The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 25. 1909
NUMBER 57
VOLUME V.
FINAL GAMES NEXT WEEK
KANSAS TO MEET NEBRASKA IN KANSAS CITY.
Jayhawkers Are in Good Shape for the Championship Series.
The final series of games for the Missouri Valley championship in basketball will be played in the Rainbow skating rink in Kansas City, Kansas, next week. The days set are Thursday, Friday and Saturday. If either team should win the first two games the last one will not be played.
Manager Eager of Nebraska did not approve of the proposition to play one game at Lincoln, one at Lawrence and the deciding game, if necessary, in Kansas City. The expense of moving the teams would have been considerable, and Nebraska wished to play all three contests on a neutral court.
"Phog" Allen was up from Kansas City last night coaching the Jayhawker squad. He is well pleased with the way the men are working and thinks they will be able to beat Nebraska.
The freshmen team is used in every practice. The tyros are a fast bunch and can hold the 'Varsity down to low scores. The team needs practice with a fast team for the Nebraska five is composed of some of the speediest players in the Missouri Valley.
All the members of the Jayhawker squad are in excellent condition for the games. They were expecting to play the finals this week and are disappointed at the postponement, but with careful training will be able to put up a good fight at the end of next week.
What Are We Coming To?
The snap course, that haven of refuge to those who prefer the primrose paths to a sheepskin, is in danger. A Chicago professor has evolved a system whereby the student will receive credits according to the number of hours he studies, instead of according to the number of hours he recites. That is, in a five hour course that requires three hours daily for preparation the student will receive twice as much credit as in a five hour course that requires only one hour study daily.
Vernon Foster, a junior engineer, is out of school on account of illness.
The freshmen of the different Greek letter fraternities will meet at Myers Hall this evening.
MANY FLUNKED
CHEMISTRY II GOT ITS REGULAR QUOTS.
Chemistry, Mathematics, and Modern Languages Hardest for Students.
The report of the "flunks" in the college and in the engineering school shows that those who fell by the wayside were most numerous in chemistry, mathematics and foreign languages. Of the three chemistry was the most dangerous from a students standpoint.
One hundred and eighty-three engineers were enrolled in chemistry, and of these sixty-four failed or were conditioned. Chemistry II finished a big majority of this number. Almost one-third of the students enrolled in the Technical Report and chemical club classes "flunked" or were conditioned.
In the College one hundred and forty students were enrolled in Chemistry, the majority in Chemistry I. Of these thirty-four failed or received conditions.
The larger per cent of engineers failed in Chemistry owing to the fact that they alone take the harder courses. Chemistry II under Professor Cady regularly "flunks"the engineers in large droves.
Failures were also numerous in the Mathematics department. Two hundred and thirty-one engineers, all told, were enrolled in this department. One hundred and thirteen took analytics, and fifteen failed. In calculus twenty failed from one hundred and twenty-six enrolled. Twenty-two in Trigonometry and nineteen in algebra "flunked" out of an enrollment of one hundred and one and ninety-five respectively. But two failed to pass in geometry. This makes a total of seventy-eight failures from an enrollment of two hundred and thirty-one.
Sixty-eight were enrolled in trigonometry in the College, of whom twenty did not pass. The same number failed in algebra from an enrollment of ninety-six. One in analytics and one in calculus from an enrollment of thirty-nine and twenty-eight respectively is the "flunk" record. This makes forty-two failures from two hundred and thirty-one enrolled.
Seventy-four engineers were enrolled in German, of these only fifty-five passed. Three hundred and ninety-three were enrolled from the College. Thirty-eight of these failed.
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Syracuse has an indoor tank for rowing practide. The strong current is furnished by electric fans.
COMMITTEES ARE FAVORABLE
AN APPROPRIATION OF $982,259 RECOMMENDED.
Dormitory, $40,000 for Electrical Equipment and $11,000 for Dispensary Cut Off.
The ways and means committee of the house of representatives made its report this afternoon on the appropriations for state educational institutions. The report was the same as that made by the senate committee yesterday, giving the University of Kansas almost a million dollars.
For some time it was thought that the house committee would lop off $40,000 in addition to that taken off by the senate, but fortunately for the University it did not do so. Tomorrow afternoon the bill will be up before the legislature for final passage. Those vitally interested in the outcome here are optimistic concerning its passage as they think the bill will go through as recommended.
For maintenance, the Chancellor asked for about forty percent more than was asked for two years ago. This is the rate at which the appropriations have been increased now for several bienniums.
As reported by both committees the University will be without a dormitory for girls for two years longer at least. The Chancellor asked for $75,000 with which to build one, but both committees considered the expenditure an unprofitable one. The $40,000 for equipping an electrical engineering building was also refused. The medical department at Kansas City also wanted a dispensary to cost $11,000 but this was refused. The report gives the University everything else which was asked for.
If the legislature passes the bill as the committees recommended the University is considered to have won a great victory.
The appropriation as recommended is:— General maintenance
General maintenance,
1909-10, - - $347,993
General maintenance,
1910-11, - - 368,978
For repairs and permanent improvements, - - 80,288
First wing of Liberal Arts building, - 125,000
Hospital at Rosedale, 50,000
Electrical Engineering building, - 10,000
Total, $982,259
J. P. Simmieger of Rawlins county and H.J. Simminger of Marshall county, are visiting J.H. Simminger, a senior in the law school.
THE CLUB LOSES
MANDOLIN CLUB DEPRIVED OF SHARE OF STUDENT FUND.
Carl Eddy and Heim Goldman Lost $130 by Lingering too Long on Organization.
The mandolin club has been disinherited. The final blow was given at the meeting of the Associated Student Enterprises yesterday. It was decided that the club could receive none of the funds of the voluntary fee fund. The body decided that as the organization had not been representing the University this year, it would not be fair to give them a part of the funds.
The mandolin club was organized last week through the efforts of Heim Goldman and Carl Eddy, to whom the success of the club last year was mainly due. It was the intention of the promoters to give a spring concert. Arrangements had been made for the annual picture and writeup. The members of the new club had been passed upon by the eligibility committee of the University.
Manager Carl Eddy said: "The action taken by the heads of the student enterprises came as a sudden and painful surprise to me. I regard the action as unjust and arbitrary. The Mandolin Club was practically reorganized and was preparing to give an entertainment this spring. All the club members are grieved that their good intentions were thwarted by the high hand expropriation of our funds."
Lecture Hour Changed.
Mr. Goldman said: "It is a shame a burning shame. The money was our money, only we didn't have our hands on it. No we will not bring any suit or try to get the money by force. It is gone. We lost."
This evening Mr. Norman Hackett telegraphed to Professor Gray that he would arrive in Lawrence at 11 a.m. tomorrow and would be forced to return to Kansas City at 3 p. m. This will make it impossible for the lecture to be given at 2 o'clock and instead the noted actor will lecture at 11:30 in room 106 Green Hall.
Stanley Myers is visiting at the Phi Psi house.
Indiana will participate in six track meets this year.
Michigan has offered a new position to President Angell who has resigned. The regents will accept his resignation only on condition that he accept the new position of Chancellor of the University.