UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XII.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20, 1915.
AUTHORITIES UPHOLD NAISMITH'S INVENTION
NUMBER 79.
Encyclopedias and Sport Books Deny Gulick's Claim on Basketball
In the "North American" for January appears the following: "Though not the New York authority on games and athletics, was the inventor of basketball. It was meant primarily as a good game for schools and colleges, as it lacked the roughness of football and was easy to understand."
The statement is wrong in attributing the game to the New York authority, as the game was invented by Dr. James Naismith, professor of physical education, at the University of Kansas though the time the game was played was Mr. Gulick was at the physical department at the Y. M. C. A. college in Springfield, Mass., where Doctor Naismith was instructor.
The E of the gn in 1891, structor M. C field t' bc
There has been some discussion as to the real originator of the popular winter sport, but it is conceded by the honor belongs to Doctor Naismith.
encyclopedia Britannica says, "It was the invention, James Naismith, an in-the gymnasium of the school in Spring-" and adds the reason for the game. The Ameri-practically the same thing, the invention of the game
Doctor Naismith, and Nelson McClellen, acyclopedia says, "Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith." In Spadings' Guide to Basketball appears: "D*D* D*D* Naismith of the University of Kansas was chosen to membership this year, representing the Missouri Valley. Doctor Naismith's selection a happy one and the committee felt it very fitting indeed to list among its members the founder of the game."
the game.
Dr. Naismith himself denies the Gulick claim and has the first set of rules to prove his contention.
WAR HAS NOT KEPT
NURSERY SUPPLIES AWAY
The war is not affecting the shipment of nursery supplies from France says Mr. P. W. Classen, Assistant state entombologist, lumber stocks, root stools and seeds are beginning to arrive, from Ussy.
Quills Have New Home
The nurserymen were afraid for some time that the war would shut off all nursery supplies from Europe, which they are dependent on. Very little, if any of these stocks are grown in this country. Unless one sees radical change occur in the European situation very soon there will be no stock shipped to this country to fill the orders at festivals for the coming year.
Quill Club held the most successful meeting of the year last night at 7:30 o'clock in its new quarters at 14 Fraser, and an unusually number were present as a aid. The program was story by W. W. Swingle, based on life in the Philippine jungles, a talk by Miss Margaret Lynn, of the department of English, and a sketch of schoolboy Afraid to discuss of the club's plans for the next semester chocolates and wafers were served. The next meeting will be held Tuesday, February 16, at the same place Members absent from meetings without good excuse will be automatically suspended.
Druggist to Address Chemists
Doctor Wood of the Parke-Davis Drug Co., of Kansas City, Mo., will give a lecture to the pharmacy students and any others interested. Friday morning in room 15302, tour the Chemistry Building at 03:00 clock. He will talk on "Antitoxins and Vaccines" of a bacteriological nature.
Engineer Talks to Freshmen
Engineer Talks to Freshmen
Mr. Uhrig, Owner of Kansas City, Mo., district manager of the Western Electric company gave an address to the freshmen of the School of Engineering yesterday. Mr. Uhrig was brought here by Mr. Uhrig in order to give a series of practicing engineers who will talk to the freshmen.
Louis Thorpe, of Omaha, Nebraska, who left the School of Medicine last year, is now enrolled as a junior medic.
The Botany Club will meet this afternoon in Snow Hall at 7 o'clock Chrystyle Treark will be the speaker.
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Authorities Uphold His Claim
WOMEN'S PROM FEBRUARY 12 U. G. MITCHELL AN EDITOR
First Annual Party Will be Staged in Robinson Gymnasium
The Women's Student Government Association will give a Women's Prom on February 12, in Robinson Gymnasium. Escorts will dress in shirt waistcoats and women will party or afternoon frocks. The plan is to give the women of the University a prom as near like ones in other universities as is possible. The idea of the women's prom is well that the promoters here believe it will become an annual party. Since the charge has so often been made that the women of the University have no chance to meet and know each other, the means of remedying the matter.
those in charge have several plans for the day which will be kept secret until the afternoon of the prom.
LOTS OF ACTORS AT K. U.
Three People After Each Part is Dramatic Club Play
Nineteen men and twelve women have appeared in the Dramatic Club tryouts for places in the cast of "The Man From Home." From present indications, there will be three or four people after each part in the play. The cast will be announced next week.
"We save some wonderful talent," says Prof. Arthur MacMurray, coach of University dramatics, "and competition is so keen we are having difficulty in detecting the best player in need that the first play presented by the New Dramatic Club of the University will be a great success."
