UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 124
Nurses' Training Camp For College Alumnae To Be Held at Vassar
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 9, 1918.
American Red Cross Will Trait Womoeon for Home and Foreign Service
Extends Plattsburg Idea
Details of a women's training camp for collegiate alumnae to be held at Vassar from June 24 to September 13, have been received by the Alumni Office. The camp is maintained by the American Red Cross, and represents the first scientific attempt to fit educated women as quickly as possible to enter the nursing profession.
Session from June 24 to September 13—$95 Covers Expense
The purpose of the camp is similar to that of the Plattsburg training camp when it was first opened. The Vassar camp will train women to hold high positions in nursing just as the purpose of Plattsburg was to train men for officers' positions. Enrollment in the camp is limited to 1,000 women. The regular fees amount to $95 which will cover all expenses at the camp.
Four scholarships have been offered at the camp by the Vassar class of 1913 in memory of their classmate, Annabel Roberts who was killed in France. These scholarships amount to $250 and include expenses.
The great demand for trained nurses in civilian life as well as in military service was one reason for opening the camp. The withdrawal of so many trained medical men and nurses from civil life and the new working conditions caused by the war are for nurses great. Besides, it is estimated 1,020 trained nurses will be needed for every million soldiers.
Engineering Branches Attractive to Women
Miss Edith Snow, a former student of the University will go to Kansas City to attend a meeting of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae tomorrow where the camp plans will be explained. Herbert Mills, professor of economics at Vassar, will be dean of the camp.
Technical Training Leads to Positions in Large Manufacturing Plants
Architectural engineering seems to be the most attractive branch for women, but there is also a demand for women with mechanical and electrical training in the drafting rooms and other departments of our large manufacturing plants. One large electrical company has introduced a policy of employing women who have graduated from college in certain phases of engineering. Chemistry and chemical engineering offer many openings, which can be ably filled by women.
There is a continually increasing demand for women who have technical training, and many women are doing practically the same work that was formerly done by men as architectural and civil engineers said Dean Shaad of the School of Engineering. Of course they do not oversee construction and inspect work as closely as men, but in other respects their work is about the same.
Dramatic Club to Give Two Plays Wednesday
Two more popular priced plays will be given in the Little Theater in Green Hall Wednesday night. Barrie's "The Twelve-Pound Look" will be presented by Florence Butler, Craig Kennedy and Eva Robinson.
"The Consepierrators" is the title of the second one-act play. The members of the cast for it are: Karl Brown, Marie Buchanan, Marie Ketels, and Horace Chandler.
The one-act play, "America Passes By" was presented at the Masonic Temple Monday night at the request of the lodge. This is the first time that women have ever appeared on the stage there.
Sigma Nu announces the initiation of John Schoonover, of Lyons, Kan, Leland Barter, of Dodge City, Kan, and Harry Barter, of Dodge City, Kan.
Two Food Talks In One
At Lecture to Women
"Nutritive Requirements of the Body" is the subject of the food lecture to be given by Mrs. E. H. Teeter. Wednesday afternight at 4 o'clock in Fraser Hall.
This will be the conclusion of last week's lecture and will take up only a part of the hour. The remaining time will be given to a discussion of "The Present Need For Conservation of Fats and Sugars."
The War Here and Over There
Henry Crosby Emery, former chairman of the Tariff Board and for two years a representative of the Guaranty Trust Company in Petrograd, has been taken prisoner in Finland.
The DuPont powder firm, it is announced, has successfully made the first run of indigo blue, and produced an article up to the German standard. This dye is now worth $17,000 a ton.
The London Times will increase the price of the paper to three pence and limit the edition to 120,000 copies because of the shortage of white paper, no copy being supplied to any person who does not agree to share it with at least one other reader.
Admiral Sir John J. Jellicoe predicts that the submarine menace will be stopped by summer.
There has been a great increase in the enlistments for the navy and marine corps recently probably because of the great German offensive on the western front.
Air raid insurance against death resulting from airplane raids is now being sold in Paris.
A war exhibition in London recently showed that women of the empire are now engaged in forty lines of war employment.
Captain Fiorello M. La Guardii former member of Congress fro New York who recently joined th American forces has been wounded in an aeroplane accident in Italy.
A recommendation was recently made by Secretary Baker to General Pershing/concerning food conservation among the forces in France.
The present freight crisis is expected to be relieved by the use of motor trucks of which there are 435. 000 registered in the United States at the present time.
