STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
SUGGEST PLANS TO CLEAR POTTER LAKE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 9, 1918.
NUMBER 69.
Skating Enthusiasts Would Call Meeting to Discuss Schemes
EXPERT ADVICE FREELY GIVEN
Faculty and Students Unite in Proposing Schemes for Removing Flakes From Surface
An engineer, conspicuous in dramatic circles and the Dean's office, suggests that all students cut class Friday morning after chapel and sweep the pond with brooms. It is estimated that the snow so cleared off, if piled on the banks, would form a shelter ten feet high entirely around the hyperbolic paraboloid pond and thus insure warm skating.
With four inches of good ice on Potter Lake and prospects for a long spell ahead, skating enthusiasts of the University are planning to have President Coats of the Student Council call a special mass meeting tomorrow after chapel to devise means to sweep Potter lake. Chancellor Strong may be asked to preside, and the Glee club may sing.
All of the girls interviewed on the subject are highly enthusiastic over the skating prospects. One suggested that by serving chocolate and nuts a considerable sum might be made for the girls' dormitory fund.
Would Have Snowball Fight.
Another engineer suggests (mischievously) that the laws and engineers扣住 another snowball fight on the lake, instituting that no speeder method of removing the snow could be 'bound'.
Another suggestion from the engineering school is to attach a line of hose to the heating plant and blow the snow off with supercooled steam. By this means the surface of the pond could be made smooth as smooth as possible by skaters to see their reflections in the mirror-like surface of the lake.
Raymond is Pessimistic.
Professor Raymond, of the English department of the engineering school is pessimistic and the feasibility of the steam plan.
The steam being be damp, will freeze to the heet', declares he. "What you want me to do?"
A Chemistry II student, who is not flunking, suggests that his fellows be allowed to collect the snow for use on their fevered brows from now on till quizzes are over. Electric fans have also been suggested.
But we've saved the best suggestion—the one that strikes US most favorably, at least—for the climax. On hearing of the plan, Geo. O. Foster, took his pen from behind his ear, marked a red cross on the record, and delivered the following statement:
"Let the report be circulated that someone lost a dollar while crossing the lake and see how quickly the snow will be removed."
Further suggestions may be handed in at the managing editor's desk in the Kansan office at any time before the meeting is called.
IGNORANT OF PARCELS POST
Because High School Didn't Under stand University Pays $1.60.
Somebody's ignorance of parcels post regulations cost the University Department $1.60 worth of perfectly good stamps. A package library, weighing ten pounds, was returned from a high school, fully prepaid with parcels postal stamps. But the package was printed matter, which is third class, with a rate of two ounces for a cent. That made 80 cents due, but in cases of this kind department regulations call for double payment, so the $1.60 was exacted—and no credit was given for the stamps already on the package. Printed warnings will be attached to each package hereafter.
Another man, desiring to express his gratitude, enclosed a beautiful letter of appreciation in his package. This made it first class, and cost the Extension Department 72 cents. Letters will be taboo hereafter.
2,575 REASONS FOR THE BUDGET
As students of the University of Kansas we are not likely to forget why the University is asking the legislature to appropriate $1,914,784 for its use during the next two years.
We know that there is only one reason
Not buildings for the sake of buildings.
Not more ground for the sake of a larger campus. Not maintenance merely to keep a plant running. But US, 2575 of us.
We are the reason for this large budget.
And behind us our parents and! the other Kansas citizens who wish to give us as good a chance as possible to amount to something—to be worth something to the state.
Eighty per cent of us have met the proposition half way by earning part or all of our expenses while in school. Those of us who are doing this feel that the University is not unreasonable in asking the state to spend $200 a year on each of us. Most states do more than that.
Those of us whose parents are footing our bills feel just as strongly that we ought to have as good advantages as the students at the other state universities. Our parents feel that way about it.
We are not likely to forget that we are the reason why the University is asking an increased appropriation, and we hope the legislature will not forget the reason.
Somehow we feel that if they remember us they will give us what we need.
WILCOX ON SPORTS WILL SLICE MELON
Greek Professor To Tell of Student Council Gives Left Olympic Games and Ancient Athletics Overs to Mill Tax and Exposition
"The Olympic Games" is the subject of a lecture to be given by Professor A. M. Wilcox tomorrow afternoon in room 206 Fraser. Professor Wilcox will show pictures of the Olympia with pictures of the games and the famous athletes at that time, lie will tell of the history of the games and their purpose, importance and influence upon the Greeks.
