The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME V.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 16, 1909
NUMBER 65
TRAINING TABLE TO BE RETAINED
MISSOURI TO STAND WITH KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.
One Third of Conference Schools Want Tables.—Four Are Against Them.
The athletic committee of Missouri University decided last Friday that Missouri should cast her vote in the Missouri Valley conference for the retention of the training table. At the last conference meeting in January Dr. Hetherington, the Tiger representative, voted to abolish the table. The change in attitude was brought about by student sentiment and the solid stand of "M" men for special training.
At the January conference meeting it was decided to abolish the table if in a period of sixty days one third of the conference schools did not protest the action. Kansas and Nebraska at once protested and it was hoped that Ames would change her vote. Few considered that there was any chance that Missouri would stand right about face and stand with Kansas and Nebraska.
The action of Missouri insures training tables in the conference next year. Iowa is against the idea because the Chicago Conference rules debar the table from the Hawkeye school, Washington, Drake and Ames plead that they cannot afford to maintain special training quarters for football men.
Prof. Sanders in Chapel.
President F. K. Sanders of Washburn spoke in chapel Tuesday morning along the line of the addresses he is giving each afternoon in connection with the Bible Institute. His talk consisted of reasons why a knowledge of the gospels should be a part of the education of everyone. They are of intrinsic value because they treat of things which Jesus himself regarded as worth while. The truths are treated in a way to stimulate those who study them. Furthermore a knowledge of the gospels will have a socializing effect. "But the supreme value of studying Scripture", said Dr. Sanders, "Is that it continually deepens our consciousness of God."
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Harvey Elledge '08, who is employed as chemist at Swift's packing house at Kansas City visited with his brother George at the Acacia house Sunday.
OTHER COLLEGES
WILL CO-OPERATE WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
To Advise the High School Teachers Friday and Saturday.—Luncheon Saturowd at 12:30.
Ropresentatives of several of the colleges of the state will join with the University of Kansas men in making the program of the high school conference Friday and Saturday of interest and value to visiting teachers. Prof. P. H. Pearson of Bethany College will lead in a discussion of the ideal textbook in English Literature and how to use it. Prof. Murray Hill '04, of Ottawa University, will present a similar discussion on a rhetoric text-book. Miss Inez Chapman '01, superintendent of Burlington schools, is another University graduate who will speak on one of the topics of the English section of the conference.
In the general conference on Saturday morning President S. E. Price of Ottawa University and Principal I. I. Cammack of Kansas City, Mo., will lead the discussion to follow Dean Templin's paper on "College Credit for High School Students."
R. E. Bassett, associate professor of Romance languages, will deliver an address on "Conditions and Needs of Language Teaching." At the meeting of the Romance language section Saturday morning, R.G. Taylor,'07, and R.E. Gowans,'05 principals respectively of the Hiawatha and Ottawa high schools will participate in the discussions of the American History and Civics section.
A luncheon will be tendered the visitors at 12:30 Saturday in Snow Hall and in the evening they will have a chance to see the final game of the basket ball tournament which will decide the high school championship for the state.
Miners Order Pins.
The members of the mining engineering class placed an order this week with a St. Louis firm for a number of gold pins after a design made several years ago by Wallace Pratt. There are eighteen men in the class.
La Vern Palmer, who was taking graduate work in the engineering department, left Saturday for Hutchinson, Kansas, where he will be principal of the high school for the remainder of the school year.
INSTITUTE HAS BEGUN
FOURTH ANNUAL SESSION BE-GAN YESTERDAY.
Dr. Sanders Lectured on "Gospel of Mark"; Dr. Black on "Reconstruction in Theology."
The University of Kansas fourth annual Bible Institute opened yesterday. The presence of two of the most prominent religious leaders of the day, in Professor Hugh Black and Dr. Frank K. Sanders, insures a week of the broadest religious education and the deepest spiritual meditation.
Dr. Frank K. Sanders, the eminent Bible scholar, formerly Dean of the Yale Divinity School, and now the head of Washburn College, gave the first lecture of his course of five lectures yesterday afternoon at 3:30. His subject was "The Four Gospels, Interpreted as History and Literature." As an introduction to the broad, general subject he discussed the slow appearance of written records of the life of Christ.
His real subject for the afternoon's talk was "The Gospel of Mark: The story of the active ministry of Jesus told with a keen sense of its orderly development and dramatic character." In this Gospel of Mark Dr. Sanders has found a series of eight scenes by which the author portrays the public ministry of Jesus. Its chief value is its vividness, its realism, the power of impression it makes upon one. These impressions make a natural basis for the beginning of a study of the words and works of the Master as set down in the four Gospels.
Following Dr. Sanders, Professor Hugh Black, the famous Scottish preacher and author, now professor of practical theology in Union Theological seminary, began his course of lectures on "Reconstruction of Theology." He confined his remarks to "The Need of Reconstruction" and "The Principles upon which the Reconstruction must Proceed," combining the lectures of Monday and Tuesday which were introductory to his "Illustrations of Results in Special Doctrines," to which he desires to give more time.
In the beginning Dr. Black said, "I did not come to make you a new theology or to defend the old one. In fact I have enough trouble with my own. A theology is of little use until
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HELD ELEETION
KANSAS ATHLETIC CONFERENCE IN EMPORIA SATURDAY.
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State Normal Gets President State Championships, and Eligibility Committees Appointed.
Manager Lansdon, retiring president of the Kansas Athletic Conference, represented the University at a meeting of that organization in Emporia last Saturday.
The annual election of officers was the chief business of the meeting. The men who were chosen for the offices are: President, Professor D. A. Ellsworth, of K. S. N.; vice president, Professor J. B. Cortelyou, of K. S. A. C.; secretary, Prof. P. B. Sampson, of K. S. N.; and executive committee, Prof. H. I. Wood, of Washburn, and Prof. D. C. Schaffner of the College of Emporia.
Mr. Lansdon appointed two committees. One included Professors Cortelyou, K. S. A. C.; Quigley, St. Marys and Phillips, Southwestern. This committee was instructed to report a plan at the May meeting to award championships in Base ball and Basket ball.
Another committee including Professors Woods of Washburn and Schaffner of the College of Emporia was appointed to formulate definite plans for protesting against students, who are ineligible taking part in athletics.
Making Concert Tour.
In a letter to University friends, Mrs. Blanche Lyons a former instructor in voice says that she is at the present time on a concert tour in Canada and northern New York and that she enjoys her work her work exceedingly. Mrs. Lyon is studying this winter in New York City and is making rapid progress in her vocal work.
Invertebrate Fossils Received.
Dr. Cole, a University graduate, sent the biological department some invertebrate fossils. Dr. Cole is at present an army surgeon, with the rank of Captain, stationed at Fort Thomas, Kentucky. In the course of his army career he has traveled extensively and has sent the University many valuable speciment.
Recital at Washburn.
Miss Helen Phipps will give a violin recital at Washburn College, Topeka, next Thursday evening, March 18th.
Last Junior Party----Friday, March 19
F. A. A. HALL= 75 CENTS