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President Jesse of Missouri Calls Kansas Players Savage.
COLUMBIA, Mo., Sept. 29—At a meeting os the Athletic association of Missouri university last night there were several enthusiastic addresses by members of the faculty on the subject of football, but President R. H. Jesse, usually mild, created a big surprise.
He spoke highly of Purdue, De Pauw and several other universities.—Topeka Capital
He poured hot shot into several universities for alleged unfair playing. The teams of the university of Chicago, Michigan university and the university of Kansas, said he play savage, unfair football.
"I am at a loss to understand President Jesse's statement," said Dr. Woodruff when shown the preceding by a WEEKLY reporter. "The team of '97 will be coached on the same lines and principles as those in use by the university of Pennsylvania for the last three years."
No man on the team will be allowed either in practice or in a game to use any unfair or foul means.
If any such player should attempt to indulge in it in practice he shall be sent from the field and another put in his place. And I shall beseach every empire in every game played this year to rule strictly upon all ungentlemanly, unfair and brutal playing. And as I am coaching my team this way, I feel that if the officials are not strict that my team will be handled as innocent parties, as they will have no time to resist. The whole object is to attack our opponents' goal and defend our own.[27]
Increased Interest in English.
Increased the classes in English this term are more evenly divided than usual. Each division of the Freshman rhetoric numbers about thirty; American literature thirty-one; nineteenth century literature thirty; Shakespeare twenty-two, while the less general courses—which are there less generally pursued—have more students this year than before. Thus the class in Anglo Saxon numbers eleven in Bacon and Milton nine; in Invention thirteen.
The increasing popularity of the special courses is, in some degrees, an indication of the growth of sentiment in favor of the higher work in English language and literature.
The Women's League.
Six years ago the Women's League of the University of Kansas was organized by Mrs. Snow, after the plan of the Women's League at Ann Arbor. It was at first composed of wives of members of the faculty, the women of the faculty, and the young women of the senior and junior classes. Membership has since been extended to the women students of the schools of law, pharmacy, and fine arts. At the business meeting called September 23, by the president, Mrs. Snow, it was voted that the young women of the sophomore and freshman classes be likewise eligible to membership. The four classes of the school of arts are requested to elect two members for every class, to act on the advisory committee of the league; the other three schools are entitled to one representative apice.
The organization was formed for the purpose of promoting a healthful social life among the students. It has devoted itself so far to the welfare of the women students, holding every year a number of receptions and a musicale, and securing addresses by distinguished women. It has been decided to hold a social meeting some time in October, and it is hoped that Frances Stores, M. D., of Topeka, may give an address on that occasion. Dr. Stores is a charming woman as well as a pleasing speaker.
Another feature of the work of the league has been to secure for the comfort and convenience of the women students, a lunch room in the main building and a room for study and rest in the library building. The latter room was furnished two years ago by contributions from generous citizens, through the efforts of Mrs. Paul Brooks and Mrs. A. D. Weaver. The furniture now needs repairs and additions. As the funds of the league, derived solely from the annual membership fee of 22 cents, are barely sufficient to cover regular expenses it was voted to place in the library building a box for contribution from those enjoying the benefit of the room, the money to be used for repairing and replacing the furniture.
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The election of officers resulted as follows: Mrs. F. H. Snow, president; Miss May Gardner, vice president; Miss Issie Potts, secretary; Mrs. E. M. Hopkins, treasurer; Miss Galloo and Miss Oliver were continued on the advisory committee. The same committee for visiting the sick was also continued, namely: Mrs. E. Miller, Mrs. L. E. Sayre, Mrs. C. G. Dunlap. Cases of illness needing visits are to be reported to this committee.
A Record to be Proud of.
On Tuesday, Sept. 21, Miss Bessie Growe left for Chicago to enter the graduate school of the University of Chicago where she will continue her studies in higher mathematics. Miss Growe broke the undergraduate record in mathematics in the university. On the day of her graduation her knowledge of the science was broader and deeper than that of any other undergraduate in the history of the university.
