THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME II.
BOARD WILL CARRY K. U. TO THE PEOPLE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON JULY 8
1913.
Pres. Hackney Announces Policy Relative to State Schools
NUMBER 6
TO ENCOURAGE EFFICIENCY
Would Have Kept Professors in Law Permitted the Paying of Larger Salaries.
"It is the intention of the new board of administration," said E. T. Hackney, president of the board which took formal charge of the Kansas state schools July 1, replacing the old board of regents in a recent interview in the Kansas City Star, "not only to 'Wisconsinize' the University and the Agricultural College, but the Normal Schools as well.
for that particular "In Southeastern Kansas is the manual training normal school and school of domestic science at Pittsburg. That is to be made a school to meet the needs of that particular locality. We expect at Pittsburg to train teachers for that particular work, and to reach the children of miners.
"We want to make this school the head of the rural schools in that part of the state, to bring it into the closest kind of co-operation with country schools, to educate teachers especially for rural school work and to teach agriculture. We hope to make the Hays Normal School the center of farm education for that part of the state.
"We intend to put every school under the state government into closer relation with the people and of the various interests of the state.
To Head Rural Schools
"Take the Hays Normal School, for instance, which is a branch of the state normal school at Emporia. We are working in conjunction with Dr. P. P. Claxton, national educational commissioner, to solve the problem of rural education in the Hays school. The Hays Normal is in Ellis county, out in Western Kansas.
minutes. In Emporia emphasis is to be placed hereafter upon the work of real normal training for country schools. Here the importance of the community center idea will be made prominent, and for that purpose normal school extension work is to be introduced in the Emporia school.
Trained in Modern Ideas.
"Hereafter every school teacher that goes out of the Emporia Normal School will be trained in the modern idea of effective school work, trained in the idea of proper playgrounds and physical training."
"A misrepresentation of the intention of the board is the report that has gone out that we propose to make the term of the professors at the state University and the Agricultural College terminate each year.
"The board purposes also to enlarge the work of teaching music in the country schools and will revive the debating and public speaking idea, both for the teachers and the pupils in country schools.
"We do not propose to curtail the work that belongs to the normal schools, but rather to enlarge it in order to bring the schools to a higher degree of efficiency and practical usefulness. The only reduction to be made in the present activities of the Emporia school is that of discontinuing the practice of giving private instruction in piano and vocal music at public expense. These departments we intend to make self-sustaining."
"Nothing is further from the thoughts of the board. Under the law we were forced to elect all the professors and the heads of the schools and the heads of departments this year, establishing our new work. Efficiency alone will determine the length of service of professors in the schools just as it has done in the past. We intend to work in accord with President Waters at Manhattan and Doctor Strong, chancellor of the state University. They will select the teachers as heretofore, and will be hold
Board Misrepresented
accountable for the efficiency of the schools.
"We expect to encourage and to help in every effort to widen the scope and efficiency of these two institutions, and we hope to make every citizen of Kansas a student of one of these institutions by bringing the schools to the farms and to the stores and into the professions.
"We are sorry that we have lost some of the very best of our processors. We would have kept them if we could have paid them under the law the salaries that other schools offered them."
CROISSANT TO HEAD EXTENSION DIVISION
English Professor Appointed to Succeed R. R. Price as Director
DeWitt C. Croisant, assistant professor of English at the Kansas State University, has been appointed director of the Extension department to succeed Prof. Richard R. Price, who resigned to take up similar work at the University of Minnesota.
Before coming to Kansas, Professor Crosissant was at the George Washington University for five years and one year at the University of Colorado. Professor Croissant graduated from Princeton in 1899 and received his Ph. D. from that university in 1911. He also studied at Chicago University, later going to Europe where he traveled extensively. He spent some time at the University of Munich.
DR. SUNDWALL TO STAY
Popular Anatomy Professor Will Not Accept U of South Carolina Offer
Dr. John Sundwall, professor of Anatomy, has decided to stay at the University another year. He is teaching anatomy in the summer term of the University of Chicago, and will return to K. U. in September.
The University of South Carolina offered Dr. Sandwall a $4,000 position, and he was not expected to come back to K. U. Another offer came from the United States hospital and marine service. Dean Sudler of the School of Medicine does not think Dr. Sandwall can be persuaded to stay at K. U. longer than one year because of the demand for his services elsewhere.
GOIN' TO THE GYM? BETTER
TAKE A TOWEL WITH YOU
If you expect to go swimming in the pool at the gymnasium don't forget to take a towel over with you; unless you still use the towel you used when a kid. The reason for this is that Monday was the last day Mr. Root will be at the window in the basement of the gymnasium to give out towels and other paraphernalia until the University opens in September.
