UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 1
His "Three Squares" Will Cost Student $5 Per This Year
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1917.
Landladies Decide On Raise At Recent Meeting—Some to Offer $4.50 Rate
Many Co-op Clubs to Start
High Cost of Food Stuffs The Cause of Increase In Board
The price of board for students this year will be five dollars, decided on at a recent meeting attended by most of the boarding house keepers of Lawrence. A few clubs may give a $4.50 rate and others will ask $5.50. An unusually large number of students are expected to combat the high prices by starting co-operative clubs. Several were in operation last year, the work being done in turn by the members of the club, and the plan was quite satisfactory.
The boost in the price of board is made necessary because of the increased cost of food. At this time last year a raise from $4.00 to $4.50 was announced for similar reasons, and it has become clear such a stage that boarding house keepers say $5 board is necessary. Some boarding house keepers found it necessary to raise the price to five dollars last spring. Fraternities and other organizations have their own tables also will ask advanced rates from their members.
The prices for rooms will remain practically the same as last year. The supply of available rooms is only slightly decreased by some landlazies giving up their homes while the number of students is expected to be less. Competition will keep the price of a room below that is probable that the contracts to be signed by a student for at least half a year will be enforced more than before because of the necessity of keeping houses filled to capacity.
ROOM RENT THE SAME
The Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. are at the service of the students in finding rooms and also in securing employment. Lists of approved rooming places for men and for women may be had in the office of the secretary of each association in Myers Hall.
These organizations get many calls for help from townpeople and all available jobs are being listed for the benefit of students. Students may make their application for work at the office of the secretaries and will be offered work as fast as the calls come in.
WOMEN TO TRY LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING
Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, reports that many young women are planning to cut down their living expenses by engaging rooms for light housekeeping. This practice has been in vogue for several years. Sentiment at the University during the spring semester of 2014 University Commons and a cafeteria, but the legislature has not made any allowance for a Commons and no room is available for the establishment of one at this time. The three state normal schools are ahead of the University in this respect for they each have a cafeteria.
Students Must Scrape To Make Bible True
Not only must attention be called to the high cost of living this year but the cost of high living must come in for its worth of consideration.
Since the advent of the student all of the venders of "cats" have advanced prices of necessary treats by all of the ice cream concoctions.
Smooths, a popular nickle drink last year, have advanced to a dime at all soda fountains. Sundaes are fifteen cents and when the "sweet young thing" asks for more than a one-colored decoration on the ice the forewheel here will pay twenty-even. Matted milks will cost fifteen.
the banana split has gone to twenty cents.
enough for the soda fountain. At the barber shop students will be asked for ten cents more for a haircut than they were taxed last year and more for tonics. Collars, both hair and soft have jumped a nickle each.
All of this and more since those "K" books went out and told the folks at home that we could get through school here this year on $325. To stay in those bounds "dates" must smile when they are asked for their order and declare that they would lots rather take a coke than a banana split. When they know they wouldn't.
William Omar Made Life
Busy for Wisconsin Fish
W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics, spent the summer fishing in Wisconsin lakes. He said the men who inhabit the woods are exceptionally tough, and that a tenderfoot could not stand the life there.
The manager stayed in the woods all summer with the old woodsmen, trappers, and guides, and had a great time. When he returned he had the head of a large fish on the front of his radiator as a proof of his success. It is understood that he caught the fish.
Plain Tales
You, Mister Freshman have read what the Kansan business manager said to you in his summer letter. He said that the "Plain Tales from the Hill" was the gossip column and all scandal that ever takes place on this high old Hill is heralded over land and sea in this column, that any thing can happen and we should know that is anyway cute it is in this column; that everything catty that isn't in the Society Column goes into this column.
So that is what you are to look for this winter in this column. Maybe it won't always be there but the business manager said something when he said it. So today we record the summer and the things some of the better known of the elite of the Hill did on their summer vacations.
Thus:
We know of about two hundred University men who are glal to return. Those are the men who have been boeing corn and fighting potato bugs in the hope of beating the Kaki virus, which is expected spring when the Chancellor said that they could go with their grades made. Just imagine getting up at 5 o'clock each a. m., milking the cows, feeding the chickens and watering the rest of the stock before they were harvested. Well, that's what the two hundred did. Now wouldn't you be glad to get back to school?
Tis a far cry from steward of a fraternity where the boys are used to eating T-bone steaks and fried chicken every other meal to mess sergeant of an engineering company where a chef bits a meal with beans, soup, and onions for the main hickies on the menu. But that is what has happened to "Willie" Stewart, a Phi Ski from shadow from school to get his grades for earlift. They made him mess sergeant of this company. Hence the far cry.
