The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME VI.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 19, 1910
PROMISES TO BE A SUCCESS
SENIOR PLAY AT OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT.
"Graft"" Is the Title of the Original Play to Be Given—The Seat Sale Large.
One important post was vacant when the senior play cast met last night to hold the dress rehearsal of "Graft," which is to be presented at the Bowersock opera house tonight. There was no prompter—but that fact was not learned from anything that went on on the stage. The players were letter-perfect in their parts, and a prompter, if one had been provided, would have spent a dull evening.
But for the absence of an audience the rehearsal last night might have been taken for a regular performance. The scenery which will be used tonight was in place, and all the properties were on the stage, even to the—— but that would be telling. The managers of the play, while they are anxious enough to have this write-up appear,don't want The Kausan really to tell anything about what the play is like. It is a tradition that the senior play must be a mystery until the curtain goes up.
This much can be said, however, the play itself is a credit to its student writers and if the players work as well tonight as they did at the dress rehearsal the production will be a success.
The title of the play will be ex-
plained early in the first act.
"Graft" runs all the way through.
Even Dan Cupid gets in his graft
before the curtain falls on the
fourth act.
The seat sale, as is usual at senior plays, has been large. Nearly all the tickets for both performances have been sold.
PIANO RECITAL.
Given Tuesday by Miss Caldwell and Miss Wolfe.
The graduating recital of Miss Kate Caldwell and Miss Amy Wolfe given in Fraser hall Tues day evening was attended by the many friends of the two partici pants.
The program consisted of several piano solos and duets the interpretation of which was appreciated by every one present.
Miss Caldwell and Miss Wolfe were assisted by Professor Carl Preyer, Mr. Joseph Farrel and Mr. Ralph Stevens.
TEAM TO MISSOURI.
Baseball Men Meet Tigers at Columbia Saturday.
Missouri University will certainly have a touch of real Kansas life this week, for in addition to the track team's invasion of their lair, Miek Ebright and his baseball tossers will be in Columbia for a two-day's engagement. Twelve men and the Coach left yesterday afternoon and are this afternoon playing the game at the Tiger stronghold. Tomorrow the second game will be played and immediately the journey homeward will be made, for on Saturday the lads from Baker are to be taken on for a nine round session.
NUMBER 94
The following men took their suit cases and started yesterday Capt. Rockefeller, Walker, Huff, Hanlon, Palmer, Smith, Haller, Hezer, Harvey, Doyle, Farrell, Looke.
COUNCIL ORGANIZES
Special Meeting Next Tuesday to Begin Work.
The newly elected members of the Student Council met Tuesday afternoon and organized for the coming year. George Neal, secretary of last year's Council, was present and outlined the work that had been undertaken during the past winter. The plans of Ralph Spotts, the new president were then discussed informally
A special meeting will be held on Tuesday afternoon at which time another member from the School of Engineering will be elected and the real work of the Council begun. President Spotts will probably outline the general policy of the student governing body in chapel tomorrow morning.
Several New Members Added This Week.
QUILL CLUB ELECTS.
Several new members were elected to the Quill club at the regular meeting of the organization Tuesday afternoon. The students elected are juniors and seniors who have done original work in writing in composition courses in the University. The new members are Martin Brooks, Edith Russell, Carol Hayden, Walter Le Clere, Robert Fisher, Eliot Porter, Lois Stevens, Oreta Moore Grace Russell and Will Huff.
The program for the meeting was a discussion of Mark Twain, by Miss Wenrich and John Shea, and original poems by C. O. Van Dyke.
MAY WIN THE TIGER MEET
COACH HAMILTON OPTIMIS TIC ABOUT OUTCOME.
Will Leave for Columbia Tomor row Morning—Little Change in Personnel of Team.
"If we can take both places in the hurdles and place in the weight events, we will beat Missouri on her own grounds next Saturday," was the rather optimistic remark made by Coach Hamilton this morning.
Practically the same team that met Nebraska last Saturday will contest with the Tigers, and the coach is basing his hopes for victory on every man being in good form. Winters will not be entered in the low hurdles in order to allow him time to rest for the broad jump. Don Davis will do Winter's hurdle stunt. Gordon Smith, who made a good showing in the quarter mile last Saturday, will probably be entered in the relay. Aside from this there will be no changes in the personnel of the team.
Of course the dope is against Kansas this year as it has been for time immemorial, for although the Jayhawks took the meet last year, it was probably due to the absence from the meet of four of the best Tiger athletes. At any rate it is current opinion of the followers of sport that Missouri ought not to take the meet by more than ten points.
Coach Hamilton and his men leave the home barricades tomorrow morning and if the proverbial god Pluvius allows no little drops of water to fall on the field at Columbia, Kansas expects to do a few stunts on the Tigers' cinder path.
