THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
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NUMBER 2.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1911.
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FIRST PRACTICE HELD WEDNESDAY
THE
NEW COACH COM
MANDS RESPECT.
Forty Minute Work-out in Sun
Exhausts Players—Players
Still Arriving.
Satisfaction was in the minds, stamped on the faces of the players and the students who had braved the heat of the sun Wednesday afternoon and watched the forty minute workout that Coach Ralph W. Sherwin gave the men who reported for the first practice of the season. It was impossible to tell the exact feeling of the coach by either word or facial expression, for his short choppy monosyllables did not commit himself and his stoical features merely showed grim determination. The general impression that lies with those who followed the foot ball situation of the University is that with an even break of luck, the squad that can be developed from the machine whose nucleus is now forming, will be a winning aggregation. The men who have donned the uniforms are well aware that the man the University has obtained for a coach is thoroughly conversant with the finer points of the game, and with this realization they have started in with a fighting spirit and doggedness to make good for the coach.
Twenty men donned the mole skins yesterday and with the coach toiled up and down McCook field, fielding punts, falling on the ball in the proper manner using "snap judgement" on the time the ball should be picked-up on the run and when it should be gathered up by the hip and leg in an embrace from which no opponent could possibly steal. Several minutes were spent in making quick starts out of the line, and Pete Heil, who has returned to school, worked on the punt for a time. Seven of the old “K” men were out for the first practice and several more of the last year squad will put in their appearance by the first of next week. It is the object of the coach to have the men play foot ball while they are on McCook field, but the time that will be devoted to practice will not be so long that athletics will take a major share of the time of the men who play.
ENROLLMENT INCREASES
"Hank" Ahrens, last year's center, will not return to school, as rumor has it that he will be married to a young lady from his home town, Belleville. "Ben" Davis, who played a "heated game" at full back, last year will return today and report to the coach for practice.
1412 Students Had Enrolled
Thursday Night.
The regular men who reporte yesterday are; Captain Ammons, Heil, Davidson, Price, Kabler, Beazley, and Brownlee, who played end in 1909.
The total registration figures towards the close of Thursday evening were 1412. This corresponders closely to the figures of last year. Wednesday was the big day both in registration and enrollment. Thursday was rather light in the registration office and the advisers who are doing the enrolling were kept only moderately busy. The enrolling room in Robinson gymnasium will be closed at ten o'clock Friday morning at the beinning of chapel and will not reopen until one o'clock in the afternoon. Enrollment will then continue until six o'clock. There will be no enrolling on atursday. The advisers will be at the enrollment tables all next week between five and six o'clock in the afternoon.
FRESHMEN KNOW
THE KANSAN.
FRESHMEN KNOW
THE KANSAN.
The publishers of The Kansan have learned with much satisfaction this week that many of the freshmen were acquainted with the University newspaper before they came to Lawrence.
The Kansan went to most of the high schools in the state last year. That it was appreciated is shown by the large number of freshmen who have stopped at the circulation desk in Fraser hall and subscribed this week.
Many plans for the improvement of the paper are under consideration. No student, whether freshman or upperclassman, can afford to be without his college paper.
Beginning next Tuesday, The Kansan will be published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening.
Get your name on the list in time to receive the first of the regular issues.
"COLLEGE NIGHT" FRIDAY.
Y. M. Will Entertain All The University Men.
Friday night is college night at the Y, M. C, A., and it will be the first celebration in the new Myers hall. The old quarters of the association have been increased by the addition of four large rooms on the first floor, and the meeting room on the second floor has been increased to four times its capacity, it will now seat six hundred men.
College night is a night for the new men students. Speeches, music and cooling refreshments will be on the program of the evening. ohn Musselman will sing a solo, and other music will be furnished by a quartette. The following speakers will be present: Ralph W. Sherwin, the new coach, W. O. Hamilton, Arch McKinnon of the Student Council, Prof. G. A. Gesell, of the public speaking department, a representative of the University Kansas, and A. G. Pearson, a Y. M. C. A. man of Kansas City.
WILL COACH HASKELL.
