TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
DAILY KANSAN WILL COST $2.50 IN FALL
NUMBER 147.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 12, 1913.
Circulation Manager Says Price Must Be Boosted Next Year
STUDENTS GET BIG BARGAIN
Kansan Prints More News Tha Other College Dailies—Subscription Price is Low
The announcement that the subscription price of the Daily Kansan will be raised to $2.50 for next year was made by the circulation manager this morning. "The present subscription price is in no just proportion to the amount of reading matter printed or to the cost of production," he said, "and in this case one thing can be done raise the subscription price if the paper is to continue at its present standard. "When the old tri-weekly was made a daily in January 1912, a careful canvass of the students was made to find out if they preferred a daily student paper to the paper as it was then issued. The students practically all favored the proposed daily and the change was made. The students have been well satisfied with the daily and we have no intention of returning to the old style of paper.
"Consequently, so long as it is necessary to increase the price to continue the paper, the advance will be made, beginning next year."
The Daily Kansan is probably the biggest college daily newspaper in the United States. In the amount of news which is printed each day it is rivalled by only three other college dailies, the Indiana Student, the University Missouriian and the Cornell Daily Sun. Of these the Missouriian does not content itself with news that college news but prints local state and national matter also, Almost none of the large eastern schools have dailies which in any way approach the size of the Daily Kansan.
When the Kansan was made a daily the students who started it hoped to give the University students an exceptionally large college paper at an exceedingly low price but this year's experience has proved that they undershot the mark.
sail.
In the subscription price, however, the Daily Kansan is in the very lowest rank. Only five of the twenty-four daily college papers listed in the annual newspaper directory sell for two dollars a year. There are none lower. Even such papers as the Daily Nebraskan, which is a four page, four column sheet, asks this price.
The Daily Kansan is owned and published by the Daily Kansan Board and it receives no financial support whatever from the state treasury.
WANT TO VISIT ESTES?
Trip
Only Six Y. M. C. A. Delegated Have Signed Up For Trin
Of the 107 delegates who will attend the Western Y. M. C. A. conference this summer at Estes Park, Kansas University has so far, but six delegates. The smaller schools of the state have a far greater representation. Washburn will have twenty-five of thirty delegates.
This conference is an annual affair for the purpose of making plans of Y. M. C. A. work for the following year. Delegates from Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Kansas will hold their session from June 10 to June 19. The delegates who have so far signed up for the conference are the Charles Eldridge, Bruce Hundt, Claire Dietrich. Conrad Hoffman the new secretary of the Y. M. C. A. will also attend.
Etes Park was donated by Mr. A. Hyde of Wichita to the Y. W. C. a conference. This is the fifth annual conference that has been held
Sigma Chi entertained with an informal dancing party at the chapter house Saturday night.
STUDENTS WORK FOR TOMMY'S MEMORIAL
Committees Are Collecting Nickles To Purchase Picture of K. U. Athlete
ASK STUDENT CONTRIBUTIONS
Undergraduates Should Send in Donations to Fund at Once, Says Hal Rambo, Chairman
The committees appointed by the Student Council to collect the $85 necessary to purchase the picture of "Tommy" Johnson, K. U.'s greatest athlete, have commenced their work. Each school has a committee for the purpose, and assessments of the cents will be asked from each student.
Con Squires is the present, owner of the picture. When it becomes the property of the University it will be hung in a conspicuous place, in one of the buildings.
Hal Rambo, chairman of the committee appointed by the council, said that he expected to have no difficulty in securing the money. "No student will bulk on contributing a nickel toward the purchase. It only remains for the committees in the various schools to thoroughly canvass the students. It would save the committee a great deal of trouble if students would hand in their contributions without being canvassed." The different committees were
The different committees were published in Friday's Daily Kansas
Y. W. PARTY SAW GHOST
He Appeared At "Hanted"
House On Time And Properly Arrayed
The cabinet house party, held at the "hanted" house over the weekend by the old and new cabinets of the W. Y. C. A. was a success, so far as finding the "ghost" goes. "He" is standing on the ground on striking the ghost, attreated at the stroke of 12, during the first night the girls spent in the house.
The party left town Saturday afternoon in a tally-ho, drawn by four horses, and stayed until Sunday morning. Miss Helen Jones, of the German department, chaperoned the party.
