UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 74.
VOLUME XII.
IT'S UP TO YOU
Men of the University, are you going to lie down and let the Student Union die in its first year for lack of your support? Have you forgotten so soon, you upperclassmen, the three months' campaign for a student union that ended in the formal opening last March 5? Have you lost all the enthusiasm that appeared on that occasion and led 600 men to sign up to support the Union? What's the matter?
One difficulty—the biggest of all—lies in the selfish attitude of a great many students. They say, "I don't care about the Union—why should I give my money to it?" These are mostly upperclassmen who had already provided themselves with more or less desirable places in which to spend their spare hours and enjoy social intercourse. They fail to realize that every freshman class has a great many men who never make fraternities or social organizations of any kind, whose sole chance to meet and mingle is at their boarding clubs, and in consequence often put in a lonely year before they find out how to get acquainted on the Hill.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 13, 1915.
often put in a boney year. It is these men who need the Union and they cannot have it unless the whole student body supports the project. Those freshmen, who enjoy the privileges and opportunities of a Union remain its adherents all through college life, and so in four years the Union becomes an established institution and the men wonder how the University ever got along without it!
Once such a thing is allowed to happen, it will be ten times as difficult to start a Union again. No legislature is going to appropriate money for such an enterprise when those who would profit by it refuse to support it. No alumni association or benevolent rich man, or anybody else, is going to give us a Union building when we won't use what we have. The project will receive a mortal blow and there will be another charge against the temper of the student body.
their proper price, a huge amount of money. When our Union was inaugurated, the fraternities and many other organizations endorsed it and promised to back it up. In order to bring in everybody the fees were put at the lowest possible figure and have been kept low. The Alumni Association gave $500 for furniture and equipment and everything started off with a bang. Never was any student enterprise more propitiously begun.
how the University ever got going. This has always been the course of history wherever student unions have been started. If they can be nursed through the first two years they are safe, and take their proper place, a large one, in the life of a school.
And now----!
The selfish short-sightedness of many who refuse to give a dollar or two toward providing for the University a lasting good; the actions of others who have pledged their support and are now evading the collectors; and the woeful lack of solidarity and common interest among the 1800 men students—these and heaven knows what other factors have combined against the perpetuation of the Union; and unless there is a revival of interest in four days, the Union will close for good.
Men, if you have any college spirit at all, now is the time to show it! If you have the faintest idea of what college spirit is, prove it by coming to the rescue or the most democratic, solidifying, rallying single factor in college life—the Student Union.
If you fail in this crisis, it will be to your everlasting shame, and nothing your critics can say will be too harsh.
Year
MANAGERS EXPECT MANY JUNIOR ANNUAL PICTURES
Nearly Every Third Year Man Will Have Cut in Jayhawker This
Since the forms for the junior sections will close February first, all pictures must be in the hands of Manager Hackney before that time.
That there will be practically as many individual pictures of juniors as of seniors in the 1915 Jayhawk is the opinion of E. M. Johnson and Ross Busenbark, business managers of the Junior Section. Nine out of every ten third-year students have been solicited to sign up for a picture, and the venture promises to be a success.
The first half of the 1915 Jayhawker, including the senior and junior pictures and the campus scenes will go to press on February 11. The second half will be sent to the printers on March 4.
"The freshman class will pose for their group picture for the 1915 Jayhawk on the Snow Hall steps Thursday at twenty minutes past noon,"said President James Barley of the freshman class this morning.
"All those who have tickets and all those who are willing to purchase the memorial tickets for the required two-bits are expected. The number justifies it a double page group cut will appear in the Jayhawk."
The picture is the result of endeavors of the Annual management to have all classes represented in this year's book, the upper classes to appear in panels and the under classes to appear in groups.
In order to give those who wish to sign up for junior pictures an opportunity, office hours in the Jayhawker office in the basement of Green Hall will be maintained by the junior managers, from 10:30 to 12:30 on Thursdays and from 11:30 to 12:30 o'clock every day in the week. Those who have already taken their pictures may turn them into the managers at the same hour.
