UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
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SOME RECENT EVENTS IN BLACK AND WHITE
CLLEE CLUB STALLBO IN MEXICO BLIZZARD
PROF. BAILEY'S CAT DOES 40 MILB HIKE FROM K.C.
OXFORD CHANCELLOR HAS NO WORRIES
IF OTHERS FAIL, THERE IS ONE
gents
English University Head Meets No Board of Re-
ATHLETIC BOARD WILL GIVE K$ TO OLD TIME ATHLETES
LORD CURZON STARTS REFORM
MUSEUM LEAKS
Would Grant Degree to Women, Le
* Faculty Rule University And
Stop College Independence
An interesting comparison between American and English university chancellors was made in chapel this morning by Prof. A. S Olin while speaking of the present chancellor of Oxford University Lord Curzon.
"English chancellors have no legislatures or boards of regents with which to discuss finances or matters of policy, in fact the office is purely honorary and the chancellor is not even expected to take part in the University administration. For these reasons Lord Curzon's at tempts at reform have created much discussion in educational circles."
Professor Olin said that threatened legislation of Parliament with the object of increasing the usefulness of Oxford, started Curzon's reforms.
"At the present time, Oxford alumni with A. M. degrees have more to do with the administration of the University than the faculty Lord Curzon would change this system and also make the several colleges at Oxford less independent of the central University.
"Another measure which this chancellor advocates in granting degrees to women, something which has never been done at Oxford," said the speaker, "but like a true Briton he does not advocate extending the usual political privileges to this class of students."
Professor Olin concluded by stating that the Oxford priority in English educational matters was being threatened by newer institutions and that some advancement must be made, either from without the University itself, or by the English Parliament.
CO-EDS PAN-HELLENIC
GIVES PARTY SATURDAY
At the Women's Pan-Hellenic meeting yesterday afternoon at the Chi Omega house, plans were made for a Pan-Hellenic party Saturday afternoon, March 9, at Eckle's hall to which all student and faculty fraternity women have been invited.
BAD, BOLD BURGLAR IS ONLY A TRUSTY LINEMAN
Dr. S. J. Crumbine will speak before the Medical society Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in Snow hall.
PROF. HUNTER HELPS DRAFT HOUSE BILL
Returns From Washington Where Horticultural Interests Are Involved
Prof. S. J. Hunter of the entomology department of the University returned yesterday from Washington, D. C., where he has been for four days, appearing before the Committee of Agriculture of the House of Representatives. Prof. Hunter was asked by this committee to hold a conference with on it a bill relating to interstate and foreign commerce in horticultural and agricultural products.
The Bell Telephone company is still in possession of a valuable "trouble man" only through the generosity of a courageous maiden
The bill as finally drawn up by the committee provides for the regulation of the importation of nursery stock and other plants and plant products. To enable the secretary of agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant disease and insect pests; to permit and regulate the movement of fruits plants and vegetables, and many other minor regulations.
The plan proposed by Professor Hunter for the administration of the bill, to have the work placed in the hands of an administrative board was adopted and incorporated in the bill.
This is the second time Professor Hunter has been asked to confer with this committee, and is one of the many ways the helps state and nation along scientific lines.
JUNIOR FARCE SELECTED
"The Beauty Machine" is the name of the play which has been selected for the junior play this year.
H. W. Champion, manager of this year's force is writing the music. He will announce the date for try-outs the latter part of this week.
His appearance showed that he was a bandit—the kind you read about in dime novels.
Imagine the horror which crept over a timid girl mannigirl when she entered her room the other morning and found a man's hat carelessly tossed upon her bed and a bandanna handkerchief decorating her study table! The quaking maiden was given an additional thrill by the sight of a masculine figure just outside on the fire escape.
Being alone in the house, the heroine straightway vacated the room, locked the door, armed 1-2-3.
Thereupon she did the only thing left to do. Flourishing her broom she demanded bravely:
"B-rrr bang! ! ! -! -!" (indicating noisy attempts to open the doo).
By this time the young woman was sufficiently excited to rush to the telephone.
"Wanted?"—Baanng! Bump !—
"Wwwwho are you?" with the
broom held high to strike.
self with a curtain-rod and a broom and sat down outside to await developments. These came suddenly in the form of—
But~horrors! The phone was not in order.
