UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ROWDYISM NOT A PART OF K. U.
Prof. F. E. Melvin Gives Views of Life at Various Univer- siting
YEARS BRING A CHANGF
Manners, Customs and Grades of 1916 students Differ from Those of 1906
A comparison of the K. U. student of 1916 with the student of ten years ago, when Prof. F. E. Melvin, of the department of history, was graduated, reveals a marked difference in manners, customs and grades. "The student of today is more consistent in his school work and more in earnest than the students of '06, but he lacks the initiative and originality which was superabundance in the "good old days," says Professor Melvin.
TRAINED MATERIAL LACKING "It is as Dean Templin said the day after the standing of the students was published. The preparatory schools are not turning out as good material, but they have put in a well trained material as they should. Not enough emphasis is placed upon proper discipline in the high schools which is proving a detriment to the scholastic standing of the University.
"Rowdyism is one thing which is disappearing from Kansas in a marked degree," continued Mr. Melvin, "but I notice that students still break classes and paddle the freshmen. Back in 1906 we used to have class scraps and rushes which bordered on the mob spirit. At Cornell and Illinois, even now, students burn street cars and wreck buildings on their streets." The spirit of rowdyism increases as one goes east.
Professor Melvin has studied at several eastern universities and has taught in one or two. In the last ten years he has traveled in England and other foreign countries. He has obeyed the various colleges and universities he has visited. On each campus he has found a different spirit, one which distinguished that college from every other college. The universities of New York and those of the United States than any other foreign school which he visited.
"Cornell is a striking example of a school which has distinctive marks and traditions. One of its traditions prohibits a man from speaking to a woman. Another denies the student the right to recite in class or to star in quizzes. He is satisfied if he merely gets through the course. A "three" is very satisfactory. The type of man one thing considered at this school.
K. U. EMPHASIZES EFFICIENCY
"At K. U., efficiency is emphasized; at Cornell culture is the desired end; while at Illinois, where I taught last year, proficiency is the aim of all students. The spirit of a strong graduate school has hold on the students of Pennsylvania and the high standards of work. At Pennsylvania the spirit of the professional school permeates the entire student body. City life which we do not have in Lawrence proves a great benefit to our students among the students of Pennsylvania."
Easterners may tailg of the westerners as being uncultured, but in Professor Melvin's opinion, it is the bright and able men of the west who is gaining prominence in the eastern colleges. He reasons that in most cases the eastern man has a far easier life than does the man of the west, because these standards of living which tend to keep grades down. The automobile, for example, has been the direct cause of many flunks.
ACTIVE ALUMNI ARE NEEDED "The differences between the activities of the alumni here and those of eastern institutions with which bacharan was boarding;" concluded Professor Melvin. "Graduates of eastern universities usually do more for their Alma Mater than the alumni of western schools." Talk less and act more" seems to be the best way to address Kansas support - home-comming days much better than do the alumni of eastern universities."
Arts to Have Library
The department of painting and design, on third floor of the Administration building, is to have a library. The professors of the department will have the books on art from Spooner taken over, a few new vol- ume of contemporary art, the books belonging to Professor Griffith and Professor Hekking will be used. A student is to have charge of the library.
A student recital will be given in
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PROF. HEKKING ADDRESSES
ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY
"An architect, who is able to get enough from his ideals to make them practical and yet not impair them, is a successful architect," said William M. Hekkling, professor of drawing and painting in the School of Fine Arts, at the meeting of the Architectural Society in Marvin Hall, Tuesday night.
"The personal equation of a man is, the qualities which can be measured plus those which cannot be. X is the incomensurable part of his makeup it is his ability to adapt himself to the practical theories to the practical." This, said Mr. Heckling, "is the part of the equation which brings the salary."
KEMP'S POEMS IN "SUNFLOWERS"
Picture of K. U. Man In Squires Window of Unusual Interest
Interest
Of more than unusual interest at the present time because of the publication of the second edition of William Wattles' collection of "Sunflowers, A Book of Kansas Poems," is a picture of Harry Kemp which is now on view in the south window at the Squires photograph gallery. The picture is an enlargement of a snapshot taken of him, with his dog and agro, and given by him to Mr. Wattles. The snapshot is one of the few pictures of Kemp in existence.
There is a great deal of Kemp's work in work, Wattles' new book, just issued from the press of McClurg and Co., Chicago. Kemp's many poems *Kansas have always been popular in the Sunflower state*, and their inclusion in the present work was essential. In addition to those poems of Kemp's which appeared in the first edition of *The Harvest Hand* published in 1934, Wattles has included Kemp's long descriptive work, "The Harvest Hand." This poem is based on Kemp's actual experiences in the Kansas harvest fields.
KEMP WELL KNOWN HERE
The phrase "Harry Kemp, the tramp poet," is a familiar one to in habitats of Mount Oread, where he is remembered for his many escapades here—notably for his refusal to take a bus from the University. Kemp attended the University for four years during which time his first printed poems appeared in a little book called "Songs From the Hill."
Kemp was born in Youngtown, Ohio, in 1883. At the age of twelve his family moved to Arlington, New Jersey, where he obtained some schooling and where he spent much time there. In this time he discovered Keats, and began to make short tramping expeditions. The nomadic instinct grew upon him, and he shipped to Australia as a cabin boy upon a bark. He visited the Australian coast and after nearly starving on his rambles over the Australian country, he escaped to China on a cattle boat. From there he managed to get to Manilla, and finally back to the United States on an army transport.