Douthitte Take up Residence
Douthitts Take up Residence Prof. and Mrs. Herman Douthitt, whose marriage occurred two months ago will live at 1632 Kentucky stre Mrs. Douthitt will return from Rock Falls, Illinois, Sunday.
Will Entertain High School Girls The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will entertain ten high school girls at dinner Thursday evening.
Zoologists May Research
Zoologists May Research Students in Zoology have a chance to research work during the remainder of the semester. Beginning today they will be given specimens of unusual sea animals; the sea cucumber and the like, without the text or an instruction guide and make no about it. This is the first time this method has been tried so extensively in this department.
HANDBALL AGAIN SHOWS
ABOVE ATHLETIC HORIZON
The third annual handball tournament will start the first of next week with a larger number of contestants and will be held at the handball are eligible to enter into the tournament. The plan of playing round robin has proven unsatisfactory in the past, according to Dr. Terry Wendler, head of the elimination plan will be used.
Tournament Will Start at Beginning of Next Week—Department to Furnish Balls
The athletic department will be unable to offer a cup to the winner but will furnish a dozen balls with which they play. After the first set of games have been played, the winners of all the following games will be given the balls with which they play. This is a new plan to make the contest more popular.
EXAMINATIONS BEGIN ON SATURDAY, JAN.30
Those wishing to partake in the tournament may signify their desire by signing the blank in the hand ball room in the Gymnasium, or by calling upon Charles Cory who is the manager of this year's contest, and who will arrange all the schedules by lot.
The freshmen and sophomore women have both worked up good basketball teams, and are preparing for interclass games which will probably be given next month. Both teams are practicing twice a week.
At the meeting of the German Club Monday it put on a 1-act comedy entitled "Eigensumi" or "Gott sei Dank Dank der Tische ist gedeked." The title in English is "Obstinacy" or "God be thanked the table is set."
Prof. C. A. Johnson of the department of electrical engineering was called to Osage City, the first part of this week by the city council to inspect the municipal water department. Professor Johnson inspee the water department and the electric light plant and will recommend changes in the system.
Since the contest is to start the first of the week all contestants should at once turn in their names. This early start is made in order for tournament of doubles may be played after the singles have been finished.
GERMAN CLUB PUTS ON
PLAY WITH GERMAN NAME
When the women of Syracuse University get ready to play inter-class basketball they go at it as seriously as the varsity football team. This year two training tables have been established and the players will live on a strictly athletic diet until the schedule is finished.
Johnson to Osage City
Quizzes Will Continue Six Days This Semester, Ending on Friday, Feb. 5
Those having parts in the cast were: Miss Florence F. Hear, Moll Worley, D. C. Moore, Uldreda Tytla, Winifred Harkreider, Alfred C. Brauer, and Ray W. Chiles.
Examinations for this semester will continue over six days instead of five as stated in the general catalog of接受者 at 8:30 will be ex-
Classes meeting at:
aminated Saturday a. m., Jan. 30.
b. m., Jan. 30 will be
anointed Satiree at meeting at 11:30 will be examined Monday a. m., Feb. 1.
Classes meeting at 4:30 will be examined Monday p. m. Feb. 1.
amined Monday p. m. Feb. 1.
Classes meeting at 10:30 will be
examined Tuesday a. m.
Examiner's classes will be
examined Tuesday p. m. Feb. 2.
examined Tuesday p. m. Feb. 2.
Classes meeting at 8:30 will be en
anmitted Wednesday a. m. Feb. 3.
Classes meeting at 3:30 will be exe
amined *wednesday* p. 2; 2:30 will be ex-
earned Thursday a, m. Feb. 4.
Classes meeting at 2:30 will be ex
examined Thursday a. m. Feb. 4.
Classes meeting at 1:30 will be ex
examined Friday a. m. Feb. 5.
