State Historical Society
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 20, 1912.
ART EXHIBITION ATTRACTS VISITORS
Thirty-niiie Kansas City Club Women Visited Gallery Today
INTERESTED IN WHISTLERS
NUMBER 23.
Members of the Athenaeum Have Studied Both Revolutionary and Contemporary American Art
Thirty members of the Art department of the Kansas City Athenaeum, and nine members of the Alternate Tuesday Club of Kansas City visited the art exhibit.
American art has been the subject for study this year, both in the alternate Tuesday Club and in the Art Department of the Athenaeum. "Our program this year," said Mrs. William Frick, director of the Art Department, "has included American art from the colonin' period, through the Hudson River school and the cosmopolitan period, to American art of today. In the exhibit here at the University, we have seen the works of the Whiteslers, in Sergeant Kendall's 'Reflections,' in Charles Wheaten Eaton's landscapes and in Alice Beach Winter's 'Little Doll.'"
The Kansas City city who visited the University today are: Mesdames William Frick, director of the Art Department, Eskridge Gentry, vice-director, Wort S. Morse, H. Jones, Annie L. Young, Freed Smith, Nellie L. Perry, J. M. Curtilla, Ella Herrick, Robert T. Herrick, J. W. Sanborn, E. L. Chambliss, Louis S. Seibel, R. L. Bruce, Frederick Edwards, James Fairweather, R. F. Calhoun, R. H. Balding, B. D. Davis, R. H. Manning George S. Hovey, W. H. Glakin, D R. Ruedel, John D. Nead, Charles Baird, H. H. Greeg, and Misses Grace Medes, Marie Goodman, and Gertrude Semans.
Mrs. J. W. Sanborn, Mrs. Louis L. Eebel, and Mrs. James Fairweather were entertained at lunchoon at the Pi Phi house by Maurine Fairweather. Arthur Perry entertained his mother, Mrs. Nellie Perry, at the Beta house, and Genevieve Herrick's guests were Mrs. Ella Herrick and Mrs. Robt. Herrick. Miss Grace Medes, Mrs. Marie Goodman, Mrs. Fred Smith and her guest Mrs. L. F. Lewis, of Boston, were entertained by Miss Helen Rhode Hoopes. The ladies formed a lunchoon party at Lee's, then visited the art exhibit and attended Professor Smith's lecture, returning to Kansas City at five o'clock.
HAVE YOU A KODAK?
Annual Board Pays Real Money for Views of the Campus
All kodak fiends in the University who have views of the campus will be given ten cents per print for each picture which the Annual Board accepts for publication in this year's Jayhawker Carl Cannon will hand out the dimes and all students who wish to pay their way through college in this manner had better see him at once.
A box for jokes and poems, in which any student can contribute material (provided he has the ability and desire) to write a poem in Fraser hall, near the check stand.
The business manager desires that all pictures, accompanied by write-ups, either of seniors or organizations, be handed to him at once.
Two hundred words is the dead word in Shakespeare's poem, "said Clark. Wellington's morning."
Clark Wallace, Elmer Dittmar,
Harry Weaver, Carl Cannon, Harold
Brownlee, and Rachel Bungartner
are selling tickets for the annual. The price is $2.50.
Kappas Held Initiation
The members of Kappa Kappa Gamma held initiation Saturday night for Marie Fogerty and Ruth Smith. The following out of town alumni were present: Miss Marisaita Cahill, Mrs. C. B. Shinn, and Miss Bernice Brown.
TELLS TRI-TOWN LEAGUE
HOW TO USE SCHOOL HOUSES
Prof. G. A. Gesell, of the department of public speaking addressed a very enthusiastic meeting of the "tritown league" composed of Wellsville, Edgerton and Gardner on Friday evening. His subject was "The School House as a Social Center."
This league composed of the three towns has been holding annual meetings for the past thirty years and each year speakers are obtained for the occasion. The talk given by Professor Gesell was particularly interesting as he brought new phases of an old subject and avoided the old and hacked questions of crops and corn rows which the farmers generally have to hear on such occasions from a city men who know little or nothing of farming.
PAN-HELLENIC ISSUES PLEDGE STATEMENT
Freshmen Must Complete Three Fourths of First Semester's Work.
The Pan Hellenic Council has passed upon all bledges to the national fraternities at the University and has designated those men who are eligible for membership.
