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VOLUME XXI.
Student Council Approves Revision of Constitution
Men of University Will Vote on New Document at Mass Meeting Feb. 20
No. 98
The Men's Student Council in its regular meeting last night in Green ball adopted a revision of its constitution. The revised constitution will be presented to the men students of the University for their approval, at a mass meeting to be held in Fraser Hall on Friday evening at 7:30 p.m.
sama * A copy of the new constitution may a com be found elsewhere in the Kansan ericat * Copies of the constitution will also annnot be posted on the bulletin boards.
Penna Dea has taken no official action on the case, hasted and signified his intention of endorsing the revised constitution in *Arkull* as adopted by the Council. Dean Dean Dyer has also signified hisMemorial of the constitution.
Contains New Features
The revised constitution follows the old constitution in most of its more important phases. However, several new features have been added. Provision is made for the initiative and referendum of legislative acts, and for the recall of the officers and members of the government, outlying out these measures are provided 'or by the new constitution.
One of the most important and needed changes was the separation of the acts and laws of the Council from its constitution. The laws of the Council which were formerly incorporated in a special session bills and will not be a part of the constitution.
Point System Report Made
The committee on a point system for men presented a point for awarding a certain number of points to the students, who must be an office or was in any student activity. The purpose of the point system is to limit the amount of student activities that any student may be engaged in at one time. Definite action will be taken on the report after the revised constitution has been adopted or rejected by the students.
Several new plans for the election of cheerleaders were also presented by a committee appointed for that purpose, but action on this matter has not been reported. Every action is taken on the revised constitution by the student body.
Age of Sun Estimated
Between Two and Three Billion Years Old, Says Nernst
the Science Services
Center. Berlin, Fife — of the sun
has been fixed at something
between two billion and three billion
years by Prof. Walter Nernst after
researchers announced at a meeting
of the Society for Industrial Pro-
gress. The estimates are based in
part on the rate of decomposition
of radio-active elements, and in part
on inductions from Einstein's theory
ofativity concerning the relation between mass and energy.
Early estimates set the age of the un as low as 10 million years but volcanists showed this was too short o allow for the erosion and other hanges observed in the crust of the arth since it became too solid.
The radioactive decomposition of uranium to lead is a more accurate cosmic clock and this indicates that the solid crust of the earth has consisted for at least one and a half billion years. According to Nestor Kaiser, we can assume that ages still good for 400 million years, after which a crust will form on its surface and life such as we know will cease upon the earth.
**Methodists Announce New Plan.**
The First Methodist church has announced a new practice in its Sun-Song night Fellowship Hour, · . . h i b will start next Sunday night, Feb 10, from 6 to 7 p. m. It is planned o furnish an adequate Sunday night much for the children to attend to all the students. All students, especially are invited to attend and get acquainted with each other. Edwin Price, student leader, is in charge of the innovation.
UNIVERSITY
Women Will Bid on Pies and Men Will Bring Then
Lutheran students will give a leap-year pie social Friday night at the Lutheran church. The plan of the event, according to the Rev. N. D. Goehring, will be that the men will bring pies—home made ones, baker's or mud—and the women are to bid on them.
There will also be light refreshments, according to Elizabeth Sanborn, chairman of the social com- ment, who said if they cannot spend a little something for the women, we are giving them a chance to spend a nickle. The proceeds will go toward paying the local police to deter to the Indianapolis convention.
K. U. School of Religion Shows Rapid Increase Compared With Missouri
Questionnaires Sent·by Dear Show Students' Opinion of Courses
The School of Religion at the University of Kansas is growing faster in proportion than the school at Missouri. The Missouri school has ten students and has been accredited for eighteen years. At the present time they have an enrollment of between four and five hundred, with credit of fourteen hours in the department.
A questionnaire was prepared by S.F. Campbell of Religion, and sent out to all students who had taken courses in the department. The questionnaire asked the following questions: First, what is the value of the course you took? Second, whether your further credit was given would you take more work? Third, what other course could we put in our schedule that would be of interest to students? Eighty per cent of the questionnaires
With regard to the first question, with two exceptions every student said that the course offered, first, a finer understanding of the Bible and of religion. Second, a greater appreciation of the other courses offered by the program. That such a course round out their whole University program.
