UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
DECIDE AGAINST HONOR SYSTEM IN UNIVERSITY
Investigation by Senate Shows Student Sentiment is Opposed to Plan
ADOPT OLD RESOLUTIONS
Punishment Will be Severe for Students Caught Cheating In Examinations
That the honor system will no work in the University of Kansas is the opinion expressed by members of the disciplinary committee of the University Senate in a report made at a special meeting yesterday.
"The members of the Senatetee that the sentiment against dishonesty and against those students who make use of dishonest devices in examinations, not to worry enough in the student body to warren against an honor system," said Prof. E. F. Engel, secretary of the Senate, this morning. "Although the honor system would be appropriate in the case of the majority of students, yet there are too many students to keep the system from being adopted."
REAFFIRM OLD ACTION
A resolution was adopted by the Senate, reaffirming its action of 1914, with regard to examinations and cheating. In 1914 a committee or representative students appointed by the Men's Student Council and W. S. G. A, made an investigation of conditions at K. U., and recommended to the Senate that the honor not be adopted, but that instructors be requested to report all cases of deliberate cheating, and instructors to follow the class, to the proper authorities. The committee's recommendation was adopted by the Senate, and the action taken yesterday was merely a further approval of the 1914 resolution.
WILL WARN STUDENTS
Punishment for the students caught cheating in the examinations at the close of the first semester was recommended by the disciplinary committee and affirmed by the Senate. One student was suspended for the remainder of the year for dishonest work in some technical work in the engineering department, without from four other students and extra work required of them as a punishment for dishonest work in examinations and class reports.
"We hope to impress on the minds of such students that dishonesty in examinations will be dealt with severely," said Professor Engel. "We believe the student body as a whole favors such measures."
Officers Refuse to Give Reason for Failure to Fill
GLEE CLUB POSTPONES TRIP
Dates
The trip planned for the Men's Glee Club has been indefinitely postponed. The club was scheduled to take its usual spring trip March 6 to 13, and would have appeared in Emporia, Kentucky, and other cities in southwestern Kansas.
Arnold refused to give any further information.
There seems to be some mystery as to why the trip has been postponed. It is reported on the campus that the eligibility of some of the members has interfered with the club's plans. The officers would confirm this report.
"The trip planned for the Men's Glee Club has been postponed," said Mgr. Glee.
"The trip has been postponed," said Paul Joseph A. Farrell, director of the elephant hospital.
Professor Farrell refused to be quoted further about the matter.
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K. U. ORCHESTRA WILL GIVE
SPRING CONCERT TONIGHT
An attractive program of classical and popular numbers is what is in store for the music lovers of the University who attend the orchestra concert tonight in Fraser Hall. The orchestra is composed of thirty-four members and considerable time has been spent in preparation for this performance. This season the concert and will be assisted by Miss Libby,琴师, Miss Hopkins, violinist, and Miss Reynolds and Professor Downing in a vocal duet.
Spanish Club
Al Etenoe meets today at 4:30 o'clock in Room 314, Fraser Hall. Mr. Molina will speak on Ruben Dario, the Argentine poet.
Kansan Board Meets
Kansan Board Meets There will be an important meeting of the Kansan Board at 7 o'clock to night. Members report on time.
John E. Smart, '15, of Gainsville Texas, has been visiting with friends here the first part of the week.
SENIORS WILL MEET TO PLAN CLASS MEMORIAL
A mass meeting of the senior class will be called next week by its president George Smee to consider plans for the class memorial. Willard Glasco, chairman of the memorial committee, reports that there is $60 in the memorial fund collected in the last three years.
It has been the custom of each graduating class to leave some kind of a memorial on the Hill. Former classes have built the cement bulletin board, the bench west of Green Hall, and the classroom desks fees. The class last year broke away from this custom and gave their money to the student loan fund.
K.C. CLUB WOMEN AT UNIVERSITY TODAY
Representatives of Council of Women'subs Saw K. U. in Working Clothes
To interest the women of Kansas City in the University of Kansas is the purpose of the visit of 150 women from across the country to our City, Kansas, to the university today. "We want to get acquainted with our university, especially those of us who have sons and daughters to go to Kearlan. Zacharya Nason who planned the trip.
About 150 members of the Council, including Mrs. Nason and the president, Miss Lutie Jackson; Mrs. C. Charles Clark and other members of the Atheumeum Club of Kansas City, Mo.; and some Topeka club women, including Mrs. H. O. Garvey and Mrs. B. E. Garner. Many of them are graduates of the University or have sons and daughters who are students.
The club women arrived on a special interurban car at 11 o'clock, and were met by Mrs. Frank Strong. They were guests of the Chamber of Commerce in an automobile trip to Haskell. At noon they lunched in Robinson Gymnasium. Lunch was served during the afternoon they attended the demonstration of the department of home economics and visited the fine arts exhibit, the library, and various laboratory classes.
