STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN.
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
K. U. EXPOSITION READY FOR THE ELECTRIC BUTTON
First Display of State University's Wares Awaits Governor Hodges' Official Touch—Weather Promising
2500 VISITORS ARE EXPECTED
May Festival, "Aggie" and Interscholastic Track Meets, Circus and Parents' Days Big Side Attractions
GREETINGS
The University of Kansas welcomes heartily all visitors to its first Exposition. We hope that you will get an adequate idea of all sides of University life. We desire especially that the more formal and serious side of University work will receive your careful attention. Criticisms and suggestions from our visitors will be greatly appreciated, as will their hearty support of the University.
FRANK STRONG,
Chancellor.
OFFICIAL PROGRAM
May 1
8:00 P. M.-High School Debating
Finals for State Cham-
pionship-Fraser Hall.
May 2
8:00 A. M.—Opening of Exposition
to Gov. Row
Hedges by special wire
from State Capitol.
Exhibits open in different
building.
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buildings.
8:30 A. M.—Interscholastic Tennis Tournament begins — McCook Courts.
10:40 A. M.—Fine Arts Concert— Fraser Hall.
11:00 A. M.—Reading of Greek Play—Room 206, Fraser Hall.
3:00 P. M.—K.U Band Concert on campus.
4:00 P. M.—Annual Kansas Aggie-K.U Track Meet on McCook Field.
4:30 P. M.—Puppet Show. Blake Hall Lecture Room.
8:00 P. M.—Second annual Indoor Circus in Gymnasium.
May 3
8:00 A. M.—Exhibits open in buildings.
8:30 A. M.—Finals Interscholastic Tennis Tournament—McCook Field.
10:00 A. M.—Fine Arts Recital in buildings.
11:00 A. M.—Reading a Greek Play —Room 206, Fraser
2:00 P. M. May Fete on campus.
1:00 P. M. K.U Band Concert on campus.
4:00 P. M. Annual State High School Tournament Meet on McCook Field.
4:30 P. M.—Puppet Show. Blake Hall Lecture Room.
7:30 P. M.-Santa Fe Trail on campus.
Every whistle in Lawrence will blow and every bell will ring tomorrow at 8:00 when Governor Sanders presses the button that starts the Exposition.
Electrical connection has been made to Topeka, and at the set time Governor Hodges in his office at the state capitol will push a button that will unroll the curtain on Fraser that announces the Exposition is open.
Hopes are being put up to prevent the crowding of people to closely about the May Queen as she sits on her head and views the dances.
These ropes will not only enclose just the Queen and her throne but will be put all around the big plot where she will sit and will embrace the different May-pole dances. This will enable the dancers to perform and will lessen confusion.
"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish,
"In Palezoic times,
"Side by side on the ebbing tide,
"We sprawled in the ooze and
the earth."
Snow hall is a veritable museum. The departments of zoology, entomology, botany, are showing their work and explaining exhibits in simple, understandable, unscientific language.
The Chemists have produced water-analysis displays that should attract state-wide attention. An analysis has bee nmade of the city water of every large city in Kansas. The Chemicals have also constructed a water filter on a new and modern principle. The water is made pure by passing it through several layers of porous rock and then introduced to large bottles, which will be inverted over a fountain.
As a part of the Exposition, two illustrated lectures will be given in
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 1. 1912
the Romance Language department.
Friday morning at 11 o'clock Mick May Gardner will speak on "A Journey Through Spain"; Saturday at 11 o'clock Prof. F. A. G. Cooper will tell of "Paris and its Environs." Both lectures will be in room 306, Fraser.
Friday at four o'clock and Saturday at eleven o'clock the German department-will give the 17th century puppet show of Dr. Faust in German. Edmund Bechold will manage the puppets. German music be played and creepy views of German scenes will be shown.
Several cardboard models of castles in Germany form part of the property of the show. In the cast Professor Kellerman will take the part of Dr. Faust; Mephistopheles, Harold Marton; Hans Wurst, Paul Schaeffer; Werner, Harold Branine. The parts of the Duke of Parma and Edmund will also be taken by Mr. Branine.
