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PAGE TWO   THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA  Sunday, January 5, 1919
THE DAILY IOWAN 
A morning paper published for the period of the war three times a week-Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday-by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Iowa City, Iowa
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief Mildred E. Whitcomb
Telephone Black 1757
Office Hours- 8 to 12: 1 to 6 daily, Room 14, L.A. building.
Managing editor 
Rowena Wellamn
BUSINESS STAFF 
Romola Latchem-Business Manager
Telephone 935
Office Hours-daily, 103 Iowa Avenue 

A UNIVERSITY CAFETERIA
  The abandonment of the University cafeteria plan is causing rather general disappointment among students. University authorities evidently did not realize the patronage the new plan was to have. Naturally many students who had not attached their names to the papers circulated meant to take advantage of the cafeteria if it proved satisfactory. They hesitated to pledge their support to something they might desert if fare was poor. 
   The new barracks as a rooming house may not have been a safe business proposition. Only sixty signed up the one hundred were required to make it a reality. More than a few students entertain no doubt that it was begun. The men were wary. They wanted assurance that roll calls, ten o'clock rules and other annoying restriction known only to girls would not be enforced upon them. 
  This incident occurred during registration, an extreme but probably not an isolated example. Some men had been figuring closely and and had decided that under such reduced living expenses as the University's widely advertised plan offered, they would be able to spend this year in college. They paid their railroad fare here. Then they learned the scheme had come to nothing. The information came as a blow to their hopes. Unless they could find some work immediately, and work is not plentiful with several hundred seeking it, a trip home is their only alternative. If the men do go back home, it will be with uncharitable feelings towards the University. 
   The barrack and cafeteria plan was a great inspiration. If the evidence pointed to failure of the rooming house plan proposition, it did not toward the cafeteria. This would have been the ideal time for its creation, before boarding houses reopened and enlarged to supply the new demand. The women in large numbers were planning to take their meals at the new University cafeteria, and, among students accustomed to boarding outside their houses, real enthusiasm developed over the idea. 
   The next time a University cafeteria is discussed, The Iowan hopes that it will be adopted and put into running order. A demand for it exists.

POST-WAR ATHLETICS
   The following editorial was written by a faculty member who is interested in athletics:
  "'I can hardly wait until the first basketball games comes.' This statement of a follower of athletics will echo the feeling of the majority of the student body who believe that Iowa is on the athletic map, and that it is going to be on it larger and larger.
   "Reflect on our past season. We had all the discouragements of quarantine, epidemic, and cancelled games as well as the difficulty of adjusting ourselves to the rigid rules of a military camp. Close observers of the game believe that our football team was the best for about eighteen years. Nowhere in the United States was there such a schedule of games as at Iowa. The eleven defeated two of its strong rivals. Football critics gave high praise to team work and individual players. It is doubtful if any of our teams of the past ever played a cleaner game or hit the line harder. 
   "Isn't our Iowa spirit as good as the best? Where will you find students who can better root over a home run, a brilliant throw for goal, or a smash through tackle, or who can cheer better when the home team is losing ground? The Iowa spirit will keep athletics going at the University. The "I" club is already at work with plans to rouse enthusiasm and to bring athletics into some branch of sport. A great amount of athletic data has been gathered showing the records and qualifications of men entering the University this year. The basketball season will open this week and during the winter many conference teams will contend on our floor. The baseball schedule is nearly complete, and one track meet is already arranged with Ames for next May. 
   "The war is over. Is there anybody who does not feel a returned zeal for athletics? Such zeal is going to be rewarded by clean and hard sports on the floor, on the diamond, and on the cinder track during this year."

AFFIX YOUR SIGNATURE
   The editor's top left hand drawer is becoming so jammed with contributed manuscripts, "pomes," essays, letters, verse libre, wheezes, squibs, and novels that it is difficult to shut and well nigh impossible to open. Some of these "cantribs" are bad, some worse, others not so worse, but the common ailment that prevents them from breaking into print is that they are unsigned.
   If the editor should mention that among all this (blankity) blank verse, there is one judged by Iowan critics, the theme readers on the staff, to be a real find, a great divulging of identities would result. Such a gem really does exist. 
   As affairs are now, nothing can be done with this mass of unsigned and unsung material unless later in the year The Iowan publish a book of anonymous writings. Without the name of a single author to float the book, it would be a losing proposition. 
   X.Y.Z., a faculty member with a Ph.D., in his notable contribution of Thursday attracted the attention of B.L.T., and broke into that illustrious column. What greater honor can man attain?

BRING IN YOUR CATALOG, AND AT ONCE, PLEASE
   University catalogs are wanted. The registrar has had so many demands and has sent out so many to camps that the edition is almost exhausted. 
   If students will leave catalogs at the office of the president at once the service will be appreciated. It will be several months before another edition can be published and this is the only way to get some back to send out in answer to inquiries that are coming in at the registrar's office. 
  
   Esthed Rohret of Oxford, visited Helen Kriebs at Currier hall Friday. Miss Rohret and Miss Kriebs were schoolmates at Mount St. Joseph.

