UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 60.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 15, 1912.
VOLUME IX.
200 OF 'EM MET AGAIN WITH MIRTH AND SONG
And Melody Flewat the Alumni Banquet at the Baltimore Hotel
LONG DISTANCE SPEECH HIT
Regent Hopkins Talked From Topeka to Kansas City—Strong Spoke on "The University."
"Hello! Are you ready?"
"Yes."
"Mr. toastmaster, members of the University of Kansas Alumni Association of Kansas City."
Thus began Regent Scott Hopkins, as he sat in his library in Topeka, and talked to 200 alumni of the University of Kansas at their fifth annual banquet at the Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City, Saturday night.
This is the first time that this innovation has been tried at a University banquet in the West, but at a similar occasion in Chicago, a short time ago, the alumni of Yale listed to President Hadley talk from his home in New Haven. The necessary apparatus was installed free of charge by the Bell Telephone Co., and the Association moved a vote of thanks to the company and to Mr. Blake, who originated the idea.
Mr. Hopkins gave an outline of the work that has been accomplished at the University in recent years, and told of the various departments that have been added, and of their progress.
James M. Challis of Atchison took the place of R. B. Rrewiter who was to have spoken, but was unable to be present on account of the illness of his mother. Mr. Challis spoke on the advantage derived in the business world from having a large acquaintance of alumni from the University.
Dr. W. L. Burdick spoke on a few things those from the University should not forget. "The University is a place of inspiration," said Dr. Burdick, "and the great thing to be remembered, is that we had an opportunity to spend a few years in the University atmosphere. The one thing that makeslege men should feel criticizing toward their University, and regret what they took, or feel it was a waste of their time."
Hon, Chas. F. Scott of the lola Register, ex-congressman from the second district, and for ten years regent of the University, spoke on the subject of "At the Telegraph Editor's Desk." Mr. Scott gave a brief review of the important happenings throughout the world in the past few months.
Chancellor Frank Strong spoke on "The University." He told of the three things for which the University should stand. They were, first, teaching research, second, for research investigation, and third, for public service.
W. T. Grant, president of the Association acted as toastmaster, and with appropriate remarks, assisted by the witty comments and suggestions from others present, introduced the speakers.
Uncle Jimmy Green was not on the program but every one present insisted that he make a talk. He told them a few things about the Gillman Case, with which they were not acquainted.
The Glee club Quartette furnished the music for the occasion, singing selections between each of the six courses, and between the toasts. The alumni gave them a fine reception, and especially applauded the old favorite, "Johny Smoker."
The banquet was conceded by all to be the best and most enthusiastic ever given by the Association, and plans have already been started for the one next year.
Pennsy Meets Princeton on the Water Arrangements have been completed by the Pennsylvania rowing committee to meet the Princeton varsity eight sometime in May. This will be the first meeting of the two universities on the water since 1884.
Miss Edith Glasscock and Miss Mabel Faukner of Manhattan, are the guests of Elizabeth Wilson, a senior in the College.
RICHARD CZERWONKY, Violinist Soloist in Second Concert of Music Festival, Friday Afternoon.
Dr. Hyde, of Department of Physiology Addressed Women's Clubs
ADVISES RIGHT LIVING
"To the three 'R's, 'readin', and 'ritin' and 'rithmic', has been added a fourth—right living," said Dr. Ida H. Hyde, of the physiology department, in a lecture before the City Federation of Women's Clubs, Thursday afternoon. "If we are hoping to reform mankind, we must begin with the children who are still plastic."
Dr. Hryde, who is a deputy of the State Board of Health, spoke of the need of school medical inspection and school nurses.
"A change in educational methods is needed," said Dr. Hyde. "More playgrounds and better schools. The rearing of healthy, happy children should be the most important duty of a community, and yet every other crop is better taken care of."
Dr. Hrye advocated a division of the pupils, instead of trying to force the weaker ones to keep up to the standard set by the stronger ones.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN ATTEND CONFERENCE
Y. W.C.A.Officials At Topeka National Secretary Will Visit University.
At the annual Y. W. K. C. A. President's Conference, held in Topeka on Friday and Saturday, the University of Kansas was represented by Miss Helen Helen, vice-president, and Miss Nadia Thomas, general secretary.