"The Greeks believed that those who were highly developed physically were also high morally and mentally. Everyone was given a physical training and all were athletes in our sense of the word."
"Athletics," declared Professor Wilcox. "originated and were developed to a high degree by the Greeks. During the middle ages they were and our esteem of the athlete today is due to our study of Greek life."
WILL STILL LEARN "AMO
TE" AND "ICH LIEB DICH"
Registrar Foster Says Only Latin and German Will be Accepted for Entrance Next Term.
The canges made in the language entrance requirements will not go into effect until the first semester of next year, according to a statement made yesterday by Registrar Geo. O. Foster.
At present the candidate for admission must have three years of either Latin or German. No other languages are accepted for entrance. Under the new ruling three years of one language are required, only two of which must be in the same one and there will be five to choose from instead of two. In addition to Latin and German, Greek, Spanish, and French will be accepted.
SHALL OLDER BROTHERS
BE ADMITTED TO COUNCIL
A mass meeting will be held at the time and the plans of admitting the Graduate School to represent them will be submitted to the students.
Shall the Graduate School be admitted to the Men's Student Council?
That is the question that will come up before the students of the University Tuesday, January 14th, at chapel time.
Prof. in Grip of Grip.
At present the Graduate School has no representative on the board, and as a result the board has no jurisdiction over the school. The students of this school have therefore not as much interest in the affairs and student activities.
Boynton Delights Large Audiences.
Prof Arthur J. Boynton, of the economics department, failed to meet his classes on the hill yesterday.
Miss Marjorie Barstow, of the English department, has been confined to her bed all week with an attack of la gripe. Her classes have been met by fellow instructors. She probably will not be able to meet any of her classes this week.
Left-overs from the football smoker and the football collection before the Missouri game were large enough to insure the Student Council extra funds to push the mill tax and exposition campaigns.
Out of the football collection the council has given the mill taxers $25 to pay for the papers sent out all to the campaign for the adoption of the tax.
Out of the $45 left over from the football smoker the council has allowed $25 to the University Exposition fund. At present the Exposition needs funds for advertising purposes and the university needs, need, felt that no contributor would kick on seeing what was left of his donation given for that work.
REID IN CHAPEL TOMORROW
EDUCATION IN KANSAS DROPS TO LOW COST
Cartoonist of Kansas Farmer to Give Illustrated Lecture
The meeting of the faculty scheduled for this afternoon has been postponed indefinitely.
The Mathematics club of the university will hold its regular meeting Monday at 4:30, in room 109 Administration building. Clarence McCormick, president of the club, will read "Influence on a Trisection Solution" and Catherine McCreath will give "How to Tell Fortunes Mathematically."
Albert T. Reid of the Kansas Farmer will give an illustrated lecture at chapel tomorrow. Mr. Reid has been well known as a cartoonist in Kansas for a great many years. He is an interesting and humorous speaker, and draws very rapidly.
Appropriation for K. U. One Third Less Than That of Average University
The meeting of the French Circle was postponed from this week to next Tuesday when Mr. Cowper will be the club on "LeChateau de Chilleau."
He has traveled about the state with various speakers as a "chalk talk artist," and is experienced in this work. Arrangements have been made to have Mr. Reid talk to students especially interested in journalism after chapel.
SEE DANGER IN ECONOMY
Regents Declare That Quality of Instruction Will Fall if Adequate Appropriations Fail.
Kansas is spending one-third less to provide its sons and daughters with a university education than other states. The cost for educating each student at the University of Kansas in 1911-12 was $157, while similar instruction at 101 institutions investigated by the Carnegie Foundation averaged $225.
Old Grads Tied for Life.
Two K. U. grads. Edith Mary Willis, '11 and Richard LeRoy Douglas B. L. '09, and A. M. '10, were married in Lawrence on December 30 and will be at home in St. Joseph, Missouri, after January 10. The groom is a member of the firm of Brown & Eustin, attorney for the Grand Island Railway Co., and one of the oldest legal firms of St. Joseph.
Figures Too Low, Says Regents.
