UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV
NUMBER 142.
MAY BOOST WORK OF TEACHING REQUIREMENT
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 27, 1917.
May Not Require More Work But Will Restrict Subjects for Prospective Teacher
COLLEGE RAISES PROTEST
School of Education Attempted to Raise Requirements Last Summer—Withdrew Plans
Students in the College who wish to graduate with the state teacher's certificate may be burdened with more specific work if the new requirement are trying to establish are made a part of the work for the degree. Other colleges in the state still have the old requirements which the State Board of Education needs necessary for obtaining state permission to operate.
COMMITTEE ON NEW PLAN
DIFFERENT CLASS OF WORK
Last summer the School of Education decided to use new requirements and were about to put them in the cathedral. They went and it protested at once. New rules were not put in force for this year as a result of this action. The new ruling would effect more than one-third of the students enrolled in the Colleges.
DIFFERENT CLASS OF WORK
Dean F. J. Kelly, of the School of Education, will be making the requirements would not be any harder nor that there would be any more hours of work required for the certificate.
In protesting against specific requirements for the teachers' certificate, the faculty of the College wishes to be fair to the School of Education, and at the same time give the students of K. U. the same rights as those of Baker or any other college in the state. As a result of the difference of opinion, a conference was held recently and a commission from each school received work out of their requirement plan. However, the School of Education has authority to change the requirements whenever it sees fit.
"The School of Education will merely say that students working for a teacher's certificate must take more specific subjects instead of leaving it open to students who wish to be teachers to take any work they desire," added Dean Kelly. "We want to turn out better teachers than any college because we have better facilities to do this. State colleges have more required work for the regular A. B. degree, and the school of Aquaculture here requires. In limiting the elective here therefore we are not requiring any more work than colleges in Kansas do in their requirements for an A. B. degree."
MAIL STUDENTS INCREASE
Enrollment in Correspondence Wort of University Steadily Grows in Suite of War Situation
Indications are that the war situation will not cut down the enrollment in the correspondence work of the University. There has been a steady increase in the number desiring work throughout the year. The increase for April has been 28 per cent higher than any preceding April.
Most applications come from within the state, but of recent date students enrolled have been from as far east as Massachusetts, and west to the Philippine Islands. The number of students who have withdrawn from the University for the purpose of their graduation correspondence work, depends greatly upon the location of the Kansas troops. If permanency of location permits, many have expressed their intention to enroll in some work
The fact that the number of applications from other states is so large is attributed to the low rates of the correspondent department and the adjacent.
The subjects of the lectures on engineering problems were suggested by Dean Walker. They contain discussions on: city planning, dams, electric railways, highways, harbors, and water supply.
ALUMNI ASS'N. PUBLIESH
LECTURES BY DR. WADDELI
The lectures on Engineering Economics, by Dr. J. A. Lwaddell of Kansas City, which were given before the students of the Schol of Engineering, have been published by the Engineering Alumni Association and are being distributed from Dean Walker's office.
At the present time the students
at Kwabena have 75 percent of
the total enrollment.
For the past eightteen months, Doctor Waddell has been acting as chairman of the committee on, "The study of economics in technical schools."
MAY 2 TO BE CELEBRATED
AS DADDY SAYBE PARENT
LAY 2 TO BE CELEBRATED
    S A D D A D Y S A Y R E D DAY
Wednesday, May 2, is "Daddy Sayre Day," the day the pharmics celebrate. Students and faculty of the School of Pharmacy will have an afternoon's holiday and hold an engagement in honor of Dean Lucius E. Sayre.
The afternoon will be spent in baseball. At night there will be a banquet, with Dean Sayre as guest of honor.
The annual pharmics day has been held for several years, but it was only last year that it was named in honor of the dean.
S CLEARING HOUSE FOR MUNICIPAL IDEAS
Reference Bureau Gives and Collects Information for the Cities of Kansas
A clearing house for information and ideas concerning municipal problems—that is the Municipal Reference Department of the University Extension Division. It gives information and suggestions to cities desiring help in solving their problems of public utilities, sanitation, ordinances, etc. In one month the department was of service to sixty-two Kansas towns and cities in helping them in the administration of their government.
