THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 15, 1907.
GREAT SUCCESS
FESTIVAL SATISFACTORY FINANCIALLY AND MUSICALLY
Swan and Skylark and Stabat Mater Rendered by a Chorus of over 100 Voices.
The fourth May music festival ended very successfully with the concert Saturday night. The music was all of a very high order—singing, orchestra, and solos. The musicians were all artists in their respective parts and the people were well satisfied with the music festival.
Edward Strong delighted the audience on Friday evening with his rich tenor, but in the concert Saturday evening, E. C. Towne, who was here in the festival two years ago, was even more appreciated. Mr. Martin, the bass, and the sopranos, Madam Zimmerman and Maddam Maconda, and Miss de Sellem, contralto, also rendered fine music.
The last concert was somewhat long as the cantatas, "The Swan and the Skylark," and "Stabat Mater" and Miss Phipps violin solo were all given. The chorus of about one hundred voices assisted, as well as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which rendered Professor Skilton's "Mt. Oread" overture in the afternoon.
The work of Prof. Preyer, who has not taken part in the festivals for three years, was very well received, especially his excellent execution in accompanying Maconda and Hekking Friday evening. Both Miss Phipps and Dean Skilton received boquets Saturday evening. The Kansas artists were appreciated as well as the famous musicians from abroad.
The support given the three concerts came within but a few dollars af paying the entire expense.
Is a Popular Speaker.
Dr. J. N. Van der Vries will go to Wamego Friday to deliver the annual commencement address before the Wamego High School. Last Friday evening he spoke at Marquette and a week from Friday he will deliver the commencement address at Blue Mound. Dr. Van der Vries is proving to be a very popular orator and is in much demand over the state as a speaker.
BATTING AVERAGES
A.B. H Av.
Angney .69 26 377
Bailey .68 23 338
Brookens .71 22 313
Holmes .63 19 301
Hoffman .53 14 264
Carlson .76 20 263
Young .57 14 245
Jennings .29 6 207
Bloss .79 16 203
Harlan .19 3 158
READY FOR PROM.
Juniors Are Rushing Preparations for Big Party.
The Juniors are rushing things this week preparing for the Prom., which is to be pulled off in the new gymnasium Friday evening of this week. The big floor will be in perfect condition for dancing, and while all of the lights will be temporary, the new building will be in good shape for the hop. The big first floor will be cleared for the supper room, and the reception and the farce will be on the auditorium floor.
The manager of the farce is rushing rehearsals, and promises to have an entertaining show Friday evening. The chorus contains twenty-five voices, and there are a number of solos, duets, and other musical features scattered through the farce.
The juniors will turn out tomorrow to put the wax on the dancing floor, and will have everything in readiness for the big event.
Talks of Pirates and Botany.
Alban Stewart, a graduate of the University, who was sent out as botanist in an expedition by the California Academy of Science, and is now doing some special research work here, gave a very entertaining and instructive lecture to the botany people yesterday. His party made a trip of seventeen months duration among the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador, and the data that he has collected on the flora of these islands is quite interesting. The facts as relating to botany were varied by some vivid stories of buried treasure and of some lone pirates whom they met in these islands.
A series of papers on "The West at Home," by Charles Moreau Harger, director of the department of journalism in the University, is appearing in the Outlook. Town and country life in the middle West are described with the insight of one who has had long acquaintance with his subject, and the series will doubtless be of great value in correcting the false impressions many eastern people have of the conditions prevailing "Out West."
C. M. Harger Writes of the West.
BAKERSATURDAY
JAYHAWKERS READY FOR GAME WITH METHODISTS.
Jennings to Twirl.—Coach Quigley of St. Marys Decided upon for Umpire.
With the state championship of baseball at stake, Captain Brookens's squad will line up against the Methodist nine from Baker Saturday afternoon on McCook field. Mason will be in the box for Baker while Jennings will be on the firing line for Kansas. The game promises to be the fastest of the season. The Jayhawkers are eager for revenge for their hard luck defeat at Baldwin, while the Methodists are more than anxious to repeat their performance on May day. The team that wins Samlah will stand directly in front the state championship larys is the only other competitor for the
Coach St. Ms has been used upon for umpire, with "Phog" Allen of Independence as second choice. Either of these two men will be satisfactory to the University.
NUMBER 64
COMMENCEMENT IN NEW GYM First Time That Everybody Can Be Accommodated.
A general reunion of the alumni has been planned and the two lower classes are urged to remain for commencement week instead of hurrying for the early train Friday, May 31.
To Give Farewell Party.
The commencement exercises of the University will be open to the public for the first time in years. The new gymnasium will accommodate twenty-five hundred persons and it is not necessary to give tickets for admittance this year. In former years, the chapel could not accommodate those who wished to attend and tickets were given to the two upper classes and the faculty.
The Junior class is planning to give a grand farewell party in F. A. A. hall May 29, the evening before Decoration day. This will be the last class party of the year.
R. L. Douglas, president of the junior class, pledged to the Sigma Chi fraternity Tuesday evening.
Cerebrotentanum
The Senior Class Presents the Thirteenth Annual Senior Play
May 23-24. Bowersock Opera House
MAY NOT BE IN STATE MEET.
Manager Lansdon Has Received No Announcement of Date.
Manager W. C. Lansdon has about decided that there is "nothing doing" in the line of a state meet. A state meet was held last year and was scheduled for Topeka, May 18, this year.
The manager received an entry blank and a request for twenty-five dollars but nothing more. He wrote to Stahl, the state manager at Topeka, and the state secretary for the date of the meet and rules,but has received no information up to date.
The track men want to go for it would be a good practice meet for the Nebraska meet.
MAKING WAR ON GREENBUGS Prof. Hunter Devoting all his Time to Growing Parasites.
Prof. S. J. Hunter has been forced to drop his regular class work and devote his whole time to the fight on the greenbug. He has fitted up an office in the Physics building and there the parasites are received and sent over the state. Two hundred packages is the average daily shipment. On Monday 232 letters ordering parasites were received and half as many telephone and telegraph messages. The demand cannot be met and at present there are 500 orders behind. In many localities the farmers report that the wheat has been much benefited by the parasites.
Laws Defeated Betas.
In a painfully one sided ball game Sunday morning the Laws defeated the Betas by a score of 13 to 1. Mead, who played on the varsity last year but who quit school last term, was back to pitch for the Betas.
E. B. Crumb, a senior in the College, has received an appointment from the Kansas Millers' Association to go in the field and direct the war against the green bug. He is in Oklahoma now collecting parasites and studying the life history of the wheat pests.
Tonight the electrical engineers will hold their last meeting of the year. It has also been planned to make it the best meeting yet, and in addition to speeches by several advanced students, refreshments will be served.
Merle Prunty, of Wellington is wearing Sigma Nu colors.
SOPHOMORE PARTY
IN
ROBINSON GYMNASIUM MAY 25th,1907.
ADMISSION 75c.