Three hour classes (and one hour
classes meeting on Monday, Wednesday
or Friday) will be examined from
8:30 to 10:30 if scheduled above for
the morning; from 1:30 to 3:30 if
scheduled above for the afternoon.
Two hour classes (and one hour classes meeting on Tuesday or Thursday) will be examined from 10:50 to 12:30, if scheduled above for the morning, from 8:50 to 5:30, if scheduled above for the afternoon.
Four and five hour classes will be examined from 8:30 to 11:30, if scheduled above for the morning; at 10:30 above, if scheduled above for the afternoon.
Laboratory classes will be examined at the time corresponding in the schedule above to the first laboratory period or at the time corresponding to the lecture hour (when such an hour exists) at the discretion of the head of the department concerned.
Classes meeting on Saturday and not on other days in the week will be examined. Tuesday p. m. from 1:30 to 2:00 for one and two hour courses; from 1:30 to 3:30 for three hour courses.
Entrance examinations and examinations for advanced standing may be taken on Monday February 1, to Thursday, February 4, inclusive, as nearly as possible according to the schedule shown on pages 111 and 112 of the General Catalogue for 1913-'14. Students desiring to take such a course will apply to Prof. E. F. Stimpson, Chairman of the Committee on Examinations, Room 202 Blake, at the earliest possible moment.
GAME CAN'T OUST CONEY
ISLAND FROM GYMNASIUM
The basketball game scheduled for Friday night will not prevent the transformation of Robinson Gymnasium into a Coney Island. The committee of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. will have the first floor of the Gymnasium all ready to accommodate the crowd they expect at the all! University social immediately after the game upstairs.
"Faith is the third key to power," said Prof. R. A. Schwegler this morning at morning prayers in his third talk on "Five Keys to Power." "Faith, not in the usual sense of the infinite, but your faith in yourself can make a key to power we need a settled and fundamental optimist to smooth out all the difficulties in reference to yourself and your neighbor. Many lose faith in themselves, but down in their heart, is the ability to master the tripletship. The finer will win out over the coarser in this struggle.
Tickets to the social will admit to all concessions and side shows. The amusement park scheme will be followed out through the entire evening's program. "Bring the fair damsel," says Con Hoffman.
"Look at the world and see the doughnut, instead of the hole. Some see only the heart-break, the failure, shadow, and gloom in the world, while others see the sunshine and beauty."
Mary Antin, a writer for the Atlantic, and John K. Bangs, of New York, will be the other speakers at the dinner.
The Knife and Fork Club, of Kansas City, has invited Miss Ester Clark, of the "tenure division, to vote on the election to call "Missana," at its monthly dinner. March 20.
"FAITH IS THIRD KEY TO
POWER," SAYS SCHWEGLER
KNIFE AND FORK CLUB
WILL HAIL MISS CLARK
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FOLKS RESTORED TO ELIGIBILITY BY BOARD
Jayhawker Guard Replaced on Basketball Squad by Action Today
Ray Folks guard on the Varsity basketball squad who was declared ineligible last Friday and barred from the Ames series has been restored to eligibility. Coach Hamilton announced this morning that Folk would be on the lineup in the opening game in the Warrenburg, Normalls.
With Folks back at guard with Captain Dunnire, the Jayhawkers' chances which looked excellent after the Ames series loom up still better. The record crowd which is expected to see tonight's opener may expect to see another team of quality of last year's five.
Tonight's game will be called promptly at 7:15 o'clock by Referee Brown Brown, the former K. U. star of the game. The Jay-hawkler jump:
1. Sproull, forward
7. Sorensen, forward
2. Weaver center
2. Weaver, center.
3. Dumire (Capt.), guard.
11. Folks, guard.
UNIVERSITY MAY ENTER COLLEGIATE ORATOR
Prof. H. T. Hill Wants to Know Sentiment of Students on Prohibition Contests
During the Christmas holidays the Inter-Collegiate Prohibition Association had a convention at Topeka and drew 2,000 college students. Four or five students of the University attended the meetings but no one represented the University officially in the oratorical contest.
