Kansas UniversityWeekly
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Athletic Editor ... GUY HARSBERGER
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEB 23, 1901.
The base ball season is just about to open. Of course there will be no games yet for six weeks, but the material for the team is developing now. Every man who plays base ball should let it be known, he should attend the call meetings and attend indoor practice whenever opportunity offers. Kansas has never had as good a team as it should have; foot ball has absorbed the interest and hastened the money, while base ball has gone begging. We have always preded ourselves on our foot ball, but last year foot ball was below the standard and our record must be held up by making a good reputation in base ball. This year we have a good management and a better trip planned than any former Kansas team has ever had. Now is a splendid occasion for every man to show himself and to try for a place on the team. In past years there has been a little tendency on the part of base ball men to feel that the team was under the management of fraternity men, and that perhaps men who did not have a so-called pull could not make a place on the team, but this has never been the tendency, it was merely talk. This year the team is under the management of General Manager Foster and under the direct management of Mr. Simpson. Simpson is a fraternity man but he has sense and has the good of the team at heart. Captain Poorman is a Barb, warp and woof, and has a whole lot to say about who shall play on the team. Of course this "pull" talk is all a fable, but it might keep good men from coming out. Remember that good men gets the phee. Come out and show yourself. There will be nine places to fill.
The Phi Beta Kappa election last week was a success. The members who were elected are worthy students and are men and women who will be an honor to the fraternity. The society is to be congratulated on its selection, as also are the members elect. They have been granted the highest recognition of scholarship and merit obtainable in college. This is in itself a strong recommendation to the public. The Phi Beta Kappa fraternity is an organization to which it is an honor to belong. To know that one is a Phi Beta Kappa at once places him in good standing in society any place in America. It is a guarantee of his strong moral character as well as his education and refinement. It is an assurance that je is associated with men of merit and ability, men who have already climbed the ladder of fame and proved their usefulness to the world'. To this fraternity belong some of the strongest men of the present day. In the past, Phi Beta Kappa men have helped, to a great extent, in shaping the history of this country. In the times to come, when the college-bred men will rule America, and the most able of college men are Phi Beta Kappas, then will the world look upon the members with envy but respect. It will mean more and more to be a member of this society in future just as it will mean more to be a college bred man. We heartily congratulate the men and women who have
proven themselves worthy of membership in this noble society and wish them every success. In return for the honor they have been given it is expected that they shall make Kansas University a power felt all over the State, and her interests the interests of the people and make the title A.B. (Kansas University) a synonym of great learning and a strong regard for the right.
February the twenty-second is an eventful day in American history, for on that day was born perhaps the rarest genius America has ever produced. Washington, the father of his country, as we call him, stands without a peer in the splendid galaxy of American patriots, heroes and statesmen. That his birthday should be a national holiday is disputed by none. That schools should cease their labors and pay honour to the statesman is universally agreed. Memories of Washington were recalled, on the twenty-second, in every hovel, but, cottage and mansion, in every hand, village, town and city in America. National holidays are observed that we may study the lives of those in whose honor the day is set apart. It is by studying the lives of such men as Washington that we instill love of country and patriotism into the hearts of the American youth and revive the patriotic feeling in the older people. It is a glorious life that passed sixty seven years of existence with scarcely a reproachable act, and a more glorious life that has been discussed and written upon for a hundred and two years, with no act known that tarnishes the splendor of its career. Why is it that the Fourth of July, Decoration Day and Washington's birth-day are now looked upon so lightly? They are days that are so pregnant with meaning to the genuine American. They are the most significant days of the year in American history.
The track team is also beginning to work now. Captain Toby is looking for track team men, and manager Maina is writing for dates. He is trying to arrange a meet with Denver, at Denver, and also trying for an intercollegiate meet at Kansas City; Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska to participate. Our track team will have at least one trip this year and probably more. Of course our facilities for track work are not the best in the world, but a whole lot can be done if everybody will do his part. One reason more has never been accomplished in track athletics in Kansas, is the lack of opportun ties to meet other teams. Why can't the Washburn Review, the Baker Orange, the Haskell Ledger, The Oven, the Ottawa Campus, the College Life and the Student's Herald, go to work in their respective institutions and work up track athletics, and then have the managers arrange an intercollegiate meet, to be held at Topeka, about the first of May. It would be a glorious thing for track athletes all over the state and would bring the Kansas schools into a closer relationship. If these neway journals will rouse up the athletes in their schools, the University management will be glad to correspond with the other managers and try to arrange a meet.
Usually the ambitious fraternities hustle around and pledge a few prospective Phi Beta Kappas just before the election, but this year the number of new pledges was very small. Frequently a man or woman will be in school four long years and during all that time will flock with the great Barbarian horde until a few weeks or months before the Phi Beta Kappa election, when some fraternity will conclude that he is a coming man or that she is a lovely girl, and that he or she should be a fraternity man or woman. Of course Phi Beta Kappa honors depend partly on scholarship and partly on other things, but it is a good advertisement for a fraternity to have a few of them every year. Some fraternities have Phi Bta Kappas who have been fraternity members during their full course, but a large part of this smart set is obtained by hustling around after the goo student has shown his ability.
The Automobile is a new University publication that has just been thrown upon the innocent Earth. It is a dainty, picturesque monthly, in the form of the Sunday school lesson leaf, about six by eight inches. The editors present no excuse in particular for showing their bandi-work, only that other universities have things similar to the Automobile. The mission of this journal seems to be to bring the University and its organizations out of the proletariat ways of living and place them in the high up-to-date plame. The little journal will probably take up the Lawyer and the WEKLY, give them a shower bath, brush down the cob-web and make them pure, enlightened newspapers. The Automobile is all done at home, the cuts are from wood carved by the editors' own hands. It is a bright little paper, bubbling with humor. It is not known whether the editors have money to spend, or whether they are aspiring newspaper men, but that makes no difference, they are University men. If you like their paper tell them so, if you do not, roast them just as you do the WEKLY.
