UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
State Historical Society
FELLOWSHIPS OPEN TO COLLEGE GRADUATES
The Women With Scholarly Tastes Have an Equal Chance With Men
CAN GO EITHER EAST OR WEST
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1912.
Ample Funds Provided For Pursuin Work in Various Institutions—Lots of Opportunities
The Boston Branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumni, aided by the Boston Alumni, of Smith, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, and Wellesley College and Boston University, offers a graduate fellowship of $500 for the purpose of stimulating scholarship among women. The applicants must be women who have good health and excellent character, and must have shown evidences of their initiative ability. Applications may be made to Prof. Abby Leach, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Registrar Geo. O. Foster has recently received noticees of several fellowships that are open to college graduates, and has posted them on the bulletin board in Fraser hall. They offer opportunities for graduate work either in American or European Universities, and some of them are very attractive.
NUMBER 48
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE EAST.
Three fellowships of $500 each and six scholarships of $300 each are awarded annually in the Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University. One fellowship and one scholarship are awarded to students making psychology their major study. The fellowships for graduates are offered to those with special attainment in psychology and computer science, more years of graduate work Applications may be sent to the Registrar, Cornell University.
The Baltimore Association for the promotion of the University Education of women, has offered one fellowship of $500 for 1912-13. This fellowship is for study in either American or European Universities, and is generally awarded to a candidate who has alumnae or alumni in academic work. Applicants may obtain further information from Dr. Mary Sherwood, The Arundel, Maryland, Md.
IN THE WEST ALSO.
WHERE'S THE HAMMER?
Sororities To Buy Lumber And Carpenter Their Own May Fete Booths
The University of California announces the establishment of a new fellowship for the study of problems in Urban Growth. The stipend of the fellowship is $1000 per annum, with an additional sum of $500 for the expenses of investigation. The work will be on problems relating to the growth of the cities in San Francisco Bay regime, with special attention directed to the development of parks, playgrounds, ect., demanding particular consideration of the space available for growth. The work of the fellow may begin immediately, or at any time that may be arranged. All applicants must hold a bachelor's degree. Further information may be obtained from the Recorder of the Faculty, University of California.
At a meeting of the Girls' Pan Hellenic Association, Edith Van Eman was appointed chaimain of the committee on booths for the May Fete.
Miss Van Eman will buy the lumber and apportion it. Each sorbory will build and decorate its own booth. The Chi Omegas will sell ice cream cones; the Pi Phi pop corn, peanuts and pop; the Thetas, lemonade and small cakes, and the Kappas, Candy.
A Whole District Pulls Taffy
The girls of the W. S. G. A. district of which Hermione Sterling is chairman, were entertained at a taffy pull at the Chi Omega house last evening from seven to eight.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
MRS. WILSON PLEASES
East Concert of Winter Season Heard by Five Hundred People.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson gave a concert last night in Fraser hall, that greatly pleased the crowd of five hundred Lawrence music lovers that heard her.
The full program as announced in the Daily Kansan yesterday was rendered, and at the end of the concert, as an encore, Mrs. Wilson sang "A Perfect Day," by Carrie Jacob Bond. This song was the most appreciated by the listeners.
This concert was the last number of the winter course.
Dr. Hyde is Asked to Lecture Dr. Ida H. Hyde, professor of physiology, has been invited to give a lecture on Social Hygiene before the State Federation of Clubs which meets at Larned, Kansas early in May.
N. G. SIGN HUNG ON OLD SUPERSTITION
Weather Reports Show Tha Storms Give Traditions the Go-by
There is at present a belief by many people that the weather at the time of the equinoxial storms determines in a general way the weather for the following three months. April should be on March 10, and May March 20, and June to March 21st.
This superstition has been completely refued by the facts in the past three years.
There is scarcely one incident in the reports, furnished by Professor Cady of the chemistry department, which will verify the theory:
March 19, warm and cloudy
April, cold and wet.
March 20. warm and cloudy—Mar cold and very wet.
March 21, cold and cloudy—June cold and wet.
1910.
March 19, warm and clear—April
warm and drv.
March 20, warm and clear—May cold and very wet.
March 21, warm and clear—June cold and dry.
March 19, warm - April, cold and dry.
March 20, warm, warm, warm and dry.
