UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 139.
PROF. HUMBLE WINNER OF FACULTY CONTEST
Law Faculty Man Has Best Conception of What College Loyalty Should Be
HELPS RAISE STANDARDS
Students Judged Essays on "College Spirit" for Daily Kansan—A Close Race
H. W. Humble, professor in the School of Law, is the winner of the "College Spirit" essay content contended by the University Day Kansan.
The final decision of the judges, Mona Clare Huffman, president of the Women's Student Government Association, Paul Greerey, president of the Men's Student Council and Joseph M. Murray, c11, editor of the Lawrence Journal-World, was announced today.
OTHER ESSAYS GOOD
The best indication of the closeness of the contest is the fact that the three judges each selected a different essay as the best one, so that the decision as to first place had to be made on comparative rankings. The other two essays were not especially good were written by Willard Watties and Miss Josephine Burnham, both members of the English department faculty. These entries, "What Is the Matter With K. U?" by Mr. Watties and "College Spirit: Some Horses," by Miss Burnham, will be published in the Kansan book prize winning essay appears on the front page of the Kansan today.
A KANSAN CONTEST
The faculty "College Spirit" contest was announced by the Kanser an early in the month, after the Graduate Magazine had conducted a similar contest for students which was won by Miss Carolyn McNutt.
K. U. has been accused of lacking college spirit. The ideals expressed by the faculty entrants in the contest may aid in raising the standard.
NEW ARRIVALS AT MUSEUM
A Kansan reporter will present a check for $5.00 to Professor Humble and ask him if he has other faculty members who wrote oats, did not expect any such fortune.
Pictures and Bones Collected by Kansas Men Have Been Placed on Third Floor
Other pictures in the collection show exploring parties from the University.
A group of pictures of restorations of prehistoric animals has been added to the collection on the third floor of the museum. In the list are photographs of restorations of the ancient three toed horse, as he appeared several million years ago; of the mammoth elephant, which was more than thirty tons, and of the manmoth edenthium, from which the hog is descended.
The skeleton was discovered by Parker, Moore and Smitherman, former students in the University. Relics found with the skeleton are bones in case 10, 17, north room of the third floor of the museum.
Other exhibits have been arranged in the museum during the last few weeks. Among them is the skeleton of an Indian of the time of the early Spanish settlement in the south, columned in red marble, near Sterling near Arkansas City.
POLE DIRECTS IN ENGLISH
Max Zack, Leader of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Received Musical Training in Vienna
The St. Louis Symphony orchestra will give a concert Thursday evening, May 10 in Robinson Gymnasium under the auspices of the school of Fine Arts. The orchestra is now on campus and has been given the leadership of Max Zack, one of the most scholarly conductors in the world. Mr. Zack is a unique leader in that his direction is spoken only in English. He is the only leader in English at the University, even American and English directors always use French or German.
Mr. Zack is an Austrian Polander and received his musical training in the Vienna Conservatory. At the age of nineteen he was a member of the violin section of the thirty-first regiment of country orchestra in the Austrian army.
Two of the solo artists accompanying the orchestra are of American birth and education; Miss Leonora Allen, soprano and Charles E. Galanis, tenor, among the foremost figures in the concert and oratorio field today.
SIGMA TAU OFFERS MEDAL
TO FRESHMAN ENGINEER
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 24, 1917.
A gold medal is offered by Sigma Tau, professional engineering fraternity, to the freshman engineer ranking highest in scholarship for the Engineering Institute of Institution Committee of the engineering faculty, or, a committee appointed by Dean P. F. Walker will act as Judges. The first medal will be awarded next October to the freshman this year's class ranking highest.
The idea of professional organizations offering scholarship medals was commended to Dean Walker. "It is in exact accord with the aim of the faculty" in getting the men to put their names on the medal, and "it tends to discourage the idea of merely getting through the first year courses."
FORMS NEW COMPAMIES
FOR VOLUNTARY DRILI
Military Work Appeals to Many and They Learn Rapidly Under Dean Walker
The Voluntary Drill Classes are increasing in numbers every day. Under the supervision of Dean Walker the men are rapidly learning the rudiments of army drill. The men by this time have been taken from a squad left about command.
Six men were dropped from the companies' rolls Monday on account of absences. The organization is military in nature and although the work has been done, the students stand a chance of losing their credits in the work in which they have withdrawn if they do not attend this military work regularly. Anyone having more than four absences against him is dropped from the work. To be given an absence reason to give Dean half of the absences.
The two original companies A and B, with the addition of many "raw recruits," have been divided into four teams. The officers meet with A and D meet with B. The officers for Companies C and D have been drawn from the Officers' Reserve class. Company D held its first drill today. C and D will have its first drill today.
The work in the class rooms is securing better results now. The men are learning what is expected of them and are responding to it. The men, who enrolled in this work because of their interest in it, weeded out, leaving in the classes only those men who are taking the work because of their interest in it.
