UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Prof. Herman Douthitt Dies of Typhoid Fever After Month's Illness
End Came to Assistant Profes sor of Zoology Last Night
NUMBER 28
Has Been Here Since 1914
Funeral Services Will Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon at the Home
On account of the death of Professor Douthitt, no classes in the department of Zoology will be held tomorrow (Friday).
Herman Douthitt, assistant professor of zoology, died at his home, 1617 Kentucky street yesterday afternoon after an illness of four weeks. Professor Douthitt became ill with typhoid fever in the second week of school but his condition did not become dangerous until three days ago.
Professor Douthitt was born in Kansas, but moved to Oklahoma at an early age, where he lived until maturity. He was graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1910. He received his master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1911. Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago last year. He took the position of assistant professor of zoology in 1914.
PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC WORK
Professor Douthitt taught classes in ornithology and comparative anatomy. His research work for a doctor's degree was done in vertebrate paleontology. Under the auspices of the University, he made two trips to Texas, collecting specimens for the museum. He also studied Permian reptiles and other zoological subjects. Several papers were unfinished at the time of his death.
"Professor Douthitt was a most unselfish man," said B. M. Allen, head of the department of zoology. "He was a man of firm and definite principles. His relations with his colleagues and students was very pleasant. He was an industrious student and had a tenacious research spirit."
FUNERAL TOMORROW
Professor Douthitt was married
the teacher, who and is survived by his
wife, Priscilla.
The funeral will be tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home. The Reverend Mr. Luck of the Unitarian church and the Rev. H. W. Hargett of the Methodist church will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
Metropolitan Grand Opera Singer Appears Before K.U.Audience
First Number of University Concert Course Met With Favor Last Night
Paul Althouse, of the Metropolitan Grand Company, who appeared in the first number of the University concert course last night, won his auction with an impressive voice. He is a tenor of remarkable sweetness and freshness of quality as well as power and his control is excellent. His singing is distinguished by perfect enunciation. His pleasing percussion and his voice, appealer to the audience.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25, 1917.
His program was varied, including numbers from grand opera, folk songs, songs of modern composers. The works of American composer were many and diverse, from Cadman, "Requiescat" and "Love Like the Dawn," two from Burleigh, "Little Mother of Mine" and "The Young Warrior," and two from Hammond, "Sunlight and Song" and "The Young of Gorden's Men," and "The Rosary."
His interpretation was marked by intense feeling and dramatic power. The "Vesti la guibba" from Pagliacca, his last number, was essentially dramatic, and displayed the range of his talent with the expressive "Pipes of Gorden's Men" and his French number, Faourdrain's "Carnaval," also were dramatic. "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" and "Sevilla Love Song" were well-recognized and a favorite with University audiences was sung as an encore.
Powell Weaver, accompanist, playee Chopin's Polonise as his number. He plays with spirit and feeling and appealed to his audience.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Men Wanted to Train New University Regiment
From 100 to 200 men are wanted for non-commissioned officers in the new K. U. regiment. Although experience is desirable it is not required for those volunteers who are fitted for the work. Men are wanted for leadership with my hypnotherapist personality, who are willing to work and learn the "game."
Anyone should feel free to offer himself for a place, according to men in charge. Applications should be made at the military office, in the southwest corner of the Gymnasium as soon as possible.
Every Student Will Don Khaki for Military Work. Uniforms for Women, Too
Dean Templin Advocates Olive
Drab For Whole University
Although plans for the adoption of uniforms under the new system of military training are being made, the exact uniforms have not yet been developed. To date, the commander, director of athletics, and it will be some time before they will be available. Between 700 and 800 uniforms will be needed and there are a dozen or more companies that are offering them, but no order has been placed to date.
Plans providing some distinctive uniform or dress for the women of the University as well as the men are being discussed. Dean Olin Templin is highly in favor of both men and women in sports and forms during all hours on the Hill.
"It would not only create a distinctive atmosphere on the Hill to see all the students wearing military uniforms," said the dean, "but it would also be a matter of real economy in these days of high prices. I see no reason why the students should not co-operate heartily with the idea."
Coach Hamilton, who says he is as busy as the manager of a circus in the handling of the new work which is being assigned him, would not express himself as to the advisability of compulsory wearing of uniforms.
“There is no question as to the economy of the proposition, however,” said Hamilton. “Khaki uniforms for men would cost about ten dollars while good wool uniforms could be bought for about seventeen dollars.”
The University will make the necessary wooden guns for drilling in the ground.
Y. M. C. A. Man to Speak On Morale of Allies
"The Morale of the Allied Armies" is the subject of the address to be made tomorrow morning at the last morning convocation in Robinson Gymnasium by Sherwood Eddy, international Y. M. C. A. worker who has just returned from a visit to European battlefields. He will talk at 9:30 o'clock. Classes will be run through after the convoction.