"Le Coq d'Or" is the title of the grim operatic satire on Russia as it existed during the first days of the revolution. The opera was written by Rimsky-Korsakov and presented by the Metropolitan Opera Company.
There is an actual shortage at the present of 7,435,984 tons in the Allied shipping program if an army of 1,500,000 men is to be maintained in France by this country.
Because the mentally unfit are not wanted in the military service of the United States, intelligence tests have been adopted by the War Department and usually the tests are in charge of a psychological examiner.
A giant tube is used by the United States navy to test the strength of submarines who go down to extreme water depths. A Laurentine dock, the work of an Italian, Maj. Gesar Laurentine, is used. Because in making the tests the men inside the torpedo are in communication with the ship that they pressure into the dock, this pressure may be reduced instantly if the sides of the vessel are not able to withstand the pressure.
Will Ferrell of Independence, winner of the state Liberty Loan song, is a true patriot. He won the prize in Montgomery county and is going to give the money he won in this contest to the mess fund of Company K, of that county, while the $50 state prize won he will invest in a Liberty Bond and present the bond to one of the war charities.
Up until September 1917, Germany has raised 3,647,000 pounds by means of war loans.
A widow in London has given eight sons to the service, five of whom have been killed and one paralyzed for life.
Dr. L. E. Sayre of the School of Pharmacy Is Trying Experiments
Coffee Grounds Contain Properties Making Them Substitute For Flour
Faculty Bachelors Like 'um
Work So Far Is Only Tentative And Success Cannot Be Announced
Coffee grounds contain valuable food properties and may afford an excellent substitute to decrease the quantities of flour used in bread, cakes and cookies, according to experiments being tried by Dr. L. E. Sayre, dean of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Kansas.
COOKIES OF 25 PER CENT COFFEE Doctor Sayre has made cookies using 25 per cent dried coffee grounds in place of a similar weight of flour and has found them excellent. They were eaten by his own family and subsequently various forms of coffee grounds and flour cookies were made and tried on bachelors of the University faculty. Doctor Sayre made and sent to the club where faculty bachelors board coffee-grounds cookies flavored with chocolate, ginger, cinnamon and other flavorings. All were palatable and no bad effects were observed In fact, there was an insistent demand that the experiment be continued indefinitely.
RICH IN PROTEIN AND FAT
Analyses of coffee grounds of an average grade of 30-cent coffee made by Doctor Sayre showed them to contain about 11 per cent protein, the same percentage of protein contained in an average good grade of flour. The grounds analyzed approximately 19 per cent crude oil, the percentage varying in different analyses.
Of these, these experiments with coffee grounds as a flour substitute are only tentative so far," said Doctor Sayre, "and have not been carried far enough to be announced as successful.
The grounds were carefully dried in a slow oven, immediately after being taken from the coffee pot. This precaution was taken to prevent a possibility of molds developing in the wet grounds."
RICH IN PROTEIN AND FAT
Theta Sigma Phi Will Hold Convention Here
Honorary Journalism Sorority In National Conclave Here April 25-27
The Collegiate Alumnae Association will entertain the Senior women some time during the month of April.
The national convention of Theta Sigma Phi will be held in Lawrence April 25, 26 and 27. Theta Sigma Phi is a national journalistic fraternity of women.
Theta Sigma Phi was installed at the University of Kansas in the spring of 1914. The charter members were Ruth Harcher, Lucie Barger, Walter Cunningham, Ottie McNeal, Mabel Dunlevy, Caroline Greer and Helen Rho Hoopees.
Every member of the Women's Glee Club who wants to go to Funston must be in Fraser Hall for the regular meeting at 7 o'clock tonight. Bring money for pictures.
Theta Sigma Phi has fourteen chapters at that many colleges and universities. All of these chapters will probably be represented at the convention. The chapters nearest to Kansas are at Oklahoma, and those near Oklahoma. The first chapter of Theta Sigma Phi was organized at the University of Washington at Seattle.
Since that time it has initiated among other honorary members: Dana Gatlin, Margaret Hill McCarter, Miss Effe Graham, Miss Kate Stephens, Miss Agnes Thompson, Miss Margaret Lynn, Mrs. Louisa Cooke Don Carlos, L. L. Flint and Miss Hannah Mitchell.
The Commerce Club will meet at the Pi U house tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Prof. S. C. Catell will talk. Election of officers will take place.
