STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TOPEKA KAN.
VOLUME XI.
NUMBER 81.
DEAN LIKES VIRGINIA HONOR SYSTEM PLAN
Head of College Commends Scheme in Use at Southern University
WHY CAN'T K. U. USE IT?
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY, 23, 1914
He Believes the Adoption of Such a Plan Would be Beneficial to Kansas
"The thing that most interested me during my recent visit to the University of Virginia was the 'Honor System' which has been in successful operation for three-quarters of a century," said Dean Olin Templet today. "Faculty and students unite in praising it and I could find no hesitation on the part of anyone in their judgment regarding its unqualified success. I had long of it and was anxious for immediate information regarding it. It is a key student there. There is a board of five students, one elected by the members of each class including the graduates, and it is the function of this board to try all cases that may be contested.
Student Are Informers
"The scheme provides that any two students knowing that a fellow-student has been guilty of any dishonorable act may go to him, accuse him, and demand that he leave the institution. If he is convinced that the charge can be established he goes home and nothing is heard about it. If he feels confident that he can prove his innocence, or that his accusers cannot prove his guilt, he appeals to the court of five.
"I am not sure that I remember correctly but I think it is five cases that have gone to trial within the period of the many years since the rejection, and in case that he was student, just on the point of graduation, with his parents on the road to attend Commencement exercises. I was told that there was no confusion or bad feeling growing out of accusations or trust issues, so that the student body was enthusiastic in its support of the procedure.
System Covers All Questions "I had supposed only cases of dishonesty in examination came under the operation of the system but that is a mistake. Any form of dishonorable conduct, the failure to pay debts, trickers in athletics, (coaching from the side-lines would start a blaze of indication), treachery in politics—anything upon as dishonorable work, foundation for accusation, student told me that while a faculty was stringent in the enforcement of the University rule against gambling the student Honor System would not touch it, but should a student be guilty of crookedness in the game, he would be sent home just the same as if he had cribed his graduating thesis.
"Examinations are not held, as supposed, in the absence of the instructor. They are held, on the other hand, in the presence of a committee of teachers, so that to the students to see that there is no violation of the rule of honesty.
"Perhaps this is merely the form it takes in a university. It may be that it is all due to the personal influence of Thomas Jefferson who wrote the constitution of the University of Virginia, and even left a plan for the organization and conduct of the literary societies. In all these documents there prevailed a high-mindedness, there is an appeal to nobility of purpose, all couched in the language of the Declaration of Independence—perhaps it is this that has done the Wise woman the reason for it, for the system', as it prevails in the University of Virginia, is something rare and admirable, and the young man who spends four years under its influence cannot avoid remaining under its influence throughout life.
Kansas Should Have System
"I could not refrain from marveling at the apparent regard for the accepted code of honor prevaluing throughout the institution, and I wondered and wondered why Kansas had other universities of the west and the north could not do as well. Many of the institutions of the south have followed Virginia in greater or less degree in this matter but for some reason the 'honor system' does not seem to fit in the west. I have tried to guess what I am teaching, and I can tell. The code of honor is much more powerful among the people of the south than those of the north."
"The university buildings are uniquely beautiful and its environs are charming beyond words. It was
founded by Thomas Jefferson and was his special care during his later years. From his home on Monticello, three miles away, he watched the erection of its buildings, which he himself had planned, through a telescope when he became too feeble to superintend the work personally. His spirit still pervades the campus. He visited the summer session. The boys live in dormitories—long low rows of rooms flanked by old fashioned arcades. A table over one room, number 13, attracted my attention. I still remember enough of my Latin to translate it: "The little home of a great poet." It was the room of Edgar Allen Poe. Ten rooms farther down, number 23, was the home of President Woodrow
Virginia Dean to Talk at K.U. on Honor System
Dean Page, who is acting president of the University of Virginia, has accepted an invitation to speak here in chapel on the "Honor Systems." He has given this spring whenever it is convenient for Mr. Page to come.
HILL TO ORGANIZE INTER-CLASS DEBATES
Says Contests Will Encourag Students to Try For Inter-collegiate Teams
"Interclass debates at the University are bound to come," said Prof H. T. Hill, of the department of public speaking, this morning. "I have been noticing the enthusiasm at other schools in this part of the country where interclass debates hold a place of prominence in the happenings of the year.
"Just as fellows find themselves in class games of football, baseball, and basketball, so they will do in debate and oratory. Many times a fellow will go out to make the interclass team with no expectations of trying for the Varsity and an interest will be aroused that would never have been felt had the class not appealed to him for help. So, I believe the interclass contests in debate and oratory will bring some good material to the front that would otherwise be lost. That there fellows in the university today that have made a little work of this kind that do not believe themselves good enough to make the intercollegiate team. The sooner the classes take the matter up, the better I will be satisfied."
