UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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NUMBER 90.
VOLUME XII
KANSAN NOW HAS A FAIR PLAY BUREAU
Mistakes Will be Investigated on Complaint of Injured Persons
NEW AMONG COLLEGE PAPERS
Kansan First to Introduce Plan; Successfully Used on New York
To stop inaccuracies and to give redress to persons harmed by mistakes in the Daily Kansan, the Kansan Board has installed a Fair Play and Accuracy Bureau, which will result in the suspension of a man from the Kansan Board after he has made a certain number of mistakes, or if he is not on the Board, will keep him from working for the paper. A scale of demersals has been used by the Bureau according to their appearance. When the number of demersals totals fifty the man goes off the Board for three months, or is kept from writing for the paper during that time.
The Daily Kansan is the first college paper in the United States to adopts a bureau. Several metropolitan papers have a similar plan. The New World World was the first paper to work out the idea.
Will Protect Readers
The Kansan believes that by adopting the fair play plan, its readers will be given more accurate news, and eliminate unfairness. The Bureau will provide absolute protection to persons through false, or unfair statements in the columns of the Kansan.
Notify Board of Mistakes
The Bureau is made up of the editor of the Daily Kansan, who acts as secretary of the Bureau, a faculty member not connected with the department of journalism, and a student, not taking journalism courses. The faculty member and student chosen were Prof H. T. Hill of the department of public speaking, and Don Joseph.
Both Sides to be Heard
Any complaint of mistake in statement or impression in the columns of the Daily Kansan should be made in writing to the secretary of the Bureau at the Daily Kansan office, not later than a week after the mistake appears and should retain it then refer to the copy stored in by the reporters for that day's paper, and see who wrote the story, and notify the reporter, or the man responsible, of the complaint, and tell him when the Bureau will take up the complaint. The Bureau also may identify of the identification of the man responsible for the story, and when the Bureau will consider the complaint.
The plaintiff and defendant will ap pear before the Bureau and give their evidence in person, or by representative or writing, as they wish. After the evidence is in, the Bureau will go into executive session, and case, and the number of demurts to en the defendant, if he is found guilty.
Name wrong, not more than 5 de-
merits.
Acquittal, 0 demerits.
When the number of demerts given one man reaches fifty he is to be suspended from the Kansan Board for three months. If not, neither the managering editor, nor the business manager will give him an assignment for three months, and no copy submitted will be published in the Daily Kansan.
The scale of demersits given by the Bureau is as follows:
Place wrong, not more than 5 derrites.
Time wrong, not more than 5 de moritas.
Leaving out facts of which reporter had knowledge and which added would have change the impression of the reader less than 10 defenders or more than 25.
To this however, is added the provision that if the Bureau cannot decide on the decisions listed it may decide on the decision with the number of demerits.
Work in the School of Engineering will be suspended all day Thursday. In Schools other than Engineering the work will be suspended at 2:30 for the remainder of the day.
Classes will be dismissed all day Friday, Lincoln's birthday.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
FOUR HUNDRED HIGH SCHOOLS
ARE ACCREDITED AT K. U.
The Board of Administration has forbidden Prof. W. H. Johnson from giving out a list of accredited high schools but Professor Johnd did say that high schools recognized by the University of Michigan have an increase of nearly twenty-five as compared with accredited schools at this time last year.
The committee on high school relations finished its work last week and although several schools were declared unprepared to train students for the University, many of them adopt standard methods of teaching and required courses so that graduates from those schools next February can enter K. U. with the required number of high school credits.
SENIOR PLAY TAKING FORM
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 10, 1915
Three Rehearsals a Week Are Polish
Lines of the Professor's Love
Love
Three rehearsals weekly of the "Professor's Love Story" under the direction of Prof. Arthur MacMurray, head of the department of public speaking, are causing the senior play to assume form rapidly, and the finishing touches will be added in the next two weeks, prior to the presentation at the Bowersock on February 23. The members of the cast are taking a great deal of effort in the final day promises to be a complete success. This is the first year that the senior play has ever been directed by the department of public speaking, and the results will be watched with interest.
The first two matches of the hand ball tournament occurred this afternoon in the Gymnasium. The following are the remaining games: Fitzgerald, Thursday; 4:00 p.m.; Wood vs. Ferguson, Thursday; 5:00 p.m.; Ramsey vs. Elmore, Friday; 4:00 p.m.; Fitzgerald G., vs. Cory, Friday; 5:00 p.m.; Washburn, vs. Morrow p.m.; and Washburn vs. Morrow Monday, 5:00 p.m.
