Kansas University Weekly. Editor-in-Chief: HILLIARD JOHNSON Associates: R. G. McKINNIE, W. W. DOUGLAS Literary Editor: ETHEL A. HICKEY. Associates: ELEANOR GEPHART, J. SHELLLABARGER Local Editor. ARTHUR JACKSON. Associates: GERTRUDE CHAPMAN. A. H, PROTROTT. ARCHIE HOGG. TOM CHARLES. FRANK McKAY. J. M. LEE. ALVAH SOUDER. J. O. HALL. F. L. SHELLABARGER. CARL L. COOPER Managing Editor: C. E. ROSE. Associate: P. S. ELLIOTT. Shares in the weekly one dollar each, entitling the holder to the paper for two years, may be had of the secretary, Miss Rhobe Moon, the treasurer, Frank P. Pratt, or at the WELKY office. Subscription price 50 cents per annum in advance. Address all communications to C. E. Rose, Lawrence, Kansas. Official Organ of the Kansas College Press Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class mail matter. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCT. 2, 1897 Shall We Have a Civic Federation? In as much as the politics of the University are in a condition alarming to the pure heart the time is ripe for change. It is charged that a man cannot get to his classes without being button-holed by some aspirant for college honors. Persons of "influence" are besieged every hour by hoards of hungry office seekers who line up awaiting opportunity at the stern stone of grace to supplicate for assistance in carrying out some cherished scheme. It is averred that rings exist whose business is to traffic in popular ambition, that cabals are formed, that dark black deals are put up by unholy bosses who recognize not a rule of democracy but only the principle: Every man a candidate if suitable offices can be furnished. But the worm is turning. The just are coming to their own. Religious societies are protesting. Little people are big with portentious mutter tings. It is openly alleged that ever officer elected this year is an incompetent blind to the subtle sense of honor, whose selection seals a closet slate compacte years ago. And matters are approaching a crisis. The smell of corruption arisen from the south laboratory pushes this issue. Let it be clearly stated for Parkhurst and Goo Gooism. Away with catus domination. Up with principle Give men back their purified cor sciences. Form a civic federation. For chairman of such an organization suggest Professor James Green. Rank Talk from Missouri. The Kansas City Journal is playing smooth football for *ethe*. Missouri boys. A recent issue has the following: BOYS. A coedistrict school in President Jesse is making an effort to exclude disproportionate practices from the football management at Columbia this year, but it is a question how much he can accomplish so long as Missouri continues in league with Kansas, which seems to be up to the old tricks of "inducing" men to enter in order to join the eleven. A Glasco paper recently reports the visit to that town of Coach Wiley Woodruff, of the Kansas university eleven, who "made tempining" two women of that town. President Jesse must keep an eye on this wily Pennsylvania, or he may cross the line and "induce" some of the Missouri material to enter the University of Kansas. Perhaps Caspar Whitney would be willing to look this way long enough to find out what sort of inducements the management at Lawrence is offering. The next stage in this "inducement" business is to persuade the opposition to take ten when cramping in field, and thus weaken the eleven. Such talk as this is nonsense and rank injustice. It is a backhanded way of fighting. Dr. Woodruff's inducements were mildly innocent: first, the possibility of making the 'varsity team' of 1972 second, a postage stamp; for a reply. The inducements, however, were insufficient, the boys having secured schools to teach. The Kansas team will be stricterly amateur. There is not a retired blacksmith on the lists. The man who thinks certainly has a hard time of it in this queer world. There are so many things that cannot be explained, that need no explanation to any but himself. He ponders and gropes and runs up against great blocks of ignorance. He asks "why" and his friends stare. He insists and his friends are his no more. For why trouble in this gay, slip-shod world? There is no gain thereby, but continued questions and interminable answers that answer nothing. The questions remain to endless generations, and the questioner is a generation in himself. Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to prolong the argument. On the other hand, the man who laughs is a blessing to the community. He never thinks, else he could not laugh but not thinking himself, he can laugh at the silly thoughts of those who think, and be happy. A man can think himself into desolation, but a man can laugh himself into the bliss of living. There is published this week in another column a communication from Mr. Douglass, President of the Young Men's Christian association in respect to the participation of that organization in university politics. While our opinion in the matter differs from that set forth in the article, we are glad to publish it, as a view from the other side. And in this connection we desire to state as we have herefore stated that the columns of the WEEKLY are always open to students for a thorough discussion of all questions of general interest. To wonder and admire and say nothing is sometimes commendable, so much of our idle talk is mere cheap truism stuffed out with words. But a healthful enthusiasm, so rare among our educated, cannot but have some slight tonic effect, compelling cheerfulness and perchance even curiosity for the moment. Woe is the mind too hopelessly finished for anything new to be added. The all admiarri of Horace is surely not the ultimate end of education. We cannot believe with Miss Guiney that "the oddest and choicest of social attitudes" is an attitude of sacred indifference. There is a life to be lived even by scholars, though too often a worthless one. The Lawrence World, with the usual venom of that paper against the University, attributes the disturbance at the Gourley tent service to a gang of students. "The mob," says the World, "was composed almost exclusively of University students." But this very evident misstatement is to be expected. Mr. Brady has never gone to school at all, unless we count a year or two at Baker, and would not know a student if he should meet one. The statement that the mob at Gourley's tent was led by students is either a foolish mistake or a malicious falsehood. The owner of the tent in conversation with the writer of this averred that he did not think students were concerned in the depreaddations. "The mob was composed of respectable church members," said he, "and the leader is an ex-member of the legislature. The students were for the most part quiet and orderly." J. L. Brady's revivalist article was only a grand-sand play for subscribers. The World contemplates putting in a carrier system at Sunnyside. There are a few drug stores in Kansas City where the Medics can take something after thegame for that tired feeling. SHARPS AND FLATS. The Grade III Student—we all know him—sits as far back in the recitation room as he can get, he elevates one knee until the open book which he places upon it for consultation is apparently hidden; he always looks thoughtfully at his neighbor, or stares in as intelligent a manner as possible at some object upon the wall—in short he looks anywhere rather than at his instructor. When asked a question he hurriedly takes one final glance at the text book, rouses himself enough to lift his head from the protecting depths of his coat collar, and boldly plunges in with the inevitable "why" that students are so prone to use. He founders around in the recitation for awhile, and then ends it by saying he doesn't understand what the instructor means; for to the grade III student, instructors and professors are a species of Genus Homo put upon this earth for the express purpose of asking bewildering and unfathomable questions. The grade III student never seems to realize that it is the answer he does not understand, and not the question. Of course that would be laying the blame upon himself; and it is the professor who is to blame always. At last the time comes, however, when the answers can be evaded no longer, and then it is that the Grade III student either accepts a lucrative position at home or else enters the Law school. The Freshman's face was stern with a remendous seriousness of purpose, as Freshmen's faces are sometimes, you know. He sat in the reading room one day, poring over the Encyclopedia Britannica. A bright post graduate girl sat before him quietly sharpening her pencil. The library was his especial delight, for he believed that the serious, the good, the true could only be found in books. Life was too gay, too frivolous, too uncertain—there was nothing to be learned from it. "Madam," said the Freshman, "you will do me a great favor by going out into the hall to sharpen your pencil. You disturb me very much." NOW FOR THE MEDICS. We Expect to Win. But We'll Have a Hard Fight. The game with the Kansas City Medics, next Wednesday, will be the first, and one of the hardest fought games of the season. Ever since the disgraceful defeat of last year it has been the desire of every player on the team to take another whack at the so-called Medics, and every man on the team will strain to the utmost to encompass their defeat. There are six men on the team this year who were in the game last season. The absence of "Shorty" Hamill at tackle is noticable, but the team will more than make up in team play what it lacks individually. The new material while light in weight does not lack in ability and is rapidly rounding into form. The system of play introduced by Coach Woodruff was new to the men and shocked some orthodox traditions of the game; but the men are, with one or two exceptions, in