STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TOPEKA KAN.
VOLUME XI.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY, 6, 1914.
DOES NO-SMOKING RULE AFFECT FACULTY?
Two Professors Defy Regulation By Using Tobacco in Buildings
ORDER IGNORED BY STUDENTS
Several Hall's Witness Puffing Parties—Habit Ceases on Approaches Because of Weather
The violations of the rule of the Board of Administration which prohibits smoking inside or on the steps of University buildings continue because of the attempts by the Student Council to enforce the order.
the most glaring breach of the rule came Wednesday afternoon when two members of the faculty, both ranking as assistant professors, worked in one of the buildings on the hill. Finding their work growing monotonous, they filled well caked briar pipes and, borrowing a match from one of the students who was working upstairs, sent three contentedly smoking,
One of the professors, continuing his work yesterday afternoon, smoked for two hours and was seen by a friend who was one of the professors who came into the office.
Though the students have an excellent opportunity to set the example for the faculty in the smoking problem, they have not taken advantage of their chance. Yesterday morning at 10:45 o'clock, a Daily Kansas reporter saw four students smoking on the steps of Green Hall. During the day half a dozen engineering students smoked in the outer hall of the Engineering Building. In the middle of smoking, around the doors of the Administration Building. And it is reported that Fraser and Snow halls fare no better—when it isn't too cold.
The event of faculty members smoking in buildings evidently was not considered by the Board of Administration. But this provision has been made for dealing with professors who choose to disregard the rule.
BLACKMAR ARRANGES SURVEY COMMITTEES
Dean Goes to Belleville to Prepare For Rural Investigation
Dean F. W. Blackman went to Bellville Wednesday and made preliminary arrangements for the social and sanitary survey of Kansas towns which will begin there next week. An executive and several local committees were appointed to act with the sociology department and the Board of Health. The survey, which is primarily rural, will not only cover Bellville but a part of Republic county as well.
Dr. E. W. Burress of the sociology department will have charge of the social survey, and the Board of Under Dr. S. J. Crumble, the sanitary.
The survey will be in several divisions as follows: social—town planning, housing, churches, recreation, education, municipal administration and public utilities, delinquency, charity, and industries: sanitary—public house sanitation and vital statistics.
FLORENCE SHADE BETTER-
CONDITION STILL SERIOUS
Miss Florence Shade, a senior in the College, from Ellsworth, who has been critically ill at the Jones hospital with blood poisoning, is reported out of danger today following a consultation of physicians and the summons to her parents and Dr. D'Andrea, Domenica's family physician, from Ellsworth.
If no complications set in it is hoped that she can resume her school work in two weeks. Miss Shade was vaccinated a week ago Saturday but a week following the vaccination became seriously ill and for a time was in a very critical condition.
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast: Unsettled tonight. Colder tonight and very much colder tomorrow.
GIVE OUT NO MORE MONTHLY GRADES
College Faculty Does Away With Getting Standing From Dean's Office
"IS A DEMORALIZING THING"
Faculty Thinks Practice Tempts Students to Neglect Work When Grades Are Good
The College faculty decided yesterday that the practise of allowing students to get their monthly grades from the Dean's office should be discontinued. It was the consensus that it is a "demoralizing thing" because of the temptation to those who are getting good grades to take their work too easily as long as they are sure that they will get a passing grade. And the fact is flanking them is informed of the fact by their instructors or advisors.
A HIGH-GRADE GRADE BOOSTER
Charles L. Kezer, Gerald Rupert Peters, Murl T. Capps, and Esther McKelvy were recommended by the Administrative Committee as being eligible for the degree Bachelor of Arts.
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FIRST OF ECONOMIC LECTURES TUESDAY
--the speaker will be Mr. P. W.
Goebel, president of the Commercial
National Bank, Kansas City, Kansas,
and President of the Kansas City
Clearing House Association, on the
subject, "The New Currency Law."