Professor Hill also said that he would be glad to talk to the class presidents about the matter and would talk at any of the class meetings and explain the plans. It is thought now, that a certain day will be on which the freshmen will debate the sophomores, the juniors contesting with the seniors at the end. Then the two winning teams will meet a couple of three weeks later, to contest for a cup or medal that will be given by the University or the department of public speaking.
DEAN BLACKMAR FAVORS
PLACING BANK IN K. C.
"Kansas City is the logical place for a regional bank," said Dean F. W. Blackman of the sociology department this afternoon. "There are three reasons why this bank should be located in the western city. They are; the amount of business Kansas City does, railway traffic, and last but most important the great territory that the city does business with." Kansas City has the first handling of the products of the greatest westward oil production by only a question of a few years before Kansas City will bear the same relation to St. Louis that Chicago does to Cincinnati. I think it will be only a short time until Kansas City will have a million inhabitants."
Four of the thirty-four successful applicants for admission to the Kansas bar who were given certificates at Topela Wednesday were K. U. men. They are George Dietrich Bischoff, Furma Thura Thomas Thorin, Orlin Albert Weede, and Ike E. Lambert.
FOUR K. U. GRADUATES
PASS BAR EXAMINATION
The members of the K. U. Debating Society will meet at ten o'clock tomorrow morning at Squires' Studio to have their pictures taken for the annual. All members will kindly be at the Studio promptly at十.
UNION WILL BE HOUSE IN STUDENT DISTRICT
Committee Adopts Tentative Plans at First Meeting Yesterday
KENNEDY GIVES ADVANTAGE
Get-Together Rooms Where Any Student Can Loaf and Feel Absolutely at Home
To rent a house in the student district, furnish it as cheaply as possible, and open it as the first Student Union at the University of Kentucky. The university is supported by the Student Union committee at a meeting yesterday afternoon.
The committee has several houses in view and a selection will be made within the next week. The members of the committee do not believe it is fair for this year's members to pay for the furniture when the same furniture will stay in the Union permanently.
"With a modest beginning of this sort, I think that the fee for membership this year will be so nominal that no man at K. U. will fall to join, Chairman Kennedy says. We were not given any information obtained from another source, so that the fees from the students will only be used for paying rent."
When asked for some of the advantages of a Union Kennedy said they were almost too numerous to enumerate. "It will do for the students what the University club does for the professors, although of course we cannot start so pretentiously. It will be a meeting place for students, the university men can get together, talk over. University questions, amuse themselves, and feel at home—this suggests some of the possibilities. As we work out the details we will be able to give more specific advantages.
SENIOR PLAY WILL BE GIVEN MARCH 18
First Tryout For Cast Will Be Held Tuesday Night—Fourth Year Dramatists Wanted
The date of the senior play which
was announced for February 25 was
changed to March 18 this afternoon.
The first tryout to discover latent
talent will be held Tuesday night at 7:30
o'clock, Room 116, Fraser Hall.
"We are very anxious to have a good showing of seniors present at this first tryout for we have some good characters. We are sure the class has plenty of talent to put on one of the best class plays ever produced here if we can only induce them to come out and help us," said Etta Smith, manager of the senior play this morning.
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CLUBS MUST PURCHASE
JAYHAWKER SPACE NOW
Students from rural districts are better in mathematics than students from cities, according to Prof. David Dothrock, of Indiana University, who has given out data concerning 250 students.
BOYS FROM FARMS ARE BEST IN MATHEMATICS
Organizations which desire space in the 1914 Jayhawk, are requested to get in touch with the annual board at once. The Jayhawk staff is working on the dummy and the work is almost at a standstill because of indecision by several organizations. Clubs, sororities, fraternities, and other University organizations, which have not made arrangements for their activities from Art Peary, organization editor. Pictures of the organizations are due February 15 but space must be reserved this week.
The students were grouped into three classes, according to whether their fathers are farmers or in commercial pursuits. Students from the farm made an average of 82.4 on their final examination as compared with 74.5 for the second class and 75.6 for the third class. Only 7 students from the first class failed to make a passing grade, as compared with 13.4 per cent of the professional and 17 per cent of the commercial classes.
