THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VIH.
NUMBER 16.
CONSTITUTION MAY BE AMENDED NOV.2
GRADUATES GET ENOUGE
SIGNERS FOR MEETING
LAWRENCE, KANSAS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1911
Limitations of Council in Regard to Student Control More Definitely Stated.
It shall be within the power and it shall be the duty of the Council to voice student sentiment in all matters of student concern and the Chancellor of the University hereby requested to appoint a committee of the University Council of at least three members, to whom members of the Student Council may go for advice and cooperation in all matters of student concern.
There will be a mass meeting of all the men of the University, in chapel, November 2 at 10.15 for the purpose of amending the constitution of the Men's Student Council.
(word "undergraduate" changed to "student.")
The petition with desired changes, signed by 64 electors, follows:
That Art. III, See, IV of the Constitution be amended to read
That Art. III. Sec. VIII, be amended to read ;
"It shall have power to assume such control of student affairs a may be proper and expedient, and to aid and promote interest in all student activities. Provided that nothing in this article shall be so constructed as to conflict with an regulations of any regularly con situted University authority. (same change, "undergraduate' changed to "student."
That Art, VI, Sec. I, be amended to read:
That Art. IV be amended to include the Graduate School in its provisions.
All elections of the officers and members of the Council shall be conducted to the Australian ballot system; the polls shall be open from eight o'clock a. m. to six o'clock p. m., on the date of the election and separate booths shall be provided for the electors of the different schools. The Graduate School shall hold election for its representative in the Council upon the third Thursday of the school year. All other elections shall be held annually on the first Thursday after the first Tuesday in May and all officers shall remain in office for one year, or until their successors shall have been elected and qualified.
The Graduate School also asks that any provisions of the constitution of the Council which disagree with the workings of the amendments hereby proposed shall be changed or amended to correct the contradiction.
Johnson County, Against The State in Spelling Match.
HERE'S A CHALLENGE
A spelling contest of the good old kind is the latest innovation at the University. The Johnson county club has issued a challenge through a chapel notice to any county in the state to have a spelling match with them. The challenge party is to have the right, with reasonable restrictions, to name the conditions of the contest. The acceptors are to answer by a chapel notice. The Miami county club is the one especially challenged.
Good Government Initiation Held Last Night.
FOUR ARE ELECTED
The Good Government Club held initiation Tuesday night for William Simmons and Jesse Gephart. After initiation a meeting was held and the following men were elected; Willis Bramwell Hal Black, W. E. Holmes, and Milton Minor
TO VOTE ON QUESTIONS
Debating Councils of Three Universities Will Meet.
Next Tuesday the debating councils of the Universities of Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado will vote on six subjects for debate. The question which receives the lowest total of ranks is the one that will be used for the triangular debate between these three schools.
The questions to be voted on are; 1st. Resolved that the recall on the judiciary of the states would be desirable; 2nd. Resolved that the open shop should be maintained by law; 3rd. Resolved that a compulsary arbitration board, to settle all disputes between labor and capital, should be established; 4th Resolved that it would be for the best interests of the United States, that the Panama canal zone should be neutralized by joint agreement of the powers; 6th. Resolved that the initiative and referendum are desirable reforms in our states and municipalities.
The Kansas Debating Council will hold its first meeting next Monday to elect officers for the ensuing year. It will discuss the above questions and provide for the preliminary tryouts.
FACULTY VOTE FOR WEEKLY REPORTS
RECORD OF ABSENCES ANI CLASS WORK SHOULD RAISE STANDARD.
In an attempt to raise the efficiency of the work done by the student body it was decreed by the faculty in their last counsel that hereafter an individual record of the attendance and class work of every student should be kept by the instructor, and the report handed to the dean of the school in which he was enrolled at the end of every week.
It is hoped that in this manner unexcused and unexplained absences may be diminished, and the regular class work of the students raised to a higher standard. Much of the cramming at the end of the term, and before quizzes will in this manner it is believed be avoided. The new system calls for a report not only of the grade made in quizzes but also of regular class work as far as the instructor is able to determine it and all absences.
The new system involves a tremendous amount of book keeping but it is believed by the faculty that it will hold the students more closely to their regular work. The scheme has been adopted to some extent by other schools but as adopted by the faculty council here it is different from the systems used elsewhere.
