STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
DENY EXTRAVAGANCE IN GREEK SOCIETIES
Prof. E, W. Murray and Ed win C. Meservey Reply to Mrs. Kelly
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 1, 1913.
GIVE FIGURES ON EXPENSES
Average Monthly Allowance $43-
Thirty Per Cent of Men do Outside
Work. They Say
Discussion is continued in the November Graduate magazine in regard to the influence of Greek letter societies in the University. Two articles appear from the point of view of the fraternities and sororities, in which Florence Finch and Florentia Finch Kelly in the October issue of the Graduate Magazine.
Edwin E. Meservey, of Kansas City, a graduate of '82, and Prof. E.W. Murray, a graduate of 63, chairman of the committee on student interests, reply to Mrs. Kelly's criticisms.
In his article Mr. Meservey has provided a table giving the cost of living in fraternities and sororities of the University. The average highest amount of monthly allowances to the students belonging to any one of these organizations is $50 a month and the lowest is $37.50 per month, the average being about $43 per month.
Allowances Not High
"The amount received by these students from their parents does not exceed ten per cent more than was paid to the average student when Mrs. Kelly and I were in the University," writes Mrs. Messery, "and I do not think that the increase is any more than what would be expected when one takes into consideration the increased cost of living, the decreased purchasing power, the many things which were regarded as luxuries in our day but which are regarded as necessities by the average people of today."
NUMBER 54.
Many Pay Their Way
Mr. Meservey finds the highest amount spent by the active members of any fraternity for fraternity parties, receptions, etc., to be $25.00, and the lowest $2.00 a year, showing an average of not exceeding five cents a day during the college year for expenses of this nature.
Many Pay Their Way "I am not, of course, in a position to state from personal observation, but from the best information which I could get, believe that I must get a perception of students working their way through school to be found within as outside the Greek letter societies. One fraternity with just pride boasts that in 1910 seven of its members received degrees, and that six of them worked their way entirely through school.
"The Committee on Student Interests was appointed last year," he says. "As chairman, I wrote to eight or nine large Universities in the Middle West and asked for coies of their rules regulating student parties, etc. I received copies of these regulations from only two Wise consin and Missouri. The other institutions replied that they had no regulations, or that they were then framing regulations. I mention this to show that authorities of the University of Kansas are not behind in dealing with this question. Rules regulating student dances and parties were adopted last year but as imprisonment law has affected till the fourth week of the present school year—that is, too late to have any effect upon the rushing nartles last fall."
Professor Murray's "Reply to Criticisms" is written from the standpoint of the Chairman of the Committee on Student Interests.
Greek Grades High
"Every one familiar with the sororites of the University of Kansas will tell you that the influence of the sororites tends to simplicity and economy in clothes. Quite a number of sororites make their own clothes. Many are made by their parents at home, and all are practically supervised and looked after by the parents for extravagance in that direction."
In his article, Professor Murray takes up the question of extravagance and treats it much as Mr. Merservey did. He says: "Ten per cent of the fraternity men earn their own school expenses—a compound of the university statements. Another twenty per cent earn a considerable part of their school expenses; over twenty-five per cent of the sorority members make their own dresses and gowns. A majority of them are late years by the University registrar show that the fraternity and sorority members—these frisky
YALE SCIENTIST TO ADDRESS SIGMA
Lafayette B. Mendel to Talk On "View Points In Growth"
SPEAKS IN CHAPEL TOMORROW
Will Tell Students About "Food Fads"; Has Won Fame in Field of Chemistry
Prof. Lafayette N. Mendel, a chemistry professor of Yale will give the annual Sigma Xi address this afternoon. His address is "View Points in Growth." and will be given in Snow hall at 4:30. He will speak in chapel tomorrow on "Food Fads." Professor Mendel has been teaching at Yale since 1982, and since 1963 has been a professor of physiological chemistry in the Sheffield School of Medicine. He belongs to several American societies of biologists and chemists, and is also a member of both the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi honorary fraternities.
He is a contributor to the American Journal of Physiology, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and other scientific journals, on topics in chemistry. Professor Mendel is also assistant editor of Chemical Abstracts.
THAT TRIP HOME FOR TURKEY
The graduate engineer is coming into his own. Now when he goes out to search for a job it helps him to say that he has had college training. The man who will look longest for work and who will be promoted slowest is the man who has no degree.
SANTA FE'S ORDER
SENDS MEN TO K. U.
Chief Prefers Graduates So
Civils Will Enroll In Exten-
sion Department
The Santa Fe railroad system has just received one of the most sweeping and revolutionary orders ever issued affecting its engineering department. The orders were issued by the Chicago Railway, the Felt, of Chicago, to the effect that only graduates of engineering schools will be employed by the Santa Fe in its civil engineering service, and no civil engineer now in the service will be promoted unless the college men are available for promotion to any vacancies which may occur.
Many employees in the engineering department of the Santa Fe system are not college men, and these will be encouraged to get back into school to continue their college educations. Any non-graduate now in the service will be given leave of absence without loss of seniority if they desire to attend an engineering school.
