UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 50.
VOLUME IX.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 29, 1912.
GOOD OLD DAYS WERE SOMEWHAT STRENUOUS
Graduate Magazine Tells o
Scrapes of Our
Fathers
TRANSLATION OF LATIN POEM
And no Latin Poems Have Been Written by University Students For For a Long Time.
The Orophilian Review of October 13, 1876, written for a meeting of the Orophilian Literary Society of the University of Kansas, has recently come to light, says the Graduate Magazine. An early number was devoted to "tricks." Bits from some of the narratives follow:
SHADES OF P. V. MARO!
Then there was the most remarkable skeleton of the first commencement day, described by Professor Robinson in a Latin poem entitled, "Professor Fraser and the Skeleton." In translation it runs as follows:
"Wonderful prodigy! Never was anything heard of so strange! What was it? Did a pale ghost in the sollenight shake its hair polluted by blood! No—a more wonderful thing than this by far! No ghost, but the dry bones of a skeleton, (I shudder in relating it) going through the long halls and ascending, a lifeless monster, to the very highmost part of the roof. Then the atrocious spectre with a ghastly light leap down from its lofty position through a hole in the ceiling, presenting this inscription on his big toe "Prexy." That was all. The young men embraced their girls more closely, their eyes and minds transfixed with astonishment."
JAYHAWKER MANAGER REPORTS ON FINANCES
The blue necktie that fell to the floor with the skeleton was kept in the office for months in hopes that the owner would call for it and confess his guilt, but in vain.
Senior Committee Accepts Preliminary Statement--- Complete Report Later
At the meeting of the finance committee of the senior class last night, Clark Wallace, manager of the Jayhawker, handed in a financial statement showing the present condition of the Jayhawker exchequer.
The senior committee examined the accounts of the annual and accepted them.
Following is the report that was made:
Mr. Wallace explained that this preliminary statement could not be considered a comprehensive report of the finances of the book, since they were at present in a rather confused state. However, in a short time, another statement will be filed with the finance committee of the senior class, that will include all transactions of the business department.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
354 Senior cuts @ $1.50... $522.50
35 organizations @ $8.00... 280.00
35 organizations @ $5.00... 70.00
1 organization @ $2.50... 2.50
1 organization @ $11.00... 11.00
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $880.60
167 Annual tickets @ $2.50. $417.00
Total received. . . . . $1303.50
Cash paid out. ... 63.60
Total Cash on Hand... $1239.90
Outstanding credits. . . . . . 152.00
THE KAISER OUGHT TO HAVE SEEN IT
Clark A. Wallace, Mgr.
The finance committee have examined the above accounts and has found same to be correct.
Harold Brownlee, Chr'm.
Clark A. Wallace, Mgr.
First Play of the German Dramatic Club Was "Ein Gutes Ding."
STAGE FRIGHT WAS BANISHED
Miss Nowlin, Schaeffer, Bechtold and
Goldman Stars—Lines Readily Followed by First Year Students.
(By Grouchy Gilihan)
"Der Bibiothekar" was presented last night by the German Dramatic Club, before the largest audience that ever witnessed a German play at the University, and even the few Irishmen at the theater were satisfied.
From wincome Mabel Nowilin's vivacious and far too pretty landlady, clear thorough to Edmund Bechtold's picturesque "wirkliche Bildtheatear," the characters were rendered with a spirit and verve, which, although not in all cases supported by true talent, were entertaining in the highest. One of the notable features of the play was the use of the character of a naggaroo of the amateur, Old Man Stage Fright. If that deadliest foe of home talent was abroad last night it was only the hem of his garment that swept the stage of the new Bowersock.
A NEW IDEA FOR COPS.
Almost his victim however, was Officer Fairchilds. That valiant half-milfer appeared at first devoid of his copy vesture. This was embarrassing, but the brass and the braided fixed things, and in the later scenes the most hardened of evil-doers would have quailed before his beetle-browed austerity.
The other cop, Lawrence Meissner was more fortunate. He trod the floor of the stage with an imperious and awe inspiring tread worthy of New York's finest. His shining spectacles were a new novel part of a policeman's uniform as it is thought to be against the law to hit a man wearing glasses. "Specs" might be a useful adjunct to police armament.
FINE QUALITY OF MIRTH.
