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State Association in Session at University Will Hear Melville Stone
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 21, 1912.
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MAN WHO LIFTS CENSORSHIP
Told the Czar That Associated Press
Told the Czar That Associated Pres
Was Bound to Have the News
—Nicholas Yielded.
Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press, will address the Kansas State Editorial Association at its annual meeting here in April. This information was received in a telegram from Mr Stone to Chancellor Strong today. W. R. Nelson, of the Kansas City Star, and Frank McLennan of the Topeka Journal co-operated with the University in obtaining Mr. Stone.
Melville E. Stone is the magician who transformed the Associated Press from a national news-agency to a world-girding institution. To establish news bureaus he has personally interviewed the President of France, the Pope, the King of Italy, Emperor William of Germany and the Czar of Russia.
Mr. Stone's diplomacy in getting the censorship removed from the news of the Russian Empire, which had existed from time immemorial is still a matter of comment in editorial circles.
"The censorship is valueless," Mr. Stone told the Czar, "because it has built a wall about your country. Men in Vienna, Berlin, and London made a living by peddling false and harmful news about Russia. If you let us send out the truth uncensored and uninfluenced, Russia must be benefited."
The Czar finally accepted but asked for a mild and merely forma' censorship.
Mr. Stone won out and the Russian censorship of news was abolished.
"I'm sorry, Your Excellency," said Mr. Stone, "but if we are not absolutely free we cannot do anything in Russia. If our dispatches are not to pass untouched, we shall leave Russia and go on getting the news of Russia from other countries."
T O L O C A T E SANITARIUM
Dean Crumbine and Commission to Choose Site for State Tuberculosis Hospital.
The committee in charge of the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium will start on a trip next week to determine finally the location of the institution. The board will visit Sunnydale next Monday.
The Tuberculosis Sanitorium will be under the control of the state board of charitable institutions, but the administration of its affairs will be directed by a special commission consisting of Dean Crumbine, Sen. J. A. Milegan of Garnett and Dr. E. C. Perdum of Netakaw.
Prof. W. C. Hoad of the school of engineering and the engineer of the state Sanitary commission has charge of the sanitary arrangements and local building. The state architect has charge of the plans and specifications.
No Paper on Thursday.
No paper will be published tomorrow on account of the holiday in honor of Washington's birthday. An eight page paper will be issued on Friday containing the German supplement.
No Paper on Thursday.
The Governor Will Talk. Governor Stubbs will speak to the Good Government Club on "Practical Government from my Experiences," Thursday night at the Sigma Nu House.
NUMBER 24.
Art Exhibit Open Tomorrow.
The art exhibit in the Administration Building will be open all day tomorrow, Washington's birthday.
Sigma Delta Chi, the newspaper fraternity, has pledged 'Nayne Wingart, Russel Clark, George Marsh, James Leidigh, and George Edwards.
REGISTRAR FOSTER BUSY
ON CATALOGUE OUTLINE
Registrar George O. Foster today began making up the big "dummy" of the annual general catalogue to send to the state printer. A number of school catalogues, "separates," they are called in the Registrar's office, have been finished by the state printer. The matter they contain will be joined together to make the contents of the general catalogue.
Clyde O. Hornbaker of Castleton,
Kansas, has pledged Acacia.
ONE LONG REVEL IN MENUS AND MELODY
Glee Club Received in Wellington With Enthusiasm and Snow Storm
No wonder the Glee club is breaking all records for singing. Here is what they had for supper at Wellington yesterday at the Fred Harvey eating house:
Oyster Stew
Radishes
Mutton Chops Maintenon
German Fried Potatoes
Parsley Omelet
Sirloin or Tenderloin Steak
Celery and Apple Salad
Rolls
Corn Bread
Cherry Sherbet Assorted Cake.
The concert at Wellington was held in the auditorium of the third ward school. Every seat in the house had been sold at noon.
The audience was even more appreciative than the one at Chanute and the club was delighted at the way its efforts were received.
Claude Sowers scored a hit with his impersonations between acts, and was obliged to respond to two encores.
