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THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
NUMBER 1
FIFTEEN HUNDRED MARK IS REACHED
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1910
ENROLLMENT TODAY SHOWS A MARKED INCREASE.
Exceeds Corresponding Day Last Year by 200—2,500 Students Are Expected
Fifteen hundred students had enrolled in the University this morning. That number exceeds the figures for the corresponding day of registration last year by 200, the exact number at that time being 1,310. Moreover, that number included the enrollment of last year's summer session, while this morning's figures include only the students who have registered for the fall session.
"There is no doubt in my mind," commented Registrar George Foster, speaking of the enrollment, "that there will be 2,500 students in the University this year. That number will exceed last year's total enrollment by about 300. In every school, so far, there is a marked increase in the number that have applied for admission."
The enrollment will continue tomorrow morning. After the noon hour the offices will be closed until Monday morning when the delinquents will be allowed to appear for the last opportunity to pay their fees and become members of the student body.
The figures given out today for all schools follow:
College ... 841
Engineering ... 306
Fine Arts ... 101
Laws ... 92
Medicine,
Lawrence ... 56
Rosedale ... 18
Graduate ... 28
Pharmacy ... 44
Total...1,486
Y. M. C. A. "STAG" TONIGHT
Annual Event Will Be Held in the Gymnasium.
If any University man fails to attend the annual Y. M. C. A. "stag" in the gymnasium tonight it will not be because he failed to hear of it. In addition to the general announcement at the opening of chapel exercises, the entertainment has been thoroughly advertised by hand-bills. The freshmen were invited even before they reached Lawrence, as with every handbook sent out to prospective students a card announcing the "stag" was enclosed.
The program for the evening will consist of speeches by Coach Kennedy and other notables, and the usual comical stunts. Light refreshments will be served and the occasion will give to the boys the opportunity to renew old and make new acquaintances.
Student Council to Meet.
The Student council will meet tomorrow night at 7:30 in room 110. At that time the Council will be organized and several new plans to be carried out during the coming semester will be decided upon. It is imperative that all members be present.
HAVE MANY PLEDGES
All Fraternities in Midst of Fashion Season.
The fraternity rushing season is on in full force and most of the fraternities have been pledging men all week. The pledges so far are:
Alpha Tau—Wayne Wingart Topeka; John Brooks, Lawrence; Walter Hornaday, Fort Scott; Linn Hornaday, Fort Scott; Hazard Forbes, Watheena.
Beta—Huntsman Haworth, Lawrence; Lawrence Peairs, Lawrence;Glen Allen, Lawrence;Curt Allen, Lawrence;Bert Allen, Lawrence;Guy Houston, Wichita.
Phi Gam—Wm. Cuin, Atchison;
Wm. Kelley, Kansas City, Mo.
Ward Morris, Kansas City, Mo.
Lawrence Trieckett, Kansas City,
Kam.: Malbourne White, Pitts-
gus; Chas. Greenlees, Lawrence;
Joe Bishop, Lawrence; Ralph Davis,
Greensburg; Jos Parker, In-
pendence; Roy Mebain, New-
on; Ralph Sowers, Wichita.
Phi Psi—Robert Campbell, Kansas City, Mo.; George Edwards, Kansas City, Mo.; Clarence Conner, Kansas City, Mo.; John Musselman, Kansas City, Mo.; Emmet Schooley, Kansas City, Mo.; Findley Graham, Hiawatha; Carl Delaney, Waterville; Charles Tholen, Leavenworth; Ben Stocks, Blue Rids.
Phi Delt—Roy Timmerman, Hiawatha; Ralph Dilley, Hiwatha; Russell Clark, Kansas City, Mo.; Holliday Curran, Pittsburg; Frank Foucannon, Emporia; Clyde Adams, Topeka.
Sigma Nu—Bruce Young, Hutehinson; Walter Bochm, Hutehinson.
Sigma Chi—A. W. Hosier, Kansas City, Mo.; W. K. Brownell, Belleville; Throck Davidson, Wichita; Eli Detwiler, Smith Center; Harold Wilson, Horton.
Sig Alph—Roy Stockton, Kansas City, Mo.; Lee Riley, Kansas City, Mo.; Hal Callender, Kansas City, Kan.; Ward Mauer, Topeka; Walter Lambert, Leavenworth; LaRue Royce, Topeka.
SCHEDULE IS LIGHT
The definite schedule of the K. U. football team for this season was announced this morning. It includes all of the games mentioned in the tentative schedule with the exception of that with the University of Colorado.
The schedule is as follows.
November 24, Missouri at Kansas City.
Oct. 1, Ottawa on McCook.
Oct. 8, St. Marys on McCook.
Oct. 15, Open.
Oct. 22, Drake at Des Moines
Oct. 29, Washburn on McCook
Nov. 5, Nebraska on McCook
Nov. 12, Oklahoma City at Oak
lahoma City.
FOOTBALL OUTLOOK WORRIES KENNEDY
COACH FEARS DEFLAT FROM NEBRASKA SQUAD.
Practically All of Cornhusker Squad Returns-Kansas Lacks Experienced Players.
