JANUARY 22,1918
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
First Housemother For K.U.-Mrs. Petty
Just a year before the builders of Green Hall tilted the cornerstone of that venerable structure into its proper position Mrs. Virginia C. Petty laid the "corner" stone of a new branch of work for women among men's Greek letter societies at K. U.
It was in December 1903 that Mrs. Petty accepted the offer of the Sigma Chi fraternity to transact the duties of housemother. At that time "meatless" or military drill cuts were just as familiar around fraternity
MRS. VIRGINIA PETTY
houseas the presence of a housemother. To "Mother" Petty as she is called by the boys at the Sigma Chi house, her new position as Lawrence's first fraternity housemother held no especial task. It meant merely the faithful practice of her characteristic kindly nature. The fact that last month marked the fourteenth year of Mother Petty's career as housemother with the Sigma Chis is self evident that her efforts were entirely successful.
Mother Petty's capability and importance in her new position soon impressed other fraternities with the value of one who could give a fraternity house little home-like touches known only to the hand of a woman. As a result, all but one of the thirteen national fraternities represented here at the University, and two local fraternities, have housemothers today. Most of the honorary fraternities, occupying houses, now employ the services of a housemother also. At the present time, there are twenty-nine housemothers, employed by men's and women's organizations on the hill.
Sigma Nu Initiation
By the Way—
Sigma Nu held initiation Sunday for the following men: R. Brown Cunningham, of Coney; Marvin Harms, Russell Hobbs, and Roland Hill, of Wichita; Russell Sturges and George Munch, of Concordia; and Edward Hutson, of Fredonia.
Phi Kappa Initiation
Phi Kappa announces the initiation of the following: William Conroy, c'21; Lawrence Lamb, c'21; William Breucks, c'21; John O'Donnell, c'21; William Dixon, c'21; McKenna Hodges, c'21; Walter Halpin, c'21.
Sigma Xi Meets
Kinne Club Dance
Sigma Xi will meet at the home of Professor Abassat Thursday evening. Dr. B. M. Allen will speak on "Experiments Upon the Effects of Glands of Internal Secrets upon Growth."
Kinne Club Dance
The Kinne Club, 1339 Tennessee Street, will entertain with a dance tonight from 7 to 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Allen Entertains
Mrs. Allen Eintersalms
Mrs. Mary G. Alen, chaperon at the Sigma Kappa house, will entertain informally for sorority house mothers and for the mothers of the town girls Wednesday afternoon.
Theta Sigma Phi Postponed
Theta Sigma Phi will not hold its
regular Thursday meeting this week,
but will meet after quiz week.
Fraternity Pledges
Fraternity Pledges
Phi Delta Theta announces the pledging of Don Drouill, c'21 of Alta Vista.
Society Personals
Delta Tau Delta will call on Sigma Kappa Wednesday night from 7 to 8 o'clock
Russell Sturges of Concordia left yesterday for Leavenworth where he will study preparatory to taking examinations for entrance nto the United States Naval Academy and Annapolis.
Miss Cora Reynolds, instructor or voice in the School of Fine Arts, who has been unable to meet her classes for a week because of acute bronchitis, will resume her work in a day or two.
Bonnie Lingenfelter, c'18, will go to Topea Wednesday night to attend a Helianthus party.
Miss Ada Harper, a former student of the University who is teaching in Topeka, is a guest at the Achoth house.
Viola Blackman, fa'19, is out of school on account of laryngitis.
Miss Louse Clements of Fredonia is a guest at the Sigma Kappa house this week.
Miss Winifred Neptune of Salina is the guest of Muriel and Alecta Brownlee at the Gamma Phi Beta house.
Mrs. Rhineke, chaperon of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, is seriously ill at the chapter house.
Helen Clark, c'19, has returned from a visit in Manhattan.
E. A. Blackman, a former student at the University, is now an army chaplain with the 130th Field Artillery at Fort Stilk. His wife is with him, doing work on the war service board there. Mr. Blackman has filled the ministry of the Christian church at Chanute.
New Graduate Magazine
Will Give K. U. Features
The Graduate Magazine for January, which has been published recently contains a number of interesting features. One delightful article entitled, "The Play's the Thing," gives an interesting sketch of K. U.'s Little Theater in Green Hall, and the things which take place there.
University news is another feature of this issue, as is the section devoted to the alumni. The magazine contains a full page cut of a rehearsal in Green Hall Theater.
What is a College Student?
Most of us can remember the time when the college student was a gaily dressed person who early adopted a pipe bearing strange insignia and allowed himself to be led about by a building, stopping occasionally to give vent to a lusty rah, rah for something.
