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IN THE VALLEY
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JACK ELLIOTT
The athletic department of Kansas
Unirersity taking U possible
mens to make the 1927 Kansas Re
lays the best in the history of the
choc! from the viewpoint of the
spectator. The quarter mile track at
Memorial S.dium is being- surreyed
by f;iiMMin twenty-two metal
markers with bra tops are being
placed at intervals on the track to
show the starting and finishing points.
Instead of having the shot-pat event
outside the field like it has bee in
the past, it will be held at one end
of the gridiron. This will make it pos
sible for all the followers of the cinder-path
to see the weight events.
Special roped lanes will be construc
ted for the javelin and discus throw
"Libraries In the United States"
Discussed by Doane in Radio Talk
Spring football practice at Drake
University is in full swing and Ossie
M. Solem, athletic director and var
sity football coach, is planning to
have two regular games played be
tween two elevens composed of men
who are now out for practice. The
Drake mentor is disgusted with the
failure of many veterans from last
year's squad to come out for the
spring sessions.
The University of Michigan is
bringing a record breaking squad of
athletes to the Eighteenth Annual
Drake Relays at Des Moines the lat
ter part of April. Hester, Detroit
sprinter who woa the 100-yard dash
at the Pens Relays a year ago will
be one of the Wolverine tracksters to
make the Drake trip. Texas, Oregon,
Oregon Aggies, Alabama Poly, Okla
homa, Nebraska and many others are
going to Drake for its eighteenth an
nual carnival. Teams from the west,
east, north and south will be repre
sented at the track carnival. The
West Point Cadets and Pittsburgh
will represent the east against the
track stars of the west and the ath
letic department is attempting to
make this year's relays one of the
largest national meet of the season.
Thirteen Oklahoma Aggie matmen
will receive letters in the grappling
department for this year's work. Nine
of the men receiving letters are get
ting them for the first time and four
are lettermea from last year. Three
men who made letters last year did
ot make the O this year.
An entirely new experiment is be
ing tried in the Missouri Valley this
season by Oklahoma University. The
southern school is broadcasting all
baseball games played on the Sooner
diamond this season. This is an ex
periment that has never been tried in
the Valley and in all probability
there will be a number of old Sooner
grads listening in on the home games.
Although the Cornhnsker track
sters came through with the short end
of the 85 to 46 score at Berkeley last
Saturday, several Husker star came
to the front to show their heels to
the California Bears. Clea Johnson,
the leet-footed Nebraska niltr
sprung a neat surprise for the Golden
State track followers when he easily
won the mile run from the Bear dis-
ance star. He came back to win the
half-mile event in 1:87.2.
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"Libraries in the United States"
was the subject of a radio talk by
Gilbert Doane Monday afternoon at
the University radio station. This is
one of a series of addresses on the
history of libraries each week. The
history of the University will be dis
cussed by Miss Nellie Compton, as
cistant librarian next Monday after
noon at3:00.
"American library history begins
almost with the first permanent set
tlement in the New World by the
English," Mr. Doane declared. "At
Jamestown it was proposed to estab
lish a college, and the books of the
Virginia Company record the gift of
some books for that institution, al
though it never came into being,
owing to the Indian massacre of
1622. The fate of the college desig
nated for New England was much
better, for we find Harvard College
founded in 1636, and two years later
receiving under the terms of the will
of the Rev. John Harvard some three
hundred books. Harvard today has
one of these three hundred volumes
with which their library, now the sec
ond largest library in the United
States, was started nearly three hun
dred years ago. The fact that they
haven't more of that original collec
tion is due to the fact thbt they had
a fire about 1673.
"The eighteenth century marked
the origin and development of the
library in America as a separate and
distinct institution. This was due to
the founding of the subscription or
shareholding library, many of which
survive today. They were not public
libraries in the sense that anyone
could use them, but in the sense that
those subscribing to their support or
holding a share of the stock could use
them. The earliest of these was
founded in Philadelphia in 1732 by
Benjamin Franklin, that versatile
genius of his century, and was known
as the library company of Philadel
phia. It was the out-growth of liter
ary society known as the Junto, which
eventually became the American
Philosophical Society.
It is interesting to note in the fol
lowing statements of Mr. Doane that
the people soon desired a free public
library. "With the popularization of
the share-holding library did not go
far though. It did not respond fully
to the demands of the American Edu
cational system, so the idea of a free
public library, open to everybody be
gan to take shape. The first great
public library to be formed was in
Boston, which was established in
1848, when a law was passed making
it possible."
Mr. Doane's talk follows, "The
greatest public library in the United
States today is the New York public
library, which was founded in 1895
by the amalgamation of the Astor,
Lennox, and Tildeu libraries. The
Chicago public library assumes a pos
ition next to that of the New York
Public and the Boston Public."