GAMBLING WILL KILL SPORTS
Dutch Wedell Tells Students to Avoid Creating False Impressions
"Competitive athletics are not firmly established in the schools of the country and if these sports are not kept free from gambling they will be barred from the state as horse racing has been," said Duck Wedel. secretary of the Y, M. C. A. in an address yesterday and moral problems that confront the students of the University.
Plenty of fun and excitement will be furnished at the stag social in Myers Hall Friday night. Dick Weedell will try his ability at dodging the blows of Bud Foster, middleweight champion of Missouri, in a boxing match. Justine and Ernest Todd also will box.
Room 2 in Fraser Hall, which was formerly used for the women's lunch room, is being converted into a laboratory for the use of students in the department of home economics. It is being redecorated, repainted, and regular laboratory apparatus is being installed. Because the classes in domestic science are so much larger than they used to be, this additional room is needed for their work. The women's lunch room has been changed from Room 2 to Room 9, at the north end of the hall.
In speaking of the charges which he hears against the University while he is traveling over the state he pointed out "That the great trouble is not just in our schools but in realize that the instances of drinking, gambling and other wrong doing which they hear of are bound to happen in a community of over three thousand students at the university and that this is the customary havior of a University student.
Philip Hayes, the comedian on a guitar, will be there, and Kenneth Loomis will read funny stories. Besides there will also other folks to help entertain.
Adding Another Laboratory
"We must endeavor to minimize these individual cases and be careful not to say anything that will create harm or of the life of the student at K. U."
"Stories of things that happen here are repeated by men who wish to hurt the reputation of the University and they are able to make people believe the moral conditions of the University are bad.
DUTCH WEDELY TO BOX AT
STAG SOCIAL FRIDAY NIGHT
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1 1917
The spark of hope for final adoption of the Permanent Income Amendment burst into flame yesterday when the Senate adopted a resolution to submit the amendment to the people at the next election.
WILL YOU DO YOUR SHARE?
Regardless of their faith in the Permanent Income measure, it behoves the House to place the matter before the people. The proposed measure is a constitutional amendment. Its adoption places no responsibility on the Representatives. The people make the final decision. It is the voting public, that body which will pay the bill if the measure passes, which must shoulder the responsibility. Surely the chosen representatives of the people cannot consciently refuse to give their constituents a chance to decide upon a matter of such general import;
The Senate has acted. It is now up to the House of Representatives whether Kansas educational institutions are to keep pace with general development; whether the young men and women of the state are to receive adequate instruction, in properly maintained schools.
The decision of the House will depend upon the information the members receive, the attitude of the people, the stand taken by the students in state schools. You have twenty-four hours—maybe twelve hours—Mr. Student, to strike.
The Kausan is today printing a list of the Representatives. The message you or your friends at home send him may swing the decision vote, may mean a greater and better University.
If you have a spark of loyalty, if you want a bigger and better school, if you are in the fight to win—now is the time to act.
WELL KNOWN SCHOLAR WILL TALK IN FRENCH
Your University needs your help; you can give it—GET INTO THE FIGHT.
M. de Lapradelle Is Lecturing Under Auspices of Alliance Française
The department of romance languages has secured M. Albert de Lapradelle, a noted French scholar and author, for an address next Monday afternoon. The subject of the lecture is "Quarante ans d'evolution politique; les partis en France sous les XIIe et XIIIe centuries, which will be in French, will be given at four-thirty o'clock in Snow Hall."
M. de Lapradelle is a Doctor of Law from Paris University and has held the chair of international law in different French universities. He was a visiting professor at Columbia University and received a doctor's degree from that school. He is a member of the Committee of International Law, the Council of Mail Navigation. While in America M. de Lapradelle was made a corresponding member of the American Institute of International Law.
M. de Lapradelle is the author of a number of works, including nine standard works on international questions. He is lecturing in the United States under the auspices of the Alliance Francise and has just come to this country after a six months' lecture tour in South America.
The engineering faculty has taken a stand against the practice of many University graduates leaving Lawrence before commencement day. The faculty asked the University Senate to take up the proposition of withholding degrees from those who do not stay for commencement day exercises.
Defective children in the schools of the state are examined for abnormalities by R. A. Schwegler, professor in the School of Education, who is an expert on abnormal psychology. This work of sending a trained advisor to the school was requested by the request of the teachers was commenced four years ago.
EXAMINE SCHOOL CHILDREN
Prof. Schwegler Advises State Teachers in Methods of Handling Defectives
"Our present school system is constructed for the average student; no provision is made for the child that is above or below normal," said Mr. Schwegler. "Smaller classes of about fifteen pupils will remedy this evil. Schools of the state are willing to improve the conditions for abnormal children as rapidly as they can get money."
