The University Kansan.
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 LA COSS CARL CANNON
M. D. BAER RALPH SPOTTS
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Address all business communications to Homer Berger, Business Manager, 1411 Tennessee street, Lawrence, Kan; all other communications to Joseph W. Murray, 1341 Ohio street, Lawrence, Kansas.
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Office in basement of Fraser Hall.
Phone, Bell, K U. 25.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3.
BUSINESS AND FOOTBALL.
When a Lawrence business man, speaking at the football banquet last night from the business standpoint, made a plea for the retention of the Thanksgiving game at Kansas City, he said the logical thing for a business man to say. There is no question that less money will be taken in on the game if it is played outside of Kansas City. A survey of football history during the past ten years will disclose the fact, however that, a steady movement has been in progress to divorce the business influence from the college game. Football used to be much more of a business than it is now. In the days when the policy of paying players for their work was followed, a good player had a market value which depended upon the number of schools which were competing for his services. When the rules against professionalism were enforced, the money value of players was lost.
Professionalism died hard. The players themselves have accepted the new regime of amateur sport much more gracefully than outside supporters of the game have accepted it. The last stronghold of those who wished to give a professional cast to the game disappeared when the training table was abolished. Men like Judge Green, who believed that the welfare of the men demands a training table are in one class. Another class wants the training table reinstated because it is the only way there is left of offering men an inducement to play other than the sport itself and the honor of representing the school.
Beyond all doubt, if business is allowed to dominate football, football with be good for business. The important question, in connection with the Thanksgiving game is, will the application of business considerations alone be good for football?
"Why give one hundred girls at the University a dormitory and not the other eight hundred?" asked State Auditor Nation as he drew his snickerskee and lopped off the $75,000 asked for by Chancellor Strong to build a dormitory. Mr. Nation's question is one easily answered. As soon as a dormitory for Girls is erected at
the University, there will be one place where conditions can be established as they should be for the women students. The boarding houses which accommodated the remaining women of the University would be obliged to approximate these conditions as nearly as possible. Thus the dormitory, while it housed only a small percentage of the women students, would be a benefit indirectly to all the others.
As the University of Missouri has shown that it is apt to be ficky on the matter of officials for the Thanksgiving game next year; it may be well to start the discussion of suitable ones right now. The Kansan wishes to suggest Dan Cupid for umpire, believing that he would fill the position to the complete satisfaction of the Missourians. As he is blind, he could not catch any of the players fouling, and besides "holding" has always been recognized as a part of his game.
Fortunately for the livestock judging team the umpire was not an army officer from Leavenworth, Kan.-University Missourian.
This is the first intimation we have heard that the methods of the student livestock judges wouldn't bear watching.
State Auditor Nation has put the question of a School of Medicine squarely up to the Kansas Legislature by refusing to endorse Chancellor Strong's request for
$100,000 for a medical building. Does Kansas need a School of Medicine or does it not? It is not unlikely that the Legislature's answer to the question will be different from Mr. Nation's.
Times Have Changed.
A senior law student who was walking down Massachusetts street swinging his cane the other day was accosted by a business man who asked to see the stick.
"Is this on eof the canes I hear you law students are carrying now?" he queried, as he "hefted" the light bamboo and examined the silver head.
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"Yes, that's our class cane."
"How times have changed," mused the business man, still looking at the cane. "Why, when I went to the Law School up there twenty years ago, we had a hard enough time to get a hickory shirt, let alone a silver headed cane."
Dr. R. L. Moodie is tabulating a catalogue which will be a record of every exhibit that is brought to the museum. Five hundred sheets of heavy book-keepers' paper which will be used for this purpose have been received from the state printer at Topeka. Every entry will be numbered and a record of the geological conditions under which it was found will be put down. The date of its discovery, data about its preparation for exhibition and the name of the discoverer will also be kept in the catalogue.
It has been the object of Dr. Moodie and Professor Martin to make such a catalogue for several years, but this is the first time that they have had the time to put their plan into effect. They expect to catch up on the work this year and additions will be made to the tabulation from year to year as the exhibits are increased.
