STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
MAY TAKE 40 MINOR HOURS INSTEAD OF 30
Maximum of 25 Hours Wil Be Allowed in Single Department
NUMBER 139
INCREASES GROUP MAXIMUMS
Upper-Classmen May Carry Twelve Hours Each Semester in Single Group Instead of Ten
Forty hours may now be taken in a minor group instead of thirty as has been the rule heretofore. The change is the result of a favorable action taken by the faculty on a report made, by the sub-committee on the major system. A maximum of twenty-five hours may be taken in a single department of the minor group.
In regard to the major group no change was made. The student must complete a course of not less than thirty or more than sixty hours in the group including the major department,
Another important change is that juniors and seniors will be allowed to carry twelve hours each semester in a single group. Heretoferon only ten such hours could be carried. In the event of missed the maximum is still ten hours.
The third important change from the old system is a means of arranging it so that the graduate cannot get his degree on freshmen and sophomores, but must work in junior and senior years must include a minimum of forty hours, chosen from the courses not open to either freshman or sophomores.
BAND CONCERT A HIT WITH SMALL CROWD
K.U. Musicians Pleased Ligh Audience in Fraser Last Night
A large crowd missed an excellent program of band music last night when the K. U. band gave its annual concert at the Hall. Only three hundred attended.
the program consisted of classical selections with the exception of three extras and the pieces were rendered in a manner that pleased the audience, if the applause was any indication. Three selections from Chamminde, Beisigsr's Hungarian Hulgarian Rhapsody by F. Liszt received the most aplause. Other numbers were Eilenberg's "Turque," Garcia's "La Cascade," Tittl's "Serenade," Allen's "Anita," Santelmann's "Heart Message," A. Dovkar's "Slavonic Dance" and several popular pieces as extras.
J. C. McCanles, director; cornes,
Erroll Welch, Harold Lyle, Oscar
Major, Allen Brown, Jesse Capes,
Orland Lyle, Clifford Baldwin; bite
and piccolo, George Collett, Cargill
Sproul; altos, William Harkraker,
Feeder, Federal Zappi,
Lloyd Potwin; baritones, Charles
Baysinger, Olin Daryb; basses, Carl
Hicks, Gola Coffelt; clarinets, Fred
Leasure, Elian Elliott, Chester Robe,
Arthur Nigg, Charles Long,
Bruce Shomber, Fritz Hartman,
Charles Bayres, Iwain Clark, Earl
Metcalf, H. Grutzmann, James,
Smith, Hillou and Hoffman; trombones, William
James, John Hartman, Harry Evans,
Darley James; drums, Arthur Maltby,
Joseph Hill.
Dan Hazen left Tuesday night for Philadelphia, where he will represent Kansas in the high hurdles in the Twentieth Annual Philadelphia Relay Games held Saturday, April 25th.
HAZEN WILL REPRESENT
KANSAS AT PHILADELPHIA
Hazen will compete with Kelley, the winner of the high hurdles in the Olympic games from Southern California, Nicholson of Missouri, and other record-breakers from the United States. The versatility will be represented in these games. The Philadelphia games are by far the greatest in America.
Manager W. O. Hamilton was not able to accompany Hazen, as he expected to do, on account of urgent unexpected business here at home.
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HASKELL GOSPEL TEAM
TO APPEAR BEFORE Y. M.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL23, 1914.
The Haskell Institute Gospel Team will appear before the University Y. M. C. A. Sunday at 4:00 o'clock in Myers Hall.
Luther Clements of the Machootha tribe of Oregon, secretary of the Haskell Y. M. C. A. and a basketball and baseball man, William Williams of the Caddo tribe of Oklahoma, captain of the Haskell football team for three years and president of the Haskell Y. M. C. A., and James Smith, of Warm Springs, Oregon, a backfill and a recent Y. M. convert, will speak. An Indian quartet will sing.
GIVES ONE VOCATIONAL TALK
Small Attendance Causes Curtail ment of Collegiate Alumni Program—Paintings Exhibited
Owing to the small attendance at the Vocational lectures given by the Association of Collegiate Alumni yesterday, in Room 101, Fraser Hall, only one lecture, "Opportunities in Applied Design," by Miss Benson of the School of Computer Science, was given on Playground Work by Dr. Margaret L. Johnson was reserved until the lectures could be better advertised.
Miss Benson told of the work at the Newcome School of Applied Art, where most of the students are self supporting, and where she plays piano, jugs, scarfs and pottery made by the students in painting and design were exhibited.
ENTOMOLOGISTS GET NEW DEMONSTRATION MACHINE
Department Will Use Instrument for Pictures, Slides and Living and Dead Animals
A machine for use in demonstration with which four different kinds of views may be used has been redeveloped and an entomology for use in class work.