In describing the ghost, Miss Carroll, secretary of the Y. W. C. A. said: "He was a real ghost, a beautiful one, tall and gleamingly phosphorescent. He extended his skinny hands over our beds and gave a most blood curdling yell. Mr. Daniels, the owner of the place, insists that we made more fuss about it than Mossse's terrible Jayhawkers."
The following attended the party:
Misses Mollie Carroll, Helen Jones,
Mary Reding, Florence Fuqua, Marie
Sealy, Helen Short, Emily Berger,
Helen Kefau, Veda Leur,
Josez Bozel,
Anne Malott, Florence Whitcher,
Luella Cory, Dorothy Ward, and
Anne Stewart.
Want to Study at Home?
The correspondence course bulletlets have been issued, and are in the hands of the Extension department. These students are offered in the College and in the other schools. A number of students are planning to take work in the department during the summer.
All men desiring to enter the free-for-all elimination tennis tournament should send their names in the singles, doubles and triples, and doublets to Manager Hamilton's office AT ONCE.
Professor Schwegler in Chapel Prof. Raymond A. Schwegler of the School of Education will speak in chapel tomorrow morning on "A Subjective Factor in Education."
Notice.
The entry list is open till 6 'o clock Thursday night, but Manager Hamilton wants the contestants names NOW.
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DIOGENES=SOCRATES SAYS HENRY MALOY
Once in the dim days beyond retail back in Greece there was a gent that paraded the streets of Athens with a lantern searching, he said, for an honest man. He was a philosopher by choice, and took this method of advertising the fact.
But who was this man that carried the lantern?
LIGHTNING JOLTS OUR K. U. SMOKESTACK
Bricks Rained On the Boiler House Roof Last Night
Quill Club Meets.
"That was some storm last night" said one of the stokers down at the heating plant as he shovelled coal into one of the furnaces. Around his feet were scattered pieces of broken brick. Overhead sunlight poured through large gaps in the tin roof. The northwest corner of the heating plant chimney was neat, dark and dense, non distance by one of those strokes of lightning which made people sit up in bed last night and say their prayers.
Purchasing agent Edward - E. Brown says this is the fifth time that smoke stack has been struck. This certainly disproves the theory that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. "I have had a bill up before the board for sometime for a lightning rod," he said this morning, "but they have done nothing about it so far."
The last meeting this year of the Fernch club will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 at room 306 Fraser hall. The meeting will be very important as plans for next year will be made and there will be election of officers.
Mr. Brown estimates the damage to the stack at about $175.00.
It will be mended before the opening of college next fall.
The Quill club will meet in 211 Fraser at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon. Edna Clark and Lucy Barger will be on the program. The prize winning short story and poem in the contest for freshmen and sophomores will be read.
French Circle to Elect
History says it was a man by the name of Diogenes. But here comes the Jayhawker, published by the 1913 seniors with a page of headaches by the Jayhawker cartoonist entitled "If Socrates Should Visit Mt. Oread."
In this page Socrates chases him
air around the campus interviewing
and asking about his future.
CANOEISTS RAINED OUT
AT DESTO SATURDAY
University. But hold! In this gentleman's hand is a lantern!
Clyde Van Derlip and Ray Stevens, the two freshmen who started for Kansas City Friday afternoon, abandoned the trip at DeSoto. "We reached DeSoto Friday evening," said Van Derlip this morning, "and decided to resume the trip the next morning at four. Stauard day morning was too rainy for pleasurable caneering, however, and we though best to postpone the trip until some future date."
The report that the canoe had a hole torn in the bottom is unfounded, according to both men.
ENGINEERS ELECT
WITHOUT EXCITEMENT
There was not much excitement to the election of officers for the School of Engineering last Friday. Oscar A. Dingman, candidate for president and N. W. Brown, candidate for secretary and treasurer, the only men who had opponents, won in a walk. Sam Fairchild, the lone candidate for vice president, received 242 votes.
Which is right?
Oscar Dingman is a miner and received 185 to 89 for Leland Angevine. N. W. Brown received 194 notes to 73 for Ackerman.
He's an Editor Now
G. C. Colin, a sophomore in the college who withdrew from school at Maukley High School, paper business. Mr. Colin is now the editor and owner of the Bluff City News, published in Harper county.
Mrs. R. J. Stewart, Mrs. Clarke,
Helen Clerk, Mrs. W. G. Kelley,
Mrs. H. B. Kellery, and Mrs. E. C.
