UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 99.
GENERAL FUNSTON WAS ONLY "JUST A KANSAN'
Famous Fighter Remained Loyal to Native State and Alma Mater
WAS A PECULIAR STUDENT
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 21, 1917.
Funeral Will be Held Saturday—Burial In San Fran-
Frederick Funston, major general, commander of the southern department of the United States Army, capturer of Aguinaldo in the Philippines, and famous Kansan, was "just a Kansan" always. Although he has Ohio in late years he has always preferred to be called a Kansan.
He attended the University of Kansas four years. Part of this time was spent in side-trips to Alaska and other places of adventure. He prepared for college in the academy here and then entered the University. After two years of trying he was classed as a sophomore.
"Funston would not perform routine work in the college," said Prof. M. W. Sterling this morning. "He took a flunk in chemistry rather than go to class every day and perform the experiments. In rhetoric he was a failure. But he was one of those knights, who could be toughly perfectly capable of getting his work would not do it. The love of adventure was too great."
CUT MANY CLASSES
Although Fred Funston was a lover of the outdoors and a scraper of ability, his records and personal reminiscences of friends on the Hill now show that he was no athlete. He went on to serve in many pounds. But his smallness of stature failed to keep him from subduing a bad man of Lawrence and marching him to jail. In his adventures of early life he was a botanist, an explorer, a newspaper man, a teacher, soldier of fortune, and conductor on the foot of 90 in western Kansas. Many times he put cowboys on his train.
"It was his great personality that was responsible for his success," said one professor today. "However, he had suffered many fights and fights were common with him."
DESIGN FOR SIMULTITY
The university of Kansas was always ready to participate. In the charges of the Fighting Twentieth Kansas in the Philippines the war cry was "Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, K. U., Kansas Volunteers."
NEW FRAT COMES TO K. U.
And he had that desire for simple things and simplicity in all things that is so characteristic of the big men. A speech was a bore to him and to be called Major General was embarrassing.
Phi Delta Chi, Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Will be Installed Here Thursday
A charter of Phi Delta Chi, honorary pharmaceutical and chemical fraternity, has been granted to the Pestle Club, an organization which was established here at the University in 1913 and which was revived this fall. Installation of the chapter will take place Thursday and will be conducted segregates from the national conference, now being held at Lincoln, Neh.
Members of the Pestle Club are Dean Sayre, McClung Childs, Vernon Marhofer, S. W. Gibson, Albert Toolef, S. W. Gibson, Crownel Spencer, Olin Farris, E. Spencer,olin Farris, P. Swartz, Howard Skare, Russel Barnes, Roscoe Howard, John Bloombart, Joe Starrett, Jack Wilson, Clark McCoil, James Marr, and Herbert Osborne, Prof. L. Havenhill of the Michigan chapter is a member from the Michigan chapter.
The body of the late Fred Funston will be buried Saturday in San Francisco. It will lie in state Friday afternoon. Prominent Kansans wished the body to be brought by way of Topeka on its way to San Francisco but arrangements made beforehand by Mrs. Funston were that the body should be taken directly to San Francisco.
Phi Delta Chi was organized at the University of Michigan in 1881 and now has eighteen chapters in American universities.
Will Organize History Club
There will be a meeting of all the seniors and graduate students majoring in history or political science, in Room 206, Fraser Hall, Wednesday at four-thirty o'clock, for the purpose of organizing a history club. Prof. Dennis Hodgkin, Holder's Chair, lecture of "Modern Political Caricatures," including cartoons of the present war. All students interested are invited to attend the lecture.
MISS GITTENS RESIGNS:
WILL GO TO NEW YORK
The acceptance of the resignation of Miss Anne Gittens as secretary of the University Y. W. C. A. was announced by the university will take effect at the end of the term.
Miss Gittens has been secretary of in July for New York where she will study at the National Training School of the Y. W. C. A. and at Columbia University. She plans to resume study with the faculty at the institutes and other members of the university Y. W. C. A. for three years.
