TOPEKA KAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
FAVORS $7.00 SENIOR ASSESSMENT PLAN
Junior Annual Committee Reports On New Jayhawker Scheme
NO PAY, NO VOTE, NO PART
Aggie Penalty Plan Would Relieve Editors And Make Book Stable —To Class Later
The committee appointed by Dan Hazen, president of the junior class, to formulate a better basis for the publication of the Jayhawker, met last night and decided on plans that will probably be submitted to the class next week.
Each senior will be assessed $7.00 at the first of the school year, which will entitle him to a Jayhawker and his cut n' it. Failure to pay the amount will bar him from voting in class elections, attending senior parties, and having his picture in the annual in any group.
If there is a surplus at the end of the year the amount left will be divided among the seniors that paid pro-rata.
"In this way," says Ross, chairman, "the burden usually resting on the editor and manager will be lightened. They will be held responsible only for the quality of the book. They must keep the cost below that limit and will be expected to give the best they can at the price."
More details of the action of the committee will be given later.
Willson, Sophomore College To Oppose Fairchild For PresidentSt. Council
ANOTHER WOULD BE MIGHTY UMPTY-UMP!
With the election for president of the Men's Student Council only three weeks away a second candidate for the office announced himself this morning. Harry S. Willson, a sophomore in the College and a member of last year's Student Council, will run for the office.
It is rumored that Leslie M. Dodd, a junior engineer, will run for vice president and Henry Maloy for secretary-treasurer.
OREADERS TO HOLD
BIG DEBATE FRIDAY
Debating in Oread is a scheme to give students additional practical drill in connection with the rhetoric courses. A debate is held every Friday.
"The most fiercely contested debate of the year will be given in the chapel of the Oread high school Friday morning at 10 o'clock." declared Professor A. W. Trettien this morning. "The idea that the city of Lawrence should adopt municipal ownership has aroused the interest of the contestants and the debate will be full of fight and fire all the way through."
COMMITTEE TO ERECT
SENIOR MEMORIAL NAMED
Elmer Whitney, president of the senior class, has appointed Ed. Van Houten, "Doc" Coats, Bill Burkholder, Bess Bozell, and Frederika Hodder as a committee on ways and means for the erection of the class memorial.
This committee will draw up plans for the gateway as proposed at the senior meeting, receive bids, and then submit the whole proposition to the class. The class is expected to pass on the findings of the committee before an assessment is levied since the amount of the assessment is uncertain as yet.
Elected to Skull and K.
Professors George E. E putnam, L.
N. Flint, C. C. Young and Dean C.
H. Johnston have been elected to
membership in the senior society of
Skull and K.
NUMBER 128
CLASH FOR DEBATING
CHAMPIONSHIP THURSDAY
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 16, 1913.
The debate between the Oread Debatin society and the K. U. Debating club will be held Thursday evening, 303 Fraser at 8 o'clock on the question, "Resolved: That in addition to the present immigration requirement is text of reading and writing some language should also be required."
The Oreads will uphold the affirmative and the K. U. society the negative. It is probable Professors Burdick, Dykstra, and Blackmar will be the judges. This meeting will be open to all students. All members of both the societies are requested to be present.
OLE, THE SNAKE, AND
T. JEFFERSON ARE;GONE
Zoology Boa Constrictor And The Intelligent Frog Disappear
Girls, if upon entering your room some night you find a Boa Constrictor or coiled up in your muff, do not become alarmed, but call up the Zoology department and the Engineer's cage will be sent around immediately to bring back the escaped reptile.
Ole, for Ole was his name, has been kept in a cage over in Snow hall in an endeavor to find out whether he rabbits have a greater relish than young rabbits.
But this week when the observer went to the screen prison he found what Mother Hubbard found in the cupboard—nix.
Authorities agree that on account of a snake's attitude toward froglies they are possibly now in close companionship with Snow hall or the Chem. building.
Not only was Ole gone, but Thomas Jefferson, the intelligent frog in the adjoining cage, had also disappeared.
WROTE 4-DECK HEAD STUFF
"A 'four-deck head' could be written over any one of Kipling's short stories or poems," said Professor Merle Thorpe, of the department of journalism, in addressing the Quill club yesterday afternoon on "Kipling the Reporter." "Three journalistic qualities mark Kipling's work: he wrote of interesting things, he had a highly dramatic touch, and he reached his climax by a swift narrative style."