"What is wanted?"
"Who am I? I'm a lineman; trying to fix this confounded phone."
Y.W.C.A.TO SPORT THE FESTIVE GALAX LEAR
Evergreen to Be the Emblem of Permanency of the Association's Work
A galax leaf will be given as a badge of membership by the Young Women Christian Association at the first annual association day tomorrow.
"The galax is an evergreen," said Miss Nadia Thomas, general secretary this morning, "which is growr in the open woods from Virginia to Georgia. The leaf is round-cordate bright and glossy, of a rich bronze color.
"We chose this evergreen leaf," continued Miss Thomas, "as a symbol of the permanency of the Association work."
Miss Isabel Thames, chairman of the membership committee, and Miss Helen Pendleton, chairman of the finance committee, with other members of the Association, will have a station at the old check-stand in Fraser hall to receive dues from new members and from old members who have not yet paid.
NICE THINGS SAID IN RE
PROF. YOUNG'S NEW BOOK
At the rally meeting at 4:30 o'clock in Myers hall, at the close of Association Day, Wednesday, March 6, Cancellor Strong will speak on "The University and the Association." Special music will be furnished by Miss Ruth E. Cole, Miss Blanche Hess, and Miss Edith Bideau.
Miss Lucie March, president of the association, with the members of the committees, will hold an informal reception for the new and the old members, at 5 o'clock.
Prof. John Wesley Young, of the Mathematics department, has recently published a book which is being spoken of highly in the scientific world. The title of the volume is "Lectures on Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry." Prof. U. G. Mitchell has also added a clear and concise note on the growth of Algebraic Symbolism. The Science Magazine of February 23 speaks highly of Professor Young's work. In the summing up of its review it says: "In a democracy it is a duty of scholars to render scientific concepts intelligible to the public intelligence, and Professor Young's book is a valuable contribution to such high service."
FAT FEED FROM ALUMNI
TO SIGMA DELTA CHI
Alumni of the journalism society, Sigma Delta Chi, will tender a banquet to the local members Friday night. Preceding the banquet a visit will be given to the three top newspaper offices, where the boys will see "how it's done" on a big paper.
Four honorary members, newspaper workers in Kansas City, will be taken into the society at that time. The banquet and ceremonies will be held at the Hotel Kupper beginning at 8 o'clock.
GLEE CLUB GETS ITS FIRST PEEP AT PACIFIC
The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority will entertain the Sigma Ch fraternity at dinner Wednesday, March 6
The Chi Omega sorority will entertain the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at dinner Wednesday evening.
Sang at Barstow, and Wil Tour California and Then
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Barstow, Cal., March 4—The Glee Club has given its last concert at Barstow, California and now for a few days they are preparing for a wee bit of a jolly good time without even so much as worrying as to whether or not the tails of their full dress coats will be wrinkled when they go to put them on, or if the knees of their white trousers will reveal a tell tale stain.
The trip has been a successful one in every respect and all the way the railroad men have treated the boys with all the grandness that is due this royal bunch from the best schoo' in the West and the small town on the Kaw. Each town tried to outdo the other places and the general treatment could not have been better. The boys are all singing praise to the Santa Fe.
In spite of the fact that the club was snow bound for four days it is not necessary to say that the boys had a good time. The club is expected to return Saturday evening.
NEW YORK ALUMNI EAT.
Seventy-one Kansas University
Graduate Program
Graduates Attend Banquet
Dean L. E. Sayre, of the School of Pharmacy, received a fellow from his second year, Ic., of Brooklyn N. Y., announcing the eighth annual dinner of the New York alumni of the University of Kansas, at the Hotel Marie Antoinette, New York, Marie February 24, 1912.
One hundred and twenty, three alumni now are living in or near New York, of whom seventy-one attended the annual dinner.
SUPPORTERS OF GOV. WILSON MEET TOMORROW NIGHT
A meeting of the Woodrow Wilson Club will be held in Room 116, Fraser hall, Wednesday evening at 7:30. Some new literature and campaign buttons will be distributed at this meeting and plans made to assist in giving Governor Wilson a Kansas delegation at the Hutchinson convention. All Wilson supporters are cordially invited.
ARTHUR LEE IS WORKING
ON UNCLE SAM'S SHIP
Arthur A. Lee, a special in the College last term, is now a servant of the United States government or the stealthship Independence. The Department off the coast of California about thirty miles from San Francisco.