MARVIN BUST NOW CERTAINTY
The regular pictures from books or other periodicals, the common lantern slides, specimens of fossilized animals and actual living animals, are fun forms that may be used in teaching with the aid of the machine.
Receipt of Money Assures Success of Memorial to Dean—Committee Has $880
Enough money has been collected on the Marvin bust fund to make the erection of the bust an absolute certainty. The latest report from the headquarters in New York stated that $880 has been sent to the committee, and contributions are still coming in.
Prof. W. A. Griffith, of the committee on art, says there is almost no limit to the amount which can be spent in installing the statue, and that elaborate habitats will develop when the number of contributions received in the future.
A number of local faculty and student contributions still remain unpaid. Those who have promised money to the fund should pay immediately as the work of the committee is being retarded by their delay.
No definite steps have been taken in regard to the proposed freshman-sophomore tug-of-war across Potter lake. A committee was appointed to find out the sentiment of the members of the two classes in regard to the tug-of-war and submit plans for the affair. It has not reported yet. J. M. Johnson, of the sophomore class, and Donald Harrison, of the freshman class, said today they thought the plan a good one.
NO ACTION ON TUG-OF-WAR
Committee Does Not Report to Council—Johnson and Harrison Favor Plan
Prof. W. H. Twenhofel, of the department of geology, will leave late in May for New York, whence he will sail for Europe. Landing at Bremen, Professor Twenhofel will go to spend some time in Western Russia, southern Norway, and Sweden, and go on a research trip on the rocks of the Silurian age. Professor Twenhofel is making this trip under the auspices of the museum of comparative zoology of Harvard University.
PROF. TWENHOFEL TO GO
TO EUROPE LATE IN MAY
WILL OPEN POTTER LAKE TO BATHERS
Work on Platform, Diving Tower and Springing Board Starts
Potter lake will be open for swimmers next week. Work on a platform, diving tower and springing boards will start this afternoon. Dr. James Naismith is directing the improvements.
The lake will not be opened for the swimmers except at certain hours, when a guard will be placed in charge to keep tah on the bathers. The hours probably will be from 4 to 5:30 in the afternoon.
"The regatta will not consist of racing events only but we will have log-rolling, tub races and fancy dividing races which require skill as well a suitronment."
"we intend to emphasize water sports at the University this year."
With the spring water regatta in mind, the improvements will be
MISSOURI AND KANSAS TO DEBATE TUESDAY NIGHT
Will Discuss Literacy Test For Im migrants—Smith and Wilson to Defend K. U.
The Missouri debate Tuesday night in Fraser Hall promises to be one of the big events of the year. J. Christy Wilson and Harry M. Smith will talk for Kansas on the negative side of the question of adding an edible oil test on present requirements for the admission of immigrants.
Two other members of the immigration squad, A. B. Campbell and J. M. Johnson, are giving the team sham-battle practice now-a-days in Green Hall. Professors C. H. Gershner, R. D. O'Leary are working with the team, along with Prof. H. T. Hill, of the department of public speaking.
J. T. BOTTS, K. U. '04 OUT FOR 31ST DISTRICT JUDGE
The citizens of Comanche county have passed a resolution pledging their hearty support for the candidacy of Jay T. Botts, of Coolwater, for the office of judge-of the 31st judicial district.
Mr. Bottis was graduated from the University of Florida and was a member of Pluia Dula Flux.
MARY MORIN TO GIVE
GRADUATING RECITAL
Miss Mary Morin will give her graduating recital this evening in Fraser Hall, 8:15. She will be assisted by Amy Cutler Olsen, soprano, and Mrs. A. J. Anderson, accompanist.
A meeting of the Board of Engineering Journal will be held this afternoon at 4:30 to elect officers. Jack Malcolmson is acting secretary.
ENGINEERS WILL ELECT
OFFICERS FOR JOURNAL
Prof. H. A. Mills, of the department of economics, will go to Lindsburg Monday to act as a judge in a debate between Bethany College and Augusta College of Rock Island III institution will be on the recall of judges.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers will meet at the home of Prof. A. H. Slus, 1122 Ohio St., this evening. Papers on Machinery, The Scientific American, The Engineering Record, and Exhaust Steam Turbines will be read by Nelson, Pickering, Rathert, and Feierabend.
Millis to Judge Debate
Mechanicals to Meet
Seniors May be Measured
Seniors may have their measurements taken for caps and gowns at chapel time tomorrow in Room 118. Fraser. The price for the apparel this year will be $2 for one week and $2.50 for two weeks. No advance necessary.
