The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 1, 1909
VOLUME V.
NUMBER 84
GREAT HIGH SCHOOL MEET
TWO HIGH SCHOOL RECORDS BROKEN AND TWO TIED.
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Meet Good Despite Cold Weather Many Trophies Presented to Winners on McCook.
This afternoon, despite the cold weather, a fair sized crowd witnessed one of the best interscholastic track and field meets that has ever been held on McCook field. High school students were entered from all parts of the state and the meet was enthusiastic from start to finish. Each man winning first place in any event was given an appropriate gold fob, those winning seconds a similar one of silver and the thirds one of bronze. Besides these trophies, breakers of McCook high school records, high individual point winners and the teams making the greatest number of points in their respective classes were presented with beautiful silver loving cups.
The special features of the meet were the twelve pound hammer throw and the discus throw, both of which broke the McCook high school records, and the hundred yard dash and the half mile run which tied the McCook record.
The Kansan went to press before the final results were announced.
The results of events follow:
100 yd. dash—Lanyon of Pittsburg, first; Henline of St.
Johns, second; Gould of St.
Johns, third; Perril of Dickinson County, fourth. Time :10-2.
The results of events follow:
High hurdles—Martin of Lawrence, first; Jones of Lawrence, second; Stewart of Overbrook, third; Hannum of Emporia, fourth. Time :17-1.
One mile run—Dickinson of Chelsea, first; Phillips, of Kansas City, Kans., second; Root, of Allen County, third; Ulm, of Lawrence, fourth. Time 5:7.
440 yard run, class D—Warren, of Wellsville, first; Thorn, of Wellsville, second; Merrick, of South Kansas Academy, third; Reeds, of Rosedale, fourth. Time 55:4.
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MANY PETITIONS
TWENTY WANT PLACES ON FIRST STUDENT COUNCIL.
At Thursday's Election Contest Will be Hot for Envied Places. Good Men up.
Yesterday evening the time limit for handing in petitions for officers and representatives to the student council was reached. The college, engineering school and medical school circulated petitions for representatives and in all twenty men are seeking the thirteen places to be filled in the three schools. Don Nevinger, a senior engineer, is the only candidate for president; Ed Baumgartner, a freshman medic and a junior college man wants to be vice-president of the organization and George Neal, a junior engineer, is the only man in the race for secretary. The three running for the officers are strong men and will do their share to make the council a success.
The men who are running from the engineering school are Edmund Rhodes, freshman; Roy Spear, junior; Herbert Ellis, junior; Fred Hesser, junior; J. W. Banker, sophomore; Vernon Foster, junior and Horace Hollingsworth, junior.
From the college Clark Wallace, freshman; Sidney Heil, junior; Earl Woodword, junior; John Harbeson, sophomore; Roy Dietrich, junior; Leo Bozell, junior, Edwin Cooley, junior; and Tom Lee, junior, have been nominated as council representatives.
Virgil W. McCarty is the choice of the medical school for councilman.
Next Monday morning at chapel time the election committee will meet in Room 5, Fraser to check over the petitions and arrange for the election to be held on next Thursday. The following members of the committee take notice: Sears, March, Douglas, Hulburd, Hale, Pleasant, Gowenlock, Burdick, and Dassler.
Pearl Emley has postponed her graduating recital from May 4 to May 17.
Postponed Recital.
A BRILLIANT JUNIOR PROM
THIS YEAR'S PARTY ECLIPSED ALL PREVIOUS ONES.
Over 600 Guests Were Present Lighting and Decorative Features Were Elaborate.
A degree of elaborateness and lavishness never before reached in junior proms was attained last Thursday evening when the class of 1910 entertained the seniors at the annual junior promenade. The number of guests was larger than ever before, and Robinson Gymnasium was taxed to its utmost capacity to contain them. With more than 600 people in the grand march the line extended three times around the hall and had to be handled carefully to make room for the various evolutions.
The decorative features at this year's prom were more numerous and on a more elaborate scale than has ever before been attempted. Hundreds of pennants suspended from the balcony gave a wonderfully ornamental effect to the hall. The lighting effects were put in place and managed by M. D. Leslie. Colored lights shed a soft light over the floor, while three spot-lights cast kaleidoscopic colors over the dancing couples. The most striking feature ever seen at a University party was the panoramic view of the University buildings extending around the edge of the balcony. The buildings had been cut out in outline with remarkable fidelity and when the lights were turned on behind them all the edifices of Mount Oread, stood out in sihouette.
The farce was a musical comedy of which the scene was laid in Hades at the Jayhawk club with Charon, late of the Styx ferry, as janitor. The farce dealt with various student and faculty "cases" at the University who were sojourning at the club. Milton Cain as Charon, Miss Alberta Cresswell as the Merry Widow, and Miss Gail Sutton as Carrie Nation, had the leading parts. Between the two acts of the farce, in keeping with its theme, snap shots of
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SCHOLARSHIPS
MANY U. OF K.MEN TO OTHER SCHOOLS.
Two to Harvard, One to Chicago and one to Illinois University
Several students in the graduate school will have scholarships in other universities next year. Among those now made public the largest number are in the department of Sociology and Economics. Robert Ray, now fellow in sociology and economics will receive his A.M. degree in June and has accepted a scholarship in Harvard University. R.W.Baldwin will have a scholarship in Econics at the University of Chicago next year. He received his A.B. degree at McPherson College and his A.M. degree here in 1908. He has been a graduate student in sociology and economics this year.T.H.Cureton has accepted a scholarship in sociology at Harvard for next year. He received his A.B. from the University of Kansas in 1906 and as a graduate student in sociology has about completed his work for the A.M. degree.
In the Department of Entomology Howard Stough, a graduate of Midland College, will receive his A. M. degree in June. He has been appointed fellow in Entomology at the University of Illinois for next year.
The registration in the graduate school during the present year has been 110 and about 25 advanced degrees will be granted in June. The school is improving rapidly in the kind and character of its work.
Among the undergraduates R. L. Douglas has just completed a history of the manufacturing industries in the Southwest tributary to Kansas City which is a creditable piece of work. It will form a part of the economic history of the United States.
Notice About May Fete.
Organizations taking part in the May Day games are requested to report any need of assistance in costuming or other matters to Mrs. C. H. Gray or Miss Fein Cramer at once so that work may begin Monday.
Track Meet: Kansas vs. K.S.A.C., Monday, May 3 McCook Field. Meet called at 2 p.m. Baseball: Kansas vs. Washington Univ. Wednesday and Thursday, May 5 and 6 McCook Field. Games called at 4 o'clock.
Get May Festival Tickets this Week. Check Stand or Registrar's Office. Student Rate $1.50