THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1911
SPECIAL SESSION OF CONFERENCE
NUMBER 55
MAY MEET TO DISCUSS THE BASEBALL SITUATION.
The Men's Student Council and several members of the athletic board, met in Fraser hall Tuesday night and held a conference on the baseball question. After the conference the Council met and adopted a resolution to this general effect:
Student Council Promises to Help if Less Severe Rules Are Adopted.
The Student Council will undertake to secure from candidates on the baseball team a full and truthful account of their athletic careers, provided that the Missouri Valley conference will give a reasonable assurance that it will reinstate to eligibility men who may be technically ineligible,but who in reality are amateurs.
It was suggested that a system of blanks to be filled in and affirmed by athletes be adopted.
The resolution passed with two dissenting votes.
"That plan has not been closely enforced here," said Dr. C. E. McClung. "When a man has presented himself as a candidate for a team we have taken that as his declaration that he is an amateur. But the Universities of Nebraska and Missouri, which have tried the most elaborate system of blanks and other means to determine the standing of students are the ones that have led in the movement to abolish baseball.
All Sports Involved.
"I am particularly anxious to see the students take this matter up," continued Professor MeClung, "as it is sure to have an effect not only upon baseball, but upon all other inter-collegiate sports.
"It is not a matter of the standing of men alone but involves the whole attitude of the students toward inter-collegiate sports. An assurance that the students are really interested in upholding the principles of amateur sport is needed more than anything else just now. The impression is growing that they don't care whether the men on their teams are amateurs or not, as long as they are skillful."
Conference May Meet.
Professor McClung said he would be glad to try to arrange for a special meeting of the Missouri Conference before the baseball season opens, if the Council wished to make an effort to have the men reinstated who are only technically ineligible.
After a lengthy discussion, the Council decided to take the plunge and declared its willingness to take up the question of eligibility if the Conference shows
any disposition to relax the present impossible rules. Dr. MeClung could not promise, of course, but expressed the belief that the Conference would be found willing to make changes in the rules.
The resolution adopted by the Council does not obligate it to take any very definite action. The details of its further procedure will be determined after the Conference is heard from.
A TRAINED MUSICIAN.
Harold Henry Studied in America and Europe.
Harold Henry, who will give a piano recital Saturday evening was graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University in 1901. The next year he did postgraduate work.
After leaving the University Mr. Henry spent three years studying in Berlin under Jedledski, and one year in Paris under Moszkowski.
Since that time he has been teaching in the Walter Spry school in Chicago, and at the present time is an instructor in the Cosmopolitan school.
Last month Mr. Henry went on a concert tour in Oklahoma and Texas and he expects to tour Mexico, Arizona and Colorado.
Presbyterians to Hold Meetings at Westminster House.
STUDENT GUILD ORGANIZED
A Westminster Student Guild has been organized to which all Presbyterian students of the University are eligible. The first regular meeting will be held at Westminster house, next Saturday evening, February 18, at 8 o'clock.
An entertaining program is being arranged for the occasion The Rev. R. C. Hughes, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Education, is expected to be present and will spend Sunday at the University.
Student Council Meeting
The thirty-one graduates of the University, who teach in high schools of the North Central Association will hold a reunion in Salina, on March 2 and 3.
The Men's Student Council will hold a special meeting tomorrow morning in room 110, Fraser hall, at 10 o'clock.
The water survey laboratory of the University is engaged in investigating the water supply of Augusta, Kan., with any possible improvements in view.
Prof. J. R. Jewell of the State Normal school at Emporia, is here visiting the University. He will hear the Titcheon lectures.
BASKET-BALL TEAM LEAVES ON TRIP
NEXT TWO WEEKS WILL DE CIDE CHAMPIONSHIP.
Teams to Be Met Include Missouri K. C. A. C., Grinnell, Nebraska, Ames and Gotner.
The varsity basket-ball squad, consisting of eight men, leave this afternoon for a trip of two weeks' duration in which time they will either win or lose the championship of the Missouri Valley conference schools. The first game will be played tonight with the fast K.C.A.C. team.
The K. C. A. C. squad has been working for several days in special preparation for the game with Kansas and all prospects point to a hard contest in Kansas City. After the game at Kansas City the team will journey to Columbia and will meet the Tigers on Friday and Saturday nights. Then follow in the next week the games with Ames, Grinnell, Nebraska and Cotner. The trip will include nine games in all, and it is expected that it will prove to be one of the hardest mills that the team has beer through in recent years.
"We can lose four of the games on the trip and still have a possibility of at least tying Missouri for the championship. I think that we can take one of the games from each of the conference teams that we have to play and in case we do, there is a chance to take the honors of first place in the conference." Such was the opinion of Coach Hamilton, in regard to the prospects of the team winning the Missouri Valley championship. "Everything depends on whether or not we strike the right stride in our first games at Kansas City and Missouri. If we get to going good at the outset, we ought to have a splendid chance to defeat everything that we encounter. However, I expect to see the team defeated once or twice on the trip. There is always danger on one of the men getting hurt in one of the games and such a condition would work a hardship on the playing of the team."
