THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3.1910
COACHES AND TEAM OF 1910 HONORED
NUMBER 32
THIRD ANNUAL FOOTBALL BANQUET LAST NIGHT.
Speakers Agreed That Past Has Been Great Success, but Some Dubious of Future.
"It is fitting that Coach Kennedy's seven years of service be recognized at this banquet," said the Chancellor. "He has helped in the upward movement in athletics. I hope he will always be a K. U. mentor and a member of our board of strategy."
Praise for the members of this year's team who battled for the Crimson and the Blue on the gridiron, praise for the coaches who are closing a long and honorable career as mentors of University of Kansas athletes, and expressions of concern for the future of football at the University were the keynotes of the toasts at the third annual football banquet which was held last night in Robinson gymnasium.
Business Demands K. C. Game.
Chancellor Strong as toastmaster, expressed his appreciation of the work done by the players during the season, and paid a glowing tribute to Coaches Kennedy and Mosse in recognition of the work they have done for clear sport in the University.
Two speakers,Dean J. W. Green and George Innes of Lawrence expressed dissatisfaction with the present athletic program of the University.
Mr. Innes spoke of "Football as a Business Man Sees It." "With all due deference to those who have in charge the new plans for football," he said, "I must say that from a business standpoint there is no better place for the Thanksgiving game than Kansas City. I believe that Kansas boys will come to little harm in Missouri, especially if accompanied by Kansas girls. It might be a good test for their manhood to bring them in contact with Missouri temptation."
Would Restore Training Table.
Dean Green said the University had fallen into bad company when it joined the conference of Missouri Valley governing boards which introduced reforms into athletics. He spoke with especial reference to the training table which he believes is a necessary adjunct to as strenuous a game as football, and deprecated the fact that the conference had discontinued it.
Both Dean Green and Mr. Innes were given prolonged applause. It was evident that most of the 300 guests present were in favor of playing a Thanksgiving game at Kansas City and of restoring the training table.
Prof. Henry C. Hill of the School of Law, who gave the first toast of the evening, "An Old Tiger," carried off the oratorical laurels. Professor Hill was a member of the Missouri faculty two years.
"As to the Tiger," said Professor Hill, "I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him. But it would not be out of order to utter a few words of respect for the disconsolate and bereaved condition of our friends across the border. We can imagine that in the room of the Tiger, as he sat brooding over his failure to win, some such colloquy as this ensued:
The Bereaved Tiger.
"Take thy beak from out my heart
Take thy form from off my door; Quoth the Jayhawk, 'Nevermore.
"I affirm that the game was a victory for Kansas, as all who saw it and saw how it was done can appreciate. The ability to wrest victory from defeat and to remain temperate in victory are qualities meriting the highest honor. The team won the game in the last moments of the eleventh hour because of the indefinable spirit that has always made the Kansas team a worthy foe the thing that distinguishes the man from the formula, the spirit that never can be beaten."
Won a Moral Victory.
"Whoever coaches the Kansas team will always have my support and backing," said Coach Kennedy. Then he proceeded to discuss the Missouri game. "In football there is the actual physical contest and there also is a moral contest," he said. "The views taken on the Missouri game by Kansas and Missouri are proof enough to my mind that we won a moral victory. Missouri has taken with bad grace the enforcement of the fundamental points of football—that the side with the ball can't use hands and arms and advance the ball; rather it's fifteen yards back; you can't hold and have points counted; you can't slug and stay in the game."
Coach Kennedy closed with an assurance of appreciation of the support given him during the years he has been the Kansas coach. "My heart will always be with Kansas," he said.
Need a "Thundering Thousand."
Ralph Spotts described the work of the "Fighting Five Hundred" at the Missouri game. He said that such an organization should be kept intact at the University to cheer at all games but that rather than a fighting five hundred there ought to be a "Thundering Thousand."
Captain Tommy Johnson, after threatening to stay away from the banquet because he was expected to speak, finally screwed up his courage and made a one-minute talk that was a little gem.
Kansas Support the Best.
James C. Masker, who, by blowing a whistle at the Nebraska game became involved in an argument which probably will last forever, and who by a miracle escaped criticism by Missouri, although he refereed the Thanksgiving game, was the next speaker. The words Mr. Masker spoko as soon as the applause which greeted him had died down, came right up from his heart.
