THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 7. 1910.
COMING EVENTS.
April 16, French Play.
April 21-22, Musical Festival.
April 29, Junior Prom.
May 5, Student Council Elec tion.
May 7, High School Meet.
May 13, Sophomore Prom.
May 14, Nebraska Track Meet.
May 14, Girls' Gala Day.
May 21, Missouri Track Meet.
May 19-20, Senior Play.
May 28, Missouri Valley Meet.
KEEP THE ISSUE STRAIGHT
One faction of University politicians adopted the football slogan at Tuesday's Athletic Board election and by so doing clouded the football issue while helping their men into office. The student body seemed not to take cognizance of the fact that not one of the men elected on the so-called "football ticket" will by virtue of his position ever have a chance to vote on the question of what kind of football the University is to play.
The placing of Professor Rice's name on the ticket at a late hour in order to accentuate the pretended "football" significance of the ticket raises an interesting question. Did the backers of the ticket know when they placed Parofessor Rice's name on the ticket that the personnel of the Athletic Board would not be affected thereby? Did they use Professor Rice's name merely as a convenient stepping-stone into office? If they did not know, then that is a significant commentary on the ability of student managers to handle student affairs and be sure of what they are doing.
But perhaps the worst effect of this dragging in of factional University politics into the football situation was the impression it gave to outsiders. The morning papers printed the news that the "American Football" ticket had won after a hard fight. They conveyed the idea that there was actually an organized party among the students fighting for Rugby. As a matter of fact the students are united for American football. Rugby could not muster a corporal's guard in the whole University.
The fact remains that Tuesday's election did not affect the football situation. The question has to be fought out, elsewhere than in factional elections. The students should not lose sight of the true condition. If American
tootball is to be retained at the University it will be because the best possible case for football has been made before the Board of Regents.
Doting Washburn football fans have named next year's football team at that school the "blue cyclone," which will doubtless prove to be a dainty morsel for "terrible Mike."
UNIVERSITY NOTICES.
A German Conference will be held at the library at 7 o'clock tonight.
The Mechanical Engineering society will meet tonight at 1301 Ohio street.
Bartel E. Ebel will speak to the Greek symposium tonight on "What the Greeks Have Done for Modern Civilization."
The Civil Engineering society will meet at Blake hall tonight at 8 o'clock.
The Quill club will meet April 12. Miss Grace Thestrup, Miss Myrtle Greenfield and Mr. T. T. Shannon will read papers.
The Biological society will meet in Snow hall Friday morning. Mr. Ray Hoskins will read a paper on a biological subject.
The Rev. Frank M. Higgins of Minnesota will speak in chapel tomorrow morning.
D. H. Brenaman, an attorney of Topeka, will speak on "The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ From a Legal Standpoint" at the Y. M. C. A. meeting at Myers hall, at 6:45 this evening. Miss Rachel Wood will sing a solo.
We think it's pretty well proven by this time that this is the Store young Men look to for the newest and best in Clothes. You ought to see how they are gobbling up our new gray and fancy blue patterns in one, two and three button Suits. Seldom will you come across a set of new styles that make such a complete "hit" right on the jump. We show them in every line from $12.50, $15 to $30. An especially big line at
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"LUMBER JACKS' SKY PILOT"
Man, Famous for His Religious Work Among Lumbermen, to Speak in Chapel.
TITLE GIVEN TO REV FRANK E. HIGGINS.
Rev. Frank E. Higgins, who is to make the chapel address tomorrow is the subject of an interesting little volume by Norman Duncan entitled "Higgins—A Man's Christian," Mr. Higgins is a Presbyterian, who regularly ministers, without a church, acting under the Board of Home Missions, to the lumber jacks of the remoter Minnesota woods. A more extended description of Mr. Higgins' work, called "The Lumber-Jack's Sky Pilot," has been written by Rev. Thos. D. Whittles.
One writer has said of him: "To confuse Higgins with cranks and freaks would be most injuriously to wrong him. He is not an eccentric; his hair is cropped; his finger nails are clean; there is a commanding achievement he bind him; he has manners—a man variously interested, as the polite world demands, nor is he a fanatie; he would spit cant from his mouth in, disgust if ever it chanced within. It is a reasonable and highly efficient worker—a man dealing with active problems in an intelligent and thoroughly practical way; and he is as self-respecting and respected in his peculiar field as any palpit parson in the cities—and as sane as an engineer."
He has no church; he straps a pack on his back and tramps the logging roads from camp to camp, whatever the weather—12 miles in a blizzard at 40 below—and preaches every day—and twice and three times a day—in the bunk houses; and he buries the boys—and marries them to the kind of women they know—and seolds and beseches and threshes them, and banks for them."
The subject of Rev. Higgins chapel address has not been announced, but no doubt the students of the University will be interested in hearing this Irish-Canadian from the woods of Minnesota.
A Student Complains of Marking of English Papers.
CALLS CRITICISM UNJUST.
Through this column I hope to bring before the instructors a matter which is not only very annoying to the students but to many very unjust. Many of the papers are looked over, and in some cases actually graded, by critics hired to do this work. A greater part of the students in the English department are complaining about the injustice done them by the critics. Many of the comments are the results of mere personal whims of the critics and as such they can be of no benefit to the student. Then, too, there is the element of fault-finding and not the tone of genuine corrective criticism. These critics are causing hard feelings and in some cases are causing the students to become discouraged. Something ought to be done by someone to correct this fault. What shall it be?
To the Editor of The Kansan.
—One of the Students.
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COLLEGE ENGLISH BAD.
Boys Brought Up on Bad Eng lish, Says Missouri Writer.
"The Teaching of English," is the subject of a communication to the New York Evening Post from R. D. Miller of Columbia Mo. "The once very general belief that 'anybody can teach English' has, in recent years, given place to the belief that nobody can teach English, and this, in its turn, is now yielding to the belief that anybody can teach the proper method of teaching English."
Mr. Miller pays his respects to the amount of English that College students know. "College English is bad, incredibly, intolerably bad," he says. "Why? There is an unbroken circle of causation of which the lay citizen seems wholly or partly ignorant. Bad English is bred in the bone of the average American boy. He hears bad English at home and at school; he reads it in the newspapers and the cheaper magazines. He studies grammar at an age when he should be taught elementary composition, and composition and literature alone when he should also be taught grammar. In the high school his teacher is always overworked and frequently half-trained. When he enters college his education in English has reached the half sophisticated stage of 'Give it to John and L.' His interests are incredibly narrow; his ignorance, apart from football, is impartial and catholic. The 'unsolved problem' that confronts the college instructor is a heterogeneous class of thirty such boys, the unchallenged product of 'affiliated' schools. He does what he can with them in one short year, 'fails,' as many as college tradition will permit and passes the rest on to graduation, and, if they teach, to perpetuate in the high schools the conditions which he is powerless to change."
Politics and Ship Subsidy.
Politics at the University have become as intricate and complicated as those of the nation. This fact was shown Tuesday when a deep-thinking voter approached Emile Grignard, candidate for the chairmanship of the rowing committee, and said, "Emile, before I cast my vote for you I would like to know how you stand on the ship subsidy question."
"I'm against Rugby," answered Emile, and the vote was cast in his favor.
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Franklin A. Gray, class '00 president and manager of the Gray Advertising Agency of Kansas City, Mo., will lecture to the sophomore classes in journalism on Wednesday of next week on the subject of "Advertising." The Gray Advertising agency handles large contracts for advertising in the newspapers and magazines.