Flint and Madden
Herbert, editor in chief-elect, of the University Kansan, and John C. Madden, managing editor-elect dropped in the Kansan office Saturday. Flint is working on the Galena Republic and Maddon on the Atchison Champion this summer.
Flint and Madden Visit
Miss Emily in Chicago Pearl Emley, 13, will spend the summer in Chicago studying music. Miss Emiley will be one of the instructors in music at the University next fall having taken Mrs. Arthur Anderson's place on the faculty.
Miss Emly in Chicago
Richard Ward, '13, has accepted a position in the city engineer's office at Pittsburg, Kansas. Dick was third baseman on the Varsity for three years.
Miss Grace Hays, the University telephone operator will be off duty until the first of September owing to the illness of her mother.
A SANE FOURTH FOR SUMMER SESSIONISTS
Doesn't This Make You Hot?
Some to Woodland, Others to Picnics, While Others
Slept
Various and diversified were the ways and places by which and in which the Summer Sessionists spent the gorious Fourth of July.
This is the tune that brought to the coffers of the Y. W. C. A. and the W. S. G. A. of the University about $00.00 on the Fourth. A stand in Woodland park permitted the girls to show their remarkable talents in salesmanship. The proceeds, which will be about thirty dollars clear for each society will be used to further student enterprises next winter.
More than half of the 500 students attended the big celebration of the Merchants Association at Woodland park, and drank red lemonade, heard President Waters, saw the foot-races and the ball games, and listened to the band.
The tennis courts were crowded all day. As early as five o'clock seeral would be McLoughlines were ining out hot ones.
About 100 Foulthed in Kansas City and Topeka. There were enough K. U. men and women at Electric Park to have had the evening designated "K. U. night."
Pickinnick was "much the order of business for "pairs," Guats, chiggers, and mosquitoes had no terrors for this percentage of students, and Brown's Grove, Kanwaka, the Wakarusa, Cameron's Bluff, and Lakeview furnished the proper atmosphere for many a party.
"Pink lemo, only five a glass, Right this way to get your ice cold lemonade."
Finally some took advantage of the holiday to snooze all day and get caught up on the sleep proposition.
Not a few went boating on the slu gish Kaw in canoes, launches and row-boats.
PINK LEMO BRINGS $90
PINK LEMO BRUSH
TO W. Y. C. A. AND W. S. G. A
AGAIN, ALL WORK AND NO PLAY, ETC.
Dr. Suzalo Tells of the Necessity of Systematic Recreation
Dr. Suzallo gave his last lecture Friday morning in the chapel on "The Function of the School in Training for the Leisure of Life."
Dr. Suzallo spoke about the necessity of systematic play. "The reason our night schools are not a success is because the people who attend them are too fatigued to do good work. Fatigue is largely mental, and people who are habitually tired are under expressed."
"This would account," said Dr. Suzallo, "for the apparent decrease in memory power with age. Children have fewer vital interests and are not fatigued as are older persons."
Dr. Suzallo thinks the average school teacher is not social enough. "We need to be practical, to deal with practical problems," he said.
Dr. Suzallo Around The World
Dr. Henry Suzallo of Columbia
University left Friday morning for
San Francisco where he will start
on his trip around the world. He
contemplates writing a book of his
experiences in the many countries
that he will visit. Dr. Suzallo has
been granted a six months leave of
absence.
Jack Turkington, 13, of the electrical engineering department has accepted a position with the Westinghouse Co., of Pittsburg, Pa.
Rachel Baumgartner fell from the parallel bars in the gymnasium, Thursday, and sprained her ankle. The injury was not serious and she will be able to attend classes in a few days.
Mrs. Frederika Rose, a teacher of piano from Steigler, Okla., has enrolled for special work in piano and voice.
Miss Olivia Olson of the voice department, who has been ill, is now meeting her classes again.
TWENTY-SEVEN LAWS ADMITTED TO BAR
Half the New Barristers in Kansas are K. U. Graduates
Twenty-seven University of Kansas graduates who went to Topeks last week to take the bar examination, were successful. Of the fifty-five new lawyers in Kansas, almost half are graduates of the University.