[advertisement] $3.75 Season Tickets $3.75
Guaranteed admission to all home games played by the University of Iowa Athletic Teams
Tickets on Sale at the Secretary's Office, Old Capitol Building and at Whetstone's Drug Store
THE FOLLOWING HOME SCHEDULE IS PRACTICALLY ASSURED
BASKETBALL
Coe...Jan. 8
Indiana... Jan. 13
Minnesota...Feb. 1
Ames...Feb. 15
Chicago...Feb. 19
Cornell...Feb. 22
Northwestern...Mar. 8
Wisconsin...Mar. 11
BASEBALL
Coe...Date unsettled
Cornell...Date unsettled
Illinois...May 10
Notre Dame...May 17
Michigan...May 19
Ames....Date unsettled 
TRACK
Ames...May 3

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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Sunday, January 5, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published for the period of the war three times a week-Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday-by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Entered as second class matter at the post office at Iowa City, Iowa EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief Mildred E. Whitcomb Telephone Black 1757 Office Hours- 8 to 12: 1 to 6 daily, Room 14, L.A. building. Managing editor Rowena Wellamn BUSINESS STAFF Romola Latchem-Business Manager Telephone 935 Office Hours-daily, 103 Iowa Avenue A UNIVERSITY CAFETERIA The abandonment of the University cafeteria plan is causing rather general disappointment among students. University authorities evidently did not realize the patronage the new plan was to have. Naturally many students who had not attached their names to the papers circulated meant to take advantage of the cafeteria if it proved satisfactory. They hesitated to pledge their support to something they might desert if fare was poor. The new barracks as a rooming house may not have been a safe business proposition. Only sixty signed up the one hundred were required to make it a reality. More than a few students entertain no doubt that it was begun. The men were wary. They wanted assurance that roll calls, ten o'clock rules and other annoying restriction known only to girls would not be enforced upon them. This incident occurred during registration, an extreme but probably not an isolated example. Some men had been figuring closely and and had decided that under such reduced living expenses as the University's widely advertised plan offered, they would be able to spend this year in college. They paid their railroad fare here. Then they learned the scheme had come to nothing. The information came as a blow to their hopes. Unless they could find some work immediately, and work is not plentiful with several hundred seeking it, a trip home is their only alternative. If the men do go back home, it will be with uncharitable feelings towards the University. The barrack and cafeteria plan was a great inspiration. If the evidence pointed to failure of the rooming house plan proposition, it did not toward the cafeteria. This would have been the ideal time for its creation, before boarding houses reopened and enlarged to supply the new demand. The women in large numbers were planning to take their meals at the new University cafeteria, and, among students accustomed to boarding outside their houses, real enthusiasm developed over the idea. The next time a University cafeteria is discussed, The Iowan hopes that it will be adopted and put into running order. A demand for it exists. POST-WAR ATHLETICS The following editorial was written by a faculty member who is interested in athletics: "'I can hardly wait until the first basketball games comes.' This statement of a follower of athletics will echo the feeling of the majority of the student body who believe that Iowa is on the athletic map, and that it is going to be on it larger and larger. "Reflect on our past season. We had all the discouragements of quarantine, epidemic, and cancelled games as well as the difficulty of adjusting ourselves to the rigid rules of a military camp. Close observers of the game believe that our football team was the best for about eighteen years. Nowhere in the United States was there such a schedule of games as at Iowa. The eleven defeated two of its strong rivals. Football critics gave high praise to team work and individual players. It is doubtful if any of our teams of the past ever played a cleaner game or hit the line harder. "Isn't our Iowa spirit as good as the best? Where will you find students who can better root over a home run, a brilliant throw for goal, or a smash through tackle, or who can cheer better when the home team is losing ground? The Iowa spirit will keep athletics going at the University. The "I" club is already at work with plans to rouse enthusiasm and to bring athletics into some branch of sport. A great amount of athletic data has been gathered showing the records and qualifications of men entering the University this year. The basketball season will open this week and during the winter many conference teams will contend on our floor. The baseball schedule is nearly complete, and one track meet is already arranged with Ames for next May. "The war is over. Is there anybody who does not feel a returned zeal for athletics? Such zeal is going to be rewarded by clean and hard sports on the floor, on the diamond, and on the cinder track during this year." AFFIX YOUR SIGNATURE The editor's top left hand drawer is becoming so jammed with contributed manuscripts, "pomes," essays, letters, verse libre, wheezes, squibs, and novels that it is difficult to shut and well nigh impossible to open. Some of these "cantribs" are bad, some worse, others not so worse, but the common ailment that prevents them from breaking into print is that they are unsigned. If the editor should mention that among all this (blankity) blank verse, there is one judged by Iowan critics, the theme readers on the staff, to be a real find, a great divulging of identities would result. Such a gem really does exist. As affairs are now, nothing can be done with this mass of unsigned and unsung material unless later in the year The Iowan publish a book of anonymous writings. Without the name of a single author to float the book, it would be a losing proposition. X.Y.Z., a faculty member with a Ph.D., in his notable contribution of Thursday attracted the attention of B.L.T., and broke into that illustrious column. What greater honor can man attain? BRING IN YOUR CATALOG, AND AT ONCE, PLEASE University catalogs are wanted. The registrar has had so many demands and has sent out so many to camps that the edition is almost exhausted. If students will leave catalogs at the office of the president at once the service will be appreciated. It will be several months before another edition can be published and this is the only way to get some back to send out in answer to inquiries that are coming in at the registrar's office. Esthed Rohret of Oxford, visited Helen Kriebs at Currier hall Friday. Miss Rohret and Miss Kriebs were schoolmates at Mount St. Joseph. [advertisement] $3.75 Season Tickets $3.75 Guaranteed admission to all home games played by the University of Iowa Athletic Teams Tickets on Sale at the Secretary's Office, Old Capitol Building and at Whetstone's Drug Store THE FOLLOWING HOME SCHEDULE IS PRACTICALLY ASSURED BASKETBALL Coe...Jan. 8 Indiana... Jan. 13 Minnesota...Feb. 1 Ames...Feb. 15 Chicago...Feb. 19 Cornell...Feb. 22 Northwestern...Mar. 8 Wisconsin...Mar. 11 BASEBALL Coe...Date unsettled Cornell...Date unsettled Illinois...May 10 Notre Dame...May 17 Michigan...May 19 Ames....Date unsettled TRACK Ames...May 3