Following is the ruling under which the Council acted: "Before any fraternity shall initiate any freshman, such freshman must have successfully completed seventy-five per cent of his preceding term's work, and that when any fraternity desires to initiate any such freshman it should obtain from the registrar a certification as to the amount and percentage of work such freshman has successfully completed the preceding term, and then present this certification to the president of the Pan-Hellenic Council who shall at the next regular or special meeting of the Pan-Hellenic present such names for the approval of that body, subject to the above rule."
Following are the men pronounce eligible for membership;
Beta Theta Pi; Martin W. Goldsworthy, William H. Schwinn, Raymand J. Ebnether, Victor H. Householder, Arthur B. Weaver, Delmer M. Buckley, Oliver T. Atherton, and Ben A. Sweeney.
Phi Kappa Psi; Ray J. Rolfs
Frank E. Bolin, Caleb F. Bowron
Lawrence Morris, James R. Blacker
and William Ainsworth.
Phi Gamma Delta; Kenneth Bower, Edward Hackney, James R Kennedy, Baldwin Mitchell, Chester Stokey, Schnierle, Wastel Fuller,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Robert Gallet, Edgar Welsh, William Poole, John Hamilton, William Howden and Thomas Taylor.
Sigma Chi; Arthur Fulton, William Butler, Ivan Dibble, L. P. Smith, Walter B. Martin, Frank Frissk, Frank Hissimont, and Ott Connell.
Alpha Tau Omega; John Emery H'ron O'Donnell, Theodore Rhodes Frank Benedict, Ray E. Wright Haskins, and Harold Calboun.
Sigma Nu; Lewis Betourny,
Owen Cline, Harold Higley, Beecher
Breyfogle, Arnold Todd, Lloyd
Jackson, Wayne Fowler, and Charler
Spellings.
Phi Delta Theta; Ralph Lewis Lewis Northrup, Paul Ketcherisid Frank E. Miller, and Van Holmes.
MUNICIPAL ENGINEERS
ELECT OFFICERS
At the regular meeting of the Municipal and Sanitary Engineering society last Friday the following officers were elected for this semester: J. A. Davenport, president; F. E. Johnston, vice president; Frank D. Messenger, secretary and treasurer. The committee for the Engineer's banquet was appointed. The men are Charles Cone, Howard Richardson, and J. A. Davenport.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL
IS TO MEET TONIGHT
The Men's Student Council will hold a meeting tonight in room 210 Fraser hall.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
UNIVERSITY TRAINS
MOST KANSASTEACHERS
School of Education Furnishes More InstructorsThan State Normal
TEACHING STANDARD RAISED
Bulletin Shows Nearly Twenty Per Cent of Kansas Instructors Receive Degrees from the University.
The School of Education has issued a bulletin showing a comparison in regard to the number of teachers in Kansas who receive their training in the various educational institutions of the state and outside of the state. The bulletin contains the list of all of the 1345 teachers in the high schools of the state with the subjects they teach and the areas where they are trained. It is graduated. By reference to it one can learn where every graduate of the university is teaching this y耳r.
According to the table the university furnishes 257 of the 1345 teachers; the State Normal, 207; the Agricultural College, 89; and colleges outside of the state, 181.
"To keep the large number 181, who go out of the state for their degree, within the state, the School of Education and the Normal must organize a special teaching class of high school teachers," said a member of the faculty yesterday.
Engle Addresses K. U. Dames
Prof. E. F. Englo, of the German department will lecture on "German Life" at the meeting of the K. U. Dames club tomorrow afternoon a three o'clock in room 313 Fraser hall. All members are urged to attend.
The Meter twins, Mr. Thermometer and Mr. Barometer, have decided to go in business again with their cousin Mr. Gas Meter. Mr. Thermometer says that his spirits will fall tonight and tomorrow and Mr. Barometer says he will present flurries of snow and that the wind will blow.
SHORT-STORY GREAT FRATERNIZING AGENT
The Weather
The material in the bulletin has been the basis of an article by Dean C. H. Johnson, of the School of Education, in the February number of "School Review Monographs," published by the University of Chicago press. The title of the article is "The Relation of First-Class Normal Schools to Schools of Education in Universities." In the discussion, Dean Johnson shows that Schools of Education are just finding themselves.
Roy Stockwell and Ray Soper have returned from Hutchinson Kansas, where they have been attending the state convention of the Y. M. C. A.
Where the school is strong in a university, the enrollment has increased wonderfully, drawing students from every part of the country." he says.
