THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
NUMBER 4
VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1910
FORWARD PASS FAILED TO GAIN
JAYHAWKERS COULD NOT
HANDLE PLAY.
Haskell Also Failed to Succeed Under New Rules-Both Teams Scored.
Coach Kennedy's new love, the forward pass, failed to gain ground for the Jayhawker squad in the practice skirmish with Haskellthis afternoon. Caldwell's braves also failed to toss the spheroid for gains and the first half dozen tries at the play failed for both teams.
The playing was mostly in Haskell's territory. There was much awkward handling of the ball by both teams. "Jim" Masker came up from Kansas City to referee the game.
If the Jayhawkers are to gain prowess during the present football season they will in all probability owe it to the revised forward pass. So convinced of this is Coach Kennedy that he expects to spend the greater part of the practice time during the coming week to the development of that play.
La Roche picked the ball up and ran 40 yards to the Jayhawker goal after two minutes of play, when Davidson made a pass over Heil's head. La Roche kicked goal
Nevitt lost the ball on Haskell's five-yard line. Cowells went on the line. Johnson failed to kick goal.
"The new rules make the play a great ground-gainer," said the coach today. "In no other rules are the defensive players not allowed to use their hands and arms. For that reason the offensive has the advantage when the play is well developed."
The men who entered the game this afternoon seem to be among the most likely candidates for permanent positions on the regular team. Davidson at center, probably has no opposition. R. Smith, Spear, and Baird are the likely guards; and Ahrens, Power, Cowles and Wenger are hard in the race for tackles. Lynch, Rambo, and Price will be used at ends, while the Woodbury brothers are doing some fine work at halves, Beasley and Davis are also working out for the latter positions, Pete Heil at quarter and Ammons at full look to be in fine form Tommy Johnson will be a candidate for one of the two last places and will undoubtedly be used in a large number of the games.
TO HOLD "SING" MEETINGS
An Innovation in University Student Life.
University "sing" meetings will be held once every week during football season and probably twice a month after the season closes.
These "sing" meetings are an innovation. They are practically the same as a mass meeting. College and popular songs will be sung, the college yells will be practiced and speeches will be made by the different coaches. The meetings are hoped to create college enthusiasm and a feeling of fellowship among the students.
Such gatherings are in vogue at many colleges. The first meeting is to be held next Friday evening on the campus at 7:30 o'clock. If the weather is bad the meeting will be held in the chapel.
Caryl Watson, a freshman in the College from Lincoln, Kan., has withdrawn from school on account of sickness.
Lucile Asher, a sophomore in the College, left Wednesday for her home in Hutchinson, Kan., on account of illness.
FIRST TALK TO STUDENTS.
Chancellor Speaks at Friday's Chapel Exercises.
In beginning his ninth annual address to new students yesterday morning, Chancellor Frank Strong said that the life of the University is a continuity, so that it is necessary to discuss the same problems each September, though the student body is different each year. As this is legislative year Chancellor Strong referred to the needs and requirements of the University so that students might understand the necessity for doing their share in legitimately influencing the legislators to look after the best interests of the institution.
Chancellor Strong stated most emphatically his gratification that the student disorders at the beginning of the school year were now a thing of the past. No act of the student body had ever done more for the welfare of the school than the doing away with such disorders. The start had been made in the public universities of the land. In consequence of the attitude here the life in the University is on the whole the purest and best of any school in Kansas.
In warning the students against the dangers to the scholastic life from outside distractions, the Chancellor stated his belief that at the bottom of the agitation which threatened football last year was the belief that too much attention was given to things other than study. He said that in the retrospect students would value the outside interests much less than they tended to do during their school years.
Chancellor Strong spoke for the true college spirit. He said that it results from loyalty to that which is finest and best in an institution. He said that democracy should be thorough in the University of a state so individualistic as Kansas. He believes that the fraternities are by no means opposed to this democracy, but there is yet much opportunity for them to prove their place.
In referring to the national criticism of the American college, Chancellor Strong said that he protested against any materialistic standards being set up. He admitted some of the weaknesses of the College, but was sure that on the whole the American college man always has been foremost in war and peace. He referred specifically to the share that men in college circles have had in recent reform movements in public life.
As the most important point in his advice to students, Chancellor Strong emphasized the great value of the religious life. As Christianity is thoroughly bound up with the historical development of democracy and progress this institution should be thoroughly Christian from top to bottom, he said. In closing his address, the Chancellor asked for the support of the students and claimed their allegiance for the crimson and the blue as they symbolized the highest type of character, generosity and self-demil.
