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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 1, 1918.
THOUGHT BURBANK
HAD A LOOSE COG
NUMBER 117.
POTATO WORTH 100 MILLIONS
Burbank An Unassuming, Unscientific Freak Interested Only In Results—Never At College.
"Luther Burbank and his Work"
was the subject of a talk in chapel
this morning by Prof. Charles A.
of the Department of Biol-
OXY.
Shull was for some time closely in touch with Burbank in Santa Rosa, California, where the "wizard," as he has been called, brings about his wonderful results with plants.
His first attempt was the Burbank potato, which became exceedingly valuable, the increased wealth to the United States from this potato alone being more than two hundred million dollars. For this he must to make him small, but enough to make him become a breeder of plants.
Professor Shull described Burbank as a plain, modest, unassuming man who has never had any college training. He is intensely practical, and cares nothing about his methods, which are haphazard and unscientific, but is interested only in results.
For many years he labored against odds, and was scorned by friends and relatives, who thought he had a loose cog in his head. But after the wonderful results he has obtained with his spinel cactus, wonderberry miracle plum, and dozens of others, Californians now proudly refer to him as "Our Luther."
Only about one hundred persons were in chapel to hear Prof Shull's talk. They were paddling freshmen outside.
MAY PLAY AT
WOODLAND PARK
Hash-House League to Decide on Schedule Tomorrow Afternoon
The inter-club baseball league will hold a meeting in the Gym Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 to draw up rules and regulations of the organization. A schedule will be submitted by the committee and the place of playing will also be decided upon.
All captains of teams are asked to be present and to bring full rosters of teams. The names should be in full and handed in at the meeting.
The league is negotiating with the owners of Woodland park for permission to use the league grounds to play upon. If this plan goes through the inter-club league will be assured of a regular place to play. No restrictions will be placed upon any of the players but it has been suggested that one man might play with two teams providing that each team is in a different section.
HIGGINS TO ADDRESS
ILLINOIS STATE BAR
Prof. W. E. Higgins wired his acceptance this morning to an invitation from the Illinois State Bar to be the principal speaker at their next meeting, Wednesday, April 9 at Springfield. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss reforms and the law of procedure.
Congressman Clayton of Alabama was to make the address but at the last moment notified the Bar that it was impossible for him to do so. Professor Higgins will leave for Springfield next Monday and return the following Friday.
Orchestra To Serendale Bonner The University orchestra will furnish the music for the commencement exercises at the Bonner Springs High School, May 16.
WASHBURN AND KANSAS GLEE CLUBS COMBINE TONIGHT
The ancient Grecian song tournaments will be revived tonight at the Bowersock Theater when two college glee clubs will meet in tuneful combat. The K. U. and Washburn Glee Clubs will divide the program. The latest song hits will be given during the evening in addition to a variety of vaudeville sketches.
Great Minneapolis Concertmaster to Appear on Campus April 25
Richard Czerwonky, the great violinist and concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, will play here April 25 during the Music Festival.
Czerwenky has accompanied the Minneapolis orchestra on its last three tours of the country as concert-master and soloist and has placed himself among America's foremost violinists. He was formerly second concert-master in the Boston Symphony.
Czerwenkoy is a native of Birmingham, Germany, and received his
RICHARD CZERWONKY
early musical training from Joachim, Zajic and Moser, famous European masters. Twice he won the Mendelssohn prize and once the Joachim prize in violin contests. When Dr. Karl Muck was "loaned" by the German emperor to the Boston Symphony orchestra, he brought Czerwynky with him as solist. The young man gained such popularity that he became a fixture.
He was organizer and leader of the famous Czerwonky String Quartette which made a national reputation. Louis C. Elson, the Boston critic, places Czerwonky in the same class with Kreisler.
Yesterday Delta Psi entertained with a tea at five o'clock and were prepared for the pledge ceremony it that time but owing to the fact Mrs. Holder, the Grand President, was tied up in the floods in Ohio, the ceremony was postponed ill today.
Nineteen members of Delta Psi pledged Sigma Kappa this morning and were initiated this afternoon.
GRAND PRESIDENT OF
SIGMA KAPPA DELAYED
Following the initiation this afternoon, a banquet will be held this evening given by Sigma Kappa to its new chapter. Tomorrow the formal installation of the new chapter will take place.