VANITY FAIR ENTRIES WILL BE ANNOUNCED
The Vanity Fair contestants will be announced at the Student Council dance Thursday evening, in F. A. U. Hall. "There was considerable discussion," said Brenda of the student council of the Student Council, "in regard to selection of candidates, owing to conflict of opinion among the Jayhawker board. However, twenty-seven girls were chosen, and their will will be announced Thursday night."
Names of 27 Contestants be Made Known at Student Council Dance
The contest will last two weeks, from February 22 to March 8. A vote will be allowed for each penny paid for Jayhawkers purchased and space bought in the book. Ballots may be obtained at the Jayhawker office in Dyche Museum, and the votes turned in there.
Chairs! Big chairs, little chairs, study chairs, kitchen chairs, and opera chairs! Eight thousand of them are in use at the University, according to John M. Shea, superintendent of buildings and grounds. Naturally, they become broken and crippled from hard use. "We repair 700 chairs every week," this morning. "That means an average of two broken chairs a day."
"A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED." K. U.'s Repair Shop Believes
"Save Everything—Nothing is Useless," is the motto of the University repair shops, according to Mr. Shea. Waste paper from all the buildings is gathered and baled. Practically 4,000 pounds of paper are sold each month, from which the University realizes twenty dollars profit. Even old electric light bulbs are sold at value. The metal or the old cable is removed and sold. The platinum in each globe is worth about one and one-half cents.
"Nitrogen-filled lamps are now being used exclusively to replace the old carbon lamps," said Mr. Shea. "These bulbs contain no plutonium and radium. They can be used on tops. These are saved, and along with other brass, copper, and cast iron, are turned over to the machine shops, where they are worked over and used by the engineers. There is no market for old broken glass, so it is discarded."
Scraps and debris that cannot possibly have any use are gathered and burned in the incinerator. Old boxes are used for fuel, with the exception of a few of the better ones, which are saved for shipping and crating.
The amount of repair work done at the "doctor's office" behind the Gym amounts to thousands of dollars every week. The training is practiced by the force of thirty men employed there. Motors and electric wiring alone require the services of two men. One man does nothing except to turn off the lights, tasks that keeps him busy all the time.
One of the most severe earth shocks in the past twelve months was recorded by the seismograph in Blake Hall at 2:35 P. M. yesterday. The probable location of the quake, according to the data compiled by Prof. F. E. Kester, is on the boundless Honduras. The vibrations of the recording needle showed the earth trembled an hour and a half.
Prof. E. H. S. Bailey has been appointed as delegate to represent the Kansas Academy of Science at the Illinois Academy of Science of the Illinois Academy of Science.
The meeting will be held in Galessburg, Ill., on Friday and Saturday of this week. He will read a paper on "Safeguarding the Food and Water Supplies a Function of the Federal and State Authorities", and will in other ways represent the Kansas Academy of Science.
PROF, E. H. S. BAILLEY WILL
SPEAK AT GALEBSURD, ILL
Mrs. W. H. Dodserdge of White City is visiting her daughter, Faye Dodderidge, c19.
Earth Trembled 90 Minutes
"DUTY FIRST" WAS THE ORDER OF OLDEN DAYS
Chancellor Marvin Observed Holiday as Washington Would Have it Done
All-University Colonial Parties A Popular Way to Celebrate Day
STATE DECLARED HOLIDAY
Washington's Birthday was observed in the early days at the University of Kansas in a fashion quite different from the elaborate all-University functions of today, according to Wilson Sterling, associate professor of business grown gray in his thirty-three years of service on the K. U. faculty.
“‘Way back in ’81,’ said the pioneer professor, as he settled back in his chair reminiscent, “when I was on the Hill as a sophomore, we had to study just as hard on Washington’s Birthday as on any other day. I remember distinctly how Chancellor Washington used to hold up in chapel and announce the impending arrival of the twenty-second of February. We students would ask for a holiday, but he would reply: ‘What would George Washington himself have us do, were he here before us?’ And then the chancellor would answer the question himself with a stern declaration of ‘Duty First!’ Our time is valuable, he would say, and weoubtedly we would have had no holiday or public program in the days of ’81. But times have changed.
