The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME VI.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 9, 1910
WASIMPORTANT MASS MEETING
HELD YESTERDAY MORN ING IN CHAPEL.
Students Recommended That Playing of Thanksgiving Game Be Discontinued in K. C.
The most important mass meeting and in all probability the last one before the Missouri Valley football conference in Kansas City April 19, was held in chapel yesterday morning. The 1,000 students who were theretook undoubtedly the most important action yet taken in the football campaign.
After Chancellor Strong had outlined the situation to the students and urged them to take sane action, the meeting was turned over to Ralph Spotts, cheer leader. The election of a committee on committees was the first action and it was followed by instructions that that committee should choose four other committees. The four will include one on finance, one on publicity, another to write to the alumni, urging them to take some action on the present question, and a fourth to visit the Regents and present the arguments of the student body favoring the retention of the American game.
The men elected to serve on the committee on committees are: Ralph Spotts, chairman; William Caldwell, Carl Pleasant, Sidney Heil and Harvey Starbuck. With the exception of the appointment of Ben Forbes as committee on finance, no definite action has been taken in appointing the other committees.
Then ensued a discussion on the changes in the administration of the game as suggested by Chancellor Strong. Several of the students expressed what was undoubtedly the sentiment of the majority of the students present and the result was that a motion was passed without a dissenting vote to the effect that it is the concensus of opinion of the student body that the Thanksgiving game should be played the Saturday before Thanksgiving day and not in Kansas City. It was then recommended that the annual Missouri-Kansas game be played alternately at Lawrence and Columbia.
While it is not definitely known how the action of the students here will be taken by the Kansas City alumni, it has been learned that many of the latter strongly oppose the playing of the annual game any place but at Kansas City. The sentiment of the alumni members as a whole will undoubtedly be expressed at the annual banquet there tonight.
"I believe the action taken at the student mass meeting today points the way to the solution of the football problem," said Chancellor Strong to a Kansan reporter yesterday afternoon. "I was highly gratified at the action taken. I had not expected that the students would accomplish so much of actual constructive value. The football situation was greatly improved by
the outcome of the mass meeting, "It goes to show," continued the Chancellor, "That there is a remarkably sound student sentiment at the University of Kansas. My belief that this was so led me to desire a full discussion of football among the students, in order that the best sentiment might express itself. The result of the discussion that has been going or was even better than I had hoped for."
LOST THE DEBATE.
The Kansas-Colorado debate, on the postal savings bank question, held at Boulder Thursday evening, resulted in a unanimous decision in favor of Colorado.
Colorado Won From Kansas by Unanimous Vote.
The members of the team representing the University were Foster Cline, George Probst, and E. L. Overman. With the exception of Mr. Overman, who was a member of the Missouri debating team last year, the Kansas team was inexperienced in inter-collegiate debating.
The judges of the debate were Denver men including Judge Muser, of the Colorado supreme court; C. E. Williams, clerk of the Colorado supreme court, and J. Fillins, an attorney of that place.
The same question will be debated with Oklahoma on April 29.
GIRLS WOULD HELP.
May Appropriate Money to Sophomore Deficit.
The girls of the sophomore class will hold a meeting next Monday, April 11, at 12:15, in the chapel, to consider the advisability of turning over the funds which remain from the Freshman Girls' Circus of last year, for the partial payment of the sophomore class debt. There still remains $14 in the treasury from last year.
The present amount of the class debt is $47. The deficit is due to the class officers say, to the poor support given class parties this year, and unless the prom is unusually successful, at least part of the amount will have to be carried over until next year.
H. T. Martin, curator of the department of paleontology, has almost completed the mounting of the pectoral fins and girdle of a protosphyraeae, which was found last summer by department collectors. When completed this specimen will be one of the finest ever mounted and is considered very valuable.
Mounting Fossil.
Marlin Poindexter, '09, who is with the Nodthwestern Mutual Insurance company at Kansas City, is visiting at the Phi Delt house today.
Paul Webb has returned to his home in St. Joseph having completed a course in pharmacy.
DREW A DEFEAT IN FIRST GAME
The Buchanan club gave a dance in Ecke's hall last night.
HASKELL THE VICTOR BY
TO 1 SCORE.
Home Run in the Ninth Prevent ed a Shut-Out for K. U.— Fielding Was Good.
The first chapter of the baseball team's history this season was a sad one. A summary can be told in a few words:
Haskell 6, K. U. 1.
Through the whole story runs the vainilla of one Means, the pitcher for the reds. This gentleman was tight, he was exceedingly tight. The hits the 'Varsity boys gathered from his delivery were few and far between, while he was not overly generous with passes. One he gave to Huff but to get it the 'Varsity third baseman was forced to stop a pitched ball with his head. Means also struck out fifteen men. In the fourth and fifth innings he mowed down every man who faced him.
The 'Varsity played a good fielding game, making but one error on a hard chance. The trouble seemed to lie in inability to connect with Mean's slants.Smith and Wilhelm were the only men in the lot who were able to hit the ball. The former saved a shut-out by a home run in the ninth inning.
Another trouble of the locals was the inability of the pitchers to locate the plate. Four of the Indians' runs resulted from bases on balls.