Ed. T, Hackney, Mrs. Cora G. Lewis,
and E. W. Hoch, members of the Board
of Administration, here today on busi-
ness. They will be here for the Expos-
ition.
The Greek department is ready for the Exposition. The principal display will be in the Classical Museum on the third floor of Fraser, where specimens of Greek sculpturing, architecture, painting, and over two hundred pictures have been placed on screens.
A concrete cross section of a modern mine, with every attention paid to detail and the realistic, will stand outside the entrance to the Mining Laboratory tomorrow.
Each morning at 11:00 o'clock a Greek play will be shown by lantern plates on a screen and Greek students will read enough of the English to give the action. "Oeipus, The King," and "Agamennon," by Aesychlus have been chosen as the plays.
A number of drills are in position, manned by small men.
On the pike the Greeks will sell Greek candy in Greek costumes and other Greek features.
Other features will be models of the latest improved machinery for mining purposes.
The Civil Engineers have constructed a model of a theoretically
perfect dam, realistically portrayed by real water, in the Gymnasium.
the department of journalism in the University and Daily Kansan will have exhibits to offer the visitors during the Exposition.
The Daily Kanas from the first issue of the Courier in 1879 down to the present day will be on paper. An exhibit of the University papers of the entire country, nearly fifty, will be given. The evolution of the newspaper article from the time the managing editor receives his tip to the appearance in type of the feature story will be shown.
An unusual and novel feature is to be presented by the School of Journalism. A three-column fourpage extra will be issued every five minutes between ten and twelve and two and four Friday and between ten and twelve on Saturday morning newspapers will be miniature newspapers correct in every detail and will contain the news right up to the minute. The printing plant with its presses and linotype will be open to visitors.
The girls of the domestic science department of Oread high school will serve punch and wafers Friday morning and afternoon for five cents a glass as an exhibit as well as an accommodation to visitors. Oread also furnishes a rest room for visitors.
A number of experiments will be performed by students. Study of the defects of the eye and remedies will be shown by means of an optical box in a dark room. The effects of various drugs on heart action, the relation and influence of the nervous system on the muscles, the circulation of the blood, color and vision will be graphically shown.
In the department of physiology hundreds of charts illustrating various organs and functions of the body, and the relations of parts to one another will be out for inspection.
TO TAKE MOVIES OF
MAY PETE PROCESSION
The 1913 May Fete procession, from the regal Queen of the May to King Cole's fiddler, will, through the courtesy of Nelse Stevens, manager of the Oread theater, be presented to the public in moving pictures.
Mr. Stevens has offered to take the film during the procession and let the Y. W. C. A. have it at cost. He will arrange for the disposal of the film to a film company and low the Y. M. C. A. profits on the sale.
'PLEASE DONT THROW
    PAPER ON GRASS.'
Secretary Brown is worrying about the waste paper that will be thrown around the campus during the Exposition, and is very anxious to keep the campus nice and clean so that visitors can see it at its best.
"Throw all the paper hand-bills, sacks, and other debris in cans that will be provided for the purpose," he asks. "It will mean a great deal to us, since the size of the campus wasd make it very hard to collect the paper after it was once scattered."
Reserve deats for the Indoor Circus Saturday night are all gone already, and dozos of students were turned away.
German, Latin, French and Spanish Departments.
LOCATION OF EXHIBITS Fraser Hall.
Greek Statuary, Art and Literature
A.UMM. ASSOCIATE.
Y. W. C. A. rest rooms.
Public Speaking.
school of Education display.
Extension Department exhibit.
Home Economics Exhibit.
University Expedition Information Bureau.
Seismograph for recording earth quakes. Chanel
English Department. University Publications:
Administrative and business offices.
Alumni Association.
English Department.
Laboratories for State Fish and Game Warden.
Professional exhibits by Medical School.
University Publications;
Natural History Museum.
Collection of Mammals, Birds and Fishes.
