TOPEKA KAN.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 11, 1912.
EIGHT SCHOOLS WILL CHOOSE COMMITTEES
NUMBER 6.
Will Hold Elections Tomor row to Effect an Organization for Exposition
BOARD TO HAVE SUPERVISION
Will Direct Students' Exhibitions a Miniature World's Fair to be Held on Campus.
The school committees of the University Exposition will be elected to tomorrow morning at ten o'clock.
It will be the duty of the School Committees which will be elected by the various schools to see that their respective schools are represented to the very best advantage at the University Exposition. The affairs of the school will be almost altogether in the hands of these School Committees. The chairmen of the School Committees will be members of the executive board, which will have general supervision over the Exposition, insofar as the students are interested in the Exposition.
Th call for the election was issued this morning by Orlin A. Weede, president of the Exposition, and provides that committee of five members each be elected by the College, the Graduate School, the School of Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Medicine, the School of Pharmacy, and the School of Education. The elections will be held in the buildings of the different schools.
Mr. Weed desires that the committees elected meet to choose their chairmen as soon as possible, as the chairmen of the respective school committees are members of the Executive Board.
The president of the Exposition, two members of the executive board, selected by the board from its members, three faculty members, and the Chancellor, will compose what shall be known as the joint board, which will adjust everything of both faculty and student concern.
DANISH VIOLINIST
SHOWS RUGGED VIGOR
Skovgarrd and assistaut please Large Audience in Fine Arts Concert
Though suffering from a severe two weeks' attack of bronchitis which left him weak and unable to speak, Alex Skovgaard, the Danish violinist, assisted my Mme. Mary Heness, soprano, and Miss McLoung, pianist, neverless gave his concert in fell last night in Fraser hall.
"Tallahassee," by Cyril Scott, an Englishman, was designated to typi- American music through imitating native genius of negro melody.
The most conspicuous characteristics of Skovgård's playing were the rugged vigor and virgile swing with which he handled his selections, which are shown in the opening Sonata by Sjorgen and in his own composition.
It is interesting to note that Scott has never been in America, and wrote his music only on what he knew of America from a friend's letters.
Miss McClung made a very pleasant impression with the Bachsusoni Tocatta and its encore, a wedding march by Grieg. Mme. Henness was most effective in her presentation of Verdí's "Aria" and "Oh Dry Those Tears" with violin accompaniment by Skovrarr.
The valuable Stradivarius which Skovgård used in his concert was a source of great interest. The unusual singing quality of its tone was especially noticeable in the lower and middle registers. According to Miss McClung, no one ever touches the violin but Skovgård himself, and the big Dane guards the instrument every moment, never letting it out of his sight. He got it from the British Museum, where it landed after passing through a very interesting life.
SHIVERING STUDENTS CRY FOR CAFETERIA
Prospects of Boreal Winds and Slippery Adams Street Provoke Petition
The hungry studes have already begun to miss their old friend, the Cafeteria.
Blustery weather and foul will soon be upon us again, and people are beginning to realize it. Today a petition was started asking the regents to re-establish the cafeteria. Signers were plentiful.
The cafeteria was discontinued this fall partly because Dr. Day, director of the Home Economics department, needed its rooms for a sewing class. The matter of its permanent maintenance was also referred to the Alumni Association at its annual meeting last spring, but no great interest was shown in favor of re-establishment.
"The regents were in favor of again starting the cafeteria this year," said L. N. Flint, secretary of the Alumni Association, this morning. "Chancellor Strong and Secretary Brown made a search in the buildings for suitable rooms, but failed to find any.
"It was then left to the Alumni Association to act on the matter of furnishing a temporary structure in which to house the enterprise. In order to find out whether or not student support would justify such a proceeding we inserted a coupon in the Daily Kansan for several days, to be filled out and dropped in any café where they had been any day who was in favor of the cafeteria's being continued this year." Only three replies were received. Consequently we did not fel justified in working for the project.
"Personally, I am heartily in favor of the plan to begin again start a lunch room on the campus, and I believe if the students will let it be known that they want it, it will be put into operation."
JAP TEA TO BE ORIENTAL
6. U. Teachers From Island King-
dom To Describe Japanese Life.
A Japanese Tea, to be given this afternoon in Myers Hall by the Y. W. C. A. girls, promises something out of the ordinary.
A program will be given, which includes talks on Japanese life by Miss Lydia Lindsay and Miss Katherine Hansen, now taking work in Japan, both of whom have just returned from five years teaching in Japan.