$ ^{P} $ W. Goebel of Kansas City, Kansas Will Explain New Currency Law in Snow Hall
Dean F. W. Blackmar will go to Topeka tomorrow to attend a meeting of the prison board. The meeting has been called by Governor Hodges to make out preliminary plans for the new penitentiary.
Joe Bishop was elected advertis-
ing manager of the Daily Kansan at
its regular meeting Wednesday night
in the office. The first meeting of
his new ensemble board was held at
the same time.
Joe Bishop Promoted
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Sociologist Will Give Series of Lectures at Down Town Church on Sundays Next Semester
The first of a series of open lectures on economic subjects by prominent officials and business men of the Missouri Valley which the department of economies recently announced will be given in the lecture room of Snow Hall next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
According to Professor Mills, Mr. Goelbe is one of the best informed men on this measure in the Missouri Valley, and will be ready with an interpretation of the new Curriculum Department party measures already put through Congress, that will be of interest to all students and the general public.
The following is the schedule:
Feb. 8, Christianity and Sociology;
Feb. 9, Fusion of Christianity Life; Feb. 10, Christianity and Amusements; Mar. 1, Prevention of Crime and Treatment of the Criminal; Mar. 8, Wealth and Poverty; Mar. 15, Christianity and the Labor Problem; Mar. 22, The Church and the Labor Union; Mar. 24, Christianism and Socialism; Mar. 30, World Christianity and Socialism; Apr. 12, Organized Christianity and Politics; Apr. 19, Christianity and Temperance; Apr. 26, Christianity and Education; Mar. 3, Science and Christianity; May 10, Evolution and Christianity; May 11, Social Paganism; May 24, Social Ideals and May 31, New Methods of Christian Practice.
The lecturers are free to everyone and will be made popular enough for everyone to follow readily. The next lecture will be on Friday, February 27, by Mrs. Nan Williston. Assistant Commissioner of Labor of Missouri.
BLACKMAR ON RELIGION
Dean F. W. Blackman of the Graduate School will give a series of lectures each Sunday noon and lecture, as well as semester, at the Methodist church.
WILL DEMONSTRATE BOTANISTS TO START ULTRA-VIOLET RAYS EXPERIMENTAL AGRE
K. U. Medical Faculty Wi Study Curative Effects of Invisible Light
The curative properties of ultraviolet light rays will be demonstrated at a meeting of the Medical Faculty Research Club to be held in Room 211 Chemistry and Pharmacy Building next Monday night.
The ultra-violet rays are produced by a recently invented type of mercury are light. An electric current is sent through a small amount of mercury which is sealed into a fused quartz tube three inches long and which is cooled in a particular in that it permits light rays to pass through it which are absorbed and lost by glass. For this reason, the lamp sends out the invisible rays known as ultraviolet which are of such sheet wave length that the human eye is not affected by them. Finally, the ultra-violet rays, sufficiently, the ultra-violet rays which exist in sunlight, but which are absorbed by water vapor and dust in the earth's atmosphere. The same rays as are emitted by the mercury lamp exist naturally in some parts of the Alps where, owing to the high temperature, the absence of dust and water vapor the ultra-violet rays filter through.
The treatments are given with the ultra-violet lamp for skin infections, rheumatism', gout, wounds, and hemorrhages. In taking the treatment, the patient stands at a distance of two feet from the lamp and the light containing the ultra-violet rays passes through a small opening on the skin and falls on the part of the body to be treated. The skin around the spot where the rays are to fall is protected by a red or black cloth which absorbs the ultra-violet light. The patient and the physician wear goggles to protect their eyes from the intense glare of the lamp. The light is thrown on the patient for a period of time so that the skin reddens and a sensation of burning is felt though no heat from the lamp reaches the patient.
