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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
FIRST VAUDEVILLE
PLEASED ALL K. U
Student Entertainers Star in Physical Education Department'sNight of Merriment
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, 1914.
Y. W, C. A. SOLD CRACKERJACK
Big Crowd Watches University Or organizations and Individual "Cut-Ups" Frolic a la Greese Paint
Before a crowd which packed the Gymnasium to the roof, George Babb and his troop of entertainers put on a clever indoor circus last night. The audience, part of which witnessed the circus last year, was prepared for something unusual, but the stunts which the department of Total Education showed have never been equalled at Kansas before.
The vaudeville, furnished by the Vaudevilles and various fraternities the Yankees was pleasing.
One of the best stunts of the evening was the Whirlwind Nortons, in their tumbling act. Led by George Babb, these gymnasts excelled each other in showing difficult feats on the mat, and the audience enjoyed them as much. The troupe consisted of Lyle, Wood, McEwen, Miller, Dyche, and Babb.
An overture by the Pi Upsilon orchestra, opening the circus, was well played. The same fraternity furnished the music the rest of the evening, and did not even lack the tremolo effect when Ward Hatcher, "that funny coon," lost all his savings at silent poker.
The Allan Troupe, acetalists, provided the first acrobatic act, and performed capably on the high bar. Heinrich Reese, the German exchange professor and H. C. Pauley showed the best exhibitions of skill, and both were heartily applauded by the crowd. The breaking of one of those bars in the high bar midst of Reese's most difficult act added a little excitement to the entertainment, but put an untimely end to a good stunt.
The Musical De LAT Tines with the Mrs. absent, had a good act, and put it over well. DeBemhain's feat of playing Tues Moutarde on the harp from the high bar brought a thunder of an ampliuse from the audience.
The Wiltons Character Dancers, showed just how graceful various members of the un-fair sex can be. Jim McNaught and Alvin Babb, clad in suits of emerald green, danced the Gorge Babb, dressed in the yellow and gold, gave us L'Argentine evitions of the Tango.
The Little Red Schoolhouse,
staged by Sigma Phi Sigma afforded
the audience 15 minutes of comedy.
Everything from the rough
house to the aesthetic was put on by
these "daring Garricks" in their
share of the time, and they got away
with it.
The Sailor's Hornipipe, with Mcdently one of the various modificaNaught and A. Babb dressed as middles, got away well. They looked over their audience carefully, and similarly were pleased with what they saw.
"Those Funny Coons," Aiard Ward Hatcher and Verlo Alley had some good "yassah" patter. Their story about the Pali Psi ball met with approval, and Alley put over a good smile, smoking before the chancellor.
The Whirlwind Nortons were easily the "headliners." Happy Dutch sung "Heinein Waltzd Round on his Hickory Limb" and queried "Why is the Ocean so Near the Shore," to the instant approval of the crowd below. Morris put these songs over with his accustomed ease.
"Togo, King of the Slack Wire"
did some difficult rope walking.
Claude Clary portrayed the Japanese
general.
The Dancing McGregors with the two Babbs and McNaught gave some clever Scotch dances. Clad in kilts, they were second Harry Land
John Smith and Leo Fitzpatrick, Josh and His Pal, had the latest songs and let the audience hear them.
The Amariland Troupe, actors or the parallel bars, owing to the failure of the Neapolitan Moldolin Orchestra to appear, closed the bill Led by Professor Reese, these are on very clever work on the parallel bars.
The Y. W. C. A. girls sold "craker-jack and peanuts" between every act and did good business throughout the evening.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION WON'T BE ABOLISHED
Chancellor and Dean Olin Deny Rumor That Educational Department Will be Removed
“There is nothing to it,” said
“Coronell Strong, “absolutely nothing.”
"I have not heard of it," said Dean Olin.
This was the denial given today to the rumor that the School of Education would be taken from the University. The rumor originated among the students of the school and they organized in order to aid in keeping the school and in making it stronger if possible.
"Last year, when talk was rife about the duplication of courses in the state schools, there was some talk of ublishering the school," said Dean Olin. "This year I have heard nothing of it.
"The School of Education has been in existence for five years and has been very successful. It is absolutely necessary to a university; it is also necessary to a school in the country which does not have an educational department."
"The demand of the secondary schools for an increasing high standard of teachers can be filled only by a school of education. The Normal, the Agricultural College and the University all have educational departments and yet cannot supply the demand for high class teachers who are required by the high schools."
COUNTY CLUBS MUST ACT INDIVIDUALLY, SAYS GEAR
The organization of county clubs did not meet yesterday as had been planned.
NUMBER 111.
"The fellows will just have to act individually," declared Russell Gair, president of the club this morning. "When the high school basketball teams come here Friday and Saturday it will be a good time for University men to entertain them, and women to play in their hill. I hope to see more interest taken in the boys than has been shown before."