The preliminary tennis tournament to decide the varsity squad will be finished next week. All scores of the matches should be telephoned to some member of the committee as soon as the matches are finished. Matches may be played on any court satisfactory to the parties playing the match. A complete schedule of the tournament will be posted in the buildings of the University immediately.
Much Tennis Talent Out For Preliminaries.
HELEN MORROW TO WED
FIRST MATCHES ON
Engagement of Topeka Girl to be Announced.
Topeka, Oct. 21.—The engagement will be announced within the next few days of Miss Helen Morrow, daughter of Dr. O. S. Morrow, to Paul Walker, assistant attorney general of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company. Miss Morrow is one of the popular and talented young women in Topeka.
NINTH FRATERNITY MAY GET CHARTER
LOCAL BODY PETITIONS PII
KAPPA ALPHA
Sigma Delta Phi, The Petitioner Was Organized Two Years Ago.
It was given out today that a member of the Missouri chapter of the Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity will visit Lawrence soon to install a chapter at the University. The organization is strong in the south. Prof. W. W. Davis of the department of history is a member He has been working with the members of Sigma Delta Phi, a local order, to secure a charter from the national fraternity.
Sigma Delta Phi was organized two years ago and at that time petitioned Phi Kappa Alpha. The Pan-Hellenic refused to approve the petition until the local order should be two years old. The two years have passed and it is thought the Pan-Hellenic will not oppose the installation of a chapter of the national society. The new chapter will make the ninth Greek letter society at the University.
Franklin Rayfield and Rea Welsh are two men now in school who took a prominent part in organizing the local society two years ago. Other members are F. T. Thorne, Oliver Andrews, Ernest W. Macy, Edward H Taylor, Ittai Luke. Most of the men are living at 1041 Vermont street. If they secure a charter from the national committee of Phi Kappa Alpha, the men expect to get a chapter house.
PLODDERS MAKE GOOD
Registrar Foster Says They Win Out in End.
"Flunks and Conditions" was the subject which Registrar George O. Foster used as a basis for his talk at the regular Y. M. C. A. meeting last Thursday evening. He gave several reasons for the large number of flunks which come into his office at the end of each term. In the first place, there in the "honest flunker," the man who works hard and honestly but nevertheless fails in a part of his work. Next there are those who lack concentration, the lazy student and, in the third place, there are some who do not appreciate the time, money and labor spent for their education and wish to be the social leaders.
Mr. Foster says that he honors the honest funkier but has only the deepest scorn for the students who reach Phi Beta Kappa by means of a "pony." If the honest funkier does not leave school but keeps plodding, he is the one who finally succeeds rather than the grad "one" student who works dishonestly. He declared that few of this latter class ever succeeded in their chosen vocation, and later in life can usually be found following another occupation than the one which they came to the University to prepare for.
Mr. Foster says that all true education rests on a moral conception, and this in turn on religious belief. He wishes to see the University become one great brotherhood, this being in one sense synonymous with college spirit.
Dr. Vincent Succeeds President Northrop at Michigan.
INAUGURATE PRESIDENT
Doctor George Edgar Vincent was inaugurated as the president of the University of Minnesota Thursday October 19. He took the place of President Emeritus Northrop who had been at the head of the school for twenty-seven years.
Dr. Vincent is the third man to hold the position of chief administrator at Minnesota.
AGGIES PUT UP A STUBBORN DEFENSE
HARD BATTLE RESULTS IN SCORE OF 6 TO 0
Heil's 90-Yard Run the Feature of the Game--De-laney Punts Well.
The Kansas Aggies sprung a surprise on Kansas rooters, this afternoon, by putting up a stubborn defense against Sherwins offense, and held the score 0 to 0. If it had not been for Heil's brilliant run of 90 yards through the entire Aggie team, it is safe to surmise that the Farmers would have tied their ancient foe. Repeatedly the fast Aggie backfield made their downs through the Kansas line, and it was only the strong kicking of Delaney that staved off a touchdown.
Honors were even in the first quarter. Young tried for a field goal at 25 yards but the ball went wide. The play ranged all over the field in this quarter. The ball was once on the Kansas 3 yard line but it was in Kansas' possession and Delaney kicked out safely. Delaney easily excelled at the booting game. His spirals were from 35 to 50 yards. By the end of the quarter the Varsity had worked the ball out of the Kansas danger zone to the middle of the field.
