UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 17
Freshmen Will Put On Diminutive Headgear At Normal-K. U. Game
UNIVERSITY OF K. NSAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 9, 1917.
Yearlings Themselves Favor
Continuance of Cap
Tradition
Annual Night Shirt Parade
Game With Teachers Is First Game at Home and Big Crowd Is Expected
Freshmen will appear in their new fall millinery Saturday afternoon. Such is the decision of Walter Havelkerst, president of the Men's Student Council and Rusty Friend, cheerleader. As the move is backdy every fraternity on the hill, by strong upperclassmen sentiment and a great majority of the fresh themselves, they will march to McCook Field Saturday in a body wearing their class insignia.
FIRST HOME GAME SATURDAY
As the Normal game is the first home court of the schedule and the students are all united in team action in team against a real opponent, a good crowd will watch the game Saturday, and that not only freshmen but many upperclassmen from South Park with the parade.
That the first year class is in favor of upholding the University tradition is shown not only by expressions of freshmen themselves, and also by the fact that many already have purchased the little caps, which war prices have boosted to seventy-five cents this year.
Director McCanles and his newly organized band will lead the line of march, followed by the Varsity, freshman and Kansas Normal football squads in motor trucks and automobiles containing the Cancellor, Uncle Jimmy Green and other members of the faculty, townpeople, percussionists and "A" girls. The big men have to hind them, in command of Cheerleader Friend and his assistants, Rex Kendall and Harold Hoover.
Merchants May Buy Treats
"I favor the wearing of freshman caps this year," said Wayne Martin, president of the freshman class. "Every freshman should be at the game Saturday wearing his cap, and he should continue to wear it until the close of football season. Freshmen also should observe, the rule for bidding dates at football games. By following these customs, the class of '21 will soon be known as a class with real K. U. spirit."
Association Frowns On Raid After Annual Night-Shirt Parade
MAKING READY FOR PARADE Cheerleader Friend and his assistants are busy every afternoon arranging for the dressing, Shirt parade Saturday evening, and with the co-operation of the business men and the students, it is certain to be one of the big events of the year. The event will be announced in a day or two.
The executive committee was in session this afternoon, considering
"Treats" from the downtown stores and ice cream parlors, always a feature of the annual night shirt parade in former years, probably will be relegated to the scrap-heap of K. U. traditions this year. The matter has been discussed by the Merchants' Association and it has been suggested that such merchants should offer a fund for "treats" for the "boys," to be distributed some place on the hill, probably in the gym.
"We want to abolish the raiding of confectionaries which has heretofore been the custom of students in the parade," said a member of the association today. "Last year in a raid on a downtown store candy was stolen and scattered all over the street."
According to Rusty Friend, the parade will be in charge of ten or fifteen captains to keep the students from committing violence.
Regulations For Parking
Cars Now Being Framed
Parking cars on the campus will be regulated in the future, to avoid accidents which might arise from conditions which now exist. Regulations are being framed in the University Senate providing for some particular place in which to park the cars, probably directly east of Fowler Shops Under this system cars may not be parked in front of the buildings.
Few Men Report For Basketball Practice
Although basket ball practice started last Thursday evening, only a few men have reported for practice. Coach Hamilton is anxious to get practice started to get a line on the basketball court and come out for the basket ball squad.
The freshman class expects to have a strong team this year. Every afternoon the first year men can be bound in the gym working out for one hour and taking a field in Robinson Gymnasium every evening at starting 7:30 o'clock.
W. A. A. To Compete In Inter-Class Tournament
Senior-Freshmen and Junior- Soph Hockey Teams Are Organized
"Everybody sign up" will be the slogan for the Woman's Athletic Association for the next few days. In a meeting of the board held last night, the final plans for the year's tournaments were completed.
Next week a class and inter-class tournament will be held. Owing to rainy weather last spring, only the class games were played. Seventy-two signed up for the games. The class winners were, senior, Rebecca Bissell, junior, David Hinder; sophomore, Iris Russell; freshman, Lucille Miller. The winner of the fall tournament will receive a handsome racket from Allie Carroll.
"There is more enthusiasm than has ever been shown this year in swimming," said Dorothy Cole, president. "There is every chance for a good swimming tournament in March."
Ruth Edicott, '18, and Carol Martin, '19, have organized two hockey teams, senior-freshman and junior-sophomore. Should enough sign for hockey, four teams will be organized. They would be 4:30 o'clock Monday and Wednesday.
Who killed Donnie? That is the mastery his friends are trying to solve.
Membership in W. A. may be had by petition. The petitions are at the gym. No woman is eligible to join; only men may unless she is a member of W. A. A.
