THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VIII.
JAYHAWKERS MUST SHOW "FIGHT"
LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1911.
SHERWIN MAKES ANOTHER SHAKE-UP IN LINE.
Delaney Absent From Practice And Baird Still on Side Lines With Injuries.
Several radical changes were made in the varsity line up last night. Captain Ammons was worked at fullback while 'Hank' Ahrens filled the tackle position. "Billy" Price was at end in place of Delaney, who was called to his home in Waterville, Kans., to attend the funeral of his grandmother. Baird is still on the side lines with his bad shoulder which he received in the Drake game. The other men on the squad seem to be in pretty good condition.
Coach Sherwin started a hard week's practice last night. He did not put the team through a scrimmage practice but worked with the line men. The Coach was much displeased with the way the men charged in the line and the freshmen forwards had little trouble in getting through the varsity line.
Comparative scores tell very little this year but this might be food for thought. Oklahoma defeated Washburn 37 to 0. Kansas won from the Sons of Ichabod by a 14 to 6 score while the Sooners were trimming Missouri 14 to 6.
The fighting Jayhawkers have turned into the "stretch" and before them are three barriers that must be crossed. The rampaging Oklahomaan has been carrying the pigskin across the opponent's line repeatedly and does not know defeat. The healthy Cornhuskuer has been sweeping everything before him but there will be a change in the weather and the "nubbins" will be harder to get. The wiley Tiger has been trampled and worried. Its snarls have been hopeless but it is crouching in its hair ready to get revenge for past defeats by devouring the sturdy Jayhawkers—all of which means to say that Kansas must beat Oklahoma, Nebraska and Missouri and that these teams are after K U.
At Washburn last Saturday the work of the team lacked "pep." Seven times did Sherwin's pupils carry the ball to Washburn's 30 yard line. Delaney drop kicked three goals and 'Rock Crusher' Ammons carried the ball over for a touchdown in those seven chances. The other three failed to net the Jayhawkers a thing. It did not seen hard for Kansas to carry the ball into their opponents territory but after it was there the team did not seem to care. However, the "fight" must come, if Kansas wins the Missouri Valley championship and there is much to indicate that it will.
EXPECT 300 AT BANQUET
Much Interest Shown in K. U. Reunion and Banquet.
Eighty-five names have been turned into Prof. R. R. Price of prospective attendants at the K. U. reunion and banquet to be held in Topeka next Thursday night. Professor Price said today that he expected at least 300 of the faculty and alumni to attend the celebration. About 280 met last year. No set program has been prepared but it is expected that the Women's dormitory movement will be pushed. A large attendance is expected. All who wish to go should confer with Prof. R. R. Price of the University Extension department.
Mandolin Club.
HURRAH, A 'RINGER'
The Mandolin club will play in chapel tomorrow morning.
Industrial Chemists Organize
Horseshoe Pitching Contests.
Another sport has been added to athletics at the University of Kansas. Freshmen, upperclassmen, graduate students and members of the faculty may compete on an equal basis. No Missouri Valley Conference rules apply, because, so far as known, the University has initiated the game in the realm of college athletics. Student Enterprise tickets are not necessary for admission to practice contests. No coach has been obtained and no schedule has been announced; in fact horse shoe pitching in the University of Kansas is still in its infancy has not yet found recognition in the world of amateur athletics.
Those to whom credit should be given for beginning this renaissance of the ancient game of horse shoe pitching, are students, holders of industrial fellowships and professors in the Chemistry department. Feeling a need for more fresh air and exercise than is ordinarily obtained in chemical laboratories, enthusiastic lovers of this lowly sport carefully layed off a field of play back of the Chemistry building. Passing horses were way-layed, and their shoes taken off and appropriated for the good of the cause.
Cold weather has no effect on the enthusiasts. Participants have already commenced to cut ab. periods to demonstrate their exceptional ability in throwing repeated "ringers." A University champion has not yet been chosen but many are the rivals for the honor.
Mains Will be Cleared of Con tamination Soon.
BOIL CITY WATER
"Boil your drinking water," is still the slogan for the users of the city supply. The pumping of water from the river was discontinued last week, and a sample which was taken from the pumping station and tested last Saturday was found to be qualified for drinking purposes. The mains, however, are still filled with contaminated water and it will probably be several days before this is cleaned out.