Dean P. F. Walker of the School of Engineering went to Topeka Saturday where he obtained the names of twenty-two men who wish to take up further work towards their degree in a college or university department. "These men range from high school graduates on up to men who have but little work to do in order to finish their course and receive a degree," said Dean Walker this morning. "It will be some time before I can suit all of them, but all will be able to get what is needed here. Classes may be held here or at Topeka."
Chancellor Strong will leave for Chicago this afternoon to attend a meeting of the Board of Administration of the Northern Baptist Convention, which meets at the University of Chicago, Tuesday and Wednesday. This board receives and considers all matters related to the campus north of the Mason-Dixon line, with regard to their appropriations and other financial aid.
Chancellor to Chicago.
"Pug" Ferguson Has Typhoid W. W. Ferguson, a former editor of the Daily Kansan, is ill with typhoid fever at his home in Olathe. He is an empley for some time a city editor of the Ft. Worth (Tx) Record.
young colts' who are 'dragging Alma Mater into the mire' stand higher in scholarship than do the students who belong to fraternities and sororites."
UNIVERSITY CLUB TO GIVE RECEPTION
ing Dec. 5
Members And Wives Will Hold General House Warm-
The formal opening and reception at the University club will be given Friday, Dec. 5 from 8 to 12 o'clock.
A meeting of the Annual Board has been called for Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock, by Russell Clark, who will meet the meeting will be held in Green hall.
Call Annual Meeting
The opening will be in the nature of a general house warming and reception for the members and their wives, with refreshments and music
on the receiving line for the evening will be: Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hoder, Mr. and Mrs. Wilder S. Metcaff, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Dearborn, Mr. and Mrs. Lake N. Lewis,Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Walker and Mr. and Mrs. John N. Van der Vries. At the tables in the dining room will be Mrs. H. A. Millis, Mrs. C. E. Friend, Mrs. Herbert Bullene, Mrs. Paul Dimmer, Mr. A. Rice, Mrs. and Mrs. Means.
The social program of the club will include Club night every Saturday night; Friday of each month will be ladies' night; every third Friday from 2 to 5:30 o'clock the house will be turned over to the wives of the faculty. The dining room will be open to members of the club and their families on Sundays and holidays.
ALLIED FORCES PREPARE
TO ATTACK CHINCH BUG
The war on the chinch bug is well under way and this week S. J. Hunt, state entomologist, will mail letters to every county clerk in the chinch bug collect offering to cooperate with the counties in the fight against the pest.
The letters offer to assist the county commissioners without expense. If the commissioners and township trustees desire help in the execution of a project, they are sent to the county and plans for a thorough campaign will be made.
"In accordance with a proclamation recently issued by the governor calling upon the farmers and wheat growers of the state to burn all the trees in the pastures in order to destroy the chinch bugs hibernating therein as advised by the state experts, I am writing you today to say that we are planning our campaign of co-operation with the various counties concerned working through the county commissioners and township trustees.
"There is no expense attached to our part of the work. Whenever you are ready to organize your campaign, a member of our staff will meet you by appointment and together work out the details. We expect next spring and summer to follow this up by vigorous treatment of any fields that happen to be infested."
Mr. Hunter, in his letter, says in part:
OLIN IS NEW DEAN OF SUMMER SESSION
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Present Head of School of Education Will Fill Vacancy Caused by Walker
Walker.
Arvin Olin, acting dean of the School of Education, was appointed director of the Summer Session of the University of Kansas by the Board of Administration on November 26.
Dean Olin succeeds Prof. A. T. Oler, as director of the Summer session recently.
FAIR SEX LIGHTENS THE GLOOM OF FOWLER SHOPS
Co-eds Take Course in Noisy Buildings and Turn Out Artistic and Useful Articles
Six young women are working in Fowler shops this semester. They are not engineers, but fine arts students. They work with wood and brass. With saws, hammers, chisels, and sandpaper, they are making artistic household articles according to their own design. At present Margaret Meyer is making a card tray, Edith Cooper is making a waste-paper basket, Mabel Hunter a card tray, Mary Tupper a frame, Kathy Kate Davis a pen tray.
The class is taught by Prof. F, E.
John J. Johnson is optional and is a four-hour subject.
TAXIDERMISTS GET
BIG GOLDEN EAGLE
A wrythy and indignant eagle was received by the department of taxidermy today from A. Z. Scribner, of Chelsea, Kansas. This belligerant was killed someday soothed after some efforts on the part of chloroform. It is now being prepared for mounting by Theodore Rockland. The bird is of the American golden eagle and is in common to the western part of Kansas.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN TO
HEAR HOW TO GET JOBS
Miss Helen M. Bennett of Chicago will speak to the women of the University on the subject of "Vocational Opportunities for College Women," in Fraser hall chapel, Thursday, Nov. 5, at 4:30 o'clock.
Miss Bennett is manager of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupations. She has spoken with success at various universities, notably Wisconsin and Illinois, and is said to be a very entertaining speaker.
