UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 49.
VOLUME XV.
Soph Hop Stage Is Set; Hold Big Class Party In Gymnasium Tonight
Decorations Up For Annua Dance—Have Special Lighting Effect
Carleton Koontz To Sing
Kansas City Celebrity Introduces New Songs—Governor Can't Be Here
The stage is set for the Sophomore Hop, annual class party, to be held in the Gym tonight. At 8:15 Shofall's eight-piece orchestra will "strike up" the grand march and the big social event will be in full swing.
All day the decorating committee for the party has been working feverishly getting the right lighting effect and disguising the big dancing hall until it has taken on the air of a ball room.
FLOOR NOT TO BE CROWDED
The farce rehearsal last night made big promises for tonight. The big chorus made the Gym ring with the latest song hits and the individual acts delighted the critics who were allowed to review the performance.
FLOOR NOT TO BE CROWDED
The ticket sale was big today but the number at the party will not be so large that the dancing will be crowded. Receipts were exchanged for tickets at the Registrar's office. Visit www.greenwichchurch.com to that later-of-town guests for the party may procure tickets before the Hop. Invitations have been sent to all fraternity and sorority house mothers.
A special cabaret entertainment will be given during the serving of the refreshments. Carleton Koontz, famous entertainer from the Hotel Muehle, bach, Kansas City, will introduce several new songs.
GOVERNOR SENDS REGRETS
Students in charge of the ticket sale are requested to report to the manager.
GOVERNOR SENDS REGRETS
Last minute news from Governor Capper announces that he will not be able to attend the big party. George O. Foster received the following letter today:
Dear Mr. Foster;
State House.
Topeka.
A week or two ago one of the young men from the University came up here and invited Mrs. Capper and me to the house on Friday evening. I thought at the time I would be able to attend, but I now learn that General Leonard Wood is to be here that afternoon and evening, and must stay here and perhaps there.
With kind regards, I am.
I wish you would get word to the young man who called on me and convey him the sincere regrets of both Mrs. Capper and myself.
Arthur Capper,
Governor
Rest Room For Women In Gym Ready Soon
The room in the east end of Robin-
son Gymnasium that has formerly been used as the faculty handball room is being fitted up as a rest room for women, where those women not physically able to take exercise will be given the rest cure at their regular exercise period.
Rest Instead of Exercise Required For Overworked Students
Many women will be required to use the rest room, according to Dr. Florence Sherbon, head of the women's department of physical education. However, she said that this does not mean that there are a large number of women who will be required to use the room regularly.
Fifteen cots have been ordered for use in the room. A new door is being cut so that entrance to the room may be made without going through the windows. The door will be equipped with shades and practically turned into a sleeping porch.
Women who are in the regular classes may be overworked and fatigued on some days, Dr. Sherbon said, and when such is the case those women will be required to rest instead of exercise. There are others, she said, who need building up and those will be required to take whatever rest seems necessary to bring them back to normal health.
Three more freshmen have decided that they are too wise, or too dignified to be ranked as freshmen. These freshies appeared on the Hill without their caps:
Arthur E. Garin, 1339 Ohio St.
Frank J. Farnsworth, 1116 Ky.
Earl Loudon, 1339 Ohio St.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 23. 1917
E. H. Griggs To Speak Here Monday Afternoon
Edward Howard Griggs will lecture at Fraser Hall, Monday, November 26, at 4:15 o'clock, on the subject "Public education and the Problem of Failure."
Mr. Griggs is now in Kansas City speaking both in the afternoon and at night, at Grand Avenue Temple, using as his subjects "The Philosophy of Plato and Its Relation to Modern Life" and "Masterlock- Poet and Author." This is the first book Mr. Griggs has come to the University of Kansas.
For many years he was the head of the department of Ethics in the Leland Sanford Jr. University, and is one of the best authorities in this line.
West Wing Excavation Proves Slow But Sure
Walls of Building Will Not Go Up Before March 15 Foreman Says
The unfinished wing of the Administration building is still in the embryo. Two piles of brick, turned out by convict labor at the state penitentiary, are placed on the mound of terra cotta are all the visible parts of the new structure.
Fifteen men were busy yesterday excavating for the foundation of the wing, the center foundation having been filled. The laborers were busy with horse-drawn scrops, following a plow which loosened the tough gumbo. Others were digging at the rocks with which the soil is buried, greatly hinder excavation.
Carsten Bentrud, of Great Falls, Montana, the foreman, characterized the work as a "mean job," but said that he hoped to have it done in about two weeks. The owner blasting," he said, "and that makes the work slow. We will have the footings in by Christmas, and they will have all winter in which to season. The contractors, Olsen and Johnson, of Rocky Mountain start on the building about March 15."
