UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XII
NUMBER 81.
K. U.WANTS QUARTER OF MILLION INCREASE
University Would Have Ap
propriation of $1,477,070
for Next Two Years
The University of Kansas, through the Board of Administration, is asking the legislature for $1,477,670 for the next two years, an increase of nearly a quarter of a million over the last appropriation. This includes buildings maintenance, and repairs, both at Lawrence and in Rosedale.
The largest single item of the budget is $250,000 for the middle section of the Administration Building. In its report, recently submitted to Governor Hodges, the Board emphasized the pressing need for more office and class rooms, a need to redevelop the building that contemplated the building. The School of Medicine wants a new laboratory setting $60,000 at Rosaleh.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 22, 1915.
The English and German departments one having nineteen and the other sixteen instructors are badly in need of office room. Each has a litter of books, clothes, computers where students must come to consult their teachers, often while others are working in the same room. The inconvenience and unpleasantness induced by such a condition results in a very real evil—the unwillingness of students to work with others who need help and advice because they cannot be sure of privacy and quiet.
The department of home economics is housed in a dark basement, and the music students are isolated in a ramshackle building that is liable to fall in on their heads whenever the door closes. The offices in the basement of the Museum make the building obnoxious to visitors.
One class in sociology has had to seek a new meeting place three times this year, and may have to repeat the performance indefinitely. Journalism classes meet where they can find a corner, sometimes in laboratories where people are working, sometimes in classrooms, or in stairways without hand rails, sometimes in the instructor's office or home.
The rapid increase in enrollment, particularly in the College, the extension of state work, and the growth of the extension department combine to create a fortune for structures inevitable. Chancellor Frank Strong has asked the Board to recommend to the legislature a permanent building scheme to extend over the land shown on such a plan, buildings could be up to much more cheaply and advantageously.
PROF, DYKSTRA FAVORS
THE CITY MANAGER PLAN
He declares the commission plan a relative success, as compared with the older forms of city organization. He adds that the members have resulted in a large number of cities operating under the commission; its abolition of ward lines has had a wholesome influence; its popular features, such as the initial use of a telephone, have been called into good use. Experience will make easy the passing from haphazard and inefficient government to a responsive and thoroughly scientific municipal organization. Professor Dykstra
An article in the in "Kansas Municipalities" magazine, by Prof. C. A. Dykstra, reviews the accomplishments of the commission plan of city government, and advocates the addition of the city-manager plan.
TWO ALUMNI HONORED BY ENGINEERING SOCIETY
Two alumni of the School of Engi neering of the University of Kansas were honored by the Kansas Engi neering Society. T. J. Stricker, K U. '06, engineer for the Public Utilities Commission, was elected presi ster of the KU. '08 was elected secretary treasurer at the Topeka meeting.
The law drafted by Prof. H. A. Rice, who was chosen by the Society to head a commission to investigate highway laws of other states, was endorsed by the Society. This law requires that the building be mature and with the backing the Engineering Society hopes to get for it, should pass.
Naismith to Meet Faculty
Dr. James Naismith will meet the faculty men's gym class on Monday evenings at 8:30 o'clock until further notice. Arrangements have been made for a meeting on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. New members are invited to join.
The next meeting of the Society will be in Manhattan.
Several faculty members will go to Topeka tomorrow to attend the Dyche funeral.
FIRST TRYOUTS ARE OVERF
Dramatic Club Members Appear for Cast of "The Man From Home"
First preliminaries of the Dramatic Club tryouts are over. Thirty women and twenty-eight men appeared as candidates in the tryouts. Fourteen can possibly secure places in the cast of "The Man From Home."
A committee composed of John V. Challiss, president of the Club, Don Burnett, business manager of the play, and Professor H. T. Hill and Arthur MacMurray, of the department public speaking, will decide personnel of the cast. Announcement of the selections will be made next week.
At present the club has nineteen membership vacancies; five to be filled by men and fourteen by women. Any non-member of the club securing an in 'The Man From Home' cast will cast as club member ship.
