THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
NUMBER 18
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27,1910
HOPES KANSAS CAN OUTLAST WASHBURN
KENNEDY DEPENDS ON STAY
ING POWERS OF TEAM.
"We will welcome almost any kind of a score in the game with Washburn," is the only prediction of Coach Kennedy for Saturday's game. "Washburn always plays her very best against Kansas, and we look for a hard game with them."
Shifting of Team Neccessary. Because Lynch Has the Mumps Mosse Fears Spread of Disease.
The Kansas coach believes, however that the physical endurance of the Jayhawkers will tell on the Washburn team and that the game will be won as it was at Drake, because the Kansas team kept on playing while the Drake team lost its gameness in the second half.
Cowell, who has not been in the best of shape will probably be on the side lines until the second half. Powers will be shifted to left tackle and Davidson and Baird will handle the right guard position.
The line-up will be practically the same as it has been for the last two games, although there will be much shifting of players. Billy Price will take the place of Mike Lynch at end on account of the latter's sickness.
Speer and Abreus will take care of the center place. Captain Johnson will be saved as much as possible for the game with Nebraska Heil, Wilhelm, Tod Woodbury and Davis will make up the back field.
The lifting-out process for the Jayhawkers will probably reach completion Saturday as the remaining games will demand the regular line-up of the players. For the greater part of the week the coaches have been working behind closed gates getting into trim for the Washburn team.
Mike Lynch, the star end of the team, will not be able to be in the Washburn game Saturday afternoon on account of having contracted a case of the mumps. While he has not a severe case, it is severe enough to detain him at his home.
"Mike" has been in hard luck all season having injured his shoulder so severely the first of the year that he has been able to get into but one or two of the practice games.
While coaching the Warrensburg Eleven Coach Mosse had seven members of his team out of the game at one time on account of an epidemic of mumps. Consequently he is somewhat frightened that it may happen again to him in the Kansas squad just when he needs the men most.
Coach Mosse said last night that he feared that some more members of the team may catch the mumps as Ammons is Lynch's roommate and has been exposed that way.
FAVOR 3-MILL TAX.
Alumni Take Action at Banquet in Kansas City.
The Kansas City alumni of the University of Kansas, at their monthly luncheon at the Kansas City Athletic club Wednesday afternoon, adopted a resolution favoring and supporting the three-mill permanent tax amendment which will be voted upon at the general election in November for the University of Missouri.
The alumni also provided for the reserving of six hundred seats for the Kansas-Missouri football game on Turkey day.
Prof. C. E. McClung, professor of zoology at the University of Kansas left this morning for Detroit, Mich., to attend a meeting of the National Committee of the Sigma Xi honorary fraternity.
MADAME LEHMANN TONIGHT
Composer Says Americans Have
Genuine Love for Music.
"Americans are suffering from ragitis," declared Madame Liza Lehmann, who, assisted by four of the leading singers of England, will give the second recital in the fall concert course in Fraser hall this evening. Madam Lehmann said, however, that she did not consider American music in any particular danger from "ragitis." "I have found that American audiences have a genuine interest in good music," said the composer. "America is now getting into a position where it is producing music itself. As long as the tendency is upward, let the rags wave. The cheap music of which people are so fond will have no lasting result."
The program tonight will be given in three parts. Part I will be two quartet numbers entitled "In a Persian Garden." In Part II the artists will sing songs of Madame Lehmann's composition. Part III will be the "Nonsense Songs from Alice in Wonderland." These are considered among the funniest musical compositions ever written.
CHRISTENED MISS MOSSE.
Football Men Named Baby "Alberta," After Head Coach.
The football team, the father, the mother, and Coach Kennedy are all happy now that the daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur St. Leger Mosse this week has been christened Alberta, in honor of Coach Kennedy.
The naming of the daughter of the assistant coach came about in a novel way. Tuesday night Coach Kennedy walked to the center of the field and giving the "highball," summoned the members of the team about him. Then he told them that there was a new daughter in the Mosse household.
"Let's christen her Alberta, after the coach," suggested one member of the team. Every man on the squad seconded the motion and nine silent cheers for Alberta rent the ether.
At first some of the players were afraid that the name would not "stick" after Mrs. Mosse had been heard from, but Arthur St. Leger says that no other name has even been thought of. And so it's Alberta, sure enough.
WARM BATHS ON McCOOK.
