UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 86
VOLUME XV.
Seniors Defeat Frosh While Sophomores Win In Interclass Clashes
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 11, 1018.
The Third Series of Women's Games Show Seniors Strong Contenders
Senior women defeated the freshmen, 33-12, and the sophomores won from the junior sextet 18-9, in the third series of games Saturday morning for the girls basketball championship of the university. The seniors, last year's champions, displayed their usual great teamwork and their fast short passing game was too much for the first year girls.
The seniors started with a rush and scored several times before the freshmen made their first shot at the basket. The ball was near the senior goal practically all the time during the first period, and excellent goal shooting on the part of capital D. Querfield, S. Tran, J. Brown brought the upperclass team's score to 14-7. Good guarding by D. Tucker and R. Endacott had the freshmen to two field goals during this half.
the freshmen played a much better brand of basketball in the second half however, and the seniors, weakened by the withdrawal of their captain, barely managed to hold their own. Good goal shooting by H. Barnett and M. Wasson accounted for eight freshman points in this half but toward the end of the game, the senior sextet again commenced its machine-like play and the S. Trant-J. Brown combination scored three field goals in rapid succession, leaving the yellings far behind.
The junior-sophomore game. was close in the first half, with the juniors leading at the end of the period, 8-7. The teams appeared to be evenly matched but the sophomores began to play real basketball in the second and as a result scored eleven points in this period to a single free throw on their opponents. Superior goal shooting by the sophomores was directly responsible for the junior defeat, as each team had about the same number of trials at goal.
That the junior-sophomore contest was much harder fought than the senior-freshman game is shown by the fact that Referee Hazel Pratt called only two fouls in the latter game, while nine fouls were called on each team in the first round. The junior recipients received more than their penalties in the off, when they were trying hard to stop the big offensive of the sophomores.
R. Trant, the star running center of the sophomore team, starred for her team, and along with E. Allen, forward, accounted for most of the sophomore's points. I. Russell also played a good game at the other forward position. I. Tihen and M. Brown were the chief factors in the field goal. W. Babcock threw the other goal for the juniors.
The scores follow:
SENIORS (33)
FG FT F
J. Brown, lf., 4 1
S. Trant, rc., 6 2
D. Querfal, rc., (c) 5 0
M. Hodder, jc., 0 0
D. Tucker, rg., 0 0
R. Endacott, rg., 0 0
F. Daum, lg., 0 0
FRESHMEN (PG) FT F
H. Barnett, lf, rc., 3 0 F
M. Wasson, lf, 2 0 F
M. Culloughfi rf., 0 0 F
N. Stauffer, rc., 0 1 F
H. Hison, jc., 1 0 F
G. Ollen, lg., 0 0 F
M. Testerman, rg., 0 1
I. Russell,lf.
E. Allen,rf.
R. Trant,rc.
L. Noah,lh.
B. Bottomly,lg.
D. Dively,rg.
6 0 3
FG FT F
1 0 2
1 0 3
4 0 2
0 0 2
0 0 0
0 0 0
JUNIORS (9)
FG FT F
M. Brown, if., 1 3 0
I. Tihen, rf., 1 0 0
W. Babcock, rc., 1 0 2
L. Canavan, jc., 0 0 1
C. Martin, lg., 0 0 2
L. Heathman, rg., (c) 0 0 4
R. Sterling, rg., 0 0 0
Referee, Hazel Pratt, K. U.
Get Your Dates Early For The Girls' Prom!
The Girls' From scheduled for Saturday afternoon in Robinson Gymnasium, promises to be the best women's dance given this year. Large attendance is expected and several new features will be introduced. There will be good music and one more chance to wear that party frock. Get your dates early and come prepared for a genuine frolic.
"If you want a whole week's fun crowded into one afternoon and all for fifteen cents," said a senior girl, "don't miss the Prom."
The War Here and Over There
The allowance for food in the army camps is forty cents a day for each man.
An effort will be made by the government to enlist a quarter of a million shipyard workers this week.
Two and a half million tons of British shipping has been lost since the beginning of the war.
A bill has been passed by congress protecting the civil rights of all enlisted men during the war.
