UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University of Kansas.
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HERBERT FLUNT                                Editor-in-Chief
JOHN C. MADDEN                            Managing Editor
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1887
postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the aegis of Mark
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news by including the stories that matter to students, clean, be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to learn more about the University; in all, to serve to the best of its ability the students of the University.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1913.
For truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.—R. L. Stevenson.
INTO THE KANSAS CITY GAME
In the following comment in Saturday night's Kansas City Star the "Kansas Notes" man challenges the Daily Kansan's contention that the students at Kansas are not hurting themselves demanding the Missouri-Kansas game back in Kansas City as follows:
Is The Daily Kansan Convinced?
Since the revival of the matter of returning the Missouri-Kansas football game on Thanksgiving to Kansas City, where it belongs, the University Daily Kansan has been handling the matter with extreme delicacy, and with a sort of superior aloofness. In reply to a letter to the Kansan editor from E. C. Moservey of Kansas City, a Kansas alumnus, the Kansan repeated the fact that it was "amused at the whole project, considering the fact that the whole movement seemed to be the desire of the alumni, not the students." The Kansan further said that a vote would soon be taken to ascertain the opinion of the student body on the matter, and if that institution expressed itself in favor of the return of the game to Kansas City, it would cease to be "amused" and would treat the matter seriously. The vote was taken Thursday and out of the first 168 votes received, only five wished to see the game remain as it is, in Lawrence and Columbia alternately, and all the rest wanted it to go back to its proper place. The Kansan will now kindly wipe that smile off its face and get into the game.
Before going further the editor wishes it understood that the Daily Kansan's opposition to the game is purely editorial, and represents the opposition but three of the fifteen men on the paper.
In spite of the returns of the vote now being taken which apparently show the student body here overwhelmingly in favor of the change, we repeat, for the benefit of those who assert without giving any reason that the game "belongs in Kansas City," that so far there has been no concerted demand on the part of Kansas students for the change, and that the vote does not, in our opinion, represent such a demand.
First, at least half of the 500 votes turned in have not come spontaneously, but have been solicited by a bare half dozen or dozen men who are particularly anxious to see the game back in Kansas City because then they can have their usual banquets which a few organizations but not the general student body can have. To be plain, the vote has bee nlarly brought in by a few interested individuals with axes to grind which goes to show that while our students would like to have the game in Kansas City, all right, still they don't care enough to say so without being solicited; they're making no demands, raising no fuss.
Second, the women, who have so far been unsolicited, are not expressing any great demand for the change. So far about 35 women out of 1000 have voted. If they want the change they are very quiet about it.
Third, how can any vote taken here this year when the game is away show the real feeling of the student body? It the students want the game in Kansas City, all the time, why didn't they demand it there last year when the game was here? And will they want it there next year when it is due to be here?
Our point is, find the consistency in this vote, and ask yourself if the students really want the game in Kansas City, year in and year out, or whether they are wanting it there this year largely because they can't have it here? There is a great difference between wanting the game in Kansas City when it isn't "our turn" and wanting it in Kansas City when it is our turn.
The Daily Kansan will risk the displeasure of its readers until Kansas students get out and without being collected, they can move to another state and will demand such a change year in and year out, all the time, not just when the game is in Missouri.
We are still smiling, and shall continue to do so, especially when our personal opposition to the game is backed by other expressions like the following:
College Football as a Spectacle.
Years ago the oldest and most experienced universities checked the excesses of college competitive sports by finally ruling that these contests must take place at home. Interest in the game had grown until it extended far beyond the colleges, including their alumni, and for convenience, in order to accommodate the increasing multitudes who desired to see the games, these were held in the larger cities. But competitive athletics became of such importance that it threatened to overshadow the actual purpose of the university, and the contests themselves, instead of college games, became great national spectacles, the upshot being that with one accord the faculties made the order mentioned and college games are now played in college towns. While this is quite unsatisfactory to persons not connected with the colleges
concerned, or to what may be called the "general public" which enjoys high class sports, it is the settled policy of these higher institutions of learning. It has been the policy of the University of Kansas and Missouri University in their annual football game in the last year or two, but this policy here is now reversed, or is about to be, the new board of Regents of all the State educational institutions having entered into the matter and endeavored to obtain from Missouri University an abrogation of the order that the two universities made against having this game at Kansas City.
