THE KANSAN
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Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1906
The actions which are being taken in giving numerals to class athletes mark another step in the development of class athletics. Inter-class and interschool events are coming to be one of the leading features in University athletics.
It is something unusual for a college crowd to clean out such an educational institution as a circus. Those Missouri boys must have been sore because the elephant drank at the hydrant, or perhaps because the tents were proof against "crawling."
Some of the incidents connected with the base ball game at Baldwin Monday merit, and have already called down, the general disapproval of the whole university. The men most intimately connected with the affair have very naturally been suspended, but the worst of the matter is that their punishment does not in the least diminish the evil effects of their actions on the institution. The students of Baker will very naturally spread the news of the actions of the representatives of the University of Kansas, and the telling of it will not in the least work to the good of our school.
A man's conduct can never be properly said to be entirely his own affair, but when he is one of such a body as this University, whose standing is set by his bearing, it becomes a matter of responsibility to keep his conduct above reproach.
The men who were concerned in the affair were representatives of supposedly the best there is in the University, and their fall hurts in more ways than one. It seems of course that in these matters many concerned get off unpunished, but that should not make one lose sight of the principal fact, that the act was unworthy of men of the type that the university stands for.
A contributed editorial in the last issue of the daily Iowan has this to say about conditions
necessary to a healthy state of affairs in oratory and debate:
"It would be no more unreasonable to expect the physical director to produce a winning football team from seven or eight men over whom he had no supervision, than it is to expect the professor in charge of public speaking to bring winning debating teams from a small part of the men of the University, when he has no authority over the submission of the question, or the choosing or training of the contestants. I submit that what is needed in both oratory and debate is men, an interest and supervision. We have the supervision in oratory, but lack both men and interest. If interest can be aroused and an opportunity to compete given, I believe the men will be forthcoming."
In a general way the contention is good, and something of the same weakness that the Iowan is delploring exists in the similar kinds of work here. There is no use of ignoring this fact until next year just before the annual debates. Now is the time to start the movement for an improvement. Our debates should be already under way for next year. The questions should be chosen and the important material provided by the library if it is not already in the files. Our debates will never be what they should be until something of the kind is done. Why cannot the thing be done before the end of the year?
Mrs. Merrill, of Paola, visited her son Frank at the Phi Psi house Thursday.
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New Feature in Friday's Chapel --Club Women on Rostrum.
WOMEN DO THE TALKING.
The chapel exercises yesterday were given over to the "Women's Federation of Clubs," and instead of the faculty occupying the platform, all the seats were taken by the visitors, and as Chancellor Strong expressed it in his opening remarks, "we had before us a large number of Kansas daisies."
She insisted that the college club women of the future would be better than those of the past and intimated that the male members of the audience would be husbands of the club women in the future. This statement provoked much merriment.
Mrs. Brown, of Salina, the president of the Federation, was the first speaker. She confessed that the contemplation of speaking to the students had caused her much more worry than all the duties connected with the Federation.
Mrs. McCarter, of Topeka, whom Mrs. Brown had designated as "the best speaker of the Federation," was next on the program. She congratulated the University on its historical location and insisted that the best boys and girls of the State were sent to the "Athens" of Kansas. She modified the statement somewhat by saying that some of the "best" boys were sent to other institutions in order to make it interesting for our football team. The serious part of her speech was devoted to the advantage of "silence," and numerous instances were cited of noted men obtaining fame through the instrumentality of silence.
The exercises were closed with a rendition of "Crimson and the Blue" and as a grand finale, Professor Hubach started "Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, K. U."
A rare opportunity will be given University young women at Y.W.C.A. meeting, Wednesday, May 16, to hear Mrs. Leila McKee Welch of Kansas City, Mo., a Wellesley graduate and former president of the Western College for women, Oxford, Ohio. The subject will be, "Memory, Hope and Work." Special music in the form of a vocal trio.
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