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Daily Iowan, December 5, 1918

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The Daily Iowan The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa VOL. XVIII-NEW SERIES VOL. III IOWA CITY, IOWA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1918 NUMBER 32 BASKETBALL SEASON OPENING UP WITH GREAT PROSPECTS Football Captain for 1919 Will Be Chosen From Many Eligibles at Annual Banquet NEW SCHEDULES IN MAKING Athletic Board to Meet Tonight to Appoint Coach For Basketball Season With the most successful football year ever known at the Hawkeye school over, and the second place position in the Big Ten tucked away, the state title won and the best claim to the Missouri Valley championship, Iowa sport followers have turned their attention to the winter sport, basketball. Coach Jones has issued a call for all basketball candidates to report at the armory to the athletic director's office this afternoon at 4:30 where equipment will be issued and practice begun as soon as possible. As the armory floor is covered with bunks, practice will be held in the gymnasium of Iowa City high school. The Little Hawks have one of the best floors in the state and the Old Golds will find themselves on a fast floor and one as large as most universities can boast of. Captain to be Chosen Practices will be held every afternoon from 4:30 until 6:00. Night practice will be held later on but the exact time cannot be announced until later. Coach Kent's resignation has left the team without an instructor in the basket-caging game. No one has been appointed to the position yet. An athletic board meeting will be held tonight to name the coach. Several former Iowa stars are being considered; "Butch" Bannick, former forward, and Von Lackum another old Iowa luminary, are on the list. Either of these men would make capable coaches. Both have had a great deal of experience and would no doubt lead the team to the success that they themselves enjoyed when they were caging ringers for Iowa. That the Hawkeyes are to be represented by a stronger team than last year's quintet is almost a certainty, for nearly all last season's team will be on hand. Captain Berrien will lead the five this year and he no doubt will take his place as forward with Cotton as his team mate. This pair scored heavily on some of the best defenses that other schools offered last year. Olson, center for the last two winters, is at home but no word from the Swede indicates he will be back for the basketball season. Brown, guard from last year's five is now acting as personnel adjutant at Springfield, Mo. He too may be back to play. Van Lackum's farewell to athletics has left the team without a second guard and there will no doubt be a merry scrap for the position. Coach Jones to Conference. Coach Jones has called a meeting of coaches and Big Ten directors, to make out football and basketball schedules for the coming year. He will leave Friday for Chicago. The showing made by the Iowa team in football gives evidence that Iowa will meet the best teams again in the conference next year. Iowa students may feel themselves represented by a coach who will do his best to get first rate elevens on the Iowa card. (continued on page 4) [2nd column] BELOVED, IT IS MORN S. A. T. C. Sammy drags his weary bones up the hill from the mess hall. It is early morning and his arms still ache from wiping more than a thousand tumblers on the previous day. He doesn't care if he doesn't go to drill--he's going back home, anyway, as soon as his company is mustered out. He wanders listlessly into the liberal arts hall and on into the drawing room. Here in the dim morning light he looks around and sees a big davenport, just like the one in his den at home. It sure looks comfy to him. He lies down, and is conscious of nothing more until her hears a few suppressed titters. Startled, he sits up, opens his eyes, and finds himself surrounded by awe-stricken girls. VALUABLE PAPERS DESTROYED IN FIRE Blaze Starting From Cigarette Damages Records Essential for Demobilization Fire, originating from a cigarette butt thrown carelessly upon the floor of the Navy room in the women's gymnasium this noon, destroyed hundreds of valuable papers which were essential in the demobilization of the Naval unit here. The loss of papers, which included various governmental orders, physical examination papers and registration cards, is a serious one in that it will delay the mustering out of those cadets who are enrolled in the naval section. The papers, which were to have been necessarily sent to the adjutant general's office, before the sailors could receive their discharges, were badly damaged, many beyond repair. The fire was discovered this morning about 11:30 by Lieutenant Barmore, who immediately gave