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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
DR. ROBERT KENNEDY DUNCAN DIED TODAY
Former K. U. Chemist Passes Away at Home in Pittsburg
ORIGINATED RESEARCH IDEA
Introduced Study of Industrial Chemistry Into Kansas—Contributer to Scientific Books
Robert Kennedy Duncan, formerly director of the Industrial Research department in the University of Kansas, died at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa, this morning. His death was due to my pepu ulcer. He had been ill three weeks.
Dr. Duncan was the originator of the chemical research idea in the University and was active director of that department until 1910, when he went to the University of Pittsburgh to take up like work. He was the director at the University of Kansas from 1910 until last September.
While connected with the University Dr. Duncan developed several new methods and ideas in industrial chemistry among which are: manufacturing of glass, decoration of glass, chemistry of laundering, chemistry of bread, and the optical properties of glass. He also was instrumental in the extraction of the constituents of crude petroleum, in bringing about improvements in glass enamel and molding of new utilities for cement.
Professor Duncan was a contributor on scientific subjects to the New York Evening Post, was sent abroad in the summer of 1901 by McClurcs to study radio-activity, in 1903 by A. S. Barnes and Co., for material for New Knowledge, and in 1905-6 by Harpers to study relations of modern chemistry to industry. He was a member of the American Chemical Society of the Sigma Academy Industry, the Kansas Academy of Science and of the Sigma Xi fraternity. He was also a fellow of the Chemical Society of London.
Among Professor Duncan's works are "The New Knowledge" and "The Chemistry of Commerce." He was one of the New Science series for a time.
ENROLLMENT IS 2700
1 ear
Largest In History of the School— 300 More Than Last
With last week's registration the total number of students at the University reached the 2700 mark. The number today was 2705 and more are expected.
Last week there were 95 registrations but the gain in the registrar's office is offset by a loss of one hundred who did not enroll for the second semester. In fact, the same number of students in school now as there were last fall.
This is the largest enrollment in this history of the University and is also the largest in the region.
Chancellor in Topeka
Black Helmets Pledge
Chancellor Frank Strong and Registrar Geo. O, Foster are in Topeka today attending the meeting of the Masonic grand lodge. Chancellor Strong is the Grand Orator and will give an address.
The Black Helmets announce two new pledges. Clyde Vanderlift, Ottawa; and Harry Showers, St. Joe.
NUMBER 93.
World-Student Day of Prayer
The Y. M. and Y. W. will observe next Sunday as World-Student Day of Prayer by vesper services.
Mrs. Greene of Argentine visited her daughter Grace, at the Coleman club during the week-end.
Susan McDonald spent Monday in Kansas City.
The Chemical Seminar will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in the Chemistry Building. Dr. S. T. Daines will lecture.
The Weather
Weather Forecast: Rain tonight
and tomorrow.  Colder tomorrow.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 18, 1914.
Temperature readings:
7 p. m . . . . . . . . . 43½"
9 a. m . . . . . . . . . 32"
2 p. m . . . . . . . . . 31½"
Rainfall: . 94 inches.
McKEEVER ORGANIZES
CHILD WELFARLE LEAGUE
Prof. W. A. McKeever returned Sunday evening from a week spent in Jewell County, where he organized child welfare leagues.
Professor McKeever visited every town in the county. His efforts brought forth ten organizations. These organizations are fathered for the Extension of knowledge which furnishes them with literature and material on child welfare work.
WHOLE STUDENT BODY SEEING THE PICTURES
Attendance at Art Exhibi Averages 150 a Day—Prof. Griffith Talks to Students
Of eleven annual art exhibits, the one now at the University is by far the most popular. Usually, no one but the members of the art classes have taken any interest in the collection which have been procured by the University. But this time it is different. The attendance is averaging 150 a day. On the opening day one hundred attended.
The paintings are of popular interest. "Children of the Desert," a canvas by William Ritschel is most popular with the visitor. Although there are 64 paintings in the display, Professor Griffith will lecture or the paintings each afternoon this week at 10:30 o'clock. When the lecture will be given at 9 a.m. m. These lectures will not be of a technical nature, but will be designed to interpret the paintings in a popular manner.
COUNTY OFFICERS ARE LOOKING FOR HINSHAW
Seek Former Student, Who Is Sentenced to Six Months in Reformatory
County officers are looking for Justin Hinshaw, formerly a student, convicted in the district court of being an accomplice to James Henderson, bogus check artist. Justin Hinshaw has been the reformatory but has been at liberty on a stay of execution, in an attempt to get a parole or have his case filed in the supreme court. Governor Hodges has refused the parole and the county officials believe that the case is not on the supreme court docket.