Under the new rules for physical examinations of drafted men few exemptions will be made. A missing arm or foot will not obtain exemption.
The government is collecting all the lenses it can secure in order to be able to equip the battleships with observation instruments.
Government insurance has been taken out by 22,891 of the 24,323 men in the thirty-fifth division at Camp Doniphan. The average amount of insurance taken by each man is about nine thousand dollars.
A volunteer army of half a million boys will be recruited under the supervision of the Y. M. C. A. to take the place of farm hands who have gone into war work.
A ship that cannot be sunk by a torpedo has been invented by a New Yorker, according to the vice-chairman of the naval consulting board. These ships will be put into use by the government as fast as they can be produced.
The government is urging an increased production of castor beans. Castor oil is used for lubricating the motors of the army airplanes, and much of this will have to be imported unless the production of the beans is greatly increased.
Frats Are Considering Bible Study Question
Once Again Aroma Of Cremated Cadaver
Following the usual custom the University incinerator was fired this morning, there being a strong wind from the south. Odds and ends of other organic matter were disposed of along with the remains of the cadaver used by this year's class in human anatomy.
The question of introducing Bible study classes into the fraternities will be presented to the members of all fraternities at their regular chapter meetings this evening.
The president of each fraternity, with one representeh this afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. office at o'clock when the idea was presented there by Dutch Wedell. The ado is to have regular Bible study hours at the fraternity houses, using as a text Rauschenbuch's Social Principles of Jesus. The sororites have already adopted the Bible study plan and are meeting with very satisfactory results.
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Students going to and fro on the campus and even professors sitting in offices on the south of University buildings were aware of the fact that the incinerator was working. From statements made by several the general opinion of the student body differs from that of the caretaker in charge of the incinerator.
Y. W. C. A. and Women's Forum Surrender Regular Meetings To Assembly's Success
Margaret Lynn To Tell University Women About War Work Opportunity
The Young Women's Christian Association has cancelled the regular weekly meeting Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in deference to the women's mass meeting to be held in Fraser Chapel at that hour.
A mass meeting for all university women will be held in Fraser chapel Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Miss Margaret Lynn director of war work for women, will talk on the relation of the university women to the war and will make announcements regarding the new Red Cross classes.
While this meeting is not called as a regular convocation for women Miss Lynn is desirous that every woman student attend since the plans will be of interest to everybody. The Y. W. C. A. has given it's regular meeting hour for the mass meeting and will have no meeting this week.
Arrangements are under way for volunteer service in making surgical dressings and for other war service as well as for classes in different kinds of Red Cross work. Also salary work is to be organized by the University women. Miss Lynn will be able to make many memories tomorrow and of other matters of importance to all those interested in the work the War Council is planning for the University.
Dr. Culp Will Outline A Bible Study Scheme At Convocation Friday
Topekan To Explain Specia Study Scheme For Different Groups On Hill
Dr. J. E. Culp, of the first Methodist Church of Topeka, will speak to the students and town people at a special convolution Friday at four o'clock on "Christianity and World Democracy." All of the military companies and other classes in physical education will be dismissed for convolution in Robinson Gymnasium. Dr. Culp will point out the relation
of Christianity to world democracy. "The Germans have broken all of the international laws and have had no regard for the teachings of Christianity in their administration of this war. If we expect Christianity to retain its standard and make the army and its life what it should be we must find some way of combating the evils that exist in such life," said Hugo Wedell this morning.
Dr. Culp will show how Christianity has and will help conditions in the army and at home. He will put before the students his plan of organization for the establishment of some form of Bible study among the students. This plan is new and Mr. Wedell believes it will be very effective in the University.
Following the speech by Doctor Culp, Chancellor Strong will give his opinion of the proposition. Other members of the faculty will make short talks telling how they think the organization of Bible classes among the different groups on the Hill will help win the war.
Can Get Grades Wednesday
Grades for the first semester can
be obtained from the office of the
Registrar Wednesday afternoon.
A good many students have been wondering why the grades could not
have been given out before this time.
A force of clerks have been working since the end of the semester on the record books.
Sociology Club will meet Tuesday, February 12 at 7 o'clock, Room 4 ir Green Hall.