In giving these figures, however, the report of the board of regents points out that the facts shown contain a warning rather than matter for congratulation: "Too low a cost is not a thing to be proud of. A university feels all the economic changes that any other institution feels. Increasing cost elsewhere must be felt here. It is just as impossible for an educational institution to get an output of quality without paying for it what is necessary as it is for the manufacturing plant."
A report on sixteen universities just completed shows that the average per capita expense for 1909-10 was $222, and the total varied among the institutions as follows: Wisconsin, $311; Michigan, $204; Nebraska, $143; Missouri, $200; Cornell, $364; Columbia, $274; Yale, $290; Iowa, $181; Chicago, $246; State, $181; Stanford, $246; California, $330; Illinois, $184; Texas, $160. Student fees turned over to the state reduce the net cost in 1912 in Kansas to $157.
Another fact brought out by the tables is that if the amount spent on higher education in Kansas be divided by the number of inhabitants the amount per inhabitant is far below the average of states maintained in this spite of the fact of the remaining high per capita wealth of Kansas.
Costs Individual Citizens Less
Moreover if the assesser valuation of the taxable property in the state be compared with appropriation for University education in Kansas it will be found that a dollar's worth of property bears less burden for the support of the state University them in almost any of the other states maintaining such an institution.
'PRUNES' OR 'SHAKESPERE ALL ALIKE TO GREENWOOD
When the boys jump from the
The Extension Department enrolled yesterday Paul T. Barton of Clarksdale, Miss., who is the first student in that state to enroll.
"P-a-s-s-m-t-e-h-e-p-u-n-e-s-" spelled a "pealed the county student at his boarding club down on Ohio street last evening as he desired to save the seasonable fruit shoved in his direction not that there was any secret about prunes no, not at all; everybody eats 'em, anyway.
The cause was this: Before the holidays Greenwood county challenged all county clubs to a spelling match, and they have now started training. They have determined to train from treason by the Mozart Music Club to the most contests, if it is possible with training to do so.
Original Whistle Hater Discovered
warm blankets into the frosty air and see their breath change to snowy vapor but nothing of their footwear they do not say "Blankety-Blank" On the contrary they cool down and spell it out:
"S-h-a-k-e-s-p-" one of the Green-wood students began before he could urpress himself.
In English class the other day the teacher asked who wrote Paradise Lost.
The tryout for the team will be held next week and after that date only members of the team will spell "p-r-u-n-e-s."
"W-h-e-r-c-i-n-t-a-r-n-t-a-t-i-o-n-a-r-e-m-
y-s-m-y-O"
Tricecatops Heard 8 O'clock Signal
2,000,000 Years Ago and Still
thinks of It Much as We Do.
"Oo-Oo-O-Oo," shuddered Triceratops on his platform in the Museum this morning and his petrified bones rattled so that the pteridactyl shivered in sympathy, "There goes that whistle again."
"What makes you shiver, it's only six below?" asked the little ochippus as he manicured his middle finger nails. "Are you as cold as all that?"
"No it's not that," said he of the weatherbeaten face," but one morning in the neolithic age me and Jimmie (Jimmie was my young boy) were basking in the warm sunshine here on Mt. Oread when we heard a noise just like that whistle. Right over there where the Engineering building stands we saw a horrible monster over 70 feet long coming after us with a terrible look in his eyes.
"It was a Dinosaur that sought to destroy us and I picked Jimmie up in my mouth and ran, but though I am 35 feet long myself I could not get away from a monster 100 per cent longer.
"Oh papa," cried Jimmie to me, his three wee horns turning pea green with fright, 'what shall we do?'
"The Dinosaur whistled his horrible cry and the next moment—well, that night the sun set on the bare bones of me and Jimmie. That was a couple of million years ago. The next time I saw the sun he looked up at me and tried to dig up and set on this platform. He had to use iron braces on my legs."
"Now can you imagine why I shudder at that whistle?"
INDUSTRIAL FELLOWS
WIN 3 PATENT SUITS
The steam in the radiators hissed
The Julius Karpen Fellows; L. V. Redman, Archie Weith, and F. P. Brock, who are a party to a fourcornered patent application suit have been cleared in all except one of the suits. It seems that four companies discovered a varnish resistive plaster, about the same time and nearly all simultaneously applied for a patent on the article.
