The University Kansas.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOSEPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FISCHER - Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
HOMER BERGER - - - Business Manager
CLARK WALLACE - Asst. Bus. Manager
HENRY F. DRAPER - - - Treasurer
J. E. MILLER - - - Circulation Mgr
MEMBERS OF BOARD.
LOUIS LACOSS CARL CANNON
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29.
THE FIGHTING SPIRIT.
A man in Mars who subscribed for the Missouri Valley newspapers about this time of year might get the impression from the sporting pages that the region was in a state of civil strife, with the citizens congregated in armed camps.
"Look out for spies," is the warning that has been given all the towns in which conference football teams are training. At Columbia the University cadets have thrown a patrol around the athletic field in which Coach Hollenbach is training a squad to Beat Kansas. A Nebraska emissary went to Des Moines and after spying upon the game between Drake and Kansas, made his way safely back to camp at Lincoln.
In all the conference towns practice is going forward with whispered signals behind closed gates guarded by husky "subs." When the excitement becomes more intense a little later in the season, the hills around McCook field will be patrolled by willing students to guard against the possibility that some outlander with a field glass may filch a knowledge of the team's formations.
Coaches are working assiduously to develop a "fighting spirit" in their teams. The Kansas cheer leader has christened his "army" of rooters the "fighting five hundred." We speak of the good and bad "generalship" of the coaches and captains in handling their teams. Enthusiasm meetings are held before big games at which the rooters try to convince themselves and the members of the team that the approaching event is not an athletic contest played for the sake of the sport but a battle which must be won at all hazards. The final outcome is the all important thing.
It would be scarcely true to say that all this military terminology is used entirely in a figurative sense, and that it has been borrowed for the vocabulary of sport because of its aptness. The men who talk about the fighting spirit mean just what they say.
It may be that college athletics has a usefulness that has not been generally recognized. May it not afford a means of expression for the primitive warlike spirit which stirs the young men, one which they can indulge without danger to business and government? Perhaps, if the Universities of Moscow and St. Petersburg should schedule a football contest every Thanksgiving day, the Russian government would have less cause to fear them as hot beds of sedition.
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A. D. WEAVER
The Lawrence newspaper which accuses Coach Mosse's baby daughter of "officiating herself staunchly with the factions of the Jayhawker squad" may be only trying to start another agitation in the Student Council.
What are the poor freshmen to do? The health authorities have discovered that the Lawrence milk supply is a possible source of typhoid infection.
SEEKS A SAFE POWDER.
Senior Mining Engineer Working to Prevent Explosions.
department of Mining has several Professor C. M. Young of the important experiments under way in the ore-reducing laboratory.
Under him, Victor E. Lednicky, a senior engineer, is using for his thesis, the use of safety explosives in coal mines. It is hoped to find a powder which will not ignite the gases which are present in the mines at all times.
With the aid of new equipment the department is now able to make thorough concentrating tests for ores.
These added facilities, Professor Young says, will undoubtedly make the department of far more practical use than it has been heretofore.
KAISER URGES TEMPERANCE
And Says German Students Must Be Athletic.
Berlin—The emperor and empress gave a stave banquet concluding the celebration of the centenary of the University of Berlin. Among the guests were Nicholas M. Butler, president of Columbia University, New York; Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale; Dr. Marian D. Learned of pennsylvania, and Professor Arnold Hague of Washington.
The members of the Women's Student Government association in the 900 and 1000 blocks had a district meeting, Tuesday evening at the home of Helen Burdick, on Kentucky street. One of the features of the entertainment was an original farce presented by some of the guests.
During the dinner the emperor engaged a number of students in conversation, urging less drinking of alcoholic liquors, and adding that they must devote more attention to outdoor sports, as the students do in America.
Dr. W. S. Hall Makes a Talk in Chapel.
MANKIND AND BIOLOGY.
Dr. W. S. Hall of Northwestern Medical School, Chicago, spoke in chapel yesterday morning on the biological history of mankind and the psychological application of the truths learned by such a study. He said that though the physical changes from the prehistoric man are interesting to study, the important thing for teachers and leaders to understand is the application of the progress to the mental life of youth.
"The small boy is the type of manhood in a state of savagery," said Dr. Hall. "To thrill the boys their elders must get them in harmony with their ancestral nature. Let them have camps it the woods and a leader who will allow them a comparatively free hand." As barbarism is higher than savagery," said Dr. Hall. "let the boy in his barbaric stage have a fixed dwelling in the woods and learn to take care of it."
The high school period is the age of chivalry for the boy in which he may properly show his prowess to the opposite sex by playing football or any game in a clean manly way, Dr. Hall said. The twentieth century man is typified by the full grown boy.
