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.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall. Phone. Bell. K U 25.
Roy Roberts, Editor.
Wallace F. Hovey, Managing Editor.
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WEDNESDAY, NOV.20, 1907
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Thursday, November 21:
Song Recital, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Carson.
Friday, November 22:
Sophomore Party.
Hon. E. T. Fairchild will speak in chapel.
Saturday, November 23:
Freshmen vs. Sophomores.
Juniors vs. Seniors.
German play in F. A. A. Hall.
Sunday, November 24:
Vesper Service.
With this edition the new administration takes charge of the affairs of the Kansan and asks the heartiest support of every student in helping to make it the best paper the University has ever had, for without this support all our efforts will be in vain. We will make no striking change in policy. We do not even have any remarkable plans to announce, but wish rather for the results to speak for themselves. We agree heartily in the policy of the retiring editor in maintaining the paper on a strictly nonpartisan basis. We wish to make it as much as possible representative of every interest of University life. We wish it to get closer in touch with the students than of old, and more than ever make it their mouthpiece. We will make our mistakes, and plenty of them no doubt, but we bespeak your courtesy and patience. If you have any knocks, do not hesitate to express them, for it is only by such criticism that we can hope to improve the paper. All the new administration can promise is that it will do its best to keep the Kansan up to the high standard it has reached under the efficient direction of the retiring editor.
The action taken by the social committees of the various classes in agreeing to start the class parties at an early hour is a move in the right direction and deserves the support of every student. It is simply a question of a little more promptness and will do much toward making the "wee sma" hours a thing of the past.
We must beat Missouri.
"There was a striking absence of any true college spirit among the St. Louis players." Such was the striking keynote of practically all the reports of the much lamented game at St. Louis last Saturday and in it lies a good sound reason why it should be impossible, in the future, for an athletic team representing the University of Kansas to compete against representatives of the St. Louis school. Football, of all sports, must be a purely amateur sport and as far removed from professionalism as possible. Whenever that saving grace of college spirit is lacking, the game has degraded into a mere contest for pecuniary advantage and has no place in the college world. Of course the position of the athletic manager must be considered. It is his duty to arrange a schedule that will pay financially. That is what he is hired for, if that homely phrase might be used. But where the game is played for the sole reason of making money, there is no student of the university who would not rather dig down into his own pocket to pay a deficit, if one should arise, than to see a Kansas eleven forced to line up against a team where the professional element is so dominant as it is at St. Louis. Then, too, the contest is not a fair one to the university boys. No true sportsman would want to see a schedule arranged with the sole idea in mind of having an ever victorious team. But it is not fair to compel a team, bound by the strict eligibility rules as Kansas is, to compete with a team which in reality, if not nominally, puts as loose an interpretation on the eligibility qualifications as St. Louis does. St. Louis University should find no place on the Kansas schedule next year.
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Afterthoughts
An alumnus back on a visit puzzled a freshman by asking whether the University still had the home talent vaudeville. He explained himself by saying that he meant the Tuesday chapel speeches.
Who will make the biggest hit in the German play, Emperor William of Germany or Professor William of K. U?
First the water is poisonous and then it is not.
We're sorry for Manager Lansdon, We hate to cause him pain, But something's sure to be done If we ever go there There again.
My but didn't the Democratic mule kick!
Last year the St. Louis game killed K. U.'s record. This year it almost killed Rouse. Next year.——
Professor Haworth to freshman geology student, "Don't you remember the glowing skies following the great volcanic eruption of 1883." Young student, "I wasn't here then."
The melancholy days are come,
The saddest of the term,
For now the quizzes bring to light
The things we didn't learn.
Chancellor Read Papers.
Chancellor Strong went to Washington, D. C., Sunday to attend the meeting of the National Association of State Universities held there Nov. 18 and 19. Chancellor Strong read two papers at the meeting, one entitled "Should We Have a Standard Type of State Universities?" and the other on "Can the Purpose of Denominational Schools be Gained through State Universities?" He will return Monday.
Mining Editor Speaks.
W. R. Ingalls of New York, editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal, addressed the Mining Engineering class of the University last night at the Eldridge House on the "Ethics of Mining Engineers." About sixty were out to hear him.
Y. M. C. A. Doin's.
Saturday night a hundred men gathered at the Y. M. C. A. house, and spent the evening playing games and singing college songs.
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