PHARMICS NEED GREENHOUSE
request Was Incorporated in the Draft of University Budget
Among other things asked for in the University budget will be the establishment of a greenhouse to accommodate the needs of the entomology department and the School of pharmacy. In the department tests sediment tests, insects and shibrine sent by the Department of Agriculture in Washington.
"The facilities for testing here are deplorable," said Prof. S. Hunter. "We have to utilize any space we can get and work with such as tin cans filled with earth and arranged on window sills. I have been trying to work up some enthusiasm for many years over a long period of time, our efforts have amounted to nothing."
Professor Hunter will attend the meeting of the State Entomological Commission at Topeka today. The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture is president of the commission, the secretary of the Horticultural Board is secretary. The pro-educator in the State University and in the Agricultural College are members of the commission. Other representative nursery-men of the state appointed by the government will also attend.
PROFESSOR BARBER WILL VISIT IN UNITED STATES
Prof. M. A. Barber, formerly a member of the University faculty, but for the past four years doing bacteriological work in Manila in the Bureau of Science, has written a University friend that he intended to send a letter to him, and for a visit in the United States. He has relatives in Burlington.
Professor Barber's greatest achievement in practical science was the development of microscopes enabling the operator to isolate individual bacteria. Many foreign orders for this instrument have been filled by the Uni-
LADY GREEKS TO GIVE
LADY GREEKS TO GIVE
EXCLUSIVE FORMAL DANCE
The women's Pan-Hellenis Association is planning a formal dancing party for the afternoon of March 15 in Robinson Gymnasium.
each sorority woman is expected to attend and make a date for it with a friend. If you are attending
Speakers for Pharmaceutical
Dean L. E. Sayre, of the School of Pharmacy has arranged for two speakers for the Pharmaceutical Society, Dr. John B. Wood, of Kansas City, Mo., and C. C. Reed, of Salina. They will speak upon the business side of pharmacy as a profession and also the ethical and legal responsibilities of pharmacists are a part of a course dealing with the business side of pharmacy which is being given for the benefit of the Pharmaceutical Society.
The Kansas State Bar examinations were held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at Topeka. The Supreme Court today admitted twenty-three new lawyers to the bar. There were twenty-nine candidates, seven of A. K. Campbell and Coleman, Walter Huxman, Cale O. Buckles, Walter Doggett, Arthur Humphrey, Clarence Sowers, and Paul K. Cubbison.
Lawyers Pass Exams
Mathematician Writes of Flowers
The library has received a book entitled "Flowers in California," written by Prof. E. Miller of Pasadena, California. Professor Miller was formerly head of the department of mathematics here.
Mathematician Writes of
P. K. Cubbison, was at the Sig Alph house yesterday. He has passed the bar examinations in Topeka.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
BOARD LAUDS SERVICES OF PROF. LEWIS L. DYCHE
Commends Work He Did for University and State in Resolutions Passed Yesterday
The Board of Administration yesterday passed resolutions of regret on the death of Prof. Lewis Lindsay Dyche, state fish and game warden, and curator of birds and mammals at the Museum of the University. The Board had the services of Professor Dyche to the University, and to the state.
The senate and house of the state legislature, likewise, adopted resolutions on the life and character of Joseph R. Kittering, journed yesterday afternoon until this morning out of respect for him. The house instructed Speaker Robert Stone to appoint a delegation of senators to represent it at the funeral Saturday.
The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The Museum is closed and will remain closed until after the funeral.
K. U. GRADS IN GOTHAM
ICOURTING DAME FORTUNE
Lawyers, Critics, Doctors, Authors Engineers Are Making Good in New York
Fifty-seven graduates of the University of Kansas are now located in New York City, engaged in various prominent and successful occupations. These seven graduates achieve success there in the literary and scientific world.
Edwin E. Slosson, B. S. '90, M. S. '92, Ph. D. Chicago U. '92, is now literary editor of The Independent. He is the author of a book on the unitary theory of philosophy and much interested in the subjects of philosophy, sociology and education.
Barnum Brown, A. B. '07, is a collector in the American Museum of Natural History. He has traveled a great deal as his research work takes him into many of the foreign countries.
