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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 52
VOLUME XV.
War League, Proposed By Dean Olin Templin Wins Federal Approval
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 3, 1917
Government Officials Favor Plan of Uniting Universities for War Work
Headquarters In Wash. D.C.
The proposed War League of American Colleges is now a fact. Word that the United States government had recognized the value of the league was received this morning from Dean Olin Templin, originator of the idea who went to Washington, D.C., a week ago.
K. U. Dean Placed In Charge And Instructed To Go On With Plans
George Creel, chairman of the committee of public information at Washington and chief censor of the United States is strongly in favor of the plan and has asked Dean Templin to undertake the formation of the league between the Army and of fierce force and has accepted the duty of supervising the work.
HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON This means that the plan of another University of Kansas man has been accepted by the United States as of great use in the world war and that his movement will have its offices in Washington with the dean of the College directing the work.
CHANCELLOR SUPPORTS PLAN
The plan had the hearty endorsement of Chancellor Strong before Dean Templin went east to lay his plans before government officials. The Chancellor had already mailed letters explaining the league plan to the governor general in these countries in this country and practically all strongly favored the plan.
"I heartily endorse the plans for the league," said the Chancellor this morning. "It means that the student bodies of the colleges and universities over the country will be organized for the college life such sacrifices they will take up necessary war economics, and undergo in their college life such sacrifices as may be necessary to help their former University comrades now fighting in the trenches. The league will also be no support of the president's ideals.
TO CONSERVE MEN
Dean Templin in his analysis of the needs of the league says the majority of American colleges are alive to their responsibilities. Committees of faculty and student members have held meetings where addresses have been delivered, subscription papers have been circulated, military drill introduced, and many other things of like importance have been undertaken. Nevertheless, there has been more or less bewilderment everywhere. With no clear understanding of what ought to be done, it has been natural to follow establishment custom and to know toward recting hand from acknowledged authority.
"This to my mind is the most important point in connection with the league, coupled with the fact that it will be a very important factor in its world to world peace after the war is over and German domination is no more."
The significance of the whole plan is that the American college is to have an active part in the world war whether the students have enlisted or are planning to. It has been pointed out to the American colleges that when the war started, the English college men went as in a body to the front and much of the best material for making officers in the British army was killed off early in the war. Part of the work of this league it is believed must be in keeping up a body flow of men from American schools to the ranks of officers in the various military forces of the country. The league will tend to keep the undergraduate machine in good working order.
The newly appointed University Intelligence Committee of faculty members and students will meet to night at 8:15 o'clock in Fraser Hall.
Too Bad Kansas!
Because the University of Kansas has not had a permanent course in military tactics for the last ten years, no men students will be able to attend the Third Officers Training Camp, which opens January 5 at Fort Chichagua, Port Blas and Fort Sam Houston. On Friday, when the announcement comes, the officers camp, it was thought that the University might be represented by some of the men who are liable to be drafted in January. On further information it was learned that only those colleges that have had a permanent course in military tactics are eligible to send applicants.
Former Regent Of K. U.
Dies At Home In Topeka
Scott Hopkins, who was for fourteen years a member of the Board of Regents, died at his home in Topeka yesterday. At the time of his death he was the president of the Prudential Trust Company of Topeka.
Mr. Hopkins was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1881 and obtained a degree from Columbia in 1884. He did not seek offices, but he held honorary positions in many clubs and civic movements. At one time he was president of the Kansas Bankers' Association.
"Mr. Hopkins was a man of fine character and ability, very loyal to his friends and to the University," said Chancellor Strong this morning, commendable in the life of the state because of his allegiance to the best ideas."
Dramatic Club Begins Competitive Try-Outs Tonight For Big Play
Wartime Drama To Be Staged After Christmas—Committee Chooses Cast
The first competitive try-out for the cast of the annual Dramatic Club play, which is to be staged after the Christmas holidays, will be held tonight beginning at 7 o'clock in the Little Theater in Green Hall.
