UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Senior Men Who Enlist May Be Given Degrees If Standing Is Good
NUMBER 120
Students Who Enlist After Re maining in School Until 29th of March will be Excused
Enlisted Men Get No Grade
Regulations Apply to Students Who Enter Any Work In Line of Military Service
Seniors in good standing, who have completed at least one semester's work in the University and who would be able to be graduated at the end of the Summer Session under the supervision of a faculty member, will be excused and recommended for a degree if they enlist or are drafted.
This is the recommendation of the Committee On Excuses For Military Service to the University Senate at its meeting yesterday. Such excuse is to take effect not than ten days before the student's entrance in college or the faculty of school is to determine the good standing of the student.
STUDENTS TO GET CREDIT
Other students who enlist or who are drafted and remain in school until March 29, will be excused from their courses in which they are in good standing and such courses will count toward their graduation from K. U.
The excuse will take effect not earlier than ten days before they enter into actual service, and in case the courses now being taken are prerequisites for other courses, the instructors or the faculty in charge may require such completion of the unfinished work as is deemed necessary.
NO GRADES GIVEN
The committee recommended that students be excused from completing their work rather than being given credit for it, and that the initials "m.e.", military excuse, with the date in use recorded such excuses.
The regulations apply to all students who enter any federal service which the government accepts in lieu of military service.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 3, 1918.
SOME CREDIT FOR FARM WORK
Students who withdraw from the University for farm work after March 29 or before May 6 are recommended for proportional credit for all courses in which they may be in good standing, and must be required to make up work prerequisite for other courses.
The committee recommends that instructors give special examinations in such cases.
Commencement Dinner
To Be Re-Established
The committee did not deem it expedient to grant any credit to those leaving for substitute work but suggested that it be given power to act in cases of emergency.
Many Seniors Petitioned Senate To Retain Custom, In a Simplified Form
The annual University commencement dinner which was discontinued last year on account of war conditions will be re-established this spring according to a reconsideration by the University Senate yesterday. The clause which abolished the dinner was struck out by the Senate and according to the understanding now, at least, the dinner will be held as usual although it probably will be in a more simplified form.
A petition was handed in to the Senate signed by many seniors for a continuation of the custom of an annual commencement dinner, in a simplified form. The change in policy of the Federal Food Administration, and the designation of the presidents and alums for continuation of the old custom were given as reasons why the Senate should reconsider the abolishment of the dinner.
Prof. L. N. Flint Ill
Prof. L. N. Flint of the department of journalism, has been confined to his home for the last two days with an attack of the grip.
John Prescott, who was graduated from the University in 1888, was in Lawrence yesterday in the interest of the Liberty Loan campaign. He is a bond broker in Kansas City at the present time.
Nearly 39,000 Persons See Films and Slides
Sets of slides on home gardening and poultry raising are the most popular slides to be sent out by the University Extension Division to Kansas towns and cities. More than thirty thousand persons saw slides sent out in August, December, January and February, and nearly nine thousand saw the films.
Slides illustrating war conditions in Belgium and in Paris were in demand, while recently the two sets illustrating South America and one showing Europe become popular. The service is free to Kansas high schools and cities.
The War Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Don't give the impression of a pessimistic view of the situation either by word or action, and always have confidence in the success of our army and our cause.
This is one of the advice contained in a recent order issued by General Pershing in France. It could well be followed by the civilians of this country.
During the present war we have lost 348, of whom 139 were killed in France, and 209 were drowned when the "Tuscanian" was sunk. These losses are already greater than those suffered by the United States in the Spanish-American war. There were 280 lost in war.
More than twelve billion dollars of war risk insurance have been written on the lives of American soldiers, sailors, and nurses of the government. The average amount is $8,085. The maximum amount is $10,000 and the minimum is $1,000. Up to March 6, 1,392,242 applications had been received from men and women in the national service at home and abroad.
One hundred American women physicians will leave within a few days for France, where they will undertake to save the children of the Allies. Many of the physicians are specialists in tuberculosis and pediatrics.