Without exception the second question was answered that if further credit was offered they would take other courses in the department. In answering the third question the student was asked what was a need for a course in the truth of the history of religion, said Dean Braden.
Florida Visitor Finds Peanut Shop Pleasan
He came up from Jacksonville, Fl., to spend the winter. He has moved into the Fox peanut shop, 1111 Massachusetts street. The climate of Lawrence is somewhat cooler than that of Florida where he has always been a sunny place and the land of sunshine and palms and flowers was a bit chilly, but since his arrival he has stayed close—back behind the peanut-filled window—and has managed to keep warm. He thinks, though, that the K. u. "kid" are horribly rude, for they insist upon coming in in crowds and giving him the once-and-the-今 rest. He shows them that he can be quite as rude as they by yawning in their faces. But he enjoys inaction and the warm little peanut shop with the boxes of bright red apples, and the stacks and stacks of peanuts is a pleasant place after all. He starts his story in Kansas several years. He has so many years before him that he can afford to remain in one place just as long as he likes. He is only fourteen years old and has about two hundred yet to live. His host feeds him up pamphlets and books, his chicken so why should he be in a hurry to leave? No, Mr. Alligator has come to stay—to grow his yearly inch in the big glass case with its basin of water and sawdust-covered "beach" in the peanut shop. A small stuffed brother alligator grins with his mouth open to keep him from getting lonesome and perhaps in time he will grow accustomed to the staring students.
Miss Anna Blubaugh, Kansas City,
and Miss Catherine Conrad, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were week-end guests at the Theta Phi Alma house.
Senior President Presents Business at Class Assembly
Invitations, Social Functions Budget and Memorial Are Discussed at Meeting
Problems confronting the class to be graduated by the University this spring were placed before members of the class by Wayne McCoy, president, at a convocation in Fraser church Thursday noon.
The class budget, class social functions, a memorial to be left the University by the class, invitations, and materials prepared and discussed by the president.
Order Invitations in March
Most of the work is in the hands of the students. Those who were urged by the president to watch the Kansas for announcements of committee meetings and attend those in which they are interested. It is asked that suggestions concerning the meeting be presented at the committee meetings.
"It is our desire that every senior have something to say concerning the affairs of the class in connection with graduation," said President McCoy
A period of one week's time will be given early in March for the ordering of invitations, according to Loading Company's committee. The committee is anxious for all members of the class to purchase invitations, but feels that all should be able to place their orders some time during the one week period.
Class Has 626 Members
Three grades of invitations will be obtainable this year, finished in leather, cardboard or plain paper, and coating approximately 42, 20 and 18 cents each. A foam board cash, according to Brotherson. The invitations are being sold at cost.
The class to be graduated this spring is composed of 626 members, classified as follows: College, 400; School of Engineering, 102; School of Law, 38; School of Fine Arts, 18; School of Medicine, 20; School of Education, 11; according to figures presented by President McCoy.
Well Known Poet Visits Members of Alemannia
Mr. and Merle C. Ward of Belpire motored through Lawrence last week on their way to Kansas City, and were overnight guests at the Alemann house. Both were invited to attend the University in 1904 and 1905.
Hibbs Leaves for Pratt
Alumnus Accepts Position as News Editor
Ben Hibbs, who received his A. B degree from the University at the end of the last semester, has accepted a position as news editor of the Pratt Daily Tribune. In a short time the editor of the paper is on an extended vacation, and Mr. Hibbs will be in complete charge.
Mr. Hibbs was a member of Siemon Phi Epsilon, Sigma Delta Chi, Sachem, Phi Beta Kapa, Quill Club and a former member of the Kansas Board; during his last semester was assistant instructor in the first year he was one of the fifteen Rhodes. Scholarship candidates from Kansas.
Mrs. Ward is poetry chairman of the Kansas Authors' Club at present, and her poems are widely printed in national magazines. Mr. Ward is engaged in the grain business at Belpre.
