UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 70
K. U. STUDENTS NUMBER 3,314
Enrolment is Now Three Times
That of Fifteen Years
Ago
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4, 1917.
SHOULD WORK FASTER
Dr. Strong Believes Students Spend Too Much Time In Attending College
The University of Kansas started the year 1917 with a total enrollment of 3,314 for the scholastic year so far. This is three times the University enrollment of 1901, fifteen years ago, when the attendance was 1,154. A year ago the enrollment was 2,807.
At least 150 more students are expected to enroll the second semester, which begins January 29. In fact, Chancellor Strong urges students ready for college to enroll in January and in the summer session next fall of waiting until next fall to begin University work. The schools of the University offer work for new students the second semester and in the summer school.
"Boys and girls are spending too many years in school," Doctor Strong said. "We've been forming a habit of going to school in winter and not summer." The school has it grown into a very expensive, wasteful habit. Instead of spending four years in college the average student should attend the summer session school and do that work in three years and the average pro-essor in four. But down the time he spends in college by going to summer school.
"It it used to be, when the main business of the world was agriculture, boys and girls had to be at home in summer. That's not true today. To save the time of students and expense to their parents and the state the University of Kansas last year adopted practically a continuous school session with forty-two weeks. We had more than 800 students at the first longer summer session last year and expect several hundred more next summer. "In 1903 I increased the school work of the University from thirty-six weeks a year, the age-old school term, to forty-two weeks a year. There were many complaints against this violation of ancient customs, the threat that the common sense thing to do, just as it is now the practical thing for a boy or girl to go to school forty-six weeks a year in the University.
"Two weeks vacation at Christmas and four weeks in summer are sufficient recuperating time for any work you have done, you cannot afford to come to summer school, for 1,383 of them are working to pay their school expenses and need the long vacation to earn money. But a majority of students, perhaps, will little productive work in summer and should be in school then."
NOTED BRITON TO SPEAK
Former Member to Parliament Here January 16
A former member of parliament, Francis Nelson, and a leader among the advanced liberals in Great Britain has been secured by the University lecture committee to address the students of the University on January 16. The subject of Mr. Nelson's address has not yet been definitely determined. In an earlier article titled "treasures," said Mr. Hamilton, chairman of the committee, "which have a bearing on war diplomacy and world peace."
Besides having been a member of parliament for five years, Mr. Nelson is also the author of a number of books, among them, "A Strong Man's War," "How Diplomats Kill War," "A Butterfly on the Wheel," and
K. U. GRAD WRITES OF HIS WORK IN SEAL ISLANDS
Word has been received from G. D. Hanna, a K. U. graduate, by Prof. W. J. Baumgartner, of the department of zoology, concerning Mr. Hanna's work in St. George Island, Alaska. This island is one of the numerous seal islands which the Department of Wildlife reserves, Mr. Hanna writes of taking a census of the seals just as if they were so many persons.
Mark Hanna, a brother, is enrolled in the University.
The 10:30 Historical Geology class under Dr. Rayman C. Moore, of the department of geology, visited the Museum, this morning to study the museum, of Doctor Moore says this collection is one of the finest in the country.
SCHEDULES FOR SECOND
SEMESTER ARE NOW OUT
Scheduled of college classes for the second semester are now out and a copy may be obtained in the office of the dean. "The schedule does not vary much in content from those of previous years," said Mrs. C. E. Easterly this morning. "A new course in English is offered to man course from five to three hours are practically the only differences in studies offered."
The quiz schedule for the first semester must be approved by the University Senate before they can be audited. They will be out in a short time.
INCOME BILL UP IN STATE CAPITAL
Schools Will Send Student Representatives to Make Final Bills
A meeting of student and alumni representatives from every state school will be held in Topeka either Saturday or Monday to discuss final plans relating to the permanent income bill. Willard Glaseco, president of the County Club Union, will represent K. U.