GERMAN CLUB WILL GIVE
DAFA FRENHEZ SCHUELER
A short German force, "Der Fahreende Schüler," will be given at the meeting of the German Club in Room 313 Fraser at 4:30 Monday. The faire was written by Hans Sachs, of Nuernberg, in the sixteenth century.
The characters are: Der Fahreende Schueeler, Harold Mattonto; Der Bauer, Frederick Giesel, and Die Bauerin, Irene Garrett.
All are invited.
ENGINEERS SEE MOVIES
SHOWING PIPE MAKING
Classes in the School of Engineering were dismissed this morning so that students could attend a motion picture show down town, put on by the National Tube Co., of Pittsburg, Pa. Students can wear steel pipe. W. A. Phillips a traveling salesman lectured. Students pronounced the pictures good.
Tonight the engineers will attend their annual banquet in the gym at 7:30. Several faculty members are on the program.
Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald of the University of Leipzig, a noted chemist, will lecture tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in Snow Hall on "A Survey of the Field of Calioid Chemistry." The lecture is open to the public.
NOTED GERMAN CHEMIST
WILL SPEAK TOMORROW
Doctor Ostwald is a recognized authority on his subject, and it was with difficulty that he was secured by the University authorities. He will return to Germany after his lecture here.
"The students are paying the sophomore memorial dues willingly," says J. M. Johnson, president of the class. "There are twenty students on the bulletin boards in all the buildings."
SOPHIS PAY MEMORIAL DUES
PROMPTLY SAYS, JOHNSON
About thirty dollars have been taken in. The committee expects to have $200 when all the payments have been made. The fees are 50 cents a year and one year's payment is due at this time.
The Weather
9 p. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46%
7 a. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34%
2 p. m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65%
Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and tomorrow. Warmer tomorrow.
K. U. Students Use Kansas Clay in Modelling Pottery
Scenes from the quarters of the department of painting and drawing in the third floor of the Administration Building. Within the last three or four years an effort has been made to turn out a high quality of pottery, using only Kansas clays. Until this year, every piece had to be turned and glazed by hand but machinery is now being secured. The class is in charge of Miss M. Benson.
The "Life Class" which is considered advanced work, to which a student is admitted when a sufficient mastery of color has been learned. In this department, after a student has become proficient in charcoal work, he is allowed to take up color, and in working from still life studies, learns the technique of the color medium he chooses. Prof W. A. Griffith has charge of the class.
—Courtesy of the Graduate Magazine.
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN TELLS OF DEAN'S WORK
-Courtesy of the Graduate Magazine
Publishs Article—"Corn Oi a By Product"—by L. E.Savre
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"Every young person of this University should acquaint himself with the tremendous work which Uncle Sam is doing for the American people," said Mr. Cook. "They will be called upon in the next few years to take charge of the various governmental agencies, and familiarized himself with them will be the man who will best serve his generation."
Dean J. W. Green left for Courtland, Kansas, this morning to visit a niece. He will return Sunday.
"Corn Oil—a by-product" is the subject of an article in this week's Country Gentleman, written by Dean Gifford. The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy.
The article contains many statistics and shows how great has been the waste on the part of the farmer and how he can increase his income by a proper utilization of his land and its products. Corn contains more phosphorus than corn oil and this may be extracted by hydraulic pressure. It can be used extensively for culinary purposes and makes a fine salad oil.
Dean Sayre said this morning that the main value of the corn oil lay in the fact that it could not contain poisonous substances. It's food value is as much as either butter or meat.
Hale Cook, of Kansas City, addressed this morning's assembly on "One Function of Government." The particular function of government that Mr. Cook selected for his theme was the work of the agricultural department in eradicating disease of farm animals and fighting plant infection.
STUDENTS SHOULD LEARN
GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES
K. U. MAKES ITS ERASERS
aw Up a Board and Tack Some Carpet to it Over in the
Shops
Well the University of Kansas never finds itself short of erasers and neither do the ones on file in the different class rooms cause any curricular negligence on the part of the teachers who learn about our own hieroglyphic eradicators and thus avoids both the above mentioned difficulties.
Remember the old days back in the grades when erasers ran short and you were forced to stand at the blackboard and wait for the two or three minutes of the large class? And perhaps you also remember that those the school board finally bought were fearfully and wonderfully constructed, so that the pupils spent as much time admiring the variegated colors as they learned the carefully "disgrammed" sentences.
When a hurry-up call comes from a professor who is short on erasers, the carpenters in the repair shop east of Fowler Shop hie them to the basement, saw off a six or seven inch strip from a scantling two inches wide and one inch thick, trim off enough Brussels carpet to cover the block half way around lengthwise and nail it on. Likewise when an eraser becomes fatigued from too many thoughts, it is sent to this same basement for treatment, whence it emerges with a brand-new coat.
