THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME II
SENIORS BID GOOD-BYE TO THEIR ALMA MATER
Say Fond Farewells to Old Class-rooms on the Campus
ALUMNI PROGRAM IN CHAPEI
Lieut. Gov. Ingalls Urges Graduates to be Loyal to Their Alma Mater
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Soon after the last demi-tasse at the 7:30 class breakfast the seniors and their friends, led by the University band, said farewell to the chief buildings on the campus.
Milton Minor gave the farewell address to Fraser hall. The response was made by Prof. R. R. Price in the place of Dean Templin who was unable to attend. At the Museum, Roland Athey made the address in place of George Twyman. No response was made. Kenneth K. Simmons made the address to Green hall and Dean Green responded. The exercises for the School of Fine Arts were held in front of Snow hall, Lenora Kuchera made the farewell address and Dean Skilton responded. For the School of Pharmacy Bert Sonnerman spoke, Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, responding. Edmund O. Rhodes addressed the Administration building and Dean Blackmar made the response for the Graduate School, Henry H. Campion spoke farewell for the Engineering School in front of Haworth hall. Response was made by Professor Walker, recently appointed dean of the School of Engineering.
The farewell exercises started late and lasted longer than was anticipated so the planting of the class tree in Marvin Grove was omitted. The crowd proceeded from Haworth hall to the Totem Pole in front of Fraser where the class day program was held. A poem, "The View from Mt. Oread" by Helen Rhoda Hoopes received much favorable comment.
Following the reading of the Class History by Helen Bozell and the class prophecy of Lena Coolidge both the men and women of the class smoked the pipe of peace after the custom of K. U. classes. A flag ceremony which consisted of stringing up the banners of the classes was held in front of Fraser hall completed the class program.
The alumni exercises in the chappe occupied the rest of the morning. Agnes H. Uhrlaub, 99, rendered the Hungarian Rhaphoside. Lieut.-Governor Sheffield Ingalls, '05, made the alumni address, "The Spirit of Loyalty." He pointed out the advantages to be gained from loyal and urged all graduates of the University to attend his Alma Mater. An organ solo, "Variations of an American air" by Pearl Emley, '00, concluded the program.
VICTOR LARSEN AND
MISS PEARL MUIR MARRIED
Victor Laren and Miss Pearl Muir, both students at the University were married Monday, and left last night for Hutchinson.
Mr. Larsen is well known as a member of the Victor Quartet. Miss Muir is from Harper, Kansas, and a former student in the College.
Chosen "Harmony" Secretary
Chosen "Harmony" Secretary At the Topeka "Harmony" meeting of the republican party Tuesday Miss Effe Loader, 95, of Clay Center, was chosen one of the three secretaries of the conference.
Gets Pine Organ Scholarship
Gets Pipe Organ Scholarship
Hazel Longabaugh, a junior in the School of Fine Arts, has been awarded Canaan University organ scholarship for 1914. Miss Longabaugh registers from Wabanabeen county.
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Only ticket-holders will be admitted to the Gymnasium between 9:00 and 9:45 on Wednesday.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 10, 1913.
The large number of seniors and alumni guests makes this regulation necessary.
Babies and children under 12 cannot be admitted to the Gym during commencement exercises.
Executive Committee.
Cafeteria lunch plans have made it impossible to have special room for children.
380 SENIORS TO GET DEGREES TOMORROW
Three hundred and eighty degrees will be granted at the forty-first annual commencement to be held in Robinson Gymnasium Wednesday at 10:00 o'clock. Chancellor Strong, as president of the Board of Regents will give out the diplomas.
The program of the commencement exercises is as follows;
processional March- Gloria from the Twelfth Mass, (Mozart); Fest March from Tanhauser (Wagner), University band.
To Kansan Readers
Invocation—Rev. Ezra Staufer.
Address—"The College Man of Tomorrow."
Philander Priestly Claxton,
Stone State, States Commission of Education.
The Kansan prides itself on its high class advertising. It carries no announcement that it cannot personally recommend. The Kansan staff finds its profitable to trade in the Lawrence stores that cater to student tastes and student pocket-books. Members of the staff have investigated Topela and Kansas City prices and are happy to supply for the business their fellow students that it is much more satisfactory to trade in Lawrence.
