THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVIII
RICKETY OLD STANDS ONCE PRIDE OF K. U
C. S. Gleed Enlisted Aid of Col J. J. McCook to Oread Athletics
GOV. ROBINSON HELPED
First Stands Erected in 1893— Largest Crowd Filled Bleachers in 1916
The first organized effort in this connection was the formation in 1878 of a company of cadets; although even from the first year of the University, there was an interesting difference between the University of Topeka. But the number of those feeling a keen interest in athletic sports was few and there was no regular rivalry between the University and other colleges and universities; the school were less and far between.
Farewell McCook! Tomorrow marks the passing of a pioneer in the athletic history of the University and the dawning of a new era in Jayhawk sports in the taking of the first active steps in the construction of a university and excitement occasioned by such an event, we are prone to look eagerly into the future and the flowery possibilities which it has in store for us, forgetting entirely the historical context and field which at one time was the pride of the University.
The cadet company soon become disintegrated, however and the management and control of athletic sports was for the most part in temporary and shifting organizations. Various attempt to integrate athletic interests a united, and consistent direction through one organization.
Many unsuccessful attempts at this were made, but all organizations for that purpose were very short lived, until the founding of the Navy in December, 1880. Besides supplying a central management for the various sports, it set itself to the task of raising money to procure and fit up suitable grounds for an athletic team.
Charles W. Gleed, a member of the Board of Regents at that time, became interested in the project and secured the aid of Colonel J. L. McCook of New York City, with whom he had become associated as one of the Dining rate of the State University, recent Stadium-Union drive, was begun among the students and faculty, and about $200 raised. Col. McCook gave $1500 towards the enterprise with the promise of doubling whatever should be raised up to $10,000. The association vexuated its work during the annual meeting, receiving a further gift from McCook of about $1,000, bringing the total to $3,500.
At this time Governor Charles Robinson, after whom Robinson Gymnastium was later named gave half his land near the "hill" for the athletic field, the other half being purchased from the subscription fund and Col. McCook's gift. The present aide thus having been secured, the ground was immediately grounded, and the grand stand had been erected in the northwest corner and the grounds were appropriately christened "McCook Field."
Gradually, the bleachers were held around the field as the interest in athletics grew. In 1898, the first bleachers were constructed inside the track which at that time was a full quarter mile length. In 1900, 1000 north bleachers were built, the south ones in 1009 and the west one in 1910. These bleachers, however, have many times been reinforced and rebuilt, their average life being from five to ten years. The present stands have grown and have been repeat only condemned as unsafe during the last two years.
McCook Field was probably inaugurated as a football gridiron in the fall of 1848 when Hector Cowan, a pinester state star coach, was named head coach. The dressing room for the players were in the basement of Snow Hall and the jaint from Snow to McCook was considered unusual. Ice block shelves were built on the field, occupying what is now known as “Honey's Office.” In 1914, the variety dressing rooms were completed and the building is still utilized for that
Football has always been more closely associated with McCook than any other sport. Many large crowds have mounted their feet on the sidelines of victories of the Crimes and the Blue. The largest crowd, perhaps, that ever passed through the stadium.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1921.
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Award to K. U. Woman For Second Best Poem
Mrs. Ester Clark Hill of the extension department of the University is winner of the second and third awards in the poetry contest of the Kansas Author's Club. Mr Crawford serves as the department journalist in the Kansas State Agricultural college, is the author of the poem which this year won the first prize. The club annually offers two $100 prizes, one for best poem and one for a resident of Kansas. Mr Crawford's poem, "The Carrying of the Ghost", a free verse composition is descriptive of an Indian "ghost fire" ritual which takes place as a memorial poem. The poem has been characterized as "an interpretation in new poetry of an old Indian ceremony."
KANSAS MEDICS HAVE VERY HIGH STANDARD
Not a Single Failure is Recorded Against School of Medicine
Honor is reflected on the School of Medicine of the University of Kansas in the official state board statistics presented by the Council on Medical Education, which have just been published for the year 1920.
