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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
University Buildings Will Be Closed During Christmas Holidays
Scarcity of Coal May Prove Handicap To Back Study
NUMBER 65.
Working Men Hardest Hit
Closing of Spooner to Work Hardship on Students Having Library Work
All buildings of the University will be closed during the Christmas holidays, with the exception of the Chemistry Building, Snow Hall, and Fraser Hall and Spooner Library on Monday morning until 10 o'clock at night. Schools in every part of the state have been closing on account of the lack of fuel, and although John Shea, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, said the University would allow the authorities ure conservation.
"On account of the coal situation all the buildings of the University will be closed during the Christmas period. We have 6 o'clock in the evening, except the Chemistry Building, Snow Hall, and Fraser Hall, and with the additional exception that Spooner Library will be open from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock, from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock."
The closing of Spooner Library, with the exception of two days during vacation, means a hardship on students who have planned to complete book reviews and to do their "catch up" during the holidays in preparation.
Frank Strong, Chancellor
Report of Law Scrim Expenses Given Out
Second Anti-Graft Auditor's Report Shows a Deficit of Five Dollars
An accurate report of the Senior Law Scrim was given out today by George O. Foster, Auditor of Student Activities. This is the second official report given out by the University in its attempt to eliminate graft.
The report shows the receipts to be $289.50 and the expenditures to be $294.99 which makes a deficit of $5.49. The largest single item of expense was refreshments, $95.93, followed by meals and the expenditures. Thirty-three complimentary tickets were given out to the football men.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1917.
Receipts as per ticket check $289.50
The report follows:
Expenditures:
Music $74.80
Hall rent $15.00
Programs $53.46
Catering and refreshments $95.98
Decorations $18.35
Rent dishes, napkins, etc. $14.25
Printing $3.75
Trucker wagon hire $4.56
Cloak room help $4.56
294. 99
294.99
Overdraft (deficit)
Compartmental uvectors
M. Ruckfort, J. F. Fratcher,
M. R. Wubbins, W. Jones, C. R. Gelvin,
Ray Hemphill, J. Fogarty, C. Rice, D. Davis, A. G. Barteldes, Harry Morgan, H. M. Nielsen, W. Wilson, Ian Wanson, C. L. Jones, E. Smith, W. M. Davison, M. Idol, C. H. nettles, A. P. Frost, J. T. Pringle, Warren Woody, W. R. Davis, J. W. Bunn, L. J. Dennis, J. J. Dennis, Frank Mandelve, L. C. Foster, Walter Zoellner, A. C. Longborn, Howard Laslett.
Audited and found correct.
George O. Foster,
Auditor Students' Activities.
Medical students of the University are not attending military drill. When the drill was first begun many of the students cut their hair and left the drill from 5 to 6 o'clock. A company of medical students was organized at that time. After the University Senate passed the ruling that students have classes until 5 o'clock they did not be required to attend drill the medicine. students have ceased going.
Medics Do Not Drill
Call For Books
Students are reminded that all books which they have out of the University Library are required and should be returned at once.
Sincerely, Carrie M. Watson.
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Work on Ad Progressing
Work on AD progressing
Work on the new part of AD ministries and continue progressing in fine shape. They are still blasting and so far have used 185 pounds of dynamite and two cans of black powder. The size of the west wing is 139 feet by 66 feet, and C. Bentrud, foreman, said this morning they expected to have the footing in place within three weeks. They started this work on November 9, and although they have been held back on account of extreme cold weather they expect to have their contract finished by the allotted time.
Anxious Stude Asks About Holiday "Cuts"
Will you kindly inform me whether or not there is any penalty attached to cutting classes before or after the Christmas holidays? I am of the impression that there was a ruling made last year by which one cut before or after any holiday is counted as a triple cut. Is this correct?
Anxious Student:
This office has received several inquiries similar to yours in the last few days. Insofar as we have been able to ascertain, the ruling which you mention was brought up for consideration at this time last year, but no action was taken on it. We have not received any from our authority the Chancellor's office, Dean Olin Templin's office, and visual instructor.
THE KANSAN.
The War
Here and $ _{4} ^{*} $ Over There
Hard fighting is still going on, be-
cause the Customs and the Italians in
northern Italy.
Fifty-two members of the Treasury Department are now in Europe auditing the accounts of the Expeditionary Army.
An embargo has been placed by the Rock Island Railroad on all ticket sales to Camp Doniphan, because of a measles epidemic in the camp.
A report comes from Tokio that Americans are leaving Russia by the way of the trans-Siberian railway because of the food shortage. They say food supplies are scarce in Russia and the nation is facing a famine.
Eight thousand young men are wanted for the ground personnel of the navy's flying corps. Ten men are running order.
