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VOLUME IX
UNCLE JIMMY'S BOYS ORGANIZE LAW JOURNAL
NUMBER 30.
Will Select Board Next Wednesday and Effect a Permanent Organization
PUBLISH STUDENTS' PAPER
Will Make Written Decisions of Disc trict Courts Accessible to Members of State Bar.
A new publication is being organized in the School of Law. The temporary board has adopted a constitution and this board will meet at three o'clock, March 7, in the Kansas Lawyer office for the purpose of selecting a permanent board which will constitute the Kansas University Law Journal Association.
The object of the publication is to make accessible to all members of the State Bar Association, the written decisions of the district courts of Kansas; to publish meritorious papers written by students of the University on legal subjects, and to touch any subject of interest to the legal profession.
Judge F. N. Mason of the Supreme Court has consented to act as a member of the advisory board.
Following is the constitution:
Section 2—The K. U. L. J. shall be controlled and published by a body known as the *K. U. L. J.*
Section 1.—This instrument shall, when approved in accordance with section 21 of the instrument, be the constitution of a public attorney "The Society of the Justice Law Journal."
section 4. Faculty members as set out in section 3 of this instrument shall constitute the advisory board of the K. U. L. J. Association.
Section 5--The student members of the K. U. L. J. Association as set out in section 4, will be required to attend a month of March by the advisory board, which board shall be the sole judges of the K. U. L. J. Association.
Section 7—When any vacancy occurs in the K, U. L. J. A. Association, said Association shall fill such vacancy in such manner and at such time as they deem best.
Section 6.—One member of the two selected from the Senior Class shall be designed "Student Editor-In-Chief" of the K. U. L. J. and the other member of the two selected from the Senior Class shall be designed the financial manager of the K. U.
Section 8.—The Advisory Board of the K. U. L. J. Association shall appropriate from the Treasury of the Association commensurate with the funds therein, such compensation as they shall deem worthy to be paid to the financial manager for his
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1, 1912.
Section 9—the Position of Student Editor-in-Chief of the K. U. L. J. share will no compensation, but the advisory board shall, when possible, appropriate from the Treasury of the K. U. L. J. Association, any expenses incurred by him in the interest of the K. U. L. J. Association.
Section 10.—One member of the students selected from the Middle Law Class shall be appointed to the position K. U. L. J," and shall receive no compensation for his services, but such position shall remain.
Section 11—One member of the two selected from the Middle Class shall be
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FITTEST SCHOLARS SURVIVE
How Dartmouth is Keeping Its Enrollment at a Reasonable Size.
Mid-year examinations at Dartmouth left a trail of ruin and destruction. Fifty-four men, including many "good fellows" and several great athletes, were separated from the college as a result. The wholesale dropping of students is due to the fact that Dartmouth has a strong board and the board of trustees is taking this measure of limiting the enrollment and maintaining a high scholarship.
By this method men who have lacked opportunities for a thorough preparation are given a chance to overcome their handicaps, but once within the college they must maintain a standard high enough to honor Dartmouth or be dropped. It is a system of the survival of the fitted.
Lecture—Mr. G. W. Kleiheg, of the school of Education will address he University class in Applied Christianity at the Methodist Church next sunday on "The Social Demands on education."
THE GREEKS OF OLD DESPISED "RINGERS"
SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN TO SMART YOUNG PUPPY DOGS
We Should Likewise Condemm College Offenders, Says Captain Pierce.
"A rule that has existed since 576 B. C." said Captain Palmer Pierce president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, in discussing the amateur rules that apply to college athletics in chapel this college, "must have a great deal of merit in it somewhere."
The speaker pointed out that the trend of opinion from the times of the earliest classic games to modern times has ever been toward the prohibition of participation by professionals in games with amateurs.
"The participants in the Olympic games," said Captain Pierce, "were required to swear before the statue of Jove that they were eligible to participate in the games, that they had trained for ten months, and that they would not use foul means to gain a victory.