Stuart Oliver Henry, A. B. '81, A. M. '94 is a New York financier with offices in the Flat Iron building. He is also an author of some note, having written several novels. He is a member of the Authors Club.
Roy Robinson, A. B. 97, L.L.D., Columbia, '00, has attained success as a lawyer in New York. He has offices in the Terminal building.
Dana Elizabeth Gatlin, A. B., '05,
is literary editor of the New York
Sun and a writer of short stories for
the magazines.
Kate Stephens, A. B. 75, A. M.
78, is an editor and author. She has written several novels and was a judge on the Mc Millan Publishing company.
Eugene W. Caldwell, B. S. '92, M. D. New York University is an expert in the study of Roentgen rays and is now director of the x-ray laboratory of the Bellvue Hospital Medical College.
Wilson S. Kinemear, C. E. '07, is drawing a salary of $50,000 a year in the employ of the U. S. Realty and Improvement company.
Florence Finch Kiney, A. B., '81, A
Morton, author of serial novels
of western life.
Paul Teetor, ceramist with the geological survey, went to Topeka this week to see that the exhibit of Kansas clay products is properly attended to. They clays are of different varieties having come from undeveloped and high-rise known counties in state. Mr. Teetor says the case is in a conspicuous place on the second floor of the state house.
Brock Pemberton, A. B. '08 is on a dramatic editor on the New York World.
Tector Cares for Rocks
The museum of geology is bequeathed in the will of Mrs. H. Hollingberg, of Lawrence, who died a short time ago, a collection of minerals, rocks, and shells, which she found in the basin of Erasmus Haworth has had then boxed up and will soon add them to the Museum.
C. M. Young, formerly of the geology department will represent the state at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers held in New York, February 15 to 17.
Typhoid Inoculation
Students may be inoculated for typhoid Monday from 4 to 5 o'clock.
Forced to Divide Class
Owing to the size of the class is mine drawing next semester, Prot E. S Dickinson will have two divisions; one on Monday from 1:30 t 3:30 o'clock, as is scheduled, and an other division Tuesday, same hour.
EVERY STUDENT TO HAVE A PART IN SOCIAL INNOVATION
All the Men and Women of the University Included in Big Event
ENGINEERS TO DO STUNT
Western School Will Stage Feature Under Direction of MacMurray —Refreshments
The all-University social event—first of its kind—will appear at K. U. next month, with the School of Engineering conspicuously in evidence the hump economy of the girls gymnasium classes giving spectaculair features, J. C. McCanes guiding the University Band to its customary triumph, and the faculty and administrative force being received by a line composed of class officers, confederates, teachers, and students on Saturday evening, February 27, all this is to be enjoyed by the University, students and faculty together, at the Robinson Gymnasium. The date is to be reserved for this alone; otherwise other nights, and the Colonial Party will have a monopoly of attendance.
The colonial character of the affair will be evident in decorations of flags, bunting and cherry blossoms, especially features in dancing and costuming. The George Washington season calls for this recognition.
Divide Evening
The evening will be divided into three parts, the party opening at 7:30 o'clock with a "stunt" by the School of Engineering. Prof. A. MacMurray of the department of public speaking will organizate the event, and the teacher is to be a rotary feature of the all-University event, a different school having it each time. Mrs. Eustace H. Brown, advisor of women, plans to have the School of Law responsible for it at the next party. The stunt coordinator will be Gymnasium, and will be followed by the reception on the second floor. The receiving line, consisting of the class officers, will form at 8:30 o'clock, and the reception will last until 9:15 o'clock. Then the dance will begin, to last until midnight. The dancers will be minuet, danced by six groups in colonial costume. A Virginia reel and other old-fashioned dances are to be introduced also, and the dances of a decade ago will be among those indulged in, for the sake of those who do not care for the newer ones. The dances of a decade ago will be trained by Dr. Alice L. Goetz for the feature dances.
Refreshments Too
Refreshments will be served by the home economics department under the supervision of Miss Elizabeth Sprague. Hot chocolate, hot coffee, sandwiches and cakes will be served, but ice cream may be served for the sale of ice cream and candy. No item is to be more than five cents in price.