Former K. U. Football Coach Can't Quit The Game.
Bert Kennedy, the former foot ball mentor of the University, has just made public his decision to stay in the game for the next three years as the coach of the Haskell Indians. The foot ball situation at the Indian school was at a crucial state this summer. It is said that the head of the institute was not favorably impressed with the way in which athletes had been conducted there in years past.
crops.
It will be the object of Doctor Kennedy to put the football that will be played at the Indian school on a par with the quality of game that was played there years ago, but to eradicate that element of professionalism for which the Indian team became notorious. Doctor Kennedy declared that he would heartily agree to any settlement with the University whereby the Indians and the University team could have weekly scrimmages.
However, it was at last determined to keep the game among the Indians and the ex-mentor of the University was approached as being able to council regarding securing a man to teach the Redskins the game. Kennedy has accepted a contract for three years with, as compensation, a certain per cent of the gate receipts.
MERLE THORPE WILL TEACH JOURNALISTS
WESTERN MAN WILL HEAD
REORGANIZED DEPT.
Many New Courses Offered- Work Will be Made Practical as Possible.
Professor Harger, head of the department of journalism since 1905, resigned at the end of the last semester, in order to devote his time to other interests, and in his place the University has been able to obtain the services of Professor Merle Thorpe, an experienced newspaper man, whose four years in organizing, journalism courses at the University of Washington has gained for him an enviable position in the educational world.
Mr. Thorpe after leaving Stanford University was successively advertising manager of Washington Life, White House correspondent for the Washington Post managing editor of the Havamn Post, and London Mail correspondent. He was Northwest editor of the Seattle Post-Intelli genecer when called to the chai
Merle Thorpe, new head of the Department of Journalism.
of journalism in the University of Washington in 1907.
L. N. Flint, assistant professor, formerly editor of the Manhattan Nationalist, and Joseph W. Murray, assistant instructor, formerly editor of the University Kansan, will continue their work in the department.
The aim of the department is to give the high school graduates a chance for both general culture and specialization work. Many students feel they must choose their vocation at once and start specializing, thus sacrificing the general courses otherwise desirable. The half dozen courses in journalism now offered will not only send the student out with a profession but will also give him over $ \frac{3}{4} $ of his time while in school to spend purely in the liberal arts courses, history, English, political science, philosophy and psychology. The courses will be open to sophmores, juniors and seniors only. The following courses will be offered: The Newspaper, Comparative Journalism, History of American Journalism, The Short Story, Interpretation of the News, Advertising, Editorial Problems and Policies, Editorial Practice, The Mechanics of Printing and the Art of Printing.
Art of Printing
The demand that universities offer young men and women who plan to engage in newspaper work that specialized training already accorded to the other professions caused the University of Kansas to give instruction in reporting as early as 1903. The development of the idea was slow but thorough, until today fifteen state universities have well organized departments of journalism, whose work is placed on an equality with that in law, medicine, engineering, and the humanities. After these years of careful experiment and investigation, the University feels that it has a sound foundation upon which to build and is therefore ready to announce full and complete courses in journalism. Last year 65 students were enrolled in the department.
While at Stanford University Mr. Thorpe was, cheer leader at athletic contests, and took an a tive part in college journalism He is a member of three Greek better societies, Phi Delta Phi Sigma Delta Chi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
HAMILTON SUGGESTED
The Chancellor Will Recommend That he be Considered.
W. O. Hamilton, the basketball and track mentor of the University for the past two years will in all probability, be appointed to succeed Manager W. C. Lanson, who has signified his intention or resigning the position of general manager of athletics at the University.
Chancellor Frank Strong said yesterday morning that he intended to recommend Mr. Hamilton for the position to the Board of Regents and final action upon the appointment will be taken by the first of October.
"Mr. Hamilton has had the necessary experience in that department, so that he can accept the position," said Chancellor Strong.
"Mr. Hamilton has had the University from Kansas City, Missouri, where he was the idol of the students of Central high school as the coach of the basket ball and the track teams. In the two years that he has been coaching at the University, he has turned out two Missouri Valley championship basket ball teams, and one Missouri Valley Conference championship track team. The work that he has done in putting track and basket ball before the students of the University, has never been equalled by any man in the Missouri Valley.