March 21, warm—June, warm and dry.
EXTRACTS ARE WEAK
Prof. Jackson, Food Analyst, Condemns
Mara, Mahlbullled, Produces
The standard lemon extract contains five per cent of lemon oil. One of those analyzed by Professor Jackson had $5 \frac{1}{4} \%$ of the necessary oil but the label said "Highly Concentrated." According to the law, a highly concentrated extract must be more that $1 \frac{3}{4} \%$ above the standard. Another "highly concentrated" extract contained no lemon oil at all.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
More mislabbed Products.
Prof. H. Louis Jackson, of the food analysis department, has just finished working on a number of extracts which have shown some very interesting results.
As a step toward abolishing the "crime of the boarding house" at the Cornell University the Ithaca board of health has published a list of reputable and sanitary boarding houses from which students will have a fighting chance to emerge better than helpless dyspeptics.
Vanilla extract has also been up before the analyst. Vanillin, coumarin and vanilla was claimed by the manufacturers, but the vanilla had disappeared. "Wholly artificial as well as misbranded and adulterated," is what Professor Jackson said of it. The vanilla extract, however, has one good feature—it had the conventional color that vanilla is supposed to have.
Rev. Estey of Topeka in Chapel The Rev. S. S. Estey, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Topeka, will speak in chapel Friday. Rev. Estey is regarded as a leader in church work not only in Topeka but all over the state.
Crime Will Out.
"GOLDEN SILENCE"
FOR SONS OF JANUS
Secretary Brown Enters Cru sade for Sign Language About Class Rooms
The jainists and all other employee of the University who in the course of their employment, and otherwise, have created noises more distracting to classes than the yelps of Susie and Jennie, K. U.'s educated pups, must hereafter cease to issue coordsion to an order sent by Secretary Brown to F. E. Crocker, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
Mr. Brown, in his order, says that several professors have sent in complaints about being disturbed by janitors talking and laughing in the hall, and are now in a fight. Most of the complains have come from the Administration Building.
Miss W. S. G. A. Take Notice.
Student government at Wellesley has developed to such an extent that the girls may cut classes with impunity in the student government association. The faculty think that the training given the girls by self-government is a important as any of their studies and will probably serve them to a better purpose after they are graduated.
The order remarks that the University of Kansas is primarily a teaching institution. Anything that interfees with this most important function, seriously hampers the University, therefore these noises must cease.
SIGMA CHIS OBJECT
Miss W. S. G. A. Take Notice.
So Another Subject Must Be Chosen for Inter-Fraternity Debate
Debate
The question, "Resolved that the High Schools of Kansas should be reorganized to extend over a period of sky years in order to provide an adequate vocational training and guidance," was turned down by the Sigma Chis the annual inter-fraternity debate, and mother will be chosen in the new future.
The new cup which has been presented by Charles Brook, an alumnus of the University, is to be kept for one year by the fraternity winning the debate, and the first to win it three times will keep the cup permanently.
Not a Sob-squad Incubator.
The following judges have been chosen for the debate, which will be May 8. Prof. H. C. Hill, Rev. N. S. Elderkin, and Mr. George Innes.
Co-eds will not be enrolled by the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University, according to the latest reports. This was done on the general theory that Columbia University is not co-educational. According to an agreement entered into twelve years ago most of the courses in Columbia are open to the students of Barnard and all degrees are conferred by Columbia. The girl students of Barnard are protesting against the decision.
PEOPLE MUST RULE SAYS JOHN A. RUSH
Professor Trettian Discusses That Subject at Men's Club In Kansas City.
Did The Others Flunk?
At the University of Washington the freshman class is the only class which still has all its officers in college.
DEFECTIVE CHILDREN
"Defective children" was the subject of the address of Prof. A.W. Trettien, professor of education, delivered before the Men's club of the First Presbyterian church of Kansas City last night after a banquet given by that club.
Professor Trettian has made extended observations and experiments in the field of defective and criminals..
The club members are much interested in the subject and wish that they could devote more time to the defectives of the city.
Success in Government Depends In How Well People Shoulder Burdens.
"The power of government rests in the people," said John A. Rush of Denver, a graduate of the University, speaking on the subject of "Municipal Problems and Public Life," in chapel yesterday afternoon.
