THE KANSAN.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Thursday morning and Saturday night of the school year, by the Kansas University Weekly Publishing Association.
Office in University Library building.
Down Town office, 630 Massachusetts St.
Editor in Chief,
Wirt G. McCarty
Editor in Chief,
Wirt G. McCarty.
Business Manager Managing Editor
Earl Campbell. Jesse W. Kayser.
Asst' Business Manager
C. L. Van Fleet.
Senior Members of the Board
Nabel Barber
Helen Alder
A. I. Beech
F. A. Gillette
Noble Sherwood
Junior Members of the Board
Frank H. Blackmar
Roy Douglas
Howard Farnsworth
Herbert P. Green
Wallace F. Hovey
Frank L. Guy.
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Address all business communications to Earl Campbell, 304 W. Adams.
Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress March 3, 1879.
Nebraska has installed a Masonic fraternity.
An Inter-Collegiate Prohibition Association has been organized in the University of Texas. We are glad that Kansas don't need one.
The M. S. U. Independent is the best gotten up Western College weekly that comes to the Kansan table. The College Life has the best editorials in Kansas and the Normal Bulletin has an abundance of clever headlines.
All kinds of "kicks" and criticisms are coming in for Sunday's "Lion's Mouth Column." They must be signed but no one but the editor sees the signature. Some interesting objections seem already apparent.
Since a prohibition society has been organized at the University of Texas, it is suggested that Carrie Nation make another trip to that great commonwealth and stop over at Austin. The question is "What kind of a welcome would she receive now?"
It is alright, we need worry no longer. Mr. Van der Vries dreamed the other night that Kansas played Minnesota and won by a score of 18 to 0 and had a celebration in which not a single student was arrested. Mr. Van der Vries assures us that his dreams always materialize.
The College Life, of Emporia College, editorially says the Emporia girls are thinking of publishing a book entitled "Five Hundred Young Men Often Missed," as an accompanying volume to "Five Thousand Words Often Misused." The Kansas City Star remarks editorially that W. Y. Morgan lived in Emporia and was smooth enough to keep out of the awful town rows. Heavens! Emporia must be an awful town to outsiders.
Cozy corner
Maiden fair
Papa sleeping
Willie there
He proposes
She accepts
Papa's slippers
On the steps
Willie hastens
Farewell kisses
Pushes doorward
Front step misses
Noise of falling
I would gamble
Papa's helping
Bill to ramble
-W. B.C.
One thing certain is that students are all glad that the batchet had a history.
The National Oratorical contest is still being agitated by those in the University who are anxious to see debating and oratory in this institution placed upon a more substantial basis. Some debaters that have represented the University of Kansas doubtless have done a high school justice. Oratory has practically been dead. Public speaking is a good thing and now that opportunity is offered to combine all three and get interest and enthusiasm aroused in all at once. No better way to initiate the higher standard could be pursued than by having a national contest. It would create more interest and arouse more enthusiasm than any debate or series of debates. Then too it will give Kansas a prestige that cannot be attained otherwise. It will also prove, above all else, to the outside world, that the University of Kansas unjustly bears the reputation now existant that debating and speaking are overlooked here when a skating or dancing party can be attended or a square meal awaits one of the contestants.
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OBER'S
FOOTBALL RULES FOR 1905.
Under the revised rules, which I am now submitting through the medium of your valuable paper, the test of a player's ability will be his class standing. It is hoped that these rules will be approved by the W. C. T. U., Prof. Harry Thurston Peck and that vast army of editorial writers whose knowledge of the game has been obtained by reading the headlines. Walter Camp may object to some of the provisions, but what care we?
RULES.
Selection of players -The eleven players constituting the team shall be selected by the faculty, and the student who has received the highest grade in Greek anthology shall be captain of the team. No student shall be eligible for the team unless he is up in all his class work and has an established reputation for piety.
Wearing conditions-In case of rain, snow, high wind, extreme heat or extreme cold, a contest may be indefinitely postponed or transferred to a classroom.
Preliminaries—When a team appears on a field for a contest, it shall greet opposing team with the Chautauqua salute, which consists of waving the handkerchief. After this a few minutes of social intercourse, with friendly chats concerning books and writers, may precede the opening of the game.
Substitute for "the toss" Instead of tossing in a coin to determine which side gets the ball, the two captains shall be called upon to extract the cube root of a number given out by the professor of mathematics. The captain who is first to hand in the correct solution gets the ball.
Advancing the ball—The ball having been placed in the center of the field, the umpire, who must be a professor of geology, exhibits to the team having possession of the ball a fossil. All members of the team who think that they can name the geological period to which the fossil belongs hold up their right hands. The umpire selects a player to name the period. If he answers correctly, he advances the ball two yards If, in addition, he gives the scientific name of the fossil, he advances the ball five yards. If no member of the team can answer the questions propounded by the umpire, the spposing team shall be given a trial. If successful it is given the ball.
Rotation of umpires-After each touchdown there shall be a change of umpires so that the questions asked of a team may during the progress of a long and exciting game, cover the class work in zoology, applied meth aphysics, veterinary science. Sanskrit, obstetrics and other useful studies.
Offside plays—Any player who makes a grammatical error mispronounces a word or seeks assistance from a fellow student shall be deemed guilty of an offside play and his side shall be penalized at least five yards.
Substitute for kicking goal After a touchdown has been (continued from page 4.)
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