THE VAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Heavy Shaker Knit Toques
All Colors One Dollar
The interurban line to Kansas City, which is slated to be in running order by March 1, will be a great help to the Kansas City going students, both in time and money, who fare is 65 cents with no requirement for round trip. Since the railroads have recently jumped to a 98 cent fare, this saving of 33 cents will make the interurban popular. J. J. Heim, the financier, K. D. Klemm the president, were K. D. Klemm Monday conferring with Mayor Francisco. Mr. Klemm remained to discuss the franchise proposition with the city commissioners today. The question commissioners trace history of Kaw bridge has been definitively settled but the president of the road is confident that it will be scheduled soon.
Others at 75c & 50c
The company has not adopted a definite schedule as yet but it is planned to run cars every hour. It has planned to run the cars there because Kansas City after the theaters, which will be about 11:30 o'clock.
WILL SAVE 33 CENTS
Interurban Will Make Trips to K. C. Theaters Possible—at Reduced Costs
Enroll, Tutor, Entertain and be Mentor for Little Sisters
THE BIG SISTERS TO HELP
In order that the purpose of the Big Sister Movement may be known definitely, ten aims of the organization have been drawn up by the Big Sister committee. Heretofore Big Sisters have not seized all and all the duties expected of them. For this reason the following aims have been set forth;
1. To help Little Sisters to enroll.
2. To help Little Sisters with school work if they are having trouble with it.
5. To make "get acquainted" calls on the faculty.
3. To see the Little Sisters as often as possible, especially if they are ill or discouraged.
4. To have "room parties" with Little Sisters.
6. To take Little Sisters to the regular Y. W. C. A. meetings and to interest them in the work of the organization.
7. To uphold all rules of the Women's Student Government.
sity and respect for the faculty.
To uphold and spread the honor
m. To arouse loyalty for the University and respect for the faculty.
10. To love and teach Little Sister,
physical mental, social and spiritual
By helping Little Sisters with school work does not imply that the Big Sisters are to teach. It is simply means that Big Sisters should assist their Little Sis-
ers with difficult work if possible, "Room parties" may take the form of chating dish parties or anything else that involves entertainment for a paediatric evening.
Since so many of the student body desire to know the faculty better the Big Sisters have adopted the idea of making informal calls.
THE CALENDAR
Wednesday
7—Mandolin Club, Fraser Hall.
7:30—Eleg. Eng. Society, Marvin
7:30—First Band, Fraser Chapel.
5:00-Poston Club, Mr. P.
7:30 - Botany Club, Mr. Peus, "Insect Pollination of Snowflies," Snow
HE USED PEACHBASKETS
8:30-Civil Engineering Society, Marvin Hall.
Thursday
8- Morning Prayers, Fraser, Prof. W. A. McKeever, "Democracy," Mechanical Eng. Society, 1122
Doctor Naismith Provided These Peculiar Goals, When He Invented Basketball
7 - Men's Glee Club, Fraser Hall.
:30 - K. U. Debating School, 313
Fraser Hall. 8—University Debating Society 110 Fraser Hall.
Friday
Friday
8—Morning Prayers, Fraser, Prof.
W. A. McKeever, "Science."
Sphinx Dink, Ecke's Hall.
Y. W. C. A. PLEDGE MONEY
TODAY FOR YEAR'S BUDGET
The meeting of the Y. W. C. A. scheduled for yesterday to raise $500 to carry out expenses for the year, was postponed to meet today at 4:30 o'clock. Show speech to the general secretary of the Y. M., will explain the budget. One hundred have been pledged by the cabinet alone. The members of the committee are supposed to bring their five thousandaire gifts, which that don't must have their pledges in Friday according to Miss Gittens. Of the five hundred raised, three hundred dollars will go for the budget, while the rest will be sent to the Y. W. secretary, in Pekin.
The Men's Student Council, in a regular session last night, voted to continue the matinee dances, with which the Council has been experimenting, and to make them a regular Saturday afternoon affair. The first of these dances held last Saturday afternoon, was so much appreciated that the Council feels justified in continuing the custom.
