THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1911
THINK AMERICANS HAVE MUCH MONEY
IS GERMANY'S IMPRESSION, SAYS PROF. CORBIN.
Professor Alberta Corbin of the department of German arrived in Lawrence Saturday from her trip abroad, which was begun last spring at the close of the semester. Miss Corbin spent the most of her time in Europe studying at the University of Berlin, but during the summer months she toured England and Southern Germany, and spent several days in Paris.
Member of German Department Relates Incidents of Year Spent Abroad.
In speaking of the advantages of the Universities there, Miss Corbin said, "I went to see most of the classical German plays at the theater of Berlin which is the best in Germany. The musical advantages offered there are excellent. Most of the great artists of the world are heard in America more frequently than in Berlin, but the greatest ones come to Berlin for a few performances, and afterwards tour America, their object being to obtain better salaries than the Germans can afford to give them in that country.
"It is a difficult matter to make the Germans believe that any of the Americans are poor. Germany as a nation gives one the impression of being a comparatively poor country, but they have no extremely poor classes as in England and their provisions for taking care of their poor are unexcelled. They arrange this by a system of pensions which is in charge of the government."
"The lack of money of the German people is nowhere more evident than in the management of the universities and royal libraries. Their cataloguing system is very inefficient, they have no such thing as a card index and their library force is so small that it requires from three to twenty-four hours to get any book that one wishes to use.
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"The Americans who live in Berlin generally reside together at a women's club or at one of the 'pensions' for Americans. At the women's club there is a library of English books which is used a great deal. There is also an American church which is very well attended. At the Fourth of July celebration held last summer there were 500 Americans present and at the dinner given afterwards there were representatives from almost every state in the Union and also from Alaska Many of the universities of this country were represented by large delegations. There were fifteen people from the University of Kansas."
In speaking of the manner of treatment that tourists receive from the Germans, Miss Corbin said that she had only most pleasant recollections of the trip.
"However, some of the more old fashioned type of Germans speak with disapprobation of the growing predominance of the business and other practical interests under the name of Americanism," she continued. "The
better informed class of Germans do not think that this growth of business interests is due to American influence. The average German does not give us credit for having much idealism."
On her return trip,Miss Corbin visited Yale University, Columbia, Johns Hopkins University and the Woman's College at Baltimore
TO SUCCEED PROF. CONE.
H. A. Hubbard New Assistant Professor in Economics.
The position of associate professor in the department of Economics, which was vacated last fall by the resignation of Ralph W. Cone, has been filled by the appointment of Professor H. A. Hubbard, a graduate of the University of Chicago, with the rank of assistant professor. Professor Hubbard comes here direct from the University of Chicago, where he has been taking graduate work as a fellow in the department of Economics.
He received his A. B. degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 04'; two years later he took his masters degree at the same institution. He was an instructor in the department of economics at the Kansas Wesleyan for three years before he went to the University of Chicago.
Professor Hubbard's work will begin at the University this semester and the courses that will be in his charge are elementary economics, economics of agriculture, and economic theory.
ENROLLMENT IS NOW 2347.
Sixty Have Entered Since January 1.
Sixty students have enrolled in the University since January 1. This brings the total enrollment for the school year up to 2,347.
The enrollment of the sixty students by the schools is as follows: Engineering, 2; College, 21; Fine Arts, 8; Law, 2; Graduate, 2; Medicine, 1; Pharmacy, 1.
Floy Hite Will Head the Second Five.
At the meeting of the College basket ball team held for the purpose of electing a captain Friday night before the game with Bethany College, Floy Hite, a sophomore from Rosedale, was chosen as the leader of the College five. Hite was a member of the freshman squad last year and is playing forward on the department team.
COLLEGE TEAM ELECTS.
American Institute Meeting.
John H.Jonte, a senior in engineering, will speak before the KU. branch of the American Institute at its monthly meeting Wednesday at 4:30 in the lecture room of Haworth hall. His subject will be "The Telluride District in Colorado."
The Junior class basketball team will leave for Perry, tomorrow where they will play the big' school team, which is being coached by Edward Van der Vries, a former University player
KANSAS THE VICTOR OVER K.C.A.C. TEAM
GAME SATURDAY EVENING WAS HOTLY CONTESTED.
The Blue Diamonds Started Out Strong, but Weakened as Kansas Gathered Strength.
The contest between two of the best undefeated basket-ball teams in the Missouri Valley resulted in a victory for the Jayhawker five Saturday night in Robinson gymnasium by a score of 37 to 29 when the varsity five met the team of the Kansas City Athletic club. The rival men played like demons the entire forty-minute session to maintain the honor of their record, but the better training of Coach Hamilton's men enabled the Kansas aggregation to nose out at the finish with an eight point lead.
When the referee tossed the ball at center for the first time, the K. C. A. C. men started the game with a vim that promised to win by a large margin. The Kansas five played on the defensive for the first five minutes of the contest and their opponents had scored six points before Heizer put his team in the running by tossing the first goal for the locals. Then the count was quickly evened and toward the last of that half the wearers of the blue diamond allowed the Jayhawkers to gain a six point lead against them.
Every man on the Kansas City team was good on the offensive, but the guards could not keep the Jayhawker goal-shooters covered well enough to prevent their scoring when chances were offered. On the other hand, the Kansas guards had all they could do to keep the Blue Diamond forwards from under the basket and to make them risk shots from the center of the court. Many times the skill and daring of the K. U. forwards would break up the team work of their opponents.