Sherwood Eddy Will Addres Last Morning Convocation of Students
Mr. Eddy will speak in Topeka to morrow at a meeting of students and faculty, business men and others. His talk deals with the need of Y. M. C. A. buildings and workers in the countries at war.
"The Morale of the Allied Armies" shores conditions of soldiers in war.
Junior Prom Date Set
For Friday, January 1
Hemphill and Woody Announce Members of Prom Committees
Ray Hemphill and Warren Woody,
managers of the Junior Prom, have selected their committees for the Prom
and have set the date for the party as
the first Friday after Christmas vacation,
January 1, 1918.
The committees are as follows:
Decorations: Leroy Peck, chairman;
Margaret Young, Julia Kennedy and Carl Ross.
Publicity: Eugene Dyer, chairman,
Larissa Herman Hangen and
Marya Roby
Program: Fred Frebleb, chairman
Danny Button, and Adelbert Charbera
Invitation: Joe Mahan, chairman,
Helen Wagstaff and
Walter Zeleni
Specialty: Albert Pete Hoyer, chair
Specialty: Albert Pete Hoyer, chair
Mitchel and William Harrison,
Bison.
Upper Classes May Be Depleted of Men By Second Draft Rules
New Regulations Will Necessitate Abandonment of Original System of Drawing
Second Draft Is In January
Method Decided Upon Will Simplify Work of Local and District Boards
The junior and senior classes of the University of Kansas may be depleted of men by the beginning of the next semester since new draft regulations have been passed. According to these new rulings a large part of the men of draft age in the University will fall in the first class of drafted men and the time of the second draft has been set for January.
The original system of drawing the men according to their serial numbers has been abandoned and a new plan has been developed for the order of their fitness for service.
Registered men have been divided into five classes, and each of the five has been divided into four to fourteen sub-classes. The first division of class one includes all single men without dependents. The second and third full University men of draft age. A few married men are students at the University, but most of these will fall in the first and second classes. Only a few students of draft age aside from the physically active man in all other than the first two classes.
FIVE CLASSES ARE DIVIDED
All men in class one will be called before any in class two are taken. Those classed in the different divisions will be called according to the order of the classes aside from this the original serial numbers will have no force.
WORK OF BOARDS SIMPLEPIED
According to the new plans the local board is recommending a rigid cross-examination to each registrant. Registrants will be required to fill these out and return them within seven days. After the questionnaires are returned the district manager, the men to their respective classes.
Included in the plans is a provision to furnish the services of a trained attorney to aid the men in filling out the questionnaire. Much of the work of securing affidavits to support the claims of the registrants will be done away with. This will make the work of getting the claims for exemption before the local and district boards much simpler.
WORK OF BOARDS SIMPLIFIED
Representatives From Various Organizations Attend War Meeting
Purpose to Arouse Students to Need of War
Relief
One hundred and fifty students and faculty members will attend the meeting Friday of the Kansas section of the Appointment Association at Topeka, where plans will be made and discussed for the apportionment of the state's share of the $55,000,000 fund to be raised for the Kansapolis War Department by the Y. M. C. A.
Sherwood Eddy, who will speak at the University convocation Friday morning, will be the principal speaker at the Topeka meeting. The program will consist of luncheon at 1 o'clock. Sherwood Eddy speaks on prison camp work at 4:45, group meetings at 5:30, talk on women's world program at 7:30, and at 8 o'clock Sherwood Eddy will give an evangelical address.
Representatives from each of the colleges and universities of Kansas will be present. Similar conferences are being held in each state. The primary purpose of these meetings is to arouse the students all over the country to the need of war relief among the armed armies.
Among the students and faculty members going from here are Mrs. Eustace Brown, Chancellor and Mrs. Jocelyn Kearns, Vice President from the local Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A., Women's Student Government Association, the Men's Student Council, sorority and fraternity presidents, and several professors, all as several of the faculty members.
Chancellor Strong, as chairman of the Kansas section, sent letters last night to each one especially invited to attend the conference.
The Jewell County Club will meet in Room 110, Fraser, Friday afternoon at 4:30. Officers will be elected and plans made for the coming year.
Practically All Faculty Members and Many Student Purchase Securities
Second Liberty Bond
Total Reaches $3500
At University Today
Sell Bonds Rest Of Week
Arrangements Are Such Tha Every Student In University May Buy
Although practically all of the faculty members and many students subscribed for Second Liberty Loan Bonds at the city banks, Jack Tacker and John Montgomery, in charge of the bond drive on the Hill, had succeeded in selling about $3500 worth of bonds by noon today.
