UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
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Butler Announces Artists Who Appear On Concert Course
NUMBER 2
UNIVERSITY OF KANSASWEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917.
Eight Numbers Scheduled For Recitals at University This Season
Noted Figures are Coming
Zoelnners and Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Here Again —Prices the Same
This year the University will present for the benefit of its students and the townpeople a better course than was given last year. The first concert will be given October 24 by the well-known tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Paul Althouse. Although Mr. Althouse has performed but six years with the Metropolitan Opera, he has already created three big tenor roles. That means he has been chosen from the senors of the company to sing at their first performances in the Metropolitan Opera House.
Good music is more in demand now than ever before according to Dean Harold L. Butter of the School of Fine Arts. Even the government is engaging specialists to teach men in training camps how to sing. Good music can be taught, nourished by schools, churches, and by the initiative of private individuals.
WELL-KNOWN CONTRALTO COMING Christine Miller, contralto, will give the second concert in November. Miss Miller is one of the most popular contraltoes before the public today. Such is the demand for her recital that when Dean Butler tried to get her for last year's performance he found all her time taken, so he engaged her at once for this year. Miss Miller is an American, who delights in singing American songs in English.
Albert Spalding, violinist, another American, will give the third concert in December. Mr. Spalding had overwhelming success on the concert course three years ago. He has been a distinguished singer everywhere, every great orchestra in the country.
in December. Mr. Spalding had overwhelming success on the concert course three years ago. He has played during the last five years with every great orchestra in the country. January will bring a young pianist who will play at home or be without an equal in the last twenty years. Absolutely unknown except to a few eighteen months ago, and now the most discussed of them, all Mischa Levitzki was born near Kiev, Russia. At the age of eight he came to America with his parents. He remained here only four years when he returned to Europe to study piano. At the age of sixteen he toured the principal cities of Europe giving recitals. A year ago he came to America to study in such demand for recitals that even demand has been filled a year in advance.
On April 3, three artists will give a "popular" concert. Karl Kirksmith, solo 'cellist with the New York Symphony Orchestra, will be the principal attraction. Cecile Brainard, a young American pianist, who was giving recitals in Europe when the war broke out, is with the company. Mrs. Nita Taylor, a former music teacher of Fine Arts, is the vocalist of the company. Mrs. Taylor was a success at the Kansas City festival last May.
The Zoelner String Quartet will return to Lawrence for its sixth concert March 4. Their Indian music alchemy has been enjoyed at the University.
The seventh and eighth concerts will be given in May by the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra of fifty ensembles, including those of Emilie Oberhoffer. The orchestra will be with it six soloists, four vocalists, a violinist, and a 'cellist'.
AT THE SAME PRICE
The price of season tickets will be the same as last year. Reserved seats for the eight concerts, in the front and center of the hall, will sell for $4.50. The remainder of the seats and the balcony are $3.50. University students may purchase the $4.50 seats for $3.50 and $3.50 seats for $2.50 at the Registrar's office after October 15. The $4.50 seats will be sold by mail. All orders should be addressed to H. L. Butler, Lawrence, and must enclose a self addressed stamped envelope.
Government to Make Glass
Prof. F.B. Dains, who has just returned from a meeting of the American Christian Church, D. C., said this morning arrangements recently were completed whereby the government will make all optical glass needed for naval and military purposes. This glass has been imported heretofore but America has not engaged in it mented until they have a process which furnishes a glass considered equal to that previously imported.
Government to Make Glass
Chancellor Will Talk On "Problems, New and Old"
"Problems, New and Old," is the subject of the address of welcome Chancellor Strong will give to new students at the first All-University convolution in Robinson Gymnastics Friday morning at ten o'clock. All morning class periods will be cut ten hours following the plan used last year.
The first period class will meet at 8:30 o'clock as usual, the 9:30 class at 9:20 o'clock and convocation at ten o'clock. The remaining time will be divided between the last two periods.
A double quartet from the School of Fine Arts will sing the national anthem. Cheerleader Rusty Friend will make his first appearance before a K. U. audience and the freshmen have an opportunity to give a "Rock Chalk."
