UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 13, 1912.
NUMBER 62.
REGENTS TO ASK HELP ON WATER SITUATION
Will Request Kansas Legislature to Appoint Committee to Investigate Conditions
NEW ENGINEERING COURSES
Delving Civils and Electricals Will Have More Opportunity to Hold Noses to Scholastic Grindstone
As a result of a resolution passed by the Board of Regents in its session here yesterday, the legislature of Kansas will be requested at its next meeting to appoint a special committee to investigate the water situation in Lawrence and the matter of fire protection of the University
A number of other important matters came up and were acted upon. It was decided to place two new five-hour courses on the schedule of the School of Engineering. The petition for the bacteria was read and placed on file.
In addition Miss Emma Bechellt was appointed supervisor of the Bell hospital at Rosedale and the degree of Bachelor of Arts was granted to Mrs. Persons; Margaret D. Darrah, Robert A. Hoffman, and Elmer R. Hoskins.
The new courses in engineering will be a general course in electrical engineering for civil engineers and one in advanced electoral laboratory for senior electrical engineers. Both courses will be offered next semester.
Club Developing Into Strong Organization—Allied With National Association.
UNIVERSITY RIFLE CLUB
ELECT THE OFFICERS
ELECT
The K. U. Rife Club, which is allied with the Niffy Rifle Association, is rapidly developing into an expert organization. The following officers have been appointed for all of the divisions except those meeting Tuesday and Thursday evenings and on Saturday mornings. Monday evening division: A. J. Weith, capitan; A. A. Armage, range judge; Wednesday evening division: U. O. Haworth, captain; U. O. Meridith, range judge; Friday evening division; Mr. Scott, captain and A. Sterling, range judge.
The standings of the teams have been raising steadily and the highest score yet made is 84 standing. A very good ruling has recently been put into effect. It was the outcome of a suggestion made by Professor Harvey who all filled in an ammunition he bearded from the range, found that the smoke cartridges were clogging the guns and making the shooting inaccurate.
UNIVERSITY POSTOFFICE
RECEIVE CHRISTMAS SEALS
The University post office has received a consignment of 2500 of the Red Cross Christmas Seals. These seals are issued every year by the National Tuberculosis society and the money derived from the sale of them is used in the prevention of that disease. They are sold for one cent and can be placed on the back of all mail matter.
The idea of the seals originated about twelve years ago when Jacob Riis, a well known social worker of New York City, received a tuberculosis stamp from Norway. He then wrote an article about the queen looking stamp and it was published in the Outlook. Miss Emily P. Bissell, secretary of the Delaware Red Cross Society, saw the opportunity for its use here in America and started on a campaign to that effect.
Last year 330,000 were sold in the United States and judging from all indication the amount this year exceeded that of all former years.
Judges Liked The Gruh
Judges Liked The Grub.
Prof. W. E. Higgins received a letter of thanks from Judge W. O. Parker of Emporia in which the home economics department was complimented on the quality of the lunchmen served to the visitors at the joint meeting of that judicial societies on last Friday.
COLLEGE COST CLIMBS
Board Rates Have Doubled in Last Twenty
Years
Registrar G. O. Foster has found that the cost of an education at the University of Kansas has almost doubled in the last twenty years. The greater part of the increase is due to the cost of board, which has advanced 40 per cent. The fees remain the same as in 1892.
In the same time the cost of board has increased 50 per cent at Williams, 30 per cent at Wellesley, and 22 per cent at Harvard. Smith is the only college which shows no increase in cost of board. The average increase in board for the college for which statistics have been taken was 33 per cent. The rate of increase in tuition was 50 per cent.
Below is a table showing the percent increase in cost of board and tuition in some of the colleges:
Board Tuition
Amherst 18 27
Columbia .. 0
Dartmouth 50 46
Harvard 22 0
Princeton 35 6
Smith 0 50
Tufts 33 25
Vassar 16 200
Wellesley 30 16
Williams 50 33
Yale .. 0
Yansas 40 0
CAIR AND WARMER—IF WEATHER MAN KNOWS
The weather man continues obli-
gious. He promises fair weather for tomor-
day.
