The University Kansas. The official paper of the University of Kansas. EDITORIAL STAFF: EDITORIAL STAFF: JOSEPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief EARL FISCHER - Managing Editor BUSINESS STAFF: HOMER BERGER -- Business Manager CLARK WALLACE - Asst. Bus. Manager HENRY F. DRAPER -- Treasurer J. E. MILLER -- Circulation Mgr MEMBERS OF BOARD. LOUIS LAACOSS CARL CANNON M. D. BAER RALPH SPOTTS Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association. Address all business communications to Homer Berger, Business Manager, 1411 Tennessee street, Lawrence, Kan.; all other communications to Joseph W. Murray, 1341 Ohio street, Lawrence, Kansas. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance; one term, 75c; time subscriptions, $1.75 per year. Office in basement of Praser Hall. Phone, Bell, K U. 2s. THURSDAY, JANUARY 5.1911 ONCE MORE—FOOTBALL. Student sentiment apparently has reversed itself in the matter of playing the Kansas-Missouri football game at Kansas City. At a mass meeting last spring resolutions were adopted recommending that the game be played at Lawrence or Columbia on the Saturday preceding Thanksgiving; but that was done at a time when football seemed in danger and some concession was believed to be necessary to save it. Nobody is camping on the trail of football just now. The game seems safe enough, and as many of the students would prefer to go to Kansas City to see the annual contest with Missouri they have made their preference known to the Regents, in the recommendations adopted by the Student Council Tuesday night and ratified at the various meetings held yesterday. The alumni of the University and the business men of Kansas City will ask the Chancellor and the Regents at Mayor Brown's dinner tonight to keep the game at Kansas City. It would be surprising if the men of Kansas City did anything else. But there are many students who don't particularly care to go to Kansas City and many alumni not residents of Kansas City who are strongly of the opinion that the two universities should continue to play the game at Kansas City for some years to come. They base their opinion on the argument of financial expediency. The income derived from the Kansas City game for years has been the main factor in keeping the athletic association out of debt and promoting the development of athletics at the University. A new athletic field is needed at the University and these students and alumni believe that the last game of the season should be played at Kansas City and the income devoted to building the new field. This in the opinon of The University Kansan, is the strongest reason that can be urged for playing the game at Kansas City. The plan is met by the fundamental objection on the part of some of the Regents that athletics already costs too much at the University—that a return should be made to simpler forms of sport which will not require the expenditure of large sums of money. This is understood to be the stand taken by Regents Gleed and White. Their minds have been made up for quite a while that the time has arrived to restrict college games to college grounds. It is hardly likely that anything will be said at the meeting tonight in Kansas City that will shake their views. If the ruling fails anywhere it probably will fail at the Regents' conference in Des Moines tomorrow. Nebraska is said to be dissatisfied with the ruling, though it is not know whether the dissatisfaction extends to the governing board of the University. It has been reported, too, that Missouri would like to see the ruling changed. If Missouri and Nebraska unite in opposition to the rule at Des Moines tomorrow, there is a good chance that the game will continue in Kansas City; otherwise it will be played on college grounds next year. "Tommy" Johnson seems to be maintaining much the same mystery regarding his intentions in basket-ball this year that he kept up for a time last fall regarding his football playing. Some time ago he said he believed he would not try for the team this year, but would spend the season coaching and officiating. At present he makes non-commital replies when asked what he intends to do. It may be a significant fact however, that he refused to take pay for his services in officiating at a game recently, thus preserving his amateur standing. The chances are that "Tommy" will be throwing baskets for K. U. when the season opens. Now we are to have a poets' club at the University. It seems that the students are not letting anything get away in the line of organizations. It is said that the first effort of the new club will be to break up the trust which Walt Mason has formed in Kansas poetry. The engineer is the modern alchemist. The discussions at the American Mechanical society at the engineering building today, range through the dominions of air, water, and fire; and the modern engineer can do more with these "elements" than the old philosophers ever dreamed of. To students who have been trying to get enough to eat on the basis of the cost of board scheduled in the University Catalogue, Professor Bailey's statement that food may "become" a luxury will seem conservative, to say the least. Those members of the faculty who gave a dance during the holidays narrowly escaped placing dancing on the Regents' list of extra-hazardous sports. Somehow, the prospect of a coachless baseball team does not seem to fill the baseball fans of the University with enthusiasm. Registrar Geo. O. Foster has placed in his office a chart showing the enrollment statistics for the University