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THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
NUMBER 98
VOLUME VII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1911
LAST TRACK MEET AT MINNEAPOLIS
SEVEN MEN WILL GO ON
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JUNE 2.
Strongest Teams in the West Will be Represented—Kansas Should Take Some Firsts.
The last track meet in which the University will be represented this spring will be the Western Conference meet to be held by the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis on June 2 and 3. The management will send seven of the best men of the track teams to this meet to represent Kansas in competition with some of the strongest teams of the west. All the men who placed in the Missouri Valley Conference Meet at Des Moines will make the trip and two or three other men who made especially good showings in the events in which they took part will also be given an opportunity to test their powers against the athletes of the northern schools.
The men will leave on Thursday morning and will arrive at Minneapolis on Friday morning On Friday afternoon the preliminary heats of the dashes and hurdle races will be run and the meet will be held on the following day.
Coach Hamilton expects some of the men to take firsts in this meet and thinks that the chances of the team for standing high in the scoring is good. The men who will make the trip are Wilson French, Ammons, C. Woodbury Gribble, Patterson, and H. Woodbury. Captain Hamilton is unable to go on account of work at school.
After the meet Manager Lanson and Coach Hamilton expect to spend a week fishing in some of the northern lakes and the Woodburys will take an extended trip through the cast.
Word was received at the University this morning saying that Professor and Mrs. R. D. O? Leary and their three children will sail on the ship Rotterdam on June 10 for New York City from Boulogne, France. Professor O'Leary has been taking work at Oxford University during the winter and he and his family are now in Paris.
O'Leary Will Return.
The preparation for the entertainment of the members of the various teams that will enter the meet is very elaborate. A motor car will be placed at the disposal of each team while they are in Minneapolis and the men will be entertained at the Fraternity houses. On Saturday evening all the men will attend the senior play that will be given by the graduating class of the University of Minnesota.
Upon his return to Lawrence, he will take up his work in the English department of the University.
Y. W. to Colorado.
The middle west section of the national Y. W, C. A. will hold its annual conference at Cascade, Colorado June 29 to 30. The delegates and members who will attend this conference come from the different branches of the association situated in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, and Utah.
Will Travel in Europe
Olive M. Gilbreath, instructor,
in Rhetoric, will not teach in the
University next year. She will
travel in Europe.
COMMEND K. U. POETS
York Independent Says
Work Has Merit.
The next number of the Independent magazine will contain a literary criticism of the "Songs from the Hill" by the editor of that periodical. It will say that the efforts of the students of the University of Kansas are deserving of very great commendation and that some of the work in the booklet of poetry that was published this spring has particular merit. It is wondered how many other universities of the United States can make as good a showing in this particular field as the University of Kansas.
Special mention is made of the poems that Willard Wattles has published in the little volume and he is hailed as a poet of great promise. Several of the unpublished poems written by Wattles have been asked for by the edition of the independent and it is probable that they will be published in the future.
LOST TO OKLAHOMA
Tennis Team Was in Crippled Condition
The University of Kansas tennis team lost the dual tournament with Oklahoma last week, owing to an injury sustained by Paul Nees. The captain's hand was swollen with blood poisoning and he was unable to enter the tournament after arriving at Norman, Richardson the other member of the Kansas team lost to Minter of Oklahoma 7-9, 6-4, 6-3.
Tennis at the University has been successful this year. Baker was defeated early in the season. The state title is held by Kansas ia both the singles and doubles. Kansas finished second in the Missouri Valley Tennis tournament held at Kansas City.
STURTEVANT TO NORWAY
Will Represent Kansas at University Anniversary.
The "Independent," New York, announces among the contents of its annual Vacation number, to be issued early in June, an article by Miss Lois Harger, a sophomore in the College. It is a story, with illustrations, of an outing last summer by a party of Theta girls, several from the University of Kansas, and is entitled, "A Sorority Vacation."
