UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 137.
ELEVENTH ANNUAL HOP WILL START ON TIME
Managers Say Farse Will Begin at Seven-Thirty—Grand March Eight-fifteen
ORIENTAL LIGHT EFFECT
Sale of Tickets Indicates a Crowd of 500 at Big Class Party
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 20, 1917.
Place: Robinson gymnasium.
Time: Seven-Thirty o'clock.
A musical force at seventh-thirty sharp.
Grand March at 8:15.
Grand March at 8:15.
Dancing at 8:25. Continues until 2:00.
Intermission at midnight
Recruitment at nightfall.
Refreshments are to be served in three relays of two dances each.
Cabs, dress suits and flowers are taboo.
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The eleventh annual Soph Hop tonight in the gymnasium start on time at 10am.
"Eighteen regular dances and three extras of fourteen minutes each will take up all the time without starting late," says Frank Gage, ringmaster of the affair. "Every man should call for his date at seven o'clock sharp and be at the gym before seven-thirty, but if they are there or not the farce comes on time. This is to be purely a K. U. party with no outside guests."
In the receiving line will be: Chancellor and Mrs. Strong, Mrs. F. D. Tharpe, Miss Katherine Fogarty and Frank Gage. At 8:15 Haley and his twelve-piece orchestra, including the marimba band and drum corps, will play the grand march. The grand march. Programs will be distributed during the grand march.
REFRESHMENTS IN RELAYS
Refreshments will be served on the first floor as follows: One-third during the third and fourth dances, one-third during the seventh and eighth dances, and one-third during intermission after the eighth dance.
ORIENTAL LIGHTING EFFECT
The managers have devised a model scheme for the checking of hats and coats. On the track above the dancing floor has been placed long strings of hooks. The men can hang their wraps and pass on without causation. The men each man will know where his wraps are without waiting in line for them.
ORIENTAL LIGHTING EFFECT
The decoration of the gym was delayed by the concert of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra yesterday but decorations were practically all up. Japanese lanterns hung from the ceiling, giving the oriental effect on the main floor.
DEBATERS PRIMED FOR M. U
There was a long line waiting for tickets today. There have been a number of eleventh-hour dates made and from all indications more than 500 students will dance tonight at the big party.
Kansas Team Leaves for Columbia Monday to Argue Nationally Important Question
H. Merle Smith, c'18, Alfred B. Richmond, c'17, and Charles H. Dewey, c'19, will leave next Monday morning for Columbia to debate for Kansas against Missouri. The debatable question concerns compulsory investigation of industrial disputes. Kansas will take the negative.
All of the men representing Kansas have had experience in previous intercollegiate debates. Merle Smith, captain of the team, was on the K. U., and he also had experience years ago. In the debates with Missouri since 1910 Kansas has won four decisions to Missouri's two. Missouri has strong material this year, as was shown by the debate won from Tecumseh, brought up on the question of Single Tax.
The question of investigation of industrial disputes before a strike or lockout has been declared, is of vital interest owing to the recent threatened railway strike that was averted mainly because of the oncoming war. Canada will be involved in Canada for nine years and has recently been adopted by Colorado.
The judges for the debate have not been selected. A list has been submitted to Missouri from which they will select three.
All candidates for Varsity football meet in the trophy room in Robinson Gymnasium at 7:15 tonight Hermon Herman Olcott, coach.
Black Helmet meeting at the Sigma Chi house, Tuesday night. Important.
THIRTY FRENCH BABIES
SUPPORTED BY THIS CITY
Thirty French war babies are now being taken care of by the people of Lawrence, according to a statement made this morning by an officer in charge of the relief fund. Most of the donations, at the rate of ten cents a day, were made for the period of a year.
STATE Y.W.C.A. WORKERS COME FOR CONFERENCE
"It costs only ten cents a day to feed a baby," says Miss Edith Snow, chairman of the relief committee. "We have received a number of donations from clubs, fraternities, and other organizations that more students contribute to the fund. Donations of any amount from dimes to dollars will be thankfully received."
More Than 150 Delegates Have Registered for the Three Days' Convention
Y. W. C. A. workers from every state and denominational school in Kansas will be here tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday for the annual state conference of college associations. One hundred and forty-eight delegates have registered with the K. U. association.
Among the leaders of the conference are Miss Marcia O. Dunham, executive secretary of the West Central Field Committee, Miss翠拉 Field Committee, and secretary of the department of method of the National Board, Mrs. Reed McClure, secretary for the student volunteer movement. Miss Lucy Y. Riggs, and Miss Elvira J. Slack, assistant secretaries of the Field Committee.
