UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 90.
Slow Time Is Result In Tryouts For First Track Meet of Season
Coach Hamilton Selects Most of Team to Meet Aggies at Manhattan Monday
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 15, 1919
Dash Events Appear Strong
Best Work Is Done In Quarter Mile—Pole Vault and High Jump Strong Points
The team which will represent the Jayhawkers at Manhattan in the Kansas-Aggie meet Monday night was practically selected yesterday afternoon by tryouts in Robinson Gymnasium. All of the time was much slower than that at the tryouts last year.
Probably the best time was that in the quarter-mile, won by Russell within sixteen seconds. Davinson and Cliff also showed well in this event.
Pole vaulting was also one of the strong points of the tryout, as was the high jump. Woward and Welty did better than ten feet in the vault and Howard is expected to do higher than 10:06 in the Agile meet. Rice, Welty, and Howard are the likely candidates for the high jump. Rice is an old man on the team and is capable of clearing 6 feet.
The time in all of the distance events was remarkably slow. Dewall and Hunt placed in the order named in the mile, the time being extremely slow>5:12 minutes. In the two-mile event, Hanna won first and Buffington was second. The time was nearly a minute slower than last season's this year's time being 11 minutes. The time was slow with Cliff and Davidson leading. Murphy, the regular half-miler, is capable of making the circuit in 2:08, but he was not running yesterday. The time was 2:23 minutes.
The dashing events looked strong in the tryouts yesterday. Haddock and Lobaugh won first and second in the thirty-yard dash. Hobart, Welty, Haddock, and Lobaugh showed best in the hurdles. Haddock and Lobaugh did best in the shortest work in the shotout, Haddock doing some excellent weight tossing.
Ralph Rodkey, who was a likely candidate for the quarter and half mile and possibly the relay team, will be out of track work for the next two or three weeks on account of a bad hip hurt in practice recently. He will not go to Manhattan. There will be eighteen men taken on the trip but only sixteen men may be entered in the meet, so that the exact men whom Coach W. O. Hamilton plans to take are still undetermined.
The men will leave Monday morning at 11:52'clock on the Union Plaza.
K. U. Women To Salvage Waste Metal Material
Tooth Paste Tubes, Cold Crean Jars, and Tin Foil to Add to War Funds
University women are asked to save:
A salvage committee has been formed under the direction of Miss Margaret Lynn, director of Women's war work, which will organize the collection of waste material. This will be solo manufacture and distributed from the army used for some form of war work. Lucene Spencer is chairman of the committee.
Tin foil.
Tooth paste tubes and other metal containers.
Scraps of aluminum, cooper, and lead.
Old fruit jar lids.
Cold cream jars. ,
Medicine bottles, 2 to 6 ounces washed.
Boxes for the collection of the salvage will be placed in Fraser Hall and the Gymnasium. Material will be collected on Thursday but women may bring things any day of the week.
The sale of this waste, if the women adopt this campaign enthusiastically, will mean more money for the war work. The Kansas City chapter of the Red Cross has organized a salvage department which has been successful in collecting and selling salvage to manufacturers.
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Senate Rule Permits Freshmen To Debate
Freshmen will be allowed to debate this year, according to a ruling made by the University Senate at its last meeting. The Senate took into consideration the fact that first year men were permitted to appear on the ballot because they were more why discrimination should be made against the debate squads.
Work is now being pushed for the triangular debates as they are scheduled for March 28. The individual teams for the two debates will be chosen in about two weeks. Three of them will be the five on each squad will be chosen.
At present, work of the Missouri squad is limited to research work concerning the history and working of the question. The date of the debate has not been definitely set.
The War
Here and Over There
Over 1,500 ship builders have en listed at Kansas City the past week.
Thirty-one thousand men at Camjf Funston have taken government insurance.
The army is calling for 37,500 nurses. This is nearly ten times as many as it has now.
Most of the money loaned to the Allies by the United States has been spent in this country.
The government reports a large decrease in the number of deaths in army camps the past month.
The army today has 344,000 horses and mules. This is about five times as many as it had when the war began.
American soldiers and sailors have taken out over three billion dollars worth of government insurance.
Men to finish out the first draft will be called during the latter part of February and the first part of March.
The Third Liberty Loan which will be floated some time in March will be greater than the first and second loans combined.
The Shipping Board has notified shipyards in the east that they will be taken over by the government if strikes are not ended immediately.
Seattle was the first city to launch a ship under the government's emergency fleet contract. The vessel was an eight thousand ton steel merchantman.
