THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1910.
COMING EVENTS
April 16, French Play.
April 21-22, Musical Festival.
April 28, German Play.
April 29, Junior Prom.
May 5, Student Council Election.
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 CHANGE OF FRONT.
The longer the agitation over football is kept up, the more favorable the situation grows for the retention of the game. Football is referred to as a "problem" mostly by men who have not the most intimate connection with the sport. Those who have the closest knowledge of the game feel hopeful that whatever faults it has can be eliminated, and they have reason to feel hopeful in view of the progress of that kind that has been made in the past ten years.
As the football problem stands now it is less of a "problem" than would result from the abolition of the game. The question of what would take the place of football is one that no one has yet appeared to answer. The university authorities recognize the value of the fall game as an aid in working the transformation of the new students from an unorganized mass into loyal members of the University body. It seems now that the best solution of the football problem is to keep on playing football and to make such changes in the game as it appears to need from time to time.
The annual Music Festival is one of the University events which all students of the University should make a special effort to attend. The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra is one of the best in the United States. The program which will be given has been chosen with the greatest care. The soloists are all of wide reputation. It is probably true that students, like the American people as a whole, care too little for good music. An opportunity like the present to broaden one's means of enjoying life should not be neglected.
SOPHOMORE PROM PLANS.
Committee Has Drafted Regula tions for the Party.
The music for the sophomore prom, May 13, will be furnished by Harry Kelly's six-piece orchestra. The music will be arranged by Mr. Kelly from the songs sung in the farce.
The sophomores in their entertainment of the seniors and faculty members of the University, plan to equal anything ever given at the University. Rapid progress is being made with the farce, under the direction of Miss Mossler. The seniors and members of the faculty will receive their invitations within the next week or two
The prom committee is not sat isfied with the way dates are coming in. So far, only a few dates have been turned in. All should be in by April 20, the members of the committee say.
The committee has made the following regulations regarding the prom :
All senior girls are entitled to all the privileges of the prom. Also all senior men who have paid their fees when sophomores, but those senior men who did not pay their fee may attend the prom on payment of $1.50.
Each sophomore boy and girl is expected to pay the finance committee the regular fee of $2.50.
All second year students o those who have sophomores stance from other schools will be classified as sophomores.
All seniors and sophomores who are attended by other than sophomores or seniors will be expected to see that the regular fee of their attendant is paid.
All dates should be handed to and tickets received from: Geo. Stuckey, Don MaKay, George Greever, Ike Lambert, Ralph Johnson, Everett Brummage, and Edmund Rhodes.
The Games Progressing Slowly— Busy Times Next Week.
FRATERNITY BASEBALL.
Next Monday the Alpha Taus and Phi Delts will play their postponed game. Tuesday the Phi Gams and Phi Psis will decide their game and Thursday the Phi Gams will meet the Alpha Taus. Wednesday afternoon the Sig Alphs and Sigma Nus are booked for their tangle. Saturday morning the Sigma Chi-Sig Alpha tie will be played off.
The series of fraternity baseball games has been seriously hampered thus far, by accidents, darkness and rainy weather. Only one game of the four which were to have been played by the end of this week has been decided Last week the Betas won from the Sigma Nus. The Phi Psis and Phi Gams started their game, but injuries to two of the Phi Psi players necessitated the calling off of the game. This week the Sigma Chis and Sig Alphs played an 8-inning game to a tie, when the game was called off on account of darkness. The Phi Delts and Alpha Taus were to have played Thursday afternoon, but rain prevented them.
The Girls' Tennis Association of the University has arranged a schedule so that a part of the members of the Association will play daily on the court back of D. L. Rowland's Book Store. So far, this is the only court that the Association has been able to secure, although a petition is now before the Chancellor requesting that several more be built on McCook field.
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Topela Capital Writer Has Some Thoughts on Football.
J. E. House of the Topeka Capital, who writes under the name of "Dodd Gaston," relieved his mind in the Capital this morning on the subject of football. Mr. House is something of a rooter himself. Last year he attended nearly every big game the University of Kansas team played In his column "On Second Thought," in the Capital, he says;
It seems to us that the proposition to abolish football at the University of Kansas—for that is what the substitution of the Rugby game amounts to—is unfair and indefensible. If there is any considerable demand for the abolition of the game at the university we haven't heard it, and we have a seat tolerably close to the rostrum. On the other hand the state has many thousands of football devotees who are enthusiastically for the sport. It is not too much to say that the sentiment of those at all interested in outdoor sports is overwhelmingly in favor of the retention of the game. The two regents who are making the fight against football are not interested in the sport. Neither of them, we believe, ever attended the games and neither, we believe, pretends to have any expert knowledge of the pastime. Under the circumstances, isn't it barely possible
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that they are allowing their personal prejudices to actuate them in this fight. The judgment of thousands of the followers of the sport is that it should go on. The judgment of two regents, neither of whom pretends to any expert knowledge of the sport, is that it should stop. Is football getting a fair deal? Have two men elothed with a little brief power; the moral right to force upon the thousands of followers of the game a condition that is distasteful? We doubt it. In fact it is our notion that old Joe Cannon who was sealped the other day amid shouts of wild acclaim, never attempted a thing more arbitrary or unjust.
AN APRIL PICNIC RECORD.
A Botany I Class Was Caught in Seven Showers.
The class in Botany I holds a new record in the pinching line. An excursion into the country Thursday lasted through seven separate, distinct showers. The class is composed of sixty members and though they are mostly girls, the marathon for home was, to say the least, almost phenomenal. Wire fences and flooded ditches offered slight obstruction to the city lasses, who took the hurdles like professionals. A motion by Professor Stevens "in favor of its not having rained at all" was carried unanimously in spite of dripping feathers and a general telltale effect of dampness. The trip was not altogether in vain, since loads of violets picked by relays, as it were, crowned the returning heroes and heroines.
Y. M. C. A. ELECTS OFFICERS
Report of the Nominating Committee Was Adopted.
The report of the nominating committee was voted on by bail lot and accepted at the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Thursday evening, electing the following officers for the coming year: President, "Tommy" Johnson; vice president, Kenneth Munson; secretary, Vern Long; treasurer Donald Martindell.
The Sigma Nu's have pledged Scott Rice a junior law from Kansas.
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Prof. E. H. S. Bailey spoke on the subject "Something Worth While." Professor Bailey discussed the ambitions of students that fail to mean the most to them in the end, such as ambitions for money and power. These motives are entirely selfish and unworthy, he said. The things worth while are to have friends and make efforts to be useful.