THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
NUMBER 48
ELIGIBILITY RULES WILL KILL SPORTS?
STUDENTS MUST SAVE ATH LETICS, SAYS McCLUNG.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1911
Unless Some Action by Students Baseball's Hard Luck Will Spread, He Says.
All intercollegiate sports will be abolished in the Missouri Valley conference if the matter of eligibility is not taken up by the students of the University, is the opinion of Professor McClung, faculty member from Kansas to the Missouri Valley conference.
Baseball has been abolished, for the coming season, by Washington, Nebraska, and Ames. The athletic authorities at those schools found they were unable to determine the amateur standing of the players. At the conference at Des Maines it was suggested that the matter could be left with the students of the different institutions to settle the question of eligibility of their own players. Many of the representatives to the conference did not think that the students could handle the matter.
Professor McClung thinks that the students can handle the matter and that they should be the first ones in the Missouri Valley to take up the question.
"If baseball is abolished the men who are now professional in baseball will go into track and football and then it will not be long before all sports are abolished.
"If the students through the Student Council would take up the matter, I think that baseball will be retained. At the present time we have no way of finding out who are amateurs except by the word of the men themselves. No man will go before the Student Council and give false information on his standing."
Chancellor Strong, who as head of the University must sign all lists of players, said "I do not like to place my name to a paper which afterwards proves to be false. If we cannot rely on the players to give up truthful information some other source must be obtained. The students can solve the matter. They are the only ones who can save the game."
No Holiday Friday
In speaking of the present rules Professor MeClung said, "There has been some misunderstanding on the matter of the player who unintentionally becomes a professional. The player can be reinstated and his amateur standing would not be hurt. The purpose of all legislation on eligibility was to make the amateur standing of all players unquestionable."
The University council, at a meeting held last Friday evening, decided that no holiday would be granted on Friday of quiz week. Many of the instructors accordingly will provide quizzes for all their classes the last day of this week.
The Acacia fraternity has pledged the following men: Kenneth Munson, a junior law from Lawrence; Verne Long, a senior engineer from Madison, and Bruce Merwin, a senior in the College from Lawrence.
CAN THEY COME BACK?
Seniors Are Planning to Return in 1916
Plans are now under way which probably will provide for a reunion of the class of '11 at commencement time in 1916. George Russell, manager of the '11 Jayhawker, entertained twenty-four members of the senior class at a "dry feed" at the Sigma Chi house last Saturday night and at that time the plans for a definite working alumni organization were discussed with the result that in a short time a meeting of the senior class will be held and some definite action taken.
The plans of the committee will probably provide for some sort of a circular letter which will keep all members of the class in constant touch with each other. The meeting last Saturday evening is only one of several that are to follow and some time in March a general class meeting will be held.
FIRST COLLEGE GAME.
Basket-Ball Five Will Meet Beth any Friday Night
The College basket-ball team will play its initial game with Bethany College in Robinson gymnasium Friday night. The "Swedes" will be playing in good form at the end of their trip this week and will give the locals a hard game. However, Coach Hamilton says that the men on the department team have been playing as good ball as the varsity squad in serimmage and he expects them to win the game. The men who will play are Malleis, Hite, Nesbit, Eisele, and Ebnother.
The student enterprise tickets may be used for this game under the same conditions as for a varsity game.
University Geological Survey to Russian.
INTO A FOREIGN TONGUE.
Professor F. W. Bushong of the department of organic chemistry received a letter from Dr. V. F. Herr, who is director of the laboratories of the Baku Section of the Imperial Russian Technological Society,asking permission to translate into Russian language chapter eight of volume nine of the University geological survey, which was written by Professor Bushong. The desired permission was immediately given and the translation will appear in the journal published by that society which is devoted entirely to studies on petroleum.
The current number of MeClure's Magazine contains the first of a series of articles on "Great Cases of Detective William Burns" by Dana Gatlin of the class of 1905. The first article in the series is an account of the case of Abe Ruef. During the last political campaign Miss Gatlin was sent by McClure's to write an article on the political situation in Kansas.
"Five Cornered League." One was from Wisconsin, the other from Illinois. Iowa also won from Wisconsin. The subject of
Has Article in McClure's.
RELAY CARNIVAL IN KANSAS CITY
LANSDON AND BREWER PLAN BIG MEET.
All Schools of Missouri Valley to Compete on Gordon & Koppel Field in April.
One of the results of the conference between C. L. Brewer of the University of Missouri and Manager Lansdon held behind closed doors Saturday afternoon, was the development of tentative plans for a great relay carnival to be similar to that held on Franklin Field by the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in the spring. The idea of holding such a meet under the exclusive management of the Universities of Missouri and Kansas originated with C. L. Brewer, the new director of athletics at the Tiger school. However, the plans are not yet official since the proposition must be ratified by the boards of athletics of the two schools. Manager Lansdon says that there is no doubt that the plan would be favorably received by the athletic board here.