Will Raise Fund For University Students Who Battle Germans
Campaign Is On Now and Everyone May Contribute Friday Morning
A campaign to raise a company fund for the Jayhawkster soldier boys has been launched and within the next few days every student in the University will be given a chance to give to the fund. Many small towns and cities have raised company funds of $2,000 to $3,000 and it is hoped the University body will respond to the cause as generously.
A company fund has become a necessity with soldiers according to Captain Frank Jones, Company M. Many things must be bought which the government does not provide. You need them to receive their pay checks on time, and they cannot purchase the little things they must have.
OLD FUND IS DEPLETED
The students of the University raised a company fund of $250 for Company M last spring, but that was a small amount for a company fund and considerable of the money already has been spent so it is necessary for the students to raise a comfortable amount before the unit leaves for Ft. Sill, Okla., if the University soldiers are to be cared for as well as soldiers from other cities and towns.
A fund of $1000 seems a large amount for a company but when it is divided between 250 men it does not seem so large. Every cent of the fund goes to the captain of the company to see that each man gets the full benefit of the fund. With as large an enrollment as there is at the University, Captain Jones does not anticipate quality in raising a comfortable fund.
TO SOLICIT FRIDAY MORNING
The first convoitation of the year will be held in Robinson Gymnasium at 10 o'clock Friday morning, and just outside the gymnasium will be a booth, in charge of members of the Jayhawks or faculty member may contribute to help make life worth living for the Jayhawkers while they are fighting the country's battles in France.
Herbert Howland, senior in the University last year and one of the star runners both on the cross country team and the 1971 track team, is back at K. U. this fall to work for his master's degree.
Speaches, eats and a good time were the events of last night at the University Y. M. C. A. mixer for men in Myers Hall. One hundred twenty-five men attended. They were mostly first year men.
Handshaking and Stunts
Prevailed at Myers Hall
hold Thursday night in Myers Hall.
One hundred and seventy-five tickets had been sold last night for the "Freshman Blowout" Saturday night in the Gym. Mr. Weddel is anxious that all men contemplating going shall inform the Y. M. C. A. so that they will be made with Briekenes, who will serve
Walter Pickering, president of the Y. M. C. A. cabinet and Hugo Wedell, general secretary of the association spoke. Justin Blount and Wedel put on a three-round boxing match with Eddie Todd as referee. There was no decision. Doughnuts and apples were served.
The Kansan will print the names of contributors. Anyone who wishes to give to the fund may address all checks, drafts, or money orders payable to the Kansan Prank Jones, Company M, First Kansan Infantry, Lawrence, Kansas.
There will be no mixer tonight but a big get-together stag mixer will be here.
Drinking Cups Here Unsanitary---Can't Supply Paper Ones
Students Will Have to Provide Own Containers—Glasses To Be Removed
Bacteria on Fountains, Too
Cups, Furnished by Individuals Used In Violation of State Law
Thirsty students will have to carry their own cups this year for distilled water or patronize the drinking fountains in the University Library. Students will also need money to purchase paper cups and the public drink cups left under the distilled water containers are in direct violation of the state law and will be removed immediately. John Tinsley, a building hallways and grounds, said this morning.
"CAN I AFFORD TAPER CUPS?
The cups used last year are the University's, and the number would cost over $700 this year, because of the increased cost of paper. The money for health purposes is not sufficient to cover this expense."
"The glasses were placed under the containers by students or faculty," Mr. Shea said. "The University officials had nothing to do with it.
CAN'T AFFORD PAPER CUPS
Because of this increased cos plans were made by the health auth orties last spring to install more fountains for city water and to dispense with distilled water. The fountains were ordered the latter part of June but have not yet arrived. As son as they come and are up there will be no more distilled water on the Hill.
A glass taken from Fraser was tested by Dr. Ida H. Hyde of the department of physiology and was found covered with bacteria. The drinking fountains also contain bacteria, Dr. Hyde said, owing to the practice of touching the lips to the fountain in drinking.
SHOULD BE DISINFECTED DAILY
SOLVED
"I order to the fountains perfectly safe, they should be cleaned and thoroughly disinfected every day," Dr. Hyde said.
