The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NUMBER 49
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 6, 1909
VOLUME V.
WON THE SECOND WEBSTER HERE NEXT WEEK
KANSAS DEFEATED MISSOURI THURSDAY 31 TO 23.
Jayhawkers Off For Four Big Games Next Tuesday—Washington Met for First Time.
Thursday night the Jayhawkers took the second basketball game from Missouri by the score of 31 to 23. The contest was hard fought and was full of fouls and roughness. From the start to the finish every man on both teams played his hardest and before time was called two Missourians and three Kansans were disqualified for excessive fouling.
Henley and Heizer, the opposing centers, were the first to be sent to the side lines. Each was so anxious to get a hand on the ball that they had soon disqualified themselves. Heizer was replaced by Bergen and Bernet took Henley's place.
The Tigers were the first to score but their early lead was short lived. Kansas led the race during most of the initial half and the intermission found the score Kansas 13, Missouri 12.
In the second session the superior team work of the Jayhawkers decided the issue of the game. The Jayhawkers soon ran up a lead of half a dozen points and increased their advantage toward the end. In the second half Captain Woodward was disqualified for the first time this year and "Tommy" Johnson was thrown out just as the half ended. Bernet for Missouri suffered the same fate.
For Kansas the work of Johnson and Martindell was the best but the whole squad was in the game all the time. Henley and Ristine were the Tiger stars.
KANSAS F, G. F, T. F.
Johnson 3 11 5
McCune 2 0 0
Heizer 0 0 5
Bergen 1 0 0
Martindell 1 0 0
Woodward 3 0 0
Long 0 0 0
Totals 10 11 15
MISSOURI
Ristine 3 9 1
Burrus 0 0 4
Henley 1 0 4
Cohen 1 0 1
Gardner 2 0 3
Bernet 0 0 5
Stava 0 0 0
Totals 7 9 18
Totals Officials-Ashley, referee; Hamilton,umpire.
OFF ON BIG TRIP.
Next Tuesday the basketball team will go to Warrensburg, Mo. where they play the Normal team that night. On Wednesday and Thursday they will begin the most important series of this section of the conference. On those dates they tangle with Washington in St. Louis. On the road home from St Louis the term will stop off in Columbia and play Missouri Friday and Saturday.
FAMOUS PHYSICIST WILL GIVE SIGMA XI LECTURES.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Lectures on Physics Will Be Given.
Professor A. G. Webster of Clark University, Wooster, Massachusetts, will deliver a series of popular scientific lectures at the University on February 8, 9 and 10, under the auspices of the Sigma Xi society. The subjects are: "The Creed of a Scientist," "The Great Problems of Physics, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow," and "The Measurement of Sound and its Application." The last talk will be illustrated.
"The aim of the lectures is to have men who are eminent in their line of work tell the people what they are doing and to have the results of their research put in clear and comprehensible terms." This was Prof. C. M. Young's comment on the lectures.
Dr. Webster is considered the best man in mathematical physics in America. If any cases in the United States Patient office involving machines or delicate instruments need a careful decision, the word of Prof. Webster is final authority. "In addition to his scientific knowledge Dr. Webster is a brilliant and polished talker, as well as a linguist," said Prof. J.N. Van der Vries.
Prof. Webster is a graduate of Harvard. He received his Ph.D. degree at Berlin University and his Doctor of Science degree at Tufts College. He also studied at Paris and at Stockholm. Dr. Webster is a member of the American and also the English Academies of Science.
Professor Webster is noted as an author in his subjects and is known as an inventor. He has made several inventions in applications of the gyroscope.
Nelson Heil, a sophomore in the college, has withdrawn from school to take an extended trip through Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota.
The lectures on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will be in the chapel at 4:30. Dr. Webster will speak at the chapel exercises on Tuesday morning.
Miss Margaret Heizer, of Osage City, is visiting her brother Robert, a sophomore in the college.