All of the 109 ships seized from Germany when this country entered the war are now in the service of the government. They add a total of five hundred thousand tons to our fleets.
Governor Capper has asked the government to take over one hundred miles of privately owned railroad between Joplin and Pittsburg in order to stop strikes which are halting coal shipments from Pittsburg.
Miss Carrie Woolsey, A. B.'18, B., '16, is suffering from a severe burn received recently. Miss Woolsey who has been teaching in the high school n Tulsa, Okla., fainted while alone in her room and fell against the stove which burned her face severely. She was taken immediately to a hospital.
Guy C. Robinson, c18, has left the University to accept a position as chemist with the Atlas Powder Company at one of their plants in New Jersey. Robinson plans to do the rest of his college work by correspondence and receive his degree in the spring.
Gets Job as Chemist
All students who have left books in the Book Exchange but have not called for them or received their money for them are asked by the managers to do so Saturday morning between 9 and 12 o'clock in Frankfort, if they choose it not called for then, Walter Raymond, in charge of the exchange said today, it will be turned over to the Men's Student Council.
Most Get Money Saturday
Bill Draper of the Doniphan medical corps, a senior in the School of Pharmacy last year, visited with friends here the last two days.
The make-up quiz for Chem. II will be given Saturday, February 16, room 101 of the Chemistry building.
Variety of Entertainment Features Will Be Followed By General Dance
Colonial Party Will Carry Out Patriotic Idea In Novel Scheme
Details of the program for the All-University Colonial Party to be given February 23 are being perfected and new ideas will be used to carry out the patriotic feature of the event. Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, is directing the party and every effort will be made to provide a high class entertainment. No admission will be charged.
Herman Hangen, chairman of the committee on general arrangements, announces that the program will begin promptly at 7:30 o'clock with the one act play, "Efficiency," which was given last Saturday night in Green Hall as the first of the week to play the Club. Popular war songs will be sung by the members of the Men's Glee Club under the direction of John R. Wahltedt.
"Kanning King Kan," a pageant by sixteen University girls showing the effects of "Hoverizing" upon the K. U. students, will be the third number on the program. Miss Susan MacDonald is directing this pageant.
Miss Dorothea Engle will give her colonial dance as the last number on the program. She has given this dance in colonial costume several times and it always has been well received.
A general reception will be held on the first floor of the Gymnasium following the program. Those in the receiving line will be Chancellor and Mrs. Frank Strong, Mrs. Eustace from the class president, with their company.
After the reception dancing will take place on the second floor. A four piece orchestra will furnish the music.
Special War Courses Offered For Summer
Scientific Preparation For Active Service Offered If Enrollment Is Sufficient
Additional courses in biological chemistry, medical physiology, medical bacteriology, and parasitology will be offered to medical students in the summer session of the University, if a sufficient number of students signify their desire to enroll in the courses. The additional courses are offered in line with the University's curriculum, of fitting study for active war service as rapidly as possible. The instructors will be Prof. C. S. Nelson, Prof. O. O. Stoland, Prof. N. P. Sherwood, and Prof. B. M. Allen.
"One of the most important reasons, aside from the war idea of preparation, for adding these courses "to the schedule," said F. J. Kelley, director of the summer session, "is that we do not wish to overtax the limited laboratory space in the regular session. About sixty-five students will be ready for this work in the fall, and they can be accommodated. However, if you are enough students who sign up for these courses for the summer term to make a difference in the fall enrollment they will not be given.
"Students will save about a half year by enrolling in these special courses" continued Dean Kelley, "or they may take other work in its place that will be useful. While many students have signified their intention of taking the courses, more are needed. Those interested should report to my office, Fraser 119."
J. W. Evans, sanitary engineer of the Oklahoma department of health is spending two days at the University in the sanitary engineers' office in Marvin Hall, investigating and studying the organization of the sanitary engineering department of the state.
Sooner Engineer Here To Study Sanitation
The legislature of Oklahoma recently authorized a state sanitary engineering department. As many conditions in Oklahoma and Kansas are similar, and as Kansas has had a sanitary engineering department several years, it was decided to pattern the Oklahoma department after the department of this state.
Campaign For Juniors And Sophomores Starts With Promising Results
Annual Men Pleased With Results of First Day's Drive For Pictures
One hundred eighteen junior.
One hundred and forty-five sophomore.