"Hungarian Fantasia" (Tobani)
University bad.
Conferring of degrees.
Madley march, (Sousa), University band.
SCOURGE FOR HOPPERS
Fungus is Killing Off Locusts in and Around Ness County
. A scourge has appeared to fight the grass-hoppers. It is in the form of a fungus and is killing the grass-hoppers by the millions in and around Ness county.
This report was received yesterday by State Entomologist S. J. Hunter from the five men he has in the field. A shipment of weeds on which were clusters of dead grasshoppers is now at the University and a study is being made of the fungus to see if it is possible to distribute it. A. J. Hewlett, an entomologist with Wichita sen. W. T. Emery, of the entomology department have been in the field around Ness City for a week studying the situation.
"These grasshoppers are not, as is generally supposed, the migratory locuts, absent from this territory now for more than 40 years," said Professor Hunter today, "but a local species, which live, breed and die on the farmer's ranch."
EIGHT ARE GRADUATED FROM
THE OREACH HIGH SCHOOL
Eight seniors appeared on the platform at the first annual commencement of the Oread high school. C. M Harger, editor of the Abilene Reflector delivered the address. The graduates were:
Merle F. Bates, Mabel Louise Champlin, Alton Gumbiner, Stella Vanera Miller, Francis William Payne, Fred Leport Spangler, Frank LeRoy Spangler, and Mary Evelyn Strong.
The merchants who invite you to their stores in today's Kansan will show you every courtesy and consideration. The Kansan vouchers for this.
GHD Visits Pacific Coast
Lily Baker, 12, who has been teaching history in the Manhattan high school passed through Lawrence today enroute for Edmonton and Calgary, Canada, Portland, Seattle and San Francisco. She will return from the coast September first to take charge of her work again at Manhattan.
Grad Visits Pacific Coast
The Last Class By Alphonse Daudet
(It is after the Franco-Prussian war. The Germans have taken Alsace and Lorraine from the French, and are Germanizing the provinces. A decree has gone forth that French shall no longer be taught in the public schools. Little Frantz comes into the schoolroom late, after having been tempted to stay away. He does not understand what is to take place.)
I stepped over to the bench and sat down at once at my desk. Not until then, when I had partly recovered from my fright, did I notice that our teacher had on his hand some blue coat, his plaited ruff, and the black silk embroidered breeches, which he wore only on days of inspection or of distribution of prizes. Moreover, there was something extraordinary, something solemn about the whole class. But what surprised me most was to see at the back of the room, on the benches which were usually empty, some people from the village sitting, as silent as we were; old Hauser with his three-corner hat, the ex-major, the ex-postman, and others besides. They all seemed depressed; and Hauser had brought an old spelling-book with gnarled edges which he held wide-open on his knee with his great spottles askew.
While I was wont ring at all this, donsieur Hamel had mounted his platform, and in the same gentle and serious voice with which he had welcomed me, he said to us:
"My children, this is the last time that I shall teach you. Orders have come from Berlin to teach nothing but German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new teacher arrives tomorrow. This is the last class in French, so I beg you to be very attentive."
Those few words overwhelmed me. Ah! the villains! that was what they had posted at the mayor's office.
My last class in French!
And I barely knew how to write! So I should never learn! I must stop short where I was! How angry I was with myself because of the time I had wasted, the lessons I had missed, running about after nests, or sliding on the Saar! My books, which only a moment before I had thought so tiresome, so heavy to carry—my grammar, my sacred history—seemed to me now like old friends, from whom I should be terribly grieved to part. And it was the same about Monsieur Hamel. The thought that he was going away that I should never see him again, made me forget the punishments, the blows with the ruler.
