STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
NUMBER 132
COLORADO FINALLY
LOSES K. U. DEBATE
Goes Down to Defeat for First Time in Six Years
DECISION WAS UNANIMOUS
But the Team at Oklahoma Lost Arguing Against the Unicameral System
The debating team which went to Oklahoma to tangle with the Sooners did not fare so well. The judges of the game were the Oklahomaians with a 2 to score, 1.
The team arrayed against Colorado was composed of Avery F. Olney, Harold M. Mattoon, and Hermy A. Shinn, arguing on the affirmative side for the unicameral form of legislature. The judges were Prof. Alfred Leash of Baker University, Prof. Charles A. Hardy, of Ottawa University, and Charles A. Summer, of Kansas City.
For the first time in six years, a debating team representing the University of Kansas defeated the University of Colorado trio Wednesday night in the annual forensic encounter. The decision of the judges was unanimous in favor of the Kansas speakers.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 14, 1914.
Arvid Frank, Oliver Athetion, and Donald Joseph represented the University of Kansas in the Oklahoma debate. They had the negative side of the same question. Prof. H. T. Hill, of the department of public speaking, accompanied the team to Oklahoma.
WHY NOT A TUG - OF - WAR?
That Is The Plan Suggested For The Two Lower Classes—Dodd Approves
Why not a tug-of-war between the freshmen and sophomores? That is the plan suggested by several students.
"A big rope could be stretched across Potter Lake and chosen teams representing each class, could be put at each end," said a prominent student this morning. "The plan is to try to keep the ropes certainly be a whole lot of fun."
CHECKS IT UP TO OLNEY
Freshman President Says Head of College Should Look After Superfluous Candidates
Leslie Dodd, president of the Student Council, thinks the plan a good one.
Don Harrison, president of the freshman class said this morning that he would not call a meeting of the first year men to eliminate any of the yearlings who would be members of the Student Council.
WOULD HAVE SENIORS AND
FACULTY TURN IN DATES
Senior men and women are requested to turn in their dates for the junior prom by Wednesday noon to either of the managers, Bat Nelson or Kit Carson, or Harry Wilson of the invitation committee. This will require a commitment to show how many to prepare for and will be a great convenience.
All of the candidates are from the College and he thinks that it is a College affair and if there is to be a primary it should be at the blinding cost. The students. Student Council rules forbid the election of more than one freshman.
Faculty members who are planning to attend the function are requested to notify the same men by Wednesday noon also.
KANSAS CITY BANKER TO SPEAK ON "INVESTMENTS"
H. P. Wright, an investment banker of Kansas City, Mo., will speak to the students of the economic department Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Snow Hall on "Investments." Mr. Wright was engaged to be here two weeks ago but could not come.
C. M. Sawyer's lecture, scheduled
for this afternoon, was not given.
The Journal club of the English department will meet Thursday, April 18, at 4:30, in Room 211 Fraser Hall.
Send the Daily Kansan home
ALICE NIELSEN TO APPEAR IN CONCERT
Prima Donna Soprano to Sing in Robinson Gym Tomorrow Night
SHE GOES DIRECT TO LONDON
Will Leave Lawrence For Spring Opera Season in Royal Company —To Give 18 Selections
Madam Alice Nielsen, prima dona soprano of the Metropolitan and Boston Opera company and of the Royal Opera Company, of Convent Garden, London, will give the first concert of the Eleventh Annual
ALICE NIELSEN
Musical Festival of the School of Fine Arts in Robinson Gymnasium at 8:15 tomorrow night.
Madam Nielsen goes direct form
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RAIL ON CUT-OFF STEPS
"Safety First" Device Northwest of Library This Will Be Completed
Four and one-half times as many inquiries were answered by the Municipal Reference bureau in March 1914 as in the same month last year. For March the total number of inquiries was 45; last year it was ten. Thirty of the questions came from Kansas towns and the remaining fifteen came from states in all parts of the country.