Wedell will present his plan of operation to the students. Wedell says this is something new in the line of Bible study.
Get Grades Wednesday
The Men's Glee Club will meet in Fraser Hall, for regular rehearsal Tuesday night at 7:15 o'clock.
State Board Approves Plan Of Six-Day Week For K. U. Law Schoo
Proposal Was Passed On By Senate At Meeting Last Week
The State Board of Administration met in Topeka Friday night and approved the petition from the students in the School of Law for the six-day plan of school work, which was referred by the University Senate from its meeting last week.
Three-fourths of the students in the School of Law signed the petition on the grounds that the students of law would be greatly benefited by having classes on Saturday so that the school year would end two weeks earlier. The instructors in law are in favor of the plan which will be put into force this week.
Junior and Sophomore Sections In Jayhawker Promise To Be Large
Leading Class Members Urge Big Representations From Both Classes
The junior and sophomore sections of the 1918 Jayhawker promise to be unprecedented successes if the opinion of students prominent in those classes may be taken as an indication. The general opinion seems to be that this is the year of all years for undergraduates to insert their pictures in the University annual because it is possible that there will be no Jayhawker next year and because many students—especially the men-feel that they may not be back on the Hill another year, and that this will be their last opportunity to put their pictures in the official University year book.
Hershel Washington, president of the junior class, is especially anxious that the junior section be a big one. $^2$In the first place, he says, "a student who has been on the Hill three years ought to be imbued with the spirit of regard for the University that would cause him to want to preserve the happenings up here as they are preserved in The Jayhawker. This is doubly so at the present time, because they shall not be back next year, or that there may not be another Jayhawker after the 1918 book is published this spring."
Bruce Fleming, president of the sophomore class, advocates a large sophomore section. "Undergraduates ought to realize what it means to be able to get their pictures in the University annual," he says, "and should take advantage of the opportunity. I understand the Jayhawker is to be a fine book this year, and I certainly want our class well represented in it."
The campaign for junior and sophomore pictures, which has been pushed out quietly until the present, is now on in full blast. More than two hundred juniors are expected to put their picture in the book; and over half as many sophomores. The extremely low junior and sophomore dues—one dollar—have increased the popularity of these sections.
Personal solicitation of every member of the two classes will be made by members of the Jayhawker board and workers in each class. It will be necessary, however, for all those who want to turn in their pictures by February 28, the final date set, to have their photograph taken at some photographer's by February 23. Five days are required for finishing the pictures.
There will be a meeting of the German Verein at 3 o'clock Tuesday. Professor E. F. Engel will lecture on "The Teaching of German in High Schools."
Prof. E, V. Gage will talk before the French Club on "The Passion Play in the Marquises' Islands" Tuesday at 3 o'clock.
Three more tenors are needed for the Men's Glee Club. Applicants will please communicate with Director J. A. Farrell, 1008 Tennessee street.
Art Tucker, of Florence, is a visitor at the Sigma Chi house this week. He is on his way to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he will enter the Ordnance Training School about to begin there.
Senate Cuts Out Four Holidays With Approval of State Board
Easter Vacation From March 29 to April 1, Inclusive, Will Be The Only Holidays Observed During the Remainder of Year.
Recent Senate Action Closes Semester Nine Days Earlier
Rule Prohibiting Freshmen From Participating In Inter-Collegiate Athletics Remains Unsuspended—Faculty Sees No Need For Change
Plain Tales From The Hill
The four holidays, February 12 and 22 and May 1 and 30, will not be observed at the University this year, according to a decision made by the University Senate at a meeting held Friday afternoon and approved by the State Board of Administration Friday night.
Many people passing the Acoth house on Vermont street have been curious to know the name of the girl in active military service whose star is in the service flag on the door. A young man bravely inquired and found that the star was for Capt. J. S. Amick, the husband of the house matron, who is stationed at Camp Doniphan.
Members of the local police department shined up their stars and took a firmer grip on their clubs preparatory to issuing forth in hot pursuit of a band of desperate kidnappers one day last week when reports were circulated that a profession in the College had been abducted. Later developments of the case showed that the professor, who is near sighted, got lost in South Park when he strayed from the cinder path that leads through the park. He was later found wandering aimlessly in the wild region of Fourteenth and Massachusetts streets.