The largest amount of bonds sold to an individual yesterday by the student campaigners was to Prof. J. W. J.heeler, who took out two $100 bonds and two $50 bonds. Fay Dodderidge was the next highest with a $100 bond. She also signified her intention of taking out an additional $50 bond.
The bond drive will be continued until the end of the week and anyone who wishes to buy a bond may so by calling or seeing Jack Tucker or Montgomery at the Kansan office. Tucker said this morning he was very anxious to see the total sale reach the $4000 mark.
CONTINUE SALE OF BONDS
"Besides being a patriotic duty, the purchase of a Liberty Bond is a good investment," Montgomery said. "A certain professor drew money out of a bank yesterday which was paying but three per cent and invested it in a private company." He now has the pride of helping his government in the present crisis besides getting a larger rate of interest on his savings."
ALL MAY BUY BONDS
The arrangements are such that practically every student in the University can buy a bond. The most reasonable plan for students who cannot afford to pay cash for a bond is to pay a dollar down and a dollar a week for forty-nine weeks. The bank with which the individual does business will pay the last installment and the remainder paid which brings immeasurably to bear four per cent interest. The bond is also free from taxation. The bond may also be paid out at any time, in which case the interest will start sooner.
The students who took out bonds up till noon today were: Dorothy Cole, Fay Doddridge, Nellie Blair, Albert Hondman, Paul Cornellus, and Glenn Coons. The organizations were: Phi Delta Kappa, the military academy and Beta Theta Pi. Prof. J. J. Wheeler was the only faculty member to take out bonds.
Sophomores Sell Tags
To Everyone On Campus
Fund Will Be Invested In Liberty Bonds For Class Memorial
The sophomore class is in active campaign today, in the interest of Liberty Bonds. Two women of every sorority and several non-sorority women are affiliated to members of the college as well as to freshmen and upper classmen. The money thus obtained is to be placed in the hands of George O. Foster, registrar, in order to be invested in Liberty Bonds. The intention of the sophomore class to use the money the nucleus for a sophomore memorial fund.
"I highly approve of the scheme of placing funds collected by the sophomore class for a memorial fund in a Liberty Bond," said Uncle Jimmy Green, when informed of the campaign. "It places the fund in a perfectly safe investment, and it keeps before each member of the class his duty toward supporting the government."
A regular hike with old-fashioned "chow" is to start at 6:45 a'clock Friday night from Myers Hall to a point some miles from the campus. The K. U. Methodist League is in charge of the camp. The campus is welcome to join the crowd. The program calls for toasted marshmallows, and songs. A charge of eight cents will be assessed against all who go, to "pay the pieman."
Methodists to Have Hike
The members of the memorial fund committee are Webb Martin, chairman, Ernest Clark, Ernest Kugler, Margaret Haworth, and Clora Riggs. The Black Helmets, sophomore honorary society, have appointed a committee to investigate the purchase of Liberty Bonds.
State Printer Has Copy For Student Directory
Copy for the new student directory is now in the hands of the state printer and if accepted by him, printed copies should be in the hands of the University students in about three months. If moving to the increased cost of paper, it is possible that the state printer may require it. If such should be the case, Registrar George O. Foster said there would be no printable card.
The directory will be practically the same this year as last, and students will be asked to contribute ten cents to the Student Loan Fund as they did last year. Last year $150 was collected in this manner.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Mr. Althouse wasn't the only person at the concert last night who got encores. Mr. Brown (that's his real name) who ushers found himself taking several. It was all because of the grand piano. Mr. Brown approach to raise the top. He lost the code, apprehended it in the top wouldn't raise. He triedmaintain Butter to the rescue. But when Mr. Brown mounted the stage to close the piano he did it beautifully. Prolonged applause and bows.
Bruce Fleming has a new cowbell for his jazz orchestra. It came yesterday and he simply had to test its quality. He tried it understand the springs of a freshman's bed last year and attached an invisible thread to it which stretched halfway down the hall. The freshman went to bed and Bruce began his experiment with the cowbell. The bell rang. The freshman arose and tied the invisible thread to the bed post. Bruce spent a long half hour in the opposite end of the hall try to wake that freshman up.
Paul Althouse was singing the last pulsing, throbbing note of "The Rosary." The audience was holding its breath to catch all the sweetness of it—when suddenly, out of the stillness, broke forth a man's sneeze. They do say that a well-known Lawrence citizen caused the commotion.
Speaking of complications, "browd you like to be the absolutely 'broke' roommate of the president of the Sophomore class—who is running tag day for Liberty bonds. Yes, the roommate had to buy a tag.
There's an Irish son of an Irish father on the Hill who is so busy that he has absolutely no time to go home. A neighbor asked the father what his teacher kept at the University which kept taking him away. And the father replied that as far as he could find out the son was taking $80 a month.
