UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
HERBERT FLAUNT - Editor-in-Chief
GLENDON ALYLIE - Associate Editor
JOHN C. MADDEN - Management
JOHN GLEASSESS - Sport Editor
GLENNESSER - High School Editor
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REPORTIAL STAFF
RANDOLPH KENNEDY
SAM DROGEN
LUCY BARBER
FRANK HENDERSON
Entered as secor1-class mail matter September 17, 1916, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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The Daily Kavanah aims to picture the undergraduate atmus atoms by providing them with more than merely printing the nues by standing up and showing their pictures; to be clean; to be cheerful; to leave no serious problems to wuser heads; to have an ability to students of the University.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1913
The Department of Journalism is assisting the editors of the Daily Kansan in news gathering, head of the program for six weeks. The student assistant from the department today are:
News Editor, James Andrew Greenstein
assistance: Joe Howard, Frank O'Sullivan.
Editorial assistants: Ray Eldridge, Gilbert Chayton
Exchange editor, John M. Henry.
Society reporter, Lucile Hildinger.
Education is the apprenticeship of life. WILMOTT.
A CATEGORICAL ANSWER
Editor of the Daily Kansan.
Since the publication of the well known "Student Proclamation," I would like to know the facts concerning the charges that the Daily Kansan has suppressed articles that were sent to the Daily Kansan for publication. If such articles were suppressed, the student body should know for what purpose and by whose orders they were suppressed.
Would Know.
The editor of the Kansan failed to deny these charges in the last issue, thus leaving the impression that they were substantially true. It not be a guilty statement in the editor to present it in regard to this matter? Yours very truly
The "charges" that the Daily Kansan has "suppressed" articles that were sent in for publication are absolutely untrue.
In the first place no such articles which the Kansan is "charged" with having "suppressed" have ever been received by the Kansan, and in the second place the Kansan has heard of no one who sees fit openly to back up any such "charges."
The "charges" were given denial—all they deserve—in last Friday's paper, front page, under the heading, "The Coaching Situation."
The pantatorium operators seem to have had very pressing engagements in other places besides Lawrence.
ACTION, ACTION!!
The critical situation of the Student Council, under fire between the student body and the University Council, deserves the serious consideration of students interested in the future of student self-government at the University.
The Men's Council has so far taken no final action on the communication concerning the Missouri game which the Kansan referred to University disciplinary authorities. Now another chance to serve the student body and the University is slipping by—the matter of settling the coaching question.
ing questions.
The Men's Council should naturally voice student sentiment. However, it has taken no action in the coaching matter, which vitally concerns the student body. It has made no investigation of the wholesale criticism of Coach Mosey, and on the other hand, has stood by and seen the petitions of students for Kennedy's return seriously discredited by the injudicious action of a few of those favoring his return.
The Men's Council is exhibiting few signs of life on important University matters. Will this condition continue?
YOU HAVE NOTICED IT?
The street crossings at the head of Adams are sadly in need of repair; also the one at the west end of Green hall.
A small amount of concrete from one of the laboratories would put these crossings in good condition. Why not do it now, before cold weather arrives?
THE LAST STRAW
A subscriber writes in to ask,
"What was K. U.'s score with the
Lawrence high school?"
Congress has been petitioned to furnish revenue cutters. What else were the new tariff schedules designed to do?
CAMPUS OPINION
The Kansan will and does print communications that are contrary to the paper's policy.
The Kansan further wishes to state that no member of the Kansan board is allowed to contribute to the Campus Opinion column of this paper unless his name is published in full with the article. The Kansan therefore has not been "writing its communications in the office"; every one printed this year has been genuine.
If students aren't getting expression through the Kansan's opinion columns, it is entirely their fault, not the Kansan's. Nothing pleases the Kansan more than to get a communication.
CAMPUS OPINION
A PLAYER SPEAKS
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
As a member of this year's team
would like to say a few words in regard to the coaching situation.
Now that Coach Frank has announced his plan for leaving K. U. at the end of the present semester it seems to me that in all fairness he can be left out of the discussion, That Frank and Mosse did not agree was an open secret throughout the season, which does little credit to either of them and less to the authorities who placed them there.
That the season was a keen disappointment to the players also goes without saying. Coach Moss announced early that he had the best material since 1896, and had more men than he knew what to do with.
I want to say a word for the men and the spirit they showed under difficulties. No one doubts the spirit of the average Kansan, and our boys on the field, working behind closed gates and against big odds, did their level best. What more can coaches or followers ask?
The result of the season's work is fresh in the memory of all of us and needs no repetition here. Suffice it to say that our games were won before we entered them, and while we seemed to have lots of latent strength and power as individuals, as a team we were unable to do ourselves justice. As one of the players in the majority of the games I will say that when they did their best, played the game as they were instructed, and did all in their power to keep the colors of Kansas in front.
To me it seems out of place to publicly criticize our coaches. However, it seems to me that there is too little exchange of opinion here at K. U. There is no one in authority in football that one can go and failly express his sentiment about it to the audience concerned, but I do believe that the interests of the University should be considered before that of any individual.