WRITE GOOD ENGLISH.
First . Requisite of Reporter, Says Beatty.
"The first requisite of a new reporter is the ability to write good newspaper English," was the statement made by Jerome Beatty of Kansas City, Mo., in speaking before the class in reporting, Friday morning. He told of the difficulties under which a new reporter had to work, relating several of his own experience. He also explained the way in which the Star and Times gathered news.
Mr. Beatty was formerly a student at the University and for the last few years has been working on both the Star and Journal. He is now on his way East to work on some larger newspaper.
The athletic board met last Wednesday noon in the Chancellor's office and awarded "Ks" to Huff and Harvey of last year's base ball team.
The board made a new ruling in regard to the winning of letters by members of the track team. A relay man running on a winning relay team against two inter-state teams, breaking a Missouri valley record, or winning the relay in the annual Missouri valley conference meet, will be given the coveted letter.
Athletic Board Makes New Ruling for Track Men.
A Chafing Dish
AWARDED BASEBALL Ks.
THAT MANUFACTURES ITS OWN GAS
Anything that can be cooked on an ordinary gas stove can be done equally well on this burner.
SEE THIS CHAFING DISH.
ED. W. PARSONS, Jeweler, 717 Mass. St.
Another Warning
That each cool "snap" is simply a forerunner of the winter days that are to come. Fortify yourself with one of
Spaldings stand ard JERSEYS or SWEATER- COATS.
Our sale of Spaldings woolen goods this fall is a record for us. No higher in price than other makes, quality being equal and you know about Spalding quality. The exclusive Spalding store. Just remember what a convenient store ours is for your
Sunday Magazines and
Newspapers
on your way to and from the post office.
Smith's
News Depot
HILLIARD & CARROLL
Phones 608 709 Mass, St.
Students' Downtown Headquarters.
ED ANDERSON
Restaurant and Confectionery
Auto, Hack and Livery
C. H. HUNSINGER, Prop.
920-922 Mass. St.
Both Phones 12. Lawrence Kansa
Both Phones 12. Lawrence, Kansas
The Old Reliable
K. U. Shoe Shop
I am like Gov. Stubbs and T. R., I believe in a square deal, I believe in giving the K. U. students the worth of their money, so bring in your shoes and give me a trial and be convinced that this is the place to get a square deal. Don't forget the place.
W.J.Broadhurst,Pro.
1400 Louisiana
Bowersock Opera House Tues., Nov. 1
The BURGOMASTER
Gus C. Weinburg
And over haif a 100 OTHERS including that Spic, Span, Saucy, Bewitching Chorus of
Kangaroo Girls
Prices 50c 75c $1.00 $1.50 Seats on sale at Woodward &
Co.
Protsch Fall Suiting
Dennis J. Sheedy, '06, of Fredonia, visited the University Friday. Mr. Sheedy is the Democratic candidate for county attorney of Wilson county against W.H. Edmundson, '97, on the Republican ticket.
Wilder Brothers Custom Laundry
Special attention given to Ladie s 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.
DO YOU WANT TO-
Buy,
Sell,
Rent,
Exchange
Typewriters?
R. M. Morrison Agency, 744 Mass.
The Corner Grocery
in the Student District.
WM. LA COSS.
Everything fresh that the market
affords. Both phones 618, 1333 Ky.St
A. G. ALRICH,
Printing Binding, Copper Plate Printing, Rubber Stamps, Engraving, Steel Die Embossing, Seals, Badges.
744 Mass. St.
Base Ball
and Foot Ball Goods
Kennedy & Ernst
826 MASS. ST. PHONES 341
Frank Koch
The Tailor
727 Mass. St.
S. H. McCurdy
Good things to eat—Groceries,
Fruits and Vetatables, Flour
and Feed.
1021 Mass. St. Both Phones 212
Everybody Welcome.
Everybody Welcome.
SCHULZ
FOR FALL SUITING 911 Mass. St.
Take 'em down to
Those Shoes you want repaired
Paper by the Pound
Paper by the Pound at Boughton's 1025 Mass. St.
JACK PHILLIPS, Prop. Pantatorium in connection.
White Barber Shop
1025 Mass. St.
LAWRENCE
Business College
Lawrence, Kansas.
Shorthand and Typewriting, Bookkeeping, Practical and Commercial Training. Enter at any time.
Kennedy Plumbing Co.
GAS, PLUMBING, AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
937 Massachusetts St.
Phones 658
Dr. S. S. Glassecock of the Medical School at Rosedale, entertained the Phi Beta Pis with a theater party at the Willis Wood Friday evening. A number from the chapter here attended.
If you are hungry after the dance visit the Hiawatha. Bulk potato chips at Vic's.