FAVORS THE OLD FOOTBALL
CHANCELLOR PREFERS IT TO RUGBY.
Says the American Game Is Doomed in Missouri Valley—Reforms Don't Reform.
"I am satisfied that football in its present form will not be 'retained at the University,'" was the opinion Chancellor Strong expressed to a Kansan reporter this morning.
"The opposition to the game on the part of the Regents is too strong to be overcome by the imagined 'reforms' which the National Rules committee annually make. And, too, the opposition sentiment seems to be just as much alive in the other schools of the Missouri valley as it is here. So, it will be a matter of great surprise to me if the American game is ever again played by the Missouri Valley conference teams.
"Personally I am opposed to the sport as we have been playing it—the training is too strenuous, and too small a percentage of the men of the University can participate—but the University must have football of some sort to replace the old game. I am willing that Rugby should be tried, although I know very little about that style of play, but I would much prefer a suitable revision of our own football. If the rules committee does not make the necessary changes—and I have no idea that they will—then why not draw up a Missouri Valley code? I suppose this would be next to impossible, but it might be tried, anyway.
"As to revision, I adopt the stand that Coach Kennedy has taken. He says that this business of trying to graft the open Rugby plays to our game, which is essentially a closed one, is foolishness and can't be done; but this is exactly what the national committee has been trying to do for years and for this reason they have had no success, and never will have. I believe, with Kennedy, that a return to the old style game would be a good thing and I would rather have than done than to adopt Rugby."
Concert Next Thursday
The University orchestra will give a concert in Fraser hall Thursday, a week from tonight. Several original compositions by Dean C. S. Skilton will be played at that time for the first time.
To Speak at High Schools.
Prof. R. A. Schweegler will speak to the students of the city schools at Yates Center tomorrow, and Prof. H. P. Cady will speak at the high schools in Ellis.
Quill Club to Meet.
The Quill Club will meet March 29. Miss Lucy Thomas, Miss Nadia Thomas, and Harry Kemp will read papers.
James VanScoyee of Oak Hill who was graduated from the the School of Pharmacy last year is visiting friends at the University.
Dean L. E. Sayre and wife will entertain the members of the senior class of the School of Pharmacy at their home, Friday evening April 1st.
MISS MOSSLER HONORED.
Superintendent Over Columbia Teachers.
The duties of the office to which Miss Mossler has been elected will include the conducting of alumni meetings of the school and the delivering of lectures. She will also superintend the teachers in all educational institutions throughout the United States, who are graduates of the Columbia school. The latter work will include the outlining of courses of study for those teachers and planning much of their work for them.
Miss Gertrude Mossler, head of the department of expression on the University, this morning received official notification of her election to the position of superintendent of expression over all institutions in which graduates of the Columbia School of Expression, of Chicago, are teaching. Miss Mossler was elected by the alumni association of the Columbia school, of which she is a graduate. She will have for Chicago the middle part of June to attend the annual meeting of the Columbia Alumni Assosciation which will be held on the 26th and 27th of that month. At that time she will assume her new position
The new office, however, will not mean that Miss Mossler will leave the University. On the other hand she will continue at the head of the department of expression and simply add her new duties to the work she is already doing.
"Figgers" Won't Blow Up.
A professor in chemistry was commiserating the professor of mathematics on the fewness of his students, and the latter, resenting the implication that popularity was a proof of good teaching, replied: "The trouble with mathematics is that nothing ever hapens. If, when an equation is solved, it would blow up or give off a bad odor, I would get a many students as you."
A burglar recently entered the Chi Omega house at the University of Colorado, in broad day light while most of the girls were at the University. He searched the house and secured about $77 with remarkable speed, escaping without leaving any clue to his identity.
Manhattan is to have sixty-minute periods next year, according to a recent decision of the faculty. The recitation period of forty-five minutes, which has been used for a third of a century has been considered entirely too short, especially for classes i laboratory and shop work.
A burglar who broke into the Alpha Tau house at the University of Chicago failed to get away without rousing the negro janitor. In turn he roused the boys who joined the race in their pajamas so successfully as to recommend them for the tracel team.
A Masonic club has recently been organized at the Kansas Agricultural College. The member have leased a club house and hope eventually to have their organization a member of Acacia, the national Masonic fraternity.
Professor Broderson of the department of chemistry read a paper on the work of Woehler and Lubig, at the Chemical Journal, yesterday.
