UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 97.
VOLUME XIV
BIDS ARE ISSUED FOR ALL UNIVERSITY PARTY
Governor Capper, Board of Administration and Faculty to be Guests of Students
VISUALIZE COLONIAL DAYS
Pageants, Reception and Dancing Comprise Program for Third Annual Party
In the last few years there has been a decided tendency in University functions toward pageants portraying aspects of life, especially the life of the patriotic play lies in its appeal to the love of the country and its power to visualize the past. Customs, personages and the spirit of historic events are things in the patriotic pageant play.
Invitations have been issued for Colonial party next Saturday night, to all faculty members, Governor Capper and the members of the Board of Administration. The Colonial party is the third annual, all-University party to be given by the students for the faculty. But that university faculty members are to attend. It is for everyone University students who are not in the pageant should come to their own party.
The patriotic play is simple; its appeal is along general lines. The little one-act episodes have a wonderful power in showing the development of the country through the portraying of the lives of heroes in American history.
The pageant in the all-University party Saturday night will consist of three episodes. These one-act plays deal with the life of George Washington and events prior to his birth. The pageant will be with the every day life of the Indians.
The pageant will not be the only attraction of the evening. From seven-forty-five until eight-thirty an informal reception will be held. Then comes the pageant followed by dancing until twelve o'clock.
The following committees for the party were approved this meeting.
PROF. EXPLAINS PICTURES
The following committees for the party were announced this morning:
General arrangements, Gordon F. Stuart F. Stuart decoration, Milton Nigg, chairman; Nellie G. Dudley, Lydia Ainsworth, Wendell Foster; program, Oscar Major, chairman; Hallele Clark, Lester Bloomheart; publicity, E. Lawson May, chairman, Alice Bowley, costumes, Malie Mcleire; dances, Dorothy Cole, chairman, Isabell Gibbs, Bertha Mix and Helen Clark
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 19, 1917.
William S. Hekking Says True Artists Go To The Soul of Nature
"Do not ask me the price of any of these pictures," said Prof. William S. Hekking, of the School of Fine Arts, in speaking to the visitors at the art collection on the third floor of the Administration Building yesterday afternoon. "The knowledge that this collection is valued at $35,000 might shock one, but it will not add to his enjoyment of the pictures."
"The idea that only foreign landscapes were made by the Creator to be painted is fast losing ground Nearly all the landscapes in this collection are American scenes, and our painters have done a good job."
"We see very little art in this part of the country. Artists do not like to send their best canvases on long exhibition tours. Nevertheless, we can appreciate art when it comes because it speaks a cosmopolitan language. In landscape painting the artist does more than give a faithful rendering of the outward form of nature and of our own identity of her every mood. Artists often take great liberties with their subject, omitting and transposing as they please, but if they go to the soul of nature, they are successful."
Sunday was the last day of the exhibit. The collection, which consists of eighteen American artists, is one of the best ever shown at the University.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sigma Delta Chi meets at 7:45 Tuesday at the Sigma Chi house instead of at the Pi Kappa Alpha house as previously announced.
Second Band will meet and rehearse in Snow Hall tonight, as track meet has been called off.—J. C. McCanles.
Lydia Tomlinson, c'19, of Independence, who was unable to enroll in school the second semester, last friends in Lawrence last week and The invitation of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Saturday night.
K. U, DIVISION OF ENGINEERS TO HOLD MEETING IN MARCH
The annual meeting of the K. U. division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will be held here some time in March. An all-day session is planned, in which technical and various other topics of interest will be discussed. L. P. Breckenridge, Jr., a member of the Society of Mechanical Engineers, heads the list of speakers for this meeting. In 1909 the K. U. Society of Mechanical Engineers became associated with the national society. The following year it was decided to hold an annual all-day session to which vari- vated members were invited. The meeting in 1910 was a success and attracted favorable comment in the leading engineering journals of the country.
ENGINEERING COMPANY CALLS FOR RECRUITS
Unofficial Authority Has Been Granted for Organization of New Company
Recruiting for the new engineering company will begin today, according to a statement made by Capt. F. E. Jones this morning. The work of recruiting will be carried on by Captain Jones at Fowler Shops, R. L. Hover and H. A. Hullam and H. A. Roberts at Marvin Hall. Four engineers made application and were enlisted before recruiting beran.
Unofficial authority for the transfer of Company M and the organization of the new unit has already been granted, and it is likely that a special order authorizing the move will be received within a few days. Meanwhile, recruiting will go on, and in case anything should happen that the company cannot be formed the men must be released since they are not really in the guard until they have taken the oath of enlistment.
"New recruits or prospective members will be invited to attend the regular drill of Company M Tuesday night," said Captain Jones, "but they were required to drill until the new company is recruited to full strength."
