Kansas University Weekly
Editor-in-Chief:
HILLIARD JOHNSON
Literary Editor:
ETHEL A. HICKEY
Associates:
ELEANOR GEPHART, J. SMELLABARGER
Local Editor.
ARTHUR JACKSON
Associates:
GERTRUDE CHAPMAN. A. H, PARROT,
ARCHIE HOGG. TOM CHARLES,
FRANK MCKAY. J. M. LEE,
ALVAH SOUDER. J. O. HALL,
HERRIET GREISINGER. CARL L. COOPER.
R. G. McKINNIE. W. W. DOUGLAUS
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C. E. ROSE.
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P. S. ELLIOTT.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOV 27, 1897.
We feel pretty well, thank you, Doctor
What is a pretty good game for indoor sport. ___
Nebraska was only blupping after all,
and so the episode closes.
The better support the Lecture Bureau receives, the better entertainments it can give.
Kansas claims the football championship of the southwest. If any team disputes our claim let it play ball.
Every student should buy a lecture course ticket. Many times the value of the money invested is assured to the purchaser.
Kansas closes the football season with honor, being defeated only once and scoring two hundred and fifty-three points to her opponents' sixteen.
Manager Oury has sunk the Nebraska team so low in the public estimation that even the papers of its own state refuse to champion its cause.
The Lawrence Journal is sore because the WEEKLY scooped it so badly in publishing an account of the Nebraska game the evening it occurred. The Journal was defeated fairly in its own field and cannot win respect by crying over the result. It does not pay to play the baby act.
"God made the summer for the hobo and the bummer-chump;
Do not put aside your enthusiasm now. There are still the debates and the oratorical contests to ask your support. The student who draws into his shell at the close of the football season is endangered of premature suffocation. There is no more truth than in the ditty:
G made the winter for the spriiter and the pug."
Missouri's defeat was no disgrace. The eleven, plucky, tiger-skinned boys, who defended so valiantly the honor of old gold and black are a credit to any institution. The game was by no means so one sided as the score might indicate. Missouri never surrendered. Every inch of territory was hotly contested. For a team to play so sturdyly in the face of inevitable defeat must win the praise of every college lover of amateur sport.
The Washburn Review asks innocently enough why more college papers do not contain an exchange department. It seems to us that the reason why the best papers have discarded this department is found in the modern prevalence of the humantarian instinct. The effort required to comprehend the humor of the average jokes of the average exchange department of the average college paper is too great a strain on the nervous system of the average college student.
The Football Season
When a single paper gives the results of over sixty games of football in one issue and all these played in the vicinity of the office of publication, with the exception of two or three of the more important college contests, one need not go further for the evidence of the fascination of the game for the youth of the country. Its wide popularity
taken into account in consideration with the fact that the vast majority of the players were not in training, the sum total of injuries is remarkably small and easily explained. If the sad results in a very few contests are given wide publicity, it is but fair to emphasize also the thousands of players who have passed the season without injury.
The criticisms of the game this year have echoed those of last season. They are mainly directed against the alleged brutality of football and the supposed neglect of studies necessary for the practice of the team. The latter charge is gratuitous. No more time is occupied than the students should give to outdoor exercise, and some of the principal colleges place the team players under stricter requirements as to class room duties than are expected of their fellow students. As to the brutality of the game, so far as it is not a popular fiction, it is diminishing with training. In confining the great games to college grounds and in giving the umbrella power to declare the ball down, in prohibiting the wedge and other mass plays behind the line, and in severe penalties for infractions of the rules, much has been done to eliminate objectionable features. Whatever else is needed to preserve the game and hold its present popularity may be safely left to the Intercollegiate Advisory Committee.
It may also be prophesied that the changes suggested will not be those advanced by the judges, who, in their criticisms, only reveal their utter ignorance of the game, or by those who forget there is no outdoor sport without its element of danger, or by those who, with their advancing years have lost their sympathy with youthful spirits, or by those who believe that students should never gather in numbers except to compare notes on Homer or to discuss the last lecture on experimental psychology. There is no more hopeful sign for the future of American youth than the increasing interest in athletics. This intesest should be fostered and encouraged, and any criticism of outdoor sports should be reasonable and intelligent.—New York Commercial Advertiser.
Was the Contract Broken?
The Kansas University Weekly this week devotes half a column to telling how it "scoped the world" by printing last Saturday night the result of the Kansas-Nebraska football game, when that paper made no effort to print it till its Monday evening edition, the first one after the last in the Journal issue. One of the way the game was going in its regular edition of Saturdays —Lawrence Journal.
The Lawrence Journal company is under contract to get the WEEKLY out on Saturday. We claim that the WEEKLY was published Saturday the 13th of November and that newsboys sit on the street that evening with a full account in it of the Nebraska game. Will the Journal acknowledge the scoop or does it insist upon forfeiting the $40 paid for that issue?
SHARPS AND FLATS.
Were you thankful? If not, why not?
