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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 7.
MayHave West Wing Of Administration Building Up July 1
University to Advertise For Bids For Long Looked For Work
Contract Let In 30 Days
New Addition Will House Classrooms, Art Gallery and Chapel
The University is ready to advertise for bids for the new Administration Building, according to a statement made by Chancellor Strover on Friday. The university is thirteen for it probably will be about thirty days before the contract is let.
A part of the material for the building is on hand. It consists mainly of brick from the state brick plant at the Lansing penitentiary. This has been on the ground since last May. There is also a quantity of brick on hand. Other material will not be moved until the contract is let.
State architect, Charles Chandler, will have supervision of the work of construction. There is no definite time set for the work to begin, but the building must be completed by July, 1919.
The foundation for the entire building has been laid for several years, money having been appropriated for this by the legislature of New York for appropriation for the completion of the building amounts to $225,000.
When completed the building will be the finest and largest on the campus. The administrative offices will be moved into it, and many new class rooms for the College are added. Their Thayer Art Collection will be housed there and a new chapel adequate for the use of the University will be opened.
Must Have Debaters Or Day Classes Will Close
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1017.
The time of meeting will be arranged to suit the convenience of those desiring the course, and all who are interested are asked to leave their names and preference of hours at the office in the basement of Green Hall.
Owing to the small enrollment in this year's debating classes regular work may not be given unless more enroll within the next few days. Because of this fact, assistant professor Howard T. Hill, is arranging to hold a class in the evening for any group of students who are interested in debating and debating problems to devote to it at least one hour a week.
The class will receive the personal instruction of Mr. Hill and will probably meet during the week at seven or eight o'clock in the evening for one hour each on our course, when the advancement of the work requires it. Freshmen who have been interested in high school debating will be made especially welcome.
K. U. Fine Arts School Sends Concerts by Freight
The School of Fine Arts of the University of Kansas is shipping its first concert of the new school year this week. "Shipping" is literally true for the first order for Dean Harold L. Butler's specially prepared "freightable" concert has come in and is being filled. Fifteen talking machine records and a typewritten lecture on the music comprise the concert.
Last year the boxes of records were sent to more than 288 Kansas towns by the University. Often they were kept in a town a week or more and did duty for high school audiences, clubs and general concerts.
The University has thirteen of these, specially prepared "freightable" concerts. They are arranged to illustrate the diversity of musical styles that has prepared to go with each set. The most popular of these concerts are two of American music, old folk songs of the South and the North at the time; they are the work of some modern composers.
Many women's clubs over the state have used the series as a course in music for their towns. The sets of this series in their order illustrate barbarian and oriental music, the beginnings of oratorio and opera, the development of orchestration and modern music.
Phi Chi Meeting
First regular meeting of the Phi Chi, medical fraternity will be held at the chapter house Wednesday evening, Sept. 26, at 7:30 o'clock.
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Violinist Is Called Into Aviation Service
Harold L. Butler, dean of the School of Fine Arts, is having difficulty in arranging the University Concert Course for this year. Last Friday Dean Butter received a telegram from Albert Spaulding, the violinist who was to have given the third concert on the course, saying that all his recitals were cancelled. Mr. Spaulding has joined the Aviation Corps in France, where he will serve as an interpreter.
When Mr. Spaulding made his engagements for the season, it was understood that he would not be needed by the War Department until next spring, but because of his command of five languages, he has been called the "Languagesman." Spaulding is the son of Spaulding of sporting goods fame, and will probably not miss the $40,000 which he would have received for the concert course.
War Department Is Unable T Spare Officer For Drilling Purposes
Military Training for K. U. Men Is Held Up By Lack of Army Man
Word received by Chancellor Frank Strong from the War Department notified the University authorities that the department will be unable to furnish any aid either in officers or equipment. All officers available for service at colleges and universities are required, and many miles have remained unfilled. Some of these are in colleges that have maintained courses in military drill for a number of years previous to the outbreak of the war.
Military drill at the University this year is at present uncertain. It was hoped that an army officer could be obtained and a regular course in military drill installed, but this at present seems impossible.
Because of the great demand for equipment it is impossible to spare any to schools not already having an established course in military drill. All the new model rifles obtainable are needed to equip the new army, and no discarded "Kraigs" can be used to equip them as difficult to obtain, as every manufacturer of such material is swamped with war orders.
According to the chancellor's secretary, it is likely that a meeting of the University Senate will be called next week to determine what will be done.
A course of physical drill, however, was outlined by the department, and recommended for all men in the University. It is likely that this will be installed. The exact nature of this drill has not been made known.
