THE KANSAN. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS TO bakery OP. 34 Red 634. asked to bring Soiling in object wasè´Šiciency." Agency of makes of meth- efficiency any other interest to as City please the rest VOLUME III. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 20, 1907. BRIGHT PROSPECT MANY CANDIDATES ARE OUT FOR THE BASEBALL TEAM. Strong Pitching Staff with Hoffman, Kaufman, Hailan, and Holmes on Firing Line. The prospects for a pennant winning baseball team this spring are brighter than they have been for years. For the last month a large squad of candidates for the team have been practising faithfully every afternoon that the weather would permit. Nearly all of last year's team are back, together with a large number of new men, and there is such an abundance of good material that Captain Brookens will have difficulty in picking the team. The dope points toward an unusually strong pitching staff this spring. Hoffman, the mainstay of the team in the box last year, is out in a suit again and will probably pitch if necessary, although he wishes to play in the field. Besides Hoffman, other players of known ability and caliber who are out for the team are Dick Kaufmann, "Lefty" Holmes and Harlan. Kaufman pitched for Hutchinson last summer and is without doubt the best college twirler in the Missouri valley. Harlan and Holmes are both "slab artists" of unusual ability. Captain Brookens will be back at his old place behind the bat. Ben Young is out for first again and will probably make good. Other candidates for the initial sack are Carlson and Ruggles. Second base is open to everybody and there are half a dozen candidates who expect to make good. The fight for the keystone position promises to be unusually lively. "Art" Relihan who coached the Varsity last year will likely be eligible under the new rules. The central station is his home position. Spide Bailey looks good for short-stop again while Bobbie Noyes of Troy and "Sprouty" Porter of Kansas City will probably fight it out for third. For all the positions in the outgarden and most of the infield berths there are anywhere from three to six candidates and a thorough weeding out process will have to be gone through before the team can be picked. A practice game will be played with Leavenworth in about a week to try out the men. The team leaves on its annual southern trip April 4th. Kansas-Oklahoma Debate Friday Evening March 22 NEW FRATERNITY AT K. U. DON'T FORGET THE DATE Chapter of Pi Theta Sigma Installed in Pharmacy School. Last Friday evening a new Fraternity was established at K.U. when a chapter of Pi Theta Sigma, a national pharmaceutical fraternity was installed in the local school of pharmacy, by T.C. Davis, a member of the faculty of the University of Colorado. The ten charter members are: Karl Fry, Merill Diamond, Ray E. Walker, Wayne D. Townley, Louis Bixby, Thomas L. Bennett, Walter D. Kemp, Tully Martin, Clarence Holmes, and Edward A. Gaut. Karl Fry commenced working on the matter last November. The subject was kept a secret outside of the school of pharmacy until the chapter was installed. Pi Theta Sigma was founded at the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy in 1902. There are now five chapters. Only students in the school of pharmacy are eligible to membership. The fraternity is not honorary and members may join other fraternities. 4 MILES IN 20 MIN. 23 SEC. Relay Team Will Be in Great Shape Friday Night. Coach Hagerman is putting in every effort possible to present a team Friday evening that will win the four mile relay. In practice yesterday afternoon the four mile course was finished in twenty minutes and twenty-three seconds. Worden ran the first mile in five minutes and six seconds; Priest ran the second in five minutes and three seconds; Cummins the third in five minutes and nine seconds, and Cooley the fourth in five minutes and five seconds. The balcony track is much shorter than the Convention Hall circle and the boys will be able without doubt to run the distance in a little over nineteen minutes. GAVE TWO SACRED CONCERTS. NUMBER 48 Mandolin Club Can Play Either Sacred or Rag Time. The mandolin club at the first three places on its trip was listened to by large and enthusiastic audiences. The boys played at Atchison, St.Joe and Kansas City, Kansas, the last part of the week and gave two sacred concerts at Jefferson City Sunday. They will return Friday evening. To Elect Track Captain. All track enthusiasts in the college will meet in room 15, tomorrow at 12:15 to elect a track captain for the interschool meet next