The lamp which is to be demonstrated at the University next Monday night has been brought to the University at the solicitation of Dean L. E. Sayre of the School of Pharmacy. The lamp is of a recent design, and it has not been shown in the west. It will be taken to the Bell Memorial Hospital in Rosedale after the demonstration next Monday night.
Besides the ultra-violet rays, a byproduct of ozone comes from the lamp which is effective in curing wounds, whooping cough, and hay fever.
Merwin Miller Goes to Washington
Merwin Miller, of Kansas City,
a freshman in the College, will leave
Lawrence tomorrow for Seattle,
Wash., where he will attend the
University of Washington.
A large panoramic view of "The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co" has been received the metallurgy department, where it is framed and is two by six feet in size.
K. U. Scientists Will Try t Cultivate Valuable Plants For Kansas
Practical experimentation in the production of fruits and grains suited to the Kansas climate is made possible by the setting aside of one acre of ground on the campus for a breeding ground to be used by the botany department. The field is situated south of Heworth Hall.
Prof. Charles A. Shull will direct the experiments of the students and will make some special attempts to develop fruits which will grow in Kansas. The first work of the breeding garden will be to produce a variety of apples in Kansas climate. If this is successful, Professor Shull will turn his attention to producing raspberries and blackberries of a better quality than are now grown in Kansas. Feteria, the new grain which proved itself so valuable last summer in withstanding drought will be studied and its cultivation encouraged throughout Missouri that this grain, which is very similar to Kaffir corn, will in time be the most valuable Kaffir in Kansas.
A course in plant breeding, botany 52 will be offered to juniors and seniors beginning next Monday. It allows five nails credit. Six hours laboratory time will be spent in the field.
ED VAN HOUTEN DEAD
1913 Graduate Failed to Survive Appendicitis—Active in Student Affairs on Hill
Edwin Van Houten, B.S., president of the 1913 Mechanical Engineering Society, died in Chicago this morning after a lengthy appendicitis. Mr. Van Houten was
ED. VAN HOUTEN
in the employ of the Swift Packing Company and was secretary of the K. U. alumni of Chicago. Burial will be at Topeka.
ENROLLMENT STARTS AT SUNRISE MONDAY
While in the University Mr. Van Houten was active in student affairs. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Xi and Theta Tau fraternities and of the Franks and Sachems.
Official Opening of Gymnasium at 7:30—First Come First Served
MRS BROWN WILL BE THERE
Advisor of Women Wants to Meet All University Girls—Only College In Gym.
Second term enrollment for practically all schools of the University
The following arrangements for second semester enrollment, which will be finished in the Gym in one month, are as follows: today by E. M. Briggs; marshal;
obtain ad semens "of the University Monday morning Feb. 10 at 8 a. m., the small enroll in the Gymnasium from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. without intermission.
The professional schools will enroll in their own quarters at about the same hours. The dean of the School of Law will be in his office to handle new enrollments from 9 a.m. to p.m.
The Dean of the Graduate School is anxious to have all enrolling for the second semester attended to so far as possible on this one day and will be in his office from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Students will be admitted to the upper floor of the Gym at the north main entrance at 7:30 a. m. They will be assembled by classes, as last semester, and allowed to pass down to the enrolling room by groups as the advisors are able to take care of them.
An attempt will be made to show absolute justice and fairness to all comers, and precedence will be determined in accordance with promptness in appearing in the waiting room. This does not mean that a chair should be 8'0 decked; all can be handled before noon, and some could as well remain at home until late in the forenoon or until afternoon. But an attempt will be made to protect the early comers who may have been waiting for the conferrer, who may come late and try to get in abasd of his regular turn.
Oread high school students will not be enrolled in the Gym Monday but in Fraser. Room 118, on Tuesday, from 10 to 12 and 2 to 4. The School of Education will be in the enrolling room in the Gym. A table will be placed in the waiting room upstairs where representatives of the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. will enroll Bible Study students. The Y. M. girls will serve coffee and sandwiches on the Gym beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Mrs. Eustace Brown, the new Advisor of Women, will have a table in the waiting room on the second floor all enrollment day. It is her first time she has possible get acquainted with every young woman in the University.
