THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
PARADE WILL START TOMORROW AT NOON
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1911
ENGINEERS' DAY PROMISES TO BE UNIQUE.
At 2 o'clock the athletic events will be started. Professor E. Haworth will start the events with a short speech and will throw the first ball in the first base ball game. The following is the order of events for the after moon:
A Display of Novel Floats, Followed by Athletic Contests on McCook Field.
At 10 o'clock the engineers will attend chapel in Fraser hall in a body. After these services they will go to Marvin hall, where they will hold a chapel for engineers only. W. L. Herrington of Kansas City and Henry Hoffman will address the men and it is rumored that considerable oratory will be spilled eulogizing the great results to come from an Engineers' Day. The famous Engineers' Glee club will sing.
The exponents of the hyperbolie and the parabaloid intend to make Engineer's Day the most spectacular and epoch-making event in the history of the school. The committee in charge of the program for the day announced today that the floats are all completed and that if the weather permits, that from 10 o'clock tomorrow morning until late at night there will be a continuous round of pleasure that will rival the attractions in a Barnum and Bailey circus.
At 12:15 the parade will start. For weeks the engineers have been working on the floats that are to appear in this wonderful pageant and it is intimated that there will be some clever takeoffs on university life. The parade will be headed by the University band and the engineering professors will ride in automobiles. The procession will end as McCook field, where dinner will be served. Each can is expected to bring his lunch in a dinner pail and hot coffee will be served free of charge.
Boxing—Fairechild and Campbell.
Baseball game, Mechanicals vs Miners.
Relay race—Miners and the Chemicals. This is a four-man, mile relay.
Baseball game—Electricals vs. Civils.
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Tug of War—Miners vs. Chemicals.
Tug of war—Mechanicals vs. Electricals. The Civils will challenge the winners of this bout.
Boxing—Coates and Allison.
Standing broad jump—Inter school.
Relay race—Interclass. Sixteen men will be entered from each class.
Baseball game—For the championship of the school.
In the evening a dance for engineers and their ladies only, will be given in the gymnasium.
Friday's Chapel Speaker.
Professor Thomas Arkle Clark, Dean of men in the University of Illinois, will deliver the address in chapel Friday morning.
Dean Clark is one of the foremost educators in the country at the present day. He is also the author of several well known books on English composition and rhetoric. He is a graduate of both Chicago and Harvard Universities having graduated from the latter in 1894. After his graduation he took a position as instructor in English composition at Illinois where he has been connected in different capacities since that time.
Miss Naomi Lowe, a sophomore in the School of Fine Arts, sang in chapel Thursday morning.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
Racket Wielders Will Try Out for Squad Next Week.
Next week the eight men who made the tennis squad in the first tournament, will play a round robin tournament to decide which four will represent Kansas in its games this spring. The eight who are on the squad are Richardson, Nees, Motz, Uhrlaub, Roher, Wilson and Allen. Each of these men will play every other, that is each man will play seven tournaments. When the team of four is chosen, a captain will be elected.
The Kansas team this year will play Baker, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Washburn and Missouri. The games at Washburn will be for the championship of the state.
AWARD CONTRACTS
Board of Regents Award Contracts for the Hospital at Rosedale.
At a meeting of the Board of Regents in Kansas City last Tues day, the contracts for the erection and equipping of the Rosedale hospital were let. The general contract was allowed to J. B. Betts, of Topeka for $34,997. The contracts for plumbing and gas piping were let to Johnson and Bell of Topeka for $3,545. The W. T. Osborne Construction company of Kansas City received the contract for the electric wiring and the signal system for $665.
Y.M.-Y.W. PARTY SATURDAY
The contractors were instructed to begin work at once so that as much as possible could be completed by the first of July.
Good Food and Many Stunts for Entertainment.
All students of the University are invited to the joint W. W.—Y. M. C. A. party which will be held in Robinson gymnasium Saturday evening, April 1. No admission will be charged. The entertainment will be in the nature of an old-fashioned barn party and will take the place of the regular post-exam. jubilee of these two organizations, which was postponed this year on account of a conflict with the K. C. A. C.-Kansas basket-ball game, which was scheduled in the gymnasium for Feb. 4. The stunts will begin at eight o'clock and the social committees of the two organizations have prepared an excellent program of musical numbers, a spelling match, Virginia Reel and entertainments of like nature.