Ment. Brentud said that the contractors had hired the labor at $2.50 a day for men, and $5.00 for men with teams. The State is furnishing a large part of the material, and will have a stone-crusher in operation in the spring to grind up the large pile of rock which has accumulated.
The excavators do not go down to the same depths in all parts of the building-site, as the ground slopes back from the front. Sixteen feet is the depth in the southeast corner, while only ten feet of dirt is being taken out in the opposite corner. The earth is being used to fill in the low ground west of the new structure, which slants off toward Potter Lake.
Official Military Notices
The following squad leaders have been appointed and have charge of women on cross country.
Four o'clock classes, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Squad A—Fern Beghtol
Squad A—Fern Beightol
Squad B—Harriset Brush
Square C—Cassandra Nixon
Square D—Louise Nixon
Square E—Evelyn Rorabaugh
Square F—Mary Smith
Square G—Edith Whitcher.
Four o'clock classes, Tuesday
Thursday:
Squad K—Dorothy Flint
class
Four o'clock class, Monday, Wednesday:
Squad K-Dorothy Flint
Squad L-Esther Moore
Square M-Iris Russell
Square N-Mary Smith
Squad H—Helen Mason Four o'clock class, Monday only;
Squad I—Esker Moore Four o'clock class, Friday only:
All men who have missed a drill period or a class period this week are notified to report for a make-up drill at 7 o'clock tonight.
Squad I—Esther Moore
Every class, Friday only.
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Four o'clock classes, Tuesday only
Squad R—Katherine Fulkerson
Sound S—Sara Leird
Squad S—Sara Baird Five o'clock class, daily:
Squad T—Ethel Ulrick
Plan to Have Service Flag
Squad J—Luella Varner Four o'clock classes. Tuesday only
Plan to have Service Flag
At a meeting of the Associated
Journalists, a program was decided to have a service flag for the department of journalism. About fifty men from the department have entered into plans. Plans for entertaining a prominent newspaper man at a banquet sometime in January were made. The journalists are trying to get Georges Charlet's papers published on Paris Journal. A financial report of the Journalism Jazz was given.
Four o'clock classes, Tuesday only Sound B-Katherine Fulkerson
By order of E. M. Briggs, Commanding.
University Still Lags
On War Fund—$1,700
Short of Allotment
Campaign To End In Few Days But Promoters Hope To Beach Goal
With the drive of the University to obtain its full quota for the Students' Friendship War Fund practically over, the total still remains $1700 short of $1,100 the goal. Only a little more than $500 was taken in yesterday.
In commenting on the showing made during the campaign, Chancellor Strong said this morning that while he regretted that the students had not subscribed as they should, he still held out hopes that the amount would eventually be raised. Doctor Strong in competition interested in the outcome of the campaign, believe that it is only the slowness of the student to turn in his card that is keeping the fund below the goal set?
The long delayed contributions from the Medical students at Rosdale are beginning to come in and should add materially to the totals. The Medic unaware of the campaign that we being started here at the University" had already contributed to the city fund at Rosdale, but when they conducted a campaign was being conducted up here, they immediately busied themselves, and to use the words of Chancellor Strong, "are proving loyal."
"In the event that K. U. does not raise the necessary $11,000," said the Chancellor, "the students of the University, and especially the men, will be a burden upon the good name of the University that will be hard to remove."
The promotion force is still at work and the new pledges are slowly coming in, although in small amounts. Members of the promotion force report that they are finding a great deal of indifference among the men students. Organizations, likewise, have not contributed as was expected.
Prof. G. C. Shaad, chairman of the finance committee, is working hard to bring the campaign to a close within the next few days, and in order to do so, he says that he will have to have the co-operation of every student on the HHU All committee to help the work for four extra efforts to get the fund up to the desired goal, and all are still confident of the ultimate outcome.
Sphinx Name Their Next Dance "Yaka Hula Hop"
The Yaka Hula Hop is the latest contribution to the list of unique names for dances given on the Hill this year. This is the title that the Sphinx society has given to the dance which it will give at Fraternal Aid Union Hall, November 27. Charles Schofital and his p.i.p. orchestra were invited by the feet of the dancer the dancing commencing at 8:30 o'clock.
The dance is authorized, although Tuesday night is the date set for the party. Consent was given to this because a great many students will be returning home for the holidays Wednesday afternoon so that the dance could not be given successfully that night.
R. B. Cunningham, president of the society, said the dance would be up to the standard of the other special dances given on the Hill this year.