The Washburn Review is already beginning to tremble. The fact that Dr. Outland is coming to lead the Kansas "leven is causing some uneasiness in the congregational camp. The Review is in favor of Mr. Benjamin Owens acting as coach for the 1901 team; it further states that if he should do as well as he did last year that Owens, the coach, would be as famous as Ms. Nation.
Chas Finch, in Lawrence Journal!—"The State University has four new regents, and they are men of ability and sound sense, men in whose hands the great educational institution will proper and become greater and better as time goes on. The State and the University are to be congratulated upon the appointments made yesterday by the Governor. They are wise and judicious, and the board is composed of some of the best men in the state." *
Last week twenty-two girls in Missouri University issued the valentine number of the M. S. U. Independent. No more artistic, or no better arranged, or no more newsy paper ever dropped on the WEEKLY desk. The Missouri girls are all right, the old school should take it's hat off end bow to them.
The present senior class is certainly one that will find a red letter page in the annals of University Records. It has more Phi Beta Kappas, per capita, than any old class that ever mucked up the provoking incline of Mount Oread. Doff your new spring hats to the class of '01.
The Senior boys are wearing their new hats now. They look almost as pretty in the nobby spring styles as the girls do in their caps and gowns. The Senior girls have no edge on the boys when it comes to doing things.
At first the Senior boys wore their new pins on the lapels of their coats, but now they are wearing them on their vests in a less conspicuous place.
The Sigma Xi met Thursday evening with Prof. Bailey.
SOCIETY
Phi Bata Kappa held initiation Friday evening in library hall.
Miss Grace Lowelling of Wichita has pledged to the Kappas.
Miss Bertha Campbell of Minneapolis, is wearing Theta colors.
The Pi Phis are wearing colors for Clara Bell Denton of Kansas City, Kana
Professor and Mrs. Carruth entertained the new German club Wednes day evening with a dinner.
Mr. Roy Henley entertained a few boys with an all-night party Wednesday evening.
The alumni of Kappa Alpha Theta entertained the members of Kappa chapter and of Phi chapter, which is in
the University of Nebraska, with a banquet Friday evening at the Midland hotel, in Kansas City, Mo.
The Kappas gave a fudge party Monday evening at the home of Vergie McCrory in honor of Miss Grace Lewelling of Wichita. The evening was made unusually pleasant by the pledging of Miss Lewelling. Those present were: Misses Armsby, Miller, Sellars, Penn, Gadis, Luther, Aten, Wilson, Henry, Lehman, Axel and McCrory.
An unusually jolly time was enjoyed Friday evening by the new German club at Mrs. Carter's on Vermont street. The amusement of the evening was an old-fashioned literary society. With Miss Haynes in the chair and Miss Williams as secretary, the following program was given:
1. Debate—Resolved, I is of more importance than U. Affirmative, Minnie Leach and Carl Myers. Negative, Maud Hodgdon and John Hall.
2. Recitation—Herman Von Unworth.
3. Essay—Serenade of the Ki Kis.
Mr. Rhodes.
4. Recitation —Charles Daignon.
5. Dialogue —“The Proposal” Nettie Manly and Wilfred Withington.
To these social affairs the German club always invites a fea guests. This time they were Gussie Hall and Lucy Riggs.
The party given in New Eldridge hall Friday evening, by the Barb boys, was unusually delightful. The hall was very prettily and very effectively decorated. In the center of the room was a booth covered with flags and adorned with national colors. In this Zeiler's orchestra played their inspiring music for the dancers. From the top of this booth, which was a blaze of electric lights to the corners of the room, were
festoon of colored electric lights. The balcony,where refreshments were served was draped with K. U. colors.
The guests were received by Misses Kelley, Seamann, Mentzer; Messrs Bozzie, and Fones. At 9 o'clock all entered into the grand marsh, which was led by Miss Scanmon and Mr. Fones. The dainty programs were white with "Harb Boys" written in red and blue across the front of the cover; these being given out by Miss Barrett and Mr. Hindman. Among out-of-town guests were Misses Dora Burrows, Warrington; Messrs, Ormsby, E. C. Flechet, Marston of Kansas City, Mo.; Misses Davis, Grimes, Ramsey of Topeka; Miss Foster of Leavenworth; Miss Carolyn Plumb, Mr. J. C. Plumb, Emporia; Miss Marie Emery of Seneca; Miss Ida Wisherd of Cottonwood Falls; Miss Glick of Junction City; Miss Hazel Smith of Stockton; Miss Elizabeth McCoy of Coffeyville, and Mr. Laurence Luellen of Olathe.
Music Recital.
The Music school held a recital Thursday evening. The program was short but well rendered. Miss Cross gave an instrumental, followed by a vocal solo by Miss Grace Giffin. Miss Sellards also rendered an instrument. Prof. Preyer rendered three selections from Russian composers. He was encored twice. Quite a crowd of music students and persons interested in that line were present.
Athletic Board Meeting.
Monday the athletic board met and decided upon the length of the eastern base ball trip. The boys will be given practically two weeks. A motion prevailed which instructed the manager not to schedule a game with the Kansas City Medical college.
Basket ball!
K U
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Topeka Y.M.C.A.
Friday Night, March 1,
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