Compulsory drill will probably be required of every man in the University this year, according to Dean Olin Templin, and the same drill will be optional to women of K. U. Prof E. M. Briggs, who has charge of military work at Harvard University during the past summer, and lieutenant until recently in Company M, the military unit usually will be the man in charge of the work. Students with military experience and members of the faculty will assist in the work according to the most recent plan.
Ernest Pickering and Newton Benscheidt were chosen as candidates from the School of Engineering for the Men's Student Council at a mass meeting in Marvin Hall this morning.
Council Representative Chosen By Engineers
Another Track Star Reports Everett Bradley, who won the individual cup at the Invitation High School track meet here last year has reported for practice. The fact that he puts the shot thirty feet and ten inches and clears the high jump bar at five feet nine inches, speaks well for his future in Missouri Valley athletics.
Each candidate must file a petition signed by twenty-five voters with the president of the Men's Student Council before six o'clock Wednesday night as the new members will be chosen at a meeting of the council that night. The Council is authorized to laws to fill what vacancies itself, but owing to the fact that nine members of the council did not return to school a special election to determine the students' candidates was called.
Presidents of other schools have class mass meetings to fill vacancies in the council. Ten candidates from the College are to be chosen at a meeting in Fraser Hall at 12:20 o'clock tomorrow and four from the School of Law will be chosen at 11:20 o'clock in Green Hall.
Inoculation Is Free For All Students Now At University Hospital
Treatment Is Not Compulsory
* But Is Urged By Health Authorities
Free typhoid inoculations for University students are scheduled to begin at the University Hospital this week. Tuesday will be set aside for women and Thursday for men. These inoculations are not compulsory, but freshmen men and women and upperclassmen entering school for the first time are expected to take advantage of them.
Physical examinations for freshmen gym, classes and University athletes also are to be given at the hospital this year. They will begin Thursday, September 27, and continue throughout the week.
They will be given under the direction of six doctors from the University School of Medicine. The men in training will be cared for every fifteen minutes.
As yet, there have been no cases of typhoid or small pox reported to the officials, and ever possible means is being used to prevent any outbreak of typhoid in students this year. The first case of typhoid appeared just a year ago.
A new feature of this year's campaign against disease at the University will be the compilation of a record of the family and personal history of the students, as a means of sharing information. This will include the racial extraction of the student's parents, student's health at present, wart relatives have had tuberculosis, neurasthenia or other innertable diseases. Under personal history will be listed the age and birthplace of the student, approximate age of first major injury, complications of injuries they have had or operations they have undergone. Students also will be asked to state what mental and physical work other than schooling they are doing, the condition of their appetite, the average number of hours spent studying, and per day they use tea, coffee or other beverages. This material will be file at the hospital and kept during the student's stay at the University.
File System of Y. M. C. A.
Helps Working Studen
"More jobs, more men," urges L.
M. A. C., Employment Agency.
C. A. Employment Agency.
The file system has proven successful this year. An applicant wishing a job files his application, together with the work desired along with his number. When a job is open, the man is notified and is given two blanks.
The Employer's Blank, is filled out by the person for whom the work is done, telling the kind of work, the hours required, the amount received, and how the job was filled. The Employee's Blank contains his name, address, employer, number of hours worked, and date of third record is made by the secretary, listing the amount of work done, and money paid the applicant.
There have been 200 applicants, but there are several jobs still open. Mr. McHeeny reports that the co-operation with business men has been exceptionally good. Mr. McHeeny can be found at his office in Myers Hall on week days from eight o'clock till noon, and from 12 a. m. till 2 p. m., and on Saturday from 7:30 till 12:00 a.m.
The final University band tryout will be held in room 502, Frasier Hall, from 7 until 9 o'clock tonight. About half of the band will last night, but this was only two-thirds of the number who tried out for the band last year. James McCaress, director, said it was possible there would be but one band this year. Mr. McCaress, the candidates who make the band will appear in tomorrow's Kansan.
Final Band Tryout Tonight.
Two cantatas and several organ selections were composed this summer by C. S. Skilton, professor of organ in the School of Fine Arts. Professor Skilton spent the summer in the MacDowell Institute, at Peterboro, N. H. Arthur Nevin, professor of community music, and Willard Watties, instructor in English also were in the school at Petersboro.
Another professor has found teaching in other schools more profitable than at K. U. Yesterday Prof. F. A. G, Cowper, of the department of romance languages severed his connection with the University and deferred his studies somewhere where he has accepted a position similar to the one he held here.
New Music by Skilton
Professor Cowner to Wisconsin
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Freshmen Will Wear Caps; Fraternities Go On Record To Support Enforcement
Nothing, apparently, will save the freshmen from wearing their diminutive hearear gear in spite of the University Senate ruling abolishing paddling. The allied forces of upper class officials remain the time honored custom shall remain.