Did you notice <u>$\downarrow$</u>? The American flag was hung with the proper corner to the last night. Yes, there is a proper corner to hang toward the north.
One student who sends his quiz papers home made this explanation of the grading to his father: "A means awful; B means bum; C corking, D dandy, and F fine."
As the result of a hike to Cameron's yesterday Dayton Yellow, c'20, is several ounces heavier. The increase in avoidurosis is not due to physical at risk or regardless of the numerous "No trespassing" signs, he entered the forbidden grounds and was the recipient of a charge of buck shot immediately.
Speaking of pests, another fall variety has appeared with the box elderugs. We refer to those people who naist upon telling all they know at a concert. And they don't tell it during he intervals, either.
Professor A. J. Boynton was cross examining his class in an effort to the workings of the Manorial system in England, and a relationship between villein and land
Prof. Boynton to Louis Potucket:
"The land on which the villains lived"
"In the village of Le Moulin."
Mr. Pottuek: "No, the lord owned it."
Those heavy white envelopes which many University students received from the committee for Y. W.-Y. war relief work created vast exile until their contents was known. They were like wedding announcements and even man who got one said he thought it was invitation to his old girl's wedding.
Yesterday wasn't a holiday at the University of Kansas in spite of the fact that other universities observed as one. Some singularly unobservable things, like their sense of the fitness of things as a guide and cut classes all day.
The Pi Phi are going calling these nights whenever possible. If it isn't possible to go calling they go to the library. The house is dark. They always call at houses where the coal bins are filled, too.
Students Must Enroll in Military Training Drill And Exercise Friday
Physical Examination Will Be Given At Time Of Registration
Real Work Starts Oct. 29
Need 150 Officers To Make Soldiers Out of Rookies—Appointments Temporary
A preliminary physical examination will be given at the time of enrollment and no one will be excused except for causes shown by his examination.
Enrollment of all students, both men and women, for military drill and physical exercise under the new plan adopted by the University Senate, will start at 8:30 o'clock Friday morning and will continue until Saturday noon at the offices in Robinson Gymnasium. Enrollment at the west entrance and women at the those already enrolled in gym classes must enroll again.
REGULAR WORK OCTOBER 29
Regular work for all students under the new plan will begin Monday, October 4 at the hours enrolled for. According to the schedule, resolution, every student will be required to engage in such physical exercise as may be designated by the medical authorities of the University. Such exercise as seems suitable to the student's needs will be prescribed.
Unless exempted by the governing board or assigned to other forms of exercise, men students must take military drill. All work will be carried on under strict military discipline. According to Prof. E. M. Brigges, who will have charge of the military work, a summary court probably will be established and all offenses punished by court martial.
USE CARE IN CHOOSING COURSE
MANY WILL CHOOSE DRILLING
Sports should consider very carefully beefully enrolling," said Professor Briggs, "to take the time most convenient to take the work as a change after the first enrollment will be difficult if it is possible at all." Enrollment cards must show definitly the hours chosen for drill. The drill will be offered at 11, 2, and 4 o'clock. Gymnasium classes will be offered at 10, 11, 2 and 3 o'clock. Track work and cross country for those practicing the requirements for these sports and baseball practice in season will be held at 4 o'clock and basketball practice in season will be at 7 o'clock at night.
Those in charge of the work believe that most of the men will enroll by choice for the military drill, and that nearly every man in the University will be in the regiment. Many faculty men have called on Professor Briggs and asked to be permitted to drill in the ranks as private, and others who have had military drill have volunteered their services as officers.
More than 150 officers and non-commissioned officers will be required for the University regiment, and the first big task will be to get these officers picked out and trained. Professor Briggs will attend to this and hopes to secure all officers with the rank of captain and above from the faculty.
APPOINT TEMPORARY OFFICERS
Some difficulty is expected in securing equipment for the regiment. No rifles can be obtained, but five hundred dummy rifles will be made at Fowler Shops. These will be the same weight as the regulation Springfield rifle, and will be balanced the same. Even stacking swells will be put on the dummies if possible so that all of the manual of arms may be used.
APPOINT TEMPORARY OFFICERS For the first month all officers will be provisional. At the end of that time a commission may be pointed. No pay will be received by either the commission or non-comissioned officers.
If uniforms are used cadets and cadet officers will wear the same kind of clothing, Uniforms of officers' material and cut as well as leather leggings will be absolutely forbidden for cadet officers, as the plan is to make the movement as democratic as possible, instead of creating any military castes. All drilling will be done on the campus.
R. V. Cook, the new freshman basketball coach, says that all freshmen intending to come out for the team are being dismissed as the Varsity is needing competition.
Another high school grad who is above being a Freshman! The brave lad whose name follo-
red him was built up hill Wednesday minus his can;
Herbert Rieger, 940 Mississippi Street.
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