Edwin Fisher of Kansas City, Kansas visited his brother, Frank, over the week-end at the Alpha Tau bouse.
The University Book Store will pay cash for second hand text books. Adv.
To Continue Matinee Dances
Send the Daily Kansan home.
A quarter of a century ago, on a 35x50 foot floor in the gymnasium of the Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield, he asked his students if boys, first tried out his newly invented game of basketball which he had devised in an effort to provide some sort of leisure and entertainment, would furnish plenty of vigorous exercise and fun for the students.
In a way, it might be said, football was brought indoors. Peach baskets were made to serve as goals, and the ball was changed to be thrown instead of kicked. A bystander, noticing the peach-basket goals and round ball, exclaimed, "Uh!！A new game!" and called for the only name this time had.
This "new game" grew popular with such great rapidity that in a very short time it had developed into an international sport. As a result of having originated in an international institution, it was carried to the ends of the earth by members of that first team. One player went to China, another to India, another to Japan, and others scattered over the United States. The simple fact there was absolute need for such a game at the close of football season readily gave it a place in the world of athletics.
INDOR GAME FOR POOTHALL MEN
In telling how he came to invent basketball,
"When the football season was over the boys lay around the gymnasium and seemed to lose all interest in athletics. They did not take well to gymnastics and there was nothing they could do. Then I perceived the idea of bringing football indoors and eliminating the roughness of the game, which lay in tackling, by ruling that the person catching the ball should not run with it but stay stationary. Then the matter of goals to be used presented another difficulty. Clearly a large perpendicular goal like those used on a football or soccer field would not do because balls drift down into the players would smash up things too badly. Therefore, I decided on taking two small boxes with the top sides knocked out and placing one at each end of the floor. The ball, which had a diameter of 10 cm, would first have to describe an are which would necessitate its being thrwn easily.
"I asked the janitor for a couple of boxes measuring about fifteen inches across the top. He did not have any this small but he brought me two peace-haskets of this size which disinfect just as easily to the floor when suddenly the thought came to me that all the goal keeper would have to do to keep his opponents from throwing goals would be simply to sit on the basket. So I knocked the bottom of the basket. I walked through them ten feet above the floor. All goals have been placed at that height ever since.
RULES ALMOST THE SAME
"The rules, too, have remained almost the same and have reinforced the first rules written by himself and published in the early nineteen—January 1892, to be exact—under the head "A New Game" in the "Triangle," a monthly issued by the Springfield Training School.
RULES ALMOST THE SAME
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"In those days we had no such thing as 'free throws.' Three fouls made in succession by one side counted as a goal thrown; for the other side which made an attempt, it does today. The other players on one side raised all the way from nine to forty, depending on the size of the gymnasium. The player with the ball in his hand was not allowed to take a single step but must throw it from the basket, stepping and dribbling are allowable. With the exception of these few changes the rules have remained practically the same."
The University Book Store will pay cash for second hand text books.— Adv.
WILL LECTURE ON PUBLIC UTILITIES OF KANSAS CITY
An illustrated lecture, describing the power supply system for the street railway and lighting companies of Kansas City, Mo., will be given by A. R. Willson, a member of the executive committee of the Electric Engineers, at 730 o'clock tonight, in the lecture room of Marvin Hall.
The talk will cover the most important workings of the Kansas City systems. Mr. Willson has carefully worked out many of his plans, and he will use a number of lantern slides to assist him in his talk.
BIG MONEY FOR ESSAY
National League Offers $250 for Best Paper on Preparedness
Want to make $250?