"There were no drinking cups in the Chemistry Building all summer and a student was seen making a drinking fountain out of the fawcet tree." The health officers can do nothing without student co-operation.
"Every student should carry his own cup and so co-operate with the University authorities in enforcing the sanitary regulations. Especial care should be exercised in using the drinking fountains. Every time the lips touch the metal hundreds of germs are left."
Open House Every Day For Women at Y. W. C. A.
"Open house every day" is the plan of Miss Kathine Duffield, secretary of the Y. W. C.A., for the association headquarters this year. The room in Myers Hall has been furnished with couches and comfortable chairs to make it a good place to rest as well as a social center where the women students may meet their old friends and get acquainted with new ones.
Miss Duffield will welcome new students, especially, whom she will be glad to help in any way she can. Her office hours for the first few days of school will be from eight-thirty to twelve o'clock in the morning and from two until five o'clock in the afternoons.
The following courses in Aerospace
autoeatures are offered in the School of
Education.
Aeronautics I: Types of machines, general theory of flights, resistance of air, size and shape of component parts, propellers and stability. First semester, two hours, Tuesday and Thursday at 11:30 o'clock.
New Courses Offered
Aeronautics III: Special course in aeronautics, one semester, one hour. Class at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays.
Arthur Nigg, e16, who has been employed since last spring by the Western Electric Company, Chicago; is here this week on his vacation, visiting friends on the Hill and at the Alemannia house.
Aeronautics II: Fuels, combustion,
types of motors, motor parts and
auxilaries.
First semester, two
Monday and Wednesday at
11:30; o'clock.
Students interested in the work are requested to call on Prof. A, H. H. Stuart, M.D., Solomon Harvith leftscht or on Prof. Solomon Leftscht, Room 108, Marvin Hall.
Frats Reap Annual Crop Of Freshmen Competition Sharp
War Thinned Ranks of Men and Rushing Was Unusually Brisk
Joyrides and Mixers End
Lads Now Will Be Shown Further Into Mysteries of Brotherhood
Twelve national and three local fraternities brought three days of strenuous "rushing" to a close last night at midnight with the largest crop of Greek letter piedges in the history of the University.
The war thinned the ranks of nearly every organization and the fact that fewer men than ever before have registered for schooling at K. College could not be done between the Greeks bitter. No outward breaks came, however, but a prized freshman was not given much freedom after he hit Lawrence unless accompanied by one of the officers who had better aggregation that wanted him.
Sigma Nu; Brown Cunningham, Caney; Russel Hobs, Hils; Marvin Harms, Wichita; Roland Hill, Wichita; Ewing Fergus, Topoka nich, Concordia; Russell Sturges, Concordia; Ted Hudson, Fredonia.
The sororities pledge next week.
The list of fraternity pledges flds
flows.
Acacia: Fred M. Ziegler, Newkirk
Okla.; Glenn V. Banker, Russell; W.
G. Dixon, Leon; W. R. Gearhart, Eng-
nolwool!; C. E. Edwards, Minneapolis
Kappa Sigma; Ray Johnson, Greenburg; Ralis Eastman, Greensburg; John Cooper, Stockton; Edwin Calene, Lawrence; Cecil Barley, Lawrence; Marissa Joseph, soph. Mo.; Jay Young, Wichita; Harold Tape, Wichita; Carl Oles, Independence; Dorsay Wolfley, Anton William, Siloh Springs, Ark Phi Delta Theta; Howard Lockwood, Aitchison; Cary Diges, Atchison, Gresham Houston, Rahph Davis, Holton; Hovan Pearl, Kansas City.
Kanza: Wayne G. Martin, Jr., Salina: Paul E. Pinkston, Independence: Hamilton R. Fulton, Sabetha; Ralph H. Greenwood, Hill City; William R. Joslin, Hugeton; Harold M. House, Douglas; Chester A. Barnard, Jackson; John A. Ford, Mintern; Warren, Alfred; Vanwernight; Ralph B. Varner, Angusta; Russell Verne Bogle, Liberal; David H. Putney, Leavenworth
Pi Kappa Alpha: Dean Kimmel, Robinson; Robert Dumney, Strand, Tex; Mark Lawrence, Thayer; Roland Ferguson, Topokan; Byron Coulson, Kanas City, Mo.; Robert Wild, Kansas City, Mo.; Robert Keelebs, Agra.
