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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
WOMEN WILL VOTE ON MID-WEEK DATES
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16 1914
Present Students Will be Given Chance to Decide Own Question
WILL HOLD MASS MEETING
NUMBER 76.
The Council of the W. S. G. A voted yesterday, to present the petition asking for a reconsideration of the week-night date question by Australian ballot, to a vote of all women students of the university.
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis Will Talk to Girls and Amendment Discussed in Open Meeting
A mass meeting is announced for Tuesday, February 10 at chapel time, or if there is chapel, immediately following the chapel hour, at which Mrs. Corn G. Lewis will speak, the question be discussed in open meeting.
Also Consider Amendment
At the time this question is brought up for a vote, another amendment will also be voted on. At the present ruling of the constitution officers are elected in May, this gives the new cabinet a very short time to become acquainted with their work before the end of the semester. The council, for this reason wishes to have the election date changed to one afternoon the spelling of all the words forthright of all the women will be necessary to make this amendment to the constitution.
On November 19, disciplinary powers of the council were defined in a letter from the University Council as follows:
Professors Address Meeting At the meeting yesterday, Mrs. Cora G. Lewis and the members of the advisory board, Prof. Eugenie Pollitt, and Miss Bruce M. Charles were present to discuss the mid-week date question and the delegated disciplinary powers of the council.
"Resolved, that the discipline of all women students shall be intrusted to the Women's Student Council in 1913-14 on the following conditions:
A German play, "Eine Muss Hieraten," with a student cast, will be given at the regular meeting of the German Dramatische Verein in Room 313, Fraser Hall, Monday afternoon at 4:30.
Outlines Council's Powers
"1. That the student councils may pass general rules with respect to student conduct, provided such rules do not conflict with any action which has been or may be taken by the University hall, and provided that a civilisation by either student council involving a penalty of suspension or expulsion shall be approved by the Chancellor or the Board of Administration before becoming effective.
"3. That it is understood that these resolutions do not preclude the right of the Chancellor to exercise authority in cases of emergency."
A stage with real footlights and curtains. Call the first time the public is invited.
Will Give "Eine Muss Heiraten"
Monday on a New Stage in
Fraser Hall
"2. That the student councils shall have authority and it shall be their duty to investigate all cases of violation of general rules relating to student conduct, whether such rules have been made by the University Council or by the student councils, and to decide in each case what penalty shall be imposed, and decisions within forty-eight hours, and unless disapproved by him in seventy-two hours, it shall then become the duty of the proper University authorities to execute them.
GERMAN STUDENTS TO PRESENT PLAY
Following is the list of characters:
Wilhelm Zorn—F. F. Spreier.
Jacob Gerdem—K. Klewer.
Jacob Gerdem—Minin Moser.
Louise—Pearl Sitzel.
PROF. C. G. DUNLAP TALKS
ON PRESS CENSORSHIP
Prof. C. G. Dunlap of the English department spoke before the Methodist Brotherhood last night on "The Censorship of the Press."
EL *ATENEO LEARNS
CUBAN NATIONAL HYMN
EL ATENEO LEARNS
At a meeting of El Ateneo, the Spanish Club, yesterday afternoon the students proved themselves loyal Spaniards by learning and singing the Cuban National hymn in Spanish. Clarence Castle read a brief biography of Nunez de Arce and repeated his famous "Sonnet to Spain" which was rejected by the Spaniards at the time it was written, though now fully accepted as an important poem. O'Brien gave some anonymous Spanish stories. The officers that have been serving the club this semester were elected to succeed themselves next term, Clair A. Ritter, president; Ida O'Brien, secretary and treasurer; and Lella Watson, critic.
K. U. VS. WASHBURN IS TONIGHT'S PROGRAM
Visitor's in Town and Have High Hopes of Winning the Contest
With the Washburn Ichabods, for battle, in town today, prospects look bright for the students to have the opportunity of witnessing one of the best basketball games of the season this evening, when the above crew tangles with Lefty Sprouls and players in Robinson Gymnastics at 7:25.
No curtain raiseer or "chaser" will be offered of the fans of tonight's
The tentative line is:
Kansas—Sproull, c. l; Van der
Vries, rf; Weaver, c; Dunmire, rg;
Greenees, lr.
The tentative line-up:
Washburn—D. Ream c. if; Washbarn rf; Cheney c; M. Ream, rg; Trobert, lg.