A K. U. girl recently remarked that she would like to die, if it were only possible for her to remain over a day or two to see the funeral services.
A certain well known football player has caused a hot rivalry to spring up between two university girls; and the fun of it is the dear fellow is blissfully unconscious of it all.
When two girls become very, very friendly all of a sudden, and take particular pains to appear in the halls together, you may know that something is up. They are both probably angling for the same fish.
Some people are not so smart as they appear to be; notwithstanding that, it takes a smart person to appear smart.
"My dear fellow, "he at last managed to say: "If smoking affects you in that way, I advise you to stop, for your philosophy is all out of tune. How can honest people be honest, when they underestimate themselves?"
A popular girl was recently described as "the sort of a woman to reach out her hand across the little gulf of social ostracism, and draw a man back to high ground, looking him fearlessly in the eyes with a gaze that says his past is a part of eternity, and that she believes implicitly in his future." That accounts for her popularity.
"All honest people underestimate themselves," observed A., as he blew three rings of tobacco smoke into the air.
B. removed his feet from their elevated position, and gazed at A.In an awe-struck manner.
He had become blase during his college course, and someway or other he didn't see much use in observing Thanksgiving day and other such non-sensical things anyway
LOOK ON THIS SKETCH.
True, he lived only fifty or sixty miles from the college town, and the "ole folks" and the little sister would have been so happy to have had him with them on that great day—besides, there was some one else too, very simple and very coy, but very, very sweet; that is, during the summer vacation—but then, it was so much more interesting to attend the great football game, and to accompany "the girls" on their journey thither. So he decided to go to the game that day and enjoy himself. The "folks" could get along the best way they could without him. They wouldn't miss him much anyway.
But the old father and the old mother sat by the window all day long, gazing at the loaden sky, and the little sister crept away to her room to hide the tears of disappointment that would gather to her eyes, and the other maiden—oh, she sighed a little, and went for walks with the other fellow.
AND THEN ON THIS.
Then there was the other fellow. He was lighthearted and jolly, but someway he had that atmosphere about him which marked him as delightfully old-fashioned, and as very, very unworldly—and you know that no man is of particular interest, until he has come into contact with the world and his wife and his sons and his daughters. However, two or three of the very tip-top girls at the U. had been kind enough to say that they wished "someone" would "take him up," for they would really like to educate and polish him.
Well, he went home to spend the Thanksgiving vacation, although he had longed to attend the football game, for football was his chief delight. But the the father and the mother were so glad to see him, and the little sister had grown so pretty and so charming, and the some one else of his heart was so tender and so sweet, and not at all like those dashing girls at the U., and—well, taking it all in all, it was the finest Thanksgiving he had ever seen, and he forgot all about the game until the scora was telegraphed to him, and then he, and the little sister, and the someone else too, made the air fairly ring with the merry college vell.
Yes, it was the very finest Thanksgiving, but he was old fashioned, you know. And the other fellow—that is, the first fellow—well, he was blase, but he said that he didn't see why Thanksgivings couldn't be as jolly as they used to be.
CREDIT TO M'KINNIE.
The Lawrence World Pays Him a High Compliment.
The football season closes with honor to Kansas. The team has been defeated but once and that by the Medic professional team by only two points. The game with Nebraska was "no game" and Nebraska refused the Kansas challenge.
Undoubtedly Kansas is champion of the southwest. There is no other claimant that will support its claims with a game. Kansas has scored a total of 253 points to its opponents' 16.
The season has been unusually successful financially. Beginning with a deficit of $1,100, the Athletic association is now practically out of debt. The receipts have not been so large as in past years, but the expenditures have been less, due to careful management.
Manager McKinnie has worked faithfully and has done his part well. By his business way he has gained the confidence of business men. The sound business standing of the association is due to the uniting efforts of Manager McKinnie.—Lawrence World
AMUSEMENTS.
OPERA HOUSE MONDAY NO. 29.
Notwithstanding the strong counter attractions, the theatre last night was packed to the doors, the attraction being the performance of Beach & Bowers refined minstrels. There was undoubtedly the best pleased audience that ever assembled at this place of amusement. The company made a decided hit. The program was new and original, old-time worn business being abandoned — Omaha Daily Bee.
OPERA HOUSE MONDAY NOV. 29.
The class of '96 had perhaps the greatest number of natural scientists that any class of Kansas University has yet had; Mr. Riggs is now of Princeton, Mr. Stewart and Sid Prentice are this year continuing their work in Dr. Willistons department. Mr. McClung who now takes charge of Histology and Mr. Gowell were members of this class.
Seats now on sale.
W. N. Logan, Arts '96, has published descriptions of new cretaceous crustaceans. Mr. Logan and Dr. Williston spent a few weeks of the past summer in western Kansas, searching for new forms of cretaceous invertebrates.
Why do sixteen of the Kansas University faculty carry insurance in the North Western Mutual Life?
C. E. Kimpton is taking advantage of the Thanksgiving recess for a few days recreation in the country.
WALTER M.D. DUMM
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