Phi Gamma Delam: Clem Alexander, Kansas City, Mo.; Thomas Constant, Lawrence; Andrew Delayne, Leona; George Dolbee, Lawrence; James Middlekauff, Hays City; Dick Nelson, Kansas City, Mo.; Charles Parker, Tulsa, Okaia; John Porter, Mark Waggener, Atchison; Bailey Waggener, Atchison; Paul Gempel, Leayworth.
Delta Tau Delta: George McLeod,
Hoisington; George H. Johns, Moline;
Frank Patterson, Atchison; Adrian
Shields, Washa, Ina.; Lucky Hosttiter,
Wellsville; Nasbhy Kirkpatrick,
Oswego; Ed Montgomery,
Junction City; Watt Brummit, Evanson,
Ill.
Sigma Chi: Julius Holmes, Lawrence; Charles Fratcher, Kansas City; John Kinkal, Topeka; William McGraw, Kansas City; Elrich Sharp, Topeka; Phi Kappa: Michael Corroy, Leavenworth; John O'Donnell, Leavenworth; William Dixon, Excelsior Springs; William Hodges, Paoli; Joseph Bracken, Paola.
Phi Kappa Psi: Lale Andrews, Kansas City, Mo.; Henry Caster, Kansas City, Mo.; David Ainsworth, Lyons; Victor Rogers, Wichita; Clarence Swenson, Kansas City, Mo.; Charles Chair, Chair Buckles; Stafford, Horace; Amanda Hiawatha; and Bradner Davinson, Joplin, Mo.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Arthn Fleck, Kansas City, Clem Ismert, Kansas City, William Darnell, Kansas City; John A. Billingly, Kansas City; Hunt Liggett, Kansas City; Hunne Dubail, Hutchinson; Walter Lippert, Kansas City; Elfordaro; Neeley, Topeka Ted Smith, Kansas City; Emery Meyre, Kansas City, Mo.; and George Jones, Kansas City, Mo.
Swede Carlson, star player on the victorious 1908 Jahlawker team, is in Lawrence during rush week.
Co-op Exchange Receives Books to be Put on Sale
Walter Raymond, in charge of the Co-operative Book exchange at the check stand in Fraser Hall, reports that books are coming in rapidly. He asks that books be brought in at once to insure their sale. All books in use at the University are accepted by the book exchange.
The exchange was established two years ago by the Men's Student Council. Ten per cent commission is charged for the expense of handling the books which goes to the treasury and for paying the change will be open from 8:30 to 12 o'clock in the morning and from 2 to 4:30 in the afternoon.
Plain Tales
Anxious Inquirer writes in: Are those brown tents across the way from Robinson Gymnasium the new educational burial new Administration Building?
Deducting from this fact that it rained we find it will rain next year, the freshman still will be paddled, the sororities will say naughty things about each other, the war will continue, the fried chicken served by a downtown cafe will turn out to be messy and pass some revolutions and the freshman will be handed some way if they don't wear caps.
Well, the rain tried to reign last night so that we all wouldn't be disappointed. Every year now since Heck was a pup rain has fallen upon the heads of the just and unjust during registration week. Up until late last night every one was beginning to believe that dire things would happen without this annual rain. But the rain relieved the fear.
We took a walk down town tessier day afternoon just for walking exercise. We wish we had been a lawyer now. For here and there and everywhere from Watkins corner to the agents for laundries and clubs and rooming houses and pressing clubs and the Kansan solicitors and frat men and more laundry agents and more club men and more rooming house men and more pressing club men and more Kansan men and more frat men.
All of which was gladdening to
heartseats. And "Fattenin" or
"our pooked."
Lots of nice automobile rides were taken into the country round about last night and many heart-to-heart tete-tete talks were indulged in during the trip. Unfortunately unsuspecting underclasmen. Readers are published elsewhere in this issue.
Stories of social blunders when registering and enrolling still abound among upperclass persons who think it's cute. One girl is the real infant prodigy of this little warriered school. In the space left below her birth she wrote this little girl wrote May 16, 1917. And she is a junior on the Hill.