Prof. E.M.Hopkins will address the Quill club at its regular meeting next Tuesday on the history of the organization. Ralph Hemenway is a new member of the club.
MANY WORKERS CHANCELLOR HEADS Y.M.C.A.
72 PER CENT OF STUDENT BODY PARTLY SELF-SUFFICING.
Majority of Self-Supporting Ones Are Farmers—50 percent Come
Seventy-two per cent. of the students enrolled in the University are either wholly or partially self-supporting. They earn money by working at more than fifty occupations, and the occupation which claims a larger number than any other is farming. This is the story told by the figures which have been compiled from blanks sent out by the Chancellor some time ago on which each student was asked to show whether he earned his way through the University, wholly or in part, how much he earned, and in what way he earned it.
Out of 466 blanks looked over, 338 are signed by students who are paying or helping to pay their way through school. Of these, 80 do farm work, 52 are clerks, 31 are mechanics, 33 engage in common labor, and 22 do office work to add to the sum which means an education to them. Almost every industry in the state is represented; the ranks of teachers, preachers, paper carriers, stone masons, section hands, engineers, janitors and dozens of others are all being invaded by the self-supporting students.
Fifty-six per cent.of the students come from the farms and small towns of the state. This effectually disproves the sneering charge that has been heard that the University is a school devoted to the "city swell."
FRESHMEN 32; CENTRAL 29.
First Year Men Won in Kansas City in Tight Game.
Yesterday evening in Kansas City the Freshmen basketball team defeated the Central high school five by the close score of 32 to 29.
At the end of the first half the standing was Central 19, Freshmen 9. In the last session the first year men played better team work and were more fortunate in locating the basket. When the whistle was blown ending the game the score was 32 to 29 with the Freshmen to the good.
In the play-off Stuckey threw a field goal. At the same time a Freshman player fouled and Watson threw the free throw, giving the Freshmen the game by three points.
Seniors Had Good Party.
The senior class gave its third and most successful party of the season in Fraternal Aid Hall last night. The balmy spring weather had a good effect on party goers and there were about eighty couples at the party.
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE STATE ASSOCIATION FRIDAY.
Successful Banquet in Gymnasium Last Night.—Mammoth Men's Meeting Tomorrow.
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Chancellor Strong was elected president of the Kansas Young Men's Christian Associations at the Friday morning session of the state convention now convened in Lawrence. Since Dr. Strong has been at the University he has attended and made addresses at many of the conventions. He has become a very popular speaker with Y. M.C.A.men and has been especially sought for on themes concerning the relation of the schools of higher education to the association work.
In presenting Hon. H. M. Beardsley of Kansas City, Mo., as the toastmaster for the banquet in Robinson gymnasium last evening Chancellor Strong said that the University was in hearty cooperation with Y. M. C. A. work not only in assisting in the physical and mental development of men but also in emphasizing the primary importance of good men.
Both Mr. Beardsley in his remarks and F. H. Burt, president of the Institute and Training School of Chicago, in his address on "The Young Men's Christian Association and the Educational Institution" referred to the desirability and ultimate necessity of a Y. M. C.A. building on the campus of the University of Kansas.
Gov. W. R. Stubbs gave a vigorous address on what the Y. M. C. A. had meant to the community and to him individually.
With the subject, "The Outreach of the Young Men's Christian Association," Fred B. Smith, international religious work secretary, told of the many ways in which the organization is promoting the higher wellbeing of mankind.
SUNDAYAFTERNOON MEETING.
Every University man is urged to avail himself of the opportunity to hear the address on "Sins that Kill" in Robinson gymnasium at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon by Fred B. Smith, of New York, who is heralded as "the greatest speaker to men in America today." Music will be furnished by the University band and the Baker quartet. Assisted by the regular Y. M. C. A. convention delegates it is expected that the congregational singing will surpass anything heard in Lawrence since the Bryan meeting last February.
A women's meeting will be held at the same hour in the Presbyterian church which will be addressed by Cecil B. Gates, of Kansas City.