STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
NUMBER 76.
BILLWOULD MAKE SWEEPING CHANGES
Dowling of Morton County Proposes Substitute for Many Commissioners
ONE BOARD FOR ALL SCHOOLS
New Plan Would Give Central Ruling Body Representation From All Congressional Districts.
Special to the Daily Kansan.
Topkait, Jan. 20. — One of the most sweeping educational bills to be presented to the Kansas legislature was offered in the house this afternoon by W. R. Dowling of Norton county, who would abolish the present state board of education, text state book commission, the boards of regents of the state normals, the Agricultural College and Kansas University and create a state board of education composed of one member from each of the eight congressional districts and the state superintendent. Dowling would establish a new board at once. The first board would be applied to the governor, but beginning with the 1914 election one member would be elected from each district in the manner now provided for congressional elections.
The new board would perform all the functions and be vested with all the powers of the bodies which it would succeed; and on its recommendations alone would be based the educational appropriations for Kansas schools.
Members of the new board would receive $2,500 annually and all actual and necessary expenses.
Dowling's bill further provides that no fee of any kind shall be made to any student attending the state normal for the purpose of qualifying for professional teaching in Kansas, or for any bona fide student who attends the Agricultural College or Kansas University.
This board shall have the sole power to determine which of the high schools shall be accredited for admission to the state University by certificate and all other reports and inspections shall be null and void.
Full power is vested in the board to enact rules and regulations for the government of all state educational institutions and schools, to appoint the teaching force and employees, to remove any of the appointees whenever the individual interest of an institution may seem to require and to determine the amount of salaries when not otherwise regulated by law.
OLD GRAD IN FIRE FINDS
AGED PEDALS STILL GOOD
His colleague track track training stood Mayor John W. L. Wapham in good stead when he had to sprint for life through a sea of flames breast high. The mayor was out investigating the cause of a gas shortage, "I smell gas," he said, while walking the line. Striking a match, which is a common method of looking for gas leaks, he started a blaze that covered an area more than 100 feet square.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20, 1913.
He sprinted fifty yards in fewer than five seconds. His cap couldn't keep up, but fell off and was destroyed. The mayor was a member of the K. U. track team and the Ann Arbor team in his college days, and showed good form for one who has not been in training for some time.-Topeka Capital.
Debaters Decide Vital Questions The Oread Debating Society decided the Initiative and Referendum was not suitable for the United States in a debate Thursday night. R. R. Rader, H. Adams and F. N. Anderson of the negative won over J. H. Probst and D. V. Bonser who upheld the affirmative.
Mining Grad Goes to Pittsburg
Mining Grad Goes to Pittsburgh R. S. Aspinwall, a graduate from the School of Mines in 1910 is visiting friends here. Mr. Aspinwall has been working for Wm. E. Duff & Co., of Chicago and is on his way to take up a position with that firm in Pittsburg.
Receives Twain Bibliography
A bibliography of Mark Twain's personal and literary life, consisting of three volumes by Albert B. Paine was received at the library Saturday
THE WAY OF THE BACILLUS IS HARD
yphosus Receives it Between the
phosmus Receives it between the Collar Button and Medulla Oblique by Means of
longata by Means of new Device.
No one knows from whence it cometh, but it is there.
Janitor: "No I do not know how it got there. It was put in sometime between three and four o'clock day before yesterday afternoon, but how it got there I cannot say."
E. E. Bown: "No, I do not know how it got there, either."
Yes, it is a mystery. Yet it is over there in Fraser hall by the rain barrel. It smells like a drug store. It kills the germs, they say. Each time you drink you put the glass back into the solution and all the Typhoidibis Germorum on it are murdered. We have searched through Montgomery Ward & Company's catalogue but cannot find anything similar to this machine and therefore do not know what to call it. Suppose however we christen it Ole.
"Yes, here's to you, dear Ole;
Yes, here's to you, dear Oley. Long may your drugy smell
Kill off the germs the typhoid germs
Lest we be called to Heaven."
FIRST GLEE CLUB CONCERT
AT KANSAS CITY ON FRIDA*
Songsters to Try Out-of-Town Audience First—Appear in Chapel Friday Morning.
The Men's time out of the University will give its first concert of the year Friday evening, January 24, at Kansas City in the Westport high school auditorium.
The program will be divided into two parts, as usual, the first part being composed of standard glee club selections and the second of figure numbers, solos, fancy stunts, etc. Solos by Clarence Sowers, Lawrence Morris, Baldwin Mitchell and Glenn Wisdom will be given throughout the program.
