THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
NUMBER 36
VOLUME VII.
LOCATE HOSPITAL NEXT THURSDAY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1911
REGENTS GO TO DES MOINES CONFERENCE FRIDAY.
Kansas Cityans Will Argue for Retention of the Game Before Conference Meets.
Two important meetings of the Board of Regents will be held this week. The Board will meet at the University Thursday to decide on the location of the University hospital. It is expected that every Regent will be present to help decide the important question.
Chancellor Strong and the Regents will go to Kansas City Thursday night to meet a number of committees of various organizations of that city at a dinner which will be presided over by Mayor Brown. The Kansas City men want to persuade the Chancellor and the Regents that Kansas City is the logical place for the Kansas-Missouri game and will urge that the rule limiting games to college grounds be resconded.
After the banquet at Kansas City the Regents will take a tramitor Des Moines, where the second annual conference of presidents and governing boards of the Missouri Valley will be held Friday, Regents Gleed, White, Hopkins and Chancellor Strong may be the only ones to take the Des Moines trip.
1. Further consideration of intercollegiate athletics.
The conference at Des Moines will be presided over by Chancellor Strong. The following is the program of subjects which will be discussed at the meeting:
2. Would it be well to hand over to the Missouri Valley Conference of Faculty Representatives all matters of detail in regard to inter-collegiate athletics?
3. Non-resident and other tuition changes in institutions in the Conference.
4. Co-operation among universities so as to avoid useless duplication in the extension of departments.
5. How can we increase academic efficiency?
6. Uniform accounting so as to arrive at a basis of comparison as to the cost of education.
7. Teachers' salaries and the per capita cost of university education.
8. Shall student activities, other than athletic, such as fraternities, dramatics, social events, etc., be curtailed?
Student Council Meeting.
9. Unfinished business.
The first regular meeting of the Men's Student Council for January will be held in Fraser hall. room 116 this evening at 8:30 o'clock.
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity gave its annual "tacky" party at the chapter house last Saturday evening.
WARMER WEATHER COMING
The Worst of the Present Gold Snap Is Over.
The University record shows that the temperature on the hill was 5.5 degrees below zero at 9 o'clock last night and 10.2 degrees below at 7 o'clock this morning. At 2 o'clock this afternoon it had warmed up considerably. The mercury stood at 8.5 degrees above.
The forecast is for fair and warmer weather tomorrow, and all the students who had to walk several blocks to super last night and afterward tried to study in cold rooms are glad of it.
The cold wave found the University in better shape as regards coal supply than it was in the cold weather a year ago. Five hundred tons of fuel were in storage at the boiler house when the temperature took its sudden drop Sunday.
A full force of firemen went to work firing up at 6 o'clock Sunday evening to get the buildings warmed up for the classes yesterday morning. Even with the extra help some of the rooms were not comfortably warm when University work was resumed.
HELD A RECEPTION.
Cherokee County Students En tertain Highs.
Cherokee county students held a well attended reception on Thursday evening, December 22 in the Cherokee county high school auditorium in Columbus at which alumni, faculty and seniors of that school were guests. Alumni of the University living at Columbus were also among the number who were entertained by the farcial representation of a county club meeting which was presented by Cherokee county students now attending the University.
The basket-ball game played on the previous evening between University students and the Cherokee county high school team was won by the latter with a score of 37 to 25.
During the holidays four new campus lights were erected on Mount Oread. One was placed on the Mississippi street approach west of the Museum, one on the bank above the repair shop, one in front of Blake hall, and one between the Fowler shops and the gymnasium.
New Campus Lights.
Prof. D. L. Thomas, a former member of the faculty of the department of English and public speaking of the University, visited with Professor E. M. Hopkins for several days during the Christmas holidays. Professor Thomas is now head of the department of English in Central College at Danville, Ky.
Edgar L. Bailey, '07, of Chicago, visited with his parents,Professor and Mrs. E. H. S. Bailey, over Sunday.
ENGINEERS MEET IN CONVENTION
MECHANICAL SOCIETY TO HOLD ANNUAL SESSION.
Many Alumni and Students on the Program—Will Banquet at the Eldridge.
The second annual meeting of the University branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will be held Thursday in the lecture room of Marvin hall. Following is the program:
11:15 "Some Recent Improvements in Locomotive Boiler Construction"—William J. Leighty, '06, of Topeka.
"Results of Seven Hour Test of an Air Lifting Pump""-Thomas A. Purton and John D. Farrell seniors.
"Results of a Two Hour Test on a Gas Engine"—Wilber II Judy, a senior.
2:30. "An Electrical Railway Test"—W. G. McBain of Merriam, Kan
3. 30. "Scientific Management" — Prof. W. Wade Hibbard of the University of Missouri.
"Aeronautics"—Captain Chas. DeF. Chandler of the United States Army, at Fort Leavenworth.
At 6:45 a banquet will be held at the Eldridge house. Prof. P. F. Walker, of the department of mechanical engineering, is the toastmaster. Toasts wil be given by Louis Bendit and H. O. Haup of Kansas City and also by several of the students.
