The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NUMBER 42
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 19, 1909
VOLUME V.
SQUAD DOWN TO HARD WORK
HARD GAMES OF BASKETBALL SCHEDULE ALMOST HERE.
"Phog" Allen Regular Coach Now —Training Men to Use Short Pass for Small Courts.
"Phog" Allen is to coach the Jayhawker basketball team the rest of the season. He quit the K.C.A.C.last week and will now devote two nights each week to showing the Kansans the fine points about the great mid-winter college game.
Last night the Varsity and Freshmen were pitted against each other for an hour. For the first half hour of play the Freshies were strong and held the score down to 26 to 18. In the last twenty minutes of play, though, the Varsity scored 25 field goals. It developed in this practice game that the Jayhawkers are woefully weak in playing the short pass game. Coach Allen says that the team will have to overcome this defect in order to win the games on the foreign courts as most of them are small.
The Kansas team plays Nebraska on the 29th and 30th of this month in Lincoln. These games do not count in the division championship series as Nebraska belongs to the northern division of the conference. On Feb. 3 and 4 the Tiger five is here. The Jayhawkers play Washington University in St. Louis Feb. 10 and 11 and the two nights following this they play the Missouri at Columbia. The division championship series will be ended in Robinson Gymnasium on Feb. 20 and 22, when the Washington University team plays the Jayhawkers.
The conference championship series will be played the last week in February. The time and place of playing this series will be determined when the division series are ended.
Kansas 53, William Jewell 12.
In a slow, sluggish game the Jayhawkers defeated the William Jewell team by a score of 53 to 12 in Robinson Gymnasium Saturday night. Martindell, the speedy Jayhawker guard, got a finger broken early in the game and will be unable to play for some time. This will handicap the Kansas team somewhat.
SHELDON SPEAKS
The Stout club gave a party in I. O.O.F.Hall Saturday night.
EVERY MORNING THIS WEEK AT CHAPEL HOUR.
His Subject is "The Spirit in Man" He Spoke Yesterday and Today.
Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, the noted author and pastor of Topeka, began the week which he is giving to the students of the University of Kansas with a short, vigorous talk in chapel Monday morning. He announced his theme for the week as "The Spirit in Man" and opened his remarks with the quotation"It is the Spirit which giveth life" from the words of Christ whom Dr. Sheldon said is the great authority on life. In order to gain this spiritual life no one need neglect or despise the body. For his third point Dr. Sheldon stated that no one need get away from the world to grow spiritually and any tendency towards that attitude is a mistake. "The way to get goodness is to fight badness." In closing he emphasized the reality of the spiritual life.
Dr. Sheldon continued his talk this morning to a much larger audience. Just as truly as no two persons make identical prints with their finger tips so no two personalities are the same. Therefore each individual must develop his personality along distinct lines. Dr. Sheldon then drew illustrations from mechanical life to illustrate the fact that the spiritual life is very sensitive to the impressions of God. As a drop of water upon an unprotected telephone wire destroys its use fulness so a very little thing will prevent the sensitiveness of the Spirit.
Dr. Sheldon will continue his chapel talks during the week and will speak to the Y, W. C. A. add Y. M. C. A. meetings on Wednesday afternoon and evening. He will also meet the students each day in Prof. Wilcox's office between chapel and noon.
The largest machine at the University was installed in the new power plant last Saturday. It is a combined generator and steam turbine which cost $4000. It weighs 15,000 pounds and was taken to the building with the aid of a large traction engine.
Oscar S. Stauffer of Emporia has been pledged by the Betas.
Large Machine Installed.
INVESTMENTS PAY WELL
REAL ESTATE RETURNS AS high as 18 PER CENT.
Lawrence a Good Place for John D. To Place Spare Change—Students Good Source of Income.
College life is not merely a matter of studying and of grade getting. There should grow into the student certain associations and traditions which make so large a part of college life," said the Minnesota Daily in a recent issue, discussing the advisability of erecting dormitories at Minnesota. Imagine the associations and traditions of a rooming house or boarding club in Lawrence?
A student, however, pays enough in Lawrence to get all the "traditions" he could want. Rooms that rent for $10, $12 and $14 today rented for $6 and $8 a few years ago. But with this increase in rent, the accomodations have failed to keep pace.
In the 1400 block on Tennessee street, there is a house, the value of which is about $4000. The rent for this place is $60 per month for twelve months. This does not include heat, light and water. The cost for these items ranges from $25 to $40 a month and must be paid for by the students in the house. This $720 for rent is clear money to the owner and represents a return of 18 per cent to the investor.
Another house on East Lee street rents for $700 a year. This is absolutely clear return for the property owner as the cost of heat, light and water is met by the students. This amounts to $30 or $35 per month. The interest on this investment is fully 15 per cent.
These are two examples of the high rent which must be paid by the students and which represents a clear return for the investor.
First Kansas Magazine Out.
In the first number of the "Kansas" magazine, published at Wichita this month, a number of people connected with the University are represented. Professor W. H. Carruth has a poem in the number, "Dreamer of Dreams." William Allen White has a short review of Kansas politics. There is also an account of the Kansas-Missouri football game by Griffin Ordway, with a cut of the K. U. team, Missouri valley champions.
ON THE CARPET
MEMBERS OF MASQUE BEFORE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE.
No Punishment Decided upon— Trying to Locate Responsibility for Affairs.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon the disciplinary committee took up the matter of the Masque club's trip to Liberty, Mo., against the orders of the University council. All the members of the club were summoned to appear before the committee. The hearing was held in the Latin office. The members of the club were called in one at a time in quick succession and subjected to a rapid fire of questions from the committee, and then dismissed.
The committee was merely trying to get at the facts of the whole affair and to determine where the responsibility for the breaking of the decree of the University council really rests. The subject of punishment will not be discussed until it is definitely found whether the manager or the members of the caste knowingly broke the rules.
The Kansan Is Yellow.
Editor Kansan: Do you mind my telling you that for a student paper I consider The Kansan a fake? It is filled with a lot of editorials written by a young man who has a fairly good vocabulary but no sense. The Kansan is a radical paper from start to finish with scarcely any news in it ever and that little news written up like the items in one of Hearst's "Americans." What do your subscribers care for the editor's opinion about people and things? I'd like to read an unbiased editorial in your paper for once. Some young man wrote an article on the value (?) of education. In some respects he was just right and I fail to see why The Kansan should fill up space with a stinging editorial about some one who has not discovered yet as good a graft as you. Kansas University is no place for The Kansan staff. Its members know too much to learn more here. They even score the editors of local papers—men who have been in business since before you were born. Why waste your time here? And why call your paper a student paper? Student means one who studies and that surely does not apply to The Kansan board. Try and give us a good edition and not so much yellow journalism. A SUBSCRIBER.
THESPIANS will repeat The Climbers Next Thurs. Ev'ng Bowersock's Opera House Seats on Sale at Woodward's Tickets on Sale Wednesday