THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME IV.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 29, 1908.
NUMBER 40
BASE BALL AT KANSAS
STARTS SOON—BAT WIELDERS GET BUSY.
Schedule Being Made.—McCook Remodeled.—Jayhawkers Go after Title.
With the opening game of the base ball season only four weeks off, the Jayhawker ball tossers are practicing daily in Robinson Gymnasium under the direction of Coach Dick Kaufman and Captain Ben Young. The first game that the Kansans will play this season will be with the Leavenworth league team in the last week in March. The college season opens the first week of April when the Ottawa Baptists appear on McCook.
Before the season opens thirty-four loads of sand will be put on McCook and the pitcher's box will be elevated. The diamond will be made as good as possible. The big games on McCook this year will be with Missouri, Nebraska, Washington, St. Marys and Manhattan.
The team will make an extensive eastern trip, playing all the teams that come to Lawrence and besides, if plans do not fail, invading Illinois and Indiana. It will be the hardest trip ever undertaken by a Kansas base ball team.
There are plenty of candidates trying out for all the vacant places on the team. Captain Ben Young will again play first; Huff, Rockefeller, Coleman, Dimond and Cook are trying out for catcher; Michaels, Rose, Gibbs and Val Adams for second; Haughey Angney and Woods for third; Jennings and Shelley for short; and Hoffman, Carlson, Huff, Dimond, Harvey, Dennis, Henderson and Doubleday for the three field positions. Harlan, Hoffman, Stephenson, Brown and Taylor will make a great pitching staff.
"The team this year will be a better fielding, and a better hitting team that last year's aggregation," said Coach Dick Kaufman yesterday. "It means another Missouri Valley championship for K.U."
SUMMER WORK AT K. C.
University Medical School to Offer Six Weeks Course.
At the board of regents meeting Wednesday a course of clinical pathology was authorized to be established for the summer at the University Medical School at Kansas City. This course is to run six weeks and will correspond closely with the summer work carried on at the University. It is the first summer course to be offered at the medical school.
OPEN NEXT WEEK
PAINTINGS FOR ANNUAL EXHIBITION ARE BEING HUNG.
Many Valuable Pictures in Collection Several Local Artists Will Exhibit Paintings.
The paintings for the annual exhibition of the School of Fine Arts, which opens March 4, are now being hung in the Museum building. The collection consists of 133 pictures and is the largest ever brought to the University. The first floor of the Museum has been wired for electric lights, divided into apartments in which the exhibit will be placed.
"We are in a position to entertain our visitors better than ever before," said Professor W. A. Griffith. "We have placed the collection on the first floor, making it easier to reach than formerly."
The paintings have been on exhibition at the University of Nebraska and at Kansas City for the past six weeks and everywhere have received the highest praise. Many of the pictures are worth several thousand dollars apiece and the exhibition as a whole will be the most valuable ever shown here at the University. Lectures on different phases of art will be given from time to time while the paintings are exhibited here.
Miss Claire Hageman and Minnehaha Stearns, students of the Fine Arts School, who have been doing superior work this year, will have the honor of showing two pictures in the exhibition. Professor Griffith will show six of his own paintings.
HOWE LECTURED TO BIG CROWD
Atchison Editor's Illustrated Lecture Drew Immense Crowd.— Many Turned Away.
E. W. Howe, editor of the Atchison Globe, delivered his illustrated lecture on his trip around the world to all the people that could be crowded into the chapel. In spite of the basket ball game and the sophomore dance, the chapel was full before eight o'clock and many people were turned away.
The lecture was a story of incidents on the trip of the author of "Notes on a Trip Around the World." The colored slides were excellently selected from a point of interest.
Howe told many amusing stories in connection with the illustrations. The flower parade of the Atchison Corn Carnival was shown by moving pictures at the close of the lecture.
Prof. R. A. Schwegler is in Holton today lecturing before the Jackson County Teachers Association.
THE REGENTS GRANT DEGREES
TO THOSE WHO FINISHED WITH FIRST TERM.