Three tryouts for parts in the cast have been held. The first occurred last Thursday at 4:30 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Both members and non-members of the club participated. Any non-member who was selected in "The Man From Home" cast will be elected to club membership.
Gets Maps Series
The Oliver Iron Mining Company of Duluth, Minn., which owns the large mines of the Masaba Range, has sent to the mining and geology departments maps series showing geological structure of the surface and underground layout about the workings and maps about the analysis of. Accompanying this data were forms of their cost keeping records. This will be of particular value to the students taking the course in mapping.
In order to settle a controversy between the city authorities at Washington and the company furnishing electric motors to run the machines, it was joined by A. Johnson of the School of Engineering went to that city this week to run a checking test on the motors. The School of Engineering is being called on constantly by cities over the state to send men to them in some engineering problem.
Johnson to Test Meters
Gets Wire Exhibits
The mining department has received a wire rope and cable exhibit from the John Roebling's Sons Company of Trenton, New Jersey. The board is neatly finished board and will be of use in the mining classes.
C. E. Carroll, of Alma, was here yesterday to see his son Edwin Carroll, freshman College, who is ill with an attack of appendicitis.
Edwin Carroll Ill
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mathematics Professor on Staff of American Mathematics Magazine
The department which Professor Mitchell will have charge of, is known as the "Questions and Discussions" department, and is devoted to answering perplexing mathematical questions and to the discussion of any phase of mathematics. Professor Mitchell has already taken have his first work in next month's issue of the magazine.
Prof. U. G. Mitchell, of the department of mathematics was recently appointed editor of a department in the American Mathematical Magazine, a monthly publication issued in Chicago and devoted to the instruction of collegiate and advanced academic mathematics.
The American Mathematical Magazine has been established for twen ty-three years.
LIBRARY SQUAD BUSY
WHILE STUDENTS CRAI
Ante-quote enthusiasm is most noticed nowadays in the Library. From the time the doors are opened until the lights are turned down, the bookshouses are busy doing out their ware; the chairs on the second floor command a premium, because of the demand for reference to ancient historical documents for those 2000 word history papers.
On the first floor, the chairs are no longer idle, for the magazine and encyclopedia readers must be accommodated. Freshmen premodiate their college-college notebooks, writing at the last moment before the close of the term to write their final "big essays." The assistants behind the counter say their work of bringing out reference materials in order to ensure youngsters is unusually heavy, due to this creastratination allowed by the teachers. And this heavy-duty stuff will continue as the days go by and increase with leaps and seizures. Then comes the reaction. No work for the library squad for many days!
Kansan Story Brings Animals
Today's express brought the Museum to a hawk that he helped Kansan of Kristi's Hawk. This hawk is seldom found in this locality. This hawk was shipped by L. W. Barbard of Kansas City, Missouri, in response to a story entitled "Museum wants specimens shortly after the Christmas holidays and which was copied by several other papers. Two days after this story appeared the Museum received one of them, that he had a live "hen" or "goose" hawk which he would donate to the Museum.
Kansan Story Brings Animals
Twenhoefel Starts Geology Paper
Prof. W. H. Twenhoefel of the department of geology, who studied in Europe last summer, has started a paper on Russian and Scandinavian geology. A box of fossils collected been shipped for him today. Five or six boxes of fossils were shipped from Russia some time ago but nothing has ever been heard of them.
There are according to Dr. James Naismith, University Physician, on an average a dozen students who come to his office for mec.lal treatment. The treatments are colds, stomach trouble, and hurts sustained in the Gym. No one has been badly hurt while doing gym work this year.
Dozen Sick a Day
Classes for the second semester begin Tuesday morning, February 9. Monday, February 8, will be allowed for enrollment. II will be required in school during the fall term will be required to register at that time.
JUNIORS WILL HOLD FORTH IN BIG MIXER
Third Year Men Expect 275 Attendance in Eagles Hall Tonight
The annual junior mixer will be staged tonight in Eagles' Hall with between two hundred and fifty and three hundred in attendance. The evening will take up the evening. For the non-smokers Hersheys will be provided.
Prof. H. F. Harrington, of the department of journalism will give a talk on some topic dear to the heart of the University stude. The Glee Club quartet will sing and E. A Blackman will give a solo.
The Owls, the honorary junior society, will put on a stunt appropriate to its nature. The big feature of program cannot be announced. Al Burke has been learned is that Edmund Burke is taking a leading part in the event.
HOFFMAN TO TAKE PART
IN MANHATTAN CAMPAIGN
Conrad Hoffman left for Manhattan at 11:32 o'clock this morning where he will assist in the great study at evangelical campaign being conducted there under the direction of Dud Elliott. H. L. Heinzmann, an old K. U. man will also be one of the big men in the meetings. Hoffman will stay for the entire campaign, returning Monday morning.
