THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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THURSDAY, MAY, 19, 1910.
COMING EVENTS.
May 21, Missouri Track Meet May 19:20, Senior Play. May 28, Missouri Valley Meet May 28—K. U.-Oklahoma. Tennis.
A journey through the comet's tail has been proved to be an intensely dull and wholly unexciting incident. At least, the only excitement which the earth-dwellers felt was what they were able to cook up in their own imaginations. The comet failed to do its share. Whatever may be the truth about republics, there is no doubt that comets are ungrateful. The largest staff of press agents the world has ever seen has been at work for months painting all sorts of possibilities attendant upon the passage of the earth through the comet's tail. Finally the dread hour arrives—the earth puts on its goggles and plunges into a five-million-mile section of the track where a blinding star-dust storm is raging, and—nothing happens. Not only are the people disappointed who climbed Mount Oread to see the world burn up but they are not even able to laugh themselves to death on cyanogen gas. There was not ever the "faint glow in the sky" which the more conservative of the comet's press agents foretold, for at Lawrence the sky was clouded and it was raining.
ON SCHOLARSHIP
President Carter of Williams College, in an address to the alumni of that school in New York, made a humorous defense of good scholarship which has also a serious side. "A valedictorian is not to be too much blamed," says President Carter. "Someone has to be at the head of the class as well as at the foot, though it is really difficult to tell who is at the foot, as there are many competitors for that position. We must remember that once in a while a man can not fail to be at the head of his class, and should not be blamed for it." Then President Carter went on to tell of many valedictorians who, contrary to the usual fiction, had filled places of honor and importance in after life. He closed with a plea for making scholarships a more important feature of the college life Commenting on the speech the Springfield Republic says:
"This word in behalf of schoolship has long been needed by college boys. In these days great emphasis has come to be placed on activities of the student body which are independent of the curriculum. Men concentrate their energies often unduly to secure lace on the college publications in the various athletic teams, either as members or managers thereof, on the glee clubs, the dramatic organizations, and what not these interests are not to be unvalued, and when added after proper attention has been given to the college requirements, they save their helpfulness and legitimate place. It is not a bad thing or a boy to learn something or much of business and sport as they are represented in these lines of activity. This is part of his training. It is too often forgotten however, that the college authorities are supposed to have laid out asks sufficient to profitably ocurry the major part of the time of the student. Scholarship as the ancient purpose of the institution is so often lost sight of. Not all aledictorians are futile when brought into the activities of life after leaving college, as is much he student and popular impression; hence the value of Dr. Carter's exposition. Perhaps it would not be fair to say that the single r best aim of a college is to make cholars. It would be better to recognize that the most helpful being a college can do is to turn out men of trained intellectual powers who are fit and ready to become good citizens. They must be factors in the salvation of genuine democracy. There is indeed little danger as things are going that scholarship will be too greatly magnified—the best that we can hope is that it will not be minimized beyond the bounds of good sense. Always the democratic spirit is to be fostered by trustees faculty and students, and happily the signs are many that this great office of a college is being recognized."
IN KANSAS CITY CONCERT.
Three Faculty Members Will Appear in Recital There.
A recital in which three members of the University musical faculty will appear be given this evening in the Westport Avenue Presbyterian church at Kansas City. Prof. Carl Preyer, Prof. C. Edward Hubach, and Mr. Wort S. Morse are the faculty members who will appear on the program, and Mr. Alfred Hubach, a brother of Professor Hubach, will play the pipe organ.
Dr. Samuel Wendell Williston of the University of Chicago, has chosen "Evolution and Human Development" as the subject for his address Monday evening, June 6, of commencement week, under the auspices of the Sigma Xi society.
Dr. Williston's Subject.
Emile Grignard, chairman of the rowing committee, announced this morning that the regatta will be held May 28 instead of May 21 as announced in the University Calendar.
Mistake in Date
Prof. J. Campbell of the department of German languages, will deliver the commencement address to the graduating class of the Downs high school tomorrow evening.
M. U. Uses New Game in Spring Practice.
PLAYING "TAG" FOOTBALL
University Missourian.
Tag, you're down
This was the way a player was tackled in the "new football" as played yesterday morning on Rollins field. The Law-Aeademic team defeated the Engineer-Farmer team by a score of 14 to 0.
The game as played yesterday is not the revised game of college football, but a scheme of play devised for spring practice at the fall, were the stars of the new University of Missouri. LeMare, Calvin, Craig, Mills and Graves, players on the freshman team last game, LeMare and Calvin handled the forward passes with ease and prevented the Engineer-Farmer combination from gaining the ends, Mills, Severs, Craig, and Graves had no trouble advancing the ball for the Lawyer-Academ team.
From the spectators' point of view the game was rather slow. There was no tackling and no line plunges were used. Neither of the teams used the regular football quarterback. Instead they had "safety" players back of the offense. The object of the game is to develop men for the fall football teams.
Dean Sayre Returns.
Prof. L. E. Sayre, dean of the School of Pharmacy, returned Wednesday night from the East where he has been attending the convention of the American Pharmaceutical association in Washington, D.C., and the United States Pharmacopoca at Richmond, Va. The Dean went to Kansas City, Tuesday where he attended the convention of the Western Pharmacopoca.
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DISAPPROVES PRECEDENT.
Lawrence World Wants Change in University Custom.
The Lawrence Daily World, in last night's issue took the following view of the custom of students buying Annuals at the senior play:
"Time out of mind it has been the custom for students who take their girls to the senior play to buy an annual for the "lady fair,"the price of which amounts usually to two dollars per. As the custom has become very deeply imbedded, the young man has, of course had to figure this two "plunks" in with the expense of the evening.
"Not only with many other radical reforms and breakage of customs which have been taking place all during this year of 1909-1910, it only seems fitting that this "buy an Annual" proposition should be nullified. So there are many "economical" students who have raised up in arms against this said custom and demand that freshmen, sophomores and such who take their girls to the play forget about the Annual and put their two simoleons in the bank, or on their board bill. Of course, if you are a senior and are taking a senior girl to the play that is different—buy her a Jayhawker and give it to her with your compliments. That is what the "insurgents" say, but it is probable that the views of the annual managers will not coincide in lieu of the fact that those annuals have to be sold to someone and the students cannot better show their loyalty to the graduating class than to give up their two "bones." However, it is probable that the custom will stand in spite of the fact that football has been turned upside down."
FOR INTER-CLASS DEBATES
Students in Public Speaking Favor Their Encouragement.
At a round-table discussion of the students in the department of public speaking this morning, the question of encouraging inter-class debating for next year was considered. A majority of the students favored a series of class debates. They proposed that the freshmen and sophomores and the juniors and seniors hold a debate next fall. The winners of each contest are to clash in a final contest for the college class championship.
Some of the members of the class favored more debating clubs to encourage public speaking in the University. It is understood that the University debating council will meet soon to consider the plan.
Miss Sunshine Humphrey of Mound Valley spent Saturday with her brother, Paul, a sophomore in the School of Engineering.
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