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The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME VI.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 15, 1910
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WASHINGTON HERE TONIGHT
WILL PLAY AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT.
Cayon's Five Are an Unknown Quantity—The Locals Have a Sick List.
Tonight Captain Johnson's basket ball five will tangle in Robinson gymnasium with a quintet, under the tutilage of Coach Cayou from Washington University. The same teams will play again Monday night.
The outcome of the game is very doubtful, for the Jayhawker team is badly crippled and it is probable that the line-up at the start will contain some of the new men. Woodard has a very bad knee and Heeizer is in poor condition. If these men are unable o start their places will be filled by Larson and Smith.
The visitors' strength is unknown, though their showing against Missouri has not shown their expected strength.
The danger lies in the fact that the Indian Coronado, who plays at center for the Pikeway team, is the star of the team, and should Heizer be out of the game. a new man wil have to hold him down.
TENNIS MEN MET.
Three Old Men Back and Much Other Material in School.
At a meeting of the tennis men Wednesday, Dolf Watson was chosen captain for the coming season. Howard Bigelow was elected manager. Three men who won their letters last year, Watson, Bigelow and Wood, are in school again this year and thre is much other good material from which to pick the team. It is intended to match games with Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri, St. Marys, and possibly the University of Texas.
Last year the University tennis team was the best in the West. They defeated all the schools above in handy fashion. In the singles of the Missouri match Watson defeated Ristine, who was inter-collegiate champion of the middle west.
The squad thus far consists of the following men: Watson, Bigelow, Leland, Purton, Wood, Lobaugh, and Seddon. All men who wish to try out will hand their names to one of these men. As soon as possible indoor practice will be held in the gym.
A New Frat.
Seven men at the University who have done professional journalistic work, have been granted a charter by Sigma Delta Chi. the only journaliste fraternity in the United States. Sigma Delta Chi was founded last year at Depaw university and the chapter to be installed here is the second fraternity. There will be no social life connected with the organization, its purpose being purely professional.
The charter members are, Joe Murray, Ralph Hemenway, Orville Markham, Earl Fisher, Homer Berger, Ed. Shauffler and Paul Harvey.
PROF. BATES TALKED.
Told Good Government Club of Commission System.
At a meeting of the Good Government club last Thursday night, Professor F. G. Bates spoke on the commission form of city government. He did not take any definite stand on the matter himself, but simply gave the arguments as they are advanced by both sides.
He said that one of the biggest benefits that has been derived from the commission form is the fact that it has succeeded in working up the interest of the ordinary man making him realize that the government of his city is a part of his own business. He also said that the people who advocate this new form of city government claim that it is more economical than the older form.
"There are many forms of commission government," said the professor, "but the essential features in them are all, firstly, a small number of elected officers, secondly, the concentration of power and responsibility, and thirdly the election of officers on a general ticket not by wards.
BE A SEEKER OF TRUTH.
That Was the Advice of Rabbi Liknaitz in Chapel.
Rabbi David L. Liknaitz of Leavenworth, spoke in chapel Friday morning concerning the essentials of a truth seeker, to which class he considered all true students to belong. He named the absence of prejudice as of first importance. Some of the world's greatest men have not been altogether free from prejudice and the schools of a few centuries ago were very largely to support certain theories rather than to aid the seeking of truth.
Associated with prejudice is often found an intellectual dishonesty manifested by people who hate to be disillusioned. Rabbi Liknaitz also spoke of the over-zealous truth seeker who over-emphasized his own point of view and thus failed to become the truly liberal student.
He closed by speaking of the need of University trained men, who are really seekers after truth and emphasizing the possibilities of this institution in preparing men for usefulness to Kansas.
Twenty-Three First Year Men Given Numerals.
FRESHMEN AWARDED.
Thursday noon the freshman class held a meeting and voted to give sweaters to the members of 1913 foot ball team. On motion, President Morgan appointed a committee to consult with Coach Coleman in selecting the members of the squad who had earned their numerals. This committee met Thursday with Mr. Coleman and the following men were selected: Beezly, Collins, Corbin, Davis, Dickey, Gossard, Freyong, Higgins, Holloway, Kirshner, Moore, Newton, Plank, Rambo, Rhodes, Roberts, Snyder, Thornbrow, Tudor, Utterbach, Wetmore, Welch and Young.
"YSBRAND"A SUCCESS
DUTCH PLAY WAS WELL RECEIVED LAST NIGHT.
Pleased the Audiences, but Misti- fied Them-Will Be Repeated Tonight.
The first American performance of Dr. Van Elen's play, "Ysbrand," which was given at the Bowersock opera house last night by a University cast, achieved a greater success than its most sanguine friends had hoped for it.
Not in recent years has a University play taken such a strong hold upon the audience as did "Ysbrand." The audience, perhaps mainly curious at first, was swept into complete sympathy before the curtain had gone down on the first act.
The action of the play centers around the strange figure of Ysbrand De Ralf. The failure of others to understand the character of this insurtable person is its theme. Outside the character, the thoughts, and the actions of Ysbrand, there is nothing of mystery in the play. The motives and the characters of the other persons are as open books. The audience, doubtless by design of the playwright, is as much puzzled in regard to Ysbrand's real nature as are the other characters in the play, though somewhat more sympathetic toward him. The speeches of Ysbrand are full of beauty, but their meaning is hard to grasp.. The fall of the curtain on the last act leaves the spectator wondering whether the machinery of society has worked properly to confine a dangerous lunatic, or whether a sane and harmless man has been shut away from God's open sky, for which he so piteously pleads.
