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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME VI.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 4, 1910
NUMBER 39
SEASON OPENS FRIDAY NIGHT
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FIRST BASKET-BALL GAME WITH NEBRASKA.
The Nebraska squad this season is an unknown quantity, as Captain Perry is the only man on the team who played last year. If reports are to be believed, however the Nebraskans will give the varsity the hardest kind of a tussle
Coach Hamilton has been working two teams through the entire training season and says there is very little choice between them. One full team is made up of men who won their letters on the Missouri Valley champion team last year. That team took away the conference honors with but five series of plays; this year the team has eighty.
The auditorium has been arranged to accommodate 1,200 people, six hundred in the gallery and six hundred on the floor below, for which an extra fifteen cents will be asked of the ticket holders.
On Friday night the basketball season will open in Robinson gymnasium, when Nebraska will tangle with Coach Hamilton's men in the first of the Missouri Valley games. The same teams will play again Saturday night.
Coach Hamilton Will Not Pick Team Before Games—Curtain Raiser Saturday Night.
Dr. Crumbine's First Lecture.
As a curtain raiser to the big game Saturday night, the Freshmen will play the Halstead high school team, which is being coached by Ben Young, who was captain of the varsity base ball team in '07.
Dr. Crumbine, secretary of the State Board of Health, recently appointed by the Regents as lecturer, will give his first lecture here Thursday morning at 10:15 on sanitary and applied chemistry. His subject will be "Pollution of Domestic Ground Water Supply."
The coach in accordance with his resolution, will not pick the men to start the game until the teams are on the floor Friday night.
Announement to Track Men.
Coach Hamilton announces that track work will begin at once. All mne who expect to try for the track team this year are requested to report regularly at 4:30. If it is impossible to be at the gym at that time, the coach will arrange to see them any time after 2:30. The indoor cinder path will be finished tomorrow, giving the sprinters a track 130 feet long and ten feet wide to work upon. The pits for the jumps and shot put will be finished in the course of the week. The coach wishes especially that all men who wish to try for the pole vault or shot put report to him.
PROF. DUNCAN RETURNS.
Sojourn in Maine and Jamaica Restores Health.
Professor Robert K. Duncan has returned from his Eastern trip, to the Maine woods, where he went to regain his health. He says that although he did not get any deer or big game, he did get an appetite and is now restored to health.
Professor Duncan left here about the middle of November to recover from a nervous breakdown. He stayed in Maine for three or four weeks. Before coming home he was summoned to go to Jamaica to investigate the possibility of growing the camphor tree on that island.
While in Jamaica he was on the 3,000-acre Malcom estate, where there are five-year-old trees, and he brought back one ton of maize be distributed among the professors of the chemistry department in this manner they expect to determine positively whether it is feasible to go up against the Jap anese camphor monopoly.
The Japanese are the only people producing camphor, and in the last year the price has advanced 5 cents per pound.
THEY WANT TO FLY.
Fort Scott Students Plan to Launch Aeroplane.
Paul and Harry Elliott and Gilbert R. Smith, all of Fort Scott, but now enrolled in the University, have studied aviation with a view toward building a lying machine, and for the past three months have been quietly constructing one, with the result that now the frame work is entirely finished and all that remains to be done is to install the engine. This is giving them some trouble, for an engine that develops 30 horse power and yet does not weigh much over 100 pounds, is hard to obtain.
The monoplane is modeled after the Bleriot and the Santos Dumont machines. Its wings measure twenty feet from tip to tip, and are six feet wide. It has a seven-foot, two-blade propellor, and from the tip of the tail to the propeller measures twenty-three feet. The frame works of the planes is composed of spruce wood, over which is stretched the canvas. It has 150 square feet of lifting surface.
Some time soon the acrop plane will be tested, towed behind an automobile, and later when the proper adjustments have been made, will be tested under it own power.
"We think our machine will fly," said Harry Elliott, today. "In a short time we will test it and find out. We have nothing new in our machine. We have followed the successful inventors."
TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBIT SOON
IN SNOW HALL, JANUARY 15 TO 18
Dr. S. C. Emley, of University Has Had Charge of State Work for Past Six Months.
From January 15 to 18 Dr. S. C. Emley will display his tuberculosis exhibit in Snow hall.In the past six months the exhibit has been taken to thirty-one towns in Kansas and about 45,000 people have viewed the charts and specimens and heard the lectures delivered.
In all the towns Dr. Emley has visited he has delivered lectures to the citizens and has held symposiums with the local medical men. The lectures will be extended while the exhibit is at the University. Nearly all the departments of the University whose work is at all related to the public health will have a lectures in Snow hall. Medical authorities from Kansas and Kansas City will also be on hand. Dr. Emley will print the lectures and distribute them over the state.
A feature of the Snow hall exhibit will be the display of disease germs. Germs of tuberculosis, typhoid, scarlet fever, smallpox and all other common diseases will be shown under powerful microscopes.
