UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 17, 1916.
NUMBER 116.
BASKETBALL TOURNEY OPENS
FIVE HUNDRED HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE IN CONFERENCE
Instructors in Secondary Schools Gather to Hear Men of National Reputation Talk on Problems of Education
ONE HUNDRED MORE EXPECTED, TO BE HERE
President Butcher, State Superintendent W. D Ross, and C.C.Brown, on Program Today
Five hundred teachers from the high schools and academies of Kansas are in Lawrence today attending the thirteenth annual conference of Kansas high schools and academies which convened this morning at 9 o'clock in Fraser chapel.
No registration is being held this year but according to the statement of Prof. W. H. Johnson of the School of Education at least one hundred more teachers are here this year than have ever attended any previous conference.
ever attended any practice. Lunchon was served to a large number of the visitors at noon today by the women at Myers Hall. Many of the high school athletes as well as the teachers took their noonday meal there.
Luncheon will be served there again tomorrow for the basketball players but the teachers will be expected to take advantage of the meal which will be given tomorrow at 12:30 in Robinson gymnasium.
HAVE TYPEWRITING
A typewriting contest will be held at the office of Lawrence Business College tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 for students, who have been taking courses in typewriting in their high schools.
HAVE TYPEWRITING CONTEST
The contestants will be divided into two classes, those who had taken no typewriting work prior to August, 1915, and another class whose typewriting training has been issued in connection with high school courses.
The following students are entered in the first mentioned division: Everett Carter, ElDorado; Lorrin Cassell, Kansas City; Elizabeth Day, Argentine high school, Kansas City; Rudra Drake, Argentine high school; William Mannion, ElDorado; Robert Short, Kansas City.
SCHOOL SHOW WORK
The students contesting in the class of those whose training is restricted to high school courses are: Mrytle Barkley, Osage City; Hattie CoX, Argentine high school; Alva Gilbert, Pittsburgh; William Grigg, Oceana City; Irene Hurburt, Kansas City; Joeauer, Hurburt, Bessie Lyon, Kansas City; Charles Market, Kansas City; Thelma Neely, Argentine high school; Ethel Ruf, Arkansas City; Robert Sandifer, ElDorado; Blanche Willett, Arkansas City.
Several of the high schools represented at the conference brought exhibits of the work of their art and manual training departments. These exhibits are on display in the offices of Dean F. J, Kelly and Prof W. H. Johnson in Frazer. The allowance schools have exhibits here; Kanning schools have exhibits here; Emporia high school, Emporia high school and Dickinson County high school.
The most elaborate display is being shown by the Kansas City, Kansas high school. Drawings, paints and placard work is included in the exhibit. The feature of their display is the hand-painted china work. A large collection of this work was brought to Lawry's and is presented in the office. The Kansas City, Kansas high school claims the distinction of being the only high school in the state offering this kind of art work to its students.
An informal address of welcome was given to the conference at the meeting at 10:30 by Chancellor Frank Strong. "We hope that the relation between the University and the Kansas schools will grow closer" said the Chancellor. "The University is always open to constructive criticism and we are glad to see you and welcome any suggestions you may make."
CHANCELLOR WELCOMES
The latter half of the program this afternoon was given over to sectional and departmental meetings. The first part of the meetings tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon will be devoted to general meetings and the latter part to more sectional conferences.
Tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock in room 110 Fraser Hall a conference of the superintendents will be held for the purpose of discussing the matter of continuous survey of schools. This conference was not possible, so our program was sent out over the week but has been arranged since. This work has been made possible by the establishment within the School of Education of a Bureau of School Ser-
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Applicants for the Scholastic for women will please hand in their application together with a transcript of their grades, before April 1, at the Chancellor's office, or to a member of the committee, who are, Miss Wilson, Miss Galoo, Miss Charles, Miss Oliver and Dr. Hyde.
The young people of the Presbyterian church will have a party at the Presbyterian church Saturday evening at eight o'clock to which Presbyterian young people and their friends are invited.
The International Polity Club will meet Wednesday evening, March 22, at the Kappa Sigma House, at 15:37 Tenn. St., for a discussion of the questions arising out of Professor Dickinson's lecture. Meeting called at 7:30. Professor Dickinson will be present.
