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TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
WILL GO ABROAD WITH ITALIAN PRIMA DONNA
NUMBER 87.
Madame Barrachia to Take Edith Bideau, Fine Arts, to Europe
BARACCHIA A FAMOUS ARTIST
Has Sung in All Parts of the World
—Made Debut in Berlin in Early Teens.
Madame Barracach, the celebrated Italian singer who is to give a concert here February 15, was in Lawrenzes last week to hear the voices of some of Professor Hubach's pupils. She heard Eidh Bideau, Clara Powell, and Hazel Williams and expressed herself pleased with them all.
"Miss Bideau," she said, "has an excellent voice and should develop into one of the finest concert and grand arguers that has ever come under my notice."
Madame Barrachia will take Miss Bideau abroad with her this fall and give her personal attention for two years and promises that at the end of that time Miss Bideau will be ready to appear in concert.
Madame Baracchia, best known under her stage name of Kate Bensberg, has achieved an enviable success both as a concert singer and as prima doma in many of the principal operas, including in Buenos Ayres, and in Montevideo.
She also complimented Miss Williams and Miss Powell on their voices and predicts that they will both make successful concert singers.
As a young girl she studied German and while still in her teens made her debut at Krols theater in Berlin. After several years of successful appearances in English opera she returned to Paris where she became a favorite pupil of Madame Matilda Marchesi.
The Paris "Figaro," in speaking of her voice at the time, called it the voice of an angel. Ambreo Thomas personally coached her in her role of Ophelia in his opera "Hamel."
Professor Hubach of the School of Fine Arts, who has the concert in charge predicts that the concert will be the best given at the University or in Lawrence since he has been with the department and urges all interested in music to attend.
KAPPA SIGS HOLD
FIRST LINCOLN PARTY
FIRST LINCOLN PARTY
Regular admission will be one dollar; student tickets, with fifty cents extra, will also admit.
Gamma Omnicron chapter of Kappa Sigma gave its first annual Lincoln party Tuesday evening with a game and a five course dinner at the Eldridge.
The music was furnished by Haley's orchestra and during the luncheon two cabaret singers entertained. As favors the fraternity gave dull green party bags with appa Sigma" in red on one corner.
Many out of town guests from Kansas City, Topeka and Baldwin attended.
K. N. G. NOT EXPECTING
CALL TO MEXICO, SAYS JONES.
Captain Jones of the K. N. G.. when interviewed today in regard to the disturbance in Mexico, stated that he had received no instructions to be in readiness to go to Mexico. Although some troops in the regular army have received these instructions, Captain Jones thinks there is little possibility of the K. N. G., receiving them in the near future.
Last year about this time, when trouble was brewing in Mexico, a report came that the K. N. G. might be ordered to he riotic southern country.
Unitarian Secretary to Lecture
E. C. Smith, secretary of the American Unitarian Association,
who spoke in chapel on Friday, January 31st, will deliver an illustrated lecture in chapel Friday afternoon, February 14th at 4:30 on "Harvard University, Its Traditions and Ideals." Smith is a Harvard graduate thoroughly familiar with the University and his lecture gives a good bird's-eye view of America's great est educational institution. All members of the University are invited.
REGENTS MAKE CHANGE IN TEACHING FELLOWS
Budget Transferred From College to Graduate School and Nam= Changed
The budget of the teaching fellowships has been transferred by the Board of Regents from the College to the Graduate School and the name changed from "teaching" to "university" fellowships.
In a letter to the heads of the various departments Chancellor Strong states that the fellows hereafter will as usual, be expected to do a certain amount of work such as teaching, substituting, and manuscript work, but that this work should not exceed the limit of present rule of three hours instruction or six hours of laboratory or other work, since the chief object of a fellowship is to give the student an opportunity for study and unhampered research.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 13, 1918.
Under the new rule the distribution of fellowships will hereafter depend upon the decision of the Fellowships committee with the heads of departments.
Now that the fellow will no longer be counted a part of the instructional force, the crediting of the fellowships in the different departments will depend not only upon the specific preparation of the applicant for advanced work in his chosen subject, but also upon the equipment, facilities, and opportunities for graduate work in the several departments.
FLUNKERS MAY PAY
PENALTY AT HOME NOW
The way of the transgressor is not so hard after all.
Professor Price of the Extension department says it will be possible for people who flunked courses during the year to make up two or three summer but not every route by the correspondence route without going to summer school.
"We can't guarantee that all 125 courses named in the catalog will be offered in the summer, but it will be possible to tell which ones will by consulting the professor under our course is not being out when he will be here during the summer session," said Professor Price this morning.
Sigma Xi to Select Today
The board of electors of the Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity, will meet this afternoon to make nominations for the election of new members.
Mitchell Mav Risk Life.
WHAT IT MEANS, MR. LEGISLATOR
Send the Daily Kansan home.
the other standard institution. These institutions give an education costing on the average $225 a year for each student. Nebraska pays out $208 for each student and Missouri. $255. The Kansas figure is $175.
Shouldn't students in the University of Kansas have an equal chance in education with the students of Missouri or Nebraska or any of the other standard universities?
