THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 26, 1907.
BIG FIVE NO MORE
NEBRASKA AND IOWA BOTH PASSED IT UP.
At a meeting of the Nebraska athletic board a few days ago a motion to adopt the rules drawn up by the "Big Five" representatives at Kansas City a few weeks past, was tabled. Nebraska's action following that of Iowa virtually means the end of the Missouri Valley Conference.
Will Kansas or Missouri Give In?—Possibly Cornhuskers in Convention Hall.
Kansas has not yet taken any official action but will very likely follow the action of Iowa and Nebraska and lay the motion on the table. The next question is: What will Kansas and Missouri do about their annual athletic contests? Within six weeks the annual indoor track meet should be held at Kansas City. At present no contract exists between these two schools the five year agreement having expired the first of this year. Missouri is fighting for the one year rule while Kansas has never yet regarded this feature of the Big Nine rules. In case an agreement cannot be reached the indoor meet will be between Kansas and Nebraska.
Hobbies of Professors.
One generally thinks of instructors in connection with school work of some sort, but the most of them have some interesting diversion entirely removed from the classic atmosphere of the lecture room. Professor S. J. Hunter, of the Entomology department, has a liking for bee culture. When he wants to rest his mind from the cares of the day, he puts on his "bee" hat and goes out to his apiary where he works contentedly for hours. Once he became so interested in his pets that he forgot all about his supper. His wife, becoming worried over his prolonged absence, finally found him contentedly munching away on a cake of honey, as he watched through the glass-covered hive a swarm of bees exploring their new home. Last spring part of his colony immigrated from their home to the sub-cellar of the library, where they went to work storing honey in the cracks of the wall, and at present the bees are securely housed for the winter in the northeast corner of the library basement, where they are calmly eating the honey stored up during the summer.
Dean Templin delights in farming. As a relaxation from the problems of philosophy, he goes out in his back yard and counts his chickens. He is considered an authority on cattle raising. Speaking on this subject he said: "I know a cow that sold for $3500. Now I don't consider any cow worth that much, especially a black one without any horns. But she was worth that to the man who bought her, for he sold her calf for $5000." "However," he continued sadly, "prices are very fluctuating. I paid $35 for one of my cows and had to give her calf away." Professor Templin is a great walker, and when in training held the championship of Douglass county. In connection with certain members of the County
Club he made the map of Lawrence and vicinity which is now hanging near the entrance of Fraser Hall.
CITY TO CO-OPERATE.
NUMBER 33
Joint Committee of University and Lawrence Men for Y. M. C. A.
The University Y. M. C. A. has taken a step that is sure to be productive of much good to the Association by providing for a joint committee from the Advisory board of the Association and from the business men of Lawrence. The committee is to have supervision over the financial policy of the Association and will direct its labors to the end of securing a permanent home for it. This is the work which Secretary Hagerman has most at heart, and to which he is devoting much of his time and effort.
The members of the new committee from the regular advisory board are: Prof. E. M. Hopkins, chairman; Prof. L. E. Sayre, and George Ahlborn, president of the Association. Only two of the three members representing the business men of the city have been chosen as yet. They are: Mr. March, and Mr. Innes, both well known to all University people, and staunch supporters of everything that concerns the good of the University. The third member will be selected within a few days.
The Theta Party.
An especially pleasant party was given by the Kappa Alpha Theta at Fraternal Aid Hall last night. The grand march started promptly at nine o'clock and was led by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ramsey. Those who stood in the reception line were Alice Rankin, Flo Shanklin, and Alverta Bingler, who are the seniors in the sorority, and Mrs. Gray. The programmes, in plain white with embossed monogram of the sorority, were given out by Lola Smart and Georgia Smart accompanied by Wm. Clark and Herbert Sloan. A delightful two course luncheon was served in the dinner rooms at midnight. The music was furnished by Harry Kelley's orchestra of Kansas City.
The guests from out of town were: Margaret Philbrook, Gene Mead, Ruby Barnett, Marion Brook, Lou Potterf, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Ward, Mr. Clements, Ray Clifford, and Fred Cowles, of Kansas City; Dorothy Gleed, Anna Harrison, Winifred Everingham, and Harry Woolf of Topeka; Bess Hafer, Fort Scott; Vera Hull, Wichita; Louise Barker, Girard; Helen Havens, and Euphenia Smart, Ottawa; Billie Clark, St. Joe; Walter Ward, Bovina, Texas.
A banquet commemorating the twenty-sixth anniversary of the installation of the Kappa chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, at the University of Kansas, will be held at the home of Professor and Mrs. Frank H. Holder this evening. About sixty-five Thetas, including the active chapter and the town and visiting alumni will be entertained. The chapter here was installed on January 27, 1881. It was the fourth fraternity at the University, being preceded only by Beta Theta Pi in 1873, Pi Beta Phi in 1873, Phi Kappa Psi in 1876.