2:30 and 3:30 Sophomore Women's
gym classes will meet in Robinson
Gymnasium at 1:30 Saturday afternoon.
All women must be present.
A new course, "The History of Architecture," will be offered at the University of Auckland. Au Pré 1965 goldsmith. An prerequisite courses in the department required.
Marion Reid, of Newton, and Cecil S. DeRoin, of White Cloud, were in town the last of the week to attend the Sigma Phi Sigma spring party. The DeRoin were in school last year but are now teaching in Lost Springs.
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BUY
MUCH PATENT MEDICINE
The extensive use of patent medicines on the part of the university students is a puzzle to Miss Jessie Reed, superintendent of the University Hospital. Students first experiment with the medicines and then after finding that they are not benefited they go to the infirmary and find out what is wrong with them and unleaselessness of their expenditures.
Miss Reed thinks it is not at all strange that there is such a wide demand for popular medicines, when university students, who have a free service, are willing to take concourse in their studies. She believes the practice will stop however, when students learn more thoroughly the uses of the hospital.
Since Guy Scriven, '16 College, won the Gustafson five dollar advertising prize, to be taken out in trade, he has been deliberating what to choose from that glittering array of choice jewelry stock. Guy says he hasn't had a pair of glasses since he came to college, so it is likely that he will decide in favor of those.
The Board of Administration, now in session at the University, yesterday awarded the contract for a $100, 000 building at the Hays Normal Training School to Sharp Business Winfield, Kane, to build a school office, class rooms, laboratories and a large auditorium with a seating capacity of 3,000.
HAYS NORMAL LETS NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDIN
"Is it not as possible for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as for these three leaves to grow on a single stalk?" said he. Then the Irish were convinced and baptized.
The board will meet today with the executive committees of the Graduate School and the School of Education to formulate a uniform system of awarding degrees at the University and the several Normal Schools.
If you're a good Irishman, you'll be wearing your little sprig of shamrock today to celebrate the landing of St. Patrick in Ireland, and the expulsion of the snakes.
Before he died, St. Patrick consecrated, as a shrine, a deep pit in Donegal county, which is now called St. Patrick's Purgatory. A legend says that one day while St. Patrick was praying in the pit, an angel came to him, saying that if a sinner should remain a night and a day in the dark cave, he would be cleansed of his sins.
TODAY WE'RE ALL IRISH THE WEARIN' OF THE GREEN
A conference for the purpose of fixing a permanent standard of entrance requirements for graduates of the three state normals who wish to enter the Graduate School of the University is being held today in Fraser Hall. Chancellor Strong and the Board of Administration are meeting in session with the presidents of the three normal colleges. President Thomas W. Butcher of Emporia Normal, President W. A. Lewis of Hays Normal, and President W. A. Brandenburg of the Pittsburgh Training school are the men present.
No wonder that the cave was a celebrated shrine in medieval days, and is sought even today by the curious and the superstitious.
INSTITUTE ENDS TODAY
Ireland, and the expansion of the Shamrocks are worn March 17, because at the time St. Pattrick landed, he plucked a shamrock in order to explain to the doubting people the doctrine of the Trinity.
A lecture on "Concrete Road Building" by J. B. Marcellus, Division Engineer for the American Association of Portland Cement Manufacturers, was the feature of last night's session of the Institute of City Engineers which was held in Fraser Hall. The lecture describes pictures showing every process in the laying of fine concrete paying.
The meetings today, the last day of the short course, gave a chance to those who did not attend all of the meetings during the week to get a taste of all of the subjects touched by the start of the course.
The meetings opened this morning at 9:30 with Prof. H. A. Rice preading. The first lecture on the program was given by Mr. Shaw of the State Board of Health, on
"Sewage Disposal." The second question to be brought up was that of "Street Lighting and Power," summarized by Prof. C. A. Johnson and thrown on to discussion by all of the city engineers present.
The afternoon session was given over to making tests of water meters and concrete beams, and to an inspection of and tests in the water and bacteria laboratories in Snow Hall.
"The engineer as a professional man not only designs and superintends the construction of the structure, but he must write the specifications and contracts, and see that both the contractor and the principal are given the proper protection," said Dean Milo S. Ketterer of the College of Colorado yesterday in a lecture of on "Patent Litigation" read before a session of the Institute of City Engineers.
