STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
SENATE CONSIDERS PLAN FOR ONE BOARD
NUMBER 85.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1913.
Will Act on Measure Providing Three Regents for All Institutions
MILL TAX BILL DEFEATED
Final Action on Appropriation for University Will be Taken Before February 15.
The bill providing a mill tax for the support of the University has been defeated in the legislature. Action on the University budget will be taken before February 15.
BULLETIN.
Topeka, 1:30 p. m. — The senate passed today the Keene bill providing for a central board of administration of three members to control the state educational institutions abolishing the present boards of regents. The measure went through with the approval of which it is believed the house will concur. The new officials will receive salaries of $2,500 a year.
Representative Carnahan has introduced into the house a bill abolishing the School of Mines at Welfr City and University of Kansas at Lawrence.
Topeka, Feb. 7—The House bill providing for a central governing board for the state educational institution to consider in the Senate today.
Special to the Daily Kansan.
Except for the fact that the bill has been so amended as to divorce the Manual Training School at Pittsburgh from the control of the president of the State Normal at Emporia, it is politically correct that the bill passed by the legislature two years ago and voted by Governor Stubbs.
There is strong opposition to the bill in the senate and there is every likelihood that it will be amended in several particulars before it finally passes the upper branch. Whether the house will concur in these amendments is uncertain.
NEW PLAN FOR TEACHERS
High School Conference to Let State Instructors Observe Former Students.
This plan is to be used in the thought that high school teachers might prefer to vary the usual plan of spending one day visiting schools and substitute this University visitation plan.
A new feature of the Tenth Annual Conference of Kansas high schools and academies, to be held at the University March 15-16, is to reverse the usual order of inspection of teaching, and urges the high school teachers of the state to visit University classes and observe their former students at work, and the University methods employed in instructing them.
Over forty schools will be represented. A banquet will be given in the gym for the visitors, at which Chancellor Strong, ex-governor of Maryland speaks. Many noted educators from all parts of the country will be present.
K. U. BOY FELL IN BATTLE 14 YEARS AGO TODAY
Fourteen years ago today Alfred Cecil Allford, a student of the University of Kansas gave up his life at the battle of Calcoal, P. I., in the Spanish-American war. He graduated from the College in 1896 and from the law school in 1897.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
While practicing law in Lawrence, Alford joined Co. H., Kansas National Guards and went to the Philippines in 1898 as second lieutenant. He was promoted to first lieutenant Co. B. of the 20th Infantry while in active service and held this position until February 7, 1899 when he was killed. This first son of K. U. to die in battle was brought back to Lawrence and buried in Oak Hill cemetery near the Soldiers' monument. A bronze tablet was placed in the chapel of Fraser hall to his memory
"Kansas University" Right Name for K. U.
MAP SHOWING CITIES & TOWNS FROM WHICH STUDENTS CAME TO UNIVERSITY 1910-12
STATISTICS SHOW THREE OUT OF FOUR STUDENTS BORN IN KANSAS.
A survey of the 2403 students now enrolled at the University shows that 73 per cent were born in Kansas. More than half the student body, 51 per cent to be exact, are paying their own way either wholly or in part. From farms and villages of less than 2,000 population comes 63 per cent and 34 per cent from the farms alone. One out of every three is the son or daughter of a farmer. Eighteen hundred students attend church regularly and 1289 are enrolled as members.
KILL-CARE JUBILEE COMING A TUESDAY
Vaudeville, Music, Eats and
a Good Time at Myers Hall
The Y. M. and the Y. W. offers a good time for every one in their post exam jubilee in Myers hall Tuesday after quiz week. This year the Y. W. C. A. will unite with the Y. M. C. A. in this stunt.
The party was to have been given Friday of quiz week but the date was changed because of the basket-ball game. Tuesday was selected on the account of Lincoln's birthday coming the day after and those attending will have a chance to make up the lost sleep.
A number of attractions have been announced, including a **basket-ball game** between the Fats and the Leans, whistling by Jimmy Butin, and a burlesque on the Girls' Daring Circle. Some of the special musical numbers are a violin solo by Mr. Butin and a man on a breaththift Robertson. Some special stunts will be put on by the fraternities.
This is the biggest social affair scheduled during the year by the Y. M. C. A, and Y. W. C. A. Light refreshments will be served, and everyone is invited to come and enjoy the evening.
IOWA STATE DEFEATS
UNIVERSITY MARKSMEN
In the match with the Iowa State college last Saturday the K. U. rile team was defeated by a score of 9:6 to 831.
This is the fourth match in a tournament of fourteen matches. The other colleges in the western division are Purdue, United States School of Veterinary Surgery, Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington State, Missouri, Virginia, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
prone standing
H. W. Hanson . . . . 93 76
A. F. Wadell. . . . . 88 61
Scott Griesa. . . . . 96 69
Alva Fuller. . . . . 85 50
R. D. Teasley. . . . . 81 82
Following are the K. U. team and their scores:
The appointment board of the University has been asked to nominate candidates for the following teaching positions: A principal to teach physics and mathematics in a small high school, a German and history teacher in one of their high schools, and primary teacher for the first or second grades.
