UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XII.
EIGHTEEN DEBATERS MAKE VARSITY SQUAD
One Woman and Seventeer Men Chosen from Field of Forty
Eighteen of the forty participants in yesterday's debating trouts survived the preliminaries. Miss Hester J. Kaufman, the only woman in the contest, was among the successors of the others follow: J. T. Benton, O. H. Burns, H. C. Coffman, J. E. Curran, W. H. Doddus, W. M. Doggett, E. G. Kaufman, C. B. Lyons Ray McQuiston, E. R. Moody, A. K. Rede, Ames G. W. Kaufman, G. W. Tattles, H. T. Wedell, L. H. Whiteside, and C. E. Williamson.
The above named persons, together with the former inter-colligate debaters; Cale Carson, Don Joseph, M. J. Calbourne, Avery Olney, Harold Matton and Henry Shinn, will constitute the squad which will work in the second tryout, on Tuesday. The next week. The squad will be divided into two sections, and after the second elimination contest, fifteen debaters will be selected to work out for the team. Five of that number will work on the Missouri question; ten on the Triangular debate.
D. S. GIRLS COULD NOT COOK WITHOUT WATER Used Strategy and Found It
Sixteen feminine voices rent the air with shrill cries that emanated from the dungeon of a gloomy stone chamber. They were all their crys, "Give us waiver."
No, Geraldine, they were not suspected German spies being tortured in the city bastile. They were only students of home economics preparatory school. They had been just about ready to begin to start to quit, when one of them, wishing to wash her dainty fingers, discovered that the water was ausgepitell. In panic they threw it into the river, in vain. Water there was none.
Now it is well known that civilized man can subsist with infrequent ablutions, and can, if forced to, drink other things besides water. But he cannot live without cooks, and cooks cannot cook without water. So there you are—or rather, there were the six girls. How were they to finish their meal and do the dishwashing demanded by a stern faculty?
Where did she get that much water? Well, as our old friend Rudyard would say, that's another story.
Well, it had to be done somehow,
so one of the boldest sallied forth,
bucket in hand, to seek the precious
H,O. After what seemed an age,
but was not in reality over eighteen
minutes, the intrepid explorer returned
with a full pail, and the
country was saved.
BIRD MAN WILL SING
IN CHAPEL WEDNESDAY
Henry Oldys, Noted Ornithologist Will Appear Before Students With Notice
Henry Oldys, a writer and lecturer on ornithological subjects of national fame, will lecture at 1:30 o'clock at the subject's home and the subject, "The Songs of Birds."
Mr. Oldys is the man who writes bird music in notes. He says that birds show a musical appreciation that in some degree resembles that of man, and tells a story of a cheekwink that quietly listened to the song of its mate, and then added the finishing notes, to prove his point. The result is that observers musical sequence and that musicians their songs are composed of as many as four simple phrases, making a complete rythm.
"The woodthrush is the finest singer of all, and probably illustrates the highest musical development. His phrases are correct, and completely related," says Mr. Oldys.
Shaad Helps Draft Bill
Prof. George C. Shaad, of the School of Engineering, will attend a conference in Topkaka tomorrow at the University's utility law to be presented to this
Johnson to Belleville
Prof. C. A. Johnson, of the electrical department of the School of Engineering at Ohio State, during the holidays to design the electrical distribution for that city.
PROFESSOR TO TELL LOVE STORY ON FEBRUARY 23
Senior Play Will be Staged in Mid Winter—Rehearse Three Times
a Week
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 10. 1914.
The senior play, "A Professor's Love Story," will be given on Tuesday evening. February 23. And made of the date was made this morning.
Rehearsals are at present being conducted three times a week in Room 3, Green Hall. A short time before the play is given, the cast will work daily on the stage at the Bowersock
MERCHANTS.WILL MEET FIRST WEEK IN FEBRUARY
Short Course Dates Set by Extension Division After Long Period of Indecision
After a long period of indecision as to when the second Merchants' Short Courses should be held, dates have been made for February 1, 2, 3, 4 and Paul Neystrom will be the principal speaker during the four days session.
