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THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME IV.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 28, 1908.
NUMBER 48
FOR STUDENT GOVERNMENT
INITIATIVE TO BE TAKEN BY PAN-HELLENIC.
Faculty Favors the Plan as Only Solution for Many University Problems.
Student representation on all University committees, a student council to which all questions that materially interest the student body will be referred, government by the governed,-such are the promising prospects at Kansas University. The Pan-Hellenic will meet tomorrow to prepare plans for calling a mass meeting of the student body to consider the advisability of student control of student affairs. This condition exists at Michigan and is entirely satisfactory.
Dr. VanderVries, who has been investigating such affairs at other schools, when asked about the proposed movement said that he was glad to see the students take the initiative; that no radical changes were desirable, but that the movement was a good beginning to the gradual working out of this important problem.
The faculty committee in charge of student affairs has been gathering data from colleges and universities throughout the country with a view to getting pointers on these proposed changes. It has been found that Kansas has the most untrammeled control of any University of the West.
Political Pot Begins to Boil.
The political pot will soon boil again. The politicians are already preparing for the Athletic election soon to be held and several men have backing of a caucus recently held for places on the board. Carl Pleasant, Carl Rouse, Milt Miller and Bob Worline have quite a following and are being pushed by friends for the four student memberships on the athletic board.
Fifty Couples at Band Party.
About fifty couples enjoyed a pleasant evening last night at the Band Party in F. A. A. Hall. Shanty furnished the music.
Judge Heizer, of Osage City is visiting his son, Robert at the Beta house this week.
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Miss Marjorie Bodle is entertaining her brother, Thurston Bodle, of Meade, Kansas.
Miss Esther Rauch is visiting at her home in Topeka over Sunday.
The Harris Club on Vermont street entertained their friends this evening with a social dance.
OPENS FRIDAY
BASEBALL GAME WITH THE EMPORIA NORMALS.
An Inter-Class Track Meet, and Other Athletic Gossip About the University.
Owing to the fact that McCook is not in condition for baseball the opening of the season was changed from today to next Friday. By that time the diamond will be watered and the loose sand will be rolled down and made solid. Friday the Emporia Normals will appear on the local ball field and Saturday the Ottawa Baptists will contest with the Jayhawkers. Today the Freshmen team went to Leavenworth to play a team of soldiers on the Old Soldiers Home grounds.
An Inter-Class Track Meet.
This year there will be an inter-class instead of an interschool track meet. This event is scheduled for April 18, and will be the best meet in Lawrence this spring. All students of the University will be allowed to participate; freshmen, flunkers and all. The use sheet right now gives the freshmen the advantage of any other class. The Kansas-Washington clash will be the only other meet on McCook this spring.
Many Men Practising.
Spring practice in football is proving a success. About eighteen men are out for positions already. Coach Kennedy is sure of having a great line next fall but the back field material has not shown up yet. Dick Waring, who made a K in '05, and Pleasant, who got his K in '06 are both out for the team.
To Organize Tennis Team.
Tom Lee, chairman of the tennis committee, is preparing to conduct tryouts to choose a tennis team to represent the University this spring. Tournaments with other institutions are to be arranged.
A new innovation in athletics is to be tried here in the near future. A class tournament in water polo will be organized as soon as the teams are in shape. The Junior team is already organized.
To Play Water Polo.
Students Interested in Chapel.
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Joseph W. Cochran, of Philadelphia, secretary of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian church, began his address at Friday morning chapel by saying that never before in a large institution had he seen students so interested in chapel exercises that they attended when forced to stand because the room was too small to supply the necessary chairs.
CHANGE IN TEAM
J. M. CHILDRESS TO TAKE CECIL FAY'S PLACE.
Kansas Meets Oklahoma April 10, Missouri April 23, Washburn April 24.
The second inter-collegiate debate of the season will be held at Norman, Oklahoma April 10th, when the Sooners and the Jayhawkers clash on the forum. Kansas will defend the negative of the question, "Resolved that Congress should enact an income tax law," and will be represented by C. C. Merillat and J. M. Childress. Cecil Fay, an original member of the team will not be in the Oklahoma debate and at a meeting of the debating council yesterday, J. M. Childress, chosen alternate at the final preliminary, was appointed to take his place. Mr. McGregor Douglas, A. B.'94, of Oklahoma City, has been requested to accompany the Kansas team to Norman to look after their interests.
The Missouri-Kansas debate the only debate held at Kansas this year, will be held in the chapel on April 23. On April 24 Kansas meets the Washburn team at Topeka.
To Give Debaters a Banquet.
At the meeting of the Debating Council yesterday, a committee was appointed to make arrangements for a banquet the evening of the Missouri debate, in honor of the visiting team, the judges of the debate and the various debating teams of the University. The debating emblems will be presented at this banquet.
Democrats Make Strong Speeches.
With A. A. Mann, president of the Democratic club, in the chair a half dozen of the University political orators had a joint discussion in Green Hall this morning on the subject: "Byranism versus Taftism." The Democrats were represented by R. H. Worline, W. E. Brown, and S. E. Bartlet and Republican views were given by S. S. Lashbrook, O. C. Hull, and E. E. Brookens.
Faculty Ladies Entertain.
About fifty girls of the University enjoyed the hospitality of the ladies of the faculty Friday afternoon in the classical museum.
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Roy L. Moody, A. B.'05, who recently received a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago is visiting his parents and friends in the city.
UNIVERSITY SPECIAL
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The Quivera club students ate picnic supper in the Haskell pasture Friday evening.
TWO DAYS VACATION
A RECESS OF TWO DAYS TO COME IN APRIL.
An Agitation Which Has Been Going on Finds Favor With Chancellor.
"We have decided to give the students two days spring vacation. It is a long pull from the Christmas holidays to June, and the students deserve a short holiday," said Chancellor Strong to a Kansan reporter today.
The periodical agitation for a spring vacation has been in evidence since the warm days came. The spring holiday was a regular institution at the University prior to the school year of '06-07. But with the postponement of the opening of the school year one week, as has been the case for two years, the spring vacation was necessarily dispensed with, unless school was continued one week longer in June. The two days vacation will be given sometime in April.
INTEREST IN CIVIC QUESTIONS.
There Are 27 Good Government Clubs in United States.
Charles M. Jessup, of New York, multi-millionaire and formerly Wall street banker, now national secretary of the Good Government clubs talked to the men in Fraser Hall Thursday evening on "The Responsibilities of Citizenship." He prefaced his address by an explanation of the scope of University civic clubs and named a list of American statesmen who heartily favored a national federation of such organizations.
The Good Government organization now has twenty-seven clubs in the different schools of the country. In a consideration of the problems to be studied Mr.Jessup mentioned immigration, the relations of labor and capital, and the need of integrity in high places. He paid a high tribute to the men whose strong influence has given the forward impulses to this nation. He urged that the man who is to have power in political affairs by having the grit to hold convictions and the grace to live them must also be worthy in his home and individual business life.
Sigma Xi will Meet.
An initiation for the newlyelected members of the Sigma Xi honorary fraternity will be held Thursday evening at the home of Professor Robert Kennedy Duncan, 1237 Tennessee Street. A paper will be read by Professor Duncan.
Kelly's Orchestra, F. A.A., April 3rd. Admission
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