GRADING SYSTEM CHANGED
FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL
A change in the system of grading in the Graduate School was voted recently at a meeting of the faculty of the Graduate School. Beginning September 1917, all grades of graduate students will be sent in as Satisfactory, incomplete or Failure. The graduate students are now graded by the same system used in the College and other schools.
"The change was made in order to get away from the numerical systems of valuing a student's work," said Dean F. W. Blackmar this morning at the college where his student at the end of a semester that his work has been worth a I, II, or III. He is an independent scholar, and the question is Has he done a scholar's work? If he has he should be graded incomplete or should be graded incomplete or failed according to the merits of the case." The numerical or A, B, C, D system of grading is satisfactory in the college, according to Dean Blackmar, but graduate students should be given a higher plane than undergraduates.
Student Council Election
The Student Council will hold an election a week from Wednesday to fill two vacancies, one from the School of Engineering and the other from the School of Medicine. The petitions must be in the hands of the secretary, Marvin Gear, at the Kanza house by Tuesday.
The last number of the Journal of the American Medical Association (February 10) makes special mentor and discusses at length the two papers recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry by Nelson and Burns, and Nelson and Williams on "Calcium and Magnesium Metabolism in Normal Men." Doctor Nelson, who has charge of the department of biochemistry, is on leave of absence during the present year and is working at Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago.
Writes for Medical Paper
The Chi Omega freshmen will entertain their upperclassmen Thursday, February 22, with an afternoon dance on Wednesday. Mrs. W. R. Stabba, Windmill Hill.
Dances
The Weather
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity will
wear black jerseys in Hall
Wednesday night. February 21
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; much cooler tonight; cold wave east portion; colder south portion Tuesday.
VAN NOPPEN TELLS OF DUTCH RENAISSANCE
Holland's Official Lecturer Reviews Literary Work of The Netherlands
NATION DESERVES CREDIT
Has Given More to the World Than Any Other Country
Prof. Leonard C. Van Noppen, of Columbia University, told in Fraser Chapel Friday afternoon of Holland, her literature, and her people."A people that got less from God and gave more to man than any other country." His subject was "The Dux Renaissance."
As the result of a propaganda which was started in Holland some years ago to spread authoritative information about the Netherlands, Professor Van Noppen was chosen by Queen Wilhelmina as the official lecturer of Dutch language and literature in this country.
DUTCH INVENTED CLEANLINESS
Professor Noppen showed where many of the principles of our Republican government came from Holland. The three branches of government, the bicameral system of legislation, is in Holland in the seventeenth century.
MILTON COPIED FROM VONDEL
Before delivering his address on "The Dutch Renaissance" Professor Van Noppen talked informally before the faculty and students of the department of English on Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Vondel's "A Treat of the same subject," one as an epic, and the other as a drama.
"Holland's art and literature should have its rightful place in the curriculum of the American university," said Professor Van Noppen. "In proportion to her numbers Holland has given more great scholars, painters, inventors, and warriors to the world than any other country. The struggle with the elements, the difficulty of keeping the country anchored to the continent has made the Hollander practical. The art is intriguing, microscope, and compass all originated in the little country of Holland. The Dutch also invented cleanliness, and they have carried it so far that it has become the national vie
The "Lucifer" preceded "Paradis Lost" some eleven years; and in this connection Professor Van Noppen set forth some highly interesting external and internal evidence that Mildred with the great Dutchman's productions but also that, according to the freedom permissible in those times, he did not hesitate to use some of Vondel's characters and choruses. Prose was a study which shows several hundred parallels between the two poems.
Professor Van Noppen succeeded in creating great interest and enthusiasm among many in his audience for the study of the Dutch language and literature and showed what a wide field of study and investigation is still open for the American student, outside of the usual beaten path.
He read parts of his translation of vondel, which have been before the Academy.
Students hurryring from class seldom stop to think that at one time the campus was but a barren hill-top. But such was the case, and doubtless would be today, if some of ourforesters had not planted trees years ago.
Professor Noppen is now conducting a series of lectures in the universities over the country. He lecturer at Stanford Junior University today.
TREES GREW WITH CAMPUS
Old Cottonwood Near Snow Hal Over 50 Years
NEW BUILDING PLANS CONSIDERED BY BOARD
Many of the larger trees were planted about the time Fraser Hall was built, and they have seen the development of the University from every angle. The old cottonwood near Snow Hall has viewed the erection of university buildings and the steadily growing forest over the past fifty years, while many of the walnuts and elms remember nearly that far back.
Old
There are many trees of the younger generation which have not witnessed all of this past development but which hope to see an even greater amount of progress in the future. Of this younger generation, it is worth touching with the Russian Olive, Allanthus, Osage Orange, Coffee Bean, Hop Hornbean, Buck Thorn, and other trees that are common in Kansas.