On April 15 aerial mail service will be opened between New York and Washington. Deliveries are expected to be made in three hours. A special twenty-four cent stamp, in addition to the usual postage, will be necessary for letters going by aerial post.
Postmaster Selph of St. Louis announced April 1st that the post office department had approved his plan for nerial mail service between St. Louis and Chengo, provided suitable fields can be found in the two cities.
The Massachusetts Food Administration says the United States army could be fed for two days on the food stores and restaurants and clubs in that state.
The New Jersey Legislature has passed a bill for the conscription of all male idlers for some useful employment during the war.
Lieut. Constant Soulier, in America recovering from wounds and instructing, has won over decoration awards that France awards to its fliers.
Mrs. William G. Sharpe, wife of the American Ambassador to France, received recently one of the new medals of French Gratitude of the first class. Thirty-nine of these medals have been awarded to Americans.
Glee Club Rehearsal Postponed There will be a rehearsal of the Women's Glee Club Thursday night at 7 o'clock in Fraser Chapel, to prepare for the concert to be given Sunday night at the Methodist Church. The rehearsal was to have been tonight, but was postponed until Thursday.
It is reported that American troops in France use a million sheets of writing paper and half a million envelopes a day.
Fine Arts Recital Today
A private recital by the students of the School of Fine Arts will be held in Fraser Chapel at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Woman's Forum will meet Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Room 110 Fraser Hall. Prof. C. A. Dykstra will speak on the question of labor.
Kirksmith Trio Gives Many Popular Numbers In Recital Tonight
Members of Trio Are All Ameri cans And Have Studied In America
The Home Of Mrs. Anita Taylor Is In Kansas City
Concert Closes K. U. Course
The concert given by the Kirksmith Trio, the last number on the University Concert course, will be in Rabbi Bassam Gerson's second o'clock time. According to Dear
Adriance-Howarth
KIRKSMITH TRIO.
(Anita Taylor, Gladys Beynard, Karl
Taylor)
Butler this concert should be one of the most popular numbers given this year.
Karl Kralksmith is one of the youngest cellists on the concert platform. He has made his reputation both in Europe and America. Gladys Yves Brainard, pianist, has also done concert work abroad.
Mrs. Anita Taylor is well known in the Middle West, her home being in Kansas City. She has an unusually fine sorror voice.
Word has been received of the marriage of Miss Edith Adrienne c'15, to Mr. John A. Howarth. Mr. Howarth was a special in the College last year. The wedding took place at New Orleans, Thursday, March 21.
Permission has been granted to the K. U. Glee Club by the University Senate to make the trip to Camp Funston to give a series of concerts for the soldiers, April 12, 13, and 14. Members of the Glee Club will be excused from classes after 11 o'clock Friday and they must be back in time to camp. The Glee Club goes to Camp Funston in the instruction of the Y. M. C. A. Camp Secretary, who pays the traveling expenses of the club.
Blackfriars meet in Room 213, Fraser Hall, at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
All three of these people are Americans, have studied in America and have made their fame in America, as well as in Europe. They should be interested to American University students, according to Dean Butler.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
K. U. Glee Club To Go
To Funston April 12-14
Sigma Tau, Theta Tau,
And Tau Beta Pi Form
Engineering Tri-Angle
New Organization Planning Big Spring Reception For Marvinites
Governing Board Selected
Will Open Lounging Room In Marvin Hall For Fraternity Members
Plans were completed today for the amalgamation of the three Engineering fraternities, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, and Theta Tau, into a new Engineering organization which is to be known as the Engineering Tri-Angle.
Since Prof. G. C. Shaad has been occupying the dean's office in Marvin Hall, he has turned over the use of the room to Mr. Ralph Stern, who Hall to the Engineering fraternities.
"The object of fusing these organizations," said H. J. Gish this morning, "is to secure co-operation among the three Engineering fraternities, to stimulate interest among underclassmen, and to maintain a common fraternity and lounging room in Marvin Hall."
A governing board of one member from each of the three fraternities, composed of H. J. Gish, F. H. Lutz and R. W. Warrener, has been elected to attend to the business affairs of the Engineering Tri-Angle.