Chi Omegas Are Hosts at House Warming.
the hypochlorite apparatus at the pump station has been placed in working order and soon pure water will be assured.
Prof. E. H. S. Bailey of the chemistry department says that notification will be made when the water will be safe to drink.
NUMBER 23.
RECEPTION FOR 550.
A number of presents were received by the sorority for the sorority for the new house. The reception was held from three in the afternoon until ten o'clock in the evening.
Over five hundred and fifty students were entertained by the Chi Omegas last Saturday afternoon and evening at their housewarming. Many of the alumnae were back for the occasion and a number of mothers of the girls were present. Among those who came back for the reception were Stella Wangrin of Clinton, Lena McKeen Williamson, of Clay Center, Hazel Sanders of Galena Marie Tilford of Olathe, Hildagarde Mense and Mrs. John Freeze of Kansas City.
The first candy sale by the Junior girls will be held in Fraser hall next Friday morning. All proceeds will go toward the Dormitory fund.
Sigma Delta Chi Meeting.
There will be a meeting of the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity at the Alpha Tau house Friday evening at 8:30. All members are requested to be present.
First Candy Sale
GRAFT OUSTED FROM LAW SCRIM.
FEW COMPILIMENTARY TICK
ETS TO BE GIVEN.
Ira Snyder Says All Proceeds Will be Spent on The Entertainment.
The sixth annual "Law Scrimimage" will be given in Fraternal Aid hall Friday, December 15th. The "Scrim" is one of the two important exclusive law functions and is given by the School of Law in honor of the football team. Hall's orchestra has been secured for the evening.
"This year we are going to give the best 'Scrim' in the history of this affair," said President Ira Snyder. "We need to sell one hundred and ten tickets to make it a success and I now know where one hundred of these can be placed. Tickets will be placed on sale November 15th and the sale will close December 1st. I wish to emphasize the fact that there is going to be absolutely no 'graft' this year, every cent collected will be spent on the 'Scrim'. At our banquet last week, one hundred and thirty-five were present. Of these only twelve had complimentary tickets. This same business basis will be used in carrying out our 'Scrimimage.' The only complementary tickets that will be given are to our guests, the football men, and the faculty of the School of Law."
TIGERS VS. JAYHAWKERS
But This Time it is in Debate.
The Debating Council at the University of Missouri has submitted the following question for the Kansas-Missouri debate next spring. "Resolved: That the efficiency of State Universities would be increased by permitting the bachelor degree in the College of Arts and Sciences, to be taken without characterization or with honors the degree with honors to be based in part upon prescribed sequences of honor courses open only to students of distinction."
The contract with Missouri provides that Missouri shall submit the question and we shall choose the side which we desire to defend. Our decision must be made in two weeks.
The Debating council would be pleased to receive an expression of opinion on the question by anyone who is interested and has given the matter thought and attention.
ENGINEERS HELP
Prof. P. F. Walker and a party of Mechanical Engineers are now scattered at various places along the Kansas Natural Gas Company's pipe lines throughout the gas district, taking measurements of the gas flow, and pressure. This is part of the work of investigation of gas supply which is being done under the supervision of Prof. Erasmus Haworth, of the School of Mining.
Mechanicals Working in The Gas Field For Prof. Haworth.
Warren W. Reed, the new instructor in the English department who comes from Harvard to succeed Prof. B. F. Stelter, who resigned to go to Cornell, arrived in Lawrence Tuesday and began his work in the School of Engineering last Wednesday.
Stelter's Successor Here.
Freshman Girls to Meet.
There will be a meeting of the girls of the freshman class in chapel Thursday morning at 12:15, to elect the freshman representative to the Woman's Student Government Council.
PROF. E. F. ENGLE IN CHAPEL
Spoke on "The German Student at Play."
Prof. E. F. Engle, of the German department, who spent last year in Germany, gave an interesting address in chapel this morning on the subject, "The German Student at Play."
Students in Germany enter University life after a preparatory period of nine years, during which time the courses are most rigorous and exacting. Play is entirely lacking in preparatory schools so it is but natural for the student to entirely reverse the plan after entering a University where discipline is extremely lax.
German Universities have no quizzes, no grades, no flunks, no records of attendance, and all courses are lecture courses. Consequently the student has ample opportunity to indulge in play to an extreme.