The intermission between halves was of great benefit to the visiting team and they started the second session in much the same way that they played the first. Toward the middle of the half they succeeded in tying the score. Then a free throw would give one side a momentary advantage which would be overcome by a goal from the field by a forward who chanced a shot from a difficult angle. The fast pace set by the Kansas five soon told on the Kansas City men in the last part of the contest, and a brilliant spurt put the K. U. tally far out of reach of the Blue Diamonds.
By springing into the play and snatching the ball from the Blue Diamond who was dribbling toward his goal and using skill in passing the ball, the Kansas forward was nearly always enabled to take his shot at the basket, before the opposing side could touch the round leather. The score at the end of the first half was 20 to 14 in favor of Hamilton's men.
The playing was so fast and hard that several fouls were called by the officials, but the most of them were on technical errors which inevitably proved disastrous to the team that made
them, for Goldman and "Shorty"
Long were "right" when it
come to dropping the ball in the
basket on a free trial. Despite
some of the swift rushes made for
the goals to try a shot, the game
was exceptionally clean of any
rough work.
Goldman was the star player of the visiting team both in handling the ball on the floor and in scoring. Every man on the local squad was playing the game for Kansas. Heizer accepted four difficult chances for goals while Long and Stuckey were also point gatherers. The work of Douseman and Larson in guarding their men will rank them among the best guards of the Valley.
The line-up for the teams was as follows:
K. C. A. C.— G. F.T F.
Goldman, r. f .5 11 4
Elliott, l. f .3 0 3
Dennis, c. .0 0 1
Crabbs, r. g. .1 0 2
Fogle, l. g. .0 0 4
Totals...9 11 14
Kansas—
V. Long, .r f...2 11 4
Stuckey, l. f...6 0 2
Heizer, c...4 0 2
Dousman, r. g...1 0 2
Larson, l. g...0 0 4
Totals...13 11 14
Referee—Harmon of Kansas City. Umpire—L. L. Hoopes of Kansas City.
POPULAR ENGINEERING.
Consulting Engineer to Discuss the Untechnical Side Thursday.
J. S. Worley, of Kansas City, will speak before the Civil Engineering society Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock in Marvin hall. His subject will be "The Untechnical Side of Engineering," and is principally for the engineers, but all those who desire may come. As the subject shows, it will not be technical, and so will be interesting to the public.
Mr. Worley is of the firm of Worley & Black, consulting engineers. Their chief work is with waterworks and sewage systems, but they are helping build the Kansas, Oklahoma & Texas railroad which Prof. B. J. Dalton,the University railway engineer, is directing. The railroad runs from southern Kansas through Oklahoma and is to be built to the gulf.
To Analyze Kansas Coal.
Prof. P. F. Walker, of the School of Engineering and his assistant, Walter Bohnstengel,were at Leavenworth last Saturday There they obtained coal samples which they are to analyze to determine the heat value and use as a fuel. The work is in the interest of The Home Riverside Coal company of that city.
Herman S. Walker, a senior engineer, will speak before the Mining Journal on Wednesday, February 15. His subject will be "The Golden Cycle Reduction Milling."
Mining Journal.
Notice.
The Men's Student Council will meet this evening in room 110 Fraser hall, at 7 o'clock.
"OLD FOOTBALL WAS THE BETTER GAME"
BERT KENNEDY HOLDS TO HIS FORMER OPINION.
New Rules Are Wrong in Spirit,
Contends Ex-Football Mentor
—Rules Committee Selfish.
Bert Kennedy, the former coach of the University football squad, disgusted with the changes in the football rules, which were made by the rules committee in New York last Friday.
"The changes, though none of them are radical, show a wrong tendency in spirit," said Kennedy this morning. "I have always believed that the old game is the best and I still think so. The advocates of the new game say that only fifteen men were killed this year, while twenty-two were killed the year before, and they say that this fact shows improvement. Of course it is an improvement but not radical enough. Unless the rules are changed so that the old style of play is again allowed I believe we will eventually lose football as a college sport."
Kennedy thinks that politics plays too large a part in lawmaking by the committee. He says that the representatives of the big Eastern schools seem to want to change the game so that their teams will make a good showing, and not with a view of improving the sport.
The change back to the 70-minute game is a wise provision, according to the former coach. This change gives the teams more of a chance to win in evenly contested games. The remainder of the changes are minor and unimportant and will not affect the game to any noticeable extent.
"Of course it takes more than one year to thoroughly tryout a radical change, such as was made last year, but I would certainly like to see more of the old football."
COLLEGE TEAM TO K. C.
Second Five to Play Y. M. C. A.
Tomorrow.
The College basket-ball team will go to Kansas City tomorrow night to play the Y. M. C. A. on their own court in their new building at Tenth and Oak streets. The Y. M. C. C. A. five stands second in the City Basket-Ball League in which the K. C. A. C. team holds first place. Accordingly the contest promises to be close and there is danger that the second team may be defeated. The men who will make the trip are: Hite, Nesbitt, Malleis, Ebnother, Eisele, and Sterling.
Y. W. C. A. Meeting.
The regular meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association Wednesday, February 8. will be an informal girls' meeting in which only girls will take part. Grace Elmore will be the principal speaker. Since this is the first meeting of the new term it isished that every member will be present.All University girls are invited.The meeting will be held in room 110, Fraser hall, at 4:45.