UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
ENGINEERS' DAY PLANS ARE ALL COMPLETE
The Annual Celebration Opens Thursday Night With Big Banquet
WILL GIVE NO PARADE
But They Will Have Baseball Games, Track Meet and Dance Friday
The final plans for Engineers' Day were completed at a mass meeting of all engineering students in Marvin Hall this morning. The sixth annual celebration will open Thursday night with a big banquet in Robinson gymnasium, to be followed with baseball games Friday morning, track and an engineer's dance in the evening in the gymnasium.
There will be no classes in the School of Engineering Friday, but the track events will close in time for the military training classes.
WILL NOT HAVE PARADE
WILL NOT HAVE PARADE
All the traditions of former Engineers' Day must be preserved for the Friday morning parade. There will be a day and two nights of almost ceaseless activity. The committee in charge of the work has prepared a program that met with the entire approval of the men this morning.
PLAN BIG BANQUET
There will be 150 plates set for the Engineers' annual banquet in Robinson gymnasium Thursday night. The banquet will consist of four courses and will start at 7 o'clock. Prof. H. A. Rice is to be tba master, and the speakers are: R. A. Rutledge and J. Strickler, of Topeka; Prof. F. N. Raymond, Chas. W. Hagenback, Dran M. Koehler, or what To. David. Prof. Erasmus Haworth on "How To Do It." Each engineering society will decorate its own tables and give some "stunt" for the entertainment of the crowd.
"The banquet will be complete from the grapefruit to the cigars, but the cigars will be given out at the door," the man, chairman of the banquet campaign.
The rules for the athletic events were made this morning. A total of 172 points will be given. Forty points will be allowed to baseball; twenty-five for the winners and fifteen for second place. Ten points will be allowed for the tug of war, and 122 points for the track meet. One man can throw two track and two field events. They will win in each event—five points for first place, three points for second, and one point for third place.
In addition to the regular track meet in the afternoon there will be spectacular events such as obstacle, three-legged, and cracker races. There will be plenty of "features" to keep the crowd interested all the time. There are two tickets being sold at Marvin Hall today. On is the banquet ticket for Thursday night, and the other is the dance ticket for Friday night. The baseball games and field meet are free.
BASEBALL GAMES AT 9 O'CLOCK
The baseball games will start at
McCook Field Friday morning at 9
o'clock.
NUMBER 140.
SIG ALPHS TO BUILD HOME
Quiet Neighborhood at West of Campus Chosen as Site of Residence to be Ready This Fall
The site west of the campus on Thirteenth Street has been chosen by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity as the location of their new home. The desirability of the surroundings, a suitable place for study, because of the quiet neighborhood, the beautiful view of the campus, and no hill to climb are given as the points in favor of the place chosen.
Work has already been begun on the building. Excavation will be completed this week. The home is to be large three-story coloured structure with a large door being built in such a manner that it can be thrown into one large room. A sun parlor is to extend the length of the south side of the ground floor. The parlor will be study rooms. Sleeping porches will be at the rear of the house.
Work will continue on the building through the summer. The Sig Alphs plan to be in their new home when school opens next fall.
Class in French conversation, for men enlisted in army service will meet this evening at seven-thirty in Room 310, Fraser. This is the second meeting of the class and the department asks that the men start early so as to get the full benefit of the course.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Tansan.
W. A. A. PLAN INTERCLASS
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
Under the auspices of the Women's Athletic Association a tennis tournament will be held in May. The women of all classes will take part. The class tournaments will be held on the week following May 4, and the women of all classes will meet in an interclass tournament beginning May 21.
Any women in the University may take part, and Miss Pratt urges all who can to do so. The champion of the competition points towards her "A," and the champion of the interclass tourney will receive 150 points. On recomma- bine, each of which 35 points will be given to the individual who shows exceptional ability.