"About thirty per cent of the children in the lower schools are below normal because of mental, physical, or moral defects, or because of financial difficulties." These children are examined by Mr. Schwegler and if they are physically defective their parents are requested to consult a specialist. If they are mentally defective the teachers are in touch with the best ways of teaching them.
Want Seniors To Remain
Marie Buchanan, c'18, will go to Kansas City tonight to attend the wedding of a friend.
Kansas Will Meet Oklahoma Missouri and Colorado in March and April
PICK NINE DEBATERS FOR SPRING SQUADS
The nine men who will represent the University of Kansas in the spring debates with Missouri, Oklahoma, and Colorado were announced this morning. They are: H. Merle Smith, Edwin F. Price, Lyle C. Anderson, Lea R. Hampson, Eric L. Wesley, A. Donaldson, Joe P. Harris, Alfred Richmond, and Paul Schmidt. Places will be assigned on the three teams at the next meeting of the squad.
The question for debate against all three universities is: "Resolved, that the principle of compulsory investigation of industrial disputes, as embodied in the Canadian Compulsory Investigation Act, should be adopted by the Congress of the United States, and that it must not take the affirmative here against Oklahoma and the negative against Missouri and Colorado.
The annual triangular debates with Oklahoma and Colorado will be held March 23. Last year K. U. won from Colorado and lost to Oklahoma; two years ago Kansas won both debates. The debate against Missouri probably will be April 23. Last year K. U. won from Missouri.
Odis H. Burns, instructor in public speaking, and Robert M. Woodberry, assistant professor of economics, are coaching the teams.
PLANS MAY FALL THROUGH
Students Not Interested in Organization of Engineering Company
STUDENT COUNCIL WILL
ELECT TWO NEW MEMBERS
Plans for transferring Company M to the engineering branch of the service may fail on account of the lack of interest by students and the possible ineligible of the proposed officers.
Company
Students do not care to risk the chance of breaking into school work and do not care to be bound for six years, especially for those years after graduation, according to a statement made by Captain Jones this morning. A number of students, who signified their willingness to join the new organization at the meeting of engineering students for the purpose of de-employment of the new company and who have since declined to enlist, gave as their reason the fact that they did not care to join the company and risk the possibility of being called from positions they might secure after graduation.
New Spanish Club Organized
The K. U, division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will meet at the home of Prof. A. H. Sluss, 1122 Ohio, at seven o'clock tonight, home of the annual spring meeting he will be decided upon at this meeting.
Five upperclassmen of the Spanish department yesterday organized La Gente De Bronce, a club to which students in Spanish above Spanish I only are eligible. The purpose of the club is to promote proficiency among its members in the use of the Spanish language and to prepare next Wednesday to initiate fifteen members. The maximum of membership is placed at twenty.
Two new members will be elected to the Men's Student Council at a meeting this evening in Fraser Hall. One of these members is from the School of Medicine and one from the School of Engineering. Only two petitions for membership have been handed the council, one by Paul Chapin, of the University of Oklahoma, another by Stanley Nelson, an engineer.
A manager for the Sophomore Hop, also will be appointed by the Council tonight to fill the vacancy made by the Hop manager elected last fall.
It is also probable that a disciplinary committee will be appointed from members of the council to co-ordinate with the University Senate disciplinary committee.
COMMONS NEEDED AT K.U., THINK STUDENTS
at Cost
Would Rap High Cost of Living By Serving Meals of Cost
At Missouri the basement of the men's dormitory is used as a commons. Here meals are served cafeteria style at cost to University students. As many as five hundred eat at this communis regularly. Meals of good, wholesome food may be had for ten and fifteen cents. Missouri is fortunate in the fact that food is good and the University are merged. This is in a way responsible for the low cost of the meals served the students.
With the price of potatoes going up and onions and eggs costing the landlady more than ever before and the high cost of living and movies going higher every week, the need of a community center to furnish meals at cost to University students grows greater in numbers and or commons have been established at Missouri. Wisconsin and other universities.
Practically the same condition exists at Wisconsin. Here the commons is situated in the basement of the women's dormitory. It is used as a cafeteria and basketball court, and ball at night. Dancing is allowed in the commons and plays are given.
Suggestions have been given for a commons at the University of Kansas. That the building occupied by Fowler Shops might be the most suitable commons has been the sentiment of students and alumni. You can use to use this building or build a new building for no other building on the campus is suitable.
"It would cost at least $35,000 to properly equip a commons," said John M. Shea, superintendent of buildings and grounds of the University this morning. "Some place would have to be provided for the equipment itathers and equipment would cost much. But it would be a good thing."
"The boarding clubs are not seriously affected by the advent of the commons," said a former Missouri University student. "Many townspeople eat at the commons in addition to the students. I ate there for fifty cents a day and sometimes less. And the food is good."
