UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 162.
CAPPER APPOINTS NEW ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD
Former Governor Hoch, Member of Present Governing Body, Is Retained
CONTROLS ALL SCHOOLS
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The new Board of Administration for all state institutions, as provided for by the legislature of 1917, was announced by Governor Capper yesterday. The new board is composed of Dr. Wilbur N. Mason, president of Baker University, Charles W. Grewen, former mayor of Kansas City, and Earl Hoch, former governor and member of the old Board of Administration.
Institutions of the State Are Placed Under Authority of New Organization
The new board will meet in a few days for the purpose of selecting a state manager. The new manager will have charge of the buying of all supplies for the different state institutions which will be done on a strict business basis. The manager will receive a salary of $5,000 per year and the members of the new board will receive an office officer. The governor will be president ex officio of the new board. The appointments are for four years.
MASON A YOUNG MAN
Doctor Mason, though by a young man, has just completed six years as president of Baker University. He is a graduate of Ohio University, and received his degree in 1890. He received his master's degree from Harvard in 1898, and was granted the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the University of Chattanooga in 1909, and from Ohio Weslevan in 1911.
GREEN IS A LEADER
Doctor Mason spent thirteen years as a pastor in the Methodist Church. Six years of this time was spent in Cambridge, Mass., the seat of Harvard University. Later Doctor Mason headed the faculty at Chattanooga, Georgia. From this last charge he resigned in 1911 to accept the presidency of Baker University. As an educational administrator he has been wide awake and aggressive.
Mr. Green is an energetic business man, and at present is engaged in the banking business in Kansas City. He entered public life as mayor or Argentine, Kas., and after Argentine was incorporated with Kansas City this spring he refused to accept amends that he had had ten years in public service
NEED TWENTY-FIVE MORE MEN
Edward W. Hoch is well known at the University. having been a member of the retiring Board of Administration since it was created in 1911. Since 1874 he has been editor and proprietor of the Marion Record, until a few years ago when he was succeeded by his son, Homer Hoch.
He served in the House of Representatives in the Kansas Legislature in 1889 and 1893, being speaker pro tem during the session of 1893. He was elected governor of the state in 1905 and was re-elected in 1907.
Recruiting Office for Ambulance Corps in Gymnasium Will be Onen Until Wednesday
Twenty-five men are needed to bring the Second Kansas Ambulance Company to full strength, according to C. L. Thomas, who is on recruiting, duty for the company at the room in Robinson Gymnasium.
Thirteen University men have enlisted and Mr. Thomas will keep the office open until Wednesday night in order to meet with students twenty-five men from the University.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 29, 1917.
About a dozen have promised to join the organization if they are able to reach the goals.
The men enlisted in the company are: Doyle Buckles, Karl Brown, John Crowley, Philip Gibson John Crowley,
Writes For Nation's Business
Prof. J. W. Evans, of the department of journalism, has two articles in the May issue of National Business. One of the article is entitled "Can We Feed The World?" and is an authorized interview with F. D. Coburn, who was for many years secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. The other article, entitled, "What! Has the Small Town Problem Been Solved?" tells of how Ottawa, Kansas, has been converted to the gospel of municipal golden rule.
Phi Kappa gives its farewell party of the year tonight at the chapter house.
SOUR OWL WILL COME
OUT REGISTRATION DAY
The first issue of the Sour Owl, the publication of the Owl Society will appear Registration day next year. This was decided at a meeting of the sour Owl Board last week. Two pumpkin numbers numbered are planned for next year.
Election was held at which Lawson May was chosen editor, Ewart Plank, managing editor and Willard Hilton, art editor, Eugene Dyer will be advertising manager of the magazine.
ANNOUNCE HONOR FRESHMEN
Dean Olin Templin Names Fifty
Three as Most Promising Stud-
ers
ents in College Studies
Dean Templin yesterday made pubilic a list of fifty-five freshmen in the College who have been designated as the most successful and most promising members of the freshman class. The list is intended to embrace about ten per cent of the entire member class, and is made uniformly as evidence to assert the College faculty takes in superior scholarship.