The meetings were held in the W. Y. W. C. A building in Topeka. On Friday a reception was given in honor of Miss McEllroy, of New York, national secretary. On Saturday afternoon, the delegates were entertained by the Advisory Board of the W. Y. W. C. A at Washburn College.
APRIL OREAD MAG IS WONDERFUL VOLUME
The Y. W. C. A. meeting in Myers hall on Wednesday at 4:45 is for sustaining and student members. All reports of last years work will be handed in, and also the reports of Miss Lucie March, out-going president, and Miss Nadia Thomas, general secretary. The question of furnishing the new Y. W. C. A. Administration Building in New York, built by Helen Gould, Miss Grace Dodge and others, will be discussed.
Mrs. Lester McLean, Jr., national student secretary of the Central Western division, who attended the conference at Topeka, will be at the University of Dayton, Monday and Tuesday, from 21-23. In taking up social settlement work,
Miss Lyle Hayes of Kansas City was the guest of Ruth Walker at the Kappa house over the week end.
Glendale Griffith entertained twenty-five couples at cards last Saturday evening at her home at 1229 Ohio street.
Mrs. McLean will meet the new cabinet and the new committees on Sunday afternoon, April 21, at the home of Miss Nadia Thomas at 1134 Louis-Irving work for the coming year. While in Louisiana, Mrs. McLean will visit Miss Thomas.
Miss Flaire Knox '10 of Osborne, is visiting at the Kappa house.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Calves, Dress-suits, Barber poles and Arctic Explorers MingledIndiscriminately
WILL BE ON SALE FRIDAY
Contributors Make The Coming Number Interesting, Laughable And Exciting— Contains Pictures
Jack Williams, forty barber poles numerous calves of perverse nature, a dress suit, size 110, and a rooster that "it fit like he had th' roomizt" appear before the readers of the April Oread Magazine which comes off the press next Friday. Jack has nothing whatever to do with the barber poles, or the calves either. He merely contributes a story about the Klondike—the land where he spent his tenderer years.
The barber poles originally decorated Massachusetts street, as decorous, well-ordered barber poles should do; but in Henry Maloy's picture story, "But We Didn't Come For Knowledge," they desert their holes, under pressure, and ascend the hill to adorn the chanceller's office, and other places of interest. Although the poles caused much consternation, the dress suit, size 110, in "The Unsued Sutor" was even more troublesome, and almost started a riot in one of the local fraternity houses. Earl Potter, who creates the immense garb, has Freshie Green outfit an upper classman with it, and the upper classman has to "hang green lights on the back to tell which way he is going" when he tries to wear it to the junior prom.
OBERHOFFER AND HIS ORCHESTRA THIS WEEK
Guy Von Shiltz, who knows the western range, tells a story of calves and a fearful snow storm; and C. G. Farnsworth, also conversant with calves, introduces a small collection of youthful bovines which butt each other in the ribs at intervals, and cause bloat in them. He then believes a thought once each hour, unwittingly to pull off a great coup d'état on the farmers.
Minneapolis Symphony Players at Music Festival Thurs. and Fri.
In a wonderful rooster fight Snipe Tedder's chicken, down all the other fowls, and just because Snipe gets stuck up over it, the "gang" won't let him into the "cirkus"; but when the stage bucks down right in the middle of a stunt, Snipe has laughed to the "gang" after all. Asher Hobson relates these happenings in "Loaded Spurs." Helen Hoopes, Gale Gosset and Willard Wattles also contribute to the April Oread.
EIGHT SOLO ARTISTS; TOO
"It was an escaping convict! An are light from the prison yard fell full upon him, as he peered at me from around the head of the bed. Well, that's the first time I was ever really scared. My brother has helped me desperate face. He spring to my side and flashed his little light again, almost in my face. My heart was beating so loud I thought it would wake up all the other fellows.
HUMAN WOLVES UNCHAINED TERRIFY THE SOCIOLOGISTS
I couldn't even breathe, I was so scared. I made a noise like a chicken does when he has a grain of corn caught in his mouth, kept wondering where he would hit me.
