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VOLUME V.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 7, 1909
TRACK TEAM LACKS CAPTAIN
DENNIS, PRESENT LEADER,
WILL NOT BE IN SCHOOL.
Coach Hagerman Starts Practice for Indoor Meet.—Dennis, Cummins and Priest out of game.
The track team is in need of a captain. Clarence Dennis of Seneca, who was captain of the 1909 track team has written Coach Hagerman that he will not return to school.
So far two members of the track squad have announced themselves as candidates for the vacancy, Cecil Newbold and Edwin Cooley. Both men have been on the team two years and either is capable of creditably wearing the title to which he aspires.
Newbold has done brilliant work in the 100-yard dash, the 50-yard dash and the relay race but even more than brilliant has been his efforts in the 220-yard low hurdles. Last year he ran his heat in the low hurdles in 26 2-5 seconds, breaking all previous Kansas University records.
Cooley is the long distance runner of the University. He has an interscholastic record of 4:30 for the mile. Last season Cooley was physically unable to make a showing and this year with fifteen pounds more avoirdupois—he weighs 151 in his track suit—he expects to redeem himself. The election will probably take place sometime the last of the week or the first of next week.
The indoor meet to be held with Missouri in Convention hall at Kansas City, March 12, is scarcely two months off and Coach Hagerman is already training his men in earnest for the event. A track for straight away running and high jumping has been arranged in the Gym. Many good new men are trying out but the holes left by Captain Dennis, "Dick" Priest, the half miler, and "Andy" Cummins, the two miler, can hardly be filled. All these men are eligible and Coach Hagerman says that with them in school he would turn out an ever victorious team.
Amos Hawkinson has been called to his home in Marquette, by the death of his mother.
GAMETOMORROW
CORNHUSKERS COME FOR FIRST BIG CONTEST.
Missouri Valley Basketball Schedule Opens in Robinson Gym with Kansas vs. Nebraska.
The Jayhawkers will play their first interstate basketball game of the season Friday night when the Cornhusker team plays in Robinson Gymnasium. The comparative strength of the two teams cannot be doped as neither team has played out of its own state.
The Jayhawkers have been handicapped by not having a regular coach to teach them the new points of the game. "Phog" Allen has been here a few times but his trips have been too scattered to give the team the best results of his coaching. He was up from Kansas City last night showing the boys some new features of the game which will be sprung on the Nebraskans Friday night.
The new department of the game which will interest the spectators most is the throwing of the ball from one end of the court to the other, similar to the method used in making the forward pass in football. Tommy Johnson can throw the ball on a dead level a distance of thirty yards. He can control the ball too.
The members of the squad are all in good physical condition and are confident of winning from the Cornhuskers. Every man in the squad is a regular, according to "Phog" Allen, and all of them will get in the game Friday night.
Coach Allen will be here Friday night and expects to start the game with the following line-up: Johnson and McCune, forwards; Woodward and Bergen, guards; and Heizer, center.
Prof. R. K. Duncan is in Madison, Wisconsin, this week to investigate for the University of Kansas the relations which may properly exist between the scientific department of a state university and the economic interests of a state. This work has been well developed by the University of Wisconsin and Kansas hopes to learn how to increase its efficiency in that direction.
Frank Merrill 07, of Paola, is visiting at the University.
ART EXHIBIT JANUARY 26
ONE HUNDRED TEN PICTURES IN THE COLLECTION.
Masterpieces Have Been at Carnegie and Chicago Art Institutes and Pennsylvania Academy.
The seventh annual fine arts exhibit will open in the Museum on Tuesday, January 26. The pictures have been exhibited this year at the Carnegie Institute, the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy and other well known art galleries in the United States. One hundred fifteen paintings are in the exhibit besides one hundred ten etchings. All of the pictures have been approved by art juries in the east, and are the prizewinners from many of the best American exhibitions.
In speaking of the exhibit, Prof. W. A. Griffith of the fine arts department of the Universalaid, "When I saw the collection at Lincoln, where the pictures are now on exhibition, I was surprised at the very high standard of pictures. They are simply great. The large majority of the pictures come from the most noted art collections in the East."
Miss Cora Parker one of the first instructors in the fine arts department here, will have three paintings, "The Iris Garden," "The Fisherman" and "Southward."
The exhibition will close on February 20. Two hundred seventy-two feet of linear floor space will be required for the exhibit.
"The Climbers" Next Week.
The comedy drama, "The Climbers," to be presented Jan. 14 and 15 by the "Thespians" was written by Clyde A. Fitch and is considered his masterpiece. It consists of the efforts of a rich New York family to get into the "400." Their efforts cause many amusing situations. The costumes are to be new and catchy. The cast is composed of 24 persons, of whom eight are leading characters. The majority of the players took some part in the club's former production, "The Little Minister."
Fred Cowles, of Kansas City was a guest at the Phi Delt house Monday.
LIVING IS HIGH
ROOMING HOUSES AND BOARDING HOUSES GRILL SCHOLARS.
Students Live at Cost in Many Institutions—Kansas Lacks Dormitories and Living Halls.
The University Missourian in a recent issue presented figures proving beyond doubt that living expenses in Columbia are higher than in towns of similar size over the state of Missouri. Rooms and board at the seat of the Missouri iustitution cost relatively higher than in other places.
The Kansan has recently looked into the matter at Lawrence and the conclusion reached is that the necessaries of life come higher here than at other institutions over Kansas and even at other state Universities.
At Missouri University students obtain board at a large cooperative boarding club for less than two dollars per week and rooms can be obtained in the city and in the university dormitories at nominal cost.
At Baker board averages $2.75 per week and double rooms rent for from $5 to $10. At Emporia the students at the State Normal and at Emporia College get good board for $2.50 a week and double rooms at from $4 to $10. At the Normal training school in Pittsburg students board at co-operative clubs at from $2 to $3 and rooms rent from $6 to $10.
Compared with these figures the prices in Lawrene are high. Board averages $3.50 weekly and fair rooms cannot be obtained for less than $10 monthly. Many rooms rent for as much as $15. The roominghouse and boarding-house keepers are not entirely responsible for this state of affairs. Many products sell for a higher price in Lawrence than in the markets of other towns. The boardinghouse keepers are first grilled in buying certain commodities and in return are forced to grill the students.
House rent is fearfully high in Lawrence. A seven-room, poorly built house four blocks from the hill rents for $35. The renters are thus compelled to charge exorbitant prices for their rooms. There are several houses in town in which the rooms rent for over $100.
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F. A.A.Hall Senior Party Friday, Jan. 8 Admission 75 cts.
Basket Ball
this week: University of Nebraska Friday and Saturday, Iowa State College, Ames, Monday, January 11. Reserved Seats on Sale at Check Stand. Games Called at 8 p.m. Admission 50 Cents