All Methodist student women who expect or wish to become members of Kappa Phi Club are requested to meet the membership committee in the Methodist office in Myers Hall at 5:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Plans Are Accepted For Botanical Garden On South of Campus
Gardens Will Contain Miniature Lake, a Fountain and Greenhouses
Work to be Started Soon
Herbert S. Hare of Kansas City Women for Home and Is Designer
Plans for beautifying the campus which Herbert S. Hare, lecturer on landscape art from Kansas City has made have been formally accepted by the Grounds Committee of the University. The plans which Mr. Hare has drawn up concern only the south slope of the University grounds and work is to be started this spring on the laying out of a botanical garden and the erection of greenhouses.
"Of course we cannot expect to see a marvelous transformation at once because it is absolutely essential to have appropriations set aside for this improvement," said Prof. W. C. Stevens of the Grounds Committee. "It takes years for trees and shrubs to grow."
PLANTS FOR BOTANICAL RESEARCH At the foot of the terrace just south of the Journalism Building a series of green houses are to be erected. Just east of the green houses a formal botanical garden will be laid out which will be planted with plants and specimens to be used in research work in the department of botany. The garden will be planted in terraces and in the center will be a fountain.
The rest of the slope, as far east as the walk which leads up from the south to Blake Hall, will be planted informally and at the extreme foot of the slope will be a pond or a miniature lake, surrounded by clumps of trees and dense shrubbery. A winding road will enter the campus at the south-east corner and open onto green houses, Vines and clumps of trees are to be planted to break the hard outlines of the buildings on that side of the hill. Mr. Hare is now in Kansas City working up the blue prints.
The Committee on Grounds is composed of Chancellor Frank Strong, Professors W. C. Stevens, Goldwin Goldsmith, W. A. Griffith, W. C. McNown and John M. Shea, superintendent of grounds and Mr. Wheeler the University marshal.
All Cases Must Be Heard By Standing Committee of University Senate
Instructors Reminded Of Discipline Rules
Any matter regarding student discipline is to be reported to the Disciplinary Committee by the school or department to whose notice the matter has been brought and that committee is to have complete jurisdiction as to the penalty attached, according to a notice sent out to all professors and instructors this morning by the Disciplinary Committee. This ruling has been in effect some time and the notice was issued this morning to bring the matter to the attention of all new instructors and of those who do not understand it.
The ruling was made to secure uniformity in procedure with all cases requiring discipline. The purpose was to centralize the matters of discipline so that all cases would be brought before the same group of men and more equitable decisions could be given. Under the old system when each instructor punished the offending student as he saw fit, some were very severe in their punishments and others were lenient. This resulted in unjust decisions and it was decided by the University Senate that the power of discipline be vested in a permanent Disciplinary Committee and that all matters requiring such discipline be taken out of the hands of the individual instructors and be given over to this committee.
Snow Zoology Club will meet at 1244 Ohio, Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Herman Douthitt will talk on "Kansas Birds."
The Men's Student Council will cooperate with a University committee under the chairmanship of F. B. Dains to provide the University with a service flag.
Demand for Entomologists Exceeds Present Supply
Demand by the Federal Government for trained entomologists is far greater than it is possible to meet, says Prof. S. J. Hunter, of the department of entomology. Professor Hunter believes that this sudden demand is largely owing to the fact that food conservation is the question of the hour. He now has on hand requests for entomologists at salaries ranging from $1200 to $2500, which he is unable to fill at present.
In a recent article published in one of the Entomology magazines the University of Kansas is ranked third according to the number of trained entomologists it has already placed. These position have been both in state universities and federal government service.
Plain Tales From The Hill
And They Thought He Was Jess Willard
Ira C. Snyder, '12, came all the way from Denver to attend the banquet given last week in honor of Uncle Jimmy Green. Ira was a big fellow when he was a student here, but since he has been out West he has added a large amount of flesh and now is a very large man. When he came into the dining room of the Eldridge House that night, the negro waiters thought he was Jess Willard and they looked him over and stepped lively. Some of the Laws who did not know Ira also thought he was the champion pugilist who now lives west of town.
A student in an Oral Interpretation class got his directions mixed the other day when he read the poem "Opportunity" by Walter Malone. The last two lines were read in this manner.
Each night a star to guide thy feet to Hell."
"Each morning gives thee wings to flee from Heaven,
A small Freshman was walking dejectedly along the walk west of Fraser yesterday. He had flunked a quiz and he looked as though he had lost the last friend he had in the world. His books were under his one arm, both hands were in his pockets, and his head hung. Suddenly the tall form of the Chancellor came up beside him. "Good morning to you," said the Chancellor in his usual cheery way. The startled Freshman looked up quickly, and became so "fussed" that he stammered, "I guess so."
