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--; SEE :battle, when the wider vision comes, for the world's uplifting. Society may not hope for much from the man who has no aspirations for himself. But dominating all personal ambition, illuminating all personal ambition, glorifying all personal ambition, and finally transmitting all personal ambition to finer metal, hangs and burns the star of a loftier purpose—to throw one's weight at last, in some degree great or small but up to one's limit, into the succor and uplift of his fellowmen, and into the service of his own generation. And I beg you not to generalize me too much. I ask you to keep your personal pronoun well to the front as you listen to me. Do you remember the stirring words of Mordecai, the Jew, to Esther, the young queen, when he was urging her to go in to Ahasuerus and plead for the deliverance of her people? "Who knoweth but thou art come into the kingdom for such a time as this?" And you remember he added significantly, "Oh, yes, if thou altogether hold thy peace at this time, delivery will come from some other place."
OPENING ADDRESS.
DELIVERED BY PROF. A. C. SCOTT O.
THE OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Success Dependent Less Upon Inspiration Than Upon Perspiration-The Address in Full.
Mr. Angelo C. Scott, who holds the chair of Literature in the Oklahoma Agricultural College, delivered the opening address in University chapel.
Mr. Scott is a pleasing speaker and his talk was interesting throughout. He is a brother of Regent C. F. Scott and graduated from Kansas University in '87. The address follows in full.
"I am well persuaded that the greatest thought in the world is the thought of service. I use the simple word. I might very properly in this presence exploit the classic phrase altruism. But I do not choose for this occasion to veil and burden so simple and vital a proposition in the repellant nomenclature of the metaphysician. I do not choose to take it out of every day's life and make a dead and distant thing and theory of t. It is just service, that is all—the greatest thought, I repeat, in the world, whose true practice and conception changes human living from a mean and sordid and unprofitable thing to a thing most high and godlike, service, the halo that encircles every greatest name; that crowns the heads of all true reformers and humanity lovers and world movers everywhere and in all times—all Luthers, Savonarolas, Bunyans, Florence Nightingales, Washington, Lincolnss; the choiceest road to happiness, and if I may revise the Calvinistic catechism a little, the chief end of man. And this is the message I have come far to leave with you;—and where indeed could it be more fity spoken, or more gloriously apprehended, than within these historic walls and at this inspiring hour, and, in presence of this good multitude of young men and women making ready for the world's activities. Oh, the immeasurable outlook of youth! All richness and redness of blood, all bounty of nature, all boundlessness of hope, all rivers, mountains, sylvan shades, and fruitful fields, beckoning and unexplored? Every season has its good and its charm—childhood, the awakening and twittering of dawn; manhood, the fruiting sun of noon; age, the chastened radiance of evening. But youth! Youth is sunrise, jeweled in dew riding in splendor, bringing in the day! Youth has love at its first birth, beauty, health, elasticity, hope, faith, courage—everything. And yet it is of the pathos of human life that youth does not fully comprehend this heavenly endowment. The man who has passed beyond his confines, upon whose brow the frost has begun to gather, it is he who awakes to the full splendor of those irrecoverable days; not that he would tread the way again, if he be, firm on his feet on the heights of manhood; but he is full of amazement that he should have walked so blindly through the rich gifts and prodigal bounty, and the immeasurable opportunities of youth.
Well, we shall not quarrel here, for I agree with you too largely. No philosophy of life is worth constructing that does not somewhere touch human nature and human conditions as they are. I am well content to believe that ambition of personal achievement—personal success, if you choose—being a principle as ingrained and ineradicable in us as the law of self defence, is not only altogether right, but that it furnishes forth the weapons with which men may
"I spoke of 'happiness. And you are saying, no doubt, as men have said from the beginning, 'Just give me success. Just let me win my way in the path I have chosen, and I will answer for happiness. I will have none of your Altrurias, with their colorless activities, their dessicating equalities. I will have acres that harbor speculations, cities that have corner lots, and wheat pits, and good human warfare in them. I will deal with human nature as it is, and not as some Utopian dreamer paints them. No cardinal or priest shall charge me to fling 'away ambition, for I will not do it. I must push and jostle and crowd my way with the rest, and no attenuated sentime nitality shall turn me aside."