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DEDICATE JAYHAWKER TO 'YE HUNGRY STUDE
Guessing Contest And Sales Start Friday Morning— Book Classy
About 350 guesses, ranging from $10 to $100 were made in the Jayhawker contest which closed Tuesday. Promptly at 9:15 Friday morning the money jar will be opened at the Jayhawker booth at the head of Adams St., and its contents will be displayed Miss Caroline Lupton, and E. E. Brown. Contestants must be present to receive a prize.
Jayhawkers go on sale at the atm Exposition with down-town merchants.
Those who have seen the Jay-hawker say that it is a work of art, if not more beautiful, at least as much so as any of preceding years. It is bound in black water-grain leather, embossed in gold. The initial page is a photogravure of the University seal.
The dedication is made to the students. There are 487 pages. The cuts and printing are clear and well-done. Two colors are used throughout.
"Doc" Van Says Fairest One Will Be Known In 24 Hours
GUESS MAY QUEEN BY PROBABILITY MACHIN
The identity of the May Queen will be generally known 24 hours before the official time, 2 o'clock Saturday, when she is first to appear in the May Fete parade, says "Doc" Van der Vries.
About Thursday noon, or 48 hours before she appears in the parade, the Queen will be notified of her election. "Doc" says that by Friday noon she will have delivery dogs and will be whistling a song with her name in it.
"It's like this," he says. "The probability machine did it. It's simply a job of figuring out what the chances are for the girl to tell her best friend against her promise not to tell.
"Last night we ran off a series on the probability machine to find out what the chances were of her doing this. After over 500 casts by the little circular globe the machine recorded 10 to 1 that that girl would reveal the secret within two hours after she found out.
"After that it's merely a matter of geometrical progression. She's very hard to see."
SIGMA NU DISTRICT CONVENTION HERR
Last night the local chapter entertained with formal party, Thursday afternoon the business meeting of the convention will be held and Thursday night the annual seventh district banquet will be given at the Eldridge hotel.
The annual seventh district convention of the Sigma Nu fraternity will be held in Lawrence this week.
Delegates from Missouri, Washing-
ington, and universities,
Rolla Schol of Mines, and William
Jewell will be here.
Prof. Trettien Closes Lecture Series Prof. A. W. Trettien of the educational department leaves Friday for Osage City where he will deliver his last lecture on "Child Development," This closes a series of 14 lectures that Professor Trettien has delivered at Osage City.
Former Student Dies
Mrs. Halbrath, formerly Elsie Peasoner of Leavenworth, recently died at Lloyd, Florida. She was a former student in the University and became an able war correspondent in Cuba and the Philippines for the associated Press.
The Sigma Nus gave their spring party last night at Ecke's hall. The hall was decorated in the fraternity colors. About 42 couples were present. A four-course dinner was served.
153 H. S. ATHLETES FOR INTERSCHOLASTIC
Thirty-Six Schools Will Participate In Big Meet On McCook Saturday
Entries for the Interscholastic meet of Kansas high schools here Saturday closed this evening with a event with 153 entries from thirty-six schools.
Five schools entered at the last moment this afternoon.
A great problem will be solved by Manager Hamilton when he succeeds in running off the entire program between the hours of 2:30 and 6:00 p. m. It was found necessary today to set the time for starting the meet from 4:30clock to 2:30 in order to accommodate the extra entries.
The pole vault, high jump and shot put will be run off at the same time. In some of the races over forty men are entered.
To accommodate these many heats will have to be run before the final events. This will consume much time and Manager Hamilton will have to hurry the men on in order to finish the meet in reasonable time.
Today El Dorado entered, two men in Class B; Carbondale entered five men in Class C; Scranton, two men in Class C; Oread, two men in Class B; and Peabody, ten men in Class C.
The 153 entries will arrive to morrow during the first day of the Exposition.
AND REDER GRAPPLED WITH THE GUN MAN
Experiment In Psychology Class Certainly Worked Out Well
Three of the students, Harry Wilson, Blair Hackney, and Ralph Reder immediately grappled with the janitor who drew a pistol and fired. The janitor was soon overpowed and dragged from the room.
