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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME X.
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ENROLLMENT FOR THE SUMMER SESSION SHOWING INCREASE
Approximately One Thousand Students Listed For Six Weeks Term—Records Are Being Broken in Totals
GRADUATE SCHOOL WORK IS POPULAR
Attendance of Music and Fine Arts Students Has Improved—Four Weeks' Term Will Raise the First Figures
Enrollment for the Summer Session went through like clock work in Robinson Gymnasium. Last evening, the unofficial totals showed that approximately one thousand students were ready to start classes this morning. As quite a number have indicated an intention of coming this morning when enrollment is transferred to the Summer_Session director's office in Fraser Hall, it is predicted that the six weeks term may show a total attendance of morn than 1100 and if a hundred or more additional come for the Four Weeks' Session that starts July 25, the University summer schools will have reached a new high mark of 1200, some 200 increase over last year.
Director W. H. Johnson was pleased with the smoothness of the enrollment yesterday, the long line of students passing through Robinson Gymnasium from 8 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the afternoon with only a brief recess for luncheon. The earnestness of all was quite evident, proving to the instructors that the Summer Session is looked upon as important for the training of those who cannot come for the regular sessions and many others who are adding to their credits for college degrees. The instructors from other universities and colleges participated in the enrolment process in UCL class rooms and expressed their approval of the excellent choices in courses made by students, many of whom are teachers coming from the close of a hard year's work to improve themselves for still higher and harder teaching of the youth of Kansas and neighboring states.
The showing of the Graduate School is a proof of the destire of K. U, and Kansas college graduates generally to become masters of their chosen lines. The enrollment in the higher courses directed by Dean Blackmar is well beyond the hundred mark, among the students being many whose faces were familiar to the K. U. campus in years gone by; .'
Judging by the interest shown yesterday, it will be a long time before educational standards lag in the state of Kansas. The instructors at the educational section were kept busy answering questions and preparing cards for entry into the several courses offered. It was evident that the educational departments would uphold their records of the highest figures for the Summer Session, exceeding their totals of the regular sessions much more than had been expected. In several instances, the classes have been changed to larger class rooms to take care of the increases.
Popularity of the summer law courses was shown by the crowd around the tables where Vice-Chance or Burdick and Former Chancellor Henry H. Mills recorded the aspirants for legal love. Not a few of the young men said they
ANSWERING QUESTIONS
Mrs. Bryant and Registrar's Office Staffs Kept Busy
Have you a question concerning rooming facilities, course of study, social conduct or some other important phase of the Summer Session?
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1921.
Two offices have been more than busy since Saturday answering just such questions and many more. The Summer Session question box for the women is taken care of by Mrs. Dora Bryant and her assistants at Room 114, Fraser Hall, and for the men, Registrar Gomeer Fonner and his corps of trained workers solve the problems at his office in Fraser Hall.
Mrs. Bryant has double duties to perform in the Summer Session. She is the acting dean for women having all the responsibilities that Alberta Corbin fills during the regular session of school and eager to aid the women in every way and will be found at her office in all the University business hours.
Mrs. J. B. Waking entertained for Prof. and Mrs. Miller Saturday evening between 8 and 10 o'clock.
worked hard so as to finish their legal studies and get into practical world work as soon as possible. A stir was caused in the assemblage when a group of convent sisters came into the room in black and white garb setting them apart from the other students. These doenuts are seekers of various lines of higher education, coming as teachers from the convent and Leavenworth to obtain the advantages that the state university affords.
The School of Fine Arts, represented by Dean H. L. Butter and his assistants, was given separate enrollment tables in the outer hall. He acted as a teacher taking music courses because of the drawing power of Dudley Buck and other well-known visiting instructors. He expects more enrollments from students who have not planned to start their work until Wednesday morning
their work until Wednesday morning but who have paid their advance fees
FIRST CONVOCATION IS FRIDAY MORNING
Official Anouncements Will Be Made in Classes Not Later Than Thursday
The first convoitation of the student body and faculty of the Summer Session will take place Friday morning in Fraser Hall, probably at 10 o'clock. Official announcements of the pro-activity will be later on Thursday morning classes.
While Chancellor Lindley, who has been invited to be the principal speaker at Wilberforce University commencement, may not be able to get back to Lawrence for this conference, he is capable of a capable speaker. Director Johnson is planning a good musical program for the meeting.
As in the regular sessions, these summer conventions will be important gatherings of the entire student body and faculty. The Fraser Chapel is selected because of the reduced cost and resources, just as much pp and enthusiasm as at the regular gatherings is the hope of the University leaders.
Everyone Danced at the Annual Senior-Alumni Bal
With the program of one-steps and fox-trots generously sprinkled with waltzes and two-stepes for the "oldtimers", a four-piece jazz orchestra furnished the music for the senior-alumni ball held Tuesday evening in Robinson Gymnasium. A large number of old grids were present.
Before the dance, a reception was held in honor of the Chancellor, from 8 till 10 o'clock. During the recep-
tion, the orchestra furnished the music.
Summer Session Greetings!
Keep cool and read the Summer Session Kansan.
