Kansas UniversityWeekly
Editor-in-Chief ... GEORGE BARCUS
Associates ... C. A. GARDNER
C. J. HINDMAN
Literary Editor ... E. W MURRAY
Society Editor ... RACHEL PUGH
Athletic Editor ... GUY HARSBERGER
Local Editor ... WALTER J. BEEEK
Associates :
BLANKS F. MOORE, FLOYD T. LIEPFOB, J. H.FELGAR, H. P. PONES, J. H. LANGWORTHY. GENE SAULER A. A. DEVILS, ALFRED SADDON, AMARILLO, GUY WAYN and FLORENCE FORST.
E. H. McMath, Managing Editor.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 25, 1901.
Twenty-three separate and distinct cartonsastic base ball men have suggested that the unpiring of Dr. Naismith in the Haskell Varsity game should be roasted. Perhaps it should but the WEEKLY detests to do such a job.
For the past three mois at the WEEKLY have boomed base ball in each issue. Important news has been crowded out to give space to base ball material. The men who take time from their studies to play on the 'varsity nine have been praised and hauded to the etherial heights. The supporters of base ball have eagerly watched the practice from week to week, noting with pleasure the growing efficiency of the team Kansas has been proud of her team during the whole season. It was a glorious showing to break even on a long hard trip and Kansas praises the boys who made such a splendid record. But there has come a sudden change in the proud team. What it is no one knows but since the trip we have suffered three defeats, two of which were particularly humiliating through their pockets for their hammers. They have some cause to knock but they are still standing by the team that did once play good ball. The WEEKLY is still for the boys and will stay with them once more, so are the students on the hill, but our team must be roused before the Highland Parl game. If it is practice the boys need they must practice; if it is support and encouragement the 'varsity' is here to do its part. Our team began the season with an envious record, why can it no close with the same record? Since the Haskell defeat Tuesday, the boy have awakened to the fact that the must work if they win the remainder of the season's games. Reputation is worth something, but it will not win ball games. The team must be held up the support of the students must be retained. These things done, the 'varsity' will win the best game of the season and the game which will not the largest proceeds to the Athletic association As representatives of the University the team owes it to the school to take a tremendous brace, as students of the institution we owe our warmest and heartiest support to the team. If a goes well and if all the men are pulled down to the ground by the 30th, Karsas will win the big game of the season Do not knock, but lend a kind hand kindness and sympathy do a whole lot in urging a team to victory.
THINGS IN THE UNIVERSITY.
School spirit, as well as class and other spirit are sadly wanting in the University of Kansas. There is a dearth of all forms of what is known as school interest. The foot ball team is
not properly supported, the base ball team does not receive sufficient encouragement nor do track, and the minor forms of athletics have the support that they deserve. Oratory has died a peaceful death in the University because the faculty and the students have been more interested in other things. The college papers struggle through a miserable existence because not more than a third of the students are share-holders. Of course, nearly all of the students read the papers, but they borrow from their more generous and enterprising friends. So it goes throughout the entire school. It does not take a practiced eye nor a careful observer to see that the University should take a strong stand in supporting its own institutions. The reputation of the school depends on a good deal on the spirit and the enterprise of its students. A poor athletic team, a poor paper, and lack of interest in University affairs are not good advertisements for the school. It is not to be understood that these things make a school; they are not placed above scholarship and morality, and the sending out of well-equipped men, but they do have a whole lot to do with moulding public opinion concerning the University.
This same spirit of do-not care is found to some degree in the faculty. There are some members of the University faculty who take a deep interest in University affairs; they put themselves out many times and spend much time and money in promoting the things that make up the life of the University. These men are easily picked out. They are the friends of the students. There are a goodly number of men on the faculty who do their work well, draw their salaries and there is where their work stops. They are easily picked out too. They are scarcely, if ever, seen on McCook field; they pay little or no heed to the University life of which they are supposed to be the center. But we must attribute a good part of this lack of interest in things to the students. The rubber tired set in the University spends the most of its money on parties, dances and entertainments. The other sets trying to keep the pace set by their wealthier brothers, spend the most of their substance in the same way. When a good show comes to town they are not in attendance because they are not able financially; then there are the fraternity dues to pay and some cab and flower bills. It is the same way at entertainments on the hill and at athletic events on McCook. It is the same when it comes to subscribing for the college paper and buying the Annual and going to the Senior play. All the way through it is the story of too much time and money being spent socially. There are not more than a dozen millionaires in the University, and by the time they attend strictly to what they consider their social position they feel that they can not support liberally as they should the institutions that make up college life. Of course, this policy is all right if the students want to pursue it, but it does not make the college institutions what they should be, nor do they in turn represent the genuine spirit of the greatest and the best school in the west.