WILL ATTEND MEETING.
Paof. Parmalee a Delegate to Charities Convention.
Professor M. Parmalee, of the department of sociology and economics, will leave Friday for St. Louis, where he will attend the annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections. He will read a paper Wednesday on "Scientific Basis for the Treatment of Problems of Criminology and Penology." Professor Parmalee was appointed delegate from the state of Kansas by Governor W. R. Stubbs.
THE WEATHER.
Walter B. Satterthwaite, '06, of Girard, is visiting his brother Howard, a freshman engineer.
Fair tonight and Friday. Cooler tonight.
KANSAS WON DOUBLES.
Tennis Games With Baker Played This Afternoon.
This afternoon the Kansas University tennis players are playing the Baker University team on the Alpha Tau courts. In the doubles Kansas is represented by Watson and Bigelow, Woods and Sedden, while Watson,Seddon, Woods and Motz will compete in the singles. In the doubles Watson and Bigelow defeated the Baker contestants by the score of 6-4 and 6-1 in the first match. Woods and Seddon defeated Baker in the first game by the score of 6-4.
The tennis team, consisting of four men who have not been chosen will leave tomorrow at 7 a.m. with the track team to Columbia, where they will compete against the Missouri team Saturday.
Kansas came off victor in the match with Nebraska, but the Missouri men are strangers to the Kansas players and the chances with them in tennis is unknown. The men who probably will go to Columbia are the three "K" men, Watson, Woods, Bigelow, and as a fourth man it will probably rest between Motz and Seddon.
STUDENT CHAPEL SPEAKERS
Representatives of Government Associations Will Talk
Tomorrow will be Students' Day at the chapel services. Representatives of the two student government associations will be present and speak in regard to the work done and planned by the organizations. Ralph Spotts will speak for the men's association. The speaker for the women has not yet been announced. Miss Helen Janes will sing.
It had been planned to award the athletic letters at this time to the athletes who have represented the University in activities other than football, but this can not be done, as the baseball team and track men will be at Columbia for contests with the University of Missouri. However, the emblems for University debaters will be awarded at this time.
Prof. R. K. Duncan, who has been in Rochester, N.Y., on business for the past week, will return Saturday.
Miss Carmine Wolfe, '03, is visiting her sister Amy, a senior in the School of Fine Arts.
"JAYHAWKER OUT TONIGHT
1910 BOOK MOST ELABORATE EVER ISSUED.
Is Dedicated to Prof. Erasmus Haworth—"Jokes" Are Most Pungent Ever Offered.
The 1910 "Jayhawker" will go on sale at the senior play tonight. The entire edition is now in Lawrence and 400 copies now on the hill will be offered to purchasers tomorrow morning.
The "Jayhawker" this year is a book of even 400 pages, bound in ooze sheep. Typographically, it is more elaborate than any annual ever before attempted at the University of Kansas. The end-papers bear a K. U. monogram in blue, and on each page thte "The 1910 Jayhawker" appears in red. All the space in the book is utilized. Short pages at the ends of departments are filled out with half-tones of University views.
The general make-up of the Jayhawker is the same as in former years. The book is dedicated to Prof. Erasmus Haworth. Following the roster of the faculty the pictures and notices of the seniors are given. The first 171 pages of the book are given to this purpose. Fraternities occupy 45 pages, other organizations and societies 67 pages, and athletics 29 pages.
Then comes the rest of the book. It has no name, probably because the editors could not think what to call it, but the department is prefaced by a clever charcoal drawing of a fool's head with cap and bells, by Emil Grignard. This is the department of barbed shafts and a hasty scanning of its pages leads one to the conclusion that the editors made a special effort not to let a single student escape. And not a few of the faculty members come in for more or less complimentary notice.
The peculiar flavor of the closing pages will insure a continuation of the time-honored custom of reading the Jayhawker backward. Probably the word which best describes the wit and humor of this year's Annual is "merciless." Nobody who has ever done anything on which a quip or caricature can be based, is spared.
Prof. Wm. A. Griffith, of the Fine Arts School, went to Washington, D.C., Tuesday to the second annual meeting of the American Federation of Art. While there he will make a report on the Kansas Art association.
1910 Jayhawker, talk of the Hill, will be on sale tomorrow all day, at the Check Stand
Baseball, The Freshmen vs. Campbell College On McCook, at 4 o'clock, tomorrow afternoon Annual Invitation High School Meet. On McCook.
Events start promptly at 1:30 p.m. Fourteen High Schools represented. Admission: To Students, Athletic Tickets and 25 cents; to High School Students, 25 cents; to others, 50 cents.