HAWKS RE-ORGANIZE WITH NEW OFFICERS
Dramatists Elect New President and Manager When Old Favorites Resign
The Hawk Dramatic Club re-organized last night and William Howden, a senior law student, was elected manager after Russell Clark had resigned that position. Ward Hatcher was chosen assistant manager and Clark was retained as advisory manager. Clarence Sonson, director of the play and said he would be unable to take the leading role.
The Hawks were unable to reach a decision as to a play. Six comedies were discussed and after a long discussion, four were eliminated. "Too Much Johnson" and "Two Plays under consideration but the actors are looking for a new comedy." Russell Clark will go tomorrow to Kansas City, where he will confer with the manager of the Auditorium Stock Company and look over a bunch of new comedies for the Hawks' approval. The dramatic club will meet again next week and try to reach a decision.
ONLY WOMEN ATTEND
LADIES OF FACULTY TEA
The ladies who assisted in serving were, Mesames, Helleberg, Haskins, Green, Burdick, Schwegler, Preyer, Hubach, and Mises Morgan, Olive, D. P. Kester, F. B. Ers, E. Kester, Mrs. Frank Strong, and Mrs. F. W. Blackmar received.
The tea was unusually well attended by the women students but the ladies decided the men of the freshman and junior classes were much more sociable than those included in yesterday's invitation.
Prof. F. B. Dain's illustrated talk on his trip to Spain was one of the interesting events during the evening given by Prof. and Mrs. P. F. Walker to the K. University student of electrical Engineers at their home on Ohio street last night. Mrs. J. D. Garver gave a number of piano solos.
The second tea by the ladies of the faculty was given yesterday for the men and women of the sophomore, graduate and special students.
PROFESSOR DAINS TELLS
OF TRIP THROUGH SPAIN
E. L. Bennett, fellow in political science, goes to McCloud, tonight to judge a high school debate.
PEOPLE'S SYSTEM OF FREE JUSTICE NEXT
Dante Barton of Kansas City Star Would Have State Pay Attorneys
The American legal system is in need of radical alteration, and justice should be free. That is the opinion of Dante Barton, an editorial writer for The New York City office spoke before the Good Government Club last night at the Beta house.
"Justice above all things should be free," he said. "When there is a $5,000 fee on one side of the scales, and a $1,000 fee on the other, you will tip The most important thing confronting us today is the administration of free justice.
"The thing that I am advocating is that a man of moderate means should have some way of defending himself without going to the cost of retaining a high-priced lawyer. The average man does not want to declare himself a pauper and to free legal aid. A case illustrating the importance of the famous Hyde case in Kansas City, Once convicted of murder, convicted on three counts by the grand jury, now the city and county says that there is no money to continue the case. Justice costs too much.
"Free justice would mean that all attorneys who have anything to do with justice would be on a par with the judges in ethics. It would mean that they would work as hard as would have 100 per cent of that right when he comes out of court.
"We are coming to a time when there will be less expense connected with going to court. The Free Legal Aid Bureau of Kansas City is doing work along this line and also the Free Debtors' Court. Last year they had 2468 cases represented to them of 400 of which they settled, at an average cost of 75 cents. About 400 of the 2468 cases went to trial.
"The taking over of public utilities is also a step in advance. When the city took over the waterworks, a large legal bureau kept by the company was completely abolished because there was not need for it."
The speaker before the Good Government Club for next week is S. T. Seaton, the governor's executive clerk.
SEATTLE BOTANIST HERE
University of Washington Scientist
Visits Professor Baumgartner
The other features of the program were a paper read by C. A. Castle and a story told by Ida O'Brien.
Dr. T. C. Frye, head of the department of botany in the University of Washington at Seattle, is here visiting Prof. W. J. Bawgartner. Doctor Frye has a six months leave of absence and stops her work in New York, D. C., and New York where he did some work in the botanical gardens.
Since leaving Seattle Dr. Frey has visited nine state universities and will visit two or three more on his way home. He is director of the Marin County Station at Seattle and his visit here was to consult with Professor Baugartner who spends most of his summers at the station.
Claire Ritter, president of the Spanish club, led a discussion on the true state of affairs in Mexico, yesterday afternoon, in room 313 Fraser Hall. The topics for the discussion were taken from Mexican newspapers.
BUD RITTER IN EL ATENO
TELLS ALL ABOUT MEXICO
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CHEMISTS TESTIFY IN TRIAL OF DR. HYDE
Prof. Cady's Discovery May Have Important Bearing on Famous Case
Professors H. P. Cady and E. H. S. Bailey will go to Kansas City next week to testify in the Hyde trial, providing the case comes up at that time. Doctor Cady's discovery that under favorable conditions certain bacteria will produce hydrocyanic acid in eggs and other nitrogenous foods may have considerable bearing on the case.