Paul Schaeffer played a mighty good part in the tailor, "Gibson." But in his first scene, it was too bad that he selected the only asbestos cigarette in the box, for his smoke. His ease and grace of movement were a little too polished for the uncoot tail of the car, but Schaeffer played well for Dr. Saeffer's personal habits of sobriety, and the effectiveness of the prohibition law in his home town.
Miss Nowlin's hearty laughter at the appearance of the comical "Bibliothaker" was contagious. It broke down as he excuscaled every person in the audience.
The object of 'her mirth, the simple innocent Bibliothkeo was no less deserving of recommendation from the Amturer-Actor Punton Board. He spoke slowly and unstintedly, and he stood by perhaps more German I and II students than those of any other part.
Allen Wilbur was "Lothair," was a little stiff and a bit too reserved for the part which was really a difficult one. His enunciation was perhaps too rapid, but clear, distinct and well inflected.
Miss Passon as "Eva" and Miss Beatrice Dalton as "Edith," the rogish "heroes," were good, but alas, those blinded footlights! Beyond them what nameless terrors! Miss Dalton, was rather rough with the stage property, but that added life and zest to the movie. Miss Passon was the shadow lady of the cinemetograph, she made that up in action.
O, THOSE EYES.
Mildred Manley like all actors of old lady parts in college shows, was far too youthfully beautiful. Her "Sarah the Spiritualist" completely demonstrated the superiority of mind over matter and put Eurasia Paladino far in the "shade." But she talked too fast, is not used to dispatching long trains, ought to faint a few times for practice.
Fred Speier was as good. His tribute to "Eve's" eyes, which, incidentally were those of Rebecca Passon, indicated a rounf of appliance brands in the city where he lived of embarrassment. His American accent made his speeches well understood.
SPIRITUALIST HAD GOOD CONTROL
Irene Garrett played well the part
FRESHMEN, BEWARE YE THE KALENDS OF APRIL
Spring is here. The insects are awakening and the spring fever germ is beginning to feel that he has a mission in life. The grass is turning green and the buds on the trees are swelling.
Spring is that gladsose time when the gentle and sighing seepyfans countless refreshing odors over all the land. The air about the campus is redolent with the smell of pine paddies, for spring is also that time when the lowly freshman gets out the little bebuttoned cap which was carefully
of "Jane," the maid and like all stage maids she was entrancing pretty. She ought to have been in the plot.
Homer Blincoe, tried hard to maintain the dignity of the English squire, "Marsand," as a result, he was too stiff. That is, merely too stiff. One of his works was amazing and妙册 and active. He had made his work, though, and seemed to enjoy it.
Ahe Goldman with his little gray chin feathers was a hit. In fact he was almost a swat. But he was too devoted to his big red cane and it became monotonous after a while. His expletives "Donnerwetter!" "Zum Henker!'" call for a special letter of commendation from the German Emperor. Once, however, when sitting down he forgot to part his coat tails. An old German citizen of Lawrence witnessed the play from the third row of the balcony. As he rose at the close of the play he was heard to remark, "Vell, dot vas a mighty fine ting, a mighty fine ting."
This is the kind of praise that is worth while, and there was lots of it last night at the New Bowersock.
STUDENT COUNCIL ACTS
Sophomore Engineer, Caugh Cribbing, is Suspended for Remainder of Year
At the meeting of the men's Student Council last week, it was voted to suspend a sophomore engineer for the remainder of the term. The student was caught cribbing in a recent examination.
The action has been ratified by the Board of Regents.
A Correction.
The Daily Kansan inadvertently misquoted Professor Dockery yesterday when it attributed to him the statement that "if... the cat had never seen a dog, its first meeting with a dog wolf have been more friendly." What Professor Dockery said is that "if the cat had never seen a dog, there would have been present at its first meeting with a dog an instinct of fear."
The Daily Kansan is striving first of all for accuracy and it is eager to correct any of the false impressions that are bound to creep into its columns.
Mrs. Gurnea of Belleville, is visiting her daughter May, a sophomore in the Fine Arts department.
AWS HEAP DEFEAT
ON ANCIENT ENEMY
The second law-engineer snow fight at chapel time this morning ended in what was conceded by all tacticians to be a complete victory for the laws.
Snowballing Laws Overwhelm Small but Valiant Band Of Engineers
put away last fall, and brushes out the dust of a long winter.