The gymnasium was artistically decorated with rugs from W. W. B. Thayer's collection, easy chairs and davernaport forming cozy corners in various parts of the large hall. The stage at one end of the hall was a beautiful bower of palms and flowers, while large bowls of pink roses decorated the punch tables. The orchestra was seated in a bower
"Welcome to all attending the Summer Session. This should be looked upon as a time of opportunity for advantageous study as well as for such social enjoyments as the summer session affords. For students and teachers who come to increase their knowledge, the economy or time in the summer session is important. We are glad to have you all at K. U. and to have you use the facilities of the University to the full.
"We are all at your ser vice.
Sincerely
W. H. JOHNSON,
Director."
W. H. JOHNSON Director of the Summer Session
SOCIAL PROGRAM TO CONFER 585 DEGREES START FRIDAY EVE THIS COMMENCEMEN
W. H. JOHNSON
All Invited to Join in General Enjoyment—Music Engaged
The social activities program for the Summer Session will start with a general gathering in Robinson gymnasium next Friday evening. In this story the main thing to be impressed is that the sociability is to be all in advance, an announcement means for everybody to announce the intention of getting acquainted and of having a good time generally. Music has been engaged for this occasion so that after the first hour from 8 to 9 o'clock, or sooner if the "get acquainted" arrangements pass more rapidly, the dancers may have a share of the floor for their special event. The social committee is expecting to make the first evening the starter of a series of summer social events that will go down in K. U history as most comprehensive in their scope and most
Following the first general social evening, the available Summer Session dates will be filled with many excellent entertainments. The entire program is being evolved and will be announced when completed. On the prospective list is a concert given by Dean L. Butter of the School of Fine Arts, by Professor Arthur MacMurray and his pictures of dramatic department, with other entertainments by the public speaking department and exhibitions by the athletic department under Dr. Forrest G. Allen.
Another hint. You can assist the Kansan reporters in their hunt for news, Send your items to the Kansan office if you do not see the reporters. Then you can get a copy of the Kansan and mail to the home folks keeping up their interest in K. U.
Support of the Summer Kansan by the Lawrence advertisers should have a reciprocating influence among the thousand or more on the college newspaper. The advertiser you appreciate his support of your college paper.
Plans for a special Fourth of July program are being considered. The civic leaders of Lawrence will hold a city celebration of Independence Day and the Summer Session will join the city in securing a speaker of national fame. More definite announcements of the social events will be made later,
Edwin Markham, Noted Poet Delivered Address at Fortypintnth Affair
A new way of getting around the command, "Keep Off the Grass," has been found by two of K. U.'s more students. Merely use a chair!
The Summer Session Kansan will be printed twice a week for distribution Tuesday and Friday foremoms. It is the news publication that does not freely for the advancement of educational and student activities.
Summer Kansan
Is Your Paper
Five hundred and eighty-five men and women were graduated from the University of Kansas last Wednesday, June 8, in the forty-ninth annual commencement before one of the largest audiences ever assembled to witness such an event at the University of Kentucky. A program was held in Robinson Gymnastics. The long academic procession of the graduates filed in promptly at 10 o'cock and took their places. Rev. Mark Mohler, of the Lawrence Uni-
terian Church, said the invocation. "The graduates were seated at the front of the platform in the gymnasium where the masters, deans of the various schools of the University and guests of the Chancellor's party filling up the stage.
Edwin Markham, California poet and writer, known throughout the United States as the author of "The Man With the Hoe," opened his commencement address by first making it known that he was an educator. "By building a rail fence around a sheltering oak tree," he explained, "I established the first open air school in this country. That was in California the year after my graduation from the state normal school."
Mr. Markham in the first of his address said that the essence of life is self-discovery, an old sun-dial in Kent, England, which reads, "Idler, be about your
business!" He said that the business of man was greater than the worldly aims that most men set for themselves, but that the true end of life lies in service.
Man, according to Mr. Markham, is "the conscript of an eternal adventure of the spirit," and is an actor in a majestic motion moving on from world to world, for Man is not only an earthly citizen but also one of the universe. The spirit of man is moving in a mighty theatre and life is the stuff that prepares it for greater destinies.
He asked if wealth were the best aim in life and answered his question with the fact that wealth alone seldom brings happiness, while social position also fails to lift its devotees to a plane of real happiness. Fame, he says, fails to build life on a deep, divine principle.
Therefore Mr. Markham drew the conclusion that though these things all had their uses, the true end of life was in service.
"What then is the true end of life—true for this world and for all worlds? It is the service of the good—the unselfish service of the good. In serving the good we serve God. This service lets in a light of the stars upon the cold hard materialism of existence. This service lets in upon these common affairs of time the impact of eternity.
"In the service of the good is compressed the essence of all revelations, all godels, all Bibles. For these high authorities have always demanded the surrender of more worldly ambitions. This is that surrender. These high authorities have demanded of a man a great conservation to something higher than self-life. This is that conservation. These
NEW ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALLY INDUCTED LAST TUESDAY MORNING
Ernest Hiram Lindley, Ph.D., Became Chancellor of the University of Kansas After Having Been Acting Head for a Year
ALLEN MADE INDUCTION ADDRESS
Fifty-five Colleges and Universities Had Representatives Present at Impressive Inauguration. Robinson Gymnasium Was Crowded to Capacity
high authorities have insisted that man must rise to the spiritual ground. This is the rise to the spiritual ground."
