TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
HUNTER ELECTED TO CITY SCHOOL BOARD
K. U. Professor Succeeds Hig gins As University Representative- 1340 Votes
DALTON WAS A "DARK HORSE"
NUMBER 118
Prof. S. J. Hunter of the Entomoloy department was elected to the Lawrence school board at the spring election yesterday, receiving 1340 votes. Hunter succeeds Professor Higgins of the law school as the customary University member of the city school board.
Four Classes Elect Girl Attendants Of May Fete Leader Tomorrow
TO SELECT 16 FAIREST AS QUEEN'S MAIDS
Engineering Professor Entered in Last Minute and Escaped by 10 Votes.
Friends of Prof. B. Dalton of the engineering school launched him as "dark horse" candidate for the council late yesterday. Dalton escaped election by a margin of 10 votes, 252 to 262.
The sixteen fairest girls in the University will be chosen tomorrow morning at 12:15 in Fraser hall as attendants for the May Queen.
Four girls from each class will be elected by ballot by each class. All girls classified in any of the four classes are eligible to vote. In more than 114 juniors 110, sophomores 200; and freshmen in 207.
DIRECTOR OF ROLLO MINING SCHOOL LECTURES
The sixteen girls selected will follow the queen's palrey in the May day procession and give a dance before the queen's throne.
CIVIL ENGINEERS WOULD GO TO PHILIPPINES
The first address was given at 4:30 this afternoon and a second will be given at 7:30 this evening. He will conclude his lectures tomorrow morning at 11:25. The entire series will take place in Haworth hall.
Prof. L. E. Young, director of the Missouri School of Mines, arrived in Lawrence this afternoon. Today and tomorrow he delivers three addresses on "Mine Management."
Several Civil engineers have been taking the civil service examination for government positions in differen't parts of the country.
Burnham, Finney, Frush, Young. Keraus will be examined for positions in the Philippines next Wednesday and Thursday. Jobs are also being sought after by some of the Mechanicals.
"NO CABS, NO FLOWERS,
THE RULE FOR PROM
"No cabs, no flowers," is the rule of the Prom this year, according to a statement this morning by Prom managers Boddington and Strickland.
"This decision was arrived at by the junior girls in a meeting last week, and will be followed by Chancellor Strong and other members of the faculty," said Strickland today.
QUITE RIPE YET
Several applications for the zoology scholarships at Puget Sound are being considered, but no selection has yet been made.
Professor Baumgartner said this morning that an announcement of the man chosen for the work would be made soon.
Hamilton And Frank Visiting Coaches Hamilton and Frank went to Kansas City yesterday, Hamilton to get outdoor spikes for the track man and Frank to witness the wrestling match that was held there last night.
TWENTY STUDENTS TAKE
TRIP TO PENITIARY
Twenty-odd members of the class in Remedial and Corrective Agencies will go to Leavenworth tomorrow to visit the state and federal penitentiaries under the direction of Prof. V. E. Helleberg.
The trip is an annual one, and is required by the Sociology department. Trips will be made later to Topeka and Kansas City.
ENGINEERS TAKE
SPRING JUNKETS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2, 1913.
To Inspect Work at Kansas City, Topeka, And Elsewhere
During the remainder of the spring term these engineers whose work requires practical observation in order that they reach the efficiencies of their tank trips to various cities to study first hand conditions and problems.
Prof. B. J. Dalton will take his classes in railway engineering to Kansas City where they will study the various methods of transportation represented by the several railroads of that place. The new Union and the increased terminal facilities will be an object of special study.
Professor Walker will not take his entire class at one time but will take groups each week till the end of the term.
Prof. H. A. Rice will take his classes in "bridges" to Kansas City also. There are a number of excellent samples of bridge construction in and around Kansas City, the state which will require nearly a week.
Prof. P. F. Walker will take his classes in Mechanical Engineering to Topeka next week where they will study the practical application of principles in the Santa Fe shops. The Santa Fe system has always been a pleasant trip for trips and the men who go to Topeka are assured of a warm welcome. A large number will make this trip.
