THE KANSAN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME V.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 8, 1908
NUMBER 33
HAWORTH IS PRESIDENT
KANSAS GEOLOGIST CHOSEN HEAD OF MINING SCHOOLS
The Association is Trying to Get Important Legislation Through Congress.
The association is composed of all the state mining schools in the country. The members are trying to get congress to pass a bill appropriating a fund, similar to that given for agricultural purposes, for the use of the mining schools. The senate has passed the bill and it is now ready for the House of Representatives.
Professor Erasmus Haworth was elected president of the American Association of Mining Schools at a meeting held in conjunction with the American Mining Conference at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, last week. The other officers of the association elected are: Secretary and treasurer, Prof. A. H. Purdue, of Arkansas; and vice-president, Professor Fulton, of Wisconsin.
At the mining journal tomorrow afternoon Professor Haworth will tell of the work of the American Mining Conference. Several noted men delivered addresses at the meeting. Senator Dick, of Ohio, promised the conference that within sixty days a bill creating a Bureau of Mines and Mining will pass the senate. The House of Representatives has passed favorably upon the Bill.
Prof. C. G. Dunlap spoke in chapel Tuesday morning on the character and writings of John Milton. The subject was particularly timely because beginning Wednesday December 9 the literary folk of London will celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great poet of the commonwealth.
The most distinguished characteristic of Milton was his sense for style but he achieved no popularity as an author because his diction was too classic for popular approval.
Prof. Dunlap said that the London admirers of Milton had arranged for elaborate ceremonies and programs and the presentation of some of the poet's dramas during the three days celebration.
Dunlap Spoke on Milton.
ENGINEERS BANQUET NEXT TUESDAY
Committees Working Hard on Big Annual Affair.
The sixth annual engineering banquet will be held Tuesday, Dec. 15, in Robinson gymnasium. Covers will be laid for three hundred and fifty guests and twelve after dinner orators will speak. H.R.Davis, of the Hope Engineering company of Kansas City, will make the first speech. Three other practical engineers will be on the program but they have not yet been selected.
The faculty speakers will be Professors H. P. Cady, Berton McCullom, A. H. Sluss, and M. E. Rice. Carl Ball, president of the engineers club, and the incoming president to be elected this week are on the program for toasts.
The committees for the banquet are: Program—Harry Coleman, Charles Hoffman, Henry Nixon. Refreshment—Charles Fisher, Arthur Groesbeck, H. C. McClure. Arrangements—C. W. Morrow, Frank Glage.
SENIORS GET THE MAGAZINE
All seniors in the University, being near-alumni, are to receive the Graduate Magazine, according to an order of the alumni directors. The seniors have one advantage of the alumni, however, in not being asked to pay subscription.
For convenience, since the alumni room has been moved off the main travelled road, magazines are placed in the old alumni room, now the outer office of the dean of the college where seniors may easily get them. Beginning next month, the laws and pharmics will get theirs in one of their classes.
PAUL HARVEY CHOSEN.
The Kansan Board Picks Junior for Assistant Editor.
Paul Harvey, of Columbus Kansas, a junior in the college was chosen by The Kansan board at its meeting Monday morning to fill the unexpired term of Claud Clay who resigned a week ago. Mr. Harvey is serving his second term on The Kansan. During the football season he handled the athletic news.
CAPTAINCY TOMORROW
FOOTBALL MEN TO CHOOSE '09 LEADER AT BANQUET.
Twenty-two Men Get to Vote for Leader—Caldwell, Pleasant and Carlson Still in Race.
Tommorow evening the Athletic Management will give its annual banquet to the football team at the Eldridge house. Every man who got into a game this year will be a guest and will have a vote at the election for the captaincy of the 1909 team to be held during the evening.
Caldwell, Pleasant and Carlson are yet in the race for next year's leadership and the contest seems to be a toss-up between the three. The vote will undoubtedly be close and the winner will be successful by only a few votes.
The men who will cast ballots are Captain Crowell, Pleasant, Reed, Carlson, Harley Wood, Caldwell, Hennessey, Rice Johnson, Steele, Bond. Myers, Fisk, Waring, Dahlene, Stephenson, Randall, Vaughn Wood, Ford, Houghton, Spear and Newbold.
The senior girls proved themselves charming hostesses in the party which they gave to the boys of their class last Saturday evening in the gymnasium. The evening's entertainment opened up with a big surprise for the boys, who found their hostesses wearing red masks and red caps and gowns. They were kept guessing until just before the spread when the masks were doffed. Dancing was enjoyed before and after the spread.
Senior Girls Wore Masks.
Officers for Cherokee Elected.
The Cherokee county club met yesterday evening and elected officers for the coming year. John Brentlinger was chosen president; Cleve Bowser, vice-president; Mabel Hardwick, secretary and Dan Nevinger, treasurer. The club will give a banquet to the seniors of the Galena and of the Cherokee county high schools in Columbus during the the vacation. A football game will also be played with each school.
SAYS GUESTS ARE COMMON.
Have Not Invited the Elite to the All-Star Dance.
The promoters of the "elite" dance to be given in Smith hall next Friday night think The Kansan has been unjust and unfair to them. William Fishman of Kansas City, one of the moving spirits of the affair, said to a Kansan reporter this morning: "This is no creme-de-creme, fluffy ruffles, four hundred, light fantastic toe tripping affair. It is true that we are trying to get the best dancers on the hill and we want a party of exclusive dancers.
"But the fact is, we have not invited any elite people at allnor do we intend to. They are all the very commonest people on the hill.' When the list of invited guests is published, you will see that it does not include the elite of the school."
This statement by the promoter of what at first was intended to be a |""varsity 400" affair, that the party is to be only a simple function is causing disappointment, as it was hoped that the long mooted question as to just who compose the Elite would be settled.
But now it is all open again.
PRESBYTERIANS WILL BUILD
Raising Money for a New Westminster House.
The Presbyterians are conducting a canvas over the state to raise money with which to endow a new and larger Westminster house.
J. C. Cochran of Philadelphia is conducting the work and he has already raised a considerable sum in Lawrence. He will visit Kansas City, Topeka, Leavenworth, Winfield, Ottawa, and Hutchinson and work for the fund during the next few weeks.
W. W. Cockins, formerly of Lawrence and now of Kansas City has given $15,000 towards a new building on provision that the committee raise $30,000.
The Presbyterians are planning to erect a solid brick structure two stories high. A large hall will divide the building into two halves, on one side will be located the rooms for bible study and special classes, on the other side Dr. Wilbur, head of the Westminster house, will have his home.
SEE
DECEMBER 10 and 11
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