Mr. Glasco visited the Kansas Normal School at Emporia, December 15, and found the school strong in character, but the bill associated with the alumni' association at Emporia promised to try to send a man from the Norman School to Pittsburgh to co-ordinate efforts with the Northern.
At an All-University assembly at Manhattan the Tuesday before Christmas, the Agricultural College voted as a body to support the permanent faculty of the college. Glasco found that the work was better organized than he had expected.
The new pamphlets on the income bill will be mailed by the County Club Union here to all of the Kansas senatorial district before the legislature goes into session.
SCRIBES TO EARN
KANSAN HONORS
Hustle Is Open Sesame to Kan san Board for New Members
It was decided at the regular meeting of the members of the Kansan Board last night to remove the restrictions which have up to this time prohibited sophomores from being eligible to membership on the board.
Several vacancies on the board are to be filled at the semi-annual board election January 17, and it is expected at this time three or four sophomores who have proven that they have a "nose for news" and have shown ability and interest in their journalism and will be among those who will be rewillered in K U: newspaperdom with a membership to the Daily Kansas Board
A new editor will take charge of the executive duties of the Daily Kanan next Monday. Henry Pegues is the man whom he has members to lead his first office on the student paper. Edwin W. Hailinger is the retiring editor.
Paul Flagg was elected news editor for the Daily Kansan and Miss Dorothy Cole was re-elected society editor.
These three new members to the editorial staff of the paper will hold their respective offices for a month when another election will be held. Monthly election of editorial staff members was adopted the latter part of last year and the new arrangement makes it possible that time elections held for a semester. The monthly infusion of new blood into the editorial staff has both its good and bad features. By electing new editors each month practically every member of the department gets a chance to put his ideas of newspaper administration into practice. Naturally this frequent rotation of office gives the Dairy Department the opportunity, but at the same time the department of the same事业 are learning a great many of the intricacies of the newspaper game and after all this is the reason the department has for its existence.
Blackfriars to Meet
The Blackfair's Club, an organization in the department of English with a purpose to study old English plays, will meet Thursday afternoon at 4:30 in room 205 Fraser Hall. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the business affairs of the club, to elect officers and to arrange for the presentation of the play "The Second Shepherd".
Forster Students 'Visting
Instructor's Duties
ains, Ains,
c'16, Bernice Pickard, c'15, and Eber
Jolly, c'17, who are teaching this year,
are among the visitors on the Hill.
TRACK MEN WORK FOR NORMAL MEET
Will Hold Daily Workouts In Robinson Gymnasium After Saturday
HAMILTON WANTS MEN
Needs Hurdlers, Pole-Vaulters and Sprinters—All Should Try Out
Track work took on new life yesterday afternoon when eight new men worked out on the indoor track. Many of them had been scavenging for pole vault, dashes and quarter mile.
The first meet with the Normals is only three weeks off, but this week and the next will be used to get the limbered up and accustomed to running. The team wants every man who has done track workout this week for the start of the indoor work. He will be in Robinson Gymnasium from four to six o'clock every afternoon and new men will have a run. The vetracons of the last year's team.
The new running boards will be laid on the main floor Monday. The sprinters, hardlers and field event men are handicapped this week because the running boards have not been installed in the ball floor. They are spending their time getting "limbered up" on the running track so that they will be ready for work in their special events next week. The boards will be in place for the sprinters, jumpers and vaulters Saturday as soon as the Junior Prom is over.
The main floor of the gym will be seated for the basketball games as soon as the Prom is over. The seats will all be arranged before the first game Wednesday night with Washburn.
Discusses Land Problem In Humanistic Studies
PUTNAM WRITES ARTICLE
"The Land Credit Problem," by George E. Putnam, of the department of economics, bulletin number two of volume two of the Humanistic Studies, published by the University, has just been issued.