Honor System Discussion
The honor system will be discussed at a meeting of the Y. W. C. A. to be held in Myers hall tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Miss Veta Lear will lead the meeting, of which there will be a series of open meetings which are held for the purpose of discussing things of interest to the University as a whole.
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MEMORIAL PLANS START WITH BOOM
Committee Will Ask Juniors Today for Assessment of Seventy-Five Cents
"Start things with a boom, and start today" are the orders issued by Chairman Matoon of the Junior Memorial Committee to the members of
Each member has his quote of people to see and each of the latter is to be notified of his assessment by Thursday. Names will be published in the Daily Kansan as they pay their fee, which, by the way, is the small and insignificant sum of 75 cents.
The collecting committee members are as follows: Engineering school, Fred Campbell, Stan. Nelson, Fred Blachly; College, Harry Willson, W. A. McKinney, E. C. Roswurm, August Bailey, A. C. Ross, Blair Hackey, Laws, Sam Degen, in the College is, Ruth Lichen, Claire McClure, and Clare McDowell. Fine Arms, Agnes Moses.
The committee of the College will also collect among the medics, pharmics, and in the School of Education.
W. S. G. A. TURKEY PARTY
WAS REAL "GET TOGETHER"
The Thanksgiving dinner given by the W. S. G. A. in the gymnasium Thursday afternoon was a riot of good eats and fun. The party deman-dened that a real "get together" meeting can be held on the University campus.
Many faculty members attended, besides a large number of University men and women. The features of the entertainment were the genuine old-fashioned Virginia Reel and the College "sing." Several other were given, and the eats were "great," to quote one who was present.
The members of the committee who had charge of the affair were: Helen Keith, Vena Spotts, Agnes Engle, and Ruth Buchanan.
All Easy to Locate
Nearly all of the students on the hill now have their student directories. Registrar Foster has handed out approximately two thousand di- rections this year. This number nearly covers the number of students on the hill at present.
K. U. Approves Esbon Works Plans for city waterworks at Esbon have been submitted and approved by C. A. Haskins, state sanitary engineer. The plant is to be a small one, but it will be up-to-date in every respect as far as machinery is concerned.
All through the Mexican troubles the government geologist of Mexico has not failed to put out a monthly report. Each month Professor Haworth receives one of these Mexican geology reports. Each is a book of a hundred pages half the size of the Kansan.
KEEP COACH MOSSE,
SAYS THE CHANCELLOR
"Let Head Tutor Choose His Assistants As Formerly"
FRANK AN EXCELLENT MENT0R
Chancellor Lauds Minnesota Man
But Says Players Should be
Taught One Style of Play
"Permanency in a coaching system at a University is a necessity," said Chancellor Strong this morning in regard to the present coaching situation at the University, "and it is extremely unwise for any institution to find fault and change coaches as soon as the football tutor fails to win a game. In regard to the coaching next year, my personal opinion is that Mosse should be retained by all means.
"It is not wise to try to teach two systems of football at any school however, and whoever is chosen as head coach next year should be given free rein in choosing his assistants. He was done down at Kansas for two years. When Mosse was first employed as head coach the Athletic Board decided that we should have an assistant from outside the Missouri Valley, and he was involved in refereeing whether he played the same style of football or not.
"Then last year, as everybody at the University knows, the students, alumni and members of the faculty insisted against Frank's desire that he be retained for another year as assistant coach. I think, and I am sure that the student body thinks, that Frank is a wonderful coach, but that we should stick to this plan when we should return to the old plan of allowing the head coach to choose the men he is to work with during the season.
"By retaining Mosese next year we can give him the first chance he has had to work out his ideas for making a football machine and from that row of him in high school I believe that he will be highly successful."
The present season was unanimously deemed far superior and all sorts of reasons for we suspect.
Chancellor Strong's statement follows considerable comment in the Lawrence, Topkea, and Kansas City offices, in regard to the coaching question.
An entire change in the coaching staff was advocated by one or two papers. Bert Kennedy, the Haskell coach, and Bennie Owens of Olah-Ahwa College were successors of the present mentors. In other articles both Mosse and Frank were suggested as good material, working alone.
EXPERT ON CITIES TO ADDRESS UNIVERSITY
Dr. Mitchell Carroll, of Washington, D. C., secretary of the Archaeological Institute of America, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Athens, Rome, and Washington as Types of the City Beautiful" tomorrow at 4:30 in Snow hall lecture room.
Dr. Carroll is a member of the executive committee on the future development of Washington, and is familiar with the plans of the National Park Commission that has in view the making of Washington the most beautiful city in the world. His special contribution to city planning is the bringing together of the great cities and expelling of the great cities of ancient times to bear upon the plans for the beautifying and perfecting of modern cities.
He will consider the selection of the site; the treatment of the civic center; the arrangement and embellishment of the streets; the parks, gardens, and other public facilities; the aesthetic treatment of water fronts; and the development of suran sites.
The first student to be enrolled in the vocational course of the School of Engineering is R. L. Hagler who is taking the power plant engine course. Many inquiries are coming in all ready even though no catalogue of the courses has yet been sent out.