A very delicate and expensive instrument, known as a Kelvin Double Bridge, has recently been installed in the testing laboratory of the School of Electrical Engineering. It is used for determining the conductivity of electrical conductors, finding temperature co-efficients, and for the accurate measurement of low resistances.
For refreshments the associations have put forth their best efforts, and have prepared something really substantial. "Homemade eats of the old-fashioned kind and plenty of them," said one of the committee this morning.
The advisory boards of both the Y. W. and Y. M. will be present and Beulah Murphy and Alan Park, chairmen of the social committees, have charge of arrangements.
Kelvin Bridge Installed.
DIVORCE PROBLEMS BY DEAN MATHEWS
PEOPLE THINK OF MARRIAGE AS LEGAL CONTRACT.
Although Polygamy is Past, Vice Is Still Carried Out by Divorce Law.
"The Teaching of Jesus as to the Family" was the subject of Dean Shailer Mathews in his chapel address Wednesday afternoon. The prevailing thought of the address was that Jesus regarded men and women as souls and not merely parties to a marriage contract.
"Jesus," said the speaker, "was far in advance of the day and taught that wherever marriage was treated loosely by a nation, that nation would soon fall. Moreover, Jesus did not consider a woman as of no importance, as was the custom of that day, but allowed her fundamental rights. The Master never spoke against polygamy as such, nor against any particular vices as did his follower, Paul. Although the days of polygamy had passed that vice was still legal. Divorce was common, but there were few cases where a woman was allowed that privilege. However, a husband could divorce a wife by simply showing his disfavor of her. He could marry as easily, for wives cost only a few cents. Moses made divorce more difficult by compelling the contracting parties to have certificates of divorce.
"Precious as marriage is, Jesus was not a married man, because he thought that working for the kingdom of God was far more precious, and to that he concentrated his life. We think of marriage now as more of a legal contract and not as the great thing which it really it. This is shown by the hastiness of so many marriages which rarely prove happy and ultimately end in divorce. Children brought up in unhappy homes can not have the same reverence for marriage that other children can.
"The remaining members of the family, children, are mentioned only once in all of the Old Testament. This is in the clause, 'and children shall play in the streets.' In the New Testament they are mentioned several times. One of the few cases in which Jesus became angry was when his disciples pushed back the children who were brought for His blessing.
COEN CHOSEN EDITOR
A Committee Appointed to Draw Up Constitution.
Ralph Coen was unanimously elected editor-in-chief of the KansasLawyer at the annual election in Green hall this morning. J.R.Hannah was elected business manager. A committee consisting of B.L.Shinn,Ralph Spotts, and Clark Wallace was appointed to draft a constitution for the Kansas Lawyer. Twenty-eight members of the middle class voted at the election.
Attention Freshmen!
Ralph Spotts, the president of the Student's Council, announced that the official freshman caps will appear Monday morning The Engineers' celebration has made it impossible to enforce the rule that the lids come out Friday. No excuse for the non-appearance of the caps will be considered because of the ample notice which has been given.
WAS ONE MAN SHY.
Kansas Had A Short Team to Debate the Short Ballot.
Owing to a misunderstanding in the contract for the Colorado debate at Boulder, April 12, Prof. G. A. Gessell will have to break in a new man in the next two weeks. Clem Parker, a senior law, has been chosen as the third man on the western debate. Professor Gessell understood that there would be but two men on a side. Colorado, however, is positive that the arrangement was for three men. The two men previously chosen to represent Kansas are A. H. Fast, a middle law, and A. O. Andrew, a senior law. The question to be discussed is: "Resolved that the short ballot should be adopted in state, county and municipal elections."
SHERWIN IS COACH
Salary of $2,000 to Football Coach—Half Paid by the Association.
Ralph Arthur Sherwin, of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, was named as football coach for the University of Kansas at a meeting of the Athletic association, held here yesterday afternoon. The new coach will also have charge of the baseball department. He will report he e about September 1. of this year. He graduated from Dartmouth last year with a degree of Bachelor of Science.
