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VOLUME VII.
START WORK ON POTTER LAKE
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1910
PLANS FOR THE BIG DEFRES SION ARE COMPLETED.
Cost of Construction Will Be $3,250—A Power House to Supply Water.
Potter lake, for which the construction contract was awarded October 28 by the Board of Regents, will be built at a cost of $3,250. The plans as drawn by Prof. W. C. Hoad, show a triangular, eighteen foot depression, covering two acres, with a water storage capacity of four million gallons for fire protection. The lake will occupy the hollow directly north of the Engineering building with its head to the south,and will reach to the upper end of the ravine. It will be necessary to remove from the site seven thousand cubic yards of dirt which will be utilized in filling up the end of the ravine south of the lake and the hollows in the slopes or this part of the campus. The edge of the lake will be cut down in a steep slope, paved with a stone slope wall to eprotect it bank from the wack of the ripples and prevent the water from being "roiled" by the winds.
At the north end a concrete dam 400 feet long and twenty feet high will be constructed with a stone riprap, similar to the one paving the edge of the lake, carried along its face for protection from the wave action of the water.
At the west end, a concrete spill way with a paved run-off channel extending down to the small grove of trees near the ravine to join the creek will be built to carry off the surplus water during heavy rains.
Over the dam and spillway there will be built a foot bridge of reinforced concrete with masonry side walls of buff limestone to correspond with the University buildings. Thus the bridge will appear to be constructed of stone yet have the rigidity of a concrete structure.
The pumping station which will be located north of the dam, will be a square building, fifteen feet by twenty-three feet and will be built of buff limestone.
There will be the big high-pressure centrifugal pump which will be capable of pumping 1,000 gallons of water per minute into an eight-inch force main. This main will carry the water to the new power plant south of Marvin hall where the big steam fire pump will give sufficient force to throw four big streams of water 100 feet bigh.
At present, the city water company is unable to furnish pressure for more than two small streams of water owing to the distance of the University from its power plant.
The pump in the pumping station will be run by an electric motor supplied by a current carried by a cable laid in a conduit. This motor will be controlled by throwing a switch in the power plant obviating the necessity of some one running down to the station to start the pump. There will be valves and fittings in the pump station that will make is possible to draw the water from the bottom of the lake or six feet above the bottom or from both levels at the same time and drain the lakdry if necessary.
There will be a walk extending across the avenue from the Engineering building to a flight of steps From here a brick walk with graceful curves will lead to the head of the lake where it will branch, and run down each side to the footbridge which will join them, thence the walk on the east side will lead off toward Mississippi street and the one on the west side will run toward the north west. The establishment of the
walks will be a great convenience to the increasing number of engineering students who live north and west of the University.
The work has already been begun on the pumping station and the lake is to be completed by March 1, 1911. The work is being done under the supervision of Mr. E. F. Crocker, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
"ABSURD AND IMPOSSIBLE."
That's What Chancellor Says ot University Dramatics.
Action will no doubt be taken by the authorities in charge of the plays that are put on by students. Now and in the past some students have been in from one to three plays a year, and as each production takes almost every night away from the studies during rehearsals, it is little wonder that the grades of the would-be actors suffer.
The Student Council or the Chancellor will probably make a ruling soon restricting dramatics, in that no one person shall take part it more than one production a year.
The Chancellor said yesterday "dramatics is in a very bad shape here in the University and can not run along as in the past. Football can not compare with dramaties in taking one's time from the studies."
Professor Gessell, of the department of public speaking, talked on the same subject this morning in chapel. His advice was to turn the energy that was wasted in dramatics into debating and derive some benefit from it. His suggestions were heartily sanctioned by the Chancellor, who said the present situation in dramatics is "absurd and impossible."
BEGAN ORGANIZATION
"Fighting 500" Petitions Were Circulated This Morning.
The real work for the organization of the "Fighting 500" was begun today. Handbills were given to all the students as they came on the hill this morning and men in all the schools were taking the names of those who wished to sit in the rooters' section at the Thanksgiving game.
It seems more than probable that the names of the five hundred men will be easily secured. The men are showing more interest in the plan than was first expected and no doubt more than five hundred men will be in the rooters' section.
It is the plan to have one or two meetings each week of the "Fighting 500" and get all the plans for the Turkey game well in hand.