Kenneth Uhls, captain-elect of the tennis team, who is in the School of Medicine at Rosedale, has joined the medical reserves and has been commissioned a provisional first lieutenant such as he is subject to call at any time.
Is She an Ally of Germany?
Is She an Ally of Germany?
She bought a pair of eighteen inch boots. She knew leather was scarce and that soldiers in the trenches need shoes, but she wanted the boots, so she bought them anyway.
Which side is she helping in the great war?
Miss Evelyn Strong, the daughter of Chancellor and Mrs. Frank Strong, will be married to Mr. Peter Walter Claassen of Hillsboro at the Strong residence, Saturday night, December 22, at seven o'clock. The Reverend Wiley of the Episcopal Church of Lawrence will read the marriage service.
Claassen-Strong
Miss Strong was graduated from the University in 1917. She was very active in Y.W.C.A. work and other student activities, being the first chairman of the Big Sister movement, and president of the Y.W.C.A. cabinet in 1917. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and Torch.
Two one-act comedies, "Tilda's New Hat" and "Veal-Broadened," will be presented at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Little Theatre of Green Hall, by students trying out for admission to K. U. Dramatic Club. The admission of students after the presentation of the plays, which will be open to the public.
Mr. and Mrs. Classmon will spend the holidays with Chancellor and Mrs. Strong and leave January 1 for Ithaca University, where he is an instructor in Cornell University.
Joe Campbell, p15, who was state senator in 2004, alsoago, has enlisted in the medical corps.
Mr. Claassen took his B. a. degree in 1913 and was instructor in entomology in the University before going to Cornell, from which he expects to attend a summer. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma XI.
send the Daily Kansan home.
Give Plavs as Try-Outs
Five Hundred Men At Annual Smoker Guess Of Event's Managers
Auditions to Proclaim An nounced Today—Entertainment to Begin at Eight
The red tags worn by men this morning, were not Red.Cross tags as many believed, but tickets for the annual football smoker at Fraternal Aid Hall tonight. Freshmen women from the sorority houses have assisted in the sale of these tags. Harold Hoover and Willard Hilton who comprise the managing committee say 450 and possibly 500 men will attend.
Those scheduled to speak are captain-elect Laslett, Captain Nielsen, Coach Bond, Manner Hamilton, Captain McCall of the cross country team and Chancellor Strong. Uncle Green will award letters to the men.
Additions have been made to the program. An exhibition of tumbling will be given and there also will be singing by a quartet."
The program will begin at 8
o'clock. Admission is twenty-five
dollars.
Junior Prom, War me Party Economical Yet Substantial, Managers
flowers and Taxis Taboo—Decorations to be Patriotic—Ticket Sale Good
The fifteenth annual Jurie's Prom will be a wartime party, adhering to econon, yet with every feature that will make it a creditable production as much along the lines of Proms in former years. Patriotic decoration carrying the color scheme even into the Proms will be a feature of the bier dance.
The Prom management has decided that the $5 admission fee will include the war tax of ten per cent which was levied recently by the Student Council. The dance will be informal even to the doing away with the customary grand march. Flowers and taxis are taboo.
The report of seniors entitled to complimentary tickets on the count of paying their dues last year, has been slow. The names must be turned in to the Prom managers before vacation starts. As yet only a few women have received these tickets, who do not claim the tickets before Christmas will not be allowed them.
Tickets will be sold at the Registrar's office and by students. They will be in the form of receipts and must be exchanged the day of the Prom for tickets that will admit to the party.
"The ticket sale has been good and the fact that many men are leaving school tc take up military work will not detract from the size of the party," said Raymond Hemphill, one of the managers, this morning.
Engineers Met to Draw Societies Closer Together
A union meeting of all societies in the School of Engineering held last night in Marvin Hall was attended by a large and representative audience. Talks were given by members of the faculty and students.
The meeting, according to students who helped manage it, was for the purpose of promoting a more unified spirit among the members of the department; and more in the light of being members of the entire school rather than of departmental societies. Representatives of the six engineering societies: electrical, mechanical, civil, architecture, mining and chemical, were present.
Horace M. Staggs, e'18, spoke on the modern m. T. motor car design for 1918. Flood prevention was the subject of a talk by James Brown, e'18. Harold Beiner, e'20, read a humorous poem. Warren Neumann, e'18 gave an interesting talk on the effect of electricity on the human body, and George Clark, e'18, spoke or fixation of nitrogen.
Pay Checks Out For Xmas
A. H. Sluss, associate professor of mechanical engineering, explained the modern airplane motors, and Solomon Lefschetz, assistant professor of mathematics, told about airplane construction.