Discuss Accommodation of Fine Arts School in New Administration Building
FOUR DEGREES GRANTED
Graduate Students Given Degrees at Meeting Saturday —Silent on Manager Bill
"The primary purpose of the meeting of the Board of Administration Saturday was to consider plans for the proposed addition to the Administration Building," said Chancellor Strong. "This morning, of course, no appropriations were reached, as the appropriation bill has not been passed."
Members of the board made no comment on legislation pending at Topeka. The bill providing for replacements in teachers boards with a state manager has passed the House and is now before the Senate. If passed, this bill will greatly increase the authority of the state educational institutions.
WORK OF MANAGER
The principal duty of the state manager would be to act as purchasing agent of all the state educations. Some steps have already been taken in this direction. The Board of Administration now has a purchasing department. The state manager's work would be a development of this work.
The proposed law provides for an administrative administration to take the place of the present state boards. This board would resemble the old board of regents of the University, and members would receive no salaries.
The bill has the backing of Governor Capper, and it is expected that next week will determine whether it will pass the Senate.
Four degrees were granted by the Board Saturday to students in the Graduate School. William S. Spicer was granted the degree of Bachelor of Science. The degree of Master of Arts was granted to Edna Florence Thomas by the degree of Mary Thomas received the degree of Bachelor of Music.
GRANT FOUR DEGREES
FICTION IS UNPOPULAR
University Librarian Says That Students Read Good
"The charge that students do only light reading is unfounded," stated Miss Carrie Watson, head librarian at Sooner Library.
JAYHAWKER "MAPS" MUST BE IN REFORE MARCH
"On the contrary," Miss Watson said, "Students read good books and show as good taste for literature as do professors and more mature readers. But students have been that after a student has been in college for a while he acquires a taste for好 literature and will read no other kind. The library tries to meet this demand by placing the best kind of literature in the hands of the students."
To Decide Prize Essay Contest
The essays submitted in the contest for five dollars offered by the Alumni Association for the best essay on "College Spirit" have been turned over to the judges, E. W. Murray, associate professor of Latin, W. C. Stevens, professor of botany, and L. N. Flint, professor of journalism. The essays be submitted to the judge as judges receive the winner, and the prize-winning essay will be published in the March number of the Graduate Magazine.
Jas. G. Akright and Geo. A. Montgomery will play for the checker championship of the city Y, M. C. A. next Saturday noon. A tournament was held in which Akright and Montgomery tied for first place. There will not be any charge to this exciting game.
Prof. M. C. Elmer, of the department of sociology, left Friday for Council Grove. Professor Elmer is making a social survey of that city.
The card files show that at present little fiction is checked out to students. This was accounted for by the fact that the amount of assigned reading is unusually heavy. In the afternoons and evenings, every chair is occupied with showing that students are kept busy on assigned reading. As a rule, they have little time for any other kind of reading; but what voluntary reading is done is confined largely to fiction of the better class, plays, and works along some special line in interest. The only present, the library has but one book by Harold Bell Wright, and that copy was donated.
Seniors and organizations must turn in their Jayhawker pictures a Room 102, Dyche Museum, before March 1, according to Arnold Nordstrom, editor of the 1917 Jayhawker. February 15 because the photographers could not accommodate all students by that time. Many of the senior pictures and write-ups are still to be handed in. If any of the seniors need help with writing or do so before this date, they should notify Nordstrom at once.
Over 100 junior pictures have all ready been turned in at the Jayhawker office. The juniors are responding rapidly, although their time limit has been extended to March 10. They are urged to hand in the pictures as soon as they can obtain the gloss prints.
FOUR ENGINEERS MAY GET GOOD POSITIONS
General Electric Company Representative Interviews K. U. Senior Electricals
George H. Pfeif, of the Genera Electric Company of Schenectad, New York, was here Saturday interviewing members of the senior class of the School of Engineering. Of the seventeen men majoring in Electrical Engineering Mr. Pfeif hopes to se cure the services of four or more.
Upon his departure Mr. Pfreif will give a list of the names of the men he wants to G.C. Shaad, professor of mechanical engineering and some application blanks for these men to fill out. The men who sign up will be sent to Schenectady immediately after graduation, where they will do a final test of the company's machines.
At the present time the General Electric Company has in its employ two hundred and fifty students from eighty-five different colleges and universities and owns the company in Schenectady, New York; Pittsfield, Massachusetts; and Erie, Pennsylvania. This system of securing graduates of electrical engineering schools has been used for many years by the General Electric Company.
Last year W. F. Davis, C. B. Sykes,
and H. M. Stevens joined the company
and are doing satisfactory work.
