THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1911
NUMBER 70
TWELVE FLOATS IN ENGINEERS' PARADE
450 ENGINEERS TO MARCH ACROSS CAMPUS.
A dozen floats, constructed by ingenious engineers, will be the feature of the monster parade that will move through the campus a week from Friday morning when approximately four hundred and fifty engineers will celebrate Engineers' day. The program of the day will start at 10 o'clock in the morning, when all the engineers will go to chapel in a body. Afterward they will return to Marvin hall where they will listen to speeches by engineers in their own chapel. George Russell, chairman of the day's entertainment, has arranged for the Engineers' Glee club to furnish the music.
Ball Games, Races and Tug of War in Afternoon, With a Dance at Night.
At 12:15 the parade will start from the Engineering building march across the campus, and will parade Massachusetts street. It will end on McCook field where dinner will be served. Each will bring his own dinner pat, but a tub of coffee will be free to every engineer.
During the afternoon there will be three baseball games and other sports. A mile relay race between the four classes has been scheduled.
Each man will run fifty yards. Then there will be a scrap known as a "battle royal" between fifty freshmen and fifty sophomores. Boxing and wrestling are also on the program. One of the mathematic classes has challenged any other class to a tug-of-war across Potter lake. The challenge announced yesterday is: "We, the Majestic Parabolic Ellipsoid Whirlers of 'Doc' Van der Vries" 10:15 math class, do hereby challenge any other class of twenty-five Bo's in the Engineering School, to a tug-of-war. Said tug to take place across Potter lake, losing side to be given a bath in its healing waters, subject to the choice of the acceptors. Rope to be furnished by Dean Marvin—"Doc" Van der Vries and Class."
In the evening a dance will be held in Robinson gymnasium, to which engineers only will be admitted. Shanty's seven-piece orchestra will furnish the music. Tags for the day can be had from George Russell or any other member of the committee. The tags will be sold for a quarter. George Russell will have charge of the events for the day. The men in charge of the program for the morning are: Edmund Rhodes and Otto Dingelstedt; the afternoon committee is: Charles Haller and Thomas Purton; the evening committee is Charles MeWhorter and Frank Lynch.
Professor R. A. Schwegler will speak before the Y. M. C. A. tonight on the subject "The Essence of Christianity." Prof. Schwegler addressed the Association last Thursday evening and the popularity of the talk brought out the demand for another addres. Melvin Kates will give a piano solo. All men are cordially invited.
FIRST OF LECTURE SERIES
Mrs. Chafin Explains Settle-
ment Work to Girls.
Mrs. J. T. Chafin of the Swope Settlement of Kansas City, spoke before the Young Women's Christian Association yesterday afternoon upon the subject "Social Work in the City." Mrs Chafin has had five or six year's experience in settlement work, and her husband is at present the head resident of the Kansas City institution. The lecture by Mrs. Chafin is one of a series which the Y. W. C. A. is giving for the instruction of the girls of the University. Last week Lucy Riggs of Kansas City, Kan., gave an interesting talk upon the "Work of the Y. W. C. A. in the City." Nadia Thomas, secretary of the association, explained today that the remainder of the lectures will be on the work being done in small towns.
Mrs. Chafin gave an interesting and instructive account of the work being carried on in Kansas City. She presented the great needs for such work, and the methods which are being employed to better conditions. The social and educational parts of the work are of equal importance. Poor girls are taken from the slums of Kansas City, and educated in the schools and taught correct social usage. Hundreds of girls' lives have been saved from complete failure.
GOOD GOVERNMENT CLUB.
Senator J. L. Brady Addressed Members Last Night.
The Good Government club held initiation for eleven newly elected men at the Beta house last night. After initiation Senator J. L. Brady addressed the members of the club on "Present Tendencies in Government." It is the purpose of the club to secure Senator Hodges to address them at the next meeting, which will be held the evening of April 6th. Plans were also made to send a delegate to the next national convention of the Good Government clubs of the various universities, which will be held in Washington, D. C., next year.
Sophomores Defeat Freshmen.
The sophomore girls' basketball team defeated the freshman girls by a score of 10 to 7 in a game played in Robinson gymnastium Tuesday afternoon. This was the first of a series of games of inter-class basket-ball to be played by the girls this spring, Miss Frederika Hodder is the captain of the second-year girls, and Miss Bernice Schultz is captain of the freshman team.
William Pepperill, editor of the Kansas Lawyer, will call a meeting soon to elect the manager and editor of the next year's Lawyer. All subscribers and the middle laws this year can vote. The publication is issued monthly by the senior class and has a subscription list of five hundred.
Everyone with a story to hand in should give it to one of the Annual board before April 1. This includes the prize story.
COACH SELECTION ANNOUNCED SOON
LUEHRING, FINGER, AND SHERWIN ARE THE MEN.
Man Selected Must Coach Both Baseball and Football Teams.
The selection of the coach for the football and baseball teams of the University has been narrowed down to three applicants and the matter will be definitely decided within a few days. This announcement was made this morning by Chancellor Strong after receiving a number of letters and telegrams from applicants for the position. C. C. Childs, a graduate of Yale, and for several years a member of the Eli eleven, and now a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, was considered as probably one of the most desirable men but his inability to coach the baseball team eliminated him from the position.
