IMPROVE CITIES IS PRESENT SPIRIT
DR. CHAS. ZUEBLIN TRACES CIVIC GROWTH.
Social Reform Comes From Below—Civic Progress From Top Scientific Charity on Increase
The first of a series of five lectures on the subject "The Modern City" to be given this week by Dr. Charles Zueblin of Boston was delivered in chapel yesterday afternoon. His subject was: "The New Civic Spirit." The lecture in condensed form follows:
"Social evolution may be imperceptible to the participants, and yet the social ideals of the new generation may be incomprehensible to the passing generation. This is notably true of the new social spirit.
"Twenty years ago there were but three avenues for the citizens who wanted to be of social service—the church, the school, and charity. These were dismal to the man who really wanted to help his fellow man. Respectable people thirty years ago were not supposed to be interested in politics, but today no right minded person feels that a stigma has been placed upon him by entering politics. Any man who holds himself too good to go into politics is not fit to enter the church. Today there is a new civic spirit in the church. It is beginning to talk about the vital things of life
"In 1853 a woman organized the first village improvement society in Stockbridge, Mass. Today there are twenty-five hundred of them. Progress along sanitary lines in the city has been rather slow. Not until 1869 did Milwaukee establish the first public bath in the country. The pressure that has brought about these changes has come from the masses of the people. It has had many expressions.
"Already the social settlement, university extension, and scientific charity have been transplanted from English to American soil and they flourish. The school house open day and night, and free lectures for the people are inevitable growths and the professional beggar, and the pauperized dependent are no longer popular for science has put the Good Samaritan out of business. Pure democracy and equality has been aroused to action in the minds of the twentieth century men of business.
"These are all the results of the new civic spirit. In order to accomplish anything, our civic spirit must get below the surface. It is from adversity, idleness, and discontent that we get our thorough-going reform. If social reform comes from below, civic progress comes from the top. To it are necessary prosperity, leisure, and culture. Among the great achievements of democracy is the conception of the building of the city. This will be accomplished when the citizen is inspired by the New Civic Spirit.
"The main idea now in the ascendant is not to improve the poor nor the homes of the poor but to improve the cities the home of all. With this physical improvement will come aesthetic and spiritual improvement, a deeper knowledge of the needs of the masses and a democratic sympathy and organization which will be irresistable."
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WRESTLERS BEAT Y. M. C. A
But K. C. Swimmers Repeat Former Victory.
Wrestlers of the University of Kansas made a clean sweep in the three matches with Y. M. C. A. grapplers at the Y. M. C. A. Saturday night, but the association swimmers evened up matters by defeating the K. U. swimmers, 46 to 13. The Kansas swimming team was composed of only four members, but they put up a game fight. Dr. W. L. Gist refereed the events, and a crowd of four hundred persons witnessed the contest. The summary:
Wrestling—Bantam weight: L. M. Allison, K. U., defeated Kovasovich, Y. M. C. A., in $ 6 \frac{1}{2} $ minutes.
Lightweight: Easterday, K. U., won the decision over Harding, Y. M. C. A., in 42 minutes.
Middleweight: K. Roberts, K. U., won the decision over B. P. Joyce, Y. M. C. A., in 55 minutes.
Swimming—Forty-five feet; won by Heath, Y. M. C. A.; Stley, Y. M. C. A., second; Davis, K. U. third. Time, 6 2-5 seconds.
Faney Diving—Barney, Y. M. C. A., first; Seymour, Y. M. C. A., second; Steele, Y. M. C. A. and Attkinson, K. U., ties for third.
Thirty yards on back: Won by Grantham, Y. M. C. A.; Seymour, Y. M. C. A., second; Brown K. U., third. Time 20 4-5.
One hundred and twenty yards. Won by Healy, Y. M. C. A.; Daniels, K. U., second. Time. 1:34.
Sixty yards: Won by Brahamer, Y. M. C. A.; Davis, K. U. second; Brown, K. U., third Time, 432-5.
LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY
Plunge for distance: Healy, Y. M. C. A., and Daniels, K. U., tied for first place; Stanley, Y. M. C. A. third. Distance, 45 feet. Thirty yards: Won by Heath, Y. M. C. A., Daniels, K. U. second; Grantham, Y. M. C. A. third. Time, 16 2-5.
The excavating that has been in progress for the University Hospital at Rosedale was completed this morning. The concrete foundation will be begun immediately as the regents are anxious to have the building completed as soon as possible.