This organization at the beginning will have a membership of nearly fifty men, each of whom will be given a key to the fraternity room, which is furnished for them. It is planned to arrange this room at once and make it as cozy as possible.
The Tri-Anglers already are making plans for a big spring reception to be given to the School of Engineering.
Elections For Officers
Of W. S. G. A. Friday
Single Ticket For Officers
Elects Class Representatives
April 12
Election for officers of the executive council of the Woman's Student Government Association will be held Fridays, April 6, in the Museum.
Petitions for Lucea Spencer for president, Mary Smith for vice-president, Olive Constant for vice-president of the School of Fine Arts, Katherine Fulkerson for secretary and Irene Tene for treasurer were handed in at the regular meeting of the council last night.
The polls will be open from 8 until 3 o'clock. The Australian ballot system will be used. Any woman regularly enrolled in the University may vote. Elections for class representatives will be held Friday, April 12.
Justice West To Talk At Uncle Jimmy's Dinner
The School of Law will hold its fifteenth annual "Uncle Jimmie's Day" Friday night at the Eldridge Hotel. Mr. Justice J. S. West of the Kansas Supreme Court, will be the principal speaker.
The history of an "Uncle Jimmie's Day" in the University dates back to 1903. Since that time the affair has been an annual one, taking the form of a banquet during the last few years.
Besides the main speaker, Mr. Justice West, thruss professors of the School of Law will talk—Raymond Rice, William L.urdible, E. D. Ossborne. The senior laws will be represented by Arthur Hurshberger as speaker, middle law by John Marr and junior law by Harold Goodwin.
Work on McCook Field cinder track has placed the path for the K. U runners in the best condition that it has been in this season. The soft condition of the inside of the track has been eliminated.
Work In Cinder Track
Acacia will entertain the freshmen of Kappa Kappa Gamma from seven to eight tonight.
Sphinx will meet tonight at 7:30 at the Sigma Nu house.
Owls meet at the Delta Tau house
Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock
Dramatic Club Offers Two Plays Thursday
Two one-act plays under the auspices of the K. U. Dramatic club will be given in the Little Theater in Green Hall Thursday night. The Dramatic Club play, "Eliza Comes To Stay," will be given in the same theater Saturday night.
The one-act plays to be given Thursday are, "America Passes By" and "The Step-Mother." The first is a drama of Americanism and has for its cast Craig Kennedy, Florence Butler, Burney Miller and Lucie Hovey. The second is a comedy and will be played by Howard Morgan, Eva Robinson, Glen Neighbors and Florence Ingham.
Members of the Dramatic Club are nitted to free tickets and may get hem at the Registrar's Office.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Modern Annual Affairs Germany's Spring Drive.
Jayhawk Beauty Contest and its attendant worries.
Former Czar's household move.
Heart's capture of the Crowp.
Another New York dancer creates consternation and blushes.
New disease discovered; the latest is "Megalomania."
Freshmen don their little caps on April 1.
"I declare," said the absent-minded professor as he plodded faithfully around the new revolving door of the Chemistry Building, "it is an extended corridor which possesses no ultimate termination."
Professor Sheppard made the following statement in his class in psychology recently: "In a near-by university the psychologists are experimenting to find out how much work and real effort there is in attention. With some students it seems to be a great deal."
Senior, "I love him."
Sophomore, in world-worn tone,
"What is love?"
Senior, with irresponsibility of second childhood, "Well, whatever it is I do it."
A captain in the K. U. Battalion in drilling his men the other day must have thought he was drilling a company of the Women's Land Army. He was putting his men through the intricacies of the manual of arms and instead of the accustomed, "Right Shoulder Arms," his commands were somewhat like the following: Right Height Present Right Left Shoulder Heel"
And they chose Baldwin as their desination. It wouldn't have been so bad, if Kansas City or some other enterprise city had been their object, but Baldwin, with its thousands of people and its theaters, etc. That's what the fellows at the Sigma Nu house are wondering about, when six months ago they decided to walk twenty-two miles. They must have been out for sport in the hiking or else they didn't know what Baldwin was like.