"In all my visits to the schools of the Missouri Valley, I have never seen another place where the support given the athletic teams by the students was so good as it is at the University of Kansas," said the 1910 captain. "I believe the happiest moments of my life have been spent while representing the University of Kansas on the field." Then Tommy closed by thanking Kennedy, Mosse, Cheer Leader Spotts and the students for the instruction and support he and the rest of the team had received.
Masker Feels Better Now.
"This reception is indeed gratifying to one who had supposed from reports going round that he had lost all his friends," he said, "In the four years that I have been officiating at University games, I have never found it necessary to impose a penalty on Kansas for rough and unsportsmanlike playing," was Mr. Masker's need of praise to coaches and players.
"I spent mine for a dinner at Strong City," said "Mike" Lynch when he arose to speak on "The Last Quarter." "When I won-
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STATE AUDITOR REDUCES BUDGET
RECOMMENDS CUT IN CHAN-
CELLOR STRONG'S FIGURES
Wishes to Eliminate Appropriations for Hospital Building and Girls' Dormitory.
The budget of the University was reduced $286,915 by State Auditor J. M. Nation in his recommendations to the legislature, which will consider his report in January.
The total amount asked for by Chancellor Strong was $1,211,915 If the legislators should approve of the auditor's recommendation the University will receive over $50,000 less than it did two years ago.
Three special appropriations were eliminated entirely from the budget. As submitted by Chancellor Strong they were the hospital building, $100,000, the girls' dormitory, $75,000, and the botanical garden, $7,500. The special appropriation of $135,245 for the up-keep of the plant, new apparatus, campus improvement and repairs was cut to $40,000.
The reasons given by Auditor Nation for taking out the hospital building is that the legislature should first adopt a policy toward medical instruction by the state. "The first two years of the University course," said Auditor Nation, "is now taught at Lawrence" I think the property at Rosedale ought to be abandoned and for the present let medical students take the last two years of their medical course in other well established schools. If this is done there will be no occasion for the legislature to appropriate for a hospital building."
The girls' dormitory was eliminated on the theory that if 100 girls were provided for the other 800 girls at the University and the 2,400 girls in other state institutions should also be provided for.
"The University is also asking $7,500 for a botanical garden and building," said Auditor Nation. "I think they ought to do without this for the present."
Will Edit Democratic Paper.
Carl G. Eddy, '10, former circulation manager of The Kansan, will be the future editor of the Liberal "Independent." The paper was recently sold to a company of local Democrats, who will turn it into a Democratic organ. Carl Eddy was business manager of the Colby Tribune.
Liberal is a town of 1,601 population, according to the 1910 census. It is located in Seward county in the southwest corner of the state.
The work on the new administration building is progressing as rapidly as possible. The concrete forms for the first floor are in place and concrete will be poured into them the first of the week. The terra cotta that is to be used for the facing has arrived from St. Louis in good shape and the work of setting it up will begin Monday.
Work Is Progressing.
At a meeting of the sophomore football team last Thursday night in Myers hall, it was decided to ask for white neck V sweaters with a 4-inch blue "13" numeral to be given to all men that played in the sophomore-freshman game. There will be a meeting of the class next Tuesday noon to vote on the proposition.
Ask for Numeral Sweaters.
Call for Junior Track Men.
The junior track committee requests all junior college track men to be at the Gym at 4:30 Mon day afternoon.
RIGHT EYE IS SAFE.
Belding May Even Have Some Use of Left Eye.
Frank Belding who was injured by an explosion of sodium in the organic chemistry laboratory Thursday afternoon was taken by Dr. M. T. Sudler to the Belle memorial hospital at Kansas City yesterday morning. Dr. McAllister, who performed an operation on his left eye on the night of the accident, believes that there is a possibility that he will recover the partial sight of this eye, which was the one most badly injured.
An X-ray examination was held at the hospital in Kansas City last night to discover whether any glass had lodged in his right eye and it was found that the eyeball had not been cut, but was burned to some extent by the caustic soda. He will without doubt recover the use of this eye.
The left eyeball was so badly cut by the glass that a secondary operation will be necessary after the eye lid has healed to cut the lid away from the eyeball. Belding endured the operation in the best of spirits and is not in the least despondent, as he believes that he will ultimately recover his sight.