The October number of the Quarterly will contain a paper by Miss Growe, giving an account of her discoveries in the theory of equations of the fifth and sixth degrees. The equation of the fifth degree has been the stumbling block and despair of mathematicians for four hundred years. Perhaps no other subject in the entire science has been so thoroughly studied by mathematicians from the greatest to the least. Miss Growe has found a theorem of prime importance which has been overlooked by all previous workers in this field. This achievement is one of which any mathematician might justly be proud, and is very significant as the work of an undergraduate student. This result and a still more difficult one for the sextic cost her months of hard work. One of the best known mathematicians in this country to whom she communicated her results for the quintic said that he had long sought in vain for a solution of her problem and that it had nearly broken his heart not to be able to find it.
Miss Growe enters the University of Chicago with flying colors, a knowledge of her work having preceded her. She expects in time to become a candidate for the degree of doctor of philosophy.
Podunk Literary.
Students of the University who do not read the WEEKLY, if there be any such, would hardly believe that the WEEKLY often secures a "scoop" on news of importance; yet there is a genuine "scoop" in regard to a subject of interest to all the climbers of Mount Oread, on a subject of which the entering dailies of the city have not given the slightest hint. This is in regard to the organization of the Poduk literary society.
Those who, during the past two weeks, have been most active in the effort now being made to organize a literary society at the University as a rival to the Adelphic, have evidently been ignorant of the existence of the Podunk, a society regularly organized and in good working order. The circumstances attending the organization of this society were so novel that a brief account of them will be given.
Some time ago a few of the ladies of the faculty organized a party to visit Suspension Bridge one moonlight night, September 13, and to partake of refreshments there. The ladies chartered a stage and invited the gentlemen, such as had wheels, to go on wheels. The gentlemen who did not have wheels, and also some who did, went in the stage. The party went well provided with refreshments and the delicacies of the season, especially watermelons and peaches.
The stage and bicycle divisions of the party started at the same time but the wheelmen soon, disappeared in the distance. While the stage proceeded more slowly the ladies made the welkin ring with their singing until meeting a buggy whose only occupant was a lady and the horse becoming so badly scared that it ran into a barb-wire fence, the singing stopped. It might have been continued, however, for the fright was caused by the white dresses appearing in the bright moonlight.
When the stage party reached the bridge the bicycle party was already there. Some who had not been there before ventured to walk across the bridge, while some who were thirsty went to a well not far distant. While they were there an old man came out of a house near by and threatened to turn a shotgun on them and also to have the stage-driver arrested if he did not take the party to town at once. As a matter of courtesy they left the yard without delay stopping, however, in the public highway to discuss the situation, but discussing instead the watermelons. As watermelon would not entirely quench the thirst, Prof. Newson was delegated to go one-fourth mile up the road to get a pail of water
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and a dipper. On his return refreshments were served on a grassy plot of land not far away. When the feast was over the fragments were carefully gathered up and placed in an adjoining cormfield. Then began the return, the bicycles in advance, as before.
On the way home the ladies and gentlemen in the stage organized the Podunk Literary society with Miss Oliver as president, Miss Mattie Snow as secretary and Mrs. Hopkins as sergeant-at-arms. A complete program of literary exercises was prepared and successfully carried through, each member of the party being required to contribute. There were debates, recitations, a vocal solo by Prof. Hopkins, a piano solo by Miss Watson, assisted by Miss Galloo, some more recitations, a dialogue and additional recitations. The exercises were concluded as Lawrence was reached and the club, after appointing a committee to select the next place of meeting, adjourned till the next period of moonlight in October.
