UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
KANSAS WANTS SCHOOL OF MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 23, 1917
Fine Arts Growth Shows That Says Dean Butler in Report
ATTACKS ECONOMY STORY
Jayhawker Musician Flags Lamberton and Burton—Claims Repet Selfish and Injurious
NUMBER 82.
That the people of Kansas have shown their desire for music by sending their sons and daughters to the School of Fine Arts, in increasing numbers, year after year, is the declaration of Dean Harold L. Butler in his defense of the school against the academic efficiency and Economy Committee, containing a pamphlet bemailed this week to high schools and alumni in the state.
The high tuition is explained by Mr. Butler in the assertion that "Because the State has never supported the school as it has other schools of the University, the students were forced to pay exorbitant fees or do without the work. The only thing we are asking is, that if music is given at the school, it will be seriously taken care of, housed in a decent and sanitary building, and be given the same privileges that the other students of the University receive."
The article by Mr. Butler is directed particularly at that statement in the report of the committee that "I is difficult for this committee to understand the great importance of music, as recommended by the Board of Depreciation." The University of Nebraska grad music student fact that we charge music students a high tuition is an admission that it is not regular work."
TELLS ABOUT FEES
In answer to the assertion by the committee that the University of Nebraska gives no music, Mr. Butler says: "The committee forgot to say 'I am a student at the main campus, and affiliated with the University of Nebraska, is the University School of Music, with an enrollment of nearly 800 students."
An attack on the quarters which the department of music has been compelled to occupy is contained in the Dean's statement that "As far as I know, neither Senators Lambertson or Burton were ever in North College. This building is a disgrace to the state of Kansas. It has been condemned by the state architect, and by the superintendent of buildings and grounds. The heavy wind of January 8 so widened the cracks in the north wall of the building that the Chancellor refused to longer accept responsibility for the use of the building, but still allowed the quarters for the 226 students enrolled in the School of Fine Arts. Senator Joseph examined the North College building and gave as his opinion that it was not fit to keep cattle in."
Following is a list of the things the School of Fine Arts has given the people of Kansas since September, 1915, as contained in Mr. Butler's report: ninety concerts by Dean H. L. Butter and Mrs. Florence H. Butler; reader; 51 addresses by Dean H. L. Butter to clubs and high schools; nine community sings by Dean Butler; 34 community sings by Prof. Arthur Nevin; 23 community sings by Prof. Nevin; 12 choruses organized by Professor Nevin; 67 chorus rehearsals held by Professor Nevin; 298 Vietroala concerts, with talks arranged by Dean Butler; 14 concerts given by other members of the Fine Arts faculty.
JUNIORS DELAY HAVING
JAYHAWKER PHOTOS TAKEN
"Juniors who don't have their pictures in the junior section of the 1917 Jayhawker will be mighty sorry this spring when the book comes out and they see how big the section is." This was the statement made this morning by Max Monger editor of the section, after he had written from the Squires studio regarding the number of Juniors who have had their picture taken.
"Only eighteen out of ninety-seven students called have not made dates with the photographer," said Morgan; and many juniors who have not yet been called have made dates voluntarily. The final date before which all pictures should be in has been extended to February 15.
Eighty couples attended the Armenian benefit dance in Ecke's Hall Satur'i night. Oscar S. Major, who had charge of the finances, yesterday turned over $15.47, the net proceeds of the Frank Tappel social chairman of the Men's Student Council. This sum increases the Armenian fund solicited from students before the holidays. Prof. and Mrs. J. D. Carver and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smith director of the Museum Hill four-piece orchestra furnished the music.
Armenian Dance Nets Money
FEW STUDENTS WITHDRAW
BECAUSE OF FAILURES
Of the 115 people who have withdrawn from the college in the present semester, only seven have withdrawn because of failure in university work. This is six per cent of the total number of withdrawals. In the School of Engineering have been seventeen withdrawals, of which number two have been on account of illness; three are buried in the college; one withdrew because of fault in academy to his father; four because of illness There is no data for the other eight. One student is known to have withdrawn from the School of Pharmacy
Dean Butler of the School of Fine Arts, in a statement this morning, said he did not believe more than fifteen students had withdrawn from school or three stopped because of poor work. A number of students have withdrawn because of poor housing conditions in North College.
DRAW YOUR CARD FIRST;THEN ENROLL
You Can Get Your Number Thursday in Fraser Hi!