Donnie Will Not Bark At Bulldogs Any More
Saturday morning some unknown bulldog attacked the tiny fox terrier belonging to Frank Strong, son of Chancellor Strong, and succeeded in breaking one of his hip bones, dislocating his leg, and injuring him severely by biting him. The bull dog evidently had no strict code of morals as he was three or four times as large when he toy-fox terrier was helpless to escape.
The first meeting of the student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will be held in Marvin Hall, Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock. The experiences of a wireless operator will be told by W. H. Beltz, who has seen service on transatlantic steamers.
After the murderer had fled, Mr. Hasty, a gardener on Mt. Oread, took the small terrier home to his heartbroken master, where a veterinary doctor was working the suffering dog. Now Frank is wowing why there isn't some law to prevent ruthless bulldogs from attacking defenseless terriers.
Fifty Dollars To Winner Of Senior Play Contest
The regular meeting of Theta Sigma Phi will be held Monday at 4:30 o'clock in the women's rest instead of Wednesday afternoon.
The winner gets not only the $50,
but also the honor attached. If the
play is worthy it will be produced by
the senior class, as in the case of
the winning play, "If I Were Dean",
written by Mr. Gumbiner last year.
The play contest, which has proved so successful, will be opened again this year. A $50 cash prize will be offered as usual. This contest, which was started two years ago, was won both by times Alton Gumbiner. 117.
Prof. C. G. Shaad will talk on the aims and purposes of the society. A new method of getting acquainted will be introduced and all electricals are urged to attend. Lunch will be served.
Electrical Engineers Will Meet Wednesday
Professor MacMurray will be glad to see all those who are interested in the competition and will give them a chance that they may want about the contest.
Lloyd McHenry, Secretary Says Y. M. Jobs Have Already Paid $711.
Bureau of Employment Gets Positions for 123 Students in September
Last Year 600 Got Jobs—Number May Exceed That This Year
Record Kept Of Every Man
The University Y. M. C. A. employment bureau, with Lloyd A. McHenry in charge, received 212 applications for employment in September, Last year the bureau filled applications for-over 600 jobs. During the last month 153 men were sent to jobs and 123 were employed.
A complete record is kept of every man, including his class schedule. This enables Mr. McHenry to tell how many hours a man can work, beside his school work. Students who apply and do not report when called or who do not make good on the job are placed on the black list. When a student's name is placed on the black list by the secretary, the student will have considerable difficulty in making another application.
There was a total of $711 paid in September to students who were furnished for the jobs through the emeritus office. The job estimates. He figures even closer and says students have put in 3044 hours of work by the men furnished.
EMPLOYED 600 LAST YEAR About six hundred jobs were filled through the bureau last year and Mr. McHenry is expecting a larger number this year. He said he expected the pay roll to men employed through the bureau to amount to at least one thousand dollars in October.
Most of the applications have been made by first and second year students. Many furnace jobs are supplied during the winter months. They pay about $6.00 a month and require about forty-five minutes a day, "If the man does not mean work," said Mr. McHeenry, "we do not want his application." A man does not need to be prepared for. The secretary tries to place men according to their previous training.
Secretary McHenry said that all students wanting employment should telephone 209 instead of 380 as it is listed in the directory.
Four Women Enter Class In Wireless Telegraphy
Former Operator Teaches Class To Prepare Students For Active Service
The fact that four K. U, women are enrolled in the wireless class shows that Kansas women will take active part in filling vacancies left by men whom the government has called into service.
There are now twenty-four enrolled in the class which is under the direction of H. E. Beltz of the engineering school. Mr. Beltz was a wireless operator in the Trans-Atlantic service before the war. The government insisted that government is anxious that the course he intensive so that the students will be able to go into active service in twenty-five of thirty weeks.
The women taking the course are Mrs. Mary Holms of the Graduate School, Frances Auswald, Catherine Oder, and Mrs. Myra Belle Vorehes of the college. Their object is to fit himselfs for commercial operating his relieving men for service in the J. S. signal corps.
There is a constant demand for young trained geologists for survey work and by private concerns. However, the private concerns pay the highest salaries and are the most popular with those seeking positions. The Empire Fuel and Oil Company of Eldorado has employed a number of men trained in K. U. Ray Walters, e'19, is now in Butler county, Kansas, in state geological survey work. His work is entirely in the oil district.
The Zoology Club will hold an important meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The election of officers will take place. All members are urged to be present.
Botany Club will meet for election of officers Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock in room 101, Snow Hall. All members are urged to be present.
Demand For Trained Geologists Constant
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae Will Bring Speakers Here
Lectures On Vocations Will Be Given This Year for K. U. Women
Will Canvass Frosh Class
First Year Women Will E
Asked What Profession
They Will Choose
A course of lectures on vocational training for University women will be given this year under the auspices of the Association of Collegiate Nurses. Especial attention will be given to professors other than teaching.