BIG FISH FROM KANSAS SEA
A PREHISTORIC SHARK MOUNTED AT MUSEUM.
Skeleton of Deep Sea Monster Fifty Feet Long Placed on Exhibition.
One of the most striking specimens of a fossil fish ever discovered has just been placed on exhibition in the west corridor on the top floor of the Natural History museum. It is a portion of a huge shark, comprising forty-five finely preserved vertebrae, which form a wall mount in a slab form, forty feet square.
The largest vertebra measures about four inches in diameter,and is comparison, several vertebrae of a recent shark, which are only about three-fourths inches in diameter, have been placed in the same case.
The measurements give some idea of the gigantic monster. Calculations show that the animal must have measured about fifty feet from tip to tip. The mouth probably attained a stretch of three to four feet, and it is easy to imagine what a wholesale slaughter such a denizen of the deep would wage among his lesser bretheren.
A small separate mount of two vertebrae has also been made—one to show the flat face of the vertebrae, the other cut in sections to showthe bony walls at the center of the double conceave or amphioleus vertebrae. On a separate mount of glass inside the wall case are shown a number of small, smooth, well-worn pebbles, over seven-hundred of them, which were intermingled with the vertebrae. These, known technically as "gastroliths," were probably once a part of the food-masticatory apparatus of a long-necked plesiosam that inhabited the waters in the Cretaceous age at the same time as the shark.
The specimen was found last summer in western Kansas by H. T. Martin, assistant curator of the museum, on the ranch of Mr. Neuenschwander, in Trego county. Many tons of rock had to be removed in order to secure the specimen. It represents the largest shark ever secured from the chalk beds of western Kansas.
H. G. Monton, fellow in the economics department in the University of Chicago, will sail for Liverpool about April 1 on a fellowship awarded by Hart, Schaffer & Marx, to investigate inland waterways conditions in Germany and England. He expects to remain abroad at least six months and will write a book on the results of his investigations.
Gertrade Mallette, a junior at the University of Washington has been chosen editor of the University literary magazine,The Washingtonian. Miss Mallette has been associate editor and succeeds to the chief place because the editor has been chosen as the Rhodes scholar from Washington
WILL GO TO ENGLAND.
Edgar Forde to Go With Miam Glee Club.
Edgar M. Forde, manager of last season's Glee club, will accompany the Miami Glee club on a tour to England this summer, according to a statement made today. The Miami club has signed a contract for a four weeks' engagement at Covent Garden in London and will also fill several minor engagements before returning to this country. The club is composed of twenty-five members It will go to England under the direction of an eastern lycceum bureau.
The University senate at Michigan recently got busy and refused to allow the organization known as the Michigan Union to put on a minstrel show this spring. When the union gave an opera last fall it promised to give no other public entertainment this year, but because of its financial needs had asked permission to give the minstrel performance.
From "The Round-Up."
From "The Round-Up." The following new definition of a diplomat was given in "The Round-Up" at the Broadway theater by the sheriff:
"A diplomat is a man who can steal your coat and vest and explain it so well that you give him your watch and chain."
One hundred and twenty-five loyal children of Erin at the University of Minnesota held their first university Irish banquet on St. Patrick's day. Irish songs and recitations were given between courses and responses later to six toasts gave opportunity for Irish wit.
Sweets for Athletes.
Conch Grant, of the Minnesota track team, advocates sweets for track men. He maintains that if a man is assured of the purity of the confectionery it will aid his endurance power.
This opinion differs from the prevailing one that confectionery is harmful to the athlete, but deserves consideration from a coach who has put out a winning team.
Professors H. L. Willett and W. L. Thomas of the University of Chicago have been appointed by Mayor Busse as members of the "vice commission," which is composed of thirty of the most prominent social workers of Chicago. The purpose of the commission is to investigate vice conditions in Chicago.
Don't miss dance Thursday night. F. A. A. hall. Italian concert orchestra.
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When you go home for your Easter vacation be sure and have some sign of identification to let people know you are from the University. Stop at the Indian store and get a large brass K for your fob.
Fischer's Shoes Fischer's 814 Mass. are Good Shoes St.
Another Shipment of K. U. Jewelry Rings, Spoons, Pins, Fobs, etc. See north window
Gustafson
THE COLLEGE JEWELER
We Lead. See how the others follow
The College Inn Will Run Full Force During the Vacation