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MARCH 25,1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Rough 'Em Up Was Spirit On Missouri-Bound Express
“What has happened,” old-timers occasionally wonder, “to the college spirit of the old days? Why. I remember when . . .”
And as the old grad loses himself in vague recollections of his late, lamented youth, we may pause and echo his sentiment: What indeed?
Perhaps the so-
Pernaps inlusion lies in the past, back in the days when spontaneous, enthusiastic institutions were not necessarily organized or authorized as in these placid times.
Have you ever heard of the Bummadiers? They were organized in October, 1920, and their only apparent purpose was to devise ways and means of transportation to football games abroad without paying for a ticket. Their oxodexus to Columbia made by over 300 Bummadiers that year;
"It was truly a case of all roads leading to Columbia. The roads were packed, trains loaded, and the tops of all box cars black with students. Efforts to jail the "rodriders" in Kansas City resulted in inglorious defeat for the "strong arm of the law." In retaliation for the attempted chastisement, the Bummadiers broke into a car loaded with apples and other fruits. While the revelers were in the midst of their banquet, the train bound for Columbia pulled out leaving more than a hundred of them behind."
All things must come to an end, and unfavorable attitudes on the parts of the railroad officials and the faculty members contributed to the demise of the Bummadiers in the fall of 1924.
"What does Kansas expect of her Freshmen?" asks a sober little notice dated March 13, 1919, it's audgy little headline catching us nawware.
"Freshmen are not allowed to have a date at any of the foot-ball games. If found with a date they are tossed in a blanket," growls the article ominously, and continues: "As seniority of class determines the due respect of all, freshmen are expected to speak to upper classmen."
Some thoughtless freshmen had been hurting sophomores' tender feelings, it seems. Before we become maudlin with sympathy, let us go even further back—back to the "rough and tumble nineties," when the freshman and sophomore classes sometimes played around in what they called the Maypole Scrap.
"Students of one class were often kidnapped, marooned on islands in the river, handcuffed to railings, or simply beaten into insensibility, by members of the opposing group," says a Kansan article on those "good old days."
"The spirit of the thing was fine, but after a few students caught pneumonia while lying out all night in the wet grass, and one unfortunate fellow was thrown all the way down 14th street, breaking a number of bones . . . this tradition was brought to an abrupt end by the administration."
The article says that the "spirit of violence would not down," and a new form of class fight emerged as the Chanel Scrap.
"At chapel, freshmen were accustomed to sit in the balcony of what is now Fraser theater. Sophomores lurked outside, and, the moment the ceremony ended, rushed in upon them. Alumni . . . tell of seeing freshmen thrown over the railing at the top of the stairs to drop two flights to the main floor below."
Once the late Chancellor Frank Strong was caught in a gay, fist-swinging melee in the lower half of Fraser.
"He gave orders for the fight to stop, but the students payed him no attention. Finally, he became so angry that he called out to the janners to turn the firehoses upon the strong. They did, but the students cut the hose and the building was flooded. So that ended that." What fun the little rascals would have held with a half-dozen machine guns!
And from a clipping of April 21,
1920, we discover that K. U. women narrowly missed a fate worse than death, when a movement flourished briefly that favored the adoption of a uniform dress for co-eds.
"Girls do not realize that they are handsome enough to wear simple clothes," said a faculty women in the spring of 1920. "One of the chief objections to uniformity seems to be that everyone will look alike, but individuality in wearing clothes cannot be destroyed, and, of course, the little personal touches would not be eliminated."
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