Eusebio C. Barba, the Philippine Island student in the School of Law last year is now assistant law clerk in the Bureau of Public Works in Manila. He returned to Manila last summer as soon as he had completed his studies by way of Estes Park where he attended the Y. M. C. A. conference.
William Dye is a private in Company M, Lawrence. Now it must be awful to have to go to France with those seventy-five centimeter guns shooting all around and bombs bursting in the name of Will Dye attached to you.
Barba came to the United States with the avowed determination to take medicine. In some manner he landed in Lawrence. As an introduction to medicine he was taken into the fabled and proverbial stiff room in the basement of the Museum. But Barba decided he didn't like medicine and its accompanying corpses. So he took law.
What's the attraction in California? Is it that the moon is mystic and the climate canducive to all things romantic? Anyway three women who would have been seniors on the Hill this year are entering the University of California this semester. They are Arline Griffiths, Mignonette Uhl and Bertha Eichenauer Latimer.
Well, we have come to the end of this column for the day. You now ought to have an idea of what is wanted for this column. So if you see a gray moping along on the camel trail and halt, tell him and legations stop him and tell him a Plain Tale. He will appreciate it. And use it.
The boys of Company M tell a story on Bill which happened last week. Bill, being fairly well trained in the art of drilling was made as assistant to Bill and his squaud was back of the line and it was Bill's duty to even up the line. He marched his company up to the line and then he forgot how to stop it. Think and breathe as hard as he would and come. So being used to handling mules and cows Bill yelled, "Whoa." The squad "whoased."
Chancellor Strong Greets Students
Captain Jones Attended
Trench Warfare Schoo
Capt. Frank E. Jones of Company M, First Kansas Infantry, attended the Trench Warfare School held at Washington, D. C., August 6 to 16. He was one of the two men from the Kansas-Missouri division and one of the thirty-two guard officers in attendance.
To the Students of the University:
The course consisted of lectures given under the direction of the Chief of the War College Division. Many of the lectures were by French officers who had had experience in wrenches. Among the things stressed were the training for trench warfare, individual training, company training, battalion training, ammunition supply, hand and rifle grenade throwing, use of machine guns and automatic rifle, employment of artillery fire, heavy weaponry, infantry intelligence, use of air-craft, operation orders and havenet drill.
Military men here believe that Captain Jones will be used at Ft. Sill to supervise the training of the officers in modern methods of warfare.
It has been my custom and pleasure for a long time to welcome our students back to their college home in the opening issue of The Kansan. In spite of the fact that hundreds of us have served our services to their country and will not be with us we are starting the year with high hopes.
I trust we may have unity of effort and high standards of personal conduct and intellectual endeavor during the whole of the year before us. Let us determine that nothing unworthy of the reputation of the University we all love shall mar the course of the year.
(Signed) FRANK STRONG,
Laurens E. Whittimore, instructor in the department of physics at the university last year, will work for the government at Washington, D.C., while on a leave of absence from school. He will also will be assistant physicist in the radiotelography laboratory of the bureau of standards. Work as head of the wireless instruction at K. U. last semester fitted him for the new work in the cast as well as his ex-situ studies as a weka high school along similar lines.
Chancellor
Instructor Leaves K. U.
For Government Position
The members of the Kappa Alpha Theta alumni and active chapters in Kansas City entertained with a luncheon at the Muebach Hotel last week in honor of the freshmen women who will enter K. U. this fall.
Mr. Whittemore was in charge of the wireless course at the University last year until the government ordered the station dismantled. Mr. Whittemore, L.D. White, D.L. Whittemore, who was superintendent of the Topeka city schools.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Sept. 17, 1917.
Registrar Predicts Enrollment Of 3,000 Students—1,200 Frosh
Basing Claim on Large High School Graduation and Number Already Registered, George O. Foster Believes Attendance At K. U. Will Fall Below Normal
War Takes Upperclassmen, Cutting Off Annual Increase
University Marshall Changes System of Registration Doing Away With Tiresome Features and Giving Entire Main Floor of Gym to Work
Engineers and law students enroll at their respective buildings.
All registration in southeast part of Robinson Gymnasium, entrance by east front door. Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
All Fine Arts, Medic, and College students enter Robinson Gymnasium to enroll by front center doorway.
All freshmen in College and School of Fine Arts will enter the same building by the west front entrance.
All enrollment Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 to 12 a. m.
and 1 to 5 p. m.
Today is the big registration day for the University of Kansas. When the final results are tabulated, Registrar George O. Foster expects to have a total of 3,000 students enrolled.
All registration today will be in the southeast part of the first floor of Robinson Gymnasium. All students will enter by the east main entrance, where the Registrar and his corps will have charge of the work. Wednesday will be the last day that any person can register without paying an extra fee of $1 for late registration.