Batteries: K. U.-Doyle, Far well and Rockefeller; Haskell-Means and Lawrence.
MAY MAKE NEW RECORD.
Ammons Threw the Discuss 123
Feet, 7 Inches.
Earl Ammons, who played left end on the 'Varsity "gladiators" last fall, strolled out on the golf links the other day and to while away a few moments picked up a little round iron thing, weight four pounds, called a discus. When he found that it was made to throw, he tried it. On the first effort the distance was 116 feet on the second, 117 feet 9 inches. Gladiator Ammons was not satisfied with this. In one last mad effort he threw the scrap iron 123 feet, 7 inches. The 'Varsity record is 114 feet. It looks bad for the record.
Women Students Suspended.
NUMBER 77
Two students have been suspended by the new student court at the University of Wisconsin. One of the suspensions was for six weeks because of misconduct at the gymnasium on Prom night, and the other was for four weeks because of misrepresentation of facts at the court.
Dr. James Naismith will leave Wednesday for Emporia to be present at the dedication exercises of the $100,000 gymnasium of the State Normal School.
THE WEATHER.
Partly cloudy, possibly showers late tonight; Sunday warmer.
TOLD OF LUMBERMEN.
Rev. Higgins Talked of Work in Minnesota.
The life of the lumbermen of Minnesota and of his ministry among them was the theme of an interesting talk in chapel yesterday morning by Rev. Frank M Higgins. He spoke of himself as a child of the forest who had lived with Indians as his daily companions when he was between 9 and 12 years old. Until after he was 20 years old he had no opportunity to go beyond the sixth grade in school.
After securing his education he began to preach in a forest town about forty miles from Duluth, Minnesota. He went out from there into the neighboring woods and came into sympathetic touch with the rough "lumber jacks." By his life he won the men of the different lumber camps so that they urged him to return to preach to them.
Since giving up his regular pulpit to preach to the lumber men, Mr. Higgins has been able to do much to rid the Minnesota villages of evils which dragged down the men. They send for him on many occasions and respect him fully. From among those whom he has helped to a Christian life have come several men who are now preaching to their companions.
Mr. Higgins gave several instances of men who had changed their lives though originally they had been ready to do him personal violence. One man was unapproachable until the "sky plot" had shown an interest in his dog. The phraseology of the lumber men which Mr. Higgins quoted was one of the entertaining features of the address. He closed with a vigorous expression of the joy he had found in trying to see how much good he could do to his fellow-men.
PINCHOT MAY NOT COME.
Dean Skilton Says Report Is Premature.
A report to the effect that Gifford Pinchot, who has become so well known during the past four months in public affairs, would month, was denied this morning, visit Dean C. S. Skilton next
When asked about the report Dean Skilton said, "It is premature. I have extended a standing invitation to Mr. Pinchot to visit me the next time he comes west. His secretary has informed me that he has been called to Europe to meet Mr. Roosevelt, but may make a Western trip sometime in May. If he does he will very likely arrange to visit me."
Gifford Pinchot and Dean Skilton were close friends during their four years in Yale, both being in the same alphabetical division. They were also members of the same fraternity.
Miss Cobb, of New York, is visiting Graye Waugh, at the Chi Omega house.
COMPANY "A" AT UNIVERSITY
PROVISIONAL ORGANIZATION NEXT WEEK.
University Company of National Guard Will Camp Near Lawrence Next June.
"Provisional Company A" of the Kansas National Guard will be organized at the University of Kansas next week. Monday and Wednesday afternoons, from 3 to 5, all the signers of the military petition recently circulated and others who wish to become members of the company will report at the office of Dr. Naismith, in Robinson Gymnasium, for physical examinations and enlistment At the same time the men will be measured for khaki and blue uni forms.
Adjutant General C. I. Martin '07, who was in Lawrence Thursday night at the inspection of Company H of the National guard, said that he was anxious to have the organization of the University company completed as soon as possible. He has authorized C. R. Shiffler of Girard, a member of the middle law class to perfect the organization of Provisional Company A. The company will be doubtless as signed to a place in the First regiment, commanded by Col. Wilder S. Metcalf, '97, before many weeks.
Plans are being made to have the company go into camp near Lawrence for six days immediately following quiz weeek in June for the purpose of receiving instruction in drills, guard mounting, and shooting for medals as well as for practice. The company will use its regular field and shelter tents during this encampment. Each member will be allowed to shoot 250 cartridges and will be paid 3 cents a shot for target practice. In addition to this sum, each man will draw the pay of his rank for the six days' encampment. The drills at this six day encampment will be as thorough as possible in order to get the company in shape to make a good showing at the army maneuvers at Fort Riley early in September.
Although eighty men signed the petition for the installation of a company at the University, it is likely that the state will permit the enlistment of only sixty-five men at the present time.
To Work in Chalk Beds.
Dr. C. L. McClung and Prof. Roy Moodie will spend a portion of their time for summer field work in the chalk beds of Trego, Kansas. They expect to take with them a number of the summer school students who are taking special work in paleontology.
Adrian Morgan, president of the freshman class, is spending the week end at his home in Leavenworth.
James Reynolds of Joplin, Mo. is visiting friends at the University.