Miss Grace Abbot of the Chicago School of Philanthropy and the University of Chicago probably will give the first lecture on "College Women to College Women" in the field the lecture will be "Nursing the a Friend College Women," and the third "Women in Business." The speakers and the dates will be announced later.
The Association plans to make a vocational canvass of freshmen women this year to determine what professions they are planning to enter after college. An effort will be made to put them in touch with the best means of obtaining this training and to bring speakers here who will be attending them, Miss Alice Winston, chairman of the vocational committee, said.
Bulletins have been sent to Miss Winston from the national headquarters of the association and from the committee on woman's war work of Columbia University asking this association to co-operate with them and with the Woman's Committee of the National Council of Defense in presenting the unusual opportunities for professional service to college women.
MANY POSITIONS ARE VACANT
Employment bureaux for college graduates in the graphicators, typists, clerks, women who want to begin office work, dietitians, laboratory workers, mathematicians, and nurses. They are unable to meet the demand. The government has asked the Woman's Committee to help it fill its vacancies. The College Alumnae Committee has asked the Association of Collegiate Alumnae to bring the matter before its members.
The demand for nurses has lea many hospitals and university training schools for nurses to admit college women to their courses under unusually advantageous conditions. A year's credit is given for college work, if it includes social and physical sciences, which allows college graduates to finish the course in two years.
K. U. Glee Club Name 38 Members After Tryout
Club Plans Concert Trips To Schools and Colleges In Kansas
The K. U, Men's Glee Club hold a final try-out last night at the home of Prof. A. C. Farrell with the result that thirty-eight men were chosen for the club. Plans for the coming year have not been definitely decided upon it is the aim of the club to take several years to schools and colleges in Kansas.
The first rehearsal of the Glee Club will be held this evening in Cherry Hill for charity. Election of the manager for the club will also take place tonight.
First Tensors: Ashy Kirkpatrick,
Keene Burwell, Chas. L. Suffeld,
Louis Morgan, Floyd Lynn, C. T.
Morgan, Harry T. Cromwell,
Olml Paul
Second Tenors: G. Brantley Arnold, M. L. Peek, Donald C. Good, S. W. Hartzell Ray, H. L. Van Velzey, Leedy J. H. Smith, Howard Painter
First Basses: Geo. F. McIntire, Fred M. Shaw, Herron T. Flack, Z. P. Smith, Herman E. Friese, John Wahstedt, Harold Hall, Ernest W. Kugler, Donald R. Bell, Raymond V. Bathoy, Victor Moore, Clifford Tenney
Second Basses: Howard L. Miller, Tyson V. Anderson, Percy Bradshaw, Paul J. Rutherford, Virgil Marks, Seldon O. Butcher, North A. Wright, Paul Moser, Arthur Aach, J. R. Stephenson.
Died Suddenly! Was she murdered was the big question? The chemist soon found out. How did he do it Come to the Chemical Club meeting Wednesday at 4:30 and let Jack Wagtail say he interested in chemistry is asked to come. Chemistry Building, Room 201.
Three K. U, Men Cable Safe Arrival In France
A cablegram was received from John P. Flynn, '117, announcing his arrival in France. He received his commission as second lieutenant in infantry at the officers' training camp at Fort Riley this summer and was one of the seventy-eight men chosen for foreign service.
Wint Smith, A. B. '17, who received his commission as first lieutenant in the dismounted cavalry at the training camp, and Deane Ackers, B. S. '17, second lieutenant in infantry, sailed with him from New York.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Arthur Noid is assistant business manager of the Kansan. He solicit ads. So we, over here in the Kansan district, meet his first name and Noid as his last.
Some of our men are worrying.
Wouldn't Pants Murphy be in an awful pericament if he lost his nickname?
Catalina
Dorman O'Leary, c17, of Camp Funston visited Lawrence Sunday. Dummy was not able to be back this year to fulfill his duties as track captain but he hopes to get through with it in time to run for K. U, next year.
Gosh!
Arthur Aach is singing, second bass in the glee club. Someone suggests he ought to make good in the glee club. Aahs they do when they practice.
A certain railroad is being threatened with its life for the service it didn't give when the bunch of footballists and rooters were on their way to Urbana. First, the bunch of footballists bounded blankets in their births. Then at St. Louis they had to leave their good car and sleep in a car of the Queen Elizabeth period with gas lights. Somewhere in Missouri the engine movement across country ceased. The bushland immediately acted half human and wanted to help. Manager Hamilton, who sells motor cars, when he isn't coaching, said there was trouble in the spark plug and only one cylinder in the marqués, first aid man to the Kansas City firefighters the engine had internal troubles.
