The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 7, 1896.
No. 9.
Editor-in-Chief.
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH,
Literary Editor:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA LYNN, SYDNEY PRENTICE,
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
JOE SMITH.
Associates:
PERCY PARROTT, - - - - Snow Hall.
L. HEIL, - - - Exchanges
DAISY STARR, - - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - Law and Social.
WILL McMURRAY, - - - Athletics.
E. C. ALDER,
H. P. CADY,
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Managing Editor. W.C.CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
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If we win today we may consider ourselves still in the race for the pennant, if we lose, our only hope will be to escape the honor of occupying the less conspicuous end of the procession. Whichever happens we have nothing to be ashamed of so long as our team plays a good, hard, honest game. We're not a bit afraid but that on Thanksgiving day the "Varsity"
will have no trouble in playing a little better and harder game than the tigerettes from Tigerville.
Someone has been calling upon the authorities of Michigan university to open the library on Sundays. The idea is not a good one. In cities where there are great numbers of working people who have no opportunity to look at a book or paper except Sunday there may be sufficient reason for opening the libraries on that day. But the university student spending, as he does, the most of his time in reading and study should be induced to take a good rest during the Sabbath. The best kind of rest for him is going to walk, attending church, and spending an hour or so in a confidential talk with himself.
All that it requires to make a Missouri university man straighten up, and grit his teeth, and look fierce is to say "Thanksgiving" to him. One of their professors recently proclaimed in a foot-ball enthusiasm mass-meeting that he "would sell the shirt from off his back in order to have Missouri beat Kansas;" which noble (?) sentiment was greeted with "great applause."
But unfortunately for Missouri the question can not be settled by the sacrifice of the professor's shirt. It would be perfectly proper however for him to sell it anyhow if he feels like it, and devote the proceeds (?] to the hiring of another coach. Happily Kansas is not reduced to such straits; but what we do need is more enthusiasm for the team; more men out for practice; and a little more determination on the part of some of the players.