It means that he gets more individual help from his instructors, because enough instructors are employed to give him the individual help that he needs.
And Mr. Legislator, did you ever stop to think what this difference of $33 or $80 means to the student?
It means that he has the benefit of superior equipment and facilities for getting his education. He can count on a better preparation for successful citizenship.
Surely you don't wish to start us out with a handicap that the wealth of Kansas is abundantly able to remove.
AH! ALL KILLED CARE K. U. GRAD IN DANGER?
At Post-Exam Jubilee 400 Destroy Sorrow And Sighing
And so it was, that Post-Exam Kill-Care Jubilee, a real hum-dinger. Only to a few did it seem to be a dry affair, that is, to those ten men and ten girls who entered the "cat-cracker-and-them-whistle" contest. This relay ended in favor of the men—and they put the crackers up their sleeves either.
ONLY DEAN'S PICTURES IN 1913
JAYHAWKER, SAYS HOBSON
"Reflections" or "As She Saw Herself in the Looking Glass," a stump put on by the Wilhelm twins, was amusing to say the least. The "Fats" and "Leans" were booked for a basketball game and it was thus announced. But the "Fats" played football and the "Leans" were "sharks," at a time long,
Students will not have the opportunity, when looking over the 1913 Annual in after years, to point to the picture of a professor and say, "My, if there isn't old Pro. Black, he sure treated me right in history."
Readings by Ina Pratt and Florence Gettyts, whistling by Jimmy Butin, vocal solos by Miss Olivia Olsson, mandolin solos by Breathitt Robertson, and mandolin music by James Lawrence, and Lawrence Morris were other features of the program.
Leon Howe, chairman of the sophomore smoker committee, has called a meeting of his committee to meet in room 110 Fraser at 10 A. M. Friday, to formulate plans for the first smoker committee and the second. The committee are Floyd Loveless, C. G. Harding, C. E. Williamson, Earl Plowman, and Leon Howe.
This is the result of abandoning the plan to include the pictures of all the faculty in this year's Jayhawker. Manager Hobson this afternoon that it has been impossible to secure the pictures of three-fourths of the professors of the University and owing to lack of space deemed desirable to include the pictures of only the deans of the various schools in the book. Pictures which have already been turned in will be returned by mail and the money refunded.
Haffer, at Mexican Lucky Tiger
er. In Danger
Last Year
So far as if known, only one K. U. man, Steven L. Haster, at the lucky Tiger mine, can be affected by the recent Mexican revolt. Kaffer took a position with the mine a little more than with a year ago. At the time of the capture of the mine in one of the previous uprisings he with his men were able to hold out for a day against the rebels. No word has been received from him recently but it is known that he is still at the mine and in some danger of being attacked again.
Prof. Bushong of the Chemistry department, received a letter yesterday stating that the University of London had directed the holder of the Mitchell scholarship to visit America with the sole object of making a thorough investigation of the Industrial Fellowships at the University of Kansas. The holder expects to arrive about the middle of April.
Holder of London Fellowship will Investigate Kansas Research Work.
TO EXAMINE FELLOWSHIPS
GRADS IN FELLOWSHIPS
WORK PUBLISH ARTICLES
Charles Merle Gruber, Ruth Spray and Irene Howat, 1912, have published articles recently in the leading English and American physiology journals and now have fellowships in eastern colleges.
Guber, one of Dr. Hyde's research students, had an article in the "English Journal of Experimental Physiology" entitled "Rocking the Nerve Impulses." This year he has a fellowship at Harvard.
K. U. MAKES ALL KANSAS ITS CAMPUS
Ruth Spray took a fellowship at Bryn Mawr and Irene Howard has one at Northwestern. They have written a paper on "Influence of Alcohol on Action," which appeared in the American Journal of Physiology recently.
DISTRIBUTION OF CORRESPONDENCE STUDENTS
EXTENSION DIVISION UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
SEVEN HUNDRED CITIZENS GO TO COLLEGE AT HOME.
Through its study-by-mail system, the University Extension Division has made it possible for 702 students to get the benefit of University training without leaving their own homes. University professors gave 310 lectures during last year in different parts of the state under the direction of the Extension department. Prof. Milton Fairchild with his series on visual instruction in morals spoke to 22,000 Kansans in one month. Cities all over the state took advantage of the municipal reference bureau, 3587 package libraries were sent out and 97 women' clubs were furnished with programs.
NOW THE W.S.G.A.
PENS LOVE SONNETS
Girls at District Meeting Dedicate Verses to St. Valentine
The Spring Poem editor has hidden his head in utter shame. His greatest efforts are eclipsed and his most masterful productions seem crude and amatuerish before the "pomes" produced last night at a district meeting of the W. S. G. A. The verses were written in honor of St. Valentine, and naturally reflect tenuous circumstances, but they are blamed for the trouble and they surely must have gotten busy from the "pomes" produces.