Two freshmen have sworn off wearing their caps: Cecil R. Berry, 1537 Tenn. St. and H. B. Little, 1324 Vt. St. This is Little's second offense.
Many Students Want Exemption from Drill And Physical Exercise
All Applicants Required To File Information Stating Their Case
The department of physical education is taking up the applications for exemption from exercise and military drill this week. Blanks to be filled out by the applicant for exemption have been made and all applicants are required to fill out these blanks before their claims will be considered.
Their Case
Those who apply for exemption on the grounds of physical disability will be required to present themselves at a medical examination. The examining physician will make the required examination, and recommend that the student be required to take whatever form of examination in the best physical condition.
When the student desires exemption on account of outside employment, he will be required to certify that he is regularly engaged in outside work, with a supervising adult, done and state by whom he is employed. In addition he must submit a schedule showing how his time is taken up from 8 o'clock in the morning until 5 in the afternoon. This scheme allows the periods when outdoor work is done.
He must also make a statement asserting that it absolutely essential for him to do outside work in order to remain in school. Students enriched in outside work must furnish employers certifying that they are employed at the hours indicated on the schedule.
A statement is sent to the parents of all employed students who apply for exemption, notifying them that the application has been made, and asking that they do not request the exemption of students on account of which it is absolutely essential in order for the student to remain in school.
No action will be taken on applications until all blanks are properly filled out and returned. Over 150 requests for exemption have been received.
Y. M. C. A. Contributions
Near Goal Set Year Ago
Secretary Wedell Says Response Has Been Better Than
Last Year
Contributions for the local Y. M. C. A., a campaign which has been carried on the last three weeks amounted today to $1,900.00. Last year the goal set for this year's fund was $2,000, but the goal was set before it was known that the enrollment of men would be depreciated. There are about 750 men this year who have signed an accord according to Hugo Wedell, and the pledges that have been received average better than those of last year.
Pledges from students this year amount to about $1,300, according to Dutch Wedell this morning who said 535 men students had given this amount. About 700 men were asked to come in and be seen to be seen. Returns from faculty members are not yet complete but $600 has been turned in thus far.
Of the 100 men on the promotion force who started the campaign, the answer was that the average of the men on the Promotion force was only $3.54.
Send the Daily Kansan Home—oI to the boys in the service.
Information For University War Records
Please fill this out and drop it into any University mail box. (Not U. S. mail box.)
The following report is made in response to your request for information about any alumnus or former student of the University or any instructor who is in active war service—military, naval, aviation, medical, Red Cross, M. Y. C. A., scientific, etc.
To the Committee on University of Kansas War Records.
N a m e...
Date of enlistment...
Home address
R a n k
Branch of service, Regiment, etc.
Where stationed
Other information
Reported by
Mermin Brown, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W., B. Brown, 1108 Vermont street, suffered severe injuries when he was struck by a motor car while crossing a street near his home yesterday afternoon. The car, driven by Elmer Curtis, swerved from the intersection and it approached the intersection on Vermont Street and the accident seemed unaware of according to witnesses.
The child was dragged several feet. He suffered severe lacerations about the head and painful body bruises but is not believed to be in pain. Dr. Brown is superintendent of the department of journalism press.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Oh, boy!
Miss Lynn was involved in a long and complicated explanation in one of the cases she investigated. She stopped and inquired earnestly: "Well now, where do we go from here?"
Our Mexican Architecture
The freshman didn't know where the Pi House is. After much explanation the light evidently broke. "Oh," said he, "you mean that adobe place at the corner of Mississippi and Thirteenth."
Marion Arnold, '120, who recently passed the examination for the Aero Corps, has been ordered to report December 7th at Berkeley, Cal. He will withdraw immediately from the University.
'Tis rumored that Royal Ryan, who is chairman of the decorating committee for the Soph Hosp, is color-blind you? to see the decorations, aren't you?
Mary McGaffin is a freshman, and the other night she was dancing with a man who is extremely proud of the fact that he is an upperclassman.
Freshman girls are not ashamed of their class. They admit frankly that they are first year students. Yessir, they do.
"How are you classified on the Hill?" he asked.
"First class," answered Mary sweetly.
Mary Beal has a new labor saving device. Instead of climbing wearily up the three long flights of stairs to the home lab, she rides up on the dumb waiter.
Wal. Wal!
Warren Woody has a new method of saving and conserving during these war times. As every other expense comes in for the holidays, it that it was nothing more than right to do likewise on laundry bills. This morning his laundry bill for the month was found floating around on water with 13 cents, and it had been paid, too.
