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THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
Wednesday, December 20, 1911.
THE STUDENTS' UNION BUILDING
Tentative Plans Require $50,000 to Start Work---Influence oi Other Unions.
Many of the students have signified their intentions of soliciting for the fund for the Union Building, when they go to their homes during the holidays. It is expected by those who are at the head of the movement for the Union, that a good start will be obtained in pledging the amount necessary for actual work.
Books of the promissory notes may be obtained from Arch MacKinnon. There are three parts to these notes. One is given to the man who pledges himself for the support of the building, one for secretary E. E. Brown and the third is turned over to the Student Council Committee.
It is anticipated that three years will be necessary to collect the full amount for the completed building.
Present plans place the Union Building northeast of the finished Administration building. A broad roadway will lead from the grand entrance of the Administration building directly on and on the west a long flight of stairs, with percolas at the landings will lead to Potter lake in the valley. This arrangement will be in the center of the large horse shoe formed when the buildings of the University are completed and the campus extends around to the point of the hill north of the Engineering building.
The interior features of the buildings itself will be planned to a certain extent after those of other Unions at other Universities. The main lobby, the room where all may meet, will be flanked on either side by large reading rooms. These rooms will be fitted out with heavy furniture—mission style—plenty of lounging chairs and sofas, and with huge fire places where small parties may retire to "talk over things" to themselves. Magazines, newspapers, and books will be at hand; the cigar stand will be in the main lobby.
In the basement, will be found the dining hall, banquet rooms, and some of the billard tables and other gaming equipment. There will even be a barber shop there. Over one hundred men may be boarded at the table in the large dining hall.
On the second floor, all the societies and organizations of students will have their meeting rooms. The Student Council will have its offices there and publications will have either
their main or branch offices there.
The third floor will be given entirely over for the dancing flood. This will probably be open to any of the University organizations that wish to make use of it. It is said that at some of the other Union buildings, the dance hall has its dates planned for over a year in the future.
University Student Unions have proved successful at Harvard, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Brown, Dartmouth, and many other colleges of the east. Some of them have been erected as the result of public subscriptions. At present, the students at the University of Michigan are conducting a campaign among their alumni for one million dollars that shall be devoted to the building and furnishing of a great Students' Union to be called the Michigan Union.
Testimonials by those who have watched the influence of the Students' Union elsewhere, all go to show that the feeling of conradship, the gentility and refinement that is cultivated beneath its roof can nowhere be equalled.
This is said of the Houston Club at the University of Pennsylvania:
"The Hall and Club have been called experiments, but they are no longer so. Every day two thousand students push open the hospitable doors of the Club, and every day it obtains a stronger hold upon the student life at Pennsylvania. It is worth all that it cost, and more, and its success will probably, before many years, be duplicated in many other American universities.
K. U. CHAMPIONS IN BASEBALL IN 1870
"Not a detail has been spared that could help toward the end to be gained. There are nowhere softer rugs to tread, more tasteful pictures to admire; no deeper, more comfortable leather chairs, better billiard and pool tables, truer bowling alleys, or more inviting baths and swimming pools. And yet all is as simple as it is graceful and convenient. The great, because silent and constant, influence of the Hall is not toward the breeding of luxury, but towards the cultivation of refinement and good manners. It is the recreation place of a community of gentlemen, and no young man who spends his odd moments here for four years will fail to carry away with him something of that excellent quiet dignity which is in its very atmosphere.
OLD PIGSKINS TELL MANY VICTORIES
Secrets of Athletic History Re vealed at Gymnasium Trophy Room.
By Wayne Wingert
Most of the students know that the little room to the right
A world of interesting things can be found in the room on the first floor in the northwest corner of Robinson gymnasium. Many banners, pennants, pictures, footballs, baseballs, and other trophies which represent the work of a thousand and more athletes of the University, would furnish material for many "memory cues," were the right man to wander into that place where relics of long ago are kept.
on entering the men's side of the gymnasium is the trophy room, but few if any realize the value and significance of some of the things there. The glass case in the center of the room holds the first and last trophies that the varsity athletes have won in battle.
The silver baseball in the center of the case is the first trophy ever won by a University team. It was given for a championship in baseball in 1870. The other baseballs and those old pigskins tell the tale of many victories in the early days of athletic history here—Kansas 14, St. Marys 0; this baseball has Kansas 5, Missouri 0; and that football has Kansas 4, Missouri 0. That last score was made at St. Joseph Mo., and those shoes on the bottom shelf were worn by Sam Forter when he kicked the winning goal.
