UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 61.
VOLUME XIV.
LAW SCRIM AT F. A. U. FRIDAY
Annual Party In Honor of Football Team to be Elaborate—Unique Features
TICKETS SELLING RAPIDLY
Haley's Orchestra Will Play for Dance Numbers—Four Course Supper
The Law Scrim Friday night is to be given in F. A. U. Hall instead of in Robinson Gymnasium. This announcement was made this morning by Managers Jack Bond and Joe Gaitskill. The superiority of the F. A. U. dancing floor and the fact that the basketball squad is using the gym every night were the reasons for the change. Popular sentiment seems to indicate that the change will be a welcome one.
"The 1916 Scrim will be the most elaborate party ever given in honor of any football squad at K. U.," is the prediction of Manager Bond. "We have spared no expense in making the party as elaborate as the five-dollar admission price will permit, and I feel safe in saying that no previous party will compare with this year's event," said Bond.
HALEY WILL PLAY
Preceding the grand march, which will occur at 8:15 o'clock, will be a reception in honor of the football squad and the members of the faculty of the School of Law, "Uncle Jimmy," who will share honors in the line with Capt. Adrian Lindsey—the man whose team humbled the haughty Cornuskers. At 8:15, Haley's six-piece orchestra strike up the opening strains of the band and dancing will continue from then until 2 o'clock Saturday morning.
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Saxaphone music and "stunt" numbers are to be features of the orchestra program. Haley's orchestra—which has played for practically every big party given at K. U. during the last five years—is well known and that she does the measurement that he will play for the Scrim is sufficient to insure the success of the party. There will be twenty-four dance numbers.
A SUPPER INCLUDED
A four course supper will be served to the guests during the evening, in the new dining hall which was built in F. A. U. last spring, Frank Hetherington and "Skin" Grever, who catered at the junior prom and the sophomore hop last year, will have charge of the eats. Mick Murphey, chairman of the decorating committee at the 1915 soph hop; and the man who has the long dress in decorum for K. U. parties, with red sweaters, the scrim, Crimson and blue will predominate in the color scheme, of course, as the party is given in honor of the football squad.
Tickets for the party have been selling rapidly among the Laws, for whom the party is theoretically given. The class may be admitted, however, and Manager Bond expects a large delegation for the College, the School of Engineering, and the Medicies and Pharmics. The following men have charge of tickets: Joe Gainskill, Jack Boud Hoyt Joe, Walbrun Jones, and DAVE Brown.
WILL LECTURE IN EAST
Professor McKeever's Work in Child Welfare Known Over World
Prof. Wm. A. McKeever will go to Pittsburgh and Indianapolis this week to deliver a series of lectures on educational and child welfare topics. He will speak before an educational assasination law court that accused the women's clubs in Indianapolis.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6, 1916.
The University of Kansas has, so far as is known, the only Child Welfare Department in the world operated in connection with a university. Accordingly, Mr. W. F. Horn, who is stationed at Topeka as correspondent to Minneapolis Road Mail of New Zealand and the London Press, is writing an extended account of the work and aims of the Department.
Mr. Wm. A. McKeever, who has written a number of books on child welfare subjects and who is a recorder of this field, is head of the Department.
Three More Band Practices.
The University Band, directed by J. C. McCanies, will have three more practices before the annual fall concert, Thursday, December 15. The band boys will meet this evening, Sat., at 10 a.m. West Day and day evening. By that time you will have the concert worked up and it promises to be exceptionally good.
FORMER K. U, PROF. HONORED
FOR PAPER ON ENTOMOLOGY
Prof. H. B. Hungerford, assistant professor of entomology, who is at Cornell this year doing graduate work, recently received special mentoring from the department of entomology at Cornell as a result of a paper which he prepared with the life and habits the paper deals with the life and habits of the Water Boatman. He will be published in University Science Bulletin for this year.