The play has already been chosen but the name is withheld by the executive committee of the club. The only details of the play that are given out is that it is a stirring wartime drama set in constant time alive with tense situations.
Regarding the play Harold Lylek president of the club, has this to say "We were particularly fortunate in securing the rights to stage the play. It is one of the largest productions and has not been given by stock companies. In my opinion and in the mind of the executive committee it even has 'Under Cover', the play staged last year, beaten for real interest. We have good talent. We also know why the play should not be as good as that last year, if not an improvement on it."
As nearly every member of the executive committee of the club, which is made up of the officials, intends to try for parts, a ne' committee has been formed. The director of Murray, director of the club, to judge the comparative showings of those trying out and their decisions will govern the picking of the cast. The committee includes Prof. H. T. Hill, Professor MacMurray, Brown, and Professor MacMurray.
Managers Announce Law Scrim Dec.
The try-out tonight will be preliminary to the elimination down to the final cast and further dates for the competition. Those trying for places should either be members of the club or applicants for membership in the organization.
Rest Room For Robinson
Carpenters are at work on the women's rest room, in the east end of the second floor of Robinson Gymnastium. The room which has formerly been vacant, is now being fitted as a place where students may rest if the regular prescribed course proves too strenuous. It is not expected that the room will be ready for occupancy before Thanksgiving.
A week after the Thanksgiving vacation will see the second big All-University party, the Law Scrim. The Scrim is an annual party given to the university's football team and is one of the big social events of the year.
The preliminary tryouts for the inter-collegiate debating teams will be held in Room 3, Green Hall, at 7 o'clock sharp, Wednesday night, December 5. All contestants, both former inter-collegiate debaters and new material must attend and offer their best responses. For any other information, see earlier issues of the Kansas or call Prof. H. T. Hill at his office in Green 8, or at phone 321.
"We have limited the sale of tickets," said one of the managers, "to one hundred and they are going like hot cakes. The tickets are for sale by the following men; both managers of the Scrim, Dick Gelvin and Armine Barteldes, Rip Brady, and Raymond Hemphill.
"We have cut the price of the party considerably," said Dick Gelvin, "on account of the war conditions. The price this year will be three dollars a couple, instead of five as last year."
Jayhawker Men,Open Office Today; Morgan Announces Assistants
All arrangements have been made for the Scrim, which is to take place Friday night, December 7 at F. A. U. The place orchestra will furnish the music.
Annual Editors Will Transac Business At Stand In Journalism Building
Starts Campaign For Prints
Pictures And Dues Wanted Now
—Staff Picked For
Work
With the opening of the office of the 1918 Jayhawk this morning, Harry Morgan, editor, announced the members of the staff, who will assist in gathering the material and preparing the contents of this year's annual. The office of the Jayhawk has been established in the journalism building, the basement of the old medicine building, where Morgan and Don Davis manage the office, who will have daily from 10 to 11 o'clock in the morning, from 3 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon and from 10 to 12 o'clock Saturday mornings.
The Jayhawker appointments fol: low; Margaret Hodder, associate editor; Warren Wattles, organizations and activities; Dorothy Cole, schools and classes; George Montgomery and students; Lind Anderson, athletics; Marion Joseph, women's athletics; Marjorie Rickard, fraternities and sororites; Lucille Means, Lucille Nowlin and Lawson May, humor, Gene Dyer and Lynn Hershey, junior section; Fred Jenkins, staff photographer; Horace Chandler, Joe Harris and Miles Gates, staff, Fred Leach and Floyd Lynn.
CHOSEN FOR EFFICIENCY
"It has seemed advisable to cut down the size of the board a little this year," said Morgan, in commenting that the organization has done with the aim of obtaining a compact, co-operative organization, which it is believed, will be more efficient than its predecessor. "It can be an easier task to apportion the work and direct the tasks under this plan.
