THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME II.
COBURN PLAYERS GOOD ENTERTAINERS
NUMBER
Iphigenia in Tarus Closes an Interesting Open Air Engagement
WAS A FINANCIAL SUCCESS
Hearty Support of This Undertaking Insures Annual Presentation During Summer Session.
When the Coburn Players finished "Iphigenia in Tarus," Saturday evening, they closed an interesting series of open-air plays. A large attendance of students and faculty, together with ideal weather, insured the success of the plays and opened the way for annual open-air performances at the Summer Session.
The campus proved an ideal place for the players for they were seen and heard from every part of the enclosure.
"Te plays were brought here on a guarantee and a percentage basis," said Dean Walker, "and the bills were all paid and the guarantee was paid. Above this amount there was nothing. I shall do all that I can to bring them back for another engagement next year."
CANTERBURY PILGRIMS IS
A FAITFUL REPRODUCTION
(By Daisy L. Williams.) There were few empty seats Friday night when the Coburn Players put on the first play of the series, "The Canterbury Pilgrims" by Perry Mackaye. The plot of the "Canterbury Pilgrims," is, as you may recall, delightfully entertaining.
Twenty-nine pilgrims, on their way to Canterbury to visit the shrine of the holy Martyr, stop at the One Nine-Pin Inn in the little hamlet of Bob-up-and-down during the month of April, 1387. At the Inn as the result of a wager, it seems, Chaucer must marry the Wife of Bath. But the timely discovery of the Man of Law, that no woman in England may marry more than five times, saves the illustrious poet from so terrible a calamity
"The joyous Friar lisped," so says Chaucer in his Prologue, "and his eyes twinkled. The squire was embroidered full of fresh flowers red and white. The priores wore about her arm a set of beads with knobs of green and she was of her smiling full simple and quiet. The Wife of Bath wore a foot-mantle about her large hips and on her head a hat as broad as a buckler, and the was gappoethed. The Miller's board was as read as a sow or fox."
The Coburns admirably brought out the two essential features of the play as presented by Percy Mackaye, the Costuming of the characters according to Chaucer's Prologue, and the happy-go-lucky joyous spirit of the spring-time that made everyone as mad as a March hare.
The interpretations of the Wife of Bath by Mrs. Coburn, the Priestess by Eugenia Webb, the Friar by John Hickey and the Squire by George Gaul were strikingly true to the descriptions in Te Prologue.
Mr. Coburn presented Chaucer as he is shown in a contemporary portrait, a large man with queer, divided whiskers just at the crease of the mouth and wearing a long loose cloak. Mr. Coburn's poetical solilisies made the audience appreciate the fact that Percy Mackaye is a poet of no mean caliber.
Mrs. Coburn made the noisy middesome Wife of Bath represent the very common plebeian type of character, a direct contrast to the gentle high-bred Priores sas impersonated by Eugenia Webb.
Not the least of the actors in the play was Brownie, the little dog belonging to Arthur Walker, junior. Every one who is acquainted with Brown will realize how hard it was for him to put on that sanctimonious expression when the Priocess was carrying him around.
The University of Kansas boys who weilded the spear so gracefully and stood up so straight were. Clarence Brayfield, Ralph Lovett, Homer Hoyt, Ravett Ellis, John Traver, Charles Gibson, John Warne, George
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 1 1913.
Alas, Poor Yorick We Knew Him Well
During quiz week Frank Coffey, a freshman in the preparatory medical course, secured at the laboratories a man's head which he took with him to his home in Kansas City. With the true scientific research spirit which his biological courses had instilled into him, he set about to dissect it and secure some advance knowledge of the anatomy of the human head.
In the absence of any medical laboratories at home, he set up some apparatus in the back yard and boiled the head, in order to remove the flesh and secure a skull, a trophy which every college boy longs to have stuck up in his room.
The hot rays of the June sun beat down upon the skull, now smoothly shaved and drying on a stick on the lawn, and Coffey regarded it well pleased with his efforts to further the cause of science.
Some of the neighbors had lacked the advantages of higher education and perhaps retained some of the primitive superstitions. At any rate they did not like to gaze upon "that horrid old thing," and they called the police.
In the police court the next morning Coffey explained things to the judge, who fully appreciated the efforts of his fellow citizen in the field of medicine, and would have dismissed him with "go and slim no more" had not the complaints against him made him court be punished. Therefore the judge imposed a fine of five dollars, which he refounded pending good behavior.
