THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII
NUMBER 31
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1910
GIVE DICTATOR AT BOWERSOCK
THE FOURTEENTH PERFORMANCE WAS A SUCCESS.
A Large Crowd Greeted the University Actors Last Evening —The Plot a Clever One.
A large audience greeted the Masque club actors last night at the Bowersock in the first performance of "The Dietator." The play, which is the fourteenth for the club, compares very favorably with the best among the forme productions. It is a three-act comedy with a pleasing plot, and an admirable vehicle for the use o amateur talent.
The story of the play is this: A young New Yorker and his vale are charged excessive fare by a cabman. They refuse to pay it and a scruff ensues. The cabman is struck down by the New Yorker in self-defense. The injured man's condition is thought to be dangerous by the two young men and they flee to Porto Banos on the steamer Bolivar. There the New Yorker, whose name is Brooke Travers, finds the country, in a state of insurrection and finally decides to set himself up a Dictator, after the new American consul has transferred his credentials to Travers.
The first scene is laid on the deck of the steamer and the other two in the consulate at Porto Banos. Howard Wykoff plays the part of Brooke Travers. He is supported by William Cane, who takes the role of the valet. A wireless operator on board the ship is one of the important factors in keeping the plot moving. The part is played by Harold Wilson. The United States consul who decides not to accept his position, is played by Lewis Breyfogle and Cornelia Hardcastle takes the part of his newly-wedded, trusting wife. Clarence Connor portrays the role of Duffy, an over-zealous detective, and A.W. Hosier is the unfortunate Rev. Arthur Bostick, who falls into Duffy's hands as an innocent man charged with a crime. Wayne Wingart plays the part of the Captain of the ship and later doubles in two more minor parts.
The new president of Porte Banos, who has gained his position by a revolution, is played by John Alcorn. His health officer is Alex Johnson. Arthur Fast is Senator Jose Dravo, the proprietor of the hotel of the United States consultate. Sarah Morrison plays the part of his wife. The part of Ida Belle Sheridan, a young missionary, is taken by Bosse Vance and her sister is Vashti Bitter. Ward Maurer is the lieutenant on the U. S. S. Oregon and arrives at Porto Banos in time to save all of the Americans from a dark fate. Miss Helen Morrow takes the role of Juanita,a Spanish maiden, who is in love with each of the Americans at different times during the development of the plot.
The show is given under the direction of Miss Gertrude Mossler head of the department of expression. The performance last night reflected much credit upon her work. France Wilson is manager of the production. The second performance will be given to night.
There was one noticeable feature last night. It was the lack of noise and "rooting" which usually emanates from the gallery.
FOUND SULPHO-CYANIDE.
Professor Bushong Gives Testi-
mony in the G. H. Buck Case.
Prof. F, W. Bushong, of the department of chemistry, returned Tuesday evening from Greensburg, Kan. There he was a witness at the preliminary hearing of Dr. G. H. Buek, accused of poisoning his wife, who died suddenly a month ago. Professor Bushong testified that he found no cyanide poison as such,because it very rapidly decomposes. What he did find was only the results of its decomposition—sulpho cyanide.
Dr. W. K. Trimble, of the School of Medicine at Rosedale also testified that death was not natural, as the examination of the body exhumed two weeks after burial showed.
As a result of the testimony Dr. Buck was bound over to the spring term of court.
MISQUOTED MASKER
Referee Says He Never Made Statements Ascribed to Him by St. Louis Paper.
James C. Masker of Kansas City, who refereed the Thanksgiving football game, in a conversation over the telephone with a reporter for The Kansan today, denied that he had made any comment on the game reflecting in any way upon the fairness of the decisions of Lieutenant Thompson, the umpire.
"No, I did not tell President Hill that I would have disqualified Thompson as an official if I could," said Mr. Masker, when quotations from St. Louis papers were read to him. "In fact I should not know President Hill if I saw him. Nor did the thought of wanting to put Thompson out of the game occur to me. That is an absurd statement, like a number of other fairy stories I have heard since the game. I said nothing of the sort to Coach Hollenback, either.
