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RUMORED THAT COAL SUPPLY IS LOW
SOME RECENT EVENTS IN BLACK AND WHITE
LAW DEPARTMENT ENDS THE SNAPS
NARO FREEZE FIRE) ENGINEER-LAW SNOWDALL FLIGHT
CHEMICALS BANISH GLOOM AT BANQUET
SNOW BEGINS TO THAW
Faculty Dispense Words o Admonition Disguised As Toasts.
EVERYBODY HAD A GOOD TIME
SENIOR REFORMERS BUTT IN AGAIN
Punch on Tap All The Time--Pro
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zona, Was Not Present
"Something doing all the time," is the motto that the Chemical Engineers must have set for their second annual banquet held in Eckle's last night, for in the four hours of physical and intellectual feasting there was not a dull moment.
The only regrettable feature of the occasion was the fact that Robert K. Duncan could not be present. A letter from Dr. Duncan was read, in which he expressed his regrets that it was necessary for him to be in Arizona as soon as possible.
The hall was decorated with red and blue bunting, and the table was dotted at reguairr intervals with cylindrical jars containing red and blue liquids. The color scheme was given more life by the deep red punch, which, contrary to the usual custom, was on the table throughout the dinner.
Dr. L. V. Dedman as toastmaster was an undisputed success, while the toasts were all well delivered and good to listen to.
TOASTS WERE ALL GOOD
Prof. H. P. Cady spoke of "The Undergraduates" and his toasts abounded with good-natured fun and banter. He deplored the students' lack of general information, and advised them to remain at home with a book instead of making so many nightly excursions to the nickels.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Edward Weidlein spoke next or "Industious Life at K. U." and Edmund Rhodes gave the final toast or "Engineers' Day."
The banquet was brought to ar end by the Chemical Engineers' yell "H-2-S, Holy Smoke— Chemistry, Chemistry, is no joke— Ions and atoms, stinks and smears— We're the Chemical Engineers."
Earl Killarney of Atchison has pledged to the Sasnaks.
THE FACULTY IS DISCUSSED
Emile E. Grignard talked briefly on "The Faculty" urging closer friendship between the professors and the students, after which Prof. C. C. Young enlivened the occasion by speaking briefly and entertainingly about the abilities of some of the students.
Prof. F. B. Dains' toast on "The Chemist in History," was full of wif and his stories were apt and well chosen. After Professor Dains Prof. W. A. Whitaker talked or "What a Young Chemist Should Know."
Prof. John P. Trickey sang "On the Road to Mandalay," and as an encore he grave "My Hero."
Gilbert A. Bragg talked of a "A Little Yellow Dog," urging all the faculty to become acquainted with that learned society.
TO PRIME THE SPEAKER
"Thursday Evening Club" Will Dine
Y. M. C. A. Guests, once a Week.
"The Thursday Evening Club" is
the names of a club of Y. M. C. A.
workers who will take their dinner
together every Thursday evening and
including the Y. M. C. A. guest,
including the Y. M. C. A. speaker for
the evening.
Last Thursday night the club took dinner at the University cafeteria. Mr W. W. Bowman and Prof. A. J. Boynton were the guests.
Fellowing are the names of the members of the club: Geo. O. Foster, Prof. G. C. Shaad, Rev. Noble S. Elderman, D. C. Martindale, R. O. Dart, M. Corin, E. E. Stephens, Don L. Davis, A. S. Wilber, J. S. Joper, C. C. Younggreen, T. D. Messenger, C. F. Hanson, and Roy Stockwell.
RED DOMINOS' PLAY FOR KANSAS EDITORS
Date of Production Changed so State Association Can See College Actors
College Actors
The comic opera to be given by the Red Domino will be staged on April 8 and 9 instead of April 15 and 16 as originally planned. The change was made on account of the fact that the Kansas State Editorial Association will be in session here on the 8th and 9th and the club wishes to show what sort of a play a real live bunch can put on.
The cast for the play contains some of the best talent there is in the university and it is assured that the penance itself is something worth while from the amateurs.
JUNIOR FARCE CAST TO
BE SELECTED TONIGHT
"The Beauty Machine" is The Fare Selected—Music Being Composed by Junior Engineer.
A tryout for the Junior Force will be held tonight at 7:00 p. m. in room 116 of Fraser Hall. All who wish to try out are requested to bring some song or reading with which they are familiar. An original fence entitled "The Beauty Machine" has been chosen by the committee. The setting of the play is laid in the "Queendom of Quelicia," where no man have even permitted entry, but then get invited, and after a series of close calls, involving many amusing incidents, they escape with their animals and sweet-hearts.
