UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
LUCIA LACO
Editor-in-Chief
EARLY POTTER
Higher School Edit
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BRADLEY FINLENTON
RICHARD GARDNER
JOHN MADDEN
EDWARD HACKNEY
JORDAN MADEN
EDWARD HACKNEY
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SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1912
A MORE BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS
All the giant elm trees in the quadangle at Harvard are to be cut down this summer and red oaks planted in their places. The elms, which have stood for many years, have sheltered the commencement exercises of that school since they were large enough. They are now considered worthless by experts who say they are dying, and only a few of them have shown signs of life this spring.
There are several apparently dead trees on the eastern part of the campus here that have failed to respond to Spring's call. It would take little time and no expense to have them examined by an expert to determine whether they are dead or dying and past the reviving point. Neither are they surrounded by any traditions that should delay their execution until after commencement, when the campus will be covered with visitors who cannot help noticing blemishes on its beauty.
Give them the axe now!
A REVIVAL OF INTEREST
The debaters from Ashland were a little better than their opponents from Burlington last night and were awarded the decision and the trophy of silver.
And it is safe to say that never be fore in the history of high school debating in Kansas has there been such interest shown on debating as when the two hundred rooters came up from Burlington yesterday in a special训. Of course it is not the rooting that wins debates, but it is a fine thing for a school that so many of its supporters and students will take a sixty mile trip over branch roads in order to listen to their debaters.
It marks a new epoch in high school debating, and the Universit is glad to have been the stage for the outbreak of this new manifestatio of interest.
TROPHY ROOM OPEN FOR VISIT
ING ATHLETES
On the day of the ninth annual in terscholastic track and field meet, the men who came to the University for the first time, were treated to an inspection of the trophy room, an inspection none of the athletes in former years were allowed to make, because the trophy room heretofore has always been locked and the best that any of the curious could do, was push their noses against the glass windows and look in from the out side.
The glory of the University athletes was shown there by medals, loving cups, championship banners, baseballs, footballs, and even the football shoes of the wonderful Forter who won the Missouri game at St. Joe in 1907. The future athletes of the University went there to see what their predecessors have done
The history of athletics at the University is told by those trophies back as far as 1873, the year when the first baseball championship was won by a Kansas nine. And the ancient baseball for that year is in the case in the front of the room.
SIXTY MILES TO A DEBATE
Nearly two hundred high school students traveled the sixty miles from Burlington in the south yesterday afternoon to hear their debating team argue for the championship of the state on the rostrum. Their ride over a branch line of the railway reminds the historian of the interest that was taken in the Lincoln-Douglas debates back in the "nffies" when men and women traveled hundreds of miles by means of the primitive railways of the western states, steam boats, and horse back, all to hear the little wizard of the Senate and the tall, amiable, good natured Illinois lawyer talk.
COLLEGE SLANG
To the editor of the Nation:
Sir--"Your comment, March 25, upon the reported movement in the English department of the University of Kansas for the abolition of slang, moves me to subjoin a few headings from "the official paper of the University of Kansas" the University Daily Kansan, for March 25, 26, and 27.
The Toast Manifesto is Effective
Template (that is, the new regulation for
sliding stock)
Earth Cut Corner but Kansas Didn't Hold Tight and Slipped up North a Ways, (referring to the cold weather following the equinox).
N. G. Sign Hung on Old Superstitions
-Storms Give Tradition The go-bv.
Juniors Heed Not Lure of the Prom—Shorty Would Fain Have Them Achieve Their Tickets—Are the Third Year Men Slow Sports?
They Wont Kick Susie and Jennie Around' Now.
He Sir Walter Raleighs and Gets Box of Fudge.
What's Wrong with Orthographicals?
Would Not Tax Dad's Check.
Andrew (sc. Carnegie) Digs up Again.
Radleiffe Liceks Harvard.
That Baldwin Team Still Eating 'em Up.
Jayhawker Hopes on the Tobogan.
Test Heart Action of Bubble Wagons.
Chemicals Will Take an Inspection Jaunt.
Not a Sob-Squad Incubator.
This last, be it explained, refer to the report that women will not be enrolled by the new Pulitzer School of Journalism.
The Nation, April 25.
(signed) N
SCARLET HEADLINES
By Willard A. Wattles
E XTRA! Extra"—the newsboy's cry
Shrills through the thoroughfare
And a hundred eager, clutching hands
Screen for his grissey ware.
The headlines drip with a gory hue.
Where the ink from the press is warm.
And the canyon walls of the crowded street
Re-echo the red alarm.
'Extra! Extra!'!"—the strenuous cry
A hundred throats reopen.