MAN WHO TALKS BACK TO PAPER TRUST IS HERE
G. W. Marble, the man who made the paper trust come down on their prices of paper supplied to the small dailies and weeklies of Kansas is in Lawrence today, visiting the University and making instructive talks to the classes in the department of journalism. Mr. Marble was at one time a member of the board of regents of the university, where he a lively interest in affairs here. He is at present editor of the Daily Tribune-Monitor at Fort Scott, Kansas.
As president of the Kansas Daily League, Mr. Marble was in Washington last December in the interest of the publishers of Kansas papers. Working in co-operation with the Kansas Editorial Association, he seured a hearing before the Federa Trade Commission.
"The Trade Commission agreed to furnish to Kansas publishers a car of pdl paper at a price of $2.35 per hundred in ton lots. Of course," said Mr. Marble, "one car of paper would not be a drop in the bucket for the press here, but it was enough to force the paper to reduce its prices to us so that we did not need to take advantage of the offer of the Trade Commission."
According to the last advice that has been received, the car of paper will be available about May 1, unless the Commission, in view of the trust's price reduction, decides that it is not necessary to send it.
Mr. Marble is chairman of the Bourbon county branch of the National Defense League, and is working in the interest of increased production of food crops in that section. He is especially interested in the dairying industry which has become a rapidly growing, important industry in Fort Scott and the surrounding territory.
For the next few days Mr. Marble will remain here visiting classes in the department of journalism and looking over the activities of the University.
DR. ELDERKIN IS CRITICIZED
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 25, 1917.
Former Lawrence Pastor Gets Un-
welcome Publicity in Chicago for
Making Radical Statement
Students of the University will be sorry to learn that the Rev. Noble Strong Eldickin, of the Oak Park Congregational Church of Chicago and congregational Church of Lawrence, has received some unwelcome publicity in the past few days.
It is alleged that Doctor Elderman made the statement that all soldiers were murderers. Considerable discussion was thus caused. It is reported he will be retained in his present field despite the fact that there has been much dissatisfaction expressed against account of his statement. Elder Deming said that his statement is his belief, but it tend in any way to make deprecatory remarks about the United States Government.
Herman Olcott, football coach, is confined to his room and has been practically helpless for the last two weeks on account of a severe attack of rheumatism. Several weeks ago he was taken sick with a severe case of rheumatism, and when this sickness left him he had a bad attack of rheumatism.
COACH HERMAN OLCOTT
CONFINED TO HIS HOME
Students of the University will remember this pastor as one of the most popular ministers in University circles.
He has been forced to give up all athletic work for the past week behind his back. Mrs. Olcott said this morning that his condition was greatly improved.
Sigma Delta Chi will hold a smoker at the Phi Kappa house tomorrow evening for George W. Marble of the Fort Scott Tribune-Monitor.
(Essay by Willard Wattles in Daily Kansan College Spirit Contest
What is the Matter With K. U.?
The Kansan has given me an opportunity I have long been hoping for; in fact, I might say, an opportunity I have been preparing for since I first saw the University of Kansas in the fall of 1905. In those twelve years I think I have gathered from an intimate acquaintance with my Alma Mater, my native state of Kansas, and such eastern colleges and college men as I have been privileged to know, some suggestions that may help me to understand this interest in the future of our University. In fact, my only difficulty will be to condense my material and to refrain from tediumness.
If I may in one word express what I think is the matter with K. U., I should say only this: *Cheapness*, Perhaps one might care; *Provincialism*, Naturalistic; *Naturemdemic Snobbery*, but it is all one. And I venture to suggest that the Faculty itself is chiefly to blame. Had members of the college faculty and their relatives in the student body uncompromisingly against our varieties of backwoods sham, the students could never have caught the infction. I say that if K. U. does not today have true college spirit, which I maintain in the case, it is because he shouldered its proper responsibilities. There are far too many members of our faculty who have neither the intellectual clarity nor the moral courage to stand by their convictions at crisis. In other words, there are too few men and too many rabbits.
