THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1911
KANSAS ATHLETES WILL ENTER MEET
EIGHT TRACK MEN WILL GO TO ST. LOUIS.
NUMBER 66
Coach Hamilton Expects to Win the Relay—Two Men Will Enter from Scratch.
Eight men of the varsity track team accompanied by Coach W. O. Hamilton and Manager Lansdon will leave for Kansas City Friday night where they will take the train to St. Louis to enter the handicap invitation meet held by the Missouri Athletic club of St. Louis there Saturday night. The indoor meet will be held in the armory of the First regiment. The men who will make the trip are Roberts, French, the Woodbury brothers, Hamilton, Smith, Black and Watson. Roberts will probably run in the fifty yard dash from the scratch,French will enter the high jump from scratch, and Charles Woodbury will enter the pole vault without a handicap. Watson will compete in the 1,000 yards run and it is expected that he will be given a good handicap, since he has no record in that event. This will be the first time that he will run that distance in a meet. The men who will run in the relay are H. Woodbury,Black G. Smith, and Hamilton. The chances of the Kansas team winning the relay are good and Coach Hamilton's men expect to return with a number of the points of the meet.
The Kansas City Athletic club will hold an indoor invitation handicap meet in Convention hall on Saturday night, March 25, and the present plan is to enter about twenty or twenty-five men from the University in these events. Kansas scored high at this meet last year and it is thought that the chances of a Kansas victory this year are good.
Coach W. O. Hamilton expects to have his athletes out doors for practice work on MeCook field in a short time. "The weather is hardly warm enough yet for permanent out-door work, but even now the men are working on the boards on the south side of the gymnasium," said the coach yesterday afternoon. This spring the men will have warm water at the club house on MeCook field and the men will be able to work on the cinder path earlier than last season."
The cinder path this spring will be better than it has ever been before in the history of track athletics at the University. Two car loads of cinders were hauled to the field this winter and there they were mixed with the proper amount of dirt and a new bed two inches thick has been laid on the track. This will be rolled with a large steam roller and treated to make one of the finest cinder paths in the west.
The Greek Symposium will hold its monthly meeting Friday afternoon at 3:30 in the Greek room of Fraser hall. Prof. M. W. Sterling will speak on "Demosthenes as Man and Dramatist." Prof. A. M. Wilcox will speak on "The Statues of Sophocles and Demosthenes." John Shea, a graduate student, will speak on "Sophocles as Man and Orator."
COLORADO TEAM CHOSEN
Men to Debate at Boulder on April 12.
Prof. G. A. Gesell has decided definitely on the team that will debate with the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 12. A H. Fast, a middle law from Baldwin, and A. O. Andrew, a senior law from Gardner are the two men who will represent Kansas in the western debate.
A. H. Fast is a graduate of Baker University and is widely experienced in debate. He was chosen last year to represent Northwestern against Chicago. The other member of the team, A. O. Andrew, has had much experience in debate and public speaking. This year he was the man selected by the faculty of the School of Law to read a paper before the State Bar Association.
Kansas will support the negative of the question: "Resolved that the short ballot should be adopted in state, county and municipal elections."
TENNIS TEAMS CHOSEN.
Four Men Selected After Finals Yesterday.
Monday afternoon the finals of the tennis tournament were played and the following squad picked. Their percentage was as follows: Nees, 889; Wilson, .800; Rohrer, .786; Allen, .770; Richardson, .750; Hawes, .750; Motz, .667; Uhrlaub, .500.
The first four men will comprise the team. The team will make four trips. Baker will be played early in April. Oklahoma. Nebraska and Washburn will also be played this spring. The games at Washburn will be for the championship of the state They will be played the second Friday and Saturday in May.
The Kansas tennis squad's success is due in no small part to the indoor practise and this year there has been more than usual. There will be a meeting held Wednesday at 12:15 in room 110, Fraser. It is desired that all eight men be present.
ON WRITING "ADS."
Marco Morrow of Topeka, one of the best known advertising experts in the state, will lecture to the classes in journalism tomorrow at 1:30 o'clock. Mr. Morrow is the advertising manager of the Capper publications, among which are the Topeka Capital and the Mail and Breeze. The subject of his address will be "How to Write Advertisements."
Marco Morrow of Topeka Will Speak to Newspaper Classes .
the merchants of Lawrence have been invited to send their "ad" writers to hear the lecture.
E. R. Weidlein, of the industrial fellowship department, was in Garnett, Kan., yesterday where he gave a lecture on "New Found land Whales" before the Ladies' Missionary Society of the Methodist church.
Edwin C. White, a senior医学生 was operated on today for appen dicitis at the Rosedale hospital.
$50,000 TO BE USED FOR NEW HOSPITAL
OLD APPROPRIATION WILL BE USED.
Erection of New Building Will Be Started at Once—Strong on the Committee.
At a meeting of the Board of Regents of this University yesterday it was decided to use the $50,000 appropriated by the legislature in 1909 for a hospital, at once for the hospital at Rosedale. At the last session of the legislature $50,000 was allowed the University for a hospital, but in view of the fact that the question as to whether this hospital was to be located in Rosedale or in Lawrence, the money was never used.
When the present legislature refused to grant the $100,000 for the University hospital the Regents decided to take advantage of the former grant and to start the erection of a structure at Rosedale at once The time limit for using this money is July 1, and at the meeting yesterday it was decided to start work immediately.