"Fair and warmer." Another of these bracing autumn days, while we are holding our breath and fearing old Mistress will forsake and spoil us with weather. The Kansas might get poetic over this, but you can do your poesy.
COMMITTEES CHOSEN FROM ALL SCHOOLS
Each Elects Five Students to Plan for University Exposition
That the students are taking an active interest in the University Exposition is evidenced by the fact that the elections for the committees from each school have been well attended. Elections in the different schools were held this morning. The committee of the collegelege: Frederika Hodder, Elizabeth Ifeeson, Lina Coxedge, Alfred Waddel, and Arthur Perry.
At a meeting of the Medical School held this morning the following were elected as a committee to represent the school in the University Exposition: Lee Hoffman, chairman; Ernest Macy and Roscoe Word, all of the scientific department here and E. W. Mundell and R. M. Athay of the clinical department at Rosedale.
The College Graduate.
He lets his business slide once more With Bill and Jim and Tom. When they go back to college for The January prom.
A man who loves his school at all Finds life no idle dream. He has to take six weeks in fall To coach the football team.
In business comes another break
When he packs up his grip
To go and help the glee club make
Its February trip.
No use in going back to work
When March comes down the line,
For then the man who doesn't shirk
Must coach the baseball nine.
Linn Students to Meet.
—K. C.Journal.
All students from Linn county will meet at the home of Dr. Alberta Corbin, 1108 Ohio, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. Matters of special importance will be discussed and all students are urged to be present.
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BOYS OF COMPANY B STAND AT ATTENTION
Masque Club Soldiers Rou Copyright Enemy and Prepare for Battle
Through the influence of Paul Gilmore the Masque club will not have to pay the extra $500 royalty demanded by Jules Murray, who owns the copyright on "The Boys of Company B."
Charles C. Younggreen who is directing the production for the Masque club and who supported Paul Gilmore when he starred in the play wrote to Paul Gilmore asking him to use his influence in having the somewhat excessive royalty reduced. Gilmore took the matter up with Jules Murray and the result is that the Masque club will pay only $100. The following night letter was received by Younggreen from Mr. Gilmore this morning:
"Best wishes to yourself and the Masque Club in producing the Boys of Company R." Have Murray, Murray, Murray, $100. All kinds of luck.
Paul Gilmore.
The costumes and scenic effects for the show arrived in Lawrence the day before yesterday. The cast has already had two dress rehearsals at Lewersock. All is in readiness for the first performance Monday night.
Old Grad Writing Scenarios.
"Heredity," a strong moving picture film put out by the Biograph company and appearing at a downtown picture show this week was "Maynard Young, who graduated from the University Fine Arts school in 1910.
Mr. Young was a student on the hill last year, and is now engaged in concrete work with his father. During his spare time he writes moving picture plays and has sold several recently.
In an address before the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University, Chester S. Lord of the New York Sun, claimed that the newspapers of today are better and more truthful than ever before.
D. Y.C.S.E.
Getting back to the old home town a day or two before Christmas and trying to buy gifts from what is left at the eleventh hour is a sad experience.
It is a needless courting of dissatisfaction.
Kansan advertisers are showing big lines of everything that any member of the family would like.
You can go home with nothing to worry about—problems solved; gifts all ready for the big day.
You can look to your heart's content.
The Kansan merchants want your trade and will help you make the just-right selections.
Try the common sense method and see how well it works.
Do your Christmas shopping before you start for home.
You can buy at leisure.
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JOLLIEST OF JOLLY HOLD FORTH TONIGHT
Knights of Transit Will Give Dance in Gym This Evening
The School of Engineering will give a Christmas dance in Robinson gymnasium tonight. This is the third dance which the engineers have given this fall and as the other two were classed as being the jolliest parties of the school, those who are going to attend are looking forward to this one with great expectancy. The students will be imported from Topeka to furnish the music and refreshments will be served during the evening.
Charles J. Hainbach, chairman of the committee in charge of the affair, says that a little surprise will be offered in the way of a novelty in lighting effects. No moonlight dances will be given but during almost the entire evening the soft, luminous glow of electric bulbs will be the only illumination.