"Missouri must consent," says Chairman Ed. Hackney, of the Board of Kansas regents, "and then the Missouri Valley Conference must also authorize the playing of game in Kansas City." If this change desired by the sport-loving public is made, it will be an important step towards placing competitive sports in which a small handful of men are actually engaged above the larger interests of the University—Topeka Capital.
To the Editor. University Daily Kansan, Lawrence, Kan
Dear Sir: I am pleased to see you take the stand that you do in regard to the return of the Kansas-Missouri game to Kansas City. By all means the game should be kept on college grounds. I am a 1913 graduate of the University and if there is one vivid memory of my four years on Mt. Oread it is the memory of last year's game with the Tigers from Missouri—not so much the memory of the actual game itself, but rather of the school spirit that manifested itself at the time; the mass meetings; the cheering and shinging that sprang spontaneously from rooming house and street at almost any hour of the nights during the days immediately preceding the game; the gaily decorated town; the huge crowd of old boys—and girls—that returned, some of them for the first time in years to see the annual struggle.
The unity among the student body at that time was such as I never before observed at any time during my sojourn at Lawrence. The students really woke up and realized that they all belonged to the same institution and were striving for a common end. And the idea wasn't pounded in for one day—it was given a whole week of genuine rallying and boosting and preparation to black the eye and twist the tail and otherwise mutilate the Tiger.
It has been argued that more alumni of the two schools can attend the game if held in Kansas City That is doubtless true, but as you, sir, have stated in your most fair editorials, the game is primarily for the undergraduates. The game means twice as much to them as to the alumni The football season is the undergrad's one big chance to realize that his Alma Mater has battles to fight and needs his support either in playing or rooting.
Those in favor of the move say that many of the undergraduates miss the game when it is played on the college fields because they cannot afford the trip from Lawrence to Columbia or vice versa. True again, but I had rather see the game, and the events leading up to it, once every two years, even though an alumnus, than to witness the annual struggle every year in Kansas City. One attendance at McCook is worth three at Kansas City. I know, for I have seen the game at both places. The issue seems bigger, and one gets a whole big chestful of school spirit, when the Tiger comes right to the home grounds and tries to get the Jayhawk.
Furthermore, when the game is played in Kasas City, at least thirty per cent of the students of both schools miss it. I know that fully that many have always remained in Lawrence in the past, feeling that they could not afford the trip to Kansas City.
Which is better, to have the game played on McCook or Rolina and ALL of the undergraduates of at least one institution she fray every year, while a few hundred alumni and betting or interested Kansas Citians miss it, or to play the game in Kansas City and have a large number of the alumni and all of the interested spectators see it, while at least THIRTY PER CENT of the student body OF BOTH UNIVERSITIES miss the game every year?
Those who assert, without giving any reason that the game "belongs in Kansas City," are next in line to say why the game "belongs" there. The game belongs to the students, always, and not to alumni. If "old grads" in Kansas City haven't "pep" enough to go a few miles to see their Alma Mater's big game, and if "old grads" over the state would rather go to Kansas City for the game, then they are indeed loyal alumni and deserve lots of consideration. Why can't they be honest and admit, as some of them have, that they want the game in Kansas City largely because they can "have a good time" after the game? We assume, then, logically, that the students here and at Missouri must want the game in Kansas City because, after the game, they too can "have a good time," presumably in the uncensored parts of this city in which the game "belongs."
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Most sincerely yours,
EARL POTTER
COMMUNICATION
It seems to us that it is unjust to require a student to possess a student enterprise ticket before he will be allowed to play tennis. We believe that the tennis courts should be thrown open to the students just the same as the gymnasium and McCook field. It looks as if it were a compulsory method of selling student enterprise tickets because of a person's desire for tennis. We believe that the sale of student enterprise tickets should be compulsory, but as long as that is not the case, we hate to see tennis used as a means of forcing the sale of student enterprise tickets.
TENNIS AND STUDENT ENTERPRISE TICKETS
To: University, Delhi, Kanpur;
Yours truly, A Couple of Students.
COL. HUCKS AT TOPEKY
When the "Capital" reporter came to him for an interview, after adjournment, the Colonel's cup ran over. Before this, there had always been so many big fellows at the state conventions, that Colonel Hucks had not been worth an interview, from a newspaper standpoint.