An ineffectual attempt on each side for a field goal preceded Heil's sensational run in the second quarter. Howe tried from the 40 yard line and Delaney from the 35 yard line, the ball striking the cross bar. Delaney punted 70 yards, over the Aggie goal line and the ball was put in play from the Aggies' 25 yard line.
Heil's 90 Yard Run.
It was near the end of the second quarter that K. U. scored. Strahle punted 30 yard to Heil, who received the ball near the K. U. goal and ran 90 yards through the Aggie team for a touchdown. Heil was tackled by Hemp after he had crossed the line and his right ankle was injured. Wilson went in for Heil.
An exchange of punts followed the kickoff after the touchdown. The second quarter ended with the ball on K. U.'s 40 yard line and the score 6 to 0.
At the beginning of the second half, Coolidge and Kabler were put in at half backs.
The fourth quarter resolved itself into a kicking duel, Delaney and Brabier being the principals. Manhattan attempted one drop kick in this session and Kansas tried twice to score by a kick. Delaney almost added 3 points to Kansas' score by a kick from the 50 yard line
Peppon received Ahren's kick and carried the ball to his 35 yard line. Hoffman replaced Kabler at halfback. After an exchange of punts Manhattan failed to gain through the line. Manhattan kicked 35 yards to Wilson and recovered the ball or Kansas 40 yard line. Young attempted his third drop kick but it was blocked. A 35 yard kick and penalty of 5 yards for holding placed the ball near Kansas goal line. Delaney kicked out of danger to Young. A forward pass netted the Aggies 8 yards.
The officials were; Masker, of Kansas City, referee; Curtis of Michigan, umpire; Bonefield, field judge; linesman, Lieut. Erwin, of Fort Riley.
The lineup for Kansas was:
Ahrens, C.; H. V. Wood,
Wood,
R. G.; MacMillan, L. G.; Baird,
R. T.; Ammons, L. T.; Brownlee,
R. E.; Delaney, L. E.; Heil,
Q.; Coolidge, R. H.; Woodbury,
L. H.; Stueve, F. B.
The lineup for Manhattan was:
Piper, C.; Bruckholder, R. G.
Naulen, L. G.; Captain Holmes,
R. T.; Susson, R. E.; Stahle, L.
E.; Young, Q.; Peppon, R. H;
Seboski, L. H.; Brabber, F. B.
K. U. WINS SOCCER.
Friends University Defeated by a Score of 6 to 0.
In a rather one sided contest Kansas defeated Friends University of Wichita, Kansas, by the score of 6 to 0. The greater part of the time the ball was in Friends' territory. However the opponents showed spirit and did not give up until the final whistle was blown. Only a small crowd attended the game.
METHODISTS TO THE FRONT.
Followers of Wesley Educate Children Most.
Considerable discussion has been aroused over the state by figures produced by Chancellor Strong of the University of Kansas before the Baptist state convention at Garden City showing that not nearly so many Baptist children are being college educations in Kansas as are the children of Methodist parents. Chancellor Strong found by comparing the enrollment lists of eleven Kansas colleges that there are proportionately about twice as many Methodists as Baptists receiving higher training in the Kansas colleges.
TO HAVE A SCIENCE HALL
New Chemistry Lecture Room Will Seat 500 Students.
Berkley, Cal. Oct. 23.—Work will be started within the next three weeks on a new chemistry building to be known as the Chemistry Auditorium. The new structure will be erected by the university of California and will, when completed, furnish a science lecture room that will seat 500 students.
The construction will be entirely of concrete and steel and will be absolute fire proof. The equipment that will be installed will be thoroughly modern and new conveniences will permit classes that require intricate apparatus to be held in the lecture room continually.
NEW BLANKETS FOR TIGERS Engineers at Missouri Are Good to Players.
At a meeting of the students of the School of Engineering of the University of Missouri, it was decided that the members of the School of Engineering would present the varsity squat of the foot ball team with eighteen new "M" blankets. The blankets are to five feet wide and six feet long. If they can be made in time, they will be given to the Tigers at the mass meeting before the team leaves for the Nebraska game at Lincoln.
Spoke on "Petroleum."
"Petroleum," was the subject of Prof. L. W. Bushong's talk at the regular meeting of Sigma Xi at the home of Prof. H. P. Cady last Thursday evening. The great er part of the talk was illustrated, showing the petroleum industry in America and Russia, large wells, and some of the large oil well fires.