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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1937
Comment
Pick Up Your
Pajamas. Pal
How are you co-operating with your landlady and the University housing program in improving the quality of student rooms? This question will be the prime interest of the second inspection now being started by the housing committee.
An encouraging majority of the landladies responded to the first inspection, which gathered valuable information about the rooms as such and those conditions where responsibility lies directly with the operator of the house.
The second inspection will give the committee opportunity to study room conditions during occupancy by students and to determine to what extent they are responsible for existing conditions.
Students in rooms where the landlady has co-operated now have the responsibility of keeping rooms up in respect to conditions over which they have control. Students living in houses that have not been inspected or approved must stress to landlads the importance of the inspection and improvement of rooms.
A successful housing program depends on the co-operation of students, landlades, and University officials.
5. 6.
And
Minus Static
Jascha Heifetz, world-famous violinist, complains in October Harper's that American radio "crowds a jazz orchestra, a policeman who has won a medal for bravery, advertising matter, and a grand-opera star into sixty, even thirty, minutes."
"In Germany and France, light and heavy programs are carefully separated. If a slapstick comedian precedes a serious pianist in a program, each destroys the mood and effect of the other's performance. The man who tunes in to hear a favorite comedian may be displeased by the opera star; the man who tunes in to hear the opera star may likewise be displeased by the comedian."
There is much to be said for Mr. Heifetz's criticism. Several other points which he makes in his article could well be heeded by broadcasters. But in connection with his concert here Dec. 8, the above quotation becomes doubly pertinent. The University Concert Course is an opportunity to hear masters unhampered by interruptions of advertisers, by the fateful fall of the radio quarter-hour marks, or by the program dictators of the air.
The Big Apple,
The Big Apple, The Big Apple
The time has come, we believe, to take notice of the spreading plague of kinesthetic hysteria which is sweeping the country and taking the University of Kansas in a gust of carefree abandon. This insidious hybrid—neither drug nor disease—is known to the learned as the malus magnum, but passes in the conversation of the common man as the "Big Apple."
Every facility of medical, psychological and spiritual research must be mobilized to ferret out and conquer the "Big Apple," else we will become a nation known only for its jitterit.
The origin and cause of this peculiar affection is as yet undiscovered, but it is definitely known that the application of swing music, even in the smallest quantities, produces disastrous effects as regards the psychological equilibrium of the individual. Under the influence of this horrible scourge the afflicted passes into a dither of uphoria, losing all restraint and social inhibition; seizes the waist of the nearest member of the opposite sex, and the body is put through alternate motions of striking the palms of the hands together (clapping) and swinging the legs in long and wide arcs from the floor to the waistline.
It Ain't The Real McCoy
An article in October's Digest dealing with the big little word in the German language, "Ecralt," leaves the reader at a loss to know whether or not "Ecralt," or substitution, is and will be successful.
and will be Under this plan, any materials which have to be imported, such as "rubber, textiles, motor fuels, zinc, tin, lead, nickel and cork," are no longer used, but chemical and synthetic substitutes are used in their stead.
tires are "natural rubber" was replaced by Buna, a synthetic product said to be less sensitive to heat and more durable. Wine bottles were capped with wood and a cellophane-like wrapper, as a substitute for lead-fol.
Many of the new substitutes are admirably efficient, some even better than the genuine raw materials. The big fault with "Ecrclatz" lies in the fundamental economic truth that it costs more to manufacture and invent substitutes than it does to import the real thing. Not
until the day arrives when the vast recourse of the world are exhausted will Mr. Hitler's self-sufficiency program prove successful.
Campus Opinion
Fight Fire With Fire
Edition Daily Koresh
During the past week we at the University have witnessed a vicious attack upon our College and its officers. We are grateful to all those being that there existed on the Hill an organized group of communists which was leading the points in the fight.
Originally this charge was leveled by the father of Don Henry, former KU student who lost his life in Spain, but later was taken up and pressed to continue. He was a graduate of the dulcis. Well can we understand the giral and personal resentment which must be Mr. Henry's upon having a son at Kansas City Star in warping and distorting a normal condition which may be found in any college in the United States worthy of being called "an institution."