After having fine weather in Lawrence and Chanute, the club awoke yesterday to find themselves in the midst of a storm, and the ground covered with about seven inches of snow. As a result the club spent almost the entire day in its car which is spoken of as "home."
GLEE CLUB BRAVES
PANHANDLE BLIZZARDIS
The Glee Club is entering the land of snow and western blizzards. Dispatches from Amarillo, Texas, report that a heavy snowfall, driver by wind, swept the entire Panhandle since Tuesday night, drifting in some instances four and five feet and entirely stopping traffic by rail
The gleemen were scheduled to enter the Panhandle this evening and sing at Amarillo Friday.
PROF. HIGGINS AT THE BAR
Prof. W. E. Higgins of the School of Law represented the defendants and Hugh Fisher, who was graduated from the School of Law in 1909, was one of the representatives of the state, in a case last Saturday before Judge Smart of the District Court. The case was brought by the state against the Board of Education of Lawrence to joinen them from using certain text books in reading, that had not been adopted by the State Text Book Commission.
Law Professor Opposes a Former Student in Text-Book Case.
Professor Higgins argued for the defendants, that the text books adopted by the text book commission had been completed, and that the commission gave the schools then the right of using additional books. Judge Smart will give his decision some time this week.
The first intercollegiate debate to be held by the college women of Kansas will take place at Topeka, April 25, when two teams representing the literary societies of Ottawa University and Washburn College will meet.
LADIES HAVE THE FLOOR
The women will argue for and against educational restriction on immigration. Ottawa has the negative of this subject, and Washburn the affirmative.
First Women's Intercollegiate Debate in Kansas at Toppea April 25.
PRACTICAL ENGINEERS TALK AT BANQUET
nounce the "We Have With Us Tonight."
COSTS THE ENGINEERS 81.25
Professor H. A. Rice Will An
Stunt—Six Out-of-town Speakers
department Committees Have Special
Secured.
The program of the speakers has been arranged and is as follows:
Program.
Plans for the sixth annual Engineer's banquet have been completed and the men in charge of the big feed expect to pull off all their stunts, before one of the largest crowds that ever attended the banquet. The men will sit down at the table at 6:30 Saturday evening, February 24, and from time on, the committee in charge of the stunts will endeavor to keep the men diverted. The price of admission this year is $1.25. This is the first time that committees have been appointed for the various departments of the School of Engineering, as features descriptive of the work in their respective departments. The character of these stunts has been kept a secret, especially those of the chemical engineers. Last year the diners at the second table were surprised by an electric locomotive that ran down the center of the table.
Professor H. A. Rice will be Toast master
"The Business Side of Engineering"
by L. O. Ripley of Wichita.
"Regulation of Public Utilities" by Carl C. Witt, of Topeka.
"Metalurgical Engineers" by Professor W. A. Whitaker Jr.
"Some Things the Technical Man Ought to Stand-for" by Chancellor Frank Strong.
"Exhaust Steam" by Dean E. B. Mecrick, of K. S. A. C.
"Selecting Standards" by Plumer Wheeler, of Kansas City, Kansas
“Conservation of Time,” by l. E. L.
Dean, Dean of School of Mines,
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"Engineers' Day" by Martin K. Thomen, of the Senior class.
"The Development of a Railway" by C. S. W. Felt, chief engineer of the Santa Fe Railway Company.
PUT HUMOR ON THE DISSECTING TABLE
UNIVERSITY COMPANY OF
K. N. G. TO FEED RECRUITS
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, a Feature of Entertainment Tonight in Gym.
The University company of National Guards will hold their annual Washington Day entertainment, for new members, tonight at Robinson gymnasium. The program will consist of an imitation of a camp scene on the old camp grounds. This will be followed by a feed for the Company.
At the meeting of the Company last night the following promotions were made: Corporals Utterback and David Wenrich were advanced to the ranking of sergeant, and private Edwards, Crawford, Sterling, and Hughes were promoted to the position of corporal.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Professor Smith's Second Lecture Bared Secrets of American Laughter
EUROPE LAUGHS AT OUR JOKES
Life looks like a huge box of bon bons, a pavement of chocolate creams, one big case of dyspepsia to those elected to Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa, from the Chemistry department.