Professor Hungerford is away from the University this year on leave of absence. He expects to receive his Ph.D. from Cornell in the spring.
BIG GUNS BOOM AT Y. M. TONIGHT
Heinzman and Porter Will Tel Local Workers About Cleveland Meetings
Harry L. Heinzman of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. and David R. Porter, chairman of the International Committee, are in Lawrence this week for the purpose of making a report to the local organizations concerning the work of the Cleveland Conference of Churches and Associations recently held in Cleveland, Ohio.
In these two men the University has the pleasure of entertaining two of the biggest men in Y. M. work, Harry L. Heinzman is a graduate of the University of Kansas, receiving his degree in 1906. He was a member of the Varsity football squad for four years and he has been actively engaged in Y. M. work and in this has become known throughout the country.
David R. Porter is not so well known on Mount Oread. He began his college work at Bowdoin College, and in his sophomore year passed the Rhodes Scholar examination and went to Oxford for three years. At Oxford he made recruiting for the University. On his return to America he became the boys' secretary to the International Committee, and started the conference of older boys, such as was recently held in Topeka. When John R. Mott recruited him from Oxford, which was one of the student work, Mr. Porter was chosen as his successor.
Most of the time of Mr. Porter and Mr. Heinzman will be spent in conferences with the secretaries of the local organizations and the pastors of the university. Most of the time he will address the students of the University in Myers Hall at seven o'clock on "The Value of a Standard." A meeting will be held by Mr. Heinzman tonight at Haskell in which he will present his money for the bristle war camps.
On Thursday night, from eight to nine o'clock, the Student Volunteer Band will hold an open meeting in Myers Hall.
)LD STUDENT IN RECITAL
Harold Henry Will Give Music Learned in Europe
The Weather
Harold Henry, '01, one of the University's most distinguished artists, will give a concert on the piano in Fraser Chapel on the evening of January 9. Mr. Henry is an old resident of Lawrence, his mother still living at 913 Tennessee. He was graduated from the Lawrence high school and the School of Fine Arts of the University, where he graded this graduation he went abroad and studied in France under Vedlieke and Moszykowski.
Partly cloudy tonight and colder in north and west portions. Thursday fairs
Mr. Henry is now established in Chicago, keeping a studio in the Fine Arts building. The coming of Mr. Henry to Lawrence offers to the student an opportunity to enjoy the work of a finished pianist who began his studies in this city and who laid the foundation of his fame while a son of Mount Oread. He has gained an international reputation and many K. U. professors member him has followed with interest each successive step of his career.
"The intake of Water by Certain Colloids in a Saturated Atmosphere" is the subject of the paper which Prof. C. A. Shull, of the department of botany, will read at the meeting of the Plant Biology Department in New York City, December 26-28. The paper is a report on experiments in plant physiology carried on in the laboratory for the past two years. Results seem to indicate that some of the theories regarding the mechanisms leads to water will have to be changed.
Prof. Shull to Sneak in N. Y
MODERN KANSAS PLAY AT K. U
Mother and Father Are Star Actors in Popular Play to be Staged Here
UNIVERSITY IS SETTING
Son and Daughter Advertise and Push Success of Novel Production
This isn't a true story this week but it will be.
Setting: Ten room farm house, Western Kansas, with modern conveniences.
Fater and Mater are discussing post card with printed invitation.
"Guess you and me'll have to go up to Lawrence next week for the University Fathers' and Mother's Week they're going to hold up there," said the Pater to the Mater. And Pater pulled on his pipe and thought; Mater sat with her knitting basket and thought.
Time: "Dec, IT 8:16"
Test: Campus, University > Kaugaon.
They start for Lawrence.
Time: Dec 11 to 16.
Pater is taking it all in under the guidance of son. Mater has been enjoying the life of K. U. womanhood. Pater strolls about the campus while son attends class. He strays into the department of Bacteriology. Pater is informed that he is unemployed from every large city in the state. The water in the cooler on the train was tested by this department.
