THE KANSAN.
VOLUME II.
WILL PLAY IOWA
NUMBER 32
BIG NINE TEAM ASKS FOR A GAME NEXT YEAR.
Manager Lansdon Is Assured a Good Schedule for the Coming Season.
The University will be pleased to know that Iowa will be on our football schedule next year. Manager Lansdon received a letter from the Iowa management Thursday asking for a date on our schedule, and their proposition will probably be accepted. It has been several years since Kansas has played one of the "big nine" and a trial of our strength with a team of some reputation will be welcomed by the sporting public.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 20, 1906.
Earlier in the season Michigan offered Kansas a date on her list of practice games but as the game would have to be played in Ann Arbor just preceding the Colorado struggle, the management wisely declined to consider their offer. However, Iowa is a different proposition. Not only is the distance much less, but the teams would be more on an equality. It is absurd to think of giving Michigan anything more than a good practice game, and the chances are that such a trip would be a loss financially. The contest will be held at Iowa City and will be one of their big games.
"PACE THAT KILLED ATHENS"
Professor Shorey's Lecture Well Attended.
Professor Paul Shorey of the University of Chicago lectured before a well filled house last night on "The Pace That Killed Athens". Prof. A. M. Wilcox of the Greek Department introduced the speaker. The real aim of the lecture was to show how much Athens accomplished in a short time from a very slight material basis. White germs of her greatness were to be seen in her early life her real greatness began after the Persian war when consciousness of her powers led to political freedom. It was during this period that the largest number of her great men lived. In her great poets, dramrtisis, and historians and their work we can see the life of their country reflected. Professor Shorey gave many translations of his own from these authors, especially from Aristophanes, the comic poet, to prove his statements. He pictured then the growth of Athens politically, showing her engaged in so many wars as she extended her empire, then showed her deplorable losses of men and treasure. He made the situation plain by an imaginary picture of Chicago and her neighbors under a similar regime.
KAPPA PARTY.
Second of the Spring Party Series Given Last Night.
The second spring party of the year was given by Kappa Kappa Gamma at Fraternal Aid Hall last night. Fully ninety couples enjoyed the happy evening. Newhouse's eleven piece orchestra furnished the music for the twenty dances. Nellie Russell and Amy Merstter gave out the programs which were plain white with a gold monogram on the front. Grace McKnight, Ada Cates, Addie Lander, Mayme Maher and Annie Allen stood in the receiving line and Maude Olander and Joseph Burkholder led the grand march. A delicious one course lunch of coffee, olives, pickles, chicken salad and sandwiches was served down stairs and up in the dancing hall pineapple and raspberry punch served to refresh the merry dancers. The out of town guests were: Mary Gray, Maidie Pioudfie, Gay Sheppard, Lillian Abraham, Maude Bond, Emma Vos, Ruth Gray, Geo. McOrew, Frank Bartlett, all from Kansas City; Claribelle Neylon, Paola; Josephine Riddle, Miss Nellis, Topeka; Josephine Keiser, Marguerite Morgan, and Miss Morgan, Minneapolis, Minn., Katherine Follet, Newton; Louise Cox, Chanute; Ethel Rowland, Ottawa.
CONDEMNS ELECTIVE SYSTEM.
Professor Shorey Thinks Students Have Too Much Freedom.
Prof Paul Shorey, head of the Greek department in Chicago University, scored the elective system and lecture course institutions in his chapel remarks Friday morning. He declared that when students were allowed so much latitude they avoided the exact sciences, and as far as possible, tended to courses of lecture institutions where they expected to be entertained. "We should demand a higher standard of knowledge of the classics," said Professor Shorey, "and that would mean a definite knowledge to precede the wider and more general lecture course. The reaction from this condition are bound to come, and we may expect a more definite knowledge to be required in the future."
Chancellor Strong was feeling better this morning, having had a good night's sleep. He has typhoid fever in a mild form and probably will not be entirely well for two weeks.
Chancellor Has Typhoid.
