UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 59.
VOLUME XII.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 7. 1914.
RESCIND 30 HOUR AND HOLIDAY RULES
Valley Officials at Lincoln Make Changes in Conference Regulations
The rescinding of the thirty-hour-credit rule and the recommendation of the faculty members for the abolition of the rule prohibiting football games on Thanksgiving day were the principal features of the annual meeting of the Missouri Valley Conference held Friday and Saturday at Lincoln. The University of Kansas was represented at the meeting by W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics and Prof. A. W. Murray.
Thirty Hour Rule Revoked
The ruling which would require an athlete to have thirty hours of credits before being eligible for a Varsity team was recalled principally through the Office of faculty members Nebraska and the Argies, Nebraska and the Argies have always qualified their men on twenty-four hours credit and the ruling would have hit them particularly hard. The present requirements will call for twenty-eight hours work for eligibility, the same as now in effect in K. U.
Although the twenty-eight hour rule is back again it is not unlikely that both the Cornhusker and Aggies will continue their custom of the past and qualify men for their Varsity teams on twenty-four hours. If the University faculty at Kansas would permit such qualifications Kansas would have the services of a number of promising athletes this year who are otherwise in eligible because of lack of credits.
The recommendation of the faculty members of the Conference that the governing board of the organization which consists of the chancellors and presidents of the schools is to appoint an assistant against football games, will probably be considered by the Board at its January meeting. Although the ruling was made against football games on a holiday the Conference Board allowed the annual track meet to be held Louis last year in Memorial day.
The baseball schedule will consist of thirteen games, nine of which will be played on the McCook diamond. The team will open the season April 15 with the Chinese baseball team on McCook. Four games are scheduled with the Ames Agergies, two of which will be played in Lawrence. This will be the first time in recent years that the Ames white team appeared in Lawrence although they appear in Kansas visiting schedule last year. A game with the University of Iowa is also scheduled for either May 5 or 8th.
Besides the basketball schedule the dates for both the track and base, ball schedules were arranged. The basketball team meets at the annual indoor meet at Convention Hall in Kansas City with Missouri on March 12. There will be five other meets, including two dual meets, the Crimson and Blue will compete.
Baseball and Track Schedule
The complete baseball and track schedule
March 12, Indoor Meet at Conven-
tion Hall, Kansas City against Mis-
sure.
April 15, 16, Chinese Baseball team at Lawrence.
April 17, Drake Relay Games a Des Moines.
April 21, 22. Ames Aggies at Lawrence.
April 30, May 1—Kansas Aggies at Manhattan.
April 30, Dual Meet with Kansas Aggies at Lawrence.
May 1, High School Interscholastic meet, at Lawrence.
May 6, 7, Ames Aggries at Ames
May 5 or 8, Iowa State University
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May 5 or 8, Iowa State University at either Iowa City or Lawrence.
May 8, Dual meet with Nebraska at Lincoln.
May 15, 14, Missouri at Lawrence.
May 15, Annual Dual meet with
Minnesota.
May 17, 18, Kansas Aggies at Lawrence.
May 22, High School Invitation Meet.
May 29, Missouri Valley Track Meet at Columbia, Mo.
June 5, Western Conference meet at Urbana. Illinois.
Not Using Suit, Check in
Although 180 football suits have been checked out for inter-class football only about 120 men are out at practice. As a result Manager W. O. Hamilton is asking all those who have suits out and are not using them to check them in either at the Field or the Gym at once.
J.R. Mott, Who Will Lead Y. M.C.A. Campaign
CALL FOR 1913 ANNUAL
PAYMENT ROUSES TWELVE
Plea by Station for Money for Hob son and Allison Answered by
Dozen
In a final effort to raise the money due Asher Hobson and R. G. Allison, manager and editor of the 1913 Jayhawker, George W. Staton, chairman of the memorial committee of the class, sent out letters, last week to all the members of the class, with attention to the announcement made fail to effect that bids would be received for copies of the 1913 year book.