The following K. U. graduates were admitted to the bar:
Arthur David Zook, Wellington; Walter T. Griffin, Lawrence;
Walter T. Griffin, Lawrence;
Clement Howard Ewald, Lawerce
Charles Elmo Stepens, Lawrence;
George Alvan Holliday, Topka;
Henry Charles Dolde, Leavenworth;
Harry Cecil Crandall, Little River;
Clanroold Allen Burnet, Girard;
J. Wendell Phillips Ready, Wellington;
Robert Johnson Woulfe, Newton;
Hal Fletcher Rambo, Ottawa;
Harris Foster Gorsuch, Sharon
springs;
William Sidney Norris, Topeka;
Carl Sidney Hicks, Lawrence;
Wade Walter Wightman, Wichita;
Paul Bertram Nees, Independence;
Clifford Sullivan, Burrton;
Lewis Wolfkill Keplinger, Kansas
City;
Carl A. Neibling, Lawrence;
Clarence Hays Carlton, Garden
City;
Ottis Milton Edmonson, Lawrence
Walter Boehm, Hutchinson;
Kenneth Klippel Simmons, Bald
kenneth
Richard Fields Granville Hepworth, Burlingame;
Louis Robert Wilhelm, Lawrence;
William Quiggin Cain, Atchison;
Forty-six men took degrees in
the University of Kansas law school
in June. To date thirty-seven men
have taken the bar examinations in
different states, and thirty-five
passed.
Ulysses Allison Gribie, Arkansas City;
ALL S. S. FACULTY READY ON THE MARK
Professors Planning Vacations of Various Kinds in Various Places
DR. BURDICK TO ALASKA
After Seeing Wm. L., Jr., Married to Miss Ruth Morton in Seattle —Uclej Jimmy to N. H.
As soon as the Summer Session ends most of the faculty will pack up and go away for "much needed rests." They will scatter over the United States; one intends to journey as far as honolulu and Alaska. Many will go to the Great Lakes, Atlantic, Rocky Mountains, and Canadian summer resorts.
Prof. Hermann Schoenfeld, professor of German, will spend August on the beach at Wildwood Crest, New Jersey.
Dean Walker, director of the Summer Session, has a severe case of angler's fever. He does not know whether he will go to Minnesota or Colorado, but declares he will catch some fish somewhere.
New Jersey
Uncle Jimmy Green, Dean of the School of Law, will journey up into the cool hills of New Hampshire.
A series of Shakespearean lectures at the Olathe Chauqua will hold Prof. C. G. Dunlap, professor of English literature. Later he intends to go to Georgian bay in Ontario.
Prof. E. M. Hopkins, professor of rhetoric and English language, and Mrs. Hopkins, Prof. F. H. Hodder, professor of American history and political science, Prof. H. P. Cady, professor of chemistry, and Prof. G. E. Putnam, assistant professor of economics will journey to the mountains of Colorado.
Prof. W. C. Stevens and A. S. Olin will go to the University of Chicago. Mrs. Olin intends to visit in Wilderness Bay, Mich.
Prof. W. L. Burdick, professor of law, will travel to Alaska and Honolulu.
Montana is the destination of Prof. S. J. Hunter, professor of entomology.
Prof. L. D. Havenhill, professor of pharmacy, will go to Nashville, where he speaks before the American Pharmaceutical Association.
The Glorieta mountains near Santa Fe, N. M., is the attraction for Prof. J. N. Van der Vries, associate professor of mathematics. He will later give a lecture before the American Mathematics Society at Madison, Wis.
Prof. C. A. Dykstra intends to go to the Great Lakes region. He hears the fish are biting ravenously around Omega, Mich.
To experiment with oil wells in Wyoming is the plan of Prof. James E. Told, assistant professor of geology and mineralogy.
Prof. Lulu Gardner, assistant professor of rhetoric intends to go out to the famous mountain road in Colorado. "I have not definitely decided at what place I shall stay," she said today.
BURDICKS AND CARRUTHS TO ATTEND SEATTLE WEDDING
Prof. William L. Burdick, professor of law, and Mrs. Burdick will leave at the end of the Summer Session for a tour of Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. While in Seattle they will attend the marriage, on August 2, of their son, William L. Jr., who was graduated from K. U. in 1912. He is to marry Miss Ruth Morton another Kansas graduate, who is the sister-in-law of Professor Carruth. Lieut. Harold Burdick, of Fort Caste, Washington, and Professor and Mrs. Carruth will attend the wedding.
A crowd of K. U. girls will leave on a camping trip at Buck creek tomorrow night. The party, chaperoned by Mrs. Caspier Goff, includes Agnes Engle, Erna Pisher, Ina Pratt, Elsie Pratt, Zula Finch, Margaret Kanaga, Nina Kanaga, and Virginia Goff.
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