The contest is open to all the colleges in the country and it was on account of the lack of enthusiasm of anyone to enter the contest, that the University was not represented. Prof. H. T. Hill of the public speaking department queries about the oratorical contest "the Association is anxious for K. U. to take part in the contest," he said. "The Department of public speaking will go in the contest to win if the attitude of the student body will back up us. There should be held about Jebel Abyan, the Arabic city with the undisclosed. Any who is interested should see me immediately."
The action of the department depends on the response of the students.
EARTH RECEIVED SHOCK
DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY
Old Sdeith Seismograph was patiently turning away in the deep and gloomy cavern between Fraser Monday and day two, and Old Sdeith came to life.
"No, there was nothing to fear" said Seis calmly, spinning his disc. "It was just some little tremor probably caused by the heavy guns in Germany or by some University student dropping a course."
Ah, there was no escaping the University detective. A palpable tremble had revealed the fact that old Mother Earth was acting skitish again. For twelve long minutes on the night of January 11, the needle traced the prancing of the stately dame. When Prof. B. E. Kaster, boon companion of El Saiam-group, arrived the records were to him. He diagnosed the case as buck ague on the East-West Component, a region either 700 miles east or the same distance west of the University solar plexus.
The Student Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will meet for its weekly meeting to tomorrow night at 7 o'clock, at the home of Dean P. F. Walker, at 1301 Ohio.
The meeting will be in the form of a mixer, and a special program has been prepared.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS TO MEET WITH DEAN WALKER
To Tell of Experiences
Prof. W. H. Twenhofel will lecture in Fairview Friday evening on "in periences During the Past Summer."
Martin Back on Hill
Martin back on Hill.
H. T. Martin, assasin in curator in the Museum being suffered from inflammatory rheumatism was able to be on the Hill today.
Typhoid Inoculation
Typhoid inoculation will be given in the Museum Building Thursday from 4 until 5.
LAST BIG RALLY PLANNED TO SAVE STUDENT UNION
Council Calls Students to Fraser Tomorrow for Final Effort to Prevent House Closing
Closing
A University convocation is called for 4:20 o'clock tomorrow. This assembly has been turned over to the Men's Student Council to take up the Student Union. All 4:20 classes are dismissed.
Vic Bottomly, president of the Student Council says: "I hope that every man in the University will be at the mass meeting, in order that the Student Council can get an accurate expression of student opinion on the continuation of the Student Union. The Council is ready and willing to do everything in its power to make the Union a success. However, if the students do not want the Union the Council thinks it inadvisable to continue and increase the already growing indebtedness."
Frank Strong. Chancellor.
Chancellor Frank Strong, Vic Bottomly, Registrar George O. Foster and T. J. Horsley will appear on the program.
Each student at the convocation will be given an envelope on which will be a place for his name and address. In this he will place the money he gives the Union. George O. Foster will take the envelopes. If the amount collected is not enough to keep the Union going the Registrar will return the envelopes and money to the student whose name is on the envelope.
Unless K. U. men come to the rescue of the Student Union it will close its doors Friday night.
This plan of action was reached at the meeting of the Student Council last night. It was a valiant fighting crew that faced the proposition of keeping the Union above water. A spirit of never-say-die was in the air. Members of the Council reported much indifference on the part of the students they solicited for funds, but no one could collect the pledges or make them. Also that it was practically impossible to succeed, DO THE STUDENTS REALLY WANT THE UNION TO SUCCEED was the hopeless query that faced many of the men last night.
A rally has been called for tomorrow at 4:20 o'clock in Fraser Hall. It will be the last attempt to save the Union for oncoming students. Classes will be dismissed by order of the Chancellor. If you want to keep the men's club house alive, BE THERE.