In talking about the affair another one of the committee said, "We certainly are going to have a pleasant dance tonight as we won't have to be so careful about watching out for fellows stepping on our toes now as some of our members have gone over and enrolled in one of the schools on the east side of the campus."
WHY NOT DO IT?
WHO WANTS THE JOB
OF ICE MAN NOW
How'd you like to be the ice man? The ice man continues to work—not at putting up ice, as you might think, but at selling it to his regular customers. Regularly he comes in with campus and delivers his frozen cargo.
He was working this morning,
wearing an overcoat, gloves and ear-
flaps, and in his attire there was no
big bare-armed cloak of summer.
Christmas Vespers Sunday.
The regular Christmas vesper service will be given by the University vesper chorus Sunday afternoon in Fraser Hall at 4:30. It will be entirely musical and will contain selection and vocal pieces. Professor Preyer will play a Nocturn in F major and will play with Professor Skilton a duet from Beethoven.
All members of the chorus are requested to be present at 2:30 for
On every hand you'll hear the howls of self appointed gods, who criticise the acts and words of other crumbling clods. The style in hats, in women's dress, and cigarettes, and such, are raved about by Anti-league leagues, that they slip their clutch. Just now the latest stunt is knocking on the bunny dance, or any ragtime movement that "just makes your shoulders prance." Now as I see the thing today, I view not with alarm, the growing tendency to rag; please wise me up; what harm? We ought to bless the guy that wrote the music which compels, and punctuate the balmy night with loud and joyful yells. I thank the man who writes a song that makes my pulses sway; the joy of living comes from art that makes emotion play. I like to live, that much I'll own, to drink the bloomin cup, until the benches all break down. In this, I'm not alone. So full of sorrow is the wold, I've always thought it best, to take the happiness that comes, and tolerate the rest. Now you old howlers in your lair, are talking from the mire of everlasting ignorance, come out and comb your hair. The thing you howl about is not as bad as you suppose. A growing evil in the land: Come on, blow out your nose.
FRANK'S PUPILS LEARNING
While scuffling in their room at 909 Vermont street last night Emory Rinker broke the nose of his roommate, Loren Lashbrook.
Broken Nose the Result of Delayed Swing and Delayed Dodge
The two were rehearsing one of Coach Frank's boxing lessons, when Rinker combined a delayed swing with a quick body turn and landed one on his roommate's nose. The bridge of the nose was broken.
PONCE
Lashbrook has returned to his home in Kansas City. Both are freshmen in the University.
Six girls are enrolled in the short agricultural course at the University of Wisconsin.
TO BUY COAL IN OPEN REGISTRAR PROPOSES
If Present Coal Supply Is Not Enough for University's Needs
Warm Rooms! No Colds! N
Coughs! No Sickness! No Docto
Bill to Pay!
This is not an advertisement of a radiator manufacturing company or ventilating concern but merely explains the conditions which will exist in regard to heating the building of the University this year.
The students will not receive any vacation this winter similar to those which were granted last January on account of the lack of coal for it was decided at yesterday's meeting of the regents to buy coal in the open marsh or state penitentiary at Leavenworth was unable to furnish sufficient coal.
At present there are just four carlords of coal on hand.
The money to purchase these 300 tons of coal will be taken from that company for scholarships or for scholastic purposes as the legal tender due no funds for emergency purposes.
UNIVERSITY GOSPEL TEAM
WILL GO TO EFFINGHAM
Conduct a Series of Meetings During Christmas Vacation in County High School Town.
A gospel team of five men from the University Y. M. C. A. will conduct a series of meetings at Effingham during the second week of the Christmas recess. Roy Stockwell, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at the University returned weeks later from Effingham where he had made arrangements for this meeting.
The K. U. men will work with a local committee and the object of the meetings is to build up the religious interests and the Y. M. C. A. in that town; and incidentally to interest the students of the Atchison county high school, located at Effingham, in the University. Most of the meetings will be religious in character, but one night will be devoted to "stunts."
PREYER'S COMPOSITION BRINGS APPRECIATION
"Concertstuck" by Univer sity Professor Enjoyed By Students
Long chapel this morning was made up wholly of a musical program.
