The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME V
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 3, 1909
NUMBER 73
FRESHMEN MADE GOOD
ROBERTS BEAT DOUGLAS LAST NIGHT.
Two of Four Freshmen Placed Missouri Won Four Mile Relay Race.
The freshman athletes of the University of Kansas made a great showing in the handicap meet at Convention Hall last night. Of the four who entered two placed. They were pitted against the greatest athletes of the middle west. The old men who were entered did not make a point.
"Bob" Roberts, the freshman sprinter, took Shannon Douglas' measure in the fifty-yard dash. The Missouri captain made light of the youthful athlete, but after being set back a yard for jumping the gun he defeated the Tiger runner by two yards. In the finals Roberts ran against Taylor and Cornett and took third place but did not lose by more than a foot. The time was .05-2.5.
French jumped two inches higher than any other man last night but he was scratch and had to contend against a five-inch handicap. He reached 5 feet 9 inches, using his old-time style.
Watson got 200 yards handicap in the two-mile race and was never passed, but Crocombe of Chicago was given first on account of lost count in the laps.
The freshman shot-putter, Amiens, held his own but his handicap was so small that he did not place. Newbold was unable to place in the finals for the low hurdles. Haddock drew Cornett in his preliminary heat for the fifty-vard dash. Wenger and Johnson both vaulted 10 feet 2 inches.
Kansas lost the four-mile relay race with Missouri by a lap. The Kansas team was Fairchilds, Badger, Clarke and Cooley. The Missouri team was Steele, Shuck, Johnson and Cleland. Time was 19 minutes, 2 2-5 seconds.
The Kansas athletes will have nothing to do now until the interclass meet which will be held April 24. Coach Hagerman desires that all the classes elect captains the first of next week.
WILL DEBATE HERE TONIGHT
The Kansas-Cororado debate will be held in Fraser Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The shipping subsidy question will be discussed.
Thomas H. Morrow will open the debate for Colorado. Herman Weinberger, who will do the rebuttal work, will be the second speaker. Phillip S. Van Cise is the third speaker for Colorado.
P. C. Carson will open the negative for Kansas. He will be followed by R. G. Hemenway and J. W. Harbeson. Hemenway will have the rebuttal work. Admission will be 25 cents. Athletic tickets are good.
"AS YOU LIKE IT"
WAS GIVEN LAST NIGHT TO GOOD HOUSE.
Amateur Actors Made Good Showing in Shaksperean Roles Miss Rankin the Star.
The Thespian Dramatic Club presented "As You Like It" before a good sized crowd at the Bowersock opera house last night. The play as a whole was well put on and the audience was pleased with it. The voices of the performers were remarkably clear and distinct and the reading of the lines well done for amateur players
As Rosalind, Miss Gretchen Rankin took the leading part in a charming manner and was perhaps more successful than any other member of the cast in bringing out the possibilities of a character. The stiffness of certain characters, which seems to be inevitable in every amateur performance was noticeable last night, but not in such a degree as to prevent a good performance.
As foretold by the advance notices the wrestling of Van Meter and Burdick made a hit with the audience. The usual luck of amateur performances was not absent from this one, as the melancholy Jaques lost his beard in the same minute that he made his initial appearance on the stage.
The play lacked somewhat the vivacity and "go" that are among its possibilities.
KANSAS CITY ALUMNI DINNER
Yesterday evening at the University Club in Kansas City the Kansas City alumni of the University held their second annual banquet. A large company attended the banquet and listened to toasts by Chancellor Strong on "The Future of Kansas University;" Dean J. W. Green on "A Perennial Grief;" F. G. Crowell, '88, on "The Brave Days of Old;" and J. M. Challis, '94, on "Disconnected Remarks." General Frederick Funston also spoke of the old days when he was a student here with William Allen White and Gov. Herbert Hadley.
The Chancellor in his talk told of his ambition to get the University close to the grass roots of Kansas and help all the people. Dean Green advocated the hiring of an experienced track coach who can give all his time to track work at the University.
Rov Stockwell, a sophomore in the college in 1905-6, visited with friends at the University this week and spoke at the Y. M. C. A. meeting Thursday evening. He spoke on good citizenship work and urged the boys to identify themselves in all possible ways with all organizations actively engaged in promoting the best welfare of mankind. Mr. Stockwell left for Baltimore, Friday, where he is employed by the Tuberculosis Association.
