10.16.12
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1927
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PAGE THREE-A
Homecoming Day Recalls Memories of Car Conductor Sid Rogers for 12 Years Has Piloted Throngs of Ever Changing Students
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Homecoming crowds aren't 'what they used to be from the standpoint of the street car conductor. They have changed both in numbers and in character according to Sid Rodgers who has been on the K, U, line since
Mr. Rinke, who students recognize as the only man on the line with a mustache, has been in the employment of the street car company. He is now bed for the K. U. car trucks. When the company was short of men in 1916 he was made a conductor and for the last 12 years he was billed a K. U.
According to Mr. Rodgers, a num-
ber of years ago before the automobile
replaced the car as the main commu-
nication time, a car would carry 300 or
400 persons during the course of the
afterpart, while now 150 or 200 is a
must. Motor vehicles have a capacity of 80 or 90—the cars now used about sixty. Motor cars have 60 per cent
down his hitch gear about 70 per cent
The old crowds had more of a rowdy, boisterous element than those nowadays, and Mr. Rodgers seldom finds a person who tries to skip by the crowd or goes in with the common practice. When the individual was reminded upon leaving the car that he had failed to pay, sometimes he meekly dropped his coin in, and sometimes he indignantly denied his omission and Mr. Rodgers had to let him.
"The mob would get so enthusiastic after the games that they would break off the car doors and poke out the window lights," Mr. Rodgers said. "We will enjoy the crossbar. And glad that part, too, once done, stays, with," be added.
To further illustrate his point that students had changed for the better Mr. Rodgers recalled an incident a number of years ago when about 200 teenagers can for Tennessee street and ride to the court house, refusing to pay.
"Sometimes students ride on the Hill with me during their fourth years at the University. I never get to know their names, but I learn them when they return later for games and celebrations" Mr. Rodgers said.
Goldsmith Relates How He Learned to Swim
Drawing of plans, structural design, architectural theory and history are not the only things talked about over in the department of architecture at the school. The other afternoon as a reporter walked in, he found Prof. Goldin-Waddam and several student engineers who were involved in Engineering building engaged in an interesting discussion on the subject of swimming, which, although not exactly appropriate to this winter season, was monopolized all the attention.
Professor Goldsmith related his experience in learning to swim. He said that when he was a boy he was not afraid of water and used his head, and he simply had to swim or sink. When the other boys noticed that he was having rather a hard time swimming, he helped him, but Mr. Goldsmith was so jealous that he "ducked" his brother instead of accepting his help. When Mr. Goldsmith reached the shore he threw sticks and shrieks, throwing sticks and sticks and cans at them, and even picked up a cat and threw it at his brother. The cat called it a "tall" cat, said "I threw it bodily."
Another story told by the man who is now head of the department of tourism in the United States, a friend who lived on the coast. The two of them went down to take a dip in the ocean, and he comforted the boat to be comfortable, Mr. Goldsmith shivered and shuddered, but he managed to stay in longer than his time there, and he remarked as he left the water, "Cold!" exclaimed his bill, "I'll swim away because I didn't want to be outdone by someone from the middle of the United States where there is no swimming."
"Boes" Executed Tiger at Celebration in 192
Back in 1923 the annual return of the "Brothers of the Road" to the Kansas campus brought an innovation to the usual procedure for the
The "boss" had spent the morning in the usual palace back and forth with her husband, and around the entire group gathered together in one spot, and with the eye of a monkey, to watch the demalion mob went galloping across the campus in search of the striped
After a long search, the noisome creature was found crouching in a tree and was quickly executed by the loyal "Weary Willies."
Century-Old Cells Live in Heartwood of Trees
Carnel, Calif., Nov. 18.-Living trees over a century old have been found in the heartwood of redwood trees in California by Dr. D. T. Macek, Washington and Dr. G. M. Smith of Stanford University, according to an article which will appear in an early issue of which all living things are built have usually been assumed to be very short-lived. Most cells either die within a few days or works after they have grown sufficiently by dividing to form new cells.
(Science Service)
In earlier studies, Doctor MacDougal discovered centenarian cells buried deep in the tissues of the great cactus of the southwestern district, and when he found cells which though not so old could still measure their age in decades. The long-lived cells in the hard woody tissues of the redwood constituents of cactus were buried in the protective life persisting buried within the heart of a tree.
Beer-Bust Began Custom
Hobo Day Started in '94 by Trip to Kansas City
The first Hobo day at Kansas was in 1894 when many of the estates sold their old clothing to the city for their annual "beer bust." They later decided that the event might as well be held in the early morning, so they set the first Hobo day as it is observed at the present time was held four years ago and has been an annual event since then. The Hobo conventation, and the judging of continues have all become a part of it. These events include plenty of paint, burnt cork, and the possession of a corn-cob pipe are the main essentials of make-up for a good look. In this case the handkerchief, in which are carried all his worldly possessions, makes the hobo more picturesque but is not obsolete.
One of the main factors in making Hobo day the success that it has been is to give him the dignity to be persons who do not conform to his standard of dress. A bad day it is for students who try to get by at home during a major academic event. The hobo deems it only fair to take away the funny and lighthearted nature of his character, not adopt the garb of his class, and the student who thinks himself out of the hobo class is not worthy of dignity.
A proposition to sell the Y. M. C, A building at M. U., is now under consideration. Should the proposition go through, approximately $30,000 will be spent on the rebuilding and building for use as a Missouri Union.
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Jeweler & Optometrist
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Homecoming Day Means Rush for Those Who Aspire to See All Events That Are in Store
A day like any other fall day in Kansas—a cool water bath, a wind that touches boyish boa and flaps the colors on the stadium wall, the intermittent warmth of the sun, trees like aged cooktops all but stripped of their brilliant plumage, clammy soaked paths, color of burning leaves. Years may after the clothes they wear have become more weathered every Homecoming day finds the same vivid, innocent crowd of students. They are the life which animates the massive University building, the generation to generation tales of pride and of days well-open, they are the soul of the joyful, the spirit of the Rock Chale pile. The carefree preying eyes of outdoors deeper thoughts, for the creed by which they is "Joyful today, for after today we must be grateful to face the work of the world." They are not avoiding the fact of the fire; they are merely storing it will 'wealth of memories'.
Laughter and movement, flamboyant colors and laughter, talk and laughter; it is an ever-changing series
of pictures. To the old grad it is all painfully, and gloriously, like his own college days, except that the faces are new and strange. There is little time for retrospection for the schedule is heavy and the day is short. Off the train at noon, rushed out to "the house" for lunch, the game in the impressive new stadium, with old friends surging about in the crowd, always just out of reach, dinner, evening with the old gang in the old spirit, and the last train bone to make that important business conference in the morning. Homecoming! Next up to the grad, and to the student?
Send the Daily Kansan home.
For the former, it has meant a chance to catch again his youth and the days when he was making memoirs of his experiences which to flame the fiam of his enthusiasm with the breath of conviviality. For the latter, the bitterness of their affections of the fall season. For both, it has meant a deepening of the channels of their affections for their school, and a deepening of their affections of those of their friends and classmates.
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