Mr. Lee is enlisted as a hospital apprentice, first class. After a year's service he will be eligible to take the examination for hospital steward.
GREEK MEETS GREEK YET NO TUG OF WAR
Only Vodeville and Eats in Sacks at Annual Pan- Hellenic
Hellenic
The third annual smoker of the Pan-Hellenic will be given Saturday, March 9, at Fraternal Aid hall at 8 o'clock.
The different fraternities will put on stunts. The Sigma Nu's will put on a minister show similar to the one in the year, which was the hit of the smoker.
The Phi Delta will put on football sketches taken from one of Geo Fitch's stories. The Sigma Chi's will reproduce the Men's Student Council in actual session. "Pinky" Wingart of the Alpha Tau's will put on monologue. Playlets will be produced by both the Phi Gam's and the Phi Psis. A parody on a moving picture show will be the Beta's part of the show. The Sig Alpha's have not decided yet what they will do.
A novel plan as to the serving of lunch will be tried this year. The lunch will be served in sacks this summer, so the men can all eat at the same time.
ALBERT SPALDING Violinist, Who Plays at Fraser Hall Tonight.
All alumni of the national fraternities in the faculty or about town are cordially invited. Also all m.n.in school are invited belonging to national fraternities which have no chapters here.
The Men's Student Council will meet tonight to fill the vacancy in the council caused by the resignation of Hamilton. Three students in the College, Charles Hill, Earle Moore and Frank Carson, have filed petitions for the office with Arch MacKinnon and the new member will be selected from these.
ENGINEERS TO HAVE THEIR OWN WAY
Parade Starts Immediately After Chapel--Miners' Challenge Not Accepted
PROMISE FAST TRACK MEET
Plans Are Nearly Complete For The Transit Men's Big Day on March 29.
By permission of Chancellor Strong, the parade on Engineers' day, March 29, will start immediately after chapel. This agreement was reached yesterday after a conference between the Chancellor and Martin K. Thomen, vice president of the Engineers.
Plans for the track meet on McCook field in the afternoon are being made, and the men are getting intshape for some fast events. The freshmen met yesterday to elect officers, and to arrange for entries in the meet from their class.
None of the challenges issued by the miners have been accepted formally yet, but the other department are quietly preparing to give the miners a hard battle for first place.
The dance in Robinson gymnasium at night will be the closing event of the day, and it will begin promptly at eight o'clock and close at twelve.
CLASS OF 1885 LEADS
IN DORMITORY GIFTS
The fund for the proposed girls' dormitory is gradually growing under the supervision of the secretary, Miss Alberta L. Corbin, and definite results in the shape of donations of hard cash are beginning to come in. The alumni are well known most enthusiastic, $2,833.00 having been contributed by them to date.
The class of 1885 has given the largest amount, $505.00 having been received from that class. The class of 1897 contributed the next largest amount, $341.00. The next in order are the classes of 1896 and 1898, they having contributed $275.00 and $235.00 respectively.
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WHAT IS THE SECRET OF THE WHITE LATTICED BOX?
A little white box, standing all alone in the snow south of the chemistry building. What is it?
Probably a thousand students pass by every day. Do half of them know what this latticed box on its brick foundation is used for?
"Looks like a bird house," said a tall senior girl yesterday, "Maybe that's where they keep the 'birds of the campus' I saw something about the other day."
A professor (College) ventures the assertion that it was the home of the seismograph. "At least, it is connected in some manner with the Chemistry department," he added thoughtfully, as though seismo graphs and German flasks were nearly adapted to one another.
Freshmen venture the shrewdest guesses. Everything from a fire alarm to day quarters for the night
watchman's dog is suggested by these aspiring youths. Only last Monday, one was restrained from depositing therein his weekly letter home by being assured that the mail box was for the exclusive use of students in the School for Nurses.
And so the answers come. A psychological experiment station, a gas meter, fresh air apartments for tuberculosis bacteria in Snow Hall an entrance to an underground passage useable by inmates at Homburd of Freedom, and a laboratory for one of the industrial fellows.
Somebody may yet suggest that the machinery which runs, (or does not run) the Physics Clock is encased within the walls of this same white box.
But after all, what is it? Do you know?