Ola Bingler is home from Topeka to spend Sunday.
WON FROM HASKELL
JAYHAWKERS SCALPED INDIANS BY CLOSE SCORE.
Indians 7 Hits , Kansas 3—Again This Afternoon.—Aggies Next Thursday.
Yesterday afternoon the Jayhawker baseball team opened the season on McCook field by defeating the Haskell Indians by the score of 1 to 0. This afternoon they played the Redskins again but on the Haskell diamond.
Burdick was on the rubber for the Kansans and allowed the Indians seven hits all of which were scattered. The first Indian up in the ninth inning got a three base hit but the next man up knocked an easy grounder to Blacker who cut the speedy Indian off before he got home getting the Jayhawkers out of a bad hole.
Only three of the Jayhawkers were able to get a hit off the Indian slab artist. Lovett, Blacker and Walker were the lucky ones. The lone score of the Jayhawkers came in the fifth inning. Lovett got a pass and stole second, "Mike" Blackar was next on the batting list and swatted out a two bagger scoring Lovett.
The Jayhawker line up was Rockefeller, catcher; Burdick, pitcher; Walker, first; Gibbs, second; Haller, shortstop; Blackar, third; Lovett, left field; Wood, center field; and Carlson, right field.
The last of next week the Jayhawker team will leave on a trip through central Kansas. The first game will be played with Manhattan next Thursday. The Farmers are playing whirlwind ball this year.
THE CONCERT WAS A SUCCESS
A prize of a $5 gold piece will be given to the Freshman who writes the best prose article of less than 1500 words for the "Quill," the publication of the Quill Club. Freshmen should see any member of the English faculty.
The University Orchestra presented its annual concert before a good sized audience of students and townspeople in the chapel Thursday evening. The members, who are twenty-six in number this year, have had frequent practices and under Dean Skilton's direction furnished a strong program which was well received by the audience. The only vocal number was by Miss Gertrude Russ who sang with the orchestra accompaniment Berceuse from "Jocelyn," the words of which were composed by Professor W. H. Carruth. "The Old Folks at Home," as played by the stringed orchestra was a pleasing number to all lovers of that melody. When "The Crimson and the Blue" was reached at the close of the "College Song Overture" the audience rose to its feet.
Quill Club Prize.
LECTURES BEGUN
DR. VAN EEDEN ON "HAPPY HUMANITY."
Told of Holland's Condition and Warned the Americans against Current Influence.
Dr. Frederick van Eeden, the versatile Hollander who is at the University giving a series of lectures, spoke in Fraser Hall, Thursday and Friday afternoon on a "Happy Humanity" presenting his ideas as a sociologist. His message to America is that though the people of this nation are comparatively happy and successful they are no more so than were the Hollanders in their best days, and that decline will be inevitable in this country if it is not warned by the example of Holland. Americans are striving to get wealth, as much as possible, as soon as possible and in any way possible. The result is waste and want. Greediness causes a division of the people into the idle rich and the overworked poor. Misery results among both classes as is manifested by nervous diseases, immorality, and suicide which effects are increasing relatively faster than the population.
Dr. van Eeden believes that competition is the cause of much inefficiency in production. Cooperation in which consumer and producer work together is what he advocates. He is a Socialist of that type.
The private ownership of land should be changed to a common ownership, says Dr. van Eeden. He wishes the brainy men of America to take up and work out the problem. He has no confidence in complete equality among the workers as regards duties, for the need of a capable manager was strongly emphasized in his experience with a communistic enterprise. Dr. van Eeden believes that a selection of America's best immigrants and their cooperation in agricultural pursuits would furnish a good field for operation.
Dr. van Eeden says that although he could be happy in his other pursuits he presents sociological problems because he wants this nation to accept his warnings and its leaders to profit by his advice and experiences.
Wamba Club Tonight.
The Wamba Club, whose sole purpose is the dissemination of wit and humor, will meet tonight at 1304 Ohio street. New members will be taken in and some things of general importance will be taken up. This club meets every two weeks, and has for its object nothing else than a pleasant sociable time.
Medics in Kansas City.
The freshmen and sophomore medies are the guests of the medical students at Rosedale today. They will be entertained at the Willis Wood this afternoon and with a banquet and smoker tonight. Dr. van Eeden will be the guest of honor and will make an address. Drs. Sudler, Emley and Smith accompanied them.