Duke Kennedy, manager of the play, and Professor MacMurray were making a still hunt for the necessary scenery this afternoon. A brilliant drop certain, cut out to resemble a transparent window, and the management is experiencing some difficulty in locating one. It is possible that one will have to be specially constructed or mounted from Topeta or Kansas City.
HANDBALL TOURNAMENT ON
Matches Started Today, Continue Until Friday Night
Players are asked to arrange with their opponents not to make their appearance if they find it impossible to attend. This is done so as not to conflict with the rule regarding the forfeiture of a game if only one player appears. This also allows time to arrange in which to make the rearrange match, after which time the players are declared out of the tournament.
BISHOP HENDERSON TO MEET UNIVERSITY MEN
Bishop T. S. Henderson of Chattanooga, Tenn., Methodist Bishop of the South, will come to Lawrence Thursday morning to spend four days. A convocation at which he will speak may be held Thursday afternoon. He will meet with the Mott campaign committee Friday afternoon at 4:30. Students wishing to view views from Henderson should request for them through Con Hoffmer or William E. Burns. Bishop Henderson will speak at the Lawrence Methodist church Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.
The rumor that Archie Grady and Kirk Hilton, star track man, had been declared ineligible was denied by Coach Jillian Dahl as he is up in his work and Hilton has no intention of leaving school as the rumor implied.
Daniel B. Luten, known for his reinforced concrete bridges, gave an illustrated talk on "Permanent Bridges" to the senior civil engineers at 1:30 yesterday afternoon in Marvin Hall.
Track Men Are Eligible
All graduate students are invited to a social gathering of the Graduate Club to be held in Myers Hall at 3 o'clock Saturday night.
Earl Clover Returns
Bridge Expert Speaks
Grades are being given out at Regi-
istrar George O. Foster's office.
Earl Clover, who left school in the fall of '12, has returned to the University to resume his work.
Sub-rhetoric students, first semester, will not be able to get last month's papers as was stated in class.
RECORD ATTENDANCE
AT COUNCIL DANCE
early 300 Students Lift Union Debt at Gym Last Night
Nearly 300 Students Lifted
Five hundred and eight feet twinkled merrily while Eric Owen thumpety-thumped the piano and Swede Wilson plankety-planked his banjo at the Student Union dance last night—and as a result the Union debt has been lowered by some $122.10. Two hundred and four hundred have advantage of the extension of the date rule and stopped forth to Robinson Gym for an evening's entertainment and a chance to help the late Student Union.
The dance was an unprecedented success, and Vic Bottomly and the Student Council are optimistic. During intermission, many students were served with refreshments at Brick's Oread Cafe, and the net proceeds, $10.10, were donated to the fund. $189.90 remains to be secured. This obtained the funding for the entire indebtedness incurred by the failure of the Union.
To raise this money the Council plans to lease the movies for one evening soon, suspend the date rule, and cop the proceeds.
TO LECTURE ON RELIGION
dt. Arthur Braden Will Talk Over Problems With Student Classes
A series of lectures on religious problems of the students has been announced by Dr. Arthur Eraden, dean of the Christian Bible Chair in Lawrence. The lectures will be delivered at 4:30 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. They are open to all University students.
The subjects that Mr. Braden will talk on are as follows: "The Problem of Faith," "Evolution and Religion," "The Personality of God," "The Divinity of Christ," "Prayer," "The Atonement," "The Inspiration of the "Scriptures," "Miracles," "Salvation," "Reward and Punishment."
The first of these lectures will be
debuted by Yagers Hall, Tuesday,
February 18th.
HANK MALOY TO DRAW
FOR 1915 JAYHAWKER?
WRITE HOME ABOUT THE MILL TAX BILL
Hank Maloy, former Kansas cartoonist, four times art editor of the Jayhawker, and at present an inhabitant of Eureka, will illustrate the calf of Annual to make the necessary arrangements.
While in school here Hank had three cartons published in the New York Sun. Another of his stunts was to draw cartons while standing on a tight wire. He performed this feat at the indoor circus, two years ago.
Graduate Students to Teach
Anna Bechtold, graduate student in the department of German, has accepted a position in the Fremdonia high school as instructor in German language up her new work. A graduate student in the department of English Hazel Murray, has been employed by the Jewell City high school. She will be English in that institution Miss Murry will go to Jewell City tomorrow.
Organizations who wish to have their pictures in the 1915 Jayhawk must burn them. The organization should date them, February 15. That is the date set by the management for closing the forms of that portion of the book. Only by securing special permission from a legal entity organization be allowed to hold its picture longer and have it published.
Galvin Lambert, of Emporia, sport editor on the Kansan last semester, has left school to be a reporter on Allen White's *Emporia Gazette*.