In effect the discovery means that in case hydrocyanic acid is found in the stomach after death it must have been administered before death. These bacteria cannot live in the presence of free acids and therefore hydrocyanic acid cannot be formed naturally in the human stomach.
Hydrocyanic acid was found in the stomach of Colonel Swobe of Kansas City and the evidence was used in the trial of Dr. Hyde, who was accused of the murder. Professor Cady says that the stomach of Colonel Swobe was highly acid, and that the hydrocyanic acid found in its contents could not have been formed by bacteria.
The only bearing the discovery has on the trial, according to Professor Cady, is to preclude the introduction of testimony to the effect that such poison found in the stomach was formed naturally.
Today's talk was an introduction showing the "Relation Between Commerce and Law," the second will be on "Location," the third on "Clientage," the fourth "Office Management," the fifth "Advertising," the sixth on "The Handling of Collections."
Professors E. H. S. Bailey, H. P. Cady, and W. H. Emanuel, chemists, and C. C. Young and B. J. Clawson, bacteriologists, carried on extensive investigations in connection with the Hyde trial and gave some testimony, Professor Emerson who is now teaching at the University of Michigan will probably be at the trial to give his side of the discovery.
PROMINENT K. U. JURIST ON "LAW AND COMMERCE"
Reports of students who have not returned since the holidays are now coming into the dean's office from the instructors in the College. The number is slightly larger than last year, but the College has four hundred and five more students so that there is no increase in the percentage of those who drop out. Less than a dozen have been reported.
Edwin A. Krauthoff, president of the Commercial Law League of America, delivered the first of a series of lectures under the auspices of that organization to the students of the School of Law this afternoon has arranged six lectures in all, one each Thursday at 1:30.
The K. U. Debating Society met last night in Room 313, Fraser Hall. Instead of the usual debates the time was given over to a general discussion of whether the fraternity system is a benefit to the University of Kansas. No definite conclusion was reached.
Mr. Krauthoff is a very important attorney of Kansas City and is a member of the firm of Karnes, New, & Krauthoff.
HOME COOKING AND MOTHER
TOO MUCH FOR SOME OF 'EM
K. U. DEBATERS DISCUSS GREEK LETTER SOCIETIES
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PHYSIOLOGY STUDENTS
HEAR GREAT SPECIALISTS
The students of the physiolog department have been given an opportunity to hear lectures by specialists upon different topics relating to physiology, hygiene, and sanitation this term. Prof. H. P. Cady spoke to them on "Osmosis and Affusion"; Prof. J. M. Nelson on "The Physiological Chemistry of Digestion;" Prof. J. D. Garner on "The Heat Production of Fats as Demonstrated by the Coloratum"; Prof. R. Joneson on "Sanitation"; Dr. W. L. Burdick, on "Sanitary Laws"; Dr. Chambers on "Personal Hygiene of Men"; and Dr. James Naismith on "Bandaging in Case of Accident."
GERMAN STUDENTS FORM ROUND TABLE
Organize Die Deutsche Tafe bundle to Help Study of German Language
The following officers were elected: Fred S. Degen, president; Mildred Carruthers, vice-president; W. L. Rockwell, secretary; Berthulie Okeson, treasurer. In addition to the officers in the following are charter members of the club: Wilberta Renner, Everette Greene, Arthur Vogel, and Leonora Jennings.
A new German club, Die Deutsch Taferlunde, was organized by a number of students who met at 1400 Ohio street last night. The organization has as its primary object the attainment of greater proficiency in the language, and incidentally, the providing of a social life for its members.
LARGE CROWD HEARS REV. FRANK G. SMITH
A large crowd greeted the Reverend Frank Smith, pastor of the First Congregational church, of Kansas City, who spoke in chapel this morning. Mr. Smith took for his subject, three Student at the Bar of Judgment."
"The last forty years have seen a development in all the great realms of human effort, that is almost staggering when we come to examine it," Smith. "No other like period has been seen such marvellous progress."
"But with these new assets have come great liabilities. We have exhausted our store of natural opportunities. Population becomes more congested. Wealth has gone into the possession of less than one percent of our population. Of it, we are experiencing complex problem. And one of the greatest of all our liabilities is the education of our people.