The speaker also declared that the spirit that prompted students to delude the faculty by playing "ringers" on an athletic team was one of the bad results of primisuous professionalism.
"When there are professional students in school," said Captain Pierce there will always be attempts to break the rules.
In order to promote strictly amateur college athletics, the prohibition of summer playing by college ball players is absolutely essential.
“Besides, the temptations of an immoral nature that are offered to summer baseball players in minor leagues are such that I should never permit a son of mine to play on a minor league team.”
Professor and Mrs. W. H. Carruth were guests of the Alemannia Club at dinner Wednesday evening. Professor Carruth sang several German solos for the club.
Everyone has heard of the cunning of the rat and of the brainy feats which he has performed, and there are few who have not known at some time, either a kitten or a puppy which possessed almost his man intelligence. Mr. Dockeray desires a few specimens in order to train them along scientific lines,
Have you a kitten or puppy that you would like to enroll in a psychology class? Or perchance you have a big healthy rat whose education has been neglected. In either case there is now a good opening for you to initiate your pets into the fields of higher learning.
The class in Animal Psychology under Professor Dockeray, is ready to begin its work but is unable to make a start because of the seeming lack of ambition on the part of the desired animals.
If anyone knows of any neglected young rodents or any healthy, ambiguous representatives of the canine or feline families, he will confer a great service to the psychology department by enrolling them in this class.
For this reason and in order that the animals may develop no set habits, those less than a year old are desired. It is a question as to whether animals think, and the object of this course is to try to determine something definite about the matter.
giving them such a bringing-up as children receive.
There will be no nivexisection; the animals will be treated with every consideration and fed well every day, as they are wanted to be on their best behavior. The only labor required of them will be to "show off" their accomplishments and smartness every time the class meets.
Johns Hopkins Professor of Education and Psychology Says They Are
AMERICAN COLLEGES TOO CONSERVATIVE?
EXCESSIVE CRITICISM FATAL
Many Excellent Courses Suffer From Rules of Entrance Laid Down 800 Years Ago.
Criticism of America's higher institutions of learning as being ultral conservative was made by Dr. Edward F. Bucher, professor of Education and Philosophy on John Hopkins University, before the meeting of the society of college teachers in St. Louis. He would be interested in contact with the department of superintendence of the National Educational Association.
"Before any subject of study is recognized by the curriculum of our higher institutions of learning," said Professor Buchner, "it must run the gaggleot of all their criticisms with respect to its subject matter, its technique and its results. The course of human knowledge and a human teaching would have been very different from what it has been in the past eight hundred years if universities primarily set involved values and benefits involved in their education. Education, for example, in the past eight hundred years, as well as long before, was an individual art and a social need; but it is one of the last subjects to receive recognition under all the criteria which universities have come to adopt."
In discussing the question as to what should be the difference between graduate and undergraduate work of both graduates and undergraduates, he said "particularly the latter, should be so well balanced with respect to the threefold knowledge of history, science and technique as will guarantee to the student, within the range of ordinary probability, an intellectual appreciation of the unity in all education and a transfer thereof into professional ability.
GLEE CLUB'S SPECIAL BROKE 23-YEAR RECORD
Kansas Singers Enter California Through Blizzard This Morning.
Special to the Daily Kansan.
The club came to Needles from Williams, New Mexico, a distance of over 153 miles in three hours and ten minutes on a special train. This is one of the few days you can run in twenty-three years. It beat the De Luxe time thirty-five minutes.
Needles, Cal., March 1—The Glee club entered California this morning. The blizzards in this section of the country have tied up the traffic and here has not been a train from the last in the last three days.
The business men of Dallas entertained the club. A visit was made to the mountains and the mines were visited. All concerts have been good, up to date.
Captain Steele Does Not Think However, That Our Soldiers Will Burn Powder.
ONLY REAL FIGHTING CAN
MAKE TRIP FOR K. N. G
Captain H. E. Steele of the University Company of the K. N. G., does not think the company is in any imminent danger of being sent to Mexico.
