UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 145
VOLUME XJV.
SENATE DID NOT VOTE ON ATHLETIC QUESTION
Action Was Deferred Until After Conference Meeting May 25
MURRAY REPRESENTS K. U.
Representative Is Undecided As to What Stand He Will Take at Valley Meeting
The question as to whether Kannas will abolish her intercollegiate athletics next fall was brought up in the meeting of the Senate yesterday afternoon, but action was deferred until after the meeting of the Missouri athletic representatives from the seven valley schools May 25.
Each Missouri Valley Conference school is allowed one representative at the meeting and the representatives will discuss the advisability of conference attendance next fall. Prof. E, W. Murray will represent Kansas at the conference.
GAVE NO INSTRUCTIONS.
The Senate did not give professor Murray a chance to how he should vote at the conference and it will be left to him to decide the action which Kansas will take. He said last night he did not know just what his stand would be and that he would have to wait until after he had heard representatives before he made his final decision.
NOT A QUORUM PRESENT
It was evident that the action which West Point will take in regards to athletics and the developments of the war will determine to a great extent whether or not Kansas will retain intercollegiate athletics next fall.
The nearest the Senate came to expressing its view was when twenty-one members, in favor of retaining athletics, voted to adjourn before a vote of the Senate was taken as to its view, but the motion to adjourn was lost by two votes. It was then pointed out that a quorum was not present so that a vote was useless and the meeting adjourned.
Even if the Missouri Valley Conference schools should abolish the inter-collegiate athletics that would not mean that athletics would be discontinued altogether at the University of Missouri. Of course, the other hand it is very probable that intercollegiate athletics will continue as before.
BACK TO FARM AND FIRESIDE
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground Doesn't Appeal to Some of the Boys from the Country
Students are continuing to with draw from the University for enlistment in the army or for other service to the country despite the recent discouragement of such action. In a few more days the list is expected to increase rapidly in view of the action of Congress in regard to conscription. It is only recently that the seriousness of the war situation has begun to be realized especially by the care-free students and it is not likely that many will wait for conscription now that it has become a reality.
Fourteen have withdrawn from the School of Pharmacy.
One hundred have withdrawn from the College for actual enlistment and 114 for agricultural or other service. Several others have withdrawn today and it is likely that the number will be up to 250 by tomorrow. The School of Arts expects many more withdrawals but expects about more within a few days.
Up till noon yesterday, eighty had withdrawn from the Engineering school. Of this number fourteen have gone to farm.
A great many courses have been abandoned in this school by the students in order that they may take some of the military training courses.
John M. Shea, absolutely noctal as regards University politics did indulge for a few minutes this morning. This time he was adverse towards both parties distributing "Vote-for-change" leaflets in the dormitory and stopped not the fact that five or ten men stood on the edge of the campus where the Post boy ought to stand and peddled bills. But the bills clutter the campus beautiful and that is the reason John M. Shea was agitated when he learned about filing and the bills kept on cursions. "Have to elect our candidate," says they Guess they did.
Sachem initiation tonight nine o'clock, Kappa Sigma house. All pledges and members to be present.
The Weather
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 3, 1917.
Unsettled tonight with rain in east portion. Friday probably fair and continued cool.
ENGEL EXPLAINS METHOD TO LANGUAGE TRACTORS
ENGEL EXPLAINS METHOD TO LANGUAGE TEACHERS
The laboratory method of teaching modern languages, as developed and used by E. G. Engle, professor of German, was one of the interesting features of the meeting of the Association of Modern Language Teachers, held in Indianapolis, Ind., last week. Engle gave a lecture on French to teachers present, and it was discussed with great interest.
Professor Engle was the only representative from the University. He was elected one of the seven members of the executive council which has charge of the activities and policies of the Association.
KANSAS MEN ASSIST IN FORMING COMPANY
Forty Enlist in Recently Organized Unit of Kansas Engineers in Toneka
Kansas men are taking great interest in the formation of Company Kansas Engineers. The company trains engineers to Captain Hoop, of the United States Army, stationed at Leavenworth. He was well pleased with the personnel of the company and recommended that proceed to perfect their organization.