Those men in that picture are the first captains—Kinzie '90-91; Chaplain '92-'93; William
Lee's College Inn
WISHES YOU
A Merry Christmas AND A Happy New Year
Don't Forget that Box of Candy or Ciga's to Take With You.
We also Have the Best Line of Paper in Town.
LEE'S COLLEGE INN.
Useful Gifts
HANDKERCHIEFS are always acceptable, and always a great many are given. Visit our Handkerchief booth and let us show you the new styles in Initial and Embroidered effect. 25c up to $1.00.
HOSIERY, a complete line in all evening shades, both in silk and lisle. Put up in pretty Xmas boxes, a box,
50c, $1.00,$1.50
Gloves and Neckwear
seem to be a favorite gift with many. All different lengths and kinds. Another lot of Neckwear received this morning by express $2.50 to $2.00.
A. D.WEAVER
son '94; Pratt '95. The group of pictures on the wall to the left shows the Kansas football teams from '95 to 1910. "Shorty" Hamel and his team of '96 is in that picture next and there are Bert Kennedy, '97; Arthur St. Leger Mosse, captain in '98; and Avery and the team of '99.
"Hurry-Up" Yost was coach that year and the team was an ever-victorious one. The men scored 280 points to their opponents' 32. Missouri, Nebraska and Drake were the only schools to score against the Kansas machine.
In 1900 Wilcox led the team. Jenkinson in '01 and Vincent. Brummage, Hicks, Pooler, Donald, Rouse, Crowell, Pleasant. Johnson and Ammons follow in order.
Stop at this picture which is of the first team that represented Kansas on the gridiron. Everyone has seen at some time or other one of the small school-boy teams, the kind that play in the vacant lots fourteen or fifteen men on a side, depending upon the number of men who come out to "choose up sides." All wear suits neatly "squared" by the hands of mothers well up in the art of quilting. Across the breast appears the mystic
numerals or letters of their order.
Just such a picture is that of Kansas' first football team. No stripped jerseys, no shoulder pads, no helmets, none of the modern convenient protectors of the present day players. Just clad in plain football suits, which are, as a rule, not long enough to reach below the players' knees, and a jacket laced in front with the K. and the U. on either breast.
Next to the pictures come the banners won. The large yellow one was won by the championship football team in the original Western Association which was composed of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Iowa. This was in 1892 and '93. Three blue pennants were won in 1891 for championship in football, baseball and tennis in a triangular league composed of teams from Washburn, Baker and Kansas.
Prof. W. L. Burdick has recently been appointed by the American Bar Association as a member of the Executive Council for the state of Kansas.
The loving cups on top of the trophy case were won by the track teams, baseball teams and basketball teams.
Ladies Hand Bags, manicure sets, toilet sets, thermos bottles, traveling cases at Wilson's Drug store.
Attractive? Yes and more than that, the place to "buy." Wolf's Book Store.
Lowney's chocolates in $ \frac{1}{2} $ and 5lb boxes at Wiedemann's.
Box candies for Xmas at Wilson's Drug Store.
"There's a difference" between our stock and others. See what we have. Buy what you want. Wolf's Book Store.
Ladies Hand Bags, manicure sets, toilet sets, thermos bottles, traveling cases at Wilson's Drug store.
K. U, Posters, Pennants, and Pillows, at Boyles.
THE K. U. SHOE SHOP
1400 Louisiana Street.
Now is the time to bring in your old shoes and have them made as good as new; ready for Xmas and save your good shoes. Don't forget the place.
A BIOGRAPH
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
At The
Xmas Vacation
Let Us Do Your Barber Work..
The College
GRAND
Barber Shop
BEFORE YOU GO
HOME FOR
THE
"WHERE JUST STUDENTS GO."
..For..
Christmas
Brass Jardines
Brass Finger Bowls,
Tobacco Jars,
Smoking Sets,
Fern Dishes, Vases and
Crays.
Mrs. Hoadley's 17 West Warren
Fancy Toilet Articles and Perfumes, at RAYMOND'S DRUG STORE
SECOND JUNIOR PARTY
January 12. Todd Quadlander will play. Fraternal Aid Hall. Admission $1