Pater happens into the department of Mining Engineering and an instructor shows him testing machines which are used to investigate and improve building materials used by cities. When he goes up into the Administration building, he discovers that all art "ain't so worse". He hires a professor who explains shiftlessness of the Laws but discovers they actually absorb plenty of law and that the course is mighty practical.
Son, he finds out, is taking accounting. What good has business on the farm? Pater asks. But son soon shows him how the farm may be run on a firmer basis with every cow and chicken paying for its unkeep. Fowler Shops, the Engineering Building and the Chemistry labs prove to Pater that all things at the University are not theory.
Daughter escorts Mater to a class in Hygiene and Sanitation; Mater takes notes that will start new work and discussion in the home community. The department of Home Economics affords a startling number of recipes for meat-loaf and baked beans and suggestions for remodeling the sink and pantry at home. Daughter shows her the playground for the women, tennis courts, hockey fields, a gym with a band of gym apparatus. Daughter never looked rosier and she has gained eight pounds, the record shows it in Dr. Dorothy Child's office. Mater ends the school day at the Y. W. meeting, hears a fine talk and joins in the social meeting and tea.
"She's some place," says the Pater.
Guess you kids'll have to go some more next year. I learned a lot and grinned again. Watch for me Easter."
Time: Christmas Vacation.
Setting: Son and daughter at the
home.
Breatice Rhamn c'19, is the posse-
tion of a lawyer, mobile, presented
to her by her father.
PREPARING FOR DEBATE
Kansas Meets Nebraska on Platform December 13
The same question will be debated at Nebraska. The Nebraska negative team will come to Lawrence, and the Kansas negative team will go to Lincoln. The men who compose the Kansas negative team and who will make the trip to Nebraska are: W. H. Wilson, Lyle Anderson, and Walton Garrison. The team which remains here to debate the Nebraska negative team is composed of Edward Price, George Brown, and Harold Mattoon.
Kansas and Nebraska will meet in a dual debate in Fraser Chapel at four o'clock December 13. The subject is, "Resolved: That Submarine Warfare on Commerce as Now Conducted is Incompatible with the Rules of Neutrals and the Law of Nations in Regard to non-combatant Enemies."
This is the first debate of the year,
and the Kansas debaters hope to get
the decision both here and at Nee-
lon. Student enterprise tickets
admit.
GLEE CLUB WILL GIVE
SACRED CONCERT SUNDAY
The University Glee Club will give a sacred concert next Sunday night at the First Methodist Church at seven-forty-five o'clock. The young men have been given the whole evening for their program which is to consist of solos, quartets and numbers by the entire glee club. One unusual program which is to part of clarinet which is to have part in the entertainment.
W. P. B. Downing, director of the glee club, said this morning that as far as he knew this would be the first time the choir will attend at any of the churches this winter.
CONVOCATION OF VITAL IMPORTANCE
Permanent Income Bill to be Discussed Friday Morning— Make Plans Tonight
The County Club Convocation Friday morning in Fraser Chapel will be of more vital importance to the student body at K. U. than any other all-university meeting held this year. The meeting is held to explain the Permanent Income Bill to the students of the University and to boost the bill. The success or failure of the bill depends on how the institution will decide whether the University of Kansas is to drift along as it has in the past with no building program such as it has needed for the last eight years or if it is to progress and be improved as the state grows. Chancellor Strong, Prof. C. A. Dykstra, and Willard Glaso will describe the Income Bill and the need of such a law in Kansas. Every school which needs a building program must obtain such a bill. Kansas has obtained such a program of improvement through a Permanent Income Bill such as is being proposed in Kansas this fall. McCanes and his band will furnish music for the occasion. All of the organized county clubs will be represented at the convocation by their delegates on the platform. Fraser Chapel will be divided into counties to represent the county clubs. All of the counties will sit in his county as designated Final plans for the convocation will be made at the meeting of the county club union tonight.