Now, I fully realize what may be the consequences of the article I am about to write. I know that it is the policy of some of those in the administration to hush things up, to keep them quiet and to be truthful. But I also believe that there is a possibility of being too diplomatic. I know, too, that it is easy for a younger man to criticize, and that it is easier to "teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching." I would not for a moment presume to instruct my betters, and I know that my own classmates must be the established order must have no imperfections in the joints of his own armor. I know that there are plenty of my colleagues willing and able to find my deficiencies, if they have not already done so; but I know of one fraternity man here who on the eve of his leaving school told his brethren, that he was a morning, for six uninterrupted hours, of thought of them—and today I have the floor, which is something I do not have in the Senate.
Why does the State not trust us?
I have lived and worked in all parts of Kansas as few of my faculty brethren as I am, and because my parents was born in Kansas, one of my relatives was a member of the first University faculty, and other relatives had graduated here; therefore, I think we have a few reasons why we are not trusted.
Let me say, to begin with, that human imperfections are due to misunderstandings and very seldom to wilful perversity, to confusion of the real issue and not to intentional deceit. Could we clear up misunderstandings could be no European war; could we know what conspiracy would happen if we should have the confidence of the whole state of Kansas, which I think even a deaf and blind man might in time surmise we do not now possess.
The first is the fact that in the early days of biological science, before men like John Fiskel, Henry Drummond, and Bergson, not to mention others, had shown the true relationship throughout our State the various representatives of church denominations declared that the University was heretical because in its class-rooms was taught a course in Evolution. (Gallileo had a similar experience with the Italian Inquisition.) None of the latter understood more than Mr. Bryan, who vague idea that Evolution had to do with monkeys. The whole subject was so goddess that to touch it was contamination. Only a few years ago a graduate of this University, it is true of the law school, said to me as we went into a physician's office to x-ray photograph made of a Mexican girl with damages, and pointing to an evolutionary chart hanging on the wall, "Do you still believe in that stuff?"
Now, the people of the State, like my good friend, had never investigated what Doctor Snow was really in his classroom, nor did they know if it be true at all is the surest proof existing of a spiritual and eternal world. There are, I am sorry to say, too many who have in their thinking never progressed beyond the Origin of Species was published. So we see how the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount is made livable and possible in a spiritual world because the discoveries of Darwin in
the biological world were as true as they. These things were taught by Doctor Snow, but the good people did not know it.
There can lie no doubt now in the minds of the Commonwealth that the University of Kansas is religious. I is superlatively so. To counteract prevailing opinions, even shameful with truth by men high in rank But on the whole I believe, thanks to the influence of a strong and mighty man of God who has lately left us, that the religious life of the University is now founded on a sound and most manhood and womanhood, and the school have been better prepared for an understanding of the essential message of Christ now that they are open to all the truth of God than they were when they were closed to the science and Evolution. So that the first distrust has now by the earnest but not always informed action of those guiding our religious life, been removed until in some ways there is no school in the state, even among those most professedly devout, where reliance more reverently and under standedly esteemed in its right valuation.
The second cause for distrust of the University has not yet been removed, and I must speak of that later. It is the circumstances that led up to and culminated in the John Collins affair. It was a scramble of our present college "social life," I have wondered that there has been only one such tragedy, for whatever the facts in the case, the real tragedy was not so much in the face of a father terrible as that was, but in the way he way and at all fasten itself upon a student of the University because of the nature of the life he had been permitted to live here by the members of his fraternity and by the University authorities. Those conditions still exist, and I shall refer to them later.
The third cause for our lack of college spirit at K. U. is the Faculty, "the thy shoes from off thy feet, for the thither shepherd thou standest is holy ground."
When I returned to teach in my Alma Mater after an absence of several years, I met on the street corner a man who had been my instructor in college, a man I had always revenged and respected as I do now for what he has taught me. He is the most conscientious man who ever lived in Kansas, and that is the reason why we use him of his interest and regard he holds on that street corner something that has puzzled me ever since. It was: "There must always be a bar between the faculty and the students."