The W. S. G. A. doesn't claim to be a poetic organization, but they entered some thirty contestants. Their work is technically imperfect sometimes, but they seem to have drunk deep of the spring of inspiration and in genuine emotion make up for other defects. Here are some of the gems of the collection:
There was a young lady of Lawrence,
Whose tears trickled from her in tor-
ment.
The men all ignored her, Or acted cold toward her
And in other ways showed their abhorrence.
I would this card were made of gold,
Yet t'we not good enough to hold,
Nor a millionth big enough you see
To carry the love I have for thee.
For boys, tho' sometimes useful things,
And leave you lonesome by yourself,
To tear your hair and wail.
My love for you like some deep river flows.
A never ending stream so deep and strong,
...much carries every thought along,
And there's always by evebre the
thats blows.
The fragrance of some fresh and new blown rose,
So gently soft and tender, yet so strong
That you alone it is who its depths knows.
But ever goes on singing its low song.
There was more—many more—but there is a limit to human endurance—even to that of the Spring Poem editor—and the linetype man.
SIGMA DELTA CHI INITIATES
Sigma Delta Chi honorary newspaper fraternity, held initiation at the Baltimore hotel banquet rooms in Kansas City Tuesday night for the following: "Paddle" Palmer, Leon Howe, Earl Hinselley, Richard Gardon, Charles Strickland, Herbert Flint, and Harlan Thompson.
Honorary Newspaper Frat Takes in
Pledges at K. C. Banquet.
Following initiation a ten course banquet was served. Initiation was in charge of Kansas City alumni, together with representatives from Michigan, Washington, and Missouri. Professor Lewis of the journalism department assisted in the absence of Professor Thorpe.
Lighting Specialist Leaves School
Lighting Specialist Leaves School Francis H. M. Riley, special in the College, has withdrawn from school and will take up work as lighting specialist with the Kansas City Electric Light company. He is an expert on the new system of indirect light, and recently installed the system in the Peck and Taylor stores in Kansas City. He has also contributed articles on the psychology of lighting to eastern magazines.
Notice—Medieval History
The first meeting of the class in Medieval history will take place Friday, Feb. 14, at 8 a. m. in room 3, Green hall.
Professor Willec will give the fourth of his public illustrated lectures tomorrow, Friday, at 3:30 in the Greek room, 206 Fraser hall. The subject will be "Epidaurus and its Martyrs." You will look at page 51 of this week's Saturday Evening Post, and then stop in at Grigg's—Adv.
Alpha Tau Omega has pledged Paul Rathfonf of Fort Scott, Kans.
GLEE CLUB CONCERT IN CHAPEL TONIGHT
Present Varied Program of Duets, Solos, and Ensemble Work
CONCERT IS IN TWO PARTS
Ryan, '15, Writes "Blue Eyes" for Club—Goldman to Rag the Piano During Intermission
Those who heard the club sing in chapel recently know the quality of singing produced and may be sure that tonight's program will be up to the usual high standard of former clue clubs.
The concert will be given in the usual two parts, the first composed of semi-classical songs sung ensemble and the second composed of popular numbers.
The annual winter concert of the University Glee Club will be given tonight in Fraser hall, and will be broadcast on concert sung by the club in Lawrence.
The personnel of the club is as follows: First tenors, Wilson, Cain, Mitchell, Wheelock; second tenors, Sowers, Gillette, Houston. Saulters; first bass, Swartz, Henderson, Campa-
bies, bass, Daude, Orton, Morton, Burnett
The program is as follows:
Part I
Kansas Songs. . . . .
Part II.
"Jingle of Jungle Joe" ... Club
"Bells of the Light House" ... Morris
"Blue Eyes" ... Mitchell and Club
(Written by Frank Ryan. "15 for
"Blue Eyes" . . . Mitchell and Club
(Written by Frank Ryan, "15 for
the club).
Reading. selected. . . Sowers
"Somebody's Coming to Town"
. . . Wilson
"The Ghost of the Violin," duet
. . . Morris and Sowers
Waltz Song. . . Morris
"Row, Row, Row." Club,
Admission will be fifty cents, or
student tickets.
Baloonist to Address Civils.
Herman F. Lang will speak before a meeting of the Civil Engineering Society tonight at 7:30 in the Engineering School Chapel on his balloon trip from Germany to Russia. Everybody is invited.
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JAYHAWKER ELECTION
In order to more thoroughly put the candidates for the 1914 Jayhawker before the students of the present junior class, the Kansas will open its doors in the fall of 17th, signed statements from all four candidates for the 1914 Annual.
The honors of editing and managing the Jayhawker are not small honors, and that such honors have been won in the past many times through a political machine rather than through the vote of the class on persons the class knows in ways is largely due to the fact that a large part of the senior class in the University does show the other part, and votes indifferently and on the advice or "tip" of an interested member of one or the other of the competing machines.
In the opinion of the Kansan the honor of putting out the Jayhawker should not be one that is sought by rival factions, but rather, one that comes when being bound to the successful candidate. "Let the office seek the man."
All statements must be signed and delivered to the managing editor's desk not later than 11:15 Monday Friday. Fill in words below be the maximum amount of space allowed each candidate.
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