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ousness, and it takes an effort to get away from it. The illuminating lesson of Judge Lindsey's election in Denver shows that the women in the humbler walks of life, such as those who supported the Judge, can be better morally and politically than the society woman, who with the corporations, worked against the great friend of the children. We don't allow women to vote. Workingmen are unrepresented in Congress. Equality of citizenship—you may find it somewhere, but not in America!
"Fraternity is to be found in, but not among the churches; among, but not always in the clubs. Women's clubs were formerly mere cliques, although they are expanding and are today standing for greater social advancement than any clubs of men. The more kinds of places where you can meet more kinds of people, the better your soul and the greater your fraternal spirit. Fraternity is one object of the church, the club, the settlement, the public library, the public schoolhouse, but these are only doing part of their work. It is a crime to shut the schoolhouse in the afternoon and evening and on Sundays. Everyone ought to be allowed to go in there at any time. Is there anything comparable to every community in the country having its own guild-hall, where all may gather? Here is the incipient public life of the people. The expansive life may be developed in all people of all ages, when all over the country we open up these common centers of life.
"If then we cannot have liberty, equality, and fraternity in all things, let us have them in the essential things; liberty for the worker in his work, equality for the citizen in citizenship, and fraternity for men and women in associations to advance our civic good."
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"LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE"
SCORES A HIT.
Large Crowd in Attendance Musical Numbers the Feature of The Performance.
The eleventh annual French play was given by the department of Romance languages of the University in the gymnasium last Saturday evening. The production was "Le Barbier de Seville," a comedy in four acts by Beaumarchais, a French playwright who lived in the eighteenth century. The case was composed of seven characters, the leads being taken by Reis Ryland, Quay Barnett and Marguerite Stone. The cast follows:
Orest Amargue, Spanish
Count Almaviva Spanish
Grandee in disguise...
...Reis Joseph Ryland
Rosine, ward of Bartholo...
...Marguerite Stone
Figaro, a poet-barber, in
league with the Count
against Bartholo...
...William Quay Barnett
Doctor Bartholo, Rosine's
guardian and suitor...
Harold Harland Smith
Don Bazile, Rozine's music
master, in the employ of
Bartholo...LaVergne Dale
Amos Johnson L'Eveille, another servant..
Chester Kime
A special feature of the performance wa smusical selections from Rossini's opera by that name.
The attendance was the largest that has ever attended a French play and the manner in which the play was produced was a credit to the department and the school.
AGGIES TAKE LAST.
Pollom Pitched Great Game Saturday Afternoon.
Kansas and the Aggies broke even on the two series of baseball games that have been played, but the Farmers took the last game of the series Saturday afternoon. The score of the last contest was 3 to 1. The defeat of the Jayhawkers is attributed, in a measure, to the great pitching that Pollom did for his team. He struck out ten of the thirty-one men who faced him and allowed only three hits, two of which were of the scratch variety. McCarty worked in good form for the Kansans but allowed six hits which coming at critical times allowed the Aggies to score.
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KANSAS TOOK THIRD.
But Some of the Records Look Good.
In one of the fastest track meets that has been held this year and the first of the series of outdoor meets among the schools of the Missouri Valley, Kansas tied with Chicago University for third place, with five points in the Relay Carnival at Des Moines Saturday afternoon. Missouri won first with a score of 11 points and Illinois University was a close second with ten to her credit. The athletes of the first four teams clearly outclassed those of all the other schools entered in the University class.
Although Kansas won only one third and two seconds in the meet of four races, work that was done by the Jayhawker men promises that some of the records of the Missouri Valley stand in danger. Don Davis and "Bobby" Roberts were spectacular runners for Coach Hamilton's squad. Davis brought the crowd in the stands to their feet in the final spurt of the half mile relay with a dash that won third place for his team. Osborne, Kraus , Watson, and Patterson easily won the second place in the four mile relay.
The summary :
Two-Mile University—Illinois, first, Missouri second, Kansas third. Time 8:17 2-5.
Four-Mile Collegiate Relay— Des Moines College first, Cornell second, Morningside third. Time, 19.41 3-5.
One-Mile College—Coe first,
Morningside second, Cornell
third. Time 3:36 3:5.
Four-Mile University—Missouri first, Kansas second, Ames third. Time, 18:56.
Half-Mile Collegiate—South Dakota first, Coe second, Morningside third. Time, 1:36 1-5.
Two-Mile Collegiate—South Dakota first. Cornell second. Highland Park third. Time, 8:40 1-5.
Half-Mile University—Illinois first, Drake second, Kansas third. Time, 1:31 3-5.
Frank Merrill, of Paola, and Stan Meyers, of Kansas City, spent Sunday at the Phi Psi house.
One-Mile University—Chicago first, Missouri second, Drake third. Time, 3:24 3-5.
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