All hopes to secure a regular army officer to take charge of this work have been abandoned. The army can scarcely supply its own wants without over any more duties, and for the present the work will be entirely unofficial.
VOMEN IN ANNUAL SPLASH
Best Swimmers
Preliminary Meet to Be Heeld Monday at 4:30 to Eliminate All But
The Jayhawk mermaids are practicing every day and are getting in tip condition for the big interclassee Robinson Gymnasium pool May 3.
So many women swimmers wish to compete in the contest that a preliminary elimination meet will be held Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The preliminary meet promises to be close.
Two new events have been added to the meet this year. They are the 100-ft breast stroke and the 100-foot side stroke. This makes ten events for the meet. The other events will be, 50-foot breast stroke; 50-foot side stroke; 50-foot back stroke; 100-foot overhand dash; diving, fancy, dive, compulsory; plunge for distance; and the relay, in which representatives of each team will be entered. The winner of the meet will be given a large placque
On account of the resignation of persons recommended for fellowships, applications for three fellowships will be received at the office of the Dean of the Graduate School up to twelve o'clock noon Saturday, May 5th. Application blanks may be had at the office of the Dean.
Phi Kappa announces the pledging of John McLaughlin, 117, of Leavenworth.
Coach Pratt said this morning every woman swimmer, who intends to compete in the big meet, must sign up as a participant. The different class teams will be selected.
Captains Miriam Jones of the seniors, Ruth Endacott of the juniors, Helen Wagstaff of the sophomores and Doris Drought of the freshmen have been coaching their squads and holding secret practice. The freshmen held their practice yesterday afternoon, and the juniors, last night.
MANY OFFER GARDEN PLOTS AND BANDAGES
Professor Elmer Will Tabulate Results of Red Cross Survey Made Saturday
Figures taken in the Red Cross survey last Saturday will be used in determining the kind of work the people of Lawrence may be called upon to do in case of necessity. Statistics and other data lies, what work they would be able to perform and what materials are available for Red Cross work were gathered and will be tabulated for future use by Prof. M. C. Elmer. These figures together with the results of a survey conducted some time ago by the local department will be used in connection with "Baby Week" beginning May 8.
Figures on the number of people who desire to secure ground for gardening purposes and the available land were also listed. Twenty-two people offered land to anyone who cares to plant a garden on it. These tracts of land varied from one lot to five acres. One hundred and eighteen people desired land on which to raise food stuff. A group of nine people formed the Chamber of Commerce and people desiring to plant garden will be put in touch with those offering the land.
KANSAS WINS ANNUAL
DEBATE AT MISSOUR
The United States faces a serious shortage of bandage material because of the large amount of this material which has been shipped to Europe. To meet this demand, old linen, and other material which can be used, many manufacturers have offered material to the local Red Cross Saturday and this will be collected immediately. In some cases new linen was contributed.
Doctor Naismith Granted Leave
Doctor James Naismith, head of the department of physical education, has been granted leave of absence so that he can act as First Regiment of the Kansas National Guard. Doctor Naismith was with the guards on the border last summer, with the Lawrence men, and he has granted leave of absence because it will be called out soon.
Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity held initiation Saturday afternoon commencing at five o'clock, for Russell Stephens, Clark Lillis, of Kansas City, Solden Hall of Bonner Springs, and Charlton Powers of Topeka.
Two to One Decision Gives K. U Fifth Victory Over Tigers In Seven Years
The University of Kansas won the annual debate from the University of Michigan in 2014. It is one of the departments of public speaking, received a telegram from H. Merle Smith, captain of the team, late last night stating: "Two of them voted
The men who represented K, U. are H. Merle Smith, c'18; Alfred B. Richmond, c'17; and Charles H. Dewey, Jr. He was a "Resolved," that the principle of compulsory investigation of industrial disputes as embodied in the Canadian Compulsory Investigation Disputes Act was passed by the Congress of the United States.
The men who represented Missouri are Fred Gablemann, Bernard Hurwitz, and Fred Suddorth, all of Kansas City. Judges were Daries Brown, Jacob Harzfield, and Judge J. M. Johnson.
The debate last night was the first debate Kansas has won from Missouri since 1940. Missouri has won only one debate, but this is question for the debate and Missouri had choice of side to debate on her home platform. Next year Missouri will submit the question and Kansas will choose of side to debate here at home.
No petitions have been filed for the student election to be held May 3, al though several have been circulating among the students. All petitions are filed with Paul Grever or M. L. Grauer before six o'clock Thursday night.
LITTLE ENTHUSIAM OVER
MAY ELECTION PETITION
Chairleader, members of the student council and athletic board, and school officers will be chosen at this election. These officers are generally hotly contested, but no great enthusiasm has been aroused over them yet.
