THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1910.
COMING EVENTS.
April 16, French Play.
April 21-22, Musical Festival.
April 29, Junior Prom.
May 5, Student Council Election.
May 7, High School Meet.
May 13, Sophomore Prom.
May 14, Nebraska Track Meet.
May 14, Girls' Gala Day.
May 21, Missouri Track Meet
May 19-20, Senior Play.
May 28, Missouri Valley Meet.
The action of the University in cancelling the baseball games with the University of Kansas because there are professional players on the Nebraska team was somewhat surprising, to say the least. It is absurd to suppose that it is impossible to find enough men at the University of Nebraska to make up a baseball team untainted with professionalism. It is more likely that the action arises from the belief of the Nebraska officials that the amateur requirements for college baseball either can not be enforced or ought not to be enforced. The frank request that the University of Kansas suspend the conference rules and play the games as scheduled indicates a deliberate attempt to break down the conference rules. The University of Kansas can well afford to spend considerable time investigating the situation before it agrees to withdraw to any extent from the requirements it has succeeded in imposing in regard to amateur standing in all branches of sport
In the seven weeks of school yet remaining this year, there will be enough "doing" to keep most students as busy as they care to be. In addition to the University and social affairs which always spring up to fill all the dates at toward the end of the spring term, there will be no lack of theses and final reviews with which to while away the time.
They are talking of building some electric lines into Columbia, Mo. Every improvement of that kind will help to put Columbia on the map of the accessible world, and will also have a bearing on the important question of playing important University games in University towns.
"I can see no hope for the abo
fition of football," said Regent J. W. Gleed to the student committee last night. But there is no scarcity of hope, just the same, for if Mr. Gleed can see no hope, then the students of the University can see lots of it.
UNIVERSITY NOTICES.
Prof. E. II. S. Bailey will speak at the Y. M. C. A. meeting tonight at 6:45, at Myers hall. Election of officers for next year.
Mrs. Frederick Crowe of Lawrence will give the last piano recital of the spring course in Fraser hall tonight.
The Mechanical Engineering society will meet at 1301 Ohio street, at 7 o'clock this evening. The Civil Engineering society will meet in Blake ball at the same hour.
Mr. H, H. Fiske, superintendent of Haskell Institute, will speak in chapel tomorrow morning.
EARTHQUAKE NOT LOCATED
University Seismograph Only One to Record Last Shock.
Who has lost an earthquake? The University has a perfectly good quake which the owner can have by claiming his property. It was recorded on the University seismograph Monday night. So far, the occurrence of the earthquake has not been noted by a single other observatory, though the record made by the University or Kansas seismograph indicated a more violent disturbance than the one which was recorded March 31 by observatories all over the United States.
The record shows that the earth's trembling lasted over an hour and a quarter. The story traced in the lampblack on the revolving drum by the sensitive needles of the seismograph goes thus: mild premonitory shakings began at 6:40 and lasted for about 15 minutes. Then a sudden shock sent the needles zigzagging 3 millimeters from a straight line, which means that the earthquake had begun to go some. The recording needles were kept on the job for the next hour marking down shocks of varying intensity. Toward the end of the record the curves traced by the points become longer, indicating that the earth was getting tired, and finally, after a few minutes of barely perceptible sidewise movement the needles again became motionless.
"The record was absolutely characteristic, as was shown by comparing it with the tracings of previous shocks which were made by other instruments," said Prof. H. P. Cady yesterday.
When the street car line over the hill is completed during the next two weeks, four pay-as-youenter cars will be placed in service. The cars have been ordered and are expected to arrive with in a short time. Two of them will be used in making the University circuit from the south and the other two from the north.
Pay-as-You-Enter Kind for K.
U. Line.
WILL USE NEW CARS.
This style of car will not be used on the other lines of the system for some time, since it is impossible to use the pay cars until Y's are installed at the end of the lines.
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Student Has Device to Change Gear of Wheels.
For several years H. V. Jono has been working on a device for changing the gear of a bieyeh from high to law as the occasion demands. This week he received word from parties in the east who have had his invention in charge saying that it is a complete success and that when a few changes are made, a request for a patent on it will probably be made.
The device is extremely simple The mechanism for changing from high to low gear is in the sprocket wheel, but this is controlled entirely by attachments from the handlebars. Thus, when the rider comes to a hill all he has to do is to give the bars twist and the low gear is on. When he has successfully pedaled on the high gear and he can bowl up the hill another twist will turn on the high gear and he can bowl down the hill without working like a jumping jack.
Mr. Jonte is enthusiastic over his invention and as he has heard of no similar device on the market, he feels certain that the patient will be granted and that when the proper financial means are secured he will have his labor-saving device one of the necessities of life.
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MORGAN FOR FOOTBALL.
Regent Gives Out Interview at Columbia Favoring the Game.
University Missourian, April 12. W. Y. Morgan, a member of the Board or Regents of the University of Kansas, a representative in the Kansas legislature and editor of the Hutchinson News, while in Columbia today expressed himself as opposed to the abolition of football.
"Yes, there is an agitation in Kansas against football," he said, when asked about the situation there. "It was started outside of the University by newspaper men who thought the game was giving the school a black eye in the state. Like your university Kansas is largely dependent upon the good will of the people of the state for its support. These men felt that the people were getting the idea that the University was turning out good butchers as a result of the roughness of football.
"Football is rough, but it takes a rough game to make a man out of a fellow. I have not missed a game in Kansas City for fifteen years. There are changes that might be made to advantage. I think the suggestion made here that fewer games be played is a good one. In the fall the game takes up too much of the students' time.
"I think the resolutions passed at the University of Kansas the other day, in favor of doing away with the Thanksgiving game at Kansas City, were proposed by members of the faculty and were supported by the students in the hope that they would stop the agitation against football.
"I don't know whether the Kansas regents will take any action against football or not. Two members of the board are strongly opposed to the game and they may want to take advantage of the present agitation."
Ralph C. Johnson, who graduated from the College last year, is visiting friends here for a few days. He has been working on the Leavenworth Times since graduation, but is now on his way to Denver, where he will do reportorial work.
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