THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Vol.I. No.46.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MARCH 23, 1905.
Prize.
INTER-FRAT DEBATE.
First Annual Contest for Ewing Herbert
The Inter-Fraternity Debating League met March 15th and formally adopted the following rules:
2. Each National Fraternity in the University of Kansas shall be entitled to membership and after signifying its intention of becoming a member shall have one vote at every meeting
1. This association shall be known as the Inter-Fraternity Debating League of the University of Kansas.
5. One contest shall be held each year until one fraternity has won three times under the following by-laws:
1. The subject shall be selected by the league from the questions to be debated that year by the debaters representing the University.
3. The head of the department of public speaking shall be entitled to one vote at every meeting.
4. The officers shall be President, vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
2. Each fraternity may have one representative in the contest.
3. The places and the sides of the speakers are to be chosen by lot five weeks before the time set for the contest
6. The judges shall consult and elect as winner the man who in their opinion did the best debating, everything considered.
5. There shall be three judges chosen by the league.
4. Each contestant shall make two speeches, one of ten minutes length and a rebuttal speech of five minutes duration.
8. No contestant shall have previously won first place in any of the contests of the league.
7. Every contestant shall be a bona fide student of the University of Kansas and an active member of his fraternity.
6. The meetings shall be called by the head of the department of public speaking as he thinks best, and a majority of those present shall be sufficient to transact all the business of the league.
Any of the rules or by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members of the eague present at any meeting where the members have had one week's notice that the amendment will be voted upon.
The League also adopted the following motion:
The contest for the year 1904-05 shall take place April 26, 1905. Each fraternity in order to take part in this contest this year must file before noon Wednesday, March 22, an application in writing with Prof. Frazier and not later than April 19 must file the name of its contestant.
In case any one fraternity shall file its application by the
date mentioned the cup shall go by default to that fraternity.
The question to be debated is: "Resolved that the best interests of the public demand the open shop." The maintenance of considerable interest has been shown in the coming debate. Professor Frazier has been the leading spirit in agitating this new project and to him and a few others belongs the credit of organizing the league.
The prize at stake is the Ewing Herbert loving cup, which is to be the trophy of the winning fraternity. Mr. Herbert, who is an alumnus of the University is now editor of the Hiawatha World, and takes an active interest in all things pertaining to the University.
The fraternities who have already applied for membership in the league are the Alpha Taus, Phi Gammas, Betas, Sig Alphs and Sigma Chis. Another fraternity will probably enter but the matter will not be decided until its next meeting. These names of the contestants who will represent the different fraternities will be decided on by April 19.
At the meeting of students Sunday evening, the following delegates were selected to represent the University in the first annual conference of the student volunteers at Topeka March 25 and 26: Kate Hansen, Lydia Lindsay, H. L. Heinzman, Earnest Gregg, Charles Siler and Roy Stockwell.
The student volunteer movement for foreign mission work has attracted considerable attention in the past few years and this annual conference is intended to give definite shape and direction to the work. All the leading educational institutions of the state will have representatives in Topeka at this meeting.
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS.
The first K. U. outdoor track meet between schools, will be held April 15. Every one who can do one or more events is requested to go into training at once. The School of Arts, The School of Engineering, The School of Law, The Medical and Pharmacy Schools, will each enter a team. The scoring will be done in a manner similar to intercollegiate meets. The result will be kept yearly and the school which wins this year will head the record.
FIRST OUT-DOOR TRACK MEET.
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The winners in each event will be placed in training for the track and will have a chance to win a place on the team which will go to Boulder, Colorado, May 6th. The three remaining meets for K.U.track men this year are, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 6; University of Missouri, McCook field, May 20; Missouri School of Mines, Rolla, May 27.
DEBATERS SELECTED.
University Has Strong Team—Iowa Deb.te April 17.
The final contest of the debating squad was held in the University chapel Monday evening and the six men who will represent Kansas in debate were chosen. They are: R. O. Douglas, Frank Tyler, Wilbern Parker, C. A. Ramsey, R. L. Douglas and B. A. Earhart.
The subject discussed was the Missouri question: "Resolved; That the best Interests of the Country Demand the Maintenance of the Open Shop." The general sympathy is of course with the affirmative, but if a decision had been rendered on the debate Monday evening, the negative would have won. Four of the winning men, Ramsey, R. L. Douglas, Earhart and Parker were negative speakers.
The judges were professors Becker, Templin and Burdick, all of the University faculty. They were well pleased with the showing made by the debaters, all of whom displayed careful preparation and an intelligent grasp of the subject in the contest. Although only two of the men on the teams have had any experience on the state teams, the ability of the other members is such that the University will have an excellent chance to carry off the honors this year.
The Debating Council ratified the Iowa regulations Tuesday, and the Kansas-Iowa debate will be held here April 17. The date of the Missouri debate has not been fixed but it will probably not be later than April 25.
At a meeting of the debaters Wednesday noon the teams were divided as follows:
Iowa Debaters—B. A. Earhart,
C. A. Ramsey, Wilbern Parker,
Missouri Debaters—Frank Tyler,
R. O. Douglas, R. L. Douglas
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NEWS FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES.
The baseball team of the Waseda University, Tokyo. Japan, which has just completed arrangements for the first series of international games ever played is being coached by Fred Merrifield, captain of Chicago's bas ball team in 1899.
Wilham J. Bryan delivered his lecture, "The Value of an Ideal," at the University of Minnesota last Saturday night. He also attended the circus which the students of the University were giving.
K. U. is making an effort to secure the national oratorical contest between the state Universities next year. With one inter-state contest at Topeka and another at Lawrence, both in the same year, there should be no lack of excitement for the college student of Kansas.—Washburn Review,
ABOUT LACROSSE.
Lacrosse practice will soon begin on the field west of the Chemistry building, with prospects of two good teams this season. As no other school in this vicinity has given lacrosse any attention, no outside games can be played. The teams of the freshmen and senior classes, however, will play a series of matches on McCook field soon.
Last fall lacrosse was started at the University, and though somewhat new to Kansas students, it attracted a good deal of attention. Physical Director Naismith said: "I hope to see the day when lacrosse will be played by 'varsity teams in this section of the country. Lacrosse affords fine exercise and training for track men."
Each side or team consists of twelve players scattered ten yards apart about the field. At each end of the ground a goal is placed and it is the object of the game to carry or throw the ball with the cross or racket between the opponent's goal posts. The picturesque dress of the players, the quick changing of the play from one part of the field to another, its simple rules, and the graceful action of the runners, all combine to make it interesting to the spectators.
The game is of Indian origin and is developed from a game which they called "bagataway." It was played and used by the Indians to train warriors in agility and endurance. The story is often told of how chief Tecumseh and his Indian warriors were asked to give an exhibition of bagataway before the garrison of Fort Detroit in the early day. The white men were all deeply interested in the game when suddenly the ball was thrown towards them. Many thought it an accident, but as the redskins dashed in among the onlookers at the gate of the fort, each warrior drew his tomahawk and set upon the unsuspecting whites,
Lacross was first played by white people in 1840, but now the game has become very popular in Canada and in the large universities of the United States. A national league has been formed which includes teams from the Atlantic Clubs of Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Cornwall, and an inter-collegiate league between Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Lehigh College.
From an athletic viewpoint, Lacrosse is the greatest of games for the players are continually in motion and great endurance is required to last through a fast game. Expert lacrosse players are athletes in every sense of the word, for the game requires a quick eye, great agility and nerve.
Thatcher Guernsey is spending this week at his home in Independence, Kansas.