FEW
Christmas SUGGESTIONS
Rowlands COLLEGE BOOK STORE
The Police Took the Banner.
One of the plays pulled off a the Missouri-Kansas football game which was noticed only by a few who were "next" was the stealing of the big "Beat Kansas" banner which the Missouri rooters tacked to the grand stand at the Gordon & Koppel field.The guilty party was Asher Hobson, a sophomore in the College. Hobson climbed up on the roof of the stand and removed the banner before he was noticed by the Missourians. After he was discovered several gave chase, but Hobson made his getaway, although the police relieved him of the banner.
NO living man can have too many shirts, ties, or socks and when you get right down to cold hard facts, most any man would rather receive one good shirt or one good necktie or one good pair of socks on Christmas morning than all the trinkets you can put in a basket. Man is a pretty practical proposition. Keep that in mind while you're debating what to give him. Maybe the following list will help you out. You can get a good many more helpful suggestions by strolling through our various departments and now's the best time to do it because our holiday stocks are at the very height of completeness.
What Every Woman Knows
If it has the OBER label on it he'll KNOW it's good
Protsch Fall Suiting
A. G. ALRICH.
Binding, Copper Plate Printing,
Rubber Stamps, Engraving, Steel
Die Embossing, Seals, Badges.
Silk Neckwear 25c, 50c, $2
Manhattan Shirts $1.50, $2, $2.50
Other good Shirts $1, $1.25
Fancy Hosiery 25c, 50c, $1.50
Street Gloves 50c, $1, $1.50
Dress Gloves $1, $1.50, $2
Pur Gloves $3, $4, $5
Silk Mufflers 50c, $1, $1.50
Knit Mufflers 25c, 50c, $1
Fancy Suspenders 50c, $1, $1.50
Initial Handk'ffs 25c, 35c, 500
Walking Sticks 50c, $1, $1.50
Suit Cases $2 to $20
Leather Cases for
Collars $1 to $3
Handkerchief and Tie
Sets $1 to $2
Pajamas $1 to $5
Fur Caps $3.50 to $7.50
Cloth Caps 50c to $2.50
Fancy Vests $1 to $4
White Dress Shirts $1 to $2.50
Sweater Coats $1 to $5
744 Mass. St.
A Man's Store for a Man's Xmas
Base Ball and Foot Ball Goods
Dozens of Other Items
Kennedy & Ernst
826 MASS. ST. PHONES 341
The Corner Grocery
in the Student District.
WM. LA COSS.
Everything fresh that the market
affords. Both phones 618. 1333 Ky;St
A New Laundry
UP- TO- DATE
PRESS WORK
NO IRONING
Gem Sanitary Laundry
Phones 485 1026 Mass. St.
Buy your Christmas Cards and Christmas Presents at the
INDIAN STORE, 917 Mass. St.
the Gift Shop of Lawrence.
The Watkins National Bank Capital $100,000
Undivided profits $20,000
J. B. Watkins, Pres. C, A. Hill, V. P.
C. H. Tucker, cashier,
W. E. Hazen, assistant, cashier.
First-class work. Prompt deliver Lawrence Steam Laundry
Lawrence Steam Laundry
MOON & JOSTE, K. U.
Agents
SPECIAL WORK
Bell Phone 455
Take 'em down to
Those Shoes you want repaired
THE White Barber Shop 1028 Mass. St. JACK PHILLIPS, Prop. Pantatorium in connection.
THE
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
The Peerless Cafe
A PLACE TO EAT
1009 Mass. St.
W. C. PARRISH
OPEN FOR THE DANCE
Frank Koch The Tailor 727 Mass. St.
Now for that Christmas Suit. Of course it should be a Royal. Come in Today and let Hiatt, the Clothier order for you.
Northwestern Mut. Life In. Co.
L. S. Beeghly. 1415 Mass.
Just received—a fresh line of Douglas candies, in boxes, at the College Inn.
If you need a thermometer in your room, get it at Woodward & Co.'s.
Hot chili and crackers 10 cents at Wiedeman's.
It's about time to make your Christmas photographs. Buy paper developer, etc., at Woodward's. Some inexpensive albums to hold a dozen prints. See them.