THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME V.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 20, 1908.
NUMBER 14
IS BECOMING COSMOPOLITAN
MANY UNIVERSITIES REPRESENTED IN K. U.
Students Are Here Who Last Year Attended 48 Different Institutions.
This year Kansas University has drawn students from fortyeight Universities and Colleges over the United States. These schools, outside of Kansas, are located mostly in the East. Many young men and women in search of knowledge have come from Ohio, Michigan, Illtnois Virginia, New York, and Maryland institutions to attend the University. The list from the west is comparatively smaller than the one from the east. Schools in Nebraska, Montana Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Colorado are the only western colleges whose former students are going on the hill.
Baker University heads the list of schools with nine students attending K. U.; Campbell College has four; Ottawa, Missouri University, Washburn and the Kansas State Normal have three each; Michigan University, Colorado University, Emporia College, Colorado College, Oklahoma Central Normal, Nebraska University, K. S. A. C., have two each and one student comes from Randolph College, Va., Central Holiness University, Illinois University, Earlham College, Southwestern College, McPherson College, Beloit, (Wisconsin) College, Smith College, Monmouth (Ill.) College, Defiance (Ohio) College, University of the City of New York, Western College for Women, Oklahoma Northwestern Normal, Maryland College, Fiske University, Nickerson College, Chicago University, Epworth (Okla.) University, Western Kansas Normal, Kansas Wesleyan, Montana Normal College, Kansas Christian College, Daughters College, Highland University, Drake University, McGill (Canada University, Midland College, Fairmount University, Amity College, Friends University, Cooper College, Bethany College, Westfield College, Wisconsin University, and Kingfisher (Okla.) College.
Athletic Board Election.
A meeting has been called by the Athletic board Friday, October 30, for the election of a new member to the board. This election is made necessary owing to the absence of Milton Miller, who is in Cincinnati attending a medical school.
EMANCIPATION.
UNIVERSITY GIRLS CAN PURSUE EDUCATION UNHINDERED.
Moonlight Strolls and Romantic Episodes Must Happen Only at West End Opposition Strong.
As a result of an agitation for social reform, three of the sororities of the school and a large number of girls in rooming houses have pledged their honor to abolish dates and social engagements of all kinds during the week. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights will be the favored evenings from this time on. One sorority refused to make promise claiming that it had been tried before and never kept.
Miss Hannah Oliver and Miss Alberta Corbin are the faculty representatives that are advocating the reform among the girls. The Chancellor is heartily in favor of the plan, and the Board of Regents also recommended the idea in making out the list of approved rooming houses.
It is said that the social conditions at the University are in a deplorable state. Much time is wasted by sentimental couples in week night strolls and tete a tetes on vine hidden porches. The new rules will, of course, do away with all this sort of conduct. The enforcement of the rules will depend entirely on the honor of the girls who have promised to keep them. The University could not make iron-clad laws similar to those in secondary schools like Baker and Winfield.
Small Attendance at Reception.
The attendance at the Y. M. and Y. W. reception Saturday evening in the gymnasium was rather small on account of the storm scare. The students brave enough to go had a pleasant evening in an informal way. College songs were sung. Prof. E. M. Hopkins played the piano.
Elizabeth Wilson to Appear as the First Attraction.
MUSICAL RECITAL THURSDAY
The first of a series of four recitals to be given by the Fine Arts school will occur Tuesday evening, October 27, in Fraser Hall.
Elizabeth Wilson, the contralto who made such a favorable impression here last year will give the recital.
Professor Preyer will play the accompaniments.
Miss Wilson will sing a new song of Dean Skilton's, with a violin obligato.
MEMBERSHIP CRUSADE ON
Y. M. C. A. WORKERS BUSY GETTING MEMBERS.
Five Hundred Is the Slogan of the Men at Myers Hall. Permanent Building.
Seventy-five men representing the University Y. M. C. A. will begin a membership crusade this evening. The committee will make a house to house canvass in a final effort to increase the roll of members to five hundred. Each man in school will have the matter put plainly before him and will have a chance to refuse or accept.
The membership at present is 225. There are 1225 men in school. It is the intention of the leaders in the movement to secure at least enough men to raise the number to five hundred. If the mark set can be reached before Thanksgiving, a canvass of the state for subscriptions for a University Association house will be started.
Several wealthy men of the state have written encouraging letters to the executive committee, and have expressed a desire to help in the erection of a permanent home for the Y. M. C. A. as soon as the men in that organization show a need for the building. A larger membership must be secured before a creditable showing can be made in the state.
The increase in Bible study and the importance of the employment bureau will be emphasized as two great features of the Y. M. C.A. work here.
"The idea of helping the man who really needs it, should appeal to everyone who is not interested yet in the religious side of the work," said J. P. Hagerman this morning to a Kansan reporter. "I have great hopes of securing our desire this time. If we do the building will no longer be a dream."
Dr. Wilcox in Chapel.
Prof. A. M. Wilcox spoke in chapel Tuesday morning on a volume of English poems entitled "Sonnets of This Century." He read five of the sonnets which he considered especially worthy of general notice.
A Big Feed.
The girls of the Chi Omega sorority will be entertained by a dinner party this evening by Mrs. C. W. Straffon and Mrs. A.C. Mitchell at the home of the latter.
RIVALS STRONG
JAYHAWKERS' OPPONENTS SHOW UP WELL.
Missouri and Nebraska Sprang Surprises Saturday-Washington's Strength Unknown.
The games last Saturday give a pretty fair line on the teams that the Jayhawkers are scheduled to play yet this season. Some of them showed unexpected strength and others were weaker than the advance dope sheets figured.
The Tigers surprised their most ardent supporters and upset all forecasts of their game by defeating Iowa, that was already vaunting an ever victorious team by the score of 10 to 5. Missouri had three stars on the side lines too at that. The Columbia players have a strong line and a great back field. They also seem at last to have developed a kicker. Bluck, their right tackle, booted a field goal from the 45-yard line. The Tigers seem to have a better team than they had last year. Kansas, from the dope thus far, has a good chance to run home with the Iowa game.
Nebraska also did great things Saturday. On the field of the enemy the Cornhuskers played Minnesota a 0 to 0 game. While the Minneapolis team is weaker this year than usual, the ability to hold them to no score shows that Nebraska has an extraordinary aggregation. A great many of the old stars are back and Kansas will meet a worthy rival at Lincoln on November 14.
Washburn, the opponents of Captain Crowell's bunch on November 7, played Haskell in Topeka and took the contest 11 to 4. Washburn made two touchdowns, each one on a forward pass. The pass in fact characterized their play. The Indians had little trouble getting through their opponents' line, but their bucks were always stopped before they got to the goal. They came close enough for place kicks several times and Island, the Haskell quarter, did the trick once. The Indians allege that they got the worst end of several bad decisions and maintain that if Island had not been knocked out in the first half they would have won.
Washington, the team that comes to McCook next Saturday, tangled with Knox College last Saturday. They won their game 11 to 0, but as little is
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FRIDAY, OCT. 23 Sophomore Party Shanty's Orchest F. A.A.Hall Admission 75c