Undiscouraged by lack of appreciation for men of science, Coffey will keep up his research work.
PITTSBURG SCHOOL GETS PROF. BUSHONG
Eastern Institution Offer Him Opportunity for Special Work
Prof. F. W. Bushong associate professor and fellow in chemistry, will leave Sept. 1 for Pittsburgh University. He has been offered a fellowship in the Mellon Institute there.
Professor Bushong does not leave because of financial reasons. He was offered this fellowship some time ago but had to refuse it because he was under contract here. His contract here has expired and he leaves because this new opening gives him an opportunity for special work.
TWENTY LAW STUDENTS
TAKE BAR EXAMINATION
Dr. T R. Crowder, sanitarian for the Pulman Company lectured Friday afternoon before the health officers. His subject was the "Reinspiration of Expired Air." The discussion was technical and was illustrated by many steropteran slides.
Robert Lee Hoffman, a graduate student in the medical department, spent the week-end at the Pi Upsilon house. He is doing work at the Grandview Sanitarium in Kansas City this summer.
About twenty students from the University of Kansas School of Law are in Topeka taking the state bar examinations which began Monday. A few of the students from here, who were expected to take the examinations at Topeka, have gone to Oklahoma and other southern states. However, practically all the young lawyers will begin practice in this state.
Alice Smith, '11, who has taught English in the Winfield high school the last two years, and Jean Smith, '12, who taught domestic science last year in the same school, have come home to spend the summer with their parents, Dr. and Mrs. E. Smith.
PULLMAN COMPANY EXPERT
TELLS ABOUT EXPIRED AIR
Dr. T. H. Broughton leuccerd at 5:00 on the subject of "Antitoxins, Serums, and Vaccines."
MISSOURI LITERALLY SWAMPED BY TROPHIES
So Runs the Happy Story of a Tiger Chronicler
7 CHAMPIONSHIPS COUNT 'EM
“And, Except Nebraska, no Other School in the Valley Won a Cup This Year”—Wonderful!
Well, well, well! Here's our old college friend, the Tiger, breaking into the Kansas City Star with a "story" to the effect that Missouri was loaded down with athletic trophies this year. This event 'em, seven championship cups, count 'em, seven. And our Columbia friend-correspondent blithely adds, "Missouri won in the year four conference championships. Nebraska won two, while none of the other schools in the conference won any."
Fie, fie, Missouri! Hark back to the 23rd of November on McCook field. Twelve to three the rooters counted.
The basket-ball score reminds us of another score which has the same sound. The memory of man runtremepo is the memory of "K. U. 3 games; Missouri 1 game."
And while we are in this harking business there is no reason why we shouldn't hark back to the basket球 season. The finals on the bulletin boards read: "K. U. 3 games; Missouri 1 game."
Indoor track at Convention hall in Kansas City, as we remember it, tied the seventh knot in the Tiger's tail for the school year. The sixth was just a few days before in a delightful little debate.
Over here in the Jayhawk camp there is an opinion that the championship in baseball rests smugly at K. U. True, there's been some smoke raised about Bishops eligibility, but la, ia, wait until the committee acts. Maybe he didn't carry water to that baseball game back in '93.
Roscoe V. Lentz has enrolled in summer school for special work in steam machinery.
DR. SUZZALLO LAUDS IDEALS OF TEACHING
Board Meets in Topeka
On account of the minor importance of the business to be transacted the Board of Administration will meet in Topeka tomorrow instead of here today. Chancellor Strong will meet with them. They will finish up the regular work of the school year.
The enthusiastic correspondent writes: "Other championship cups won are: Tennis, both singles and doubles; cross country run, baseball, track, and the indoor relay."
Far be it from us to detract one scintilla from the glory of the Tiger's year. But we'll submit that tennis both doubles and singles, cross country run, and an indoor relay, won't to the Jayhawker's satisfaction, at least, losen any one of the seven knots put into the Tiger's tail by K. U. last year.
Teacher Carries Message of Civilization to Frontiers of Childhood
FOUR ESSENTIAL QUALITIES
Like Professional Man, he Must Have Scholarship, Social Wisdom, Pedagogy and Personality
HERE'S THE USUAL SILLY SEASON DIRECTORY STORY
We regret that the efforts to organize a Summer Session baseball team was unsuccessful. However, with only one Hitt, what could we do?