During the absence of Hoffman James Sellers chairman of the employment committee of the Y. M. C.A., will have charge of the employ-ment bureau to deliver his office from 4:30 to 5:30 o'clock today and Friday and from 8 to 9 o'clock Saturday morning
Donald C. Good, freshman College,
pledged by theappa Sigma feaftrament.
Good Pledges Kappa Sig
EI ROPEAN WAR BRINGS
SOCIAL SCIENCE NOW
"An impression calls for an expression. Learn by doing. This is what constitutes education," said Rev. W, A. Powell of the First Presbyterian church at a hundred and fifty students at 8 clock morning prayers this morning.
“An international social conscience is being born from this great European war,” he said. “Strive to develop the social conscience and see God through your neighbor. Always be cheerful for out of your ‘Cheerful Yesterdays’ will come your ‘Confident Tomorrows.’” The subject for tomorrow will be “Confident Tomorrows.”
WIND PREVENTS FLOODING
POTTER LAKE FOR SKATING
Potter Lake did not receive its promised bath last night on account of the high wind. Arrangements had been made for flooding the lake but it was postponed because it was flooded the wind would make it rough.
If the air is quiet enough this afternoon the water will be turned on. If it is not it will be flooded the first cold still day.
The College faculty yesterday afternoon ordered that the major system passed last spring be put in operation at once.
ALL JUNIORS AND SENIORS
MUST FILE MAJOR REPORT
VARSITY SQUAD PLAYS
INDIANS PRACTICE GAME
Acting upon this ruling Dean Oln Templin requests that all juniors and seniors call at his office and notice of their major work at once.
The Varsity squad practiced for the game with the Cornhuskers scheduled for Friday night in a game against Indianans in the Gymnasium last night.
After the student has done this he is to go to the head of his major department and confer with himre before the work he is to do for his degree.
The Nebraska game will be one of the heavier of the contests on the K-10 team, and it is giving his men good training for the meeting with the Northern team.
McKeever to
W. A. McKeever's lectures on Religion and Eugenics will be given next Sunday morning at 9:15 o'clock in the Congregational church. The special book is *The Relation of Nature and Nurture*.
McKeever to Lecture
Russell Hepler III
Russell Hapler, sophomore College basketball, amply with an attack of appendicitis.
VALGREN TO LEAVE FACULTY
William Duffus, Wisconsin Graduate
Takes Economics Instructor's Place
V. N. Valgern, assistant professor in economics, will leave the University at the end of this semester, take up a position in the Bureau of Markets, Department of Agriculture at Washington. The University has secured William McGlashan Duffus, of Madison, Wis., as a regular member of the faculty to take up Professor Valgern's work.
For the last eighteen months Professor Duffus has been employed by the Railroad Commission of Wisconsin in preparing facts for other public utility cases. He is a Phi Beta Kappian, and has rendered service to the government, as a fellow in economics at the University of Wisconsin, in preparation for equipment toward his Ph.D. except the taking of the final examination.
DEBATING SOCIETIES TO TRY FOR CHAMPIONSHII
The K. U. and University Debating Societies will clash shortly after the final examinations for the championship of the University. The University society now holds the belt as the result of an inter-society debate in 1913, but in 1926, the K. U. Society because of the former's inability to answer a challenge issued to it last year.
All squad men working on the inter-collegiate debates will probably be barred from the contest.
SOPH HOP TO HAVE HALEY
AND SIX PIECE ORCHESTRA
George Yookum, manager of the Sophome Hop, last night signed a contract with Haley of Kansas City to furnish music for the Hop on April 30. Haley will bring a sitar and orchestra with him for the big party.
All fraternities, with one exception, have cleared their calendar for that date. The Alpha Tau, who had even rented the hall for the night of the Hop, cancelled their date, in order that they would in no way interfere with the class. Another prize was the only fraternity which now has a dance scheduled on that night. Lawrence Miller, president of the sophomore class stated that he had secured the Fraternal Aid Hall for Friday, April 23, one week earlier than the night they have set for their party, and George McElhenny told the George McElhenny told the Hop management this morning that it would be impossible to change the date for the Phi Alpha Delt party.
K. U. ENGINEERS TAKE
UP PROGRAM AT TOPEKA
Prof. H., A. Rice speaks on "Highway Laws." J. E. Walker gives a report on "The Electrolytic Treatment of Coconut Oil." Hesser's subject is "Sewage Purification." Prof. C. C. Williams reads a paper on "Economy vs. Rate Increase in Electricity." G. C. Shaik speaks on "Regulation of Public Utilities."