The club will sing Friday morning in chapel, its first appearance here this year. The concert, which was scheduled for January 21, has been postponed and will be announced at a later date.
TO TEST SALINA WATER
University Laboratoy Will Determine Its Purity.
The drinking water in Salina is to be tested by the water-testing laboratory of that city, and the citizens will now have a chance to know what they have been drinking the last few months. City Clerk Banker will gather samples of the water in the city and send it here for examination.
PROF. DE LAMARRE OF NEW
YORK TO TALK ON ROSTAND
The state law provides that such a test shall be made once ayear. The University is making an effort to clear up all the work in the state by the first of the year, and it is very probable that the report of the Salina test will be made before that time.
Louis DeLamare, professor of French in the College of the City of New York who is secretary general of the Federation of L'Alliance France in the United States and Canada will lecture here January 24th. His subject will be "Rostand as a Dramatic Poet."
The co-eds of the University of Colorado gave a vaudeville performance which was a great success. The crowd of young men on the outside trying to get in was so large that policemen were kept busy.
Diana Rostand is the famous French dramatist who wrote Chantecer, L'Aiglon, Les Romanesques, LaPrincesse, Lointaine and Cyrano de Bergerac.
They'll Sing for Their Pictures. The sixteen members of the Girls' Glee club will pose for Jayhawker pictures tomorrow. Pauline Murray is manager.
Vodveel For Coeds Only
Roy Lindsay, a member of the senior law class went to Gillman City, Mo., to try a case before the district court of that place.
His First.
A University physician is employed to look after the health of the students. A hospital for the care of students' emergency cases is maintained on the campus.
SPRING BARDS WILL WOO MUSE EARLY
Conditions More Rigid Than Ever Before Imposed In a Contest
KANSAN BECOMES AESTHETIC
Return of First Dafydfily From South Will be Recorded by Aspiring Spring Poets.
Although it may seem that the University Daily Kansan is taking old and much abused "Father Time" by the extreme tip of his pademopad, the Kansan wishes to announce a prize spring poetry contest, which it will conduct during the few remaining months of the school year. It is the endeavor of the Kansan, as a student publication, to encourage all useful activities of the University, and proceeding along that line of thought it wishes to announce the following pike.
following pass:
A year's subscription to the University Daily Kansan will be given to the person who can conceive the worst collection of poetry. No one is barred, even if you did funk in spelling in the spring of '93, the only restriction is that the poem must not contain more than sixteen lines. You who dream day dreams may now have the opportunity of seeing your stuff in cold, cold print. All contributions will be gladly received, and those of especial arnuskis will be published in the Kansan, Oread, Life, judges, and the Stockman's Review.
In order that a model for your verse can be had, we have dashed on the following, which strikes us as filling a long felt want in the realm of versification.
"Spring."
Out of his warm downy night couch,
The Hungy Stude up rose;
Dreading the cold bath-room floor—
Thinking of chilly toes.
But Lo! from the south-opened window
No ice blast did pierce;
No icicle greeted his view—Oh!
The weather was not fierce.
A chickadee bold was cheeping,
A flowret gay was in sight:
"Great Scott," cried he who'd been sleeping,
Me. How K. U.'s Grown.
"Fair spring has came over night."
My, How K. U.'s Grown.
R. J. McCallister, Sr. and wife, of Miltonville, Kansas were visitors at K. U. Friday. Mr. McCallister did not seen the University for forty years and he expressed his surprise at its wonderful growth, and hoped that the appropriation bill would be passed.
University May 7th Survey
The University had on hand at nine o'clock Friday morning two hundred and seventy-four tons of coal. An error was made in the statement of the supply issued Thursday.
University May Yet Shiver
Prof. H, C. Hill of the law school was unable to meet his classes Thursday and Friday because of sciatic rheumatism.
Professor Hill Ill.
QUAIL COVEY FEEDS FROM SCHOOL'S HAND
Last Recital Before Quizzes.
A voice and piano recital will be given at North College tomorrow at 4:30 p. m. This is the last recital to be given before examination week.
Feathered Campus Denizens Receive Charity During Cold Spell
HAVE LIVED HERE 5 YEARS
Now that the quail season is over, the news has just trickled out that the University, besides performing much state work, is also engaged in the business of animal husbandry. A flock of over sixty quail has been supported on the University campus for the last five years.
SOME HORSE IS GETTING ONE BEAUTIFUL FUNERAL
During the severe cold weather, the University commissary issues free rations to the flock, which grazes along the west end of the campus. While the ground is heavily coated with snow the birds were fed by hand, small grain and bits of food being distributed at a feeding ground to which the little feathered bug-eaters have learned to come regularly for their meals. As soon as warm weather arrives feeding will be discontinued.