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The revised schedule of football games to be played by the Missouri university football team is as follows: October 4, Warrensburg Normal at Columbia; October 9, Kansas City Medics at Kansas City; October 18, Ames College at Columbia; October 23, open, probably Sedalia Athletics; October 30, Nebraska at Lincoln; November 1, Nebraska Wesleyan at University Place; Nebraska; November 8, open, probably Illinois; November 13, Purdue at Lafayette, Ind.; November 25, Kansas at Kansas City. The Tigers will play their first game of the season on Monday, October 4. The Warrenburg Normal team will be their opponents.
"But you had a good time did you not? asked the WEEKLY reporter. "Well I should say we did" they both affirmed. Just then the captain ordered the company on board and as Mr. Eshbaugh boarded the train he announced his intention of returning to the University for the spring term.
H. L. Eshbaugh, who entered the University last year, passed through Lawrence last Saturday with the Iola company of the National guards on the way home from Topeka. Speaking of the so-called riot by the soldiers he said: "The civil authorities up there got too smart. They tried to take everything in sight and as a result lost part of what they did have. Then they had a lot of special police who did not know straight up. Why. You know what a law abiding citizen I am?" Being assured that his civic virtues were above suspicion Mr. Eshbaugh continued. 'Well they arrested me and took me off to the lock-up. But I didn't stay there long,' he added with a laugh. "No." said Lieutenant Hull, who was a party to the conversation. "'When we learned that they had Ashbaugh down there we went down in full force and they were very glad to get rid of him. They would have had to build a new lock-up if they had tried to keep him."
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The reporter slunk away to the smoker. He struck a cheap cigar between his teeth and pulled his hat over his eyes and rode with a sad and dejected spirit to Topeka. There he learned that Mr. Whitney had gone over the Santa Fe one hour earlier, and that he had boarded the wrong train. He returned as quietly and unostentatiously as possible to tell the editor his misfortune and curse fate bitterly whenever he heard the name of Whitney mentioned.
There was great rejoicing in the WEEKLY office one day last week. It was rumored that Casper Whitney, the well known athletic writer, was going through Lawrence en route to Denver. Here at last was a chance for the WEEKLY to show that it wanted to be enterprising and a reporter was detailed to take the Union Pacific morning train to Topeka and ask Mr. Whitney to talk about Athletics and the west
The reporter started with his heart in his mouth and an injunction from the editor in his mind to be sure and get this interview and "well all be famous." He had many thoughts on his way to the train about what he would ask Mr. Whitney and how he would pump him for things which he would not tell. He mounted the train and peered anxiously at the passengers. It seemed rather strange, but Mr. Whitney was not in sight. "No," said the Pullman conductor, "there is no one in my car who resembles Mr. Whitney, and I am sure he is not on the train."
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MISSOURI DEFEATED.
The Medics Score One Touchdown in the Last Half.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 0., 5:30 p. m.—The Medics won today's game with Missouri by a score of 4 to 0. The game was poor and featureless with the exception of the offside plays of the Medics. During the game the Medics lost a total of over forty yards in this way.
The first half; was a constant zigzag across the field, neither team apparently having the advantage. Again and again the light Missouri men plowed through the heavy Medic line, but were brought back again when the Medics got the ball, Captain Hill did gallant playing for Missouri. Heller played the game for the Medics.
In the second half the score was nothing to notning with time almost up and the ball in the center of the field in the possession of the Medics. Lewis and Heller gained slightly by end runs. Then Light was given the ball and went through center for thirty yards and touchdown. One minute after this time was called.
A canvassed platform was placed on the lawn in the soft moonlight where the guests enjoyed the evening dancing to music furnished by Bell's full band. Elegant refreshments were served. The list of guests was made up of students from the arts department, University society people and town friends. Fifty couples were present.
Missouri played the old style football.
End runs were the main plays but the interference was ragged.
Miss Babcock's Party.
Mrs. Babcock gave a party at her home in south Lawrence last evening the occasion being the debut of her daughter Miss Frances Babcock into Lawrence society.
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