THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
n 38
VOLUME V.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 15, 1908.
NUMBER 1
THIS YEAR'S FOOTBALL
EIGHT K MEN REPORT FOR PRACTICE WEDNESDAY.
The Schedule Heavy This Year After Eleven Years the Jayhawkers Play Iowa.
Next Wednesday afternoon Coach Kennedy will line up his big squad of gridiron gladiators for the first time this season and will begin to whip them into condition for the heaviest schedule that a Jayhawker team ever went against.
The season begins in earnest on September 26th, when the Emporia Normals come to McCook. The Normalites have been training since September 5th and may spring a surprise on Kansas. On October 3rd Ottawa plays in Lawrence followed by the Aggies a week later. Oklahoma ushers in the heavy part of the schedule on McCook October 17th. Washington University displaces St. Louis University this year and comes to Lawrence on October 24th.
After a week's rest the Kansans must go against the four strongest teams in the Missouri Valley in a period of only nineteen days. Washburn ends the local season on November 7th and on November 14th Captain Crowell will lead his warriors into the Cornhusker camp at Lincoln.
For the first time in six years Kansas will play a member of the Big Nine. Iowa is the star attraction this season. The last Kansas-Iowa game was in '97. Coach Kennedy was at that time the Jayhawk captain and his huskies trounced the Iowans to the tune of 56 to 0. The Iowa game will be played in Iowa City November 21.
The annual Thanksgiving clash with Missouri is sure to be played in Kansas City this year. While the contract for Association park has not been signed there is no doubt but that the deal will go through.
Of last year's football team Captain Rouse and White, ends; Milton, center; Miller and Forter backs; will be out of the game. There are left, however, eight K men who are nearly sure to make places.
FOOTBALL CANDIDATES
The returning stars are Reed, the giant guard and star of the team last year; Captain Crowell and Caldwell, tackles; Carlson, guard; Porter, Rice and Waring, backs; and Pleasant, end.
There are other experienced candidates for every position on the team. Tom Johnson, the basket ball player, Steele, Coulter, and Newbold are trying out for quarter; Stephenson,
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FACULTY CHANGE
MANY NEW PROFESSORS THIS
FALL.
The Mathematics and German Departments Have the Most Changes.
Many members of the University faculty of last year have resigned or obtained leave of absence and their successors have been selected by the Board of Regents. Mr.J. A.Campbell, an assistant professor in German last year has gone to Austria and Germany where he will teach during the coming winter and at the same time make an advanced study of the German language and literature. Miss Esther Wilson, of Lawrence, will take his place this year. Dr. Clara Holst of Christiana University, Norway, an assistant professor has resigned from the German department and returned to Europe. A.N. Sturtezant will take the place of Dr. Holst. He has been studying in Germany and Norway during the past year.
William U. Moore has resigned from the Law school and accepted a position in Wisconsin University. H.W.Humble of Chicago University will be the new member of the Law faculty. He will rank as an associate professor and teach all the special law courses.
In the Mathematics department assistant professor U. G. Mitchell has been given a year's leave of absence to take a teaching fellowship in Princeton. Carl Werneicke of Cincinnatti has his place. Instructor Arthur Pitcher and Professor Charles Ashton also have leaves of absence. Mr. Pitcher will study in Chicago University and Professor Ashton will spend the winter in Europe. Meyer Gaba of Chicago and George Hargewell of Columbia University will fill the vacancies. On account of the increased enrollment a new assistant professorship has been created in mathematics and Charles A. Pierce of the Michigan Agricultural College has the position.
Assistant professors A. D. Schoch and Eliot Boardman have resigned from the department of Romance languages. Mr. Schoch will teach in Honduras University this winter and his place will be taken by F. A. Lamotte of the University of Wisconsin. W. T. Ward of Western Reserve will displace Mr. Boardman who will study in the east.
H. C. Allen of Kansas City has secured the position in the chemistry department made vacant by David McFarland who will take advanced work at Yale.
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2400 THIS YEAR
EVERYTHING POINTS TO BANNER ENROLLMENT.
Registrar Foster Is Confident the Year Will be a Recordbreaker
George O. Foster, registrar, estimates that the enrollment during the coming year will pass 2400 mark. This estimate is based upon the fact that the University has grown, and should continue to grow at a certain rate, and that an unusually large number of prospective students have stated their intention of matriculating.
The recent additions to the engineering school have attracted many new students. The electrical engineering building is nearly completed and will be opened as soon as the heating plant is enlarged. The mining building will be started at once and should be finished by September, 1909.
As the Kansan went to press early this afternoon the enrollment for the fall term had reached 810, which with the summer school enrollment brings the total thus far to 1213.
DEATH OF MRS. CARRUTH.
Passed Away Suddenly After a Brief Illness.
Frances Schlegel Carruth wife of Vice-Chancellor Carruth, died on the morning of September 3, at the family home at 1346 Louisiana street after a brief illness.
Mrs. Carruth was born in Boston in 1854. She came to the University in 1874 as assistant professor of modern languages and was a member of the faculty until 1882. In that year she married Professor Carruth. Their daughter Constance is the wife of Elmer McCollum, a member of the faculty of Wisconsin University.
In the life of the University Mrs. Carruth always took an active interest, and in the women's clubs and other intellectual activities of the town she was a leader. In every good work her presence will be missed.
J. Wilbur Jones, a junior in the College will be principal of the Sabetha high school this year.
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Y. M. C. A. HAS A NEW HOME
THE ASSOCIATION HOUSE WAS OPENED LAST FRIDAY.
New Students Will Be Cared for at Myers Hall-Stag Social Friday Night.
The University Y. M. C. A. has engaged Myers Hall for headquarters during the coming school year. The office of Secretary J. P. Hagerman will be located there and an employment and information bureau will be maintained. Any new or old students who are in search of work, a rooming house or a boarding place can apply at the Hall and his needs will be looked after. The employment bureau is under direct supervision of Captain Donald this year and the list of persons desiring employees is complete.
The annual Y. M. C. A. stag social takes place Friday night, September 18, in the reception rooms at Myers Hall. This will be the first of a series of class and school receptions intended to get the new students acquainted with each other and with the upper classmen. The probable speakers Friday are Chancellor Strong, Secretary Hagerman and Frank Parker, president of the association.
The hand book this year is the best ever gotten out by the Y. M.C.A. It contains one hundred and forty-six pages of interesting matter. Any person may receive one of the books by merely asking for it.
The regular weekly Y. M.C. A. meeting will be held on Thursday evening at Myers Hall. Prominent students and members of the faculty have been engaged to speak from time to time. Two hundred students can be accommodated at the regular meetings.
Y. W. C. A. HOUSE.
In New Location This Year at 300 West Adams.
The Y. W. C. A. girls have the house at 300 West Adams for their home and headquarters this year. The house is now open to all girl students. Members of the association will direct new girls to rooming and boarding houses and help them get started in their work. The Christian Association's hand book will be given away to girls at the Y. W. C. A. house.
Killed by a Live Wire.
Dan Matthews of Arkansas City, a sophomore in the School of Engineering, was killed by a live wire near the new engineering building on the sixteenth of last June. He was employed in the construction of the new building.