Wanted—Some Pedogoues
Ignorance vs. Bliss.
The final report cards for the last semester will be ready at the Registrar's office the middle or latter part of next week.
TRACK TEAM TRYOUT
Men Will Fight for Places in Meet Monday
Night
The first chance of the year to see the future greats of the 1913 track team in action will be given the students of the University Monday night in Robinson gymnasium, when the various contenders for places on the Varsity will meet in an individual meet.
From the men who show up best in the different events Coach Hamilton will pick this year's team. The dope points to some hotly contended events, as many of the men out for places are nearby on a par as far as ability goes.
No admission will be charged and both Captain Patterson and Coach Hamilton are hoping for a large squad.
THIS PROF. COMES ONCE
THIS P.O. BOX 57083
A WEEK—AFTER HIS PH. D.
Fifteen dollars a week for one course—and its educational phychology.
That's what it's costing Prof. A. L. Hol-Quist, professor of psychology and education at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, to complete the work necessary for his Ph. D. Prof. Hol-Quist received his bachelor's and master's degrees at Princeton and is now taking a course in educational psychology under Dean C. M. Howell as a week's weekly trips including car fare, palm-fare and hotel bills cost fifteen dollars each. The professor will also be a student here for the nine weeks' summer session.
For his doctors' thesis he is writing a book on "The Psychology of Study" which is about half completed now.
Professors Wilson and Fagan of Parks College, Parksville, Missouri, are also taking work in the School of Education.
The department of education has arranged with the manager H. W. Charles of the Topека Boys' Industrial school to cooperate in the use of physical and mental tests on boys in that school. The apparatus of the laboratory used in the psychology of education will be used in the tests, which will be made by Professors Trettien and Schwegler with the help of the graduate students working in the psychology of education. The tests will determine the effect of physical conditions on the mental and moral elements in the boy's mLMP.
Pedagogues Make Psychology Tests.
Johnston's Book Being Adopted
Johnston's Book Being Adopted Dean Johnston's book on "High School Education," volume 1, has been adopted by the states of Maryland, Tennessee, and New Jersey as one of the required books for high school reading, according to news received yesterday.
NEW TICKET WANTS JAYHAWKER OFFICE
Alfred Waddel and Dick Gardner Ente, Contest for Editor and Manager
The Representative junior ticket, for the offices of editor and manager of the 1914 Jayhawk, entered the field today, championing Alfred Waddel for editor, and Dick Gardner for manager.
Both men have had considerable experience in newspaper work, Wadel del having been affiliated with the Ottawa Herald and the Leavenworth Times before entering the University, and holding a position on the board of a company as late as last summer. At present he is assistant in Spooner library.
Gardner is editor-in-chief of the Daily Kansean, and has been intimately connected with the printing of the department of journalism for a year. Besides his past experience it is undertaking a study of the cost system.
*This is the second ticket in the field, the "Liberal Ticket" having been put out several days ago. All candidates for the offices must have their petitions in the hands of the Student Council by Feb. 10.*
DEAN JOHNSTON BOOKED FOR EASTERN LECTURES
Dean C. H. Johnston, of the School of Education, goes to Philadelphia February 24 to 27 to lecture before the national society of college teachers of education on the subject of "Research in the Field of Education." The occasion for the meeting is the 51st anniversary of the National Educational Association's department of superintendence. The dean is a member of the committee on resolutions.
On the first of March Dean Johnson also goes to the University of Cincinnati to lecture before the high school in Ohio on "A Difficult High School."
On March 3rd the dean will lecture at Urbana, Illinois, before the school of education of the University of Illinois on the subject of "Supervision Problems of the High School."
IEALTH ALMANACS FREE
TO ALL DISEASE DODGERS
Dean S. J. Crumbine announced this morning that any student who desired one of the Health Almanacs for 1913 of the Kansas State Board of Health can obtain it by writing to the secretary at Toneka.
A feature of the almanac is the important dates in Kansas history that are set opposite the days of each month which are interspersed with health epigrams in a way that fixes attention on the subject matter treated.
WILL RENT ALL BOOKS 2403 TO BECOME 2550 FOR ONE-FOURTH COST REGISTRAR PREDICTS
Student Cooperative Stor Announces Final Money Saving Plans
W. S. G. A. IS PROMOTE
Offers High Price for Old Volumes by Lending Texts, Will Reduce Expense to Undergraduates
Final plans for conducting the Student Book Store were announced this afternoon by the members of the Women's Student Government Association in charge.
The exchange will be in the new being erected in Fraser hall, all nine.
In case a student wishes to rent one of these books, he will deposit one half the value with the exchange. When he returns the book at the close of the year he will receive as a refund one half the amount paid. Take the one dollar book, for instance. The student desiring to rent the book will pay fifteen cents when he returned the book he would receive twenty-five cents back. Thus the one dollar book would cost the student but twenty-five cents.