Meservey, of Kansas City, Mo,
came up for Mothers' Day at the
Kappa house.
A name for the new baby at the home of Dr. Jas. B. Naismith has not yet been decided upon. The baby and its mother are doing splendidly.
Namiol Simpson, a freshman in the College, spent Saturday in Topeka.
NEW RULE PARTY IN THE GYM A SUCCESS
Receipts Last Friday Almost Cleared Soph Treasury- Another Planned
The first Varsity party ever held in the gymnasium was a decided success last Friday in spite of the weather.
Approximately $15.00 was made on this dance and there is a rumor that as soon as Chester Francis, chairman of the sophomore social committee knows exactly how much was taken in, there will be another party next Friday evening at the same time and place.
This party was an experiment in view of the fact that only class proms and hops have been held in the gymnasium heretofore and these cost in the neighborhood of five to seven dollars a couple. The price last Friday evening was only fifty cents a couple and if another party is given next Friday the price will be the same.
The sophomore class deficit, incurred at the parties held down town, was not wiped out by the dance last week, though another party would probably clear the treasury. In compliance with the new ruling, faculty chaperons attended the舞.
Carruth to Address Verein
Carruth to Address Veronb
At the meeting to be held this afternoon of the Deutscher Verein Professor Carruth will speak for the last time to the club. He will discuss "The Development of the German Department" during his professorship at the University.
Chancellor Will Address Women Chancellor Strong will speak before the State Federation of Women's Clubs at Chanute Wednesday on "The New Voters' Shelf of Books."
ARE WE MISSOURI VALLEY CHAMPIONS?
Baseball Team Probably Cinched Title by the Rain At Nebraska
TWO MORE GAMES AT HOME
Frank's Men Tangle With Aggies Thursday and Friday—End the Season on the Road
The Varsity baseball team practically cinched their title to the Missouri Valley Conference championship last Friday when their first game scheduled with Nebraska was postponed. Coaches Stechem and Frank had arranged to have the games played no matter how bad the field was, provided it did not actually rain at the time the game was called, but at 3:30 Friday afternoon the rain was pouring down, and Nebraska field looked more like a setting for a swimming match than for any other sort of an athletic contest.
It was hard luck that the weather did not permit these two teams to meet as that contest probably would have definitely decided the winner of the Conference championship. As it is, one victory over Manhattan here this week, and one victory over Missouri will place the championship in the Kansas pocket, beyond all shadow of a doubt.
Kansas plays her next two games at home, Thursday and Friday this week. These are the last games played this year on MeCook field and the Jayhawker's opponents are these same Kansas Aggies from whom we took two successive games last week. Both of these games, however, were close and exciting and all indications point to two good games here. The Farmers have gained the reputation of playing stronger ball, on visitor's diamonds than on their own, and this will add interest to the games at the end of this week. We had a rather hard time winning that second game down at Manhattan last week, and perhaps the Aggies, when they get on foreign grounds will turn the tables on the Jayhawkers and make them work their hardest to obtain the two games, which dope says should easily be theirs.
After the two games here this week, the Jayhawkers start on their last long trip, and will end the 1913 baseball season on the road. They play William Jewell at Liberty on May 21, the Warrensburg Normals at Warrensburg on May 22, and the Missouri Tigers at Columbia May 23 and 24. They then play the Catholics at St. Marys the following Monday, May 27—the last game of the season.
RAIN STOPPED INTER-
COLLEGIATE TENNIS
The inter-collegiate tennis meet for colleges in the state held at Winfield Saturday has not been finished. Rain interfered with the finals Saturday afternoon.
Amos Johnson and J. R. Smith who went from the University Friday have returned this morning without having played their final match with Baker University. Other universities that will play for the championship of the state have arranged for their final games at the different schools and all games will be played off this week.
The tennis team for Kansas has not been picked yet for the coming season. Johnson ad Smith were the two highest $q_i$ the round robin matches, and Johnson ad Smith were sent to participate for Kansas at the Winfield meet.
Faculty Leads Close Race Nine students, one visitor, and twelve members of the faculty attended chapel this morning.
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The seniors will meet in the lecture room of Snow hall at chapel time Tuesday morning for the transaction of important business, of a strictly confidential nature. No cof- fession will be taken in the Jayhawker skeleton will not be aired.
Elmer Whitney,
President
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