Hall
There will be a pile of numbered cards for each class and each student as he comes up to draw will be permitted to "cut the deck" and draw a card. Then the students who get the low-numbered cards will report at the Gym early Monday morning, enrollment day, and will be admitted for enrollment the same as has been done heretofore. Students who are not enrolled have their numbers are called will lose their prize money and will not be called again until after all the others have been admitted. Then the roll of absentees will be called.
No more will the big students run over the little ones or the men jostle the women around during enrollment of the Gymnasium if the plan which was adopted last night by the administrative committee of the college faculty is a success. A drawing will be made in scrawl that scramble that has characterized environment for years and which has become almost a panic the last few times.
Students are to draw lots for their places. The drawing will take place at the check stand in Fraser Hall Thursday between the hours of 9 and 12 and 2 and 5. The drawing will be in charge of the University marshal, who will be assisted by a committee of seniors chosen by the student president of the College, Jess Gardiner.
The fact that some students will want to leave Lawrence Thursday or before caused the committee some difficulty and it was finally decided to allow students to draw by proxy, but not to take a signed statement. There will be no repeating, according to Dean Olin Templin, as the name of each student will be checked when he draws a number. Another rule made was that no student can act as proxy for more than one student at a time. This is to promote person from bringing up a whole list of statements and blocking the line.
Students who do not draw numbers Thursday will not be enrolled until all those who have numbers have signed up for their classes.
THE POSTOFFICE IS LARGE
A $10,000 business in stamps was done last year. Of this amount $3,.600 worth were used by the students; the rest were used by the faculty for stamping. On Mondays, the big stamp days, an average of $25 worth is sold.
Uncle Sam's Business With University is Increasing
The University postoffice, established in 1910 as a small, unpretentious business, has grown to one of George O. Foster.
Fair tonight and Wednesday;
varmer tonight; cooler Wednesday
afternoon except in extreme south-
ast portion.
About 865 money orders were issued last year and 1200 were cashed. The parcel post business is steadily on the increase as the students are taking advantage of this convenience by sending plain packages, over 600 insured packages and 150 registered packages sent through the office last year.
Boosting for K. U. will be the spirit of a dance to be given by several C. U. men in Morton's Hall in Kansas City Friday night. A large number of Kansas City high school men have participated in the camp, who will go down from Lawrence on special Interurban cars, returning the same evening after the dance.
Give Dance in K. C.
The Weather
Flunking in the Stone Age
FAVORS MONEY FOR UNIVERSITY
Joint Committee Will Doubtless Recommend Passage of Appropriation Bill
During the two weeks the legislature has been in session only two measures have become laws, one appropriating $40,000 for legislative expenditure and one appropriating $65,000 for state highway spending. The highway measure was passed merely for the purpose of allowing a test case before the supreme court, in order to determine the constitutionality of such a measure, before consider-ing heavy internal improvement program recommended by Governor Capper.
The American Chemical Society will not meet here this spring, as has been planned. W. A. Whitaker, professor of applied chemistry, said this morning that the plans of the society have been changed, and that the convention will be held in Kansas City some time in April.
Two one-act comedies were given by the Dramatic Art class in Green Hall theatre yesterday afternoon. Opal Plank and Dena Doller took the leading parts in "A Happy Day," a clever comedy of the troubles that come to the bride and bridegroom through meddling relatives.
The original plan of the society was to spend a few days in Kansas City and a day at the University, but it never did. The city was a time in the metropolis, with perhaps an excursion to Lawrence as part of the entertainment.
Reports from Topeka comment the attitude of the present legislature in working in harmony with various state departments. This report declares that only those measures affecting state institutions which have the approval of the departments in charge of the institution, are receiving recommendations from committees.
The appropriation bill for the maintenance of state educational institutions and for the erection of new buildings, is still in the hands of the joint ways and means committee of both houses of the legislature, but is expected to be reported back to the House, where the measure originated, within a few days, with a recommendation for its passage. Presidents of the various state schools, with the Board of Administration, pleaded their case before the joint committee last week, and the reception the defense of their bases by members of the committees, led to optimistic reports regarding the prospect of the allowance of every request.
The second play, "Anything for a Change," was a farce showing the foolish desires of man and what he really attains through those desires. Alfred Richmond and Leland Smith took the leads.