A battalion of engineers consists of one pioneer company, one reconnaissance company, and one pontoon company. Company "A" will become a pioneer company. A regiment of engineers consists of three battalions, the premier ones are the three regiments of engineers in the United States army.
The work of Company "A" will consist of mapping a country before a march, building and repairing bridges, selecting suitable camping sites, repairing and putting into operation the telephone, electric, and water plants of cities which have been occupied by railroad workers. The railroads, keeping all lines of communication open, and other duties as mussing up a road on a retreat.
About forty University men already have enlisted. The commissioned officers, all k. U. men with the exception of the captain, are: H. W. Crawford, senior first lieutenant; Luther Senior first lieutenant; Darl (Tony) James, second lieutenant; Roy E. Finney, first sergeant; John McIntyre, sergeant.
The company has been organized to a peace strength of 109 men. There are several men on the waiting list, but all recruiting has been stopped until the call for active service comes. Then the company will be recruited to a war strength of 168 men. Requiring a strong physical strength equipment. Part of the equipment necessary for this company is three photographer outfits.
The company was organized largely through the work of Capt. G. L. McLane and Lieut. Hugh W. Crawford. These men, with the assistance of their friends, organized the company in six days.
Preliminaries Have Cut Size of Squad Competing and Event Promises Much Excitement
WOMEN WILL SWIM TONIGHT
Annette Kellerman of course, is an expert in the art of swimming but then too, she was aided by all sorts of wonderful scenic displays. The Women's Gymnasium at 7:30 tonight isn't trying to rival "A Daughter of the Gods" but nevertheless it promises to be an exciting and interesting affair to University women. The Women's Gymnasium, twenty-five cents will admit the spectators.
At the preliminaries Monday, Helen Brown won for the freshmen in the 50-ft. side stroke, Eleanor Atkinson for the sophomores and Katherine Reding for the juniors. On the 50-ft. breast stroke, Dorothy Dawson freshman and Marina Deibel, junior girls represent the freshmen and Maria Deibel the juniors on the 50-ft. back stroke.
Helen Brown won for the freshmen and Margaret Hodder for the juniors on the 100-ft side. Maria Deibel won for the 100-ft breast stroke while Helen Brown and Ruth Endicott, juniors, and Marie Buchanan represent juniors on the plunge for distance. All other entries must be in before 4:30.
Fords—the common type of car running on the Hill—have been called small and puny. But when bugs are chased by them and run down we may call a halt. All we started to say was that Prof. P. W. Classen of the entomology department at the university, the government to gather and make a study of the bugs that destroy our crops. He is to work this summer. He will use a Ford in touring the country. That's all.
TRAINING CAMP CALLS FOR FULL DAY'S WORK
Colonel Burkhardt Accepts 8 Lawrence Men, Many Are University Students
Men who are expecting the Officers' Reserve Training camp to be all fun and no work are doomed for disappointment, says students who have seen military service. Reveille will sound at 5:30 o'clock; setting-up exercises will be given until breakfast at 6:45 or dull evening formations will begin at 7:00. The training will be given to study and rest in the afternoon. Whether or not they will have Sunday for recreation will depend on progress made.
Applicants need not worry because of the lack of facilities to handle them. The rookies will be put on double rations well prepared. No man need supply himself with a soldier's outfit before he goes to camp. Colonel Stuart will supply the camp, stated that all supplies were on the way or in cann.
Col. Samuel Burkhardt has accepted 82 men from Lawrence. This exceeds the quota allowed to Lawrence, but such can be expected of a university town. The War Department made a tentative statement to the effect that one man be allowed to go to camp for every 1,000 population.
The following additional men have been accepted by Colonel Burkardh: P. F. Walker, H. H. Harman, Howard White, Rodney M. Armstrong, Bruce H. Baker, Watkins A. Bryles, James B. Wood, B. A. Mitchell, Joe E. Gaitskill, John A. Hettinger, Chauney D. Hunter, Milton W. Nigge, Harry B. Wood, Paul U. Wren, Paul H. Friend, Edwin V. Burkholder, James F. Lawrence, Maurice T. Benedict, Arnold A. Bell, Ivan A. Allen, Hugt T. McGimble, John H. Wenzel, Glencairn, Bryon F. McGinness, and Albert W. Robinson.