Harry Kemp, in the role of Ysbrand, acquitted himself especially well, not only in representing the heights and depths of feeling which Ysbrand experienced, but in preserving throughout the play the dignity of the character. There were all sorts of possibilities for a decent into the ridiculous in interpreting that part, but of the ridiculous there was no suggestion in Mr. Kemp's representation.
The character which, next to Ysbrand, was most difficult to represent, was that of the widow, Mrs. Hardendop, which was taken by Miss Grace Waugh. Her loquacity and bustling energy gave life and energy to the play. She had the longest speches, and the most of them, of any of the characters, yet she handled the difficult part with the naturalness and ease to which University audiences which have seen her play are accustomed.
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There were come comely features in the play. The clash between the widow and the snobbish, citified Mrs. Belmont van Hees, when each is trying to get the bequest that has been left to Ysbrand, the pomposousness of the notary,the silly talk of the lovers, the bewildermenent of the burgomaster, light up with mild humor the generally sember atmosphere
of the play. Miss Patti Hiatt as Lize, the child who befriended Ysbrand, and Murle Springer, as the impassive professor of mental phenomena who condemns Ysbrand in the last act, add strength to the scenes in which they appear.
The two months of hard work which Miss Gertrude Mossler has put in on the play, interpreting the various parts and drilling the actors, was evident last night. The play ran smoothly from start to finish. The actors not only knew their lines, but knew how to pat character into their parts.
Following is the cast of acters:
Ysbrand ...Harry Kemp
Mrs. Hardendop, a widow...
...Grayee Waugh
Mr. Belmont van Hees...
...Donald McKay
Mrs. Belmont van Hees...
...Jennie Purdy
Bets, daughter of Mrs. Hardendop ...Fern Edie
Koen, son of Mrs. Hardenop..
...France Wilson
Loes, fiancee of Koen...
...Edna Hopkins
Kris Luiters, medical student,
fiance of Bets...Fred H
Antje, the housemaid...
Lize, younger daughter of
...Edith Laming
Mrs. Hardendop..Patti Hiatt
A Coachman ...Melvin Wood
Mr. Pampel, a notary...
...Ralph Spotts
First Policeman...Elmer Ditmar
Second Policeman.Wm. Hamner
The Burgomaster.Eugene Hipple
A Doctor, specialist in nervous
diseases...Murle Springer
Attendants, at the asylum...
...Wm. Hamner
...Elmer Ditmar
A good sized house saw the play last night. The second performance will be given tonight.
THE COAL STORY.
Fuel Supply for Next Week is Uncertain.
Owing to warmer weather which prevailed a part of the week, the University burned less coal this week than last. The total amount to 180 tons, some sixty tons less than were consumed last week. The amount received from the prison mine this week was 252 tons, so there will be about two days' supply on hand Monday morning.
Work at the University was badly hampered Thursday. The supply of coal in the University bins ran so low that the power plant had to be closed down, and all the available fuel used in heating the buildings. The University printing office had no power to run its typesetting machine, and hence it was impossible to issue a Kansan Thursday evening.
The outlook for a fuel supply next week is uncertain. The prison mine will be able to supply all that is needed, but the condition of the river on account of the ice gorges threatens traffic on the Santa Fe railroad. Danger that the bridge at Lawrence may go out makes shipments over the Union Pacific uncertain.
DRAMATIC CLUBSLIMITED
CHANCELOR STRONG OP-POSES SO MANY PLAYS.
No Out of Town Entertainments Will Occur Without Special Permission.
Four dramatic entertainments by the two existing clubs during each school year is a thing of the past at theUniversity of Kansas. Many people have felt that the present system of two plays each year by both dramatic clubs was a mistake, and Chancellor Strong has now taken action against it.
Yesterday he sent to the managers of the two dramatic clubs a letter directing that for the mutual protection of the dramatic clubs and the University, there be but one entertainment given by each of the organizations during any academic year. One of the entertainments is to be given in the fall term and one in the spring term. The ruling takes effect at once, thereby cutting out any spring performance for the present year. It is suggested that the clubs cast lots for the first year to determine which shall have the fall and which the spring date, and that they alternate thereafter.
The Chancellor also instructs that no entertainments be given outside of Lawrence by the dramatic organizations, either under their own name or any other, except on express permission, granted in each case by the University Council.
How Will It Help Cheer Leader Spend His Money?
COUNCIL IS PUZZLED.
At a meeting of the Student Council, which was held in Fraser hall, Tuesday night at 7:15, some important business was talked over. Ralph Spotts desired the Council to make some use of the $30 which he has as cheer leader. It is probable that a part of this will be used to print constitutions of the Students' Council for free distribution. The Council would like suggestions as to the use of the remainder.
There is a vacancy in the Council from the School of Pharmacy. The Council desires that this school nominate a man so that it can have representation.
Some of the papers and magazines in the library have been clipped to a great extent lately, in violation of a state law. The Council urged each one to see that this practice is stopped before any rigid ruling has to be made against it.
J. W. Bredenthal Dead.
This morning John W. Breidenthal, father of Maurice Breidenthal, a senior in the College, died at his home in Kansas City, Kan. Mr. Breidenthal was ex-state bank commissioned of Kansas and was a prominent Democratic politician. Death was caused by blood poisoning resultant from an injury to the foot.