And a hundred hundred eager hands
Clutch at the crimson sheet:
While a hundred hundred human heads
O'er the flaming letters that tell th world
With nostrils aquiver like wolves who sense
How the murderer must die.
They cling to the straps of the trol ley-car
And many who read would blacken him
pupil, Sniffing the blood of the death-doomed one
A hot and blood-sick smell,
Calm-eyed matron, or ragged tramp
And fathers who have feared for
Heedless of clanging bell
A nameless Thing in a pad-locked cell
Sharp death at the Magdalene,— When the wretched Burden limply sags
A pear-cased Nazarene With his sword lowered each hand that aimed
Then I seem to dream of the days gone by
And many who gloat over his tale of shame
What snarling fangs they bare!
In thought are as foul as he.—
Can that be why they sniff his death
So strange and wolfish?
Who can no blacker be,
They sure must be most upright men women
Who help to put it there!
In the clasp of the fiery chair,
HISTORY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL MEET
Wonderful Growth of the Interscholastic in the Past Fight Years
Eight Years
FIVE SCHOOLS ENTERED IN 1904
Since Then The Meet Has Grown
to an Event With 200 Entries
Nine years ago the interscholastic meet was instituted. At that time there were five schools entered and the meet was in the nature of an invitation event. Only the larger schools in the near vicinity were represented.
Representing 32 Teams.
This, the third interscholastic meet,
may be taken as a fair example of the
school approach.
In this meet one record was made that the University Athletic authorities thought worthy of preservation. This meeting was also held dard vash by Commons of Lawrence
It would be of interest to trace it through its early history but the slight importance of the meet in the early times resulted in a lax system and it was not until 1905 that there was any systematic attempt on the part of the University authorities to preserve an accurate record of the events.
Sutton and Meyer both of Garnett made new records in the shot and hammer respectively setting the records at 42.7 and 141.
Of the hundred men entered Babb of Lawrence won the point trophy by scoring 10 points. No records were broken.
The following year there were thirteen high schools represented in the meet. After the meet had been run the University authorities decided that it was unfair to allow the Kansas City and St. Joseph schools to compete on an equal footing with the Kansas high schools that lacked the benefits of coaching and training enjoyed by the city teams. They therefore made the larger schools a separate class. When this was done the trophy awarded to the winner of the meet went to the Lawrence, with a score of 41 points.
KANSAS CITY SCHOOL DROFS OUT
In 1907 fifteen schools were entered and 120 men started in the meet. The Kansas City Schools were not represented as arrangements had been made for a special meet in which Central, Manual, Westport, and others of that class were to compete with the University Freshmen.
The meet was from an athletic stand point the most successful held up to that time. Seven records were broken. Stahl of Lawrence set a new mark in the 220 dash and in the quarter mile. The time for the first of these was 23.3 and for the second 54.2. Jim Smith of Anthony lowered the 220 hurdle record to 28.1 and raised the broad jump mark to 20 feet 9 inches.
The meet in 1910 was marred by rain but in spite of that 153 men
Bill French now captain of the University track team pushed the high jump record to up 5 feet 8 inches.
Lawrence again won the meet scoring 37 points. Jim Smith won the point trophy.
There were 29 schools represented in the meet held May 2, 1908. Over 150 men were entered. This meet was another record breaker. French raised his own mark in the high jump to 5 feet 9 inches; Martin of Lawrence lowered the low hurdle to 6 feet 7 inches. Geoffrey brought the quarter mile record 54 flat and Sterling of Dickinson threw the discus 99 feet 2 inches.
NEW CLASSIFICATION IN 1908
In 1009 the meet was smaller but the class was better than before. Lanyon of Pittsburgh won the 100 in 10-2. McMillan of Arkansas City took the half in 2.14, Bryson of Overbrook won the hammer throw with a cast of 148.11 and Lambeth of Allen county threw the discs 101 ft. 2 in. All these marks were new records. Lawrence, Allen county, Dickinson County, and Southern Kansas Academy were the cup winners.
The point trophies wilt to Martin in class A; Leach of Jefferson in AA; Brackenker of Burlingame in C; and Chavez of Davis in Davis, Davis, and Sterling won in class B.
In this meet the high schools were classified for the first time. County highs were put in a class labelled AA, city schools of over 250 were called C, between 757 and 150 were placed in B, and others were put in class C. This was done to give the smaller schools a chance to carry home cups.
MANY NEW RECORDS IN 1909
from 22 schools took part. The only record broken was the disc. Lambeth of Allen county beating his own mark a foot.