MRS. MacDOWELL COMING
Wife of Noted Composer Here
Saturday Night
Mrs. Edward McDowell will give a concert Saturday evening at 7:30 in Fraser Hall. Mrs. McDowell is the wife of the late Edward McDowell, who considered one of America's greatest composers and is well-known all over Europe.
Mrs. McDowell will give a recital on her husband's compositions. Mrs. McDowell is being paid by the University and the money will go to the artists to maintain the Colony for Artists at Peterboro, New Hampshire.
It was the plan of Edward McDowell to establish a colony in a secluded place where artists, interested in music, literature, painting, and sculpture could go in the summer and devote their entire time to their art. After his death, Mrs. McDowell carried out the plan.
At the colony at Petersboro, fourteen studios are scattered through the woods. Artists who devote their entire time towards the advancement of their particular art, come there to live in the summer time. They pay a dollar a day for their lodging, board, and studio.
Prof. C. S. Skilton and Prof. Arthur
Nielsen University last summer in this
city.
Few Chances Left to Hear Haley at Journalists's Hop
DANCE TICKETS GO FAST
Tickets for the second journalists' dance, Saturday, December 9, in Robinson Gymnasmus are going fast, according to Edwin Hullinger, president of the journalists. One hundred and twenty-five have been sold already and the sale is limited to 200. The gymnastics department is made up of dentists. Any size, shape, or kind of a newspaper and seventy-five cents are required for admittance.
The dance will start promptly at 8:30. Members of the journalism faculty will be guests of honor at the concert, and members of the orchestra will furnish a program of new music. There will be fourteen dances of fifteen minutes each. Several novel features in the way of projections and special effects secret by the manager of the dance
A few tickets are left and they may be obtained at the Kansan office.
STUDENT INDIGNATION CRIES OUT AGAINST ACTION TAKEN BY SENATE
Officials of Various Undergraduate Bodies Issue Statements Condemning Course of Disciplinary Committee on Grounds That Penalty Is Too Severe
SENIOR PRESIDENT SAYS SENATE SHOULD HAVE TRIED
PREVENTION INSTEAD OF UNJUST CURE
One Communication, Although Opposed to Action of Senate, Criticizes Officials of Student Organizations for Failure to Act in Behalf of Suspended Students
Student sentiment, in regard to the action taken by the University Senate in suspending eight students for a semester as a penalty for their having participated in the naughty rally, crystalized this morning when the presidents of the four classes and a number of other prominent students issued statements voicing the attitude of various student factions in regard to the matter.
The general sentiment as expressed in the statements, seems to be opposed to both unauthorized rallies and the action of the disciplinary body. The communicants seem to think that the penalty was wholly disproportionate with the crime and that the eight men who were expelled from school were shouldering a burden which, if rightful at all, should have been borne by a hundred or more.
A diversity of opinion exists however, as one student, whose statement is among those that follow, seems to think that the officials of the various student organizations, should have taken concerted action at once. He is opposed to mere criticism and suggests that the students agree upon a solution of the problem and then offer it to the University Senate.
George Snee, president of the senior class—I voice the sentiment of the entire senior class when I say the action of the University Senate was ill-taken. Why didn't they consult some of the class officers beforehand on the matter and use an ounce of prevention instead of a pound of cure that will accomplish nothing and work as well as a hardship on the parents of all our unfundable students. I am opposed to unauthorized rallies and want to see the student body meet and pass a resolution opposing them; but not until the Senate shows some inclination to be fair in the matter.
Paul R. Grever, president of the Men's Student Council—I do not believe in rallies of the kind that occurred on the morning of October, twenty-seventh. That rally was not approved of by the student body. A great many of the participants did not approve of it.