"OPEN SEASON" FOR PRINTS
"It is probable however that the board will be enlarged later, particularly the art staff. I would like to find more people who are talentive in the field of the chawker will give the recognition to anyone whom is canable of earning it."
All pictures this year are being taken on dark backgrounds. Honor blanks, which should be turned in with the gloss prints may be had at the Jayne Walker office. The senior驾都 is $7, the same as heretofore.
This is "open season" for senior pictures, prints of organizations, snap shots and payment of senior dues, according to Morgan. Friday, December 21, the last day before the Christmas holidays, has been set as the final date for the acceptance of senior prints. These should be turned in at the library office of Morgan. More than a hundred seniors have had their pictures taken and many more have arranged for sitting with the photographers.
The annual men report good progress on the book, considering the unsettled condition of school affairs. Considerable art work has been completed in fifteen new campus views, taken this fall, are in the hands of the engraver.
"Those who have not obtained their pictures should attend to it at once," said Morgan, "in order not to hold up your picture." It is clear that will only bear in mind that their cooperation and observance of our requests will only result in better workmanship in their annual I believe they be willing to get pictures in on time.
The Jayhawker, in keeping with the spirit of the times, will be military in tone throughout and the University's part in the war will be a big feature. Pictures of Company M, the University unit, now at Camp Domphan and the work of the drill companies, will be given due prominence. Pictures of all men who were students in the war and now in the service are being sought, as well as any information as to the whereabouts of any who have enlisted. Pictures, even snap shots, and information of these Kansan wearers of the "olive drab" will be received gladly, according to the editors.
MILITARY IN TONE
TO PUSH WORK RAPIDLY
"It is particularly important this year that the work be pushed as rapidly as possible because of the fact that many students may be taken from school during the second semester, and that they want a Jayhawker, the only memento they will have of their years in college and they will want their picture in it. For this reason, all organizations, especially fraternities who are in danding at college, should get their groups taken as soon as possible."
Finance Committee Is To Bring Kansas War Fund to $11,000 Goal
Pledges of Various Organiza tions Have Raised Amount to $10,477.40
Women Continue In Lead
Drive Going Forward Slowly for $11,000—Personal Contributions Practically Stopped
Although contributions to the Students' Friendship War Fund are coming in slowly, work in collecting contributions will continue until the goal of $11,000 for the University of Kansas has been reached, accrued, and the finance committee. Personal contributions have stopped almost entirely, but several organizations are expected to add to the fund and a few faculty members who have thus far been offered the prize will be seen as soon as possible.
About $200 has been added to the fund in the last few days. The only contribution from an organization since the last report is $25 from Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity. Most of the contributions which have been made by organizations have not come through assessments or membership but been funds which the organization had on hand. One fraternity contributed a liberty bond that it had bought a month before.
At present the women of the Uni-
versity lead in total contributions
Contributions from men students fail
to contribute to show the total pro-
contributions from women. Univer-
sity organizations have given $440.
Contributions from different
sources up to date are:
Faculty and employees $3,569.00
Students 3,607.80
Men student 2,685.60
Organizations 440.00
Friends 100.00
Diamond Ring 75.00
Total
...$10,477.40
K. U. Students May Attend Dance Classes
Mrs. Brown Says They May Study Terpsichorean Art If Departure Is Early
There has been much misunderstanding concerning the Wednesday night dancing classes which are held at Ecke's Hall every week. It has been estimated that some dances have been authorized by University authorities.
mrs. Brown has investigated the class, inquired about the kind of people who attend and the manner of dancing that is taught, and says that the management of the class seems to be proper.
They are not authorized dances, but they are supposed to be dancing classes, according to Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women at K. U. The students of the University who really can not dance and go there to learn, may go, provided they attend without dates, and each one pays for his or her own tickets and leaves once is at home by 10 o'clock. No one can go home with a date or meet a date after getting there.
"So long as this privilege and these requirements are not anused the University will not interrure. But this class is to be taught so that students can learn to dance and cannot be turned into a social舞 by those who already danced," she said.