"Ben Hibbs combined high schoolastic standards with a practical knowledge of his subject and organizing ability," said Dr. Helen Mahn, professor of journalism this morning. "He has been an excellent influence on the Kannan, and we see him go with regret." "I can hear him laugh in the form of drents on the campus," said Dean John R. Dyer.
Chesster L. Shaw, c24, has been appointed assistant professor to replace Mr. Hibbs. He is majoring in the journalism department and was formerly a member of the Kansas editorial staff. Mr. Shaw is president of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalistic fraternity.
KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1024
Returning Students Don Winter Clothes
Students who went home for a brief vacation after last semester found a cold reception awaiting them upon return, speaking literally. Lawrence has, for the last few days, been in the grip of one of the worst storms it had experienced since 1918. And, according to weather prognosticians, little relief is expected in the remainder of the week.
Winter clothes of every description, almost, have been drafted into use to forestall the attack of cold. Army breeches and high-topped boots are the most popular, but several faculty members have even made use of canvas leggings—the type formerly worn by collised men in the army.
Street cars and automobiles have found traveling exceedingly difficult. On the first day of the snow—Monday—street cars were hitched two-and-two, and found that going was doubtful at that. And the situation was even worse yesterday. It was necessary for a group of wortmen to scrape ice and snow off the rails before the cars could proceed.
Some pedestrians are developing ailments somewhat similar to gavin as a result of slipping and sliding on wet surfaces. Fails are not infrequent.
are obstinate when it comes to starting them. Oil congeals quickly in this weather, and gasoline lends it self to combustion slowly at best.
New Air Compressor to Be Installed Soon for Chemistry Work
Machine Replaces One Used by Department for Twenty Years
A new air compressor for the chemical laboratory has arrived and will be put in place within the next two weeks. Shea, superintendent of buildings and grounds, according to Prof. H. P. Cedy, head of the department of
Columbia University, of New York, desired this compressor for their laboratory, according to Professor Cady, but the University of Kansas succeeded in being first to close a contract for its purchase at a machine that manufactures the machines are manufactured by the Norwalk Iron Works, Norwalk, Conn.
This machine, replacing the one which has been in use in the laboratory for twenty years, is used in the first step of the process. It the first step in liquid air formation, it brings the air under a pressure of 3500 pounds to the square inch. The capacity of the new machine is sometimes greater than that of the one which it replaces.
According to Professor "ady" it is the plan of the department of chemistry to install in the near future, a liquid ammonia machine. This machine, similar to an ice plant in nature, will be used to pre-cool the air before it goes to the liquifier, in the process of forming liquid air.
"Students who have been officially dropped from the University for the semester number 218," said George O. Foster this morning. This is about the average number who leave each year and many of these have left on account of lack of funds, according to Mr. Foster.
Enrollment Reaches 3897
Average Number of Students Officially Dropped
The enrolment at the present time is 3,897. This includes 253 new registrations. Most of the new students are from other schools of the state. About seventy-five are estimated to come from schools outside the state.
Seven hundred new diplomas have been ordered for the coming semester. Degrees will be given to sixty-seventh-grade graduate students this semester.
Authorized Parties This Week
Fi Kippa Alph, Ecke's Hall,
Feb. 8, Theta Fii Alph.
House, Ffi. 8, Acuella, House.
Ffi. 8, Fii Alph.
Feb. 8, Delta Theta,
House, Fbi. 8, Varsity, F. A.
U., Feb. 8, Kapai Pkspi Wiedemann's, Feb. 9, Cosmopolitan Club, House, Feb. 9.
Scrim Managers Plan Attractive Party for Feb.21
Special Features Promiser for Annual Law School Dance; Tickets on Sale Today
February 21 is the date set for the annual Law Scrim at F. A. U. hail, which "Shad" Janicke and Virgil Gale will be the judge to be the best party this year. "We are going to outscrim all the other scrims and give a party that will stand out as the one big party," said Gale, the managers and this morning.
Members of the 1923 football team, which went through the season without their goal line crossed; the coaching staff, faculty of the School f Law, and Chancellor E. H. Lindley will be guests of honor.
Will Be 1 O'clock Party
Features that will add extra spice to the party are being arranged and the managers promise that the annual party of the School of Law will we a real 1 o'clock party.