Journalism Jane: "I never can be original down in this Kanahan office!"
J. J. (again): "Because there are so many types around here!"
Soldiers Preferred
At last the Horrors of War are actually upon us. At least that is what a certain freshman believes. Said freshman had a date with a University girl for the All-University dance last Saturday night.
He went to the fair damsel's house to take her to a dance, and was met at the door by a sure enough soldier. The soldier told him that his lady was not in. The freshman, thinking differently, began to argue the point.
Then Sammie made use of his military training and commanded the frost: "Right about face, Forward march!"
Later the student explained his prompt retreat on the ground that he doesn't believe in arguing with an arm of the government.
Jawn Montgomery still takes Magazine Writing, and this is what happened today. The prof said that the author who wrote that book is to have to write for one's living.
"Huh!" said Jawn, "I'm writin' for my livin' now—I'm writin' home."
Four Pi Phis started up the Hill. They had a remarkable resemblance each to all the others. They looked to the casual observer who followed them as if they might be quadruplets, or whatever you call four twins. Just what was the point of simulating these situations course. They all fixed their hair the same way—the Pi Phi coiffure, you know.
THE WEATHER
I wonder—maybe they have a maid who acts as hairdresser every morning and lines up the sisters for the ceremonies which proceed as follows: the maids dress the cloaks, the ties, and tie the rest in a knot—next! I wonder. Quiere sabie?
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Not much change in temperature.
Plan To Form League Of Colleges For Work Of War Starts Here
University Officials Propose Plan for National Organization of Institution
Committee Chosen for Work
Chancellor Appoints Students and Professors to Take Charge Here
A plan to collect the war schemes and ideas of all the colleges and universities of the country is being promoted by Dean Templin and other officials of the University of Kansas. The scheme if put into effect will take the form of a War League of American Colleges. The purpose of American Colleges is to educate the ideas, ideals, and strength of academic America for the good of the colleges and for the good of the nation.
K. U. has felt a need for closer cooperation with other colleges in making its war plans. Chancellor Strong has pointed to the heads of many other institutions and has found the same conditions prevalent in the most of them. The other institutions have been asked to join the University in forming this league.
Dean Elin Templin leaves Sunday for Washington, D.C., to lay the plans before the government and probably the President.
K. U. COMMITTEE NAMED
The American college is said to be accused of neglecting to assume the proper position of leadership over its students and failing to grasp the significance of the world conflict. The college student is reported as being ignorant of current events and of living his customary life of comfort, in the face of the league to meet these accusations and remedy them if they are true.
"Intelligence Committees" would be maintained in all schools, similar to the one appointed at K. U. by Chancellor Strong. The committee consisted of Dana C. Wheeler, chairman, Professors F. B. Dains, A. J. Boynton, E. W. Murray, and S. O. Rice, and these students: Walter Hawkert, Edward Todd, Marion Joseph, Katherine Reding, Herbert James, Charles Shugart, and Harry Morgan.
PLAN A NATIONAL OFFICE
The work of the Intelligence Committee will be to provide lectures on military or other topics, collect plans and suggestions to meet different war needs, establish and maintain bulletin boards, and conduct publicity through the college paper.
If such a league is established its headquarters would be established at Washington and would be recognized by the government. Local branches of the league would be in all colleges and universities. Information gathered by the central office would be sent out to all and it is believed by the promoters that the influence that unification of all of the educational institutions would have on the country would be great.
Theta Sigma Phi, professional journalism sorority, will entertain the women enrolled in the department of journalism, the faculty members and their wives and the Kansan Board with a chocolate in Mrs. Brown's rooms in Frasier Hall, former-born at Miss Margaret Cook and Mrs. Louisa Cook Don Carlos honorary members of the sorority, will 'alk.
Theta Sigma Phi Chocolate
The Men's Glee Club is now practicing regularly although no definite trips have been scheduled. According to S. W. Mickey, the club will probably appear in many of the towns of Kansas. The club meets every Tuesday night and is under the direction of Professor J. A. Farrell.
Glee Club at Work
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Women's Forum will meet Tuesday at 3 o'clock in the women's rest room, Fraser Hall. Prof. M. C. War, will talk on "Women in the War."
The Y. W. C. A. will hold its Thanksgiving service Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Myers Hall. There will be a special program of appropriate music and the Reverend E. A. Block of the First Presbyterian Church will speak on "Why Is This a Good Year to be Thankful?"
The Y. W. C. A.-Y. M. C. A.
All-University party planned for Saturday night in Robinson Gymnasium has been indefinitely postponed