The program of the Kansas Engineering Society which is in session at Topeka today will be taken up on Wednesday, the faculty of the School of Engineering.
Professor Rice will submit to the society the report of the committee which was appointed to investigate the Highway commissions of other states, of which he was the chairman.
Not Too Late for Senior Pictures
Seniors will be given a few more days in which to get their pictures into the Annual. Announcement was made that today would be the last day that senior pictures could be turned over to the Annual managers, but the managers, headed by the inability of some students, to get appointments with the photographer. Either the photograph or note from photographer that a picture is being made should be turned into the office soon. The date is retarded by the juniors.
Ask For Suggestions
Prof. C. H. Tallot secretary of the Kansas League of municipalities, has been asked to make suggestions for speakers and subjects at the National Conference of City Officials to be held 'next fall at Oakland, Cal. This meeting is to be in connection with the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Only One Law Degree
Entertain All Men
The W. S. G. A will entertain all men of the University at a tea Wednesday, January 27, from 3 to 5 o'clock in Haworth Hall.
Walter M. Doggett, of Lawrence, will be the only person to secure a degree from the School of Law at the end of the first semester. Mr. Doggett entered school in the middle of the year, as a freshman, and will consequently graduate after the mid-term examinations.
DANCE FIRST MOVE TO CLEAR UNION DEBT
Gymnasium Hop Will be Given by Student Council February 9
The dance will probably be followed by some sort of theatrical by the Council or other student organi-
ment, and various other entertainments.
The Men's Student Council, at last night's meeting, decided to take immediate steps to liquidate the debts of the defunct Student Union. The first move in this direction will be the staging of a big舞在 the Gymnasium the evening of the Fourth Day, it was Then after quiz week; the date rule will be off, and every student of the University will have a chance to attend.
SOPH MEDICS PREPARE
TO GO TO ROSEDALE
Twenty-nine Say They Will Make Hegira, While Two Are Undecided
Twenty-nine sophomore medics will take up their work at Rosedale at the beginning of the second semester in February. The men who are ready to go and who intend to do so are:
Watie M. Alberty, Lewis G. Allen,
Edward S. Baker, Horace R. Boone,
Cecil Burchfield, John E. Castles,
Arthur C. Clasen, Samuel W. Connor,
L. L. Davis, Robert S. Dinnore,
Corr. J. Davis, Robert S. Gorran,
G. H. Garrion, Wilbur Gillette,
Arthur B. Haynes, Paul K. Neal,
Henry S. O'Donnell, Henry S. Oleson,
Daniel Peterson, Harold E.
Ragle, Claude E. Riney, Charles W.
Rose, Nathan Rosenberg, Elvie
Nathan Stewart, Raymond W. Swinney,
Leen Henry Walendorf, William O.
Whittaker.
Two members of the class, Wilbur A. Baker and Yale N. Levinson are undecided as to whether they will continue their studies in other school. The remaining members of the class say they will not go to Rosedale.
BUILD STAGE IN GREEN
FOR DRAMATIC CLUB USE
A fully equipped stage on which the Dramatic Club and class play casts may conduct complete and comprehensive rehearsals, is to be constructed at the east end of the building. M. Shea's force of carpenters began work on its this morning and the job will be finished by the middle of next week.
The stage will be thirty feet wide, eighteen feet deep, and twenty-six inches high. It will be provided with a front curtain, wings, and some scenery. The audience will see a small When finished, it will be of service to the department of public speaking, both in dramatics and debating work.
LAURA E. LOCKWOOD TO BE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
The alumii address at commencement this year will be delivered by Laura E. Lockwood, professor of English in Wellesley College.
Miss Lockwood is a member of the class of '91, and received her master's degree from Howard University. She attended Yale University and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in '98. She taught English in the Lawrence high school after her graduation from the University. After finishing her work at Yale she became a member of the faculty at Wellesley. Miss Lockwood was a summer student of the band of Americans who had interesting ex-
Miss Lockwood was abroad last summer and was one of the band of Americans spending ex-times getting out of the war zone and back to America.
K. U. WILL BE HOST TO CHEMISTS ON SATURDAY
The University of Kansas will be host to the Kansas City Section of the American Chemical Society January 23. This will be the 106th meeting of the section, the meetings alternating between Lawrence and Kansas City. F. R. P. Moore talks the Effect of the War on Dye Industry," and Prof. H. C. Allen on the "Gases of the Midcontinental Field."
Membership in the American Chemical Society is limited to the chemists of all branches of the science. The membership of the society is 6000. The national meetings are hold twice a year, in April and September. The next national convention will be in New Orleans.
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