Prof. Eberhardt Frass of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, was last Sunday the guest of the old German club at dinner. Prof. Frass is a scientific paleontologist and director of the Royal Museum of Wurtemberg. He entertained the men of the club with accounts of the amusements with which German students occupy their leisure hours, and also related many of his experiences on his paleontological expeditions through the various continents of the old world.
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.
Dakota, Wyoming, etc., where the most valuable specimens are found. He prospeurs our own collection of cretaceans the best that he has examined in the museums of this country
The meeting Sunday under the direction of Senior members, was one of the best of the year. A solo by Mr. Sams with guitar accompaniment, was appreci d.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES.
Prof. Frass is now engaged in visiting the principal fossil collections in this country and the important fields in
The association will have no regular meeting to-morrow. A Vesper service will be held on the hill at 7 o'clock, which all University people are urged to attend.
The cabinets of the two Christian associations will meet Sunday evening after the Vesper service, at the home of Prof. and Mrs. Hopkos.
Subscriptions for next years' work are coming in very well and a larger budget than the one this year can be carried.
The association is in correspondence with Mr. Richard Williamson of the University of Wisconsin in regard to the secreta yship of this Y, M, C, A. next year.
Secretary Hanson visited the associations at Baker and Ottawa during the week.
State Secretary Baird visited the association Sunday.
Y. W. C. A. NOTES.
The meeting Wednesday afternoon was held in the German room instead of in the chapel, and was a "Geneva meeting." The girls who attended the conference at Geneva last summer told their experiences there, in order that those thinking of attending this year might appreciate more fully the advantages of the session. Miss Daisy Dean presided over the meeting and music was furnished by Mia Jesamine Connelly Miss Alice Spadbling, Miss Helen Calhoun and Miss Alice Boyle were announced as the delegates chosen by the association to go to Geneva this summer. Misses Rhea Wilson and Jessie Parker are also thinking of attending, so that the association will have a large representation this year.
The Social committee entertained the Senior girls of the High school at the Y. W. C. A. house Saturday afternoon, from 3 to 6. A most enjoyable afternoon resulted, a special feature of which was the shadow pantomime presented.
SUMNER ADVERTISING.
The students of Kansas University do not show the personal interest in their school that is shown by students of smaller colleges over the state. Each person in these other places considers himself an advertising agent for his institution, and takes opportunities to tell of its features.
The Christian associations here have arranged to have their members in a hundred different towns of the state present the matter of "religious life and interest at K.U," in their home churches some Sunday during the summer.
June 23 has been chosen as K. U. Sunday and wherever possible this day should be used in the manner suggested. A large number has already agreed to do this work, and it is hoped that every student will co-operate heartily. The plan has received most hearty commendation from the Chancellor and several of the faculty.
This campaign will form the basis, too, for subsequent work for building fund; it will produce a strong sentiment favorable toward the University. There is a dire need of education over the state as to just what the University is. Men who spend their time criticizing the institution for its lack of religious life must be persuaded to donate a few thousands toward the erection of a building which would become the basis for adequate Christian work.
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Office 809 Massachusetts Street.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Telephone 209-2-rings.
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Office, 745 Mass. St.
Office 'Phone, 195. Residence, 191-4.
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Office, 723 Mass. Phone 247.
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Telephone 139.
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We have a large stock of Geo. C. Whitman's box papers, in cream, heliotrope, azure and blue colois, 35c. quality, we will sell this month for 25c.
G. C.
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