The county officers expect the bondsmen to produce Hinshaw in the near future to begin his sentence, otherwise the sheriff will go after him. He is supposed to be in Wichita.
Y. W. Gives Party
More than a hundred guests attended the Lincoln party given by the Y. W. C. A. last Thursday afternoon at Westminster Hall. The event was attended by mock enrollment. Punch and wafers were served during the afternoon.
Guild Entertains
Westminster Guild entertained with a valentine party Saturday evening at Westminster Hall. The decorations carried out the valentine idea, served at the close of the evening. Seventy-five guests were present.
The Clay Workers Association, which was in session at the University on Monday and Tuesday has adjourned. The next meeting of the society will be held at Coffeyville on March 18.
Clay Workers Adjourn
The fine of a dollar a day for organizations that are tardy with pictures and copy for the Jayhawker will not extend to those who have had the photograph taken, thanks to get it from the photographer, according to Russell Clark, editor.
Explains Javhawker Fine
The regular meeting of the Pi Gamma Sigma, the educational society, has been postponed until next week.
Mason Peters, hedges by a prominent Kansas City chemical firm, died Friday night. He was the father of a freshman in the College last year.
Postpone Meeting
The Sigma Chi fraternity will hold
basketball in new members Thursday.
Saturday
Send The Daily Kansan Home.
Crowd of 700 Hears Univer sity Women in Fras-
GLEE GIRLS MADE GOOD AT ANNUAL CONCERT
er Hall
According to the 700 persons present, the Girl's Glee Club gave a mighty fine entertainment at its annual concert in Fraser Hall last night. The program was given as advertised, except that Margaret Davis' manager did not appear. Miss Davis' two solos were not replaced.
the all soloists, Edna Davis, Alice Coors, Madeline Nachtmann, Hazel Williams, and Mary Stanwaiy were liberally applauded and responded with encores. Miss Davis has a contralto voice of pleasing quality. Her encore was "A Perfect Day." Miss Coors' mobile and expressive soprano was heard at particular advantage in her selection, "Bossas!" Miss Coors's heart of the beat of hearers with an artistically rendered encore, "An Irish Lullaby." Miss Williams made a real hit with her little epigrams set to music, and Miss Stanwaiy's selections although not on the bill were fully appreciated.
Blanche Simon's violin playing was well received and an encore was demanded. Helen Woolsey recited a selection and then when the audience demanded more she did so more. I last saw a clever bit of child-initiation.
TOO MUCH PRESSURE CAUSES BIG GAS BILL
The ensemble singing of the entire club was not a bit inferior to the solo work, and the final number, a medley of popular songs, was especially good.
Company Fails to Make Regulations to Suit Weather Says Prof. H. C. Allen
"I am still of the opinion that our high gas bills are due to the fact that we have too much pressure when we need but very little," said H. C. Allen, assistant professor of Chemistry today. "I have the records of two weeks and six or seven days and find that at midnight and on warm afternoon the pressure is about fifteen or eighten inches water pressure and in the morning and on cold days it drops to about five or six inches. If the consumer does not keep an eye on the pressure more certainly burn more gas when the pressure goes up than he needs. The gas company should keep the pressure more nearly uniform. I know these records are correct for we have just installed a Bristol pressure valve." This gauge shows that the regulator is only adjusted for Lawrence twice each day."
The first meeting of the Mott Committee will be held tonight at nine o'clock in Myers Hall. The Rev N. S. Elderkin will have charge of the meeting and will give a practical talk on personal work.
This committee is composed on about seventy men, organized for the purpose of preparing the evangelistic campaign to be held next fall under any jurisdiction. Any one interested in this work is requested to attend the meeting.
ELDERKIN TO ADDRESS
THE MOTT COMMITTEE
J. C. Whitehair, Y. M. C. A. secretary at Madras, India, who was to have addressed the Y. M. C. A. Thursday and Friday is unable to come. Arrangements are being made to bring him here at a later date.
The Jurisprudence Club at the School of Law will meet this evening at the Phi Alpha Delta house. The subject for discussion is to be the pool hall ordinance recently passed by the city of Lawrence.
JURISPRUDENCE CLUB TO
DISCUSS POOL HALL LAW
EDMOND BECHTOLD AGAIN
GETS QUILL CLUB CHAIR
NDIA Y. M. SECRETARY
INDIA Y. M. SECRETARY
UNABLE TO SPEAK HERE
The Quill Club at its meeting Monday afternoon elected the following officers for the second term: president, Edmund Bechtold; vice-president, Frank R. Henderson; secretary, Tom Root; treasurer, Luella Pilkenton.