The War Department has assigned the Topeka end of the training camp to the Lawrence office and this necessitates running a day and night shift. No definite time has been set by the War Department for the closing of these offices, but it is expected any personnel not in attendance ready filed from the four states in this district exceeds the quota allowed for the camp.
UNIVERSITY AWAITS GERARD
Tickets for Admission to Patriotic Convocation Sunday May be Obtained at Registrar's Office
Admission for the big patriotic convocation for Ambassador Gerard Sunday afternoon in Robinson gymnasium will be by ticket. Mr. Gerard comes here at the invitation of the University, and as there is no auditorium large enough to accommodate all that wish to hear him, the University audition for that students should have the first opportunity to secure seats.
Tickets may be secured at the Registrar's office in Fraser Hall. Students are allowed only one ticket each, but married members of the faculty may have two. Until fifteen minutes before the meeting begins no one will be admitted without a ticket, after a registration form is filled out by the public. The time for the convocation will not be definitely set until tomorrow.
Robinson gymnasium will be decorated with a mass of flags and bunting. The committee for decorations are especially eager to secure flags of the state and those having such flags are requested to leave them at Chancellor Strong's office.
"Our intention is to make this occasion a great patriotic meeting," said Vice-chancellor Burdick this morning. "No one who follows the history-making events of the day can afford to miss hearing Mr. Gerard."
Dean Butler has charge of the musical program which will not be announced until tomorrow. Phas for a military reception for Ambassador Gerard will be discussed at a committee meeting this afternoon.
THEY STILL LIKE GERMAN
The German language probably will be just as popular next year as it has been in the past. At least, that is the conclusion reached by E. F. Engle, a former professor of reading reports from teachers of German in the high schools of the state.
Popularity of German in High Schools is not on Wane Says
Professor Engle wrote to all graduates of the University now teaching German in high schools, asking them of the sentiment of students toward the enemy's language. All answers he has received report that there has been no change in the attitude of the students, and that the freshmen of next year will take their share of the German language courses.
FINE ARTS WILL GIVE FIRST RECITAL FRIDAY
The School of Fine Arts will present its graduating students in eight individual recitals and one commencement recital. These recitals is Friday evening, May 4, in Fraser Hall, when Miss Lois Libbey, pianist, assisted by Miss Ednah Hopkins, violinist, will appear. These recitals are free to the mule.
Lois Libbey Assisted by Ednal Hopkins Appears in Opening Concert
Miss Libbye is a pupil of Prof. Carl A. Preyer and is one of the most talented students in the graduating class.
Miss Hopkins, who will assist her,
is a junior in the School of Fine Arts
and a pupil of Prof. Wort S. Morse.
Miss Hopkins is well known for her
many appearances in concert here in
Lawrence.
Ballade ... Grieg
The program:
Legende ... Wieniawski
Ednah Hopkins
scherzo, C sharp minor, Chopin
Claire de Lune Dowell
Mackenzie
Lois Libbev
Andantino  Lemares
Mazurka  Wieniawskwi
Ednah Honkins
Spanish Rhapsody and Liszt-Busonii
Lois, Ubben
Second piano, Prof. Carl A. Preezer.
The following are the dates for the
performance.
May 14, general public rectory
May 14, Temple Graver, piani
May 8, general public recital.
May 14, Temple Gruver, pianist.
May 16, Uma Allen, pianist.
May 17, Grace Bell, pianist, and Edna Davis, contralto.
May 22, Helen Bocker, pianist, and Katharine Barer, violinist.
May 23, at 4:20 p. m., a recital of original compositions written by students in the School of Fine Arts. This recital is among the most interesting recitals of the series.
May 23, at 8:15 p. m., a concert by the University Orchestra, under the
May 24, graduating recital by Mary Preyer, pianist.
May 26, Viola Jones, pianist.
June 4. a commencement concert by the most talented of the music students.
To this last concert, admission will be by invitation, because of the small seating capacity of Fraser Hall. To other concerts, admission will be free.
