THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Vol. I. No. 39.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FEBRUARY 25, 1905.
DR. BURDICK ON LEGTURE TOUR.
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Popular U. Professor Has Assumed New Role as Lecturer.
Dr. William L Burdick of the law school left Friday on a lecturing tour through the Northern
part of the state and will be gone until Tuesday. During his absence he will deliver lectures in several of the leading towns in the northern part of Kansas and two in Kansas City.
Proof. Burdick lectured Friday night at Blue Rapids before the teachers Association on "The Gospel of Work." He lectures tonight at Clyde on the lecture course of that town. Monday night he will discourse at Nortonville on "Winning His Spurs."
The most important place that Dr. Burdick will appear is in Kansas City, Sunday. He will speak at the First Congregational church Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon he will address a Bible study class. At night he will lecture before the Young Men's Club at the Clvde Congregational church in the place of the regular service.
DRAMATIC CLUB.
Dr. Burdick is a graduate of Yale, and received his Doctors degree from Grant University. He is known over Kansas as a speaker of unusual qualifications and is always in demand, which speaks more for Prof. Burdick than all the newspaper praise.
Owing to a misunderstanding on the part of the officers of the dramatic club, as to the eligibility rules, and the power and duties of the eligibility committee, confusion has arisen which has made it embarrassing for the present cast of "All comforts of Home." The facts of the case are these:
Last year there was an understanding between the law school and the officers of the dramatic club that no student in the law school should enter the club without first obtaining the consent of the dean. But this year the matter of admitting students to the club was placed under the supervision of the eligibility committee, and it was to this committee that all names were submitted for approval. Through some accident the names of some of the students in the cast did not have the approval of the school of law, and it is due to this accident that the misunderstanding has arisen. The club of course has acted, as it thought, in the spirit and letter of the rules imposed by the eligibility committee, and therefore feels that it should not be made to suffer.
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL.
Court's Errors Presented by Prof. Higgins.
The motion for a new trial in the case of "The City of Lawrence vs DeGeer," was argued in the district court by Prof. Higgins. The court took it under advisement and will render a decision on March 22.
First: Variance between complaint and proof as to the locality where the offense occurred.
The grounds for the motion were the following:
Second: Complaint was defective because it did not state that the place where the fireworks were discharged was within the fire limits of the city.
Third, That the court erred in refusing to permit the defendant to prove that roman candles were not dangerously combustible in their nature.
THE ART EXHIBIT DIDN'T PAY.
From a financial stand point the recent art exhibit did not pay. Many town people who are interested in art and the general welfare of the University agreed to make up any deficiency that should occur in the treasury of the Fine Arts department should the recent exhibit fail to pay out. The total expenditure was nearly $818, with receipts from all sources, including some contributions $668.61. This deficit of $149 and some cents is divided among 100 guarantors which means the payment of $1.50 apiece by these guarantors. The first money that accrues from future exhibits will be used to reimburse the present subscribers.
Another exhibit will be held next year for a certainty. The first one was a financial success and more than paid out. The reason assigned for this year's deficiency is the fact that the weather was unusually inclement throughout the exhibit.
This scholarship bestowed in memory of Miss Marcella Howland, of the class of 1890, is open to the young ladies of the Junior and Senior classes of the College. The award is made the first of May and all applications must be in the hards of the Chancellor by the fifteenth of April. The faculty committee on the Scholarship is Professor Galloo, Mr. Engel and Miss Miss Lynn, from whom further information may be obtained.
MARCELLA HOWLAND SCHOLARSHIP.
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U. HOSPITAL NEXT FALL.
To Be in Kansas City by October.—A Four Years Medical Course Certain.
There is little doubt that the University of Kansas will next fall have a hospital and clinic department at Rosedale, Kansas. a suburb of Kansas City and an ideal place for a great hospital and the last two years of a medical course in the University of Kansas. Steps have already been taken to realize on the gift of Dr. Simeon Bell, amounting to about $80,000 dollars worth of land in Rosedale, and in Jackson and Cass counties, Missouri, and as soon as this land can be converted into cash the work of erecting a large building and permanently establishing one of the largest, up-to-date hospitals and clinic schools in the United States and especially in the West will be begun.
It was in 1894 that Dr. Simceon Bell, a physician of Rosedale, gave to the University a tract of land in Rosedale consisting of 101 lots and a sevenacre tract on which a hospital
CLARENCE E. MICLUNG Dean of Medical School.
should be erected in memory of Dr. Bell's wife. Since the gift Chancellor Spangler and Chancellor Snow tried to realize on the gift, but it seemed impossible. Last spring Dr. Bell came to Lawrence and gave land valued at about $25,000, in addition to his previous gift, and the original time limit for the official acceptance of the land by the University, with the sanction of the legislature, was extended to May, 1905, otherwise the entire grant would have reverted to Dr. Bell last year.
Chancellor Strong and members of the school of medicine seem very confident that by next September or October the last two years of the medical course will be given in Kansas City. This will be much better than if it was done in Lawrence because it would be impossible to get the proper clinic work here. There are not enough people here in the first place. Accidents are few and the sickness here is not the kind nor in the class of people that aids in the work of great clinical departments. Cornell has a large hospital and
medical department in New York near Belleview Park. Ithaca, where Cornell proper is situated, is a small town about the size of Lawrence. Illinois California, Texas, Colorado and Nebraska universities also have their medical departments, at least the last two years of the medical course, in large cities of the respective states. Texas has a department at Galveston and another at Dailas.
All of these medical colleges have proven a success though some are much more successful than others. With the location that Kansas University has for a hospital, and with the energy that is behind the course as planned it will doubtless develop remarkably rapid and in a few years Kansas should have the most modern and largest medical school in the West. This is what the faculty and Chancellor will strive for and on past records it is to be concluded that success is certain.
The present two years course here in Lawrence is as good as can be secured in any medical college in the Uaited States and students from here are accepted with full two year's credit in any medical school in America. The training is as thorough and as far advanced as any two year's course but demand is for a four years course and this must be had before the University of Kansas can ever reach the high standing among the greatest Universities of America that it is striving for. Many students annually go East because they cannot complete their course here and Kansas University has lost hundreds of good students on this account.
Dr. Hoxie and Dean McClung are very enthusiastic over the prospects for a complete course and a Rosedale hospital.
In taiking of the hospital and clinics, Chancellor Strong said to a Kansas reporter, "Every year we receive many applications for admission to the medical department, but when the applicants find out that we have only a two year's course they go further East and consequently we are loosing a great many students that we should have. The great development in clinical work and the new methods employed in medicine and surgery make necessary a large supply of clinical material, which is afforded, in general only in the centers of large populations. The University of Kansas, therefore found it necessary for the future welfare of the medical school to establish its clinical work where it could be sure of a large amount of clinical material.
E. R. Buckner, who for the last two years led the debating team of Nebraska so successfully against Kansas represents Harvard University this year in the debate with Yale. Mr. Buckner finished last year at Nebraska and is taking a law course at Harvard.