"Patriotic exercises to observe the day at K. U.," Professor Sterling continued, "were instituted in *82* or 84, by Chancellor Lippincott. Classes were taught on the morning of the 22nd. Speaking and the singing of patriotic songs composed the program. Washington's Birthday was made a state holiday in Kansas about 1890, whereupon it was adored as such by Chancellor P. H. Snow.
GAVE SHORT PROGRAM
Theta Tau Initiation
Theta Tau, engineering fraternity,
hold initiation at the chapter house
last night for; Joe Mahan, Independent
Faculty; Sallina, Salinna; Jack
Lansing, Leavenworth.
The first all-University Colonial party was given in 1915 under the supervision of Mrs. Eustace H. Brown, adviser of women. With 1,500 present, it was such a success that it was made an annual event. A minuet was danced by students selected from the classes, —the men in red, white, and flowered brocades vying in costume with the women in hoop skirts and flowing dresses, —the Virginia red was executed by faculty members, Chancellor Strong finding it necessary to duck as he passed under low arches formed by shorter members. After the grand march, all who wished danced until midnight.
PARTY A SUCCESS
Later the Glee Club will give two entertainment for the students of the university.
the members of the Men's Glee Club, who will make the spring trip, March 6 to 13, have been chosen. They are: Milton L. Peek, Louis Morgan, L. C. Suffield, Ralph W. Grasher, Chris McGinnis, Hugh Gratz Machizzer, Ray Gaffney, Wendell Foster, second tenors; Raymond Darby, Donald Good, Charlton D. Crietrich, George F. McIntire, first basses; Clarence R. Bernard, Stevenson, William Anderson, Paul E. Smith,恩曼 and Harold R. Huntsman, accompanist.
Men's Glee Club Will Visit Many Kansas Towns March 6.18
Two thousand crowded into Robin-
son Gymnasium for the Colonial party last year. The party consisted of a program by the School of Fine Arts, reception of guests, minute by thirty-two students, grand march, and dancing. Encircled with trellised lattices, the Gym was made to resemble an old Virginia garden, with the doorway leading to a courtyard prophore. A large electric flag shone from the east end of the hall, while portraits of George and Martha Washington, enshrouded by stars and stries, looked on from the west.
PICK SINGERS FOR TRIP
G. Brandt Arnold, manager, announced that the club would appear in Emporia, Newton, Halsted and Belle Plain, perhaps Arkansas City and other cities in southwestern Kansas. We accompany a company the Glee Club as a reader.
No admission has been charged for an end of these all-Universy ." Colonial part.
INCOME BILL BEFORE LOWER HOUSE FRIDAY
May Suffer Fate of All Previous Amendments to State Constitutions
Members and Employees of State Boards Fight State Manager Bill
WORK TO SAVE THEIR JOBS
The Permanent Income Bill may not have an opportunity of becoming one of the three constitutional amendments to the Constitution, people of Kansas if the house continue kill amendments as it has been doing. Last week it killed every amendment measure which came up. The Income Bill will come before the house Friday.
**STUDENT ALUMNI ORGANIZE**
The team in Topeka the student will meet with a craftist of this week to draft a constitution and perfect an organization. The association was formed by students.
STUDENT ALUMNI ORGANIZE
Willard Glasco, president of the County Club Union at K. U., is also president of this organization. He said this morning the state educator organized a better organized to boost the Income Bill now that they ever have been.
The state manager bill will come up in the senate today. Members of the existing state boards, and other state agencies, will have to measure, have been lobbying against the bill this week, contrary to the wish of the present administration, which has been backing the bill. The bill passed the house by a big majority.
MANAGER BILL CENTERS POWER
MANAGER BILL CENTERS POWER
The measure concentrates responsibility but does not extend the power of state law to which present commissions have. One commission and one general head for all state institutions instead of many managers and many commissions is the plan of the new bill. A governing board with the governor at the head serving without pay, will act as a reviewing board, responsible only for the action of the state manager.
The chief aim of the bill is to give all state institutions the highest standard of efficiency possible in their administration but the financial saving to the state, it is thought, will be large.