Owl meeting Tuesday night, Sigma Chi house, 7:30 o'clock. Dance and Sour Owl business.
Men students of the University are to be held by these requirements too. There is a University Senate ruling which says no student can attend a dance open to the general public at a fixed price.
U Student To Lecture
Carl J. Wilhelmson, c18, will give an illustrated lecture at the meeting of the Deutschen Verein tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in Room 313, Fraser Hall. The subject will be the work of Martin Luther, and will be a timely one in view of the fact that this is the four hundredth anniversary of Luther's birth. The lectures will be illustrated are the property of a Luther organization, and will be shown only once.
Miss Norine Powell of Odessa, Mo., is visiting Mary Roberts c'18. Miss Powell came up for the holidays and will remain this week.
Nell Miles visited Irma Lutz in Kansas City during the vacation.
Send the Daily Kansas home.
Naismith Is Appointed Assistant In France
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Doctor J. A. Naismith, who left the University in September, is now in France, as the head of an army Y. M. C. A. division which travels from France to England He was head of the 1920 British Eighth Army here and his work in furthering the interests of athletics at the University is well-known. He is also known over the country as the inventor of basket ball. Mr. Naismith was on the border a year ago during the Mexican troubles with the First Kansas Infantry regiment.
Doctor Naismith left the University this fall to do Y. M. C., A. wart work. He was on the border a year ago during the Mexican trouble as chaparral owner and he regiment. His work in furthering the interests of athletics at the University has probably been as successful as that of any man who has had a career in sports, partment. He is also known over the country as the inventor of basketball.
Plain Tales From The Hill
The student was bidding a fonc fae one of the lady students at the club.
Some of the scenes at parting for Thanksgiving vacation . . . indeed very touching. One of those aloha oceans occurred in the hall of a popular boarding house just after breakfast.
Said he, quite peevish-like: "Well, if you've got that toothpick in your mouth, just put it on."
And those who remained in Law-
yers' office had to play, for
the Library was locked.
Indications are that Russell Friend, Richard R. Nelson and William Lassen will soon enter the Curtiss Aviation School at Berkeley, California, or Miami, Florida.
No!
According to Friend, they have enough information on the school to supply all the students of the University.
Encouraging
"But," said Rusty, "there is a mistake in one of their catalogues. I says 'We charge $600 for 400 minutes flying.' I am sure it means that they will pay you $800 if you can stay in the air 400 minutes."
A college graduate was walking down the street one evening with a friend of Irish descent, and, pausing in the carry sky, remarked with enthusiasm:
"How bright 'Ubron is to骄慢"
So that is 'Bryan is it?' replied
Pat. so that he the Lord there's
one Irishman in heaven, anyhow!"—
London Opinion.
On the street car the other day there were two negro women. They were not near each other, but carried on a stroller and looking around their passengers.
"How bright Orion is tonight!"
"Are you going to vote?" asked one.
"Cose 'I gwine to vote'," said the other one. "Two bits looks good to me."-Columbus Dispatch.
Love is Blind
"I don't know how many times he kissed me!"
"What!    with the thing going on under your nose!" - Harvard Lammond
It has been said that one can learn as much outside the class room as within. Anyhow a small boy on Oread is rapidly learning college slang.
The other evening he heard some girls talking about some dates and he volunteered, "Yes, she had one because I saw her with a soldier boy." "One what? he was asked. "Why you don't know what a date is." "Yes I do," answered the small boy. "It's when a girl has a man."
Little Bobbie Ferris, age four, who has always lived on Oread, knows a great number of the University students and professors by name. He hears conversations of people at most on the hill, and has his own particular method of rewarding them for their kindness to him. The other evening he closed his prayers with this pep talk. He told the man and all the K. U, bunch, but specially the Sigma Nu boys."
