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Kansas University Weekly
Editor-in-Chief:
HILLIARD J. JONSON
Literary Editor:
ETHEL A. HICKEY
Associates:
SEPHART, I. SHEI
ELEANOR GEPHART, J. SHELLLABARGER
Local Editor.
ARTHUR JACKSON.
Associates:
GREUTEUDE CHAPMAN.  A. H. PARROT,
ARCHIE HOGG.  TOM CHARLES.
FRAME McKAY.  J M. LEE.
ALWAT SOUDER.  J O. HALL.
HERNET GREISINGER.  CARE I. COOPER
R. G. KMINNIE.  W. D. DOUGLAS.
Managing Editor:
C. E. ROSE.
Associate:
P. S. ELLIOTT.
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Rose, Lawrence, Kansas.
Official Organ of the Kansas College Press Association.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DEC 4, 1897.
There is disturbance at Emporia. The blocking of the Coyote mars the serene amenquity of College Lite.
We notice that the Pacific Wave threw "Time changes and the fleeting present receives its inheritance from the unfolding past."
We wonder if the inspiring tones of the pipe organ will call up to students the debt of gratitude they owe to Professor Penny. He deserves the credit—almost he alone.
Iola Register: "Kansas wins' 16 to 0!" A dispatch like that, meaning that for the fifth time in seven annual games the Kansas University football team has everlastingly wiped the earth with the Missouri "Tigers," goes very far indeed toward convincing every loyal Kansas that football is a noble and manly pastime and should by all means be encouraged and appreciated.
Kansas City Star: On the side of football are most of the colleges and universities in the land, the more important public journals and the best specimens of young American manhood. Arrays against it are the Georgia legislature, the governor of Arkansas, a Spanish torader who prefers bull fighting, and a few newspapers without enough vitality to up work a decent circulation
The Kansas University WEEKLY give more for the money than any other paper published in America. A weekly newspaper and a monthly magazine, both for 50 cents a year—surely a reasonable offer. And surely the papers offered are worthy the support of every student. Senator Chas, F. Scott says in the iola Register: "The Kansas University Weekly is the best college paper I have ever seen."
Del Valentine has at last been heard of in a masterpiece which appeared in the last issue of the Clay Center Times acorching the University football team and telling his simple readers that Kansas had been fairly and openly beaten by both Nebraska and Missouri in open combat and it was now time for the University of Kansas to seek new fields in which to sustain her once enviable reputation on the gridiron. Del has probably now hibernated and will come out again in the spring with the flies, and then we may expect another sarcastic article from this powerful organ
A new football manager is so on to be elected. Probably the precedent of last year will be followed and he will be nominated by the board at once, so that he may begin the work of arranging games with good teams, aided by the retiring manager. The question of a manager for the team is all important. Nothing should be considered but his fitness for the position. He should be a good student and a good business man. While a member of the team cannot have the time to give to the duties of manager, a man should be chosen who has the confidence and good will of the team and captain and coach. He should be a careful financier. With good management next year we should be out of debt and have a surplus in the treasury.
Adopt the Rules.
The athletic rules adopted by the faculty last spring conditionally upon their adoption by the other members of the inter-state league are given in another column of the WEEKLY.
The rules are fair and just, and now that the efforts of Kansas to have the Universities of Missouri and Nebraska adopt them have not met with complete success Kansas should set the example and adopt the rules unconditionally. Strong in her reputation and standing among the universities of the west, Kansas can afford to "go it alone." If other universities follow her lead, so much the better for them. If they fail to come up to the standard set by Kansas—if they prefer professionalism—the evil of it be upon them.
Oh, the Pity of It.
The editor of the Southwestern Collegian took an hour off the other day for philosophy and meditation:
"The editor, having an hour's liberty, decided to look in upon the Teacher's Association. As we gazed upon that concentrated picture of pedagogical wisdom, a feeling of pity for the poor scholars walled up from our hearts. We saw the girl with her sugary smile; the cross, cold teacher whose glances seemed steeped in acid vinegar, the teacher who knows it all the worst of the three. And as we thought that these teachers will give the child his ideas, will build for him his ideas, we realize that not only the destiny of the child but of Anglo Saxon civilization is in their hand, Oh, that teachers would realize that every day they may make or murder the great news lying dormant at their feet."
One More Shot.
The Kansas City Journal sent a man up to Lincoln to write up the Kansas game from the Nebraska standpoint. Mr. Kline was disgusted with the babyishness of Nebraska and wrote the game as it deserved to be written up. In a recent issue of the Journal he comments further on the latest grand baby play of the Nebraska management:
"The peculiar and effulgent show of indication of the Nebraskans over the game between the Kansans and the Medies in this city would be laughable were it not so childishly silly. A more gentlemanly game was never played than the one between the K. U. and the U. M. C. elevens, but that is not the point with Nebraska. Captain Shedd is trying to divert attention from the fact that Nebraska was afraid to meet Kansas on a fair and sportsmanlike basis—it is a lame effort.