Sherwin is considered one of the best football men in the East today. He has been a member of the Dartmouth team for four years and in the Princeton game of 1908 he proved himself one of the best tackles in the country. Sherwin received his earlytraining in football while he was a member of the Cushing Academy team. During his last year at Cushing he was captain of the eleven. Last fall he was a member of the New York Times' team, one of the strongest elevens in the East. The new Kansas coach was chosen All-American tackle for two years, which is a distinction that few western coaches enjoy.
He will be paid a salary of about $2,000 and he will be on the regular pay roll of the University with the title of assistant physical instructor. The state will only pay $1,000 of this amount while the athletic board will make up the deficiency.
Medical Society Met
Dr. Mills, of Topeka, and Dr. M. T. Sudler were the speakers at the regular meeting of the University of Kansas Medical society last evening. The former spoke on "The Hospital System of New York City;" the latter talked on the "Future Hospital in Rosedale. One of the Most modern in the State." Refreshments were served.
Pictured a Busy Library.
A photograph of the library of the School of Law was taken for the Senior annual yesterday. Some of the "laws" who have hardly seen the inside of the library before this year, were at the front tables, it is said, each confronted by a big stack of large books.
Dr. J. J. Wolf, professor of medicine at Rosedale, spoke to the members of the Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity last evening. The subject of his talk was "Student Life in Germany." Dr. Wolf is a graduate of Heidelberg.
EIGHTH MUSIC FESTIVAL, Robinson Gymnasium, April 9th and 10th. Minneapolis Smyphony Orchestra of 50 play- Five Noted Singers, Two Local Artists, Three Concerts
K. U. MAKES OWN BASEBALL RULES
ers, Five Noted Singers, Two Local Artists, Three Concerts.
Student Tickets $1.50 at the K. U. Postoffice or from student representatives
The Athletic board at its meeting yesterday afternoon decided to throw down the bars in baseball and to make all students eligible to play the game unless they have been connected with organized baseball. The action taken was in line with the recommendations made by the Student Council a week ago. It coincides with student sentiment as far as that sentiment has been expressed.
ATHLETIC RESTRICTIONS
ENLARGED BY BOARD.
The members of the board have drawn up rules under which the members of the varsity team will be certified. The other two schools in the conference which are scheduled to play games with the University of Kansas this year may play or not as they see fit, the members of the Board say. The University can not undertake to certify its players on any other basis.
A Set of Rules Are Drawn Up to Be Sent to Conference Schools
The following rules were drawn up by the association at their meeting yesterday morning:
At the meeting of the Athletic association yesterday morning the following members of this year's basket-ball team were awarded Ks: Captain Heizer, Long, Stuckey, Dousman and Larson. The following members of last year's tenis team were also given Ks: Bigelow, Watson, Wood and Seedon.
Two Destitute Topeka Lads Are Sent to University Hospital.
KABIES TREATED FREE
First—I have not been a member of any league ball team, playing ball under the National agreement of professional baseball clubs.
Second—I have never played ball as a business or have never made my living playing ball. Third—I agree to sign the above statement anew each year that I shall become a candidate for the university baseball team.
A copy of these rules will be sent to every school in the conference, and the athletic board feels that it is complying with the conferences in having a uniform eligibility rules for each school.
This afternoon Governor Stubbs telephoned to Chancellor Strong inquiring as to the possibility of the University taking care of two boys in Topcka who have been bitten by dogs that are afflicted with the rabies. It has been found that it costs the University about $50 for the actual material used in treating a case of rabies. Doctor Hoxie, of the hospital at Rosedale, reports that the University physicians at the hospital will treat free of charge all applicants who are afflicted, but that some provision must be made for the cost of material used in treatment.
Uncancellor Strong announced that the University would provide the necessary medical treatment for the two Topeka boys who are said to be almost entirely without funds. One of the boys was bitten yesterday and the other was bitten this morning.
Ted Hackney, the famous Missouri football and basket-ball player, was a visitor at the Sig Alph house this week.
The University young people of the Methodist church will give a party in the church parlors Friday evening.
A recital will be given by the Fine Arts school at the down town studio Friday afternoon at 4:30.