The "Sermil will be restricted to 150 couples and not one more ticket will be sold when that number is reached," said the managers this morning. Favors and refreshments are features that have been arranged, and a specialty and other entertainments are being planned.
"Brick" English Will Play
"The this year the Law Serlm will be informal. We are anxious to make English and his seven-piece orchestra have been secured with the promise of some new syncopies for the occasion. The price of the tickets will be $250, as contrasted with the usual high price of a real party," she wrote. "Tickets will be placed on sale today and can be secured from the managers and members of the School of Law. Feb. 21 was selected so that those who attended will have the chance to play in the jubileeington's birthday and the week-end according to the managers.
Mother of High School Coach Found Dead
Mrs. W. B. MacDonald Dies
W Mrs. B, W MacDonald, mother of Andrew MacDonald, A, B '23, athletic coach at Lawrence High School, was found dead Wednesday morning when a member of her family went to her room to waken her.
Death was due to heart disease and came very unexpectedly. Mrs. Green, who had a day Tuesday doing regular household duties, and was apparently well when she retired. The doctor said that he could dead only a short time when found.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed and will be announced later. Mrs. MacDonald was 60 years old. She is survived by her bushman, W. D. MacDonald, five years old. Her children and daughters are: Mr. Kachewheres of McLouth; Mrs. E. M. Bae of McLouth; Mrs. C. S. Cailow of Topek; Mrs. J. A. Young of Seattle; Wash.; and Miss Ruth MacDonald of Lawrence. The sons are: Andrew MacDonald of McLouth; Ida MacDonald of McLouth; Paul MacDonald of Topek; and Ira MacDonald of Delta, Tafo.
The book exchange in Fraser Hall is doing a rushing business, according to Margaret Bright, book exchange manager.
Book Exchange Doing Big Business in Fraser Hal
At the book exchange can be seen a line of students bringing books to sell, while on the other side is a line of students buying books. The exchANGE has at the present time books for sale. In some cases there are not a great number. A student wishing to sell his book through the exchange signs a card giving his name and address and the price for which he wishes the books to sell. According to the price for each book at the exchange, this price is usually the lowest at which the book can be bought anywhere.
Dean Husband Entertains Representative Student
Handball has rapidly increased in popularity at Grinnell, where coaches require men to play at this sport between athletic seasons.
"Why are we here?" was the subject of discussion at the luncheon given by Miss Agnes Husband, dean of representative University women.
Emily Tenney, president of W. S. G. A., was assistant hostess. The guests were: seniors; Helen Jenka, Roud Gould, Lacy Crawford, Pearl Larsen; juniors; Violet Thompson, Eva Drummon, Majorsj Patterson, Dr. Meyer, Barbara Becker, Ruth Lawless, Barbara Becker, Alice Chappuis, Eleanor Davis; freshman; Florence Nigg, Mary Engle, Helen Walden, Madre Wardell.
World War Influenced Carelessness in Fires Says Fire Marsha
People Accustomed to Thinkin in Large Numbers; Losses Seem Small
Topkick, Feb. 7- Elmer E. Scott, state fire marshal, is of the opinion that the world war holds a contributing influence over the population of the country in the matter of car fires, where firemen prevent ventable fires, he said today.
"During and succeeding the war, people became accustomed to thinking in large numbers," the state fire marshal notes, "and thousands still remember the day they forget that fire loss, no matter how small is with an effort to prevent and that the time and material consumed in the construction is gone forever and that we must always keep our personnel agency. When we begin again to realize that numerals of one, two and three columns means much in reckoning the tragic consequences of fire, there will be fewer careers; it and hence a more *effective safety* for fire, because there is a destruction of life and property."
The fire marshal declared that if he could have his way, he would place a limit on the use of two English words when employed in connection with fires. The terms, he says, are "loss only" referring to the prevailing way of describing small blazes.
"You cannot minimize the seriousness of fire by referring to the destruction wrought in the words, 'loss was only,' he said. "Whatever the loss, the pre-fire value it represents is gone and can be built again only after a thorough investigation." The course to pursue is to keep down preventable fires and treat those that are unavoidable with the seriousness they demand."