At the first men's mass meeting of the year held yesterday morning after chapel, October I was declared the time when all freshmen shall begin wearing the caps which designate their entrance in the school. Ralph Spotts, president of the council, explained to the freshmen that the requirement was meant as no disgrace, but simply a desirable college custom, the same as the wearing of cap and gown by seniors during commencement. All first year men will be required to provide themselves with the diminutive head-gear.
The Skull Headgear. for Freshmen October 1.
GET OUT YOUR CAPS.
REFORM TICKET IS NOMINATED
E SENIOR FACTION HAS TICKET IN FIELD.
Candidates Pledge Themselves to Share Financial Profits With the Class.
Twenty-two politicians of the senior class met at the Phi Delta Phi house Thursday evening and agreed upon a class ticket which the various organizations represented will support at the election October 7. This is the ticket;
Chairman Senior Play Commit ce, George Richardson.
Editor-in-Chief of Annual, Elber Overman.
Manager  Senior Play, Moe Friedman.
President, "Bob" Fisher.
Vice-President, "Hal" Hallar.
Secretary, Millicent Noftzger.
Treasurer, Walter Mayer.
Editor-in-Chief of Annual Elbe
Printed slips bearing the names of the candidates and an announcement of their "reform" policies were distributed at the University yesterday morning. The candidate for president pledges that invitations and caps and gowns will be furnished to seniors at cost. The nominee for manager of the Annual promises cuts to the seniors at a price not to exceed fifty cents. The nominee for manager of the senior play agrees to give the senior class-day committee a "reasonable per cent" of his profits.
Besides fourteen non-fraternity men there were present at the caneus representatives of the Phi Delta Theta, Alpha Tau, Sigma Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, and Sigma Nu fraternities.
Representatives of the Beta, Phi Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Pi Upsilon fraternities met at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house Wednesday evening to discuss a senior ticket. The results of their deliberations have not been made public officially as yet. It is said that they will support Matt Graham for president, Fred Pettit for editor of the Annual, Warren Bellows for manager of the Annual, and James Smith for chairman or manager of the senior play. Some of the men interested are spending the week end in Kansas City, and the ticket will not be completed until early next week.
IS DOING GOOD WORK
Y. M. Employment Bureau Finds Students Positions.
"Dad" Herman, who has charge of the bureau, said this morning, when speaking of the work accomplished, "The greatest trouble I have is to find the men for the places. I have applications for work, but the man have not left their addresses or telephone numbers. Today I have about twenty men at work on odd jobs. Twelve are west of town picking apples."
Thirty-two permanent positions have been filled by the University Employment bureau in the past two weeks. The work includes clerking, office work, paper carriers, waiting tables, and dishwashing.
One University student works on Saturdays with the grading crew on Indiana street. He handles the pick and shovel like a veteran and has been at this work all summer.
Up to noon today ninety-eight men had made application for places.
Princeton University now has two constant low-temperature rooms which can be kept at 7 degrees below zero. These rooms for experimenting in physics are practically the only successful rooms of the sort in the world.
THE SORORITIES PLEDGE
The Girls' Rushing Season Closed This Afternoon.
The rushing season of the four sororities of the University closed this afternoon when the rushes were pledged to the different organizations. The names of those who are wearing colors tonight and the organizations to which they have pledged, follow:
Pi Beta Phi—Adrienne Atkinson, Lawrence; Charline Smith, Lawrence; Helen Thompson, Emporia; Geneva Wiley, Emporia; Lucile Smith, Kansas City, Mo.; Helen Bangs, Kansas City, Mo.; Verenice Butts, Wichita; Ruth Clucas, Pueblo, Col.; Henrietta Merrian, Kansas City, Kan.
Kappa Kappa Gamma -Virginia
Elward, Hutchinson; Virginia Siegel,
Kansas City, Kan; Lois Dilley,
Achison; Alice Noble, Keokuk,
la.; Gertrude Mullett, Kansas
City, Mo.; Margaret McFadden,
Kansas City, Kan; Bessie Allison,
McPherson; Rue Thompson, Junction
City.
