UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 131
Laws Protest Against 5-Hour Exercise Rule; Case Before Chancellor
Two Lawrence Lawyers Take Matter Up With Head of The University
Twenty-Five Support Move
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 18.1918.
They Say Ruling Is Unfair If It Empowers To Hold Up Degrees
Two Lawrence lawyers, representing about twenty-five students in the school of Law who have united in an attempt to prove that the University Senate has no power to force students to take exercise five hours a week and to deny them their credits if they refuse, took up the matter with Chancellor Strong Monday afternoon, urging that the Laws' case be taken to court. Lawyers said they would take action on the students' protest either at once or later is not known.
The law students claim that the action of the Senate is unreasonable. No credits have been refused yet as the rule has not been passed long enough, but it is understood on the Hill that the senate does not take not taken and no excuse is presented.
"Our stand has been taken because of the irrational decision of the University Senate in requiring five hours of exercise, and because of the failure of the Exemption Board to exempt students who had excellent grounds for not wanting to take exercise," one of the protestors told us; this is unusual in agreeing with us that the ulez of the Senate is invalid.
"We deny that the Senate has any power to pass such rules. It was never given the power. The question is largely whether the University's contract with the student requires that a degree must be given after the completion of 120 hours of work as is stated in the catalogue, or whether the number of hours can be increased by the Senate as has been done.
"The case has been gone into thoroughly. We intend to fight the Senate's rulings to a satisfactory conclusion, that is, when the right or wrong of the point in question has been proved. Our action is not aimed at the Senate, but at this rule which we believe is contrary to students' rights. Neither is it for only a desire to get our own credits, but we want to ascertain for all students the validity or invalidity of the rule."
Mrs. F. O. Marvin Gives Loan Fund To Be Used By Worthy Engineers
Gift to Perpetuate Memory o Former Head of School of Engineering
Mrs. F. O. Marvin has presented the School of Engineering with a donation of $300 in the name of Dean F. O. Marvin to be used as a student loan fund. The gift is to be known as the Dean Marvin Student Fund and is to be administered by the office of the Dean of the School of Engineering in the interest of worthy engineering students who need financial aid. The fund will be used in the same manner as the regular Student Loan Fund.
Dean G. C. Shaad says that the School of Engineering owes its existence and good reputation very largely to the work of Dr. Shaad, who have life to the work of the school.
Patterson Made Lieutenant
Chester M. Patterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Patterson, of Galena, has received a commission as second lieutenant in the army at the recent Officers' Training School at Fort Leavenworth. Lieutenant Patterson was graduated from the University last spring, and was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He has been assigned to duty in the canal zone.
Theta Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, gave its seventh annual founders' day banquet Wednesday gt at the Oread Cafe.
Hester Jackson, c'19, will leave today to spend several days at Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Earl Killarney, a former student on the Hill, is visiting at the Kappa Sigma house.
Proceeds From "Comus"
Will Go To W. S. G. A
Proceeds from "Comus," the play to be given by the K. U. Dramatic Club, May 11, will be given to the W. S. G. A., since that organization can raise no money this year fro mthe May Fete. "Comus" is not intended to take the place of the annual May Fete, but the Dramatic Club plans to make an outdoor play an annual event in the spring.
Comus, when has never been given in Lawrence before, will be a distinctive production because of the costumes and dances. The cast, which will include nine principals, and twenty-two dances, has not been finally decided upon.
The War Here and Over There
BRITISH STRIKE BACK
British Strike BACK The British have struck back so strongly on the northern battle front in France near Ypres that parts of the towns of Meteen and Wytschane were retaken and held for a time. Later the English retired. Some of the so-called Hun victories in this region have not yet been confirmed.
French reinforcements have arrived in the north to help the British in stopping the Germans.
A Pacific coast ship yard has built a ship in 109 days, which is supposed to be the record for building a merchant ship.
Fifteen British ships were sunk by Hun subs during the last week. Eleven were of 1,600 tons or more.
Washington believes that Haig is now working hard to get the Germans in a hole by out maneuvering the Huns in the Ypres sector.
The 49,843 new soldiers who go to the colors between May 1 and May 10 will be sent to eleven forts and to recruiting barracks to train with the regular army units there. These men are in addition to the 150,000 selected men who are called to service April 26 and go to National Army cantonments during the five days which follow that date, and if the units called since the middle of March are counted also, a total of 300,000 soldiers will have taken up arms so far this spring.
