ALLEMANIA CLUB HAS DISBANDED
ONCE A POWER IN UNIVER SITY POLITICS.
Girls Withdrew From Organization and Men Will Continue as a Social Club.
Last Saturday evening the Allemania club, more commonly known as the Germanic club, which has a house at 1200 Tennessee street, disbanded after a period of ten years successful existence. The lease which the club holds upon the house does not expire for two years and it is the intention of the boys of the club to continue the club as an elective stag club.
According to a statement given out by a member of the club today, the purpose of the club will be purely social and will not as heretofore have as its primary purpose the teaching of German conversation through practice. The girls of the club have severed all connection with the organization.
Many rumors were afloat on the hill today concerning the reasons for the abandonment of the club. It was reported that it would be made a local fraternity and later would petition for a charter from a national Greek letter organization. The report was emphatically denied as unfounded by a member of the club today. "We have not petitioned any national organization for a charter and do not even intend to make the club a local fraternity, he said. "The sole reason for the discontinuance of the club was that we could not make it pay and that there was some friction between different members of the club."
The German club was first organized as a stag club in 1894 and was changed to a mixed club in 1899. All conversation at the table was carried on in the German language. The club has been considered in the past as a strong factor in University politics.
Two Faculty Members Attend Topeka Meeting.
SPOKE TO ENGINEERS
At the fifth annual meeting of the Kansas State Association of Engineers, held in Topeka, Saturday, Prof. W. C. Hoad of the University read a paper upon the "Evolution of the Highway Bridges In This Country," which proved to be the feature of the entire program. N. T. Veatch, Jr., also had a paper upon the improved fish hatchery at Pratt, Kansas.
Professor Hoad was elected president of the association.
Chemists Banquet. March 21.
The Chemical Engineering society has decided to give its annual banquet on the evening of March 21 at the Eldridge house. It was decided to admit all chemical engineers, the faculty of the chemical department, and all students who are majoring in chemistry.
Will D. Kenny, who was graduated from the Engineering School last year, is in Lawrence for a few days this week.
Delpha Johnson, a former University student from Randolph has enrolled for the second semester.
Clearance of all Winter Garments James Bullene Hackman
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Ladies' Dresses for street and party wear.
Light and dark shades and exquisite fabrics.
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BATH ROBES AT 1-4 OFF. FURS 1-4 OFF
A MEMORIAL FOR PROF. F. E. BRYANT
(Continued from page one.)
Prof. Bryant as a Friend.
"A kind of child-like directness, a certain gentle simplicity, a naive charm, delicate and winsome, was in everything he did," said Professor Becker. "This elemental simplicity furnishes the key to his strength of character and intellectual power. In the realm of conduct the same spirit of directness and simplicity seemed to be the guiding principle. In him there was in rare perfection the union of gentleness and strength.
"I think his ideas of duty were not derived from any inherited system of religion or ethics. They sprang, rather, from some innate sensitiveness, something in the moral world akin to the musician's sense of absolute pitch. In all the relations of life he was a steadfast and upright man: generous and forbearing: a man of rectitude; in spirit untarnished and in honor undefined. He was such a man as chilren love: a man that men might trust with their dearest possessions and rest secure."
The men and women of Kansas who send their children to the State University insist that the attention paid to them by their teachers be directed to the individual needs of each one. This is possible when classes are of the proper size, but when the number of teachers is too small and the number of students in a class goes as high as the dimensions of a large room will permit, it is not within the power of the teacher to give personal attention to each one. The University has done much to remedy this condition, but more remains to be done. It is the plan of the Regents to increase the number of teachers slightly for next year and to see that the greatest possible care is taken that every student should get the maximum amount of individual instruction. If the money is available the number of students in each class will be cut down as low as is maintained in the best state universities.
More Teachers, Better Training.
Violet Dule Tale : Another shipment just received from Boston, at McColloch's drug store.
Rexall Cold Cream, 25c, good for little chaps and others: 25c jars at McColloch's drug store.
Fifteen Men Answered the Call of the Committee.
TENNIS COMES NEXT.
Fifteen men answered the call of the tennis committee yesterday and appointed a temporary managing committee consisting of Howard Richardson, Frank Motz, and H. Wilson who are to make all arrangements for immediate practice and are to take definite steps toward the obtaining of a schedule with Missouri Valley schools next spring. Regular practice will start next Saturday, with a round robin tournament, in which all those interested in collegiate tennis may take part. As soon as the spring opens Manager Lansdon has promised to put in either four or six clay courts south of the gymnasium. These courts will be so constructed that they will be the first step toward the installation of the new athletic field that has been designed for the University.