The announcement brought but twelve requests for books and netted nineteen dollars which did not be repay the promoters of the 1913 annual for the money they have in it.
According to Staton nothing further will be done regarding the class memorial until the Jayhawker debt has been paid. After that matter he was settled he will begin work on the memorial for the class of 1913.
WILL QUASH MOTT'S RIVALS
Campaign Committee Would Have Competitors Stop During Talks
Members of the Mott Campaign committee have started a house to house visit of all the boarding houses and fraternities in the University district in an effort to obtain the cooperation of every individual and organization connected with the University in the Mott campaign.
Three cornetts will be tried out at the meeting of the Mott committee tonight to see if this kind of music will not be good for the use of the instruments. The Y, M, C A. quartet is preparing for the singing of the week.
At a meeting of the University pastors of the city Thursday afternoon the various churches pledged to clear for the volunteer movement.
"Fill this niche. Don't ever stand aside because you know of someone who seems better able than you to do your work, and say 'Let him do it.' Do your best. Prompt response to the call of duty is one of the incidentals of life as vital as the tiny screw in a typewriter without which the whole machine is useless."
"You have your niche in life, small though it may be," said Rev O. C. Brown, pastor of the Baptist church who led morning prayers in Fraser Hall at 8 o'clock this morning.
About 100 students were present this morning.
Reverend Mr. Brown will lead morning prayers the rest of the week. His general subject is "Incidentals."
Tiger Bite All Gone When Lawyers and Footballists Skip to
The gloom of defeat had no place at the Law Scrim, the annual party given by the men of the School of Law in honor of the football team who had won their Hall. From the way the spirited Laws and the "hefty" gridiron heroes skipped about the floor, no one would have thought that only two short weeks ago a hungry tiger broke out of K. U's football aspirations.
EFEAT DOES NOT DAMPEN SPIRIT OF LAW SCRIM
The University colors were used throughout the decorative scheme. Football blankets and crimson and blue curtains hung at the windows, and the lights were dimmed by red and blue globes. Streamers of the same colors were draped between the chandeliers. A large picture of Uncle Jimmy Green had a prominent place on the stage. The programs
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were card cases of purple leather with a small gold football in bas-relief.
K. U. STUDENTS WILL SEE SIX BASKETBALL GAMES
On the receiving line were Chancellor and Mrs. Frank Strong, Dean and Mrs. J. W. Green, Prof. and Mrs. H. W. Humble, Prof. R. F. Rice, Frank Jones, Miss Helen Glasscoce, Mrs. Mowry to Alice Guenther, H. S. Nelson, Miss Stella Stubbs, John E. Detwiler, and Miss Erna Fischer.
Haley's five piece orchestra fur-
haled the music for the 24 dances.
Recreations were served in the
small room on the second floor,
in the "shifts"
The Mott campaign committee meets tonight at 9 o'clock in Myers Hall to discuss plans for Mott week at the University. Prof. U. G. Mitchell and Harry Wight, travelling Y. M. secretary from India, will have a big part in the evening's program. The Y. M. quartet will sing and the instrumental quartet will lead the singing.
Frank L. Jones was manager of the Sermi, and the chairman of community gardens. C. Simpson J. refreshments, J. G. Somers, and decorations, A. M. Root.
Robinson Gymnasium Will Have Half Dozen of Fourteen Conference Games Scheduled
MOTT CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
Fourteen Missouri Valley Conference games, six of them to be played in Robinson Gymnasium, will be the principal part of the schedule for the 1915 Jayhawker basketball five who open the season January 8th against Ames at Ames. The replay games which have not been arranged may probably be filled with the smaller schools of the state.
WILL MAKE PLANS TONIGHT
The reappearance of the Nebraska Cornhoppers on a basketball court in Lawrence will be the feature of the home games. The Huskies are playing their series of two games on January 22 and 23. These two games will be opening Missouri Valley games of the season as far as the home folks are concerned as the team opens Ames in the Agile's home town.