It is proposed to hold the meet on Gordon & Coppel field at Kansas City on the last Saturday of April. Invitations will be extended to all the schools in the Missouri Valley and perhaps to a number of schools in the East and on the Pacific coast, to send teams representing them at the carnival, and some of the best amateur track talent of the country is expected to compete. In order to avoid any conflicts regarding eligibility rules of the schools all entries in the meet will be classified according to the athletic standing under which they compete. The classes that the teams will be divided into are: conference teams and those wishing to compete under conference rules, all non-conference colleges, normal schools, high schools, military academies, and athletic clubs
The field events that will be held beside the relay races are high hurdles, 100-yard dash, running high jump, 16-pound shotput, and hurling discus. The championship relays among the schools in the conference class will be 4-mile, 2-mile, and 1-mile races and the relays between the schools of the other classes will be of 1-mile.
The departments of chemistry and pharmacy will offer next term a two-hour course in Home Economics chemistry meeting on Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 to 5:30. The course is for those students who wish to prepare themselves for the home economics work and it will include special instruction in organic and physiological chemistry.
To Prepare for Home Economics
Extension Lectures.
Professor J. E. Boodin of the department of philosophy, will lecture at Emporia Friday evening in connection with the University extension department,and Professor C. G. Dunlap will give an address at Fort Scott on Saturday.
Donald Hendrickson has been pledged to Alpha Tau Omega.
IN PENN RELAY RACES.
Kansas Is Classified With Stanford, California, Wisconsin.
The management of Pennsylvania's relay races have arranged the classes for the colleges for the seventeenth annual relay races on Franklin Field, April 29 The University of Kansas has received an invitation to attend this out-door meet and has been classified with some of the strongest schools of the west.
Several college classes follow all colleges being eligible to enter the one, two and four mile college relay championships:
Leland Stanford, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, MeGill, Toronto
Notre Dame, Northwestern, Iowa, Washburn, Nebraska, Texas, Purdue, Wabash.
Universities of Sewanee, Georgia ,Missouri, Nashville, Vanderbilt, Oberlin, Western Reserve, University of Cincinnati.
HALBERT WILL SPEAK.
President of Utilities Commission at Y. M. C. A. Meeting.
L. A. Halbert, president of the Public Utilities commission and secretary of the Board of Welfare of Kansas City, will speak at the Y. M. C. A. Thursday night in Myers hall. He will talk about his work in connection with the board and about the workhouse, municipal farm, legal aid bureau and the providence loan bureau.
WOULD REDUCE BOARD.
Gov. Stubbs Recommends Three- Regent System.
Governor W. R. Stubbs today sent to the legislature a recommendation that the Board of Regents of the University be cut down to three members, and that a like change be made in the governing bodies of all the state educational institutions.
Will Hold no Post-Exam Jubilee
On account of the conflict with the College basket-ball game with Bethany no special postexam jubilee celebration will be held Friday evening. The Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. for several years have arranged an entertainment for all students to attend on the Friday evening after quiz week, but the basket-ball game scheduled for that date this year has caused the concellation of the plans for the jubilee.
Filled Debate Vacancies
At the second debate tryout, held last Saturday night, Gordon Bailey, a graduate of Winfield College, and Clement Parker, a senior law, were chosen to fill the vacancies on the squad caused by the resignation of Miss Stuart and E. L. Overman.
Frederick Apt of Iola, last year's graduate, of the School of Law, spent Sunday at the Sig Alph house.
Hazel Sanders who was in school here two years ago, will enter again for the second term.
Henry Draper, a senior in the College attended the Kansas Day banquet at Topeka.
COMMITTEE TO GET BUDGET TOMORROW
UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION BILL SOON TO BE HEARD
Chancellor and Secretary Will Be Present at Meeting in Topeka to Explain Items
It is expected that the University budget will come up before the ways and means committee of the house at Topeka tomorrow night and Chancellor Strong probably will be summoned to Topeka to explain the various items, E. E. Brown, secretary and purchasing agent, and a number of other members of the faculty also will be present at the hearing. Chancellor Strong was in Topeka yesterday and while there met a number of the Board of Regents informally.
The matter of the single administrative board for all the schools of higher education in Kansas has occupied the attention of the University authorities for several days. Chancellor Strong said this morning that he was unable to find what the consensus of opinion was among the legislators regarding the proposed plan. Some who rather favored the bill at first are now in favor of a more careful investigation into the educational system before voting for the change.
The University authorities have not taken sides either for on against the proposed measure. The attitude taken by the University is that it welcomes any investigation into its methods of management and the conditions of its work and will loyally abide by any decision the state may make in regard to its administration. But the matter is so important, involving as it does the welfare of the entire system of higher education, that the University is anxious that a change shall be made only after thorough consideration
GLEE CLUB AT ST. MARYS.
Filled First Out-of-Town Date Saturday.
The Glee club filled its first out-of-town date Saturday night at St. Marys, Kan. The townspeople gave the club a very enthusiastic reception, the numbers receiving encore after encore The program consisted of classical and popular music as has been the custom at the past concerts.
The club returned to Lawrence Sunday morning.
To Religious Conference
Dr. F. A. Wilber and Rev. F. M. Bennett left Monday evening for Urbana, Ill., to attend a conference of religious workers in state universities of the Middle West to be held January 31 to February 1. Dr. Wilber will deliver an address upon the general activities of the student pastor.
the debates was the question of the closed shop. Iowa has won from Wisconsin six consecutive years.
Alberta Cresswell of Kansas City spent Saturday and Sunday in Lawrence.