THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 24. 1906
With a good pitcher for every day in the week, the base ball team seems in a fair way to do something on its southern trip.
One of the instructors of the University has become so enthusiased with the importance of his line of work that he seems to have forgotten the existence of all other work. When his students began to cut their other classes to do their work with him, the other instructors began to find fault, but not before the students had framed a petition to the faculty to have the amount of work cut down to a reasonable amount. Enthusiasm for what one is doing is commendable, but there is a limit to the time that a student can give to a course.
The principle that it never pays to change a well established policy in a hurry was never better exemplified than in the predicament in which the University Council and the Athletic Board are placed by their action of this week, altering the interpretation of the scholarship requirements for athletes. The rule that the University has adhered to for years is that an athlete must make a creditable standing in all work that he undertakes, and that a failure to do so would disqualify him for any participation in sports. This is a rule confirmed without discussion at the Topeka Conference this year. The University, which is supposed to set the pace in such matters in the state, has repudiated this rule, and in consequence is practically out of it, so far as the Association of Kansas colleges is concerned.
The situation has been here for some time that if a student failed in a course that he was carrying over and above the minimum requirements, on recommendation of the head of the department and the dean he might be excused from making up that course without injuring his standing in the University, or hindering his graduation. An old rule that has been in force
for several years, will allow a man to change from one school to another with a maximum of five hours work back. That is, if he has flunked or been conditioned in not to exceed five hours of work, he may enter another school and take a degree from it without making up the deficiency. The two rules thus held lower requirements for good standing and for graduation than were required of any one wishing to represent the University in any way. The board and the council held that it was inconsistent, and decided to fix the academic qualification as their standard. Accordingly the Board passed the rule that if a student changed his enrollment with the maximum of flunks against him, and did creditable work for one full term in the other school, the flunk should no longer be a bar to participation in athletic sports. This was ratified by the University Council on appeal.
Granting that all these arguments be true, the action was a direct reversal of the well defined policy of the University, and was deserving of much fuller consideration than it received. It may be true as has been reported, that all of the Big Nine institutions practice the rule that the Council has just adopted, but the fact is that no one here is certain enough to make positive statement to that effect. It seems that as much as that should have been certain before action was taken. The action has placed us out of line with the colleges of the state, and may result in queering us with other institutions with whom we have athletic relations.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Sunday, March 25.
Vesper service.
Tuesday, March 27.
Prof. O'Leary will speak in church.
Piano recital by W. W. Lauder.
Wednesday, March 28.
Spring vacation begins.
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"The Ride of the Valkyries" in Wagner's "Valkyrie."
The beautiful Valkyrie maidens, those mythological daughters of the God Wotan that inspired the first of the "Nibelungen Ring" music dramas which Kansas City is to have an opportunity to hear during the coming Grand Opera Season under the direction of Mr. Henry W. Savage at the Willis Wood Theatre, constitute one of the most picturesque conceptions employed by the German master in any of his descriptive melodic compositions.
The production of "The Valkyrie" is Mr. Savage's most important effort next to "Parsifal," and will attract hundreds of music-lovers to Kansas City on Thursday, March 29 and at the Saturday matinee. "The Valkyrie" was first sung in English in Boston and the production was pronounced a greater triumph than any previous attempt to picture the opera in America. Mr. Savage has the only complete "road" production of the opera, and the Kansas City performance is guaranteed to be as complete and perfect as when given in the East.
These fabled warrior maids were supposed to follow the heroes in battle and carry their bones back to Valhalla, where the mighty fighters joined the forces of the gods. To illustrate the "Ride of the Valkyries," the music of which is so often given in concert programs, was a task that has always puzzled the great producers. At first huge hobby horses ridden by dummy figures were drawn back and forth behind gauze curtains at the rear of the stage. At the Opera in Paris these "prop" horses are still employed. But in Munich and in this country they have been discarded and the "Ride" is pictured by means of patient electrical effects. It is necessary to show the arrival and departure of the maidens, galloping through the clouds on their wind-horses, and when properly pictured this scene becomes one of the artistic achievements of the opera.
The orchestra of sixty musicians will begin the magnificent prelude at 7:30 o'clock precisely for the evening performance, and at 1:30 for the matinee. The other performances during the Opera Season will include the first English version in the West of Verdi's brilliant "Rigololetto" on Friday night, March 30, and the great revival of "Faust" for the closing performance Saturday night, March 31.