All students before enrolling must first have paid their matriculation and incidental fees at the Registrar's office before. This means new students and those former students who paid only for one term in the fall.
MRS. LEWIS WILL ADDRESS WOMEN
To Speak After Chapel Tuesday Other Talks Announced For Month of February
Mrs. Cora G. L. Lewis of the Board of Administration, will talk to the chairwoman for a regular chapter Tuesday morning, Feb. 10.
Clinton Rogers Woodruff, of Philadelphia, secretary of the National Municipal League, will speak February 13 and on the evening of February 16. Ed. Howe, the Atchison honorist will give one of his travel lectures in Praser Hall. There will be no admission charged. The next meeting will be regular chapel he will speak again.
Charles Stelzle, head of the social welfare work of the Presbyterian Church will speak in chapel on February 20.
PROFESSOR JOHNSON HAS
BRONCHIAL PNEUMONIA
- W. S. Johnson, assistant professor of English Literature is confined at his home. 1135 Ohio street, with an acute attack of bronchial pneumonia. I must uncertain whether he will be able to meet his classes next week or not.
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UNION CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK
Members of the Student Council and Four Others Will Canvass Hill
$600 WILL INSURE THE UNION
Committee Estimates That It Will Take That Much To Put Enterprise on Firm Basis
Every member of the Student Council and four other men from each class will make an exhaustive canvass of the student body, beginning Monday to sign up enough Student Union members to insure the success of their plan. 160 The committee will meet Tuesday at noon in Room 110 Fraser to report on the number of signers on each petition.
"If we make this campaign snappy, we ought to have more than 500 signers by Tuesday," Chairman Kennedy says. "Monday will be a great day to get men to come in, and it wouldn't surprise me very much if the entire membership were pledged by the close of registration day." According to the estimates of the party, a message to relieve $800 to put the Union on a permanent basis. If 800 men join the Union the dues will be reduced to seventy-five cents; otherwise they are one dollar.
The committee had a short meeting in Fraser Hall this morning and the reports of the sentiment in the different schools were given to students in the Schools of Law and Engineering the men in Marvin and Green Halls will support the plan, almost to a man. "The College is certainly anxious to do what we can," he said, "while the other schools may surprise us by their enthusiasm."
A four-page pamphlet, explaining the plan in detail, was distributed on the hill yesterday by the committee. The plan follows: "We, the understressed men students, agree to pay $1.00 on or before March 1, 1914, as membership dues in the Men's Student Union until June 15, 1914, that if 800 men join, the dues will be reduced to seventy-five cents."
WHAT DO YOU EARN IN A YEAR, STUDENT?
Y. M. C. A. Will Give Students Questionaire on Employment Situation
An effort will be made by the Y. M. C. A. Monday to get a survey of the employment situation at the University by handing out a card bearing the following questions to employees: What do you earn all or part of your school expenses? If so, what kind of work? What were your approximate earnings during the year? Did the Employment Bureau help you find Do you earn a part of your expenses during the summer? If so, how much?
The cards will be handed out as the students enter the basketball court where the registration will take place, and taken up as the students go down to enroll. This plan is followed in all the enrollment places.
This is a continuation of the attempt recently made to get information on the employment situation. A pamphlet will be made from the results and sent out over the state.
COLLEGE SPECIALS MEET
COMMITTEE TOMORROW
The committee on special students in the College has received a few calls from prospective students and candidates to mornow morning in order to arrange their courses. Because of new faculty rulings in regard to specialists, a meeting at this time is intended to help greatly in enrollment. The committee will be in session in Room 204 Foster, Saturday morning.
Holiday Next Thursday
Thursday, February 12, Lincoln's birthday, will be a holiday at the University and no classes will be held on that day. The different buildings and the library are to be closed.
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