Blondie Jones, former junior president—I have been asked by the Kansan to give an expression of my opinion as to the action of the University. Senate in expelling eight korean students, that action was a disgrace to the institution. It was the vicious snort of the old stand-pat element within our faculty. It is a fitting example of country "teacher" discipline. The sentiment among students against unrestrained teaching. Inasmuch as the Senate failed to see this, their policy was a shortsighted one. Their action in trying to cover up what they had done by not publishing the names of the victims cannot be other than cowardly. They were middle ages, and their success in obtaining the responsible parties was a miserable failure.
But the punishment that fell upon those who admitted their connection with the affair was too severe. The expulsion of a student from school, with the loss to him of one semester's work and between two hundred and three hundred dollars in cash is certainly a matter not to be passed over
It is particularly to be deplored that the spirit of co-operation and harmony which has developed to a marked degree between the student body and the faculty within the last two years, relative to matters of this kind should receive a set-back at this time by the administration of a penalty far disproportionate to the misdeeds of those upon it fell.
Taking all these facts into consideration, the greatest and most absurd wrong lies in the penalty imposed. Student opinion unanimously cries out that the penalty was too severe for the men even were in no way capable of starting the rally, and even those who were, deserve no such penalty as was inflicted. The senate surely failed to realize the effects of their workbook. Their penalty practically means a fine of $200 or $300 upon the parents and guardians, but they tightly feel it as a hardship, as well as the loss of a half year to the themselves. The crime was not a high crime against heaven—only one to irritate a few of our old-fashioned stand-pats among the faculty. Although the vote in the Senate was very low, it was several of the professors that the feeling among them is not unanimous as regards such a severe penalty.
Following are the statements of various students and officials which were handed in to the Kansan this morning;
Every student in the University should feel a sense of duty calling upon him to protest in some way against his own sins or sin against eight of our members.
Baldwin Mitchell, senior law president—I am very much opposed to the action taken by the University Senate. Those persons participating in the rally undoubtedly should have been punished, but not so drastically. I firmly believe that when the Senate expelled these men for a full semester they defeated the purpose for which this institution exists. I wonder if the Senate members have stopped to consider what the people of the state would say if the latter knew the facts.
Justin Blount, president of the sophomore class—It isn't right that these eight men should have to suffer for the actions of the several hundred who were just as instrumental in the rally as were the eight. While many of them were the braining classes wasn't exactly right, I say that the punishment was too severe. The Senate was too drastic in its action.
Mark Adams, president of the freshman class- It seems to me that the disciplinary committee took too drastic action in expelling the naughty ralliers for a whole semester. There is no doubt that these students are more than innocent, and should fit the crime. The leaders of the rally got away, in my opinion, and those who were caught were not the most guilty.
Ted Richter, president of the junior class—The Kansan yesterday seemed surprised that no student opinion had been voiced in its columns concerning the suspension of the eight Universities on Friday with the "naughty rally." The fact is the students were so shocked at the announcement of the faculty that they are just recovering and beginning to speak their opinion as to the injustice of the penalty and the reality which the eight men were selected.
I voice the sentiment of the majority of students when I say that the penalty inflicted was far too severe. It, at least, means a fine of $500, allowing for money spent and what could have been earned while here. To some the action may mean the loss of a college education.
The reason I would ask the Disciplinary Committee to reconsider its action by shortening the period of suspension, say to Christmas, is that I believe, first, that it will show that the committee is sincerely and, second, that the committee will be showing kindness to the few who have hundred of violators who were, as we hear, very illegally tried, and, as we think, too severely punished. Must a fewer suffer for the crowd just to teach a lesson?
Alfred Wieters, president of the School of Engineering—I am utterly opposed to naughty rallies and I am likewise opposed to the action of the University Senate in suspending eight students for a semester. If the guilty parties deserve suspension—I do not believe they did—then more students should be given penalty. These few participants should not shoulder the burden when the instigators and leaders of the rally have been allowed to escape punishment. The action of the disciplinary committee seems to have been a blind stab and not action thoroughly thought out beforehand.
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