Dean F. W. Blackmar left for Teoka this morning to attend a meeting for the completion of the organization and will be the defense of the States Council of Defense.
Howard Blackmar, c'08, of Albequerque, New Mexico, is in the city for a short visit with his parents. Prof. and Mrs. F. W. Blackmar.
By H. W. Humble.
COLLEGE SPIRIT
"Because thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot will spew thee;
and neither worm nor insect will
speak to thee."
The day of the puny pippen is past. Behold the dawn of the new day of push, punch, and progress. The college campus has neither room nor company for the lukwarm man. All the rest of the world needs it. But there is there but one place for you. We salute you! Get off the earth!
The acid test of the presence of college spirit is this: Do you believe in the very fibre of your being, as thousands do, that to attend college is the greatest, leftiest, and finest things that can ever fall to the lot of any man or women? If you do not, then the student must receive you. No bata or chains are keeping you on the campus; you have and make room for the man who hungers for your opportunities.
PAUL GREEER ADDRESSES
MEETING AT FAIRMOUNT
Paul Greever, '177, president of the Men's Student Council, went to Fairmount this afternoon to address a loyalty meeting.
You have decided to remain? Then, in the name of all that is sacred in manhood and womanhood, show the spark of nobility that lies within you! Rise to the occasion! Give to your college of your best and finest thoughts and conduct. Not one student in ten or even twenty, on the campus today, has ever attended or will ever attend any other college but this one. All that he will ever know of college, at first hand, must be cleansed from this institution.
Royce was right. There is but one word in all our philosophy, Loyalty. Loyalty to home, family, church, country and alma mater. For though you are but one of ten children, or but one of thousands of her alumni, she is yours, all yours, your mother and your alma mater. You can never repay her the debt that is her due. She neither expects it, nor does she require it. All that she asks is that you forrequire your course to touch your heart strings and let them resound in your mind, so that she joins the S. O. S. signal from old Fraser, or beckons, in her gentler and geyer moods, and asks that you return to the fold, from time to time, and mingle with her children.
College spirit never calls to my mind a football game or any other form of athletic contest, but rather an experience of the following character, while at college. Cornell, like K. U., is seated on a high hill, with other hills in the distance. A few minutes before six one evening, at dusk, I left the library on my homeward way. All was quiet. As I started to descend the hill, I happened to notice a granite stone under a tree. It was placed there in honor of the author of one of Cornell's hymns. As I read the inscription on the stone, the chimes from the library tower played slowly the music which was used to accompany the words which I read:
What is college spirit? It is that lofty sentiment which permeates the heart and sinew of every true collegian and causes him to stand in awe at the portals of alma mater, ready to give and capable of fulfill that is richest and noblest in life. "Prove, O pretate eate, profani."
Greever will discuss the aspects of international law in the present war crisis, justifying the position of the United States in the war. The subject of his speech will be "The Case Against Germany."
"Music with the twilight falls,
'Oer the distant lake and dell.
It is an echo from the halls
Of our own, our fair Cornell."
The finest thrills, the deepest emotions come, not with the roar and the brass band of the big football game, but in hours of solitude and decision as we stroll quietly over the campus and catch echoes of the thousands who have departed and are yet to come.
Plain Tales from the Hill
"You can eat a beef steak," the professor of philosophy told his class this morning, "but you cannot eat it." The teacher is what is wrong, is it? Well. Well.
"Victor Hugo is a good author, but his love scenes are abominable. They are of a sickenning, sweetish, slush just like it is in reality."
Here is a literary criticism from Prof. F. A. G. Cowper. The class in French was discussing Victor Hugo pro and con, fore and aft and otherwise. And then: Professor Cowper ventured—
"Salute me as a sergeant!"
If it were not for the fact that Prof. H. A. Rice is an authority on engineering and good tobacco there would be no use saying anything about it. But Professor Rice is no devotee of the wrist watch or a feeder for marshmallow eclairs, so here goes—
It was the voice of Jack Hettinger, lawyer-soldier, as he stately stood on the Law School steps. The doctile and the stern face of him lay into position and stood at attention.
And co-eds marveled.
After receiving a set of papers which were far from being neat his face assumed a pained expression and he murmured weakly—"If you children hand in such a set of papers again, I shall deal with you severely."
The wings of Green Hall Theatre are not like the wings of angels. Last night while the senior play, "If I Were Dean," was in rehearsal, one girl got loose from its mooring and took a vicious swing through the air.
Mable Elmore was facing the other way, wherefore she was blissfully oblivious of her danger. A scant seven inches of space had intervened to save her hair from a terrible mussing. Henry the Hero crossed right on high speed and took the unruly wing in charge.
ARE PROFESSORS FOSSILS?