The problems of the small college and the state institution will be discussed at the round table meetings. A banquet will be given for the delegates by the K. U. association at Plymouth College and by the University night. They will visit the University and Haskell institute Saturday afternoon.
HUNTER WILL DO HIS BIT
The department of entomology has a
great Kansas food drive. "bite" in
the great Kansas food drive
Kansas Professor Appointed by Defense Council on Committees of Food Regulation and Control
Prof. S. J. Hunter, head of the department in the University, has been appointed on two committees of the Food Production and one on Insect Control, affecting food crops and products. These committees will be called soon soon and the work are increased as a general defense plan of the state.
Orders to hold the department in readiness for aid in the nation-wide campaign on food conservation were received today by Professor Hunter Burton, honorary chief of the Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agriculture.
CAMP COOKING IS POPULAR
Ten men have invaded the department of home economics to receive instruction in the course in camp cookery. Believing there are three kinds of army cooking, Dr. James Patterson, a senior Economics Club last Thursday, suggested a class in camp cookery be organized.
"This makes it necessary for me to enlist members in the department of entomology and also advanced students in this co-operation with the state and federal governments," said Professor Hunter today. This will involve measures to prevent insect crops, and to preserve stored grain. Mr. Hunter has been collaborator for the Federal Department of Agriculture since 1912, and is state entomologist.
Class Opens Monday Evening And Ten Men Revel in the Culinary Art
Culinary Art
Robert Mason, who quit school a ew weeks ago to take a position with he Santa Fe, will return for the Hop" tonight.
The first class was held Monday night, and will meet twice a week as long as the men are not called to the colors. In these classes instruction will be given by Miss Sybil Woodruff who will often fill in the art of cooking and inform us beginning the selection of foods to secure a properly balanced ration.
The Weather
Fair and continued cool tonight,
probably frost. Saturday warmer.
The recruiting officers of Company M are expecting to be over-run with men desirous of becoming cooks in order to take this course.
Lawrence, Kans.—To the Star: Here we are. We have to get the rudiments of military knowledge, and for what reason, who want
AND THIS FROM AN OLD K. U. MAN!
There are fraternities and clubs and groups of women and men engaging over events with that and the alone view. They have not enlisted and won. Their worst comes to worst they are called in for places. They will not join any military organization and assume real respon-
I've become ashamed of the men who compose this so-called better class.
We regret that Mr. Kamaga chooses to look up the military activity of the University in the above light. He has failed to grasp what the present instruction in military matters means to the young men of the University of Kansas.
For instance, we would suggest that he attend one of the drills some afternoon. Instead of the talk of "becoming officers and non-commissioned officers," which he says he hears, he would see rather "a group of men all intensely interested in 'doing their bit' for the country."
He would see, if he should happen to attend such a drill, men who are taking the country's situation seriously, and who are doing their best to prepare for whatever happens. He would not see, as he says, "men who will not assume real responsibility."
From the College alone, sixty-eight men have already enlisted in the National Guard. Sixty-five more have withdrawn from school to do farm work; and forty-four are taking military drill. This from the College, mind you, from the College alone—with the School of Engineering, the School of Law, and the School of Pharmacy yet to be accounted for. And the totals from these schools will be just as high! Students in the School of Medicine are remaining in the classroom by government orders; and are being rushed to graduation as quickly as possible. To facilitate this, the School of Medicine will be continued all summer.
And then Mr. Kanaiga, who is himself a former student of the University, who was himself a fraternity man at this institution, takes the pains to write to the Kansas City Star to announce that he is "ashamed of the men who compose this so-called better class."
The University cannot but be ashamed that Mr. Kanaga did not look further into the facts. After he has done so, perhaps his opinion of University pat. **dA***m* will undergo a change. At least, he need ask any necessary or airing his opinions in a town forty miles away.
University men are not ashamed to talk face to face with those whom they censure.
NON-UNIVERSITY MEN
FILL RANKS OF CO. M
Boys Who Were on Mexican Border Sign Up Forty-One Outside Men
The Mathematics Club will meet in Room 103, Administration Building, Monday, April 23, at four-thirty. Lewis Hull will talk on "The Planimeter and Rectifier." The planimeter is an instrument used for measuring irregular areas and the rectifier for the length of curves.
The veterans of Company M scattered over the state couldn't stand to see their company call for men and get no response, and so they started a "drive" on their own with most sanguinary results. The recruiting office announced this morning that forty-one non-University men had been killed in combat. Three of these, however, will not take their physical examination and formally enter the company until it is called to the colors.
Math Club to Meet
Sam Carpenter of Coffeyville takes first honors. Carpenter has already enlisted thirty-one men in his home town, and says he could fill the company. The youth of that city have listened to Carpenter's tales of the Mexican expedition last summer until they are unshaken in their belief that Captain Jones can "out-Hindenburg" any general new in the business. Carpenter has this kind of record of downtown; even the fathers and mothers are asking him to have Captain Jones save a place in Company M for their boys.
