all playing it, as I should think you would be from the amount of interest you take in it, then I am very glad.
But some of the enemies of the game as now managed tell me that you are NOT all playing. They tell me that, as matters are now managed, foot ball gives a lot of fine physical exercise to men who don't need it. They tell me that each year eleven of the biggest, stoutest, strongest; quickest men out of the whole student body, elemen best endowed by nature and nurture with physical health and strength are selected or brought in, and that these men with other men from other institutions, of like endowment, do all the playing; while the physically weak among you wear chrysanthemums and sit upon the benches and shout; and for this and other reasons some of your instructors, who I believe have the best of intentions towards you, desire to discontinue the inter col-
ore.
Brown
Mass. St.
her. units and
One of the most popular forms of exercise now in vogue in American colleges is, I understand, the game of foot ball. I have always had a sort of liking for this game ever since I read "Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby," but I have never seen it played but once. It
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ly dependent for soundness of nerve and muscle. Nothing, I think, in my college curriculum has stood me in better stead than the two courses which I took in athletics; the first course from which I graduated at the end of my first year being wood-sawing and cow-milking, and the second course, which lasted through my student days, being newspaper delivering. I heartily recommend a two hours walk before breakfast every morning. I took this exercise for over two years and, as the tramp said in regard to Pearl's Soap, I haven't taken any other since. These courses, I understand, have generally been abolished and other forms of exercise, possibly as good, have taken their place.
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"Way Down East, the great New York success which this city is to have, Monday, Jan. 20 is a rural play, the locale being New England with an abundance of those unique types of character which are supposed to exist thereabouts and nowhere else in this broad land. These homely characteristics are made to appeal strongly to everyone, and there is a happy combination of the domestic with the dramatic in the framing of a play that is treated in an original manner,
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ving the interest until the curtain. It is to be given complete scenery, a special any, and mechanical effects will be shown for the first on any stage and a produc's famous as ever given in York, Chicago and Phila-
SOCIETY.
East Side Whist Club was ened Tuesday evening by Miss at her home on Tennessee . Misses Jennie Barrett and Schneider and Messrs Hoyt man and George Belt were s of the club.
Brown County students of the University had a banquet on night of December 26, in Hiawat that about fifty were pres Brown county has 38 students University this year and one purposes is to maintain a arship there for some worthy n county young man or in.
Xmas day Miss Abbie Clark Robert Bright were married at bride's home in Warrensberg, as. Miss Clark attended the ersity several years ago and Bright graduated in the class 0 and is now private secretary acting Chancellor. Both have friends in Lawrence among town people and the students all wish them much happiness. ric Nelson, daughter of Judge Mrs. G. H. Nelson, and Richard r Davis of Goodnight, Texas, married Christmas evening at bride's home 3225 Prospect Ave. sas City, Missouri. The bride a student at the University two ago and a member of the pa Alpha Theta fraternity. The m is a teacher of Latin and nematics in the Goodnight col. They will reside in Goodnight.
first of the spring parties was n by the Betas Friday night atian hall. The hall was beauti decorated with palms and greens, the chandeliers covered evergreen, and the walls drape a pink and blue. A charming room was formed at the west by a screen of evergreens exiting across the hall. There were eyosy corners and comfortable a-tetes arranged with sofas and pillows and easy chairs. Rements were served in the upper ony, and the music was furnishery Steinberg's orchestra. The sts were received by Misses s, Armsby, Leland and Messrs ies, Baxter and Bliss. Miss Cross e black liberty silk, Miss Armsgreen silk mull, trimmed with point lace, and Miss Leland te organdie with a duchesse lace sha. The dance was opened with and march at 8 o'clock, led by fessor and Mrs. Haworth, and
"Home Sweet Home" was played at twelve. This is quite an innovation as at former spring parties the dancing has usually begun about ten and ended correspondingly late. The out-of-town guests were, Mrs. W. D. Judd of St. Louis, Misses Smith, Fassler, Lord, Gay, and Devereux and Messrs Wilson, Guild and Ewart, of Topcka, Miss Elizabeth Swartz, Messrs. Parent and Kane, of Kansas City, Misses Beach, and Miller, and Mr. Kelley, of Olathe, Gran Sallee of Emporia, Mr. Griggs of Kansas City and Miss Fredericka Bullene, of Denver.
Oratorical contest.