About those "shin guards," which by the way, are worn on the thigh — They were invented by the Rev. Hector Cowan, who made them from pieces of stove pipe and wore them during the last two years of his play on the Princeton team. They are absolutely harmless. Although used quite generally in the east no opposing player was ever injured by them. No secret was made by Kansas of their use by members of the team. They were used every day in practice against the scrubs and no one ever thought their use unsportsmanlike or criminal. They were shown to Dr. Jackson and to Heller, of the Medic team, when they visited the Kansas training quarters long before the Medic game, and their use was explained, to protect the tendon of the thigh and prevent abscess. Mose wore the guard under a half inch of padding, so that the spirit of rule 17 was observed. The babishy cries of Nebraska show in what urgent straits she found herself when about to be forced into a second Kansas game. She whined heroically in order to call public attention from her slump. But she failed. All the world knows now that Nebraska was afraid to back up her bluff.
Lawrence Journal: The "K U. Ider," the monthly of the Kansas University WEEKLY is a very handsome publication; its style reminds one of the Lotus, and it was started by the same hands that launched that successful publication.
Take it as a vindication if you wish-
Kansas is pretty well satisfied with Capta-
tain Arthur Mosee. No truer man ever
walked the earth.
Miss Katherine Alvord, dramatic reader and impersonator, comes to us highly recommended and will give one of the best numbers in the entire course. The course consists of six lectures or entertainments and a season ticket for the entire course may be purchased for $1.25 at the treasurer's office.
Fortunately the votes of the Nebraska team were not necessary to elect a captain for Kansas.
University Lecture Course. The first of the entertainments on the University lecture course will be given in university hall on December 8.
University Lecture Course.
THE DEBATE WITH NEBRASKA MAY
BE CLEARED OFF.
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KANSAS MAY WITHDRAW.
The Question Is. Did Nebraska Inault
Kansas Officially—If So. We Will
Have Nothing More to Do
with Her.
BE DECLARED
"If the discourtesy shown to Kansas by the football management of Nebraska is official, that is, if it was authorized by the faculty, I am in favor of severing our relations with Nebraska and declaring the debate off."
This is the statement made by Prof Hopkins of the committee on joint debate to a Weekly reporter, but he added. "I cannot, however, think the insult has faculty sanction. Kansas would not be guilty of such discourtesy to a sister university, and I am inclined to the same opinion of Nebraska."
There have been rumors for some time that the Kansas-Nebraska debate would be declared off. They have their foundation chiefly in letters received from members of the Nebraska faculty expressing the hope that Kansas would proceed with the debate and overlook football differences. In fact Kansas had no other intention, and not until after the receipt by Coach Woodruff of the insulting letter from Oury and the subsequent action of the athletic committee in backdown from their challenge and in trying to conceal their covardiness behind a trumped up charge of unsportsmanship against Kansas, and still later the denunciation of Captain Mosse, whom Kansas honors and respects, was the possibility even momentarily considered of telling Kansas to go her way in peace; but after these insults it became a question of whether or not they were official. The opinion seems to prevail that Kansas must not, nay, shall not be officially insulted.
In order to find out the belief of the committee on the disputed point a reporter for the WEEKLY visited each member. No one would commit himself to the opinion that the insult was actually official, though Mr. Brownell leaned that way. "My impression is," said he. "that Nebraska has not treated us right. We have thrashed them several times in debate and in football and they are probably just a little bit sore. I believe that there were members of the faculty who signed the withdrawal of their challenge, which was couched in disrespectful terms. I cannot say what the action of the committee will be."
Miss Alvord's renditions are characterized by thoroughly artistic intelligence, brilliancy, pathos, and intense dramatic power.
LECTURE COURSE OPENS.
Possessing a fascinating presence, with the ability to correctly impersonate every character and graphically describe the incidents that reveal the general plot, Miss Alvord at once captivates her auditors, whence she carries them from scene to scene with rapt and growing interest to the end of the play.
The opening entertainment of the Lecture course will take place Wednesday evening. Miss Katharine Alvord will give select readings from Shakspere. She comes highly recommended by New York papers and it is said that her masterly interpretations of the works of Shakspere, Swinburne and others are a new creation in the way of rostrum productions. Critics and enthusiastic audiences pronounce them the most enjoyable of anything pertaining to the classic drama that has yet been attempted by any artist.
Wednesday evening will thus be of great value to students of Shaksphere, but not to them alone. The interpretations should
The First Attraction Will Be Katharine
Alvord Wednesday Evening.
Prof. Olin prepared this terse statement "I should be sorry to see the past relations between Kansas and Nebraska broken off; but Kansas ought not to submit to insult from Nebraska explicit or implied."
The views of Prof. Hodder, chairman of the committee, agreed substantially with those of Prof. Hopkins. He believed the committee would be conservative in their action, and was awaiting a letter from Chancellor McLean before anything could be done "I should be very sorry to see the debate declared off," said Mr. Hodder, "but I cannot understand the action of the University of Nebraska."
Dr. Dunlap pleaded ignorance of the whole subject. The idea had not occurred to him that football disagreement could disturb the friendly relations existing in other ways between the two universities, and he preferred not to commit himself until something further on the subject had been heard from the faculty of Nebraska "But if insult was intended by Nebraska, said the Doctor, 'you know I would be the last person in the world to take it.'