Although not one member of the regular varsity team last year is in school now, the prospects for a winning squad are extremely bright. H. Wilson who held the school championship while a student at Wentworth Military Academy and last year won the state championship, has signified his intention of trying for the team. J. R. Smith, a freshman engineer from Sterling, and J. H. Hanger, who has played much tennis at Baker, are trying for the squad. Howard Richardson, Frank Motz, Tom Purton, Ben Marshall, Elmer Ditmar, and Charles Hawes are former members of the varsity squad who are going to be in the running again this year.
The new booklet of Kansas University songs, which is to be published soon, will contain at least two new songs written by graduates. A short time ago, the Alumni Association asked for new and original songs, and three were turned in, two being approved by the musical committee. The authors of the new songs are Mrs. Florence Stuessi of Pittsburg, and Mrs. Lenna Brown of Kansas City.
To Write Their Own Songs.
The publishers of this collection are trying to encourage the writing of original student songs. A former edition of the book contained about a score of pieces, but most of them had either borrowed words or music.
WILL PLAY TIGERS TWO FAST GAMES
VARSITY FIVE MEETS MIS SOURI FRI. and SAT.
Coach Expects Battles to Be Fast Ones—"Subs" Are Showing Great Form.
Next Friday and Saturday the Jayhawker basket-ball team will tangle in Robinson gymnasium for the first of a two-game series with the Tigers.
"That team is playing a cleaner and faster game than last year and I think I can say without a doubt that our games with the Tigers will be the hardest of the season and further. I expect that the fight for the championship title will be fought out by the Tigers and Jayhawkers next month in Columbia," is Coach Hamilton's view of the situation.
"Our team is in poor physical condition, some of the players being sick with la gripe, while others are suffering from some minor stomach troubles. Anyway, I expect the men to be in shape by Friday night when the whistle blows.
"I am surprised at the remarkable form displayed by the men playing on the College team, especially of Hite and Eisele. Moreover some of the players on the regular varsity team had better watch out for their places. The playing of the substitutes in the games to date has been good and as far as playing ability is concerned, the men are on a par."
For a State Hospital.
The plan of the University of Kansas to conduct a hospital which shall not only offer opportunity for the instruction of medical students, but shall also serve as a state hospital, has the support of practically all of the physicians of the state as well as of many others who have known of the successful operation of this plan elsewhere. Under this arrangement, the sick of the state who are unable to pay the cost of their own treatment and must be cared for by the county or city would be sent to the University hospital, and receive the best of attention from the physicians in charge. The operation of a similar plan at Michigan has shown that such a hospital can be conducted with almost no expense to the University. Each county of course, pays for the care which is given to the patients sent from within its borders. No burden a all is laid upon the state administration. After consultation and many weeks of deliberation, the University Regents have decided that Kansas City, Kansas, is the best location for such a hospital in connection with the School o Medicine of the University. The legislature is being asked to ap propriate $100,000 for the building.
Students at Cornell are agitating the question of organizing a banjo club, such as is maintained at Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and New York Universities.
Marian Bedford, of Grand Rapids, Mich., a senior in the School of Fine Arts, has been pledged by the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
PROF. AGRELIUS RESIGNS.
Joes to State Normal School February 6.
Prof. Frank U. G. Agrelius, instructor in botany, has tendered his resignation to the University authorities, taking effect February 6. He goes to the State Normal school at Emporia, to accept a position as an assistant in the same department, at an increase in salary. His family will remain in Lawrence until June 1, when they will move to Emporia. However, Mr. Agrelius will be in Lawrence during weekends in order to assist in the transferring of his botanical specimens to his new location.
He graduated from the University in 1907, receiving his degree of A.M. in 1908. After his graduation from the University he accepted a fellowship in botany at the University of Missouri and the following fall he returned to the University to be an assistant in the department of biology. He is also a member of the Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific fraternity.
The director of athletics of Wisconsin, who recently went on record as favoring an investigation into the merits of Rugby and who was widely misquoted as to his statements with regard to the status of the American game, concludes an alumni article on the subject as follows: "Inter-collegiate sport is an essentially vital factor in achieving the highest social, moral and ethical results from our inter-collegiate spirit. If Rugby is a superior game, it will win on its merits; if it is not, inter-collegiate football will hold its own. Wisconsin will not force one against the other."
Undergraduates at Williams are very much incensed over the action of a new alumni committee in "exposing sores to the public gaze." The committee is composed of recent graduates and is trying to find out "What's the Matter with Williams."
The dramatic club at the University of Oregon will present a three-act play entitled, "Playing the Game." The play has a local setting and centers around football heroes of the institution.
Harmony Rose glycerine soap,a large half-pound cake of good soap for 10c, at McColloch's drug store.
COME
Down and See the Picture Effect of the NEW MIRROR SCREEN AURORA THEATRE
THEATRE
There will be a VARSITY SUBSCRIPTION DANCE
Ecke's Hall
Saturday, January 28. DON'T FORGET the Matinee Dance, Saturday Afternoon.
Music by Harry Kelly
Harry Kelly SOPHOMORE PARTY
ADMISSION 75c