"Get the people to take the municipal problems on their shoulders and then there will be no trouble in the solution of future problems."
"Municipal utilities," Mr. Rush pointed out, "should be operated by the public for the public good. The object of this University is to make you think for yourself, and thereby prove a benefit when going out into the world. People are imposed upon by public utility commissions and it is a duty you owe yourself to be able to bear those burdens upon your own shoulders."
Mr. Rush urged the college men and especially the young lawyers to investigate the problems themselves. "Do not," he said, "take your professional teachings as gospel but as wise advice. See to it that you have an opportunity to solve the problems and bear the burdens, and simplify the laws. The burdens then will be less and the responsibility will be fixed. It is your duty and obligation to do in return what your fathers and neighbors have done for you and you owe it to the future generations Mr. Rush holds three degrees from the University, A. B., 90, LL. B., '93, and M.A.'93.
K. U. D. C. VS. COOLEY
Law Debating Club Challenges The Representatives of The College.
When the Cooley Club meets the K. U. Debating Club in forensic combat, most momentous will be the debate that results. It will be a sort of an irresistible force--immovable body, affair.
The Cooley Club started it. They sent a challenge to the K. U. debaters last Friday, so a Conference committee consisting of Roy Davis and Clifford Sullivan for the followers of Cooley; and Frank Carson and Bob Fisher for the K. U. Cub, are trying to complete arrangements for the debate.
At a meeting yesterday they decided on April 19 as the probable date and will meet again tomorrow to decide on the question, and to complete minor matters.
New Buildings Increases Enrollment.
Three new university buildings have been completed at the University of Cincinnati, at a cost of five hundred thousand dollars. They include the finest Engineering College building and one of the world's only equipped small gymnasium in the middle-western college world. Due to the construction of these buildings, registration has increased fifteen per cent.
TWO OPPORTUNITIES OPEN
CONSULT KANSAS MAN
Prof. Hunter, Entomologist Helps Draft Anti-Plant-Disease Legislation
Memorial Scholarships Are Ready For Applicants.
"If the bill which was introduced in the House of Congress by Representative Simmonds of New York becomes a law, Kansas would be greatly benefited by the protection thereby secured," said Professor S. J. Hunter, of the department of entomology, today.
The bill provided for the regulation of inter-state and foreign commerce in order to prevent the spread of injurious insects and plant diseases throughout the United States. Professor Hunter has, at the request of the House Committee on Agriculture, twice gone to Washington and given his signature to the measure. At present the bill is held up in the house because the Representatives from Mississippi, Georgia and Massachusetts desire time to determine the extent of the power which it would vest in Secretary of Agriculture.
Two scholarships are open to the young women of this University, the Marecella Howland and the Lucinda Buchan Memorial scholarships.
Young women of the junior and senior classes of the College wishing to try for the Marcella Howland scholarship for the year 1912 and 1913 should hand in their application before May 1 to a committee composed of Professors Galoo, Hyde, and Oliver.
Senior and junior girls of the College wishing to try for the Lucinda Smith Buchan scholarship during the year 1912 and 1913 may apply to a committee composed of Mrs. F. H. Smithmeyer, Mrs. W. A. Griffith, and Miss H. Oliver. This scholarship is maintained by the alumnae of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
GET THE BAD BUGS ON CAMPUS TREES
Students Hunting Down Injurious Insects for Good of the State
Eight students in Entomology working on scale insects, and the trees of the campus furnish an excellent supply of these small injurious enemies of tree life. When the scrutinizing student finds a group of scales, he cuts off the piece of bark to which they are attached places it in an envelope, on which is recorded the place, date and kind of tree on which the scale was found. The insect is then taken out of scale cover, bleached in caustic potash and mounted for study under the compound microscope.
This branch of entomology is economic, and aids the state in its fight to prevent scale diseases of trees and shrubbery.
The damage is done by the scale inserting its beak into the wood and causing it to die. Some damage has been done to the maple tree but not a great deal. The cherry scale has done much damage to the cherry tree. Some scales have been found in the green houses. The oleander and palms are damaged by the scale, and have to be watched carefully. Several varieties of scales are found on the citrus fruits, on the markets here, such oranges, lemons, and grape fruit.