Leave of Absence Given to Several Professors—Prof. Ashton to Study in Europe.
The board of regents held an important meeting Wednesday to grant degrees to those who had completed their four years of work here at the end of the first term. Two LL.B degrees were conferred, three Bachelor of Science, six Bachelor of Art and one Master of Art.
Those receiving the degrees were: Bachelor of Laws—Leo Gibbons, Samuel James McWilliams; Bachelor of Science—David C. McConnaughty, Wilfred F. Wheeler, Paul J. Neff; Master of Arts—Nora Belle Gentry; Bachelor of Arts—G. Bailey Bohannon, Samuel Ebb Crumb, Mattie Kent, Eugenia McDaniel, Wallace E. Pratt, Neva H. Funk.
Teachers' diplomas were awarded to H. J. Alford, G. B. Bohannon and Ivy G. Brock.
The regents also granted the following leaves of absence: Prof. C. H. Ashton, May 1, 1908 to September 1, 1909; Prof. E.F. Stimpson, September 1, 1908, to September 1, 1909; Prof. S.L. Whitcomb, February to June, 1909.
Prof. C. H. Ashton will go to Germany for study in the University of Munich. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Ashton, who will take a course in vocal music from some German master.
Prof. E. F. Stimpson plans to leave Lawrence in June after Commencement exercises and take a course in Physics in some eastern university during the summer and the next school year.
Prof. S. L. Whitcomb will go to some eastern university for study and research at the beginning of the second term of the next school year.
The regents appointed Leslie A. Kenoyer fellow in botany to continue the work of Frank Agrelius, who left Tuesday to accept an assistant professorship in the University of Missouri.
F. S. JACKSON TO SPEAK.
Will Deliver the Annual Alumni Address.
Fred S. Jackson attorney-general of Kansas, has been secured to deliver the annual alumni address at the university during commencement week. Mr. Jackson is one of the most prominent of the University graduates gaining considerable fame by his fight to enforce the prohibitory law throughout the state.
HOSPITAL PLANS
MEDICAL AUTHORITIES ASK STUDENT CO-OPERATION.
Hospital Accomodations and Skilled Nurses Under Competent Physician.
The University Hospital Association has formed a plan for furnishing hospital accomodations and medical treatment to all students of the University of Kansas next year. A competent physician, who will have a consultation room on the campus and who will visit students who are ill in their rooms will be employed. In case of serious illness, adequate hospital accomodations and trained nurses will be furnished free.
The student and faculty committee, as at present, will have control of the association.
In order to carry out their plan the medical authorities of the University must have the assurance of 700 students who expect to return next year that they will become members of the association and pay fee of two dollars. The students who have suffered from contagious diseases this year have paid, on the average, about fifty dollars each for medical attendance, medicine and rooms. The new plans will provide for the best medical aid at a comparatively low cost. Cards will be given out next Friday in chapel to get the opinion of the students.
FAST TIMES IN TRACK TRYOUT
Cooley Runs Mile in 4:51 2-5—Priest, Martindale, McCoy, Dennis, Newbold Take Firsts.
Ed Cooley, the star miler, made the record breaking time of 4 minuets 51 2-5 seconds in the tryout for the mile run in the "gym" this afternoon. Considering the fact that it takes 18 laps to make a mile on the gym track this is by far the fastest it has ever been run here indoors, the previous record being 5:05. Guthrie ran second in this race.
No times were taken in the other events. Dennis and Newbold took first place in the two heats for the fifty yard dash. Martindale ran a pretty race in the 55-yard high hurdles taking an easy first.
McCoy defeated Newbold by a scant yard in the low hurdles. In the gym Priest won a pretty half mile while Dennis took first in the quarter mile tryout. All the events were reeled off in unexpectedly fast time.
Parker and Younger both made five feet six in the high jump without a miss. Wenger, Coventry and Peard tried out for the pole vault.
The Pi Phis have pledged Miss Pearl Stuckey of Topeka.
Last JUNIOR PARTY of the Season----March 6.