Kipling Made His Stories of Great Human Interest, Says Thorpe
"Four-fifths of short story writers," Professor Thorpe declared, began their work on newspapers. "Not necessarily as editors," he said, "but simply as reporters: Bryant, Poe, Clifford, and others in America; Dickens, Morrison, Kipling in England, and Daudet, Merrife, Balzac in France."
Professor Thorpe spoke of Kipling's effective use of verbs and elimination of worn adjectives.
The future of the short story he phophesies, will be in the realm of symbolism or allegory, such as Kip-ring and "The They," the Brushwood Boy," and "They."
"Will Irwin advises young writ-
ers to take a club and kill all the added
threats."
The second-year cooking class of the Oread high school under Miss Lena Miller serves the second of a series of lunches to be given by Matell Finch, Fay Karnes, and Edna Lindley at 5:30 this afternoon in the domestic science department. The menu is: Fruit cocktail, potato puff, meat肥, creamed peas, salad, apricot sherbet and cakes. The decoratons are dorkonty violets.
The marketing, ordering, and planning is all done by the girls themselves and must be confined to twenty-five cents a plate.
SECOND COOKING CLASS
LUNCHEON THIS AFTERNOON
Winifred Ward, Eulalia Haines,
Ethel Martin and Lila Canavan
served the first lunch last Wednesday.
The third will be served next week.
K. U. Exposition, May 2 and 3.
THEN THE ELEVATOR BOY LOSES HIS TEMPER
Jealous Wives And Guarded Husbands At Soph Hop
Friday
A party of husbands having jealous wives marooned with other men's wives on an elevator that stuck between floors might develop some complicated and ludicrous situations, and they do when this happens in "The Elevator," in the Sophomore farce Friday night.
Naturally, the women faint in the arms of the guarded husbands who in turn pounce wrathfully on the poor elevator boy, blaming him for the whole occurrence. The boy is first heart broken, then angry, until—well, the manager refuses to tell exactly how they got out or what happened when the jealous wives heard of the fainting scene.
Those taking part in the farce are Madeline Nachtman, Geniee Herrick, Cecile Burton, Margaret Davis, Virginia Goff, Cale Carson, Frank Henderson, Edwin C. Meservey, Dean McElhenny, Francis Stevens, Justin Hinshaw, and Rothwell Banker, and Clarence Williamson. The final rehearsal will be held tomorrow night.
A new feature to be introduced at the Hop will be a cabaret quartet furnishing music while the dinner is served.
Financially, the Hop is about on its feet, according to the manager and the financial committee.
El Dorado Gets Affirmative of High School Championship Question
PICK SIDES IN FINAL DEBATE
Lots have been drawn for sides on the championship debate of the high school debating league to be held in Fraser hall May 1 between Burlington and El Dorado high schools. El-Dorado won its final debate over Solomon with the negative, and will now have to change sides.
The question concerns "The Recall of Judges." The El Dorado team is composed of Heil and Ruth Bollinger and Edwin Rider.
The high school debating league has a membership of 58 schools, its activities being controlled by the Extension department. All have been eliminated but the two schools that will debate here May 1. The Extension department has not yet received the names of the Burlington team.
POOL OPEN FOR GIRLS'
SWIMMING THIS WEEK
JENKS GETS K. U.
Professor Dumlap will speak at Leavenworth Thursday on "A Court Without a Judge"; Professor Carruth at Eureka the same day on "Hamlet"; Professor Gesell at Okeo Friday on "The School as a Social Center"; Professor Carruth at Atchison, Friday; on "William Tell" and Professor Dumlap at Iola, Saturday, on "George Eliot."
The swimming pool in the Gym will be open for girls Thursday of this week and Monday and Thursday of next week, according to an announcement made today by Dr. Margaret Johnson, director of physical training for women.
POOL OPEN FOR GIRLS'
"After next week we expect to have the pool open once a day," said Dr. Johnson. "All girls should enroll for a course in swimming. I should like to see every girl in the University taking swimming."
Five lectures have been arranged for this week by the Extension department.
R. R. Price, secretary of the department, will talk to the Methodist Brotherhood Sunday on "Commission Government."
LECTURES THIS WEEK
JENKS GETS K. U.
HISTORY FELLOWSHIP
GIVE FIVE EXTENSION
Leland H. Jenks, of Ottawa, was this week elected to the teaching fellowship offered at the University, and her fellowship offers $280 and provides for a year of work in European history which leads to the master's degree.
The appointment was secured through the recommendation of Prof. C. O. Hardy. Jenks this year is editor of the Ottawa Campus.
