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Kansas University Weekly.
THE ONLY OFFICIAL AND AUTHORIZED WEEKLY PUBLICATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Vol. VIII. No.15
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WILCOX IS CAPTAIN.
THE LE$ DER @ THE JAYHAWKS
FOR 19C0 CHOSEN TUESDAY,
OWEN WAS A CLOSE SECOND:
The Vote; Stood Wilcox 9. Owen 8-
Something About the
New Captain.
The football men met last week for the election of Captain but adjourned for a week and on Tuesday of this week the decision took place. It was known that it would be a close contest between Wilcox and Owen as they had about an equal number of supporters on the team. Both had played two years and had shown their right to be on one of the fastest football teams of the west. Both were known to have the qualities necessary for a successful captain.
In this election all men who had played in any schedule game had a right to vote. This made a total of seventeen who have represented the 'Varsity on the gridiron this year. They are Hess, Smith, Woodward, Wilcox, Krebs, Nofsinger, Algie, Gavin, Owen, Moore, Tucker, Avery, Moulton, Lucas, Jenkinson, Meehan, Parent and Cates.
With only two candidates for the position the result was not long in doubt and the first ballot gave Wilcox 9, Owen 8.
Charles W. Wilcox, the new captain of the Jayhawk is a Kansas boy having been born and raised near Concordia, where he still lives. He was a leader in football while in the Concordia High school, from which he graduated in 1898. He came to Kansas university the following year and played center on the 'Varsity team, while his record this year is too well known to require comment. He graduates from the Law school this year, but will commence the regular course in the School of Arts next year. He is a very popular fellow, especially with the football boys and will undoubtedly make a fine captain for the team of 1900, which ought to surpass the recorded made by our team this year. They are going to buck up against some harder propositions, but will undoubtedly be able to solve them satisfactorily.
ELECTRICAL SEMINARY.
The Electrical and Mechanical Seminary met in the Physics lecture room, Friday, December 15, at 10 o'clock. Program:
Electrical Lighting and Power on Battle Ships and Ocean Steamers, Mr. Taylor. Mormon Revival, Mr. Reece.
Description of Riverside Power Plant at Kansas City, by Mr. Johnson.
The following constitution and bylaws were adopted by the four literary societies, the Adelphic, the Snow, the Burke and the Kent, at the meetings last Friday and Saturday. On Monday evening the delegates met and organized the Debating Council by electing E. H. McMath president and Mr. Calkins, secretary. The challenge from Colorado was then accepted. The members of the executive committee were then announced. They are Messrs. McKnight from the Adelphic, Powdall from the Kent, Langworthy from the Burke, and Baumgartner from the Snow, Profs. Hopkins, Vickery from the faculty and the president and secretary of the council. The executive committee organized by electing W. J. Baumgartner president and L. E. McKnight secretary.
Art. II. Its object shall be to manage and govern the inter-state debates and all preliminaries connected therewith and to assume the financial responsibility of such debates.
New Debating Council.
Art. I. This organization shall be known as the Debating Council of the Kansas University.
Art III. The members of this organization shall consist of ten delegates from each regularly organized literary society having not less than thirty members. The delegates to be selected by the respective societies.
CONSTITUTION.
Sec. i. The officers of this Council shall be a president and a secretary and an executive committee who shall hold their offices for one year, or until their successors are duly elected.
Sec. 2. The president shall preside at all meetings and shall call meetings when
requested to do so by the chairman of the executive committee.
Art. IV:
Sec. 4. The executive committee shall consist of three members of the faculty, selected by the University Council, the president and the secretary of the Debating Council and one member from each society represented in the Council. The del gates from each society shall elect the committeeman from their own number to represent their society.
Sec. 3 The secretary shall keep and preserve all records and papers of the Council and a list of the delegates.
Sec. 5. The executive committee shall duly organize by electing a chairman, a secretary and treasurer; and it shall make all necessary provisions for choosing the representative debaters and all necessary arrangements for the debates when held in this University.
Art. V.
Sec. 6. Whenever desired the chairman may have a meeting of the Council called and submit any matter to it for decision.
It case of a deficit it shall be divided into two equal parts and the societies represented shall take one part and divide it into as many equal parts as there are societies and each society shall pay its share of the deficit.