This is true. That's the best part of it.
The Alpha Delta Pi house is near the end of Mississippi street.
A light burned in an upper room of this house near the end of the street. He had a calling card with his own name on it. He obeyed the impulse and rang the doorbell of the A. D. P. House. The lone lady left and she got to her place. He gave her she didn't know him. He gave her his card and said something.
This is true. That's the best part about it.
The light in the in the Alpha Delta Pi
the lone lady. They both, were happy.
In the dramatic art class this morning Professor MacMurray was demonstrating the art of make-up. He wanted someone to demonstrate on. Called for volunteers. Not a girl responded. They seemed all shocked that the professor should even think they painted. When he did use one girl as a model she acted as if the make-up hurt her face. Yep, the millenium is fast approaching.
A certain Phi Psi has his sister's picture in his watch instead of the proverbial picture of his best girl. One freshman worrying about it asked her sisterhood sister, "Why, girlie, if he kept a picture of his sweetheart there he would have to have a group picture taken and then have it reduced to fit his watch."
Y. W. Closes Membership Campaign With Banquet
The membership campaign of the Y. W. C. A. which started October 1 will close Wednesday at 6:30 o'clock with the annual banquet to which both old and new members are invited. The banquet will be held in Robinson Gymnasium and four hundred women. Invited guests are all sustaining members of the faculty or of the city and the Y. W. C. A. Advisory Board.
Margaret Walker, as toastmistress, has worked out a system of toasts on a military plan. Those on the program are Mary Brownlee. "Work of the Association"; Ruth Guild. "So-called Kathrine Duffield, 'Ideals of the Tickets' for the banquet may be obtained at the check stand in Fraser Hall or from any of the membership committee. They cost forty cents."
Time K. U. Students Drill To Be Decided Tomorrow Afternoon
University Senate Will Meet To Set Time for Compulsory Military Training
Two Plans Are Considered
Twenty-Minute Periods Every Day Or All Day Drill Saturday
The time students in the University will be required to take military drill or physical exercise will be determined at the special meeting of the University senate tomorrow afternoon.
Two plans of action have been suggested. One is to have the exercises in 20-minute periods in the afternoon of every day except Saturday and Sunday. There will be six divisions, of twenty minutes each, the 2,000 or more students being divided up equally in the time from 4 to 6 o'clock. This will mean approximately 330 hours of drilling or taking some form of physical exercise for twenty minutes five days in the week.
The other plan is to have the same 20-minute periods divided up through Saturday. To get the same amount of drill a student would get if he took physical training twenty minutes every school day, it will be necessary for each student to do three and hour and forty minutes on Saturday and two minutes on Sunday at 8 o'clock in the morning and continue till 12 o'clock noon, to be resumed at 1 o'clock and kept up till 5:40 o'clock.
MAY DRILL ON SATURDAY
Exponents of the 4 to 6 plan say this method is better, for the students will get a little bit of the military tactics every day in the week and the coach will kept constantly in the minds of the team in contrast to this, the Saturday plan will attempt to pound in the drill in long stretches at a time and then leave six days in which the student will forget much that he has The Saturday plan would not work in the case of compulsory athletics.
WILL HELP FOOTBALL MEN
Boosters for the Saturday plan advocate it in view of the fact that it will enable medics to use their usual afternoon class time to do drill or physical work. This would be of direct benefit to the Varsity eleven, for there are at least ten teams in Varsity caliber who have not been able to practice at all or only at scattered intervals, because of late afternoon classes.
Every student at K. U. should have a physical examination to determine just what sort of physical training he should do, is the belief of Chancellor Frank Strong. He leaves some addition to the teaching and department of physical education will be assessed if such a plan of physical examination is carried out. This is specified in the series of five resolutions adopted at the meeting of the University Senate last week.
MAY NOT HAVE EQUIPMENT
The University probably will have no uniforms or other equipment, Chancellor Strong believes, because no provision for such equipment has been made. The University of Kansas is not on the same basis as the agricultural colleges of the country, on account of the assigning of Major George H. Martin to K. U. the retired list of the United States agricultural colleges are required law to have drill and credit is given events in the work. There is no such law in force for the University.
The department of physical education is in favor of compulsory drill or physical work. Beau Oelcott, Varsity football coach, is so much in need of military work that he has his squads fifteen minutes after every practice. The manager of athletics, is also in favor of the new work but realizes that he must have more help to carry the work through successfully.
Hugo L. Weddell, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., will speak at 4:30p Wednesday afternoon in Myers Hall in "A Challenge to Young Men."
Y ESSIR! They're still at it!
DR. W. L. BURDICK
PROF. A. J. BOYNTON
PROF. F. W. BLACKMAR
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