UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
BASKET TOSSERS ROPED ARENA DRAWS SHOW UP STRONG NUMEROUS RECRUITS
With Five "K" Men Bac Coach Looks for Fine
Team
With nearly thirty men out every night in suits and five "K" men back the prospects for a successful basket-ball season this year are the brightest possible. The "K" men back are Captain Greenlees, Brown, Hite, Behm, and Smith. This with the exception of Captain Stuckey is the squad that won the championship of the southern division of the conference last year.
In addition to this squad a large bunch of last year's freshmen team are out. Several of them have exhibited real play against the freshmen aggregation and will push the Varsity men to keep their positions. At center Weaver is showing up well, especially on the tip-off Dunniem is also putting up a fine defensive game at *guard*. Sproull one of last year's freshmen centers has been transferred to forward.
Coach Hamilton has started holding nightly practices and the squad is showing up in good form. The first game will be staged shortly after the holiday. They are likely heavier than than of last season and should show up better when confronted by rough tactics of their opponents.
Varsity Easily Defeats Freshmen
In last night's scrimmage the Varsity as usual had a walk-a-way and scored at will on the fighting press before the game, but out for the freshmen team and the indications are that they will develop into a strong bunch of basket toppers before the season is over.
Coach Frank of late fame on account of his Minnesota tactics on the football field will assist Coach Hamilton with the Varsity basket tossers. Coach Frank played for several years on the Minnesota basketball team. It will be remembered that Minnesota defeated Nebraska by an overwhelming score last season on the basket-ball court.
Ike Lambert, '12, of Emporia will come tomorrow for a short visit at the Phi Delt house.
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Coach Frank Starts Boxing Classes With Enrollment of Seventy-Five
Seventy-five men reported yesterday to Coach Frank for the boxing class. Not much work was indulged in the first day, but from now on strenuous work will be the program for the class.
Coach Frank has said that he did not care to develop any "Mike Gibbons," if only he could develop all of the men in the science of self protection. The men look pretty good," is the way Coach expressed himself.
The idea of the class will be to hold boxing matches among themselves and when the men develop faster and get better acquainted, a boxing carnival will be held to determine who is the best man in the school. The men will be divided into feather weight, light weight, weighted weights, and heavy weights. If any of the other conference schools develop any boxers a carnival may be arranged in the spring.
BIG CIRCUS COMING
Peanuts and Red Lemonade Will Hold Sway in Robinson Gym
The Spring Circus which is given annually by the students will be held in the gymnasium this year the first week in April. It will be given for the benefit of the girls' dormitory.
The circus is on the way.
Between twenty and thirty men are working out every day at tumbling, and pyramid building. Mr. Root requests any one who has any freakish stunt of any description or who can give a slight-of-hand performance or has any side-show trick, and it goes to the gymnasium and all it ok.
The show this year will be bigger and better than ever. Seventy-five or a hundred people are expected to take part and gigantic preparations are being made.
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Our advertisement in yesterday's Daily Kansan incorrectly stated the Odyssey to be a story of Trojan War. It is a story of the wanderings of Ulysses after the Trojan War. The film cost $200,000 and was a year in making.
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FORTY MEN REPORT FOR CLASS SERIES
Great Interest Displayed In Approaching Inter-Class
Affairs
Practice for the class football games is on with a rush and over forty candidates were out for last night's practice eager to begin work. No definite dope could be gotten on the strength of the opposing teams or the referees and the iminations are that the games will be real gridiron battles.
The coaches were busy rounding up their men and drilling them into the rudiments of football. The coaches that will take charge of the work are Captain Brownlee, Weidline and Davis.
Most of the evening was spent in kicking the ball and practicing falling on it. The condition of McCook was not good, and practice was held on the golf links.
Coaches Mosse and Frank are still looking for more recruits for next year's team and are hoping that any big man that have not come out for football this year on account of lack of knowledge of the game will report for the class fracases as individual attention and instruction will be given to every man and will be a good chance to learn the rudiments of the game in preparation for next year.
Cheer Leaders- What They Are
Fourteen were killed in 1911.
Max—They have a play at the theater this week that is just full of grips.
Carl—What is it?
Max—The Traveling Salesman.
—Stanford Chaparral.
A Cheer Leader is a big noise surrounded by a red and blue cap, a red sweater and a pair of blue pants. He can take a mob of two thousand students having no organization whatever, yelling LL B. yells in the stern of the crowd, "Round ellipsoid rolling spheres" in the prow, hissing at the law students on the starboard side and trying vainly to be heard on "What's the matter with the team at the port side he can take such a mob and with a few flourishes of his can bring forth an "Oh me! Oh my!" that makes seismograph quiver worse than the San Francisco earthquake did.
A Cheer Leader pays his own expenses until the Missouri game when a collection is taken up. The amount the cheer leader remain in the hole depends on the effectiveness of his spell-binding speech before the hat is passed.
Faculty do not flunk cheer leaders very often because in the hands of said cheer leader rests whether a prof. shall have the opportunity to teach them, or have the cheer leader lead "What's the matter with Prof. ___
When the team wins, the team gets the praise; when they get beaten the cheer leader gets the thunder for not being the clock Chock to inspire the gladiators.