"American humor is most of all individualistic," said Prof. C. Alphonso Smith of the University of Virginia, in Fraser hall yesterday afternoon, before the largest audience that has greeted an afternoon speaker this year. "I'm first touched on the general appreciation that American humor meets abroad."
first to Fire a Laugh Heard 'Round the World Was Irving—Mark Twain the Favorite.
American Humor Abroad.
"The humor of America is not irreverent as European humor sometimes is, stated Professor Smith. Whenever sacred things are treated by our native humourists, the butt of the joke is always the assailant and opponent of that particular objective of reverence, not the sacred thing itself.
The speaker said that Mark Twain is esteemed in Germany as the premier American humorist, and that since the death of Charles Dickens no writer has enjoyed the popularity in England that he achieved as the author of "Huckleberry Finn."
"Foreigners feel the humor of the Americans," explained the lecturer, "but they do not laugh at us, rather they laugh with us."
Over at the house of a thousand odors every member of the department makes one of the University's honorary societies, must bid farewell to a crackling greenback and present the rest of the bunch, professors included, with a five pound box of candy—no not candy—chocolate bon bons, with the emphasis on the "choc" Those who make both societies must turn up with ten pounds of the com- spoiler.
NEW SIGMA XI CHENISTS ALL TO THE CANDY NOW
Characteristics of Humor.
Professor Smith gave three characteristics of American humor. Exaggeration, as typified in the work of Mark Twain, understatement, as used by Bret Harte, and the employment of humor for the thought's sake, as is apparent in Franklin's "Maxims of the Art of Humor" in his last volume, pure humor for its own sake, but a higher form, designed for the illustration of a thought.
"Diversity is the keynote of American humor. In this country, whose immense distances, variety of topography and ranges of climate are so closely a part of the life of the people, our susceptibility to humor has developed more and more; for the highest type of humor is built on contrast, diversity, and lack of sameness. The 'grooviness,'—as Arnold Bennett calls it,—of English humor, is not present here."
"Much American humor consists in refurbishing bits of genuine human philosophy, continued Professor Frank Fraser and many of our modern humorous writers.
A Famous Epigram.
"Mark Twain by his epigram 'Truth is the most precious thing we have; therefore economize it,' has emphasized, it seems to me, more strongly than has any other writer the vast difference between spiritual and material things. He demonstrated, by the absurdity of yoking a great spiritual truth to an old materialistic idea of man, to a moral concept in material things be a virtue, things spiritual are not made to garner in board, but to give out."
Professor Smith lectures today in Fraser hall at 4:30 on "Idealism in American Literature."
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State Historical Society
There are seven victims in the department this year, two of whom must go the ten pound route. But the candy can't all arrive at once. Merely, no! There is a nicely regulated system invented to stave off a flood of sweetness. One box is bought up every Monday and Thursday afternoon to Professor Cady's office. There it is opened and eaten in a regulation do-have-an-other-piece, pink tea style. After the boxes are all in the professor himself brings up a box to wind up the stuffest.
The orgy started yesterday and will run for five weeks. Young doctors out of practice are advised to camp around the Chemistry building—there's an optional ty.
The Weather
The Meter twins have split in their ideas as to what constitutes a square deal. Mr. Baro Meter, desiring to do the right to poor downrodden humanity, reports that it will be generally fair tonight and Thursday. Mr. Thermo Meter, still working in partnership with his cousin Gas Meter, has declared that he will stand up for the family and assist his worthy cousin. He says that his spirits will fall still lower tonight.
WANTED:MAN TO RUN FOR STUDENT COUNCIL
Philo Halleck Elected to Fill Vacancy Left by Schreiner
At the meeting of the Men's Student Council last night, Philo H. Hallek, a junior in the School of Engineering, was选填 to fill the vacancy in the council caused by the resignation of Walter Schreiner, a senior in the School of Engineering. The vacancy left by the resignation of Sandy Hamilton, a junior in the College, has not been filled. A new call for petitions from men who wish to become candidates for the position has been issued. All such petitions must be handed to President Arch MacKinnow before March 5. The council declared that in case suitable men do not petition the council for membership this position will remain permanently vacant.