Aside from the trips of the classes a number of students are making individual journeys to various Kansas towns for material for their senior theses.
ORCHESTRAS COMBINE
Washburn and Kansas String Clubs Give Joint Concerts
The University orchestra together with the Washburn orchestra will give a grand concert in Lawrence 7 and another in Topeka May 10th.
The combined orchestra will contain some sixty pieces, a full enough orchestration to render a very excellent program. Dean Skilton says that while the members are most of them inexperienced, the program is first class. Dean Whitehouse of the Washburn School of Fine Arts, will direct the concert here and Dean Skilton will direct in Topeka.
"The combination of a K. U. musical organization and a Washburn organization was our idea originally but was snapped up by the Glee clubs before," said Dean Skilton this morning, "but I think that a combination in both cases is a step toward better relations between the two scholars."
The semi-monthly meeting of the Kansas University branch of the Americas Institute of Electrical Engineers will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Engineering building.
Messrs. Thompson and Hartman will read papers and Morton and Wise will give a magazine review. Plans for Engineers' day, the Exposition, and the Electricals' banquet will be discussed.
SEMI-MONTHLY MEETING
OF ELECTRICALS TONIGHT
The board of the Daily Kansan meets tonight at seven o'clock sharp in the journalism building.
Kansan Board to Meet.
WELCOME TO THE NEW BOARD
To the new Board of Administration, on the occasion of its first visit to the University, the Daily Kansan extends heartiest greetings on behalf of student body and faculty.
With the members of the Board, as individuals, we feel somewhat acquainted, and have learned to regard them as friends. They are Kansans well known over the state, and have been welcome visitors here before. The new capacity in which they come means the beginning of a closer relationship.
The new Board is making a preliminary study of the state educational institutions so that when it assumes charge on July 1, it may be able to act wisely on the problems which will confront it. This is the attitude which those who were acquainted with the members of the Board expected them to take, and it shows that the interests of the state educational institutions are in good hands.
The students of the University wish the new Board all possible success in the tasks which confront it. The University is more vitally interested in this success than are the members of the Board themselves, for upon it depends the standing and advancement of the University among the institutions of the country.
The Board of Administration will find that students and faculty will be with it fully in every movement toward making Kansas the best university in America.
KANSAS PROM IS A VERY SANE AFFAIR
Figures Show Jayhawkers Don't Know What Junior Blow-Outs Are
The Junior Prom at Kansas is cheap when compared with those held at other schools, so statistics show.
Last year the Prom cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $800.
Cabs and flowers were not used to any great degree and the average party gown of any girl did not cost to exceed thirty or forty dollars.
The Junior Prom held at the University of Wisconsin this year was too expensive to suit the legislature of that state, since it drew up a bill abolishing all class parties at the university and caused even the Student Conference to investigate the prom expenditures.
According to Leslie's Weekly the prom at the University of Wisconsin which lasts a whole week was estimated at running from $30,000 to $50,000. The gowns of the women elaborate and, it is said, cost over $20,000.
The house parties at the various fraternities and independent houses cost $5,000 or more. Thousands of dollars were spent on carriages, flowers, music, decorations, and refreshments.
75 FRESHMEN ARE OUT FOR BASEBALL
The freshmen are holding baseball practice on the field south of McCook under the direction of Jay McCook. Twenty-five freshmen have turned out.
Gets Fine Arts Scholarship
Blanche Barkdull, '12, now Mrs.
Donald Muir, of Anthony, Kans,
recently received a scholarship from
the Mary Wood-Chase School of
Fine Arts, Chicago.
Bond said today that in view of the fact that so many men have shown up the process of elimination will take considerable time and the regular squad could not be picked until late in the season.
The practice yesterday consisted of batting and fielding work.
Gets Fine Arts Scholarship
They seize the student by the hand and tell him that he has a remarkable personality for canvassing, that he could sell a prune factory to the president of the Standard Oil company, or eight hundred dollars in three months and have enough next fall to join a fraternity.