They are: Fressa Baker, Toronto Alice Bernhard, Lawrence; Winifred Butcher, Cimarron, Katherine Campbell, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Hassettine Clark, Kansas City, Mo.; Kenneth Clark, Lawrence; Lillian Cottrell-Irving; Adelaide Dick, Axtell; Maude Elliott, Lawrence; Mary Emerson, Great Bend; Nellie Evans, Lawrence; Faragher, Sabethe; Annette Fugate, Lawrence; Ruth Gibson, Arrington; Annette Garrett, Lawrence; Katherine Gardner, Fort Smith, Ark.; Lucy Hackman, Lawrence; Mary Hackman, Lawrence; Beatrice Hagen, Ellinwood; Maude Hagen, Ellinwood; Luther Hanger, Wellington; Willow Creek, King Way; Harriet Medici, Medicine Lodge; Aeo Hill, Neodesha; Floyd Hockenhull, Lawrence; Rollo Howden, Skidmore, Mo.; Everett Kiefer, Lawrence; Ruth Kelsey, Jewell City; Ernst-Kugel, Abilene; Mary Larson, Assaria; Isodore Levite, Wichita; Margaret Lodge, Kansas City; Floyd Lynn, Neosho Falls; Helen Martin, Kansas City; Vivian Martin, Kansas City; Laura Lawrance; John Milner, Kansas City; Ethel Minger, Bern; Dene Malott, Abilene; Nellie McBratney, Centralia; William McPherson, Wichita; Knowlton Parker, Robinson; Blanche Patterson, Lawrence; Hazel Riggs, Lawrence; Charles Slawson, Girard; John Slawson, Minneapolis; Margaret Schofield, Beloit; Pauline Sterling; Joanne Swain, Lawrence; Una Stockwell, Lawrence; Leonard Thomas, Kansas City, Mo.; Aileen Van Zandt, Chanute; Kuele Veeder, Cherryvale; Evelina Watt, Ellsworth.
LAST FINE ARTS RECITAL
Helen Bocker and Katharine Barber Will Play Thursday Night in Fraser Channel
Helen Bocker, piano, and Katharine Barber, violin, will give the last graduating recital of the School of Fine Arts, Thursday, May 31 at eight-fifteen o'clock. The following is the program:
... Op. 24 ... Weber
Allegro
Viennese Popular Song ... Kreisler
Hjejre Kult ... Hubay
Nagele Berber, Barber
Arabbske  ... Schumann
Etude Op. 10, No. 8 ... Chopin
Scherzo in B flat minor ... Chopin
Helen Bocker
Adagio
Presto
Helen Bocker Concerto, First Movement Mozart Kunzman, Third Movement
Isole's Love-death — Wagner-Lixtz
Waltz in A.
Heller in B.
Mozkowski
ROOM AT COMMENCEMENT
DINNER FOR MANY GUESTS
Friends of seniors and students wishing to attend the Commencement Dinner in Robinson Gymnasium Wednesday afternoon, June 6, will have a chance to play basketball and ride tickets this year because of the smaller alumni attendance expected.
Probably 250 tickets will be left after seniors, faculty, and alumni make their reservations. Guest tickets may be returned or redeemable in the irsr's office at four o'clock Tuesday afternoon, June 5, or at the Gymnasium immediately after the graduation exercises Wednesday, June 6. Mr. Kubota is chairman of the committee on tickets.
For several years there have been more applications for guest tickets than could be supplied, but only 150 alumni are expected this year. The seating capacity of the Gymnasium is 1100.
Professor Williams Honored
C. C. Williams of the School of
Engenery at Columbia is appointed on
a committee of the American Association
of Railroad Engineers.
Professor Williams Honored
EFFORTS TO BE MADE TO MUSTER BATTERY B
Lawrence Unit Which Failed for Want of Men to Have Second Trial
Battery B will make another effort to be mustered into the service as a unit of the Kansas National Guard, June 4, at the Chamber of Commerce hall. The organization failed to pass muster at Robinson Gymnassium May 22, because thirty-eight of its members failed to appear.