Carpenter and five of his recruits made a trip to the University yesterday. These five men were not certain they weighed enough to enter the Guard and wanted to make sure. Fortunately for Company M all of them passed the physical examination and were mustered into the company. The men paid their own expenses here and back. They are: Ivan Kinceleo, Homer Carrington, Ben C. Pickerling, I. Gill, and Charles E. Warders.
BROKE PEACE STRENGTH
Eighty-four men have now passed all examinations and are actually on the roll of the team, an addition to these there are thirty-six men who have signed their first enlistment papers and are only waiting for the call to take their physical examination and join the company.
At the last report there were five men at WaKeeney, Joe Aeres' home town, who have signed their first enlistment papers. Frank Sands of Sedon also has five enlistments for the company.
RECRUITS PASS EXAM
ABOVE PEACE STRENGTH
Only Praises for Work of Artists Who Gave Two Concerts Here Yesterday
Last night's program was decidedly the better of the two, if popular opinion is to be taken as a judge. The two Indian dances by Prof. Charles S. Skilton were given thunderous applause; and the "War Dance" was repeated in response to the demands of his audience. Professor Skilton himself used an unusually large Indian drum during the rendition of his two compositions using an unusually large Indian drum to get the barbaric atmosphere and primitive effect he desired.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASON'S BIG SUCCESS
Cornelius van Vllet, an annual favoured with his cello selections, was one of the most famous musicians in the 20th century.
Other orchestra numbers on the evening program which were in favor with the audience were the Kalimnik kwymphy, with its charming syncopation; the "Valse d'Amour" from Max Reger's "Ballet Suite." Op. 43 by Rudolf Schmidt; the poem, "Capriccio Italien," Op. 43 by Tchaikovsky. Richard Czernwonk played two violin numbers in his masterful style.
For five years, now, the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra has visited the University of Kansas each spring. On each preceding occasion, after the band had departed, the Kansan has sung that band's same thing must be done. Symphony music, apparently, is something of which University audiences will never tire—witness the packed auditorium at both concerts yesterday—especially such music as Emil Oberhoffer's organization has for five years been giving.
BARITONE DID NOT APPEAR
Royal Dadmun, on the program for a Verdi aria, was unable to sing last night, and his place was taken by Warren Proctor, tenor, who sang a selection from "Fauaut." Marie Kai-Larsson, from Gorilla, Michela's airline from "Carmine" and responded to an encore with Cadman's "Land of the Sky Blue Water."
NIGHT PROGRAM BETTER
"The best concert yet" is what professors and townpeople were heard to say last night as they left Robinson Gymnasium. "I've never missed a concert since they started coming here, and each one seems more charming than the last." Students who have been in the University three and a half years in their praises. And the freshman more, attending perhaps for the first time a symphony concert, could only marvel: 'Gee! Was it great!"
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SENATE PILES EXTRA WORK
ON STUDENTS WHO CRIB
Two more students have been punished by the University Senate disciplinary committee for dishonest work in examinations. One sophomore engineer who cheated in a Physics I course, has been failed and suspended for two hours, while a pharmic student who cheated in an Economics I class has been failed in this course and must pass in four hours' additional credit.
Plain Tales from the Hill
One young man in the audience last night had a keen sense of rhythm. He was chewing gum. And he kept perceptive, green eyes toffer's baton without missing a beat.
Special investigator in the advertising department of the Capper Publishing Company—that's what Miss Mildred Eppard is. And moreover she is assistant to Marco Morrow, who is one of the main moguls of the United States. Miss Eppard received master's degree from the University last year, and visited the Hill today between trains.
After every one was seated in convoitation this morning, one girl was heard asking another, "Where's her? The answer." She waited for the boy to be shown out the "date" to her friend. He was sitting peacefully besides another girl.
W. W. Hawkins leading man. Mary Beal leading lady. Walking down the rue d'Ohio. Each one carrying a canoe caddie. Aha! They must be going to canoe. They pass a small boy sitting on a fence. Of course all boys are small, but this one was bigger. The girl who the fellow had a keen appreciation of gallantry. For he noticed Miss Beal lurging one for the canoe caddies.
"He hymster," he called, "Why teichyh let 'd laryd carry the
Well, Professor Dykstra was telling all about this system when Ames Rogers began to foment a lot of objections to such a scheme. Finally, you open up with this cannonade: "We opened up that every day. Now for instance. You call up one sorority girl for a date and if you don't get it you just keep right on calling up until you land one. Now don't you? "
The preferential ballot will now be discussed. It is a system whereby a pep vote assigns for his favorite politic-ist first choice. And so on ad infinitum.