That's the record of the first day's solicitation for pictures for the junior and sophomore sections in the 1918 Jailhawker. Solicitors have been busy all day, since the launching of the campaign last night; and it is already evident that the two sections of the book will rival the senior section in size. A force of fifteen men are soliciting in both classes.
"I am highly pleased with the results of the first day's campaigning," Harry Morgan, editor of the book, said this morning. "The amount of space already signed up for exceeds the total of any past year. And the solicitors have been working only one day. They will continue all this week and next week; and I believe that both the junior and sophomore sections as a result of this solicitation, will be larger than the senior section itself. The 1918 Jayhawker is everybody's annual, not just a sensational annual. There is a great deal of enthusiasm for it among classes, as well as in the senior class; and this makes it easy to convince juniors and sophomores that they should insert their photographs in the book.
"Then, too, the extreme possibility that there will be no Jayhawk next year, coupled with the fact that the 1918 book will be almost as elaborate as the after-the-war books, is helping create enthusiasm for the book."
Another Jayhawk campaign that is attracting considerable attention is the snapshot contest, announced Wednesday by Brick Chandler, snapshot editor. Brick offers prizes of three annuals to the three persons—faculty, graduates, seniors, juniors, sophomores, freshmen or specials—who turn in the snappit snapshots or collection of snapshots. "We already have a choice collection of keen stuff for the snapshot section," says Brick, "but we want a lot more." The snappit section is the heart of any annual, and I'm trying to make the 1918 Jayhawker a big-hearted book. The week of February 25 to March 2 will be known as "snapshot week" and a box will be placed on the campus for the collection of contributions.
Those who turn in snapshots for the contest should enclose them in an envelope with a slip bearing the name of the competitor. No writing should be placed on the backs of the prints.
Fine Arts Authorities
Seek To Unify Work
Prof. Paul Utt; head of the department of music of Ottawa University was elected president of the organization. Prof. Louis C. Rowland, head of the department of piano at Baker, was elected secretary and treasurer.
A conference of the heads of the schools of music and conservatories of the State of Kansas was held at Parsons, February 6 and 7 to make uniform, if possible, entrance requirements in both academic and musical subjects, arrange minimum courses and establish a uniform basis for uniform credit between schools and conservatories forming this organization.
The plan of uniform entrance requirements and courses offered toward the A. B. degree has been followed by the colleges of the state for many years and it is hoped to bring the schools of music to an equally high standard. This is the first organization of its kind in the United States
The schools represented at the conference were: The school of fine arts of the University Agricultural college, state normal, College of Emporia, Baker University, Ottawa University, Salina Wesleyan, Fairmount College and famous Muller School of Music at Topeka. Six other schools in the state which were unable to send delegates to the conference have applied since for membership in the organization.
The University of Iowa quintet practically cinched the championship if Iowa when it defeated Ames by the me-sided score of 24-9.
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Open Bible Study Drive With Convocation At 4
Dr. J. E. Kulp, of the First Methodist Church of Topeka, will speak on "Christian World Democracy" at convocation today at 4 o'clock.
This lecture will begin the Bible Study movement at the University which has been started in universities and colleges all over the United States. Many of the fraternities and sororites have declared themselves in favor of organized Bible study and others are expected to take up the work of organizing the faculty are interested and will have charge of the work of the classes. Hugo Wedel is head of the movement at the University.
Chancellor Frank Strong is in favor of the organization of this work, and also will speak at convoitation this afternoon. All drill and physical education classes will be dismissed in order that the students may attend the meeting.
Plain Tales From The Hill
An architectural engineer, grown desperate by long, weary hours of bitter toil, casts discretion to the four winds of heaven and calls up a sophomore woman for a dance date. This in itself is unprecedented for who among us ever heard of an architect having a really date?
At the library, the architect after pacing the side walk for ten minutes, slowly slides his right hand into the slowly pocket of his pearl grey trousers. "Will she never come to me?" he asks with thin cloak slides over the face of the full moon. "Can it be that she is triflin' wit muh?"
"Sure, I'll be tickled to death to go," coz the co-ed a flickering smile hovering upon her full red lips. He lifted her face as if toast after a tiger. Er-ay—coodya!
At this thrilling moment a low-hung Ford speedster draws up to the curb. The woman gracefully alights. The glare of the arc light plays upon her crepe de chine coat, a magnificent garment of Gothic design a Renaissance key worked in red beads up and down the bias, the collar of Catherine de Medici daintily cimmed in Russian sable.
The architect who has been gazing in wonderment recovers his self possession with an effort. "So yer here, little go!", he stammers with a weak smile. "Let's go in and lap up a limmin coke."