Redman, Weith and Brock Establish Claim as Inventors of Plastic Varnish After Litigation
The Fellows have been cleared absolutely in the suits of the Backeland Company and the Steinmetz Company, who declared that they themselves had first discovered the substance which will mend breaks and not be subject to the effects of weather and other chemical changes.
It only remains with the outcome of the suit with the Goldsmith Company of New York to determine whether or not Redman, Weith and Brock will receive their valuable patent grant on a substance which will undoubtedly be of great commercial value.
JUNIORS TO ELECT MANAGER
For the first time in the history of the institution, the members of the junior class will elect the managing editor of next year's annual in the middle of the year. The election will be held February 18th.
Will Choose Man This Year Who Will Put Out Annual.
In order to insure more familiarity with the management of the business of the annual, the manager who is elected this year will work with the present manager, and the board. As the election is not so far off, the junions who are to elect a manager this year for next year's book should be careful, and think about the best man to elect. As it is so far ahead of the time that the man is to serve, the candidates should be announced so as to give the students time to decide who they want.
Dean Skilton to Tour State.
Dean Skilton of the School of Fine Arts will leave soon on his second concert tour of the winter through the state. He will give concerts at Sabetha, Hiawatha, and Seneca, and will lecture to the pupils of the high schools on "American Folk Songs."
Miss Rebecca Ott of Ottawa, has returned home after a short visit with Constance Fennel at the Pi Phi house.
OREAD DEMOCRATS
ATTEND INAUGURAL
Will Have Place of Honor in Ceremonier at Topeka Monday
Both Schools Will Send Bands and Large Delegations to Honor Governor on Taking Office
K. S. A. C. ALSO REPRESENTED
the democrats of the University will have a place of highest honor among the organizations marching in the inaugural parade of Governor-elect Hodges at Topea Monday. The University band of forty pieces will march down Kansas avenue headed by a carriage containing Chancellor Strong, "Uncle Jimmie" Green, Richard Hepworth, president of the K. U. Hodges-for-Governor club, and "Chuck" Dolde, president of the K. U. Democratic club. Following the band will come the members of the Hodges-for-Governor club of K. U.
While no definite understanding has been had with the faculty, it is generally understood that all those who attend the ceremonies will be excused from classes. This is because the inauguration is an event of interest to all Kansans and comes but once in two years.
The Kansas Aggries have arranged to send their band and a big delegation to the affair and the students to make as much as creditable a showing.
The local democrats will leave here at 9:20 o'clock Monday morning in a special train over the Santa Fe and all those who desire to remain are invited to an informal inaugural ball reception given in Gov. Hodges' honor.
There will be a special returning to Lawrence over the Union Pacific after the dance in the evening, leaving Topeka about eleven thirty. This will enable those who wish to dance at a "real inaugural ball" to have that pleasure.
At a regular meeting of the K. U.
Democratic club held last night at
the Phi Pai house the following men
were appointed as a committee on
arrangements: Guy Von Schrilt, Web
Holloway, Richard Hepworth, Mat
Guilfoil, Jake Long, Dick Gardner,
and "Chuck" Dolde. All those who
are interested in going may see any
of the above named men before
Saturday for more definite particulars.
K. N. G. IS HOPING FOR
MUCH WARMER WEATHER
"Twill be a second Valley Forge next Monday when the University K. N. G. migrates to Topeka to assist in the inauguration of the Governor, white gloves, no sock caps and no boots, the thermometer hovering around the zenith mark. The order to attend the ceremonies was received this morning.
"I am going to slip a pair of other gloves inside of my white ones," remarked one of the boys this morning.
"And you will see a stocking cap inside of my regular blue one," returned another. However, the company will decide those questions.
In one respect the affair at Topkea will not be like Valley Forge. Our ancestors at the memorable encampment in the east were considerably hard up in the matter of eats. The Kansas National will have a big feed free, after the cold storage exhibition of the day.
WYANDOTTE SPELLING
TEAM WANTS MATCHES
The Wyandotte county club spelling team is looking for worlds &conquer.
"Two weeks before the vacation we issued a challenge to any club in school for a match but as yet nothing has come of the challenge." Raymond Russell, captain of the Wyandotte county club spelling team.
"We have had challenges," said Mr. Russell, "but none of them have come from organizations worthy of our consideration."
Send the Daily Kansan home.