NO MORE TYPHOID.
The regular meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association will be held Wednesday afternoon in room 110, at 4:45. The Rev. W. A. Powell, of the Presbyterian church will speak. All girls of the University are invited.
WHEN IS TOUCHDOWN NOT A TOUCHDOWN?
The spread of typhoid fever in the University and in Lawrence has about reached a climax, according to Dr. H. L. Chambers the university physician, and further spread of the disease is not probable. There has been no new case in the University student body since October 3.
Dr. Chambers Does Not Expect Another Case.
Webster Wilder, who was graduated from the School of Law in 1901, has received the nomination for county attorney of Alfalfa county, Oklahoma, on the Republican ticket. He has twice before been elected to the same office.
QUESTION BOTHERS
KANSAS COACHES.
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Here's the Answer: It's When Jim Masker Blows His Whistle When He Shouldn't.
Could you guess how Coach Kennedy spent his Sunday after the Nebraska game? Weared by the heavy reading of the stories of the contest in the Kansas City newspapers, and the fruitless efforts to solve the conundrum "When is a touchdown not a touchdown?" he sought mental recreation by getting down a little book which contains the constitution of the United States, and he studied that most of the day.
It was in the course of this perusal that he discovered that Referee Masker had violated the constitution of the United States when he refused to allow Kansas a touchdown in the game Saturday. The constitution says no ex-post-facto law shall be made and that is the provision which Masker violated by hurriedly making a ground rule to cover the case when he saw the ball flying over the fence , in Saturday's game. Coach Kennedy is considering taking the case up to the supreme court and having Masker tried for trenason. At least, there is no other tribunal before which the disputed point can be taken for settlement.
The Kansas City Star reporter who wrote the story of the game—and by the way he is a Nebraska man-shrewdly gave the authority of the Star to the statement that "there can be no question that Masker is right."
This statement, when carefully looked into, reduces itself to an expression of opinion by the reporter. The fact remains that there is a big question as to whether Masker is right, and the Kansas coaches are obtaining the opinions of other football mentors on the subject, for their own satisfaction, though the score must always remain 6 to 0 in favor of Nebraska. The rules explicitly state that the ball is dead when the referee blows his whistle, but as Kansas has lost two touchdowns to Nebraska in two successive years because the referees blew their whistles when they dedn't mean to, it seems advisable that something should be done to discourage the indiscriminate blowing of whistles by referees.
Coach Mosse has written to Walter Camp asking his opinion or how the play should have been decided, but has not yet received a reply.
"Masker made the mistake in blowing his whistle and declaring the ball dead when it bounded over the fence and was not in the possession of a player of either side. Possession is the requisite thing when the ball shall be declared dead by the referee," declares Coach Kennedy.
The definition of a touchback at the kick-off provides that the ball be in the possession of the side defending the goal; it is a touchdown when the ball is in the possession of a player of the attacking side after being kicked over the goal line.
Curtis, the umpire, who saw Woodbury recover the ball back of the Nebraska goal line and touch it to the ground,and Krause the head lineman, said that it scored a touchdown for Kansas. However, the referee used his power to make a ruling in a case of emergency. This power applies not specifically covered within the
rules, and the Kansas coachel claim it could not be properly used only to cases of rough or foul work in this case.
In spite of the defeat Saturday, the men of the team showed a great spirit of hope and courage in the practice last night. They took their defeat philosophically and worked harder than ever.
The Kansas men were not bruised as much as the Cornhusker players after the game, although they were fighting on the losing side. "Tiny" Smith lost ten pounds during the game and this morning had made it all back except one pound. Smith remarked, when weighing after the game, that herefore he did not believe a man could get tired playing football but he was prepared to acknowledge he was tired then. Davidson who played a great game at tackle, and who weighs something over 200 pounds, is not yet back to the 200 mark.
INTER-CLASS TRACK.
Schedule Announced Today By Coach Hamilton.
The schedule for the indoor track meets was announced today by Coach W. O. Hamilton. In the week of December 5 to 10, the freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior inter-school meets will be held. In the week of December 12 to 16, the inter-school, the inter-class and the varsity-freshman meets will take place. These meets will be run each day and will continue until finished.