Mrs. Bessie L. Miller is driving the bus that carries men and supplies between the Gas Defense Service in the Interior Building in Washington, D.C., and the Experiment Station of the service on the outskirts of the city.
For the first time in its history the congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution will adjourn its sessions to visit in a body the tomb of George Washington.
GOBAIN GUN WORKS NIGHTS Now that the Germans are sure the French have discovered the position and range of the Gobain gun and that the prevention of night flare is no longer a necessity, they have taken to systematic nocturnal bombardment of Paris. Few casualties have been reported from these night activities yet.
Because lowa had no state flag before the declaration of war, lowa troops have been provided with flags whose design consist of three vertical stripes in blue, white and red—the French colors.
The Student Day program will be held Friday afternoon, May 3, at 4 o'clock, either in Fraser Chapel or in Robinson Gymnasium. The program will be in charge of the new Student Council.
Each school will chose its representative to speak at this meeting. They should be chosen at once so that the program will be ready on the date set. This day always has been known as a day of freedom of speech for students.
Student Day Program Will Be Held May 3
All Methodist students in the Uni-
iversity are invited to attend a mixer
which will be given at the Methodist
church Friday night, at 8:15 o'clock.
The student branch of the American Institute of Electric Engineers will meet Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock.
Eligibility Rules of Athletic Asociation Apply to Council Members
Men's Student Council Makes Radical Change In Election Rulings
Election Held on April 30
No Difference in Qualification for Various Schools the
Radical revision of the election rules of the Men's Student Council, effected at a meeting of the Council held last night, are intended to make the qualifications more uniform in the schools of the University, and thus simplify the work of the election judges. This simplification was effected by combinations of new classification, and in changes in the requirements in all schools.
Eligibility of candidates was made to be the same as that of men in athletics, and provision is made there for women within 20 feet of the judge's tables.
School of Engineering—All students who have credits for 25 hours work shall vote as sophomores; students having credits for 60 hours work shall vote as Juniors; students having credits for 35 hours of work shall vote as seniors.
Class assignment of students in the various schools is determined by the teachers.
The College, Schools of Law, Pharmacy and Medicine—Students who have credits for 20 hours work vote as sophomores; for 50 hours work vote as juniors and for 80 hours work vote as seniors.
In the School of Pharmacy, two-year course, students are given 60 hours additional credit after the first year. In other words the students in this course rank as freshmen or seniors.
In the three-year courses students are given twenty hours additional credit at the end of the second year. Students are freshmen, sophomores, and seniors.
Fine Arts students have completed 16 hours rank as sophomores; 40 hours, ranks as juniors, and 64 hours rank as seniors.
At the election, April 30, there will be elected a president, vice president, secretary-treasurer; members of the student council, seven from the college, four from the School of Engineering, two from the School of Law, and one each from the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine and the Graduate School. There will be elected a cheer leader and five members of the athletic board, three of whom are engaged in athletics.
Graduate students, except those enrolled in the Graduate School, shall vote as seniors, but those in this school vote in their own school.
Under revised rules, candidates must be eligible under the same conditions as are athletes, and in order to have their names on the ballot must present petitions, signed by twenty-five persons eligible to vote least by noon April 26. Candidates may be freshly officers, must have been in the University a year and be passing in the work in which they are enrolled.
Kansan Board Elects New Board of Editors
Board Will Give Luncheon in Honor of Delegates of Theta Sigma Phi
Editors for next month were elected Wednesday night at the regular monthly meeting of the Kansan Board. George Montgomery will succeed Vivian Sturgeon as editor-in-chief, M. L. Peek will take Mary Smith's place as news editor, Helen Pefer was re-elected as society editor, Millard Wear will succeed Howard Morgan as Plain Tales editor, and Howard Morgan will edit the War Column, following Marjory Roby.
The Kansan Board will give a luncheon in the Kansan news room, Friday, April 26, in honor of members of Theta Sigma Phi, whose first national convention is to be held here April 25, 26, and 27. Theta Sigma Phi will get out a convention number of the Kansan, Friday, April 26.
Nadine Blair, c'19, is ill and unable to attend classes.