Councilmen Still Have Hopes
Need $600 Cash or Pledges
Six hundred dollars, must be secured to maintain the Union for the remainder of the year. The money will be called for at the meeting. Envelopes will be passed out to every man as he enters the room. Money and pledges will be collected at the door by the students' leaders. They will enter the building and the Union will close. As a member of the Council put it, "It is up to the students. They can have a funeral if they want it."
Many of the Councilmen still believe that the Union ought to continue. In order to find the interest in the matter the plan of a convocation was fixed upon. The whole success or failure of the Union depends on the issue of this meeting. The Council will have charge. A detailed statement of the purposes for the present time, and an estimate of the expenses for the remainder of the year will be given to the crowd. Several of the Council will speak.
have further only 129 men have paid full dues; 144 have paid half dues, and 134 have pledged themselves to join the Union and pay their dues, but so far have not paid a cent.
Third Year Class Will Stage Event in Eagles' Hall
JUNIORS PLAN A BIG MIXER
The first junior mixer of the school year is planned for Wednesday night, January 20th, in Eagles' Hall. According to the committee the class will be the best at the entire term will be the best at any class smoker this year.
Although not complete, the program as now arranged includes a force given by the Owls, a talk given by the College of Journalism department, several musical numbers and a reading by E. A. Blackman. An effort is also made to accommodate young men in the Yale Mandolin club and the Glee Club Quartet for the evening.
Offers New Biology Course
FIRST BUSINESS MANAGER
ELECTED CLERK OF HOUSE
All of the junior class whether they smoke or not are urged to attend at Hershey's and gum will be given smokers. Eats will be served also.
The committee who is in charge of the smoker consists of the following: chairman, C. A. Randolph, Guy Waldo, Jerry Stillwell, Glenn Alt, Harry Hoffman, John De Vine, and Harry McColloch.
Ike Lambert, graduate of the University of Kansas, in 1912, and first business manager of the Kanan after the paper became a daily, was elected clerk of the state house of representatives last Monday for the present session of the state legislature.
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Lambert has been practicing law in Emporia since leaving school. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Prof. B. M. Allen, of the department of zoology, will offer a course next semester in Animal Biology. This course will be listed as No. 60, and will be open to students accordingly. The course, is especially designed for those students who wish a general knowledge of biology, but who do not care to take up laboratory work along these lines. It is strictly a lecture and recitation course.
BIG MEN WILL HELP MOTT
Y. M, C. A. Campaign Draws Noted Workers from State and Nation
The Mott campaign is less than two months off. The plans of the committee are rounding into shape in such a way as to bring out more details, and meetings are to be conducted. Here is the list of religious workers who will be on the Hill to make it a success: John R. Horn, Raymond Robbins of Chicago, and Ted Mercer of New York—three of the greatest religious workers among the churches of Heinmann, and John L. Childs—international committees of the Y. M. C., A. C. G. Lord of the Kansas City Y. M. C. A., L. K. Hall, state high school secretary, F. L. Pierce, state county work secretary, H. E. Graffan, state secretary, I. H. Graffan, state secretary of the Y. M. C., A. W. McLane, secretary of the Agricultural College at Manhattan, Lieutenant Governor W. W. Morgan of Hutchinson, A. A. Hyde of Wichita, and Governor Arthur Capper, of Topeka, Special Presidency Ottawa, and Topeka to Lawrence, to accommodate the students from Baker, Ottawa, and Washburn, of whom a large number is expected to attend some of the
The Board of Administration will be here for the entire campaign. The University Senate will do all in its power to keep the University calendar free from conflicting engagements while the campaign is on. The Student Council and the Pan-Hellenic Council have passed resolutions in favor of supporting the meetings in every way possible.
MANY WISH ADMISSION
TO DR. GEETZ'S COURSE
Twenty-two have already enrolled in the new course in Principles of Physical Education, that Dr. Alice L Goetz, head of the women's physical training department, is offering for next semester.
This course is intended for those who are planning to teach physical education. There are a great many applications throughout the state, especially if the women can teach some other subject in conjunction with it.