Hawks Will Try Out
MANY KANSAS TOWNS
ASK K. U. QUESTIONS
E. F. Crocker, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said this morning that the new railings on the steps on the library cut-off, leading to the campus would be completed by the end of this week at the latest. The steps leading to the street car station in the rear of the Law Building have already been improved and made safer by the addition of steel nine railings.
The number of subjects of the impurities was nearly as large as the ist. Municipal ownership of electric lighting plants received the argest attention with three questions.
The Hawk Club will hold tryouts for the play, "The Fortune Hunter," to be produced May 8th, in Room 143. All members are urged to be present.
This Check Made Possible the Men's Student Union
The Alumni Association
VOUCHER-CHECK No. 1977
The Weather
Temperature readings:
WILL ELECT W. S. G. A.
OFFICERS TOMORROW
4. p. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
7. a. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2. p. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
The Alumni Association lent the Student Union $500 to secure and equip temporary quarters. Plans are under way for the erection of a permanent Student Union Building on the University campus.
Women Will Choose President, Two Vice-Presidents, Sec'y and Treasurer
"We want all the county clubs and student organizations to discuss the permanent Student Union in their meetings," said Larry Kilmear, president of this organization this morning. "The big question at present is whether the money for the building should be raised by contribution or by a state appropriation. We would like to have the of the students in this matter."
The election of officers for the W. S. G. A. will be held tomorrow from 9 to 4:30 in the Museum. The officers to be elected are: president, faculty member at College and one from the School of Fine Arts, secretary, and treasurer.
KINNEAR WOULD HAVE
CLUBS DISCUSS UNION
An injured leg an operation, a kick by a mule on the same leg and an attack of yellow jaundice are trying to keep Captain John E. Detwiler from leading the football squad next fall. Detwiler's latest malady is yellow jaundice whichICKs his halfback for the past week his home in Smith Center. He is improving rapidly and expects to be up this week.
The candidates are: for president, Doris Hackbush; vice-president, College, Virginia Goff and Naomi Simpson; vice-president, Fine Arts, Nina Kanaga; secretary, Eunice Pleasant and Genevieve Herrick; treasurer, Helen Trent and Stella Stubbs.
Leen M. Bocker, junior electrical; and Floyd L. Nutting, junior mechanical, have announced their candidacies for membership of the Men's Student Council from the School of Engineering.
DETWILER NOW SICK IN BED
Detwiler's injured leg is better and the stiffness about gone.
"I expect to be on McCook field when the first practice is called," Captain Detwiler told a friend Sunday.
Tells of "Plastic Surgery"
Dr. W. S. Sutton, of Kansas City,
talked to the Phi Delta Phi fraternity,
on "Plastic Surgery" Wednesday
evening. His talk was given
with lantern slides.
Football Captain is Confined by an Attack of Yellow Jaundice— Is Improving.
Edgar W. Campbell, '12 and Mrs. Campbell, who was Miss Sylvia Achten, of Wetmore, visited friends at the university yesterday. Since being graduated from the law school Mr. Campbell has been associated with his father at Seneca, but recently opened an office at Wetmore.
The committee has written to a number of universities which have Unions inquiring as to the way they raised the money for their buildings. The committee will all these letters some definite plan of campaign here will be decided on.
Visits K. U. Friends
Weather Forecast: Fair and warmer.
Engineers For Councilmen
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS HAD BUSY DAY IN INDIA
The Chemical Engineers, now on an inspection trip to Chicago and vicinity, spent a busy day around Gary, Ind, the home of the U. S. Steel Company's largest plant. After breakfast at Gary they left for Whiting at 8:05 to inspect the company after lunch. After lunch they went to Grasselli, Ind, where they visited the Grasselli Chemical Company's plant and the U. S. Metal Refining Co. They will return to Chicago this evening and will reach Lawrence shortly before noon tomorrow.
