THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall.
J. W. Kayser, Editor.
C. L. Van Fleet, Business Manager.
R. L. Douglas, Managing Editor.
Frank H. Blackmar.
Assistant Business Manager.
Members of the Board:
H. W. Davis,
Howard Farnsworth,
W. W. Marshall.
Wallace F. Hovey.
Frank L. Guy,
Minnie Owens,
Roy Moore.
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Alma Manley.
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Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of congress; March 3, 1879.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1905
The Varsity will have a practice game at Emporia Saturday.
The Kansan intends to be absolutely impartial in the coming athletic contest.
The student publication of the State Normal at Emporia had some attacks on K. U. this week; but they were too inane and senseless to be considered.
Missouri is worrying about her debating teams and how she can make them winners. She also has a worry coming in another line of college activity.
We are always ready to print communications on any phase of student life. If there is anything you wish to praise or condemn around Oread write us about it.
The Baker Orange says: "There are 209 Methodists in K. U. But we wonder what they will be when they graduate from that school?" Broader and better Methodists, for the little institution down the way hasn't a corner on religion or Methodism either.
To say that K. U. was shocked at the treatment of her team at Arkansas last Saturday, is putting it mildly. Southern institutions are considered to be models of hospitality and courtesy. But K. U. certainly ran up against the exception to the rule at Fayetteville.
President Roosevelt invited the leaders in athletics from Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, to dinner Tuesday to talk about the elimination of brutality from football. The subject was probably brought home to the President by the fact that Theodore Jr. got "laid out" last Friday while on the freshman squad at Harvard.
The Cost of Football.
At West Point in 1904 football cost only $5,721.88, as against $15,346.51 at Harvard, and $26,996.06 at Yale. West Point defeated Yale at football, therefore a comparison between the two of expenses in this
branch of athletics is reasonable.
Yale expended for "merchandise and sporting goods, shoes and repairs," $4,924.52—double the amount, $2,074.16, which West Point expended for "material" (includes medicines as well as athletic goods and shoes).
At Yale it is insisted that "a man can't play the football of today on ordinary grub"; that the food provided at the university commons, costing about $5 per week, will not "sustain" a football warrior. His board costs about $15 per week, of which he himself contributes a third—or less; hence the net charge to the Yale association for football training table of $1,811. As against this sum West Point expended just $60.
In the Yale financial statement there is a charge of $1,549 for "trophies." Trophies include gold and silver footballs and large photographic groups of teams and individuals, handsomely framed; these are the spoils of the "star" athlete. There is no corresponding item in the report of the army athletic association. They are very old fashioned at West Point. The cadets are content with the laurel.—N.Y.Sun.
The department of Entomology has been steadily adding to microscopic equipment, and now has more than one-thousand slides for use in the work of the courses.
The Zoology department has two thousand lantern slides in its cabinets. Several newslides are being made for the Embryology class.
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FRATERNITY NEWS.
Guy Mallam, R. J. Oliver, J. P. Richardson of Kansas City, W. Y. Morgan, of Hutchinson, A. D. Carroll, of Salina, were up for the Phi Gamma Delta initiation Saturday.
Miss Sarah Wilder, a last year's graduate and a member of the Pi Beta Phi, left Friday to study vocal culture in the European conservatories.
The Sigma Nus held an informal dance in Pythian Hall Saturday night.
Walter B. Graham, '99, representing the Western Bank Note and Engraving Co. of Chicago is visiting Phi Si friends this week.
FRESHMEN REPORTERS.
The Class is Beginning Practical Work
The first-year newspaper class in charge of Miss Leach and Professor Hopkins is now in complete working order and is doing some good work gathering and editing news for publication in the three Lawrence dailies and in the Kansan. At present the class numbers fourteen members who are divided into four groups, one for each of the four papers. Each of these groups is assigned to a senior and meets with him every day for fifteen minutes, while together they go over the material they have, and get in shape for publication. On Tuesdays and Thursdays the class meets with Miss Leach at 11:15 and has a short recitation in Rhetoric from the textbook followed with a practical application to the news matter in hand. A certain specified number of news items are required of each member of the class every day and from time to time a special article. A student may get as many items of news as he can. A hook is provided in the newspaper room whereon any member may place the matter of any news which he deems of interest and which he does not wish to use as a "scoop.
Beginning with Monday, each newspaper group of the class will receive instruction each day direct from the down town offices, through their repsentative in the senior newspaper class, on the kind and amount of material that can be used in the issue for that day.
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