"I was not watching Lieutenant Thompson during the game He had his work to do and I had a different work. But I have no reason to think that any of his decisions were unfair."
GYM TEAM IS READY
Mr. Masker evinced considerable interest in the statements which are ascribed to him in the St. Louis papers. He said he had not heard of some of them until today.
A gymnastic team of five university men, under the direction of C. B. Root, gymnasium instructor, will leave December 19 for a two weeks' tour of Kansas. These men have worked up an excellent program of tumbling, boxing, juggling and Indian club swinging The schedule of their trip calls for twelve nights' entertainment, and will take them as far west as Hays City, Kan.
Will Do Twelve Nights' Tumbling During Holidays.
The men who compose the team are: Geo. Bbbab, Tim Shotts John Ghornley, Howard Pauly, John Brownlee, and C. B. Root.
New Lights on Campus.
Four more of the new lights are soon to be placed on the campus. One will be situated north of Blake Hall, one north of the repair shop, one southwest of the museum, and one west of the engineering building.
FOUR OF FACULTY BUILD A LODGE
AT CAMERON $ BLUF THEY GO "BACK TO THE SOIL."
The Men Are Building Cabin Where They Plan to Pitch Horse Shoes and Play Marbles.
Chancellor Frank Strong, Dean Olin Templin of the College, Professor H. P. Cady of the department of chemistry, and Professor W. H. Johnson, the high school visitor, are spending their Saturdays and extra holidays in the woods near Cameron's bluff working on the small cabin. It stands directly back of the spring at Cameron's Bluff, but deeper in the woods than the average visitor wanders. This cabin is not built of logs, but of ordinary millsawed lumber which has been hauled from town. The owners are doing most of the building work themselves; they spent their Thanksgiving holidays there and expect to complete the lodge during the two weeks at Christmas time.
A "back to the soil" movement which has been agitated among the people of the cities evidently has reached the University, for about four miles up the Kaw river, deep within the woods, a small frame lodge or cabin is being erected by four of the first men of the University.
A small kitchen is being installed so that hot food may be served. The men own a powerboat in which they and their friends make short excursions up the river and Cameron's Bluff was selected as being the end o a comfortable trip.
Dean Templin, when asked the reasons for undertaking such a project, said they were the same reasons that any twelve-year old boy has for going out in the hills and digging a cave, only that they are past the cave-digging stage.
Harvey county students of the University will meet at Prof. W. J. Baumgartner's residence at 1601 Tennessee street, Saturday, December 3, at 7 p.m., to make plans for a Christmas celebration,
"It is an attempt to get away from the conventionalities of more civilized life at the University and to obtain a little absolute rest," said the Dean. "The chief game in which we expect to indulge is that of pitching horseshoes, but if we can raise enough capital we may also play marbles, though even then we will have to restrict the game to "funnies."
A hunting lodge is maintained by Professors A. T. Walker, S. J. Hunter, F. H. Billings, and L. N. Flint south of the University on the Wakarusa river. A small house was moved out from town to the banks of the stream where the men have permission from three farmers to hunt over a square mile of the land along the stream. Cooking utensils and all the paraphernalia necessary for comfort over night was taken out and the owners often go to their lodge for the fun of the evening and morning shooting.
Harvey County Students to Meet.
This plan was started last year when game was abundant, but this year Professor Walker says they have succeeded in getting but comparatively few ducks and snipes.
Edith Lawson, who has been doing graduate work in elecution at the University, has returned to her home in Russell. Miss Lawson expects to go to Chicago after the holidays, where she will continue her study in elecution.
A BAND CONCERT SOON
Musical Organization Will Appear on December 14.
The University band of forty pieces will give a concert in Frazer hall Wednesday evening, December 14. The band this year is an exceedingly creditable one and under the direction of Prof J. C. McCanles has developed into a concert band that plays everything from classical music to "BooLa." A pieceo solo by Charles Robinson and a tenor saxaphone solo by Ralph L. Marlin will constitute the special features of the performance. Professor McCanles is extremely enthusiastic over the material in his organization and expects to give the student body an entertaining program of classical and popular selections.