Tells of Sorority Outing
Prof. A. M. Sturtevant of the department of German left this week for Chicago where he will attend an organization of a National Scandinavian language society. Professor Sturtevant will sail next week for Christiana, Norway, to spend the summer in special study. On Sept. 4, 5, and 6, he will be present at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the University of Christiana, as an official representative of the University of Kansas.
There will be a meeting of the members of the varsity baseball team Wednesday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the Eldridge house. The annual banquet will be given and the captain for next year's team will be elected.
Baseball Captain Election
One More Concert.
By special request of the Chancellor, the University band will repeat its concert of last Friday night next Friday night on the campus.
ADOPT K. U. PLAN AT CONFERENCE
LIBERAL INTERPRETATION OF BASEBALL RULES.
C. E. McClung Elected President of Next Conference—Will Be Held in Lawrence.
Dr. C. E. McClung, of the department of zoology was elected President of the Missouri Valley Athletic Conference at the recent meeting held in Des Moines. Lawrence was selected as the next meeting place of the athletic directors which will be in December.
The introduction of wrestling, swimming, tennis, and gymnastic competitions and a school for officials were two new innovations authorized by the directors. A committee on minor sports was appointed with instructions to devise plans so that wrestling, swimming, tennis, and gymnasium tournaments can be held between the schools of the conference.
Contests in the other events, as swimming, wrestling, fencing, and boxing will also be possible. Such contests are held in eastern schools but are an innovation to the west. The only teams K. U. has ever met in these sports is the Kansas City Y. M. C. A. in swimming and mat contests. This will give the Jayhawkers a chance to compete with Nebraska or Missouri and the other institutions.
This will give K. U. an opportunity to meet Nebraska and Missouri and the other universities in tennis next spring if the committee finishes its work in time. Kansas has never met any of the conference schools in tennis but has played only Okla home and Kansas schools.
The other innovation was a school for officials, especially in basket ball because of the variety of decisions rendered in the past, because of different interpretations by the various officials. At the meeting here in December all coaches and officials will be requested to have a session for the purpose of working over the interpretations and agreeing on an identical construing of the rules. It is thought that this will do away with all differences in decisions on the same play and thus fix a uniform standard for the whole valley.
The amateur rule allowing college players to play summer ball without compensation was restored and the liberal interpretation and the rules by K. U. was on the whole adopted. Players technically ineligible can also be reinstated. This refers to those who play in a game for which admission is charged, but who are not themselves paid.
The eastern inter-collegiate rules were adopted for track meets, but they differ only slightly from the present rules in trial heats and other minor points.
Announcement was made this morning of the engagement of G. W. Hess, instructor of mathematics, and Miss Florence Wick. The marriage will take place June 10 in Lawrence. It will be a quiet affair and only the most intimate friends will be invited.
Hess-Wick.
Fine Arts Concert Tonight.
The annual commencement concert of the School of Fine Arts will be held in Fraser hall this evening at 8:15. The program consists of musical numbers, vocal and instrumental, and one reading.
KANSAS TOOK SECOND
Bermond Beaten by Reed in Quarter.
The Jayhawkers took the second honors in the annual Missouri Valley Conference Truck Meet held at Des Moines last Saturday afternoon with a score of 31 points. The Tiger team won first with a total score of 40 points and Nebraska took third with 29.
New records were made in the low hurdles, mile run, 220 yard dash, pole vault, two mile run, half mile relay, and the quarter mile. Ammons sprung a surprise on the followers of the track athletics of the Missouri Valley by making sure of the of the shot put at the first of the event and French and Wilson easily took firsts in the jumps. Reed of Nebraska defeated Bermond of Missouri in the quarter mile race making the 440 yards in the time of 50 seconds.
DIPLOMAS GIVEN OUT
Phi Beta Kappa Inaugurates New System.