The hearts of professors, stenographers, secretaries, librarians, janiors, and all other persons on the University's regular pay roll will be gladden by the arrival of monthly pay checks, Friday or Saturday.
The Phi Kappa Psi dinner Friday night for the active chapter, will be
Red Cross Drive Nears Goal At 5,000 Members Set In Douglas County
"We have 4,600 out of a possible 5,000 for the Red Cross in Douglas County and we will double that number," said Prof. J. N. Van der Vries today.
Lawrence Has Accepted Challenge of Kansas City for Membership Race
Kansas City has said it will have more Red Cross members per capita than any other city. Professor Vander Vries wired the representatives that; "Lawrence accepts the challenge."
"Students who are members of the Red Cross are wearing buttons or tags. Any one who is not a member should join immediately as all who do not wear the insignia by Christmas time will be very noticeably in the minority, said Professor Van der Vries.
Reserve
The ten sophomores from the School of Medicine who enlisted in the Base Hospital Corps last Friday have been transferred to the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps, according to members of the school. This means that they will be allowed to finish their school work before being called into military service.
The quick transfer they were able to make into the corps they wished to join is attributed to the facts that doctors will be of vast importance to the corps. The other important are medical students. Sworn applications are required of all who wish to join the Medical Reserve Corps, and the dean of the School of Medicine must sign an affidavit saying they are prepared and in good standing in the school.
About thirty other medical students went to Kansas City Tuesday, made applications and took examinations for the Medical Reserve Corps. They were freshmen who are carrying full medical work and will be eligible for entrance in the sophomore class in September.
In signing the application for enlistment in this corps, the student agrees "to respond promptly either before or after graduation to an order from the Surgeon General to active duty." Acceptance of the medical student entitles him to discharge from the selective draft when he is called.
Faculty Will Travel
Far During Vacation
Members of the University Club will spend their vacations in many parts of the country. Professors W. P. Haynes of the department of geology, R. A. Wilson of the department of economics, and L. Derry, of the department of romance languages, will go east. Prof. C. F. Nelson will be in Berlin. Prof. M. Bourdon of the department of romance languages will go to St. Louis.
Other members of the faculty who will go away for vacation are: Professor and Mrs. W. W. Davis, who will leave for Oak Grove, Ala., to visit with Mr. Davis' parents; Mrs. Joseph Murray of the chemistry department will visit the hospital; Mr. Calvin Ray at Fort Stilf. Captain Murray is a K. U. graduate and was at one time an instructor in the department of journalism.
Students To Boost Income Bill Christmas
Glasco advises the students to do personal work for the bill. Some of the counties have not been organized but it is not too late to meet tonight and to make plans for work that can be done at home.
"The success of the Permanent Income Bill depends a great deal upon the work that the students do during vacation." Willard Glasco, president of the County Club Union, said this morning. Some of the literature was circulated this morning and it is hoped the students will take it home to show them how the University bill will benefit the University without raising taxes.
Prof. M. C. Elmer of the Department of Sociology will attend the meeting of the American Sociological Society in Philadelphia December 26 to 30. He will also visit in Wisconsin on his return trip.
K. U. Rookies to Have Guns
“五倍 wooden guns will be ready for the K. U. regiment soon after Christmas,” said L. A. Hartley, instructor in instrument making, this morning. The guns are now under construction and although none are completed, many different parts are made and soon will be assembled.
Instead of giving them all year because of the lack of guns, Although these new guns will not be as heavy as army guns, they are expected to serve their purpose in teaching the men the manual of arms.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Ray Darby was being made up for a play in the dramatic art class. Harold Lytle was rubbing on the grease. "Don't put on so much of that stuff," said Darby, "you make my face look like dough."
"No," said Lytle, "I'm making it look like Ray."
At the Phi Kappa Christmas dinner last night, the freshmen were going to give their brothers a Christmas present. They had it safely hidden under the table awaiting the opportunity moment. As the third course was being dealt out, a succession of melodious beats are born from beneath the table. Big Ben is making his own presentation speech.
Hilton Graham, an entrepreneurizing sophomore of the Phi Pi fraternity, is seriously considering withdrawing from the Law School and entering the School of Fine Arts. The cause of all this is merely this. Hilton wants to cultivate his melodious voice so he can go serenading at the Theta house.
There's a Reason
Why did the band in the concert immediately follow the reveler?
He had a date for the Owl dance Friday night. The night before the dance the telephone rang and of course he broke the date. Then he break the date for the dance? Certainly, but why? Since he had made the date on, Tuesday she had become engaged to another and it wouldn't do so much damage to the date soon after the solemn promise.
Last night at one of the boarding clubs a girl received a diamond, just as a joke, of course. But now it looks so much like the real thing that she has begun to wonder. Needless to say she is wearing it along with the rest of her diamonds, and is just as happy as if it were the real thing--almost! We forgot to say who gave it to her, but that's another story.