To Play Dean Skilton's Symphony,
"A Carolina Legend," Adapted
From Old Moravian Tale
The ninth annual music festival of the University of Kansas will be held in Robinson Gymnasium April 18-19, Thursday and Friday. The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra of fifty players under the direction of Emil Oberhoffer will be the feature of the festival, and eight famous solo artists have been secured.
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"The festivals have become the leading feature of the musical life of the community and have attracted many visitors from outside. Financially, they are guaranteed by the Lawrence Merchants' Association, members of the University faculty and citizens of Lawrence."
"The musical festival was established in 1904," says the announcement on the program. "Its aim has been to provide music of the highest quality and broadest scope for the students of the University and the city of Lawrence. This aim has been abundantly fulfilled.
"Each year an orchestra of national reputation has been created with a quartet of noted singers, a chorus of over one hundred voices has been organized and trained to perform several of the great choral masterpieces, while local artists and the musical organizations of the University have lent their assistance.
One of the interesting numbers that will be given at the music festival this year will be the symphonic poem entitled "A Carolina Legend" which was composed by Dean Skilton, of the School of Fine Arts, and which will be conducted by him.
MORAVIAN CUSTOMS ILLUSTRATED
The symphony is a composition based on a legend in North Carolina where there is a Moravian community in which mediaeval customs are still preserved. The people are divided into choirs according to their conditions, such as married people, widows, children, etc. Each choir has its appropriate hymn played on
"My first thought was that it was a guard seeing if we were all right. But the stripes! I was vividly awake in an instant. It flashed through my vision, and I watched the evening before that only a few of the most desperate criminals were in stripes.
How would you feel, if you were visiting a prison and an escaping convict should come into your room? This was the experience of the boys in the Sociology class which returned from the State Penitentiary at Lansing last night. The account of one of the boys who was first to notice the convict, follows:
"Eight of us, including Professor Holleberg, were sleeping in a room inside the main building. I was somewhat nervous and was still awake. A few minutes past midnight a light was suddenly flashed in my face. I opened my eyes and stared straight up at a white faced figure in stripes, standing in the barred window at the head of my bed.
sleeping, he crept on, unfasted the door and admitted a confederate, who went to work softly with a file. This was what he fellows, and one raised in bed.
"Get back there!" hissed the convict, darting at him. I heard Charlie's neck snap, his head struck the pillow so quick.
"Lie down there!" snapped through the room like a shot, "We want out! The first fellow who makes a noise gets nailed. We're desperate. Get your head back!' to some fellow who had peered up from a pillow.
"But the professor was also aroused now, and sat up in bed, demanding, 'Mother, please.'"
"Tak about steady nerves then. Eight of us, wide awake, lay there peacefully and serenely for ten minutes, apparently sleeping the sleep of the just. I had to keep my own teeth from latching to prevent the bed from rattling on itself; anything but those three men who had just been killed in the Nebraska prison.
"Our guide of the evening before stepped out into the room and announced, 'Gentlemen, allow me to the warden's son, Mr. Coddin Jr.'
"Well, finally a third striped figure crept in, and a whispered consultation was held. Then, after a few more moments of heavy filing, all the buttons suddenly turned on, and by one we cautiously opened our eyes.
Mr. Coddling, Jr. raised up from the steam radiator over which he had been rasping his pocket comb, and bowed, he said, 'the Comedy of Errors.'
EMIL OBERHOFFER, Conductor Under His Direction the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Has Become
festival days by a brass band from the steeple of the church. Another custom is to march to a cemetery and hold a sunrise service led by two bands.
The legend is that while children were playing in a meadow near a forest one girl wandered into the woods and fell asleep. A storm arose and she heard a panther roaring in the distance but she thought it was the cry of a child. Her father later rescued her. The people believed that an angel was sent and saved her from destruction.
COMPOSITION FOLLOWS ACTION
In the composition there are five divisions. The first treating of the choirs and the alternating of the wood and brass instruments is heard in the melody. The second division is the fugue suggesting the children at play. The third is a slumber song. The fourth represents the storm scene and the cry of the panther. The last is a march rising out of the melody of the fugue, the children's hymn being heard in the distance.
SOPHOMORE FARCE IN FACT OR FICTION?
Class Objects to Plan of Com mittee to Draw on Student Body
Will the sophomores present a force at their annual Hopp May 3, or will the sophomores assisted by members of the other classes entertain the members of the second year class at their dance? These questions are being discussed by the sophomores and many of the other students.