GLEEFUL CONCERT BY TWO CLUBS TONIGHT
Washburn and Kansas Glee men to Give Program In Bowersock
Kansas and Washburn unite musically and gleefully tonight in Bowersock theatre when the two glee clubs give a joint program.
The Washburn club has just returned from a trip to the Pacific coast. The best numbers from each club's winter program will be given.
CHANGE DATE OF HOP
Second Year Class Dance to Be April Eleventh, Says Russell
The date of the Sophomore Hop is to be changed from April 18 to April 11, according to an announcement in the form of a warning by Manager "Rusty" Russell.
"The change in date is unfortunate for the management," said Russell this morning, "but we believe things can be got ready. The hardest thing will be to prepare the farce, but several rehearsals have been and we believe everything will go off alright in spite of the change."
The change is made necessary by the fact that the gymnasium is to be used April 19 by a meeting of the national federation of Mozart and the director I feel that it could not be made ready if the Hop were held April 18.
"As tickets will be taken off the cheek stand two days before the Hop it will be necessary for all who have not bought yet to get busy. The committees need money badly it is coming in better than last week."
This announcement was made today, April 1.
"Mankind is experiencing a mental transformation," declared Wm. B. McCrackan of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., in his lecture on Christian Science in the chapel at 4:30 yesterday afternoon. "Explorations, projects and hopes that have long stimulated the imagination of man have become accomplished facts in this day."
According to Dr. McCrackan, a mental, moral, and also physical salvation is the purpose of Christian Science.
A large number of out of town visitors attended the lecture.
MANKIND CHANGING MEN-
TALLY, SAYS MCSCRACKN
Oreaders Want Minimum Wage That employers in the state of Kansas should be compelled to pay a minimum wage of eight dollars per week to all women employees on the Debt Battles at their last meeting. The affirmative, represented by F. N. Anderson and E. G. Smith, won the decision from E. J. Goppert and C. O. Conkey.
Oreaders Want Minimum Wage
SPROUL TO LEAD 1914 BASKET BALL TEAM
"Lefty" Elected Captain Las Night—Picked For All- Valley Forward
Ralph ("Lefty") Sproull was elected captain of the Jayhawker basketball-ball team for 1914 at a diving hole on Lee's by the Athletic Association.
Sproull is a sophomore in the College and the second Lawrence boy to be chosen leader of the Crimson Blue team in the last two years.
Last season was his first on the team. He was picked for All-Missouri Valley forward by a number of coaches during the past season.
During the season just closed he threw 88 goals and 60 free throws in the eighteen games, starting every contest the Varsity played.
Sproull's opponent for the capa-
capancy was Arthur Weaver, who
played center this year and was
considered a find in that position.
Eight men and Coach Hamilton were present at the election. The men who voted were Hite, Boehm, Greenlee and Brown. Smith, Greenlees and Brown.
KELLERMAN TO GIVE
TWO MORE LECTURES
Professor Kellerman, who is giving a series of lectures on Phonetics of German, French and English in the German Seminar room of the library every Wednesday night, will give two more lectures to complete the course. These lectures are attended principally by the faculty and are very interesting and instructive.
The lecture tomorrow night will be on "Sentence rythm in German, French and English."
Professors from Missouri, Grinnel College, Vassar and other schools will also give courses. Professor Higgins will probably leave here directly after the close of this school year. The Wisconsin summer session ends August 1.
Prof. W. E. Higgins of the Law School will be one of the eight professors to give courses at the University of Wisconsin this summer, beginning June 23.
HIGGINS TO TEACH IN
WISCONSIN SUMMER SCHOOL
COOLEYS ALSO WANT
MINIMUM WAGE LAW
"Resolved: The passing of a Minimum Wage Law would be of enough material aid in the prevention of the White Slave trade to warrant its adoption," is the subject of debate for the Cooley Club at its meeting next Friday night.
Senator Sullivan will uphold the affirmative and Senator Emick the negative.
Scoop Club Tuesday Night
Scoop Club Tuesday
All members should be present at an important meeting Tuesday night at 9:30clock at the Phil Kappa Pall house.
FOURTH C-A-L-L FOR JUNIOR PROM
P. M. to 3 A. M. The Time—Probable Cost $1,000
The procession of "cabs and flowers" to the Junior Prom will begin arriving on the hill at 6 P. M. April 4 and the time limit set for the vanishing of fair Cindyella's coach and span is 3 A. M. April 5.
The managers and committee announce that most of the arrangements for the Prom are now complete. Tickets are going fast. A fair estimate of the number now sold is between 250 and 300, with more yet to come in.