No change will be made in the usual Easter vacation. Easter Sunday falls on March 31 and the Friday before, March 29, and the Monday following. April 1, will be observed as usual.
Leaving the question as to whether they are or are not military camouflage open to discussion, it still remains evident that about seven out of every ten men students in K. U. are at present trying to grow them on their upper lips.
Found—One Harbinger
To the annual incursion of spring poets who will soon descend upon a helpless public, it might be suggested that another harbinger of spring, along with the robin and the first laisy, is the student from the old some town who has at last got his air cut.
As the thin, shivering line of heroes stood at attention last Friday, their blue, half frozen hands grasping the deadly—and cold—weapons at their sides, a private in the rear sink seriously remarked through chittering teeth: "Believe me! If 'alley Forge' was any colder than this, I'm sure glad I'm training for this war and not for the Revolution."
A student who has been tortured in a similar manner in the class room for several weeks suggests that a fit punishment for the average German military leader would be to sit him eternally in a class in front of the goof who spends his time tapping out a kettle drum solo with his foot on the chair in front.
Two Plays Wednesday
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 examinations from 10 to 12 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.
Two plays were written.
Two one act plays "Kid Curlers",
with a second act players,
and "Aurased at Last," by eight actors,
will be staged by candidates for
the Dramatic Club, Wednesday night at
the Little Theatre. The entertainments will begin at 7:30 o'clock and will be free to the public.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
Returns Money on Books
The Student Book Exchange will be open Monday afternoon from 3 o'clock to 5 o'clock, Tuesday morning from 9 to 10 o'clock and in the afternoon from 3 to 4 o'clock for students to get the money for books sold or books which were not sold.
By the elimination of these four holidays and the shortening of the commencement season the closing of school year is moved up nine days. Commencement will be held on Monday, June 3, instead of June 12 and the regular work of the semester will be completed with the final examinations which end June 1. This action was taken by the Senate because many students are eager to finish their work as soon as possible.
NO FRESHMAN ATHLETICS
The Senate also voted that the rule prohibiting freshmen from participating in inter-collegiate athletics should not be suspended during the war. The members deciding that there was no need for a change in the ruling at present.
Another ruling was made at the Senate meeting that women need not report for more than four days work each week in the department of physical education. Last semester there was a great deal of dissatisfaction among the women students because they were required to take cross-country hikes and other athletic exercise for five days each week. This was in addition to their regular class work.
UNIFORMES FOR DRILL IN 1918 All men enrold for military training in the fall of 1918 will be required to wear uniforms, according to resolution that was adopted at the Senate meeting upon the recommendation of the department of physical education. No requirements regarding uniforms were made this year as is the first year of military drill. Some of the students have been wearing parts of uniforms and uniforms this year. In order to have all of the uniforms of same type and material, the department of physical education will recommend an approved style, which will be the only kind that the men will be allowed to wear.
Prof. C. S. Skilton Lectures In the East
Under a plan to bring the University of Kansas and Wellesley College in closer relation, Prof. Charles S. Skilton, of the School of Fine Arts, left Sunday for Wellesley where he will spend several days in meeting classes in advanced composition. This corresponds to the idea of exchange professors but on a small scale, as Wellesley has made several visits here.
Melodies for five pieces have been sent on ahead by Professor Skilton. These will be composed by the classes at Wellesley when he gets there. While there he will give a public lecture on "Uses of American Folk Music" and an organ recital of his own compositions.
Professor Skilton will also give recitals at Vassar, Oberlin, Williams College and before the Harvard Club at Boston. He will give a series of lectures, too, at these institutions.
Plays By Dramatic Club
Raise $14 for Red Cross
The two popular plays, "Efficiency", and "Suppressed Desires," given Saturday night by the Dramatic Club, in the Little Theater in Green Hall, were successful. Every seat was taken and all who saw the plays have a good work for the Dramatic Club.
The door receipts for the two plays amounted to $20. The total expense for tickets, costumes, and advertising, was $6. The proceeds go to help the Red Cross in its world-wide work. The Dramatic Club is planning to give more such plays.