THE KANSAN.
VOLUME II.
IT IS BRUTAL
PRESIDENT ELLIOTT OF HARVARD DENOUNCES FOOTBALL.
Says it has Reached a Point Impossible to Reform.
The American game of football as now played is wholly unfit for colleges and schools, according to an opinion expressed by President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard university in his annual report to the board of overseers of the university, which was made public today.
He declares that as a spectacle for persons who know the game, football is more brutalizing than prize fighting, cock fighting or bull fighting. And for the contestants he believes the rules governing football to be far less humane than the rules which govern the prize ring. He adds that it is childish to suppose that the athletic authorities, which have permitted football to become a brutal, cheating, demoralizing game, can be trusted to reform it.
The report declares that the game has reached a point where it sets up a wrong kind of hero; that there is no such thing as generosity between combatants any more than in war; and that all the evils of football have descended into the secondary schools, where they are working great moral mischief.
College World.
No more sororities at Drake. Recently a sorority was secretly organized there, but somehow the news came to the ears of the president, who served notice on the members that they must take their choice of leaving the sorority or the University. Now they call themselves the Dennis club.
The Missouri Independent says that less than 1,600 students are enrolled at Columbia. They celebrated the other day on reaching the 2,000 mark in enrollment, by counting the students enrolled in the Rolla School of Mines, those in the summer school and those enrolled in the short course in agriculture. Kansas is still ahead of her sister institution, for we can count 1,600 without taking the agricultural school.
The University of Iowa has made arrangements whereby students working on the Iowan, the university paper, will receive college credit for work done.
California is insisting that a graduate system of coaching her athletic teams be decided upon and adhered to. They say, "Let us no longer be blinded by the glamor of the football teachers from the effete East, but let us build up a system of graduate coaches that will surpass anything in the country." Good for California!
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 3, 1906.
Chi Omega Party.
One of the most enjoyable spring parties of the year was given by Chi Omega last night in Fraternal Aid hall. Newhouse's town orchestra with the addition of four out of town musicians furnished the music. There were twenty-two dances on the program. The programs were done in white with the Chi Omega gold monogram on the front and were given out by Gertrude Eson and Madge Kennedy. Ida Ahlborn and Otto Phein led the grand march. Delicious refreshments, consisting of chicken salad, olives, sandwiches and coffee, were served during the intermission, and green gage ice was served from two tables in the main hall. Ninety couples were present, among whom were the following out of town guests: Maude and Mayme Wiseley, Blue Mound; Bess Kinne, Milan; Ethel Murphy, Iola; Alberta Halbert, Parsons; Pluma Mapes, Kansas City; Hubert Hudson, Fredonia; Rupert Renn, Dallas, Texas.
Adopt Changes in Rules.
Chicago and Northwestern Universities have adopted the changes made a few days ago by the representatives of the big nine. At a faculty meeting of each institution all the rules were adopted and the professors of Chicago even went so far as to express a wish to abolish the game for two years. A copy of the resolutions was drawn up and sent to all the schools of the big nine with the request that an agreement be entered into abolishing the game for two years. At Northwestern nothing was mentioned about quitting the game, but it is quite likely she will follow Chicago's lead. At the present moment it looks as though Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri will be the only schools in the west that keep football.
Hon. T. M. Potter Speaks.
Hon. T. M. Potter, Vice President of the Board of Regents spoke in chapel yesterday on the present status of religion. He based his talk on a recent magazine statement that "only women, children and the feeble minded believed in religion as it is now taught." "There is nothing in the statement," declared Mr. Potter. "One has but to look around to see it. Nearly all the governors of our own State have been active Christians, as have been the greatest statesmen of our nation. Darwin, in his later life, vainly regretted the atrophy of his ethical nature."
Keep your hands and face smooth with Raymonds Cream Roses.
Missouri Glee Club Has Twenty- One Members.
WILL SING IN CHAPEL.
The Missonri Glee club of twenty-one members will sing in Fraser Hall Tuesday night, and in chapel Tuesday morning. This is the first appearance of another college glee club at the University of Kansas. The club comes very well recommended and music lovers will no doubt be pleased with the program. The program is as follows:
PROGRAM.