There appeared in the Kansen of Friday, Oct. 8, editorial headened "A Contrast in Newspaper Ideas!" here, if ever, was a chance for the Kansen to take a definite stand on this subject of a professor of this university.
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I believe then that the editorial on newspaper identity should have been concluded thursly:
"Adherence to the other standard in newswethering is illustrated by the Kansas City Star in its treatment of the investigation that led to the death of a woman who has used every form of journalistic practice to be masturbating and cloud the true issue; news deterimental to our school has been used by students in the media as a misleading headline while statements by those accused KU. officials have been printed only after delay, and then in an obscure part under a small window."
"The Kansas City Journal Post and the Kansas City Kansan have voiced editorial disagree at all too common form of coloring the news. With them we ask for a fair deal."
Greg Hines
Official University Bulletin
Notices due at Classierley's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m.
Vol. 35 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1937 No. 24
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION. The regular weekly meeting will be held this afternoon in room C. Myers hall. All students and faculty members interested are invited to attend - Keith Davis
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE LECTURE. Miss Sara G. Laird will speak on biography Wednesday of 3:30 in 205 Fraser. While this lecture is primarily for freshmen, it can also be attended by Johnson, Chairman, Department of English.
THE DOVE. The friends of Don Henry are planning to publish a Dove dedicated to his memory and the ideals for which he lived. Students and faculty members are invited to send contributions and serve on the editorial board. Tuesday, Oct. 14. Address the Dove. 1632 Mississippi — Mary K. Robb (For the Editorial Board).
GRADUATE FACULTY: There will be a meeting of the faculty of the Graduate School at 4:30 this afternoon in the auditorium on the third floor of the Administration building—E. H. Lindley, President
JAY JANES: There will be a meeting at 4:30
am, afternoon in the Pine room-Roberta
Cook. Briefs
KU. CAMERA CLUB: There will be a meeting of the journal room 102. Journal building. Also, attention called to the announcement of the department of journalism lectures on photography—Robert Polis, School of Journalism.
HADAMANTHI. Persons interested in written verse should submit tryout papers to Professor Crautton at the speech office; 5 Green hall, before October 20. All manuscripts must include at least 50 line signed by pen name and accompanied by envelope containing real名 of writer - Harriet Schroepf, President.
TAU SIGMA: Tau Sigma will meet at 8 o'clock this evening. Fledging of new members will take place with a business meeting following. Attendance is required.-Catherine Dunkel, President,
ZOOLOGY CLUB: The initiation meeting of the Snow Zoology Club will be held at $3.00 this afternoon for new members. Initiation will be immediately followed. The members are urged to come to Betty Barres, Secretary.
W.S.G.A. There will be a regular meeting of W. S.
Gaird, evening in the Pine Room—Batsie
Wasson, Secretary.
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By William Fitzgerald, c.139
Back in 1890 when men were definitely not mice and the toughest of them became football players or bank robbers, the rough and tumble of 1890 was a new era for American football was introduced into the University of Kansas. Even in this early period, however, such weapons as knives and baseball bats were barred by most schools, but other methods of cruelty were alternately enjoyed by the old-time players.
Football in the Nineties Demanded Self-Protecting Powers
Opp. list the early-day stars was Dr. James Nailsmith, until last spring an active professor in the University department of physical education. Doctor Nailsmith was a rugby and football star at Springfield College in Massachusetts in the early '90s before coming to Kansas.
Doctor Natsimeth loved this early-day game and believes the players and fans derived just as much enjoyment out of it as they do out of the present glorious training sessions. He spry for his age, the doctor likes to talk about the features and outstanding incidents of the sport he used to live.
Arms Alonso Stogt, still an active coach, was Naismith's coach then at Springfield, and the doctor is a stamina admirer of Stogt. Naismith played the center position for Stogt, and smiled as he outlined some of the duties and hardships that went with that position. The teams would line up in wedge formation with the center the only man on the front line. The other players lined up behind the back of the team forwards.