The battle started at eleven o'clock when Capt. James Daniels attacked the junior laws with a small force of Fowlerites. The plan of the engineers was to engage the junior laws in action with Daniels' men, but Daniels was taken by suddenly appearing on the scene with overwhelming reinforcements.
Like Blucher at Waterloo, the reserve forces detained in class did not appear. The junior laws achieving support from the 11:15 classes were able by a double flank movement to dislodge the engineers from the only base of supplies and the victory was won.
The belligerent soph is beginning to swagger, and the freshie imagines that he notices an increased interest in second year gym work. The freshmen see visions of coming stride and dream sad nightmares of last fall, when the paddle sang merrily through the air to the tune of the good old upper-class war chant which begins, "Get that cap! Get that cap!"
There is no longer any abyss; spring is here now, and the freshman cap is eponymous.
TELEGRAPH BULLETINS
FROM TRACK MEET
AT ENGINEERS' DANC
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Telegraphic reports from the track meet, event by event, will be bulleted at the engineer's dance in Robinson gymnasium tonight.
To accommodate those engineers who do not dance, seats will be sold in the balcony at ten cents each.
Dancing will begin promptly at 8:30.
Raymond Watson '10, is visiting at the Sig Alph house.
Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity,
will entertain Chi Omega at dinner,
Sunday, March 31.
D. L. ROWLANDS DEAD
End Came to Proprietor of College Book Store at Rose-dale Yesterday
D. L. Rowlands, proprietor of the College book store died yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, following a serious operation at the University Hospital at Rosedale. Funeral services will be held from the Plymouth Congregational church of Lawrence at 3:30 p. m. Sunday.
Mr. Rowlands was born in Wales, He came to Lawrence from Emporia in 1899, and established a book store in the building now occupied by Moak's Billard hall, under the name of Rowlands & Bender. In 1901 he moved his stock of books to 819 Mass. St. Here the firm became Rowlands & Stevenson; the partnership lasted until 1906.
Then Mr. Rowlands established the College book store of which he was the proprietor when he died.
He is survived by a wife, two daughters, Arline a student and Gertrude an alumna of the University, who has lived with two sisters also live in Texas.
Mr. Rowlands was a Mason and an honorary member of the Acacia. The College book store will be continued with Robert Rowlands as proprietor.
The Weather.
Spring, the most welcome visitor at the University this year, arrived today and will make her the first headquarters permanently, according to F. W. Bruckmiller of the weather bureau. With Amy Chesnut in sunny days, the Meter twin, Baro and Therma, undoubtedly will lose caste as forefathers of weather changes.
SMALL FIRE IN GYMNASIUM.
'THE TORCH' TO LEAD SENIOR GIRLS--MAYBE
Dick Hall, of Topeka, is in Lawrence visiting at the Beta Theta PI house.
Trolley Wire and Telephone Cause
Trouble - No Damage Done.
A small fire in the Gymnasium this morning was caused by a trolley wire coming into contact with the telephone connection. After announcing the fact by ringing the phone, which he was listening to, the fire broke in his face, slightly singing his hair. The flame was extinguished with little difficulty.
Mrs. G. C. Smith, of Kansas City, is visiting her son Laurence Smith, a student in the School of Law.
A Real Bona Fide Representative Organization Announced This Morning
BUT SENIOR SOCIETY SAYS NAY
Refuses to Follow Their Sisters
Light and a Lively Tilt For Supremacy is Promised.
Some few days ago the Daily Kansan chickened the advent into University circles of a Senior Girls Society with a purpose and aim somewhat similar to the senior organization among the men. At the time of the announcement it was stated by certain of the University girls that this organization was not representative, that it smacked too much of sororities—and that another society that was representative would be announced soon.
This morning at the chapel exercises the names of the nine charter members of "The Torch" were read, and according to one of their members, membership comes absolutely through merit, and the long and intricate election and selection of members precludes any possibility of graft or "pull" being a dominant force in choosing those on the charter roll.
PROFS. CHOOSE TORCH-BEARERS
The manner of selection is thus wise: Prof. Hannah Oliver, Prof. Clara Newport, and Mrs. Esterly, secretary to Dean Templin, selected twelve girls from all the different groups in the University and asked each to submit the names of twenty senior girls whom they consider to be worthy of belonging to an honorary society.