The faculties of the College, the School of Engineering, and the School of Law co-operate to enable the department to work with great effeci-
tiveness. The Department is state. The department brings together the experience of cities of Kansas, analyzes it, and places the results at the service of the municipi-
nal government, the head of the department is Homer T. Dodge, who votes his entire time to the work.
Some of the specific work of the department has been the sending out of information regarding the city manager plan and its actual working out in the Ohio and Illinois cities where is has been tried.
Plans for establishing water plants, ice plants, and other public services have been furnished to cities upon request. Model ordinances covering different phases of city government include planning many cities. Information and suggestions in parking and streets were given to several cities by W. C. McNown, professor of civil engineering, at the request of the Bureau.
POLITICAL POT BUBBLES
Petitions of Candidates for Office Elected in Spring Election May 3
Euthesisum has grown strong on the Hill over the spring election. Two complete tickets for the officers of the Men's Student Council are actively gathering their support together. The most high-profile contest office members of both the council, for which Walter Havelork and Jap Glasco are running.
"I am completely swamped with petitions and cannot get a complete list of the candidates before Monday," said Paul Grever, president of the party. "We're in two complete tickets for almost all offices to be filled are now in the field."
Rallies with stump speeches are being held by the various candidates each night now. Political cards are handed out quietly between classes. Cheerful, confidential faces are beaming all over the campus renewing old acquaintances and making new ones in this fateful last week.
CHEMISTRY BUILDING SAFE
"The Chemistry Building is in no immediate danger," said Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, head of the department of chemistry, this morning. "Since there is little cause of alarm we do not feel threatened by" place guards around the building."
Professor Bailey Feels Little Apprehension Over the Safety of University Department Plant
The above statement was given out by Professor Bailey following an interview in regard to a plot to destroy chemistry plants in this country. Dr. Bailey, who has been blow up the largest chemistry building in the world, which is part of the college plant at the University of Illinois, Guards have been placed around the building at Urbana and there is a possibility that other chemistry buildings should be built. The watchers closely by special watchmen or secret service men.
JOHN S. WORLEY GIVES TALKS ON ENGINEERING
Professors in the department of chemistry here feel little apprehension because of the isolation of the University.
K. U. Man, Now of Interstate Commerce Commission Will Discuss Transportation
Ellis Starrett, c18, returned to his father's farm at Norton, Kansas, today, where he intends to help with the spring planting.
John S. Worley, e'04, of the Valuation Board of the United States,
Interstate Commerce Commission,
will give a series of lectures to University students next week, beginning Monday morning. Mr. Worley will talk at nine-thirty o'clock in Marvin Hill's classroom week with the exception of Tuesday.
Mr. Worley has recently been appointed to a place on an Interstate Commerce Commission Board, being the most prominent engineer in this country, and is at the head of one of the most important committees of the Commission. This committee will apprise the president of the United States
John Worley comes to the University full of interesting material on which he is probably the best author- writer in the field. His talks for next week will be:
Wednesday, "Relation of the States o the Transportation, really Roads"
Monday, "The Theory of Transportation."
Thursday, "Regulation of the Market of Transportation by the State."
Friday, "Present Status of Regulation in the United States."
According to Dean Walker, Mr. Worley is one of the most prominent of the Kansas Engineering Graduates. Since leaving the University in 1904 he has been associated with the Riggs-Sherman Company of Toledo. His work with this company was largely in the designing of older railroad equipment and railroad construction. Later he became the senior member of the firm Worley and Black, consulting engineers of Kansas City.
The mothers of K. U. are coming.
Maybe the dads will come along with them. They're invited, although May 1 is being called Mothers' Day.
MOTHERS WILL VISIT K. U.
ON THEIR OWN DAY, MAY I
FT. RILEY OFFICERS' TRAINING BEGINS MAY 8
Fraternities and sororites are planning big for the visit of Mother. Mothers' Day will be observed by them. Most houses are giving special lunches and dinners for the mothers Tuesday, May Day.
Prof. Mark Skidmore will teach Spanish at the 1917 University of Colorado Summer School, Boulder, Colo. He leaves June 4.