Profs. Wear Whiskers; Stenographer Chews Gum and Senior Makes Love in "If I Were Dean"
In plays professors are called fosls. "If I Were Dean" is the Senio Play to be presented Wednesday night, April 25. And the professors are real fossils. One of them wears whiskers and another—well, he does. This combination helps the plot wonderfully in quelling the naughty rally.
The professors are not the only characters well portrayed by the cast of seniors. There is the stenographer. She's good. Wait and see. The senior acts like a real senator. And he makes love well. Hon. Cy Lage is a snappy but good matured County. He's running for office. He keeps the part going: And the type writer (machine, not girl) runs alas
The cast didn't rest over Saturday and Sunday. Rehearsals were held Saturday morning and Sunday after noon. The cast will be to morrow at nine o'clock.
DR. STRONG CONDUCTING
DEFENSE COUNcil SURVEN
Chancellor Strong has been in Osage, Jefferson, and Jackson counties the last two days conducting an organization campaign for the Kansas Council of Defense. This campaign is to ascertain for the national government, the resources for the Red Cross and other relief work.
Doctor Strong is a member of the Kansas Defense Council and was recently delegated by Governor Capper to carry out this work.
Students Give Private Recital
A private student recital will be held in Fraser Chapel tomorrow afternoon at 4:15. This is one of the regular Fine Arts programs and will not be open to the public.
The College will give its annual spring party Monday April 30 in Robinson Gymnasium. It will be an All-University affair and will be featured by unusual music and simplicity.
Oscar Brownlee, '17, has withdrawn from the farm. In his father's farm, at Stafford
The Weather
NEXT TUESDAY WILL BE CHANCELLOR'S DAY
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; probably shows in east porch.
Y. W. C. A. to Stage May Fete on Campus In Afternoon.
OBSERVED SINCE 1905
Holiday Takes Place of Annual Sophomore and Freshman Class Fight
It was back in those good old days. They didn't wear wrist watches as folks claim we do now; they didn't have tea-dansants. In football they didn't have the hive-fashioned open skin, but the one he will get you" was their ambition.
STARTED IN 1905
And those were the days when they had class fights along with their other forms of curb barbarism. What were these fights about? What things" responds the faculty. Some times they fought over a rug called the class flag and sometimes a sack in the center of the field served the purge. Sometimes they fought for the ove of the thing.
Then the Chancellor in September, 1905, decided to do away with the fights between the sophomore and freshman classes. And fights is the word. For in the fall a fight was fought for the honor of the class and in the spring on May Day another fight was fought for the honor of the class. Sometimes the fresh won and sometimes the sophs were victors.
It was agreed by the sophomore and freshman classes in union to do away with the fights. And no more numerals were to be painted on the sidewalks of the campus or on the buildings.
MONEY TO Y. W. AND RED CROSS
The Chancellor agreed at the same time to grant a holiday on May first each year, providing all fights were refrained from. It seems that he did not leave any of the two classes from the Hill thereby avoiding all chance of fights.
That is the reason the Y. W. C. A. is promoting the May Fete a week from today. From fights have come pageants of history and education. From football games resplendent with football dances and fetes. Come May Pole dances and fetes.
Part of the receipts of the May Fete is for the upkeep of the Y. W. C. A. The other part goes to the Red Cross. Twelve or more departments plan for the pageants and are arranging their pageants and dances now.
NO PLANS FOR MEMORIAL
Neither Committee Nor President Have Definite Ideas for Disposal of Funds
The eleventh hour has arrived and the Senior Memorial Fund has not yet been called out. It is yearning to do its bit in the existing crisis. Several seniors offered suggestion as to the disposal of the fund.
Ernest Statler said, "I think the fund should be turned to some relief agency and applied where it will do the greatest good."
Roy Davidson asked, "Why not apply it to the support of French babies? That certainly would be a charitable act."
Jess Gardner said: "In my opinion, the Students' Loan Fund needs what an investment any fund to which we might turn is George O. Foster, who has the Students' Loan Fund in charge, said: 'It was rumored that the fund was to be turned over to the Students' Loan but as yet it has not been done."
George Smee, president of the senior class, could not be reached this morning and we were unable to get a statement from him.
HASKELL INDIANS DEFEAT
BAKER NINE BY 5 TO 4 SCORE
The Haskell Indian nine won from the Baker team in the last half of the ninth inning, yesterday, by a 5 to 4 score when Pego, Haskell Indian pinch-hitter, smashed out a two base hit and gave the Indians the necessary one run lead. The score was tied 3 and 3 at the beginning of the ninth innning but Baker jumped into the lead by making one run. Pego was on the shoulders of several Indian runs, when he scored the winning run.
Davis, Haskell second baseman who made a home run in the Ottawa-Haskell game, also connected for another home run yesterday. The Bakers pitcher hit off Stuckey, Baker pitcher, while the Baker nine made but five hits off Killback, Haskell pitcher. Both teams made ten errors each.
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