Virginia Lecturer Thinks It Might Have Averted Civil War
"This is true of the University of Chicago and Columbia University, which are the two principal universities that draw a large number of progressive school teachers who are going out of the state for their graduate study. "The large enrollment of students at the School of Education which is the largest in the country, granting more B. A. degrees than the College there."
"Professional standards for teachers of the high school grade are far below the standard of teachers for any other grade of educational work." he continued. "This condition is being changed and the master's degree is considered the teaching degree. Proof of this is the fact that twenty-three Doctor of Philosophy degrees be held in Education, making them rank third in the number of doctorates in the other than science group, out of 37 subjects in which the degree is given. English, then History-Philosophy combined, outranked them."
Dean Johnston will further utilize this material in an address he will give before the Department of Superintendents of the National Educational Association at its meeting in St. Louis next week.
AMERICA IS KNOWN BY IT
Poe's Type of Fiction Has Done for the United States What Scott Did For Scotland.
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In speaking of the achievement of the short-story in making the sections of the country know each other better, Prof. C. Alphonso Smith, Edgar Allan Poe Professor at the University of Virginia, said yesterday afternoon in chapel that he believed that, had the short-story been in vogue fifty years ago the civil war might not have occurred.
"The sections North and South would have understood each other better," said Professor Smith, "and there could not have been so much of that spirit of blind intolerance with which both sections rushed to the conflict."
"A prominent Southern Senator once made the statement in discussing the war, "If we know each other better we shall love each other more." This illustrates that had the short story then existed as it does today, it might have been the instrument of a more complete reconciliation than was effected in the period directly after the war."
"Out of the short-story I also expect to come that long looked for piece of literature, the American drama. The Elizabetht drama developed at a time similar to that period in America which saw the rise of the short-story, and was built on the earlier form of the short-story. I therefore expect a great national drama to develop from our present popular piece of short fiction."
Professor Smith was speaking on "The American Short Story." He said that he expected great things of it as an aid to the development of literature.
FRED LEE, '11 WON
SCHOLARSHIP AT YALE
Professor Smith lectures tomorrow on "American Humor" in Fraser hall. This is the lecture which the Emperor of Germany considered the best of the series. The art department of the Athenaeum, a woman's club of Kansas City, which will be in Lawrence visiting the art exhibit will attend the lecture in a body.
"The world knows America through the short-story," declare Professor Smith. "It is the great contribution of American Literature to the world of letters. It first called the attention to the study of literature by types and which is the proper method of modern criticism."
Professor Smith outlined the parts in the rise of the Americar short story played by its early masters, Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, and Bret Harte. He said that Irving had contributed character and setting to the story and had employee description.
Fred E. Lee, of the class of 1911, who is attending the School of Divinity at Yale University has recently been awarded a Fogg scholarship. The grade of excellence, required of a candidate for this scholarship, is that of the Philosophical Oration of the Academic Department. Lee led his class by twenty points.
Poe had introduced the element of totality, of convergence to a definite outcome. Hawthorne was the great expounder of symbolism, and Bret Hartle was the pre-eminent in sketching character, and in the use of local color.
BANQUET ON THE WATERS
A banquet on a steamer somewhere in Lake St. Clair or Lake Erie is the novelty which the senior law of the University of Michigan are now meditating. Plans for a banquet afloat sound almost fshy, but the committee in charge is taking it seriously and will send a representative to Detroit in an effort to secure a favorable offer from boat officials
Bulletin
Governor Woodrow Wilson finds it impossible to speak at the University Friday as scheduled. This information reached the Daily Kansan by telegram from Governor Wilson at 2:30.
The Daily Kansan immediately got into communication with Bert Brown, at Manhattan, who is managing the Wilson Kansas tour. Mr.Brown said the schedule had been arranged for Gov. Wilson to speak at the University and that he had wired the Governor to that effect. So nothing definite can be announced until tomorrow afternoon.
CHANUTE ENTERTAINS GLEE CLUB ROYALLY
First Concert of the 5000 Mile Trip Happily Received.
Chanute, Feb. 20—The Glee Club was met at the station by a committee of old K. U. men, consisting of John W., and W. A. Laphan, '00 who had made arrangements for the entertainment of the fellows.
Staff Correspondence.
The first concert of the trip was given before a large and appreciative audience at the First Christian church. As usual Lawrence Smith made exceptionally good and responded to several encores. The general character of the entire entertainment was even better than the concert given in Lawrence. The concert had to be more at ease singing before the audience audited which indicates that the trip should be a success.