SPOT THE RAT MAKES IT IN 43 SECONDS FLAT
Psychology Pet Soon Learns
Way Through Labyrinth
To Free Lunch
The psychology department of the University is now conducting a series of experiments called the "Study of Animal Mental Processes, or Can Rats Learn?" From the results of these experiments it would appear that rats can learn, and learn well at that.
The foundation of the experiment is a large labyrinth, the top of which has been removed and a wire screen substituted, thus giving view to the entire enclosure. At one corner of the maze is the entrance.
A rat is placed there and a door opened by a wire. The rat becomes venturesome and starts to explore his new surroundings.
With the chances eighteen to one against him, for the first time he starts on an unknown journey. If he successfully completes the course he finds abundant corn and a boiled egg.
The second trip is easier. Spurred on by the knowledge of free lunch at the end he starts immediately on his ramblings. A few times suffice to give the rat a working knowledge of the maze and after that he takes the plunge in less than three minute. Spot, the brainstorm of them all, made three successful trips yesterday in an average time of 43 seconds.
There are a number of rats who have macerated the passage in less than a minute's time but there is one particular deceiving turn that nearly always causes delay. As the rats make their trips they are timed by the observers and their mistakes noted. At the end of the experiments tables will be calculated from these figures.
The experiments are made to ascertain the thinking power of the animal, the same principles being applied to cats and monkeys. The labyrinth is very complicated, there being eighten chances for mistakes and journeys into blind alleys to one for a correct passage.
The next experiments will test the imitative powers of untrained rats. A rat that has become familiar with the correct passage to the feed box will be accompanied by a rat that has not been in the labyrinth.
The untrained rat will be watches to see if it follows its more experienced countryman or whether it trusts to its own intuitive processes. If there is time before the close of the present school year an arrangement of cages will be made for monkey work.
The senior play committee, composed of Constance McCammon, Esther Evans, William Cain, Beatrice Dalton, Charles Hainbach and Director Sowers are still working to find a suitable senior play. They have been working on "Billy" and "The Aviator," both of which made such a bit here.
SENIORS HAVING HARD
TIME PICKING PLAY
The exhibit of the Lawrence Camera club in the third floor of the Administration building will continue tomorrow instead of closing today as announced.
The committee expects to chose a play by Friday of this week, when work will be started at once.
EXHIBITS SO GOOD
THEY'LL STAY LONGER
The collection shows varied scenes from all over the United States. Two of the most striking pictures campus views by Louis Wilhelm.
One, a misty morning effect, is a view from under the trees below Potter lake looking toward the Engineering building. In the foreground a girl in white stands under a tree; even the fallen leaves in the grass around her are clearly brought out. In the background the trees become more vague in the mist and Marvin hall shows in subdued tones.
Several interesting studies of children are contributed by Professor Griffith.
K. U. Exposition, May 2 and 3.
HOFFMAN FORMALLY ACCEPTS
AS Y. M. SECRETARY
Conrad Hoffman, assistant professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, this morning accepted the position of secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., recently hired him by the board of directors.
AS Y. M.
While it was practically certain that he would take the position, his official acceptance was not received until today in a letter to Professor Billings, chairman of the committee appointed to secure a secretary to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Roy Stockwell.
Hoffman will assume the duties of his office August 1.
VARSITY ROMPS ON
YEARLINGS -SCORE 9-1
Men In Good Shape For Oriental Game-Hicks Steals
In a slow 5-inning practice game yesterday afternoon on McCook the Varsity baseball squad defeated the freshmen by the lop-sided score of 9 to 1. The freshmen were practically all first team men and aside from a little nervousness played good ball.
Hobbs pitched the entire game for the Varsity. He was in excellent form and had complete mastery over the freshmen. He allowed but two hits, a single and a two-bagger, and struck out six men.
Park started for, the first-year men and got along fairly well until, after two errors behind him, he blew up in the third, and walked two men. Pierce, the freshman south-paw, succeeded him in the box and was hit hard and timely. Minor pitched the last inning for the Yearlings.
The Varsity men, in preparation for the fast University of Hawaii team, showed much speed, stealing nine bases on Wandel, the freshman who was the first to culpit, annexing three sacks by this under-land method.
The score by innings:
R. H. E.
Freshman.  . . . . .
Batteries, Freshmen; Park, Pierce
Hobbs, Wandel, Varsity.
Hobs, and Someone.
HAWAII BEATS AGGIES— ARE WE NEXT?