CLASS IN DRAMATIC ART
PRESENTS TWO COMEDIES
"Y" Meetings Postponed
CHEMICAL SOCIETY WILL
CHEMICAL SOCIETY WILL NOT MEET AT UNIVERSITY
On account of the examinations this week, there will be no meeting of either the M. C. A. or Y. W. C. A. tonight. The next meeting will be at the regular time next Tuesday evening.
DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE
HANDLE CHEATING CASES
HANDLES CHEATING CASES
A student in Mathematics 3, found guilty of dishonest work in examination, has been required by the disciplinary committee of the Senate to complete two additional hours' credit for graduation. Another student, having been dishonest work in English history, has been subjected to a similar penalty.
Women's Series Closed Saturday With Defeats for Freshmen and Sophomores
The committee on discipline was organized last week. It will have charge of all questions of student discipline, both in and out of the class room. Regulations for student dances will be taken up early next week.
The women's interclass basketball series closed Saturday night when the junior team took an easy game from the freshmen by a score of 73 to 16, and the seniors won a hard-fought victory over the sophomores by a score of 19 to 13.
JUNIORS TRIUMPH IN CLASS LEAGUE
The team-work of Dorothy Querfeld, Joyce Brown, and Dorothy Tucker for the juniors was the feature of the series. Dorothy Querfeld played seven games in the game. Five minutes before the close of the game, Ruth Bottomly, jumping center of the freshmen, sprained her ankle and was forced to leave the game. The sprain is not according to Coach Hazel Pratt.
The senior-sophomore contest was much closer and was featured by the goal-shooting of Ruth Faris of the sophomores. She made eleven of the thirteen points for the sophomores. Esther Burke starred for the seniors.
The feature of the evening was the first appearance of the University Women's Band, which made more fun than music, for the spectators. It is not known of just what nature the band was, but the leader of the men's band was not the director. The reports indicate that the band made a "hit" with the audience.
The next women's basketball game will be between the juniors and Polytechnic high school of Kansas City, Mo. It will be played in Central high school building in Kansas City, February 3.
Lamba Phi Sigma announces the pledging of Lawrence Bennett, c'19, of Lovewell, and Oden Smith, c'10, of Garnett.
H. W. Humble, prefect of the School of Law, has been invited by the West Publishing Company of St Paul, Mn., to undertake the writing of a second edition of Crosswell's Executors and Administrators. The original work is that of Simon Greenleaf Crowwell, known in law publish- greenleaf on Evidence and Washburn on Property. Professor Humble plans to have his work ready for publication in the spring of next year.
Dr. Humble to Write Text
Prof. A. C. Terrill's class in mine surveying will go to Lansing, Kansas. Thursday to do experimental work and study the conditions, and methods used at the state prison coal mine. Professor Terrill and several of last years' students will accompany the class.
CRITICS PRAISE
MADAME ZEISLER
Noted Pianist to Appear in Concert Here Thursday
Night
Mme. Bloomfield Zeissler, the noted pianist, will appear in concert Thursday evening at Robinson Gymnasium. The band members of the University Concert Course.
Mme. Zeisler has been electrifying the East during the past two months and the critics have exhausted their hearts. She is one of her her. Many say she is the greatest pianist in the world today. Her playing is not only of the highest type, but her temperament is fiery and holds up the sensations of her hearers every moment.
"No matter what the weather," said Dean Butler this morning, "I hope all ticket holders will go for it is going to be the best program and not the best program of the series."
Mme. Zeisler brings two pianos with her. One is the instrument on which she plays and the other is sent to the teacher. The pianist she expects in Lawrence on Wednesday. This will enable her to rehearse her program and get a rest before playing. It is by such precauses that this great artist achieves success.
Following is the program:
Beethoven—Andante, F major
Beethoven—Sonata, opus 31, No. 3
Allegro
Scherzo
Menuetto
Presto con fuco
Mendelssohn—Wedding March an
wheatbarnson—Wedding March and Elfn Dance from Shakespeare's
Midsummer Night's Dream.
(Transcribed for piano by Liszt)
Chopin—Euthe, opus 10. No. 7.
Chopin—Valse, opus 70. No. 1.
Chopin—Polonise, opus 33
Chopin—Liebestraum, (Notturn) No. 3.