Laws Will Confiscate All Other Headgear Until Regulation Cans Appear
Every fraternity on the Hill tool special action on the question in meeting last night and all are in favor of continuing the practice. The Pan-Hellenic Council will discuss the matter at its next meeting. The officers say in all probability they will cooperate with the Men's Student Council and explain that the president may many fraternities had their freshmen wear the caps last year after the Senate made the ruling abolishing pad dling.
The students of the School of Law have contrived to enforce the tradition and still not interfere with the ruling of the Senate. Student-leaders in that school say that the frosh who appears on the campus without the prescribed millinery will not be paddled but their hats and caps will be taken from them and confiscated until they appear with the regulation cap.
It is not the will of the Student Council or the student body to work a hardship on the first year men. In explaining their stand the council points to the fact that the freshmen of a few years ago selected the cap as worn today and wore it of their own volition. The custom has grown to a tradition on the Hill and the distinctive mark tends to bring the freshman together. The point out that the casual attire theme for the cap is a mark of distinction, the journalists wear corduroy trousers to be known as a separate group on the Hill, and for the same reason the freshman cap should remain.
The date for the appearance of the cap has not been officially set, but the general advent of the headgear is the day of the first football game against Fold and it is not probable that the date will be changed this year.
German Language Proves Unpopular at University
The German language is decidedly unpopular at the University. Enrollment in the department of German is fifty per cent less than last year, and but seven faculty members have been retained to teach the language. There were twelve faculty members in the department last year.
Advanced classes in German are practically the same in enrollment as in former years, but there is a big difference. Students enrolling in the department.
The five members of the faculty who will not be here this year are Prof. E. F. Engel, who has been given a year's leave of absence to study at Chicago University; Miss Leigh Giles, who has been given a year's leave of absence to study at the University of Wisconsin; Prof. H. V. E. Palmblad, who will teach in Carthage College, Cartage, Illinois; Miss Margaret Hochoefer, who will teach in Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio; and Prof. Hawkins, who is at the officers' camp at Pt. Sheridan, Illinois.
For three successive years Carol Martin, 'c19, has won first place in the amateur stock judging contest held at the Douglas County Fair in Woodland Park. At the contest last week Miss Martin scored 370 points out of a possible 400. Miss Martin lives at Noria, where her parents have a stock farm and it is from this source that she obtained her knowledge that put her in the lead in a contest in which students from Manhattan, Haskell and other agricultural institutions were entered.
K. U. Woman Wins First
Eveventt Fixley, c'20, spent Saturday in Parsons visiting his parents.
Vernson Made a Captain
Vernon Made a Captain
Word was received in Lawrence
hesterday of the promotion of Lieut.
Hayden for his performance at the
tainney of a machine gun company,
Captain Vernon is now stationed at
Camp Funston.
New Books at Library.
New books at library.
New books in foreign languages and travel are added to the University library recently. Among them are the "Famulus" of Terence, "Miguel de Cervantes Saaveda" by James F. Kelley, "Bvenuento Celini," by H. Focillon, "La Sculpture Decorative," by Moned Francis, "St. Augustine's City of God," and "Lucan's Pharaolia."
Must Show Proof to Get Credits for Farm Work
Students with withdraw from school last spring in order to do their bit on the farm will be granted a military pass and credit in their courses only in case they have been actively engaged in farm work from the time of their withdrawal until September first. This announcement was made today from the office of Olin Templin, Dean of the College.
Assistant Dean D. L. Patterson is examining the credentials of students claiming credit on this ground and will grant the military pass to those who give satisfactory proof of his academic achievement. So far statistics of the number of students receiving credit in this way are not available.
Plain Tales
Lieut. Ray Swarner, c'19, now at Camp Funston spent Saturday night at the Kanza house.
David Puntney and David Alfred,
c21, visited Saturday with their parents in Leavenworth.
Jack Carter, of last year's Kansan Board, spent Sunday in Lawrence. Mr. Carter is now with the Franklin Motor Company in Kansas City.
Floy Williams of Baldwin visited Maude Glasco, c'19, Saturday. Miss Williams is a member of Phi Mu sorority at Baker.
Hugo Wedell, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. was called to Chanute Tuesday because of the illness of his wife's mother, Mrs. D. L. Burkert, who had been closed, however, with Eddie Todd and Lloyd McHenry in charge.
In spite of the decreased enrollment on the Hill, Gordon Thompson, student pastor for the Methodist Episcopal church, reports more students, in proportion to enrollment present at the Welcome Sunday service last Sunday, than at the beginning of any previous year.
G. Austin Davis, fellow in chemistry from the College of Emporia ast year, now is in a signal corps tationed at Wichita. He expects to be ordered to Ft. Sill at any time, he ays.