HARVARD—J. J. Armstrong, '14 and W. M. Washburn, '15, won the university tennis championship on Tuesday in straight sets.
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The Mill Tax as a Basis for a Permanent Income for All of the State Educational Institutions
It would make it possible to take better care of the details of the University administration. Under the present system the University budget for the expenditures in June, 1915, must be compiled in September 1912—almost three years ahead. With a permanent income each year would be provided for as occasion required and the administration would know definitely what to count on.
It would save the time of administrative heads and members of the faculty who are compelled by their duty to the interests intrusted to them by the state to go to Topeka and exert their efforts to have these interests understood by the legislature, in order to prevent the doing of some serious injury to some branch of the educational or state service work through oversight or lack of knowledge.
It would relieve administrative heads from the humiliation of being criticised for attending committee sessions at the legislature and doing the necessary legislative work to which their devitions and duty to their institutions obligates them.
It would put Kansas among the states which have already given their educational institutions the advantage of permanent incomes by fixed tax: Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Colorado, California, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, and others.
It would make it less easy for other universities to take some of the best teachers from Kansas, as they have been doing, because of the greater permanence of these universities in the matter of income, and the greater certainty with which their teachers can depend on the continuance of their work.
It would remove all temptation from educational institutions to save their interests by resorting to political methods. No state institution would ever be drawn into politics.
It would put the maintenance of the University, the Agricultural College and the State Normal Schools on a permanent basis, removing them from the danger of having their revenues curtailed by caprices or financial depression, and enabling the governing boards to pursue a definite business-like policy.
It would deliver the University from an especially heavy handicap of having only $7200 in permanent income (Interest in its land fund)—a handicap from which the other two state educational institutions suffer, but in a much less degree.
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A good thing for the University. A good thing for the other institutions. A good thing for the state and the taxpayers. A relief to the legislature.
Mill Tax Would Benefit University. It would ensure a more healthy growth of the University, because normal growth in an educational institution is possible only when plans providing for such growth can be made, extending over a number of years.
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It would insure the gradual and proportionate increase of the revenues for education as the value of the property in the state increases, providing automatically the larger means of meeting growing needs.
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It would save the time of legislators who are now compelled to study the intricacies of appropriation bills while occupied with scores of other legislative matters. To understand thoroughly the details of the University appropriation bill alone would require all the time that the ordinary legislator can devote to the duties of the legislative session.
It would emphasize the insignificance of the cost of education to each individual taxpayer. If he pays taxes on a valuation of $10,000 the mill tax would cost him $10. Would any man question that the presence in the state of three educational institutions, doing an immense amount of state service work, adds not one but many to the value of each thousand dollars worth of property that he possesses?
It would relieve the legislator from the responsibility of the present large total of appropriations, removing from his shoulders the burden of the entire educational budget of the state. It would also relie him from the administrative and financial zealous importunities of the advocates of the various institutions.
By eliminating competition in the procuring of appropriations it would make toward a better co-operation among the various schools, and a consequent increase of efficiency and value to the state.
It Would be a Relief to Legislature
It Would Benefit The State.
al interests of the state.
It would result in a more economic administration of the educational institutions because system based on available income always means economy.
It would be to the advantage of the taxpayers because it would insure their getting the greatest possible efficiency out of the state schools, the greatest possible value from their work with fixed and permanent income can an educational institution do its best work.
How The Mill Tax May be Secured
The income of the University and other institutions can be made permanent only by constitutional amendment.
The matter must first be presented to the legislature in order that it may be by them submitted to a vote *x* the people at the following general assembly appear on the ballot as a proposed amendment to the state constitution.
The first step, then, is to prevail on the legislature to give the people a chance to vote on this measure of such vital importance to the educa-
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WISCONSIN TO HAVE COURSE IN FOOTBALL
A study course known as the "special technique of football" will begin at the University of Wisconsin Tuesday by order of George W. Ehler, director of physical education.
Juniors, seniors or graduates who have had practical experience in the game are eligible for the course. They will be given under certain conditions.
The course, to be given two hours per week during December and January will include history of the game, theory of offense and defense, team and individual play, principles of practice, training, instruction, teaching and schedules, duties of officials, equipment, its use and care; management of teams and financial, administration. The course is the first of its kind on record.
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The Constitution of the United States defines the duties of the United States with respect to the naten and the various states. But the custom officials on the Canadian border have done more to a duly duty on liquid air shipped from this University to Canada than the Constitutions of both Canada and the United States.
Mr. W. B. Patty, who has been lecturing in western Canada for many years on wireless telegraphy, liquid air, and radium, has obtained his liquid air from the Chemistry department of the University. But the problem of shipping empty flasks back to the United States to be refilled with liquid air without paying a duty is the burdensome question. Mr. Patty got the flasks in Germany, and paid six dollars duty to import them in the United States. Now Canada charges duty for taking the flasks in the United States charges duty for the flasks coming back into this country. The difficult predicant Mr. Patty is in to get the flasks of Germany back in the United States without paying duty and the liquid air of the United States into Canada without paying duty, so as to combine the two in order to make them useful to him.