K. U. IN LIFE-SAVING WORK
Winfield Boy, Bitten by Rabid Dog Was Hurried to Hospital.
One chance of dying in a hundred.
That is the chance which a six year old boy, Earl Wilson of Winfield has, of not being cured by the physicians of the University Hospital at Rosedale after he had been bitten by a mad dog last week.
Ninety-nine chances in a hundred to get well. That looks good when the other chance is to develop a case of rabies, but that is the ratio of cures which are effected by the Pasteur treatment which will be given the child by the University doctors at the Rosedale hospital.
Earl was playing with his pet dog in Winfield last week when the dog which had been sick for several days attacked him and bit him several times. The brain of the dog was to Rose the developed case of hydrophobia was present. The boy was then hurried to the hospital for the Pasteur treatment
Discussed Velasquez
The Spanish club met Tuesday afternoon at three-thirty in room 306, Fraser hall. The subject of discussion was Velasquez, the Spanish painter of the fifteenth century.
Big Daily Kansan Friday
The Daily Kansan will publish its first 8-page Friday number this week. On account of George Washington's birthday there will be no publication Thursday.
Miss Deanie Bramwell of Belleville, Kansas is visiting at the Chi Omega House.
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THE DAILY KANSAN.
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WILSON DATE WAS A "MISUNDERSTANDING"
Telegram from the Governor Says He Can't Stop Here Friday.
SORRY, BUT SOMEBODY ERRED
"Impervative Engagements" Interfere With Plans to Give Candidate a Welcome to University
Chancellor Frank Strong, University of Kansas
Woodrow Wilson.
University of Kansas.
Most sincerely distressed by misunderstanding. Was not myself responsible for it.
A stop at Lawrence apparently rendered impossible by imperative engagements of long standing. My sincere regards and appreciation.
Chancellor Strong received confirmation this morning of the unwelcome report that reached the University that Governor Woodrow Wilson would not be able to be the speaker in chapel Friday.
No particulars as to just how the misunderstanding occurred are known here, but is assumed that the persons in charge of the governor's itinerary made a miscalculation in preparing his schedule and that when it was found that the engagement at the University conflicted with appointments previously made; it was necessary to cancel the presidential candidate's stop in Lawrence.
RED DOMINOS UNDERWENT
ARID TEST LAST NIGHT
Eligibility Rule a New Feature of Dramatic Club try-out—Cast announced Tomorrow.
Try-outs for the cast of the Red Domino play were held last night in Praser hall under the direction of Eric Heller and an act of elocution in the School of Fine Arts.
A new feature was instituted in the try-outs, each applicant was asked if he were eligible. No student with any conditions or flunks against him was allowed to enter. The number that tried-out was not great but the quality more than made up for what was lacking in numbers.
The cast was not selected, as Miss Mossler and some of the older members of the club wish to make no mistake in the matter. Those who were successful will be announced tomorrow.
SECOND ART EXHIBIT
HERE NEXT WEEK
Drawings and Paintings From Chicago Art Institute Will be Placed in Administration Building.
A collection of drawings and paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago will arrive here next week, and as soon as the present exhibit of canvases is repacked, the new pictures will be hung.
Prof. W. A. Griffith, head of the department of drawing and painting, says that while this second exhibition is intended primarily for the students of architecture who wish to see the drawings is welcome. No admission fee will be charged.
The exhibition will consist of drawings and paintings executed by the advanced students in the Art Institute of Chicago.
TO HEAR NOTED GEM EXPERT
Prof. Haworth Trying to Get Geo.
F. Kunz of Tiffany, New York
Prof. Erasmus Haworth of the Geology department is trying to get George F. Kunz, the gen expert of Tiffany and Company of New York, to lecture here about the first of March when Mr. Kunz is returning to New York from a business trip to California.
"Mr. Kunz is recognized as the leading expert of the world," said Professor Haworth, "and has been with Tiffany for more than twenty years."
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