The young women made an avera-
ance of 80, while that of all the men
was
K.U. QUINTET TOO FAST FOR AGGIES
Continues Winning Streak and Defeats Merner Troupe 44 to 26
FARMERS SPEEDY AT FIRST
But Can't Keep Up Pace—Sproul
Makes Eight Free Throws From
Eleven Chances
By E. H. S. Smith
(Sporting Editor, Kansas Aggie) Manhattan, Jan. 22- The University of Kansas basketball team continues to fight by defeating the Kansas Aggies 44 to 26 in a game that proved too fast for the Manhattan team. The Merner troupe succeeded in holding the Lawrence team to a 21 to 16 score in the opening session but dropped to a 20-21 final round and the best team won.
The diminutive Van der Vries accepted many easy chances when uncovered and missed several that should have been tallied to his credit. Captain Sproull played well, negotiating five baskets from the court in the final chapter and making eight free shots out of eleven chances.
The Aggies started the contest strongly, Captain Root scoring from the field in the first minute of play following a long dribble. Shortly after Shull and Broberg tossed a pair of baskets and Shull took a free throw, running the score to 7 to 1 for the Aggies. The Kansas队 braced and ran the score to seven to the Aggies run and the game time was taken out for Greenlees to mend a shoe. The rest put the old pep into the Hamilton men and from that time on they were never headed.
captain Root played by far the best game for the Aggies although Leonard at center worked well in the opening round. The Aggies forwarded missed connections repeatedly and took many hard shots from the center of the floor when men waited under the baskets. The two teams play the final game of the series tomorrow night. The line-up:
Kansas G. F. T. F.
Van der Vries, rf 8 0 1
Sproull (c), lf 5 8 1
Weaver, c 1 0 1
Dunmire, rg 1 0 5
Greenlees, rg 3 0 0
Total
Kansas Aggies      G  F.T.  F.
Greenelees, lg    3  0  0
Adams, lf         1  0  1
Broberg, lf       1  0  3
MacIlrath, c      1  0  0
Leonard, c       3  0  0
Root (c.), rg     1  0  0
Jones, lg        2  0  0
Totals 10 6 6
Referee—E. C. Quigley, St. Marys College.
K. U. STUDENT WITHDRAWS;
GOES EAST TO SCHOOL
Seeing the need of his people fordentists of their own race has caused a young negro to withdraw from his work in the extension department, and enter Howard University at Washington, D. C.
The young man, who was a U. S. mail carrier at Holton had attended school at Manhattan for one year and was working for his A. B. degree through the University and completed courses in general geology, plane trigonometry, college algebra, elementary psychology, rhetoric, and physiology.
The speaker for the men's meeting at Myers Hall Sunday afternoon will be C. G. Lord of the Kansas City Y. M. C. A.
C. G. LORD WILL ADDRESS
Y. M. SUNDAY MEETING
Music will be furnished by the "Y" quartet.
TO GIVE NO GRADES ON
EXAMS TILL WEEK AFTER
'O GIVE NO GRADES ON
The final examination grades will be given out at the registration office about one week after the exams are finished.
The inability to get all of the grades in quickly precludes giving them out earlier. The Daily Kaiser did this daily, which the grades will be announced.
The Plymouth Guild will give a social at the Congregational church Friday evening, January 23 at 8 o'clock. All students are invited.
K. U. MAN WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT OF STAR
Roy Roberts, '10, who has been a reporter on the Kansas City Star since his graduation from the University of Kansas, has recently been appointed Washington correspondent for the Star. Roberts has been the state-house man for the Star at Joe Moore. HeMoore experience gained there was in preparation for the work he is now doing.
Mr. Roberts was a student correspondent while in school, took some work in the department of journalism, and worked at the Lawrence World for some time.
Y. M. C. A. WILL HOLD
PRE-EXAM CELEBRATION
The regular monthly social of the Y. M. C. A. will take the form of a Pre-Exam Jubilee to be given in Myers Hall Thursday night. Fred Warren will don the mitts and the "Y" quartil will do the singing.
Wiennes and other hot stuff will furnish the energy for the evening. The entrance fee will be ten cents, the complete program will be issued 'after'
STUDENTS TREATED TO GENUINE ORATION
Hear Old Style Chapel Address by Colonel Waters, Topeka Humorist
That he might discuss a number of topics, Coi Joseph G. Waters, of Topeka, refused to give a title to his address in chapel this morning. His speech was of the old type that delighted the hearts of political assemblages years ago. Of the large audience who heard Colonel Waters, none were more appreciative than the elderly persons who this morning took advantage of an opportunity to hear a guineae *o* manatee of the type of bell-tailed beetle-bellum days. The students turned out and filled chapel, showing their appreciation at the close of the talk by rounds of applause.