Basket Ball Scoring.
In adding up basket ball scores, goals count two points and free throws, one. All awarded points on fouls are then added in. For each foul, the opposing team gets a free throw.
A NEW DEAN
THE MEDICAL SCHOOL HERE HAS NEW HEAD.
Merwin Sudler Succeeds McClung as Dean of Medical School.
Merwin T. Sudler, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, will succeed Professor C. E. McClung as dean of the Medical School here, about Feb. 6. Professor McClung has been acting dean since Dr. Williston left in 1901. He has never desired the office and for some time he has been wishing to be relieved of this added responsibility in order that he may give his whole attention to his work in the College.
Mr. Sudler is highly recommended as a proper man for the office of dean. After graduating from Johns Hopkins he was instructor in anatomy at Cornell until 1905 when he received an appointment on the hospital staff at "St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children" in New York. He was elected professor of anatomy in the University of Kansas last spring but had already accepted the appointment at St. Mary's and could not come here till February, 1906.
Dr. S. C. Emley, who instructed in anatomy this year, will instruct in bacteriology and pathology. The Medical School will be, in a measure, more distinct from the College than heretofore.
ENTERED K. U. FROM NEW YORK.
Remarkable Story of a Yonug Man's Determination.
Three weeks ago working about on the streets of New York city with but five cents in his pockets, today enrolled in the College course in Kansas University and working in the afternoon on the University campus and morning and nights tending a furnace is the recent and brief story of a young man's pursuit of an education. Harry Hibberd Kemp is 23 years old. He left the Empire City resolved to enter a Western College and stopped first at Chicago but owing to his dislike for the large city fixed his course for Lawrence.
Last Wednesday evening after dark he knocked at the door of Professor Carruth and claimed an acquaintanceship with him through his text book in German. Thursday morning was his first appearance on Mount Oread and he soon found Willis Folks and secured employment on the campus for his spare time and a place tending a furnace morning and evening to pay for a room.
He then enrolled as a special student in Horace's Odes, Ger-
lan, and English Literature. At thirteen years old young Kemp left home and at seventeen finished High School. Determined upon going around the world he left New York and as cabin boy worked his way to Australia. Next to Manila and across the Japan Sea into China he witnessed the armies of the nations march upon Pekin. Crossing the Pacific he landed at San Francisco, and working at odd jobs came through the southern part of the United States back to New York.
He then spent two years in college work at Mt. Hamden college, Massachusetts, and during vacation worked at East Aurora for Elbert Hubbard, of Roycrofter fame. Lately, enthused with the idea of a western education, he now proposes to graduate from K.U.
The "open season" for debaters is drawing near, and with the opening of the second term all the argumentative guns in the University will be hammering away on the interstate questions. The University council will submit the question for the Baker debate Monday. It will probably be in substance the same as the question for the Iowa debate—the establishment of a fiscal protectorate over the South American republics. The Council will take a final vote on the choice of sides of the Iowa question Monday. Missouri has not yet selected her side of the freight rate question submitted by the University council two weeks ago, but their decision is due in a few days according to the agreement.
Debating Questions Monday.
The try-outs will be conducted in the same manner as last year. Each literary society with representation in the debating council sends a squad of six men to the general squad. The men will discuss the questions before the faculty committee in a series of practice debates in which the squad will be reduced to about half the number of entries, and the members who will represent the University will be selected in a final try-out in the chapel to which the public will be admitted.
There are a number of experienced debaters in the University this year. Among them are Blood, Sheedy, Bender and Parker who are seniors but will stay out of the debates. R. O. Douglas and R. L. Douglas who were in the Missouri debate last year will not try for places. Chester Ramsey and B. A. Earhart who were on the Iowa team will be in the debates this year.
The K. U. barber shop has put in another chair. They didn't put it in that little addition at the north door either. The K. U. barber shop is certainly the most convenient thing that was ever established on Mt. Oread. Besides it gives two students profitable employment during their vacation periods.