Wauaiseon county won the AA cup, Lawrence the A, Dickinson the B, and Southern Kansas Academy won the most points in the C class. Lambeth of Allen, Hazen of Lawrence, Howard of Dickinson and Stark of Perry were the point winners.
The meet last year was larger in attendance than any previous one. New records were set in the half the broad jump and the pole vault. The first of these went to Root of Oak in 2008, the second to Randells of Anthony at 21 feet 2 in., and the last to Mull of Omaha at 14 feet 6 inches.
One mile run—Cooley, Kansas City,
Kansas, 4:41.
120-yard hurdles—Johnson of Lawrence
16 4-5.
THE RECORDS NOW ARE:
100-yard dash -Commons, Law-
rence; Haynes, Ottawa; Lanyon,
Pence;
440-yard dash—Geyer, Wetmore,
54.
Half mile run—Root, Clay Center,
2:08.
220 hurdles—Martin, Lawrence,
27 2-5.
220 dash—Stahl, Lawrence, 23 3-5.
Pole vault—Mull, Onaga, 10 ft. 6 inches.
Shot put—Sutton, Garnett 42 ft. 7 inches.
Discus - Lambeth, 102 feet 4 in.
High jump - French, 9 feet 9 in.
Low jump - French, 9 feet 9 in.
Broad jump—Randells 21 feet 2 in.
Editor's Note—Baseball fans will remember the old poem relating the story of how Casey got up to bat when he had the opportunity to win the game and how he fanned out. This is his explanation of how it happened.
From Casey's lips I had the tale Before he passed away,
Which tells the story of his fate That song-famed dav.
" "Twas not for me to beep," said he,
"Because they called me out.
I've never said a word before— 'Tis not my way to spout.
"Because they called me out.
But here's the truth for once, old pal:
The first one that he threw
Was half a foot above my head;
But half a foot above you.
So, 'what's the use to kick?' thought I.
'The next one I'll hit a mile; And feelin' kind of confident, I couldn't help but smile.
Now, on the dead, the ump was rank.
As bad as he could be.
That second one was 'way outside And down below my knee
And when the umpire said 'strike two',
I thought it was a kid.
asked him if he meant it.
I asked him if he
And he said, 'Sure Mike, I did.'
The gang was next; you heard 'em cry
And then that third one, say, old pal,
That third one was a heart.
But I just smiled because I thought,
"He won't do that again."
But my, oh my, there surely was
A hoodo working there.
You may think that 'I'm stringin' you
but this is on the square,
The minute I sees it start,
I says, 'Here's on the snoot.'
Just as I started to make the swing
A bug flew in my eye!
I misses that there ball a foot And, on the dead, here's whv.
But the umpire, he was rotten, yes,
But here's the truth, that's all.
"Swimming Holes."
If that there bug had stayed away,
I'd surely have lost that ball."
—Dubuque Telegraph-Herald.
"I Wish Our Class Would Meet There Under the Hood."
THOUGHTS BETWEEN CLASSES
"Picnics."
"Fishing."
"Another Student Council Petition."
"My Legs Are Too Wobbly to Carry Me Up The Hill."
"The Mac Trucks—"
"Only Three More Weeks of School."
HE FELT IN HIS BONES
This from the Newton Republican:
"Kansas University has a mandolin club. We knew that there was some providential influence at work when matters shaped up so we could not attend the recent editorial meet-
AT THE
Miss Maude Zaelner of Tonganoxie is visit the Pi Phi house.
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The Latest Release Pathe Weekly and a good Vitagraph drama.
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A Town
the size of Lawrence with forty-two miles of brick paving and thirty-eight miles of sanitary sewers has a right to boast of its provisions for cleanliness and health. Lawrence has these modern features besides many others that contribute to its supremacy as a residence city.
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
CAR SCHEDULE
Cars leave Haskell 5, 20, 35, and 50 minutes past the hour.
Cars leave Honesty and Massachusetts for Scottsdale. F5, 20
Beginning Sunday, February 4, A. M. until further notice.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for Santa Fe 5, 20, 35, and 50 minutes past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for K. U. via Tennessee, hour and 50 minutes, past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for South Massachusetts, 5,
20, 35, and 60 min. past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for K. U. via Mississippi, 20 and 50 minutes past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for Indiana street, 5, 20, 35,
and 50 minutes past hour.
Cars leave K. U. via Tennessee Street, 2 and 32 minutes past the hour.
JAY
Cars leave K. U. via Mississippi Street, 17 and 47 minutes past the hour.
Please note K. U. cars leave Henry and Massachusetts street five minutes earlier than old schedule. This change was made at the request of the majority of the patrons using these cars.
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