Kansas City Minister Draws Big Audience at Chapel This Morning
"It is upon these educated ones that the responsibility of preparing a program to fit the times will fall. Tomorrow is a new day. It is a day of social change and reorganization. We need to put together a cry all over the nation. And the answer comes back from our hundreds of colleges and universities."
"Upon this last named liability depends the life and perpetuity of this republic. The enlightened men of God have 'the ones who demand justice for all.'
The Glee Club sang "Hearest Thou," by Mattel, with Dick Williams in the solo part. In response to the Glee Club's songs, hers sang "Ghost of the Violin."
All students who represented the University of Kansas at the Student Volunteer Congress at Kansas City will meet in the Y. W. C. A. rest room at 12 o'clock Monday to have their pictures taken.
Dean Olin Templin of the College will return Monday morning from his vacation, the greater part of it being in Florida. He went to Florida by way of Washington where he heard the President's message to congress.
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
TO HAVE PICTURE TAKEN
DEAN OLIN TEMPLIN WILL
RETURN TO K. U. MONDAY
FLUNKER'S HARVEST BEGINS JANUARY 31
Final Quizzes Will Start Then;
Saturday Classes Appear
on Schedule
EXAMS TAKE WHOLE WEEK
Six Days of Torture and Suspense Bring the First Term to a Sorrowful Ending.
The schedule for the first term examinations was announced this afternoon by Prof. E. F. Stimpson, chairman of Examination Committee. The chief change is that there will be no quizzes on Saturday of quiz week and Saturday classes which have not been scheduled for quizzes before will be examined on Friday of quiz week this year.
Two weeks from tomorrow, Saturday afternoon, January 31, the final examinations for the first semester will begin. The committee on examinations consists of Professors E. F. Stimpion M. E. R. Rice, and C. H. Ashton.
After Saturday noon, January 31,
all regular classes will stop until the
end of the semester and the entire
will be given to the examinations.
amined Monday afternoon, Feb. 2.
Classes meeting at 9:00 will be
announced Monday morning, Feb. 2.
Classes meeting at 4:30 will be ex-
cused.
Classes meeting at 2:30 will be
examined Saturday afternoon, Jan. 41
and Monday, Feb. 6.
another Monday at 10:00.
Classes meeting at 9:00 will be
examined Tuesday morning, Feb. 3.
Classes meeting at 10:00 will be
examined Wednesday a. m., Feb. 4.
Classes meeting at 11:00 will be
Classes meeting at 3:30 will be examined Thursday p. m. Feb. 5.
Classes meeting at 1:30 will be examined Friday morning. Feb. 6.
Three hour classes (and one hour classes meeting on Monday, Wednesday or Friday) will be examined from 8:00 to 10:00 if scheduled above for the morning; from 1:30 to 3:30, scheduled above for the afternoon.
Two hour classes (and one hour classes meet on Tuesday or Thursday) will be examined from 10:20 to 12:30, if scheduled above for the morning; from 3:50 to 5:30, if scheduled above for the afternoon.
Four and five hour classes will be examined from 8:00 to 11:00, if scheduled above for the morning; if scheduled above for the afternoon.
Laboratory classes will be examined at the time corresponding in the schedule above to the first laboratory period or at the time correspondingly to the lecture hour (when such an hour exists) at the discretion of the head of the department concerned.
Saturday classes: Classes meeting on Satdays and not other days in the week will be examined on Friday afternoon, Feb. 6, from 1:30 to 3:00 for one and two hour courses; from 1:30 to 3:30 for three hour courses.
PROF. MITCHELL TO MAKE Y.M.C.A. TALK
Will Discuss Mathematics and Religion at Men's Meeting in Myer's Hall Sunday
"Is Religion as Positive as Mathematics?" will be the topic of Prof. U. G. Mitchell's talk at the mer's meeting at Myers Hall Sunday afternoon.
There will be fellowship discussions before and after the meeting and music will be furnished by the "Y" Glee club. All men are invited. The meetings held by the Y. M. this year have been interesting as as instructive and have been attended by good crowds each Sunday.
"This meeting will be one of the many will happen," said Caitlin Hoffman, this morning.
Pug Ferguson Here
Pug Ferguson, formerly managing editor of the Daily Kansan, is in Lawrence visiting his brother Philip, a junior in the College. Ferguson has just recovered from an attack of typhoid fever, contracted in Fort Worth, Texas, where he has been employed on the Record until recently. He is planning to return to the south in a few days.
Miss Alberta Corbin and Miss Emma Palmer were entertained at dinner Wednesday by the Alemannia club.