Kansas University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief...RACHEL PUGH.
Associates \ H. H. TANGENAM.
\ A. H. SEDON.
Literary...C. A. GARDNER.
Society Editor...ANNA WARFIELD.
Athletic Editor...E. E. SALLEE.
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J. M. RADER, J. SCHROEDER, F. L, TILFORD, WILL K. MURPHY, MYRN L. HUMPREY, WALTER J. MEKE, JOHN A. DREVLIN, J. H. LANGWORTH, E.W. MURRAY
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LAWRENCE, KAN., SAT. SEPT. 21. 1901.
Mr. C. A Smith of the basketball team is the third of the athletic captains failing to return. Being a good player he will be missed as a valuable member of the team.
Already great interest is shown in the foot ball team. There are good strong men for Coach Outland to work on and they are showing rapid improvement under his skillful training.
The registration at this time is nearly one hundred higher than it was on the corresponding date last year. Whether it will continue higher all the year is a matter of conjecture. Expectations were, when the school year opened, that the attendance would hardly be so high this year as last, for the hard summer in all probability reduced the possibilities for students. Few of the schools of the state are keeping up to their last year's record in attendance. It will be nothing surprising if the University suffers with the others from the long drought. Whatever the number, at any rate the University has certainly not suffered in the kind of students that have entered this year. Quality, if not quantity, can be said to be her strong point this year. Seldom has an incoming set of students appeared more worthy of admiration than these that K.U. welcomes this fall. The tone of the student body as a whole seems to have risen this fall. Men and girls of earnestness, high ambition and of good ability, seem to abound. As a general rule, the new students seem to be older in appearance, more practical and experienced than those who often come to us. The average atmosphere is more dignified, more sound and healthful and more cool, calm and collected. The extremely rash and youthful sort of individual seems to have decamped to other climes, for as a whole the University has assumed a better tone. There are a number of very young boys entering the University, but fewer girls who exhibit so clearly that characteristic. We have gained a set of self-reliant and independent young men and women, who will help to raise the standard of the college.
The paving of Tennessee street seems to have attracted a great many of the students upon that street. Never before was every
house on that street so crowded. For blocks there is hardly a house that has not some student roomers or boarders. They seem to have crowded to this end of the town with great persistence. The twelve and thirteen hundred blocks especially are overcrowded. Ohio street, too, and Kentucky, are more crowded in these two blocks than ever before. Every one seems to move toward the center of interest—the University.
Club life is more in favor than ever among the students. All the good clubs are filled, and others are being formed as the students come in. The Bingler Club, the Rench Club, the Street, O'Bryon and the men's German Clubs, are very popular this year. The new German club, called the "Allemania," is much the same as last year, and holds forth at the old stand on Vermont street. In the same block (1300), the Utopia Club is located, with twenty-four members. The college club, under Mr. Foster's direction is rapidly assuming proportions as great as those of last year. A new club of ten has been formed at Mrs. McCrory's on Tennessee street. All the clubs are charging higher rates this year. Food is higher than last year, and in order to keep up to the average, it is necessary to do this. From three dollars to three and a half is the average price this year.
Several of the fraternities have formed clubs of their own This is easy in the case of those which have fraternity houses. The Phi Pi's, located at their new quarters on Louisiana street, are very comfortably situated. The Sigma Chi house has been remodelled and added to, so as to make a very commodious fraternity dwelling. The Betas are at the old stand, Away down in the 600 block on Tennessee the Phi Delt boys are stationed, in an exceedingly pretty and convenient home- The Pi Phi house, on Tennessee street, will be finished early in October, and will accommodate twelve girls. The Kappa house is at 1029 Kentucky. There are nine girls rooming there this year.
The hurry, the worry, the hustle and bustle attendant upon the opening of the University year is, in every point, marked by general good will and bon-comradrie. The spirit of college friendliness is at no time more noticeable than just at the first of the year, when all old students are returning, all new students receiving welcome, and no one has quite settled into routine work. The little flurries of social exuberance add much to the genial feeling that abounds, and this season opens with the usual effervescence of social pleasuring. The fraternity hops and rushing parties given during the past week have formed the nucleus for the customary friendly contests that prove so much of happiness to the new student and of interest to the old. It is a noticeable fact, however, that the rushing this year has evinced less intensity than is usual, and for the most part has been less prolonged than in former years.