The battery now has 142 men on its roils and an extra effort will be made to get enough men out for muster to enable the battery to be accustomed as an organization. The number of men required for muster is 126.
About twenty men from the University and about an equal number from Haskell Institute are members of the new unit. The other members are from Lawrence and adjacent territory.
The recruiting detail is composed of J. S. Amick, Ralph Spots, Louis Fink and Bill Winey. Fink less Lawrence yesterday morning for Ottawa where he will try to secure enlistments for the organization.
Those interested in the new organization are uncertain as to what steps will be taken in case the organization is disbanded, so there is information that no volunteers will be accepted after June 5. Organizations already mustered in will, according to information from the War Department, be filled by draft, but it is doubtful whether they will be involved in organizations not yet accepted.
EPWORTH LEAGUE PLAN
MEETINGS FOR K. U. MEN
The question mark of May 27 now is explained. It is the first meeting of the Student League, which recently was organized by the University members of the Epworth League of students. The next meeting of the league is to hold meetings for students every Sunday night next winter at Myers Hall.
Although the Student League was organized by the Methodist Church, it is open to any one. They intend to make the meetings informal and get speakers interested in student problems. Dr. H. L. Chambers and several other students will talk at the meeting next Sunday.
So the khaki-clad seniors at Fort Riley must attend on their regular weekly furulthe, the 1917 K. U. grads-to-be have planned a Senior Recruitment bination reception and dance, to be given in Robinson Gymnasium Saturday evening, June 2. The reception begins at eight o'clock and the dance at nine. All the seniors and their friends will sit outside alumun and their friends
As a memorial to David H. Robinson, professor of Latin in the University for twenty-nine years, a bronze portrait tablet, suitably inscribed, held at the University for university in Fraser Chapel at nine o'clock Tuesday morning, June 5. The memorial is given by former students of Professor Robinson and is to be placed on the north wall of Fraser Chapel, opposite the Allford Me
"Dates will not be necessary," said Chairman Gardner. "So many of the men have gone to war, and we don't want a single fair senior or alumna to stay away on that account. And if in the dance there are not enough men with experience, training will be strictly proper along with the conventional mode.
'17 GATHERS TO DANCE AND EXCHANGE ADIEUS
J. C. Ruppenthal, '95, of Russell,
Kas., president of the Alumni Association,
will preside. Prof. M. W.
W Sterling, '83, will make the presentation
speech; Chancellor '83 strong will
make the presentation '81,
'81, and Miss Kate Stephens, '75, will speak of Doctor Robinson as teacher and friend.
"No pains are being spared to make this a fitting farewell one that will be long remembered by all K. U." said Jess Gardner, chairman of the committee on arrangements. "Plans were started only a few days ago, and we expect to be well-appropriated. The party will be financed from senior class funds, and will be strictly complimentary."
The University of Kansas is at war. Five hundred of her men students have left for service. Hundreds more will go when the draft bill is put into operation.
"And above all, we want the guests to come a little before eight o'clock, so they don't get overly tired."
A CALL TO ARMS!
This means that there will be very, very few upperclassmen in school next year. What men students are able to attend will be the few juniors and seniors who are under the age limit required by the draft law, and the sophomores and freshmen who are generally too young to be called.
PRESENT ROBINSON TABLET
TO COLLEGE ON ALUMN DAY
The life of the University depends, in a sense, upon the size of the enrollment next fall.
K. U. next year must have a larger enrollment of freshmen men than she has ever had before if the efficiency of the institution is to be maintained, and full use of the educational facilities we have is to be made.
Farewell Reception of the Year Will Be In Robinson Saturday
There is only one place from which the desired students can be obtained. They must be recruited from the Kansas high schools.
Men and women now in the University must be the recruiting officers. It is up to them to fight the battle.
