State Historical Society
THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL. I. No.38.
5 Cents per copy
PICKING TRACK MEN.
Some Representatives Already Choser. All Details of Great Meet Arranged.
Manager Plank of K. U. and R. B. Caldwell of M. S. U., last Thursday arranged the details for the indoor meet to be held in Convention hall, March 17.
There will be three contests, one between Kansas and Missouri State Universities, one between the Kansas City Athletic Club and the Y. M.C.A., and a high school contest between the Manual and Central high schools.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FEBRUARY 23, 1905.
On the other hand, nearly every man who represented Kansas last year has returned to the track this year and has been working hard to get into good form.
The Missouri team is working hard to win as in former years, but the Kansas team will not meet the same men that they met last year. The sprints and hurdles have been taken up by entirely new men
Morrow and Butler will represent Kansas in the hurdles, Finch in the sprints, Driscol in the middle distances and Bailey in the long runs.
Ackerman will put the shot, and Butler will vault. A dozen men have been working at the high jump and nearly all are trying the new form of high jump originated by Dr. Naismith. To try the possibilities of his new jump, Dr. Naismith took two freshmen, Mitchell and Robert Manning, who jumped about four and one-half feet last fall and taught them the new way. Manning has made five feet, two inches by using the Dr. Naismith plan. Lapham, a sophomore, has jumped five feet, two inches new form, and Parker of Kansas City, jumps the same height in the old style scisso jump. The new men on the jump are Young, Dodge and Smith.
TRACK TEAM SCHEDULE.
Manager Plank has announced the schedule for th's year,s track team. Kansas and Missouri will open the season at Kansas City., March 17, with an indoor meet in Convention Hall. May 6, Kansas will meet Colorado at Boulder. Missouri's team will come to Lawrence May 20, for the outdoor meet here. The date for the meet with the Rollo School of Mines at Rollo, Mo., has not been definitely decided but will be in May.
SPEAKS AT TOPEKA.
Samuel D. Bishop, a graduate of the law school in 1887, will be Toastmaster at the Democratic State Banquet held in Topeka tonight. F.M.Brady,'95,and John Johnson,'05,both of the law school will respond to toasts.
CAST CHOSEN.
Dramatic Club Is Working Preparing For Appearance March 7.
The Dramatic club will present Wm. Gilletts' 4 act comedy "All the Comforts of Home" at Bowersock's Opera house Tuesday evening, March 7. This is
Edger G. Frazier, Director 04 Dramatic Club.
the fourth play given by the Dramatic club and promises to live up to the standard set by the other plays.
THE CAST.
Amos Pettigrew...Solon Smith
Emily Pettigrew, his daughter...
Nina Fell
INTERCOLLEGIATE NOTES. FIRST GIRLS'
The graduates of the University of Pennsylvania who reside in Paris, France, have organized a "Pennsylvania Club."
It is rumored that Prof. Jeremiah M. Jenks, head of the department of Economics at Cornell University, is being considered for the position of president of Northwestern University. President James has recently resigned from the presidency at Northwestern to accept the place at Illinois
The basketball team of the University of Minnesota lost the first game on their eastern trip to Columbia by the score of 27-15.
The members of the Deutscher Verein, at Michigan, have been working hard for a couple of months and will soon be ready to appear before the public. Shortly after the beginning of the second semester the Verein will present "Flachsmanals Erzieher," a German comedy in two acts. The play is very popular on continental stages; in fact while seeing it performed, certain members of the German faculty conceived the advisability of rendering it in Ann Arbor.
The Kansan For the Balance of the Year For Fifty Cents. Stamps Taken. This Must Be In Advance.
Rosabell Pettigrew, his wife...Bonnie Bell
Alfred Hastings, his nephew...Jay Richardson
Tom, Protege of Alfreds...Tom Wulfekuhler
Victor Smith in love with Emily...W. G. West
Christopher Dobney...Wilbur Parker
Chancey Langhorne...Harry Hart
Fifi Oritauski of the Opha Corni-
que.Alys Campbell
Gretchen, her Maid...
Theodore Bender, from one of the
Brownes..Wallis D. Wilm
All the season tickets for the Canreid Opera Company jin Kansas City, March 31, and April 1, have been sold. Professor Hubach expects to secure another section, however, and will have the tickets in chapel Friday morning.
Brownies ... Wallis D. Wil-on
Josephine Bender, his wife...
...Clara Carr
Evangeline Bender, his daughter
...Louise Barker.
The committees on the Senior play and Junior farce are busy at work, but have reached no definite conclusion as to what their plays will be.
At a meeting of the club Monday night it was decided that the prices for the play should be $1,00 in the parquet, 75 cents and 50 cents in the balcony, and 25 cents in the gallery.
Miss Bonnie Bell was elected president of the club.
Freshman representatives from all of the different fraternities at Minnesota met last night to organize a freshman Pan-Hellenic association. The project is being championed by several prominent first-year fraternity men.
Yale University will celebrate two important literary anniversaries this year. May 9, exercises will be held in memory of Schiller, who died May 9. 1805. The three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir Thomas Browne, author of "Religio Medici." will come October 19, and an address on his life and work will be given by an eminent authority. Both celebrations will be held under the auspices of the Modern Language Club.
Since the dismissal or Midshipman E. C. Wiler the old question of smoking has been revived at Annapolis, and a strenuous crusade started against this breach of the naval academy regulations. A special order was read at formation today and posted on the order boards in the midshipmen's quarters announcing that any further us of tobacco by others than members of the first class will be met with immediate dismissal from the institution.
It is probable that Minnesota will play Chicago during the next football season. Minnesota has applied year after year for a game but has not heretofore been successful.
GLEE CLUB.
Only one in this Section of the Country Trips Planned.
The girls' glee club which was organized recently is making creditable progress under the leadership of Professor C. E. Hubach. The girls seem to take great interest in the organization and are trying hard to emulate the successful work of the boys' glee club,
There sixteen members of the club at present, most of whom are taking work in the voice department of the fine arts school. Professor Hubach wishes to emphasize the fact, however, that membership in the organization is open to all young women of the University. Practice is held every Thursday at 4:30 in North college.
At present the members are working on two songs; Cradle Song by Zerlet, and Danube Waltzes arranged for women's voices by Strauss. The latter is quite long and difficult.
A trip will probably not be taken this year but will next season. A concert will be given later in the spring.
Professor Hubach expects to give the opera, Der Freischutz here next year with the assistance of the local talent. He also intends to have the help of both the girls and boys glee clubs.
Prot. Hubach's splendid work
The members of the young ladies club are: Margaret Hammond, Grace Moses, Elsie Watson, Henrietta Gebhart, Anna Sweeney, Alice Taylor, Rosa Fredrickson, Bessie Livers, Mary Parks, Hazel Richardson, Grace Miller, Hannah Mitchell, Lula Arbuthnot and Fae Rutherford. Miss Mabel McKoin is the ac-
Miss Mabel McKoin is the accompanist.
C. E. Hubach, Organizer of Girls Glee Club.
with the boys glee club, as director, is but added assurance of the success of the new organization. This is the only girls' glee club in this part of the United States.