Initiation was held for the newly elected members of the honorary fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa, at the home of Prof. F. H. Hodder, Monday evening. Afterwards a reception was held for the new members and each one presented with a diploma of membership to the organization. These are the first diplomas that the Alpha chapter of Kansas has ever given to its members, and it has not been definitely decided as yet, whether the alumni members will receive one or not. The diplomas are twelve by fourteen inches in size and printed on a heavy deed paper in red and white. The type is of Old English and the whole is surrounded by a decorative border and signed by the president and secretary
FARCE CAST CHOSEN.
Ten Members in Senior Production Announced Today.
Daily practices are being held in Fraser hall for the senior faree "The Missing Link." The members of the east have been chosen and were announced today. They are: Rose Abbot, Constance McCammon Lucile Carrett, Ruby Soulders, Cornelia Hardcastle, Quay Barnett, Moe Friedman, France Wilson, and Murray Conley. The farce is to be given next Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock west of Snow hall. It will precede the Chancellor's reception.
Good Government Elects.
The last meeting of the year of the Good Government club was held last Sunday morning at the Sigma Nu house. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year; William Norris president; Everett Brummage vice president; Robert Lee, secre tary-treasurer. A delegate will be elected at the beginning o next year for the National Convention of Good Governmen Clubs to be held in Washington D.C. next winter.
Smith Retains Championship.
R. H. "Tiny" Smith, successfully defended his title to the wrestling championship of the University, by defeating Rex Welsh in two straight falls in a match Thursday afternoon. The first fall came in ten minutes with a scissor hold and half Nelson. The second in one minute and a half with a half Nelson. C. B. Root refereed the bout.
SENIOR PICNIC TO BE A FEATURE
FORM
PERMANENT CLASS ORGANIZATION.
Class Secretary Will be Elected— Beautiful Decorations Planned For Senior Graduation.
Farewell parties, caps and gowns, and trunks hurries to the depot all speech of the close of school. Commencement begins this evening with the Fine Arts concert; but the graduating exercises of the University as a whole do not begin until next Sunday.
An innovation in the commencement program this year will be the senior class picnic. This will be held on the golf links near Potter lake immediately after the regatta Monday afternoon for the purpose of effecting a class organization and making definite arrangements for the reunion in 1916. The picnicers will be entertained by the University band and several speakers.
Another feature of commencement year will be the campus decorations. Professor Raymond who is chairman of the committee is making plans for the most extensive and elaborate decorations in the commencement history of the University. From the windows of Fraser and the other buildings pennants and bunting will be hung. The pennants will be representative of the different classes graduated from the University. From the flag staffs large funnel pennants will be hung. In the gymnasium palms, cut flowers and potted flowers and potted plants will be banked on the roostrum, and bunting in the Kansas colors will be strung around the room. In the evening the campus will be converted into a gay "white way." Japanese lanterns and colored electric lights will be strung in the trees and all around the vicinity of Fraser. Under these lights the University band will give its concerts as scheduled.
Commencement week is full of memories for the alumni, but the time when all of the old grads really get together and grow reminiscent is luring the class luncheons on the campus. This year the luncheon will be held at twelve o'clock noon Tuesday, June the sixth. The picnic lunches will be bought on the grounds and each class will gather around its pennant to eat. At this luncheon each class that has graduated from the University is represented by its little group of members, the groups growing smaller in proportion to the years of seniority. And each group has its own individual memories and incidents to tell.
Last Issue This Year.
This issue of the Kansan is the last one that will be printed this year. The first issue next year will come off the press the first week of school. It is hoped that all the returning students will set a good example both to themselves and to the incoming freshmen by taking out a subscription as soon as they "hit" Lawrence. The more subscribers the better the paper.
Notice to Seniors.
Your diploma fee of $5 is now due and must be paid by May 31.
No degrees will be granted unless the diploma fee has been paid.
This is important.
E. E. Brown.
Secretary and Purchasing Agent.
Will be Back In 1916
Senior Class Picnic
Class meets on the golf links Monday after the Regatta to form a permanent organization INTERESTING SPEAKERS. LUNCHES CAN BE OBTAINED. K.U.BAND WILL PLAY.