Each year there arrives on the campus along with the Easter lilies and spring birds, an aggregation of individuals knows as grafters.
ST. COUNCIL WOULD REVOKE RESERVE "K'S"
Because some of the men who have been given reserve "K's" have mutilated their letters, the Men's Student Council passed a resolution last night recommending that the Music Association recall such "K's."
Athletic Association Asked to Recall Sweaters Following Mutilation of Emblems
The victim's eyes bulge out and he falls. He pays his six dollars for the agent's outfit, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum.
According to a complaint made to the council, several cases are known where men who have been given reserve "Ks'." have removed the letters which designate this.
The reserve letters are almost like the regular "K" sweaters with the exception of small letters such as "T. T." and "F, T." It is the removal of these letters that caused the action of the Student Council.
Thirty-eight such students met at the University Y. M. C. A. last week for the first lesson is grafting. It is a stock book that they will sell, and it is the farmers they think
FLOWRETS, BIRDIES AND GRAFTERS HAVE ARRIVED
SOPHOMORE GIRLS WIN
BASKET-BALL GAME
The freshmen started out well, but soon found themselves unable to withstand the swift pace set by the sophomores and soon fell by the wayside. ida Mallele and Vera McKinney for so far; mores, while Ether Burke did the best work for the first-year girls. Miss Beckwith referred.
Defeat Freshmen in First of Inter- Class Series—Malleis, Weatherhogg, and Burke Star
Because of uncertainty as to whether she will be in school next year, Helen Short withdrew from the race for president of the Y. W. C. A. this morning. Miss Short has been obliged to leave school on account of her mother's ill health.
Y. W. Candidate Withdraws
In the first inter-class game of the girls' basket-ball series, the sophomores defeated the freshmen yesterday by the score of 23 to 8. The game was a complete upset of dope since the freshmen had been generally picked to win. The freshmen were somewhat weakened by the loss of Clare Leonard, their star guard.
they can sell it to. They have paid their six dollars and in their minds they can see each dollar multiplying into a hundred.
But alas! Of the many called only few are chosen. Of each dozen that start out perhaps only two stay with it. The farmer the student meets is not a bundle of sunshine with barrels of money sitting in the house.
He is a gruff man that looks clear through the embryo grafter. The grafting speech is forgotten and the student that could sell oodles of books before the looking glass at home finds himself meekly and apologetically suggesting:
"I guess you don't want to buy a book, do you?"
The student then beats it hene to help dad in the grocery store.
FRESHMAN ENGINEERS TO
GIVE SMOKER APRIL 1
The freshman engineers will give a smoker April 13 in I. O. G. F. hall. A program has been arranged consisting of music, boxing, and speeches. Refreshments and smokes will be served.
The idea of the class is to make this smoker an annual event so that freshman engineers can work together on Engineers' Day.
FACULTY STRONG FOR UNIVERSITY CLUB
A Scant Dozen Professors Won't Be In, The Latest
With possibly a dozen exceptions,
this faculty has joined the
University
The present constitution provides that the number of regular members shall be limited to one hundred and fifty, and the number of associate members to fifty. At a meeting of the board on Friday night, the roll including applicants from down town but action was not taken in all cases.
The committee on contracts, consisting of Prof. D. L. Patterson, chairman, Judge Hugh Means, Prof. W. A. Griffith, E. E. Brown, and Prof. F. H. Hodder is now working on the contract with Bryant and on the specifications for the club quarters.
A finance committee, whose duty at present is the working out of a system of bookkeeping for the treasurer and the secretary, consists of L. N. Lewis, Prof. A. J. Boyton, M. E. Bracken, Prof. A. The old Audit committee, Prof. D. C. Croissan, Prof. Carl Becker and Judge Means, was continued.
Definite arrangements for the continuance of the club are progressing rapidly. At the present time it seems that the difficult is not how to get enough members to make the club a success, but how to adopt the plans to the requirements of the number who desire to join.
Another committee, consisting of W. S. Metcalf, Prof. W. L. Burdick, W. B. Brownell, taking the necessary state education to the club under the laws of the state.