In a satirical way, Colonel Waters paid his respects to grape juice. "It is an expressionless drink, and is nothing more than liquid ingestation, for it never gives back any expression of thankfulness for the prominence of its use. It has been deprived by some laboratory reagent or flux, of the power of fermentation, the only power it ever had. No poor man can get rich by it; it has no equality excepting volume, like the excelsior in a mattress. Old age will not ripen grape juice nor will a long and tempestuous love improve its the absence of fuel life in it is a heredader's economic recipes for doctoring; it is too amiable to entertain strychnine, logwood, arsenic, cochinel, or asedafta."
Then in the same gently-humorous way, Colonel Waters assailed a prominent Kansas congressman—who doesn't even drink grape juice."
"It is a fad of mine to hate money," he said, "and there is one splendid thing to be said of heaven to which we are all going. I hope. There are no mints there; no currency, no discount boarding cards overdue paper. No reputations there are built up by bank accounts."
Passing on, the Colonel paid a tribute to the women of the University in these words. "I believe in good women. I do not see how there can be men without men's sweetness, their beauty, their glory and their happiness."
Colonel Waters closed by advice to the young men of the University to so live that in the mighty power of their old age they might be glad that they planted roses and set our orchards for those who came after.
COMPLIENTS BLACKMARS
PRISON INVESTIGATION
The report of Dean F. W. Blackmar on the Kansas prison was complimented highly by S. C. Seaton, Governor Hodges' executive clerk, in an address made last night at the Phil Delta Phi House, under the auspices of the Good Government Club. Mr. Seaton described in an interesting manner the conditions of the prison and the commands the abolition of the state coal mine, from which comes all coal burned at the University and other state institutions. It is in the mine, Mr. Seaton says, that most of the trouble arises.
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VACCINATION IS FREE FOR ALL STUDENTS
University Will Innoculate All Who Apply Today and Tomorrow
SMALLPOX NOW AT 1317 OHIO
Little Girl III and Seven Students Get Enforced Vacation—Two Other Cases Improved
Today; Friday, at the offices of R. R. P. Corporation.
Students may receive free vaccination at the following places:
To the Students of the University; There are a few cases of smallpox in Lawrence. They are very mild cases and there is no need for alarm. However, all students that have not been vaccinated should be vaccinated at once. We shall then feel confident and safe.
Dr. Naismith, in the Gymnasium
Dr. Johnson, in the Gymnasium
Dr. Gillispie, Warren street, Corner of Vermont.
Dr. Naismith, in the Gymnasium
Dr. Johnson, in the Gymnasium
Dr. Grillipie, Warren Street, Corner of Vermont also at the offices of Drs. Mathews and Sundwall, Room 203. Snow Hall.
Tomorrow: Saturday, beginning at nine o'clock in the morning, at the offices of
Frank Strong, Chancellor.
Seven students, living at 1317 Ohio, were quarantined this morning when a little girl, living at the house, broke out with smallpox. The students have been vaccinated and no source is发病 from that source is looked for.
The two students who are in the University infirmary with slight attacks of the same disease are improving rapidly. The Kappa Sigma house was fumigated this morning and the guarantine lifted.
Smallpox is a contagious disease characterized by vomiting, intense lumbar pains and a peculiar pustular eruption. The eruption produces red pimples; these become vestices or blisters and then turn to pustules.
INSTRUCTOR VICTIM OF GAS EXPLOSION
B. J. Whelan Receives Severe Burns While Investigating Leak in Pipes
B. J. Whelan, an instructor in the department of chemistry who was severely burned in a gas explosion Tuesday night was somewhat better this morning. He expects to be back on the hill within a week.
Mr. Whelan was injured under very peculiar circumstances. While in his study Tuesday night, he noticed a slight odor of gas. He turned on an electric light in the room and then cut the gas from the window into the basement of the house. He returned to his study and, climbing upon a table, began to examine the leaky gas joint. From some cause which Mr. Whelan cannot explain, the layer of escaped gas in the upper part of the room ignited, producing a flash that severely burned him about the head and arms. The lower part of the room also burned. A calendar hanging on the wall showed a line where the lower part of the stratum of gas has burned it.
TELLS OF REDUCTION OF IRON BY ELECTROLYSIS
At the chemical seminar, yesterday afternoon in the Chemistry Building, Prof. H. C. Allen read a paper on the "Electrolytic Reduction of Iron."
Black Helmets Initiate
Alec Crayton and Lawrence Engle were initiated into the Black Helmet society last night. Initiation was held at the Sigma Chi houses.
TED MERCER TO CONDUCT
RELIGION WEEK AT K. U.
Ted Mercer, the New York Bowery religious worker will hold meetings at K. U. during the week of March 26.
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