Used Wedge Formation
On the kick-off the wedge would form and charge down the field. The center, of course, would be the first man down and the other 21 men with perhaps an official or two thrown in (sometimes actually) would be top of him. After the game had gone on a while, Noashim would be to face him and could so as they got off him, and usually he wished for more men so that he could have a longer run.
The absence of a mutual zone between the lines was a feature of the game then, and the opposing players would make life miserable for the other. A player could reach over and claw at his face, cuff his ears or bother him in other ways to interfere with his accurate passing. This made it necessary for the farmer to pass the horse down the road and protect himself with the other.
Fineernails Not Verboten
Finermails Not Verboten
Naismith remembered a favorite tribes of Hubert Pratt, then center for Amherst, who used to teach his students Naismith's chin and pull his hand right on up to the victim's forehead. Naismith got around this by putting his free hand over his face and letting Pratt scratch his hand, but as Pratt thought he was doing a good job of face scratching both hands, he found that game. To play football then required a lot of initiative and provided thorough training in self-protection.
To make a first down it was necessary to make five yards in three dows or lose 20 yards. There was no forward pass and the men could line up almost as they pleased. Tackling below the knees was barred but the players got around that by hitting above the knees and quickly slipping the grip down below the knees.
The rules demanded that the ball, be handled by three men before being put into play. The center would pass the ball to the quarterback who would hand it to one of his teammates and then step back to survey the field in order that he could send the next play at the most strategic spot. The quarterback was usually the first player to enter and was in football teams then what the coxswain is to row crews.
Used Few Substitutes
The padded worm in the '90s is consisted mostly of finny hip bips with pads also for the fronts of the legs. The elbows were sometimes padded, although sharp, bare elbows were very useful for causing opponents to walk away taking to the knees. Woolen jerseys and stockings and a pair of short trousers. Shoulder pads so vital to the present-day players were very seldom worn. After all, a knocked-down shoulder then was only a minor bruise common to children; their arms and scars received.
The description of the game sounded so rough that Doctor Nailsmith was asked how they could keep 11 nen alive long enough to finish a game. He smiled reflectively.
"I guess we must have been tough then" he said. "We very seldom did." The couple didn't have more than two or three salts available. Prentiss Donald
played through four years without a time out or without being removed from a game for even a minute." (We wondered what Donald would think of Den Fauro's system after his foul-dissertation at Mesaourt.)
Naisim went on to explain that a team usually went through an entire game without a substitution or rest period. The game was divided into two 35-minute halves with no quarters.
No Quarters Then
The rule that allowed a player to run with any free ball added lots of thrills and uncertainty to the game. The players were taught to approach a ball at top speed, dive on it, tuck it securely under their arms, roll back on their feet and be away again at full speed. (Now they are as sure as at the points of the player's body touch the ground.)
In early-day football the ball had to be noticeably stopped. In other words, a player had to have teammates around him at all times to keep several of his burly opponents from suddenly "trucking" him away in the opposite direction. The ball carrier had to be stopped before he could pass. He would and many times two large groups would be tugging and pulling at the fortunate runner, trying to shove him ahead or back.
(There was no rule to provide for the possibility of the man's coming apart, but one team would probably rush its half over for a touchdown while the opposition would trundle its half down the field for a safety.) There is no doubt that football has come a long way from the old game used in the 90s. The forward pass has come into effect as a principal offensive weapon, and new rules have done away with the wedge and other features of the old game used in the 80s. Comprises used to delight Spectators sit in stadium now far away from the actual play, and consequently much of the bunter back and forth has been eliminated. The game has been made safer, more open and scientific, but certainly the
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2:44 p.m. News flashes.
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6:00 p.m Student program, sponsored by the English department.
Graduate Faculty To Hold First Meeting
The Graduate faculty will have its first meeting this afternoon at 4:30. Some business which will be brought up will be a report of the students who have completed their work since last June. If the faculty gives its consent these students will receive their degrees.
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Guy Bibby of the Engine school took his, well somebody's anyway, p cat to a class yesterday. He amused himself throughout the entire lecture by petting the cat. What the matter Guy, can't you get enough petting done after dark or won't they tumble?
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