Prof. R. R. Price of the Extension Division, returned from St. Johns, Stafford county, yesterday where he delivered an address before the county teachers' association on "The Use of Schools as a Social and Civic Center."
Miss Gertrude Mossler will select the cast and direct the fare. Ray Hall's entire orchestra of Topeka will play the accompaniments for the songs and furnish the music for the dance later in the evening.
The music for the farce is being written by Mr. Cain, an engineering sage in the Engineering school.
Professor Price made arrangement for Prof. H. P. Cady of the chemistry department to give his lecture on "Liquid Air" at Hutchinson, March 27, and possibly at Stafford and Tonganoxie later.
PROFESSOR PRICE IS
BACK FROM THE WEST
COUNCIL CROWNED THE WHISTLE KING
Big Tooter Given Job of Running University Schedule on Time
CLASS PERIODS FIFTY MINUTES
Standard Length of Recitation Adopte
Leaving Ten Minutes Intervals—
Tardy Marks Will Be Unknown
The professor who believes in the Marathon recitation instead of the fifty-minute class dash was ruled off the field by action of the University's legal department, when it adopted a modified form of the proposed system of whistle signals.
The whistle will blow at the end of each period, but the evidence of privately regulated timepieces will be ignored until the proper time to begin the next session.
The intermission between classes will be ten minutes, leaving fifty minutes for the recitation. This is the first time students have hours in the universities of the country.
PLAN IS POPULAR.
Students and faculty both seem to approve the reforms of the schedule. The confusion arising from late arrivals in class struggling in from distant buildings or rushing in breathless from recitations held overtime will now be done away with. A few persons with nerves have suggested that the whistle makes some noise. It is understood that the Council was aware of this fact. It is pointed out that the general University catalogue says no at word in favor of Mt. Oread as a retreat for neurotics.
CUT THE SLANG---
ENGLISH FACULTY
Students and Geo. Ade Come In For Censure By Professors
That the use of slang and commonplace expressions is to be avoided is the firm conviction of the faculty of the department of English. In this they agree with Grenville Kleiser, founder of the Public Speaking club of America.
TO UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGIOUS LEADERS
Send the Daily Kansan home.
"Slang is the subterfuge of the slothful," according to Mr. Grenville. "My attitude toward slang." Prof. C. G. Dunnap said, "Is a hostile one. Slang is cheap. It may sound smart to call an ice-cream parlor a 'joint,' or your girl a 'queen,' but George Ade does a great deal of harm to the English language by writing 'Take your Queen to an ice-cream Joint.'"
"Slang is detestable," Prof. R. D. O'Leary said. It is weakening to the intellect to make one set of phrases answer for the expression of every emotion. Slang is a vague term and 'includes many neologisms.'
"No expression should be used because it is 'catchy'," Professor Dunlap said, "No one need use the phrase "to catch on" when the same meaning is conveyed by the words "to understand."
Chancellor Strong at St.Louis Prophesies New Type of Evangelist
NEEDED FOR SPECIFIC SERVICE
Church Must Look After Sunday
Schools, Settlement Work, Industrial and Juvenile Problems
Special to the Daily Kansan.
St. Louis, March 13-Chancellor Strong of the University of Kansas delivered the opening address at the second session here today of the department of universities and colleges of the Religious Education Association. His paper was the only general discussion of the topic in the session'and was on "The New Interpretation of a Religious Leader and His Work."
Chancellor Strong said among other things that religious leadership requires constructive and original qualities of mind. It require initiative and power. Religion is a matter so personal, has to do with things in a man's life so deep reaching, so fundamental and withal so delicate that true fundamental qualities of leadership are invaluable.
He brought out the point that religious leadership requires intense conviction, a certain localized and narrow conception of what is vital in order that the message may have penetration and power. He said that religious leadership must be based on a thorough understanding of the unity of life; that religion if it have to do with us at all must have to do with us entirely; that it required in creasingly well-trained men and women as well as thoroughly sound and Godly men.
LEADERS MUST BE TRAINED
In the chancellor's opinion modern religious leaderships must be trained for specific service in highly differentiated fields but now definitely provided for in the financial scheme of church and religious work, such as superintendencies of Sunday schools, settlement work, work for defective and unfortunate children, industrial work, poverty and vice in the cities. He also said that the religious leader of the time must learn that men, especially young men, respond to the direct appeal, that they demand the highest kind of sincerity, the most fundamental qualities of honor and integrity.
Chancellor Strong believes that unless all signs fail modern religious leadership will not, to any considerable degree, take on the aspect of the great revival meetings of the type we have been accustomed to that while believing in the value of true evangelistic work in the churcel and the necessity of giving the emotions a place in religion, modern evangelism has in many instances become too artificial and on a basis two materialistic and financial to perform the service required of true evangelism.