AMATEUR SOCIOLOGISTS VISIT WAKARUSA SCHOOLS
Students Under Professors Burgess and Naismith Inspect Pupils' Health and Condition
The students who are working on the social survey of Wakarusa township visited six schools in the district yesterday. They gathered data covering the eye, ear, and throat conditions of the children as well as general information concerning height, weight and general physical measurements. Many of the parents, W.W. Bhusua, so interested in the work which the students are doing that they have asked the sociologists to send reports of the facts gathered in their district.
The students who made the canvass are: Leila Nein, Verbert Mix, Ralph Wiley, members of Dr. James Naismith's class in Anthropometry; Mary Bossi, Remington Kellogg, and Clarence Smith and members of Professor Burgess's class in rural sociology.
WILL DISCUSS BUTTE MINES
Prof. Winchell, of Wisconsin, to Give Illustrated Lectures in Geology Building
Prof. A. U. Winchell, of the geology department of the University of Wisconsin, will deliver two illustrated lectures in Haworth Hall next Thursday. His subjects will be "Mining Geology of Butte" and "The Origin of Butte Deposits." The lectures will be given at 10 a.m. and 4:30 p. m. Butte is one of the most important mining districts in the world and Professor Winchell is thoroughly familiar with it.
PLEDGES MUST BE PAID
BY WEEK FROM FRIDAY
About $200 is still unpaid and the money is needed badly. There are a number of debts on the furnishings which must be settled immediately and Kennedy desires that the students settle up at once.
Union pledges must be paid to Randolph Kennedy by a week from Friday or the names of those who lost in the war and failed to do so will be published.
Miss Lucy Y. Riggs, Y. W. C. A. territorial secretary for this district, and a K. U. graduate, will address the Y. W. C. A. meeting this after-
LUCY Y. RIGGS, SECRETARY
OF Y. W., TO GIVE ADDRESS
Prof. Raymond A. Schwegler will give a lecture tonight at 7:30 in Myer's Hall on the subject of "Immortality."
The Y. W. C. A. employment bureau still has several positions for girls and positions are being offered for next year. Miss Carroll requests the girls desiring work for next year to leave their applications with her now so that as much may be done before next fall as possible.
Clark Takes Long Trip
Russell Clark spent the Easter recess in Minnesota, Minn., where he inspected the engraving work for the 1914 Jayhawker.
SOPHS FACE DAMAGES AND ALSO BANKRUTTCY
Mrs. Willis Asks $25 to Repair House After "Assault on Torreon"
To broken* window lights... $4.00
To broken* window frames... 5.00
To one broken door... 3.00
To damaged rugs, etc... 5.00
To trampled yard and garden... 5.00
To wounded feelings... 3.00
Grand Total. . . $25.00
That is what the assault and paddling of Torreon that took place in the 1300 block on Tennessee and Vermont streets last Wednesday night April 8, between the freshmen and the sophomores aided by federal reinforcements of upperclassmen led by "Tony" James and "Willie" Weidlein, is going to cost the sophomore class. Mrs. G. W. Willis, of 1312 Vermont street, is asking that much in damages from the sophomore class as the result of a raid on her home made to capture Dobar, Darby, and Allen, three freshman leaders. "I consider $25 a low estimate of the damage done my home," said Mrs. Willis this morning, "and I feel that the sophomore class will immediately see fit to reimburse me to that extent. I haven't yet taken my office up with the Board of Administration, but shall await the action of the class. I saw one member of the class the time who was in the crowd that stormed my house and he admitted that he thought the class should reimburse me."
According to Mr. Willis, the door bell rang late in the evening, but before anyone could answer it the house was full of sophomores who swept to every part of the house after the freshmen who had been leaders of the first-year crowd that spanked and almost deported the past week. In the "rough park" that followed window lights, doors, garden and lawn came out a poor second.
"It will bankrupt the class to pay that," remarked a prominent sophomore this morning. "It was worth it, however."