Then there was the freshman girl who almost didn't register Monday when she read on the card that one can't change one's name after one has written one's name on one's card. "And here I came to this school for matrimonial purposes," she told a Big Sister.
Another freshman—man this time —wrote his address "Sig AIG fh house." "What is the address of the house?" asked John Burke, a bureau in charge, "I don't know, and I registrant. "It's way out in the country over that way some place."
There were more than two hundred women in the gallery yesterday at nine o'clock awaiting their turn to nellow. We walked around the place once. And we saw only three women knitting and tatting for the sailors and soldiers. Are our women getting "slack" in their duty?
We spoke yesterday of true Bohemia in the shape of horns and drums et al that will infest our heretofore quiet quarters this year. Now we have been added to. Another fish mound in yesterday and he plays the violin.
And the man next door, we discovered last night snorees while he睡眠
The soldiers have had to pick the
hume. Hence the persickitiness
of them.
Soldiers get mighty perspicacity when they become soldiers. Last year you could have found any of their wounds on your hand or feet on the floor and nothing in sight.
But this year since they work for Uncle Sam they have grown careful. So they have found plenty of extra work in keeping the grounds around the gym clean. Papers and hand-bills and cards—are strewn around the ground by solicitors who don't care.
Registration Total Reaches 2,000;Four Women to Each Man
Figures At Noon Today More Than 400 Below Last Year's Number
Few Classes Closed Early
Courses Usually Filled In Morning Remained Open All Dav
Registration figures at noon today totaled exactly 2000, which is more than four hundred students less than had registered at the same time last year. Very few were registering this afternoon and the final figure on the week's work is not expected to go much above 2000.
Dean Ellin Templin of the College believes it would be difficult to predict the total enrollment for the fall semester now on account of the fact that many students are remaining at home to harvest crops. Others have been sending them will enter the University, due, mainly, to unsettled conditions.
CLASSES NOT CROWDED
The end of the first half day of enrollment at the gym yesterday found many classes which are ordinarily crowded, only partially filled. Less in the day several classes were满了, generally are filled at 9:30 o'clock.
In spite of the new seating arrangement, the lack of sufficient number of professors to help with the enrolment or lack of co-operation caused endless delay for the students enrolling. The new plan of separating freshmen from upperclassmen was a aid and better system on the part of some students that would have worked wonders. Students were sent to the main floor in Robinson Gymnasium to enroll in their subjects.
MANY WOMEN AND FRESHMEN Many freshmen were lined up outside of the gymnasium as early as six-thirty o'clock yesterday morning so they could get in early enough to play a program. Even some of the uppermen got out on the scene a little later. To all other appearances it was the same scene which is always staged outside of the building.
But there was a lack of juniors and seniors, and an unusually large number of girls. In fact, those in charge of registration believe the ratio will be four to one in favor of the women.
Prof. R. E. Putnam, the economic expert at the University for several years, was missed in his usual role of bawling out the names of changed courses. In his place several strong "subbed." Several times the Greek sisters and brothers lost their would-be pledges on account of the separation of the freshman and upperclassman.
Medical Students Drawn for Service May Finish Course
Fourth, Third and Second Year Medics Are Affected By New Order
Censorship of applications for entrance into the School of Medicine are to be stricter this year than ever before, according to Dr. John Sundwall, this morning. Supplemental regulations governing the execution of the selective draft law have been issued by the President which peremptoriously intercedes or medical student of the fourth third or second year, to enlist in the Reserve Corps if summoned to military duty under the draft regulations
The students' privilege of completing his medical education and serving his country in this way hardly will be abused under the regulations of the Enlisted Reserve Corps. He will be discharged from service only during a time required to complete his medical education and will be subject to call any time.
Application must be made to the Surgeon-general by a student or hospital interne who is drafted for permission to enter the Enlisted Reserve Corps. After he is accepted by the local board he is not sent to the mobilization camp but the local district will be credited with one man.
The hospital interne or medical student must be in a well recognized hospital or school. The purpose of the exemption rule is obvious as the student's service to the government may be of greater value as a well trained doctor than as a private in the new army.