Professor Neystrom is head of the Short Course bureau of Minnesota and is a recognized authority on questions relative to mail order business. Salesmanship, buying, sleeping, accounting and many other questions will be explained to the merchants by Professor Neystrom.
At least 300 merchants will attend the four days' session and more than that number probably will hear part of the speeches. F. H. Hamilton, director of the extension division, said that Professor Neystrom's reputation is strong and a source of valuable information and a will many to Lawrence next February, who did not attend the first short course which was held last May.
INTER-COUNTY CLUB WILL
HOLD BIG CONVOCATION
The newly formed Inter-County Club, under the direction of President John Somers, is planning to begin its activities with a convoa between students and students of the University are welcome to the big meeting. Several talks on the mill tax amendment will be made. Methods of interesting prospective freshmen in the University and other subjects, will be heard.
State Organization Plans Mill Tax Meeting for Tuesday or Wednesday in Chapel
Officers of more than forty county clubs are ex officio members of the new organization, which will in the future act as the spokesman of the clubs in all matters of general interest.
FLYING NEEDLES MAKE CHRISTMAS GIFT
"One, two, three, four! No thank you, I don't care for any candy while I am tatting. One, two, three, four!" This skein while I wind my shuttle!" this skein while I wind my shuttle!"
Labette to Meet
Will Test Fuel Consumption During the first week of the holidays Prof. George C. Shand will conduct a test on the Kansas City power plant to determine the fuel consumption.
Labette County Club will meet tonight at the Delta Tau Delta, 1215 Oread, at 7:30 o'clock.
This is the conversation that many of the K. U. men are hearing lately. Whether tatting, crocheting and knitting are only passing fads for the women just before Christmas, or whether they come to stay, no one knows. But many K. U. men are wishing such arts had never been discovered.
Before dinner, after dinner, even between actors at the theater the suddenly industrious K. U. woman draws out her thread and needles or shuttle, and her fingers fly fast. Conversation is almost at an ebb.
Not only at K. U. but all over the country, college women seem to be turning to old fashioned domesticity. At Baker University, where chapel attendance is compulsory, the women tat and crochet during the whole day. A Harvard man complained the other day that when he took a Wellesley class to dinner he had to carry her yarn needles in order that she might do something to help the Belgian sufferers.
Will Test Fuel Consumption
Women Who Tat Refuse to Chat
CLASSES TO BATTLE ON MCCOOK SATURDAY
Seniors vs. Juniors, and Sophomores vs. Freshmen is Program on McCook
Junius vs. Seniors and Sophomores vs. Freshmen will be the schedules for Saturday's on McCook header football game on McCook Stadium in the final game next Wednesday for the interclass championship.
The first game will be the upper-class contest and will be called promptly at 1:30 o'clock. And even if the snow is three feet deep the teams will play. "Intercollegiate games between big universities have been played with snow on the ground, so why should the interclass contests be postponed because of it," said Manager W. O. Hamilton.
The coaches will take a final look over their material tonight to get the final lineup which will open the games Saturday. The Freshman-Sophomore game is expected to be the real battle of the afternoon as these two teams are doped to be of real class. The yearlings look particularly good and especially so with Captain James, Gray, Kampert, and Lindsay as coaches. The sophs also have some real men advising them in the juniors and seniors have been some material hardcapped by scarcity of material but expect to make up by the class of men that did come out. Captain Detwiler and Helvern are directing the destinies of the 1915 class while Strother and Burton are putting the pep into the juniors.
Leon McCarty, erstwhile baseball and football coach will act in the role of referee. Jay Bond will do the umpiring stunt while Bill Weidlein, the genial freshman coach, will mark off the distance gained.