Electrical's Pose Tomorrow
Electrical Engineers will have their piece of machinery for the showroom tomorrow morning at 10:20 in front of Marvin Hall.
Lambert Quits School
Whether the mill tax resolution passes the legislature will depend largely on the work students do toward urging its passage.
If you have moved, or if your address or telephone number in the student Directory is incorrect, call K. U. 25 and the Kansas will print a correction. Or drop the following in a University mail box:
"Write home about the mill tax.
Tell the folks in your home town to write to their representatives about the mill tax. And write to your representative about the Inter County Club president of the Inter County Club organization.
it Is to Go Through Students Must Work, Sommers Says
"We have tried for years to get this amendment introduced and now that it is introduced every student in this University, whether a citizen or a student, should have enough love for his Alma Mater to do everything in his power to see that favorable action is taken by the legislature and the University of Kansas will be able to make her right to attend among the big state universities."
ARRANGE DEBATE SCHEDULE
Present entry:
Wednesday, April 7, is to be the date of the Triangular debate if Colorado will consent to arrangements made by Kansas and Oklahoma. Decision in regard to the matter was reached this morning, after several weeks of correspondence with the Sooners.
The Triangular question is, Is resolved: "That the Single Tax on Land Should Immediately be Submitted Forms of State and Local Taxation."
Teams for Single Tax Question to be Chosen Within Three Weeks
The debating teams, both for the Triangular and Missouri contests, will be chosen within the next three weeks. Regular meetings of the squad are being held three times a week, to make possible the elimination of the candidates for the matches. At these meetings the debate team will present the arguments for and against the questions being discussed and criticised. Prof. Howard T. Hill, of the department of public speaking, is supervising the work.
Address Correct:
An attempt has been made by the local Debating Council to convert the Missouri-Kansas debate into a triangular affair, with Nebraska as the third participant. Nothing definite has yet developed, however.
Have You Moved?
CLASS WILL GO TO CEMETERY
The senior engineering class will march in the funeral procession of Dean Frank O. Marvin Thursday afternoon. At a meeting of the class yesterday, a delegation was appointed to meet the train bearing the body when it arrives in Lawrence tonight.
Address Phone
A section of the Congregational church will be reserved for students in the School of Engineering. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
Senior Engineers to March in Funeral Procession of Dean Marvin
Prof. Howard T. Hill, of the department of public speaking, will act as one of the judges in the coming annual contest of the Kansas State Oratorical Association, to be held in Emporia on Friday, March 19. The various colleges of the state will represented in the meet, and the speakers judged solely on delivery. Their oration will be graded previous composition and thought. There will be several other judges aside from Professor Hill. Prof. Arthur MacMurray will attend if possible.
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Prof. Hill to Referee Debate
Prof. U. G. Mitchell, of the department of mathematics, and Prof Howard T. Hill, of the department of public speaking, will go to McLouish Friday. Fourth place will be taken when he the high schools of McLouish and Effingham. The question concerns the minimum wage for women in Kansas.
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Professors to be Judges
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SCHOOLMEN TO TEACHERS MEETING AT EMPORIA
Prof. W. H. Johnson, Dean Arvin Olin and Prof. C. A. Buckner will hear Prof. W. A. Jessup, head of the department of education at the University of Iowa, at a high school superintendents' conference, to be held next Friday and Saturday at Emporia University will attend the meeting but as yet only three have announced their intention.
"High school superintendents from every part of the state will be at the meeting and professors from several colleges will take part in discussions of various subjects of interest to educational men. Thursday night the Schoolmasters hold a conference and members of that club will remain in Emporia over Friday and Saturday in order to attend the conference."
Explain the Mill Tax
To all Students of the University:
The Central Organization of Council Clubs urges all students interested in politics to do what they can to boost the mill tax amendment which has been introduced into both houses of the legislature and come up for a vote within a few days.
Also to do what they can to make sure that the benefits of the amendment to the state educational institutions and the state is understood.
All of the state schools have united on the mill tax measure because they know they will be able to better their institutions if they have a permanent office. And they know that with the tax they can take the schools out of politics.
A letter written to your legislator will help materially to put the University and other state schools on business in preparing for this amendment, your letter that this amendment does not raise taxes but will lead to increased efficiency at the same cost to tax payers, your reader will be better informed into the merits of the amendment.
Are you not willing to appropriate a few minutes of your time and a few postage stamps to make your Alma Mater a greater and better organization?
The Central Organization of County Clabs,
By Willard M. Glasco, Sec.