ELECTRICALS TO MEET HERE
K.U. American Institute of Electrical Engineers Will Hold All Day Session
The KU division of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, will hold their annual meeting here March 28, according to present plans. An annual session is planned in what is expected to be a period of interest to engineers will be discussed.
A number of men prominent in the electrical engineering field will be here for this meeting. Several reels of motion pictures describing a number of manufacturing processes used by the General Electric Company, will be used in connection with some of the discussions. The activities of the society will be presented with a dinner in Robinson Gymnasium. The members of the Kansas City section of the national society will be the guests of honor at this affair.
Miss McNutt Wins Contest
Caroline McNutt, c17, has been awarded the prize of $5 offered by the Graduate Magazine for the best essay on "College Spirit." Judges Flint, Murray, and Stevens were unanimous in their choice of Miss McNutt's paper to be submitted to the judges unsigned. Miss Agnes Thompson, editor of the Graduate Magazine hopes to make this essay contest an annual affair.
Miss Grace Wilkie, c'12, former assistant registrar of the University, now professor of home economics at Fairmount College in Wichita, is for the demonstration to be given by the department of home economics.
START FIGHT TO PASS INCOME BILL IN HOUSE
Chancellor Strong and Willard Glasco Will Represent Interests of University
SUBMIT BILL TO STATE
People Will Vote On Measure as Amendment If It Passes House
Friends of the University and advocates of the Permanent Income Bill today started the fight to get the Income Bill through the house. Chancellor Frank Strong is in Topeka today looking after the interests of K. U. in the Girls' Dormitory and the Income Bills which will come up either today or tomorrow, Willard Glasco, Income County Club Union, left for Topeka morning to aid in the fight. Before leaving, Glasco sent word to representatives of other state schools and they will probably be in Topeka today.
Clarence Sowers, '14, a member of the House is working hard for the bill. Paul R. Greever, president of the Men's Student Council, said this morning that he would do any work to make sure the student come Bill in the house now that it had passed the senate. The Student Council and the W. S. G. A. have been active boosters of the Permanent Income Bill ever since the fight started. Letters were sent by both of these organizations before the legislature conceived the solution at the University and the need for improvements.
FOUR SENATORS CHANGE VOTE
The Income measure passed the senate yesterday afternoon by a vote of 27 to 9. The changing of the vote of four semenators made possible the passage of the bill and Hart being the members who changed their votes. Senator Barr, who had been absent, came in and made the necessary two-thirds majority with the three other changes. Bill, the former Baker bill, is a former Baker student yet he came out strongly in support of the bill. Kimball, of Parsons; Ferrell, of Sedan; Wark, of Caney; and Wilson, of Washington, made telling speeches against the bill. Pugh, of Gridley, and Satterthwaite, of Douglas led the opposition.
The income measure provides that "the legislature may levy a permanent tax for the use and benefit of the
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IODDER TALKS ON CARTOONS
Early Illustrations Were Grotesque Compared to Simplicity of Modern Caricatures
In an illustrated lecture on "Modern Political Caricature," by Prof. F. H, Hodder, Wednesday afternoon, many interesting and clever cartoons were printed out the contrasts between cartoons of various periods. The first period, before 1880 was characterized by cartoons printed on separate sheets. The style compared to that of the present cartoon, was complicated and grotesque.
The second period was characteristic of the colored comic weekly. It was in this period that the well known Puk magazine was originated. Then cartoons were changed from colored weeklies to the daily newspapers.
Simplicity marks all the successful cartoon shows on the present European war. One, especially good was entitled, "Mon Filis," by Louis Raemorkers a Dutch cartoonist, picturing a Belgium mother before the shrine.
HISTORY CLUB ORGANIZED BY MAJORS IN DEPARTMENT
Twenty-three students majoring in the department of history organized yesterday afternoon. The club will meet once a month and at the next meeting, in March, a constitution will be presented.
The following officers were elected:
President, Howard White; vice-president, Iva Testerman; secretary, Maud E. Kilcote; treasurer, Lila Atkinson.
These students majoring in history are the charter members: Lila Atkinson, Gussie Gaskill, Liona B. Fletcher, Tim Kovac, Peter McClure, Abigail Bicky, G. H. Marshall, Fred S. Rodkey, Dorothy Mearn, May Anderson, Milton S. Heath, H. Merle Smith, Hazel Carson, Lois Marsh, Marian Lindley, H. Carpenter, Maude Hale, Maude Hale, Jelyn Duncan, Cathene Harris, Jennie Ray, Iva Testerman, and Arl Frost.
International Polity Club
International Polity Club meets at the Phi Chi house Thursday evening, heigh 8 o'clock. Prof. Victor Tsai, of the paper, appears in Opinion and International Relations".