Bovnton is Better
Boynton is better
Prof. Arthur J. Boynton, who has been ill with bronchitis, is considerably improved and expects to meet his classes again Monday. He will not be on the hill tomorrow.
Seniors May be Measured
Wants Seniors For Track
Gene Davis wants more seniors to come out and play. So far only three are appeared, and the inter-class meet is Saturday.
SIGMA XI SELECTS SIX NEW MEMBERS
Honorary Scientific Fraternity Chooses From Faculty, Grads and Undergrads
Sigax Xi, the honorary scientific fraternity, elected the following new members last night: Miss Agnes Anderson, from the faculty, Nora Dalbye, John A. Elliot, and Ralph C Hartough, from the Graduate School, and Ittai Luke and Ralph E. Swarts from the undergraduates.
The fraternity met last night at the Unitarian church. Short talks by the initiates and discussion of recent articles in the science and engineering bulletins made up the program.
PROF. JOHNSON INVITED TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Asked to Attend Meeting of Employ
ment Officials of All State
Prof. W. H. Johnson, secretary of the committee on recommendations of high school teachers, has received an invitation from the Cornell University at Ithica, N. Y., to attend a meeting of the employment officials of all the state schools, to be held there May 6.
This is the first meeting of the kind ever held in the country and each representative is asked to bring up any question relating to the appointment and employment of high school teachers.
Professor Johnson has not yet decided whether he can attend the meeting.
K. U. GRAD TO MEXICO
Frank Sands, Aboard U. S. S. South Dakota, Salts for Tampico
Frank Sands, a former student in the department of journalism, now in the navy, has sailed for Tampico Bay on the battleship South Dakota. Sands left the University last year because he had and joined the navy in the hope that the western climate and sea life would benefit him.
ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB CELEBRATES SNOW
Snow Day was held by the Entomological Club in the Museum this month.
The Club meets on April 23 every year to discuss the life and works of Dr. F. H. Snow, the founder of the geological department in the University.
Addresses were made by Professors S. J. Hunter and H. H. Hungerford.
Two hundred and twenty medals to be awarded to the winners in the State High School Track Meet on McCook field, May 4, arrived yesterday and are on exhibition at Manager Hamilton's office. The medals held silver and bronze with the name of the event engraved on the back.
MEDALS FOR TRACK MEET
SHOWN IN GYMNASIUM
The K. U, contingen in and about Boston recently had a dinner in that city. Among those present were: Milton Minor, E. L. Eisley, L. A. Fruerer, D. H. Wenrich, Roy Stockwell Borden, D. H. Wenrich, Roy Herbert Ford, Thomas A. Lee, John Ice Hall, Lyman Rutledge and Fred Fairchild.
K. U. GRADS IN BOSTON HAVE DINNER TOGETHER
Petitions are being circulated for the nomination of John (Bonnie) Reber for athletic member and Lance Barrett for athletic member of the Athletic Board.
THREE WOULD SIT ON
KANSAS ATHLETIC BOARD
Calvin Lambert, sport editor of
The Kansan, later announced his
candidacy.
Students and Faculty to Meet
All young members of Christian church difference will congregate at Myers Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, to meet University faculty, who are members of that church. The affair will be informal.
Parson H. S. Gets K. U. Man
H. T. Steeper, '09, was elected
president of the high school
last week. He has been, at Abilene
for the past two years.
SPANISH PLAY WILL BE
STAGED SATURDAY NIGHT
The annual Spanish play, under the direction of the department of Romance languages, will be given in Robinson Gymnasium Saturday evening at 15. One feature of the play is not common to many. Admission is free.
The following are in the cast. Maria Madden, Ames Rogers, A. Newton Dilley Jr., Helen Hurst, Vera Weatherhog, Zora Kennedy, C. A. Castle, George Brune, Francis Martin, E. Lee Triece, Frank Hetherington, Ida O'Brien, Robert Reed, and Eary E. Yost.
GAME DEPENDS ON WEATHER
St. Marys-Varsity Contest Will Come Off as Scheduled if it Doesn't
If the rains hold off this afternoon the baseball game between 'St Marys and the Varsity will be played in a contest will be called at 3 o'clock.
McCarty's players will meet a tough proposition in the Catholic nine, which has defeated the Normal, Chinese and the Aggies.
The Varsity men have had a week of good weather and daily work-outs with the freshmen have sharpened the Jayhawker's batting eyes. The Kansans probably will line-up as foll- owing: 1st, Van der Vries; 2b, McRowl, ss.; Painter, 3b; Wandell, rf.; Smee, cf.; Delongy, lf.
QUILL CLUB COMPLETES NATIONALIZATION PLANS
Kansas Society Will Be Known as American Association of College Writers.