At the present time the men who are being considered are F. H. Luehring, S. W. Finger and R. W. Sherwin. Luehring is a former Kansas boy and will take his Doctor's degree from the University of Chicago this spring. He is an all around athlete and has the personal recommendation of Coach Stagg, of the University of Chicago, as a man who could fill the position at the University. For several years he was the coach at Ripon college and had unusual success as a coach. He was an official at the basket-ball games played at the University of Missouri this fall and the members of the 'varsity five report that he was by far the best official that they found while on the trip. S. W. Finger is now doing graduate work at Grinell. He is probably the best all around athlete that this institution has turned out for years and his name is being seriously considered. R. W. Sherwin, the other man who is being considered, is a graduate of Dartmouth college and at the present time is a resident of Hanover, New Hampshire. For four years he was the left tackle on the Dartmouth eleven and for the past two years has made the All-American team. Experts in the East picked him as a player of stellar ability and he was chiefly responsible for the defeat of Princeton this year. The high position that the Dartmouth team has taken during the past few years has been due largely to his playing.
The position of coach this year will involve the task of coaching (Continued on page four.)
A Deep Kaw Should Make Good Course.
PLAN FOR REGATTA.
Plans are already being made for the annual regatta,which will be held on the Kaw during commencement week. The Kaw is in fine shape this year, owing to the heavy rains this winter, which have made the channel much wider and deeper. The following events will be given:
One-fourth mile rowing races, $ \frac{1}{2} $ mile canoe races, $ \frac{1}{4} $ mile mixed doubles, 50-yard swim, diving and tilting contests. As a special feature this year a game of water baseball is being arranged.
"The regattas have been well attended in the past, and much interest is shown in the sport," said Brignard, chairman of the rowing committee, last year, "and I think we have better material this year than ever, so that the races should be more closely contested than last year, when Logan Abernathy won most of the events."
Abernathy is attending Wisconsin this year, where he made stroke on the varsity eight,which meets some crews from Eastern schools at Poughkeepsie, late in June.
TO TOUR EUROPE
K. U. Students will Travel a Year on Motorcycles.
A tour through Europe on motorcycles has been planned by two students of the University, Albert Manglesdorf, a junior engineer, and Isaiah Brook, a freshman in the College. They will leave July 1, to be gone for a year, during which time they will travel through Germany, France, Spain and Italy on their cycles, visiting places of interest and acquainting themselves with the language of the different countries.
As both students speak German fluently, considerable time will be spent in the "Waterland." They will familiarize themselves with German customs and traditions.
The Fine Arts students gave a short program at the downtown studio in the Dick building Friday afternoon. Bernice Barker sang a solo, Marie Brown and Clara Hase gave piano solos; Ruth Lawson, Bertha Burgess, Mae Garvin, and June Porter gave readings.
The first case of diphtheria in the University this spring was reported Tuesday when Orr Mofett was taken ill very suddenly at the Sigma Nu house. He was taken immediately to the University hospital and today he is feeling much better, although it will be at least three weeks before he will be released from quarantine.
All organizations that have not yet handed in their write-up and key to pictures must see that it is done immediately, as the Annual board is getting tired of waiting for them.
Dr. C, H. Edmundson, of Washburn, will speak before the geology seminar tomorrow after chapel, in Snow hall.
SENIOR SMOKER SATURDAY NIGHT
TWO HUNDRED MEN EXPECTED TO ATTEND.
New Stunts and Boxing and Wrestling Bouts to Afford the Entertainments.
Over two hundred seniors are expected to be present at the fourth annual senior smoker, which will be held at Ecke's hall, Saturday evening, March 25. The object of the smoker is to arouse enthusiasm and stir up class spirit preparatory to the class reunions which will be held at the University in 1916. This date will mark the semi-centennial of the founding of this institution. Plans for the reunion and the method of entertaining the alumni will be discussed at the smoker. It is the intention of the present graduating class to have all the alumni present at the exercises in 1916, so that everyone may get acquainted and work for the best interests of the University, and especially when it gets into dire straits as it did this winter. After 1916 these class reunions will be held every year, thus enabling each alumnus of the University to keep in closer touch with his Alma Mater. This plan has been tried at Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Pennsylvania and has met with great success.
Entertainment for the evening will be furnished by the different fraternities who will present the stunts that were put on at the Pan-Hellenic banquet and boxing staged by some of the University esq osu qii m snoo juu ipsa puu athletes. A afcue lunch of cigars, sandwiches, and coffee will be served. Roberts, Welch, Emery, and Easterday will take part in the wrestling bouts. The bouts will last half an hour. O'Connor, Campbell, Smith and Coats will take part in the boxing bouts. only three-minute bouts will be allowed. No winners will be announced in the bouts.
Will Elect Attendants.
There will be a meeting of the junior, sophomore, and freshman girls in chapel Friday to elect attendants to the May Queen. Each class will select four girls. Juniors will meet in chapel, sophomores in room 110, and freshmen in room 112. The committee for the junior girls' party, to be held in May, will also be appointed at that time.
At a meeting of the Alpha Chi Sigma Thursday evening in the Chemistry building, three new members were initiated. They are: W. A. Hobbs, instructor in the department of chemistry; William V. Miller, a junior in the College, and C. C. Young of the department of chemical water analysis.
Forty students tried out before Miss Mossler and the committee. Tuesday evening for places in the Junior Faree and the cast will be selected before the end of the week. Twenty-five juniors will be selected and practice will begin the first part of next week. The cast will be announced Saturday.
Basket Ball Tournament
day at 9. a m., 2 p. m..
State High School Championship, Thursday at 8 p.m., Friday at 9 a.m., 2 p.m., 8 p.m., Satur-
Final Saturday at 8 p. m.
General admission to each game twenty-five cents. Season tickets for series fifty cents. Reduced prices to Student Ticket Holders.