THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII
NUMBER 60
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1911
JAYHAWKERS ARE VALLEY CHAMPIONS
HEIZER'S SQUAD LOST BUT THREE CONFERENCE GAMES
Despite Poor Record on the Recent Trip, Kansas Won Most Games—Individual Scores.
Although the Jayhawkers lost for the third time to the Nebraska team in the last contest of their schedule at Lincoln, Saturday night, by the score of 34 to 24 Kansas is still the champion of the Missouri Valley Conference. This is the fourth time that the premier honors of the Valley have been won by the Jayhawkers, but this time a stigma is cast upon the title by reason of the fact that the Cornhuskers defeated the champions three times out of the four games played. However, the basket-ball championship is determined by the number of games won and lost by members of the Conference and since Kansas has only three defeats in the Missouri Valley to her credit, a record which is better than that of any other members of the Conference, the right of Kansas to first place cannot be disputed.
On the trip which the varsity squad completed last Saturday night, nine games were played, in four of which Kansas was victorious. But only six of the nine games played were with conference teams and the four victories were with these teams also.
The records that the individual players of the team made in the eighteen games of the season is one of the best that has been made for years. "Shorty" Long has a record of 137 points, made in free throws, and in conference games alone he threw 97 baskets out of 122 trials. Stuckey threw the most field goals of any man on the team, since he has 52 to his credit, while Captain Heizer is a close second with 49. Long scored 221 of the total of 588 points made in the eighteen games of the season. The small number of fouls called on the Kansas men attest the fact that they played one of the cleanest games of any team in the Valley.
Player G. F.T. F.
Stuckey, r. f...52 0 33
Johnson, r. f...13 0 4
Watson, r. f...1 0 2
V. Long, l. f...42 137 20
Heizer, e...49 0 24
Dousman, r. g...41 1 29
F. Long, r. g...2 0 2
Larson, l. g...23 0 25
Smith, r. g...2 0
The scores of every man who played on the varsity team during any of the eighteen games follows:
Totals...225 138 117
The total number of points scored by Kansas' opponents is 456 and the total number of points that K. U. scored in the season is 588.
Notice.
A district meeting will be held for an hour this evening at the home of Nellie M. Dalton, 1011 Indiana street. Miss Alberta Corbin will speak on her experiences abroad. Grace Light is district chairman.
THE INDOOR MEET.
This is a year of new things in athletics. It will be in keeping with the spirit of the times for the University track team to win the indoor meet from Missouri. Coach Hamilton says the chances of the team to take the big end of the score look better and better. At Missouri everybody is talking about the meet and a big squad is working every day. They realize over there that it will take harder work than usual to get away with the meet this year. It's up to the team and the students of the University of Kansas to make the most of their opportunity.
KAW SPOILS PLEASURE.
Snag in Swollen Waters Causes Accident.
That pride always goes before a fall was proved again last Sunday afternoon in the middle of the Kaw river when two University students who were out canoeing, struck upon a snag and were thrown out of the boat and forced to swim two hundred feet to the nearest bank while the canoe and the derby hat of one of the men floated over the falls at the Bowersock dam.
William B. Byers of 1131 Tennessee street, and Clarence Clarke of 1324 Ohio street,both freshmen engineers, decided to enjoy the spring-like weather of Sunday afternoon by making the first canoe trip of the year. They were returning homeward and the boat landing was only a half mile distant when suddenly the light shell was jerked from beneath them. They attempted to tow the canoe toward the bank and save it from going over the falls, but the attempt was futile since the current of the stream was fast carrying them to a cold plunge over the dam. After a hard swim through the ice-cold water the pleasure hunters landed on a boat on the north bank and the canoe serenely floated down stream and over the dam. The 22 caliber repeating rifle and the kodak that Mr Clarke had taken along with him on the trip, went to the bottom.
Meade's Subject Announced.
"Science in Social Practice" is the subject of the address to be made by Professor George B. Meade, of the University of Chicago, next Friday, at the University of Kansas under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.
All students are invited and urged to come and hear the address.
"BEYOND THE ALPS"
BYCORRESPONDENCE
Prof. W. H. Carruth, of the department of German, went to Hiawatha Saturday, in the interest of the department of University extension.
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT HELPS YOUNG ORATORS.
Ninety-Five Package Libraries Assist High School Seniors in Writing Graduation Speeches.
Another way in which the University is assisting the high schools of the state was made known this morning by Prof. Richard Price, of the department of University extension. Letters have been sent to various high schools over the state, offering the assistance of the department in helping the members of the senior class in working up their graduating orations. The department has compiled a list of subjects for themes and has collected many magazine articles as well as pamphlets relative to these questions and these are being sent on request to the various high schools
At the present time there have been ninety-five of these package libraries sent out and there are at least thirty-five schools who have expressed a desire to obtain the books. Each school is allowed to keep the material two weeks and there is no charge from the department except for postage.
Railroad Man Will Speak.
"The idea is meeting with great success," said Professor Price this morning. "The high schools of the state, especially those of the smaller towns where there are no public libraries, are sending in calls for material and in every case have said that this was the most practical work that the department has done for the public schools since its existence. The system has been working for only a few weeks and as soon as we have some of the libraries returned we send them out again and in this way we hope to furnish all who apply for books. Wisconsin is the only other university in this country that has anything like this system of package libraries. The great interest taken in it by the various schools is bound to make it a permanent feature of the department."