Turn Over Chapter House to House Party During Vacation
SIG ALPHS WILL ENTERTAIN
Sigma Alpha Epsilon will entertain with a house party at their chapter house during Easter vacation. A series of entertainments, including dinner dances, theater and Lake View parties, will be given. The men will move into the Phi Delt house, leaving their house at the disposal of the young women and chaperons.
Among the out of town girls will be: Miss Martha Steele and Miss Ada Whitside of Hutchinson, and Miss Virginia Newcomb, of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Filmore of Blue Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Dick of Hutchinson, and Mr. and Mrs. Merle Thorpe if Lawrence will chapeler.
SIXTH MONTHLY TEA
BY FACULTY LADIES
The Ladies of the Faculty will! give their sixth monthly tea for the young women of the University Thursday, from three to six, in the Latin room, 210 Fraser hall.
These teas have been given once a month for several years. The purpose of the Faculty Ladies is to come in closer touch with the girls and their interests.
Dean Green "at Home" This Evening "Uncle Jimmy" Green, dean of the Law School, will hold a reception for the members of the senior class at his house this evening. Every spring Dean and Mrs. Green entertain the senior laws with a reception at their homes, and the event has become one of the traditions of the school that is looked forward to by the members of the outgoing class with as much anticipation as is the annual "Uncle Jimmy Day banquet."
THE TAILOR AND TWO COPS GET AFTER HIM
But, For a Chance to Be a a Gentleman,the Trade man Relents
GOVERNESS IS A SPIRITUALIST
That Wierd Faith is Mixed With Love in the German Play Tomorrow Night.
"Der Bibliothekar," the German play to be staged tomorrow night in the Bowersock theater abounds in fast comedy and short speeches that can easily be understood.
The play opens in London. Lothair Macdonald has just received a letter from his uncle informing him of his coming visit. The uncle has a queer idea that every man who sow his wild oats in his youth. Lothair has been unsuccessful in this, except in signing a note for his friend, Harry. To escape' payment to Gibson, a tailor, who holds the note when it becomes due, the two young men go to the country place of Harry's uncle, Marsland, where a hunt is to be given.
Marlsland has engaged a new private secretary, Robert, whom Harry is to bring with him from London. Instead, Harry substitutes Lothair. He leaves Robert in Lothair's lodging place, where he is found by Lothair's uncle on his arrival. The uncle, misstaking him for his nephew, leaves him in disgust and goes to Marsland's country home.
Sarah, the governess of Edith and her friend, Eva, at Marland's, is a spiritualist, and asks Lothair to secure a medium for her. Roberts, the real Bibliothekar, now arrives and is taken for the medium. Macdonald upon again meeting Robert still believes him to be his nephew and attempts to get him out of the way.
To complicate affairs, Gibson also arrives from London with two policemen to collect the note, but promises not to cause trouble if the boys take him to the hunt as a gentleman friend. The many complications are finally straightened out by Lothair ceasing to pose as the Bibliothek, and the real Bibliothekar proving that he is not a medium. The end is happy for Lothair who has fallen in love with Edith, and for Harry, who love with Edith, and for Harry, who loves Eva.
MEDICAL: COUNCIL O. K'S
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
The Kansan learned through a communication to Chancellor Strong at Rosedale that the Medical Council made a thorough investigation of the medical school and its work, and found everything in good condition. Several changes on the curriculum, were dislays and the number of points concerning them still remain to be decided, and they will later be announced definitely.
Chancellor Strong will return from losedale this evening.
WHAT OF THE KIRMESS?
High Kirmessians Refuse to Divulge Their Intention, But Promise Much.
"We haven't made any definite plans yet," was the only answer a Kansas reporter could get after a personal interview with each of the several dignitaries of the committee in charge of the Kirmess, yesterday. And it is only one month and four days until the biggest gala day of the season.
Although surrounded by this air of mystery from the mystic little whispers heard about the Gym of Dutch costumes, Irish jigs, Highland fling Swedish polka Ace of Diamonds and Hamilton's "Mordkins," the KIRKLING tradition is to be the best thing of its kind to the University has ever seen.
About 300 girls in the gymnasium classes are training on the dances three times a week now and the instructors are selecting the teams for the different dances and special features of the occasion.