Eddie Bigger, freshman Medic on the Hill last year, has enlisted in the Topeka Hospital Corps, popularly known as the "Washburn Unit," and expects to continue his course "somewhere in France."
Miss Fay Friedburg spent Saturday and Sunday at her home in Toeka.
Pauline Carr, c'18, has returned to resume her work at the University after spending the summer in California.
Caroline McNutt, c17, has returned to Abilene after spending Friday and Saturday at the Kappa Alpha Theta House. Miss McNutt is instructor in English at the Abilene high school.
Zenophen Smith and Fred Jenkens spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City.
Earl Bressler comes from Nickerson. He's a freshman on the Hill. He has young ideas. And good ones. Had ten friends he wanted to write to. So he bought post cards with pictures of churches on one side and "this-side-for-address" on the opposite side, then cards with churches on them. So the tenth friend will have to do without. Couldn't spoil his record.
Anxious Freshman inquires: Do we have a freshman class have to wear cap too?
Another A. F. asks: Do we have to wear the caps to church?
James Rodgers, like all other soldier boys, was broke. But James Rodgers had an idea. By word of mouth he told civilians he used to be a handsome dresser and he had some of his cast off clothing for sale. He cried an auction sale in his room and is now rich by a few dollars. All of which happens when one has an idea. And the clothes.
Comes now the annual influx of new reporters to the Kansan sanctum. They slink in, look around and come up for an assignment. The city editor tells them to interview Professor Boytonon on "The Why of a Vanity Box." They find Professor Haworth and talk to him about it. They come back, sit down to the typewriter and begin to peck. Find a new mark which isn't on their desk. They go for a hole list ???? for a whole line. That through they peek out the proverbial story: Mr. John Jones spent the week-and in Kansas City. They get tired and talk aloud.
All of which gives the city edito much joy and makes him desire a life of drunkenness.
Selling "Pills" On K.U.Campus Must Cease—Chancellor
Soldiers Cannot Use Means to Increase Company Fund
Law Faculty Disagree As To Legality of Giving Out Cigarettes
Not a Government Reserve
Yesterday cigarettes were sold to my one choosing to buy at a stand opposite the chemistry building. The company sent the sales went to the company fund.
The sale of cigarettes to University students by members of Company M at the company canteen has been stopped at the request of the officers and said today. Hereafter cigarettes will be sold only to enlisted men.
Although the sale of cigarettes is prohibited by law in Kansas and smoking on the campus is forbidden by a ruling of the board of administration, no protest was made by the University authorities yesterday and the canteen did a rushing business. The members of Company M contended that the sale was permissable because they were under military instead of state law and that military cigarettes should prohibit the sale of cigarettes on government reservations. A federal encampment is classed as a government reservation. No attempt was made yesterday to enclose the sale.
Dear Alan Templin, of the college, asked early this morning that the stand be removed and that cigarettes be sold only at the regular canteen in the gym. Later the Chancellor asked the officers to stop the sale to students.
Legal authorities differ as to whether national guard encampments, such as the camp on the Hill, are really government reservations. Some members of the law faculty say that the encampment cannot be considered federal property and the sale of cigarettes to members of the company is a violation of the state law.
Y.W. Offers Courses In Religious Work for University Students
Y. W. C. A. plans for this year are bigger and more extensive than ever before. A new field of work this year, a Bible study course under the auspices of the Associated Religious Workers of the University has been established Three groups of classes: the Sunday School, the freshman group, and the campus classes will be offered. The social service department will be more developed this year under the chairmanship of Ruth Guild. Some civic investigation will be undertaken.
Association Will Start Evangelistic Campaign With Y. M. In March
The finance and membership campaigns are scheduled for October. This work will be carried on by fifteen captains, in charge of 150 workers.
The largest undertaking of the year will be the launching of an evangelistic campaign, in co-operation with the Y. M. C. A., in March. This is to be followed by some national Y. M. C. A. leader, probably Sherwool Eddy. In preparation for this religious campaign Dr. R. A. Schwegler will begin a series of lectures on "Fundamentals" of the first lecture will be given October 17.
Miss Ethel Swenson talked at the first meeting this afternoon at fourth’o'clock on "Our Beginning." In the cabinet, she was introduced and her assistant helped her.
Miss Katherine Duffield, the new secretary, will talk next week on "How W. W. C. A. Can Succeed On The Campus."
There will be a meeting of students of the College, Wednesday, September 26, in Fraser Chapel at 12:20 o'clock A secretary for the College and the candidates for election to the Men's Student Council will be chosen at this time
Horace Chandler, President
Evan Brown, c20, returned today to resume his work in the University.