But when they got there, they lunched and incidently lunched too long for the train for Lawrence came, stopped and went. Two of the boys had dates and it was altogether necessary that they return to Lawrence at once. They found a farmer in town with a "taxi" and the pleasure hike cost them dearly. Sore muscles and six dollars were the bill. Never again.
On with the rain says the weather man. Easter hats have had their day and now if they get wet, just put them in the salvage can.
Three fraternity brothers, who stayed over Easter in Lawrence, made an agreement Saturday night that the last fellow in should turn the clock up an hour so that they would all get up according to the new change of time and go for a ride up the river with some young ladies and have breakfast. The men returned late, and, as each one feared that the last fellow would forget the clock, each one was dressed up at 6 o'clock. At 6 o'clock the alarm woke them and they dressed hurriedly and buried downstairs. It seemed unusually dark for sunrise and they sat down and waited awhile. One fellow yawned and looked at his watch. "Why, it is only twenty after 3," he said and the mistake was discovered, but they only had two hours to wait instead of three.
German Drive to Fail; Marne and Verdun are Forecasts, Says Nance
Chaplain of 164th Depot Brigade Tells of Experiences In the Trenches
College Men Not Slackers
Anniversary of Entry of America Into Conflict Marks New Attitude
"If the big German drives failed and in 1916, this one cannot be success
"If the German army was held back in the Battle of the Marne and in the Battle of Verdun, we need not fear the result of the present drive," said Lieut. K. F. Nance, who gave some of his own experiences in the great war in his lecture Tuesday at 1 o'clock in Fraser Chapel.
Lieutenant Nance was in the service of the American Ambulance in France six months, and was forced to return to this country because of injuries received from poisonous gases.
"The striking thing about the French soldier," said Lieutenant Nance, "is his determination to win this war, no matter what the cost may be. He realizes that a great republic stands united behind him, and is willing to sacrifice anything for that republic.
"The patience of the French soldier is supreme. Men whom I hauled back from the front line trenches, who were enduring the most intense suffering, very rarely complained. They seem to feel that after living through an attack in the trenches, anything can be borne 'pour la France.'"
"April 6, this next Saturday, the first anniversary of our entrance into this war, should mark a new period in our national thought," the lecturer declared. "After that time it should no longer be necessary for speakers to go about the country explaining why we are fighting and not see why we are fighting after a year of conflict is a pro-German, and should be treated accordingly."
Since President Wilson has advised college men to remain in school, they are not slackers when they continue college work, Lieutenant Nance believes. "Any college man within the draft age who is registered and making no attempt to evade the draft, is not a slacker," he said. "He may enlist if he desires, but since the nation has endorsed the draft, it is not necessary to enlist to prove his patriotism."
Lieutenant Nance is chaplain with the 164th Depot Brigade at Camp Funston, but most of his time is spent in giving patriotic lectures in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. He will assist in the third Liberty Loan campaign, which is to be opened in Kansas City, Saturday, April 6.
Drive For Third Liberty
Loan Starts Here Friday
Dr. Leon M. Birkhead of Federal Reserve Committee To Speak
The drive of the Third Liberty Loan begins the nation on over April 8. Plans are to make the drive a big one in Douglas County, and Friday, April 5, has been chosen as the day to begin. It is designated as Liberty Day and will be celebrated with a parade and a big down-town meeting in the afternoon which students of the University are invited to attend.
The parade will be composed of the state guards, school children, soldiers and citizenés. The meeting will be held in the Bowersock theater at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and the principal speaker is to be Dr. Leon M. Birkhead, who is a representative of the Federal Reserve committee and is declared to be one of the ablest speakers on their list.
The bands of both the University and Haskell will take part in the parade and meeting.
That the slogan for this drive will be "No loyal American will be willing to escape" is the announcement of J. D. Bowersock, chairman for Douglas County. He says, also, "The emergency is upon us and it is obligatory for us to meet it. It not how little, but how much. This campaign is for the boys 'over there' and is for the country, for home, honor and for peace."