THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME X.
NUMBER
ENROLLMENT FOR THE SUMMER SESSION SHOWING INCREASE
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1921.
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 Gynnassium 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 enrollment like the old-timers from K. U. 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 destre 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 on the K. U. campus in years gone by.
Popularity of the summer law courses was shown by the crowd around the tables where Vice-Chancellor Burdick and Former Chancellor Strong had their assistants busy recording the aspirants for legal lore. Not a few of the young men said they
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.
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?
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 George Foster and his corps of trained workers solve the problems at his office in Fraser Hall.
Mrs. J. B. Watkins entertained for Prof. and Mrs. Miller Saturday evening between 8 and 10 o'clock.
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 sessions. She states that she is ready and eager to aid the women in every way and will be found at her office in all the University business hours.
were working 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 convient sisters came into the room in their black and white garb setting them apart from the other students. These doen nuns are seekers of various lines of higher education, coming as teachers from the convent schools at Paola and Leavenworth to obtain the advantages that the state university affords.
The School of Fine Arts, represented by Dean H. L. Butler and his assistants, was given separate enrollment tables in the outer hall. He accounted for the increase in students taking music courses because of the drawing power of Dudley Buck and other well-known visiting instructors. He expects more enrolments from students who have not planned to start 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 convocation 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 program in detail are expected not later than 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 will be a complete speaker. Director Johnson is planning a good musical program for the meeting.
As in the regular sessions, these summer convocations will be important gatherings of the entire student body and faculty. The Fraser Chapel is selected because of the reduced number of students who just as much pep and enthusiasm as at the regular gatherings is the hope of the University leaders.
Everyone Danced at the Annual Senior-Alumni Ball
With the program of one-steps and fox-trots generously sprinkled with waltzes and two-steps 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 erds were present.
Summer Session Greetings!
Before the dance, a reception was held in honor of the Chancellor, from 8 till 10 o'clock. During the reception the Philippino orchestra furnished the music.
The gymnasium was artistically decorated with rugs from Mrs. W. B. Thayer's collection, easy chairs and dawnports 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.
Keep cool and read the Summer Session Kansan.
"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 at 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 service.
Sincerely,
W. H. JOHNSON.
Director."
SOCIAL PROGRAM TO START FRIDAY EVE
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 inclusive, that is, the announcement means for everybody to come out with 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 large share of the floor for their special enjoyment. The University 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 enjoyable in their fulfillment.
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 H. L. Butler of the School of Fine Arts, a play by Professor Arthur MacMurray and his players of the dramatic department, with other entertainments by the public speaking department and exhibitions by the athletic department under Dr. Forrest G. Allen.
W. H. JOHNSON Director of the Summer Session
W. H. JOHNSON
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.
A new way of getting around the command, "Keep Off the Grass," has been found by two of K. U.'s more popular students. Merely use a chair!
The Summer Session Kansan will be printed twice a week for distribution Tuesday and Friday forenoons. It is the news publication of the student body and is given freely for the advancement of educational and student activities.
Summer Kansan Is Your Paper
Support of the Summer Kansan by the Lawrence advertisers should have a reciprocating influence among the thousand or more on the "Hill" who trade down town. Tell the advertiser you appreciate his support of your college paper.
Another hint. You can assist the Kansa reporters in their hunt for news. Send your items to the Kansa office if you do not see the reporters. Then you can get a copy of the Kansa and mail to the home folks keeping up their interest in K. U.
Edwin Markham, Noted Poet Delivered Address at Fortyninth Affair
CONFER 585 DEGREES THIS COMMENCEMENT
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 honor the university. The commencement program was held in Robinson Gynasium.
The long academic procession of be graduates filed in promptly at 0 o'clock and took their places. Rev. Miles Macdonald, a bishop of arduan church, said the invocation.
The graduates were seated at the front of the platform in the gymnasium, with the speakers, 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 was crammed into the inscription on 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 and 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 drama 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 gospel, all Bibles. For these high authorities have always demanded of man the surrender of more worldly ambitions. This is that surrender. These high authorities have demanded of man a great consecration to something higher than self-life. This is that consecration. 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
Before one of the largest audiences ever gathered in Robinson Gymnasium, Ernest Hiram Lindley, Ph.D., was inaugurated as eighth 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.
high authorities have insisted that man must rise to the spiritual ground. This is the rise to the spiritual ground."
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-called intellectual freedom.
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.
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 extend this providence over the world. 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 big business."
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN ANNUAL MEETING
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.
The Michigan Union building was started seven years ago and Dean Riggs said that now there is a convention of some organization held there every week. He considers the ties to the former member of democracy among students.
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.
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.
A recommendation of the board of directors presented by Irving Hill that the Association did increase be $3 million. $3 a year, was voted unanimously.
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 Kimball of Parsons, vice president, and Cynthia Clay Center and J. C. Nichols of Kansas City were elected directors.
Alumni called on for brief speeches were J. C. Nichols, Wilbur Gardner, who has charge of the Stadium-Union drive in Shawnee county, Dr. Nesle rodeo of Kansas City, Miss. Whendle courd' E. Alene, Idaho, Judge and Mrs. C. W. Smith of Topeka, class 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. Strong gave a brief review of the fifty-four years the University has been in existence, taking up briefly the work of each chancellor before him. He touched modestly upon the progress of the school during the eighteen years he had been chancellor, the chief important thing he claimed for himself being the establishment of a full school of medicine at the University.
He pointed out a University of the present with a faculty of 325 members, and enrollment of over 4,000 with more than 8,000 graduates, and buildings totaling twenty-three.
In closing, Doctor Strong paid a high tribute to the new leader of the university:
"The University has had a highly honorable past. It may be that there have been notable acentements during the past fifty-four years. We will assume that this is true. Yet 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 to come. We all hope that the past furnished a broad and sound foundation upon which to build. If so, we 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 greatest friends could desire. Indeed this preliminary year's events have but added to the confidence which his previous record inspired, and when he comes in 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 learning and the need of inferior training. Such curriculums are found in schools and colleges and universities do we inherit."
Chancellor Lindley pictured the change brought with democracy and a widening social sympathy.
"Work came trady to its own end where dawned a new numisman which proclaimed that neither war, nor worship, nor contemplation, 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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