There has been a mighty change in this person. He no longer feels under obligation to live up to the com-suplement ideal. The tendency with regard to personal appearance seems to be that others should be so and that other great complement of college life, hazing, is also disappearing rapidly.
What is the reason? We think it that the college student has ceased to be quite such a rarity. Everybody goes to college now. There are tens of thousands of degrees handed out every day. The number is increasing. And with regard to all this there is something that most of us should keep in mind.
With competition keener in every line of business, it behooves the college student to get a few of the thing that others are missing. The man who blunders his way through the University along with hundreds of other far-flung students is through. For that reason, the "forehand-made" will ask himself if he is making the most of his time.—Michigan Daily.
An honor system on which the responsibility and honor of every student of the campus will rest, and an entirely new idea of the honor tradition at Ohio State, was given recently by Dean James E. Hagerity of the College of Commerce and Journalism.
"The system," explained Dean Haggerty, "is meant of course to apply to examinations for the most part, and these to be conducted entirely in the hands of the students. The questions should be given to some person in the class to be distributed to the other class members. After turning the list over to the class representative the instructor would leave the room, thus putting every member on his honor—Ohio State Lantern.
The belligerent countries have found during the last three years that about seven-tenths of the problems of modern warfare are industrial.
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Proposals to Young Women—
A modern house is a prime desideratum. It's a new 16-room dwellings, strictly modern, in the very center of the K. U. district; exactly suited for sorority or other young women's society. May be purchased on monthly payments, or rented at right price for long term of years. Fugate Land Co., 843 Massachusetts Street...Adv.
None of the twenty-one students in the Newspaper I class Wednesday morning was able to give a description of the American flag of sufficient accuracy to enable a person who had never seen one to make the flag.
Class Can't Describe Star-Spangled Banner
Probably everyone in the class has seen hundreds of American flags but the man who stated that it is made out of napkins and scrapes hisrians certainly rather unobserving.
The numbe of stars and their location was confusing. Owe student, who seems to have forgotten his mathematics, wrote that there are forty-eight stars arranged in seven rows square. Only two or three students mentioned that the stars have five points.
The blue field, which most of the students thought was square, was generally placed in the "upper left-hand corner," instead of being accurately located in the upper corner next to the staff. About half of the class thought it worth while to state that the bars are horizontal.
Sext, John L. Rogers, formerly of Topeka, and now with Company M at Camp Doniphan, is becoming favorably known as a song writer. Sergeant Rogers has written two songs since his enlistment, "I Long to Hear the Old Songs Once Again" and "Going Over." Sergeant Rogers publishes his own songs, and reports a sale of over 16,000 copies of his latest composition, "Going Over." Rogers sold many copies of his songs to students when Company M was encamped on the campus last fall.
Complaints concerning articles being stolen are becoming more numerous every week. In the gym, where lockers are provided to keep private property safe from kleptomaniacs, articles are missed. Students who attend laboratory courses in Snow Hall and the Chemistry Building, seem to bring in the most complaints. Spooner Library appears to be the headquarters for persons who have a passion for collecting fountain pens. Lunches and jewelry disappear from Fraser Hall.
Kleptomaniacs Relieve Students of Property
Attempts have been made at different times by University authorities to check up the evil, but no practical plan has yet been suggested. So far only warnings to "look after your property" have been given.
K U Man Heads Hospital Unit
K. U. Man Heads Hospital Unit Major L. S. Milne, former professor of medicine in the School of Medicine at Rosdale, will command 150 men, the enlisted personnel of the Kansas City Kansas City. The men will leave for Fort McPherson, Ga., in a few days after being fully equipped.
Major Miline taught at Rosedale from 1912 to last May, when he was granted a leave of absence for the duration of the war. Major J. F. Binnie, who recurred this corps, was formerly a member of the School of Medicine faculty.
"We Like To Do Little Jobs of Repairing"
The first service flag to be put up in the Museum was one placed on the third floor of the department of paleontology by H. T. Martin for his son who formerly assisted there.
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New Measles Cases Appear
Two new cases of measles appeared this morning at the Phi Pai house, the men were at once removed to the hospital and then returned to the house was fumigated this afternoon.
Rebuilding Ancient Skull
H. T. Martin, curator in the department of paleontology is now working out a skull of a prehistoric animal belonging to the Toxodontidae period from the Santa Cruz formation of Patigonia, which he collected in 1993, being one of three specimens now in U. S.
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"COME THROUGH"
BY
BOWERSOCK
GEORGE B. HOWARD (A Play That Is "Different")
WEDNESDAY
MAE MARSH
(Star of "Birth of a Nation."
IN
"POLLY OF THE CIRCUS"
IN
VIVIAN MARTIN
"MOLLY ENTANGLED"
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FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN
IN
"BLUE,RED AND WHITE"