THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas. EDITORIAL STAFF: JOSEPH W. MURRAY Editor-in-Chief EARL FISCHER Managing Editor BUSINESS STAFF: HOMER BERGER - - - Business Manager CLARK WALLACE - Asst. Bus. Manager HENRY F. DRAPER - - - Treasurer J. E. MILLER - - - Circulation Mgr MEMBERS OF BOARD. LOUIS LACOSS CARL CANNON WILLIAM E. HAMNER Entered as second-class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association. Address all business communications to Homer Berger Business Manager, 1406 Tennessee street, Lawrence, Kan.; all other communications to Joseph W. Murray, 1129 Louisiana street, Lawrence, Kansas. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance; one term, 75c; time subscriptions, $1.75 per year. Office in Basement of Fraser Hall. Phone, Bell. K U 25. TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1910. REACHING THE REGENTS The meeting of the athletic association yesterday showed signs that the student body has thrown off the apathy which has possessed it on the subject of football. A hurried rush was made for the stable in the hope that it was not too late to slam the door and keep the horse from being stolen. If the same interest in retaining the American game had been shown a month earlier, there would now be little danger to the game. Perhaps there is time even now for the sentiments of the student body to affect the action of the Regents. It is well to remember, however, that the Regents are away from the University, that they have not the student point of view exclusively, and that they are likely to be affected but little by student excitement. The meeting yesterday had the effect of uniting the students in a determined effort to save football but it is doubtful if a meeting of Regents will be much swayed by it. The brief which the student committee will present to the Regents along with the petition to retain the game is more likely to influence that body. From Kansas City comes word that "football will not be abolished at the University of Kansas if the Kansas City alumni can prevent it." At the annual dinner there Saturday evening a resolution will probably be adopted declaring for the retention of the American game. The Kansas City alumni are coming with aid at a most opportune time. It is important that the Regents be made to know that the demand for football is not confined to the present enrollment of the University. Regent William Allen White, who is known to some of his editorial associates over the state as "Hell-Roaring Bill," says that he is the original football insurgent—the first man to agitate for the reform of the game at the University. Mike Lynch, referred to on the election posters as "Terrible Mike," is running for the athletic association on the platform of retaining football at the University in its present form. The University seismograph will have work to do when "Hell-Roaring Bill" and "Terrible Mike" clash on the football question. Up to the hour of going to press, the "prominent fraternity man" mentioned in a down-town paper who advocated the use of the paddle and other instruments of torture known in fraternity houses as a means of bringing up fraternity scholarship, had not been offered a position in the new School of Education. Kochman, the scientist, has recently shown by experiments on rabbits that alcohol given in moderate amounts prolongs life. Perhaps here is the explanation of the remarkable tenacity of life shown by a University organization, which had to be killed twice before it would stay dead. BEAUTIFY WEST CAMPUS. Idea of Member of University Faculty. Editor Kansan: One way to beautify the west campus would be to put in a basin and fountain between the Chemistry building and Fowler shops. This could be utilized as a reservoir to contain rain water from the roofs of these buildings. A supply of soft water is very essential to make distilled water, which is now prepared for all departments of the University in a large still and condenser in the attic of the Chemistry and Pharmacy building. The present arrangement, in which hard water is used, is very unsatisfactory, as the water is often of poor quality and the pipes of the condenser frequently become incurable. I also suggest that by means of a small motor the water could be kept in circulation and jets thrown toward the center from a circular pipe running around the basin. This should be protected by a railing, and ornamental shrubs planted near the margin. Here is an opportunity to combine beauty and utility that we cannot afford to neglect. FACULTY MEMBER. E. R. Weidlein will speak on "The Manufacture of Camphor at thm eyS-THT HTT phor" at the meeting of the Chemical club at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. UNIVERSITY NOTICES. Bartel E. Ebel will speak before the Greek symposium Thurs day evening on "What the Greeks Have Done for Modern Civilization." A German conference will be held in the library at 7 o'clock Thursday evening. The Medical club will meet in Snow hall at 7:30 tomorrow evening. The Rev. Frank M. Higgins of Minnesota will speak in chapel Friday morning. "WIPED OFF OF ATHLETIC MAP" RESULT TO KANSAS FROM ADOPTION OF RUGBY. Kansas City Star Writer Says Other Missouri Valley Schools Won't Take English Game. Kansas City Star. Graduates and former students of the University of Kansas who have been in Lawrence in the last week bring to Kansas City news that the proposed plan to abolish American football and to borrow the English game of Rugby is no mere scare. Unless the alumni of the university immediately bring pressure to bear upon the regents, they say, Kansas will be wiped off the athletic map. There is no doubt that the adoption of Rugby would mean the death of K. U. as far as interscholastic athletics is concerned Its football team is the best ad vertisemenut the Jayhawkers have. Not only that, the receipts from football are so large that they make possible the less popular sports. The football receipts furnish better training facilities, better coaches, more complete outfits and make possible better schedules than would be possible were the athletic treasury not fattended each fall. Kansas will be alone in the Missouri Valley if it adopts Rugby. Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Iowa and the other schools in the same class as Kansas will not try to adapt themselves to the English game. Kansas is a strong rival, and football games with Kansas are to be desired, but these schools can get along without Kansas much better than Kansas can get along without them. If Kansas does take on the English game it will be a great deal to the advantage of Missouri. However deplorable the fact may be, a winning football team is a much better drawing card than a strong Greek faculty Universities in the Missouri Valley are not yet independent enough to ignore advertising of the good kind. The K. U. athletes always have been well trained. In no game has a man ever been worked to the danger point. No undertrained men are permitted to takl part in football. Physical examination reduce the danger from football to a minimum. Football is a rugged American game—of a kind that every American wishes he could play. No sport can prosper in American colleges unless there is competition among colleges. If Kansas abolishes American football and adopts the English importation it will mean that all the athletics at K. U. in the fall will consist of Rugby games between class teams—and every college man knows how insipid is the enhlusiasm at inter-class contests. Sporting Goods Base Ball and Tennis Goods ROWLAND'S College Book Store FROM OTHER COLLEGES. University of California students had an all-day celebration on March 23 of the forty-second anniversary of the founding of the University. The Y. M. C. A. at the University of Oklahoma is beginning a campaign for funds to hire a general secretary to devote all his time to the work of the university association. The College of Emporia had a Campus Day last Friday. With the oversight and assistance of several professors, the boys made a general cleaning of the campus with rakes, shovels and wheel-barrows. Miss Theodora Franksen, totally blind since she was 8 years old, was one of the University of Chicago students recently elected Phi Beta Kappa. She has won a scholarship each of the three years she has been at the university. So far as is known she is the first blind girl to receive the election of Phi Beta Kappa. The Agricultural College regents have set aside twelve acres of the Campus for an athletic field. In the past the college has staged all its athletic contests on a tract belonging to Manhattan. Only $5,000 is available for the improvement of the ground and the alumni will be asked to furnish the balance needed. BOYS TO BEGIN BATHING. Will Wash Once a Week at the University of Wisconsin. Notice was posted on the bulletin board of the Wisconsin University by the faculty in which specific orders are issued to students to bathe at least once a week, manicure their fingers often and make occasional changes of underwear. 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