TWO CLUBS MAKE HIT
Washburn and Kansas Gleemen Presented Unique Program Last Night
Morris with his "Big Bass Viol" and "Heinie Waltzed 'Round' and Gugler, of Washburn, with his "Yidder Ball" made the two individual huts.
An appreciative audience heard the combined Washburn-Kansas Glee club concert in Bowersock theater last night, and with Chancellor Strong and others, pronounced it a very unique success. The two clubs responded to many encores.
In the second part the Washburn club put on "A Scene in a Fraternity House" after the defeat of K. Hull at football, score "TenNothing."
The two clubs will repeat the performance in Topeka some time the latter part of April.
ONE CASE OF MEASLES—
STUDENT IN HOSPITAL
At the hospital this morning it was reported that the case is a mild one and that there is no chance of serious consequences, or of an epidemic.
Miss Agnes Johnson was taken to the University hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from an attack of measles. She is the only present victim of the disease and is properly quarantined.
Wetmore Here on a Visit Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wetmore arrived in Lawrence Friday from Washington, D.C., where Wetmore is employed in the Government Biological Survey. Mrs. Wetmore will remain in Lawrence while Mr. Wetmore goes on to California to do field work. Wetmore graduated from K. U. in 1911 and is a member of the Acacia fraternity.
Wetmore Here on a Visit
BOARD OF REGENTS LOOKS OVER K. U.
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, E. T.
Hackney and E. W.Hoch
Inspect University
ROSEDALE IMPRESSED THEM
School of Medicine Doing Great Work For Poor, Says Mrs. Lewis of the New Board
The Educational Board of Administration, composed of E. T. Hackney, of Wellington, E. W. Hoch, of Marion, and Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, of Kinsley, appointed by Gov. George Hodges to take charge of the three state educational institutions and the School for the Deaf and Blind, is meeting today for the first time on Mt. Oread.
The purpose of the meeting is to get a preliminary view of the school and existing conditions. The board does not assume control until July 1, when the present regents retire. It is improbable that definite executive action of any kind will be taken before that date.
The board spent yesterday at the School of Medicine in Rosedale. All the members seemed impressed with the school and the quality of work being done.
Mrs. Lewis thinks the possibilities of the hospital are vast.
"The people out over the state don't realize the work the school does," she said today. "I saw disease and crippled children being given the best treatment possible, treatment they never could have seized." The university argues of their poverty. The University urges poor people to come."
Ex-governor Hoch was impressed by the faculty and the work they are doing to further and elevate the practice of medicine in the state, and the possibilities of expansion along that line.
This morning the board reviewed the Extension department and this afternoon visited various other departments. Without exception the members expressed themselves as agreeably surprised at the amount and nature of the work being done in the interests of the state at large, the businessmen of the state and her educational institutions' interests.
"I thought," said E. W. Hoch, "that I was pretty thoroughly acquainted with the University of Kansas, but I find I have no conception of the amount and value of the work accruing to the people of the state from the various departments."
Tomorrow the board will complete the work of visiting the University and on Friday will meet with the present Board of Regents. On Tuesday the board will go to the Emory formal campus to spend the remainder the week spent at the following week will be spent at the Agricultural College.
The board is stopping at the Eldridge House. It will not visit K. U. again until Exposition week in May.
DEDICATE MYERS HALL
Christian Bible Chair at University Officially Received Today
Myers hall, the Christian bible chair at the University, was dedicated today, which is also the 12th anniversary of its establishment. Mrs. J. E. McDaniel, state secretary of the Christian Women's Board of Missions, was the chief speaker. Chancellor Strong and Rev. Olinger of Westminster hall also spoke.
Jurisprudence Club to Meet A meeting of the Jurisprudence Club of the School of Law will be held at the Sigma Chi house tomorrow night at 7:30.
I'll With Appendicitis
Cedric Routh, a freshman in the
College, was taken ill with appendicitis Monday night. He will probably be taken to his home at Seneca some time today.