WILL PUBLISH CORRECTIONS
Kansan Will Publish Directory Changes for Students
Constant inconvenience is caused by incorrect entries in the student directory. Many students have moved since the directory was published and eighty new students have come to the University this semester. At the bottom of this page, the Kansan is printing a blank white should be filled if necessary. If more convenient, you call K. U. 25 and the Kansan will be glad to enter a correction of your name and address in its columns.
PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASSES
LARGER THAN EVER
Enrollment in the department on public speaking is the largest in the history of the University. There are 280 students taking the various courses taught in the Oral Interpretation being most in Oral Interpreting, having an enrolment of 127.
Despite the fact that University, women have heretofore taken little interest in elocation as an art, enthusiasm among them seems to be growing, and there are 72 women in the country who have been divided into sections of twenty-five and a schedule made for their meeting.
DRAMATIC CLUB PLAY
COMES ON APRIL 14
April 14 is the date chosen for the Dramatic Club play, "The Man From Home." The production will be presented at the Bowersock theatre.
The management of the play is still unable to announce the cast, owing to the ineligibility of three procreation workers; unable to take part, further shifts would be necessary, and Don Burnett, manager of the production, says that he does not wish to publish the cast until it will be made. That no further changes will be made.
neearasels will begin as soon as possible. Professors MacMurray and Hill dividing the work until after the senior play is given. Professor MacMurray will then continue the work alone.
91 New Students Here
MUMPS WILL KEEP
TWO MEN FROM GAME
Miss Ashton Has Them Too
Annette Ashton, sophomore College, has been confined to her home days with an attack of mumps.
Since February 1, 91 new students have registered at the University. This makes the attendance of 300 students, not counting those enrolled for Summer Session only.
Cole and Folk Barred From Aggie Series by Illness
SPROULL GOES IN THE LINEUP
Regular Team Will Star Tonight's Game—Only Two Substitute Guards Left
The mumps which threatened to do what no other basketball five in the Missouri Valley has been able to accomplish—defeat William Oliver (Wilson) 1915 Jayhawk basketkeeper, seems to have missed its mark after all.
Only two men, Folk and Cole, will be kept out of tonight's game against the Agries because of the mumps. Lefty Sproull who has been feeling badly since yesterday will be able to stay on tonight at least part of the game.
Although having their usual line-up to open up against the Farmers tonight, in case of substitutions, the farmers would like to walk. Both Folk and Cole are guards and their absence leaves only the midget Wood and Bill Gray a new man to use in case Kaiser and Dumont get it out. The farmer can substitute at forward for Sproull.
The advance sale of seats for both games has been even larger than for the Nebraska series. It will be a greatly different basketball team that Lowman will bring to Lawrence tonight, than the one which met the K. U. five in Manhattan several weeks ago. The series will be another better chance just about on eichn the Crismon and Blue chances for the Valley 1915 title.
E. C. Quigley the former St. Marys coach will referee the series. Those who have seen the National league ampure run a game 'argue that this team has earned the price of admission. The game will be called promptly at 7:30 o'clock.
The line-up:
RF - Sorensen
LF - Sproull or Appel
RG - Sproull (Capt.)
RG - Dumierre (Capt.)
RG - Kaiser
Aggies Bergstrom Adams Leonard Jones McMillian
ANNUAL CANDIDATES OUT
The annual election for the Jay-hawker will be held Tuesday, February 16, as provided in the rules of the Men's Student Council, which provides that: "The election for officers of the Jay-hawker shall be held on Wednesday." The date of the election shall be the third Tuesday in February."
E. M. Johnson and Busenbark up for Editor and Business Manager
E. M. Johnson has announced himself as a candidate for editor and Ross E. Busenbark for business manager. Both these roles have been paired in journalism, and have been in charge of the junior section of this year's Jayhawker.
R. HAMILTON ATTENDING MINNESOTA SHORT COURSES
F. R. Hamilton, director of the University extension division, is attending a merchants' short course at he university of Minnesota. He left daydong and probably will be gone until Saturday morning.
R. R. Price, former director of the extension division here is at the head of the extension department in Minnesota. Professor Price is said to have made the statement that if the short course that is being offered is successful as the one held here last week, he would feel highly compensated for his time and the money that has been expended in arranging the courses.
HELEN KELLER WILL
NOT BE IN CHAPEL
Members of the convocation committee have given up all hopes of being able to bring Helen Keller to the University.
Some time ago it was learned that Miss Keller would be in Topeka next Monday and that she would appear in Kansas City shortly after that time. The convoction with the manager, Miss Keller's manager and found that it would cost $200 for a short afternoon speech from Miss Keller. Prof. J. N. Van der Vries said that by charging a small admittance fee the expense could be reduced and the lecture could be made easier by Miss Keller's manager was made lower than usual on the condition that no entrance charges be made.
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