An added feature of the concert will be a solo sung by Professor Hubach. The band will play the accompaniment.
Ralph W. Cone, associate professor of economics, today handed his resignation from the University faculty to Dean Templin of the College.
III Health Compels Retirement From Position in Department of Economics.
PROF. CONE RESIGNS
Professor Cone's resignation was made necessary by ill health. He became ill at the beginning of the last school year, and was unable to meet his classes a large part of the year. His work was taken by Professors Boynton and Parmelee. Professor Cone hoped to be able to take up his work in a short time, but about March 1 found that it would be impossible and secured a leave of absence until July 1. Thomas A. Nevins took his classes the remainder of the year.
At the beginning of the present term, Professor Cone felt well enough to take up his work again, but his old illness returned. Prof F. W. Blackmar and Prof. A. J Boynton now have Professor Cone's classes in addition to their own, until some one can be secured for the position.
Professor Cone has been a member of the University faculty since 1899 and associate professor of sociology and economics since 1906. He received his A. B. degree from the University of Kansas in 1895, and the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1897.
HERMES STAFF FOR MEDICS
They of Skull and Cross Bones to Be Distinctive.
The freshmen medic class, consisting of twenty-eight members not to be outdone by the engineers and the senior laws, have decided upon an article of dress that will serve to distinguish them. It is to be a dark blue jersey, with the staff of Hermes on the bosom.
Hermes, as every medic knows was the patron of the medicine as St. Patrick was of the engineers. His staff around which two serpents are entwined, and which is surmounted by a pair of wings is symbolic of deep learning in the lore of powders and pills.
Emma Maughlin, '09, spent the Thanksgiving vacation at her home in Lawrence. Miss Maughlin is teaching history and Latin in the Canton high school.
"Mike" Lynch and Floyd Ogden, senior electrical engineers have been at Lincoln, Kan., the past week, studying for their thesis the new electric light plant.
EXPLOSION FILLED EYES WITH GLASS
FRANK BELDING POURED WATER INTO SODIUM.
Accident in Chemistry Lab. This Afternoon May Cost College Junior His Sight.
Frank Belding, a junior in the College, whose home is at Pleasanton, will lose the sight of one eye and probably of both as the result of an explosion of sodium, which took place in the organic chemistry laboratory this afternoon.
Belding had been using ether in an experiment in connection with sodium and had some metallic sodium as residue in a flask. He poured water into the flask and the explosion which followed drove particles of the flask into the left eye through the lowe-lid. The right eye was not injured by the glass, but was severely injured by the sodium which entered it.
The injured student was taker to the Simmons hospital, where his wounds were cared for. A severe cut was found in his left arm in which two stitches were taken. Dr. M. T. Sudler, after examining Belding's wounds, said the sight of one eye would be lost, but that there is a chance that the right eye may be saved.
Dr. McAllister, an eye specialist on the staff of the clinical department at the University a Kansas City, has been sent for and will take charge of the case where he reaches Lawrence on an evening train.
Two other students, Charles Kubick and Linden Green, who were standing near Belding when the sodium exploded, were struck by particles of glass and received slight injuries. Following the explosion of the sodium flask, the ether which Belding had been using blew up, but the second explosion had no effect other than to throw particles of glass all over the laboratory.
SPOKE TO CHEMICALS.
Two Assistants addressed the Club Yesterdav.
W. A. Hobbs and I. W. Humphrey, assistants in the department of chemistry, addressed the Chemical club yesterday evening in the chemistry building.
Mr. Hobbs spoke about the stability of hydro-carbons and illus trated his talk with diagrams.
Mr. Humphrey told of the life of August Kekule, a leading German chemist of the last century Prof. Herman A. Allen of the chemistry department will give the talk at the next meeting.
No Glee Concert This Year.
There will be no winter concert of the University Glee club before the Christmas vacation. The hand-books given out the first part of the year by the Y. M. C. A. gave the date of the first performance as Tuesday, December 6, but Professor Hubach this morning stated that no attempt at a public appearance before a University audience will be made until the first of next year.
Tad Quadlander Will Play for Junior Party Dec. 9, F.A.A. Hall Admission 75c