THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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JOSEPH W. MURCAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FESHIR - - Management
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4.
AS SEEN BY OTHERS
A graduate of one of the Eastern universities contributed to the Kansas City Star of last Sunday an article giving the impressions received from a visit to the University of Kansas. His main impression seems to have been one of surprise at finding the students at the University so well dressed, and at seeing a half-dozen of them come to their classes in motor cars. He seems to conclude from what he saw that luxury is laying its fator fingers on the University. The men wearing linen collars and even derby hats, the girls with elegant coiffures and "dressed as if going to a party"—all this the visitor saw in his hour-long observation from the steps of Fraser hall. Where, he asks, are the negligee shirts with collars attached, where the high boots, where the "sloppy coeds," celebrated in the songs of the Eastern schools? He was unable to see a single trace of the "back country," he observes.
Our visitor from the East seems to have a number of things to learn. He does not know, evidently, that there is no "back country" in Kansas,and that conditions are much the same all over the state. The students he saw alighting from the motor cars were doubtless residents of Lawrence, but there are farmers' sons and daughters at the University who ride in motor cars when they are at home.
Concerning the way the women students dress, there is something in what our visitor says. Certainly, they might dress a whole lot more simply and cheaply and look just as well. In fact, you couldn't keep them from being good looking. But most of them dress in the style in which they are accustomed to dress at home. As to their not looking as "sloppy" as the women students of the Eastern songs, nobody has any apologies to offer on that score.
One wonders what our visitor would have thought about the dress of the men if he had chosen for his post of observation the steps of Green Hall or of Marvin Hall. There he could hardly have missed seeing in an hour's time at least a few soft collars and most likely some high-laced boots, and he would have gone away soothed and comforted instead of vaguely unrestful.
"Won't these evidences of prosperity run into snobbishness
The imaginative artist who illustrated the article represents the seal of the University with the burning bush and the kneeling Israelite omitted. In their place he has drawn a young man in swallow-tail clothes and top hat, about to enter a big touring car in the background. He would have the readers of the paper believe that this is a common sight at the University, but he can not deceive the students. They recognize the young man and the occasion which calls him forth thus attired. He is going to an annual party. The top hat and dress suit have been rented from an enterprise haberdasher and the motor car from a local garage; and both are paid for with good money which the young man has saved by serving as steward of his fraternity or boarding club.
It is easy to believe that some football teams have been "born not made," so naturally and spontaneously has it seemed to the public that the men have fitted into their places and complemented each other with faultless team work, right from the start. The history of the ever-victorious team of 1908 reminds us, however, that it is possible to "build" a team, out of material which does not look promising at the beginning. A close examination of the faits would doubtless disclose the truth that most teams have to be built. That is what coaches are for. Down on McCook field three of the best men for that purpose that can be found are laboring long hours every day, making a football team out of a bunch of willing athletes. And while the performance against Ottawa Saturday was generally unsatisfactory, there were evident to the observant eye many indications that give promise of better work at each succeeding game, with the possibility of team work and individual "star" playing that will make the season a creditable one to Kansas. Hard work will develop the possibilities, and from now on plenty of hard work will be forthcoming both from the coaches and the men on the squad.
A newspaper sage reflects thus upon the "new" football: "As long as somebody will stretch on the ground every now and then during a game and lie still and have his team-mates gather round him and a water boy come dashing across the field with an excited air, the college youth will feel more or less satisfied with the game, even if it is changed." What devils these college boys are, anyway.
Book by Dr. Hyde.
Dr. Ida H. Hyde, professor of physiology in the University, has just issued a laboratory outline.
The book was set up and printed by the Alumni press in the basement of Fraser Hall. Many of the University professors find it convenient to have their printing done at the alumni plant, on account of the convenience of supervising the work while it is in progress.
The book contains fifty pages and has complete instructions for laboratory work in physiology. It will be used in the physiology classes of the University.