This constitution can be amended by a two-thirds vote of the whole council.
Art. VI.
Sec I. Regular meetings of the council to elect officers, etc., shall be held on the last Friday of October of each school year. The executive committee shall meet and organize on the following Monday.
Sec. II A quorum in the council shall consist of one half of the delegates.
Sec. III. All records and papers belonging to the council or to the committee shall at the end of the school year be left with the professor of elocution.
Sec. IV.—These by laws can be amended at any meeting by a two-thirds vote of those present.
Sec. V. Roberts' rules of order shall be used to decide all questions not determined by the constitution and by laws.
BURKE LITERARY SOCIETY.
The recently organized Burke Literary Society is more than fulfilling the most sanguine expectations of its originators. Composed mostly of Freshmen every meeting bring out the wonderful possibilities of the class. Much enthusiasm prevails. The transaction of business consumed most of the time at the last meeting. A short literary program was rendered. A paper on "Memory and Its Education" was read by Mr. F. L. Graves. "The Value of Literary Organizations" was then ably discussed by Mr. J. H.Lang-worthy.
The extemporaneous debate, participated in by a large part of the members, settled the question whether or not the degree A. B. ought to be obtainable in three years. Decision was unanimously negative. The debate of the evening, concerning an Anglo-American alliance was conducted by Mr. Flint and Mr. Sheldon on the affirmative and by Mr. Fullington and Mr. Murphy on the negative. The decision of the judges was for the negative.
The subject of the Senior Annual and the representation to be granted to the various schools, occupied the time at the Senior class meeting last Tuesday.
A committee had been appointed to confer with representatives from the Senior classes in the schools of Law and Pharmacy, which now made its report.
Senior Annual.
Of course it was impossible that this proposition should meet with favor or even serious consideration, and it was decided to allow the Laws two representatives on the editorial board and the Pharmacies one. The Pharmacia have agreed to the proposition, but the Laws are still considering.
Co, H. boys, bring your pictures to G C Wolf and select frames from 100 different styles of moulding.
The Laws with their customary amount of nerve, demanded a business manager equal in power to the one previously elected by the Arts class.
A great deal has been said and written about Lewis Morrison's original production of "Faust." Tbis season, however, this grand play comes newly and sumptuously staged, everything connected with it having been expensive re-equipped. In Lawrence, Kansas, Dec. 16, 1899.
CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS NOTES.
At the chemical Seminary Thursday Prof. Baiyagave a review of the late chemical research. The first that he mentioned were the experiments of Prof. Atwater on alcohol as a food. The experiments consisted of a large glass case the size of a small room, which was lighted by electricity, heated at a uniform temperature and all the necessary conveniences for the man to be experimented upon. In this way all the food and the waste material could be weighted the condition of the man noted etc. These experiments showed that alcohol to a certain extent was a food, and that it was thoroughly digested contrary to the general belief, and as taught in some text-books.
The next subject was ventilation. In the modern buildings, the things sought in ventilation are: a continuous change of fresh air heated when cold, cooled when heated. The new buildings in Boston require that there be 50 cubic feet of fresh air per minute for each person. The Madison Square Opera House has 25 cubic feet per minute while other large buildings as low as 15 cubic feet. There are two systems, one where the heat enters the bottom and escapes at the top; the other where the heat goes in at the top and escapes at the bottom. The later method is the one to be used in the new chemistry building, the same system which is used in the Chicago auditorium.
The next subject the discussed was "Food Poisoning," by Prof. Vaughan, in which the poisonous effects were divided into two classes. One which was caused by bacteria or fungus, and the other the animal or the fish itself. The latter poisoning in animals would be caused by such diseases as turbulcellosis, etc.; in the case of fish of some species, which are poisonous certain times of the year, especially when they spawn, cooked meats in general, eradicate the poisonous effects.
Another subject was Definition of an Element. First he gave the historical part and the modern ideas in regard to it. Among the other subjects was "The Experiments With Metals on Plants." Gold in Solution.
Both the Arkansas Valley and Short Grass teams are practicing regularly for their holiday trips. Last Saturday the Arkansas Valley crowd elected Ben Owen captain and Nofsinger head coach. Manager Buzzi has one game arranged with Arkansas City for Christmas day and is in correspondence with other teams for a game on the Saturday before Christmas. Manager Yale of the Short Grass team has as yet arranged only one game, that with Glasco. There is talk of a game between these two teams to be played before they leave, and it ought to be an interesting one.