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teams. With four capable officials in charge, Lefty Sproull, Beck of Southwestern, Red Brown of Kansas City, and Van der Vries a former K. U. Varsity star, the games this morning went off in
Fifty-four Teams Compete For Championship of Kansas in Robinson Gymnasium in Biggest Meet Ever Held in the West
APPLAUD K. U. MUSIC
The ninth annual high school basketball tournament broke several records this morning besides that of size. It actually started on time, the opening games between Kansas City, Kans., and Macksville and Winfield and Burlington being under way less than three minutes after ten o'clock.
Suggested Diversions for Visitors
ALL GAMES THIS MORNING RUN OFF ON TIME
Despite the separation of the girls' part of the tourney, the attendance this morning compared well with that of other years. Downstairs a good sized crowd of women watched the feminine games. Desperate efforts were made by many to get into these exclusive affairs but the few men who did see the contests were the athlete gatekeepers and the men coaches of the high school teams.
compositions of Skilton and
Nevin, played by Zoellners,
Please Many
Music composed by two members of the faculty of the School of Fine Arts, Professors Arthur Nevin and Charles Skilton, proved the two big features of the entertainment by the Zoellner String Quartet in Robinson Gymnasium last night. Both elicited prolonged applause from an audience that filled the auditorium to its capacity.
Professor Nexin's composition was Quartet No. 1, composed in 1911 and dedicated to the Zoelner Quartet. It shares a common reappared appearances of the players.
HUNDREDS OF H. S. ATHLETES GATHER ON MOUNT OREAD TODAY
The big hit of the evening was Professor Skilton's War Dance and Deer Dance. The beating of the primitive tom-tom was made wonderfully realistic by pizzacato playing on the viola. The air fairly throbbed with the rhythm of the music, and the frenzy and excitement of the aboriginal dance was at his climax. Professor Skilton recorded the melody of his composition from a song which an Indian at Haskell song it.
In Spite of Fact That Crowd Breaks All Former Records—Schedule Closely Followed
The audience was interested to watch a score or more of Haskell students who heard their music played. Smiles indicated their pleasure and they applauded more strenuously than any.
LOOKING AT THAT FILE OF IGNOUOUS ROCK
IN FRONT OF SHOW HALL.
this morning went on in record time and there will probably not be a minutes deviation from the advanced schedule.
The games this afternoon will give the eight winners of the high school district tournaments a chance to show the crowd some real basketball. With the exception of Lawrence and Iloe the three teams expected to come from the eight teams grouped by themselves at the bottom of the schedule.
This morning's games:
GIRLS' GAMES
Merriam, 21.
Holton, 19.
Rosedale, 30.
Belleville, 6.
BOYS' GAMES
Kansas City, Kans,
Macksville, 13
Winfield, 35
Burlington, 12
Larned, 22
Oread, 13
Mourdridge, 18
Greeley, 18
Atchison, 19
Baldwin, 11
Lawrence, 16
Lyndon, 7
Even at noon yesterday the first of he competing teams had arrived and night during the afternoon and last night they came. It was a busy time or Manager W. O. Hamilton and his assistants and it was after midnight before everything was ready for the tart this morning.
For once the number of players actually exceeded expectations and with five hundred and twenty high school athletes and with only five hundred of the gold souvenir buttons some had to be disappointed. One result of the shortage was that none got out to outsiders and few if any non-players viewed this morning's play on the playing floor. With the girls games gone there was none of the usual demand for the main floor seats and the desperate efforts to "graft" by of former years was missing.
Eastern Teams Rate High
With the always fighting Reno County highs not competing, the teams from the eastern part of the state face the rate contenders. Four boys' teams from Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Argentine, Bonner Springs, and Rosedale, are expected to cause particular trouble for the others. The five from the metropolis always is a fast bunch, while Kansas City, Rosedale, trist tournament defeated even Iola, rated one of the strongest teams, and winner of last year's tournament. Lawrence high with several expected easy games on deck at the start including their old enemy Topeka, hopes for a win at least, despite the wainter than usual team representing the Red and Black this season.
In the girls' part of the tourney many are watching with interest to see what Argentine, coached by Clarence T. Rice a former K. U. and relay star, will do. In the 1914 tournament, women outnumbered women from Bonner Springs who proved the surprise of the tournament, losing out for the champion-
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