THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 28, 1906.
A NEW EDITOR
R. L. DOUGLASS CHOSEN UNANIMOUSLY BY THE BOARD.
He Is a Sophomore in the College, and Has Had Newspaper Experience.
At the regular meeting of the Kansan board Monday R. L. Douglass was unanimously chosen for editor for the ensuing year. He was elected managing editor a year ago and has filled that position so well there was no opposition to advancing him to editor in chief. The new editor is from Cherokee county and graduated from the Cherokee county High School. He
R. L. DOUGLAS
has besides his years connection with the Kansan worked on several country dailies and weeklies.
All members of the Kansan board are chosen after a period of competition in which the aspirants are tried out. The new managing editor has not been chosen for the reason that the faculty committee has not given its recommendations. Four members of the board, Roy Moore, Carl Young, Wallace Hovey, and May Wallace are trying for the position.
The present system of choosing the Kansan board was begun a year ago. Professor E. M. Hopkins of the English department deserves the credit of originating it and working out its details. Before its adoption the editor and members of the board were chosen by a vote of the students who were subscribers to the paper.
Convocation Address.
Hon. J. W. Creech, of Herrington, will give the address in chapel Friday morning.
Inter-Fraternity Debate.
All desiring to enter the Inter-Fraternity debate must hand their names to Professor Frazier before tomorrow night March 1st. The subject chosen is the same as the Iowa debate question. The debate will be held April 13th.
WASHBURN TONIGHT.
K. U. Plays Washburn's Five in the Gymnasium.
NUMBER 43
The University Basket Ball team will play its first home inter-collegiate game in the gymnasium this evening. The contest will be the second of a series of three with Washburn College. The first game played in Topeka in January was won by the Kansas five. If the Kansas boys can annex this evenings match the series will end without the third game, but if Washburn should come out with the long end of the score the deciding contest will be held in Topeka in about a week.
No University enterprise deserves a more loyal support by students and faculty than the basket ball team. The five is a typical and ideal college organization. The men are all students of the best type, their training and practice is incident only to their school life, and aside from the cost of games they call on the student body for very little financial assistance. This year's team has met and defeated some of the very best organizations in the country and in its conduct and its play has reflected credit upon the University.
The game tonight will be the first of a series of three matches on the home court and should be patronized to the full capacity of the gymnasium. Extra seating capacity will be arranged for, and several hundred loyal Kansans should be present to cheer the team to victory.
Mrs. Hallock A Favorite.
Lovers of music were given a treat last night at the piano recital by Mrs. Mary Hallock in Fraser Hall. Mrs. Hallock is noted as a pianist principally for her high degree of technique which accomplishment she displayed beautifully in her playing last night. The fairly large audience continually encored especially after the first number—Bach, Prelude and Fugue.
Mrs. Hallock is a very unique character in that she was born in Siberia, and in her younger days she was made the heroine in one of Hawthorne's novels.
Senior Committee Appointed.
President Maddox appointed the committee on invitations today. It is composed of J. W. Kayser, Emil Brunner, Mabel Davis, Harry Davidson, Gertrude Gilmore, Nellie Potts.
Spring Football Practice.
WEEKS IS DEAD.
Coach Kennedy and Captain Donald are planning to begin spring practice for the football men within a few days. They expect by this method to get the men in better shape for the fall scrimmaging.
Famous Michigan Quarterback-- Jayhawker Coach '03.
Harold Weeks, the noted Michigan quarterback of 1902 and Jayhawker coach of 1903, died of diphtheria in Washington, D.C., Sunday night. "Boss" Weeks, as he was familiarly known on McCook field was singularly successful while under the direction of Coach Yost. He was captain of the "Wolverine" squad in 1902 and when Yost was about to leave Michigan in 1903, Weeks was his most talked of successor.
While at Kansas Weeks adopted the "hurry up" system of coaching and on account of his change of tactics he almost had to develop a new team. "Boss" Weeks discovered while here Brunner and Captain Donald, the two Kansas tackles that at present hold the admiration of all true Jayhawker gridiron supporters. It was under Weeks' tutorship that Kansas played the Cornhuskers the last game of football and were defeated 6 to 0.
Coach Weeks at present has a damage suit pending against Chancellor Strong. This suit will be dropped. The suit against the athletic board for breach of contract will be prosecuted by Weeks' attorneys.
Qualities of Kansas Oil.
The Engineering department is placing apparatus in the basement of Fowler shops for the purpose of testing the lubricating qualities of the different oils of Kansas. Machinery is being installed which will be run at a given known speed and pressure and for a given length of time using the different oils. In this way their lubricating qualities will be noted and compared. A six-horse power steam engine and a gasoline engine have been installed to run this machinery. A laboratory was fitted up in the tower of Fowler Shops last winter for the purpose of testing oils chemically.
The 25 Gave Party.
The 25, a dancing club composed of non-fraternity men, gave the fifth of their series of parties in Fraternal Aid hall last Saturday night. About 50 couples were present. Dancing was especially fine because of the uncrowded condition of the floor.
Sumner vs. Dickinson.
Sumner County has challenged Dickinson County to a game of base ball next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
Senior Girls to Entertain.
The Senior girls will give a party for the '06 boys Saturday night in the gymnasium.
Everett Copley spent Sunday at his home in Kansas City.
TO GERMANY
PROFESSOR W. H.CARRUTH AND FAMILY LEAVE IN APRIL.
Will Reside in Berlin, Professor Will Write Book on the German Novel.
Professor William Herbert Carruth, vice Chancellor of Kansas University is planning to make a trip to Germany as soon as Chancellor Strong is able to resume his official duties at the University.
Professor Carruth will be accompanied by Mrs. Carruth and their daughter Constance. They will reside at Berlin where the Professor will write a book entitled, "A Study of the German Novel." Professor Carruth has been at the head of the department of German Language and Literature and Vice-Chancellor since 1887 and during that time has edited Schiller's Wallenstein, Scheffel's Ekkehard, Schiller's William Tell and besides has written "Carruth's German Reader," "Kansas in Literature," "Each in His own Tongue" and has contributed poems and articles to the New York Independent, the Cosmopolitan and many other magazines. Professor Carruth will not return for a year.
REPRESENTED AT K. C. A. C.
Kansas to Send Seven Men to Convention Hall Friday Night.
Manager Lansdon and Jerry Driscoll, captain of the track team, met this morning and chose the men who will represent the University in the Convention Hall meet at Kansas City Friday night. This meet is held under the auspices of the Kansas City Athletic club
Kansas will take only seven men who will take part in the pole vault, 50-yard dash, 440-yard event, shot put and relay. Putman will handle the shot, Russell will enter the pole vault and hurdle. Commons will run the 50-yard dash and Driscoll the quarter. Driscoll, Wallace, Commons and McCoy will do the relay.
A tumbling wheel is being made in Fowler Shops for the mounting laboratory in the Natural Museum. This tumbling wheel is to be six feet in diameter and two feet wide and is to be used in cleaning and preparing skins for mounting.
Professor W. E. Higgins of the law school will begin next Sunday at the Methodist church a class in the study of Jewish law. All students are invited to join.
Geo. Chapin, engineer '08, is visiting his brother, Chas. Chapin. He is employed in the Rock Island shops at Topeka.
Ben Stelter came down from Leavenworth last Saturday and spent Sunday at home.