Kappa Alpha Theta—Ruth Harger, Abilene; Mabel Thornton Kansas City, Mo.; Adene Hall, Ottawa; Nellie Taylor, Kansas City Mo.; Marie Hedrick, Kansas City Mo.; Bessie Anderson, Lawrence. Chi Omega–Marie Vawter Oberlin; Margaret Roberts, Kansas City, Kan.; Helen Hodgson Kansas City, Kan.; Ethel Lord Kansas City, Kan.
WILL STUDY THE BIBLE.
Under the stimulus of Clayton S. Cooper, a meeting of thirty fraternity men was held at the Beta house yesterday to organize a systematic study of the Bible. Chancellor Strong spoke on the "Moral Uplift of the Study of the Bible in Fraternities."
Frats to Form a Religious Organization.
Clayton S. Cooper of New York gave a short talk on "The General Bible Study in the Colleges Throughout the World."
The object of the meeting was to systematize the study of the Bible under the direction of the Y. M. C. A. and to meet every week for an hour's study. All of the fraternities represented pledged themselves to form delegates of two men each to form a Pan Hellenic body and meet next week for further arrangements.
Chas. W. Whitechair, state student secretary, also spoke on "Fraternity Bible Study."
John Power was chosen chairman.
Ralph Spotts Cheer Leader
Ralph Spotts, who has been cheer leader the past two years, was yesterday re-elected at a men's mass meeting, held after chapel. Mr. Spotts has been one of the most successful cheer leaders of the University.
After his re-election Mr. Spotsto outlined a plan which, if carried out, will give the University of Kansas one of the best rooting sections it has ever had.
Cari Davis, a student in the School of Law for the last two years, is the Republican candidate for representative of the Sixty-eighth district of Kansas.
Enrollment 1.942.
The enrollment of students in the University for the present semester reached 1,942 this afternoon. The enrollment for the corresponding day last year was 1,802.
Dr. E. C. Morgan of Clay Center, and William Miller of Topeka, are spending Saturday and Sunday in Lawrence.
H. L. Heinzmian, '06, who is now secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Washburn College, spent yesterday on the hill.
TO OPEN LIBRARY SATURDAY NIGHTS
STUDENTS MAY WORK THERE
AT WEEK ENDS.
Hours Will Be From 8 in the Morning Until 10 at Night—Much Needed Change.
The University has undertaken the amelioration of the state of mind known as "blue Monday." beginning today, the library will be kept open from 8 o'clock in the morning till 10 o'clock at night, the same as on other days of the week.
The change is an improvement which has been needed for many years. Hitherto, the library has been closed at noon on Saturdays, making it necessary for students to do week-end studying on Friday evenings, or, when social duties were pressing, to omit the study altogether.
The new arrangement of having the campus lighting system turned on every night will make it possible to keep the library open on Saturday nights without much additional expense or inconvenience.
TO BE IMPORTANT MEETING.
Student Council to Pass More Regulations Tuesday.
At the special meeting of the Men's Student Council Tuesday evening in Fraser hall, matters of particular concern to the senior class will be discussed. The council has been considering the various activities in that class for some time and it is more than probable that definite action will be taken at that time. The nominees for the more important offices in the senior class will be given a thorough explanation of the new rules which the council may enact.
The questions that will be taken up for consideration will be the cap and gown committee, the invitation committee, the senior play and the annual. Just what action will be taken is uncertain, but a number of the members of the council feel that something should be done in regard to these activities in addition to the demand of their accounts by the treasurer of the University.
To Dedicate Westminster.
On Friday afternoon of October 7th, at ball 4 o'clock, the new Westminster hall, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cockins, of Lawrence, will be dedicated. The new home of the Bible classes will have a very desirable location at 1221 Oread avenue. The building has been planned by both Mr. and Mrs. Cockins; class work will begin at the ball in the week following the dedication exercises.
Award Two "Ks."
The K committee of the athletic board held a special meeting yesterday and awarded track Ks to Gorden Smith and Clarence Rice for their work in the relay team at Columbia last year, which won the outdoor meet from Missouri.
Miss Gerturde Gilmore, cataloger at Spoon library, who with her mother is now traveling in the Eastern states, is expect d to return to Lawrence in October.
C. R. Nesbitt, a senior in the College, has been appointed librarian in the department of geology or the ensuing year.
The Pi Upsilon fraternity has pledged Paul Carson of Ashland, Hale Cook of Kansas City, Mo., and Ben White of Ada.
Mrs. Nellie Terrill, who was a student at the University last year, is principal of the Burlingame high school.