Professor Preyer of the School of Fine Arts, received an appreciative tribute from students and faculty of the University this morning when he played his "Concertstuck," the one he composed with such favorable comment last week when he gave it at the Kansas City Symphony orchestra concert.
Assisted by Miss Maud Cook, Professor Preyer brought from a crowded chapel applause such as few persons who have appeared in chapel this year have received. Had it been a football rally such an applause would have been only perfunctory; but the evident pleasure with which the student received showed that the student beamed at the work of a University professor who does not "hit the line hard" or out sixty yards.
Other music was furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Rose, with the Bulgin revival meetings down town. Mr. Rose sang "Three for Jack" and responded with an encore; Mrs. Rose gave the waltz song, "Carmena" and also received a liberal encore.
Like Unto Hotcakes
"The Y. W. C. A. Kansas University calendars are selling very well indeed," says Miss Mollie Carrol, Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. "There are a few fine Japanese prints left, which can be purchased at the Y. W. C. A. room."
Phi Delta Theta will hold initiation Saturday for Humphrey Jones and Alf Harris, of Emporia; E. Lee Heidenrich of Kansas City; and Roland Boynton of Los Angeles.
Mr. Ira Bermont of Junction City it visiting at the Sigma Chi house.
REGISTRAR PROPOSES EDUCATIONAL CIRCUS
George O. Foster Outlines Plan to Take University To The State
HOLD MEETINGS IN TENTS
Traveling Exposition Would Give Week's Program in Cities
Visited.
Registrar George O. Foster thinks that the real value of the University Exposition, to be held May $Z_{2}$ will come through showing the taxpaying citizens of the state the work being has outlined a plan embracing his has outlined a plan embracng his ideas.
"The show on the campus will be of value in that the citizens who actually come will see the University in operation," said Mr. Foster, "but the next step is to take the University out into the state.
"If the idea were adopted by Kansas it would make the University well and favorably known where before it has been known only vaguely or not at all. It would break down the already weakened barrier of educational exclusiveness, and more important still, it would be one more layer to the chain of mutual betrayal. It would emphasize the essential point that town and country are one community. The expense could be minimized by using faculty members and men provided by the State Board of Health.
Same Plan at Minnesota.
"Minnesota is working some such scheme. The plan is something more than University Extension. It might be called an 'Educational Circus' in the business world, but it should hold the shows. To all intents and purposes a representative portion of the University—faculty, students, and equipment—is temporarily detached and transferred to other parts of the state, thus actually extending the benefits of the state's costliest educational plant to a wider field than ever before.
Week-Long Programs.
The plan as conducted by Minnesota has been approved by the United States Bureau of Education. The idea is to spend a week in each community. Each day of the six is devoted to some special topic, with lectures and demonstrations during the day time and entertainments at night. A sample week is as follows: Monday, business men's day. There are lectures on all kinds of topics interesting to business men, as well as a few talks of a more general nature. In the evening the University Glee club entertains.
Tuesday is art and literary day, with lectures on libraries, children's books, women's clubs, civic betterment, playgrounds, the drama, and similar subjects. There is a reading hour in the afternoon, in charge of a trained reader; and an industrial aunt or uncle who probably put on here in May. In the evening an illustrated lecture on art o- a kindred topic.
"Wednesday is home welfare day. In the day sessions such problems as 'The Human Beings of High School Age,' Why Babies Die, rational living, kindergarten, domestic science and industrial education. In the evening, an illustrated lecture on "How Kansas Educates Her Children." Thursday is public health day, with lectures and exhibits in keeping with general topic. In the evening dramatic readings, etc. Friday can be devoted to social centers and similar discussions. Illustrated lecture on Liquir Air. Saturday, Town and Country Day,' with lectures on 'Insects Dangerous to Crops,' care of orchards, etc. In the evening one of the University dramatic clubs will give a play."
Registrar Foster's plan will probably be submitted to the Board of Regents in connection with the main plan of the University Exposition.
A. G. Knobel, of St Louis, international secretary for the railroad department of the Y. M. C. A., is visiting Roy Stockwell and other Y. M. C. A. men this week.
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