I have come to think that possibly this is part of what was in his mind that the attempt to secure among the students a certain sort of cheap popularity is a dangerous tendency and one that demoralizes alike the student institutions he found. In my permanuations about the high campus I have known of certain faculty men who were painfully and ostentatiously "good fellows." Everybody swears by them; they are in great demand as after-dinner speakers; as leaders of cotillions and faculty chaperones they are unexcelled. Even as fosters of the rattling chip they have not been of these. They are great founders of these. They are flourish as the green bay tree; and in time the sickle is lifted against them and they secure elsewhere a better job.
There can be no sound relation between faculty and student-body which is not based on mutual respect. There is no relation of human life itself which does not require that saving condiment. But I doubt if my good friend taught all that he said, for surely if the instructor between the instructor and the student, I had taken several years before more than one unlawful peep. It was with some little chagrin, perhaps, that I heard a student tell me just this month, at the end of a conference, that he had "found out I was human." Can it be that the average student should have taught his instructor is iohuman? If so, are we defties or devils? Perhaps a little too much of both.
In there a middle-ground between this cheap and easy familiarity of the "good fellow" or "fellowness," and the refined, serene, and tranquil elevation of the short time condescending to nest upon Mount Oread? Is there a compromise between the instructor who retails smutty stories and exchanges personal bandage with members of the bank and the bank makes out his check with a Ph.D. at the end of his signature? Is there a responsibility devolving upon members of this college faculty of expecting no exceptions to be made in their disciplinary committee which they would not expect to be made to other
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BATTERY A HAS ENLISTED
THIRTY UNIVERSITY ME
The Battery of field artillery being organized in Lawrence is attracting many University men, despite the fact that no regular recruiting has been attempted on the campus. During the last week, the Battery has enlisted twenty men of which eight come from the Hill. This makes an approximate total of thirty men from the University who have enlisted in this service
Yesterday, Kirby, one of Baker's football heroes, came up from Baldwin to enlist in this organization. Captain Amick says that the next inspection to secure recognition will be on Tuesday for a strength of 150 men. At the present rate of enlistments the inspection will be some time next week.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Back in Podunk the favorite Saturday night sport of the bon vivant was to stand outside the dime store and wait for a catch-as-catch-can date from the girls who dole out the goods to the unwary public.
But the K. U. laddies have a new diversion. They cluster in groups outside Snow Hall on the nights when the women's Red Cross classes meet. And when the meeting is over, Oh boy! Some of 'em are real bold. Why one Launceol pranced up and walked down the wind to see her home. And she turned around and said, "Forget it! You fresh thing!"
Gail Hall can play the loveliest and sweetest funeral dirge on a type writer, SFact. Why she comes down to the sanctum sanctorum (which is what the folks with the tall foreheads call the Kansan) and just performs wonders on the Underwood. One day she syncopated "Crimson and The Blue." Soon she will be able to do jas.
Would it be interesting to see what she writes on the peckagraph? Very well. Prepare for it; asdead; asdead; asdead; and so on and on and on for hours and hours. She seems so happy at her practice. And it has the same soothing effect on the bunch in the Kansan office that a tin can has when tied to the tail of a dog.
Joe Glaim is a janitor. When he isn't jamming he is carrying out German bombs from the offices of professors. Now for instance, Just the other day there came a hurried call from the top floor of Dybe Museum.
Well, Joe rushed up the stairs. Upward and onward he raced clear to the attic where in the dinosaurs' room they hid. In the room he stepped. In front of him was a professor holding forth a suitcase. "Take it quick. It was left here for me this morning." panted the pedal to the it awaits, for I will take no chances."
Later, in a secluded spot on the campus, the suitcase was operated on. From it was taken a lot of paleontological pets that some friend of the professor had sent to him for mounting.
Roy Davidson, c'17, has requested that his views on the disposition of the Senior Memorial Bum be modified. Since it is too far to return to his room between classes every afternoon for his usual afternoon siesta, he now proposes that Spooner Library receive the benefit of the fund and that it be fully equipped with modern sleeping facilities.
"IF I WERE DEAN" TONIGHT
Everything is Ready for Giving of Senior Play Written Recently by Alton Gumbiner
"We are ready," comes the announcement from the cast of the Senior Play, "If I Were Dean," to be presented tonight at the Bowersock戏院. Final rehearsal was held this morning with all accessories being used.