Arrangements have been completed for making the Quill club a National organization to be known as the American Association of College Writers.
The Kansas organization will hold the honor of Alpha chapter by order of its prestige as a literary club of fifteen years standing.
The Kansas Quill club was organized at the University by a group of faculty and student writers to cause the cause of college writers in '98.
WILL DISCUSS UTILITIES
J. W. Cable Will Talk About State and Local Control
J. W. Cable, a member of the Public Utilities Commission of Kansas, will speak in Snow Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 on "What Shall We Do With the Local Public Utility?" Mr. Cable will take up the question of governing local utilities by a state commission instead of by local government. Mr. Cable will attend to Prof. H. A. Mills, is being seriously discussed in Wisconsin, California, and a campaign is just beginning in Kansas.
TWENTY-FOUR ENTER
CIRBAGE TOURNAMENT
Twenty-four students have entered the cribbage tournament which begins at the Student Union Monday.
Dad Gregory has asked for an assessment of ten cents from each entrant to defray expenses of a cribbage board and a deck of cards which will be given as a prize to the winner. Each entrant will play three other determined six games, the winner to be determined on a per centage basis.
The entry list closes Saturday night at ten o'clock.
A tennis team from the University of Texas has written Manager W. O. Hamilton asking for a match with the Jayhawker net men. The Kanser manager will not arrange Manager Hamilton will not arrange a contest with the Southerners.
TEXAS WANTS GAME WITH
JAYHAWKER TENNIS TEAM
Baptists to Entertain
The Young people of the Baptist church will give a literary and musical entertainment at the church Friday evening. About one hundred and Haskell students will be present. University students are invited.
Greeks to Argue Tolls
The question of Panama tolls exemption will be discussed by the debaters at the Pan-Hellenic contest next month. Each of the eight fraternities have chosen debaters and the talkers will divide into two teams of four men. The date of the debate has not been announced.
"STUDENT GOVERNMENT ON TRIAL"--CHANCELLOR
Dr. StrongSays That Student Council Has Been A Failure
SHOULD PUNISH LAWLESSNESS
"Men's Governing Body Shrinks When Called On To Handle An Unpleasant Proposition"
"Student government is on trial for its life," said Chancellor Frank Strong this afternoon. He made the announcement that student troubles of Tuesday night.
"The students asked for the control of student discipline," he said. "It was turned over to them and all of us would be glad to have them make a success of it, but it seems that the system is breaking down." "Hazing is our worst and basest evil," he said. It is not controlled, student disturbance is a general state of student anarchy in results. If the Student Council cannot control hazing it cannot handle the other matters."
The wearing of freshman caps is the most prevalent form of having at the University, and concerning it the university made the following statement:
"If the freshmen adopt a cap or other insignia for the sake of college spirit, tradition, and so forth, and I believe the freshmen should be willing to do so, and the Council upholds them it is well and good. But the minute it tries to use force or allows it to go unpunished, it has placed itself in the face of lauwessness. When it puts itself in position, it raises the question of its ability to handle student government.
"The trouble is that student government is a very good thing to work for some desirable measure, but it shrinks and stands back when called upon to handle a hard and unpleasant proposition like hazing."
The proposed plan of having a freshmen-sophomore tug of war to stop the class fights did not find any favor with Dr. Strong.
"Such a contest, I believe, would be nothing more than a semi-lawless encounter which would lead to worse conditions than we have now," declared the Chancellor. "An attempt to reinstate such things is a return to the discarded customs of twenty years ago. We have tried them and they failed. Every other university of any note is working away from such practices while we seem to be going back to them."
INTER-CLASS TRACK MEN SWARM M'COOK
Scores of Aspirants for Medals and Maybe Ks Work Out Every Day
Track men are swarming the McCookinders this week, training for the interclass track meet, which will be held, rain or shine, Saturday afternoon. Manager Hamilton has on exhibition in his office the medals which will be given after each event. First place will receive a gold medal, second silver, third and fourth bronze medals.
"Any student in the University is eligible for intercass meet and I hope every class will be well representer and Manager Hamilton this afternoon."
The dope on the meet seems to rest with the sophomores, who expect to carry away most of the events. Track fans will watch with interest the vaulting of Russ, a freshman. If a first year man breaks a University record in the meet, Russ is awarded a wooden vault. Russ is after Wooden vault record and stands a good chance of clearing the bar above 11 feet and 6 inches. Russ has vaulted 11 ft, 7 several times this spring.
Another interesting event will be the shotput where records are likely to be smashed. Reber and Keeling have recently developed considera- tion forms for men and threaten to break the University record in the class meet.
The Y. M. C. A. will give a faculty stag in Myers Hall Saturday, May 2.
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