THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Vol.I. No.52.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, APRIL 15, 1905.
THAT MAY-DAY AFFAIR.
Freshmen and Sophomores Appoint Committees to Confer with Chancellor Strong.
The sophomore class met at noon yesterday and appointed a committee of five to confer with Chancellor Strong and a like committee from the freshmen in regard to abolishing the coming May-pole affair. The Sophomores are very willing to omit the fight for the good of the University as a whole, so instructed their committee.
The stirring strains of "Boola Boola" or the "Crimson and the Blue" will not be heard on the bleachers of McCook this Spring. The Athletic Board is $1000.00 in debt and feels that it cannot possibly admit the band to any of the games this Spring with out charging full admission. They may decide later to make an additional charge for the privilege of sitting in a conspicuous place and blowing, the lungs away for the glory of old K. U. The Athletic board has had a hard season of it and feels that it ought curtail expenses in every way possible.
The freshmen also appointed a committee but the tone of their meeting and the instructions to the committee were of a distinctly pugnacious spirit.
NO MUSIC.
FRESHMEN WIN FROM SOPHS.
The freshman base ball team beat the sophomore team on McCook field this morning by the score of 24 to 5. From the end of the second inning the Sophs did not have a chance to win and the final score shows what a walk-away it was.
It was a slugging match but the slugging was one sided. The freshmen seemed to connect with every ball that Hawkinson threw. The favorite spot to drop it was out in center field where Warren missed three. Only three men on the sophomore team did not make errors; Rose, Tyler and Gilwix. After Dodge went into the box in the fourth inning not a man crossed the plate. He struck out two men and fielded his position well.
Captain Angney of the Freshmen put up a superb game both in fielding and in handling the stick. In the sixth innning the Freshman made their four runs after there were two outs. They made three home runs during the game.
THE SCORE.
Iang | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Tot
Fish | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 24
Soph | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5
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Miss Corbin, of the German department is confined to her home with sickness.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH STATION.
The work on the wireless telegraph station which is to be established at the University, was begun yesterday afternoon. Some of the students of the electrical engineering department put up the antennae or spreader on which the messages are to be received. Prof. Blake is now in Kansas City completing the arrangements with Mr. Halderman, the superintendent of the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Company in this district. Mr. Halderman will come to Lawrence some time next week to finish installing the station here and while at the University will give a lecture explaining wireless telegraphy. When the station is completed here it will be possible to receive messages from the Kansas City station, but no messages can be sent in reply from here unless a higher power static machine can be seenred The DeForest system is now being used by the Japanese in the far east and has thus far proved the most practical of all the many systems that have been invented.
TO SHOW EARTH'S CURVATURE.
Prof. Erasmus Haworth, of the Department of Geology has just completed arrangements with a number of neighboring State Universities for co-operating in practical experiments to demonstrate the Curvature of the Earth, and further to compute its approximate size.
In demonstrating the Earth's Curvature the angles which the sun's rays make with the earth's radii are measured. Since the sun's rays are practically parallel, the angles would be the same at all latitudes if the earth were flat, but since it is curved the variation of the angle at different places denotes the variation in curvature of the surface.
This demonstration of the Curvature of the Earth was known to the Greeks, despite the fact that Columbus is often supposed to have originated the spherical theory. The practical proof is however little known to the class room, and to give students an insight to the methods of showing it, Prof. Haworth planned these observations.
The observations will be taken at all the stations at high noon, sun time, on the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth of this month. That is while the sun is crossing the equator and the results of all the observations will be sent to each institution, to be worked out by the classes in Physiography.
The Universities of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and possibly Texas and Mississippi will perform the experiments and compare results.
Miss Caroline Doubleday will spend Sunday at her home in Kansas City.
FRIDAY CHAPEL.
DR. BURDICK SPEAKS—SOME FINE SPECIAL MUSIC.