The advance sale of seats for "IF I Were Dean" has been the largest of any senior play for years. Coach Arthur MacMurray announced himself as particularly well pleased with the final rehearsal and promises a finished product when the curtain goes up tonight.
That same bit of mystery which has surrounded the play from the time the prize was awarded to Alton Brown, who remains. The author has refused to give out information and has said, "Wait." Coach Arthur MacMurray has been forbidden to talk. Members of the cast have kept silent concerning the plot.
But the author, et al, have had reasons to be so silent. But this much makes it a dummy in which unfolds queer anger. There are berries from the American Desert that are sleep producers. A person under the effect of these berries sees strange things. Thus the berries is started. How it ends? "Waits."
COL. BURKHART WILL EXAMINE APPLICANTS
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily
Kansas.
Regular Army Officer From Ft. Houston Stationed Here Until May 8
WEED OUT ALL UNFIT MEN
Fort Riley Can Accommodate About Half the Number Who Have Applied
Lieut. Borkhurt, of the 19th Infantry of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, has been detailed by the War Department to examine all the applicants from the University of Kansas who have been accepted by the central department of the U. S. army, Colonel Burkht will stay here until the training camp at Fort Riley opens May 8th.
All the men desirous of attending the reserve training camp at Fort Riley are urged to send in their applications immediately. All applicants should first see W. B. Cobb at the Engineering Building, to secure a card entitled to a physical examination. The next step is to submit recommendations from prominent citizens certifying as to the applicant's character, sobriety, personality, reputation, and ability to command the respect of other men. The applicant returns to Mr. Cobb to fill out the application blank which is immediately of the central department at Chicago. WEED OUT INET
If the applicant is approved, the application is returned, and referred to Colonel Burkham who will co-operate with the branch committee of the Reserve Officers' Training Camp Association, that the War Department recently authorized to be establishes here. Colonel Burkham with the aid of this committee will weed out the applications.
The men appointed to act on the local branch committee of the Reserve Officers' Training Camp Association (RTCA) held by Bean P. F. Walker, who has charge of the taryd cllass courses; Dr. W. L. Burick, vice-chancellor of the University; Mayor W. J. Francisco; H. L. Hinch; Joe Creeks and N. M. Foster.
About fifty men took out physical examination cards yesterday. These cards entitle a man to a physical examination from either Dr. Keith or Dr. H. T. Jones. Dr. Naismith also can turn tomorrow. This physical examination will be made here to eliminate all who are physically unfit, before they reach Fort Riley. The work at the Fort will be unusually difficult for most people to do in three months time work that ordinarily requires six months.
Mr. Cobb in a statement this morning said a great deal of weeding out will have to take place. Fort Riley must accommodate the states of Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming, the attendance will be limited to 2,500. The offices in Kansas City have received already 3,000应用。Fifty men have applied here and as many more probably will apply today.
BAND WILL GIVE CONCERT
Varsity Musical Organization Appears in Last Public Recital of Year May 3
Do you remember what thrills, what feelings of loyalty, you had when the K. I. band marched around your campus? Did you learn your soul saw your alma mater in a football game? If you do, the simple announcement that this same band is going to give a spring concert in your hometown is enough to bring you out to hear it.
The concert will consist of classical selections, and it will be the last band concert of the year. The University band gives three concerts every year. Two of these concerts are of a classical type, the training the bandmen receive fit to enter the best musical organizations after leaving the University.
While the concert will not feature popular music, it will probably have a patriotic touch. This is especially when the bandmen have enlisted in the Navy. Some, but not all, of these men will assist in the concert. J. C. McCanles, director, has rearranged the band to offset the loss of these men, and he must that the concert will rank among the musical entertainments of the year.
Prof. S. J. Hunter, state entomologist, is in Topeka today attending a meeting of the Agricultural Committee of the Council of Defense which was recently appointed by Governor Cappler. Chancellor Frank Strong is also in Topeka this morning as a member of the same council.