THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1911
URGE NEW RULES IN BASKET-BALL
OFFICIALS SHOULD BE EN GAGED IN ADVANCE.
Otherwise Misinterpretation of Rules May Render Work of Coach Futile, Says Hamilton.
A change in the method of securing officials for the basket-ball games between the conference schools will be urged upon the conference at the meeting of the coaches and managers of the basketball teams of the Missouri valley next Thanksgiving. It is urged by Hamilton that the officials no longer be engaged by the manager of athletics of the individual schools shortly before the game is played, but rather that they be engaged by all the managers of the several schools acting together. These men will officiate at all the contests between the schools of the conference and they will attend the meeting of the coaches of the conference teams where they may clearly understand the attitude of each school on how the game should be played in the Missouri Valley.
This tentative change in the engagement of the officials for the basket-ball season was occasioned by the trouble experienced by some of the schools this year in attempting to play after the style that was agreed upon at a meeting of the coaches held last winter on December 10. They discoveren since that the referee put a different interpretation upon the rules of the game than that under which they had been coached.
"In this way the work of a coach for the entire season may easily be spoiled and be rendered futile," said Coach W. O. Hamilton in discussing the subject.
There is no chance of a misunderstanding among the coaches of the conference teams concerning the interpretations that were to be put on the rules. The game that was to be played in the Missouri Valley this year was not the hammer and tongs style of play in which the players watch the opponent and play the ball in which brute strength and not skill was to be the predominant factor, but rather the "no contact" style of play in which the men play ball and in which skill and dexterity make the best team.
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In discussing the change that has taken place among the different schools in regard to the style of ball now played, Coach Hamilton said, "It has taken a long time for the University to inaugurate the better type of basket-ball in the conference and it has been only against the opposition of other members of the conference. When the game was first given over to the men as one of the intercollegiate sports it was changed from the three-court game as it was originally played by the girls, and several features were introduced by the rules committee to bring the contest up to the standard then thought necessary for an intercollegiate game. Consequently the contest was made into a rough fight where strength and not skill were the telling factors. This is the game as it is played by the Eastern schools today. However, the western men have started a movement back to the game as it was first played and Kansas has been largely instrumental in this reaction. I think that next year with officials who understand our ideas about the game we can have a faster and cleaner contest made of the sport."
FRESHMEN VS. VARSITY.
Captain Brown's Five Would Try Strength Next Week.
Loren Brown, captain of the Freshman basket-ball team, anounced today that a challenge had been issued to the varsity five for a series of three games to decide the championship of the school. The plan is said to have met with the approval of Coach Hamilton, and it is probable that the first game will be played next Monday evening with another game on Wednesday evening. In ease of a tie another game would be played on Friday evening.
The Freshman team this year has thus far defeated all of the class teams and the College team, and it is believed that a game for the championship honors of the school would prove extremely interesting as well as affording the coach an opportunity to get a line on new material for next year.
SOPHOMORE CHANGE DATE
Will Give Their Prom. Friday, May 5.
Owing to the fact that Dean Skilton has engaged the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra for April 5 and 7, the date of the Sophomore Prom has been changed from Friday, April 7 to Friday, May 5. This will change the plans of the different committees to some extent, but the farce committee will continue the work already begun.
The invitation committee will continue to sell the tickets and all students are urged to file their dates with any of the following Carl Krehbiel, Clyde Dodge, Gladys-Clark, Georgia Cotter, Leland Angevine, George Babb, Walter Moore, Harry Ketler, Beatrice Dalton, Ray Soper or Malcolm MaeNaughton.
TRIAL FLIGHT TOMORROW.
Aviator Evans plans to make a trial flight this afternoon in Wood land park. Tomorrow he will give his exhibition flight. Recently a pump in the machine froze and the following morning when Mr. Evans turned the machine by hand the aluminum gear surrounding the pump broke. However,the damage has now been repaired at the Fowler shops by Prof. Frank E. Ward. Tomorrow's admission charge will be fifty cents, which will be refunded if there is no flight.
Aviator Evans Will Give Exhibition at Woodland Park.
The final try-out for the track team that will contest with the Missouri University in the track meet at Convention hall at Kansas City, on March 10, will be held in the gymnasium on Saturday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock.
Final Try-out.
FLUNK LIST HAS BEEN COMPLETED
Vice Chancellor W. H. Carruth was in Topeka Tuesday on business.
TWICE AS MANY FAILURES AS LAST YEAR RECORDED.
Poorest Students in Freshmen Class—13 Per Cent of Students Enrolled Have Double Flunks.
The flunk list of the College for the fall term of 1910 that has just been completed by Registrar Geo, O. Foster, is larger this year than it has ever been in years past. Registrar Foster expressed the opinion that the total number, 496, of students that flunked in at least one subject last term in the College, is almost double the number that flunked last year. Moreover, this number is almost one third of the total enrollment of the College, which is 1,069. The number of double flunks or flunks in more than one-third of the hours carried in the College is 132, or 13 per cent of the total number of students enrolled. Of these 35 were women and 97 men. In the freshman class 50 men and 16 women flunked out of school. In the sophomore class 20 men and nine women failed in more than one-third of their work. This list also claimed 7 men and 5 women in the junior class, 5 men and 1 woman in the senior class, and 15 men and 5 women enrolled as special students.
In the School of Engineering there were 40 double flunks, which is 10 per cent of the number enrolled in that department.