Men are called to the great task of serving, according to Mr. Markham, because they are the active agents in the creation of a social providence over the race. Bread, beauty and brotherhood, he said, are needed to help people survive. In closing, he said that God is in the world in the raw materials of providence. "Let men set their heel upon their selfishness, and rising as heroes let them come forth to create the safety of the world. This is life's
Before one of the largest audiences ever gathered in Robinson Gymnasium, Ernest Hiram Lindley, Ph.D., was inaugurated as eight chancellor of the University of Kansas-Tuesday morning, June 7, shortly before noon. Chancellor Lindley at that time officially became head of the University after having been acting chancellor for a year.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN ANNUAL MEETING
Mr. Markham said that Jesus Christ was, in his opinion, the greatest statesman of all times in that he recognized that the greatest good lies in a social order of a brotherly sort and which can solve our problems.
In his inductance speech, Governor Allen said that the thing he most admired about the University was its Americanism and the fact that the students here had not been subject to the morbid reactions of the so-cried intellectual freedom.
Dean Riggs of the University of Minnesota Addressed the Assemblage
A resolution presented by W. Y. Morgan at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association Tuesday, June 7, which outlined work on the Stadium-Union movement as the chief activity of the Association during the coming year, was unanimously endorsed by the Association.
Dean H, E. Riggs, of the University of Michigan, emphasized the fact that the Student-Union movement is in reality the beginning of a new era in the life of the University as this movement is a greater thing than any which the students and alumni have ever put across.
The Michigan Union building was started seven years ago and Dean Riggs said that now there is a convention of some organization held at the University. He considers the union building a member of democracy among students.
Dean Riggs advised against making the mistake of building too small a stadium, citing Michigan as an example, and he stated that the annual Illinois game draws 75,000 spectators. He concluded by stating that help by the alumni on the Stadium-Union project was the least they could do for the advancement of the University.
To show their appreciation of the work of Irving Hill in the past year, he was re-elected president by the Association. Other officers elected were Senator Paul Kinnibal of Paraguay and Senator Robert Lauder of Clay Center and J. C. Nichols of Kansas City were elected directors.
A recommendation of the board of directors presented by Irving Hill that the Association does be increased to $3,14 a year, was voted unanimously.
Alumni called on for brief speeches were J. C. Nichols, Wilbur Gardner, who has charge of the Stadium-Union drive in Shawnee county, Dr. Nesselode of Kansas City, Ky. Glendale and Boca Raton, E. R. Warner Couer d'Ailleo, Idaho, Judge, and Mrs, C. W. Smith of Topeka, of 76, and L. D. Tosh, class of 73.
If red is a danger signal,why do the girls use rouge?
In his address, Dr. Stri brief review of the fifty: the university has been taken up briefly the wot chancellor before him, modestly upon the progran had been chancellor, the ant thing he claimed for the establishment of a medicine at the Universi
gave a years once ch
He pointed out a Univ. of the present with a faculty of 10 members, and enrollment of over 20 with buildings in town and buildings totaling twenty-twenty.
In closing, Doctor S.rong paid a high tribute to the ne 'leader of the University;
"The University has had a highly honorable past. It me is that there have been notable acmements during the past fifty-four years. We will assume that this is true, let the past is past and cannot be recalled. The past therefore must never lay deterent hands upon the future or seek in the slightest degree to mould the years come. We all hope that the past furthers the sound foundation upon which to build. If our shall be satisfied. At any rate we are confident and happy in the confidence that the new leader of the University will build upon the foundation a larger and nobler institution that the past has been able to achieve. We are happy in the belief that our new Chancellor has the vision, the training and experience, the administrative power, and the high noble purpose to make our University all that its dearest friends could desire. Indeed this preliminary events' events have but added value, which his previous record inspired. He turned his turn to lay down the badge of office we have faith to believe that he will leave a greater, a finer and a nobler University deeply enriched with the fruits of his labor."
Chancellor Lindley's inaugural address opened with a scholarly comparison of the old and new ideals of higher education. Hellenic culture, which has largely directed the activities of scholarship in the western world, had one fatal limitation, he said. It was an aristocratic leisure class ideal. The instinct of workmanship thus languished.
"To the leisure class we owe the establishment of institutes of formal education. But these opportunities were at first for the chosen few. So the courses of study emphasize polite manners and are the classes were ignored. Such curricula of schools and colleges and universities do we inherit."
Chancellor Lindley pictured the change brought with democracy and a widening social sympathy.
"Work came tradily to its own end there dawned a new nunisman which proclaimed that neither war, nor worship, nor contemption, nor the enjoyment of leisure were the chief ends of man.
"The educated man and woman should welcome the great movement for vocational education. But they should see to it that the spirit of the arts and sciences shall permeate it through and through."
"Finally as to the universities: In the light of the larger conception of social utility all truth sought should be useful. The whole history of scientific progress goes to show that the largest accessions of knowledge and a
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