The blue fink of the indigo hue is already beginning to set the about the sanctum of Conch Kennedy. The two days of practice have not had the effect of bringing out the smile the conch is wont to wear after a victory but on the other hand the wrinkles of care and worry are peeping out from beneath his hat band.
And the objective point of this melancholy is the prospective Cornhusker team. Nebraska meets K. U. on November 5, and while there is more than a month for preparation, the coach fears that the strong eleven the neighbor school is showing up in the newspapers may make a difference. Shonke of Samson fame, is back and is flanked on all sides by Collins, Wolett, Elliot, Captain Temple, Rathbone, Frank, Chouner, Minor, Major, and Bickner. All are old experienced players and they look formidable to Kennedy.
Up to this time, says the coach Nebraska has never won the championship in this conference. It is now the strongest in the valley and it's their turn to win.
On the other hand K. U. is lacking in experienced material. There are only four "K" men back in school. They are Johnson, Heil, Ammons and Brownlee, Waring may be a candidate, and in that case would make the fifth. Of the fourteen heavier players on last year's squad only five have returned. They are Rhodes, Dickey, Higgins, Welch and Plank. Of the near "K" men there are four that may be depended upon. They include Lynch, Speer, and the two Smiths.
For center and guards the Smiths, Davidson, Speer and Ahrens look good. The outlook for tackles is the weakest in the history of the school, according to Kennedy. The ends and backs must be fast to make a good team under the new rules and will be picked from J. Smith, Johnson Heil, the two Woodbury boys. Brownlee, Ammons, Waring, Wilhelm and Gossard.
Practice work is continuing every evening on McCook and when the first game is played, on October 1, with Ottawa university, the coach hopes to be able to tell more definitely what the outlook for Kansas this year really is.
HON. E. H. MADISON Who Delivered the Opening Address.
CANCEL COLORADO GAME.
Mountaineers Refuse to Play Under Conference Rules.
Through a resolution passed by the governing board of athletics of the University of Colorado on Wednesday night, all possibility of playing the game scheduled with the mountain school for October 15 was shattered. For two weeks the Colorado mentors have been "balking" on signing the contracts for the game. They have contended that their regular men should be allowed to play, despite the fact that the fourth year rule of the Missouri Valley conference bars some of them.
Wednesday Manager Lansdon wired for the final decision of the Coloradoans. "Will you play according to the rules or not?" was the question. The answer came yesterday when the sister school proposed that the mater be left to a committee of the conference. But Manager Lansdon could not see it that way, and wired Colorado that the game was off.
While the question of filling the open date is still unsettled, either Baker or William Jewell will in all probability be substituted.
Dr. Carruth Married.
Dr. W. H. Carruth, head of the department of German languages and literatures, and Miss Katherine Morton were married at the home of the bride at Tescott, Kan., on June 12, the Rev. F. M Bennett of Lawrence officiating. The bride is a former student at Washburn and for several years was a teacher in the Lawrence schools. Professor and Mrs. Carruth spent their honeymoon at Estes Park, Colorado.
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HON. E. H. MADISON OPENS SCHOOL YEAR
$1 50 a Year in Advance
See J. Earl Miller, the Circulation Manager, at old Check Stand or call at Kansan Office in south basement Fraser Hall.
REPRESENTATIVE DELIV- ERS ADDRESS IN GYM.
"Insurgent" Wing of School Asserts Itself and Speaker Responds—Attendance Large.
Loud applause from the audience which filled Robinson gymnasium this morning greeted Congressman E. H. Madison of the Seventh Kansas district when he arose to make the opening address of the session of 1910-11. A group of "insurgent" students gathered in one section of the hall had just given a yell improvised for the occasion, to the effect that "Murdock, Madison, Stubbs aa. Bristow will sweep the states from Maine to Frisco."
"I am glad to have heard that expression, stated in the Kansas language," said the speaker, laughing, "for it makes me feel at home here."
The University is for the purpose of developing the higher intellect. Too many university graduates are beating gongs in front of cating houses, or carrying hods These are the men who failed to form habits of industry. The University is for the purpose of sending out master minds. You ought to go out equipped not for ordinary things, but for big things. This is the place to develop leadership.
"The object of the people of the state in founding the University," said Congressman Madison, "was to prepare men and women for the serious work of life in the higher callings, to turn out men and women who shall be leaders of thought and action in the state.
"You students who have come here with the purpose of making good the object of the people of Kansas in founding the University need three things to make your winter's work a success. They are ambition to do well, to accomplish something beyond this school work, enthusiasm, which is natural in the Kansas air and sunshine, and above all, habits of industry. Not so many men are wrecked by drink or immoral conduct as are wrecked by lack of application.
"The country needs physicians, lawyers and men of all other professions who will be leaders in their lines. It wants legislators who will be thinking men. It is a great thing, 'the applause of listening senates to command,' but it is a greater thing to stand before them when they refuse to applaud, and defend a cause you know to be right. Honor, position,power—they are all worthless unless at the end of a long career you can look the people in the face and receive their approval.
"What we need in this country more than anything else is clear thinkers. The only man capable of clear thinking is the man whose mind is disciplined. Here is the place to get such discipline.
"The young man or woman who has come here for social pleasures ought to pack his or her grip and go down the hill today. I am proud of the magnificent enrollment, but this is one class of students that I would see eliminated."