THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1911
NUMBER 62
TRACK MEN CHOSE TO MEET MISSOURI
HAMILTON WILL PICK TEAM FROM TODAY'S TRYOUTS.
French Went 5-11—Fifty-Yard Dash and Hurdles Will Be Run Monday.
The final track try-out for the Missouri meet was held this afternoon in the gymnasium. All the events that will be held in Convention hall next Friday night were run off today with the exception of the 50-yard dash and the hurdles. The trial in these events will be held Monday afternoon. No final heat was held among the contestants, since Coach W. O. Hamilton will use his judgment in picking men from the preliminaries. None of the records made this afternoon were exceptional, but this may be accounted for on the ground that none of the contestants were put to the final test. Osborne from whom Hamilton expects much in the distance races was unable to compete on account of illness. All of the events has not been completed at the itme The Kansan went to press.
Half mile -McMillan first, Pat terson second. Time 2:14.
Two mile—Fisher first, Murray second. Time 10:54. On account of sickness Osborne did not run.
Quarter mile—First heat, Black first; Fairchild; second, time not caught. Second heat, G. Smith, first, E. Davis, second. Time ,59 Third heat, H. Woodbury, first; H. Hamilton, second. Time ,58 No final heat will be run.
Pole vault, C. Woodbury, first; C. Woodbury, second; height, 5:11. French stopped at this height without knocking down the bar.
WILL CIRCULATE PETITION
Juniors Also Appoint Committee to Wait Upon Chancellor.
A meeting of the junior class was held in the chapel Friday noon. A large number of juniors were present. The sentiment expressed was against the action of the faculty in restricting the managers of the prom. A committee of three,composed of Brownie Angle, R.E.Lee and George Stuckey was appointed by the junior class president, Arch McKinnon, to visit the Chancellor and confer with him upon the action of the University authorities in regard to the Junior Prom. Resolutions were also passed to the effect that the juniors who are in the receiving line cannot take part in the farce. A petition will be circulated among the members of the junior class by the committee.
Notice.
Prof. E. L. Tague of the department of chemistry, will speak before the Mining Journal next Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in room 201 of Hworth hall. His subject will be "Nevada Ore and Their Method of Treatment."
Meeting of old chemical engineers Monday at chapel time Room 201 Chemistry building Important business.
PLEA FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE
Professor Meade Addresses Phi Beta Kappa in Chapel.
Prof. Geo. B. Meade, of the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago, gave the annual Phi Beta Kappa address last evening in which he made a strong plea for scientific methods in social practices. He explained that while physical science has made vast strides, social science has had very little advancement since the time of the ancients. The definition of an atom has been changed twenty different times to meet now phenomena, while the minutely worded laws, which control justice in this country, have not been modified for centuries.
According to Professor Meade, in criminal actions science should be used in dealing with each problem as it comes up and motives, not facts, should be the ruling factors. Some of the steps which have been taken to put science into social practice are the recall and referendum, the juvenile court and the parole system. Professor Meade maintains that justice should be the socializing of an individual rather than punishment. He closed his remarks by saying: "Nothing could please me more than to see science have the same right of way in social practice as it has in physical practice."
DEBATERS CHOSEN.
Minimum Wage Will Be Argued April 29, With Missouri.
Eliot Porter, a senior, and Clarence Connor, a freshman, will represent Kansas in the Missouri debate April 29. It has been seven years since Kansas has defeated Missouri, but it is the opinion of Professor Gesell that the chances this year favor Kansas.
The two men-who made the team are widely experienced in debate. Eliot Porter won the Inter-fraternity debate last year Connor has taken part in a number of prep school debates.
The subject to be discussed is "Resolved that a minimum wage should be applied in the field of sweated industries." The constitutionality of the question is waived by an agreement between the two schools. The debate will be held at Columbia and Kansas will uphold the negative side of the argument.
Dr. Payne s Sunday Talk.
Dr. William C. Payne will deliver the third and last of his series of talks at Myers hall Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. His subject will be "Jesus Christ, the Teacher and His Teachings." C.F. Royer, a special Fine Arts, will sing.
Dick Reed of Topeka, a sophomore in the School of Engineering, has withdrawn from the University and will go immediately to Arizona, where he will join a civil engineering corps of the Santa Fe.
The Alpha Taus gave a dance last evening in Ecke's hall.
Burt Cooper of Leavenworth has been visiting at the University since Thursday.
SENIORS PLAN FOR REUNION IN 1916
COMMITTEE APPOINTED AT MEETING HELD THURSDAY.
Plan to Have Class Meeting Next Friday and Smoker Soon.
Some time ago there was a meeting of several members of the senior class at which time plans were drawn up for a reunion of the class in 1916. Last Thursday evening another meeting was held at the home of Robert Johnston, at 639 Tennessee street and as a result a definite working basis for a class reunion was established. It was decided to provide for two committees who are to have the work in charge. The first committee is to provide for the social features for the rest of the year. It is felt that no concerted movement can be started by the whole class unless there is some social function at which time the plans can be explained and the ideas of a large number of the class be expressed. It is the plan of the committee to provide a smoker for the boys in the near future and conferences will be held with several of the women of the University with the intention of having several meetings at which all of the people of the class will be entertained Robert Fisher, who was appointed chairman of the organization at the previous meeting, announced the following men today as members of the social committee: Robert Johnston, chairman Matt Graham, George Richardson, Everett Sutton, and George Russell.
The other committee is to arrange for and to work up all plans for the reunion, such as the round robin letter and pamphlets each year. Their plans are to be submitted to the students at one of the social functions and if ratified they will have charge of the carrying out of the plans. The members of this committee are Joseph Murray, chairman; Arthur McAdams, Lester Scott, and Homer Berger.