Heating System Put in Operation Monday.
The football and track men may hereafter enjoy on McCook field, some, at least, of the conveniences to be had at Robinson gymnasium. A water heating system has been installed in the locker rooms on the south side of the field, and the men may now take warm shower baths after exercise
Iva Haskett, '09, who underwent an operation for appendicitis in an Arkansas City hospital recently, is reported to be improving. Miss Haskett is an English teacher in the high school of that place. Hazel Branch, '09, of Wichita is taking Miss Haskett's place during her illness.
A furnace is located in an addition to the locker room. This furnace heats the contents of a 250 gallon tank, which supplies water for the four baths located in an adjoining room. Coal is used for fuel, as there is no gas supply nearer than Mississippi street. The tank can be heated in an hour and contains a supply that will not give out. The device was first used Monday afternoon.
SEEK SAFETY FROM TYPHOID FEVER
NINETY-TWO UNIVERSITY PEOPLE VACCINATED.
Dr. W. K. Trimble Will Return Next Week to Complete the Treatment—No Ill Results.
Ninety-two students and faculty members of the University purchased ease of mind at the expense of slight soreness of body by being vaccinated against typhoid fever yesterday afternoon by Dr. W. K. Trimble of the School of Medicine at Rosedale.
The majority of those treated were the freshmen and sophomores of the School of Medicine who underwent the operation as much from interest in the experiment as from any other cause, perhaps, but many students from other schools of the University who were really afraid of the typhoid bacillus and wished immunity from the disease were also inoculated. Two doctors were kept busy most of the afternoon, one with the hypodermic needle and the other with a wad of cotton to dis infect the needle wound.
Prof. M. A. Barber spent the evening with medical students at the Phi Beta Pi house to take the temperatures of the men who had submitted to the operation, and to note other changes, but he found that the condition of all was perfeetly normal.
One or two of the men when seen on the bill this morning complained that the soreness of the needle wounds made it uncomfortable for them to wear their belts
Dr. Trimble will come to the University again next Wednesday to continue the treatment of those who were vaccinated yesterday and to vaccinate other who may apply.
All arrangements for the "Uncle Jimmy Day" banquet, which will be held in the Eldridge house to night, have been completed.
The treatment yesterday consisted in injecting into the blood 500 million dead typhoid bacteria Next week the amount will be increased. After that has taken effect the patient will be considered immune, or at least to have his resistance to the disease greatly increased.
The medical students yesterday treated samples of their own blood to find its resistive powers before being treated with the vaccine. After the treatment has taken effect, they will repeat the test with a view to determining how much the resistance has been increased.
The custom of giving a banquet each year in honor of Dean Green, dean of the School of Law, was started in 1905 and has been an annual occurrence ever since. The affair is the only one of its kind in the west and is the event of the year for the members of the School of Law.
"Uncle Jimmy Day" Banquet to Be a Big Affairs.
EXPECT 100 GUESTS
Accommodations have been prepared for 100 people, not including the speakers of the evening.
The sun dial which is northeast of Green hall, is accurate to within fifteen minutes of clock time. The dial is the gift of the class of '99, and is mathematically exact.
At the meeting of the faculty of the School of Engineering last night, W. C. Burnham of the class of 1910 was recommended to the Board of Regents for graduation.
FIGHTING FIVE HUNDRED.
Organization Will Be Discussed at "Sing" Tomorrow Night.
Professor J. N. Van der Vries will speak at the college "sing" tomorrow evening. His fame as a football enthusiast and enthusiasm rouser is well established at the University and the chapel will doubtless be filled to hear him. The "sing" will not begin until 7:30 o'clock on account of the Y. M. C. A. feed in the gymnasium.
Several hundred Washburn supporters are coming on a special train Saturday and the Jayhawker rooters will prepare to meet them at this "sing."
The University band will open the meeting with a short concert. The cheer leader has one or two new yells; that will be given a trial. Several other matters of importance to the rooters for the Washburn game will be explained.
Plans for the organization of a "Fighting Five Hundred" will be discussed. All these matters are of considerable importance and the cheer leader is desirous of having a record-breaking crowd present. He also requests that all the rooters come to the game early on Saturday and fill up the rooters' section as rapidly as possible.