month. SOONER DEBATE KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA WILL ARGUE FRIDAY NIGHT. --- Cutler and Lomax Will Defend the Present Policy of U.S. on Chinese Question. The first inter-state debate of the year will be held in chapel Friday night between Kansas and Oklahoma. The question for discussion is: "Resolved, That the present policy of the United States in excluding Chinese should be maintained. The Kansas debaters are: Sullivan Lomax, and Russel E. Butler, both of the Law school. The men were chosen in one of the best preliminaries held this year and made excellent speeches. They have been working hard and have the subject well in hand. Kansas has the affirmative in the debate. Mr. Lomax, although this is his second year here, finishes the law school this spring. He is from the Ft. Scott Normal. He has had considerable experience in local debating at Ft. Scott and is versed in public speaking. Mr. Butler is a junior in the Law school. He was on the Baker team last year that defeated Washburn. ATTACKS MOORE STATEMENT. Dr. Snow Says Rainfall Has Increased in Kansas. Dr. F. H. Snow has issued a signed statement refuting many of the declarations contained in Willis L. Moore's recent pamphlet. Mr. Moore, the U. S. weather observer at Washington, reiterated his statements that the rainfall is the same as that of thirty years ago, and that the velocity of the wind has not decreased since the time blizzards and cyclones were in vogue in Kansas. Dr. Snow, whose observations extend over thirty-five years and are at variance with these statements, has taken exception to them. He has sent over two hundred signed statements to many of the leading newspapers and periodicals of the country, stating his observations and disproving those of the chief of the weather bureau. Dr. Snow is able to defend his statements as he has spent much time in their collection and his recording instruments are perfect. On an Eastern Trip. Dean Frank O. Marvin of the engineering school, went east Monday in the interest of the University. He will visit several large eastern cities and will be absent until after April 1. Walter Holmes and John McIntyre of the University of Missouri, were visitors at the Sig Alph house this week. GAVE LAND TO UNIVERSITY. Frank Lawrence, Nephew of Mrs. S. T. D. Robinson Dead. Mr. Frank B. Lawrence of Boston, who recently died at Philadelphia after returning from a visit in the South, was a nephew of Mrs. S.T.D. Robinson. Mrs. Robinson formerly owned fifty-one acres of land directly west of the University. As a token of her affection and esteem for her nephew, this land was deeded to him. It was suggested to Mr. Lawrence that the land was needed by the University, but not being a rich man, he did not feel able to donate it outright. However he gave the University ten acres immediately adjoining the old University tract near Fowler Shops and the Chemistry building, on the condition that the University would take the remaining forty-one acres and pay him the interest on $10,000 for the period of his life. The Regents of the University agreed that some suitable recognition should be made to his aunt, Mrs. S. T. D. Robinson; consequently, the new gymnasium which is located on the ten acres is called Robinson Hall. The two new engineering buildings which are provided for by the appropriation of the last legislature, will be built upon land acquired from Mr. Lawrence. Also the Central Administration building which will be built sometime in the future in accordance with the plans of Mr. Kessler and the Regents, will be located on the Lawrence land. A GOOD GOVERNMENT CLUB. Upper Classmen to Study Civic Organizations of the Country. A club known as the Good Government Club is at present being formed among a few upper classmen for the study of municipal and civic organizations in this country. Within the last few years such clubs have been organized in nearly all the larger universities of the country and they have now been banded into a National Intercollegiate League with headquarers in New York. The clubs have no partisan purpose of any sort, but represent the growing interest in civic problems among young men. It is the aim of the organization to take up the work in a purely informal way. Y. M. C. A. to Elect Officers. The Y. M. C. A. will hold their annual election at their regular meeting tomorrow evening. The officers as proposed by the nominating committee are: president, H. C. Herman; vice president, C. P. Donald; secretary, D. E. Worden; treasurer, B. S. Hill; and student membership advisory board chairman, Geo. H. Ahlborn.