Duels and tennis, together with some bowling and soccer take the place of our numerous athletic sports. They have only literary and scientific societies in German schools and social life is nothing like ours. The theater, the opera, beer drinking parties and the numerous fraternities correspond to our many "student activities."
"When students get down to work in Germany, they study hard and thoroughly master the subject at hand," Mr. Engle said. "Girls who attend a University are generally considered freakish."
GIFT TO CHEMISTRY DEPT.
Papers Given by J. D. Bowersock Valuable to Water Analysis
J. D. Bowersock presented to the chemistry department a number of bound volumes of Congressional Reports. Among this number there are 18 Geological Survey Bulletins and 21 Water Supply and Irrigation papers.
VEREIN PRESENTS PLAY
The Water Supply and Irrigation papers will be especially beneficial to the department of water analysis as it will aid greatly in the tracing of streams and add to the certainty of tracing the course of contaminated water. This department is constantly increasing in value and favor over the state and its equipment has gradually been improved during the past year.
Part of Minna Von Barnhelm Staged by Students.
Six scenes from the second act of Lessing's "Minna von Barnhelm" were presented before the Deutscher Verein Monday afternoon Nov. 6, by students in Professor Campbell's German III class. The roles were taken by: Clarence Brown, Christine Freark, Cecil Gorsuch, Veta Lear, Minnie Moser, and Dessie Myers. The latter portion of the program consisted of anecdotes and amusing personal experiences narrated by Verein members and others. Next week there will be no formal program as the time is to be given over to a Kaffeeklatsch, or a coffee.
Prof. Higgins Honored.
The president of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, which was established on the fiftieth anniversary of Chicago University, has for the third time appointed Professor Higgins on the committee on "Criminal Procedure." Professor Higgins is the only man who has served on this committee continuously since its establishment. He has also been appointe d on the committee on "State Branches and New Membership."
Notice.
The Friars will meet tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at the Phi Gam house.
SPRING PARTIES MAY BE ABOLISHED
FRATS START MOVEMENT
FOR MORE ECONOMY.
Will Probably Give One Big Pan-Hellenic Dance in the Gymnasium.
A movement is being started among the fraternities whereby all spring parties will be done away with and a large Pan-Hellenic dance given in their stead. A motion to this effect was made in the Pan-Hellenic Council meeting last Sunday morning and it was voted upon by the different fraternities last night. Practically all of the fraternies are in favor of this move and it is expected that a clear vote will be had within a week or two.
The sanction of the faculty and members of the University is one of the greatest arguments in favor of such a plan.
In preceding years there have been many objections raised in connection with the spring parties given each year by the fraternities. The expense is the largest item and this is increasing yearly. The idea to give a better and more elaborate party than each preceeding one is putting the price and style of spring parties far above the University standard of economy.
The plan now proposed is to have all of the frats go in together and give a Pan-Hellenic dance in the gymnasium of the University.
The motion reads that all fraternities and visiting alumni be charged a uniform price to defray the expenses. In this manner a needless expenditure of money will be saved and the party itself will be as fine as any one fraternity could possibly give.
It has been suggested that the dance be given the same week as the Junior Prom and by this means save stringing the spring festivities throughout the entire spring term of school. The motion will be further discussed in Pan-Hellenic meeting next Sunday morning.
NEWS BY WIRELESS
College Papers May Use Marconi Instrument in Correspondence
wireless connections with the college dailies of the west may be secured by the Kansan if a plan suggested by the University of Michigan's Engineering department is adopted by western institutions. Many schools have already installed complete wireless stations and the University of Kansas may be enabled to turn its attention to this important branch of electrical engineering, after the next appropriation becomes available. The Physics department of the University, under whose control the operation of a wireless plant would probably fall, is favorable to the plan. "If the legislature is good to us next year," said Prof. F. E. Kester, head of the Physics department this morning, "we may get an appropriation for a wireless station. As it is, however, this department has not enough material to successfully equip a station of any respectable dimensions. All our wireless material is intended for class room experiments, and besides we have no towers suitable for long distance work. I am highly favorable to the proposed plan, and should it become possible for this department to assist in any way the system of college news handling. I see no reason why we could not help make it a success."
Thespians Will Meet.
There will be a meeting of the Thespian Dramatic club at 7:15 this evening in room 116 Fraser hall.