Invitations will be issued by the students to Gov. and Mrs. Arthur Cappen, Lieutenant-Governor and W. Y. Lehman, the members of the Governor's staff.
The committees needed to carry the work through will be many, of course, and they are to be named officers and will be chaired by officers will meet with Mrs. Brown.
Discuss Fruit Development
"Iimprovement of the Cherry, Plum and Prune," was the subject discussed by Chrystine Freak before the meeting of the Botany Club on October 15, 2004. A review of Luther Burbank's additions to science was given, including an account of the development of the stoneless plum; the plum-cot, a cross between a plum and an apple; and the differential of cherries from one another. The use of hybridization was also discussed. This is the crossing of two species of plants to produce a totally different species of vegetation. In connection with the resulting fruits, bees was described and illustrated.
Gets Plants by Mail
The Bureau of Foreign Plant Introduction and Distribution, of the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C., has placed the University of Kansas upon its mailing list to receive newly introduced plants; also, students of plant breeding have already received several specimens of Navajo corn which will be tested on the University breeding grounds.
BAD WEATHER CUT AUDIENCE AT DR. POWELL'S MUSICALE
Snow Keeps Students Away From Lecture—Tells of Effects of Music and Illustrates
Dr. Alma Webster Powell gave a lecture-musicale in Muscat Hail last night. The bad weather kept down the awareness to one hundred and fifty percent.
The first part of Dr. Powell's program consisted of a lecture on music and its effect on the nervous system and mind. She illustrated the music and the notions by selections from pinyin composers in the second part of her lecture.
The gist of her talk is given in the interview published below:
(By Carolyn McNutt)
"Kansas is too cold for me," volunteered Mme. Alma Webster Powell, prima donna, to a Kansan reporter who was asked, "The first thing I did this morning was to buy a big pair of tail boots—regular men's size." But I like it! Cold weather suits "me" and she wore an oversized skirt and a smile glimmered on her lips.
"Music isn't an ideal, as Damerosche and others claim; it is a real thing, a human want, a necessity which should be satisfied by giving free music to everyone," continued Rory McDermott. "We can hear a whole opera for fifteen cents, and here in this rich land of ours, why can't we do the same?"
Likes Picture Shows
But Madame Powell told you all this, and a great deal more in her program last night in Fraser Hall. When seen yesterday Madame Powell forgot her "shop" and talked to her mother about how much man, "I like picture-shows, too; the rhythm and the light waves are the most restful things in the world to me," she added. "I have been to a picture show every day for the last two years to test this, and no matter how poor the music, or how slushy the pictures, it always makes me feel relaxed." "Music will raise anyone's character," she resumed, and then trailed off into a story concerned with the training of six of the most sullen, discontented little cripples and hunchbacks she had ever known, until they became queens in their own circle—and all through music. "They never would have taught us about them now that would never have been possible without the music," she declared earnestly.
Her Brown Eyes Speak
Madame Powell is a vivacious, attractive little woman, with sparkling brown eyes which speak just as forcefully as her low, eager voice. Now and then, as she talks, she lifts her head and lifts her eyebrows to drive home her point. She has a daughter about twenty years old, who also has a wonderful voice. "But she won't sing free, as I do." She goes to school at Barnard, and I wish you could see her," she smiled at the reporter. "You are the youngest child Come and see us when you are in New York," she said in farewell. Amr the interview was finished.
W. S. G. A. TO HAVE CLUB ROOM FOR WOMEN
In the north-east corner of the women's side of Robinson Gymnasium is a large bare room, empty except for a few hard wooden chairs ranged around the walls. If the plan of the Women's Student Council works out, this room is going to be fitted up with pillows and easy chairs and a big roomy davenport and maybe a chafing dish. It is to be a room where you can feel it own and any contribution they care to make to it will be most gladly taken. The W. S. G. A. is now working upon the idea and as soon as enough money can be gotten the fitting up will begin.
