BUILDING RAILROADS.
Engineers Have Imaginary Net work on Golf Links.
Have you ever been curious to know what the engineers are doing with their surveying instruments on the golf links these days?
Then here's the answer. They are building railroads—not real ones, of course, for it only requires an imaginary one to give them the necessary credit in surveying. Moreover, it is not that those students are unable to build real ones, for the Tennessee-Mississippi street line of the Lawrence Street Railway company was laid out by the senior civil engineers.
There is probably not a square foot on McCook that has not been used for somebody's railroad. They have been built from almost everywhere to the top of the bill but the most popular seems to be one connecting the U. P. and Santa Fe depots with the Engineering building.
As all first class railroads run in as straight lines as possible the engineers try to make theirs run as straight as possible, and this has caused much trouble For instance one young railroad builder found that he would have to send his line through a small wheat field. When the farmer objected he told him that he was just doing thesis work for the University. But the "wise" older farmer was not to be deceived and answered.
"You can't fool me; tell who ever ye're workin' fer that I'll sell my land for $20,000, and not a cent less."
Another, it is said, found that his road would go directly through a sorority house and gave up the task.
At another time a party of engineers who were building a line from Haskell to the hill, hired a colored gentleman to carry their tools. They were running close to a fence for some time, when one of the party remarked that it was 45 minutes and 20 seconds off the line. "Good Lawd," said the colored gentleman, "mah wife'll sure land on me if I stay around here that long. Gimme my money, I'm goin'."
Will Receive Bids.
Bids for - the construction of the east wing of the new Administration building will be received by the Board of Regents at the next meeting, April 28. At the meeting of the Regents Tuesday, the matter of material to be selected for the building was discussed but no action was taken.
Scholarship Open.
The Marcella Howland gift scholarship is now open to junior and senior girls in the College. The committee governing the scholarship is composed of Professors Galloo, Oliver, and Hyde.
OREAD NEWS NOTES.
Henry Smith, '07, of Stockton, visited at the Sigma Nu house Tuesday.
Arnot Stevenson is spending the day in Kansas City.
Oscar Hoefer of Higginsville Mo., is visiting friends on the hill.
Mr. Charles Wood of Baldwin is back in the University after a two weeks attack of malaria fever.
L. C. Walker, a senior in the School of Engineering, left Tuesday for Memphis, Tenn., to make a topographic survey of four sections of land in that locality.
Lon V. Silver, '01, a former baseball star of the University was recently married at Bellingham, Wash., to Miss Bess Vincent of Clay Center.
Prof. H. O. Kruse spoke on "German and American Authors" at the German Verein Monday afternoon. Selections on the photograph added to an interesting program.
Miss Augusta Flintom, '02, who has spent the winter studying voice in Florence, Italy, under Senior Braggiotti, has decided to remain in Florence about three months longer.
F. D. Carter, '07, passed the examination held April 11, at Kansas City, by the Missouri state board of pharmacy, and is now a registered pharmacist. He is in business at Marceline, Mo.
SERIES PROGRESSING
Chester A. Ramsey, '07, spent last week here visiting his parents. Mr. Ramsey was graduated from the School of Law last spring. He is now practicing law in Fort Scott, and is running for the nomination for county attorney.
Fraternity Baseball Games Being Played Off.
Owing to the cold and damp weather the first of the week, the Alpha Tau-Phi Delt baseball game was postponed a second time. Tuesday the Phi-Gams won from the Phi Psis, 16-5. The Sig Alphs won from the Sigma Nus Wednesday afternoon by a score of 10-5.
This evening the Phi Gams will play the Alpha Taus, and Saturday morning the Sig Alphas and Sigma Chis will play off their tie
So far in the fraternity ball se ries the Betas have won one game the Phi Gams one, the Sig Alphs two and tied one. The Phi Psis have lost one game, the Sigma Nus two, the Phi Delts one and the Sigma Chis have tied one.