OPHOMORES AND FRESHMEN
HOLD OPEN AIR MEETING
The sophomore and freshmen classes met in mass meeting Wednesday night. The session was held at 11:59 in the open air at the corner of Thirteenth and Tennessee streets.
The crowd flowed into the arena from all the cardinal points. Various football stars presided. The minutes of the previous meeting of the club were filled with and the immediate business was taken up. The business was soon transacted and the sophomores returned gleefully and uproarously "to their respective homes, voting the evening a success". The freshmen felt a little earlier and voted to eat off the mantlepiece over the vacation.
Gospel Team to Blue Rapids The University Y. M. C. A. gospea team Hal Coffman, Leland Jenks, and McKinley Warren, will go to the summer camp. They will be there the remainder of the week working in connection with A. H Holloway, County Work Secretary for Marshall County. Their purpose is to interest the high school boys in Y. M. C. A. work.
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The members of the Daily Kansan Board challenge the Men's Student Council to a baseball game, to be played over time or place the Student Club may designate.
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WHO WILL LOOK OVER BOOKS OF STUDENTS?
Absence of Secretary Brown Raises Question About Council Custom
OFFICIALS LIKE THE PLAN
Welcome Rule Because An Outside
O. K. Relieved Them of All Suspicion of Graft.
When the Student Council was first organized it evolved a plan to have the secretary of the University audit the books of the officers of all student organizations. The object was to abolish any "graft" which may have existed, as well as to have cash balances in certain organizations turned over to the Student Union fund.
The absence of E. E. Brown, former secretary and purchasing agent, from the University this year, raises a question of interest to the Student Council, as well as the student body. To audit a audit, the year's student accounts?
The Student Council has consistently supported its original position and the plan is mentioned in the Student Directory under the heading, "Rules Passed by the Men's Student Council."
But this year there is no secretary and purchasing agent and none of the University officials seem to know of anyone who is supposed to audit the accounts. The Board of Administration has the power, of course, to appoint any other University official as the auditor with or without the request of the Student Council.
The plan has worked very successfully in other years. Student officials have usually been insistent on the audit since an O.K. from an outfit was submitted, and the suspicion of "graft" which is so often rumored without foundation.
K.U.MAN STARS ON BROADWAY
Hale Hamilton Carries Lead in the Play "A Pair of Sixes" at a Broadway Theater
Hale Hamilton, K. U's most famous actor, has recently returned returned from London, where he delighted English theater-goers in "The Fortune Hunter" and "Sealed Orders." On returning to this continent Hamilton immediately adoptead with him work for the play and in the lead in this play has started on a successful run at the Longueville Theatre on Broadway.
Hamilton has become as much of a hit abroad as at home, and his long run at the Queen's Theater in London was due in no small sense to his personal charm. As the star in "The Fortune Hunter," and even as Wallingford in "Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingford" he made an instantaneous hit with the British audiences, and compelled the dramatic critics abroad to give him nothing but favorable notices.
Hamilton was graduated from the Law School here ten years ago. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
He expects to come to Topeka this summer to see his father J. D. M. Hamilton, and from there will visit Lawrence and thank Uncle Jimmy Green for the lectures on law which he used to attend occasionally, though Hamilton isn't sorry that he decided to direct his own eloquence toward the theatre box instead of the jury box.
PROF, BECKER REFUSES
EASTERN COLLEGE'S OFFER
Prof. Carl L. Becker, of the Department of history, has just refused an offer to teach in an eastern college at a raise in salary. The Board of Education raised Professor Becker's salary in order to induce him to stay.
Win Golf Tournament.
Dr. H. T. Jones and C. A. Altman won the first four-ball tournament of the Oread Golf Club completed Saturday. They won the event by defeating M. W. Sterling and A. Sterling in the final by a score of 8 up points for the No. 10 points counted for each hole low score and low total.
A. K. U. "English Eddie"
William Powell who played "Eddie Griggs" at the Bowersock last night in "Within the Law" and whose home is in Kansas City, was a student at the University some years ago.