This is more true among the girls'fraternities than the men's,
though perhaps that is only natural on account of the larger number of men's fraternities. At the present time the most violent rushing may be said to be practically over. In fact, the larger numbers of the fraternities seem to have relinquished the campaign, and have relapsed into semi-quietude, though here and there a straggling rush is visible from time to time. Among the men's fraternities the Phi Psi's and Sigma Chi's seem to have fought the most vigorous fight, and each has emerged with honors, though they seem not yet quite ready to call a truce. One or two stubborn rushees still hesitate and prolong the season of anxiety, The Betas, with more than usual conservatism, even for Betas, have pledged fewer men than either of their two rivals. For it is to be remarked that the three fraternities mentioned seem to rush much along the same line this fall. This has hardly been the case for several years, but conditions seem to change as the swift seasons roll. The Phi Delta's this fall have done nothing contrary to their usual tactics. Much as of old they have rushed and won their own particular men, and have added to their roll quite the average number of freshmen. Very quiet rushing is being done by the Sigma Nus, though they have been wearing colors since the first of the week. They have not entered the general contest, but choose, as their customs, on an independent basis. A notable departure from recent custom has been the activity of Phi Gamma Delta. Usually reticent and desirous of only a small chapter, they have this year pledged a larger number of men—new and old alike in college life, and they are building up a larger chapter than they have had for several years. They seem to be not yet fully satisfied with their number, and prediction has said that they will rise to more active life in the college world.
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi are the women's fraternities which have entered the rushing this season as heretofor. For a few days the game was last and furious, and the pretty Freshmen were delightfully entertained, petted and feasted. But it was for a short time only. By the first of this week the contest was over, and while Pi Phi has still been resting on her laurels, Kappa has been left to pursue her more quiet way undisturbed. Kappa Alpha Theta has withdrawn from the contest and so far in the term refuses to rush. No girls have been pledged by the Thetas, and as yet no parties have been given by them for new students.
The Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. have adopted new measures this season also. The attitude taken by the Associations toward new students is less like the attitude of the fraternities than it was last year. No open rushing is being done, but in a quiet and dignified manner the Associations are welcoming new students and entertaining them
in a cordial way that is entirely without hint of pledging. Association receptions and at homes are being given as formerly, and in this particular the Association homes are a great aid.
The new note of conservatism that is creeping into college affairs, is very creditable to the University. Dignity and coolness, at every time desirable, are never more admirable than in the attitude of the college student. These qualities, so dependable upon the class of students comprised among fraternity people, can be so abused as to be little recognizable among the follies and fancies of the rushing season. There is no doubt—and this is conceded by fraternity and non-fraternity alike—that the violent and unthinking rushing indulged in at the opening of every school year, is a detriment to the college, the fraternity and the rushee alike. If rushing could be done away with—say they all—fraternities would be more desirable.
There never was yet an evil that could not be overcome. The same way, by some method, new or old, convenient or inconvenient, every wrong can be suppressed. Why not then the fraternity rush? In the beginning the basic idea of the fraternity was that of an honor conferred upon the student worthy of receiving it. In theory that is today the fundamental idea of the fraternity, yet to the outsider, who can judge by appearances only, how could that idea be apparent? The tables are turned in the modern fraternity, and as long as they remain so the fraternity will retrograde from its high estate, carrying with it to their ruin those high ideals which must be the foundation of fraternity nobility. If the Greek Letter Society would hold a high and lasting place in the college world, it must uphold standards of dignity and honor. The idea of true brotherhood is beautiful, but this idea is too much hidden by unworthy considerations. By lowering the dignity of the Society in the eyes of the student whom it seeks, its best aims are frustrated. To the thoughtful Freshman it will be a greater honor to receive an invitation from a society whose standards of self-respect and cool judgment are high, than from one which seeks by cajolery to induce new students to enter its ranks from reasons of mere vanity and fancy. The right kind of Freshman enters school for study and with a determination to get from his college course all that it is possible to obtain. How can this be done, when the first few weeks, so important when entering on new work, are consumed by useless trifling and frivolity?
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