Applicants for Enlistment Camp Should Act at Once Examinations Soon
University of Kansas student applications for admission to the officers training camp which starts May 8 now total eighty-five. As the applications must go to Chicago to be approved, only those men who send in their applications with the next three or four days will be able to go.
All of the expenses of the men will be met by the government, and a bill is now before congress advocating payment of a salary to all men who give their time for three months' training to become officers. The amount of salary advocated is about a hundred dollars per month.
All men desirous of attending the Officers' Training Camp to be held at Fort Riley, May 8 should see to their applications immediately. These are to be filled out and sent to the Commanding General at Chicago. Upon the return of the application, Colonel Burkhardt will examine the applicant covering the following points: physical character, personality, education, and ability of applicant to command the respect of officers and enlisted men.
Colonel Burkhard received orders this morning, authorizing him to examine applicants properly referred to any officers expressed the hope that citizens will wire their congressman to support an appropriation to give pay to men training to serve their country. They said that many men of all ranks would join this step on account of financial reasons if no arrangement is made to secure pay for them. The government will provide for actual expenses only, because the appropriation is barely adequate for this purpose.
Four University men were among the first sixty-one applicants from the Kansas City district for places in the reserve officers' training camp at Fort Riley to qualify for entrance to the camp. Acceptance of their applications was received in Kansas City yesterday from Chicago. Those who have qualified are J. H. Dykes, G. R. Smith, M. W. Gates and F. C. Butcher.
Those who have already put in applications need not apply again. Their cases will be placed before the examinee board in a short time.
Both University Bands will meet in South Park tomorrow morning at nine-thirty o'clock to march to the meeting at the Bowersock. The first band will practice in Fraser chapel at one-thirty o'clock.
"Elements" of College Life
STUDENTS TO GIVE GERMAN
PLAY SATURDAY, NIGHT
WATER
"Der Geheime Sekretär" will be given by the German Verein in Green Hall tomorrow evening at eight-thirty o'clock. This is the annual spring play given by students of German. The admission will be free.
The cast for the play is being coached by Miss Hochoeferer. "Dder Geheime Sekretär" or "The Secret Secretary is an artist continuing with sweet fawners, which produce some interesting letters in the course of the play.
DEAN WALKER HEADS BAKER GUARD COMPANY
Has Assurance of Chancellor That He Can Withdraw
on Leave
Dean P. F. Walker of the School of Engineering has accepted the invitation to become captain of the new National Guard company which is being formed at Baker University in Baldwin, instead of entering the officers' reserve corps as he originally intended.
Arrangements have not been completed for forming the company, however, and it may not be ready to go when the general call comes. If it is mustered in, it will be a part of the Third Regiment.
Mr. Walker will not be compelled to resign as Dean of the School of Engineering in order to head this company since Chancellor Strong has assured him that leave of absence will be granted.
Dean Walker was unable to state
how much charge he received,
beating his charge of his new post.
Plain Tales from the Hill
George W. Marble of the Fort Scott Tribune-Monitor has this to say about women journalists—"The worst thing about newspaper women is that the very best ones always get married."
Lindsay Pegues is Henry's dad. He is a business man in Hutchinson. But the queer thing about it is that Mr. Pegues was once a nator jes' like Henry. Moreover, just thirty years ago, an opera was presented in the old Bowersock theatre—on the same site as the house. And the handling of that piece by L. S. Pegues So the Pegues family seems to have, as its favorite pastime, the furnishing of leading men for Lawrence productions.
Fame goeth afar and sitteth in strange places. Ye, even unto the steam-heated hamlet of Kansas City. For Alton Gumbiner hath received from many maidens in that distant place. One epistle read:
"It isn't in a spirit of romance that I am writing to you—but simply to describe the experience."
The war may have cut down classes, but here is the worst falling-off in attendance on record. It may not be generally known, but there is a professor of philosophy and logic on the Hill called Arthur Mitchell.
Most of his students decided it would be better to dodge bullets and cut capers with cutlasses than to stay through the year. Consequently, there are two classes under Professor Mitchell with a combined enrollment of two. Instead of having one man come at 9:30 and another at 1:30, a convenient time has been agreed upon to meet in one "class."