It is the plan of Robert Fisher, president of the class, to call a class meeting for next Friday after chapel. It is urged that all seniors be present, as the movement will be explained.
Fourteen Seniors Given High Honor Friday.
PHI BETA KAPPA ELECTS.
Phi Beta Kappa, the honorary society of Liberal Arts, held election for new members, Thursday, March 2. Fourteen seniors were elected. Of this number there were eleven women and three men. Lawrence was well represented with ten out of the fourteen. Following are the names of the students elected:
Alice Blair, May L. Draper, Edward L. Griffin, Ruth L. Hodgson, Ruth Hunt, Orpha L. Light, Lena C. Terrill, Mabel O. Watkins, Frances C. Wenrich, Edith M. Willis, Lawrence; Zoe Clark, Ottawa; Beryl H. Lovejoy, Atwood; Joseph W. Murray, Dillon; Eliot Porter, Toneka.
NEW DOMINO MEMBERS.
Dramatic Club Held Election Thursday for Eighteen.
At a meeting of the Red Domino Dramatic club Thursday in Fraser hall, the following officers were elected: President, Geo. H. Bowles; vice-president, R. L. Roberts; secretary, Nina Pilkenton, and treasurer, Don McKay. The new members elected were: John Musselman, Joe Marshall, Quay Barnett, George Stevens, Ben Marshall, Findley Graham, Arthur McAdams, Henry Campion, James Boring, Louis Buxton, Volney Hilford, Louis Kupfer, Mary Hutchinson, Lucile Wilkinson, Edna Bigelow, Leota McFarlin, Harriet Merriam and Gladys Elliott.
This club has the honor of presenting the first original comic opera, "The Idle Idol," in the Western universities. The Red Domino plans to put on another original opera next year. Work on a new play will be commenced by the composers and authors this summer. An official pir was decided on at the meeting Thursday, and scarlet was chosen as the color of the club. The membership of the club is now twenty-eight.
OREAD ON SALE MONDAY.
Second Issue of University Magazine Is Off the Press.
The second number of the new Oread Magazine is off the press and will be placed on sale Monday morning at the check stand. This issue contains forty-eight pages and is larger than the first number, which appeared last December. The regular subscribers can obtain their copies at the check stand. Others can buy them from members of the Quill club. The table of contents is as follows: "The Just and the Unjust," a story, signed A. M. W.; "Gethsemane,' a poem by Willard Wattles; "On the Bull's Brow," a story by Irene Garrett; "My Memory Cues," an essay; "Carpe Diem," a poem by Willard Wattles; editorials; "Old Griggsby," a sketch, by Walter LaClere; "The Mountain View Jail," a story by Louis LaCoss; "The Democracy of the Night," a poem signed A. R. B.; "The Decision," a story by Lucy Thoms; "Menowski," a story by Ellis Davidson.
Flavel Robertson of Kansas City, Mo., who is now attending the Law School at Yale University, is one of the four Yale Freshmen to be preferred for the staff of the Yale Law Journal.
Robertson on Yale Review.
The meeting of the Pharmaceutical society that was to have been held yesterday in the Chemistry building has been postponed till next Friday. Miss Beals will speak on "The History of Pharmacy." The meeting will be in the pharmacy lecture room at 11:15.
Mrs. H. M. Hutchinson, who has been visiting with her daughter Mary, a sophomore in the School of Fine Arts, has returned to her home in Joplin, Mo.
DELAY CAUSED BY ROUTINE BUSINESS
JOINT MEETING IN LEGISLATURE TO BE HELD MONDAY.
Message by Governor Stubba Viewed With Alarm by Friends of Large Appropriation.
Pressure of routine business in both houses Friday and Saturday prevented a joint committee meeting in the state legislature in regard to the University appropriation bill. Early adjournment of both chambers Saturday further delayed consideration of the conflicting bills. Since the legislature has only few more days in which to transact all the business of the present session. a joint meeting must be held not later than Monday of next week.
A message from Governor W. R. Stubbs, which was submitted to the legislature yesterday afternoon, in which he urged that all appropriations should be kept as low as possible, is thought by several of the legislators to have reference to the University appropriation bill. In this message Governor Stubbs urges that while no necessary appropriations should be withheld, that to carry out party pledges all excessive expense to the state should be avoided.
The bill that comes from the joint committee will probably be passed by both houses without delay.
MRS. COOKE DEAD.
No Vespers Tomorrow Nor Classes in North College Today.
Mrs. Clemmie Cooke, aged 53 years, mother of Miss Maude B. Cooke, assistant instructor in piano in the School of Fine Arts died at her home, 917 Kentueky, this morning from a complication of diseases. Mrs. Cooke has been failing in health for the past two years, but last night she became suddenly worse, and for the last two days has been unconscious most of the time.
Mrs. Cooke and the family moved to Lawrence from Fort Scott, Kan., in 1898, that the children might enter the University, and they have made their home here ever since.
Hundred Dollar Loss.
The School of Pharmacy lost a hundred dollars' worth of periodicals in the recent Journal office fire. The periodicals had been sent there to be bound. The University had no insurance on them so will receive no recompense. The periodicals belonged to the twenty-five hundred dollar set that was donated last fall by the Parke Davis company, of Detroit, Mich.
Prof. H. O. Kruse of the department of German, will speak before the Deutscher Verein Monday afternoon at 4:30 in room 313, of Fraser hall. His subject will be "German Characteristics."
Miss Anna Martin and Miss Bess Carter of the Warrensburg, Normal, Warrensburg, Mo., are visiting friends at the University over Saturday and Sunday.