NUMBER 36
Marching song, "Come all Together"
Chorus of Departing Pilgrims from the Opera "Tanhaeuser..."
...Glee Club
Bedouin Love Song...Mr. Wright
The Way They Have in America...
...Messrs. Prentis and Ellis
Calm as the Night...Mr. Orr
My Son Lou...
...Mr. Dew and the Glee Club
Annie Laurie...The Glee Club
Barney Magee...
...Mr. Prentis and the Glee Club
Sing Me a Song of Missouri...
...The Glee Club
Kentucky Babe...
Messrs. Wright, Pike, L. Palmer,
R. Palmer, Lee, Prentis, Dew,
Magruder.
Gypsy John.
King Charles...Mr. Krull
A Medley. Arr. for the Glee Club of the University of Missouri by Fritz Krull...The Glee Club
At the Piano...Mr. Ruskin Lhamon
There are four or five fraternity men in the club, and a dance in their honor at Fraternal Aid hall after the concert has been planned by some of the local chapters. Frank Ellis, a freshman in our engineering school, has a brother in the Missouri club.
"The Old Homestead" is a perfect transcript of life. Its characters are real people, whose troubles and joys are real as are their comedy and pathos which invariably beget laughter and tears. "The Old Homestead" will be presented at the opera house Wednesday, January 7.
CONTRACT LET.
Excavation for Rosedale Clinical Contracted.
The Board of Regents of the University in their meeting last evening at 7:30 awarded the excavating for the new clinical department in Rosedale to Turner Bros. at $3,400. By next fall the whole of the Kansas City branch of the K. U. Medical school will be transferred to Rosedale.
Michigan is very much wrought up over the question of what will become of Yost, should the suggestion of President Angell be acted upon—that of doing away with the professional coach. In a recent issue these words appear under a double column cut of Yost: "America's greatest football coach. Is he to be dropped by the university to which he has brought so much fame?"
HE WRITES VERSE.
Harry Kemp, the Wanderer, Has Poems in the New York Independent.
Harry Hibberd Kemp, the student recently from New York City, is author of a poem that appeared in the New York Independent Magazine last week. The poem, entitled "The Man Behind the Plow," shows keen verse ability. Kemp is getting along very well in the University. He is undoubtedly a genius and will some day make a place for himself if he applies his talents. The poem is as follows:
Bards have praised in song and lay men, whose office is to slay. Men who go intrepid where their foemen lurk;
But the man behind the plow is a hero, too, I trow—
He's the man that keeps them while they do the work.
Oh, the man behind the plow with the sun-tan on his brow;
His sole honor is the labor he has done.
But to shoot their brothers down is the glory and the crown
Of a million men that stand behind the gun!
'Tis a stirring thing, no doubt, with the enemy in rout,
To follow war-flags leading on before;
But the man who stays at home tilling the reluctant loam
Is the man who keeps the man who goes to war.
It is valorous to go where the warlike trumpets blow,
And the deadly shrapnel on its course is sped;
But it seems to me this man follows out a nobler plan
Than the man who knocks his brother in the head.
Then rememb'r when you hear drums and trumpets martial cheer,
That upon some little field the work is done,
In a simple humdrum way, toilsome day succeeding day,
That supports a man that marches with a gun.
Then apply it further still; all the shapers of world-will,
All the petty princlings who exact a bow,
All the fanfare of estate on which buttoned legions wait—
All depend upon the man behind the plow.
Engineering Lecture.
H. W. Jacobs, of Topeka, will lecture before the mechanical engineering society Monday, February 5, in Snow Hall, on recent improvements in machine manufacturing methods. Mr. Jacobs has been in charge of the introduction of new methods throughout the Santa Fe system, and is in a position to talk on the subject. The lecture will be concerned with the matters with which Mr. Jacobs has had practical experience in his work with the Santa Fe.
Harvard students, backed by New York capital, will manage and run an "ideal farm," to be located in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.