GRADUATION TO BE
"Fundamentals" Is Subject of Will iam Jennings Bryan's Commencement Address, June 6
SIMPLE
"Commencement exercises this yea will be simple, as usual," Prof. J. J Wheeler said this morning. The bac calureate sermon will be delivere Sunday, June 3, by the Rev. Frank G Smith, of the First Congregational Church of Kansas City. His subject will be "The Fundamental Factor in a Successful Life." Monday mornin' he will be taken up by business meetings of the faculty. In the afternoon, the dramatic art class will present three plays, and the School of Art Arts will give a recital Monday night.
Alumni exercises will be held Tuesdaay, Class Day. The Chancellor's Reception will be given Tuesday night. Wednesday is Commencement Day with the regular commencement exercises and the commencement address by William Jennings Bryan or "Fundamentals."
Representatives of all Y. M. C. A.'s in Kansas will meet for a war council tomorrow at two o'clock at the New England building in Topeka. The men who will attend from Lawrence are: Duck Wedell local secretary, Chancellor Frank Strong and W. R. Stubbs.
The faculty has decided not to wear caps and gowns this year.
Y. M. C. A. REPRESENTATIVES MEET FOR WAR CONFERENCE
Immediately after the work of the training camps is over the Y. M. C. A. men will be prepared to take their part in the war.
The whole general religious and social affairs of the soldiers will be under the auspices of the association. About 1,000 men will be put into service, in every brigade that is 5,000 men there will be five secretaries. Over $3,000,000 will be raised for the erection of buildings and other Y. M. C. A. work in this country, $2,000,000 for Europe.
Charles Griesa, a middle law, who withdrew from school at the end of last year to join the American Ambulance Field Service in France, returned to Lawrence yesterday, and now he is telling the fellows down at the Phi Psal house "how they do it in the
STATE "PEN" MAKES BRICKS
FOR NEW "AD" BUILDING
Bricks, to the number of seventy thousand, have arrived this week from the state penitentiary for use in the new Administration Building on which actual construction work will begin about July first.
Money for the building will be available by this time, and the con-
ferencing will be completed. Only the west wing will be built now; it should be finished in a year.
"We are getting seventy thousand bricks a week," said John M. Shea the morning, "and the material will be ready when we get the money in July."
Opportunity and Women
Plain Tales from the Hill
Opportunity knocks once, you know. The once is coming. The Women's Athletic Association, always abbreviated W. A. A. is the opportunity. Saturday night, May 12, is the once. Refreshments and a fourpiece orchestra will help. Yes, yes, brothers, the ladies of the University have the privilege of selecting their own man to take him to a dance in the Gym. Facts laid right down say: Every woman on the Hill is invited to attend and bring her man. She will be supposed to pay the bills. But the waa society has a strict law saying: There shall be no flowers.
The Wattles boys—Willard and Warren, one an instructor, the other a junior have had lots of publicity here of late. First, Warren had his pockets picked by naughty Kansas City boys; then he carries a basket-full of rocks out in the country with the firm belief that the rocks are sandwiches et al. Then comes Willard with his weekly poem in the K. Museum, and then Kay You in the Kansan. "Today we record that big brother received a May basket Tuesday evening. It had a tender message inside, thus: "We hardly dared to do it but we did." Looked like girlish writing.
Him had a date with her. 'His watch showed just eleven o'clock m. Just as it showed the hour the dinner gong rang out, pealing forth its usual warning heard only on date nights. But this wasn't the first time him had been with her at that hour. So in all seriousness him asked her, "Do you always have lunch at this time of night?"
E. D. Osborn, of the Law Faculty, lives at the University Club, the little house at the bottom of the Hill where men assert their rights. Down there they call him "Jedge." Be it known that Jedge lodges the sight of one dollar bills, even though he be on a plane. I quote the phrase "quote the Jedge: 'Dollar bills are in the way. I always get 'em mixed up with fives.'"
Billy Pumry is a girl. She is also a Sigma Kappa. Furthermore she is often moved to speak. And when she do she do. This time her speaking comes from the depths of that little heart of hers. "This war is sure awful! It has taken my ten best men already." Next.