The complete Conference schedule as arranged at Saturday's meeting of the Missouri Valley Conference at Lincoln is:
January 8, 9 - Ames at Ates.
January 22, 23 - Nebraska at Lawrenc
January 8, 9-Ames at Ames.
January 29, 30—Kansas Aggies at Manhattan
Feb. 10, 11—Kansas Aggies at Lawrence
Feb. 19, 26—Missouri at Lawrence
Feb. 24, 25—Missouri at Columbia
Feb. 26, 27—Washington at St.
Louis.
Brandon, Florida December 1. 1914
To the Kansan:
In the Kansas City Times of November twenty-sixth there appeared a communication signed "Dean O. Templin," discussing certain matters connected with the University of Kansas. I shall be grateful if you will be so good as to state that we have no knowledge whatever regarding the Quincy, Oui Templin. (Signed)
Dean College of Liberal Art and Sciences
ELECT CAPTAIN TOMORROW
Guests at Banquet Will Cast Votes for 1915 Football Chief
The election of the 1915 captain of the Jayhawker football eleven will place the annual banquet in the football tomorrow night at the Eldridge House.
The feed will begin promptly at 7 o'clock and any player who played in any game during the season is in attendance. After watching Hamilton, the ballooning on the leader for next year will not be restricted to K men but every man who attends the dinner will be allowed to vote. The football K's wl"arded at the annual river wedding night in F. A. V. Hall.
DR. ALICE GOETZ WAS
BELLE OF MIDDY DANCE
The belle of the hall Saturday afternoon, when the second midday dance of the season took place in the Gym, was Dr. Alice L. Goetz. Because why? Doctor Goetz voluntarily asked Dr. Alice L. Goetz the girls into the mysteries of the season's dances—and incidentally to show them how to do the old ones properly. As a result she was because why? Doctor Goetz voluntarily devotes clamoring to learn the dance of the trot, the canter, and so ad infinitum.
Second in popularity was the young woman who presided over the punch bowl in the corner. Dancing on ploughed ground is warm work, and that is about what the first floor of the gymnasium is like. It slogged by a small army of tepischoris-a bunch of girls, though, and so the dancer gave way to the tall 5:30, when the punch and the dancer's pep gave out simultaneously, and everybody put on their wraps and went home.
Will Talk on Incidentals
With the general theme of "Incendials" Rev. O. C. Brown, of the First Baptist church will lead morning prayers this week. The specific subjects touched will be "At The Start," "On the Way," "Checked Up," "Harder Yet," and "There fore."
Miss Martha Land, a member of the Chi Omega Supreme Governing Council and editor of Elusis, the official organ of the Chi Omega sorority, is visiting at the local chapter house this week.
BOARD WILL ASK STATE FOR EIGHT PER CENT RAISE
Enrollment Increase of 20 Per Cent Makes Necessary Additional Equipment and Accounts for Enlarged Budget
Topeka, Dec. 7—An eight per cent increase in maintenance for the fifteen state educational plants will be asked by the Board of Administration when the Kansas legislature meets next month. This imminent meeting is necessary to take care of the rapidly growing enrollment, which in the past two years has risen approximately twenty per cent in the various schools. New teachers will be needed, extra equipment and apparatus which cost more on account of the war; new buildings; increases must be provided, in order to keep the institutions at their present standard of efficiency.
The 1913 legislature granted an 18 per cent increase for maintenance.
This proposed increase for current expenses is distributed as follows:
University of Kansas
Agricultural College
State Normal School
Manual Training Normal
Fort Hays Normal
School for the Deaf
School for the Blind
School of Mines
School of Medicine and State Hospital
Fort Hays Experiment Station
Decrease of $2,500 each year on
account of increased receipts of
grain and sale of live stock.
Dodge City Experiment Station
Garden City Experiment Station
For purchasing dairy herd.