PARTS FOR "THE DICTATOR'
"The Dietator," a three-act modern comedy, by Richard Harding Davis and a successful vehicle of William Collier, has been chosen as the annual play for the Masque club. The play will be staged under the direction of Miss Gertrude Mossler, head of the department of dramas in the University, on the nights of November 30 and December 1.
Result of Men's Tryout for the Masque Plav Announced.
The tryout for male parts was held last Monday night. The following received parts: Howard Wykoff, Will Cain, Bunnie Wilson, Lewis Breyfogle, Harold Connor, Murray Conley, A.W.Howsier, Frank Alcorn, Wayne Wingart, A. II. Fast, Streecter Blair, Floyd Fischer and Elmer Johnson. The characters of the play have not been assigned.
The tryout for girls will be held tomorrow night at Miss Mossler's studio over Dick Bros.' drug store
Chemical Club Meeting
At the Chemical club meeting yesterday the program was given by three students of the University. H.W. Calderwood, a senior in the School of Engineering talked on the Vanadium alloys of steel; Charles Robinson, a junior chemical engineer, spoke on ozone and some of its practical applications; and Edmund Rhodes a junior chemical engineer, on "Ductung Tugsten."
Playing Semi-Finals.
The finals in the golf tournament will be played Saturday afternoon. The semi-finals are being played this afternoon. Sixteen men entered the tournament and now the list has been reduced to four. Those in the semi-finals are Scott Sterling and C. C. Crawford and M. W. Sterling and E. M. Briggs. Saturday afternoon the winners in these two matches will decide the championship.
The sophomores of the School of Medicine will entertain the freshmen of that school with a smoker at the Phi Beta Pi house, 1237 Orcad avenue. November 20.
Miss Alberta Cresswell, '10, of Kansas City, was visiting in town this week.
Concert Tonight at 8:15
Madam Lehmann, Composer and Pianist. Quartet of noted Singers.
ASK RECALL OF HONOR SYSTEM
The honor system in examinations has been abandoned in the School of Medicine of the University. A petition started in the sophomore class and signed by every one of the sixteen members was presented to the faculty this week, asking that the honor system be given up. The faculty at once granted the petition.
MEDICAL STUDENTS CHARGE ABUSES OF SYSTEM.
Charges and counter-charges of cheating have been freely made by members of the class in connection with the circulation of the petition. According to some of the stale the ill feeling arose from jealousy between the fraternity and nonfraternity members of the class.
Friction Between Fraternity and Non-Fraternity Men Caused a Petition to Be Sent to Faculty.
The trouble came to a climax Monday morning when certain members of the class started a petition stating that the honor system was not being observed and asking that it be recalled. According to the fraternity side, the non-fraternity faction were going to hand the petition in without asking the members of the fraternity that were in the class to sign it so that it would appear to the faculty that they were the ones guilty of cribbing in examinations. But the petition was lost and one of the fraternity men found it, and after having all the members of the class that belonged to his faction sign it, handed the petition to the faculty.
The members of the non-fraternity side claim that the reason they started the petition was the fact that there has been a large amount of cheating in all examinations by members of the other side who in turn claim that they can prove that there is only one man in the non-fraternity faction who has not been seen cribbing. But neither side has ever reported to the faculty any member of the class for cheating, which they pledge themselves to do when they adopt the honor system.
The honor system has been used in the School of Medicine for the last three years in all classes and this is the first time there has ever been any question raised as to any cribbing done in examinations.
"When the verses were published in London in 1858 Mr. Fitzgerald concealed his connection with them and they were sold with difficulty at an insignificant price,' said Professor Carruth. "Eventually their merit was recognized and both translator and original author received proper credit for the work."
Prof. W. H. Carruth spoke in chapel Tuesday morning on the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and on Edward Fitzgerald, the English poet, who made the most successful translation of the Persian quatrains.
PROF. CARRUTH TALKS.
Tells in Chapel of Work of Edward Fitzgerald.
Professor Carruth referred to the pessimistic tone of the stanzas which nevertheless did not detract from their beauty or lessen their satisfaction for readers in certain moods. In closing he spoke of the opportunity to hear some of the songs which Madame Lehmann will sing this evening, and himself read a few verses of the poem .
ADMISSION 75c. COURSE TICKET $1.00.
The girls of the Marks club will entertain the young men of that club with a Hallowe'en party Monday evening.
Eugene Hipple, a middle law has been pledged by the Phi Alpha Delta fraternity.