K. U HAS MORE ALUMNI THAN ANY STATE SCHOO
Did you know that the University of Kansas alumni association had the largest per centeage of active members of any state university association, amounting to that of the 5200 eligible men and women are or the active membership list.
In 1883, with 138 graduates, the first Alumni Association was established. In 1902, the first Graduate School of Nursing was a salaried secretary was employed with offices at the University. The association was incorporated in 1907.
SOPHS WILL HOP APRIL 30
Class Affair to be Given Two Weeks After Junior Prom
George Yookum, manager of the Sophomore Hop, announced this morning that the date for the dance set was set for three weeks after the Jupiter Poem.
The Hop will be informal. Either Haley of Kansas City or Ray Hall of Topeka, with an orchestra, will furnish music for the evening. A dinner similar to that of last year will be served.
Christmas vesper services will be held in Fraser Hall Sunday at 4:30 jclock under the auspices of the Y. W. C. H. and Y. M. C. A. The meet- tions, Y. W. C. H. everyone. Miss Anne Gittens, Y. W. C. A. secretary, vill preside.
Lawrence Miller, president of the class, has asked that all fraternities and other organizations keep the date open on that night.
Mrs. E. A. Blackman will sing a
opolo solo, Dick Williams will
song a flute, Rhoda Rhoa will
loops will give a reading and
the M. C. A. quartet will also sing.
WILL GIVE CHRISTMAS
VESPERS IN FRASER HALL
Speaks Before Engineers
Speaks Before Engineers Prof. C.A. Haskins, of the department of civil engineering will speak before the combined engineering section this evening at 7 o'clock on "Water Purification."
John Lytte Harrington, of the firm of Harrington, Howard & Ash, of Kansas City, Mo., will lecture to the freshmen Engineers sometime next week, the date to be determined later.
NUMBER 62.
K. C. Man of Lecture
The home economics women will continue their weekly food sales and the laboratory will be open Friday from 10:30 o'clock to 11:00. All orders telephoned to the department will be filled and delivered.
H. E. Women Sell Food
WHERE. OH WHERE IS OUR WATER SUPPLY?
Left Home Early This Mor ning and Hasn't Been Seen Since
LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN— One water supply. Pure water filled with good Kaw river mud. Probably very weak from lack of exercise. Left its home at the Lawrence Water Company and started for the hill. Has not been seen till now. Nor are anyone, seeing it wanderings around the street, will please direct it to Mt. Oread and oblige.
And in the meantime, professors are fuming and threatening all sorts of things to the kidnapper. Laboratory classes are almost at a standstill in interruptions in the middle of the terms are disastrous to such courses.
According to the officials at the water plant the pressure was applied before the water last night or early this morning. But water on the Hill refuse to leak at all.
Milk Cheaper Than Water?
Water gathered in dish pans, mixing bowls, baking tins, and in fact anything and everything that will not leak,—that is the state to which the home economies department has been reduced in these days of water shortage. Things become valuable when they become scarce, therefore water may be maintained fifty per cent. The water faucet has been watched with an eagle eye, and every little dribble has been carefully saved and distilled.
Some of the classes have even had to be dismissed on account of no teacher. It has become too valuable to keep a lab open, so the laboratory has lost its former spotless appearance. If it is shut off much longer, it may become more valuable than milk, and we may yet have the laboratory floors given milk baths.
Christmas spirit is dispelling the gloom, however. The advanced classes will make candy from 1 to 6 weeks on Saturday which they will help you do. The regular elementary classes will also be given one hour for candy making.
NO SNAPS IN LIFE'S SCHOOL
Best Things are Always Hardest at
First, Says Roy. O. C. Brown
"There are no snap courses in the school of life, which lead to success. Soft courses spell failure and only the hard ones lead to success." So Chapman leads her talk "Harder Yet!" at morning prayers in Fraser church this morning.