"Of course," said Captain Steele when asked about the prospects of a trip last night, "if hostilities should commence between the United States and Mexico, the chances for a trip to the southwest would be good.
In case of war the militia is always called out before there is any call for volunteers, and our company would be called upon to go with the others."
HOTTEST ISSUE IN NEWSPAPER HISTORY
Send the Daily Kansan home.
"Herald of Freedom" Figured in Battle on Wakarusa in 1856
TYPE AND PRESS FOR SHOT
A Few "Editions" of the Lawrence Newspaper Fired From Cannon Dislodged the Missourians
Among the Kansas editors who will meet at the University in April, there will probably be a number who are satisfied that their papers have taken a few pretty "hot shots" at various objects during their history. Their stories cf conquest will sound "tame" in comparison with that of the "Herald of Freedom," the first newspaper in Lawrence.
It was in August of 1856 that the Lawrence newspaper exerted its great influence on the free-state struggle in Kansas. The Missourians were attempting to blot out Lawrence which was the center of the free-state movement. They had built a line of forts along the Wakarusa river a few miles south of Lawrence.
The Lawrence men prepared to take the forts, and brought an old cannon into service. They had plenty of powder but no shot. It was then that the "Herald of Freedom" running the green flag of beacon of theattle, offered its type and press which were moulded into cannon balls.
The Kansans bombarded the forts with the improvised ammunition and each time a shot was fired they would shout: "another issue of the Herald of Freedom." It is unnecessary to say that the Lawrence men won.
ALAS! STUDENTS MUST BE MORE CAREFUL
Watch Conduct By the Week for Grades Are Recorded That Way.
The blanks are sent out from the Deans office on Thursday and are filled out and returned Friday. These weekly reports are copied and filed in the Dean office where they are open to inspection by eligibility committees.
By a recent action of the University Council, all instructors are required to report weekly the attendance and general standing of the students in their classes. This system went into effect last week and now each student has a weekly instead of monthly account with the University.
NEW CASE FOR MODELS
Hyperbolic Parabaloides and Round Ellipsoids Find Resting Place
An assortment of models has just been moved into the new cases built for the mathematics department in the Administration Building. Some of the string models were constructed by mathematic students, but most of them were made in Germany.
The gypsum models are especially interesting. They cost several hundred dollars, some of the more intricate ones, as high as seven or eight dollars apiece. These models will be used as patterns by the mathematics department.
PROF. HUNTER A LOBBYIST
Prof. S. J. Hunter, of the Entomology department, is in Washington, D. C., this week investigating the national legislation regarding the importation of nursery stock and plants of all kinds.
The progressive Republican club of the University of Chicago has been asked by various progressive republican candidates for aldermen to the Chicago city council to supply workers for the polls. The club will give the candidates their support.
Entomologist, in Washington Working for Nursery Stock Protection
During the Christmas holidays, Professor Hunter was the delegate from the University of Kansas to the nurserymen's convention in Washington, D. C. At that time, legislation in this matter was attempted but so far, nothing has been done.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
The Weather.
University Men to Spot "Repeaters"
Mr. Thermo Meter gives out the happy report that his spirits will rise; Mr. Baro Meter spoils the report by adding that the weather will be unsettled tonight and tomorrow.
METER MUSTN'T TELL EVEN WHITE UNTRUTHS
Morality of Gas Measurer Examined by Experts in Testing Labs.
The gas meters which were sent to the University recently by the State Public Utilities Commission are being tested in the testing laboratory under the direction of Prof. P. F. Walker. The process used is very simple, and the results of the tests should be relatively accurate.
Immediately above the burner is a copper heating coil which is also enclosed in the oven. Water of known temperature is allowed to run through the coil, and the temperature after passing through the coil is again noted. The heated water is collected in a large tank and carefully weighed.
A small gas reservoir has been prepared, and this is filled with gas from the main. The pressure in the reservoir may be varied at will by increasing or decreasing the weight resting on its "float." An inch and a quarter pipe connects the reservoir to a burner enclosed in a brick oven.
