THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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JOSEPH W. MURRAY  Editor-in-Chief
FARIS FISCH - - - - - Managing Editor
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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.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1910.
COMING EVENTS.
April 16, French Play.
April 21-22, Musical Festival.
April 29, Junior Prom.
May 5, Student Council Elec
ion.
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.
GOOD WORK FOR FOOTBALL
The mass meeting of yesterday was the best the students of the University of Kansas have ever held, because it showed in a striking and unmistakable way the loyalty for the University that is behind the fight now going on to retain football as a part of University athletics. That it would be actually harmful to the University to do away with football the students have felt from the beginning of the agitation. Accordingly they have pointed the way to the removal of the recognized faults of football while retaining the game itself.
The way in which the meeting was conducted yesterday and the way in which the best counsels prevailed was a credit to the student body. It has been said by critics of the University that the students think more of football than they do of their studies,that there is more loyalty to football shown than there is loyalty to the University. That is an easy criticism to make and a hard one to answer. Athletic enthusiasm is something which anyone may take note of, while the interest in the deeper and more vital affairs of the University is of a less demonstrative nature, and likely to be found only by those who know how to look for it.
The resolutions adopted at the mass meeting yesterday showed beyond question that the movement to retain football is not an exhibition of hysteria and narrowmindedness on the part of the students, but is conducted with all regard to the best interests of the University. There is no doubt that many of the stu
dents who voted for the resolution favoring the removal of the game from Kansas City voted against their own personal preference. They subordinated their own wishes to the good of the University and of University athleties.
More good was done for the cause of football yesterday that had been done at all previous meetings. Probably enough was done to insure the continuance of the sport at the University.
The University Missourian is the paper at Columbia on which the practical work of the School of Journalism of that institution is done. The first year it was published, it was supported by a legislative appropriation. Then local jealousies began to manifest themselves. A fight was made on the paper at the last legislature, with the result that the appropriation for its support was stricken from the University budget. But there was enough proper University spirit at Columbia to save the paper to the University and its valuable use as a laboratory to the School of Journalism. Students formed a stock company and this year the paper has been run on an independent basis. It has been liberally supported and has more than paid expenses. Local news of Columbia as well as University news is handled in its columns. A large circulation has been built up for the paper among the citizens of the town. The Missouriian has taken a strong stand for municipal improvement, and is coming to be in the best sense a model newspaper which other small town dailies might imitate with benefit to themselves and their communities.
The Missourian is just now supporting a movement lately started to build a new capitol building for the state of Missouri.
Students should be interesting themselves in a discussion of candidates for the places in the Stu
dent Council, in order that the best possible choice may be made at the election, May 5. Events of the past week have shown the need of an able, aggressive Student Council-one that will truly represent the student body and will do more than the present council has done toward solving the problems of government at the University that students must solve. Ability should be the sole qualification for which men are chosen-not the fact that they belong to this or that faction of University politicians.
SOME MODERN "GRAFT."
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme "Sold' Some Fairmounters.
Two Fairmount College jokers went out Sunday from Wichita and dug about three pounds of steel bullets out of a bank on the K. N. G. rifle range east of town. They displayed the bullets at Fiske hall. They claimed that the long repose in the earth had changed the stell and lead into gun metal which they said, jewelers were eager to pay 25 cents a pound for.
Instead of the one suck hoped for, the tempting paid landed a half a dozen "preps" and one college "soph." These purchased mining rights and got busy.
An organized stock company of the "wise" ones now systematically boosted the price to fifty cents by stock manipulation. They also put the jewelers next to that, although each jeweler was "overstocked in gun metal," each jeweler confirmed the value of "gun metal." The frenzied mine operators worked Monday and Tuesday, producing about 100 pounds. A column and a half expose in the Wichita Eagle Wednesday morning shut down the mines.
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BRUTAL GAME ATTACKED.
Student Breathes New Life Into the Jack Johnson Issue.
To the Editor of the Kansan:
It is reported that in a game of baseball on McCook Thursday afternoon two of the players collided, knocking a chunk out of the forehead of one, and a row of ivories out of the other; also that last week one of the players of this game received a black eye and was unable to keep a date that night. Now in view of these terrible accidents, do you not think that this brutal game ought to be abolished? Are we students going to become gladiators and engage in bloody combat like the Ancient Romans? Is this institution going to tolerate a sport, the playing of which almost floated third base in human blood Thursday? Are sights like these conducive to the higher thoughts that this institution is endeavoring to instill in our minds? How can our noble school live where we tolerate such sport? Will the mothers of the youth of Kansas send their sons to the University of Kansas to be murdered, or their daughters to be hardened by gazing on gory athletic fields? I say that this fieldish so-called sport, baseball, must be abolished. Is this institution going to produce Jack Johnsons or President Eliots? If it is to be the latter the baseball rules must be radically changed, and the game brought nearer to ping pong, or we must introduce tide de-winks. Which shall it be Tiddle-de-winks is English, and as the spring styles are all English, why not adopt this form of exercise? I have never seen bas ball played, but I think that som action should be taken immediately.
STUDIOUS.
In 50 Years, 23,000 Students.
Statistics gathered by Yale University show that in the last fifty years only one-quarter of the 23,000 students were graduated. Many of the non-graduated students are now occupying positions of honor and responsibility throughout the country. In fact, in nearly all pursuits the percentage of non-graduates exceeds the percentage of graduates. In art, architecture and music there are five times as many non-graduates as graduates; in government employment, twice as many; in the ministry, one and one-fourth times as many; and in business, twice as many.
Archery was introduced as a University sport at a shoot recently held at California. The large number of contestants indicate that the interest in the new sport will be strong in that school.
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