The introduction to the work gives a survey of the condition of land ownership and its development in the United States. In other chapters, ownership and tenancy are discussed and explained. The loans in the different states are explained and commented upon. Among these there is a discussion of the "Kansas Land Credit Trust Company," which the author believes to be an effective method of dealing with farmers' land for farm Loan Act" also is explained.
Other University people who have written articles for the Humanistic Studies are Arthur Mitchell, Edmund Cressman, and Edna Osborne.
Profs. F. H. Hodder, F. W. Blackar, E. M. Hopkins, A. T. Walker, and S. L. Whitcomb are members of the committee on Humanistic Studies. The bulletins published by this committee are offered in exchange for materials in other contexts in other cities and distributed to organizations in the state.
First take a 50-pound weight and secure it to a stout rope. Place a pully in the ceiling and run the rope through the pully. Fasten the rope to the nail in the wall from which it is pulled. In doing this, see that the 50-pound weight is raised about nine feet from the floor. If the ceiling is too low, kick the roof off the house, thus making plenty of room for the operation.
SIMPLE, BUT EFFECTUAL REMEDY FOR COLDS
Hygienical Hieroglyphics
Directions for breaking up a cold n the head:
Thirdly and lastly: Write yourself a touching little obituary; then light the candle and assume a reclining position just under the 50-pound weight of White. Writing the weight will wait until you have waited a few moments and then you won't have to wait any longer.
Secondly: Take a candle and place it just under the rone.
Senior Sing Thursday Night
The women of the senior class will have a "sing" from 7 to 8 o'clock Thursday night in France. Hall rest room chairs are available for the senior women's mixer committees, and her assistants have planned the party as a "get-better-acquainted" affair. Every woman of the senior class is expected to come and to be accompanied by every other senior woman better, Ten cents each will be required for refreshments and a good time.
Senator Joseph's Recommendations Met With Popularity at Educational Institutions
REPORT PLEASED STATE EDUCATORS
Copies of Minority Report Will be Submitted to Legislators Next Week
WILL PUBLISH HIS VIEWS
The minority report presented to Governor Capper was received with much favor by the men interested in the various state educational institutions.
Senator J. D. Joseph urged the support of state educational institutions rather than persecution, including proper maintenance for the medical school, the department of industrial journalism at the Aggie school, and the expansion of all state institutions.
"I am, I pleased with Senator Joseph's report on the condition of the state schools," said Chancellor Strong today. "Although I have not yet read the report as sent to me by the paper, my recommendations are very good."
CHANCELLOR PLEASED
The minority report of the threeman state efficiency and economy commission severely attacks the majority report prepared by Senator Lambertson, of Fairview, and Senator Burton, of Parsons. The charge is also made by Senator Joseph that Senator Lamberton wrote a large portion of the report at times when Senator Burton was not present.
Arrangements were made in Tupeka yesterday by Senator Joseph to have sufficient copies of the report printed at once that they might be distributed to the legislators next week. This was done in spite of the fact that the state printer agreed to the minority report at state expense.
The state printing department Thursday was unable to give a definite date for publishing the report and Senator Joseph feared that the legislature would be sent to the legislature at the same time as the Lambertson-Burton report.
LAST) CHANCE TO DONATE
Armenian Relief Fund to New York Soon
If you feel inclined to spend some of the money your folks gave you for Christmas in charity—do it now. It is almost your last chance, for the Armenian relief fund so far collected through the New York office in a few days.
The amount now on hand is $465. This money will be sent in as soon as possible, but it is hoped that all who wish to contribute will do so now. The students who have not been interviewed by the student workers on the committee may call at the registrar's office to leave contributions.
The faculty has given more to the fund than has the student body so far. The individual faculty pledges are larger than the student pledges, and a larger percentage of the faculty has contributed.
Harold Henry's Early Life a
Quiet One
CARED ONLY FOR MUSIC
Harold Henry, said to be one of America's five best painters, and who plays in Fraser Hall at 8:15, Tuesday evening graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas in 1901.