When Arvid Frank, manager of the Hopp, announced that the tryout for the farce would be thrown open to the student body of all the classes, he went against all precedent and customs for such functions, which in the past have been strictly class controlled. We cannot not believe that there was enough material in the sophomore class to present the play.
"The first that I knew of the proposed plan to admit all students to the Hopp was when I read of it in the Daily Kansan," Ryo Paulem, president of the class said this afternoon. "I have received many complaints from sophomores concerning the arbitrary action and I shall talk it over with Frank today and see what can be done."
JUNIOR PROM WAS BRILLIANT AFFAIR
A number of the sophomores plan to circulate a petition against admitting other students among the members of the class unless the committee decides to restrict the farce to second year students. It is probable that President Yoeman will call a meeting of the class tomorrow to take a vote on the question.
Lucile Barrett of Hoisington and Elizabeth Yeater of Osawatomie, both graduates of the department of expression, visited friends in Lawrence over Sunday.
Pi Beta Pi will hold initiation Wednesday afternoon for Mildred Hickman. A dinner will be given by the active members of the sorority a week from tonight in honor of Elizabeth Stephens, '09, and Bertha Luckan, '09.
Miss Bessie Vance and Miss Ethel Lord '11 of Kansas City, visited the Chi Omega house over Sunday.
Three Hundred and Fifty Couples Laughed and Ate and Danced
"BEAUTY MACHINE" THE FARCE
Annual Affair Was Well Managed—Hall's Music Made The Professors Even, Shake Their Feet.
The annual promendra given by the junior class for the seniors was given in Robinson Gymnasium last Friday evening and was attended by three hundred and fifty couples. In accordance with the custom inaugurated last year, the From six o'clock and was started by the fares given by the members of the Junior class.
"The Beauty Machine" was the farce offered this year and was a burlesque on musical comedy. Henry Campion, chairman of the farce committee, is the author of the production and he succeeded in composing at least two songs that are of the hummy variety.
The plot and the lines of "The Beauty Machine" are really astounding and were quite in keeping with the farecal she intended.
Following is the cast:
Queen Serenea Virginia Elward
Dowager Mira Lue
Jesterina Constance McCammon
Blue Bell Sylvia Abrams
Carnation Bernice Benson
Snickers Margaret Roberts
General Ruffles Mabel Nowlin
Reginald William Cain
Billy Charles Dolde
Tabitha True Luxxus
The Professor Charles Younggreen
The following composed the chorus:
Charles Dolde, Floyd Fisher, Eugene Davis, Paul Surber, Clement Clark,
Edwin Irwal, Ray Ailian, Frane
Richard Foster, Ruth Rutten,
Georgia Cotter, Beatrice Dalton, Mildred Pettit, Ira Pratt
Immediately following the farce the guests were ushered up stairs to the main floor which had been converted into a summer, green bowered pavilion. On the receiving line were Will Price, the director and secretary, Ashbun Holson, Hoffman and his brother Burrough. The grand march was led by Will Price and Bess Boell.
the decorations for the evening were in the tints of spring and the platform for the musicians was decorated in stone. Several feature dances were given.
Refreshments were served in the room below at quartette tables. Hall's nine piece orchestra of Topeka furnished the music for the twenty-four dances. Bruce Hurd and Elmer Whitney, were the managers of the Prom.
BETAS TO BUY HOUSE
Have Option on Home of Member Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet
The Beta Theta Pi fraternity has secured an option on the Usher property 1425 Tennessee with the intention of buying it and converting it into a chapter house. The house now is occupied by the sons of Judge Usher, who was a member of Lincoln's cabinet.
The Ushers residence is a few doors from the present Beta house on Tennessee. It is understood that the property is valued at $15,000.
HARVARD TO HAVE
FRESHMAN DORMITORIES
That his great ambition, the democratization of Harvard, may be realized, President Lowell of that school has appointed a committee which will raise funds to provide a complete system of Freshman dormitories. Pledges have already been made to the amount of $1,200,000 but the college will need $1,800,000 will be needed. Dr. Lowell thinks the dormitories will insure a wide miring of students during their early college years.
The site for the building has already been purchased and plans have been drawn.