PHI BETA KAPPA WILL INITIATE MARCH 21
Easy on the public treasury, but hard on the eraser manufactories.
Phi Beta Kappa will hold initiation and give a banquet in the parlor of the Presbyterian church Saturday evening. March 21.
This date was chosen so that the teachers here for the high school classroom are
Entomologists Meet
The Entomology库. *T*Ams at Club thur-
dies d. *a*, m. Papers were read by
G. H. W. Howard.
BEEN SHORT TOO LONG---
CAN'T BE TALLER NOW
Stretching Machine Works For Tom, But Not For Dick and Harry
After six weeks of untrying effort the shortest man in the University has become reconciled to the fact crimes than merely being short.
According to Dr. James Naismith, the gentleman who gave the stretching machine at the Gymnasium such a thorough test was, when he began the treatment, just four feet eleven and five-tenths inches tall. The treatment consisted in subjecting the body, from head to foot, to a pull of more than six hundred pounds daily, for one half hour.
At the end of six weeks the most accurate measurements gave the short man a height of four feet and the taller man a height of a gain of a tenth of an inch.
The next two shortest students are now giving the machine one more chance to prove its merit and have moved it to their room where they are able to take several treatments a day. However Dr. Naismith says these men have been short too long and the cartilage of the bones has become hardened and inelastic, but that the machine may be used to advantage on growing children is certain.
Student Tickets to Balcony
New Chairs For Fraser
Student tickets admit only to the balcony at the K. U.-Washburn Glee Club Concert Tuesday night. The whole lower floor is reserved for addition tickets or student cents or student tickets and an additional fee of twenty-five cents.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
E. F. Crocker, superintendent of buildings and grounds has received 100 new chairs which will be used in the school library in various buildings over the campus.
WANTS ROOMS FOR VISITING ATHLETES
Entertainment Committee Wants to Accommodate High School Students
TWENTY-EIGHT NOW ENTERED
Eleven Additional Applications Come in With Morning Mail—Men Canvas for Rooms
The committee in charge of arranging accommodations for the high school basketball teams which will be in Lawrence Friday and Saturday issued a general appeal today for rooms for these athletes.
Though the members personally have done all they can to make comfortable arrangements for the visiting guests, more than four hundred athletes still are unprovided for.
The committee in charge is composed of W. O. Hamilton, chairman; J. H. Van der Vries, C. A. Dykstra, G. E. Putmann, and Arthur Mosse.
"There will be 500 boys and girls in Lawrence next Friday and Saturday for this tournament," said Manager Hamilton, "and although the committee in charge is personally bending every effort to provide for these visitors, it needs aid, and lots of it. Every high school student who makes this trip is a prospective student of the University, and they should be received early. We will invite them here. If you have friends come to attend the tournament that you wish to entertain, notify me at my office in the Gymnasium by writing. Every organization on the hill should help entertain these guests, and show them the real Kansas spirit, the spirit they'll have when they enter the University themselves."
Coach Hamilton's office is now being flooded with entries for the high school basketball tournament. Eleven more entries came on this morning's mail, making twenty-eight entries now received.
The coach is getting alarmed at the large number of entries that are coming so early. More men are being sent out today to canvass the residence sections of the town for students who are well prepared for a great throng of high school students. Every effort is being made for their comfort.
STUDENTS TAKE U. S. EXAMS
Nineteen From University Seek Work With Federal Government In Classified Service
Seventy-seven per cent of the persons who took the civil service examinations, in Lawrence on Wednesday and Thursday are students at the University of Kansas. The examinations were held on the fourth floor of the Lawrence National Bank building.
Twenty-four persons in all took the examination. Nineteen of these are students on the hill. One person was formerly a student here and two are students at Baker University.
Most of the positions for which examinations were taken at a thousand dollars a year and eight of the applicants would make a trip around the world with chances to visit the Holy Lands, Japan, China, Germany, Scotland, Norway, and other countries of Europe and Asia, a large part of the expenses being paid by the government. Many of the positions offer advancement to three thousand dollars a year.
WILLIAMSON MUST PAY FOR COLLECTING POSTERS
Not only must a man pay when he tacks posters on trees but he also must fork over when he allows them to become scattered on the ground.
he tacks posters on it. He also must fork over when he allows them to become scattered on the ground. Clarence Williamson, chairman of the Social Committee of the junior class was notified this morning that he would be held responsible for the theft of a ball, all among a junior dance. Several janitors were put to work. and J. Crummy will pay them, from the coffers of the class. The expenses will be about four dollars.
Faculty Checks Here Tomorrow?
The state auditor has promised the faculty pay checks tomorrow. The checks are due the first week of the month but they are often delayed.
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