To Improve Scholarship.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity held its forty-sixth annual convention at Kansas City, December 30. There were three hundred delegates present from seventy-five universities. A banquet was held after the meeting and it was "dry" according to the rules of the fraternity. A committee was appointed to devise ways and means for improving scholarship. The next conclave will be held in Nashville, Tenn., in December, 1912.
The Young Women's Christian Association will hold its regular meeting Wednesday afternoon a 4:45, in room 110. Miss Margare Lynn of the English department will speak. All girls of the University are invited.
Y. W. C. A. Meeting.
Notice.
Hollis Marsh, who was a freshman in the School of Engineering last year, is planning the track work for a $500,000 depot that is being built by the Manufacturers railroad in St. Louis, Mo.
There will be no school held in North College until the weather becomes warmer.
Columbia, following the example of the University of Chicago, has established a students' bank as a part of the college activities. The bank is connected with the business office and pays no interest.
TWO PROFESSORS INJURED
A Broken Wrist and a Sprain at a Faculty Dance.
Dr. J. N. Van der Vries, professor of mathematics, broke his right elbow and dislocated his right wrist in the early part of the Christmas holidays, as the result of a fall while he was attending a faculty dance in Ecke's hall Since last fall his left ankle has been sprained and his fall was due to this injured member. He however, completed his plans for the vacation by later going to Atlanta, Ga. At the present time his arm is improving as rapidly as can be expected.
A second accident occurred the same evening to Prof. E. F. Stimpson, who fell on the icy walk while walking to Ecke's hall to attend the party. He sustained a severe sprain in the muscles of his right leg.
HIS EYES WERE SAVED.
Frank Belding Recovering From Injuries in Chemistry Lab.
Frank Belding, the junior in the College, whose sight was almost destroyed this fall in an explosion of metallic sodium in the chemistry laboratory, expects to re-enter school the latter part of the week. The sight of Mr. Belding's right eye is completely restored, but the center vision of the left pupil cannot be recovered although the side vision has been saved.
TRAINED DEBATERS.
University Speaker Brought Forth Winning Team.
Mr. Belding went to Kansas City yesterday to have his eyes examined by the doctors at the University hospital. He left the hospital a week before the Christmas holidays.
On the evening of December 15, the Perry high school debating team defeated the Leavenworth high school debating squad on the question "Direct Election of United States Senators." W. A. Eardman of the1910University debating team trained the victorious team. The judges in the contest were Professors Hodder and Dykstra of the University, and Prof. H. L. Miller of the Kansas City, Kan., high school.
Thespian Club Meeting.
The Thespian dramatic club will hold a meeting at the Phi Delt house this evening, commencing about 9 o'clock. The meeting will be a social session, followed by a business discussion.
Miss Grace Waugh of Eskridge, who graduated from the School of Fine Arts last year, left Tuesday for Boston, where she will enter the Emersonian School or Expression for a two year's course. It is the present intention of Miss Waugh to take up professional dramatic work on the stage after she has graduated from the Boston school.
"YSBRAND" MAY BE PUT ON AT TOPEKA
MRS. C. M. SHELDON WRITES
REGARDING DUTCH DRAMA.
may Choose a Washburn Cast to Support Harry Kemp in Leading Role.
Mrs. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka has written to Prof. J. E. Boodin inquiring what arrangements can be made for the presentation in Topeka of Dr. Frederick Van Eeden's play, "Ysbrand," which was produced at the University last year. The same society which gave "In His Steps" at the state capital recently is anxious to have a performance of "Ysbrand" given there.
According to the Regents' rulings, it will be impossible to train a University cast to give the play in Topeka. It has been suggested that a cast of Washburn students be selected and trained by Miss Gertrude Mossler, who put the play on at the University last year. The Topeka society may ask Harry Kemp, who played the title role last year, to take the part again if "Ysbrand" is put on at Topeka.
MADE MANY TESTS.
The Senior Mechanics Took a Week's Holiday Trip.
Seven members of the senior mechanical engineering class spent the first week of the Christmas vacation on a trip through Southeastern Kansas and Western Missouri. Tuesday was spent in Independence where a two-hour-test of the air compressor at the Grabham Compressing station was made. The cement plants also were visited. Wednesday they inspected the M. K. & T. shops at Parsons, leaving for Joplin, Mo., that evening. On Thursday a trip was made to Riverview, Mo., a small station out of Joplin, where the steam and hydro-electric plant of the Empire District Light & Power company that supplies power to the zine mines and the numerous interurban electric lines, was inspected. The zine mines and the smelter and power plants at Webb City also were inspected and on Friday a seven-hour water test was made at the water plant at Pittsburg. This test was made in connection with the thesis work of two members of the class, Tom Purton and John Farrell.
The men returned to their homes Saturday evening.
Those who made the trip besides Prof. P. F. Walker are Tom Purton, John Farrell, Robert Fisher, Ray Bartlett, Wilber Judy, Everett Sutton and Fritz Broeker.
Eliot Porter, Albert Mangelsdorf and John Brook returned last night from Atlanta Ga., where they have been attending the Alpha Tau National congress.
Shanty's Orchestra 75c
Senior Party January 6 F.A.A.Hall