The Oven du lieu suivant : Emporia, Kansas • 1

TUT OVEN. NO. 15 VOL. Ill EMPORIA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 900. LITERATI WINS The great event of the year in athletics was the ball game between the Literati society and the rest of the school, last Saturday.

The score was, Literati 13,, All-School 5, and the former did not play the last half of the last inning. Great enthusiasm was displayed on each side, and the crimson and old gold waved high. Weaver caught for the All-School and Jim Moses played with the Peterson, Humes, and Gift sent the ball clear beyond the out fielders and ran around the diamond in a way that discouraged the All-School. did good work in the box and Weaver was at home as much as ever. Following is the line up: Friday.

Saturday afternoon comes with its suggestion of holiday and inviting sports, and that with the evening's demands finds the student at the close of the week with little preparation for Monday. That a large number of our students use Sunday, or a part of it, as a day of study is no longer a question. No student can study on Sunday with impunity either to himself or those about him. To use the dav thus is to dull the higher sense of what is highest and best, and to take away the time that should be given to the making better of the spiritual life itself. Sunday of all days ought to be the best, and to pull it to the level of the other days is probably taking it out of its designed purpose.

With' Monday as a holiday all such temptation will be removed and the student will be free from the restraint of lessons or a probable failure on the next day. Such a consciousness to a body of students is worth much in their bet The Senior Tree. If Josep'h should come out of Egypt now he would hide his coat when he saw the tree planted by the seniors. They said that it would soon get green, and in this they were prophets for before dark it was green nearly to the top. However, they did say they would outwit the seniors of former years and fix things so that the juniors could not paint the tree, but in this the seniors fell short of their asper-ations.

The tree was painted well from top to bottom, and only two senior boys showed up arid these were allowed a coat of the same material as the tree. in the evening the seniors had found a number of junior girls in various parts of the -town, and had attempted to make them verdant like the seniors, so the juniors kindly returned the compliment by treating twenty seniorgirls to a coat of bright paint which should give them the same lustre as the juniors. No other seniors were. to be found the town was scoured but they did not turn up anywhere. It is feared the senior class will be very small this year.

About three o'clock the next I morning, the seniors pulled out the 'ilbstarred tree and put in another. About six in the morning, the juniors began to gather and then came the great war. The seniors were around the tree with two great hose attached to the hydrant and ready. The juniors, undaunted, however, ter development. Ours 4s -some Moses Peterson Humes Gift Green b' Weaver Culp Kline Caldwell Fisher Roberts Fisher Parker McSkinnen NORMAL 24! K.S.A.C.

The Normal opened the baseball season at it-Way athletic park, April 7, with the Mathattan team as opponents. Culp was in the box for the Normal, and Turner for Manhattan. Culp was. the. first man dt bat, and celebrated the occasion by knocking the first ball pitched over left fielder for three bases.

Fisher brought him home with a well placecPsirigle." Weaver was given a base on balls. Fisher scored an error, and Caldwell cleared the bases with a three bagger. Reeves and Parker went out rn grounders and Kline scored Cald-well with a two base hit. Manhattan's story is soon told, They could not solve Culp's delivery, ahtVsucceeded in getting but one hit in the five innings he pitch-ed. With the score 12 to at the end of fifth Culp was replaced by Evans who pitched three innings 1 5y an unfortunate grouping of errors, Manhattan succeeded in scoring twice in the sirtth inning.

Evans just to see if he could pitch, struck out the first three men who faced him in the eighth inning. Green pitched the hist inning, and the "farmers" did not reach first. For Manhattan, Turner showed that he had good pitching ability when in condition. Coldren did good work behind the bat, while Tompkins led the team in hiding. The team with much more practice and better team work will be strong.

The Normal continued work of scoring in each inning, piling up eight runs in the eighth. The feature of the game was the heavy hitting done by our boys who will make miserable the lives of many pitchers this season Peterson led at the bat with four sale drives, while Culp, Caldwell and Reeves had three each. Rogers and Reeves took care of everything that came to the outfield in grand style. Weaver's line work behind the bat adds much encouragement to the team and we are fortunate 'to have so good a backstop. Middlekauff 'ss Potter If Reeves Dver what a school of grades and, if other schools have found that grades are so much lower on Monday than other days, there ought to be a change for the demand.

Other institutions that have school Saturday say without question that it is better for everyone. Our State Agricultural College has school on Saturday instead of Monday, and if this can be true in one state institution there is probably reason to believe that it could be here. The. Monday Holiday. Old things are-passing away and it is time for some to become nevv.

We are learning in this age to climb up out of the ruts in which'our fossilized ancestors found their existence, and to inquire if we may better the environment which is given us to fashion. We believe that the best interests of student life in this and like institutions demand that Monday be a holiday instead' of Saturday, and shall proceed to set forth a few of the reasons for the hope that is within us. The atmosphere of, Friday afternoon and a large part of Saturday is 'not conducive to study. This is true for several reasons. Relaxation from an increased interest comes at Friday noon and the student is willing to take a rest.

Various meetings and associations call the student from his work. Preparation for society takes the time of a large number, and, as a result, little work or study is accomplished by the close of made the rush and for five minutes a mighty. conflict was on in which the juniors were repulsed. After a rest, they made another great onslaught from all sides, and after a few minutes fighting had possession of the hose and turning them to the seniors. The seniors novy gave in and the juniors began with their paint and soon half a dozen faces and heads were dripping with the red.

Then the juniors adjourned leaving the torn coats and battered hats and a great lake to mark the the place. strongest objection to school on Saturday is the, fact that some hold. as Sunday. It is jiot. pertinent to discuss the Sunday question but the whole contention is puerile in its nature for there can be no twenty-four hours sacred as.

a day, for even in our own state, the western part has its Sunday an hour later than we, so that is to keep one in seven, and this does away with all question about its time. All contest games must be played on Saturday, and merchants cannot attend on this day so we lose again. Societies could beheld on Saturday night and the student could have a free conscience Sunday, and wake up Monday morning without a strong prospect of a ilunk. By Monday morning all is quiet and everyone ready for work. Astronomy at 7:25 a.m.

Who says that the seniors don't get up in the morning? But they'don't, for more get locked out than at society..