Of the college and university lln
braries in the United States, the old
est and the most important is that
of Harvard, founded, as I have said,
by gift of books from the Rev. John
Harvard in 1639, later destroyed by
fire and then rebuilt. Today its col
lections contain about two and a half
million volumes. It has many very
rare and priceless volumes, some of
them of such importance that they
draw scholars from all over the
world for use and study.
The greatest library in this coun
try, greater even than the New York
Public library, is the library of Con
gress. This, the national library of
the United States, was formed in
1800, but destroyed by fire when the
British sacked Washington in 1814.
It was replenished by the purchase
of the private library of ex-president
Jefferson, at a cost of twenty-three
thousi.nd nine hundred and fifty dol
lars. It was partially destroyed again
in 1851, when seventy-five thousand
dollars were appropriated to replenish
it. It is now increased by regular ap
propriations by Congress for the pur
chase of such books as do not come
to it by the copyright law; by those
books which do come to it by copy
right, according to which two copies
of each book copyrighted must be
sent to the Library of Congress by
gifts and exchanges."
"The first library established in
Nebraska was the state library, es
tablished according to the Nebraska
Act of 1854. The next library to be
established was at the University,
which was coincident with the found
ing of the University in 1869. The
first public library to be established
was the city library at Lincoln which
was founded in 1875. The public li
brary at Omaha was founded in
1877. At the present time there are
over one hundred thirty libraries in
this state.
"The largest library in Nebraska
is the University Library, with ap
proximately two hundred thousand
volumes in its possession.
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(Continued from Page One.)
visited the City Plan Commission,
where the system of planning and
zoning was explained to them, in the
morning. In the afternoon they were
entertained by W. S. Dickey Clay
Manufacturing Company where they
had their picture taken for the Kan
sas City Post They also visited Har
rington, Howard, and Ash, Consult
ing Engineers, where they had the
opportunity of meeting the vice pres
ident of the Pennsylvania Kailroad.
The same day the agricultural,
chemical, electrical and mechanical
engineers visited the Corn Products
Refining company's plant and the
Cook Paint and Varnish company
where they were entertained a
lunch. In addition to what was sched
used, they were also shown thru the
plant of the Lone Star Cement com
pany. This plant makes cement by
the wet process, and is a very modern
and up-to-date plant In the after
noon this same group was shown
through the Swift Packing company
plant, and joined the other group a1
the Kansas City Art Institute.
On Thursday morning the entire
company inspected the Kansas City
Railway company and the Kansas
City Power & Light company's new
power station where they were again
entertained at lunch. This station ir
very modern and one of the largest
in this section of the country. In the
afternoon they visited the assembling
plant of the Ford Motor company.
which they found very interesting,
and the Sheffield Steel company
where they saw the making of rolled
steel forms.
On Friday morning they visited
the new plant of the Kansas City
water works, which is not yet in use
and is very modem using a large
number of automatic appliances, and
inspected the bridges of the industrial
section of the city. In the afternoon
they inspected the plant of the Kan
sas City Structural Steel Company
and Proctor and Gamble.
In addition to the trips scheduled,
the entire group visited the plant of
the Asphalt Paper Products company,
where they saw asphalt shingles
made. Members of the group report
this to have been on of the most in
teresting sights seen while in the
tour.
Most of the men returned Friday
night and Saturday morning, al
though some did not arrive home un
til Sunday.
WINNING TEAM TO '
BE SENT TO DRAKE
Nebraska High School Team Winning
Home Course Relays Will Be
Sent to Des Moines Meet
The winning Nebraska team in the
annual home course relay meet is to
be sent to the Drake relays, to be
held at Des Moines, la., April 29 and
30, according to an announcement of
the athletic department of the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
E. H. "Red" Long, of the College
Book Store, is financing the trip for
the winning team of the state and the
University of Nebraska is in charge
of the preliminar competitions.
The home course relays will close
on April 16 V whi:h time the results
of the districts ir to be forwarded
to Coach Hnrv F. Schulte, of -;he
University of Nohrarwa, who will in
form the successful team by noon of
April 17.
There is to be a trophy banner for
each of the event? win by a school.
Four events ara iiJ.eJ in the 1027
relay meet; 440-yard relay, 880-yard
relay, mile relay and a two mile re
lay. Competition will be graded with
the following performances in the
1,000 point class" on the schedule:
440-yard relay 45 6-10 seconds.
880-yard relay 1 minute 85 sec
onds.
Mile relay 3 minutes 35 seconds.
Two-mile relay 8 minutes 25 sec
onds.
Using this system the best team in
any two of the relays are to be selec
ted, to make the Des- Moines trip.
First, second and third place in the
home events will be entered in the
Drake carnival.
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