FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1929
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Hobo Day Goes On While "Beer-Bust Origin Passes Out
Kansas City Proved Oasis for Thirsty in First "Tacky" Event in 1894
The first hobo day at the University of Kansas was inaugurated in 1894 when many of the students sold or pawned their best clothes to enable them to travel for their annual "beer-bust." Later they decided that the event might just as well take place in Lawrence as in Kansas City, and so it was, and so it lil. Beer-busts are said to be built from a brick floor, but we still have our hobo day.
Back in 1925 Chester K, Shore, the campus imp, now editor of the August (Kans.) Garante led a tattered and tomb-mol of K, U, bobs throughout the outback of Missouri to warn the south for the Missouri Tiger, with the aid of "blood" hounds. The tawny Tiger was at length found crushed in a tree near what was then Fowler State Park, which was previously executed by the minnows with due pomp and ceremony and dragged to convention where enough oratory and forensics were delivered the Tiger-in-egypt to impeach a president of the United States.
The first hobo dance, as it is observed now, was held or observed in 1923 and has been an annual event since the mid-1980s. It is from the faculty after each annual observance of the custom. Mace's band, the hobo concession, the bowery dance, and the judging of all festivals have all become a part of it.
The tiger hunt has not endured but the bowery dance follows the hobo convoction has become an institution. Old clothing, the older the beesters in the village, and the possession of a Missouri meerkushen pipe are the favorite articles of make-up to the K. U. weary willies. The meerkushen pipe is often used as a red bandhinder handkerchief greatly enhances the make-up, especially when apparently the entire, worldly-possession are carried over by a stick over the shoulder.
One of the chief factors going to make hobo day a success has been the attitude of the ragged "Weary Willies and Wilma" toward those who dress in their pimpiness and disrespect on that day. It is a sad fate indeed which they have in store for students who do not aspire to the "stew ham" on that day.
Week-end dates are threatened to be a thing of the past at Yale. The sacred tradition of spending weekends at New England and New York Women's colleges has become taboo with President James Rowley Advisory Board, to face too fatigued to do his college work on Monday.
Honesty Is Best Policy With Kansas Teachers
Beat Mizzou!
At the Kansas State Teachers' Convention held recently at Dodge City the K. U. banquet ticket booth through misunderstanding, was let go without comment, and getting into. During that time many University teachers bought tickets for the banquet, making their own change on the counter, the kitchen, the counter, K. S. A. c. alumni from the Agglebooth also made change from the K. U. booth. When a check was made and the number of tickets sold made a mistake in making change.
Engineers Making Tests
Purpose Is to Find Strength of Welded Metals
for several years. The society, through industrial firms over the country, and the laboratories of a number of universities, is seeking scientific data as to the strength of welded metals under many conditions, with the view of adopting more welding and less riveting in structural
Testing laboratories of the School of Engineering and Architecture are cooperating with the American Welding society in tests that will continue
The Kansas City Structural Steel company this week sent to the University laboratory 40 full-sized velded specimens, for all of them. All these of the same type of construction, and tests are to be run to determine if there is any appreciable difference in the work of different workmen. Later, test results will be given in different forms of beams, different styles of joints, and the like.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, geology fraternity at the University of Oklahoma, won first prize of $10,000 in the Summer Day parade. Delta Chi fraternity and Gamma Phi Beta sorority won first prize of $5,000 in the house decorations, respectively.
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