When you go home at the close of the present school year, do the following things:
1. See every high school graduate from your home town, talk with him, learn what he intends doing next year; and spend every effort to persuade him to come to K. U.
2—Talk K. U. from start to finish. Show prospective students pictures of the campus. Give them a "personally conducted" tour through your Jayhawker. Tell them of the educational advantages the University has to offer. Explain to them the thousand and one reasons why K. U. is the ONLY school.
This is the call to arms.
3—Impress upon the wavering prospect the importance of being a college graduate after the world war. Show him that the future business men, professional men, and technically trained executives of this country must come from the universities.
4—Clinch the argument by seeing that he gets a University catalogue, that he begins to wonder about which courses to take, and that HE LAYS PLANS TO COME TO LAWRENCE NEXT SEPTEMBER.
It's your job, men and women of the University. The work you can do among your high school friends is the one thing that can boost the University's enrollment to the point it must reach.
GET INTO THE FIGHT!
GRADES SENT EARLY TO STUDENTS LEAVING CARDS
Students who wish to receive their grades early may get them as soon as they are turned in by the instructors, according to information given out at the registrar's office yesterday. There has always been a demand for grades before all have been posted and official notice given to the students. To meet this demand cards have been printed and are at the registrar's office for students to grades early to those students who request it. These cards must be applied for before students leave school.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Fred C. Preble is one of the lucky ones of school. His quizzes were over this morning. Tonight he is home in the kitchen enjoying mat's good home cooking.
Boning for quizzes has been the popular indoor sport this week. Last night at several houses other kinds of bonings were held. These latter items are usually known as a rolling gathers gathers no low-cur; it must stop before fate decides.
The "S koleletse" is the latest popu-
lation dance danced by students.
At a music festival.
In one of the buildings on the campus a skeleton hangs from the wall by a nail in its head. Otherwise it is all whole and entire. Students were working in that building the other night. Time began to hang heavy as time often does. A dance was arranged. They danced with the skeleton. Every one took the skeleton around the floor once.
Yerp, the *Skeletuse* is liable to be one of our most popular dances.
Aren't robbers the most perspicuous persons? Cecil Ritter was reviewing for a history quiz yesterday. He left his raincoat in the coatroom at Spooner's. Now Ritter didn't bug more than ten minutes when but he came back his coat was gone. Swiped. Stolen. Cecil is of the opinion that, he's not very clever. He hasn't a very long reach, he can lick the bird that took his coat and give him six and one-half cents change. He opines this, you notice.
Now this is the last little bit we are going to add to it in this kobo. So we are saving it in this book.
We are sorry—exceedingly so—that all those of whom we have talked about didn't quite get the drift of the gag; sometimes we didn't ourselves. But other folks think they were good. So we have to run them.
Then we are sorry—exceedingly so—that we haven't found some things that should have been written about. Our eye has not been sharp enough to catch all the doings on the Hill. Your roomie may say something cute. How can you tell us? Tell us. How can we be expected to write something nice about roomie?
Again we are sorry—exceedingly so—that so many of our nice boys had to leave for Fort Riley and the farm without finishing the school year. They did so, however, with our friends and we are for them whether they are or the farmers in the barracks or digging ditches in France.
And we are sorry—exceedingly so—that we didn't beat Missouri in football and baseball and basketball and track.
But—
We are glad—very much so—that Woodie Wilson did what he did in the way he did even if it did take some of our kids.
Then we are glad—much so much—that the Aggies won the basketball championship instead of some out of home games. The Kansas money in Kansas," you know.
Again we are glad—very much so—that the Sour Owl changed its tacies and put out something worth writing. The cook worker was the good book that it was.
And we are glad—very much so—that most of us will be back next year even if the draft bill does get a few of our men.
But that is enough. Get to study in the will you flunk in that final tomorrow.
University Is Cleared
The University has been cleared of the charges that a member of the University faculty made an antidraft speech in Topeka Sunday afternoon. That a member of the faculty was connected with the meeting has been denied by Chancellor Strong. The speaker in question was George W. Kleihge, a graduate student in the University.