TWELVE GAMES
BASKET BALL SCHEDULE IS ABOUT COMPLETED.
Team Will Make Two Trips This Year.—No Baker Game as Yet.
Manager W. C. Lansdon has now almost completed the Basket ball schedule and has arranged twelve games for two trips:
One to Lincoln and one to St. Louis. If K.C.A.C. defeats Baker, K.U. will have a try for the world's championship on March 6 when K.C.A.C. will be played at Kansas City. Baker University has not been scheduled as yet even though the Methodists have been willing to play.
It is impossible to give a return game to any team and for this reason the Methodists may not be scheduled. It is hoped that the matter will be compromised by a game in Kansas City. The schedule as it now stands is:
Feb. 8. Ottawa University.
Feb. 8. Ottawa University.
Feb. 9. Nebraska University
Feb. 11. K. C. A. C.
Feb. 12. Ft. Riley.
Feb. 20. Missouri.
Feb. 21. Missouri.
Feb. 22. Washington University.
Feb. 23. M. A. C., St. Louis.
Feb. 27. Washburn.
Mch. 6. K. C. A. C.
Mch. 7. Independence, Mo.
Co. F.
Mch. 8. William Jewell.
"Dell" Valentine to Journalists.
"It is for the plain people of America that we are striving to make newspapers," said Hon. D. A. Valentine in an address to the classes of Journalism at the University this morning. His speech was on "Careful English in Newspaper Writing," and he told the Journalists many things they had not heard before.
"Simplicity," he said, "is the essence of careful English in nine cases out of ten. Writing is stronger when simpler. Originality in the manner of telling everyday incidents of interest is almost as great a talent as thinking an original idea."
Mr. Valentine was a member of the board of regents when the library was dedicated and made the speech receiving it for the University.
Kansas Has Plenty of Track Work.
SIX TRACK MEETS.
Manager W. C. Lansdon said this morning: "Kansas will have three indoor meets in March and three outdoor meets in May." Kansas will enter the Kansas State Meet and boost it with the real Kansas spirit. The indoor meets will probably be: March 2, invitation K. C. A. C. at Kansas City; March 9, dual meet in Convention Hall; and March 16, M. A. C. invitation at St. Louis. Nebraska will Kansas, May 25 on McCook Field. Missouri will probably come May 18.
Second term text-books at the University Book Store.
COLLEGE TEMPTATIONS.
There Are Good Ones As Well As Bad Ones, Says Professor Palmer.
"Temptations of College Students," was the subject of the address delivered Friday in chapel by Dr. Geo. Palmer, professor of ethics at Harvard, and for twenty-five years chairman of the Philosophical Union at Cambridge. Prof. Palmer said that the moral habits of college students were so lax that one, unacquainted with conditions, would think that the worst element of the community had been turned loose at school.
"I am able to detect three great divisions of temptations that beset university students," he said, "first we are subject to the temptations of youth; second to the temptations of our conditions, and third, to the temptations that all scholars are subject to." The worst temptations of youth, he said, were those to drink, to gamble, and sexual excesses. He treated them in an ethical way, considered the motives that produced them and counseled students to abstain from them. The temptations of our conditions were the consequences of our absence from any home ties and restraints that are created by association with close friends. At school, he said, we must confess that we are an unsettled part of society, the floating population. The student absent from home and from those concerned with his actions considers himself free from responsibility and consequently indulges in many practices that otherwise he would not. The temptation common to all scholars is, he said, to forget his fellow man. Absorbed in theories, he forgets the practical good things of life.
"But bad temptations form a very small part of the temptations of life," he concluded. "There is more tempting us to good than bad and the college student has more uplifting temptations than has any other class in society."
IS SOLIDLY ORGANIZED. Hospital Association Has 150 Members.
The University Hospital Association met last night at the home of Professor Bailey and adopted a new constitution for the organization. The association is now upon a firm basis and there is every indication that it will succeed and be a most valuable addition to University organizations. The association contains at present one hundred and fifty members and has already taken care of a number of students who have taken ill at school.
Next year the fifty cents fee required for membership will probably be collected by the registrar at the opening of the year as is the two dollar voluntary fee at present. There is even some sentiment in favor of asking the state legislature to pass a law making it compulsory. This plan is in vogue at Missouri and has proved very satisfactory.
The active chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma and their friends will be entertained tonight by Prof. and Mrs. W. E. Higgins at their new home.
DON'T FORGET MARCH 1st.