Hold Meeting at Wichita
Prof. Stuart A. Queen Lectures Before Social Workers
The Institute on Social Work meet for the first time in Kansas at Wichita from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1. Prof. Stuart A. Queen, of the department of sociology, lectured before the Institute several times.
He addressed the Social Workers and Active Volunteers Jan. 29 on the subject, "Social Legislation—Present Laws, Future Needs." The board members and committee workers of the institute heard Professor Queen discuss the "Relation of Board and Committee Members to Paid Workers."
Professor Queen also made talks on case work, co-operation between social workers and members of other professions, juvenile delinquency, family case work, family problems and the school room, effects of community forces on social work, and other social questions.
The University Club members gave their second Sunday afternoon tea, Sunday, Feb. 3, at the University Club house. Mrs. E. H. Lindley and Mys. R. D. O'Leary were hostesses.
University Club Members Give Second Sunday Tea
The tables were decorated in crimson and blue. About seventy-five members and friends were present. The next tea will be given Sunday, Feb. 17, when Mrs. P, F. Walker, and Miss Alice Silken will be hostesses.
Vancouver, British Columbia—a revival of lumber exports during the past year has been experienced by British Columbia manufacturers.
Famous Educator to Give Address on Musical Tests
Dean Seashore Will Discuss Problem of Superior Student Before Faculty
At 4:30 he will talk to a faculty assembly on "The Superior Student" in the chemistry lecture room.
Dean Carl E. Seashore, eminent psychologist and author, will address the students and faculties of the Schools of Education and Fine Arts Friday afternoon at 3:30 in Fraser on "A Test for Musical Aptitude"
He is visiting the University as a representative of the National Research Council. While here he will be a guest of Chancellor E. H. Lindoy. His purpose is to make a study of the students who are superior in their studies.
Authority on Psychology Doctor Seashore is an authority on the psychology of music and menual work. He was a priori professor of psychology at Yale for thirteen years and at present is dean of the Graduate College at the State University of Iowa. He held the presidency of the American Psychology Association in 1911, and was president of the Western Philosophy Association in 1909. He is a member of Sigma Xi, honorary science fraternity, and of the Women's Studies Association and 1922 he was chairman of the division of anthropology and psychology of the National Research Council.
His inventions of psychological instruments are numerous and widely used in psychology laboratories. The Seashore Musical Tests are embodied in these instruments, which here at the University, and his texts are the important references.
Has Written Many Books
Other than being editor of the University of Iowa Studies in Psychology, he has written books to several national publications. He is author of: Elementary Experiments in Psychology; Psychology of Daily Life; The Psychology of Musical Talent; Introduction to Psychology; also the Psychology of work and fatigue; mental work, illustrations, and the psychology of music.
The stand of Doctor Seashore on student ability is that there are about thirty individuals in one thousand who have had a satisfactory calibre and nearly three hundred who do work of satisfactory caliber, yet falling below the superior. The difference is not due to any mental defects but to the absence of sufficient swiftness of the upper thirty.
These who do such remarkable work should not be held back by those who are slow to apprehend or to progress. Doctor Seashore contends that a separate school should be maintained for these students and is studying the ways to differentiate between the superior and the excellent students.
Art School Will Conduct Classes Saturday Mornings
The department of design of the University of Kansas will conduct Saturday morning classes in drawing and design, starting Feb. 9, from 10-4.
Children to Study Design
Instruction will be given to boys, and girls between 7 and 14 years old, at $2.50 for a quarter, consisting of nine weeks. The class will study clay modeling, elementary handicrafts, and elementary drawing. Elementary handicrafts include basketry, handcrafted stoneware and stenelite, and elementary drawing will take up nature drawing, still life studies, and figure sketching.
Instruction will be under the supervision of the public school art course, department of design, third floor, West Administration building. Miss Elizabeth W. Putnam, assistant professor of design, is in charge of enrollment. The class will be limited to fifty students.
Dean Goes to Kansas City
Miss Agnes Husband, dean of
women, will go to Kansas City Sat-
turday to select furniture for the
new women's retail room. In the afte-
nion she will be the guest of the
Kansas City Panhellenic at a tea
given in her gift.