Among the older Kansas men, who
are doing work of exceptional value to
the company are W. Stone, How-
eley, A. Coyne, A. Crutchfield,
R. I. Parker, R. W. Wilson, W. F.
Coors and H. F. Winters.
Mr. Pfief came here from the Agricultural college at Manhattan. He will go to the University of Nebraska from here.
PORTMANTEAU THEATRE GETS AN AIRING Manager's Name is Harold
Nothing will curdle the glitter and glamour of the stage like sunshine. It is the best little old detective in the world. To see the Portmanteau theatre scattered about the campus, ability-neglectiveness are the most important columns are the result of some painter's ingenuity who had once seen a piece of marble. Those sick-looking green masks aren't masks at all. They are the countenances of the "gods" in "The Gods of the Mountains". Those pencil marks on each one are, perhaps, directions which the "gods" follow in putting them on.
This Portmanteau theatre is a great deal like a regular show, though. The stage-carpenter smokes "tailor-ing" smoke from the fire as well. He speaks "bowery" well and English broken. But the business-manager's name is Harold. He's a real business manager, however. He was born in Boonboro" with a slight "Alabama accent."
"Earnie," said Harold (Earnie is the stage-carpenter). "We'll have to use those extra sewers to shield them." And Earnie understood, him, perfectly.
There is an intellectual "air" about the Portmanteau people. Two of the young men of the company are graduates of Michigan. One young man fresh from Vassar. No, there is nothing common or plobian about them.
Gama Phi Beta held its annual winter initiation Friday and Saturday. A banquet was given at the 'house Saturday night.'
AGGIES CANCEL TRACK DATE HERE TONIGHT
John Plumb, of Sylvan Grove,
visited Nathan Isenberger, c'18,
and other friends on the hill last week.
Mrs. Lulu Maas of Iola has been the sister Mary Banks, c'20 for the past 15 years.
The greatest run at the present time is on American Fiction and the works of Shakespeare.
Coach Schulz Says Verbal Contract Does Not Hold in Conference
NO AGGIE OUTDOOR MEET
Coach Hamilton Retaliates by Calling Off Meet Scheduled for May 4
The track meet which was to be held here tonight with the Kansas Aggies was cancelled yesterday by Coach Germany Schulz, track coach of the Manhattan school, in telephone calls from Coach W. O. Hamilton. He said there has been no written contract made with K. U. for a meet on that date. He gave as his reason for breaking the verbal contract made with Coach Hamilton when the conference meet- taped on Manhattan some time ago, the fact that the Aggies had the team capable of defeating Kansas at this time of the season.
Sometimes a written contract is made between the conference schools but the verbal contract is generally considered sufficient in the Valley for an absolute guarantee of the athletic event agreed upon. The Aggie school is a new member of the Missouri Valley Conference, said that his school was accounted to make dates for meets by written contract.
COACH HAMILTON FOR MIDTOWN track coach that if the meet tonight with the Aggies was called off, the date of the outdoor meet with them on May 4 was automatically broken because it was made merely by verbal statement. Manager Hamilton was not pleased with the attitude taken by the Manhattan school in breaking the date, and he said that the Aggies had no team able to defeat K. U. as a sufficient reason for breaking the date.
A meet with Oklahoma or some northern school will be substituted for the outdoor meet with the Agries. No indoor meet will be scheduled in place of the Aggie meet on account of the present heavy schedule. The Agries will meet at Mayhattan on Saturday night and the Aggies won 50 to 35 in a slow meet. K. U. won from the Normals the latter part of January, 57 to 28.
MCKIS SCHEDULE
The next text event for the Jaya Hawkers will be
MRS. H. A. RICE DIES
Funeral Services for K. U. Professor's Wife To Be In Olivet Tomorrow
Mrs. Edith Rice, wife of Professor H. A. Rice of the School of Engineering, died at the Swedish Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., yesterday morning. Mrs. Rice underwent an operation at the State Hospital in Rosemont, which she has been well since. She was taken to the Swedish Hospital February 8.
Mrs. Rice was born in Olivet in 1882. After graduating from high school she attended the University of Kansas. She was married to Proctor in 1905 and spent time they have lived at 1304 Ohio Street.
Mrs. Rice is survived by her mother, Mrs. M. Sweezy, of Olivet, and six brothers. Funeral services will be held in Olivet, tomorrow afternoon. Dean and Mrs. P. F. Walker, and Prof. and Mrs. G. C. Shaad, of the School of Engineering will attend the funeral.
That Alfred Noyes made quite an impression on the student body is plainly seen from the fact that all of his students were checked from Spooner Library.
Rose Segelbaum, c'19 spent Saturday and Sunday at her home in Kansas City, Kansas.
Marguerite Melville spent Sunday at her home near Vinland.
All people attending the performance of the Portmanteau Theatre in Fraser chapel are invited to enter by the north door.