"Ah, Harold, be brave. I must break your heart!" The architect turns so pale she can hear the sound. Her wonderful yellow eyes flash. "Nay, Harold, I cain't go t' the dawning tonight. I just got married yesterday. See, see here is the license." Slow curtain.
On the level now, ain't truth stranger than fiction.
They were standing in the middle of the long bread line in front of the registrar's office waiting for grades. "Gee," piped a sympathetic voice, "I'll bet that girl gets tired of handling out grades to all this rabble." "She's also a other senior needed," I imagine she feels like saying "D' to all of us."
K C Alumni to Give Banque
K. C. Alumni to Give Banquet
The Kansas City Albumn of the University will give its annual dinner February 25 at the University Club Kansas City, Missouri. This annual dinner has been an important University occasion for several years and is one of this year's event. Many alumni are in active military service now and it is possible that some of them may be present. Invitations have been sent to the members of the faculty.
Men's Glee Club to Funston
The Men's Glee Club will go to Camp Funston on a three-day trip next month. They also expect to give concerts at Junction City, and Atchison. About twenty-five men will go on the trip. The club had planned to make a trip to Camp Funston and Manhattan, the first of February, but had to cancel these dates because of the large number of quarantines at both places.
Prof. G. W. Stratton, Dr. C. F. Nelson and Dr. F. B. Dains of the department of chemistry will attend the meeting of the American Chemical Society at the Hotel Kupper in Kansas City on Saturday, February 16 at 7:30 p. m. Prof. G. W. Stratton is secretary of the society. Mr. Curtiss Hill, city engineer of Kansas City, will give a talk on the "Incineration of Garbage."
Commencement Week Problems Put Before Senior Mass Meeting
Meeting of Class To Be Held Immediately After Special Convocation
Vattles Wants Expression
Committees Met Thursday To Organize Plans For Class Day Exercises
The three commencement committees of the senior class in a meeting last night expressed a desire that commencement be extended to include two days, Monday and Tuesday, June 3 and 4. A meeting of the class will be held this afternoon after convoction in Robinson Gymnastics to discuss this and other phases of the commencement problem.
"The feeling of the commencement, cap and gown and invitation committees," said Warren Wattles this morning, "is that an extra day of commencement exercises will not affect the war, whereas it will relieve what would otherwise be a crowd condition," he added. He held on Monday, and Commencement proper on Tuesday, eliminating much inconvenience and confusion."
Most of the Committeemen at the joint meeting of the cap and gown, memorial, and senior-alumni committees stated that they are in favor of having the regular annual senior alumni dinner. This matter, however, will be left to the senior class at the mass meeting.
Another question which Wattles will bring before the seniors is that of raising money for a memorial to be given to the University. If the class wants to have a memorial, it was decided the committee meet immediately. Walter Raymond, chairman will have charge of this drive.
The general feeling among the committees in regard to caps and gowns coincided with that of Chancellor Strong. "The faculty has taken no action against the wearing of caps and gowns. The wearing of them would oblige the individual sense that it would to do away with them."
It was decided at this joint meeting to use invitations similar to those used last year. No leather invitations, however, will be used.
W.A.A.Plans to Give Circus March 6 With Only Women Admitted
Promoters Hopes of Knocking Socks Off Barnum and
"Circus-day" will be put on in Robbins gymnasium the night of March 6 by the Womens' Athletic Association, it was announced today noon by Dorothy Tucker president of the association. Plans to put on a circus with all the features of Barnum and Bailey at their best, were formulated at a meeting of the "A Girls" last night, in the Gym.
Committees were appointed to take charge of the different parts and it was decided to use the entire lower floor of Robinson Gymnasium for the burlesque. Only women will be admitted to the performance. Miss Tucker said today noon that nothing would be omitted to make the affair a copy of the real circus in all features.
Talent from all women students probably will be used in putting on the stunts for this circus," said MISS Tucker, and it is the intention of the W. A. A. to make it for the enjoyment of every woman in the University."
Those who will have charge of arrangements for the circus are: Doris Drought, Ruth Endacott, Ruth Endacott, floor committee, and Dorothy Querfeld, publicity.
Give History Make-Up Exam
Students of Medieval and of Greek history who failed to write the final examination last semester because of 'illness or vaccination may take the examination from 10 to 12 o'clock Saturday morning, Room 203 Administration Building. This will be the only opportunity for those who failed to take the quiz to write the examination, Prof. D. L. Patterson announced.