THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOSEPH W, MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FISCHER - 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.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 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.
A RECORD OF PROGRESS
If the history of football at the University of Kansas had been one of degeneration instead of progress, if conditions in athletics had been going from bad to worse, then there would have been more point in the movement to abolish the game.
On the contrary, the tendency has been steadily toward the improvement of football and athletics in general.
Conditions were bad for awhile that is farther back than anyone now in school can remember when professionalism was rampant, and the scholarship of players was a reproach to the school. Then the University officials started to "clean up" and they were backed up in the movement by the students. The University showed the whole Missouri Valley that it is possible to have clean athletics and winning teams at the same time. It has been years since a University played received pay. Today, if the scholarship standing of the whole university were equal to that maintained by the football men, those who are interested in seeing the University do efficient work would be much easier in their minds than they are.
True, everlasting vigilance is required to keep sport clean. That is as true of college sport as it is of politics. But why abandon athletics because of that fact, especially when the University has shown that the needed vigilance is forthcoming and that athletes can be kept clean and not only that, but steadily improved?
ity of Kansas alumni at Kansas City Saturday night was a meeting of a kind which is sure to become of more and more importance as the years roll on. The graduates of the latest class pledged the Alma Mater with the frosty-haired alumnus of the early days, and to both the University has become an inspiring memory. The University of the present is vastly different from that of the early times, yet it is the result of orderly evolution from early conditions. Though "young" as schools of higher education go, it is acquiring traditions which mean much to the present students and to the alumni. That is another reason for "making haste slowly" when policies are contemplated which involve marked and radical changes in University life.
A UNIVERSITY NEED.
The Yale Alumni Weekly makes the statement, or rather, accusation, that "cribbing" is on the increase at Yale University. If that is true, there is one condition in college life that is the same in the East and the West for "cribbing" is by no means unknown at the University of Kansas. In fact, one professor of long experience, whose position gives him a knowledge of all departments, said recently, "Cribbing is the besetting sin of University of Kansas students. It is looked upon by many of them in the most matter-of-fact way, as if it were one of the regular in
There is little question that "cribbing" is on the increase at the University. Its growth can not be explained entirely by the fact that the students do not like the present examination system, though some students have urged that as the explanation, for in former years there was less "cribbing" under the same system. It is a vice which does only harm. If it is to be remedied the student body must take upon itself the task. The present Student Council has considered the matter of possible remedies, but has been unable to make up its mind as to what is the right way of going about it That is not surprising, for the problem is a most perplexing one and it may be long before it can be solved. A strong Student Student Council is needed at the University to meet this and other questions of student life; there fore the most able men in the University should be chosen to serve on the Council, which is to be elected May 5. That this b done is of vital interest to every student of the University.
stitutions of the University, and a perfectly proper thing."
The annual dinner of Univer
The New "Brown" Family Has Just Come to Town!
What a pity that Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Kansas is to be in August, when the University is not in session! If the ex-President had only timed his coming for the fall, the University would have been more than pleased to entertain the state's strenuous guest with an exhibition of clean athletics and a clen sport, from which mollycoddles are stricly barred.
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Suits of brown are booked for a big run of popularity this Summer, and we've taken pains to bring the entire family to Lawrence, including all the light, dark and medium toned members. We also want to say—and you will agree with us when you see the Suits—that this season's shadings and patterns are by far the handsomest that have ever graced the "Brown" Family. Some of the color combinations are so unusual that we can't find names to describe them, except to say they are different, distinctive and very dressy. We show a complete selection at each price from $10 to $35, featuring a particularly big line at
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Our Brown Derbies and Brown Shoes ought to have your attention, also. We have them in so many shades that we can match perfectly any Brown Suit you select. See our exclusive hazel Brown Derbies (just in) at $3. A very unusual range of Brown Oxfords at
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UNIVERSITY NOTICES.
Wilbur A. Hobbs will speak to the Chemical club tomorrow afternoon on "The Manufacturing of Incandescent Gas Mantles."
The Mechanical Engineering society will meet at 1301 Ohio street, at 7 o'clock, Thursday night and the Electrical Engineering society will meet in Blake hall at the same hour.
Mr. H. H. Fisher, superintendent of Haskell Institute, will speak in chapel Friday morning
GATHERING DATA.
Mrs. Frederick Crowe of Lawrence will give a piano recital in University hall Thursday evening.
Dr. Naismith Asks Football Men Thirteen Questions.
Dr. James Naismith on Saturday sent circular letters to all the old players on University of Kansas football teams who could be reached, asking thirteen questions regarding the game and various results of the game. The accompanying letter says the questions are asked in an effort to find out the true status of football. The answers to these questions will be tabulated for the use of the meeting of the governing boards of Missouri Valley schools at Kansas City April 19.
1. What led you to engage in football at the University?
2. What injuries did you receive during your football career at K. U.?
The list of questions follows.
3. What was the recovery from these?
4. What effects do you notice coming from these injuries?
5. What benefits did you get personally from the game
6. Did your parents object to your playing football?
7. Were your parents at any extra expense on account of your playing?
8. What objection have you personally to the game?
11. What is the attitude of the people in your town toward the game?
9. What objections do you hear urged against it?
10. Why, in your opinion should we retain American football at the University?
12. What men, to your knowledge, were attracted to K U. by football?
13. What men were compelled to leave school directly or indirectly on account of football?
RECORD ROCK CHALK.
Effort Made to Take Phonograph Record.
An effort was made by Professor H. O. Kruse and E. F. Engel of the German department, to obtain phonograph records of the college yells at the mass meeting Friday morning.
The records were to have been sent to Germany so that the students of the German school might get an idea of our college spirit.
M. C. Prunty, who for the past year has been principal of the high school at Seneca, has been re-elected to the position for next year by the Seneca school board, with a substantial increase of salary.
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