"How to get rid of hardships is a big question. The New Testament recognizes hardships and tells us not to run away from them but to bear them. If you rush into the day's work you can drown your hardships.
“Take your choice of the burdens of life is the call to brotherhood and the sociological charge and challenge of the gospel. The best things of life are always hardest at the behest and always become easier toward the goal.” Don't shun the hardships. Take your share of them."
Tomorrow morning Reverend Brown will give the last of his services of talks on the general topic "Inspiration" to the special subject will be "Therefore, and will deal with the connection between knowledge and character.
"We will be there," is the reply received by Con Hoffman from President Ed. T. Hackney of the Board of Administration in answer to a letter to the board, it would be possible for the Board to be on the march among the Mott campaign, March 5 to 8.
GOVERNING BODIES WILL
ASSIST MOTT CAMPAIGN
Besides the action taken by the Board, it is expected that other governing bodies of the University will take action in commendation of the big religious campaign now being prepared for by the Y. M. C. A. As the university Senate, the Student Council, the Malacic Council, and other organizations have not made any definite move in this direction.
Tells of Psychopathology
"The Problems of Psychopathology in Every Day Life" was the subject of the talk given by Prof. R. A. Schlegler last night in Myers Hall to the Graduate Club. There was a good attendance.
Serd the Daily Kansan home.
PLAYLET TO BE STAGED AT ALL-U. PARTY IN GYM
Santa Land Romancee to Help Make Y. W.-Y. M. Social Friday Big Success
A Toyland Romance, that threatens to become a tragedy, will be one of the features of the All-University in the Gymnasium Friday night.
Only Toys, Santa, and a child are to have part in the play. Sally Batte as the French doll, will carry the lead. She will have playing opposite her brother J. W. Johnson, one as the tin soldier, the other as the Jumping Jack.
These gentlemen, in their struggle for the favor of the Little Lady, stage a very fierce battle. The Jumping Jack is hindered in that he has to fight from a stocking on the wall where Santz sas hung him. Helene Thomas, as the Talking Doll, Naomi Simpson and Helen Clark, both tell all tales of the air of tragedy, given by the nacious Mr. Kohler and Mr. Johnson Santa will be played by Mr. Vernon Cornwell.
The gymnasium will be decorated for the occasion. J. A. Butin will whistle. The price of admission is 10 cents, one dime.
HERE'S A CHANCE TO GET IN HER FAVOR
Vote for Her in "Pretty" Contest
Have you cast your vote for the prettiest girl in the University? The contest closes a week from Thursday and you are not doing your part by the co-educational system unless you have some choice.
The five winners will have full length pictures on a special page in the Jayhawker something after the exhibition, and then show it in Badger which is on exhibition.
"Enough votes have been cast already to make the contest a success," said Manager Hackney, "but want the choice of all the students."
BAND READY FOR CONCERT
Annual Fest of Horns to be Given in Fraser at 8 P. M.
The annual fall concert of the K U. band will be given tonight in Fraer Hall at 8 o'clock. Student tickets will admit.
The program will be varied, ranging from Verdi's "Il Trovatore," to Caryll's "Oh! Oh! Delphine," from the comic opera of the same name. The band, composed of 43 pieces, is led by J. C. McCanles.
TWO STUDENTS ARE HELD-UP
An unmasked man stepped out from a doorway in the Lawrence high school building and pointed a revolver in the face of Blaine W Hite, freshman engineer, who was walking with Bess Ulrich toward her home at 1308 Kentucky street about 11 o'clock last night.
Robber Got no Money from Bess
Ulrich and Blaine Hite
"Throw up your hands," the robber growled.
He searched Hite's pockets, but found no money. The robber was about to take a gold watch which had been given Hite as a graduation gift, but finally allowed him to keep he commanded Hite and Miss Ulrich to stand in the high school doorway until he had disappeared.
Miss Ulrich had nothing to say this morning about the hold-up, except that the police were not notified of it.