These statistics show that graduates of the University of Kansas School of Medicine have passed examinations before medical boards in seven different states without a single failure. In 1519 school buildings, in University of Kansas, and by five states, in 1918 they were examined by the medical boards of two states without any failures. This is an exceedingly fine record, especially as compared with that of some state schools. Failures of students from schools with an earning as high as 76-12 per cent, while Kansas had no per cent of deficiencies.
TO PRESENT ORIGINAL* PLAY
This reputation has been maintained for three years reflects very creditably on the character of work done here and on the faculty of this School of Medicine. Appreciation of the ability of this University seems to be shown by the fact that three of Kansas are examined by more than twelve每年, as two博士 examined gardens of Kansas University two years ago, five boards the year before last and by seven State Medical Boards last year.
"Easy Money," a College Comedy Next Popular Play
That is the keynote of a three-act comedy written by Merton T. Akers, c'21, and Allen D. Strahm, c'23, which to be given in the Little Theatre of Green Hall, May 1948, by replete with missing situations, and asked of the "character parts" are taken by Hill comedians well skilled in the art of laugh-making.
Everything was "Easy' Money! But only a few got it.
The scene of the production is laid in a sorrisity house, the night of the last formal party of the year. A "bick" sweetheart surprises his girl by coming to see her. The result is the aided and abetted in the Booker Thomas Edison Smith, a negro house boy, are ludicrous to the extreme. A love scene in which a young, man who is afflicted with a propensity for stuttering, marriage problems, Zeta Zeta Zeta, is one of the funniest ever seen in Hill dramatic circles.
The cast has been picked by Akers and Strahm, and is composed only of students who have had dramatic experience. The leads are taken from Wheeler Mary, Marianne Lamar, Wheeler Mary, and Paul White. Other fun-makers are Everett Fixley, Caroline Hardraker, Elmer Allen, Dorothy Engel, and Oliver Kuhl.
R. O. T. C. Plans to Give Instruction in Rowing
Mary Alice Putney, c'24, was guest in Leavenworth, Sunday. .
R, O, T, C. has plans under way to secure a shell and instruction will be given in the men in rowing. This is a ulate an interest in the men of the unit. It may be possible that a variety of challenges are faced and this will compete.
permit computer control. The unit can likely furnish a strong crew of men and keep the varsity busy.
On Tuesday afternoon there will be a May Fete practice for all groups that come out regularly at that time.
WINFIELD TAKES FIRST IN CLASS A DIVISION
Won Inter-Schoiastic Track Mee For Third Consecutive Year
CLASS B TO VALLEY FALLS
Fisher High Point Man in Class A; Jones and Newman in Class B
Winfield won the class A championship on the interscholastic track meet Saturday on McCook Field. Valley Falls captured first place in class B, while Elmhale led the field in class C, and Kelsey was second in the history for Winfield in the interscholastic meet and Valley Falls bison won the class B honors for the last two years.
The meet was held on a heavy track following a hard rain the night before and this held down the time and distances in the various events of the competition. The class A, while Eldorado, her nearest competitor, could collect only 24-14. Abilene opted third place and Kansas City Kansas fourth with 19 and 16 points respectively. Morris of Kansas City won first in the shot put, but the javelin was too soft, but the javelin throw was not included in the point scoring.
Fisher was high point man in class A with 15 points to his credit. He won three firsts in the dash events and his running was one feature of the meet. He made the hundred in 10.3 which was very good time considering the complete run. Winteld in the relay. Jones of Hiawata and Newman of Valley Falls tied for high honors in class B, each taking 15-2.1 points. The K. U. athletic office has ordered a duplicate individual cup for this class. V. Johna was the individual scorer in class A, while Lavinel throw in class C but this event did not count towards points.
Axtel of Argonia ran the mile in 4:45 the best time made in any of the divisions. Hayden and Gibb of Elmalea in class C showed up very well in the dash events, Hayden winning two first and Gibb three seconds.
VILLEMIN PLEASED AUDIENCE
Thursday afternoon in Fraser Chapel, for an hour and a half. Prof. Emile, Vilentien, official lecturer of the department, offers an africanized audience by his dermatic interpretation of rFench poems. His method of taching literature is by combining curdite lectures with speeches and receptions of choice literary gems.