Dr. W. L. Burdick of the Law School faculty, made a practical, common sense talk on "Luck" in chapel Friday. Successful men like Dr. Burdick have little sympathy with the "lucky dog" theory of advancement, and his talk expressed the sentiment of every active, practical man.
He holds that too much of worldly attainments is attributed to luck, and holds with Emerson that "Weak men believe in luck; strong men believe in cause."
"Opportunity knocks every day," said he, "in the University as well as anywhere else. Whoever wins here will win anywhere, and whoever loses here is liable to lose anywhere."
Miss Alice Shephard of Burlingame, who was a student of the University about ten years ago, rendered a beautiful violin solo. Miss Shephard was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority while in the University.
The men and women in this world who are going to do something worth while, are not going to plead the weak excuse of "no luck;" but they will always put forth the best efforts of which they are capably."
Mrs. Lyons and Prof. Hubach repeated a part of the complimentary recital which they gave at the M.E.church last Monday evening. They will repeat the other parts of the program at chapel next Friday.
Since the occurrence, Avon's youthfulness in appearance has increased wonderfully and the physician thinks that if he doesn't take cold he will pull through all right.
REWARD.
The Barbers union of Lawrence, Kansas, offers $50.00 reward for the apprenhension of the party or parties who did without license between the hours of nine and ten on Friday night remove the hirsute adornment from the upper lip of one, Avon Nottingham.
H. Y. MARTIN MAY GO SOUTH AMERICA
Mr. Martin spent the year of 1904 in Patagonia and is well acquainted with the country. While there he collected many valuable fossils and zoological specimecs which he has donated to the University.
Mr. H. Y. Martin, of the department of Palentology has been considering the proposition from an Eastern institution to make a two year's trip to South America for the purpose of collecting fossils.
There are few institutions that can afford to send collecting parties as far as South America
and the fact that Mr. Martin has made the try has raised our department of Palentology to a position of recognition.
The latest specimen that Mr. Martin is mounting is a fossil of an Edentate, an animal similar and related to the modern Sloth.
The creature was about ten feet long and is supposed to have lived from forty to fifty thousand years ago. It is of great interest to science as it shows many remarkable morphological features, When fully mounted the skeleton will be placed in the museum.
PHARMACY SPRING PARTY.
The Pharmies are firm believers in the idea that not all knowledge is gained from books, that the development of man's social side is necessary to a wellrounded man. Although they are the smallest, numerically, of any school except the Medics, in the University they have given more parties during the past year than any other class of students.
As a fitting finale to the Pharmie social season came the event in Fraternal Aid hall Friday night. The night was beautiful and the air cool enough to make dancing exhilirating. Promptly at 9 o'clock to the strains of Newhouse's orchestra of seven pieces the grand march with Dean Sayre and his daughter, Mrs. Canfield of Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the head led down the hall. The programs, trim affairs with the mortar on the front cover and skull and cross bones on the back, were given out by Lindsey Adams and Alma Leidig and Mr. Tribble and Miss Brownlee.
At the head of the list of dances it was announced that for the evening the people were the guests of the "The Good Time Pharmacy," that O. B. Joyful, Ph. C., was manager, that there were twenty-tour in all to be taken but that B. A. Goodfellow, M. D. advised that four be taken each fifteen minuets. After the thirteenth dance a two course supper was served in the dining halls and then the remaining eleven ghded away all too quickly.
FRATERNITY BALL GAME.
The Phi Psi base ball team beat the Sigma Nu team Saturday morning by a score of 15 to 1. In but one inning was the latter able to cross the plate.
The Phi Psis played a good team game but the Sigma Nu's fielding lacked unity. Cortelyou although on the losing side put up the best all round game.
The Missouri squad of K U. debates defended their sides of the labor question Friday evening in the X.Y.Z. debating society, against S.A.Bartlett, J.F.Bender, and J.A.Johnson who are old debaters. The squad K.O.Douglas,F.E.Tyler and R.Douglas will make a fine showing at Columbia next Friday and undoubtedly win the debate from the Tigers.