Five men will be start in each event, except in the relay, where four will start. Under the system of scoring every one that finishes scores something. The competitors are divided into heats of one man run as a final race and each place from each team. Each heat will be in each heat will count points. First place will count as many points as teams competing, second place on less than first, third one less than second and so on until last place which counts one point
INITIATE K. C. MEDICS.
Everybody who has any ability, or thinks he has, should come out for these meets.
Phi Beta Pi Adds to Its Member ship.
NUMBER 23
Phi Beta Pi, the new medical fraternity, held initiation Friday night at the Coates house, in Kansas City, for six faculty men of Rosedale.
SOPHOMORE FOOTBALL
Those initiated were Dr. J. D. Griffith, Dr.C. C. Messelrode, Dr Hugh Wilkinson, Dr. Preston Sterrett, Dr.M. J. Owens, and Dr.A. L. Skoog. The initiation was followed by a banquet. The speakers were Dean George Hoxie, Dr. Glascock, Dr.J. D. Griffith, and Dr.R. C. Lowman, all of Rosedale and Edwin Baumgartner of Lawrence. Thirteen men from the Lawrence chapter of the fraternity attended.
Squad Is Organized and Work Starts.
$2.50 Jayhawker Tickets $2.00
The sophomore football squad was organized last Friday. Carl Heks was elected captain and Charles Dolde manager.
Thirty men are out for practice every day on the golf links. The positions on the team have not yet been definitely assigned. The first game has been scheduled with the freshmen team for Thursday, November 17.
100 Jayhawker tickets will be on sale with the Annual Board from November 9th to December 16th for $2.00. After that the price of the Annual will be $2.50.
Dean Skilton will entertain the University orchestra at his home on Friday evening. Several of the songs composed for the opera by Dean Skilton will be sung.
PLAN TO TEACH PHARMACY BY MAIL
NEW COURSE ADDED TO DEPARTMENT EXTENSION.
Work May Be Done in Two Winters at Home—Twelve Weeks Laboratory Work Required.
Pharmacy by mail is the latest course to be added to the curriculum of the University of Kansas. A full two-year course, leading to the degree of graduate in pharmacy, has just been recommended by the Board of Regents and placed in the hands of the department of University Extension. Instruction in the course will begin at once.
By the addition of the new course an opportunity will be given all drug clerks and others, who are unable to attend school to receive by correspondence a complete theoretical and practical course in pharmacy. It will include all of the work generally done by the students who spend two years at Lawrence. During two winters all students who enroll may do the theoretical part of the work in their own homes. During the summer of the two years, however, they will be required to come to Lawrence and complete twelve weeks of laboratory work.
The course is designed to prepare a student for registration by the state board of pharmacy. It will include work in three general branches: pharmaceutical chemistry, materia medica, and pharmacy. Dean L. E Sayre of the School of Pharmacy at the University, will be in direct supervision of the work. He will be assisted by Professor L. D. Havenhill and several assistants in the School of Pharmacy.
TO WRITE FOR ATLANTIC.
Professor Harger Will Continue as Contributor in 1911.
J. H. Engle to Speak.
Prof. C. M. Harger, head of the department of journalism, will continue to be a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly in 1911. The prospectus of that magazine, circulated this week, gives the titles of two of Professor Harger's contributions. They are: "Journalism as a Career," and "The Country Town Minister."
J. H. Engle of Abilene, secretary of the State Sunday School Teachers' association, and a former student at the University, will deliver the address in chapel ne xt Friday. He is an experienced speaker and for the last ten years has been connected with the Sunday school association. He has a wide acquaintance in all parts of the state. The subject of his address has not yet been announced.
Fell From Bleachers.
E. C. Johnson, a senior in the College, fell a distance of fifteen feet from the bleachers last Saturday while watching the Nebraska game and sustained a severe fracture of his left arm. Dr. Chambers reduced the fracture and he has been able to attend classes this week.
Students Wed.
Pearl Evangeline Hollingsworth, 10, was married to Roy Edward Billings, '10, Saturday morning, November 5, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Hollingsworth, of this city.
Thanksgiving Dav Game.
Tickets for the Thanksgiving day football game will be on sale in Fraser hall from 9 o'clock until noon daily. In the afternoons, beginning at 1:30, tickets will be sold at Smith's News denot
W. C. LANSDON,
Gen'l Mgr. Athletics.