AND THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER IN GERMAN
Teutonic Thespians Stage Comedy at Bowersock Thursday Night
Die Sonntagsjaeger, a real German comedy, written by Roderic Benedix, will be staged at the Bower sock Theater Thursday night, February 19th, by the German Dramatic Club.
The story of the play is as follows: A wealthy manufacturer who devotes his Sunday to hunting and has leased a plot of sandy ground where frogs and field mice constitute the entire supply of game. Nevertheless, he regularly invites a friend of his to his home on Sunday and they together spend the greater part of the day hunting. The farmer has been trained at the butcher's. Only on one occasion do they succeed in shooting an animal, and this later proves to be the neighbor's cat.
One day, while these men are hunting, they are frightened by a very unusual noise. A forester soon appears and places the hunters under arrest. During the conversation which follows between the forester and his captives the captives learn that the forester is the parent of two beautiful young girls. The matter is further complicated as the coming engaged to the young maidens of the forest. "And all live happily ever afterward."
Following is the cast of the play: Hirschteuderm, Edmund Bechtold; Frau Hirschteuert, Doris Hackusbach; Diana, Mareybell McGill; Nimrod, Una Meredith; Filmer, Sheldon Fruh, Mark Wheeler; Frau Marthe, Mabel Kirkendahl; Trudchen, Madeline Ashton; Rosine Agnes Engel.
WILL BEAT BISCUITS AT TEN CENTS A DOZEN
Home Economics Club Wil
Make Real Southern
Brand to Order
The good work of the Home Economics Club is at last coming to be recognized by others than themselves, committed from the club home or commissary standing and work in the home economics laboratory, filling orders that have been received by Amarynthia Smith, secretary of the club, the past few days for between biscuits. One of the students, S. Sayre, of the School of Pharmacy.
The price charged is ten cents a
next week
will be filled on Saturday.
The biscuits are the same as were used by the southern families years ago and are made without the use of a leavening agent. There is a regular beaten biscuit machine, which looks like and works on the same principle as a clothes wringer. The biscuits do not have to be warmer than they are and are designed for large aircross and as thick as the common biscuit.
Y. The M, C. A, and the Y. W, C.
A will hold a vesper service in chapel Sunday afternoon at four o'clock. This is the second in the series of union services conducted by these two organizations.
M. AND Y. W. WILL
HOLD VESPER SERVICE
The Rev, N. S. Elderkin, and Prot E. H. Holland, of the philosophy deparment, will be the speakers. Musical numbers will be given by the Y M. C. A. quartet, Edna Davis an Florence Cook.
The regular February meeting of Sigma Xi will be held at the Unitar-Ahmad Thursdays. Three to eight o'clock the address of the e'clock will be given by Prof. S. J. Hunter on the subject "University Experiments on Pellagra and the
Sigma Xi To Meet
The Christian Science Society met last evening in Myers Hall. The next meeting will be Tuesday evening at 7:30.
Scientists Meet
Greeks to Mix
Original sketches by the eight different fraternities will be a feature at the Men's Pan-Hellenic mixer at Fraternal Hall Tonight.
Kansan Board meeting tonight at 15 Medic Building.
SENIORS MUST POSE
ANNUAL PICTURES NOW
Fifty seniors have only three more days in which to pose for their pictures if they wish them to appear in the 1914 Jayhawker. At least that is the information given out today by manager Guy Von Schriitz and Russell Clark, editor of the book. About three hundred and twenty-five seniors have already sent in their pictures.
TELLS ENGINEERS ALL ABOUT MARVIN BUST
Prof. E. Haworth Explains Plan for Autographs and Statue
Prof. Erasmus Haworth addressed the engineers concerning the marble bust of Dean Marvin to be erected in the Engineering Building at a room of Marvin Hall in the assembly room of Marvin Hall at ten o'clock this morning.
"Autographs for the autograph album to be presented to Dean and Mrs. Marvin should be given to Prof. C. G. Dumplin," said Professor Haworth. "Students contributing to the fund should attend to this matter at our office. He has been named as a suitable sum for undergraduate contributions.
"Graduates of 1910 and later are sending five dollars each with their signatures, and those who graduated earlier are sending whatever they feel disposed to, from ten to twenty five dollars."
Slips to be filled out for the autograph album will be read tomorrow.
Two Candidates For Two Jobs—Student Council May Declare Them Elected Without Class Vote
RIVALRY IS ABSENT IN JAYHAWKER ELECTION
"Petitions for the Jayhawk election are due, accompanied by the necessary fifty cents tomorrow at the Men's Student Council, today.
"I have heard of only one ticket so far and unless another appears there will probably be no election. The Student Council will determine who will be the next candidates are Blair Hackney, manager, and Leon Harsh, editor.