Bound Kansan Copies.
The methods of coaching that have been pursued by the coach would go to show that he is a believer in hard work, concentrated into a comparatively small portion of the day and that he has thereby introduced better and cleaner athletics among the students.
A complete file of the Kansar for the years 1911-12 suitably bound, may be obtained from the business manager at a reasonable price. See him.
Pledges.
The following pledges are anounced by the national fraternties:
Sigma Nu: Charles Smith and Charles Coolbaugh of Stockton, Wendell Barrett of Hoisington, B. F. Banker of Waldo, Wilbur Betourney and Owen Cline of Concordia, Beecher Breyfogle, Wayne Fowler and Lloyd Jackson of Chanute, Amos Wilson of Leavenworth, Harold Higby of Sterling.
Sterling.
Phi Delta Theta: Carl Logan,
Albert DeBarnardi, Brown Loren
of Kansas City, Frank Miller and
Ralph Louis of Topeka, Jiles
Wickwire of Larned, Leonard
Hearst and Van Holmes of Emporia,
Philip Buch of Wichita,
and Paul Ketcherids of Hope.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Tom Root, Gene Welch, and Junior Taylor of Kansas City, Albert Teed of Hutchinson, J. S. Trobert of Topeka, Thomas Biddle of Leavenworth, and T. W. Dunham of Galena.
(Continued on Page 6.)
Sigma Chi: William Butler,
Lawrence Smith and Lawrence
Fulton of Kansas City, Frank
Russell and Walter Martin of
Lawrence, Frank Hissem of Ells-
OPENING ADDRESS IN ROBINSON GYM
SEN.
HODGES OF OLATHE THE SPEAKER.
Before Large Audience Social And Political Conditions Discussed.
A large crowd faced Senator Hodes in Robinson gymnasium this morning where the first address of the year was given.
The everyday man was the theme of the opening address which State Senator George H. Hodges delivered in Robinson auditorium this morning. It was an appreciation of the useful part played by the average citizen and a discussion of the changing social, and political conditions which give him new duties and responsibilities.
Touching upon the political duties of citizenship, Senator Hodges described the independent voter as the purifying element which cleanses parties of corrupt practices, and the most potent factor in the state. He predicted the early adoption of the initiative and referendum and said he favored the extension of the recall to the judiciary.
"I know men who in their own localities are not considered even mediocre lawyers, but who by some happy chance have donned the judicial ermine. Thereafter they cannot err, but sit in judgement upon any enactment and decree to the author what he meant and intended by it.
"I welcome the time when a law passed by the people by a direct vote through the initiative can not be set aside nor abridged by the Supreme Court. The only repeal of such a law should be through the medium that created it.
"I believe that political promises should be as binding as personal or business promises, and the day when a separate standard prevailed for political honesty is passing."
In his closing paragraph Senator Hodges said that one of the greatest moral forces in Kansas is the strict enforcement of the prohibitory law.
The speaker urged his student audience to fit themselves for the duties of citizenship by the study of political and social problems in their college days and the fullest and most complete use of the best the University has to offer them.
"You will be mentally poor if you do not exert yourselves just as you will be physically deficient without exercise," he said "There should be a balance between physical and mental growth. I have always been in favor of adequate appropriations for first class gymnasiums and equipment for the schools of Kansas. Football, tennis, baseball, and field sports should find a place in the makeup of the everyday man. A fine military company should be a part of every state institution.
"The University can not give you an education, but it is equipped to enable you to acquire an education. The ever-recurrent question when we have to make appropriations for this school is, is worth while? I say in the main it is. Every man who graduates from here is a part of that answer. You are a poor investment for Kansas if you do not use your acquired intellect for the good of the state which has given it to you."
Parrette-Countryman
Miss Charlotte Parretta of Topoka and William Countryman, who was graduated last spring from the School of Pharmacy were married at the bride's home. They will live in Kincaid, Kansas, where Mr. Countryman has charge of a drug store.