The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 17, 1910
VOLUME VI.
PRESIDENT HILL AT DEDICATION
WILI, SPEAK TO THE GUESTS AT EVENING BANQUET.
Dean F. O. Marvin has received positive promise that President Albert Ross Hill, of the University of Missouri will be here to speak at the banquet to be held in connection with the dedication of the new Engineering buildings or Friday, February 25. Fifteen hundred invitations were mailed today and can be made that every event of the day shall be a distinct success.
Many Invitations Sent to Alum ni and Former Students.
Dean C. H. Benjamin of Purdue one of the famous engineering educators of the country, will also be one of the speakers at the dedication banquet.
The program for the afternoon and evening as printed on the invitations is as follows:
Addresses: Frank O. Marvin Dean School of Engineering.
Afternoon Session, 2:30, Chan cellor Frank Strong presiding.
Richard C. Maclaurin, President Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ernest R. Buckley, President American Mining Congress.
The buildings will be open for inspection during the day and after the banquet in the evening.
The Kansas Engineering Society has arranged for a meeting in the lecture room of the Engineering building at 11 a. m.
The invitations have been sent to the heads of engineering schools in all parts of the country, to other professors who are interested in technical education to local engineers and men who are in the lighting and telephone business.
Especial care was taken to invite all alumni and former students of the Engineering School A circular was enclosed in all invitations sent to these men. This circular is designed as a notice to the alumni that their Alma Mater remembers them and wishes then to be informed of recent event at the University so that their interest in the Engineering school may be stimulated. These circles are devoted to information concerning the equipment of the new building, the work being done in it and how the University is aiding the state.
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After considerable discussion as to whether ladies would be invited to the dedication banquet, it has been decided that the students may determine the matter individually. It is certain that the wives of the professors and other guests will be present and the number of University girls will depend upon the individual engineers.
Paul Surber, a freshman in the College, will visit in Bonner Springs Friday and Saturday.
GIRLS TO GIVE FARCES.
Proceeds of Plays to Go to the Y. W. C. A.
The first of a series of matinees to be given during the rest of the school year, will take place Saturday afternoon when the members of the Theta sorority will stage a farce at their chapter house for the University girls. An admission of ten cents will be charged, the proceeds of the afternoon's entertainment to be used in connection with the Y. W. C. A. work of the University.
It is the present plan to give these matinee parties at each of the four sorority houses at the German club and at the Association house. At each some sort of force will be provided by the members of the respective organizations and the proceeds turned over to the Y.W.C.A.The monetary side is not the only factor in these entertainments,but by then it is hoped that a close relation ship will be formed among all of the University girls.
CALDWELL TO HASKELL.
Will Coach the Indians in Foot ball Next Fall.
"Fighting Bill" Caldwell, who has been one of the 'Varsity grid iron stars, will coach the Haskell football team next fall. He had several conferences recently with Superintendent Fiske and while no contract has been signed it is practically certain that the Indians will be under the direction of Caldwell for the 1910 football season. He is one of the best examples of what Kansas turn out in the way of football players and should be able to do duel for the Haskell boys next fall.
Caldwell has also been in consultation with the athletic manager in regard to a schedule o games. The possibility of a Kanas-Haskell game next fall be comes an interesting consideration.
INTELLIGENCE ON MARS.
Dr. Lowell Believes Designing Beings Are at Work.
That the geometrical marking of Mars are evidence and proof of the work of intelligent beings on that planet was the thesis which Dr. Percival Lowell defended in his lecture in University hall Tuesday night.
The lecture was illustrated with lantern views of drawings and photographic plates of Mars. Professor Lowell said he had observed a canal on recent plates which had never appeared before. This he said, was additional proof that the work of intelligent beings was being carried forward on the planet.
"It is unlikely that there are men like ourselves on Mars. The different conditions there would give rise to beings of an entirely different kind. But I believe there is unmistakable evidence that mind is at work on that planet," said Professor Lowell.
Lewis Breyfogle has appointed P. C. Carson chairman of the invitation committee of the junior prom. This appointment was necessitated by the withdrawal from school of Ralph Cole.
BASKET BALL TEAM LEFT ON TRIP THIS AFTERNOON.
TO INVADE
THE ENEMY
The Boys Will Have a Week of Hard Games Ahead of Them.
Captain Johnson's basket ball five have played their last game of the season on the local court. They have won every game and have only two games to win to assure themselves of the championship of the Missouri valley.
At 3:03 this afternoon eight players, under the direction of Coach Hamilton, began the long journey which will determine the premiership of the conference Captain Johnson, Long, Heizer Woodard, Martindell, Van der Vries, Larson and Smith are the men who are to take the big trip. The first game will be played tonight in Kansas City. The Kansas City Athletic club will be the Jayhawkers' opponents and the warmest game of the trip is expected.
Friday and Saturday the seem of the struggles will be St. Louis where Washington University will be played return games. On Monday night and Tuesday afterno Johnson's bunch will again rough house with Burress' five at Columbia. Of the Washington games the Jayhawkers can drop one without being in any danger
On Wednesday night comes one of the big series. Ames has been very successful so far, and has only recently defeated Missouri. Thursday the game will be played with Drake at Des Moines. The Drake team is another strong one and a hard battle is looked for here.