A dollar book for twenty-five cents is the plan in a nut-shell. Here is the way they figure it out. A student brings a book worth a dollar, to the exchange table in Fraser. He pays the book's cash, or call it thirty-seven cents on the dollar. This is more than the book stores offer.
The plan adopted by the W. S. G. A. is used in almost every other University in the United States.
RED DOMINO COMPOSER
IS FREAK MUSICIAN
Leon Howe Does Not Know One Note From Another—Plays Entirely by Ear.
In making the orchestration of the song it was necessary to change the key of many of them in order to accommodate them to the voices of the cast. Howe plays entirely by ear and in only a limited number of keys. When the change was made his own music was unintelligible to him.
Those who attended the performances of "The Blue Rose Diamond" last week wondered somewhat why Leon Howe, who composed the music for the show, did not play the piano while directing the orchestra. As a matter of fact Howe could not have read the music had he tried.
Howe is what might be called a "freek musician." His method of composing is very peculiar. He writes his lyrics first and then sits down and figures out an air, playing sometimes with both hands, at other times with one. A musician is then employed to copy down the song as he plays it. He has sold three of his songs to eastern publishers.
ECTURERS FOR ENTENSION
DEPARTMENT BUSY THIS WEER
Dean Johnson of the School of Education lectures in Parsons Thursday and Friday at the Southeastern Kansas Teachers' Association on "Current Demands Upon the High School."
During the coming week the following lectures will be given by University instructors for the Extension department;
Ralph Spotts will also deliver Extension lectures at this meeting, which is the largest sectional teachers' meeting in the state. Between 150 and 200 teachers will be in attendance.
Redman Breaks Into Primit Dr. L. V. Redman of the Industrial Chemistry department of the University of Kansas has an article in the Scientific American of this week on "Soil Analysis and Seed Selection." Dr. Redman tells of his investigation in the laboratory of the chemical composition of soils, and the method of increasing the valuable chemical constituents contained in seed grains.
Redman Breaks Into Print
George H. Bowles, a student at the University two years ago has written the book and lyrics for a musical comedy, "The Skylarks," to be given in Kansas City, February 15.
Geo. O. Foster Looks For Enrollment Increase of 150 Next Week
COLLEGE IN GYM MONDAY
Academic Students May Sit in Bread Line—Laws and Pharmics Have Already Begun.
Twenty-five hundred and fifty is the number of students expected by Registrar G. O. Foster to enroll next Monday. Some twenty-four hundred of these will be students who are already enrolled in the University, and about one hundred and fifty new students are expected.
Enrollment will begin Monday morning and continue throughout the day. A new plan of enrollment will be triad, and careful plans have been prepared for crowding and confusion that have characterized former enrollment days.
The College seniors will assemble at the west end of the gallery of Robinson gymnasium and the juniors at the east end of others will remain on the main floor.
Seats will be provided and the room will be kept comfortable, so that there will be no suffering for any who may be compelled to wait. Marshalls will be stationed with each class, so that the students will be admitted to see their advisers and proceed with enrollment in their turn. Seats will be provided for those who are waiting.
Leaving their sections the students will first go to their class advisers on the first floor, and after having their course approved will go to the second floor, where representatives from each department will be stationed at tables to check off the courses. Passing these groups the students will go out through the east door, after having his card checked at the door to make sure that he has missed no group.
The College, Fine Arts, and School of Education students will enroll at the gymnasium. The engineers enroll Monday in Marvin hall. The pharmacies are enrolling today and tomorrow, and the laws are also enrolling today in Green hall.
ADMINISTRATIVE COM, IN
ROLE OF FACULTY IBEN
Eighteen Members Will Decide Everything From Who Shall Cook to Why is a Star-Gazer
The College faculty at its meeting yesterday referred the bulk of its roubles to the administrative committee of eight members.
Prof. R. R. Price of the Extension department wished the rules of the College so changed that any one who had taken three years work in the school could take his last year through the correspondence department. The matter was referred to the administrative committee.
Proposals that additional courses in home economics and astronomy be established were likewise referred. The faculty also decided that the meetings it should hold with the meetings by postcards incarnate trusting to reading the notices in the University Calendar and the Daily Kansan.
OREAD DEBATERS WILL
DISCUSS SHORT BALLOT
The question, "Resolved, that Kansas should adopt the short ballt system," will be debated at the next meeting of the Oread Debating Society, on Friday, Feb. 14. Wm. A. McKinney, A. K. Rader, and A. W. Ericson will uphold the affirmative; and G. C. Moore, W. M. Latimer, and R. S. Knapp will argue the negative of the question. Important business; all members should be present.
Claims Records for Few Cuts.
Claims Records for Few Cuts.
Miss Lulu Gardner, of the English department, claims the record for the smallest number of absences or cuts during the last term. During that time, in one of her classes, she had but eight absences in one class. Of these, six were due to illness, making the total number of unexplained cuts during the semester the small and unusual number of two.