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Yet this game is not perfect and will not be until every diamond is equipped with a scaffold, in order that smart alecks may be promptly hanged and put out of their misery. The gallows might be erected behind the catcher, and directly in front of the grand stand, without being too much in the way. It seems impossible to organize a team without having in its membership a few men who play ball with their mouths. They are always protesting, expostulating, throwing fits of various kinds, and delaying the game. Nothing is more tiresome or annoying to see a lot of frenzied orators crowding frantically around the umpires, pawing the air and shrieking. If the umpire has the legal amount of backbone he will never back down from a decision because a lot of baseball lawyers are howling at him.
Baseball is the great game, as previously remarked, and all other games, indoor or outdoor, are trifling by comparison. Many new games enjoy a brief popularity and then fade away. They are usually designed as substitutes for baseball, and they often have some points of resemblance to baseball, but as substitutes they are about as satisfactory as bran coffee in the place of real coffee. There is only one national game, and it has survived all the imitations and substitutes, and is stronger and more popular each year.
The umpire should have powers of life and death. When a talksmith in uniform becomes too pestiferous the umpire should beckon to the executioner to do his duty, and the offender should be removed with as little delay as possible. There is plenty of room under the bleachers for the corpse until the undertaker can send a wagon with a hayrack to haul them away. Or a graveyard might be established near the right field fence.
THE COLLEGE JEWELER
Baseball is the great game, and now that the season for it has opened, both in professional and amateur circles, the call of the bleachers is insistent and the man who has human qualities in him arranges his work so that he can attend the games, says Walt Mason in the Emporia Gazette. If his work interferes with his attendance upon the ball games, he throws up his job, and permits his wife to earn the living for the family. This plan is strongly recommended by the Gazette's sporting editor.
Walt Mason Rises to Remark on the Subject.
BASEBALL REFORMS.
The would-be funny player should also be consigned to the tomb. The idea that baseball players should be low comedians is a survival of the early days of the game. Not one in a hundred of the humorists in uniform ever do or say anything funny; the majority of them mistake profanity for humor.
When baseball has achieved perfection there will be something doing every minute while the game is in progress; there will be no oratorical contests; not tedious waits; the decisions of the umpire will be final, whether they are right or wrong; or, if if they are disputed at all it will be after the game is over, and nobody but the captains of the opposing teams will be permitted to make protests, or address the umpires at all.
When this fact is fully realized, and all the foolishness has been cut out, the national game will be more successful than it ever was.
People who pay to see ball games want to see the ball games, and not declamatory contests.
STUDENTS TO WED.
Smart-Clark Wedding to Take Place in May.
Invitations have been received by many University students to attend the wedding of Miss Lola Lucille Smart, of Ottawa, to Mr. William Miller Clark of Atchison on Tuesday, May 10, at 7:30 o'clock.
Miss Smart, who is the daughter of Judge C. A. Smart, entered the University in 1907 from Ottawa University and received her A.B. degree at the close of last year. Miss Smart was one of the most popular girls of the University and is a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Mr. Clark, whose parents formerly lived in Lawrence, was a student of the University School of Law until two years ago, and is a member of the PhiGamma Del ta fraternity. He is now traveling for a Pittsburg milling company.
At the ceremony, which will take place in the First Congregational church of Ottawa, Miss Edna Hopkins will be bridesmaid and Mr. Harry Rogers will attend the groom.
Following the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Clark will tour the eastern states, after which they will make their home in Pittsburg, Pa.
CONSIDER INVENTION.
May Manufacture Professor Hood's Fireless Cooker.
At a meeting of the Lawrence Committee Tuesday night, the fireless cooker, an invention of Professor Hood of the department of engineering, was examined and a committee of business men were selected to make thorough investigations concerning it.
For some time Professor Hood has been working on this device, and he believes he has a cooker that is entirely different from anything now on sale. Its mechanism is extremely simple and it is made of light material, which is also an invention of Mr. Hood's.
It is expected that the committee of Lawrence business men will make a report soon and it is expected that the manufacture of the invention will be begun here.
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