Mr. Henry lived in Lawrence during childhood and college days. When he was ten years old he took his first music lesson under the direction of Miss Lichtenwalter who was a k. U. graduate. One who remembers him tells how his mother begged him to go out and play. He was also a teacher of books. He is said to have graduated from the Lawrence High School only because he wanted to enter the School of Music on the hill.
From the University Mr. Henry want abroad immediately and studied under Jedilka and Moszkowski. Recently Mr. Henry played for the McDowell Colony, about which Mrs. McDowell told a K. U. audience before the holidays. Harold Henry is perhaps best known in Chicago .
Dr. Erasmus Haworth, head of the department of geology and also state geologist, returned Sunday from Albany, New York, where he attended a meeting of the Geology Association of America.
On account of the preparations being made in the gym for the Junior Prose, no gym classes were held today.
NEW DEBATERS WILL MEET VETERANS IN FINAL TRYOUT
Second and final tryout for the spring debate will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 in Green Hall. Three debates will be held, one with Oklahoma University and one with Oklahoma University. Five old men of last year's squad will compete with eleven men who passed the tryouts held before Christmas. The old men are Edward Price, Lyle Anderson, Smith, L. Smith, and Roy Davidson.
The successful debaters will be chosen by a committee of the following faculty members: C. A. Dykstra, B. F. Moore, Arthur MacMurray, R. D. O'Leary, and O. H. Burns. The subject for the debate will be the question of Compulsory Investigation of Industrial Disputes.
BRIDGE OPEN FOR PUBLIC SATURDAY
City Will Furnish Entertainment and Dinner for Hundreds of Persons
Saturday has been set aside as the day for the formal opening of the new bridge. On this occasion Lawrence will be host to the hundreds of persons who will come to assist in the celebration of the completion of this work. The special program starts at 10 a.m., with a presentation by Ex-governor George H. Hodges, J. L. Bristow and C. L. Gleed of Topeka are among the speakers.
The guests and citizens of Lawrence will parade across the bridge and return at twelve o'clock and a free lunch will be served to the guests at three o'clock and an o'clock. At three o'clock the program will close with a free entertainment.
Our new forty foot bridge of eight spans is the best in the state. It has been completed at a cost of $200,000. We will not cross the bridge for the first time today. The bridge is now completed with the exception of the north apposition, this is then we have to settle on a year in the settlement before the sidewalks can be laid.
PROGRAMS SENT STATE MERCHANTS
Plans for Fourth Annual Short Course Week Now Com-
Programs for the fourth annual Merchants' Short Course, to be held at the University February 5 to 9, have been mailed to the merchants of the state. F.R. Hamilton, director of the Extension Division, who has charge of the Short Course, says it is time to move on ever. "We are looking for an attendance larger than that of last year," he added.
The course is built around the problems of Store Management, Business Law, Advertising, Mail Order Competition, Accounting, and Salesmanship. The program is a twelve-page booklet containing cuts of the various speakers with brief statements concerning the subjects to be discussed.
Sol Westerfeld of Chicago, vicepresident of the National Association of Retail Grocers, Otto Buchmann, executive at Ackman & Clark in Mark of St. Louis, director of the Clean-Up and Paint-Up Campaign Bureau, George M. Husser, secretary of the Kansas City Advertising Club, A. E. Edgar, Detroit, Mich., author of "How to Advertise a Retail Store," and A. L. Oliger of Emperia, state association, are some of the speakers whose names appear on the program. Arrangements for advance registration and reservation of accommo-
Arrangements for advance registration and reservation of accommodation.
DAILY HEALTH HINTS
Of what avail is periodic inspection of the human machine? Can inspectors detect changes in the working parts in time for repair to be accomplished? Emphatically, YES. Long blood stream (the blood stream) is seriously impaired, the fact of overstrain can be determined and, the strain being abated, the life of the tube is prolonged. A keen inspector can detect the early signs of a pump. The pump may then be strengthened, its burdens adjusted to its capacity.
