The University Kansan.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
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
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17,1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1911
COMING EVENTS.
Feb. 16.—Prof. E. B. Titchenor in chapel.
Feb. 16—Fairmount vs, College,
at Lawrence.
Feb. 17-18—Missouri vs. Kansas, at Columbia.
Feb. 20-21—Iowa vs. Kansas, at Ames.
Feb. 22—Grimnell vs. Kansas,
Grimnell.
Feb. 22—Washington's Birthday,
Holiday.
Holiday.
Feb. 22-23—'The Bachelor,' by Thespians.
Feb. 23—Cotner vs. Kansas, at Lincoln.
Feb. 24-25—Nebraska vs. Kansas,
at Lincoln.
OPPORTUNITY.
Because it may affect radically the welfare of college athletics and the future of student self-government, the meeting of the Student Council, called for tonight, promises to be one of the most important ever held by that body. The Council will have to decide either to take an active part in determining the eligibility of athletes, or to adopt a policy of "hands off."
If the Council decides that eligibility is too ticklish a subject for it to handle,the athletic board may conclude that the students are not interested in baseball to the extent of keeping the game clean. That would be bad for baseball. In some of the other colleges of the Valley, faculties have reached a stage of discouragement that has led them to give up the game as hopeless.
To plead that the Council ought not to take up the question of eligibility because the student body is more interested in managing other departments of athletics is not sufficient to free the Council from the responsibility which now rests upon it, however true the statement may be. If the Council takes a definite and progressive stand in the eligibility matter, and shows that the students are unmistakably in favor
of clean athletics, there is no doubt that student participation in affairs now closed to them will follow.
The objectionable rules in baseball have been made solely with the end in view of preventing professionalism. The Athletic Board is interested only in seeing that amateur standing is maintained by athletes. The students should be more anxious than the faculty that their representatives are amateurs. Once it is made clear that the students are really back of the spirit of these rules, the chances are that the letter of the rules can be changed in such a way that they will not bar men who really are amateurs.
If the Student Council takes up a part of the eligibility burden the outlook will be better for College athletics and the future of student government.
JOURNALISM.
Can journalism be taught in schools? A few years ago the answer, in the minds of most people, was an emphatic "no." Gradually, however, the conviction grew that the schools can do something in journalistic training. That this important factor in modern life is one that the schools can not afford to neglect is a conclusion still more recent. That there is work waiting at hand for the schools to do is indicated by the following paragraph from the Springfield Republican:
"It is not flattering to American pride to have our consul general at Rio Janeiro, Julius G. Lay, report that our trade with Brazil is seriously handicapped by the bad reputation of our country. From the United States, he says, Rio hears only news of lynchings, murders, and accidents while the news from Europe is full of scientific, literary and artistic achievements. Therefore, Mr. Lay wants to have organized a news service which will gradually teach South America that this is a civilized and cultured country, or at least that we can't be so bad as all that."
Reports from the home of the Tigers say that plans for a new $40,000 concrete stadium are almost completed and that work on the structure will begin soon. This looks as if Missouri had confidence in the rulings of the Missouri Valley conference. The question now is what is Kansas going to do towards providing suitable grounds for the large athletic contests? If Missouri gets her stadium completed it is not at all probable that she will desire the football games to return to Kansas City and it will be up to Kansas to make ready for the grand rush when it comes her turn to entertain.
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Kansas University students received due regard by the provision arrived at this week that the Nebraska game will be played on McCook field next year. With no large game here, with the possible exception of Oklahoma, the main body of the students would have no first hand knowledge of the playing condition of the team. The playing of the Nebraska game here will allow enthusiastic rooters to figure out to the third decimal point just how badly we are going to beat Missouri next season.
The announcement that a class in fancy dancing will be conducted at this University will probably cause little cold thrills of horror to course down the spines of our friends at Baker, but the approaching base ball season with a scheduled game with the Methodists makes this practice of learning to do some fancy "side stepping" an almost essential means for physical protection.
Not to be outdone by our department of home economics, which teaches fourteen ways to cook an egg, the London Academy for Waiters has published the fact that there are 714 ways of folding a napkin.
OREAD NEWS.
John Crego, a sophomore in the College, has withdrawn from school.
Mary Vaughter, a freshman in the College, has withdrawn from school.
Professor F. E. Kester of the department of Physics, will speak before the Physics club Wednesday at 4:30 in room 201. of Blake hall.
Carl Pohlman, who was a senior engineer last year, has returned for the spring term to complete his work for a degree.
Mittie Westbrook, of Peabody Kan., who was a freshman in the College last year, has again returned to enroll in the College.
Orr Moffitt, of Peabody, Kam., who was a junior in the College last year, has returned to the University and enrolled for the second semester.
Miss Muriel Kiddoo, of Wichita, on her way home from the lumbermen's convention in Kansas City, is the guest of Grace Taylor, a sophomore in the College.
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