Poor man! It was in honour of that lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday clothes; and I understood now why those old fellows from the village were sitting at the end of the room. It seemed to mean that they regretted not having come offender to the school. It was also a way of thanking our teacher for his forty years of faithful service, and of paying their respects to the fatherland which was vanishing. I was at that point in my reflections, when I heard my name called. It was my turn to recite. What would I not have given to be able to say from beginning to end that famous rule about participles, in a loud, distinct voice, without a slip. But I got mixed up at the first words, and I stood there swaying against my bench, with a full heart, afraid to raise my head. I heard Monsieur Hamel speaking to me:
"I will not scold you, my little Frantz; you must be punished enough; that is the way it goes; every day we say to ourselves: 'Pshaw! I have time enough. I will learn tomorrow.' And then you see what happens. Ah! It has been the great misfortune of our Alasze always to postpone lessons less than a week. Now those people are entitled to say to us: 'What you claim to be French, and you can neither speak nor write your language!' In all this, my poor Frantz, you are not the guiltiest one. We all have our fair share of reproaches to address to ourselves.
wanted to go fishing for trout, have I ever hesitated to dismiss you?"
"Your parents have not been careful enough to see that you were educated. They preferred to send you to work in the fields or in the factories, in order to have a few more souls. And have I nothing to reproach myself for? Have I not often made you water my garden instead of studying? And when I
Then, passing from one thing to another, Monsieur Hamel began to talk to us about the French language, saying that it was the most beautiful language in the world, the most clear, the most substantial; that we must always retain it among ourselves, and never forget it, because when a people fail into servitude, "so long as it clings to its language, it is as if it held the key to its prison." Then he took the grammar and read us our lesson. I was amazed to see how readily I understood. Everything he said seemed so easy to me, so easy. I believed, too, that I had never listened so closely, and that he, for his part, had never been so patient with his explanations. One would have said that, before going away, the poor man desired to give us all his knowledge, to force it all into our heads at a single blow.
When the lesson was at an end, we passed to writing. For that day Monsieur Hamel had prepared some entirely new examples, on which was written in a fine, bold hand: "France, Alsace, France, Alsace." They were like little flags, waving all about the class, hanging from the rods of our desk. You should have seen how hard we all worked and how silent it was! Nothing could be heard save the grinding of the pens over the paper. At one time some cochafers saw the row of ropes attached to them, not even the little fellows, who were struggling with their straight lines, with a will and conscientious application, as if even the lines were French. On the roof of the school-house, pigeons cooed in low tones, and I said to myself as I listened to them:
I wonder if they are going to compel them to sing in German too!" From time to time, when I raised my eyes from my paper, I saw Monsieur Hamel sitting motionless in his chair and staring at the objects about him as if he wished to carry away in his glance the whole of his little so-louseh. Think it for! forty years he had been there in the same place, with his yard in front of him and his class just as it was! But the benches and desks were rubbed and polished by use; the walnuts in the yard had grown, and the hopvine which he himself had planted now festooned the windows even to the roof. What a heart-rending thing it must have been for that poor man to leave all those things, and to hear his sister walking back and forth in the room overhead, packing their trunks! For they were to go away the next day—to leave the province forever. However, he had the courage to keep the class to teh end. After the writing, we had the lesson in history; then the little ones sang together th eba, be, bi, bu. Bonder, at the back of the room, old Hauser had put on his spectacles, and, holding his spelling book with both hands, he spelled out the letters with them. I could see that he too was applying himself. His voice shook with emotion, and it was so funny to hear him, that we all longed to laught and to cry. Ah! I shall remember that last class.
Suddenly the church clock struck twelve, then the Angelus rang. At the same moment, the bugles of the Prussians returning from drill blared under our windows. Monsieur Hamel rose, pale as death, from his chair. Never had he seemed to me so tall.
Thereupon he turned to the blackboard, took a piece of chalk, and, bearing on with all his might, he wrote "I'll attack letters he could." He wrote "La France!"
"My friends," he said, "my friends,
I-I-1
But something suffocated him.
He could not finish the sentence.
Then he stood there, with his head resting against the wall, and without speaking, he motioned to us with his hand:
T. A. PURTON, '11 AND MISS SMART, '09, MARRIED
"That is all; go."
T. A. Porton, engineer '11, and Miss Georgia E. Smart, '09, daughter of Judge and Mrs. C. A. Smart, of Ottawa, were married Tuesday at Ottawa.
Howard Calderwood, '13, is visiting friends in Lawrence.
Mr. Purton is now working in Salt Lake City, Utah. A number of University students attended the wedding.