TOBACCOS CIGARS MAGAZINES Under Rowlands College Book Store Entrance at the East Side of Building
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Watch Our Friday Special
A new feature which will be a weekly event throughout the year.
ROWLANDS COLLEGE BOOK STORE "Where Students Go."
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Rossma and their son and daughter, Wren and Lorine, drove up from Paola in their ear Sunday to visit their daughter Mae, a junior in the College.
$12.50 to $35.
Arthur Perry, of Kansas City, Mo., has pledged to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
You Young Chaps
If you want satisfaction of knowing that no man or youth in the land is dressed in more perfect taste than you are this fall, select your suit from any one of the various sets of new models now exhibited in our men's department. All of the designs are new, of course, but no one can say that they are not thoroughly in accord with good taste, culture and refinement. It is, in a word, the most perfectly complete array of young men's swagger, fashionable suits this community has viewed in years. Every garment in every line is a brand new and authoritative design for this fall and winter.
The New Harvard.
(The following skit from Life is doubtless in allusion to a remarkable lecture on an abstrus mathematical theme delivered recently at Harvard by one of the students, a youthful prodigy, who is not far advanced in his teens.)
"Before proceeding further with the lecture," said the professor of astronomy at Harvard, "I must insist that the students lay aside their dolls. I cannot pretend to instruct those who do not pay attention, and I wish to remark that there is a time and a place for playing dolls, as well as a repository for rattles.
"Do not make it necessary for me to be personal. Herbert Sylvester Lowell. The mere fact that you are teething is no excuse for biting your tethering-ring in that loud and obstreperous manner. Mr. Hollywood, would you mind stepping into the hall and telling Algernon's nurse to come in? He has an attack of whooping-cough, which is annoying the entire clas.
"To continue: Uranus is, you will observe, one of the most important planets in the constellations; it has— These interruptions are becoming most annoying! Horace Fletcher Audubon, you must either put away that gingerbread man or leave the room. No, Milton Horatio engling during the lecture-hour.
"But I can plainly note that I am not going to be permitted to proceed, for that marble game between Rugustus Everton and Nathan Hule Hanson has absorbed the interest of most of the auditors. Henry James, don't you know that my nerves are not acustomed to the seratching of your slate-pencils? Stop it! Ah, there goes the bell. One moment, please; I have one or two announcements to make."
"I regret to say that Professor Greathead,who was to have talked to us tomorrow on the 'Cosmic Consciousness of the Inevitable,' is ill and will not appear. His maternal parent telephoned me this morning that he is suffering from a slight attack of chicken-pox and that his nurse thinks it unwise for him to come. I am requested further to announce that there will be a game of pop-pop-pullaway for the seniors this afternoon in the yard. The scheduled debate between the juniors and the junior laws will be held Saturday despite the epidemic of cholera infantum which has so unfortunately spread among the students.
"I must ask the nurses to come single file and to avoid getting the perambulator wheels entangled in each other. It interrefers with the facility of egress. Kindly avoid dropping milk-bottles upon the floor, and see that all rattles, dolls, and toys are in the possession of the proper owners."
Chemics Will Meet
The Chemical club will meet Wednesday evening at 5 o'clock in room 101 of the Chemistry building. Dean L. E. Sayre of the School of Pharmacy, will give a report of the Pharmacopeial convention, which was held at Philadelphia.
No Tuesday Speaker.
On account of the illness of Professor Bryant, chairman of the chapel committee, no arrangements were made for a speaker for Tuesday morning. Faculty speeches will begin next Tuesday.
Protsch Fall Suiting
Wilder Brothers Custom Laundry
Special attention given to Ladies work.
Carpenter & Arnold, Agents Home 529, Bell 1225, Laundry Phone 67
The Watkins National Bank.
Capital $100,000
Surplus $50,000
Undivided profits $20,000
J. B. Watkins, Pres. C. A. Hill, V. P.
C. H. Tucker, cashier.
W. E. Hazen, assistant cashier.
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