The record of the season is now history; Three important games, two conference and one interstate, and three defeats. One has to look far back into the record of the Kansas teams to duplicate the disastrous season of 1913. Now because we are raising a protest against the manner of developing the team we are accused of being poor losers and actions are called unportmanlike. I am not overstating the position of my fellow players when I say that these statements are unjust to the boys of the squad, and will not help in getting the team together for next year.
If a coaching staff were built up with but one idea, that of efficiency, and permanency follow attainment, then we could begin to see our way out. Is it not a matter of fact that Coach Kennedy with his seven years of service had built up a permanent coaching staff which Moses as an assistant—a place which he was eminently fitted for? Is it not a matter of record that the work of all these years was ruthlessly torn down, without one voice of protest from those in authority? That is not so long ago,
but that we younger players can well remember it. And when we contemplate the puerile efforts of the authorities to build up another staff with other leaders it does not inspire much confidence.
It should not be necessary to further discredit Mosee. Let the record speak for itself. Chancellor Strong is on record as saying that next year will be the first year that Coach Mosee has had a chance to put his football ideas into play, that one long enough for each to be given a fair try. Are there a half dozen students in the University who want two more years with Mosee as head coach? If so, I do not know them.
I commend the Kansan for throwing open its columns for a full and free discussion of this matter. You must admit, Mr. Editor, that it is the general impression that the Kansan will not do this very thing and I for one am glad to see you display this idea. Surely, we are living in work areas, but in modern living and in Sunny Kansas where people just naturally have a way of speaking out. Let us have more discussion and settle this thing in a manner becoming gentlemen. Yours sincerely, A Player.
CONCERNING "STUDENT PROC-
LAMATIONS."
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Will you kindly permit one who doesn't know everything about football, whose very ignorance of the coaching he has never taken in woefully deep and disgraceful perhaps, to remark on the matter of issuing ear and infinitive-splitting "proclamations" occasionally?
While about this thing, of reorganizing the faculty, let's do it right. While Mosse and Frank were working with the team this fall, the Chancellor and Uncle Jimmy and George O. and some others were lecturing and drilling the rest of us in the practice of sportsmanship toward visiting teams, until we had that down letter-perfect.
But when it comes to be courteous at home, they seem to have failed. Perhaps they were too modest to tell us that the faculty are human and deserve courteous treatment, or perhaps they thought we would have the wit to see it, but evidently they have failed. To complete the bill, you must class grades, and oust everyone who gives a total less than the Missouri or Nebraska professors. That might make things easier for us.
"The petition will positively be considered by the Board of Administration, and by the Board alone." Certainly. Manager Hamilton and the Athletic Board are a bunch of inexperienced and arbitrary chumps who know nothing anyway, and, moreover, they are maliciously prejudiced against the welfare of the student body, and have the effrontery to want to manage the things they are responsible for.
Bert Kennedy is a very pleasant gentleman, and a good coach. I wonder, if he should take the K. U. team in like condition, and finish the football season as well as Mosse and Frank have, would a bunch of agitators circulate a petition to bring in someone else, whom they thought might save them a few bids? Surely, his "friends" are putting Dr. Kennedy in a most uncomfortable position!
Let's be loyal as long as the team itself does not go on a strike. And if we can not be that, let's try to be in recent courtcases, and not slanderous.
Graduate Student.
THE only students whom we heard speak a word of criticism against the playing of our football team last Saturday, were fellows who had bad experiences. This illustrates the undoubted tendency, on the part of those students who bet on athletic contests, to become knockers of the team and coaches. Almost invariably the student, who is constantly bawling out advice to the team or the coach from the bleachers, is a fellow who has money up on the team. Almost invariably that fellow leaves the field, after a defeat and the loss of its money, in order to gain体会 of team, knocking the coach, knocking the athletic department, knocking everybody that he can conjure up an excuse for criticising. Unless money is no consequence to him (and most of us are not in that circumstance) the loss of a bet is certain to sharpen a student's disappointment at a defeat and to make him more prone to criticise and knocker it may be that good sportsmanship to back your team with money. But it is certainly better sportsmanship to refrain from betting, when its inevitable tendency is to make you a knocker. For the sake of good sportsmanship, therefore, let us drop the betting—Wisconsin Daily Cardinal.
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Calendar
Tuesday
Tuesday
7:30 Zoology club (Snow.)
7:30 Glee club practice, (Fra.)
7:30 Christian Science Society,
(Myers hall.)
8:00 Philosophy club, (1825 Barker
Ave.)
8:00 Dr. W. S. Hall of Northwestern
medical School will address
University men in
chapel.
Wednesday
4:30 Mining Journal, (201 Ha.)
4:30 Cercle Francais, (306 Fra.)
7:30 Hawk Dramatic Club, (110
Fraser.)
7:30 Mandolin club rehearsal, (116
Fraser.)
8:15 Fine Arts Faculty Recital.
Worst S. Morse, Violin,
(Chapel.)
15:30 Reception by ladies of the faculty to men and women of the freshman and junior classes, (Haworth.)
4:30 E Alteno Club, (200 Fra.)
7:30 Orchestra practice, (Fraser.)
8:00 Major M. L. Walker, Engineering Corps U. S. Army, will speak to the Civil Engineering Society on "Rapid Methods in Topography," (Marvin.)
(Mar. 14)
8:00 Glee club concert, (Chapel.)
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