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DECEMBER 19,1917.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Write Senior Play and Get Fifty Dollar Prize
No Literary Experience Necessary to Write Prize Play —Robertson
"Considerable interest is being shown in writing for the fifty dollar prize offered by the Dramatic Club for the senior play," said Robert Robertson, manager of the play, this morning. "Several persons have spoken to me about writing the play, but there is still room for more contestants.
"No experience in writing plays is necessary. The winner of the contest the last two years had no experience before he wrote the senior plays. A good plot told in a lively manner with college setting is the only requirement. For some students, it takes for some student to make fifty dollars during the Christmas vacation."
Each year the Dramatic Club offers fifty dollars for the best play to be presented by the senior class at a down town theater. Any student in the University is eligible to compete for the prize. Anyone desiring more information should see Robert Robertson or Prof. Arthur Murray.
By the Way-
Boarding Clubs
The Walling Club, 1241 Tennessee Street, will have a Christmas dinner this evening, after which there will be dancing. Miss Vie Walling, who is an artist, will attend the North High School, will attend the home, and spend the holidays at home.
The Stevenson Club, 1341 Kentucky Street, gave a Christmas dance last Saturday evening for members and guests.
The Custer Club, 1414 Tennessee Street, will give a Christmas dinner Thursday evening. There will be an exchange of gifts, and dancing.
The Ramblers, 1345 Tennessee Street, will have a Christmas dinner for members of the club and guests to attend. The exchange of ten-cent lobe jersey
Personal Notes
The Dunakin Club, 1317 Tennessee Street, will have a Christmas dinner, followed by a dance. Thursday evening, for members and guests.
Jared Myers, e'17, left today for his home in Alden. He has been in the hospital at Rosedale since Thursday for an operation on his throat, and will be unable to attend classes until after the holidays.
Sam Pickard is in Lawrence for a few weeks vacation after training in the aviation corps at Fort Worth, where he served as first Lieutenant in the Flying Corps.
Charles Easton, c19, who was in school last year, has enlisted in the navy. Mr. Easton was a member of the Franklin club.
George E. Coffin, who was on the Hill last year, is visiting in Lawrence Bottle Jr. is now in *Battery* "183" Field Artillery, stationed at Fort Stil, Oka.
Lydia Ainsworth, of McPherson, Virginia Lucas, of Kansas City, and Ruth Moore, of Hutchinson, will visit friends at the Kappa house this week and attend the Strong-Claassen wedding.
Students Aid Red Cross
Students in Miss Hazen's class in Food Preparation recently contrived a means of helping in the big movement of the Red Cross. The students suggested that they were willing to give their spare time for a week to whatever would be practical aid. They decided to make ginger snaps for sale and give all proceeds above expenses to the Red Cross. The students have been coming up with ideas and working under the direction of Ms. Hazen and in spite of the high prices of materials, they have enough money to buy yarn for several sweaters.
Send Candies to Soldiers
The Home Economics department is preparing Christmas boxes for the boys at Fort Sill. Boxes will not be one size or a men there, but the ones on the ground, the ones learned will probably not be otherwise remembered at Christmas time.
Each box will contain candies, little cakes, and fig-ladies. These tiny figs, dried dates, and nuts, with marshmallow heart, cakes, and noses, and mouths of chocolate.
Kappa Christmas Dinner
Kappa Kappa Gamma will give its Christmas dinner at the chapter house Wednesday evening, December 19. The evening's entertainment will be in charge of the freshmen of the fraternity. Alumnae returning for the occasion will be Ruth B. Moore, Hutchinson; Blanche Mullen, Leavenworth; Rust Foster, Topeka; Mildred Pits, St. Joseph; Lydia Ainsworth, Lyons.
Pi Kappa Alpha Dinner
Pi Kappa Alpha will hold its annual Christmas dinner tonight at the chapter house. Because of the number of men enlisted many alumni of the chapter are expected back. The dinner will be a farewell to the enlisted men. Professor W. W. Davis will give a short talk.
Order McNish's aerated distilled water. Phone 198—Adv.
Women Can Meet Great Shortage of Teachers
State Board of Education Announces Many Positions Open Next Semester
Word came to the School of Education Saturday from the State Board of Education that a great shortage of teachers is bound to ensue with the operation of the next draft of men in the school. Freud there are many schools which have been unable to make up their corps of teachers to the full quota.
"Of the 500 or more men who are in charge of the schools in cities of the third class, probably half will have left the teaching profession by the end of the school year and will be at the School of Education. "This is a service which women can render if they are willing to prepare themselves for it. Many young women who had been studying at the completion of their college may be a chance now to meet this emergency."
"By adjusting their registration for the last semester a great many could earn the certificate by the end of the year. Those who cannot do that can almost without exception earn the certificate by remaining in school during the Summer Session. The nation needs women in this work to take the places of the men who are going to war."
High Explosive Material In Artificial Gas Wasted
Enough high explosive material to fill 150,000 three-inch shells a day is being wasted in the United States in burning artificial gas containing toluel, says W. A. Whitaker, head of the state industrial research laboratories at the University. In an effort to save this toluel which is lately unnecessary for the heating efficiency of the gas, Mr. Whitaker, Roy Cross of Kansas City, Md., and G. W. Stratton, a professor of chemistry at the University, are members of a committee to endeavor to induce artificial gas plant owners in Kansas and in western Missouri to install appliques that produce no gas. Similar efforts are made by chemists throughout the United States.
Toluol is the stuff from which T. N. T. is made, and of the several high explosives now in use by the Entente Allies and the Central Powers, the War Department has pronounced it a weapon of great importance, most exclusively in its artillery. It is the easiest high explosive to make and the safest to transport.