Classical Association To Discuss Relation Of Past and Present
Twelfth Annual Meeting of Kansas and Western Missouri Association Here Saturday
University Men to Lecture
Luncheon for Members in Gym
—Students to Give Classic
Dances
More than a hundred representatives from the colleges and high schools are expected at the twelfth annual meeting of the Classical Association of Kansas and Western Missouri which will open in Fraser Chapel at 8 o'clock, Friday, April 19. Chancellor Strong will deliver an address of welcome. Following his address, Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith of the department of architectural engineering will given an illustrated lecture titled "The Stepping Stone to Greece." In this lecture Prof. Goldsmith will show that excavations in Crette have produced evidence that the legends of Homeric poems are at least based upon historical facts in many instances.
At the meeting Saturday, Miss Florence Hale of the Neodesha High School will give a talk on one of the most interesting problems of the Latin department of today, "Latin in the Jun- neapolis High School." In this talk she will present the grades of the teaching of Latin in the upper grades of the primary schools.
Relative to this subject, Miss Anne Morrison, of the Westport High School, Kansas City, Mo; and the members of her class, will give an illustrative lesson on the direct method of teaching Latin.
Miss Rose Morgan, assistant professor of English, will give a talk on "The Classics as a Background." Miss Rose Morgan, assistant professor of Latin in the Topeka High School.
A luncheon will be given Saturday, 12:30 p. m., at the Robinson Gymnasium, for the members of the Association and their guests. A program of unusual interest has been arranged to take place during the luncheon. Members of the aesthetic dancing class from the Topeka High School, will give a group of dances which will include "Vestial Vigrill Drill," "Roman Girls" and "Pompian Flower Girls." Miss Adaline Spirkman of the Topkea High School will give a reading, "The Parting of Heaven and Andromache." She will be accompanied on the piano by Miss Lida M. Hardy.
At the program in Fraser Chapel at 2 o'clock. Prof. Charles G. Dunlap of the department of English will give a talk on "Some Englishmen of Letters and the Classics" Prof. E. W. Latin of the classics of English will also give a talk on "The Intiative and Referendum in Roman History."
Owl Society Selects Score of New Members
Owlets Chosen Unusually Early In Year—Initiation Set for Next Monday
The Owls, junior class society for me, elected twenty sophomores for members of the society next year. It is the custom of the society to elect the sophomores in the society to elect the sophomores n the Spring for membership the following year. The election was held earlier than usual this year because the School of Law is closing early.
These men were elected: Marvin Harms, Bert Cochran, Glen V. Banker, John Montieth, Pred Leach, James L. Knoles, George Welch, William Brady, Howard Hilton, Paul Jones, Milward Idol, Harold Hoover, George Rourke, Floyd Hockenhill, Phil Doddlerde, Stewart Ludgow, Arthur Lonborg, Mark Adams, Carlos Evans and Luther Hangen.
Initiation will be held next Monday night at 9:00 o'clock at the Phi Kappa Psi house. The requisite for membership of the Owlis is active participation in the school activities of the University.
Quill Club will hold a special meeting in the rest room in Fraser Hall at 8:15 o'clock tonight.
Kappa Sigma will give a house dance Saturday, May 4.
Ellsworth of Century Company Will Lecture
Arrangements are being made for lectures by William Webster Ellsworth, president of the Century Company, for the students of the University. Professor Flint of the department of journalism, is arranging for two lectures, one on "Forty Years of Publishing" open to the general public, and one on "All the Monthly Magazines" for journalism students. The lectures will probably be given Tuesday.
Mr. Ellsworth has much to say concerning writing, and what colleges do for the profession. Because of his connection with the distinctly American publishing house, the Century Company, he has been in touch with the growth of American literature, and with many of its best known writers, such as Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Helen Hunt Jackson, Winston Churchill, Thomas Nelson Page, and Jack London.
"The price of war news over the cable has gone up from 7 cents a word to 25 cents a word," said a professor this morning. "I wish they would pay more and get better words."
Plain Tales From The Hill
It takes practice to play the part of the fond parent if one has never had experience. Burney Miller has to enact the play in a play to be shown soon in the dramatic art class. From his actions he evidently believes in the theory of the thing as well as the practice. When he appeared on the stage Tuesday afternoon in rehearsal, pushing the baby carriage he had borrowed from a faculty member, he laid aside a small book. Upon examination this book was found to be "Infantry Drill Regulations."
There must be something wrong with our system of education. In a quiz this week a student informed the instructor that Joan of Arc was a general who helped expel the French from India.
A freshman sure had the right idea the other day when he said: "These freshman caps don't keep you from getting sunburned, but they sure keep you from getting tanned."
