THE KANSAN
Kansas.
The official paper of the University of
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Paul W. Harvey.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1909
COLLEGE BRED LINCOLN.
One of the pseudo statesmen of this vigorous commonwealth in a speech directed against education and the educated used the frazzled-out question, "What could Abraham Lincoln have amounted to, had he had a college education?" There are plenty of people in Kansas who think this argument is unanswerable. They would conceive a college educated Lincoln as raised on a bottle in his early youth, sent to kindergarten at four where he made baskets and played with the girls, bundled off to private school at eight where he studied Latin and history and manual training, and graduated from high school at sixteen with a bubbling knowledge exceeding that of old father and mother at home. Then these anti-educationalists would have Lincoln go to a college where in his freshman year he would learn to smoke cigarettes, sing tenor in the glee club, join a fraternity, lead a bull dog around the campus, and wear loud clothes. They then see him graduated from his alma mater, sallow complexioned, pimple faced, flat chested, and given a place in his uncle's office where, buried in hopeless obscurity, he would have continued the even tenor of his way. But there are few such college students in the whole United States, there never was one, there is none now, and there never will be such a specimen in the University of Kansas. Had Lincoln gone to college he would have studied his lessons and possibly become better acquainted with the problems he was to meet. His great heart would have been tempered, his great soul enlarged and his great mind sharpened. A college bred Lincoln would have been as great as—who may not say greater than—the real Lin-
Training tables will be continued in the Missouri Valley Conference. In their mad rush to follow the example of the Chicago Conference in every small detail, it looked as
nough the conference schools would abolish the training table. The Valley schools do not need a preceptor in forming a conference; they do not need to imitate for they have initiative enough to build after their own peculiar ideas. Football, at best, is a rough sport and any athlete who plays the gridiron game should be in the best physical condition possible. Many a serious injury is forestalled by the extra conditioning a training table gives. The Missouri Valley Conference has done well to deviate from the example of the Chicago Conference and do something on its own hook.
Missouri has a new football coach, imported from the east and heralded as a star mentor. Now since Missouri can't lay it all on the coach the sport writers in Columbia will be kept busy for several months to come thinking up excuses to spring on the public after next Thanksgiving day.
C. E. Morrow
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C. E. Morrow, an electrical engineer of the class of '05 died at Glenwood Springs Colo., last Sunday. The cause of his death was throat trouble. After leaving the University he worked in New York City until failing health compelled him to go west.
"Iridescent Gray
Young man, if you haven't seen our new spring series of gray suits, don't put it off any longer. One of the new things that is attracting much admiration is an innovation called "iridescent" gray. It's a sort of combination of dove gray and olive with a fine hair-line stripe of harmonizing hue. Then there's the tan series and blue series and green series, and others till you can't count 'em. And mind you, we have all of these in our big showing of special models--the classiest raiment ever built for men,
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University Notices.
Last Junior party of the year March 19.
The Canoe Club will meet at 12:15 in room 15, tonight.
All senior pictures for the annual must be in by March 19.
Senior play tryout Tuesday, March 16, in room 15, at 7:15.
Tryout for junior farce will be held at 7:00, tonight, in room 16.
Prof. Hugh Black, of Union Seminary will speak in chapel Friday.
Civil Engineering Society meets in Blake Hall at 8:00 Thursday.
Meeting of Mechanical Engineering society at 7:15 Thursday at 1301 Ohio.
The senior girls will give a Saint Patrick's party in the gym next Saturday night.
Mr. A. J. Haughton will talk in U.of K. Branch A.I. Elect. Engineers at 7:15 Thursday.
At 8:15 Thursday evening Mrs. Clifford Matson of Wichita will give a song recital in chapel.
Miss Florence Hedger will lecture before the Chemical Club tomorrow afternoon at the usual time.
Prof. Hugh Black of Union Theological Seminary will lecture every day this week at 4:30, in chapel.
The senior commencement committees will meet at the Kappa house, 1400 Tennessee Street, tomorrow evening at 7:00.
Annual Basketball tournament of Kansas high schools Friday afternoon and evening and Saturday evening in Robinson gymnasium.
Dr. Sanders, of Yale School of Divinity, now president of Washburn, gives a series of talks every day this week, at 3:30, in Room 15.
Last Fine Arts Recital.
The last Fine Arts concert of the year will be given in chapel next Thursday evening, March 18, by Mrs. Clifton A. Matson of Wichita. Mrs. Matson is a contralto singer of exceptional ability. She was formerly a student at the University and her husband, who is now in the state legislature, was graduated from the Law School in 1901. Miss Maude Cook will be her accompanist at the piano. Professor Carl A. Preyer will play a couple of solos on the piano.
Sophomore Try-out.
The tryout for the Sophomore debate will be held in Fraser Hall on Wednesday, April 14. All those who are intending to try out for this team should leave their names with the members of the committee, who are Louis LaCoss, A. L. Kinman, E. Overman and John Harbeson.
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Commend Zoological Department.
The Zoological department has been receiving a great many letters of appreciation and commendation recently from all over the United States and even from Canada in regard to the Zoological number of the Science Bulletin published during the Christmas holidays. The department was especially congratulated upon its scientific research work.
Celebrate Founder's Day.
Kansas Alpha of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity celebrated the sixty-first anniversary of the national organization last evening with a three course dinner at its chapter house. The town alumni were the guests of the active chapter. These alumni made short talks to the chapter the chief one being by Prof. W. E. Higgins of the law school.
Elect New President.
At a meeting of the Freshman Medics Friday noon, Ed. Baumgartner of Newton was elected president to fill the unexpired term of Guy Brown who has quit school.