Summer is here. For proof we shall not refer you to the July sun beating down upon the dry fields or the perspiration and Panama hat upon your brow or the Palm Beach suits, ice tea, and school teachers which are all about us. No, you have only to look at the list of Summer Session students printed in Friday's issue to be convinced that Summer is here—W. A. Summer, of Manhattan.
"There are four essential characteristics of the professional worker. He must be practiced in the spirit of social service; be able to render expert service; be capable, out of his larger resources and superior power, of meeting the raviation sof life; and above all be adequately fitted to cooperate intelligently in the pursuit of principle."
We note with pleasure the pres-
ence of Helen Rose of Rosedale,
This was the key note of the opening address by Dr. Henry Suzzallo, of Columbia University at the Schoolmen's Conference in the chapel Monday afternoon, 4:30.
Upon investigation we find that there is another Hill on the hill, making it Steeper.
"We may say of our teachers," continued Dr. Suzallo, "they possess these characteristics of the true professional spirit to a greater extent than any other body of workers. To them it is granted to make ideals live. They are conscientiously striving to pay the debt that every manows. God gave man brains, society cultivated them and to God and society man is forever indebted.
"The teacher is returning in a large measure all value received as he represents the cause of civilization and carries its message to the frontier of childhood. To do this in the best way, the teacher must have scholarship, social wisdom, a knowledge of the methods of pedagogy, and the methods of personality."
The third annual conference of schoolmen of the state commenced at 4:30 p. m. yesterday. The classes in educational subjects will be dismissed on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but they will be required to attend the lectures in the educators' meetings. With the exception of the meeting Monday, the sessions will be at 10:00 a.m. p., 4:30 p. m., and in the evening at 8:00.
A program has been arranged for the five days with morning sessions for free discussion and lectures in the afternoons and evenings. Besides Professor Suzzallo there will be lectures by Prof. Hermann Schoenfeld, of George Washington University, Prof. Emil C. Wilm of Wells College, and Prof. T. L. Bolton of the University of Montana.
The indications are for a large attendance of teachers and superintendents. The program will be in charge of Prof. A. S. Olin.
All meetings will be held in the University chapel in Fraser hall, and time will be reserved at each meeting for conference and discussion. The daily programs have not been over-crowded in order to uprovide opportunity for a leisurely
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Further scrutiny bears out the statement characterizing Mt. Oread as "the coolest spot in Kansas." Mr. Cool is here; Commodore F. Cool, of La Harpe.
Said a Seaman to the Bishop:
"What has George C. Dunn?"
Said the Baker to the Cook;
"Wouldn't Bessie Beckell?"
"No, but Carrie Atwood," replied the Stewart.
FOUR K. U. PROFESSORS
Whereupon this silly season yarn closes with Goodnight—Lizzie E. Goodnight.
Is it possible that there is only one Case here? Why, a few months back there were dozens of cases on the campus. This isn't the "awful case" you hear so much about, either; it is Edith Case.
which upsets that old gag about every rose having its thorn.
"You are Wright," snapped the Speckmann in a Huff, "let Pauline Ketchum."
There are those among us who are Black, Brown, and Green, Young. Smart, and Savage. Moreover, we have in our midst a Wolf, a Lambe, and a Parrott.
WORKING IN N. Y. CIT
New York City, July 1—Prof.
Charles H. Johnston, who resigned in June as dean of the University of Kansas School of Education to take a chair at Illinois, has arrived in New York to conduct two courses at the Columbia University Summer Session.
Two K. U. professors, J. C. Winter and Wm. P. Ward of the Romance Language department, will do research work at Columbia this summer.
Lewis on N. Y. World.
S. Lewis instructor in journalism,
being editorial work on the New York World this summer.
Prof. R. R. Price of the extension department shipped his household goods yesterday to Minneapolis, Minn., where he will assume charge of the extension work at the University of Minneapolis. Mrs. Price and daughter will visit relatives in Hutchinson before joining Mr. Price in Minneapolis.
"Edward, the present Prince of Wales, is as jolly and unaffected fellow as you can find anywhere in this country."
PRINCE OF WALES A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW
Royalty Seen at Close Range by Rhobes Scholar, a Campus Visitor
So says E. K. Kline of Tula, Okla,
a Rhodes Scholar, who received his B. A. at Oxford last month. He is visiting Professors Murray, Putnam, and C. L. Kezer, a Summer Sessionist, who was Mr. Kline's school superintendent .