Tribune Experiment Station
Colby Experiment Station
Decrease of $500 in 1916. Half of
state is excavated is appropriated
by county law
State Fish Hatchery
The ten thousand students at the state schools have not the classroom facilities that are provided in the high schools of Kansas cities. Less floor space is available to the student in the state institutions of Kansas than in any other state in the Union. The Board therefore asks that the student be enrolled in a construction building at the University, for the foundation has already been laid, be completed. An appropriation of $125,000 a year will be necessary.
Saving on Health Service
This amount will take care of the remarkable increase in correspondence study, distribution of package libraries, assistance furnished works for municipalities deprived cities and towns through the municipal bureau. It will also make possible the continuance of Merchants' Week, Journalism Week, Crime and Charity Congresses and similar events, as annual institutions.
for farmers through institutes, movable schools, and short courses, the appropriations made by the Federal government will enable the institution to carry out its duties in increasing the next two years without increase of appropriations. The Federal money available is that allotted to the state by the Smith-Lever act.
While Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, and other states pay from $80,000 to $100,000 each to maintain laboratories for Board work, Kansas utilized her University equipment and faculty and students. This service also included the sanitary engineering work of the state, inspection of weights and measures, preparation of weather reports, the survey of surveys, and other state activities. The employees carry on this work, which amount is but a fraction of that spent by other states.
The demands made by the citizens of the state upon the schools during the past two years have greatly increased in number and variety, and that this important work, which has given every community of the state, should be fostered and encouraged. Last year the Board took **18,125** from the maintenance fund of the University to this public service work, and take the legislature to add to this sum **$,500** for 1915 and **$12,500** for 1916.
Public Service Work
"The young men and women of Kansas," says the Board in prefacing its recommendation, "are entitled to first-class instruction. We have carefully considered the needs of each instituto nand our recommendations cover only those items which will be absolutely demanded by the conditions facing the schools when they open in September, 1915."
With the heavy demands made up of the Agricultural Experiment Station by the farmers of the state the lines of experiment work must of necessity be increased. Each year the work becomes more costly because experiments as they progress require more apparatus as well as more time on the part of the scientist, because the increase of $10,000 recommended for the laboratory doubling two years will be only sufficient the Board says, to continue the work now in progress without loss of efficiency.
Federal Money Helps
While the extension department of the Agricultural College is perform- boys and girls through clubs, for home and through demonstration schools, and
1915 1916
$20,000 $20,000
30,000 45,000
No increase
20,000 20,000
8,000 10,000
3,500
2,250 2,250
No increase
15,000 15,000
No increase
No increase
1,000 1,000
No increase
No increase
(Maintained by fees)
The Federal Government criticizes the Agricultural College on account of its lack of classrooms and the Board will ask the legislature to appoint it a $ 400,000 building for 600,000 in 1916 to erect a building for classes in chemistry and physics.
Not having used $60,000 appropriated in 1913 for the remodeling of the main building at the Emporia Normal School, and $5,000 appropriated for a new boiler, the Board asks that this $65,000 be appropriated, together with $92,500 each year for the erection of a new adminis-
tration building. The present building is characterized by a "fire trap," that would be condemned. State if it were not a state building. To provide equal opportunities for the girls at the State Manual Training Normal, the Board is asking for $62,500 each year to erect a girl's gymnasium. An auditorium and gymnasium which will also be suitable for stock shows and other demonstrations of like character, is needed at Hays Normal School and an appropriation of $22,500 each is recommended. Make the State Board agree adequate to the demands of the State $15,000 each year is asked for to build a hospital dispensary and hospital labora-
tory.
A number of questions involving business efficiency will be put up to the Legalstature for its consideration and decision. The items include, combining the heating and power plant at the University, an automatic stoker at the Agricultural College, buying land at the Agrifacural College for which $2,500 a year rent is now paid. Arigerator at the School for the Deaf. A new heating plant at the State Hospital, and a dairy barn and two silos at the Garden City Experiment Station.
Snap shot of dancers at Law Scrim.