The University Athletic Association
You can save money for the remainder of the season by buying a Coupon Book. There are entertainments yet to come that amount to $10.00:
10 Basket Ball games at 50c $5.00
10 Basket Ball games at 25c 2.50
2 Track Meets at 50c 1.00
Other Nov. Athletic Entertainments 1.50
TOTAL $10.
Basket Ball schedule will be played in January and February. Buy tickets of University Office.
--sense and meaning of the word. 182 cities in 90 counties of the state send students to the University.
HAS MORE THAN 2100 STUDENTS
UNIVERSITY SHOWS WONDERFUL GROWTH DURING YEAR.
There are Now More Girls in the College Than Boys.—Many Men Take Engineering.
The high water mark in the enrollment of students in the University of Kansas was reached December 5,1908,when 2,100 was reached. The registration continues to grow.
Of this number, 942 are in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,the men numbering 427 and the women 515. Last year there were 453 men in the college and 446 women, showing the largest percentage of gain of women in the college in the history of the University. It shows a decrease in the number of men entering that department of the school.
433 men are enrolled in the engineering school. Last year the number was 479.
184 students are registered in the Law school, 79 in the School of Medicine, 22 in Drawing and Painting, 94 in the School of Pharmacy, 126 in the Department of Music and 48 in the Graduate School. The attendance at the summer school was 220.
The University of Kansas is a "state" institution in every
The counties of Cherokee, Crawford, Dickinson, Franklin Labette, Leavenworth, Marshall, Montgomery, Reno, Rice Sedgewick, Shawnee, Wyandotte and Douglas have over 25 students. 39 counties have from 15 to 25 representatives.
A Kansan Got the Ball.
Kansas University is an interstate and a national as well as a state school. Colorado sends six students, Iowa 2, Kentucky 2, Missouri 92, Nebraska 2 and Texas 2. The following states send one student: Illinois, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Holland has one student, New Mexico 2 and Russia 1.
When Bluck kicked the field goal in the Thanksgiving day game which gave Missouri her first score against Kansas since 1902, the ball flew over the fence into Prospect avenue, into the midst of a crowd of people who were standing in line trying to get in to see the game. A lively scramble followed for the possession of the ball, but a Kansas man got it and it is now in his possession at Independence, Kansas. That ball would certainly have looked good to a Missouri rooter.
January 1, 1909, a Kansas magazine, owned, edited, and managed by Kansans, will appear in Wichita or Topeka.
A Story That Might be True.
A happy student lolled in his rocking chair and smoked a General Arthur with leisurely abandon. What cared he for board bills or flunks! He was one of the hits of the hour. His classmates had elected him president of the freshmen class, and on the steps of Fraser Hall he was the general subject of conversation. The boys honored him, the girls ogled him. Even the landlord at his abiding-place humbly called him "mister."
What cared he for study! Learning was the smaller part of college life anyway. He would be a leader among his fellows, and when he stepped out upon the rude mart of the world he would be a leader among men. Let those who wished study far toward the dawn; he would graft his way through, and in the end be more successful than the grinds.
As he sat in dignified luxury, lazily blowing rings from his aromatic cigar, professors from the hill who were so honored as to have him in their classes, came into his room bowing in obeisance. Kneeling on the Royal Wilton rug at his feet they begged him to take credits of them in his various studies. But he spurned them and their offerings as dross offered by the scum of the earth. Away! I say. Away! Twice I say away. Away to your bare studies with your credits. I spurn them. I
am no longer your servile slave pleading for a bare three in my studies. Ha! Hal! I have this day conversed with the Chancellor and he has promised me an A. B. without my doing any work. Today I lunched with the Board of Regents and they promised that what I wished I should have. They recognize merit. They are just in their rewards, but you—you—you, you cringing dogs; upon you I empty the bitterness of my contempt! I look upon your baldening heads and laugh aloud to see you squirm. Take your lowly grades and leave my honored presence. I will have noth—!
At this moment the grafter's room-mate hits him roughly on the shoulder and interrupts him by exclaiming, "Wake up there, Bill. Let's get to work on this Dutch. It's about time you were bugging up on that stuff."
As Bill arises and reaches for his eye shade and his History of the Thirty Years War, the curtain starts to fall. As soon as it has started and while it is going down an Engineer in the next room sings in a sonorous voice "Nobody Works But the Engineer." After the last echo of this song has died away the gentle strains of "That is a Habit I Never Had," sung by three Laws as they deal out the next poker hand, is borne down the hall. When the barristers have finished, the curtain arises on a tableau, showing Bill stooped over his study table working for dear life.