UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THE KANSAN.
VOLUME III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 2, 1907.
BILL HAS PASSED
HOUSE TODAY APPROVED OF UNIVERSITY AP- PROPRIATION BILL WITHOUT CHANGE.
Gives University $780,834 for Next Biennium--Four New Buildings Granted: General Engineering Mining Engineering, Power Plant and Repair Shop.
At three o'clock this afternoon, a special dispatch to the Kansan was received from Chancellor Strong in Topeka, announcing the passage of the University appropriation bill, in exactly the same form as it passed the Senate some two weeks ago. It is now in the hands of the Governor for signature and only awaits this mere formality before becoming a law.
The bill grants to the University everything, even to the smallest item, that was asked for by Chancellor Strong at the beginning of the session. It appropriates in all for the maintenance of the University during the coming two years and for the erection of the four new buildings asked for, the grand total of $780,834. Of this, $490, 000 is to be used for the maintenance of the University, and the remaining two hundred and ninety thousand dollars is for the erection of the new buildings and for other minor items.
The four new buildings granted by the legislature are a general engineering building to cost $150,000, a mining engineering building to cost $50,000, a
FARAGHER GETS FELLOWSHIP
power plant to cost $50,000,and a repair shop to cost $7,752.
The appropriations, just made will for the first time in its history give the University a sum anywhere near adequate to its needs and the next two years should see it take larger strides forward than ever before.
Will Do Research Work with a Boston Laundry.
BE AT CHAPEL.
The most pleasing feature in the granting of the appropriation was the fact that the bill passed with practically no opposition. Throughout the entire session, the legislature has had the friendliest attitude possible toward the University and it accepted without question the recommendations of Chancellor Strong.
Research work is soon to be begun in the Chemistry department to try to disclose some process to make clothes last longer. For this purpose the Alden-Spears Laundry Supplies Company of Boston has established a valuable fellowsip in the University. Fred Farahger assistant in the Chemistry department, has gone to Boston to do original research work, and there is a possibility for Prof. Duncan and Mr. Faragher to make a trip to Europe. The fellowship was secured through the influence of Prof. Duncan, and is said to pay $500 a year. Mr. Faragher, who is doing work for a doctor's degree, will have the fellowship this year. After studying for some time in Boston he will spend a few weeks in Chicago investigating laundry processes. The work is being done for the purpose of discovering some process for washing clothes that will prevent their chemical destruction.
Chancellor Strong is greatly elated over the passage of the University appropriation bill. In a long distance telephone conversation this afternoon he said: "No, I don't want to announce a holiday for Monday, but I want to see every loyal student of the University at chapel. I will have some interesting things to tell them."
CASH PRIZE IS OFFERED.
By Electrical Engineering Society for Best Design for Pin.
The Electrical Engineering Society will give $5 cash for the best design of a pin, which is to be the insignia of the E. E. Society. The contest which closes March 25th, is open to all schools. The selection will be made by the following committee: Heine, chairman; Copley, Barnes, Orr, and Wagenknecht. Hand your design to one of these men.
Charles Garrison, law 1902 now county attorney of Anderson county, has been visiting at the Phi Delt house.
EWING HERBERT IN CHAPEL
The Editor and Professor Bryant Were Speakers Yesterday.
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Friday morning two speeches were given in chapel, one by Prof. F. E. Bryant of the English department, the other by Ewing Herbert, editor of the Brown County World. Mr. Herbert's talk was purely incidental, as he was here for the purpose of lecturing to the newspaper classes.
As last Thursday was the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Henry W. Longfellow, Professor Bryant used the great poet as his subject, discussing him as the peerless poet, as a perfect gentleman—a man whose soul was almost spotless and whose life, to himself and others, was the ideal one.
Mr. Herbert pleased the students with a peculiarly humorous, rambling talk upon the good fellowship, innate courtesy and nobility to be gotten from a college life. He said that he himself had received several lessons in courtesy from college students. "Your education is not gotten from books, however essential they may be. It is from the associations of the college life and ideals that you receive your real education. And the spirit of comradeship instilled into you here is doing much to spread good fellowship and concord throughout the country. It is the acquisition of such a spirit and character that constitutes the real liberal education, and fits for life in its broadest sense. Carry your feeling of good fellowship to your homes and take your parents into your confidence as friends."
Gave Concert at Ottawa.
The mandolin club, accompanied by the Jayhawker quartette, gave a concert to a large and enthusiastic audience at Ottawa last night. There were eighteen in the mandolin club and the concert was given just as rendered at Lawrence. Charley Hoar and John Bull were the star performers and were repeatedly encored.
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Misses Bess Tusten and Elsie Loucks andMr.CecilForter spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of Misses Lucy and Alicia McNaughton at Tonganoxie.
PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Tonight March 2
SECOND PERFORMANCE Benefit MacDowell Fund COMIC MELODRAMATIC OPERA Tickets at Opera House Prices 75c, 50c, 35c.
10 Principals.
12 Fierce Pirates.
12 Pretty Chorus
Girls.
6 Big Policemen.
6 Big Policemen.
OPERA WAS GOOD
"THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE PLEASED A FULL HOUSE.
Work of Principals and Chorus Was Excellent—A Second Performance Tonight.
The presentation of Gilbert and Sullivan's Comic opera, "The Pirates of Penzance" before a large audience at the opera house Thursday evening proved one of the notable events of the year. The play represented long and strenuous preparation on the part of the cast, the University orchestra, and the members of the faculty who directed the work, and the result fully justified their efforts. The production richly merited the high praise it is receiving on every hand.
Though the opera had little plot, it was full of movement and good situations. Some of the latter were rather difficult to handle, but the members of the cast entered into their parts with such ease and interest that everything ran smoothly.
Mr. Sam Forter played the part of a pirate king in a proper dashing way, and Mr. Everett Copley was cleverly military as major general Stanley. The songs of both took well with the house. Mr. Archie Narramore as Frederic, the pirate apprentice, and Miss Queena Beauchamp as Mabel, youngest daughter of General Stanley, were the hero and heroine of the play. Their parts, though difficult, were well taken, and they sang well. Miss Florence Heizer made the character of Ruth, a piratical maid-of-allwork, one of the features of the play. Mr. Frickleton did good work as Samuel, lieutenant of the pirate band. The chorus of General Stanley's pretty daughters, and the chorus of fierce pirates sang in a way that showed much ability and thorough training. The chorus of policemen was one of the funniest things in the evening's performance. Some of the songs were spiced with local allusions. The University orchestra furnished the accompaniment in a way that reflected great credit upon the organization.
A second presentation will be given tonight. The proceeds will go to a fund for the relief of MacDowell, the great composer, who has recently lost his mind.
Ignominious Defeat
In an attempt to limber up a trifle the Varsity basket-ball team played the Freshmen a game, which resulted in the overbalanced score of 91 to 8.
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Roscoe Chambers, of Kansas City, is visiting at the Sig Alph house.