BASKET BALL STARS MANY.
OLD "K" MEN AND NEW MEN OUT FOR TEAM.
The year's schedule is heavy team is on first trip of year at present.
The basket ball outlook at the University is exceptionally good. Many men of experience are trying out for the team and a well balanced team of star players is assured.
Captain Earl Woodward will play one of the guards. He is a star man of two years'varsity experience and is one of the best players in the Missouri Valley. Other men who will try for the squad are Tom Johnson, and Howard Randall, football stars; George McCune, last year's captain and forward; Paul Wolher, a guard and a player who can absorb all kinds of punishment; Roger Peard, a fast, sure player; Robert Heizer, a guard and freshman captain last year; Ralph Bergen, center on last year's aggregation; Don Martindale, a guard and whirlwind player; and Long, an experienced man at the indoor game.
On Monday the team started on its first trip. The men will play with the Normal at Emporia; Fairmont at Wichita; Ottawa University; Newton Y. M. C. A.; Joplin Y. M. C. A.; and with several other teams in southern Kansas. The trip will not end until after Christmas.
EARL WOODWARD, BASKET BALL CAPTAIN.
After the preliminary games the schedule is heavy. The first Missouri Valley championship games are with Nebraska in Lawrence on January 8 and 9. On the 13th the Normals play in the gymnasium, on the 16th the Aggies come for a game, and on the 22nd Ottawa will be played at Ottawa. On the 23rd the Jayhawkers meet William Jewell at Liberty, Mo.; and the team meets Nebraska on their own court on January 59th and 30th.
Missouri comes to to University for two games on the 5th and 6fh of February, and on the 10th and 11th Captain Woodward will lead his men against Washington University in St. Louis. On the way home the team will play with Missouri on the 12th and 13th. Washington
Manager Lansdon will probably add a few more games to the list, and if K. U. should win from Washington, Missouri and Nebraska the team would have to play a championship series with the winner of the games between Iowa, Drake and Ames.
University ends the season in Lawrence on Washington's birthday.
GRADUATE CLUB IS ACTIVE
Has Adopted Well Formed Plans for Year.
The Graduate club, composed of members of the graduate school of the University, has organized for the school year 1908-09 with the following officers: President, R. W. Baldwin; vice president, R. J. Ray; secretary, Florence Hedger; treasurer, C. H. Heuser
The club has passed resolutions determining its work for the year, in substance as follows:
"We believe that our unique position both as (in the main) alumni and present students of K. U. gives us a peculiar interest in fostering larger university traditions, and in learning of and supporting the policies for the greater growth of the University. We have determined, therefore, that the program of the Graduate club this year shall be the presentation of and working for plans of the up-building and support of the whole university and the graduate school as a part thereof."
As a first step towards the fulfillment of this policy, Chancellor Strong has presented to the club his plans for a greater university and its needs for the next biennium.
After the holidays Dean Blackmar will speak on the Graduate School and its needs.
The Graduate School was organized in 1896. In the school year 1907-08 it contained 102 members and granted 23 degrees. The annual increase for the last few years has been about 10 per cent. A strong graduate school is the distinctive feature of a true university Only a few state universities have well equipped graduate schools. These few are now the leaders in education in their respective sections of the country.
tions of the country. The Graduate club does not forget the fact that if Kansas university is to be a great university she must have a graduate school of the very highest standing.
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man who lives in it so that his place will be proud of him. Be honest, but hate no one; aver-turn a man's wrong-doing, but do not over-turn him unless it must be done in overturning the wrong. Stand with anybody that stands r i g h t. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
A Political Chart.
(Prepared by Abraham Lincoln.)
Prfessor Frazier at Rochester.
A student cast presented "Comas" at Rochester University under the direction of Dr. Edgar J. Frazier, formerly of the University, last week. The Rochester Post Express says: "The production was made possible in a large measure by the patient scholarship of Dr. Edgar J. Frazier, who took the poem, which is innocent of stage directions, and produced an acting version.
Professor Avery, head of the chemistry department of the University of Nebraska, has been appointed acting chancellor.
The Song of the Young Men
Oh splendid young world with the garland of youth on thy brow,
The looms of time flash on our sight the bright woof of the Now.
Back, Age, with thy face ever turned to the widening past;
In our veins there runs wine, we have come to our birthright at last:
We will cleanse the old ways with the whirlwind and fire of the new,
And leave the race better and nobler as partios do.
God bends over us with a blessing, we work with a song;
Our cities and bridges and railroads leap, rivited strong,
Into being like magic—Yea, one with the thought we have hurled
Through the length and the breadth of the continents vast of the world
Our parallel ribbons of steel, and our vessels are gone
From the uttermost reach of the west to the gates of the dawn.
We wrestle with forests, they melt like a beam in the night
And pastures of cattle and farmsteads grow into the sight;
Where cannibal savages plundered and crept in the dark,
We have sprinkled our lights, turned the marsh to the well-ordered
Give way to our battleships! grinning through powder and smoke With crack of Martinis we throw off the weight of the yoke. Do mountains detain us? Our faith is our hand and our brain, We level their heights till they touch with the sweep of the plain With steam shovels mighty; we take what the tropics afford Of brown men, shave continents down, leave a coast firmer-shored.
As we pass on the light, one by one the old nations awake:
Like Lazarus, out from the tomb of tradition they break To strike hands with us in our triumph of science and steam:
The day and the action must follow the night and the dream.
Our trumpets are blown and the terrible wind of their blast Overthrows the old tyrannies bastioned deep in the past.
We have shaken down wall after wall, sunless throne after throne,
And truth shall reign ever preeminent, perfect, alone.
And when our joints stiffen, our efforts grow feeble and old You shall see we have fought for ideals 'mid commerce and gold,
And after the din and the dust of the fight will appear Triumphant forever the effort and labor sincere.
HARRY H. KEMP.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS;
MANY SAW "PRINCESS IDA"
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FINE ARTS COMIC OPERA HAS THREE PRODUCTIONS.
Carroll Fisk and Helen Janes the Star Performers—Heavy Practices Made Voices Hoarse.
The Fine Arts play, Gilbert and Sullivans "Princess Ida," given in Bowersock opera house on last Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday afternoon, entertained a large crowd at each performance.
The cast was chosen from the best singers and actors in school but the exertion of hard practice weakened the voices of the singers and robbed many songs of their power. The principals and chorus were all at their ease upon the stage and presented the opera in veteran style. The costumes were ordered especially from New York and were dazzling in brilliancy.
Carroll Fisk, as the hunchbacked Gama, father of Princess Ida, was the star of the performance. He sang catchy songs in a strong, penetrating voice. Helen Janes, who had the title role, sang charmingly and acted well.
Her part was extremely heavy but she carried it well. The other members of the caste who showed up to especial advantage were Ralph Spotts, Delbert Kemp, and Leo Bozell, comic characters and sons of Gama; Helen Giddings as Lady Psyche; Alberta Cresswell as Lady Blanche; Grace Waugh as Melissa; Allen Merriam as Hilarion, the lover of the Princess Ida; and Abe Van Meter as King Hildebrand.
Among the Chorus of Courtiers and Soldiers there were many good male voices. Quay Barnett was especially good; his solo was better rendered than many of the numbers of the principals.
The chorus of Girl Graduates made a distinct hit. Their different costumes were beautiful and appropriate and their songs were catchy. Their soldier costumes and songs deserve especial praise.
The University Orchestra of twenty one pieces, led by Dean Skilton, played the opera music.
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