"All rules have been laid aside in this election. Due to the fact that the regular election came during quiz week the Student Council thought it best to postpone it. However the election will be conducted in such a manner as will be fair to all candidates."
A special report on the well water. of the state issued as Bulletin No. 1 of the University Geological Survey is being distributed widely over the state. A shipment of a hundred thousand Gallon Gas City. A copy of the report will be placed in every high school in Kansas.
Send Out Well Reports
Journal Club Meets
The Journal Club met Monday night at the home of Prof. R. D. O'Leary, Prof. Wetting C. Croissant spoke on "The Development of Comedy before Shakespeare," and Professor O'Leary gave the joint reports of three American education societies on "Grammatical Nomenclature."
Buffalo To Visit K. U.
To Address Civils
J. M. Meads, engineer of the east
ern lines of the Santa Fe will address
the Civil Engineering Society tom-
ronight on "Chances to Succeed in
the Railway Business." The publi
s invited.
A large buffalo will arrive at the Museum of the University of Kansas today. The buffalo is coming from North Dakota and is to be mounted and stuffed and sent to the Kansas State Normal at Hays, Kansas. Prof. C. D. Bunker has charge of the work.
Owls Pledge New Men
Lloyd Day Recovering
Owls Pledge New Men
The Owls, honorary society of the junior class has pledged the following men: Gilbert Clayton, College; Lewis Allen, medic; Buster Brown engineer.
Lloyd Day, a senior engineer, is receiving from an operation for appendicitis which was performed at the university hospital at Rosedale Thursday.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
UNION FATE AT STAKE; CHAPEL RALLY FRIDAY
Student Council Calls Mass Meeting to Get More Signatures
THE WOMEN MAY COME TOO
Speakers From the Faculty and Students Will Discuss Situation—Must Have More Signers
the fate of the Student Union hangs in the balance.
Only five hundred men have signed the petitions.
Everybody is invited. There will be speakers from the faculty and from the student body. They will be the Union means for the students.
So the Student Union has called a meeting in chapel Friday at 11 o'clock.
Miss Co-ed, you're included in this invitation, too. Many a perfectly good boarding house discussion has been spoiled by you remarking in a bored manner: "What's all this Student Union thing anyway?" It's a mighty good thing for the men of University Union and the committee wants you to know all about it. You're interested in better men.
The Student Union is assured, when 600 names are pledged. But the fee of one dollar will be reduced to 800 men have signed the petitions.
Not everyone present will be expected to sign. But everyone who hears the speakers will learn some facts. When you are calculated to make him want to join it.
Those who have promised to speak are: Professors James W. Green, Merle Thorpe, W. L. Burdick, H. A. Merle Hochman, H. A. Merle, students, Kit Carson, Ocdr Dingman, Webb Holloway and Dan Kennedy.
STUDENT GETS $5,000
Lora McKay Awarded $5,000 For Injuries Received In Street Car Accident
Miss McKay sued the Lawrence Railway and Light Company for $30,000 damages for injuries received in November, 1911, when a street car overturned on the south side of Mt. Oread.
A verdict of $5,000 in favor of Miss Lora McKay, a student of the University last year, was granted in the Douglas County court last night.
SENIOR PLAY TICKETS ARE SELLING RAPIDLY
A large attendance is promised the senior play Tuesday night if prophecy can be made on the sale of tickle toys. Etta Smith they are selling rapidly.
Miss Smith is well pleased with the rehearsals and believes a success is insured. She explained that the play had no "local slams." That is left to the senior farce. Rehearsals are held afternoon and night at the Bowersock Theatre and at the Kappa Sig house.
Since the Hawks do not give a play this year "Count No-Account" will be the only home talent offered the students of St. Mary's. The German and French departments,
The Acacia fraternity will give a smoker for the Masons of the University Saturday evening at the Masonic Temple.
Masons of all degrees, among students and faculty are requested to be present. Talks by prominent Maestros are scheduled; smoker commences at eight o'clock.
Acacias To Give Smoker
Sophomores Will "Bum" Again.
The sophomores will "bum" again February 21 at Robinson Gymnastium. There will be stunts, games, music, and eduts for all present.
A human checker game will be a feature of the evening's entertainment, but cost the sophomore boys 25 cents each, bum and eat on this date with date.
K. U. Man Disappears
Dr. Creighton Wellman, dean of the department of tropical diseases and hygiene at Ufume University, and director at KU Center, furnished from his home in New Orleans.
Mrs. Carr of Leavenworth is visiting her daughter Merritt Carr. a sophomore in the College.
The girls at 1400 Tennessee gave a valentine dancing party Friday.