Then came periods of wandering it. California, Texas, and Kansas, and his six years of college life here at K. U. Kemp was here from 1905 until 1911. It was during this time that he and Mr. Wattles became the best of friends, and that they worked together to develop a book on the publication of the "Songs from the Hill." Mr. Carruth was the foster-father of the little volume, and it was he who wrote the introduction. Verses by William Allen White, Gale Gossett, Anna R. Manly, Adella M. Pepper, and John Shea were included in book's contents, as well as a number of poems by Wattles and Kemp.
After leaving K. U. Kemp worked for a year in the Roycroft Shop at East Aurora, New York; worked on book covers of Great Lakes; and bummed his way to becoming Mr. He has since returned, and is now in New York. He is a frequent contributor to the American Magazine, the Independent, and the Smart Set. He has written books of poems, the latest being long prose tragedy entitled "Judas."
The eighth edition of "A Laboratory Guide to the Study of Qualitative Analysis," by E. H. S. Bailey and Hamilton P. Cady, professors of chemistry in the University, is just out. Paul V. Faragher, assistant professor in the department, has collaborated with Professor Revising the book for this edition. It has been in use in chemistry classes for several years.
The department of Romance Language has purchased a victrola, and some records in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, or German, of the students of the department.
William Creek, c'19, who is one of the typhoid victims at a hospital in ElDorado Springs is reported much earlier to be back on the hill in a short time.
Blanche Mullen, c'16, who is teaching in the Burlington high school came Wednesday to visit a few days at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.
Results of Chemical Research to be Published Soon
FOUR BULLETINS READY
Prof. W. A. Whitaker, director of state chemical research, now has four new bulletins ready for publication, which will be distributed to various parts of the state as soon as they are printed.
The four bulletins now ready for publication are: The salt industry and search for potash in Kansas; A survey of the natural gases in Kansas; The softener of the municipal water supplies; The disposal of the sewerage. The last bulletprint printed was the iron from municipal water supplies
Professor Whitaker is now directing the work on four more research problems all of which are important ones to the state. The work under way at present deals with the composition of Kansas petroleum, portland cement, flotation, and absorption by clays.
These bulletins sometimes contain the results of thousands of tests which are a great aid in developing the natural resources of the state. Much of what work is done by seniors who write their thesis on research problems.
BY THE WAY—
Everyman:: An Interlude
Everyman approaches the door of the fraternity house and picks up the family copy of the University Daily newspaper. He peruses the election story-
Everyman speaks—Ha! 'Oddish!
The telephone. Is't you尚h, oh fair one?
Wouldst know the election returns?
Thy curiosity is beyond bounds—then let us he up to the picture show for returns.
The gracious lady Mona Clare–oh, thou too hast read the Kansan. Will call at eight ockle.
Entertain Sigma Kannan
**Brian Tian Sigma Kappas**
The Sigma Kappa fraternity will entertain the Sigma Kappa pledges and their housemother, Mrs M. G. Allen, with a dinner-dance at the house tonight. The Pi Kappa Alphas were at home to the Sigma Kappas Tuesday at the chapter house from five until six o'clock and the Pi Upsilon fraternity will entertain them Thursday.
Will Entertain Thetas
Will Entertain Thetas
The immense association of Kappa Alpha Theta will enter the active chapter at the home of Mrs. E. W. Murray, November 18.
To Entertain Chi Omegas
the members of the Ch Omega sorority will be the guests of Inez Mack at her home on Kentucky street during a seven o'clock picnic dinner.
The freshmen of the Sigma Kappa sorority were guests of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity Tuesday evening from seven until eight. Light refreshments were served during the hour which was spent in dancing.
Prof. Hamilton P. Cady of the department of chemistry has returned from a trip to Alma and Minnesota where he delivered lectures on liquid air.
Pi K. A.'s Entertain
Mrs. J. D. Waters of Bonner Springs, visited Jane Waters at the Kappa house Monday night. Mrs. Waters came up for the vaudeville that the Kappas gave for their mothers and alumni. This was a charity affair, the proceeds of which will go to the social service hospital.
The finance committee of the Y. W.
C. A. will have a steak roast on the golf links Wednesday evening after
1:30.
The Beta Theta Pi fraternity will call at the Alpha Chi Omega house Thursday between five and six.
Floyd Warner, e20, left for his home at Melvern last evening in response to a message that announced the death of his aunt.
Alpha Delta Pi announces the pledging of Goldia Jones, c'20, of Fredonia.
Ames Rodgers went to his home in Ablene to vote and Francis Arnold went to Emporia to vote.
Military Training for Students
The United States Government is very anxious for University men to have some military training and is in need to pay them for the time spent in school under a regular army man detailed for the regular army sergeant will be detailed with this organization and will spend all of his time in Lawrence giving instruction. A regular army cap sent to Lawrence to inspect condition of the Battery of Field Artillery being formed a desire to be able to report to the government that at least twenty university men were interested in the organization and were pushing it. The recruiting officers for this Battery are the City Y. M. C. A, each evening this week they may Anyone interested in this organization is invited to come to the City Y. M. C. A, any evening this week for any information they may desire in reference to this organization.-Adv.
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