Interpretation of French Poems Was Well Received
The Parassiasis, he said, were a group of young French poets who rose in conscience opposition to the excesses of the nineteenth century. They represented the realistic current in poetry and sought above everything else to be immoral and to cultivate perfection of form.
Mr. Villemii's lecture was divided into three parts. In the first he spoke of the fraternal relations existing between France and the United States and assured his audience that he had no intention of becoming so. The second division constituted the lecture proper paper on the Parmasian school of French poets. In conclusion, he gave a characterization of the centenary of his death. According to Mr. Villemii, the French admire Napoleon, not for his conquests, but his genius, his capacity for organization and administration as is evidenced in the Napoleonic code civil law.
It would be hard to say which poem pleased the audience most. The initia poem by Theophile Gantier on the poet, Thomas Cornellie, made a profound impression. The senata by Hedia and Sully Prudhomme seemed faultless, and there was perhaps no finae left of interpretation in two poems, "Antone at cleopatra" and "Lew deux Corteges." The program was concluded by Victor Hugo's stirring poem on the battle of Waterloo.
No Kanan on Stadium Day
In keeping with this holiday,
the date Kanan will be no issue of
the Daily Kanan on Tuesday.
May 10.
Kansan Business Office.
Floyd Smith, c'24, spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Kansas City.
BULLETIN
Cups, flasks and other receptacles for holding water, coffee and lemonade, will be in great demand tomorrow on McCook Field, it was announced late today. The department of cups at local wholesale houses, discovered at noon, compels the committee to request every man and woman worker to bring his own cup. Cups workers will be required in charge of the affair assured a representative of the Kansan this afternoon.
STADIUM DAY
Tomorrow is Stadium Day. Each student will have his chance to show just what his true relations to his University and his feelings toward it really are. During the drive each had a chance to show his loyalty by promise; now each can show the measure of his devotion in actual labor.
The removal of the old bleachers is not such an event in itself. The participation in clearing the ground for the new structure is the big feature of the entire school year. The ground is to be broken for the new stadium. The old gives place to new and every one present will witness the beginning of the biggest building project that K, U. has to date hoped to attain.
A nightly chorus of affirmation followed this question in convocation Thursday. This is the one big day of the entire school year, the last all-university holiday and frolic. Tuesday is the day! McCook Field is the place! You are the individual responsible! Be there!
Tuesday morning the bugles will blow early. The sound of a thousand hammers will be heard on McCook Field. The bleachers will rapidly disappear into neat piles of lumber under the hands of an army of workmen. The loyal women of the University will feed this great army after its task is completed. The rest of the day will be given over to entertainment. It is your day, students of the University! Will you be there?
MANY FEATURES AT PARTY
School of Education Faculty Entertains Students
The faculty of the School of Education and their wives entertained the junior, senior and graduate students of the School of Education with an informal party Thursday night. "B freshmen were served at the close of the evening. A program given by the faculty was the feature of the evening and great interest in the portential," Paul Reuter wrote. "which was acted out as the poem" was read by Prof. H. P. Smith.
Dr. King Will Address Aggie Graduating Class
Paul Revere    W. L. Elkensberry
Sexton        F. B. O'Brien
Sexton harbor  C. H. Watson
Warriors       R. E. Carter, A. S. Oln
Warriors       R. E. Carter, A. S. Oln
Dr. Henry Churchill King, President of Oberlin College, will deliver this year's commencement address for K. S. A. C. Tuesday, June 3. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered the Sunday before by Dr. William Franklin Anderson of Gosnellstaff, Jasper, the Methodist Church since 1908.
The cast was:
There are 252 members in the senior class of K, S, A, C. but a few of these will not complete their work for desert until the end of the summer school.
Three Named for Education Board Topeka, May 9—Governor Henry J. Allen today named three new members of the state board of education. Mr. Lippert was named Libgibbons of Scott City and Mise Emma Wilson of Garden City..
The regular Y. W. C. A. meeting on Tuesday afternoon will not be held because of Stadium Day.
Goodbye Bleachers, May 10.