the alarm. The navy fire patrol responded with fire hose and buckets and soon had the blaze under control. Luckily the flames had not gained great headway, and no other serious damage was done other than the destruction of the valuable papers, which will undoubtedly cause a long delay in the demobilization of the naval section. LETTER FROM ARTHUR FREESE A letter from Arthur Freese, a former pharmacy student, came recently to Dean W. F. Teeters, in which the young man tells of his experiences in the storm off the coasts of Ireland and Scotland which wrecked the Otranto and almost destroyed the steamer on which he was stationed. To add to the excitement, as soon as the storm was over, they were attacked by a submarine, but were able either to sink it or drive it off. MACBRIDE'S PORTRAIT RECEIVES ATTENTION An official portrait of Thomas Huston Macbride, president emeritus of the University, painted by Prof. C. A. Cumming, of the art department, is now being exhibited with other paintings of the Iowa Art guild at the Des Moines public library. Alumni and others who have seen it, say that the portrait is forceful and strikingly natural, and that it is receiving much attention and high commendation. It will be shown here at commencement in June. [3rd column] LAW SCHOOL PLANS REAL OPENING FOR ITS SECOND QUARTER Many Students Now Receiving Discharges are Planning to Come Back SUMMER TERM ANNOUNCED Dean McGoveny Emphasizes That Requirements Will Not Be Lowered The college of law will start its year's program over again beginning Dec. 30 and run through to Aug. 30, in order to give men who are being discharged from the army and navy, including the S. A. T. C., an opportunity to get in a full year of law study. During the first quarter, which will soon close, the law school has had a very small attendance. One hundred and fifty of the men who have attended during the past years are in the army and navy. This fall men who might have entered the law school went into the army or navy actively or in the S. A. T. C. Dean McGovney announced yesterday that a large number of former students have already been discharged, or are expecting discharge soon, and have written to make arrangements for return to school. He also said that a good number of men now in the S. A. T. C. and others discharged from the service who have never studied law, will begin at the opening of the second quarter, Dec. 30. The enrollment in all classes is expected to be large. The third quarter will begin March 25 and run to June 14. The fourth or summer quarter will begin June 16 and run to Aug 30. Under the new program, which the college of law is now announcing, enough courses will start off afresh at the beginning of each of these quarters to give any student, whether he is in the first, secand or third year of the course, a full program of study. Beginners are advised to start in Dec. 30, in order that they can finish a full course and enter the second year class in the fall of 1919. The courses offered beginners, which start December 30, will be the regular beginning subjects, and the student entering them will get the same course of instruction that he would have had, if he had entered in the fall. First Summer Session This will be the first time that the college of law has ever conducted a summer session. Whether it will be continued after next summer is now left an open question. Its whole purpose this year is to enable men who missed the opportunity of entering last fall to make a full year out of what promised to be a bad one. Dean McGovney stated that the rumor on the campus to the effect that the college of law had lowered its entrance requirements has no foundation. The requirements remain the same, that is, no applicant is eligible to enter the college of law unless he has two years of college education, except in rare cases of applicants over twenty-one years of age, who have had active business or other experience. The latter may be admitted at the discretion of the faculty as candidates for formal certificates, not for a degree, though they may obtain a degree at the end if they rank in the top one-fourth of their classes. GOBS ARE REAL GUYS NOW The navy uniforms are here! Now the natty blue uniforms are dotting the mass of khaki on the campus. The "gobs" are proud of their new uniforms. Already they have found a way in which they are able to keep one hand warm while the other carries books. The hand is thrust inside the blue over-jacket in front a la Napoleon, and, there , it remains, except when it is needed to tilt the little round hat to some friends There is an air of real satisfaction about the "gobs" for they are "men in uniform" as well as the soldiers now. FRATERNITIES SLOW TO SECURE HOUSES Size of Chapter is Determining Factor----No Definite Plans Until After Pledging