Architects' Service Flag Has Seventeen Stars
The service flag of the department of architecture, which was unfurled at a meeting of the Architects' Club last summer, sent seventeen former students in the department who are in service. Of this number, four are second Heitentants, three are enlisted in aviation, and one is a maintainer are in the engineering corns.
Several Departments Offer New Courses
One-half of the alumni of the department is already enlisted in some branch of the service. Lieutenant Whitten, the first graduate in the department of architecture, is now in France.
At the recent meeting of the Administrative Committee of the College permission was granted to offer new courses and to change old ones.
In the department of English 87,
"The History of English Drama",
under Prof. S. L. Whitcomb will be
continued as a three-hour course.
In the department of history a new five-hour course, "Outlines of Modern Europe", under Prof. F. E. Melvin will be open to freshmen and sophomores. "Foundations of Modern Europe", which has been a sophomore subject, will now be open to juniors and seniors only.
In the department of sociology a new three hour course in Eugenics will be offered to seniors. The prerequisite will be five hours of zoology. In the department of Romance Languages, a new three hour course "Contemporary Spanish Literature", will be open to juniors and sejors.
Prof. Van der Vries to Go East Prof. J. N. van der Vries of the department of mathematics, will spend the holidays in the East. He will attend the meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the Americas Society in Chicago. From there he will go later to Pittsburgh to attend the convention of the Association of American College Professors.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
The K. U. Dramatic Club will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Little Theater, Green Hall.
Gym and Drill 'Cuts'
Will Draw Penalties
Under Proposed Rule
Absences While Exemption Petitions Pend May Have to be Made Up
Deans Enforce New Edict
Single Cut in Two Weeks to be Allowed, if Order is Approved
Students who cut their gymnasium and drill classes, which are compulsory this fall at the University of Minnesota, make up overtime making up cuts, if the plans of the Senate Compulsory Drill Committee are approved by the University Senate. Some members of the committee also make up of cuts made in the past.
The resolution to that effect was drawn up yesterday afternoon in a lengthy session. The resolution also plans to make it the rule that more than one absence in two weeks will have to be madeup, and that deans must leave which the student is enrolled must decide what the punishment is to be.
Dean G. C. Shaad, of the School of Engineering, who is chairman of the committee that drew up the resolution, was out of town today and could not be seen, while the Chancellor was in town. The same committee, who did not wish his name to be used, said the question was still a secret.
The resolution recommended to the Senate is:
"That those students not exempted by the department of physical education shall be allowed one absence from the prescribed physical education in two weeks. Another absence if unexcused by the department of physical education shall be reported to the dean and the student will be enrolled. The dean shall take such steps as necessary to secure regular attendance of students."
The sentiment the committee expressed was that all students who have applied for exemption but did not qualify should have their cuts made in the past, and the fact of the petition would not excuse any absences made in the past.
Farmers Should Not Be Urged To Become Amateur Coal-Miners
Is it advisable for farmers of Kansas to enter onun any sort of a program to mine the surface coal underlying their farms or make any great attempt to reopen abandoned coal矿ines as a fuel measure? Prof. R, L. Grider, of the department of mining engineering, says "No."
R. L. Grider, Professor of Mining Engineering Says It Would Be Time Wasted
"In the first place," says Mr. Girder, "the best of a farmer's efforts to increase the production of coal would be to raise the price of coal. It must be remembered that the farmer is not in a position to mine coal to any advantage because it is beyond his power to mine coal in the least the cost of production.
"The result of any such agitation to tear up the surface of farms over the state would be to waste a lot of time that might be spent to better advantage in blasting stumps or increasing the fertility of the land. It is not only that we want a small extent the supply of cheap coal available for consumption."
Professor Grider points out the fact that a farmer cannot in a second become a miper and expect to benefit the business thereby. He believes that the economic status of the farmer cries against his taking up this work. "Our department of mining engineering," continued Mr. Grider. "while it is very important for farmers by farmers stands ready at any time to offer advice upon the subject or analyze samples that may be submitted to it by farmers who are convinced that they have a really valuable vein of coal upon their farms."
The regular December meeting of Sigma Xi will be held Thursday, December 20, at the home of Dean L. E. Sayre, 1232 Ohio St. The paper of the evening will be given by Prof. N. P. Sherwood on "The Effect of Certain Organic Substances on Bacteriological Reactions."
Winthrop P. Haynes, Joseph E. Welker, Harold J. Shelly, and Ida K. Fargher, the members elected at the October meeting will be initiated.
There will be no Red Cross classes tomorrow in Fraser Chapel.