Freshmen do have hard times telling what they want. Take fr' instance one of them: He tipped loudly into Spooner Library and whispered a request for "One of the books." Then they did that about that request about Kipling and his short stories, Lastly the fresh admitted that he wanted Kipling's "Light That Failed." No wonder the clock stops.
SOLDIERS STUDY BY MAIL
Many Enlistments Will Increase Enrollment in Extension Division Says Ipham
"An increase in the enrollment of the correspondence study department is expected because of the many students leaving school who will want to go on with a part of their University work," Harold C. Ingham, secretary of the department, said this morning.
The demand for correspondence instruction greatly exceeds the facilities now available for supplying it. Students who withdraw will receive the first consideration, and it is hoped all can be taken care of.
"The department has made no plans for increasing its work," said Mr. Ingham, "because most of it is done by residence faculty and conditions now seem to mean a decrease in their numbers. New courses may be offered to students who cannot be in the University next year demand them."
HOTTEST ELECTION IN YEARS IS ON TODAY
Correspondence courses are now offered from the College, the School of Education, and the School of Engineering. Certain subjects offered in the four-year course in pharmacy may be taken for credit. No work is given in the School of Law. Other professional courses cannot be given because either library or laboratory facilities are lacking.
Reminds Upperclassmen of Junior Election a Year Ago This Fall
AIR IS FILLED WITH MUD
"Niggers In The Woodpile" Is a Favorite Topic for Campaign Literature
The hottest contest in years. That's the verdict of those who watched the excitement that prevailed at the polls on Tuesday. Election held in the campus today.
From early morning when supporters of both tickets were plastering the walks with posters, which were only to be washed away by the rain hat fell before they were dry, until the time that handbills were being distributed at every entrance to the campus students began to admit that he spring election was an equal for all. But then the hat of year ago last fall when the junior race had every student on the fill guessing.
MANY VOTED EARLY
The early vote was especially heavy in the College where before ten o'clock this morning over 100 votes had been cast. The engineers, too, were much work up over the race. Following their victory, they had not voted were hurried to the polls while electioneers showed literature on them.
In the School of Law the race didn't reach such a high pitch. Both of the candidates for the presidency of the Council, Haverkort and Glasso, are law students, and knowing both of the men the disciples of Uncle Jimmy were only to be talked into voting for the candidates for the minor jobs.
MUD AND MUD
This year's election was comparatively well marked with mud-throwing. Perhaps the "hottest" poster of the campaign came out this morning as an attempt to counter-attack on a pamphlet that appeared yesterday. Both were comparatively harmless, uncovering alleged "facts" concerning both parties. The council election last year and the class elections this fall were both much quicker than this year and but few candidates appeared for the offices.
GEN. JOFFRE NOT COMING
French War Commission Unable To Visit Lawrence—Gerard Accepts Invitation
The University received a telegram this morning from Washington from Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, saying that the French War Commission, now in this country, will be unable to visit Lawrence as its time is completely taken up with matters in Washington.
An invitation was sent to the Commission to come to Lawrence by a committee of Lawrence citizens and a University committee. This has nothing to do with the Gerard party coming. Mr. Gerard has accepted the invitation extended him to visit Lawrence and will speak here.
Celebrates 39th Year as Czar Over K. U. Library
Carrie M. Watson, fondly remembered by thousands of K. U. students as "Aunt Carrie," has celebrated her thirty-ninth anniversary as the University librarian. There are probably very few librarians who have had the chance to watch the development of a university as Miss Watson has. In 1878 she was assistant when the library was first installed at Fraser in the room now occupied by Mrs. Brown, adviser of women.
At that time the library contained 2,000 volumes, to which only juniors and seniors had access. During the next seven years the library increased to 9,000 volumes and had to be moved to the rooms which are now the register's office. At the time Miss Mushek son said that the library was built in 1894 Spooner library was built and the library which consisted of 15,000 books was moved into the new building.
"I remember," said Miss Watson this morning, "when the nucleus of the present library consisted of a few dusty books which were stowed away in the small dark room in North College which was rarely entered. One member of the alumni remembers looking in one of the books for a refill, and another in the library embodies the growth of the University. Yes, there is a great comparison between North College and a few hundred books of forty years ago and the present University and its large library of 115,000 books."