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Endowment Group Active in Housing
By SHIRLEY PIATT
Gifts and bequests to the Endowment association have done much to help the housing program, one of the most critical problems of the University.
Of the permanent dormitory facilities at the University, only Holder, Corbin, and North College halls were acquired by state funds.
The recently completed Stephenson, Pearson, and Sellars halls were all constructed through private funds. Plans are being made for a fourth women's scholarship hall, Doutert hall, which will also be provided entirely by private funds.
When Kansas acquired statehood and drew up a constitution the people who drew it up were interested in a state University. They anticipated that such a state school would receive gifts and bequests which as years went by would relieve Kansas taxpayers of the debt of supporting such an expensive institution.
Private funds given to the University Endowment service have made possible many campus improvements and are largely responsible for Kansas' forward outlook.
Because of the interest in a state school and its future welfare, a clause was written into the constitution for the establishment of a University fund the income of which would be appropriated annually for the University.
The clause in the constitution remained the way it was written, a few inspired words yet unacted upon. That year D. Charles Robinson, former governor, died and left to the University a tract of land which he hoped would be sold and used for a medical arts building.
The same year the grant was made it was ruled that the money from the tract of land would not be used for a medical arts building but would be put instead in a fund for University use.
For about 30 years the organization was inactive. It had no office and consisted mainly of faculty members who had no job to do as board members of the association.
In 1893, a group of friends and alumni of the University founded the KU Endowment association which will enter its 60th year next year.
The function of the Endowment association is to encourage, receive, and administer gifts and bequests for the good of the University.
D. Nolan Templein, former dean of the college, recognized the value of the Endowment association early in the 1920s. The association became more and more active as Mr. Templin promoted it and sold the idea of giving wealth to bring education and better living to mankind.
In 1929 the first major fund was given to the University through the Endowment association by Solen E. Summerfield. The Summerfield grant makes possible the most important of about 500 scholarships now available for undergraduate students.
The current value of assets in the Endowment association today is well in excess of $4 million. The bulk of the funds have not been endowments, however there are many gifts.
During the 1920's, the association established an office on the campus with secretarial help. Since then it has grown swiftly.
Administered by the association are more than 250 trust funds, including most of the University scholarships and student loan funds. The organization is, in effect, a trust company with one customer, the University of Kansas.
Policies of the association are directed by a board of 35 trustees, Maurice Breidenthal, Kansas City, is president of the board. C. B. Holmes, Lawrence, is vice president; Irving Hill, Lawrence, is treasurer, and Irvin Youngberg, Lawrence, is secretary of the board of trustees.
Dog Becomes Detective
Louisville, Ky.—(U.P.)—Smoky,
a cocker spaniel, did a little detective
work on her own and came home
with her mistresses' $1,500 diamond
bracelet. The bracelet and a wed-
ding ring were lost by Mrs. Venita
Adams. Mrs. Adams is hoping
Smoky will find the ring next.
University Daily Kansan
Subway Once Planned Thru 'Hill'
Bv CHUCK ZUEGNER
At one time, Mt. Oread almost had a subway running beneath its angular slopes.
Back in 1903, plans were being made to dig a tunnel through the Hill, entering on Mississippi street, and emerging south of Marvin hall.
The subway idea was abandoned, however, when University officials got wind of a scheme to build a real estate development program on the west side of the campus. Because this would hinder eventual expansion of the University, the land was bought up and a regular trolley system was later constructed.
andentine. About that year, the need was felt for a transportation system on the Hill because few students could afford the luxury of hiring a carriage, and trudging up the steep climb was just as tough as it is now.
The system went into effect in 1910, a year after Lawrence introduced electric trolleys.
Long before this, Lawrence had horse-drawn street cars, the car tracks built along former cow tracks on Massachusetts street.
City officials conceived the idea in order to keep up with the times. It seems it was fashionable in those days for small towns to build transportation systems and make big city pretensions.
In 1871 car tracks ran down Massachusetts street the length of the business district and across the bridge to the Kansas Pacific depot. At first, the family horse pulled the cars, and later a stable of lively mules was employed.
For 23 years the trolley gave service to the students at KU. On Sunday, Nov. 5, 1933, the Toonerville was replaced by a bus line operated by the Kansas Electric Power company. Even before this the street cars were discontinued in Lawrence marking the end of the line for the trembling trolleys.
The mules, true to their nature, were not always consistent, but fares were cheap and no one complained.
The tracks lay behind the chemistry lab, crossed Jayhawk drive, and ran between Robinson and Fowler shops. Near the power plant, the tracks angled across Mississippi, behind Blake, then to 17th and turned on Tennessee.
In the early 80s, rails were extended southward on Tennessee street, ending on 17th street. For many years, students who lived in town had service to the foot of Adams street, what is now 14th street.
The University got its first regular public transportation up to the
It was less than comfortable riding. Annoyance of the jerks of the old "Toonerville Trolleys," as they were called, was only exceeded by the little box stove in the rear of the car which scalded people who sat near it, and left shivering those sitting in the front.
Hill in April 1910. The line featured regular 15-minute runs. It left 8th and Mississippi, running along on the west parking near where the stadium now is located.
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Art of Cheerleading Changes With Years
University cheerleaders certainly aren't what they used to be. They have changed, as has the necessary art of cheering, many ways in the last few years.
Cheerleading was once truly a man's field and women were not even considered as prospects for cheerleaders or even as voice power in the cheering section.
By KEN COY
The duties of a cheerleader were limited to home games for many years. However, as transportation facilities have increased so have the number of out-of-town games attended by students.
For example, in 1932 one of the cheerleaders first attended an out-of-town game. He was Hans Pfeutze and he went to the Iowa State game at Ames.
He was sent to the game in appreciation of the services he had rendered to the cheering club for two years. The president of the Men's Student council at that time said, "this is certainly an unprecedented thing."
Today's cheerleaders follow the team wherever it goes. They make the long trips to Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado, or Texas.
Eighteen years ago an announcement appeared in the Kansas asking for cooperation from the cheering club.
Part of their expenses are paid from a special fund. The cheerleaders have a much easier time leading yells today, according to notices that are found in old Kansans.
The article said that due to the new seating arrangements, students would be scattered all around the field. Some students were to have
seats on the east side, some on the west side, and some would have reserved seats.
Today a cheerleader doesn't "just become" one because he takes a notion that he can yell. First the "modern" cheerleaders must attend a cheerleading class.
These are held for a week before tryouts for the positions. After the school is over, the acid test comes. Performing before judges, the students are graded on the quality and ability of their leading.
The number of judges varies from 12 to 25. They are selected by the judges and from there "It's up to the cheerleader."
Nearly $250 of new equipment was purchased by the cheerleaders this year. This is the first new equipment the leaders have had for about six years.
The new equipment includes sweaters, jackets, raincoats, and megaphones.
This year's cheerleaders are Sidonie Brown, education junior and head cheerleader; Constance Maws, college senior and assistant head cheerleader; Mary Loveless, fine arts junior; Nancy Gilchrist, education junior; Sandra Puliver, college sophomore; Myron McClemmy, college junior; Milton Wallace, business junior; Jack Byrd, business junior, and Dale Dodge, business senior.
Cheenleaders must have a C average on at least 12 hours of courses the preceding semester. Students on probation are not eligible.