PRACTICE EVERY DAY NOW
"And every rehearsal must be a dress rehearsal," said Coach Mac Murray in a positive tone of voice that means just what it said. "We could go ahead tomorrow and give this play—and it would 'get across'—but we want a finished product when next Wednesday rolls around. There are a rough edge that need polishing, and I hope there are ones on IF I Were Dean there won't be better any better senior play ever presented here."
Final Rehearsals For "If I Were Dean" are Taking off Rough Edges
“Every day over the week end.” Such were the directions for rehearsal given the cast of the Senior play at the regular practice yesterday afternoon.
The plot and the story of the play as well as the nature of the characters have been kept strictly in the script, one thing that has been let out is that the play portrays K. U, life and the spirit of the students and faculty.
The advance ticket sale has proved satisfactory, a large number of both student and faculty members having taken advantage of the offer to get tickets. The students arrive at the ticket board opens tomorrow at the Round Corner Drug store.
"There are places in the play where every student will recognize his favorite professor and his pet idea as to why he should play," said Roy Davidson, manager of the play. Every line has a laugh. The funny side, of course predominates, but there is a strain of seriousness running throughout the play that shows how much we are sitting on the part of the author of the nature of conditions at the University.
Notice To Students
Two new companies for military drill are now being formed. The men who have enrolled the last few days and who have drilled only one or twice will be based on bases of new units, and students are expected to come in. Freshmen are expected especially to join.
P. F. Walker.
SHOULD NOT LET WAR AFFECT NORMAL LIFE OF OUR UNIVERSITIES
Doctor Strong Defines Position of K. U. in World Conflict, at Convocation
NEED MEN EVERYWHERE
MUST TREAT ALL FAIRLY
Every Person Should Serve Country Where He Can Be Most Efficient
Answering the recent criticism that students of colleges and universities in this country are slackers, Chancellor Strong said this morning at convoction that the United States example of England in the war and the best and most scientific men to the front among the first contingent.
"England made a great mistake at the start of the war by sending her highest trained men and scientists to the front which she realizes now," said the Chancellor, "and the university men of this country are tempted to do the same thing. Many of these men were killed but as soon as the enemy attacked telkul drew the remainder. This initial blunder has crippled in contending with the present German submarine campaign.
Aliens Must Have Rights If We Preserve Americanism
SCIENTISTS WILL WIN WAR
SCIENTISTS WILL WIN WAR
"The present war is a scientific one; a battle in which scientists are pitted against them, and this country needs to have its men for the many problems back home instead of at the front. President Wilson has said that these men must be saved and the government has sent word to the School of Medicine at the University that it should go on and prepare men for work the same as in normal times."
The Chancellor pointed out the part which K. U. should take in the war saying that it was eminently necessary that the schools of the nation be placed in as normal a condition as possible, but it was not a normal condition and that after the war we would have to return to regular conditions.
COLLEGES TO RESTORE NATIONS
"The schools, colleges and universities of this country should act as centers of civilization after the war and they will be in much better condition to do this if they are kept running now in as normal a way as possible. The colleges in England are now practically deserted but we must make the mistake of closing all institutions before learning. There are 600 or 700 colleges and universities in this country. The work of remaking and restoring the nation after the war will fall to a great extent upon these schools.
The Chancellor said that next year would probably see the University of Kansas continuing in as normal a condition as possible with a decreased enrollment but about the (Continued on page 2)
SACHEMS ANNOUNCE PLEDGES
The Sachems society was organized in the fall $^f$ of 1910 by a group of upperclassmen and graduates. It was a class organization at the University.
Sixteen Junior Men Prominent in Class Activities Chosen for Senior Society
Members of the Sachem society for next year were announced in conversation this morning. They are: John C. Hayes, Richard E. Hend, Walter B. Hawkevort, Jared F. McGann, Morgan, Harry Montgomery, Harry M. Nielsen, Dorman O'Leary, Edward H. Schoenfeld, Marvin D. Taylor, Richard L. Treweese, John E. Todd, Richard R. Tuddlott, Audil Uhlraub, Walter R. Pickering, George Pottery Cask as honorary member.
Men are elected for membership in the spring of each year from among the students in the junior class on a basis of activity in University interests and class affairs.
Sociology Club To Meet
"Relief work and Social Settlements in Kansas City" will be the subject of the discussion of the Sociology Club Monday afternoon at four-thirty.
Coach Olcott will meet all football men in the Gymnasium tonight at 7:15 o'clock.
John Scribner is visiting at the Pi Kappa Alpha house over the weekend.