WILL OPEN TROPHY ROOM
FOR STUDENT LOUNGING
Demonstration of the Kansas spirit and a decision to open the Gymnasium trophy room for a lounging place between classes were the chief features of the football banquet at Lee's College Inn last night. Sixty-three Jayhawker players ate and rejoiced.
Manager W. O. Hamilton, Jay Bond, Bonnie Reber and Captain Tony James made talks. A discussion of spring practice was taken up, and every man seemed in favor of a heavy lot of work.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Russell, students in the University last year, who were married at Lowell, Indiana, Monday, are at home in Kansas City, at 3321 Gilham Road. Mrs. Russell Russell is a Sigma phi beta. Russell is a Sigma phi beta. Mr. Russell are expected to visit Lawrence about February 12.
ALL K. U. WANTS TO
SEE NEBRASKA GAME
Students Buy All but One Hundred Tickets—Good Game Promised
The cold may come and a blizzard rage but it doesn't look as if it would have much effect on the attendance of the Kansas-Nebraska basketball team. The stagnant stadium. The sale of reserved seats which has been the largest for any K. U. basketball game, continued steadily this morning. Out of the six hundred seats on the lower floor of the stadium only a few over 'a hundred remained.
The Cornhuskers again defeated the Kansas Aggies last night at Manhattan, 28-20, making a clean start in a running for the Valley championship Kansas will have to at least get an even break with the Cornhuskers here. Two victories in the series would put Captain Dumire's squad lead over lead in the championship race and win lead in the quest of Missouri before another basketball pennant would be inunded. The Huskers are expected to arrive in Lawrence on the 3:07 o'clock afternoon on the UniCol Pacific. The game goes on to be started promptly at 7:30 o'clock by Guy S. Lowman, referent. Despite the fact that Mr. Lowman is the Aggie manager of athletics he referred the two games between the Aggies and the Hawks. The probable Kansas lineup will be:
Sproull, forward
Sorsenne, forward
Dunnie, forward
Dunnie, guard
Folks or Kaiser, guard.
ENGINEERING ALUMNI TO FORM AN ASSOCIATION
Grads and School Will Organize for Reunion at Commencement Time —Denn Walker's Suggestion
The first step in the permanent organization of the alumni of the School of Engineering of the University was made during the session at Topela, the early part of the week. At the suggestion of Dean P. F. Walker a banquet was held Tuesday evening in the Y. M. C. A. building. About twenty-five alumni of the School were present. Lloyd Duffee, county engineer in Douglas the act was acted by chairman at the meeting of the Board to make the necessary arrangements for a permanent organization. F. R. Hesser of the University faculty, J. T. Strickler, who is engineer of the Public Utilities Commission and recently elected president of the Kansas Engineering Society and D. P. F. Strickler who is engineer of this committee will select from the alumni persons to take charge of a reunion or convention of the graduates of the School of Engineering, to take place commencement week. At this meeting the plans of organization will be completed. The reunion will be held on the same time as the unveiling of the Marvin Memorial Bust.
The purposes of the proposed alumni organization of the School of Engineering are many. Among them are to foster a sense of esteem before the people of the state, to encourage the founding of scholarships and research fellowships in the School of Engineering, to co-operate with the faculty of the School magazine, to bring about cooperation between the School and industries in experimental investigations and to act as advisory board by committee to the faculty of the School.
This separate organization of the engineering alumni will in no way detract from the general alumni association but will tend to strengthen it.
NEBRASKA HAS HEAVY
1915 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
The 1915 football schedule of the University of Nebraska as announced the week gives the team important Missouri Valley school. Eight games will be played, six of them at Lincoln. The biggest foreign game the maskets will have is the butt with Kansas on McCormick in 13th.
The schedule follows:
the second follow-
ing at Lincoln.
Oct. 7 — Kansas Aggres at Lincoln.
Oct. 16 — Washburn at Lincoln. (?)
Oct. 23 — Notre Dame at Lincoln.
Oct. 30 — Ames at Ames.
Nov. 6 — Wesleyan at Lincoln.
Nov. 13 — Kansas at Lawrence.
Nov. 20 — Iowa at Lincoln.