Personal strength, then, and personal fitness come first—personal potentiality of achievement. Grow, develop, achieve, make yourself feelable somewhere in the world—for a block, for a mile, for a country, for a state. For so you will put yourself in the way of effective service; thus you will become a chosen vessel of effective service.
A chosen vessel; and it must be physically sound. The good Greek day at last shows signs of youth coming back, when physical excellence and sanity shall lie at the bottom of all virtues, and be a large part of all good religions. Hermes, bearing messages from the gods, must have no languid eye or laggard foot. Athene, planting sciences and arts, must be of swift and steady step. Apollo, sweeping the lyre of poetry and music, must give forth health and sweetness from every line. Any religion that crucifies the body is blasphemy. Any midnight oil propagandist is an enemy of the race. Any man that drives his jaded body forth in the grim hours that lurk before the dawn, sins against his own life. This body, this complicate and wonderful machinery, is a trust to be guarded and cherished more jealously than any holy grail by knight of old, or any grave and secret document by messenger of general or king. And it is irreligious and immoral to distemper it by vile eating, or to poison it by foul breathing, or to stifle and deform it by barbarian dressing, or to tear and rend it by dissipations, or to wear it out or break it down, or to shrivel, defile or pollute it in any way. Who can measure, for example, the impediment to civilization and progress in the death dealing boarding house, with its ghastly breads, its mortal pustries, its menu of abominations of indigestion!
Some choice and master spirits of this world, I know, have fought their way to power through a weak and puy frame. And how I do honor them. They fight against principalities and powers—languor, weakness, repugnance, deadly depression. They conquer the world, the flesh and the devil. That was a dramatic spectacle not often equaled in this world when, at the battle of Neerwinden in the Netherlands, of the one hundred and twenty thousand soldiers of Europe gathered there, the two most terrible in power were the miserable dwarf who directed the irresistible assault of France and the asthmatic wreck who marshalled the forces of England. My Lord Anson, having sent word to Chatham, confined to his bed by a most painful illness, it was impossible to fit out a certain naval expedition within the time limited. Chatham leaped from his bed regardless of the excruciating pain that brought great drops of agony to his brow, and thundered to the messenger: "Tell Lord Anson that he serves under a minister who treads upon impossibilities!" Oh, yes, the world, great sirleast, may well uncover to these pygmies, dwarfs, hunchbacks, epileptics, asthmatics, who have hobbled and wheezed and groaned their way to the topmost places among men—Pope, Nelson, Aristotle, Channing, Surowar, Carlyle.
"But none the less, the rule is otherwise. The rule is that the accomplishing, the effective men of the world, are the men of strong frame, and of sound digestion and steady nerve; whose pulse doth temporarily keep time, and who sleeps of nights. These are the ones to whom the Continued on Page 4.
ABOUT FOOTBALL.
THE MATERIAL AND OUTLOOK FOR
THIS YEAR'S TEAM.
Enthusiasm Runs High and Obstest for Places on the Team Is Close Coach Woodruff Has Returned.
The football training season has begun in earnest. Thirty students who are anxious to uphold the glory of Kansas University's flag in the coming battle on the grid-iron, are out every evening for practice.
A huskier lot of fellows contesting for places on the team, have never been seen on McCook field. The combined efforts of Captain Mosse and Manag r Leland have brought a lot of splendid material to the University this fall.
Captain Mossse and Bert Kennedy have been diligently training the men, Kennedy giving special attention to the candidates for quarter-back.
Mosse, Hess and Avery are the only men of last year's team who have been out for practice, while Buzzl and Simpson of last year's second team are making a good showing. Owen will probably get the position of quarter-back. Moulton, the University sprinter is trying for half-back and will doubtless get a place. There are three promising men who are working for center. Hamil will probably re-enter school and try for his old position.
Altogether the prospect for a good team is very flattering. The advantage of beginning the training with the opening of school if evident
The men have been kicking the ball and tackling so vigorously in the mud caused by the recent rains that to use the words of Sam Usher "They are regular mud-daubere."
The new training quarters although not as convenient to McCook field as was North college, are more roomy, and more desirable on account of proximity to the University.
Manager Leland has arranged the usual series of good games. They are as follows:
K. U. vs. Haskell Indians, at Kansas City, during carnival week.
K U. vs. Ames college, at Lawrence, October 15.
Vol. VII. No. 1.