The Chancellor closed with the statement that religious leadership cannot be confined, as it has been in the past, simply to those with formal theological and religious training and because universities have always been a great instrument in civilization, they must be resorted to for religious leadership.
PROF. HAWORT ASKED
TO STOP MINE EXPLOSIONS
Professor Haworth is in receipt of letters from the coal mining district in Crawford county asking him to aid in devising some plan for decreasing the danger of shot firing in the mines. These letter are the result of an experiment conducted in fires which caused the death of twenty of them in two mines since January 1.
"I have not yet thought of a satisfactory course of action," said Professor Haworth today, "but something will be done soon."
W. A. A. TO ENTERTAIN HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
Open House in the Gym Friday Afternoon From Three to Six
At a meeting of the Women's Athletic Association held yesterday afternoon at 4:30 in Robinson gymnasium, it was decided to keep open house in the faculty room in the gymnasium, Friday afternoon from three to six in honor of the high school girls who will attend the basket ball tournament. The room will be decorated in Crimson and Blue, with the foot ball blankets. Each member of the organization will wear a crimson pennant, with the letters "W. A. A." in blue, and will serve on the reelection committee.
The following committee were ap pointed; decoration. Marion Manley chairman, Cora McGill and Ida Carr chairman, Ella Carr chairman, Marie Scaly and Eva Baum.
During their stay in Lawrence, th high school girls will be entertain by the members of the Association and th Thetas will entertain teams.
Any one who wishes to entertain some of the girls may communicate with Coach Hamilton or Amarythia Smith, president of the Association.
Marie Sealy was elected secretary of the National Fill a vacancy caused by Insiderism.
OFFER PUPS LEARNING
Professor Dockeray Has Three Kansas City Dogs and a Lawrence Cat
F. Prof. F, C. Dockeray, of the Department of Psychology, has received three fine young setters from a man in Kansas City.
Does this mean that Lawrence is unprogressive in matters concerning the higher education of animals? It would seem so, as the only contribution from this city is a half grown maizete and it was brought up by a student.
"There seems to be a wrong idea existing about the object of this course in animal psychology," said Professor Crawford, who does not training the animals for a circus.
"Our object is to give the animals an opportunity to learn and to think. We want either to prove, or disprove the animals have ideas or discrimination."
GLEEMEN CAN TELL LOTS OF GOOD ONES
Each Returned Singer Knows A Story on the Other Fellow
CAMPBELL BUYS SILK KIMONO
Graham Acquires Gen-u-nine Cheyneen
Navajo Blanket - All Have a Boost
For the Santa Fe.
Here a few that the club members have been telling on themselves and on each other.
Now that the Glee club is safely returned to Lawrence, and the prosaic round of daily life, their tongues, like those of the ancient heroes have begun to wag, and in a few weeks we will have as fine a collection of adventures and experiences as Homer wove into the Iliad.
Like all tourists the boys "shelled out" at different places for "costly" souvenirs at ridiculously low prices. Fin Graham loosened up to the extent of fifteen beans and bore home a real Cheyenne Indian Navajo blanket. Bob Campbell displayed marked taste, and is now the proud possessor of a twelve-dollar Japanese hand-broidered kimono He "jewelled the Los Angeles merchant down fifty cents. Who will be the lucky girl?
"We sure had some dance at the El Tovar hotel in the Great Canon" said Lawrence Smith, rather tactlessly, as he walked out of chapel this morning with his regular chapel date which he no doubt missed on the trip. "There was one man who had a party of people, mostly girls, with him in a private car. Then besides these we had all of the waitresses, and cooks to choose our dances with. It reminded me of our own Wednesday night dance."
One unfortunate feature of the trip was the fact that Clyde Dodge and Bob Campbell did not feel well in Los Angeles. "When you travel around that city, it's a lot of pain and affection on some people," said Had Black, in discussing the episode.
ART FANS HAVE ANOTHER
RARE TREAT IN STORE
Chicago Art Institute Pictures Here for the Fine Art School to Study Admission Free.
Another art exhibit has been obtained through the efforts of Prof. W. A. Griffith and is being arranged in the exhibition rooms of the art department today. The exhibit consists of drawings and paintings made by the students of the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the leading art schools of the country. The drawings are being brought here especially for the art students to study, but all others who are interested in art can see them at the rooms of the art department in the Administration building.
Professor Griffith is teaching his pupils to hang pictures so that they will show up in what visitors think is the best light. The visitor should see Professor Griffith and maybe he will let him try his hand.
George Magatagan, a senior in the School of Engineering, was taken to the University hospital at Rosedale today on account of a complication of diseases resulting from a severe attack of the gripe.