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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 27.1909
VOLUME V
SENATE PASSED APPROPRIATION
ADOPTED REPORT OF WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE.
House Will Soon Consider Measure and Chances Are Good for Its Passage.
Yesterday the state Senate adopted the recommendation of the senate ways and means committee and granted to the University an appropriation of approximately one million dollars.
The ways and means committee of the House made exactly the same report as did the Senate committee. The House was to act upon the measure this morning but the press of business delayed consideration for some time. The bill may possibly be taken up late this afternoon.
Friends of the University are generally very well satisfied with the bill as recommended by the ways and means committees and as already passed by the Senate. While about $125,000 was cut off of the amount asked for by the University the work of the school will not be seriously hampered. The first wing of the Liberal Arts building, the electrical engineering laboratory and the hospital at Rosedale were the things most needed by the University and they will probably all be granted.
CRITICISE PHI BETA KAPPA.
Michigan and Harvard Would Change Election Methods.
Harvard and Michigan are having trouble about the methods of election to Phi Beta Kappa. At Harvard the method of election has undergone a radical change. No more Harvard men will be chosen simply because they have made high marks. The aim will be to choose the college man of distinction in all lines of University endeavor rather than the grind.
At Michigan the Education Club has criticized Phi Beta Kappa. The contention is that some students get in on "pulls" and that others are barred because they fall down on account of illness. The club recommends that more recognition be given to clear and direct thinking rather than the mere memorizing of facts. Only five percent of the Michigan teachers are in Phi Beta Kappa.
PRIMARIES SOON KANSAN ELECTS NEW BOARD
NEXT TUESDAY THE DATE FOR PARTY NOMINATION.
Professor Carruth Has Walk-Away for Republican Mayoralty Nomination.
The city primary will be held on next Tuesday, March 2. There are several citizens more or less closely associated with the University after nominations for the different city and ward offices.
Vice-Chancellor W. H. Carruth is the only candidate for mayor before the Republicans and will get the nomination without a fight. His real contest will come on April 6, when the city election will be held. The opponent of Professor Carruth at that time will be Sam Bishop, a local attorney and the Independent-Democratic candidate.
The primary registration has been remarkably heavy and the vote will be large. The registration books will be open again after the primaries for the citizens who wish to vote in the city election.
The primary vote from the student body will be very light as few of them are so far registered. The politicians are figuring on a heavy University vote in the final contest.
HACKETT ON SHAKSPERE.
Large Audience for Celebrated Actor Yesterday.
Norman Hackett, the well known actor, spoke yesterday morning upon "Shakspere—His Plays and his Haunts." Mr. Hackett began his lecture by describing vividly and minutely the home of the famous writer in Stratford-on-Avon. He pictured the attractive and interesting features of the surroundings which Shakspere pictured in his works.
In speaking of the drama in universities, Mr. Hackett said, "Greater attention should be paid to the drama. Those of Shakspere should be produced in every school. An original opera should be given, as well as plays in every language."
Mr. Hackett urged the students not to allow the English language to gradually sink into degeneracy, as he believes it is doing. He says it takes no more time to pronounce a word correctly than incorrectly and it sounds much better.
Mr. Hackett is considered one of the greatest of the young actors of today. He was a classmate of Prof.C.H.Gray at the University of Michigan.
NEW OEFICERS CHOSEN YESTERDAY—HARVEY EDITOR
Markham Is Managing Editor and Harmon Business Manager— Harvey from CherokeeCo.
At a special meeting of The Kansan board, held yesterday, officers were elected for the ensuing year. Paul Harvey, of Columbus, was chosen to succeed H.C.Waters as editor-in-chief. O.E.Markham, of Washington, was selected by the board as managing editor, Ralph Harmon, of Cottonwood Falls, is the new business manager of The Kansan, and Robert K. Johnston, of Lawrence, is assistant business manager. The circulation manager has not yet been chosen.
Mr. Harvey, who will have charge of The Kansan for the next year, is a junior in the college and has served on the staff of The Kansan for about two years. For the last two months, since the resignation of Claude Clay, he has served as managing editor of the paper. Mr. Harvey is the third editor of the paper to come from Cherokee county. There have been only six editors of The Kansan and the other three have come from Sumner county. Kayser, Young and Roberts are the Sumner county line and Douglas, Waters and Harvey all came from Cherokee county.
Mr. Markham is a junior in the college and has served on The Kansan for a year. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Ralph Harmon, the new business manager, is a junior in the college and has been doing advertising work on the paper for more than a year. Robert Johnston has been on the business staff for about a year. He is a sophomore and a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Joseph Murray was elected treasurer of The Kansan board, and in the future he will handle all the money and pay all the bills.
Flavel Robertson and George Bowles were made full members of the board.
The Sigma Chis had a small party at their chapter house Friday evening.
Haskell and K. U. will run a relay race at the Olympic games March 6.
Miss Julia Lyman of Kansas City is visiting Miss Mary Lambert at the Kappa house.
A U. of K. MAN
RICHARD A. BALLANGER TO BE SECRETARY OF INTERIOR.
Attended the University '77-'78 Commissioner of General Land Office for Last Two Years.
Richard A. Ballanger, a former student of the University and now a prominent lawyer of Seattle, Washington, is to be appointed Secretary of the Interior by President-elect Taft. For the past two years he has been commissioner of the General Land Office under Secretary of the Interior Garfield.
Mr. Ballanger came to the University from Larned in the fall of '77. He remained in school here one year then he went to Washburn where he stayed another year. He was prominent in athletics at both of these schools being a baseball player of ability. From Washburn he went to Williams where he was graduated in '84. After he finished college Mr. Ballanger went to Seattle, Washington, where he began practicing law. He was successful and is well known on the Pacific coast as a lawyer.
Secretary Garfield, Judge Pierce of Salt Lake City, and Richard Ballanger were graduated from Williams the same year. They were all fast friepds and incidentally men of character. When Garfield was appointed Secretary of the Interior he recommended these two men to fill the most important places under his supervision. It was due to his efficient work as Commissioner of the General Land Office that Mr. Ballanger is to receive his appointment. In speaking of Mr. Ballanger Professor Miller said that he was a splendid student and a fine young man. Further, that his success has been due to his thorough prosecution of everything he undertakes. Judge Pierce was also in a way connected with Kansas. His wife was a student here in the early days.
Concerning his career before entering the University the Lawrence Journal says that he was for two years a deputy clerk and then a deputy treasurer in his home county. While acting as deputy treasurer he exposed an official for appropriating county funds to his own use.
Bess David, a sophomore in the college, is sick with the pleurisy at her home at Bonner Springs.
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