WARD MARIS ILLE WITH
TYPHOID IN KANSAS CITY
Ward Maria is very ill at the German Hospital in Kansas City. It is believed he has typhoid fever. He was taken home Saturday from Lawrence. Friday he completed the final examinations for the term and, although had been ill for two weeks it was not until he had finished the last paper that he let his father, Dr. A. J. Maris, 1112 East Armour Boulevard, learn of it. Maris was planning to take journalism work in the Summer Session.
PROF. BEGG A DEAN OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE
Sanitary Engineering Man Appointed to Head Civil Engineering School
R. B. H. Begg, professor of sanitary and hydraulic engineering has accepted the position of dean of civil engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, at Blacksburg, Virginia.
Professor Begg has been associated with the University of Kansas during the past year, taking up the work of Professor Hoad who went to the University of Michigan.
BOARD APPOINTS AN ECONOMICS PRurESSOR
Dr. Valgren Comes From Minnesota to Position in University
The Board of Administration has appointed Victor N. Valgren as assistant professor of economics. Dr. Valgren has taught at the Universities of Nebraska and Minnesota. At Kansas he will share the work in Economics I with Professor Putnam and will give special courses in statistics, accounting, and public utilities.
With Dr. Valgren's addition, the department will now have four men. This year special studies have been made of taxation and railway regulation in Kansas. The department plans to study every important phase of the economic history of the state in the same way. Dr. Valgren is expected to assist materially in the realization of this plan.
ALTA LUX NOW
OUT OF DANGER
Miss Alta Lax of Topeka, a junior in the College, who was operated on at Christ's hospital in Topeka Saturday for appendicitis, is reported out of danger and on the way to recovery.
Miss Lux was taken suddenly ill. For the last few days she has been in a critical condition owing to weak heart action. She will not be able to complete her term's work for some time.
Stockwell a Vigilante
Roy Stockwell, formerly secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., is now working for the American Villiance Association, with headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York. He will be located in Boston during the months of May and June.
GRADUATES ARE TOLD TO HAVE A CAUSE
Baccalaureate Speaker Lauds Loyalty to Purpose in Life THE 1913 SENIOR A KNIGHT
Enthusiasm and Abandonment of Youth, Coupled With a Worthy Cause, the Important Thing
"To be enlisted in a cause is one of the great considerations of life," said Prof. William James Hutchins, of Oberlin College, to the class of 1913 in his baccalaureate address at Robinson Gymnasium Sunday evening. "The child early learns loyalty. Later he learns the thrill of his school." He thrills high school and his university. It is just as important to have a cause after one goes out of the university into the world.
"We must have a cause that will bind all the tasks of life into one life-long task, and bind us to the friendly power behind the world. We are given the life story of one man in the book called "A Certain Rich Man.' His was a life of many activities. He engaged in many different things, with his own gain as the impelling power behind all. At the close we are shown a defeated life, and the man who lived it himself admits that he was in the great essential of life a failure."
The speaker emphasized the fact that the graduates are now entering into the brotherhood of the friendly workmen of the world. The man who makes an honest pair of shoes, or he who digs an honest ditch, to the glory of God and the betterment of society for his brother in the world. The men, these friendly workmen of the world, are living a life of service, they have a cause.
The entire program was inspiring,
The University Orchestra, the Uni-
erity Orchestra by Miss Reynolds and the Rev. Frank Smith were especially appreciated.
The graduate was likened unto a Knight, one who, with the enthusiasm and abandonment of youth, gives himself over to a life of service. To do service one must have a cause; and only that cause is worthy which will furnish a life-long task.
The service was in charge of Chancellor Strong. The invocation by the Rev. Stanton Olinger, scripture reading by the Rev. O. C. Brown; prayer, the Rev. E. T. McFarland; benediction, the Rev. C. R. Chonte.
OLD GRADS OF '93
HAVE PICTURE TAKEN
Eighteen members of the class of '93 met at 8:30 this morning in front of the Totem pole and had their pictures taken. Prof. S. J. Hunter, Prof. R. D. O'Leary and Dr. Alberta Corbin represented the University in the university
COLD WAVE CAUSES
POSTNEMENT OF REGATTA
Cool weather caused the annual regatta which was to have been held on the Kaw river yesterday to be indefinitely postponed. The fete may be held this afternoon if Old Sol is generous enough to keep the swimmers from shivering.
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