Mr. Kline saw the Prince often while he was a student at Oxford, and especially at athletic meets. "Prince Edward, who is about 19 or 20, might be taken for an energetic, good-natured American were it not that he is burdened with the formality of royalty," said Mr. Kline. "He resembled a king, but he had brawn and the late King Edward, who was always getting into mischief to the despair of his mother, Queen Victoria.
WE OUGHT TO DIE LIKE ONE HOSS SHAY
"One day the Prince started from Oxford on an eight mile tramp with his tutor and two Scotland Yard men—yes, he is shadowed all the time like our Presidents. After going several miles, Prince Edward, who has a long, steady stride, exclaimed to his companions, 'What a splendid morning for walking. Let's make it 18 miles instead of eight.' Of course, a request was from a Prince of Wales was virtually a command, so they tramped the 18 miles and came home by train. The Prince played tennis next day, but his companions were sore and lame for a week."
Mr. Kline spent three years at the University of Lepsig in Germany. In that time he rode on bicycle six thousand miles through the Empire, and stopped for the night at more than two hundred different "Gasthofs," or inns. While in the mountainous Thuringian Forest, he rode down a straight, level road that dropped steeply for four miles to the town to which he was bound. He reached the town in five minutes.
"In Enland and Germany," continued Mr. Kline, "statemen run the governments, and not politicians as in the United States. Leaders over there are. I should say, more like your Chancellor Strong than anybody I can think of. Being mayor of a German city is a profession, and the best municipal managers are in demand everywehre.
"English suffragettes, are neurasthenics, that is, they are suffering from a nervous disease brought about by incessant thinking—and acting—over woman suffrage. If they were all married to well-built coal passers and longshoremen this trouble would be settled."
Dean and Mrs. P. F. Walker left Saturday for their old home in Maine. Dean Walker goes by way of Madison, Wis.
Chancellor Strong, after meeting with the Board in Topeka tomorrow will leave for Colorado.
So Dean Crumbine Told us in a Chapel Talk Friday
WANT TO BE A METHUSALAH?
Then Practice Preventive Medicine and Take Care of the Parts of Your Machine
You were well repaid if you attended chapel Friday, for the program was well worth while. This was the first appearance of the Summer Session choir, which, under the direction of Miss Olivia Olsson, pleased the audience, and will no doubt please it more when the chorus is rounded out with more male voices.
Dr. Crumbine, Dean of the School of Medicine and Secretary of the State Board of Health, made an address on "Public Health and Public Efficiency." This is a subject which vitally concerns, everyone and war of especial interest to the large number of health officers who were present.
Dr. Crumbite spoke of the conditions which prevent man from living to the age of 140 years, to which the great Metchnikoff declared the individual should live. The theoretical view of health is that death should only occur in the same logical way that befall the wonderful "one boss shay," that is, each part should be as good as every other part until all are worn out together.
"It has been shown," said Dr. Crumbate, "that human life in America could be, by the adoption of hygienic reforms already known and entirely practicable, be lengthened by over one-third.
"It is evident that preventable sickness and death are community wastefulness in which every citizen is or should be morally and financially interested.
"Public health measures to prevent the community waste of life and real health constitute an economic proposition of tremendous importance and are investments that will return to the community prosperity in large and perpetual dividends.
"To study the means to improve conditions, the Summer School for health officers and physicians has been established to teach the great principles of preventive medicine in order to lower the high rates of sickness and death."
BRUMAGE TO KENTUCKY
Old K. U. Athlete Leaves Virginia to Direct Physical Department of Ky. U.
Lexington, Va., June 24—Captain Alpha Brumage of the Virginia Military institute, formerly a Kansas University athlete, has resigned his position as physical and athletic director to accept a similar position with the state university of Kentucky.
Brumage has been with the institution for two years and under his direction and coaching the cadets have had two of the most successful years in athletics in the history of the institution. Through his efforts the cadets have been able to compete with the best teams of the south and have won from many. Besides being coach of all athletics, Brumage handled all the work of physical training in the gymnasium. His departure is greatly regretted by all connected with the institute.
His new position at the university of Kentucky is head of the department of physical education and he will have a full corps of assistants to help in all the work. He will now have one of the best positions of its kind in the country. He assumes charge of his new work September 1.
Fay Moys, '12, has enrolled for special work in the School of Education. She will teach music and science in the McLouth high school next year.