The Kansas National Guard help an election for second lieutenant Tuesday evening in the gymnasium. From three candidates, Waldren, Joe Wenger and Harry Allphin, Allphin was chosen by a close vote.
National Guards Elect.
The men who will make the trip re Heizer, V. Long. Stuckey Dousman, Larson, Smith, Watson and F. Long.
E. B. Cowgill, of the University extension department, is in Topeka on business.
WINNER OF FELLOWSHIP.
Hoffman Is Awarded Second Grant in Multiple Endowment.
Another industrial fellowship has been granted to a Kansas University student. Charles Hoffman, who holds a fellowship in chemistry at Yale from this University, has been awarded the Ward, Mackay & Co. fellowship by Professor R. K. Duncan. The donors offered some time ago a multiple fellowship, the first to pay $2,500 a year for two years, the second to pay $1,500 with the same time limitations and the third to pay $1,000 for the same number og year. Henry Kohman received the first of the endowments and Mr. Hoffman will be granted the second. The third has not been allowed.
This fellowship was endowed by the Ward, Mackey & Co., a large barkery firm in Pittsburg, Pa., and at the time of giving the regular endowment they specified that a $10,000 bonus was to be divided among the three fellows if certain things were discovered by them.
SEND Y. M. DELEGATES.
While in school here, Mr. Hoff man was a star pitcher on the varsity base ball team.
Kansas University Will Be Represented at Convention.
The University of Kansas will be represented at the twenty ninth annual convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations, which will be held in Pittsburgh, Kan., from Thursday night until Sunday night. "Dad" Herman, Fred Soper, Ross Beamer, Frank Messenger, Howard Marchbanks, and Gurnee Cross compose the University delegation. Also William Caldwell, secretary of the Haskell Y. M. C. A. will go with three Haskell Indians to the convention.
The Program contains many noted Y.M.C. A. men and leaders, such as W. A. Tenner, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Manila, P. I., and Dr. C. A. Barber of New York city, and C. S. Bishop, of Kansas City, Mo.
Friday's Chapel Speaker.
The chapel speaker for Friday will be Rev. Adelbert Hudson, of Newton, Mass. Rev. Hudson is now a national lecturer under the auspices of the Unitarian church. He has been a successful pastor for fifteen years and has studied theology in Harvard University. Mr. Hudson has also practiced law and at present is a member of a law firm in Sioux City, Ia.
Mathematics Club Meets.
The Mathematics club met last evening at the home of Prof. A. D. Pitcher, 325 Indiana. Prof. U. G. Mitchell discussed the subject of "Finite Groups in Finite Geometry."
UNIVERSITY POETS TO ISSUE VOLUME
WILL BE SECOND BOOK OF K. U. POEMS.
Newly Organized Poet's Club Hopes to Publish New Work by May 1.
A volume of poetry, written by University students, will soon make its appearance, if the plans perfected by members of the University Poets' club, at a meeting held Tuesday night, are carried out.
At this meeting the new literary society was regularly organized and it was voted to accept the offer of Senator J. L. Brady, editor of the Lawrence Journal, who is willing to assume 'the financial risk involved in issuing the volume.
The Poets' club is to be highly informal. It will have no rules, officers, or dues. Its main purpose will be to increase the interest in minor poets, and at the meetings to be held each Friday in the Greek museum, various of the lesser literary constellations will be read and discussed.
The only other collection of K. U. verse ever published was printed by the Journal press in 1888. It was called "Sunflowers," and among the contributors were Jas, H. Canfield, William Allen White, E. C. Little, William Herbert Carruth, Willis Gleed, and others.
The membership of the club is as follows; Gale Gossett, Adella Pepper, Anna Manley, Willard Wattles, Lon Buzick, John Shea, and Harry Kemp.
INTELLECTUAL SPARROWS.
Four Baby Birds in Fraser Hall Carefully Reared.
Whether the mother bird is really intellectual and wants to bring up her children in an atmosphere of culture, or whether the whole thing is merely accidental, is all a question. Anyway four baby sparrows are growing to bird-hood away up under the caves of Fraser in a nest built—well, to be sure it is built of straw and feathers as nests usually are. In one side, however, is a printed magazine page, bearing an article entitled, "Young Canaries; Their Care and Training."
The Barroff Recital.
The recital of Albert Borroff, a basso of Chicago, in Fraser hall, Tuesday evening was very much enjoyed and favorably spoken of by those who heard it. Miss Greissinger accompanied at the piano. His interpretation and his pronunciation of Italian and French were said to be above criticism.
Notice to all Clubs and Organizations :
If you haven't seen about your pictures and space for the Annual, do so at once. March 15 is the time limit for all fraternity, club and organization pictures to be handed in. See "Cub" Baer or "Rusty" Russell. A member of the Annual Board will be at the Check Stand every day at Chapel time.
The Bachelor,
February 22 and 23,all Star Cast
Presented by the Thespian Dramatic Club
Under the direction of Mr. Henry P. Lotz. Tickets on sale Monday----$1.00, 75c and 50c.