Regents Hopkins and Cambern and Chancellor Strong were appointed as a committee to superintend the work and to make plans for the completion of the structure.
Y. M. C. A. TO GIVE PARTY
Will Entertain in Gymnasium on April 1.
At a joint meeting of both social committees of the Y. M. and W. W. C.A. Monday, it was decided to give a party in the gymnasium April 1. Alan Park, the chairman of the social committee will have complete charge of the event. The party is planned after the old barn parties which our ancestors attended before dance halls and theaters existed. The committee is planning on pulling off a number of interesting stunts which will be more or less appropriate on April Fool's day Novelty "eats" will be a special feature of the entertainment.
WILL SPEAK THURSDAY.
Chapel Speech by Suffragette Coming Soon.
Sylvia Pankhurst, the noted English Suffragette, will speak in chapel Thursday morning. Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock she will lecture at the Presbyterian church concerning her experiences in the woman's suffrage movement in England and the conditions in that country at the present time.
Miss Pankhurst is now making her first lecture tour of the United States. An admission of 50 cents will be charged for the afternoon lecture.
Records Explosion Here.
At 9:22 o'clock Friday morning, six minutes after the magazine explosion occurred at Pleasant Prairie, Wis., the University seismograph recorded the arrival of the shock in Lawrence. The five magazines which exploded contained 280 tons of dynamite and 100,000 kegs of giant powder. Hardly a house within the radius of five miles of Pleasant Prairie is habitable as a result of the explosion.
NO CANDIDATES NAMED
School Orators Shy About Coming Forward.
The Student Council has designated next Friday, March, 17, as election day from each school when a speaker is to be elected. As yet no candidate has anounced himself.
The speakers are supposed to address the students assembled on the campus upon the relation of their school to the University, but that does not signify they are to be barred from expressing their views on the student activities or anything of outside interest.
The Athletic board will grant the letters in baseball, basket-ball and track on this day also. Besides the various schools will compete in tugs of war and pitching for the crack, horseshoes, track meets, baseball games and numerous other sports.
On "Students Day," May 26, besides speeches from the various schools, the program will consist of short sketches given by the dramatic clubs, musical selections by the band and the glee club.
The Student Council will have charge of the affair on that day and is now arranging the program. The matter of getting a holiday upon that day has not been put up to the Chancellor, but as it was formerly customary to grant a holiday upon this day, it is believed that a holiday can be secured.
K. N. G. RECEIVES ORDERS.
University Militia May Go to Mexico.
Last night Captain C. R. Shifler of the K. N. G. military company of the University, notified the men in his company to prepare all their equipment for a hasty departure from Lawrence. Monday morning Capt. Shifler received an order from General Martin at Topeka to be in readiness to make the trip to the Mexican frontier at an instant's notice. General Martin says that he expects to receive an order any moment from the War Department at Washington commanding him to mobilize all the militia in Kansas so that they may be hurried to the scene of action.
Phi Beta Pi Banquet.
During the past week the company has been practicing guard duty, skirmish work and target drill. The captain announced today that on April 12, the most rigid examination of this year would be held.
The local chapter of the Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity and the chapter of Medical College of Kansas City held their annual founders' day banquet at Kansas City Friday night. Twenty members from here and the six from Rosedale were present. The banquet was held in the Baltimore hotel. Covers were laid for one hundred. In the afternoon at 2 o'clock initiation was held for six practicing doctors from Kansas.
The local chapter was founded last spring and is called the Alpha Iota. The first chapter of the national organization was founded at Pittsburg, Pa., in 1891.
STATE SCHOOLS TO REMAIN SEPARATE
GOVERNOR VETOED BILL AT NOON TODAY.
Present Boards of Regents Will Remain in Control—No Provision Made to Pay Them.
Governor W. R. Stubbs vetoed the bill providing for a single board of administration for all the educational institutions of the state, at 12:30 today. The governor has had the bill under consideration ever since it was passed last week. He called many conferences discussing the provisions of the bill and its probable effect upon the institutions, but until his formal veto of the act today had refused to make any statement as to whether he would sign it or not.
The veto of the bill means that for the present the institutions will be governed by their Board of Regents as before. It is understood that the governor favors a single board and will make an effort to have the boards meet together and transact the business of the state institutions as one board if it can be done legally.
An interesting question brought up by the veto of the bill concerns the mileage and per diem of the Regents. The legislature passed a law putting them out of existence and of course made no appropriation for paying them.
Governor Stubbs doubtless was strongly influenced in his decision by the replies received to a number of lengthy telegrams sent out from Topeka for the purpose of learning what the experience of other states had been regarding single boards of control. The opinion of educators all over the Middle West was that the plax would prove a failure. It is understood that the plan has resulted in lowering the standards of the Universities of Iowa and Indiana.
On the other hand, powerful influence within the state was brought upon the governor to sign the law. Although the bill was supposed to have been drawn up as a means of centralizing the educational system, a "joker" in it provided that the board of administration should have power to separate branch schools from the parent institutions. This is supposed to be for the benefit of the Pittsburg normal, which has been trying to declare its independence of the main school at Emporia.
All the heads of state institutions were opposed to the bill which they believed was too sketchy to work well when applied and provided salaries so small that competent men could not be secured to serve on the board.
J. F. Mackey, the Ash Grove fellow, in chemistry, will speak before the Chemical club Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Chemistry building. His subject will be "Cementing Materials."