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Kansas UniversityWeekly
Editor-in-Chief ... GEORGE BARCUS
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    C. J. HINDMAN
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 5, 1901.
Wednesday the WEEKLY board not and elected A. M. Seddon and Gene Sallee to vacancies. Both are good men and will figure in newspaper affairs next year. Seddon is law reporter now and Sallee will do part of the sporting work.
The Varsity team is playing good ball on its trip, it is making Kansas a reputation in the Mississippi region. The boys are winning a good share of their games and are playing well at all times. A league team does well to break even on a long trip and a college team does particularly well when it wins half of its games. Kansas is more than breaking even.
In another column appears an anonymous article entitled "Two episodes." The point of the article is good. Besides the things mentioned, there are other things that could be brought up if it were necessary. There are annuals, semi-annuals and other stag parties, which, if fried into would perhaps bring as great consternation upon the disciplinary committee as the little trouble on the night of the Junior Prom.
The social season is over. The gorgeously decorated hall, the glassy floor and the exquisite music have given place to the open sky, the shaded grass and the music of the Spheres. Parties of two and four are now the rage, moonlight walks take the place of small parlor gatherings, boat rides and drives are what the former society people dote upon. The society man can now sit down upon the grass let his feet hang over, showing his bond hosiery, and take a happy breath. He is glad it is over. It causes aches and pains to attend so many social affairs. The day of reckoning is now upon him. He thinks of Donnelly, Wiedemann and the green houses.
The whole school is in deep and profound sympathy with the nine Sophomores who provoked the ire of the disciplinary committee. Besides being in sympathy, every student feels a pang of anger at the severe action of those who rule. Why was it that this unlucky nine were suspended for an action so slight and which has been engaged in for so many years without ever before causing? a disturbance There are many suggestions but only the committee knows. Thirty days suspension would not have been so severe two months ago but at the close of the term it means a great deal. The last month is the busy month. The Sophomore class as well as the other classes would willingly take any action that would restore the lost nine, but there is nothing
to be done. The edict has been spoken the game is over. The Sophomore class has done all in its power but it has only limited power. More than this it has played the gentlemanly part from the very beginning.
Another May-pole scrap has occurred. Each year these contests are becoming more sportsman-like. With the advent of the acting Chancellor came the eliminating of tar, chemicals and barbed wire, the non participation of other than Freshmen and Sophomores, an exact limit of time and the useless fight for the flag when removed from the pole. These innovations are warranted. A new precedent in May Pole fights has been established which should not be departed from. A May Pole molee is a good thing if rightly conducted. All agree that the May-day affair, though much like a Sunday school picnic, was conducted on the right plan. All that made the affair mace was the disorganization of the Sophomore class and its lack in numbers. Such contexts when conducted in a sportsman-like manner promote college and class spirit which is so much wanting in the University of Kansas. The class of '04 maintained the prestine honor of all Freshman classes by defending its flag in a gentlemanly manner. As you have heard before, the Freshmen are all right.
Just now the feeling is high against the man who divulged the names of the nine Sophomores. It was not in accord with human nature nor in accord with the that binds human beings together. It was diametrically opposed to college spirit and was a dreadful breech of class spirit, but it has been done and can not be undone. Perhaps that one is sorry he spoke the word and perhaps he thinks himself a hero, we do not know. But anger and sentiment should not dry up the milk of human kindness. It is so easy to say a cruel cutting thing and so hard to think things pass by without expressing our opinions. There are some people on the hill of delicate natures who censure the man, but who think too much condemnation is being heaped upon him. Perhaps they are right. It may be just as well to follow a medium course as to be an extremist. He is a man and has a soul, he suffers the same as any man. Silence may punish him as deeply as epithets, and threats of torture and horror. Sometimes it is better to return good for evil than to lay on the blazing coals. Sometimes it is better to follow the middle course and lay on only the smoking embers. Punishment should be meted out to him but he may be suffering sufficiently in his own heart.
The worst has happened. Oratory has dropped to the lowest obb. It has dropped so low that it could not be reached with a telegraph pole. All of the past efforts to revive the lost art have been wasted upon the desert air. Even the committee on oratory has given up and is now removing the salty drops from its cheeks. Oratory as an art has declined to the level of oratory of other state universities. It has been supplanted by the nobler art, debating. Its day has come, its race has been run, its end was inglorious, its death an ignominious one. In all probability the University of Kansas will never engage in another inter-collegiate oratorical contest. The league itself if statistics are valuable must fight bodily to overcome the impending destruction that is now creeping stealthily into oratorical leagues all over the country. The man who most upheld oratory in the University of Kansas will not be here. Professor Vickey leaves us this year. The Regents will perhaps leave the divan of oratory vacant and the University will be up-to-date and not
have such things as theoretical contests. Things go according to custom nowadays. Oratory has declined in all universities and debating is on the advance. Even Kansas, the proudest and most aggressive of schools, can not stem the abating tide. It is sad but it is useless to cry.
Y. M.C.A.
A joint committee of faculty, business men and students has been appointed to investigate the matter of building.
Hanson returned from a State trip, Saturday, and will span his time here in conference with committees for next year's work.
Saturday afternoon the annual cabinet ball game will occur—the officers vs. the chairmen of committees. Smith is captain of the officers team and Myers of the other. The boys will take their suppers and come home by the light of the moon.
The Association will be finely represented at lake Geneva this summer. The members of the Jay Hawker Quartet will attend as delegates of our Association and are also employed to lead the singing at all the regular sessions of the conference. The delegates not members of the quartet are John Growe, Herman Langworthy, Billy Reynolds and Herbert Bailey.
TWO EPISODES.
T'was Thank-giving eve, and the moon shone cold and clear upon the frozen ground. Nothing broke the dead silence but the trump of four pairs of feet upon the hard road. The cry of "turkoys" now came to the farmer and his hired man, who swiftly dressed and silently crept out and behind the barn from whence the disturbance came. Four forms were dimly outlined in the moonlight, each in the act of seizing a turkey. Without warning the intruders were set up from the rear and each removed himself at his own private gait. In half an hour the wagon and horses were ready and the farmer started for the cooler with three prisoners, the fourth having given him the slip. Nobody knows but the gentlemen concerned, how they succeeded in going Scott free in the police court and before the disciplinary committee, but suffice it to say, the chairman of the said committee was a brother in the same frat as the innocent thieves.
The night of the Junior Prom had at last arrived. As had been the custom for years, the under classes played their tricks, obtaining mementos such as they deemed proper. But they tackled one man too many. He had done a rash act a year ago for which he suffered, and was sore from that time on. Vengeance was written on every line of his weazen face. His stunted brain even bulged a trilie at the additional weight. But his time came and voluntarily he appeared before the same disciplinary committee and gave into its hands the names of those who played on him the same old tricks that he had indulged in the year before. And, alas, the names given by him to that august body were not found upon the roll of membership the Frat to which the said chairman belonged—and the Sophs were given thirty days leave of absence from their studies.
Lord God of Hosts
Be with us yet,
Lest we forget,
Lest we forget.
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