THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 6, 1908.
VOLUME V.
NUMBER 8
MISSOURI IS DISSATISFIED
BEGINS ANNUAL TALK FEST ON PLACE FOR GAME.
Hetherington Now in Correspondence with Lansdon. — Interesting Dope from Other Camps.
The Athletic Board at Missouri, for some reason, does not take kindly to the contract submitted by Tebeau. Director Hetherington has been ordered to open negotiations with Kansas as to the place the game shall be played and the terms that shall be demanded.
The Thanksgiving game controversy has not yet been settled. When Manager Tebeau lowered his demands from twenty-five to seventeen per cent of the gross receipts of the big game, Kansas was satisfied and the athletic board definitely accepted the Kansas City man's terms.
Kansas has already contracted to play the game in Kansas City and the Board does not feel inclined to back down from its position. Manager Lansdon said this morning, "So far as Kansas is concerned, the game will be played in Kansas City as our Athletic Board agreed to do."
OUR OPPONENTS PLAY.
The Emporia Normals, who fell before the Jayhawkers a week ago 10 to 0, played Washburn Saturday and were beaten by a rank fluke in a closely played game by the score of only 6 to 0.
Missouri opened the season Saturday and swamped the Warrensburg Normals 53 to 6. The Tigers have a great team this year. The squad is said to be better this year than last when the Jayhawkers got such a scare on Thanksgiving day and won out by only 4 to 0.
Nebraska also has a record team this year. Saturday in their first game they met Doane and came out with a 43 to 0 lead.
The Republican Club has secured the names of 250 students who can vote at the election this fall. These are entered as voters on the rolls of the Republican Club down town. The National Central Committee will give free transportation to students living in doubtful districts, not only in Kansas but in neighboring states.
Go Home to Vote.
Scrubs Play Wentworth.
The 'Varsity scrub football team played the Wentworth Military Academy team at Lexington yesterday and was defeated by a score of 16 to 0. Lack of team work and having no substitutes along caused the downfall of the Kansans.
BAKER! SHAME!
METHODISTS ON A RAMPAGE FRIDAY NIGHT.
Tore Shirt off Prof. Smith and "Ronghed" City "Cop"-Some Arrests May Follow.
Down at Baker the jolly Methodists have been having a regular reform school mutiny again. The other night the boisterous Bakerites got out en masse and tore the night shirt off of a retired missionary who is now attempting to teach the natives of Baldwin a few things; caught the village "cop" out alone and proceeded to roll him in the dust until he nearly choked to death, all the time rending the air with wierd cries of"We want football." They then proceeded to visit all the homes of the faculty members serenading them with the yell of"We want football, we want football." In front of a professors house they built a fire and danced wierd dances all night.
It is said there were three hundred students engaged in the melee. They went to the house of Professor Julius Smith and began creating a disturbance which Smith could not stand, although he was for a number of years a missionary among savages. Smith got out of bed and tackled the angry Methodists. He blackened the eyes of several of them before they got the better of the fighting parson and then they proceeded to do things to him that made him feel wretched and unhappy. He called out the village police squad, consisting of one crippled old soldier. "Old Soldier" was wallowed in the ground and dragged down a road that was covered with dust. He was greatly offended, Professor Smith and the "cop" assert that they will arrest every one of the students who had "a part in planning or a hand in executing the wicked deeds."
The students went on the rampage because the faculty would not listen to their demand to play football. The board of trustees has voted to allow football but the faculty has not yet consented and Professor Smith has been one of the most rabid professors against the game.
Twenty-four chorus singers and a few solo parts for the opera, "The Princess Ida," are to be selected by competition. Students who wish to try should present themselves at the Dick Building at the following hours: Girls, Thursday at 5:00 P.M.; men, Wednesday at 7:30 P.M.
Tryout For Opera.
FRESHMAN ELECTION
FRESHMEN HOLD ELECTION UNDISTURBED TODAY.
Chancellor Strong Advised Them to Take the Place of Freshmen.
The freshman class met in Fraser Hall to-day noon and held a quiet and successful election of permanent class officers. Chancellor Strong opened the meeting with a short talk. He advised the freshmen to take the place assigned to them and to play the part of freshmen. He complimented the class on numbers and scholarship and told them to be loyal to the University and then to the class.
The election was then held in an orderly manner unhindered by designing upperclassmen. The first year men were watching the corners for the enemy and were quaking in their boots. Clark A. Wallace was elected president; French, vice-president; Miss Harriet Rundle, secretary; and Rankin, treasurer.
BARBER MAKES DISCOVERY
Arouses Interest in Paper Read Before Tuberculosis Congress. —Result of Years of Work.
That the only immunity from tuberculosis is to be had through inoculation with increasing numbers of tubercule bacilli is the theory set forth by Professor M. A. Barber in a paper read before the International Tuberculosis Congress at Washington on Thursday. Professor Barber's paper is attracting a great deal of interest among medical men and scientists all over the country.
The new theory is the result of a long series of experiments carried on by Professor Barber at the Rosedale Medical laboratories. It was found that beginning with a single tubule germ on a guinea pig the number could be increased to thousands without fatal results. The use of anthrax germs on mice gave the same results.
The experiments were made possible by Professor Barber's invention of an apparatus consisting of tiny pipettes, by which a single bacteria can be drawn from a colony, and the exact number needed for an experiment can be used.
The Alpha Taus gave a party at their chapter house Saturday evening. Hal Lebrecht, Glen Morris, and Charles Price, all of Kansas City were up for the occasion.
TO GIVE OPERA
"PRINCESS IDA" TO BE PRESENTED BY FINE ARTS.
First Tryout Thursday—Chorus of Twenty-four Persons to be Selected for Cast.
Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Princess Ida" will be given by the Fine Arts School December 10th, 11th, and 12th. This opera is based on the story of Tennyson's "Princess" and is a satire on higher education for women. The place of the action is a woman's college. Three men enrol in disguise. The plot centers around this trio.
The chorus of twenty-four people will be selected from the whole University. The first tryout will be held next Thursday at the Dick Building at 5:00 p.m.for ladies and 7:00 p.m. Wednesday for men. The principal parts in the opera will be assigned to prominent voice students but no selections have been definitely made by the faculty as yet. The instrumental music will be rendered by the University orchestra. Practice will begin next week.
Dean Skilton will act as general director. Miss Mossler will have charge of the dramatic action, Miss Flintom and Miss Hubbell of the vocal music. Costumes will be ordered from New York and new scenery will be purchased.
OREAD NEWS NOTES.
Ethel Morrow, a freshman in the college, visited in Kansas City Saturday and Sunday.
Edna Gafford visited Saturday at her home in Topeka.
Miss Anne Guthrie of Garden City is visiting Miss Letha Hurst of the German club. Miss Guthrie will attend school in Chicago this winter.
Kitty Dolman, a freshman in the college, attended a house party in Atchison Saturday.
Alpha Brummage, captain of the K. U. football team in '03 now physical director at William Jewell College, umpired the St. Marys football game Saturday.
W. J. Campbell, captain of the William Jewell football team, was in town Saturday for the St. Marys-K. U. game.
Walter Heinecke, '03, a contractor in Utah, is in Lawrence now putting in a bid for three contracts for sewerage extension here. He is staying at the Phi Delt house.
George O. Foster, registrar of the University, and Dr. Wallace Payne, of the Bible Chair, leave tomorrow morning for New Orleans, La., where they will attend the international convention of the Christian Church. They will be gone until a week from next Saturday.