He bases, part of this large enrollment on the fact that 9,000 students graduated from the high schools of Kansas alone, and he hopes to have 1,200 freshmen enter K. U. from that body. This figure will fall 438 short of the total enrolled last semester.
ENROLLMENT STARTS TO MOMORROW Enrollment will be the program Tuesday and Wednesday, and Prof. J. L. Chase worked out a new and much improved system of enrolling the students this year. There may be some waiting but the students will be able to make out their program of work for the coming year in a simpler and the satisfactory way than ever before.
The first feature of the new plan to expedite registration will be to have the freshmen go in at the west front entrance where they will be placed immediately after an order in being called to the large gymnasium enrolling room on the second floor. But these will be the only numbered cards given out during the entire enrollment. All freshmen will go into the boys' gymnasium for training and practice, and will wait in chairs until their number is called from the floor above.
TAKE TWENTY AT A TIME
THE yearning will be called in groups of twenty, but for they go to the big gymnasium above the will write their names on a paper and this sheet will be taken to the doorkeeper above who will look up the student's transcript card. In this way there will be no waiting at the doorway leading to the enrollment floor, which in the past has meant endless delay and tiresome standing for the students.
The other college students, as well as fine arts and medic students, will go in through the main entrance and on up to the balcony of the big gymnasium. There they will be seated in rows as they come in, according to their class. They will be called groups of ten and twenties, the whole row moving up as a group is called. Before going to the floor which the balcony overlooks, they will write their names on a sheet of paper as the freshmen were required to do. The seniors and specials will enter the floor from the northeast corner with phomores and juniors will enter by the east end of the hall. Freshman will enter from the west end en trance.
OBTAIN MORE FLOOR SPACE
OBTAIN MORE FLOOR SPACE
By having the enrollment on the large gymnasium floor, the University authorities have obtained more floor space and better ventilation as a crowd will fill the room. As soon as there is a chance for more to come down to the floor to enroll, the head supervisor of each group will signal to the man in charge of the class on the balcony above. To further facilitate matters, those who can not get on the balcony
floor and who do not wish to stand on the stairs can sit in the boy's gymnasium in the west end of the building.
Registration will continue Tuesday and Wednesday in the east end of the first floor of the gymnasium. All who register will have to enter from the east entrance and go to the other entrances to get their places in enrollment for the day. All law and engineering students will enroll for work in their respective buildings, after they have registered.
GUARDS MOVE OUT
Actual class work at the University will not start until Thursday.
Friday, the University marshal, Professor Wheeler, was busy getting the two floors ready for the first work. Company M, the University company of the Kansas national guard has moved out and is encamped in tents across the street from the gymnasium. Most of the equipment already has been moved from the building. Capt. F. E. Jones, in command of the unit, voluntarily took the men in the gymnasium, saying that the guard should get used to conditions in the field and be cramped quarters. Because of the lack of tents, some of the men will sleep in the gymnasium during the night and move their equipment out for the day.
s'ity will not start until Thursday.
The total registration at the University of Kansas Saturday was 394, as against 420 registered the corresponding Saturday a year ago. The total number of names registered so far this year up till Saturday night when the registration closed, were closed, was 576. At the same time last year there were 840 students registered, or a decrease of 264 students. Whether the regular registration days this week will bring up the total to the 15 per cent decrease expected is yet to be seen.
Breezy Line-up of Humorous Stories Characterizes September Number
First Sour Owl of Year Swoops Down To Greet Students
The Sour Owl, the University num-orous publication, swiped down on Mount Oread in the first edition of *Mining*. The breezy line-up of feature material.
The September issue is a "War
Freeman number and is part of the
subject matter of our subject
titles."
The cover, done in crimson and blue, is a fine piece of color engraving. A crimson owl stands out in a field of blue.
The "lead" story of the issue, "The Owl Writes from Riley," gives some inside materials on the happenings at the camp in which the K. U. men take a tangle. Rumor has it that a woman wrote to the camp who read the of the opinion that only a man could get the details as they are given.
The issue is alive with clever drawings by local artists. R. W. Graham, a private in the headquarters comedy company Kansas Infantry, a student in the eminent theater last year, has drawn many of the cartoons, including a double-page "spread" of illustrated war cartoons. The latest "dope" on local celebrities is given under the title, "The Little Books," and with the wisdom of the old oil罐 the events are chronicled with all regard to the truth.
"The will be four editions of the Owl this year," says Lawson May, the editor, "the students are taking a greater interest in the publication of late. Many of the students put in much of their summer working on the book." We think we have held up the standard set by the Owl last year."
Ray Walters is the business manager of the Owl and Eugene Dyer is the advertising manager. The Owl and Eugene pay by the Owls, the junior class society.
The next number of the Owl will be out Thanksgiving and students and faculty members are urged to contribute material for that issue.
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