SECOND ART EXHIBIT OPENS
Paintings of Students at Three Schools Are on Exhibition For Several Weeks
Another exhibit of art, the work of students of Syracuse University, Cincinnati Art Academy and New York School of Applied Art, has replaced the collection of American paintings which has been displayed the past two weeks on the third floor of the Administration Building.
The collection consists of paintings crayon sketches and charcoal drawings. A part of the collection is the work of students of the University of Kansas. Among them are two character sketches. It is said these compare very favorably with the better pictures from the other schools.
John M. Henry, who was a student in the department of journalism in '14 and '15 is now night editor of The Nonpareil, of Council Bluffs, Iowa. He is rapidly becoming a noted paragrapher and editorial writer. While he was now editor, managing editor, and editor-in-chief on the Kansas.
"The exhibit is one of the best collections of student work that has ever been received for display at the University of Kansas," said Prof. William M. Hekking, of the department of painting and drawing, "and it shows what may be accomplished by systematic work."
A most exciting time is promised sport followers when Jick Fast meets an opposing wrestler in the gymnastic meet which will be held in the Robinson gymnasium a week from tomorrow.
The exhibit was opened to the public Tuesday, and will be on display for several weeks. It is on a circuit of several universities and came here from the University of Nebraska.
Mildred Pitts, fla'19, is spending several days at her home in St. Joseph.
The mining and geology pictures are finished and be seen in the Geology room.
The Weather
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight,
cold wave northwest portion. Thursday
will be hot with a high of 85°F.
STUDENTS SLOWLY PAY UP
THEIR Y, M. C. A. PLEDGES
Two hundred dollars of the amount pledged the University Y. M. C. A. at the beginning of the year has been paid, according to Hugo Wedell, secretary of the students. This $200 constituted the first payment. The next payment, amounting to $300, is due now, and the Y. M. officers are anticipating prompt action by the students in response to the way they collect the $1,000 bldg by alumni and it is believed it will be collected within thirty days.
LONDON EDITOR WILL
LECTURE HERE MONDAY
S. K. Radcliffe, Student of Pres ent Day Movement, Probably Will Talk of War
S. K. Ratcliffe, of London, editor of The London Sociological Review, will lecture at the University at 4:30 Monday afternoon. He came to the United States last month and has just started his lecture tour. His subject has not been announced but will probably be some phase of the war. This is his fourth consecutive lecture season in America.
Mr. Ratcliffe, who has been in newspaper work in England and India for nearly twenty years, is well known for his student and an interpreter of present-day movements and ideas. His first acquaintance with the American public was made in 1914 when he was there by a Philadelphia society.
Mr. Ratcliffe has been an editorial writer on powerful publications, such as the London Daily News, and the New Statesman. He went to India and there became editor of the leader of the Indian resistance. While there he was appointed a member of the senate of Calcutta University.
HE HAS YOUTH, VIGOR AND BLACK HAIR
But No Wrist Watch.
Gregory Kelly has coal-black hair and brown eyes, but no wrist-watch and no dimples. He has the vigor and enthusiasm of youth; but, with all the clarity and dexisiveness of conversation that comes with experience.
"I've been an actor since I was about six years old. I can't say that I ever'd go on 'the stage.' You see, I really never have 'been off'." And Gregory smiles that same whimsical, magnetic smile that is as much a part of him as sunshine is the chief ingredient of a srine dav.
"I like to play in the Portmantane because Mr. Walker, being original himself, encourages his actors to be original. The ordinary stock or road can never express the meaning of a language cannot express the true meaning of the play under those conditions. We are constantly doing some different piece of business in our plays. This gives greater spontaneity to the play and makes it both for us and 'or the audience."
Then some one said that it might be too cool to dress in the Latin Museum with the windows open and a keen wind snapping through, "Oh no!" Kelly protested, "I like this weather. I can get enough of it." He should have been born in Kansas; he has the true Kansas temperament
ANOTHER PROFESSOR TO GO
Geo. E. Putnam Resigns to Accept Position at Washington University
George E. Putnam, associate professor of economics, has resigned from the faculty of the University and will go to Washington University in St. Louis next year where he has acquired a position as professor of economics.
