THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1910.
Rugby football, whatever its faults may be, does not suffer from a scarcity of press agents. The March number of "Success" contains a four-page article on Rugby by Henry Beach Needham. Mr. Needham undertakes to demonstrate the superiority of Rugby over the American game. He claims that the English game is not only safer but is faster and more exciting. Whatever there may be to Rugby, it is going to be hard to "popularize" a game when the players do not like it and the spectators do not like it. Why don't we like Rugby? Did any member of the student body ever see it played? Perhaps it would have less trouble getting a foot-hold if people were better acquainted with it. Why don't the exponents of Rugby arrange a series of games to educate the public? Then, if the merits of the game are such as it has been represented to have by its fervent advocates, the prejudice and objections which the rest of us have would be broken down and the football question would have solved itself.
The members of the University of Kansas basket-ball team are to be congratulated on being able to "come back" and for the third consecutive year carry off the championship of the Missouri valley. It was a remarkable showing they made this year, and all the more remarkable because the season failed of being an ever-victorious one by only the smallest fraction of a second. The necessary basket had been thrown—the ball was just going down within the ring—when the official's whistle blew and ended the game at Washington University. Thus the only defeat which the team suffered during the season was almost a victory, and does not detract from the record of the season.
The new national guard company which is being formed at the University is badly needed as a corrective of the stooped shoulders and sunken chests so prevalent among the men on the hill, which are the results of too great devotion to books. Eh, What?
The third annual banquet of the Y. W. C. A. will be held in Snow hall, Saturday, March 12 at 6:30 o'clock.
The Mechanical Engineering society will meet at 1301 Ohio street, at 7 o'clock this evening. C. E. Johnson and R. L. Bartlett will speak.
UNIVERSITY NOTICES
There will be a song recital in the chapel this evening by Mrs. Wilson, at 8:15. Professor Carl Preyer will play the accompaniment.
Mr. R. L. Douglas will address the Y. M. C. A. this evening on "The Relation of the College Man to His Fellows."
Professor L. E. Sayre will speak to the Pharmaceutical society in the chemistry building at 11:15 tomorrow.
C. A. Case of Abilene, a member of the state legislature from Dickinson county will speak in chapel Friday.
The Zoological Journal will meet in Snow hall at 11:15 o'clock Friday.
President F. K. Sanders, of Washburn will talk at vesper service Sunday.
DEMISE OF THE "SNAP."
Economics Now a Working, Not a Sleeping, Course.
The proverbial five-hour snap is no more. No longer will everybody laugh when you tell them that you flunked in economies—for now it is one of the hardest courses on the Hill. No longer will the economics students say, "I am taking 10 hours and economies." And it all started yesterday when the students went to class, and were assigned 500 pages of library reading. Those who did not faint at the shock were then given a 5,000 word thesis to write by the end of the month. Now if you ask one of these "economies" how much work he is carrying, he will answer, "economics and ten hours."
There's more than mere service value
The spring models in grays, blues, tans, and novelty shades are ready. All sizes and modest prices. $16.50 down to $3.98.
SPRING SUITS & COATS,
$12 to $45.
20 More Shopping Days Until Easter.
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SPOKE TO JOURNALISTS.
J. A. Calvin Told the Use of Stereotype Plates.
J. A. Calvin, of the Western Newspaper Union of Kansas City, spoke yesterday morning to the classes in journalism about the stereotype plates, which the union furnishes to Kansas newspapers. It is through the union that the small country weeklies can get the feature stuff and information which they print.
They've Done It Again!
The makers of Nettleton's Shoes have again proven their supremacy over all other shoemakers by turning out a line of
Spring Shoes and Oxfords
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Posters and Pennants Special Sale This Week =At= ROWLANDS' College Book Store
"THE ENGLISH BUDGET."
Professor Becker Gave Instructive Talk Last Night.
"If President Taft, Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrich had to get up in congress and in the face of the opposition defend their tariff bill, one thing at least would have to happen," said Prof. Carl L. Becker at the meeting of the Good Government club last night. "One of them at least would have to have an accurate and comprehensive knowledge of a tariff bill, and that is something that has never happened yet in this country."
Professor Becker was speaking on "The English Budget." He made the statement quoted above to illustrate the English way in legislation. Over there when the ministry prepares a budget, a representative of the ministry must elucidate the bill on the floor of the house of commons, explaining and defending its provisions, item by item. He must be prepared to meet all the objections that the opposition can possibly raise, said Professor Becker. Therefore, all legislation must be above board. Nothing can be hidden.
"The English people are now having what they call a crisis, but what in any other country would be called a revolution," said Professor Becker. "An English revolution can be distinguished from ordinary political agitation by the way in which the people calm down while the revolutionary measures are under discussion. The privilege of 'heckling' a public speaker by throwing rotten eggs at him and trying to break up his meeting which is usually taken advantage of to the full by the opposition, is for the time being done away with. When election comes, everybody votes a little more conservatively than he feels.
"The present English crisis, while brought on by the provisions of the budget, is really caused by the revival of the question as to whether the lords have the right to reject a budget that is passed by the Commons.
"Their power to do this was supposed to have been taken from them in the seventeenth century. The question was supposed to have been settled until it was reopened by the refusal of the lords to adopt the present budget."
The meeting last night showed the club to be in a flourishing condition, as nearly every member was present. Three new members were elected. They are: James E. Grattan of Sedgwick, a senior law; W. E. Pepperell, of Concordia, a middle law; Chas Raymond Eyssen, of Independence, a middle law.
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