If so write an essay on preparedness according to the following conditions and send it to the National Security League, of New York City. The League is conducting a competitive essay contest open to college students and is offering a cash prize of $250 dollars to the national National Security as it involves the "Preparation and Use of the Citizenship"
The essay must be submitted by or
with the following conditions:
comply with the
following conditions:
1. Competition is open to all
1. Competition is open to all.
2. The essay shall consist of not less than 4,000 and not more than 5,000 words.
3. Each competitor shall send three typewritten or printed copies of his essay in a sealed envelope marked "Militia Essay," to reach the league on or before February 1, 1916. The essay must be strictly approved by the committee nom de plume and sign the same to the essay, followed by a figure corresponding with the number of the pages of MS; a sealed envelope bearing the nom de plume on the outside and enclosing full name and address, must accompany the essay. This envelope will be returned to the committee after the decision of the Board of Award has been received.
4. The prize shall be awarded upon the recommendation of a board consisting of three suitable persons chosen by the executive committee, who will be requested to designate the essay deemed worthy of the prize; and also in their order of merit those deserving of honorable mention.
o. The essays submitted shall be the property of the league which reserves the right to publish any or all thereof.
Address National Security League, Inc., 31 Pine street, New York City.
WALTER JOHNSON TALKS
ABOUT NEWPAPER WORK
Walter Johnson, managing editor of the Topica Daily Capital, spoke this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the lecture room in the Medic Building on "The Opportunities and Limitations of a Newspaper Manifesto" talk was given especially for students in the department of journalism.
Mr. Johnson became managing editor of the Capital when Harry C. Green resigned recently to practice law.
Social Committee To Meet
The first meeting of the Student
Social Committee, organized recently
by Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser
of women, will be held in Room 110
tomorrow night at 8:50
@clock
OTHERS GIVE CLOTHES
Prepare For All-Day Job
Sandwiches and coffee will be served by the women of the Y. W. C.
A. in the Gymnasium during the enrollment at the beginning of next semester. The sale will start at 10 o'clock so that students who missed breakfast may not suffer.
Do you know that no northwestern policy holder in Lawrence ever gets a penny for recommending his company to you?
L. S. Beeghly
Five Student Dwelling Houses Make Contributions to War Sufferers
Contributions of clothing for the Belgians and people of northern France are coming in to Miss Frances Snow much faster than expected. Three fraternities, the Kappa Sigma, Beta Theta Psi, and Sigma Chi have contributed, and two boarding houses, the Chinook and 1134 Ohio have likewise reported.
Other fraternities and clubs are urged to make their contributions as soon as possible. A number of automobiles are collecting the clothing, and a large amount is to be sent today.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
ANOTHER FELLOWSHIP FOR NEXT SEMESTER
On account of the resignation of Mary Elizabeth Parker, a fellowship will be awarded for the next semester. Candidates may apply in any department giving graduate application in the final semester and may be held at the office of the Dean of the Graduate School. All applications should be filed in the office of the Dean of the Graduate School on or before January 25.
F. W. Blackburn
Dean of the Graduate School.
Olive Wasson of Codell, Kansas, who was a freshman in the College last year, will reenter the University for the second semester.
Bonnie Langerenft, a sophomore in the College, spent the week-end in Baldwin visiting Maurine Clark, a sophomore at Baker.
SMOKAROLS ARE HERE
Pipes 2 Bits 2 Rolls 5c
30c per can
The latest out and something for smokers thats clever.
Selling Like Hot Cakes
Get One Today at
CARROLL'S
Students' Downtown Store See Window
On Sale THURSDAY
Ladies Home Journal 90 pages reading matter,14 pages in colors. Several big features
Saturday Evening Post Beginning the big new serial
"A Western Warwick" A political story of graft, etc., by SAMUEL G. BLYTHE
ALSO- Popular Mechanics, Munsey. Illustrated World, Popular Science, etc.,etc.
Seniors!
Squires Studio
BASKETBALL-AGGIES vs. K.U.
Two good Conference games. Games start 7:15 o'clock, over by 8:30; doors open 6:45. TICKETS: Reserved seats 75c, Balcony 50c. Coupons No. 10 and 11 admit. Student ticket reserved seats 25c. (All student coupons must be signed by original purchaser, and if presented by another person will be taken up and cancelled.) Seats at Carroll's and Manager's office.
THURSDAY and FRIDAY NIGHTS, JANUARY 20th. and 21st.