The secret of the existence of the flock has been well kept. For five years the flock has ranged the western slopes of Mt. Orcad undisturbed by hunters, and fares sumptuously when winter's ice blasts covered the ground with an impenetrable coat that shut off food and shelter.
The original lock consisted of a stray dozen birds that were found starving on the campus during the severe cold spell in the winter of 1908. The flock flourished, and now numbers about three score.
Rations Will Continue to be Serve Every Morning Until Warmer Weather Arrives.
DEAN BLACKMAR TO TALK
ON SPAIN IN AMERICA
Dennis Frank W. Blackman will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Spanish Civilization in the Southwest" before the monthly scientific meeting of the graduate society tomorrow afternoon in room 202, Administration. An important business meeting will be held following the lecture.
Prof's on Exposition Committee Chancellor Strong has appointed Professors A. T. Walker, P. F. Billings and H. A. Rice as Chair of the joint board of University Exposition. The student members of the board are Russell Bodman, Wayne Wingart and Orlin Weede. The joint board will pass on all matters of both faculty and student concern about the exposition.
Profs on Exposition Committee
Professor Thorpe, of the department of journalism, has been ill since last Thursday and unable to meet his classes on the hill. He will probably not be back before Wednesday.
Professor Thorpe Ill.
Father of Senior Dies.
The story that the bones of Comanche, the famous old horse which escaped death at the massacre of Cuske's force at Little Big Horn in 1876, were to be taken from their resting place at old Fort Lincoln and re-informed close to the monument of the battle field, came as a distinct surprise to the museum authorities at the University. The story was printed in the Minnesota Journal under a Sheridan, Wyo., date line; and was reprinted in Sunday's Kansas City Star.
Miss Nathana Clyde, a senior in the College from Kansas City, was called home this week by the death of her father. The funeral will be held in Kansas City Friday.
Dean Skilton will leave next week for a three days tour of the state during which time he will give organ recitals.
Dean Skilton to Tour State.
The surprise came because Comanche for several years has been resting in the University museum. Immediately after his death at Fort Riley, November 6, 1891, the body
was obtained by Professor Dyche, who had the skin stuffed and mounted in the usual manner. Since that time the mounted specimen has been on exhibition here.
The facts are well attested by army officers, and seem to admit of no doubt that the people who are performing the ceremonies at the Custer battlefields are in possession of the wrong skeleton.
In the records for 1891 of Troop I of the Seventh Cavalry, in whose care Comanhee was for many years on file in war department is found the following note: "It is worthy of comment that the horse, 'Comanche,' the survivor of the Little Bald Horn fight, died at Fort Riley on Nov. 6th of colic."
THEY SURE DESERVE
CARNEGIE MEDALS
Two Engineers Date up an Even Dozen Co-eds—For the Horrible Details, See Below.
Chivalry is not yet dead—at least not at K. U.
If you don't believe it, ask anybody who was at Wiedemann's between eight-thirty and nine o'clock last night and saw two brave men escort no less than ten girls thirti
It happened thuly. An engineer who lives 'way over on Mississippi street was feeling lonesome, and begged his chum to get him a date. Chum accommodatingly called up his girl and asked her help. She offered him not one girl but a dozen and as he was determined to be a sport or die in the attempt, he took her up.
Consequently every girl in the house had a date that night, and two men broke into the hero class—besides making a great hit. How glad the girls were that this is K. U. and not Cornell!
FICKLE WOMAN DOESN'T MOVE ABOUT, AT LEAST
Figures for Changed Addresses in Student Directory Show That Man is a Migratory Animal.
"Women are ever variable and uncertain," Mercury told Aeneas, but Mr. Virgil, that proponent of verse for modern youth to think bad thoughts of, didn't know the women of K. U. "Tis the men who are addicted to mental vacillations." Proof positive;
JOSEPH the registrar's office a list of changed addresses is being composed for the student directory. The list of women who have changed their abode is comparatively small (Vague phrasing, to be sure) But the men! Why, when the stoneogopher lady was down to the D's only, the inventory looked like a draft of the president's message. Mr. Foster hinted that a special edition of the Kansan might be necessary to publish the total list
BLUE ROSE DIAMOND CAST
EVEN SACRIFICIES DATES
Rehearsals for the "Blue Rose Diamond" are now being held at the Bowersock theater. The director Miss Hatt, has experienced considerable difficulty in finding a room large enough for the chorus to practice their dancing, with the exits and entrances. Over forty people are practicing every night and even the beloved Friday and Saturday night "dates" are being sacrificed.