Arkansas Valleva d Short Grass.
The annual Christmas concert by the department of music will be given Tuesday evening, Dec. 19, at University Hall. Mrs. Cyrus Crane of Kansas City will assist.
Prof. Penny will give a series of organ recitals in the southern part of the state during the holidays,
A. H. Good of Independence, has regi tered in the painting school.
The class in decorative ornament will begin after the holidays.
Prof. Farrell sang and played in Olathe Friday evening.
The classes in painting are working life. A young Indian girl is posing for them this week.
Prof. Penny has finished his lecture on the Chaldean and Assyrian Arts and has taken up the Arts of Ancient Egypt,
[Oratorical Contest.
Under the direction of P. A. Vickrey, the oratorial contet was held at North college Wednesday evening preliminary to a contest to be held at Main building Thursday. December 21, for a gold medal offered by Hon. E. F. Caldwell.
There were twelve contestants and from them the following six were chosen: Wagner, Carpenter, Montgomery, Frank Baker, Seattle and E. H. McMath. The judges were Messrs. Hull, Gudy, Kretsinger, Hyatt and Stuart.
An informal ballot was taken by the judges at the least meritorious speakers and no two judges were agreed. The contest will be a close one.
SNOW LITERARY SOCIETY.
The special "Riley" program, as published in the WEEKLY, was rendered at the Snow last Saturday evening. It was in every way the best meeting of the year. In spite of the bad weather a good sized audience was present in which were many visitors.
Miss Kink opened the program with a piano solo. She was heartily encerted and the audience had the pleasure of a second treat as good as the first.
Mr. Ruth then recited "When the Hearse comes Back." That the audience was well pleased with his interpretations, was shown by the more than usually hearty applause. Later in the evening Mr. Chas. Meyer recited Riley's "Knee Deep in June." The program committee made a happy choice when they selected Mr. Meyer. He also is very fine at dialect work, as indeed he is in every line of work in which the Snow has tried him. Miss Lyon sang, "There, Don't Cry Little Girl." She too was enclosed and responded with a song.
Several members during the evening were not special Riley subjects. Mr. Van Druuff discussed current events, Mr. Shoeler reviewed the current "Arena." Three of the members recently vot were called unto to choose subjects by chance and make extemporaneous talks. Mr. Emery talked on "Class Fights," Mr. Poor on "Some of my Freshmen Experiences" and Mr. Benj, Ward on "The Advantages of the University Being on a Hill."
After recess Mr. E. J. Hierschler read a sketch of Riley's life. The paper described many of the interesting and amusing events in Riley's early life, and brought in enough anecdotes to be very entertaining. Mr. Hirschler dwelt especially upon the influences which made Riley a poet of the common people, and of his ability to reach the hearts of the people through his homely subjects and dialect style.
Mrs. Smith then read one of Riley's most beautifully pathetic poems, "Old Aunt Mary's." It is needless to say that this number was pleasing indeed. Mrs. Smith never fails to make her hearers feel the spirit of the piece, and this was no exception. She must read a second and the audience were favored with another of Riley's pathetic poems.
Miss Gertrude Becker had also kindly consented to assist with a reading from Riley. She chose the humorous and at once had her audience laughing over "When De Folks Is Gone." The change to the humorous was a happy hit, and Miss Becker was recalled. She gave a second humorous selection, "Eating on the Porch." The audience was still more delighted and demanded a third treat and persisted till they got it. The third was received with the same hearty applause that greeted the others.
The society tendered a vote of thanks Mrs. Smith, Miss King and Miss Becker for the kind help they had given to make the evening a success.
Better figure on Christmas now-you want that Eastman Kodak, and Woodward & Co. are willing to sell it at a special price. Kodaks are never regretted—some makes of Cameras are. (After Jan, 1st films will be sold in rolls of 3 and 6 exposures).
The "Riley" evening was the first attempt of the society at special "author evenings" Others will follow after the holidays. It is believed that by a judicious selection of the productions of some of our lesser known authors a fair idea of their thought and style may be obtained.
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