Mr. and Mrs. Indian and little Miss Papose spent the day on the hill recently sightseeing. A whole Indian family, buck with braided hair a year long, and squaw with papose strapped on her back, were on the hill watching the oak trees they were from Haskell; anyway they were much interested in the other interested in the other institution of learning located at Lawrence. They went the rounds of the buildings and read the posters on the bulletin board parents interested. Why doadas Haskell our visits more frequently?
The Weather
Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature.
Kansas Takes Second Place In Conference In Win Over Missouri
Missouri Starts Thanksgiving Day Game With Rush In First Quarter
Jayhawkers S m a sh Through Tiger Line—Score 27
Smashing the Tiger line at will the plunging Jayhawker machine piled up a 27 to 3 score on Rollins Field at Columbus, Thanksgiving day and thereby won an undisputed title to the NFC championship. Valley Conference championship race.
An Ideal Day For Football
It was a decisive victory. For the second time in the history of Jayhawker-Tiger clashes on Rollin Field the gridiron was not muddy. Instead they was ideal for football and the field is an excellent condition for the game.
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The Tiger team, groomed and pointed for the final clash proudly marched on the gridiron and during the first few minutes of play started a drive that carried the oval far into the Kansas territory. The Tiger rooters went wild
The Tiger onslaught carried the ball to the Kansas seven yard line. At this point Coach Jay Bond sent in the veteran jones at left guard in place behind him. The new combination worked out and the Tiger offensive was halted.
MAKES FIELD GOAL
Morris, Tiger quarterback, called for a kick from placement. Collins, left half dropped back to the Kansas fifteen year line and placed the oval ball downfield against goal posts, as the Tiger line held. It is needless to describe the overenthusiastic Tiger rooting section. Every Tiger supporter believed that depee was to be upset and that another victory would be chalked up for Missouri.
The Tiger hilarity soon ceased, however, when Nettles kicked off again and the Tiger machine was forced to break away. The Kia Suzuki slosher booted the ball and Foster returned to Missouri's torty-five yard line. At this stage in the game, the backfield men ripped through the Titans' defense, but Kansas linemen would on no bells.
Finally, when the Tiger twenty-five yard line was reached, Ruble, giant Kansas right half, tucked the ball under his arm and ploughed the Tiger until he crossed the god and black line. Lonberg kicked a perfect goal.
SECOND QUARTER A BATTLE
The Jayhawker machine again assumed the offensive after forcing the Tiger machine to kick, but there was not enough time left in the first period to push the ball across the goal line again. The Tiger fifteen yard line was reached as the whistle sounded the end of the first period.
At the beginning of the second quarter Pringle and Ruble pushed the ball to the Tigers' ten yard line for a first down, but on the next play Pringle lost the ball on a fumble after being tackled hard. Slusher, Tiger left, end, recovered the ball but was down. He scored the fourth quarterback, called for a punt and Slusher booted the ball back to the center of the field out of danger.
During the rest of the half both teams fought hard but neither had the necessary punch to push the ball across for a touchdown. Both lines held well and it was a punting duel between Foster and Slusher. The ball with Kansas in possession of the ball on Missouri's thirty-five yard line.
Between halves the Missouri band played first and formed an "M" on the gridiron, and then the Kansas band marched on the field and formed
PRINGLE MAKES TOUCHDOWN
Kansas came back stronger than ever at the opening of the third quarter, making a brace of touchdowns. Missouri gained possession of the ball on Jayhawk's thirty-five yard line on a fake kick-off but the Kansas line held and Ruble intercepted a pass by Collins on their own twenty-five yard line. Kansas then pushed to the center of the field where Foster kicked over the Tiger goal line.
Missouri took the ball on her own twenty yard line and Slusher punted seventeen yards out of bounds. The Jayhawker machine marched through the Tiger line to the twelve yard line and missed the挫者 the Tiger goal line for the second in the Lomborg kicked goal making the score 14 in to 3 favor of Kansas.
Just before the close of the quarter Pringle again carried the pikekin in front after a seven yard plunge through the Tiger line. Lonborg failed to
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