THE KANSAN.
VOLUME II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 7, 1906.
NUMBER 37
TRIAL DEBATES
NINETEEN MEN TRYING FOR SQUAD.
Law School Has Twelve Representatives---Baker Will Defend Enforcement of Monroe Doctrine.
The representatives of the literary clubs of the University have been trying out in the series of preliminary debates every day this week. The number of candidates for the teams is smaller than usual this year, none of the societies having a full quota in the preliminaries. Of the nineteen men who have been debating before the judges this week twelve are law school men. Last year the law students were in the minority in the trials and only one lawyer made the teams.
Of the candidates, two, H. J. Bischoff and John Gage, are from X. Y. Z. Snow is represented by C. A. Ramsey, Roy Stockwell, Walter Lindsey and H. F. Roller. The Athenian Senate has four representatives, three of them being members of the law school. They are: W. J. Luckey, J. W. Blood, John Jones and Clyde Commons. The representatives of the law school clubs are: Eiler, Stryker, Howell, McWilliams, John Roaten, Ernest Disney, Wilburn Parker, J. A. Sutton and Clyde Souders.
The Baker question has been the battle ground in the trials, the last of which will be held Friday. The results of the trials will be announced as soon as the judges, Professors Hodder, Becker and Burdick can compare rankings. The debaters have shown up well in the discussions and there seems to be plenty of material for three strong teams, Ramsey and Parker were on the victorious teams last year,and Blood is an experienced debater of considerable fame from the State Normal.
Baker University sent notice to the debating council Monday that she would defend the negative side of the Baker-Kansas question, "Resolved, That the South American Republics should be free to accept or reject the Monroe Doctrine."
Noted Lecturer Coming.
Professor Edward S. Bourne of Yale University, who will lecture in Fraser Hall, Friday evening, is one of the foremost men in the field of history in this country. Much of his work has been in the field which forms the subject of his lecture, "The Spanish Empire." He has just published a volume on this subject in the new history of the American nation, entitled "The Spanish in America," and has edited the series of Philippine papers and documents.
Professor Bourne is an excellent lecturer and has given during the last few years the most notable addresses before the American Historical Association.
BASKET BALL BOYS AWAY.
Will Leave on Thursday for Eastern Trip.
The basket ball team starts on its eastern tour Thursday afternoon. The Wyandotte Athletic Club will be played Thursday night, the Independence Athletic Association on Friday evening, and the Kansas City Y.M.C.A.Saturday evening. The next week will be consumed on the trip. The games are:
Nebraska University, Feb. 12.
Des Moines Y. M.C.A., Feb.
13.
Iowa University, Feb. 14.
Armour Institute, Feb. 15.
Evanston Y.M.C.A., Feb. 16.
Muscatine, Iowa, Nat. Guard,
Feb. 19.
Fairfield, Iowa, Nat. Guard Feb. 20.
The Nebraska, Evanston and Central games will be the three hardest games on the schedule. The men who will make the trip are: Barlow, W. Miller, and Allen, forwards, Siler and Bergen centers, M. Miller, Winnagle and Johnson, guards. "Andy" Brown will probably be taken on the trip for substitute guard and referee. Manager Lansdon will accompany the team.
COMMERCIAL ENGINEERING.
H. W. Jacobs of the Santa Fe Talks to Engineers.
Monday afternoon Mr. H. W. Jacobs, Engineer of Shop Methods and Tools, of the Santa Fe Railway System delivered an illustrated lecture before the Mechanical Engineering Society on "Commercial Engineering." Mr. Jacobs said: "The Engineer of today who is not able to take hold of a proposition and figure results from a business standpoint is very liable to get left."
He emphatically cautioned the technical graduate of the fact that it is not how nice he can sketch a plan or how clearly he can elucidate upon the theories of applied mechanics; but how much of a saving can he show in shop management? How much can he cheapen the production of some set article? What can he do to help tone up the plant so that the best results can be obtained from his particular department? Be on the lookout for improvements in methods of all kinds at all times. Illustrations of many improvements made in machines and trains of gearing used for reducing the time for certain operations were shown. The modern "high speed" steel tools and tool-holders used in these
operations were compared to the old carbon steel tools used in a like manner.
Mr. Jacobs has made a phenomenal rise in the engineering world. He began life as an apprentice to a machinist with no technical education and a limited general education but in 15 years he has risen to one of the most important positions in the gift of the Santa Fe railway. He is a practical man and has a scorn for the theorist who cannot do things. He is one of the few men without a technical education to be elected to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
CREDIT TO MANDOLIN CLUB.
Sam McReynolds and Heim Goldman Brought Missourians to Lawrence.
The Mandolin club, under the management of S. McReynolds and the directorship of Heim Goldman, did a great service for the University in bringing the Missouri Glee club to Lawrence. Not only were the students given an opportunity of hearing a musical organization from a sister institution, but the road was paved for more cordial relations with our Missouri rivals.
HEIM GOLDMAN.
Most of the credit of the venture belongs to S. McReynolds. McReynolds spent a great amount of time in correspondence and planning for the visitors entertainment and his success was well merited. Mr. Goldman, director of the club was also instrumental in bringing the Missourians to Lawrence From now on his efforts will be directed toward preparing the Club for the return concert to be given in Columbia in the near future.
NEW MEDICAL PROFESSOR.
Dr. Sudler to be Professor of Anatomy.
Dr. Merwin T. Sudler, who was elected Professor of Anatomy here last spring to succeed Dr.G.H. Hoxie, arrived here from New York Monday. Dr. Sudler is a promising man for the place and has had considerable training. Before coming here he was on the hospital staff at "St. Mary's Free Hospital" for children in New York. He
was instructor in anatomy at Cornell University before he went to New York.
It was announced a few weeks ago that Dr. Sudler would be the new dean of the medical school at this place. It is probable that he will be promoted to that place after he has become acquainted with the surroundings, but for the present he is professor of anatomy.
MISSOURIANS MAKE HIT.
The Glee Club Gets a Good House. Program Pleased All.
The concert given Tuesday night by the Missouri Glee club under the auspices of the K. U. Mandolin club was a success financially and otherwise. The total number of tickets given out was about four hundred. The audience arrived promptly and for the most part in accordance with Professor Hopkins' suggestion in chapel in the morning "as we should come in coeducation." The Mandolin club gave a guarantee of about $112. This amount was secured with a little additional profit. The program included fourteen numbers and several extra selections were given in response to encores.
The solo work of Mr. Morton M. Prentiss received especial mention and he was encored repeatedly. That of S. A. Dew, in "My Son Lou" was also enthusiastically received. Two vocal solos were rendered by Professor Fritz Krull, director of the club. The local hits in "The Ways They Have in Lawrence" brought down the house. The chorus work of the Missouri Glee club can not be considered superior to that of our own club, but their selections are conceded to be better. They are also fortunate in the possession of such an exceptional singer as Mr. Prentiss. The humorous part of the program is conceded to be very clever.
The programs were ten-page pamphlets which were printed for the club at the expense of the University of Missouri. They contained a number of views of the campus and buildings at Columbia and a group picture of the glee club. On the first page their college song is printed. This is something along the line of the series of views which the University of Kansas is preparing to distribute in pamphlet form.
After the concert a reception was given in Fraternal Aid hall under the joint auspices of the Betas, Sig Alphs, Sigma Chis, and the K. U. Mandolin club. The members of the Missouri Glee club were entertained last night by individual members of the Mandolin club. They left Lawrence this morning at 5:27 on their way to visit several points in Missouri before returning to Columbia.