Leaves For Fort Riley
Lieut. Merrill F. D. Faum, of Company m A left yesterday for Fort Riley, where he will assist in surveying and laying out a camp for the army of eight thousand to seventy thousand men till full war there early next fall. Lieut. Daum is a civil engineer, and was graduated from the Engineering School in 1916.
EVERYTHING READY FOR COMMENCEMENT
Recruiting for Company M stopper Saturday night.
One Day's Schedule Changed to Meet Needs of Registration Day
FORMAL LUNCHEON IS OFF
Alumni Meeting, However, Will Be Held—Senior Dance Added Event
The events called off include the formal senior and alumni campus luncheons Tuesday at noon, the departmental club reunions and the engineering alumni meeting in the afternoon, and the Cancellor's Reception and Senior-Alumni Ball in the evening.
The only changes in plans for the forty-fifth annual commencement of the University of Kansas will relate to Tuesday, June 5. The program of that day will be crowded in the forenoon to leave the afternoon open for the Registration Day festivities down town.
"The formal campus luncheon Tuesday at noon will have to be abandoned this year on account of the Registration Day program down town in the afternoon," said Prof. M. W. King last evening. "Of course, that being our alumni to theumn and seniors from having any campus luncheons of their own."
The annual meeting of the Alumn.
Association, scheduled for Tuesday
afternoon, will be held in SnowHall
fortnight-fifteen o'clock Tuesday
forenoon.
One event has been added—the Senior Farewell Party at Robinson Gymnasium Saturday evening, for seniors, alumni, and their friends. The party will include a reception and dance, will be complimentary.
The attendance is not expected to be as heavy as in former years. Chairman J. J. Wheeler estimates that 150 alumni will come this year, whereas in former years they numbered close to 500.
Guest tickets, for Commencement Dinner may be obtained for one dollar at the Registrar's office at 4 p.m. on Friday, June 6, or at the Gymnasium on Monday through Saturday exercises. Probably 250 guest tickets will be available this year.
SUNDAY, JUNE 3
Senior Farewell Party, Robinson Gymnasium. 8 p.m.
Baccalaureate address by the Rev, Frank G. Smith, pastor of the First Congregational Church, Kansas City, Mo.: "The Fundamental Factor in a Successful Life." Robinson Gymnasium. 8 p. m.
MONDAY. JUNE 4
Annual banquet of School of Pharmacy. Elkridge House, 7:30 p.m.
Baseball game, Alumni vs. University Seniors, McCook Field.
House, 7:30 p. **m.**
Reception at home of Dean Sayre,
8:30 n. m.
Concert by School of Fine Arts,
Fraser Hall, 8:15 p. m.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5
Senior Class Breakfast, campus near Fraser Hall, 8 a. m.
Class Day exercises, campus near Fraser Hall 9. a.m.
Inspection of buildings and displays of University work.
Presentation of Robinson Memorial Tablet, Fraser Chapel, 9 a. m.
Alumni address, by邮:
J. M. Chalmers, LR 1942-43, Attichon, Kas.
Fraser, Chapman 10 dh.
Annual meeting of Alumni Association, Snow Hall, 11:15 a. m.
Band concert, University campus,
7:45 p. m.
Japanese lantern illumination.
Commencement exercises, Robinson Gymnasium, 10 a. m.
Music by University Band.
Address by William Jennings Bryan, "Fundamentals."
Conferring of degrees.
University Dinner, Robinson Gymnastics 1 p. m. (Admision by ticket)
Rigby Elected Manager
Fred Rigby, special in the College, from Topeka, Kansas, has been appointed business manager of next year's Daily Kansan, to take the place of Vernon Moore who graduates this year. Rigby was circulation manager of the Kansan the first semester of the present year and has been assistant business manager during the past semester.
Registrar Foster wants names of all new organizations for annual scholarship report.
This issue of the Daily Kansan will be the last this semester. The Summer Session Kansan will open on June 1st for first time Thursday, June 7.
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