Dr. Emley has been over the state with the tuberculosis exhibit for the past six months." I think that the health of the people of Kansas is better than ever before," he said. "They are becoming interested in disease prevention. The law against the public drinking cup is becoming less unpopular and the Kansas law has been copied already in several states."
Prof. W. C. Stevens, head of the department of botany, spoke in chapel this morning in regard to the work of Luther Burbank, the California botanical wizard. Though Mr. Burbank has accomplished many wonderful things with his experiments in cross-fertilization, said Professor Stevens, yet he has been embarrassed by exaggerations of his work.
Professor Stevens Told of Work of Luther Burbank.
AT CHAPEL TODAY.
Professor Stevens said that Burbank had created no new fruit but had simply produced his remarkable improvements by working along the regular laws of nature according to certain biological princeiples. Professor Stevens gave some details in regard to some of the results of Burbank's work which has attracted the most attention, such as the Japan quince, stoneless prune and spineless cactus.
THE WEATHER.
THE TEMPERATURE.
9 p. m. 17.0
7 a. m. 14.4
2 p. m. 13.8
Maximum, 17; minimum, 12.5.
Threatening, with rain or snow
tonight and tomorrow; warmen
tonight; cooler tomorrow.
DR. NAISMITH RETURNS.
Was in the East, Discussing Football Rules.
Doctor James Naismith returned last night from a trip to New York, where he attended a meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association of North America. Proposed changes in the football rules caused a hot discussion among the members of the association. The chief bone of contention was the forward pass and double line of scrimage. Prof. Williams of Minnesota ridiculed all the present talk concerning the abolishment of the game as hysteria and favored the retention of the modern game, while Chancellor Day of Syracuse and Prof. Sargent of Harvard attacked it vigorously. The Pennsylvania representative threatened to abolish the game in Pennsylvania next year unless the rules were radically changed.
The following questions were sent out to college authorities over the United States:
3. Do you want the game retained, but radically modified by the elimination of mass and other dangerous plays?
1. Do you favor substituting soccer, or English football for the Rugby game?
2. Are you satisfied with the rules as they stand at present, with a few minor changes?
Of the answers received seventeen favored question 1, five favored question 2, while fifty-seven favored question 3.
It was finally agreed to leave the whole question to the rules committee, which will meet next month.
Rice County Students Had Banquet and Basket-Ball.
AN ACTIVE VACATION.
During the Christmas vacation the members of the Rice County club were very busy entertaining prospective University students. The boys played basket-ball against the Cooper College team December 28, and on the following evening the University students gave their annual banquet. Prof. E. F. Engel of the department of German, gave the address and dedicated a song to the Rice County club.
The following officers were elected: President, Ben Jones; vice president, Nancy Fisher; secretary, Bertha Back; treasurer, Ansel Crawford, all of Lyons, as the annual banquet will be held there next vacation.
NO HOPE FOR INDIAN SCHOOL
UNLESS BUREAU INTENDS TO DISPOSE OF IT.
Congress Will Probably Instigate no Action—University Has Made Application.
The possibility that the national government would change its policies in regard to the control of the various non-reservation Indian schools in the country has again been brought forward in the metropolitan press, thus raising the question as to the possibility of the University of Kansas securing the use of the Haskell Institute buildings. H. B. Peairs, superintendent of Haskell Institute, who has been recently appointed supervisor of Indian schools, is quoted as favoring the plan of having the federal government offer the Indian school to the state and to the University of Kansas. The idea was that the Kansas legislature should make an appropriation whereby the state should have the funds available for making Haskell Institute into a distinctive trade school in connections with the University.
However it can be authoritatively stated that there is no real change from the previous situation. Nothing can or will be accomplished unless congress should take some action in regard to the non-reservation Indian schools of the country. Haskell Institute is second only to Carlisle among the nation's Indian schools. Congress probably will pass no legislation concerning them without careful consideration, and unless the bureau of Indian affairs should have definite plans for the disposal of the schools. Such plans have not been submitted and therefore no change in Haskell Institute is likely to occur any time soon.
The University of Kansas has no influence in regard to the policy controlling Haskell Institute, and can make no suggestions to those in authority. If the time should come that the government should change its relations with the non-reservation Indian schools, then the University would be vitally interested because of its proximity to Haskell Institute. Its authorities would be glad to consider arrangements whereby the equipment of the Indian school could be secured for the University. Looking to this end, the University, through its proper authorities two years ago made application for full consideration in the matter in case Haskell Institute should be discontinued.
Meeting Postponed.
The Student Council meeting which was postponed this afternoon, will take place tomorrow night.
Basket Ball, Nebraska vs. Kansas. Robinson Gymnasium
Friday and Saturday, Jan. 7 and 8, 1910. Game called at 8 p.m. Admission, with Reserved Seat, 50c. Seats on sale at Check Stand Friday from 10:15 to 12:15