The trip ends with games Friday and Saturday of next week with Nebraska University at Lincoln.
It is the last four games of the trip that promise to be the hard ones, and they are also the ones that are most necessary in order that Kansas be again Missoura Valley Conference champions.
The Entomology department has recently secured an unusually large hornets' nest which was found on the Ben E. Wilson farm in Jefferson county. It was exhibited for a time in the window of a down-town store, but has been donated to the University by Mr. Wilson and just at present is hanging in Professor Hunter's office in Snow hall. The nest is about two feet by fifteen inches and of a size and type rarely found except in heavily wooded parts of the country. The covering is a paper-like material which the hornet secures from the decayed surface of rails or any wood which has become affected by the weather. The colloquial name for the hornet is the yellow jacket which is slightly smaller than the ordinary wasp but a frightful stinger.
Some Hornets' Nest.
THE WEATHER.
Slightly cloudy, with possible snow; no change in temperature
BRUSH GAME COST DEAR.
One Student Sacrificed $40 on the Altar of Graft.
To The Kansan:
This being the season of the year when all the canvassing agents and grafters swoop down upon the University I thought that I would like to give vent to my feelings, and relate a few of my experiences of last summer, when I was so unfortunate as to be influenced by the silver tongued oratory of one of these menaces to theUniversity student and mankind in general.
This individual "proved" to me that he had the best brush outfit that was ever invented for the benefit of the weaker sex. He sent me into a territory which had "never been worked before." Result: When I arrived in the "promised land of milk and honey," I found it to be flooded with the self-same "one of the five great inventions for the lessening of the daily duties of the housewife," under a different name. The trip cost me $40, four weeks' time, and a summer's job at $15 a week.
I send this communication to warn any innocent, scrupulous consecientious, hard-working, in dustrious student who may be desirious of earning a year's schooling in two months' time by the graft method, against taking up with any such scheme.
ONE WHO WAS STUNG.
IT WAS A FINE SLEEP.
But a Law Student's Slumber Hard Harsh Awakening.
The "champion play-boy class of the University," as it was charactorized today by one of its members, namely the senior laws, got in action again yesterday when one of their number, F. Gazlay Apt, fell asleep about noon. The class silently stole out of the room with their honored dean and left the slumbering hero to his peace His beauty sleep was soon disturbed by the sweet strains of "Please Go Away and Let Me Sleep," as rendered by the Senior Law Choral society, which were awaiting outside the room to give him an ovation when he emerged "Uncle Jimmie" has now placed at the disposal of the class a large sofa now in his office but which he offers to move to the reception room. It is presumed that the "Colonel" will take advantage of the dean's kind offer.
Russ-Eddy.
Miss Gertrude Russ, a graduate of the Fine Arts School last spring, was married at the home of her mother, 1231 Kentucky street, to Mr. Richard Eddy, last night.
Miss Russ is well known to University students and during the time she spent in the school was one of the most popular vocalists. She took an active part in all musical affairs.
Mr. Eddy is brother of Joseph
Eddy, county clerk.
ADVISORYBOARD TO ENTERTAIN
Y. M. C. A. SUPPORTERS TO BE GUESTS OF FACULTY.
Boys Will Take a Trip to the Philippines Saturday Evening.
The Advisory Board of the University Young Men's Christian Association has issued invitations to the members and supporters of the organization to be the guests of the board Saturday evening in Snow hall. The boys are invited at that time to take a trip to the Philippine islands with the professors who will be their hosts for the occasion. In explanation of the entertainment thus outlined it is said by those who have learned something of the plans for the evening that an illustrated lecture on the Philippines will be given by Prof. F. E. Jones,who has been in the islands.
The Advisory Board, of which Chancellor Strong is chairman, includes ten members of the University faculty who have a general control of the Y. M. C. A. These professors meet with a committee from the association at intervals during the school year to consult and advise the boys in the work they are conducting in the University along religious and social lines.
The opportunity for the boys thus to meet the members of the faculty at an informal social gathering will be a new experience except so far as the Chancellor's annual fall reception presents such an occasion. The action of the Board is a recognition of their appreciation of the efforts being made by the students to support the association financially. Ladies will not be among the guests Saturday evening except the girls from the Y. W. C. A., who will serve the refreshments.
TRIP TO TONGANOXIE.
Glee Club Will Sing and Have Banquet Tomorrow.
The University Glee club will go to Tonganoxic tomorrow night to give a concert in the city opera house. After the concert a banquet will be held in the hotel. The members of the club will take their lady friends with them and the party will return by special train after the entertainment provided for them.
Prof. Shorey's Final Lecture.
Prof. Paul Shorey's final lecture will be given in University hall tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 The subject will be "Some Modernisms of the Ancients." This is one of Dr. Shorey's popular lectures.
Regents' Committee Met.
Regents Gleed and Hopkins came to Lawrence last night to confer with Prof M. P. McArdle on materials and sketches of the new administration building. Professor McArdle will be in Lawrence several days working on the plans of the new building.