The total cost of the Prom will not exceed $1000, according to the plans now laid by the finance committee, and will probably total somewhere between $800 and $900. The cost of refreshments will be the biggest item on the list, but will not exceed $400.
Decorations will cost between $100 and $150, programs $150, and music $100. Counting in incidental expenses and cost of staging the farce the Prom will cost about the same as the one given last year.
Prof. P. F. Walker's Rearrange-
ment of Schedule Under
Way - Out Next Week.
CUT ENGINEERS' WORK
A rearrangement of work that will shorten the Engineering course is being made by Prof. P. F. Walker, who will have the completed result ready for publication in the near future.
Several studies that have been voted impracticable will be dropped from the schedule, and the course will be materially shortened.
The Engineers always have felt that theirs was the most strenuous school on the hill and the announcement of lessened work is calculated to do away with much complaint according to Walker. He hopes to make the new schedule public the first of next week.
TILLOTSON TO BECOME
PROFESSOR AT PITTSBURG
E. W. Tillotson, who for three years and a half has held the Hollowphase Fellowship in the Industrial Research Department., has gone to the University of Pittsburg to become a professor in chemistry in the new half-million dollar research laboratory.
Tillotson is a graduate of Yale During his fellowship he made valuable discoveries in the manufacture of glass, and published numerous articles in the leading scientific journals. He is a member of the Acacia fraternity.
The Botany Club will hold a picnic tomorrow evening instead of the regular meeting as first announced.
Botanists To Picnic
NOW IT'S PLESIOSAR THE PLESIORAURUS
Rare Kansas Fossil Received By the Paleontology Department Today
IS 20 MILLIONS YEARS OLD
University Student First Notice It near Holywood—Found In Benton Cretaceous Formation.
A rare fossil was received today by the department of paleontology from John Kaplick of Holywood, Kansas.
The fossil is a series of vertebrae from the pelvic girdle of a rare reptilian fossil called pleiosarus plesiarthrus. The specimen is a little over length and is to be mounted in the Museum as soon as it is prepared.
The fossil was recently observed by J. A. Brouk, a junior in the school of Engineering, in a rock quarry on Kaplick's farm. It was situated in a Benton cretaceous formation and Brouk, knowing that some fossils of this formation were very rare, reported the fact to H. T. Martin, of the department of paleontology.
The result was that Kaplick donated the fossil to the University.
"The fossil is probably 18 to 20 million years old," said Martin today. "It is one of the most nearly intact specimens ever received here."
TIGER GEOLOGIST TO
GIVE THREE LECTURES
Young of Rollo Talks Tomorrow On "Mine Management"—Kansas And Iowa To Exchange.
A series of three lectures on "Mine Management" will be given by L. E. Young, director of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in Haworth Hall Wednesday afternoon at 4:30; the same evening at 7:30; and Thursday morning at 11:25.
The lectures are the first to be given on a circuit which includes Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Professor Gabriel of Iowa State is to give a series of exchange lectures on "The Recovery of Tim From Scrap," and Professor Haworth of Kansas on "The Geography, Geology, and Commerce of Oil and Gas."
The principles involved in these lectures are so general as to make the addresses of public interest. The public is invited.
FACULTY NUMBER OF
OREAD MAG COMING
The Faculty Number of the Oread Magazine will be out Tuesday. April 8.
In addition to the regular departments this issue will carry feature stories on the faculty written from the students' point of view with "No scandal, but plenty of life," says Earl Potter, editor.
Former Graduate Dies
Dr. Brock Goddard, of Leavenworth, died Sunday morning in that city, and will be buried Wednesday afternoon. He graduated from K.U. in the class of '05, and was a member of Beta Theta Pi. Fraternity brothers will act as pallbearers.
Quill Meets Todav
The Quill Club will hold its regular meeting this afternoon. The following will appear on the program: Miss Ottie McNeal, Miss Lydia Cook, Miss Helen Rose, and Miss Helen Hodgson.
Verein Learns Proverbs At the Verein Koffee Klatsch yesterday "Proverbs," informal conversation and the singing of German songs furnished the program. Coffee and cake were served.
Math Guns Talk Fourth Dimension At the mathematics club meeting yesterday Miss Miss Atkinson reviewed the new French book, "Mathematicique et Mathematicienes." Miss Lucy Huff discussed the fourth dimension.
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