(Extract from "The Regeneration of Colonel Hucks," by W A White )
He had once achieved the proud distinction of having his name mis-spelled in the personal column of the "Capital," in connection with being a guest at the "Copeland," and of reporting "crops in fine condition in the Slate Valley;" but he had never before been interviewed by a real city reporter. He wondered what they would say, when they read this at home. He would have stayed with that reporter all day, if he had not heard some one behind him say, "Plumb's come, Plumb's come!"
This talismanic signal passed around the lobby of the hotel, with telegraphic rapidity. And the Colonel joined the procession, which was headed toward the Senator
Plumb was a little heavier and a little paler than he had been on the day when Colonel Huckles voted for him for Senator in the legislature, but otherwise he was unchanged. The great man leaned forward with his head on one side, and extended to the Colonel one hand, putting the other upon the farmer's shoulder. "I hear you have been helping the Alliance and the rebels pass the force bill, Colonel," said the Senator, smiling. "Your pension comes all right now, don't it? Did you get that horse book you sent for? I spoke to Rusk about it, and he said he'd answer you. Why, hello there, Jim, how are you?" And before he knew it, the Colonel found himself explaining to the crowd how he had written to Plumb for one of Jerry Rusk's "agricultural reports," and how he'd got a letter from Rusk saying that they were all out, but that m'm'm', and the hum of the other voices drowned his own.
At night, when Plumb was on the rostrum, Colonel Hucks was tired. The old man's applause, instead of being what the papers call "loud and continuous," was of the kind which nods the head, and nudges the man sitting next, and claps the hands. He followed the Senator pretty closely, and when the speaker allowed to those "on whose heads have fallen the snow which never melts," the Colonel caught his eye, and the pathos of the remark brought the moisture to his own. After that, the old man nearly nodded his head off with approbation. When "Joe" Ayrd adroated the Alliance, the Colonel felt rested, and his loyal whoop led the applause; its echo was the last to die after the speech had closed.
When he got back to Willow Creek, his county seat, the next day, the Colonel went to the office of the Lincoln County "Republican," wherein that week appeared this item:
"Colonel William Hucks, of Huksville, the war-horse of Center Township, was in town last night on his return from the State Republican League convention, and made
this office a pleasant call. Colonel Hucks has been in training with the Alliance for the past eighteen months, but he authorizes us to say that he is back in the fold and hopes the ninety and nine will rejoice with him. Uncle Billy raised the biggest crop of wheat ever raised on Slate Creek, and all of the corn in his 200 acre field was sold by him this morning for $15 an acre. He left the wherewithal to pay for one year's subscription to this great family newspaper and the State "Capital" for one year. Uncle Billy, you're a daisy, and here our hand." As he drove into his front yard that night he noticed the old regimental flag waving over the door. Inside of the house, he observed that "Mother" had brought out the pictures of Grant and Sherman and Lincoln, which she had put away the year before. They were hanging in the best room with little "Link's" faded blue soldier-cap in the center of the group.
"Did you have a nice time at Topeky, William?"
"Yes, Mother," and after a pause he added, as he looked at the little cap and the old flag, which now and then floated in through the door, "and say, Mother, 'his soul goes marching on.'"
For Colonel William Hucks was never what you would call a "soft" man.
An Editor's Savings
-Editor and Publisher.
An editor who started about twenty years ago with only fifty-five cents is now worth $100,000. His accumulation of wealth is owing to his frugality, good habits, smart business, and the fact that an amcle died and left him $99,999.
Clergyman—"Do you remember me, my dear?" "I don't 'member your name, but you're the gen'leman other makes me stay awake an' listen to church."
Sabbath Reading
"Louise, I really can not permit you to read novels on Sunday."
"But, grandmama, this novel is all right; it tells about a girl who was engaged to three Episcopal clergymen, all at once."
—Life.
From Vermont School Children
Samuel Johnson was a well-known English writer. He wrote several heavy books.
The people who lived on the earth before it was inhabited gave a rare low order of savages.
Henry IV. of England met his death by starting to pray and having a fit and died from effects.
A penitent is one who earns his living by his pen.
Monotony is where a person or a company has everything its own way.
Finance is what a girl marries.
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