The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME V.
NUMBER 69
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 25, 1909
ARE READY FOR TIGERS
JAYHAWKER TEAM IS RESTING TODAY.
All the Men are in Good Condition Special Leaves at 2:15 Tomorrow
Tomorrow night in Convention Hail the Jayhawkers and Tigers will have their annual indoor battle for track honors. The Tigers are confident of winning. They consider Kansas as not having a look in Coach Hagerman is just as optimistic about the Jayhawkers and many track critics say he has a right to be that way.
The team is resting today. The men are in the pink of condition for the fray tomorrow night. The coach says every man is at his best. This week on the training table has done wonders for the men, giving them the final touches.
In the try-outs several of the Convention Hall records have been beaten. Haddock and Newbold ran the fifty yard dash in 5-3 on the rubber mats in Fraser Hall Tuesday afternoon. The new men are doing stunts just like this and the coach says he expects to spring a number of surprises tomorrow night.
"If all the men do their best individually," said Captain Newbold today, "we have got the Tigers bested by ten or eleven points. Such men as Perril, Fairchilds, Clark and Thompson are going to show great form when it comes to the final test."
Coach Hagerman said, "Figure it any way you will I can't see how we can possibly lose. Last year the Tigers had three or four stars who won the meet for them. This year the Missouri team is a balanced one and for this reason I think we are going to lick them."
In the pole vault Wenger has got back to his old time form and "Tommy" Johnson will do his share in both the vault and hurdles.
The Kansas entries are:
50 yard dash: Haddock, Newbold.
440 yard run: Perril,Haddock.
880 yard run: Bergen, Badger.
One mile run: Clark, Cooley.
Two mile run: Thompson,
Clark.
High hurdles: Johnson, Martindell.
Low Hurdles: Newbold, Hamilton.
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SIX NEW ONES
LEGISLATURE PROVIDED FOR GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS.
Makes Total of 18 Fellowships and 5 Scholarships Available to Students.
The last legislature appropriated money to establish six new graduate fellowships at $500 each. They are open to teachers in Kansas colleges and superintendents and principals of Kansas schools, who are graduates of colleges and universities of recognized standing and who have shown preeminent qualification for advanced work. Blank applications for these fellowships may be secured from the Chancellor of the University on or before May 15, 1909.
These new fellowships will make a notable addition to the present teaching fellowships offered by the University at $265 each. These latter are twelve in number being one each for the following departments: English Language, French, German, American History, European History, Mathematics, Education, Sociology, Philosophy, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology.
Three scholarships are also offered to students in the college. The Marcella Howland Memorial Scholarship is open to junior and senior girls and pays about $80 a year. The Lucinda Smith Buchan Memorial Scholarship, established by the alumnae members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, is open to young women of the junior and senior classes of the college. It provides for a loan of $200 for three years without interest. Mrs. Sara T. D. Robinson, of Lawrence, supports a research table in the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. Mrs. Robinson makes the opportunity to use this table open to women of the University who have specialized in the biological sciences and given evidence that they are fitted to make the best use of it.
The Roofs and Bridges class of senior civil engineers, accompanied by Prof. H. A. Rice, went to Kansas City today to inspect the railroad bridges on the Kaw and Missouri rivers.
On an Inspection Trip.
The Freshman Pan Hellenic party will be held at Fraternal Aid Hall on April 17.
FOOTBALL MEN REPORT MONDAY
CAPTAIN PLEASANT ISSUES CALL FOR PRACTICE.
Will Last for Two Weeks—Kennedy and Mosse Will Have Charge of Work.
All candidates for the '09 football team are requested to report for practice Monday afternoon, March 29, at 3:30 o'clock, on McCook field is the call issued by Carl Pleasant today.
After considering the fact that there is less than a week to practice next fall before the first game the football authorities have decided to have spring practice. Coach Kennedy will have charge of the men every day and St. Leger Mosse will be here part of the time to get a line on the new material. The practice will continue for two weeks.
Carl Pleasant, who is to lead the Jayhawker team next fall, is enthusiastic over the prospect for next year. Several old men are gone from the squad but there are twenty-five or thirty new men who will want to try for a place. He says he wants the new men to get acquainted with the 'varsity system of playing so that they will not be raw recruits next fall.
In regard to the spring practice, Coach Kennedy said: "We start to work next Monday, and we want all the men who can play football to come out. Of course the men who are engaged in active athletic work will be excused. I intend to work the boys on perfecting the forward pass and the onside kick. We will run signals, do some tackling, and we may, before we quit, do some scrimmage work.
"It is much easier for the men to get together in the fall if they have worked together before and our first game,to be played with St. Marys, comes a week after school opens. Mosse will be over to help Pleasant and myself with the work."
There are in school besides last year's candidates about twenty-five men who have shown football ability. The captain has turned in a list of new men who are expected to report Monday. They are: "Big" Smith, "Pete" Heil, Frank Veatch, Powell, Price, Davidson, Ahrens, Ellis, Hottle, Alphin, Rayfield, Wilhelm, Lenox, Amos Smith, Slaymaker, Abernathy, Magill, Doyle, Almond, Spriggett, Cain and Larson.
DR. VON EDEN
BEGINS SERIES OF LECTURES APRIL FIRST.
Will Discuss Psycology, Sociology and Dutch Literature-To Speak at Vespers.
Dr. Von Eden, a famous European literary man of Amsterdam, Holland, will deliver a series of five lectures at the University, beginning April 1. The lectures will be given in the chapel each day at 4:30 and the subjects will include psychology, sociology and Dutch literature. He will also speak at Vesper service on April 4.
For a number of years Dr. Von Eden was a practicing physician in Amsterdam, but in later years he has devoted his entire time to the study of the world's literature and is now one of the foremost authorities on European writings. He is the author of a number of books.
He will spend two months in America studying the literature of this country and delivering a number of lectures at other schools.
STUDENTS SECTION OF A. S. M. E. HERE
Word has recently been received by Prof. P. F. Walker, of the Engineering school, that the American Society of Mechanical Engineers has granted permission to the Mechanical Engineering department of the University to form a student section of that society. This is considered as a recognition of the high standard of the Engineering school here.
The forming of student sections is a new departure from the National society, which has been conservative, and only three or four of the larger eastern schools have been allowed to organize in this manner.
The organization here has been practically settled by the old Mechanical Engineering Society, whose members will be the charter members of the new organization numbering 22 from the three upper classes. The society will hold a meeting tonight to discuss the matter.
The American society of Mechanical Engineers was organized in New York in 1880 and numbers now about 3450 active members. It is the recognized head of that branch of Engineering in this country.
"As You Like It," Friday, April 2nd
Kansas=Missouri Indoor Track Meet Convention Hall, Friday, March 26 Special Train Leaves: LAWRENCE 2:15 P.M. Kansas City 11:59 P.M.