Many human machines found to be defective, can be adjusted to run, perhaps for many years, at a lower rate, avoiding an impending breakdown.
In other cases, the machine is doing the wrong kind of work, or it is not being operated with the right kind of fuel.
JUNIOR PROM TO START ON TIME
"Eight O'Clock The Time Set; We'll Begin Then, Regardless"—Manager Fleeson
"BILLY MORGAN" COMING
Four Hundred and Fifty Guests Expected at Big Formal Tomorrow Night
THE PROM IN A NUTSHELL
Dancing begins at eight- thirty and continues until two o'clock Saturday morning.
Place: Robinson Gymnasium.
Time: Eight o'clock.
Grand March begins at eight fifteen o'clock.
A reception, with Lieutenant-Governor "Billy" Morgan as the guest of honor, the opening event.
Refreshments are to be served in three relays of three dances each. A four-course supper will be served.
Cabaret entertainment during supper and during intermission by Misses Grace Nelson and Gladys Swarthwout.
Dance music by Jack Riley's ten-piece orchestra.
Flowers must be checked at the door.
"I've asked every man to tell his date he would call for her at a quarter of eight. In that way, we hope to have every one at the Gym on time. But whether they're there or the grand march will begin at 8:15."
The fifteenth annual Junior Prom, to be given in the Gym tomorrow night, will start on time! So say they, "I'll go on time," son, managers of the big affair, and they, if any one, should know. "The reception begins at eight o'clock; the grand march at 8:15; and dancing at eight-thirty." said Fleeson this morning. And were going to start on time, even if only ten couples are there!
A reception in honor of Lieutenant-Governor and Mrs. W. Y. Morgan is the opening event of the Prom program. Those in the receiving line receive the title of President of the junior class, and Miss Rita Hurley Lieutenant-Governor and Mrs. Morgan; Howard Fleeson, Harry Montgomery, Prom managers, and the Misses Lena Lamb and Luella Groebert; Chancellor and Mrs. Frank Burke; Dr. David Brady, advisor of women, and Prof. and Mrs. George E. Putnam.
THEN THE GRAND MARCH
At eight-fifteen o'clock, Jack Riley's ten-piece orchestra from the Pompeian Room of the Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City will play the grand march, high five led by Mr. Montfort and Miss Clementine; Dance programs will be given out by Miss Adrienne Atkinson and Nell DeHart and Messrs. Frank Fratcher and Russell Friend. Dancing will begin at eight-thirty and continue until two o'clock Saturday morning.
A FOUR COURSE SUPPER
A four-course supper will be served at quartet tables on the first floor, in three relays as follows: During dances 5, 6, and 7; during dances 10, 11, and 12; and during dances 13, 14, and 15. Tickets of admission to the program will be given to the programs. Frank Hetherington and "Skin" Greaver will cater.
A cabaret entertainment will be given by Misses Grace Nelson, soprano, Gladys Swarthout, conductor, during the concert when son will sing on the dance floor during the intermission. "There will really be no intermission," said Manager Montgomery this morning. "You have something doing every minute."
"Work on the Prom is proceeding at a peppery rate, and everything looks fine for a great big time," said Montgomery this morning. "The cheek stand in Fraser will be open all day tomorrow for those who have not yet purchased tickets. We expect about 450 guests."
"Flowers are not to be given," said Howard Fleeson, one of the Prom managers, this morning. "We want to make the Prom as democratic as possible. To do this we wish to have flowers for everyone, say flowers will be checked at the door, we mean that the checking will be an emergency measure only."
Special tickets will be on sale admitting spectators to the gallery.
Prof. C. H. Ashton of the department of mathematics while at the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science in New York University, and to a meeting of the Sigma Xi fraternity as a delegate from the Kansas chapter