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Kansas University Weekly.
It is time that those who are going to enter the oratorical contest this year should be writing their orations. In the absence from school of Mr. B.B.McCall,who was elected president of the association last year,Mr.Frank House is chief executive,and will be glad to have the names of any possible contestants.
As a practical step in the direction of attaining purity in politics, about a hundred students from the university of California and an equal number from Stanford university were detailed as election clerks in San Francisco. It is the scholar to whom the world looks for advice and regeneration. The next few years will show whether he recognizes his responsibility and is true to his trust.
As we view it a college can no more develop the best that is possible for it without contact with other colleges than can a child without contact with other children. Baker Orange.
Kansas University used to come in contact with Baker in fact it seemed to be a question of who could come in contact the harder. But we are by no means sure that this contact brought out the best that was in us. Probably the Orange will agree with us on this point, or at least say that it meant some other kind of contact than that which takes place on the football field.
SEVERAL Bible classes composed of University students have been meeting at the homes of professors and others for Bible study, one evening a week since the beginning of school. This is an excellent plan, but yet does not meet the need for study in this line among the students as a whole. The plan heretofore adopted of having a course of lectures on the Bible should be carried out again this year. The course might be lengthened so as to extend through several months, and it would probably be possible to secure several speaker from other towns. The religious organizations of the University could not do better work than by using this means of interesting and helping students in the study of the Bible.
STUDENTS HAVE you secured tickets for the lecture course? The time remaining before the first entertainment is short, and it is to be hoped the members of the University will not be less enthusiastic in supporting the Bureau than outsiders are.
Missouri is not very much reassured by the result of last Saturday's game, but she is hoping that we will be seized with an attack of overconfidence. This must not be allowed to occur. Missouri was perhaps as much out-tricked as out-played by Nebraska, and did not show her full strength. At any rate the "tigers" have plenty of time in which to develop a strong team, and Kansas will need all the wind, and muscle, and training that she can get between now and Thanksgiving. There ought to be enough second-eleven men out every night to line up for practice.
IF THERE is anyone in the University who feels that he needs more exercise than he is getting (and there are probably few in the upper classes who do not feel so,) and who has no very good way of getting it, he should immediately go and find a few more like himself; take up a collection-a silver collection will do very well—; and procure a basket-ball set, and a vacant lot, the latter may be rented or borrowed according to the size of the collection.
The basket ball set consists of a hollow rubber ball, and two "baskets," which are merely large.right-angle dip nets having the nets made of barrel hoops and some gunny sacking, and fastened at right angles to a couple of twelve foot poles which are to be firmly planted in the ground about a hundred feet apart. The game then, in brief, is to choose sides and see which side can first put the ball into the other side's basket. There are a few rules prohibiting kicking or carrying the ball which add much to the skill required in playing well. We watched a game the other night, incidentally running the ball a few miles as a preparatory step to learning how to play, and we think it safe to say that if you wish to be happy and healthy and hungry, you should play basket ball.