THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 6, 1907.
VOLUME III.
INVITATION PAID
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STORY OF FOWLER'S GIFT FOR THE ENGINEERING SHOPS.
The $20,000 from the Government Can Be Used without Its Appropriation by Legislature.
The twenty thousand dollars which the University receives from the government will not have to be appropriated by the legislature,but will go directly into the hands of the Board of Regents,and will probably be used on some of the contemplated new buildings. The $20, 000 is in the form of a donation to the University and not a part of the state fund. It does not have to be accounted for to the state treasurer.
It was reported that there was already an appropriation on the state books for which the University had never received the money, but upon investigation it is found untrue. $30,000 was appropriated by the state to assist in the building of Fowler Shops, but that sum was used.
In March, 1898, a fire destroyed the shops and heating plant of the University. The weather was cold, the legislature was not in session and there was no money in the university treasury. School was dismissed, and the prospects for its opening were not the best. Then it was that Mr. Geo. Fowler, the wealthy packer, came to the rescue. Prof. Blake was a fellow member with Mr. Fowler in a Kansas City Country Club. He related to Mr. Fowler the story of the fire.
Mr. Fowler at once agreed to give $18,000 towards the erection of some new shops on condition that the legislature appropriate $30,000 more at its next session. The University was then opened in two weeks by spending a large amount on a heating plant. The $30,000 was used in finishing Fowler Shops.
Later Mr. Fowler gave $3,000 more. It happened this way. Out of gratitude for his generosity he was asked to deliver an address at the commencement exercises.
"How much money do you want," was his only reply. He was informed that $3,000 was the amount required to finish the building, and he sent it at once, but he never made the address at the University.
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The Twenty-fifth Annual Convention of the Y. M. C. A. of Kansas meets at Ottawa, February 7-10. Addresses by prominent men will be given. The men who will go from the University are: "Dutch" Ahlborn, Steeper, Alexander, Jhonte, Gift, Sheldon, Hoisington, Reed Harris, Hagerman, Stockwell, Naramore, Livers, and Bailey.
WILL PLAY THE METHODISTS.
Basket Ball Team Starts on Trip Thursday.—Seven Games in all.
NUMBER 36
Manager W. C. Lansdon has arranged with the Baker management for a basket ball game February 14 at Baldwin. This is the result of an effort on the part of Baker to meet Kansas in basket ball. Last year Kansas lost a game early in the season before the freshmen were eligible and no second game was played. Kansas easily defeated Nebraska and Nebraska defeated the Methodists on their own floor.
The team this year is not as well balanced as that of last year and the men will have to work hard to win a majority of the games on the trip. They have the K.U.spirit however and will do their best to represent the university.The personal of the team is not yet known. The late examinations may make it necessary to work out one or two new men for the squad.
The basket ball team starts on the first trip Thursday evening with a game with Ottawa University. Following this game are games with Nebraska University, Ft. Riley, K. S. A. C., Emporia Normal, Newton and Baker University.
QUILLERS TO REORGANIZE.
Writers Club Will Give Semi- Social Functions.
Plans are on foot in the Quill Club to thoroughly reorganize the club within the next few weeks, and make it more of an honor society than has been the case. To this end the membership will be gradually reduced, and the qualifications for membership raised in proportion.
It is planned to bind the members of the society together by this means. For the rest of the year informal teas will be given once a month for the club and the faculty of the English department. The semi-annual election of officers for the club will be held at the next regular meeting, Tuesday, February 12, and the reorganization plans will be thoroughly discussed. All members are urged to attend.
Missouri Wants a Million.
The board of curators of Missouri University went before the legislature last week to present the needs of the University for the next biennium. The amount asked is in round numbers a million dollars. The largest items asked are for the academic department and for the agricultural and experiment station at Columbia. The amount asked for general maintenance is $492,000, practically a half million.
TEAM CHOSEN
VIGG, COMMONS AND JACOBS WILL TRY THE METHODISTS.
Jacobs, the Colored Man, in Defense of His Race—An Experienced Orator.
At the preliminary contest for the selection of a team to represent Kansas University in the annual Baker-Kansas debate the following men were chosen Monday night: Sandor J. Vigg, Clyde Commons and Woody Jacobs. The debate will be held at Baker this year about April the 25th and the question, "Resolved: That the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States should be repealed," will be affirmed by the Baker team.
Woody Jacobs of the Kansas team is a colored man and in the defense of the fifteenth amendment will make a plea for the right of suffrage for his own race. He has had considerable experience in oratorical contests and took first prize in the Inter-State Literary Society contest of colored schools held at St. Joseph, Missouri, last December 27th. In this contest seven schools were represented from Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and the Indian Territory.
Of the other two speakers, Sandor J. Vigg, from Alva, Oklahoma, helped the Oklahoma Normal defeat the Kansas State Normal at Alva last year. Mr. Commons is a Ft. Scott boy and is out for his first time in an inter-collegiate debate. Henry C. Waters was chosen as the first alternate.
THOSE SENIOR PICTURES!
Must Be Handed In at Once. March 1st the Last Date.
The senior pictures are not being handed in to the business manager of the Annual as fast as they should be. Either the business manager or the editor will be at the checkstand from nine to ten o'clock each day and give receipts for the pictures. Only one more week until February 15. It has been deemed advisable not to hold the Annual open after March 1 for delinquent seniors. It is just as easy now as any time to have those pictures taken.
All fraternities and organizations that are going to be represented in the annual should also get their pictures taken as soon as possible and by no means later than March 1. If in doubt about anything see Moore or Ramsey. Those who have already had sittings should be sure to get the pictures at the photographers and bring them to the checkstand at once.
IMPORTANT SCIENCE WORK.
Former Student Working in University Laboratories.
Alban Stewart, who has just returned from a scientific expedition to the Galapagos Islands, is now working in the botanical laboratories of the University, classifying and preserving the specimens collected on the trip. Mr. Stewart was a member of the party of eleven who were sent out by the California Academy of Science. The party left San Francisco on June 28, 1905, and returned on November 29, 1906, after being out just seventeen months and one day. The other members of the party were: R. H. Beck, chief of the expedition and master of the vessel which was called the "Schooner Academy;" J. S. Hunter and E. W. Gifford, ornithologists; J. R. Slevin and E. R. King, hepetologists; F. X. Williams, entomologist; W. H. Ochsner, geologist; and Alban Stewart, botanist.
Several stops were made at islands on the Mexican and Central American coast and then the vessel proceeded south to the Galapagos group of islands where a landing was made at the southeast corner of the group. This was done so that the wind, which is always a southeaster, would blow them along their course as they advanced with their work.
Mr. Stewart said: "There are about seventeen islands, which were worked upon, in the group, of which six are fairly large ones, the others being merely rocks sticking up out of the water. The islands are all of volcanic formation, and vegetation is found only near the tops, which are always surrounded by heavy mists. The party brought back about 7,000 birds, 4,000 reptiles, 9,000 plants, several thousand insects and a great many rocks."
Mr. Stewart is now preparing to do his work in the laboratories here as the buildings of the California Academy of Science were destroyed by the earthquake last May. His main work has not yet begun as his collections of material have not arrived from San Francisco. When his work is finished he expects to give the University a complete set of plants from the islands. Mr. Stewart received his A. B. from the University of Kansas in 1896 and his A.M. in 1897, and is a member of the honorary scientific fraternity Sigma Xi.
Henry Woods, one of Colorado's crack football men, registered here yesterday. He will be a valuable addition to our team next year. Woods is able to put the shot 41 feet. He weighs 210 pounds.
DON'T FORGET MARCH 1st.