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prove interesting to every student of the University. The Lecture Bureau deserves support. It is not a money-making concern. The bureau exists for the purpose of giving to students high grade entertainment for low price. The price of course tickets is one dollar and a quarter and there will be six attractions. If the course is well patronized the bureau promises to procure some of the very best talent in the country.
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Awards for the best individual work prepared by students in Universities and Colleges is offered by the Trans-Mississippi & International exposition of Omaha, Neb. One gold, two silver and four bronze medals will be awarded for each division of each subject, as follows:
Composition — Literary monograph.
Prose fiction. (a) romance. (b) short story.
PRIZES GALORE.
History—European, (a) correspondence between Gladstone and Bismarck. (Must be in accord with their style of thinking and writing.) (b)Russia as a power in the world's politics.
A Chance for Students at the Omaha Exposition
Miscellaneous—(a) Diary of a Cuban patriot; (b) conversation between an American and a Cretan of the nineteenth century.
(c) Comparison of the French chamber of deputies with the house of representatives of the United States
OVERCOATS ARE IN DEMAND.
(d) Comparison between the power, etc. of the speaker of the house of commons and the speaker of the house of representatives.
(e) Comparison between the power of the president of the United States and the Emperor of Germany.
A. D. WEAVER.
A puzzle in trans-Mississippi history:
Open to all enrolled pupils. Note—This
puzzle will be sent to any address upon
receipt of a two-cent stamp.
For further information apply to Bureau of Education, Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition, Omaha, Neb., or to E. S. Tucker, Commercial Agent for Kansas exhibits, Lawrence, Kan.
Drawing—Mechanical and constructive.
Nature Study—Specimens prepared forf microscopical study; a, plants or plant sections; b, animals or animal sections; c, minerals or mineral sections. Slides must be in flat trays. Label plainly.
Why do sixteen of the Kansas University faculty carry insurance in the North Western Mutual Life?
Thinking of gift times now—Gift things of all things should be right—not necessarily costly but in good taste—Weaver's store is never more necessary than during the Holiday time. It is so easy to make mistakes during the rushed-for-time days, that one is in danger of buying impracticable things despite usual good judgment. Safest to go where the impracticable never enters, where your best taste is consulted. More than usual, we have given ourselves to Christmas. You are welcome to this best of stores—take your time—make your selections deliberately—at the same time remember that many articles shown by us exclusively cannot be duplicated—hence an early choice is for your interest
C. E. Kimpton is taking advantage of the Thanksgiving recess for a few days recreation in the country.
We can please the most fastidious taste in quality, style, fit, workmanship and material and can give style to the poorest form or chic to the most ungainly. Our line of Gloves, Underwear, Hosiery is the most complete in town.
W. BROMELSICK.
Opera House, Monday, Dec. 6.
The forthcoming engagement of Digby Bell in "The Hoosier Doctor," the successful comedy drama by Augustus Thomas, author of "Alabama," "In Missouri," etc., will unquestionably prove to be one of the dramatic treats of the season. The success achieved by Mr. Bell and the notable excellence of the supporting organization with which Manager Duncan B. Harrison has surrounded him has preceded him and awakened a more than ordinary degree of interest on the part of our theatre going public. Laura Joyce Bell will be seen in her famous creation of the scolding mother-in-law. The supporting company is identically the same which achieved the phenomenal seven weeks' run at the Grand opera house, Chicago.
Seats on sale Saturday morning, Dec. 4.
Thomas W. Keene, the eminent tragedian, is looked upon as the successor of the lamented Edwin Booth. Mr. Keene is a firm believer in the vitality and popularity of Shakespearean and other similar dramas, and he has found this season, as in the past, pleasure and profit in their presentation. He has read a great many modern and classic plays, but he does not find in them the elements which the works of the great master possess. No actor on the American stage has so persistently adhered to Shakespearean plays during the past twenty years or more, as Mr. Keene. He looks upon these dramas as public educators, and worthy of generous support when adequately presented. The repertoire of this tragedians is the most varied one of its kind ever offered to the American public and it shows his versatility and genius.
This season Mr. Keene has an associate who is not only playing leading parts, but attending to his management. He is Charles B Hanford, a young tragedian who was formerly with Booth and Barrett and other eminent stars. The affiliation ormed between these two tragedians has been mutually agreeable and profitable this season. It was an organization similar to the one in which the lamented Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barr ett were joint stars.
Mr. Keene will appear at the Bowersock opera house on Friday next as Shylock in Shakespeare's great work "The Merchant of Venice."
Books, albums, bibles, gold pens, fountain pens, fine stationery, pocketbooks and Christmas novelties, reliable goods and low prices. J. A. KEELER.
Miss Laure Babize is teaching French at 1302 Tennessee street. She gives instruction to both classes and individuals.
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Gloves all kinds at the Ober Clothing
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Why do sixteen of the Kansas University faculty carry insurance in the North West ern Mutual Life?
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