Liebesturm—Music (The Dance in the Village Inn—Second Episode from Lenna's Faust)
"CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION IS NEEDED."-BLACKMAR
Consolidation of the public school system of the state is urged by Dean Frank W. Blackmar as one of the seven reasons why Kansas should have a new constitution, in conference in Topeka yesterday with committees on state of $^a$airs of the two branches of the Kansas legislature. "We need permission to consolidate the public system of the state," Mr. Blackmar declares. "Two in the middle, putting one part of it under a state superintendent and another under a board of administration?"
The short ballot, the reorganization of county government, participation of the state in internal improvements and removal of restrictions on taxation are other reforms which can be secured only by a revision of the state constitution, Professor Blackmar thinks.
Legislature Cuts Salaries
Legislature Cuts Salaries
The 1917 legislature is setting a good example in economy as $134 a day are saved in salaries of employees. Yesterday we noted the first pay day of the present session and for the ten days' work the legislators received $1,345 less than for the same period two years ago. To date the total cost of this session has been $15,223.
KANSAS MEETS AGGIES TONIGHT
Jayhawkers Expect Hardest Game on Schedule With Manhattan Five
GAME IS CALLED AT 7:15
Both Teams Are in the Best of Condition and Are Picked for Champions
JAYHAWKERS IMPROVING
The Aggies have beaten us more than any other team, according to Coach Hamilton. Since 1907 the Jayhawkers and the Aggies have clashed twenty-two times of which Kansas has won two games with a pointage of 674 as against a pointage of 560 for the Aggies.
The hardest games on the Jay-hawker schedule will be staged tonight and tomorrow night when the fast Aggie five invades the Jayhawker stronghold in Robinson Gymnasium to battle for the 1917 basketball honors with the aggressive goal-shooting Kansas quintet.
The Jayhawk quintet has improved wonderfully since the first of the season according to Coaches W. O. Hamilton and Potsy Clark, and the second game tonight will be one of the fastest hard-fought games on the schedule.
A new star has developed from the Jayhawker squad in the person of Scrubby Laslett, who has become one of the fastest aggressive players on the field. He is showing much better form than at the first of the season. Lyle who has been shifted to center is playing that position like he had played there all season. Rudolf Uhrlau and Leon Gibbens, forwards, are both K men on the squad last year and are playing a role in the game, probably the most consistent player on the squad while Leon Gibbens is one of the fastest men on the floor.
JAYHAWKERS GOOD AT GOALS
The ability of every man on the team to connect with the basket is the feature of the Jayhawkers' playing, Potsy Clark characterized the quintet at the first of the season as a "scoring machine." Rudolf Uhrlaub has the most field baskets in the two non-conference games, with Wash-ton, Normals, and the two Ames games with the total of eight Harold Lyle is next with thirteen, while Leon Gibbens follows with twelve. Howard Laslett and Captain Fat Nelson have eight and seven respectively.
All of the Kansas squares are in tinttop condition and should make things hot for the Aggies in the games tonight and tomorrow night. Kansas has played two non-conference games by having bad lots kicker compete the games this season. Kansas has played two non-conference games and two conference games with several hard scrimmages with other fast teams and between teams from the league. The Aggies have had but two games so far with Washburn and Bethany.
HARDEST GAME ON SCHEDULE
Whatever may be the outcome of the games with the Aggies it is almost certain that they will be the fastest team in the Kansas schedule. The games are scheduled to start promptly at 7:15 and be over by 8:15, so that everyone will have a chance to attend the games without missing any time for study. The teams will have a regular recreation hour. The seat sale is expected to be the greatest of the season.
CLASS COMPLETES SURVEY
Sanitary Conditions in Lawrence Studied by Sociologists
The social surveys class under Dr. M. C. Elmer, of the department of lawrence, has just completed a survey of the sanitary conditions of Lawrence.
The survey consists of data concerning the sanitary condition of every lot in the city. This data, which can be incorporated in a map of Lawnland can be used to great advantage in any attempt to prevent or check epidemics in the future. E. H. Dunnire, city nurse, furnishes the outline map used and assists Doctor Elmer and the class in completing the survey.
Doctor Elmer has charge of the social survey work of the department of sociology, the purpose of which is to organize and direct surveys throughout the state wherever there is a request. Mr Elmer is at present supervising social surveys of various kinds in several cities and communities in Kansas, and during the last month has sent advice and directions for carrying on like surveys in Ohio and North Dakota.
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