Show UU STUDENT LIFE college spirit seemed a thing of the Basketball has done a great deal to readjust things and if the Ixxird of trustees exercises discretion and considers the need of the student lodv they will stay readjusted But as to basketball itself we arc told that it will take the place of football that the poor old gridiron is a thing of the past “no more sounds of cracking bones and running blood” etc After one year’s experience at basketball and a great past many at football we are afraid we can’t see it that way Basketball is all right it is nice clean gentlemanly and all that but it will never take the place of the good old grid We can get behind tlie game as the student body to a certain extent but not the football extent It smacks a little too much of the choker collar and kid gloves We are afraid it is doomed to remain the “cholly” in the field of inGive us the tercollegiate sport and shoulder padded shinguard headgear RUSK WAS UAISKIJ OX A HAS K ETIiA LL |