The people who have double flunks recorded against them are forced to leave the school according to the ruling of the University. However, the most of these students, since they are members of the freshman class, will be reinstated by the Dean and consequently the number that were forced to go home will not be large as might at first appear.
TO CLASS ON TIME
Pneumatic Clocks Will Tell Hour in New Class Rooms.
Students of the present generation know well what it is to be detained in class after the period has closed, because not all the faculty watches are running just alike, and many of them have been the objects of instructorial sarcasm because they couldn't get to the next recitation on time. All this will be changed when classes meet in the new Administration building.
On the wall of every class room of the new building will be placed a pneumatic clock, governed by a central master clock. About twenty-five of the smaller clocks will be required for the wing now under construction. It will take close to 100 to fit out the complete building.
Charley Ise of Coffeyville, Kan. a graduate of the School of Low, was at the University yesterday.
Mrs. Sisson will entertain the Women's Student Government district of which she is a patroness, with a thimble party, Saturday afternoon, at 3:30 at her home at 1329 Ohio street. Agner Crego is the district chairman.
DEBATERS CHOSEN
April 12 It the Date Set for the Sooners.
Prof. G. A. Gesell announced this morning that April 12 will be the date of the Oklahoma debate and that Milton Minor, E. L. Griffin and W. M. Hughes are the men who will represent Kansas. The subject to be discussed is: "Resolved that the short ballot should be adopted in state, county and municipal elections." Kansas, according to the ruling of the newly formed Triangle League, will support the affirmative. This league includes as its members Kansas Oklahoma, and Colorado. One of the rulings of this organization is that all three of the schools shall debate the same question and that the home team shall always support the affirmative. This year the University will have only the Oklahoma debate at home.
E. L. Griffin is the most experienced man on the team. He debated against Oklahoma last year. W. M. Hughes has never before represented Kansas in a debate, but has had training in the University debating clubs. The third man, Milton Minor, is a sophomore and has had experience only in high school debating.
ENGINEERS WANT CHAPEL.
Would Meet in Marvin Hall Four Times a Week.
Students of the School of Engineering are agitating for an engineers' chapel in the assembly room of Marvin hall.
Those who favor a chapel service in the engineering building, say that engineers have no opportunity to come in contact with one another, except in classes. If chapel were held in Marvin hall four hours a week,they believe,engineers would come to know each other better and the School of Engineering would be placed on a stronger social basis.
Junior Class Notice.
Engineering students at present can attend chapel only on Fridays, because of the distance between their building and Fraser hall.
There will be a meeting of the junior class tomorrow noon in chapel in order to gain an expression of the wishes of the class in regard to the recent faculty ruling requesting that the Junior Prom be discontinued after 3 o'clock a. m.
Mathematics Club Met.
The Mathematics club met Wednesday evening at the home of Prof. C. H. Ashton, 1200 Ohio street. Prof. J. W. Young read a paper on "The Real Representation of Complex Quantities."
Mr. J. V. Humphrey, '85, and his wife, Mrs. Jeannette Oliver Humphrey, '87, of Junction City, are spending a few days at the University with their son, A. S. Humphrey, a junior in the College.
Dean C. H. Johnston has returned from Mobile, Ala., where he attended the annual session of the Society of College Teachers of Education, and the department of Superintendents of the National Education association.
JOINT COMMITTEE MEETS TONIGHT
COMPROMISE WILL PROB ABLY BE REACHED.
Houses Passes Bill As It Comes From Ways and Means—Senate Includes Hospital.
Yesterday afternoon at three o'clock the House passed the University appropriation bill as recommended by the ways and means committee without any amendments. This provides as follows:
Word was received from Topeka this afternoon that the consideration of the University budget of the senate and of the house would be held this evening by a conference committee of both houses. The only thing that can prevent a meeting of the committees of the two houses is that routine business of legislation may demand their presence on the floor.
General maintenance for 1912— $413,820.
General maintenance for 1913
$428,350.
Each year for general maintenance of the hospital at Rosedale — $12,000.
Each year for upkeep and repairs of University buildings— $40,000.
Each year, geological survey,
University extension, etc—$11,000
Excavation and work on next wing of the Administration building—$42,500.
Clay working laboratories—
†7,500.
Chancellor's contingent fund— $500.
This makes a total of $484,920 for the first year and $534,450 for the second year. This brings the total for the biennium, together with the land tax and the fees that were reappropriated, to $1,053,370. This bill provided that all matriculation and incidental fees shall be turned over to the state treasurer. Other fees may be used by the University authorities.
It is reported that the senate took a vote on the appropriation bill yesterday and that they included $50,000 for the building of a hospital at Rosedale.
HEIL TO LEAVE SCHOOL.
Star Quarterback to Engage in the Insurance Business at Topeka.
Roy Heil, star quarter-back of last season's football team, with, drew from the University yester- day and will leave next week for Topeka, where he will enter the insurance business. There is only a possibility that he will re- return for football next fall. He said today: "My return to the University depends upon how well I get along in the insurance busi-ness."
With Heil out of the game, the chances for a winning football team for 1911 will be greatly lessened. Unless he returns, next year's coach will have to develop an entirely new man for the quarterback position .
At the girls' district meeting held last Tuesday evening at 1011 Indiana street, Miss Alberta Corbin gave an interesting talk on student life in Germany and America.