excellent condition, and all play fast, snappy ball. The team will line up at Kansas City fully expecting to win and confidence of victory; to the average student who has watched the practice during the week this confidence does not appear to be misplaced. If they display as good a game of foot-ball to the Medics as they at times show the "scrubs" in practice, Rock Chalk! Jay Hawk! K. U! will again sound triumphant over a hard fought field and all Kansans will go home rejoicing. Our opponents are not to be despised. We did that last year. We lost. The Medic team is composed entirely of old experienced men. Most of them have played on prominent western teams and have acquired a knowledge of the game through years of hard service on the grid iron. They may be depended on to put up a hard, game fight and if we win, it will be because we outplay them and not because they lacked the nerve to put up a hard fight. The line up of the teams will be or follows: VARISTY. MED. Games...r end...Jones Burton...r tackle...Light Mosse...r guard...Pendleton Walker...center...Cowden Foster...l guard...Hill Sanderson...l tackle...Fiscus Voigts...l end...Buchholz Hess...l halfback...Heller Kennedy...quarterback.Kennedy Teas...r halfback...Lewis Speak...full back...Pierce Glee Club Election. Wednesday evening a meeting was held at Music Hall and the club permanently organized by the election of Frank House, president; Ed Howell, secretary; Mr. Wilson treasurer, and Jack Harris manager. The club expects to tour the state during the holidays, if the faculty will permit it. A prominent member of the club says all the members are all right mentally, morally and every other way, and that he can A University Glee club has been organized and as the members will be chosen by the competitive system, something good may be expected. There are at present twenty members, which will be about the number which will finally make up the club. 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Reed and Young, the musical comedians, took well with the audience. Grace Hiller's coon songs and kicks and wing dancing was a leading feature. The Aoleon Quartette was very fine and rendered some artistic selections. The famous "Klondike Trial" was a very funny farce comedy, and was well played. The company presents a vaudeville performance consisting principally of specialties, and although the vaudeville craze has obtained in the east for several years, this is the first taste of this order that Lawrence has received. Seats now on sale. JULIUS CAESAR AT THE OPERA HOUSE. JULIUS CAESAR AT THE OPEN HOUSE. Mr. Louis James' production of Julius Caesar, which will be seen at Bowersock's opera house on Monday, October 4, has been extolled to the skies wherever it has been seen. His characterization of Brutus is said to be one of his best, and his scenic productions absolutely unexcelled. It is a gratifying success for many reasons. Firstly, because the iconoclastic writers have been shouting "decadence of the drama" at us for so long and so loudly that one might be inclined to at last give some credence to the voices in spite of evidence to the contrary; and secondly it is welcome because no actor before the public is worthier of success than this splendid tragedian and fine fellow personally. There are no more popular men engaged in the thespian art than Mr. James, and his many friends and admirers will be glad to hear that he has found a great popular success. The stage's successes are often the result of accident; some actors are born to greatness others have it thrust upon them by a capricious public, others achieve by patient endeavor and true merit. Theirs is most secure and lasting success when once it crowns their efforts, and to this number must be assigned Louis James. Seats on sale Saturday morning. Fair week five nights Spooner Dramatic Company. On Tuesday evening of this week Chancellor and Mrs. Snow received the members of the members of the Faculty and their families at the Chancellor's residence. About one hundred guests were present. At the Junior Law class election, Thursday, Mr. Buttermore, of Olathe, was chosen president, and Mr. Leland, vice-president. For Groceries go to McCURDY BROS. Everybody Welcome. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 983 Mass. st. Phone 65 OMAR HARSHMAN. 1017 Mass. Street Work Your Best Shoe Repairer in the City Your Best Shoe to Hip Take Your Shoes to Him. EDWARD BUMGARDNER, M D., D. D. S. DENTIST 809 Massachusetts street. HENRY GERHARD & BRO., Prop's. STAR BAKERY We Solicit the Patronage of the People. FALL HATS! M. J. Skofstad's, 824 PASS ST. All the latest styles and colors. Prices cheaper than any house in the city at Jones & Mullany. Meat Market. Is the best place for Special Rates to Clubs. 830 Mass. street. Telephone 63. Every student knows that ZUTTERMEISTER'S Confections, Soda and Ice Cream. 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