THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME III.
CLASS TROPHY
SILVER CUP FOR THE CROSS5= COUNTRY RUNS.
Class Teams Will Compete---Contest Will Probably be Between Five Teams.
Manager Lansdon has completed arrangements for the cross-country runs. At the end of the month each class in the college and engineering school will elect a cross-country captain. The Law school, Medical and Pharmacy school will have school teams and elect their own captains. These captains will select five men before the finals to represent their respective teams. The finals will be decided in three runs and the five men on the winning team will have their names engraved on the silver cup put up for the team championship. Their names will also be on the memorial tablets or panel in the trophy room of the new gymnasium. The only condition imposed is that four teams start in the finals. Doctor Naismith will excuse all men, who run regularly on the course, from gymnasium work and give them credit during the cross-country season. The deciding score will be made up from percentages.
Under these plans there ought to be at least fifty runners in training at once so that the various classes will be well represented. The plans are a new departure. In the history of K. U. there has never been suitable trophies given for track work. The only thing that is lacking from the plans is a trophy for the one who breaks the cross-country record. The record ought to bring a "K" as well as any other record but it is not in competition with another school and hence some other trophy should be offered.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10, 1906.
The runs will continue from the gymnasium at 4:30 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If there are some men who cannot start at that time there will be other squads made up. Fifteen men have been running the course but have not been running regularly. The incentive given to the sport by the trophy offered and by occasional hare and hound chases will insure a large number of good long distance men next spring.
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Roy Tapley, managing editor of the Lawrence World will address the Journalism classes Thursday morning at 10:15, on Reporting. Mr. Tapley was formerly of the Topeka Herald.
H. F. Graham, who graduated with the class of '86, was here the first of the week visiting his daughter. He is now a prominent lawyer of Holton, Kansas.
ONE THOUSAND VOTES.
Athletic Election Close—Many Scratched Ballots.
When the polls closed at five o'clock one thousand and three ballots had been cast for the athletic election.
Leaders of both sides are slow to express an opinion. The representative ticket claims three board members and claims a majority of straight votes, but the uncertain ones are so many that the estimate is doubtful. The reform ticket had the better of it until 2:30 when the tide began to change, but the leaders are still optimistic.
ARKANSAS SARURDAY.
The First Interstate Game of the Season.
The first interstate football game of the season will be played on McCook field Saturday between Kansas and the University of Arkansas. Kansas is making an effort to get a strong line-up for this first interstate game, for some phases of our playing have been lamentably weak,
Brunner will be back in the game and Cohn will probably be in at his old place. Wallace is suffering from an injured knee, but will probably be in the game. There may be some radical changes in the line-up Saturday owing to the eligibility rules.
MASS MEETING
FRIDAY. AT 4:30 IN CHAPEL
Come out and Organize a Rooter's Club
Don't be a Piker.
"Red" Burt is Ill.
C. L. Burt, the well known football man of the junior class is ill at one of the city hospitals of malarial fever. Burt has not been well for several days, and a blow on the head in football practice seemed to help along the work that malarial was doing. He has been out of the game for about a week.
While Professor Bailey was delivering his address in chapel last Tuesday one freshman was heard to ask another, "I wonder if he wrote those lines:
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Little grains of rubbish. Little drops of dope. Make our potted ham. And our scented soap.
Mr. Crocker, superintendent of buildings and grounds, was off duty for the first time in two years, Saturday. He spent the day in Kansas City.
DRAMATIC STIR
WILL ORGANIZE A DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION.
Limit will be 50 Members—Members of The Masque will be Included.
At the business session after the dramatic trial Monday evening, the Masquers voted to organize the University Dramatic Association, to be limited to fifty members, including the members of The Masque, which will preserve its identity. The move was taken on account of the abundance of strong candidates who have offered for membership to the club this year. At the first trial 43 candidates responded, and fourteen new ones took the trial Monday. There are twelve active members in The Masque, whose active membership is limited to twenty-five. Probably thirty or thirty-five of those who have taken the trials will be voted into the new association soon.
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The members of The Masque will in the future be chosen directly from the membership of the Dramatic Association, instead of by the old plan. Members of the association who are not in The Masque will give frequent private entertainments for themselves and their friends. The public performances of The Masque will not be changed at all by the new plan.
The Masque will meet again tomorrow evening to arrange further details of the organization, and to consider candidates for membership. Reading rehearsals on the play, which will be given early in December, will begin soon.
Junior Class Party.
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The juniors will give the first class party of the year in Fraternal Aid Hall Friday evening, October 26. Newhouse's orchestra will furnish the music. Tickets will be one dollar, and may be had at the check stand or of the committee. Refreshments will be served. Owing to the fact that there are practically no fraternity parties scheduled for early in the season, the juniors may give a series of three parties before the Prom.
James S. Barrows, who was graduated from the Law school in 1901, visited his friends at the University, Tuesday. He is now engaged in the insurance business in Kansas City, Mo.
NUMBER 8
Prof. Blackmar lectured before the Central High School of Kansas City, Friday, on "A New Standard of Business Ethics."
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Noble Sherwood, engineer '05 is ill at his home in this city. He has been working with the Santa Fe.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS SPEAKS.
"Types of University Men" Where Do You Belong?
Prot. Higgins made his annual appearance on the chapel rostrum Tuesday. He spent little time on preliminary remarks, and soon settled upon his main theme: three prevailing types of men in the University. The type he considered first was the man who strutted around the grounds with a bulldog and a pipe. This individual, he said in fine, never amounts to anything. He has no business in school and doesn't belong here. He never intended to work. His prime aspiration is to be a swell and to leave an impression of his almightiness upon his fellows. The second type is the man, who from continual delving into books, gets a little intellectual dust on the end of his nose, and imagines the outside world is completely beneath him. This man spends his whole college career between the covers of a book, and to him all outside enterprises are absolutely dead. The third and last type is the man who either by his natural ability or an extra good high school preparation, is so far ahead of his classes that he makes no effort to do the assigned work. This man usually goes to sleep in class or pays the utmost indifference to the exercises. He is making the mistake of his life, because if he concludes that the world will hunt out his abilities he will be badly mistaken. The world does not seek men; the men seek the opportunities it offers. Whoever has no initiative in college matters will in all likelihood escape unnoticed in external affairs.
Fine Arts Concert Tonight.
The opening concert of the year will be given tonight at 8:15 in Fraser Hall by the Fine Arts faculty. The following will take part: piano, Prof. Preyer and Miss Greissinger; voice, Prof. Hubach and Mrs. Lyons; violin, Miss Phipps; violoncello, Mr. Appy; organ, Prof. Skilton; accompanist, Miss Cooke. This will be the first concert appearance of Mr. Appy, the new violoncello instructor. New compositions by Prof. Preyer and Prof. Skilton will be performed. Admission is free.
Professor Hodder Complimented.
The Current number of Harper's Weekly contains a merited compliment to the literary work of Prof. F. H. Hodder of the American history department. The article says in part: "Professor Hodder has done much to increase the world's pleasure by his narratives of travel in the west, and by his more recent editing of Audubon's Western Journal."