THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas
LOUIS LACOSE Editor-in-Chief
GEORGE MARSH Managing Editor
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7.
COMING EVENTS.
Dec. 5—Fine Arts recital Genevieve Smith, harp soloist.
Dec. 12.-Final tryout for debating teams.
Dec. 15.—Friday, Law "Serim."
Dec. 22, Friday-Jan. 8, Monday
-Christmas vacation.
REGARDING THE GAME
Now that the annual Kansas Missouri football game has been played and on college grounds it is well to consider whether on not the late ruling that took the game away from Kansas City, is for the best.
In considering this question there are three separate and distinct bodies that are directly concerned. The first group to be considered is that large number of alumni who as graduate of their institution are now scattered all over the United States Just what their attitude is towards changing the game to Columbia and to Lawrence can be ascertained only by personal investigation. The Kansas City alumni represent, perhaps, the most flourishing alumni organization of this school and it is quite natural that they deprecate the recent ruling and are urging the return of the annual struggle to Kansas City. The wishes of all alumni must be respected. They represent a phase of college spirit as do those who are actually in school. They are the advertisement of what the University can produce. An expression of their attitude is not obtainable now but we believe that a majority of the University alumni favor the playing of the game in Kansas City. And we say this with a fear of denial by both alumni and others.
Reports from Missouri indicate that they are well pleased with the arrangement. Financially the game paid almost as well as it would in Kansas City. For the first time in years Missouri alumni came back to Columbia and it was a grand home coming for a great many. The students at the University of Missouri, viewing the matter from a pecuniary standpoint, probably—we say it advisedly—saved money. The trip to Lawrence next year will mean but little more to them than the annual pilgrimage to Kansas City. The game was a wonderful thing for Columbia and the Missourians are able to appreciate the advantages that they obtained.
In regard to the attitude that the students at this University should take, it is too early to speak. For years we have accustomed ourselves to think of the Missouri game and Kansas City as inseparable. This idea is thoroughly infused in the student body and any change that is made must prove itself before it will be accepted. The students at the University have no right
to say, at this time, that the game ought to be played in Kansas City. Indications are that there is a growing sentiment towards all college sports played on college grounds. The ruling in regard to football is the first step in this direction. No one can say that it is for the best or for the worst until it has been tried.
HELP US GET A DAILY
The University Kansan started its campaign for a daily this week and in this movement it wishes to enlist the support of every student in the University. That we need a daily is not questioned. If we are to keep pace with other schools it is necessary that we have a live college publication—and that a daily.
In our last issue an appeal was made to the student body for an expression of its attitude regarding the campaign. Replies to this editorial will be considered indicative of the general mind of the University.
We can only urge that every student make this a personal matter, one to which he will give some thought and attention. We want every one to express himself, either endorsing or opposing the idea, and these expressions will determine to a large extent
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the future plans of the campaign.
The movement for a daily has been started and it must go forward to a successful conclusion.
It cannot stop until we have one of the finest college publications in the land. If the students show an apathy or disinterestedness the campaign cannot go forward and a lasting injury would be inflicted on the University. We have started something that we cannot afford to stop and you must help us push it along.
Let us hear from you.
COMMUNICATION
To The Kansan:
To all who attended chapel this morning it was very evident that the morning chapel services should be abolished or that some measure be adopted to attract the students and professors. Those present were 10 professors (including Chancellor Strong and the speaker Manager W. O. Hamilton) and 143 students in a school which claims an enrollment of 2500. What made the small number in attendance more apparent was the subject of the speech which was given by the manager of athletics. "The athletic situation and the past football season." This is one of the most important questions before the students and faculty of the University.
Fine Arts Give Recital.
The students in the organ voice and violin departments of the School of Fine Arts will give their fifth recital of the school year Tuesday December 12 at 4:30 in Fraser hall.
The constantly diminishing number of students who attend chapel can be explained in the actions of the majority of the professors. These professors do not attend chapel and at exactly 10:15 start their classes. In this way they have intimidated the students who fear to attend chapel because of the danger of coming in late and gaining the ill will of the instructor and possibly a cut.
This occurs to me at least three times a week. My 10:15 class is in the New Administration building and as soon as chapel is closed I hurry to class only to find the class in a well advanced discussion of the lesson. At present there are only about three of the students in this class of thirty who dare to attend chapel. It appears to me that the professors show a poor spirit toward the chapel exercises and that Chancellor Strong should correct this evil or abolish chapel as it invariably holds over five or six minutes past the allotted time.
A Student.
Glen Wisdom of Kansas City Kansas, has been pledged to Ph Delta Phi, the legal fraternity.
MINERS VISITED JOPLIN
Inspected Mines, Smelters and Powder Plant.
Seven students in the School of Engineering went to Joplin Mo., with Prof. C; M. Young during the Thanksgiving vacation to visit the zine and copper mines at that place. Two mines a smelter, and several powder plants were inspected and many valuable suggestions for class work were obtained. The mine which costs the most to operate of any in the district, as well as the one which costs the least were both visited. Those who went were O. L. Andrews, D. H. Cadinus, C. M. Coats, R. M. Hoffman, A. D. Johnson, M. G. Monroe, A. H. Mangledsdorf.
Questionable Ethics
It would be of psychological interest to examine the minds of the men who steal books off the library reserve shelves and automatically anamass comfortable little book collections of their own, with little trouble and no expense. It is scarcely credible that any man would deliberately make an expedition to the library and wantonly bear away a book belonging to some one else, in order to appropriate it as an additional and useful bit on personal property. Self-delusion must exist in one form or and other. Perhaps a man flatter his himself that he is taking out a long lease on the book, with the ultimate intention of restoring it; or else he feels that the library is a University organization and in consequence exempt from the ordinary rules of morality. But whatever the delusion the result is the same. Professors go to the greatest trouble to exhaust expensive volumes from the unknown depths of the library and to have them placed on the reserve shelves. They even bring their own precious tomes over from their houses and put them at the mercy of the undergraduate, simply in order that students may accomplish the required reading with as little expense as possible. And the result of this generosity is that several professors (to say nothing of the library itself), have already this year lost valuable volumes some of them almost impossible to be replaced. If this continues the reserve shelf system will have to be abolished. Let the spoilers only find some other means of accumulating their ill-gotten libraries, and the vast and honest majority will not have to be deprived of an invaluable benefit solely on account of the despicable few.—Yale News.
Missouri Club.
The Missouri Club will meet in Myers hall Tuesday Dec. 12 at seven thirty. Important business regarding a holiday party will be discussed.
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