The University of Hawaii baseball team, which plays here Thursday and Friday afternoons, defeated the Kansas Aggies yesterday at Manhattan. They have not lost to a college team in this country yet. In the last Wichita game, batting against Perry and Stieger, two class A pitchers, they made 8 hits, includ-
The line-up of the two teams for the first game will be:
Hawaii: En See. c. f; Lai Tin
3 b; Ah Lee. 2 b; L. Akana. l, a;
Kan Yin, c; Ayan. s; Mark. 1 b;
Ahong, p; Ping Kung. r, f.
Kansas: DeLongey, l. f.; Wilson,
s. s.; Summers, c.; Coolidge, 2 b.
Ward, 3 b; Busick, c; f. Hicks, r. f;
Ebner, 1 b; Schenk or Bishop, p.
RAILROADS ARE BOOSTING FOR THE EXPOSITION
Orin E. Weede is just in receipt of a letter from the Santa Fe stating that they are sending out letters to all their agents urging them to boost the University Exposition and let the people know about it. Each agent receives placards and programs which he is requested to distribute. The Rock Island and the Union Pacific will do the same thing in the near future.
Notice
"The railroads entering Lawrence are doing this of their own accord and at their own expense," said Weede today. "No better advertising than that could be asked for."
Entertaina For Sigma Kappa The women's Pan-Hellenic is entertaining Sigma Kappa at the Alpha Delta Phi house this afternoon, from 4 to 6.
The Daily Kansan board meets in the journalism building tonight at 7:00 sharp.
ENGINEERS ARE RULING THE UNIVERSITY TODAY
3rd Annual Celebration Featured By Track Meet And Dance
STUNTS BEST EVER GIVEN
Whole School Greets Line of Miners,
Mechanicals, Smell-Dispensers,
But no Engineers' Cage
"Where's the cage?" There wasn't any.
On the recommendation of the faculty of the School of Engineering no cage with its annual victim trailed the end of the show. Perhaps it was just as well, for a "certain College freshman" was not in town this morning.
Well, that's about all the parade that started off the third annual Engineers' Day at 11:45 this morning lacked.
Ideal weather and the larger part of the student body of the University welcomed the big parade when it finally made up. Headed by several autos full of Engineering School faculty, what is pronounced the most original and striking display yet presented, doubled around the buildings on Mt. Oread and departed townward in a riot of confetti, odors, shouts, and clothes.
The K. U. band furnished music. "Doc" Coats failed to hide his shrill voice under a coat of Indian paint and warrior's outfit. There were miners setting out in old clothes to hit the pay dirt, who came back in silk hats which would have prevented a funeral in Lawrence today, since they were all the down-town livery men had. Four senior consult-ing chemists went it one better by hiring a low-necked "keb, sub." The Civils presented Camp Dalton with all sail sails. Another bunch drew vigorous applause by their burlesque of the local waterworks system. The electricals had a wagon full of batteries, "D. C." and "A. C." and "Juice." The Mechanics rigged up a locomotive out of what sounded like an over-heated two-cylinder Brush, put on headlight, drivers, and piston, and got away with a realistic engine.
Then there was "Bugs" Raymond's red ink bottle, a big dangerous looking "dry cell," a chem wagon that dispensed limburger smells, a mulish autoguided by a slat for a rudder, a load of H. A. Rice's gang in a tally-ho and more high hats—and then we didn't see half of it.
It is generally conceded that a warm time was averted by the absence of the Engineers' cage, since a large, well organized crowd of College and law students awaited the parade, determined that no freshman law or College should inhabit the cage in competition with one "Spee." However, the barbarism was done without any unnecessary violence.
The freshman got away with about the keenest stunt there, a huge dragon representing "descrip" who made real noises. Souvenir freshman caps were distributed.
After the procession had traversed the downtown streets it went to McCook field where free coffee was served to the Engineers. At one o'clock the annual track meet was started. Tonight a big dance in the gym ends the program.
A Correction
Prof. C. A. Johnson of the School of Engineering, whose appointment to a position at Panama was reported in the Daily Kansas yesterday, will resume his work at the University of Kansas next September. The story was erroneous insofar as it gave the impression that Professor Johnson is leaving the University permanently.
This is Engineers' Day
Among the Kansan's mail this morning was a letter from a New York Press company addressed thus: University of Kansas, Kansas City, Ark.
Thespians—A full accounting of the management of "The Aviator" will be rendered tonight in room 116 Fraser at 7:30. Everyone should be there.