"Put it right in there, old boy; go your best; you'll never beat that pitch." No your guess is wrong; this is not a baseball game, but one of the most famous coaches in theators' Amalgamated Association of Master Horse Shoe Pitchers. The field of action is located directly back of the Chemistry building. Reprepeats the goal of the Administration Buildings and the Gymnasium belong to the Association.
Once again has the power of the press been proved. Since Scoop Hill began writing editorials against cutting across the campus, he hasn't left the sidewalks once. No, not a single time!
NO FRILLS OR THRILLS ON FAMOUS OLD DAY
Prof. B, F. Moore gave his class in Elementary Law a mid-semester quiz this morning. Now that it's all over, the students are accusing Professor Moore of assault and battery; Professor Moore thinks the students guilty of contributory negligence; both parties to the contract believe that they have a right to damages; and it is highly probable that a decision will be rendered as soon as Judge Moore gets time to grade the quiz books.
Phi Gamma Delta will hold its annual Parental's Day on May 13. A banquet at the chapter house and an event to be the events on the day's program.
Engineers Banquet and Hear Speeches on Great War Problems
NO PARADE THIS YEAR
Holiday Today Observed Quietly —No Disturbance East of Haworth Hall
there were not as many thrills in Engineers' Day for the students east of Haworth Hall this year as formerly, but the engineers, despite the fact that rain prevented the big performance down on McCook field, found ways to celebrate. The men who helped with the rallying cry of the Engineering clan was heard on the Hill early this morning.
The festivities began with a big anquet in Robinson Gymnasium last night. It was the seventeenth annual anquet, and the engineers lived over there. Ray Nondon, who taught English in the assemage of Fraser Hall when there wasn't any floor there, showed views from his pictures of the all-star football teams, and he pointed out the celebrities from the School of Engineering.
SHOULD WEAR CAPS
Dean P. F. Walker spoke on "What To Do." He brought out the seriousness of the present war with Germany, and said this country should steel itself for a prolonged struggle. G. W. Hagenbach in speaking on Loyalty to the Nation held the point that loyalty and discipline were just as essential in a University as they were in military organization. He believes that the upper-classmen should devise some way of enforcing the freshman cap tradition. The alumni of the University, he added, pointed out that Kansas was fortunate in having an active and energetic university.
'DADDY'' REMINISCED
R. A. Rutledge, one of the old guard from Topeka, spoke on the "Qualifications of an Engineer." Above everything else, he said, an engineer must be a man of integrity. He must master his business and stand ready to make important decisions without wasteful delay. He believes that every student should have two hours for outside reading every day. T. J. Stricler, one of the engineers who worked for the "Service." "Daddy" Haworth pleased the men with some interesting reminences. Each engineering department contributed some little stunt to the evening's entertainment.
The dance in the gymnasium tonight will be the grand finale to Engineers' Day. Shoftall, Palmer, and Will will furnish the music.
PHARMACISTS MAKE PLANS
United States Government is Making Arrangements to Control Medical Supplies of Country
The United States government is making arrangements for the control of all medical and pharmaceutical supplies in this country, similar to the organized supply services of the European powers.
In each of these larger countries, with the exception of Great Britain and Russia, a corps of highly trained nurses is required. The army has the medical and pharmaceutical supply service in its hands. The head of the service in Germany holds the rank of colonel; in Japan, lieutenant-commander; in Italy and France, major-general.
The United States has men fully as capable for this kind of service as the men composing the medical corps and the nurses, and macy is not represented in the country's service in a pharmaceutical corps composed of men equal in rank with those of the medical service, is due to the fact that American physician presets heretofore excelled sufficient recognition for this merited recognition.
CONFERENCE OF COLLEGE
DEANS IS POSTPONED
The Conference of Deans of Colleges of State Universities which had been arranged to meet at the University of Kansas May 3 and 4 has been postponed on account of the unusual conditions prevailing at the present time. This conference includes members from all the central states and other states, and has met equally at the institutions represented in the Conference. It will probably meet here at some date to be agreed upon next year.
Sigma Xi elected: Paul B. Lawson,
Clifford Seibel, Raymond Beamer,
Chas. F. Sloan, e'17.