Patriotism and anti-tobacco legislation seem to have their effects upon the minds of K. U. students as was proven by a recent test in Psychology I. When all the students in the class were asked to make a list of five street car cards they remembered, the largest number which were alike were twenty-seven governments were next highest, while a delectable brand of "eating" tobacco was at the bottom of the list.
BIG THINGS THAT COUNT
The feeling when you flunk a quiz under A. J. Bovton.
The girl that insists on riding home from a dance on a moonlight night. The man that thinks that he is gettin' pretty but still holds only dates on Sunday night. He fools only himself as the girls get wise in a short time.
A professor that assigns a quiz for
the day after a vacation.
A feeling that you will be called away to war in the next few days. A girl that breaks a date at the last minute but thanks though that she did not wait until you reached home.
K. U. New York Alumni Planning Thirty-First Dinner For April 19
The University marshal was almost called to quell a near riot in a class in English lettering in the School of Engineering the other day. A pencil had rolled onto the floor and its rapid fall had the effect of a German bomb. Young men fought with each other to rescue the little terror, tables were overturned, and the room loked like a ruined Belgian Chapel when a young man emerged from the ruin and handed the pencil to its owner, Miss Lucile Hovey, the only woman in the class.
College Freshman: "You smoke them awful short, don't you, Steve?" Junior Law: "No, I smoke them as long as I can."
Theta Sigma Phi meets Thursday at 8 o'clock, Women's rest room, Fraser Hall.
Russel Whitman, '93. Will be Toastmaster at This Year's Event
Large Attendance Expected
N. Y. Association Responsible for Transcontinental Telephone Dinner in 1916
The thirty-first annual dinner of the New York Alumni Association of the University of Kansas will be held at Hotel McAlpin in New York City this year, April 19. Rufft Whitman, publisher of the New York Commercial and for several management firms Burke Circuations, will be toastmaster at the dinner. Mr. Whitman was graduated from the University in 1893.
It was the New York Alumni Association that two years ago managed the trans-continental telephone conversation when nearly 800 K. U. students and alumni listened in on Chancellor Strong's speech given in Lawrence in Robinson Gymnasium. There were 500 at the dinner here, about fifty in San Francisco, and several hundred at the annual banquet in New York. Each guest at all three of the banquets had an individual telephone.
BENSON KELLOGG CHIEF SPEAKER
This year alumni are expected to be in Boston, Washington, and Philadelphia, and many other cities of the East. Herbert Flint, '14, and Alice Houston, '11, are active in arranging the dinner this year. Kate Stephens, an author, is the founder of the New York Alumni Association, while Nils C. Benson is president of the association.
Vernon Kellogg, '89, who was with Herbert Hoover in Belgium with the relief commission and now with Hoover in Washington, is to be the principal speaker at the annual dinner. He was on the faculty of the University Stanford College at this time he went into the relief commission work.
WAR WORK UNDERTAKEN
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Wallace Notestine, former professor of history at the University, who went from K. U. to the University of Minnesota, will be another of the chief speakers. Mr. Notestine has been granted a leave of absence from Minnesota so that he can do war research work at Washington for the government.
Baldwin Mitchell, now in military service, will represent the younger graduates at the dinner. Mitchell was graduated from the K. U. School of Law in 1917.
Liberty Bond Campaign Starts On Hill With Large Subscriptions
Drive Will Not Start Until Next Week—Blanks Have Not Arrived
The first two members of the faculty, who have been approached in the Liberty Loan campaign have responded generously with subscriptions of $1,000 and $500 respectively. The campaign has not \begin{earned}, because the Liberty Loan blanks have not yet arrived.
Prof. U. G. Mitchell, of the department of mathematics has charge of the men's committee and Mrs. T. T. Smith is at the head of the woman's committee. Subscriptions may be sent to the women them, but the real campaign will not start until the last of this week or the first of next.
State Convention Is Sought
Special efforts are being made by officers of the Lawrence Christian Endeavor Union to register all local Endeavors at the district convention which is to be held here next week. The plans will be presented at the meetings Sunday, when members will be urged to assist in making a showing that will bring to Lawrence the State C. E., convention for 1919.
Enda Roberts and Lent Pittenger'a18, went to Linwood Thursday night to substitute in a vacancy on a chauatqua circuit. Their program consisted of piano and vocal solos.
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