A. W. Kanavel of New York city, international secretary of the railroad department of the Y. M. C.A. will speak Thursday evening at the regular weekly meeting in Myers hall. The talk will deal with the needs and difficulties that beset the railroad employees and how the railroads are trying to meet them. There is at present a great demand for college men who are willing to work among the employees and take part in the Y. M. C. A. work. His subject will be "For Men on the Road."
In Atlantic Monthly.
Miss Margaret Lynn, assistant professor of English literature, has an article, "A Step-Daughter of the Prairie," in the March number of the Atlantic Monthly.
RECEIVES RECOGNITION.
Chancellor Strong Gets Words of Commendation From New York.
Alumni all over the country have been watching the present contest for appropriations before the legislature. Chancellor Frank Strong's labors before that body have been appreciated by the alumni in New York city, as is shown by the following telegram received at the Chancellor's office this week:
"Chancellor Strong, Lawrence, Kan.; The Kansas University Alumni association of New York sends greetings to you and words of good cheer for your magnificent efforts in behalf of our alma mater. Its prestige has so increased here in the East that Kansas should support it generously until it reaches the first rank of American Universities. —Edward F. Burnett, President."
JUNIORS OBJECT TO FACULTY RULING
DON'T WANT TO CLOSE THE PROM AT 3 A. M.
Secretary Brown Suggests Conservatism, but Managers Would Consult the Class.
Yesterday Donald McKay and Roscoe Redmond, managers of this year's junior prom, received official notice from E. E. Brown, secretary and purchasing agent of the University, to the effect that the University authorities desired the prom to be discontinued at 3 o'clock a.m. As a reason for this action Mr. Brown states that after consideration of the matter the faculty decided "that the best interests of the University would be served if such a social function, if held in University buildings should not last until daylight."
That additional restraint will be placed upon the managers in planning the affair was implied a week before, when E. M. Briggs, the University marshall, advised MeKay and Redmond, that instead of each party surpassing previous performances, an attempt should be made to be more conservative in decorations and refreshments.
The managers of the prom have talked with various members of the class of 1911,and have reached the conclusion that the class should be consulted in the matter, as they believe that arrangements for the prom should be completed without restraint as to the length of its durations or suggestions concerning decorations. Arch McKinnon, president of the junior class, also desires to obtain the opinion of the class and for that reason has called a meeting of the junior class for next Friday noon in Fraser hall. All members of the class are urged to be present, so that an expression of their opin ion may be had.
W. A. Fansler, a senior at the University of Missouri, was a visitor at the Phi Psi house Sunday.
VOTE ON BILLS AT 10 TOMORROW
APPROPRIATIONS UP BEFORE BOTH HOUSES.
Students' Fees May Be Retained in University Budget by Conference Agreement.
A vote will be taken on the University appropriation bills in both the house and senate tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
After the two houses have voted on the bills, an agreement will have to be reached in conference. It is reported from Topeka today that the University fees may be put back into the appropriation in the conference.
The house bill in its final form totals $1,020,370. The senate bill includes practically the budget as asked for except the appropriations for the women's dormitory and the hospital building.
It is likely that the legislature will reappropriate the $45,000 for the administration building,which was allowed to lapse last summer.
THE OKLAHOMA BANQUET.
Attended by Professors Green and Higgins-Both Spoke.
Dean J. W. Green and Prof. W. E. Higgins of the School of Law, returned Thursday night from Muskogee, Ok., where they attended the third annual banquet of the Oklahoma Alumni association of the University of Kansas. The banquet was held at the Hotel Touron, Wednesday evening. On Wednesday afternoon a sight-seeing trip in an automobile was taken over the city of Muskogee. The members of the Alumni association include many of the leading attorneys and citizens of Oklahoma.
The program was unusually good. Dr. Angelo C. Scott, '77 Dean of the Graduate School of Epworth University, at Oklahoma, who is president of the association, is toastmaster. Following are the toasts:
J. W. Mayberry, not a cranberry, "Love Tests."
W. C. Jameson, not Uncle Jimmie's son, "Reminiscences of K. U."
Ralph Campbell, a real judge "College Days."
Prof. W.E. Higgins, a real "prof," "The Legislature, the Citizen, and the State."
Dean J. W. Green, one of 'em,
"The Boys."
Pan-Hellenic Dance.
The freshman fraternity men of the University will give a dance in Fraternal Aid hall the evening of March 10. Uncle Jimmie Green, Dean of the School of Law, will lead the grand march. A number of professors and nonfraternity freshmen have been invited. The music will be furnished by Hall's five-piece orchestra of Topeka. Special stress is to be placed upon the refreshments, which will be served in the lower room.
Notice to Seniors!
Tomorrow will be the last day the SENIOR PICTURES will be received at the 50c rate. After March 1 and including March 8 they will cost $1.50 See "Rusty" Russell at the Check Stand.
L. B. Roberts will deliver an address tomorrow afternoon at the Mining Journal upon the "Method of Work in a Geological Survey." Special invitations are issued to the civil engineers.