While Professor Dockerey of the psychology department was discussing the University Exposition with his class this morning the janitor of the Administration building, L. J. Campbell, entered and began to sweep. Professor Dockerey informed him that he could not sweep during his class and after an exertion, Dockerey took his professor came out from behind his desk, the two began a lively fist fight.
The whole affair was an experiment carefully planned by Harry Wilson and Blair Hackney. Professor Dockerey and Mr. Campbell learned their parts before hand. The pistol, which Reder said afterwards was discharged in his hand, was only an imitation and the sound of the supposed discharge came from a gun fired outside the open window by Carl Brown, a fellow in psychology.
Each member of the class immediately wrote his version of the shooting and the stories will be typewritten and form a part of the psychology exhibit during the Exposition.
But they all agree, Reder proved himself if he did bite hard.
HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE
IN FRASER TONIGHT
The final debate for the state championship in the Kansas high School Debating League will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the United States, with the high schooling teams will be the high schooling teams of Burlington and El Dorado.
The judges will be three members of the University intercollegiate debating squad. The question for batee is "The recall of the State Judiciary." Members of the University and the public are invited. There will be no admission charge.
HERBERT FLINT, Managing Editor.
Owing to a break in the linotype at 2:30 this afternoon we go to press today without being able to correct a number of errors in the proof.
HERE TO LEARN ABOUT KANSAS BLUE SKY
T. Mulvey, Canadian Undersecretary Of State, Confering With Prof. Millis
Thomas Mulvey, Canadian undersecretary of state, has come all the way to Kansas from Ottawa, Canada to learn of the famous Kansas "blue sky" law, and is now the guest of Prof. H. A. Millis, head of the economics department, from whom he is securing the information.
Mr. Mulvey was astonished at the magnitude of the University.
Mr. Mulvey was sent by his government to make a study of Kansas legislation, preparatory to the introduction of a similar measure in Canada. He first went to Topeka where state officials recommended that he contour with Professor Mills, his brother, thoroughly familiar with every detail of it.
MAY QUEEN TO WEAR SPRING'S OWN TINTS
Pure White, Pale Rose And Flowers Will Be Used For Dresses
And what will she wear, the
Queen of the 1913 May?
Not in purple and gold, but in spring's own tints will the Queen of the May this season be gowned. The gown is to be of the purest white, while the royal robe (the train is six yards long) is a pale rose, with green sable hangings. The whole will be garnished with the fairest of spring flowers, roses to predominate.
The unknown queen will make her royal debut on the campus at two o'clock Saturday in a flower-decked chariot drawn by a milk white horse. The procession will be announced by two heralds.
The 16 fairest girls in the University, four from each class, will follow the Queen's chariot. These attendants will be dressed in white roses, cultured with garlands of roses, and will carry chains of roses.
Following the Queen's party will come the Mother Goose floats and then the fairies of the May pole dances, eighty in number. After them the "1830" girls who are to dance the stately minutel will come. They will be made up of the actors in the English plays and a bevy of gypsy girls.
There will also be a gypsy dance in costume, an original dance arranged by Miss Beckwith, instructor in Gym, who is training all the dances. The minuet of "1830" will be danced in four sets, four couples to the set, the lassies in blue and the lads in pink costumes.
The crowning will take place on the green before Fraser hall, following the established custom. After the crowning the attendants will dance the wreath dance before the Queen. This dance has been arranged and trained by Miss Una Meridith, a junior in the College. It will be repeated during the afternoon on a platform.
The fraternity stunts are to be English plays. The Phi Psi fraternity will present "Robin Hood," The Betas, "Pyramis and Thisbe," and the Phi Delts, "Spreading the News."
There will be four May pole dances in costumes. The two outside rings will be in blue and white and pink and will one, of the cen- tements, will be in lavender and white, and the other in yellow and white.
The complete performance will follow out the idea of the Old English May Festival in costumes and dances.
Electricals Banquet Tonight
At 7:30 tonight the annual banquet of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will be given in the Lawrence Y. M. C. A. Several out of town men will give addresses and the junior and senior classes will furnish speakers.
K. U. Exposition, May 2 and 3.
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