"Sherman was right about war:
He was there. I mean in war." This remark was overheard by a very studious gentleman at a boarding club the other day.
A junior law who was standing on the steps of the Law Building called to one of his classmates, "Come on, let's go to court." "You speak as if you did not enjoy it," was the reply. "Well," said the law, "It is something of a trial."
The housemother was to arrive on the 12:30 interurban. It would be terribly dark and so one of the freshmen was detailed to meet her. He looked at the clock, it was only 11 o'clock, he had lots of time for a nap, so he snapped off the lights in the library and was soon dead to the world. The 12:30 car came in and the housemother finding no one to meet her, took a taxi. Upon her arrival the fellows found the sleeping freshman and decided that the best way to meet him was to let him sleep. The next morning the would-be gallant awoke and was painfully aware that during the night, the stiffness of his high collar had been transferred to his neck and now he is not at all eager to sleep in a stiff collar.
Civil Engineers Help Campus and Freshmen
The Sophomore and Junior Civil Engineers decided yesterday to help in making the Campus beautiful and spaded up the path across the law in front of Marvin Hall, and are going to plant blue grass.
All freshmen who did not have on their caps were invited to help in this work. Mr. McNown was in charge. By this plan the campus is improved and the freshmen are given another incentive to wear their caps, the Engineers say.
Miss Mary D. Uline of the Woman's Forum of the Congregational Church will talk on "Women in Moslem Lands" in the Plymouth Parish House at 3 o'clock, Friday, April 26. The speaker is a graduate of Oberlin and has spent ten years teaching in Armenia and Turkey. All students of the University are urged to attend.
Convocation to Hear Miss Arnold Will Be Held Next Saturday
Telegram Announcing Change Received From Dean Templin Today
To Discuss Food Situation
Conferences for Women Interested in Food Administration Work
Miss Arnold, who will come to Lawrence to conduct the Teachers' Food Conservation Conference held at the University Saturday, was to have spoken at a general convoitation Tuesday.
The general convoction called to hear Miss Sarah Louise Arnold, dean of Simmons College, has been called Saturday afternoon, April 20, at 4 o'clock in Fraser Chapel. A telegram was received by the Chancellor from Dean Templin this morning saying that it would be necessary for Miss Arnold to be in Washington Tuesday to attend to urgent duties.
Dean Templin, in his telegram, urged that every University woman hear Miss Arnold. "She is a speaker of rare ability," he said, and because of her position as member of the section of the Food and Drug Administration she has to say will be of great importance to the women of this country."
Some opportunity for special conference with Miss Arnold will be made for those University women interested in the food question and who are desirous of taking up work with the Food Administration.
Many letters from high school teachers have been received saying that delegates will be sent to the food conference, Miss Margaret Lynn said this morning.
Liberty Loan Workers Plan to Boost Total $10,000 Beyond Quota
committee Will Make Canvass of Student Organizations, Next Week
The Third Liberty Loan campaign at the University is still progressing rapidly although the goal first set has been passed by a margin of $4,000. More than $19,000 has already been raised.
The present aim is to be_make the subscription $25,000. Prof. U. G. Mitchell, who is chairman of the campaign at K. U., expects the subscription will reach the $20,000 mark by Friday noon. So far only the faculty member that bees solicited. Only one student has subscribed to student organizations and employees not yet seen will be solicited next week.
Much credit is due the woman's committee. They already have reached their goal of $5,000. The way in which they have taken up the work deserves great credit. The chairman of the committee is Mrs. Elizabeth Smith.
Unexpected Features To Mark "Rare Bits"
"Rare Bits," a party to be given in Robinson Gymnasium tonight, to promote the spirit of friendship among junior and senior women, will be all that its name implies in the way of extraordinary and unusual. Marion Joseph, chairman of the senior mixer committee, says:
One of the important features of the evening will be a stunt (its exact type and components are a secret) by Hazel Praetter and Miriam Jones. An attempt will be a musical number by Helen Clark and Katherine Reding.
Dancing will form an optional part of the entertainment which will be brought to a close by a chorus of college songs. The last number is under the direction of Leah Stewart. Mary Lutz will see the drama and firma Lutz will see that instrumental music is not lacking to the pleasure of the evening.
Mrs. Esterly will be a guest of honor. Tickets to "Rare Bits" may still be purchased at the check stand in Fraser Hall.