N. Y. PHILHARMONIC WILL PLAY TONIGHT
Josef Stransky, Leader, is International Figure in Musical World
TO PRESENT VARIED MUSIC
Philharmonic is Third Oldest Organization of Kind in World
Joosef Stranky, director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra which will be heard at Robinson Gymnasium tonight, is today an internas-
Long before his call to America, ali Europe had become interested in this young musician who exhibited such commanding powers as a conductor
When the death of Gustav Mahler necessitated the engagement of a new conductor for the Philharmonic Society, Joëf Stransky was invited to assemble a group of symphonic organization. His work in this country—carried on now for eight years—has not only added to the international reputation of the Philharmonic, but has been a real contribution to the public taste for symphony music.
Mr. Stransky was born in Bohemia of Czechoslovak heritage.
The New York Philharmonic is the oldest organization of its kind in the world, only the London Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic having been previously organized. It is also noted for having the longest list of fama conductors of any orchestra. On its record pages are names that
stand out in the musical development of Europe and America—names that read like a hall of fame in musical history.
The program, which will begin at 8:30 o'clock is as follows:
Prelude, Choral and Fugue Bach
The Collected Ray Heath
Conducted by the Composer Tone Poem, "Death and Transfiguration" Strauss
Symphony No. 4 Tchaikovsky
Andante, moderato
Andantino in modo di canzone
Allegro con fuco
Eight Million Calories For Students Tomorrow
Calories is the word. There will be 800,000 of them contained in the food that is going to be served Stadium Day, according to E.D.H.E.Bailley, of the chemistry department. There will be expected for 5,000 people, the number expected to be present at the celebration. In the beef alone, there will be approximately 2,000,000 of the said calories. Each person, therefore will find await him on that eventful day, in the cafeteria of the menu as prescribed, he will have put away 1600 heat units. This amount is a little more than half of what is required for an individual for a whole day. Each student is urged to come and get his share of calories. They are served from 12:30 to 1:40 o'clock.
Most Senior Dues Paid
The Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity has purchased the house now occupied by Alpha Chi Omega, and will take possession of it next fall.
Miss. Patricia Jane McCleery of Kansas City agent the week-end with Nell Means, in'24.
Most Senior Dues Pass
All but 160 of the seniors have paid their tuition and are according to the alumni office. A complete list of the number of seniors have not yet been made, but the list is now being compiled in the Registrar's office and is being updated and amended that there will be 600 graduated this spring.
MOVIE CAMERAS ADD GLAMOUR TO JOY OF OLD CLOTHES STADIUM DAY
"Rain or Shine Celebration" for First Annual Construction Holiday Will Go On Without Change; Absentee "Slackers" to be Punished
NOON FEED IN FIELD ARMY STYLE
Snake-dance After Chow, Band Playing "Booa," etc., Chancellor at Plow-handle, Baseball, Pushball, Gingham Aprons and Overalls Are Features
HIGH LIGHTS OF THE ANNUAL OLD CLOTHES FESTIVAL
**Who**—Everybody in the University, in Lawrence, and Four hundred enthusiastic Kansas City alumni.
**What**—Stadium Day Celebration.
**When**—All day Tuesday—work all day.
When—All day Tuesday—work all morning, eat all noon,
and play all afternoon. Zero hour, 8:30 o'clock.
Where—McCook bleachers. Men students report as per list in Friday's Kansan. Women report at gym.
CONTRIBUTORS TO PAY STADIUM DAY EXPENSE
Money from Drives Will Not be Used for Defraying Celebration Costs
"No money for the Stadium-Union Drive contributions will be used to meet the expenses of the big stadium day celebrations," said Alfred G. Hill, secretary of the Alumun Association, this morning. The money is being raised by contributions from other contributions, according to Mr. Hill.
w—Everybody's gonna be there, rain or shine. Can't miss it.
Each club, sorority and fraternity will pay twenty-five cents for each member who does not attend the noon meal at the houses, according to Mr. Hill. This source will contribute $50 toward defraying the expenses of defraying the big dinner, as well as contributing to committee down town has agreed to contribute the same amount and will take individual subscriptions. The down-town committee is composed of T. J. Sweeney, H. B. Ober, and Mayor Geo, L. Kreek. The committee in charge of the Hill contributions is composed of John Porter, Shirtee Clarera, Claric Nags, and Alfred G.