Psychology Department
Tests Aviation Students
"We are now giving special psychological tests to the members of the aviation class in the School of Engineering," said Prof. F. C. Dockeryen today. "I have received a copy of the examination questions which the government requires for entrance in the Aviation Corps, from high schools in the Surgeon-Genial office at the Ministry. The special tests we give here at the University are similar to the government tests."
The students who take the special tests here a-2 thus enabled to discover whether or not they stand any chance of passing the government examinations. These tests indicate the accuracy of the student's sense organs.
The department of psychology is also giving group tests. The group tests are a step towards fitting study or psychological work in the army.
The annual Christmas party of the Home Economics Club will be given Tuesday, December 18, in the basement of Fraser Hall. Each student has been asked to bring an inexpensive gift, and to write a verse to accompany it. The gifts will be hanging immediately and distributed at the close of the party. Initiation service for new members will also be held.
At present there are four camps in the United States at which efficient training has been obtained from the psychological tests, which are given the men in the army.
The finest Christmas candy in the city at Carroll's--Adv.
Get Daddy a box of cigars. Car roll's.-Adv.
Home Economics Club Party
Get him a pipe at Carroll's.—Adv
Christmas cigars at Carroll's.'-Adv.
Golf bags at Carroll's.—Adv
Smoking sets, ash trays, cigarette and cigar cases at Carroll's.-Adv.
How about a "Jimmy" pipe at Car roll" - Adv.
Christmas candy at Carroll's.—Adv.
Pocket knives,-high grade- at Carroll's.-Adv.
The Daily Kansan-a daily letter home.
Oread High School Has Seventy-five Enrolled
Education Students Teach Nine to Eighteen Weeks In Preparation for H. S.
Shoved over on one corner of the campus, "upheralded, unsung," is the institution that prepares the younger generation to wear K. U. jobs and discourse on their favorite brands. And students who might be interested might think. An investigation, however, discloses a modern high school with the best of equipment. Seventy-five students, drawn from Douglas County and surrounding territories, are taught University students make up lacking high school credits at Oread.
The teaching staff is composed of thirty-three seniors and graduate students in the department of education, working under the direction of the faculty of the School of Education, Griffith University, principal of the Oread Training School. These student teachers serve from nine to eighteen weeks.
When the training school was established six years ago it was quartered in Myers Hall. In the summer of 1915 the present building, valued, together with its equipment, at $10,- was erected. A part of the cost was waived. A unit trained the students are required to pay. Since this institution takes the place of a county high school, its instruction is now open to all.
If in doubt what to send either he or she for Christmas, we have a big assortment of our own candies as well as the usual Moore's and Elmus. Wiedemann-Adv
Basketball Team Continues To Improve And Beats Yearlings
Send the Daily Sangan home
Prospects for a winning Jayhawker basketball team looked good yesterday. The men seem to have hit their stride and the rough edges are gradually disappearing. Floor work and passing was emphasized in the workout. Coach Jason Steele advised against the freshmen and neither team encountered stiff opposition.
Miller is Used as Forward—Laslett and Uhrlaub Show Well In Practice
The lineup of the First Varsity squad was changed and Miller was inserted at forward because of his good work at the attacking position. Other other forward position, Mathews was at center and Laslett, Davis and Stephenson worked at the guards. Fearing, a promising candidate for forward, did well to create a scrimage because of an injured leg.
The K. U. guards covered their men closely and the freshmen found it next to impossible to use the dribble safely. Several times Laslitt played the trick of scooping the ball from the frosh forwards on the dribble and Davis is rapidly learning the same play.
The shift in the lineup gave the team new life and the frosh were outclassed. Miller and Uhrlaub worked together like a machine and with Laslett running the floor and taking a part in the goal shooting, the three presented a scoring combination that had the freshmen guards dazed.
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ANN PENNINGTON
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"The Antics of Ann"
A FEMALE FAIRBANKS
It seems rather impossible that any one diminutive specimen of humanity such an Ann Pennington should run the gamut of everything a harum-scarum schoolgirl can do. She plays football, swims, impersonates a famous dancer (this comes easy for Ann), rides on a freight train, and does a number of other stunts, and finally elopes.
Admission 15 cents, War Tax 2 cents
THURSDAY—FRIDAY Elsie Ferguson in "The Rise of Jennie Cushing" ALSO PATHE NEWS
A Merry Christmas
WOLF'S BOOK STORE
919 Mass. St.
Yours will not be complete until you get some Books, Stationery,
Fountain Pen, Photo Frames, Brass Goods in Calendars, Ink Wells,
Blotters. Desk Sets, Jewel Boxes, Tourist Tablets, K Books, Kodak
Albums and many other articles which you cannot buy after you
get home. We have them for you.
The Christmas Candy Store of Lawrence,
Home Made Candies Made in a Clean American Kitchen.
Greene's Chocolate Shop
New Location—Just across from Innes' on West Ninth.
The largest and most reasonable in price line of handkerchiefs shown in Lawrence
CHRISTMAS HANDKERCHIEFS
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Silks both men and women's priced from ...15c to $1.00
Children's, three in a fancy box: priced...20c, 29c, and 35c
Women's, three in a fancy box: priced...30c, 35c, 75c and $1.
Men's initial handkerchiefs: new designs...15c to 60c
Women's initial handkerchiefs: new designs...19c to 50c
WEAVER'S
XMAS SMOKES
A Box of ROI-TAN CIGARS Will Be a Very Appropriate Gift for Him
Six Different Sizes
Special price until Dec.19,'17 Box of fifty 10c Roi-Tans
$4.10
Notice—This cafe will be closed during Christmas vacation.
The Oread Cafe E. C. BRICKEN, Prop.