From the list of two hundred and forty names submitted by the girls the committee chose fifteen whose names appeared most frequently, and sent them to a faculty committee of ten, five ladies and five men, with instructions to select nine who would be named as the original members of the society. Good scholarship is a requisite for membership.
TORCH CLAIMS TO BE PIONNER
Those selected by the committee are: Nell Martindale, Lucie March, Nell Dalton, Grace Wijkie, Helen Burdick, Mae Rossman, Gale Gossett, Beulah Murphy, and Isabel Thomes. The members of "The Torch" contend that their society was planned long before the Senior Girls Society announced their organization, and anyway they claim that the manner in which their members are chosen show quite plainly that they are really the representative girls. They even went so far as to intimate that the Senior Girls Society was a spurious affair, made wholly out of thin air and the wild conception of an ingenious reporter on the Daily Kansan.
However, an interview with a member of the Senior Girls Society this morning not only showed that this organization is alive and flourishing, but that they are going to have a meeting this very afternoon to consider some weighty problems that have arisen within the past week. And just to prove that the society is a real, bona fide affair, they announce two new pledges, Bertha Mix and Nelle Greenless.
ENGINEERS WILL DANCE
Informal Party in Gymnasium Friday Will Hear from Track Meet.
The engineers will give an informal party in the Gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock. This party will not take the place of the one engineers' day. One hundred couples are expected to attend. Kates and Royer will furnish music and punch will be served during the evening.
Between dances lantern slides giving returns from the track meet at Kansas City will be thrown on a screen, together with cartoons and other views.
Miss Dorothy Kitchen of Kansas City, Mo., will be the guest of Francis Meservay at the Kappa house, over the week end.
TRACK FANS CHEER TALK OF VICTORY
Speeches in Chapel by Chancellor Strong, Prof. Putnam and Coach Sherwin
DOLDE FIGURES OUT A WIN
Says Kansas Team, Without Relay,
Will Win 43 to 42—And The
Band Played Boola
With an "Oh me, oh my," Chuck Dolde cheer leader, started one of the most enthusiastic track rallies this morning seen in chapel for some time. The spirit of the track enthusiast were raised to a high pitch when Chuck announced that he had doped out the meet and had figured that without the relay, Kansas would win forty-three to forty-two.
The band played "The Crimson and the Blue" followed by an enthusiastic Rock Chalk, and Prof. Geo E. Putnam was introduced to the assembly. Prof. Putnam said that Quantrell's raid had been avenged nearly every year since it happened by our football team, but that our track team had not been so lucky.
"A novel experience," said Prof. Putnam, "never to be seen again, will be bad by those who attend the meet tonight. They will see Kansas beat Missouri for the first time in Convention hall."
Coach Ralph W. Sherwin followed with a compliment to the track squad which has worked so faithfully for the last four months in the face of great additions. "They deserve your support," said Coach Sherwin, "and every man who can possibly do it ought to go to Kansas City tenight."
The Chancellor ended the rally with a few appropriate remarks, and the band played as the students filed out of the auditorium.
DEBATERS TALK ON DESPITE DARKNESS
Lights Go Out so K. U. Club Adjourns to Moonlit Campus
Like the Indian pow-wows in the years gone by, before the days of electric lights, before Universities and eleven o'clock closing rules, the K. U. Debating Society held a meeting last night out under the starry skies, with the moon as a lantern and the horizon as the walls of the council room.
Two debates were scheduled for last night and they were so hotly contested that by the time the last speaker had finished it was eleven o'clock and the lights were out. The Cooley Club had challenged the K. U. club to a debate and the matter must be discussed and debaters chosen, so the meeting were adjourned to the campus. Long were the arguments and fiery were the arguments before the club finally adjourned. Carson, Hobson, and Campbell were chosen to represent the society for the Cooley Club debate and the single tax will be the subject for
In the regular meeting, Steeper, Olney, and Hoyt convinced the judges that a revenue tariff would be beneficial to Kansas. Boman, Probst, and Houghton were the negative speakers. Roosevelt's plan for the recall of decisions relating to the constitutionality of state laws was turned down. Campbell, McClure, and Marks won for the negative while F. L. Soper, Hobson, and Matton talked for the measure.
Dykstra Spoke to Commerce Club Professor Dykstra spoke on "Individualism and the Municipality," before the Commerce Club at St Joseph, Missouri, Wednesday evening. The club has a membership of 2100.