The gas meter under test is placed in the pipe leading from the reservoir to the burner, and its readings recorded in conjunction with the amount of water heated and the gas pressure.
A gauge on the reservoir also indicates the amount of gas used, so if the erratic meter runs too fast, it can be checked up by the reservoir reading.
Yale Men Will be Arkansawyers
Yale Men Will be Arkansaswyers Thirty-eight men, seniors of the Yale Forestry School, will be sent to work at the Arkansas timber practical work in the Arkansas timber. They will return to Yale in June to receive their diplomas.
SENIOR YOUNG WOMEN FORM NEW SOCIETY
Prominence in Activities Basis for Membership as with Sachems.
ORGANIZATION
ELEVEN
Two Representatives From Each Sorority and Three Non-Sorority Members—Name Tomorrow.
A senior young women's society similar in its organization and purpose to the Sachaens had been formed in the University. At present the membership consists of two young women from each sorority, but a meeting will be held tomorrow at which three nonsorory members will be elected.
Two young women from each sorority took the initiative in forming the society: Leoete McFarlin, Luecelle Wilkinson, Joseph Walkine Brownie Angle, Myra Rogers, Katherine Dolman, Grace Wilkie, and Eder Degen.
The first meeting was held a month ago when plans were made for organizing, and it was decided to limit the membership to eleven. A name for the society will probably be decided upon at that time.
This is the first organization of the kind to be started in the University and it is thought that the junior and adult sets will follow the example set by the seniors.
The new members will be elected at the close of each school year from among those most prominent in school activities.
HEY HUNGERED AFTER
ART AND WERE FILLED
Over Three Thousand Saw Ninth Annual Exhibit in Administration Building—Receipts $333.
Between 3000 and 3500 people attended the ninth annual art exhibit given by the School of Fine Arts. The receipts amounted to $533. Besides the paid admission, about two thousand complimentary tickets were distributed among the pupils of the Lawrence schools and it is estimated that more than five hundred of these tickets were used.
Professor Griffith said yesterday afternoon that the exhibit was a financial success this year, and that the total amount of the receipts would almost bear the entire expense of the exhibition.
The most successful exhibit from a financial viewpoint ever held here was in 1907 when the Tissot collection was shown. The receipts were $750 that year. In 1903, eight thousand people, the largest attendance ever recorded, visited the exhibit which lasted for three months. During the past eight years, the exhibition has lasted only three weeks.
Students at Oberlin are endeavors to introduce fraternities. Opposition by some of the faculty, however, renders the success of the movement rather problematical.
"NOW AND THEN A STRAY PICKET" GOT ICY MISSILE
A lone sentinel with sword and gun tramped his beat one afternoon last week in front of the Phi Delt house.
Up and down on either side was scattered a line of sharpshooters Among them were some of the foremost snowball champions of Dougla county, and they plied their tormenting art until the ears and face of the unhappy sentinel were a beautiful lobster color.
But he could not reply to the assault. He could not even turn his face to watch oncoming missiles. It would not have made any difference as they came from all directions, but when he entered the house, appeared the heads of those who were evidently the superior officers of the picket on duty.
they wore out their present victim, another would be forthwith immolated.
They witnessed their comrade's plight but instead of issuing orders to relieve the embattled private, they treasonably gave aid and comfort to the enemy. Indeed they assured the invaders that whenever
And they pointed with anticipatory glee to divers of their paleface comrades who now and then averted their gaze from the unwholesome sight, only to be hilariously reminded that their turn would come. sure and soon.
Every hour a new picket relieved the tormented and nerve-racked pacer on the front walk. Girls approached, looked politely curious, and passed on.
The sentinels were forbidden to speak while on duty. Finally the last nephyte proved the sterling worth of his manhood and had passed, backwards, up the steps of the Phi Delt house. The attacking army went home to supper. But there is not much snow left on the ground in the 1400 block on Tennessee street, and six Phi Delts will see many snows before they forget their initiation ceremonies.