FOOTBALL "K" TO 17
The athletic board at a meeting yesterday noon awarded Ks to seventeen members of the 1910 football squad and to Verni Smith of the 1909 squad. The men on this year's team who won the honor are: Baird, Pearl, Davidson, Smith, Lynch, Cowell, Ammons, Johnson, Heil, C. Woodbury, H.Woodbury, Ahrens, Price, Davis, Kabler. Power. Wilhelm.
Athletic Board Proposes Also to Honor Former Players Who Have no Letters.
The number of Ks is much larger this year than usually is granted.
The Board also appointed a committee to investigate and ascertain that members of early University teams are entitled to wear the K. The reserving of a box at the Thanksgiving game for K men disclosed the fact that in the early days of the University Ks were not awarded to members of teams. Former captains of football teams were prevented from entering the box because they had no letters. The athletic board proposes to remedy the lack of recognition as far as possible and will go back along the line of athletic heroes and award letters to the deserving ones.
Little difficulty is anticipated in the matter of football Ks, for a the inauguration of the sport it was customary for one man to be chosen for each position and for him to play through every game on the schedule. Basketball will give no trouble either, as the game was introduced after the granting of Ks became a custom The committee will probably have some problems to unravel in connection with tennis and track letters.
University Vesper Service.
University Vesper Service.
Dr. Henry C. Mabie of Boston, Mass., will speak at the vesper service I雪天 afternoon at 4:30 in the chapel. Dr. Mabie is one of the baptists of the country. He will also speak in the evening at the Baptist Church on "After College What?"
The German edition of the University News Bulletin will be issued next week. The edition will be sent to the members of German classes in the various high schools over the state. The work is being supervised by Prof. Kruse.
The second debate tryout will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in the chapel.
ENGINEERS WILL HOLD CELEBRATION
FLOATS TO REPRESENT DE PARTMENTS OF SCHOOL.
The Entire Day Will Be Given to Stunts and Athletic Events
Plans are being made by the School of Engineering for the most elaborate celebration ever held by any one school of the University of Kansas.
The exact date has not yet been determined. The matter, however, has been laid before Chancellor Strong, awaiting his approval, and the fete will be held upon any day he shall see fit to designate as suitable.
On the morning selected the engineers will parade the campus, drawing floats which will represent the different departments of the engineering school. Afterward they will attend chapel in a body.
The afternoon will be spent upon the golf links, where athletic events will be held, and stunts of various kinds pulled off. There will be refreshments in abundance and every effort will be made by the engineers to make the day a unique occasion.
It is expected that Chancellor Strong will announce his decision early next week. As soon as his approval is secured committees will be appointed by George Russell to perfect plans for the celebration.
DEGREES TO BE GRANTED.
Regents Will Confer Them at Next Meeting.
At a meeting of the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, yesterday, recommendation was made that the Regents admit to the degree of Bachelor of Arts the following: Iris Calderhead, Fern Cramer, Carl G. Eddy, Earl C. Hall, Guy G. Hinkson, Irwin W. Humphrey, Ruth E. Hunt, Raymond C. Ogden, Chas E. Penny, Ruby Ravenscraft, William S. Robb, Clara F. Schimmel, Mary D. Semalzried, Laurene Stevens.
The faculty of the School of Law have recommended the following for the degree of LL.B. Nathaniel E. Berry, Hiram C. Davis, Edward S. Elder, Walter J. Ise, Walter S. Thiele, Isaac N. Williams.
The Regents will take action on the recommendations at their next meeting December 9.
Urged Care in Engineering.
A crowded roomful of students heard Victor C. Cochran, consulting engineer of Kansas City, Mo., address the Thursday evening meeting of the Civil Engineering Society. On the subject, "How Not to Do It," Mr. Cochran gave many valuable points about being careful in the engineering work. He cited interesting cases of large damage through carelessness, and gave humorous incidents that he had met with in his own work. The speaker also told of the collapsing of several bridges at Peoria, Ill., and the plans that he is now making for a new bridge.
Dr. Wilber at Y. M. C. A.
Dr. F. E. Wilber talked before the Y. M. C. A. Thursday evening on "Loyalty in Rgleion." He defined loyalty as living true to to truth as you see it. It is also the soul of religion as it is both the knowing and doing.
At the next Thursday evening meeting W. T. Elmore, a mission x a stereotopic lecture on "Domestic Life in India." This will probably be in Snow hall, so as to have room for all who come. Mr. Elmore will also speak at chapel Friday morning.