Professor Putnam has been teaching in the department of economics here since 1911 and has made a name for himself as a teacher of economics. He has written a laboratory book which is used extensively in the study of this subject. Besides his regular university course, Professor Putnam has been conducted Extension Division in conducting classes in economics in Kansas City.
Professor Putnam graduated from K. U. in 1907, receiving his A. B. degree. The next year he attended Yale and received his A. M. In 1911 he took a degree of bachelor of literature at Oxford.
Dr. John J. Sippe, of the State Board of Health is giving a course of lectures in the "Vital Statistics" course, in place of Dr. H. J. Descon, in abstract doing expert work in vital statistics in N.A. Y.
KANSAS FIVE LEAVES TO PLAY FINAL SERIES
Two Games With Tigers and Two With Washington This Week End Season
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DOPE FAVORS OPPONENTS
Kansas Will Have to Overcome Jinx of Two Foreign Courts
Conches W. O. Hamilton and Potey Clark, with nine of the players on the Jayhawker squad, left this morning at 8:10 on the Union Pacific to play the Tigers at Columbia tonight and tomorrow night.
Kansas must win both of the Tiger games and the Aggies must split their two-game series before the Jayhawkers will have a chance to tie up with the Aggies for the Missouri Valley Conference championship this season. Dope has been upset in recent contests, and in all probability there are likely to be some surprising results in the last games.
Coach Hamilton said he believed the Washington University quintet was going to show up strong in the last games on their home court, and that they are very likely to win one of the games at Jagers at St. Louis, March 9 and 10. The Jayhawks will play the Washington U. five Friday and Saturday nights.
The Jayhawkers held their last practice in Robinson Gymnasium last night before they enter the battle with the Tigers tonight. All of the players were full of vim and displayed an unusual ability to hit the basket.
The first part of the practice was given over to goal-shooting from various angles and distances, followed by a minute floor-work and passing drill. After that, in the practice, Potty Clark called the squad together for the usual family-circle talk before going into any of the clashes. His final advice was to round the track and report ten minutes early at the Union Pacific station."
The players who took the trip are: Rudolf Uhrlaub, Leen Gibbens, Harold Lynle, Captain Fat Nelson, Scrubby Leinster, Walter Kaupert, Humpty Wilson, Rook Woodward, and Adrian Lindsey.
PORTRAY COLONIAL DAYS
Pageant of All-University Party Brings Back Olden Customs
"Not a single organization has asked for a party date for Saturday night," said Mrs. Eustace Brown today. "the students' favorable attitude is a result of the influence of the Colonial Party by this mark of deference in keeping the date open."
Excellence of past All-University parties appeals to the student's idea of a good time. Patriotic pageants, featuring the quaint ladies and gentlemen of the university, dance with mining steps dancing a miniature travesty of the simple wholesome life of the Indians, will always hold a strong appeal for the imagination and heart of the loyal American. This is the life of the students of the University of Kennesaw, where a fitting way to celebrate the birth of the father of our country.
The University band will furnish the music for the last scenes. The stage setting, which is simple and informal agrees with the theme of the pageant. It will be aranged across the west end of the gymnasium.
A short reception will precede the payment and afterward they will be danced.
GRAD MAGAZINE CONTAINS
STORIES OF K. U. PEOPLE
The February number of the Graduate Magazine, now ready for distribution, contains some interesting people who have been in the University.
Miss Carrie M. Watson, our librarian, gets a story. She has served the University in that position for thirty-nine years. "In Fossil Land" is a story about H. T. Martin and his friend, John M. Krause, in the Museum. This is a resumption of "Seeing K. U." series which appeared in the magazine several years ago.
Will Give "Pop" Concert
The University band will give a popular concertWednesday, March 7. Admission is free, and J. C. McCanles, director of the band, promises a good program. There will be another concert of a more classical nature in May.
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The next edition of the Kansan will be issued Friday, February 23.
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