DECIDE THAT IS PAYS
TO COOK FANCY DISHES
Does it pay to spend time in pre-
paring fancy dishes?
This was one of the questions answered in Miss Evangeline Downey's class in selection and economic uses of foods Monday afternoon. Potatoes, peas, turnips, carrots, and spinach had been cooked in two or three different ways. The time and purpose to prepare one serving and the food value recorded by the class so it could easily calculate for any number of servings. After comparing the plain boiled turnips with those stuffed with carrots, and the plain baked potatoes with potatoes on the half shell there was no doubt in the minds of the members of the class that it pay to spend more time in cooking. The turnips, with the carrots were especially attractive, the turnips were boiled whole, then the middle was removed and carrots with cream sauce were put in the hollow.
SIX HUNDRED SEE FOOTBALL K'S GIVEN
Students Pack Hall to Witness Rewarding of 1914 Gridiron Heroes
Six hundred men of the University saw the awarding of the football 1914 K's, and the attendant program at the mixer given by the Student Council in honor of the football squad in F. A. U. Hall last night. Uncle Jimmy Green presented the letters to fifteen men: Reber, Heath, Groft, Helvern, Keeling, Strother, Burton, Coolidge; Wood, Russell, Striker, Detwiler, Householder, Gray, and James.
The program was headed by Chancellor Strong summing up and commenting on the recent unrest in the University. He did not realize, he said, that that he was going to be such a great leader of the school and admitted that he had been criticized. But was willing to take it all if it would help the school and the team. As to the team he said that they had done their best. (Cheers.) Concerning spirit the chancellor for the spirit of 1914 was as good as most of the years of the past, and better than a great many.
His next statement brought the house down. It was that the University of Kansas never stood higher among schools than it does right now. He told of his trip to Princeton some weeks ago to the meeting of the National Association of American Universities. While there it was well known out that K, U, stands as one of twenty-two of the leading schools of the 600 universities of North America.
Concerning the student freedom he asked any student who felt restrained to look up the records and see if the students of the University of Kansas did not have more free time than those of the most of schools.
Explains Student Discipline
Going on the Chancellor explained the student discipline of the University, taking occasion from the recent suspension case. The supreme discipline lay with the Board of Administration. It turned the responsibility to the Senate, and the Senate in turn to the President. He believed, he said, that the Student Council, to be effective must conform in measure to the standards of a Senate.
Explaining his own situation in the matter he said that he tried to give the students a square deal. But that he must be square to all. That he must consider the University as a whole. Therefore, heotted himself and asked his sponsor with the Senate for school discipline, he was anxious when a question of student discipline was brought up.
He then reviewed the case of the suspension of the students for the unauthorized rally before the Aggie game, telling how he had received the telegram announcing the suspension of the students while in the East, and that the time of the suspension had been checked up to him. He gave three weeks, however, he said, he thought that was the right length, and that he wanted to maintain student government in the University.
Coming back to the football team he suggested that K. U. let bygones be bygones, and go out for the team to play the best sight of the fact that a school to be great be great in scholarship and morals, as well as athletics.
Chancellor Leads Athletics
Chancellor Leads Attention To disprove the accusation that he did not like Rock Chalk the Chancellor lead the six hundred students present in the school yell. The floors of F. A. U Hall shook.
The next man on the program was Coach Jack Wheaton, but through a mistake the coach could not appear. Nine rails were given for the Kanser team, and Hamilton took the platform. He admitted that he was disappointed in the season, but believed it was due to a little over confidence. He re-identified the year's work, and asked that more men be out for football next fall.
About this time the students began yelling for open windows. The team was busy, but Chancellor Strong took the wheel in the pole in hand and satisfied them.
Coach Bond followed Manager Hamilton. He said he had been asked the question, "How did they do because Missouri had 100 men out for that field was one reason other was lack of interest in spring practice.
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