NEW COURSE IN HEREDITY AND HYGENICS NEXT TERM
One of the new courses in the University curriculum next semester will be "heredity and genetics," an addition to the zoology department. This is the latest course in zoology and it's aim is to get at the scientific basis of heredity and its part in the evolution of animal life.
Ony such large universities as Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, and Wisconsin have this course at present and Kansas will fall in line. Zoology I is the prerequisite to this course which will be under Prof. W. R. B. Robertson at 9 o'clock.
To Study the Stars.
For those students who desire to be in the same class with Gilleco, the University is offering a new course in Theoretical Astronomy. The new course will treat of the methods for determining the orbits of the planets and comets. The course will be in charge of R. K. Young, instructor in physics and astronomy.
They'll Arrange for Those Exams.
Professors Arvin S. Olin, E. F. Engel, and M. E. Rice have been appointed by the Chancellor to arrange a schedule for the term examinations which will determine the fates of the weary students. The committee will meet today and the schedule will be announced Tuesday.
Directed High School Play.
Clarence Sowers has returned from Kansas City where he directed the play "Billy" which was presented Tuesday night by the high school students.
Announce Y. W. C. A. Meeting
The regular Y. W. C. A. meeting
will be held as usual Wednesday at
1:45 in Myers hall.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY
LIVES UP TO NAME
Statistics Show Vast Majority of Students are Native Kansans
HUSH! BREATHE IT SOFTLY
Cold Figures Prove Average Coed Has More Years to Her Credit (7) Than Hungry Stude
Statistics show that nearly three-fourths of the students attending the University are Kansas Jayhawkers, and that sixty per cent of these students come from towns and villages of less than 2,000 population. Registrar Geo. O, Foster, has compiled statistics which give a complete survey covering the students of 16 junior. Any freshman, sophomore, junior, senior and graduate can tell if he is too old or young to be in his re-creature class, or if his intelligence fluctuates in proportion to his age. From the following list of statistics, a general survey of the student is well shown :
Kansas born, Kansas bred, and Kansas educated.
78 per cent of the students were born in Kansas.
51 per cent are wholly or partly self-supporting.
63 per cent come from farms and villages of less than 2,000 population.
34 per cent come from farms. 69 occupations are represented by parents; one out of every three is a farmer.
The following is the average age by classes:
Class Youngest Oldest
All students. .15 38
Freshman. .16 25
Sophomore. .18 32
Junior. .19 25
Senior. .19 28
All students is the average age
Men Women
Freshmen . . . . . . . . . 19.6 19.4
Sophomores . . . . . . . . . 21 21
Juniors . . . . . . . . . 21.3 21.9
Seniors . . . . . . . . . 22.5 22.5
Graduates . . . . . . . . . 24.6 26.9
Dean C. H. Johnston Defines Purpose of Ideal Y.M.C.A.
FOR HIGHER EMOTIONS
"The ideal Y. M. C. A. is one where the highest emotions of every man can find a natural expression," said Dean C. H. Johnston in a short talk at the regular meeting of the University association Sunday afternoon "In pooling our emotions in such an organization as this we make them permanent.
"Membership in the Y. M. C. A. should not be accidental but should result from the desire for collective action toward an ideal which is greater than any of us and which we are not entirely able to understand."
Prof. F. H. Billings, vice president of the Board of Directors told of the origin of the Young Men's Christian Association. Ralph Yeoman, president of the University, is also a composer of Vic Larson, Itali Lake, Ehr W. Helse, and Ross Beamer song. Breathitt Robertson gave a mandolin solo.
Engineers Plan Topeka Trip
ENGINEER
Mung K. U, engineers are planning to attend the Kansas Engineering Society at Topeka, Tuesday and Wednesday. Prof. C. A. Haskins will read a paper on "The Scope Work of the Engineer on the State Board of Health." Prof. G. R. Jones will speak on "The Value of Pure Water." Hugh Cooper will give an illustrated lecture of his work on the Keokun dam and Lloyd Duffy will also talk on bridges and culverts.
Oread Debaters Elect.
At the election of officers for the Ordeal Debating Society, J. M. Johnson was chosen president; R. R. Rader, vice president; F. N. Anderson, secretary; E. J. Goppert, press correspondent; G. C. Moore, program committee; H. Adams, A. W. Ericson and G. C. Moore, membership committee; E. R. Moody, sergeant-atarms.