from the time the Preparatory School was established in 1866 to June 1, 1910. The enrollment for the first year was 55 and the faculty numbered four. Now the faculty numbers 137. The chart shows the enrollment of all schools now in existence and those which have been discontinued. An Enrollment Chart. Lawrence V. Redman holder of the Julius Karpen Industrial fellowship on woods and varnish, has returned from the University of Toronto, where he has been completing the work of his doctor's degree. Columbia University has an endowment fund of $28,500,000. This is larger than that of any other school in the country. Leland Stanford is second and then follow Harvard, Chicago, Yale, Cornell and Pennsylvania. FROM OTHER COLLEGES. At Cornell the students have an annual hare and hound race in which two students leave a trail of paper for the others to follow. The idea is to bring out the cross country men. Properties of the secret societies at Yale are valued at nearly one million dollars, according to the new tax list of the New Haven assessors. In all 47 pieces of realty are held, the richest society being the Cloister, otherwise the Book and Snake, of the scientific school, with reality appraised at $90,000. Northwestern University has adopted the rule that henceforth no student in the College of Liberal Arts shall become a member of a fraternity until he has procured from the dean a statement certifying that he has been regularly enrolled for at least one semester and that during that time he has made at least ten credit hours. Professor Frederick W. Hamilton, of Tufts College, has said that unmarried women teachers should not teach college girls because their influence is harmful. "I do not believe that young girls who are just passing into womanhood are in the proper environment if they are continually brought into close personal touch with elderly unmarried women," was the way he put it. New Separate Collar Shirts Just In-- Flannels Percales or Madras $1.50 and $2.00 The Tax WEATHER REPORTS. Are You Ready? University Comparisons of Meteorological Records Are Made. The meteorological summary for 1910 issued by the University of Kansas and continuing the record kept by the late Dr. F. H Snow, from 1868, indicates that the averages for the year did no differ materially from the mean averages for the forty-two preceding years. Yet the figures for some of the items present quite a difference from the yearly averages. The entire depth of snow for 1910 was but 12.7 inches, which is 8.2 inches below the annual average. The entire rainfall including melting snow was, nowhere 37.78 inches, which is .84 inches above the annual average. The highest temperature for the year was 104 degrees on July 26th, and this temperature has been equaled or exceeded during only six of the preceding years for which a record has been kept. The mercury reached or exceeded 90 degrees on 25 days, which is 9 days below the annual average. Of these hot days naturally the largest number were in July, but one was in March and two in April. December, 1910, was nearly a normal December compared with the forty-two preceding Decembers of which the University of Kansas has a record. The early part of the month was rather dry but the heavy rain in the 28th and 29th brought the precipitation within. 01 inch of the mean of 1.41 inches for December. The mean temperature for the month was 31.24 degrees, which is only .03 degrees above the December average. The highest temperature was 58 degrees on the 14th and the lowest was 10.4degrees on the 8th. The Seismograph recorded eight earthquakes during the month, all except the one on the 10th being slight and distant. WORKED FOR CHARITY. Missouri Sorority Girls Distributed Dolls to Poor Children. Sorority girls at the University of Missouri posed as "Big Sisters" to the poor children at Columbia at Christmas time. They obtained about one hundred dolls through the generosity of the "Big Brothers," the fraternity men, and then spent a week preparing clothes for the dolls which were turned over to the Columbia Charity society and the Christian associations in time for Christmas distribution. Each sorority had one of its members act as a commissary agent. These representatives visited the Columbia stores at which their organizations traded and requested toys and good things to eat, to add to the supply of dolls which the poor children were to receive. Most of the families benefited were those depending on the coal mines for a living and the work in the mines is not always regular. The "Big Sisters" also undertook, at the request of the Columbia charity organization, the task of selling Red Cross Christmas seals, the proceeds of which were to go to the Anti-Tuberculosis society. The sororities made a competitive contest by having each society see how many seals it could sell in a certain time. Prof. E. H. S. Bailey was elected president of the New England society of Lawrence, which held its sixteenth annual dinner in the city during the Christmas holidays. The organization consists of two hundred people who came from New England or who boast of New England ancestry. Oysters any style at Vic's Protsch Fall Suiting A. G. ALRICH. Binding, Copper Plate Printing, Rubber Stamps, Engraving, Steel Die Embossing, Seals, Badges. Printing 744 Mass. St. The Corner Grocery in the Student District. WM, LA COSS. Everything fresh that the market affords. Both phones 618. 1333 Ky.St First-class work. Prompt delivery Lawrence Steam Laundry MOON & JOSTE, K. U. 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