K. U. vs. Ensworth Medical college, at St. Joe, October 29.
K. U. vs. University of Nebraska, at Lawrence, November 5.
K. U. vs. Missouri University, at Kansas City, November 24.
Mr. Leland is also in correspondence with managers of the teams of the State Universities of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas. It is quite probable that the team will take a trip through the south and possible also that they will go west, where they will play the teams of the Denver University and of the University of C. lorida.
A great effort is being made to rule out professionalism and Kansas university will have a strident amateur team.
Cuach Woodruff returned Thursday from Ft. Riley, and will now take charge of the team.
The training table will begin next week
week.
The modification of the rules adopted by eastern colleges will be followed by colleges of the west. By these rules the quarter back may pass the ball forward, where formerly he could only pass it back. There is also a change in scoring. A touchdown counts five points and a goal one.
Leland Chosen Manager.
At a meeting of the athletic board yesterday, the selection of Mr. E. J. Leland by Arthur Jackson, for assistant manager was unanimously ratified. Prof. M. W. Sterling was elected a member of the board to take the place of Prof. E. D. Adams, who resigned. H. H. Hess was also elected a member of the board to fill a vacancy.
The University was formally opened with appropriate services Friday. The opening address was delivered by Prof. A. C. Scott of the Agricultural College of Oklahoma. The address was listened to by a large audience of students and citizens of Lawrence. "The Value of Service" was the subject of the address and was highly meritorious, scholarly and appreciated by everyone.
Chas McGee returns to purua a post-graduate course.
Mr. E. E. Brown for Treasurer.
Mr. E. E. Brown for treasurer.
Mr. E. E. Brown, stenographer to the Chancellor, has applied for the position of secretary and treasurer of the University. Mr. Brown has been connected with the University for the past two years. He is thoroughly acquainted with the duties of the office for which he has applied, is trustworthy, and should obtain the position he will fill the office with credit to himself and advantage to the University.
Captain Mose to Freshmen
Captain Moses to Freshmen
There is going to be a football team in the University of Kansas this fall. This is a truism to the old students no doubt. But there are many freshmen in the 'Varsity this term and it is to them principally that I am going to make this appeal. Having thoroughly grasped the fact that it is usual to have a football team here the next thing to state is that it is considered necessary that the team shall be a good one, and shall in every way uphold and live up to the brilliant record of its predecessors.
To have a good team, it is first of all essential to have something of which to make it. What is wanted is new material and lots of it so that the coach and captain will have no difficulty in finding the men they want.
This year very few of the old players have returned, War, death and graduation have decimated the ranks of the team of '97, and further those who have come back have no cinch on their position, as many freshmen think. If better men show up, room must be made for the new blood, and everyone has an equal opportunity to show himself the best man and make the team.
So what I want is men to come out and try for the team. And further, if you do not make the team at the start, don't be discouraged, try again. There are three men who came out on the field every day last year, and whom I am glad to see back in their old positions again. They did not make it last year but are trying again. That is the kind of men I want. They deserve honorable mention. —Simpson, Buzzi, and Woodward.
The second team here is called the "scrubs," as nearly everyone knows, and that title is no synonym of reproach, though it may have been meant originally for such. The success of the 'Varsity team depends mainly on the "scrubs." It is in the practice that the second team gives them that the "Jawhawkers" who battle with Missouri on Thanksgiving day, gain their experience. To the "scrubs" belongs half the glory of victory, half the sorrow of defeat.
I want plenty of "scrubs" this season to help the Varsity win. It ought to be one if the highest, if not the very highest, amation of a young man to make the team during his college career. I wish every student in this University to help me in some way to make a team this year which will be remembered in the annals of the institution.
If you are not able to come out on the field, you can cheer the boys on to victory and encourage new men who may be a little awkward at the start, but who have the right spirit and do not deserve to be laughed at.
We have again obtained the services of Wylie G. Woodruff, one of the greatest coaches in the country, and if only the men come out we can have a foot ball team that is a team.
"Kansas expects every man to do his duty"
ARTHUR ST LEGER MOSSE, Captain.
The Y. M. C. A. reception for new men was held at the residence of Prof. Wilcox Friday evening. All those present report having had a very enjoyable time.
Hugo Kahl, Curator of the Entomological collections received news from Sweden on Saturday of the death of his mother.
Lawrence Chamberlain, Frank and Bert Curry of Topeka were visiting their Phil Gam brether this week.
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