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VOLUME V.
NEWBOLD IS TRACK CAPTAIN
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 28, 1909
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LOW HURDLER ELECTED OVER COOLEY YESTERDAY.
NUMBER 46
Track Team Begins Serious Work after Examinations-All Track Athletes Must Train.
With the election of a captain to fill the vacancy caused by Dennis' resignation, the team is ready to get down to serious work. The men are out several times each week conditioning themselves. As soon as the examinations are off training in earnest will begin.
Cecil Newbold of Rosedale was elected captain of the '09 track team yesterday afternoon. Edwin Cooley, the miler, was the only other candidate. At the election nine men, Newbold, Cooley, McCoy, Wenger, Martindell, Bergen, Stephenson, Parker, and Allendorfer, were eligible to vote.
Newbold is a sprinter and hurdler. He has run the fifty and hundred yard dashes the past two years and last year developed into a star low hurdler. At the Conference meet in Kansas City last spring he made the best time of the event in his heat of the low hurdles. This spring he will run the fifty in Convention Hall indoor meet and he will be Haddock's running mate in the hundreds in addition to his work in the low hurdles. Newbold is a member of the Sig Alph fraternity.
Coach Hagerman and Captain Newbold will ask each track man to promise to keep in active training all season, and any man who fails to diet properly or who will not come out to practice will be dropped from the team, according to the new plan.
Local Chapter and Alumni Celebrated Founders Day.
The Thetas gave their Founders' Day banquet last night at the chapter house. Miss Kate Riggs of Lawrence acted as toastmaster. Toasts were given by Misses Poff, Gossett, Baldridge, and Harrison, and by Mrs. Beatty and Mrs. Cargill.
THETAS GAVE BANQUET.
Some excitement was caused at the close of the program by the announcement of Miss Anna Harrison's engagement to Mr. L. F. Nelson of Kanaas City. The out of town guests were: Miss Bertha Bowen, Independence, Kansas; Mrs. Scott Hopkins, Mrs. Barclay, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Cargill, Mrs. Mayor and Miss Anna Harrison, Topeka; Mrs. Doubleday, and Mrs. Ellison, of Kansas City.
WEBSTER COMING TO UNIVERSITY
Professor A. G. Webster, of Clark University, Wooster Mass., will deliver a course of popular scientific lectures at the University under the auspices of the Sigma Xi society on Feb. 8-9-10.
The subjects will be: "The Creed of the Scientists"; "The Great Problem of Physics, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"; "The Measurement of Sound and its Application."
Dr. Webster is a graduate of Harvard, Ph.D. of Berlin, and a professor in Clarke University. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and one of the foremost physicists of the country.
AUGUSTA COTTLOW TONIGHT.
Other Good Numbers of the Course Soon.
Miss Augusta Cottlow, who is to give a recital in the chapel this evening, is the only great American pianist making a specialty of American music.
She is an intimate friend of Mrs. Edward MacDowell, and studied the late Mr. MacDowell's compositions with her.She makes a specialty of the compositions of Mr. MacDowell.
Miss Cottlow appeared with great success at the Worcester Festival in Boston last fall, and is the best known pianist who has been procured by the University.
The next feature on the Winter Recital Course will be a harp recital by Francis Wade, on February 18. This will be open to the holders of athletic tickets.
Arrangements are also being made for a concert by Arthur Hartmann, one of the greatest violinists of the world, who will be here in March.
UNIVERSITY MEN ON PROGRAM
Laws Got Holiday to Attend Bar Association.
The University had two places on the program of the 26th annual meeting of the Kansas State Bar Association, which was held in Topeka yesterday and today. Prof. W. E. Higgins delivered an address on "The State to the Criminal in Kansas" R. O. Douglas represented the senior class of the Law school.
The law students had a holiday today but double sessions will be held until the work is made up.
Louis Moore, last year a student in the University, is visiting at the Phi Psi house.
Harry Singleton, last year a sophomore in the College, is visiting at the Phi Psi house.
LEGISLATORS TO VISIT HERE
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEES HERE TOMORROW.
University Plant Will be Inspected and the Needs of School Investigated.
By invitation from Chancellor Strong the Ways and Means committees of both the Senate and the House will spend the entire day tomorrow at the University. The two committees and many legislators will come to Lawrence from Topeka on the Santa Fe plug. They will be met at the depot by a committee from the University and from the Lawrence Commercial club.
After a short drive over Lawrence the law makers will be taken up on the hill and the chapel exercises will be given into their hands. During the remainder of the day the committeeen will look over the University plant and obtain first hand knowledge of just what the school needs. After a thorough inspection of the different buildings and especially the structures in course of construction the two committees will meet in the offices and the Chancellor will make a final review of the requirements of the school.
The two Ways and Means committees are the most important and influential committees in the legislature. Their report upon the University appropriation will have a great influence with the legislators.
The committee from the House is led by Representative Stannard of Franklin County. The other members are Amrine, of Morris; Mercer, of Chase; Louder, of McPherson; Stockton, of Coffey; Edwards, of Greenwood; Jewett, of Sedgwick; Crumley, of Thomas; Flagg, of Jefferson; Rhodes, of Marshall; Shideler, of Crawford; Dennis, of Gove; Davis, of Bourbon; Cron, of Butler; Brown, of Kingman; White, of Ottawa; and Banker, of Russel.
Senator Charles Huffman, of Cherokee, is chairman of the Senate committee and the other members are Brewster, of Doniphan; Glenn, of Greely; Cambern, of Neosho; Reed, of Smith; Potter, of Marion; Lower, of Washington; Milligan, of Anderson; Brown, of Marshall; and Moore, of Republic.
The Topeka visitors will be entertained at luncheon tomorrow noon in the gymnasium. The University girls will arrange for the luncheon.
If the name Squires is on a photograph it is sure to be perfect and up to date.
PROF. BLACKMAR ON IRRIGATION
Professor F. W. Blackmar has finished a lengthy report on the development of irrigation and the reclamation service of the government in the arid west. This is the result of the work of four summers in investigating the chief irrigation plants in the Western States. Prof. Blackmar's exhaustive report will be published by the Carnegie institution of Washington.
ART EXHIBIT IS HERE.
Collection Will be Open to Public Tuesday.
The collection of pictures which will be placed on exhibition next week came in from Lincoln, Neb., last night and was brought up to the Museum building this morning. Packed for shipment the pictures filled an express car. Three large drays hauled them up the hill. Workmen have been busy all day removing the canvasses from their cases.
The exhibit will be opened next Tuesday. All the intervening time will be required to place the pictures in position. There are 236 of them, all the work of American artists. The exhibit will be larger than last year's, and Professor Griffith believes that the pictures to be shown have generally a higher order of merit than those of any previous year.
Plans are being made to have a number of University professors deliver lectures during the progress of the exhibit. These will include talks on American art and specific criticisms of the pictures on exhibition.
Some rare specimens have lately been received by Professor L. L. Dyche, in the department of systematic zoology.
Two black squirrels, procured from Johnson county, which are a black form of the red fox squirrel, and very rare, have just been received.
NEW SPECIMENS FOR MUSEUM Professor Dyche Gets Rare Squirrels and Opossums.
Two specimens of opossum have also been obtained. One of these is black, the other cinnamon brown, very extraordinary variations from the natural gray color of the 'possum.
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Freshmen Basket Ball Games.
As curtain raisers to the Kansas-Missouri basket ball games, the freshmen will play with the second Emporia Normal and with the Clay Center high school teams. The former will be played under intercollegiate rules and the latter under those of the A.A.U.
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