Although the University has made arrangements whereby fraternities will be able to move into their houses, no fraternity has yet consulted W. H. Bates, University secretary, in regard to moving back. The explanation is not lack of interest but that fraternities will not know definitely until pledging is completed whether they will have enough men to make a large house practical. Real estate dealers state that, although they have many houses suitable for the use of fraternities, no men have been considering them. They take this as an indication that the men plan to use their former houses. The disposal of girls now rooming in fraternity houses is to be discussed at a committee meeting tonight. Where the girls will be placed is not known. However, Mrs. Nellie S. Aurner, dean of women, believes that the girls wish to remain together in University houses. She states that since the dormitory system is to be increased here, no steps backward will be taken. The Theta Xi men are planning to move back into their house the first of January with a chapter of fourteen men. Sigma Alpha Epsilon has a comparatively large chapter this year, many of the men being in professional colleges. Expecting the S.A.T.C. to last for a longer period, they leased their house and now find it impossible to get it back. TEN NEW MEMBERS FOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY Nine persons were elected to membership and one to life membership of the State Historical society at the meeting of the Board of Curators Tuesday, Dec. 3. Those who were elected to membership are all from Iowa. They are Kermit Christensen of Jewell; Henry F. Graepler of Dows; Ralph L. Harmon of Des Moines; The Hon. A. O. Hague of Des Moines; The Hon. J. C. Lockin of Aurelia; The Hon. Bertel M. Stoddard of Sloan; N. L. Vanderlip of Dows; Dr. A. L. Wheeler of Mason City; Edward B. Wilson of Des Moines. Edward Denham of New Bedford Mass, was elected to life membership. NOTICE TO FOOTBALL MEN Capt. Ronald Reed wishes all varsity football men to report at the dressing room for a picture. The time set is 12:30 Friday noon. DEMOBILIZATION IS ASSURED FOR ALL COLLEGE S. A. T. C. Possibility Now Arises of Sending Men to Central Point for Discharge BLANKS ARE STILL HELD UP Headquarters Denies Rumor That Action Will Be Delayed Until Jan. 1 With the return of Lieut. Cook and Lieut. Clarke from Minneapolis, plans for the immediate demobilization of the S.AT.C. have taken a more definite form. The returning officers bring government instructions regarding the mustering out of sections A. and B., only part of which orders are now ready for publication. The military authorities may endeavor to complete the demobilization of the entire S.A.T.C. by Dec. 21. "If this is not done," Lieut. Clarke stated yesterday "an alternative might be adopted by transferring all cadets in the S.A.T.C. units at colleges throughout the state to a central unit from which they will receive their discharges." MECHANICS GO FIRST "In view of all present advisements," continued Lieut. Clarke, "demobilization at Iowa will begin within a week. The first companies to be disbanded will be Companies N and O of the vocational unit. The signal men and automobile mechanics have all completed their courses and are ready for discharges." The men in the naval section have been given permission to drop all subjects pertaining to naval service and may now resume regular academic work. Only a part of the medical examination blanks necessary for discharge have been received here. The much needed papers are expected from the war department shortly. No men have been given this final examination. PLANS INDEFINITE Vague as are the plans of demobilization at the present, it is felt to be a certainty in military circles that there will be no S.A.T.C. units by Feb. 1. Officers at local headquarters restated yesterday that there is absolutely no truth in the rumor that demobilization will not be started until Jan. 1. MRS. ROCKWOOD TO TALK Mrs. E. W. Rockwood, wife of Prof. E. W. Rockwood, who has just returned from a speaking tour over the Northwestern railway from Clinton to Missouri Valley in the interests of the War Savings campaign, will talk to the freshmen women today on "University Woman in the Community." Mrs. Rockwood is one of the foremost alumnae of the University. She has done much work in Red Cross home service and is also interested in the community work of the city. HAROLD PLACE MARRIED Harold Place, former student of the University and Irma Hoyt of Des Moines were married Aug. 28, at Boone. Mr. Place is a newspaper man, He was successful as a sport editor on the associated press and at present is the sport editor of the Des Moines News and also handles special stories for this paper.
 
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