Gifts from individuals have also been a means of meeting the expenses of the celebration. The water will be supplied by the Nishof, Nishof of the McNish Bottling Works.
J. McNamara, Dynamiter,
To Be Released May 1
James B. McNamara, brother of John, who was given a life term, will not be pardoned, nor can any reduction in his imprisonment be granted on account of good behavior, it was stated by Warden James J. Johnson. In December, 1911 John plunged guillotine and died in the hands of the Llewellyn iron works and his brother entered a like plea to a murder charge. John was general secretary of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironwork-
Los Angeles, May 9. (United Press) His sentence shortened four years because of exemplary conduct, John McNamara, one of the dynamiters of the Los Angeles Times building in San Antonio, quenched penitentiary on May 11.
For the past two years the McNamara brothers have been working in the bookbinder at San Quentin. They served an "apprenticehip" in the jute mills, when they first gave up their names for numbers.
David Caplan and Mathew Schmidt,
also connected with the case, were
contended for having purchased the dynamite
used in blowing up the Times.
Achoth observed Mother's Day Sun day, May 8. The mothers and fathers were entertained at dinner Twenty-five guests were present fourteen of which were out-of-town visitors.
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DOROTHY STANLEY,
President, W. S. G. A.
The date rule will be off MOn-
day, May 9, until 11 o'clock,
and Tuesday night, May 10,
until 10:30 o'clock.
The dance at Ecke's Hall tonight is not authorized. Alberta Corbin, Dean of Women.
Old clothes are to be the outstanding feature of the day. Women, in the starched "Sally Green" type of gingham apron affairs, will labor through the morning in the preparation of the bread and meat and lemons and coffee on all the other good things on the multitude's bill-of-fare.
Clarion notes of a bugle, so genuinely despised during the late war, will swaken every student in the University at 7 eclipse in the morning. A message from one student minutes to get dressed, and on "the mark," the K. U. students, on their workday, get a full houp and fifteen minutes. Men report on the field, and women at the gymnasium, in gingerware, report at 8:15, workers at 8:30.
The man, after reporting to their signed section, alphabetically arranged according to a list published in The Times, will start to work his job at 8:15.
Absentees, both among the men and the women, will be carefully noted, according to information received from a high and authoritative source. Those students who left town Friday not returning until Tuesday would have been in several unkinds of punishment, from several罕
The workers have untiJn no to complete the job. Engineering professors will be in charge of each secef working to keep the men from working to hard.
The tables will be set up at one end of the field, and thirteen "filling stations" will dispense the elaborate, filling and bustful "diet for a hard-working woman" army style. Here also the women will preside. Only a smile is needed to get more than one's share, but this doesn't necessitate smiling at the so-called "soap-ulipers", for even an ordinary feeding give to ordinary students.
The Band will play as long as its wind holds out. And it will take a fresh start after *chow.* Winsor will lead the "Thundering Four Thousand" into frequent rapodes of Rock Chalks.
Here's the knockout! After the feed, a gigantic snake dance, the largest and the snappiest in K. U. history, will wind across the unbroken McCook Field landscape. Every man of the 2200 is to be in this, "Sandy" Winsor vowed and declared late today to a Daily Kansan reporter.
West of McCook, on the slope that overlooks the field, the serpentine parade, after gyrating over McCook and Hamilton fields, will break up. Parking their filled selves on the sward, the students will witness-
Chancellor Lindley breaking the first ground for the new stadium with a plow drawn by forty of the most enthusiastic of the K-SU bootters, ranging from W. J. Baggartner and L. N. Flint to "Sandy" Winnor.
A program of speeches and community singing will follow. The Chancellor will preside. Gov. Henry J, Allen, W. Y. Morgan, C. J. Nichols, prominent Kansas City alumni, and the best of the University's speakers, will jazz up the University's biggest nep-meeting.
After work, followed by this latter mental enthusiasm, some of the surplus will be worked off in play. Director of Athletics, Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, has arranged for a mammoth "pumshall game." Five hundred men students compete on each side, and earnestly on each side, they push a hugh inflated sphere, nine feet high, across one side of the cleared-off field.
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