The afternoon was spent in calling upon many of the town girls and auto riding. Although all the fellows made good with the fair sex we had to give the glad hand to Clyde Dodge and Clarence Sowers who scored a great hit in the first inning.
After the concert the members of the club were entertained at a formal dance at Eagle hall given by the Daughters of the Revolution. Much credit is due the alumni as well as the young ladies of Chanute for the royal entertainment given the Glee Club.
PROF. HODDER EXTOLS WASHINGTON'S CAREER
Criticism of His Politics Never Destroyed Courage and Optimism
TO DANCE FANDANGO
AT SPRING KIRMESS
Professor Hodder said that Charles Francis Adams had recently published a book which tried to bellow Washington's generality. He accounted for this attempt by saying that residents of Massachusetts were always jealous of the leadership of Virginia in the War, and that Francis Adams were always particularly jealous of the prominence of any other family of that period.
WILL ALWAYS BE VENERATED
Historians Have Never Subtracted from the Luster Surrounding Wash-
lution's Name - Romance Lives
Professor Hodder said that Washington's greatest lay in the fact that he was always optimistic and courageous, and his many people were criticising his policies.
ington's Name — Romance Lives.
"Historians have never subtracted anything from the luster which surrounds Washington's name, although they have often been accused of detracting from the fame of national heroes and taking away the romance in their lives."
"It is much the harder task to face the constant apathy and discouragement of the people—to have the courage of the common place." than it is to meet the enemy in the battlefield—to have the 'courage of the crisis.'
Intricate Spanish Steps Will Be Mastered by Gym
In comparing Washington to Lincoln, Professor Hodder said that Washington was cold, reserved, formal, and aristocratic; while Lincoln was openhearted and embodied all that was best in the common people. "Washington will always be venerated, while Lincoln will always be loved, but I cannot help but think that Washington performed the greater task for his country."
"I think it clear that no other man than Washington could have founded the Republic. I do not think it is equally clear that no other man than Lincoln could have saved the Republic." This was the closing statement of Prof. Frank H. Hodder of the History department in his chapel address on "Washington" this morning.
Classes
Send the Daily Kansan home
Eight dances from the Scotch, English, Spanish and Swedish national dances will be presented at the Kirmess to be given in April under the direction of the Women's Student Government Association.
Breatthitt Robertson, a freshman in the college, went to his home in Kansas City, last Saturday. He will undergo an operation for appendicitis, tomorrow
Miss Gladys Elliott and Miss Rose Abbott, of the department of physical education, are training the dancers. Miss Abbott did work in fancy dancing at the University of Illinois. Miss Elliott, who makes a specialty of fancy dancing, studied in Omaha, Nebraska, with Isabel Lowden, of the School of Expression and Aesthetic Dancing, and with Viola Dale McMurray, head of the Women's Athletic Association of Kansas City, Missouri.
"All girls, especially juniors and seniors, who wish to participate in the Kirmess," said Dr. Margaret L. Johnson, head of the department, "may begin training in the fancy dances classes at 3:30 on Monday and Wednesdays. In these classes, difficult steps will be studied, such as are found in the more intricate Spanish dances."
Mabel Nowlin, a member of the costume committee, described yesterday the color-scheme for the Spanish dances.
"The dresses are black," she said,
"with sashes and matador hats of
red or yellow."
DR. TRIMBLE ASSISTS STATE IN PROSECUTION
On the findings of Dr. W. K. Trumble, pathologist of the University of Kansas, the state will reply for much of its case against Charles W. Hedges, the ex-con-ger who accused Mrs. Dorett, a dawf, who loaned him money, in Kansas City,
Medical School Professor Testified in Hedges Murder Trial.
When the preliminary hearing was called Monday, Doctor Trimble was one of the witnesses called by the state and he was asked to tell what he has found by the examinations he is making in his laboratory in Rosedale. The scientist has told the police that the woman in the room admits wearing were blood spots. After reaching this decision the scientist took some of the blood spots from the wall of the room where the murder was committed and is now examining these.
Bushong Goes East.
Dr. Bushong left last night for Philadelphia where he will visit the Fols factory from which he holds a fellowship. He will stop at Pittsburg for a few days to visit Profes sor Robert Kennedy Duncan in his laboratories of industrial research. Dr. Bushong's stay is indefinite.
Watch Chemists' Alcohol Mr. Anderson, United States Internal Revenue Inspector, is inspecting today, the tax-free alcohol used in the Chemical laboratories of the University.