Oxford Aspirants Must Wait. The meeting of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee has been postponed till Thursday, December 20.
The two little daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Smith, former of Lawrence and at one time missionaries in the Orient, will sing in Japanese. Japanese costumes will be worn by those taking part in the program.
To add another Oriental touch to the meeting, those who wish to attend will be tagged on the campus today with artistic hand-painted
Tea will be served by girls in Japanese costumes, and Japanese prints and curios, imported from Tokio for the occasion, will be displayed.
ADOPT CONSTITUTION
County Clubs Choose Laws by Which They Shall be Governed.
At a meeting of the Central Organization of County Clubs yesterday afternoon a constitution was read and adopted by the club. This constitution will go into effect after it has been published in the Daily Kansas. About twenty counties were represented at this meeting.
The next meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 and business of greatest importance will be taken up. It is therefore advantageous for every county to have its club organized before that time and to have its representatives present at this meeting.
Mr. "Jake" McCall of Wichita, who has been the guest of Henry Moore at Sigma Nu house for several weeks, has returned home.
STRANGE THAT ALL THE CO-EDS WERE DATED UP
Some people are born generous, some achieve it through the contrast presented by their fellow men, and one freshman showed he had it aplenty by calling up three different girls in a vain attempt to make a date for the football smokeon tonight.
This is what happened when he took down the phone;
"Hello, is this Gladys? This is Earl."
"Quite well, thank you. Busy tonight?"
ROOT
REFUSES JOB ANNUAL CONTRACT LET
"Suppose we take in the smoker.
I see the Kansan says the vaudeville is going to be better this year than ever before."
Gym Instructor Offered Goo Place as Director on Chicago Playgrounds
C. B. Root, instructor in the department of physical education, has received a call from the Chicago South Side Playground Association to direct one of the playgrounds there. He will not accept, although he passed an examination while in Chicago last summer which made him eligible for the position.
As director of one of the playgrounds Mr. Root would have had outdoors work most of the season. Incidentally, Chicago has one of the most extensive systems of recreation in the world. The state has complete control, a bi-partisan board governs the system, and it has been so successful that a movement started in Kansas City to establish such a system there has made rapid strides.
Chemists to Attend Banquet.
Prof. F. W. Bushong, E. H. S.
Bailley, C. C. Young, Ed. Weidline,
and Arthur Weith of the chemical
faculty will go to Kansas City Sat-
tural night to attend the banquet
of the American Chemical Society
when the society will hold its annual
banquet and the election of officers
at the Y. M. C. A. building.
Several of the members of the Kansas University faculty are candidate officers. A large attendance is expected as a good program will be offered.
Chemists to Attend Banquet.
Campbell Lectures on Lessing Prof. J. A. Campbell of the German department gave an illustrated lecture this week to the Deutscher Verein on the subject of "Lessing the Poet and Dramatist."
Professor Campbell spent several years in college with writings that concern the poet's life and the von Barnheim" collection is unique.
Miss Reynolds of the Fine Arts school sang three German songs at the close of the lecture.
"What makes you think there won't be any girls there."
The strains of the lifting melody floated faintly out on the evening air as the Hungry Stude, swaying his shoulders unconsciously, entered the little restaurant. Shuffling along, he elevated his clavicles in perfect unison with the tinkling rhythm of the piano that fed lavishly on the nickels of the "rag" loving customers of the place.
"Well, I didn't expect you to smoke; but you can watch the stunts."
"What have you girls got on for Wednesday night anyway? You're the third one I've called up tonight and none of the girls seem to want to go."
There's a reason and a psychological one at that. Listen.
"Suggestive as the lyrics of our popular songs are, the music is even more so," says Prof. Wort S. Morse of the School of Fine Arts.
"Take for instance, the piece, 'O,
Mistah Dream Man.' The sinuous
"O, Mistah Dream Man, Please let me dream some more—
"Although it is true that there is very little beauty in the melody of the songs, still there is a certain swing and rhythm in the music which has caused the people to take to it.
He seated himself and looked about. Everybody was "doin' it." Even the waiters slipped around with the same swaying movement. Why? For the same reason that the whole country does it.
Just like the dream I ___"
Tickets For 1913 Jayhawker Now on Sale by Senior Financial
FUNNY WE NEVER THOUGHT IT PSYCHOLOGICAL BEFORE
Financiers
"We are going to put out fully as good a book as the 1912 Jayhawker," declared Asher Hobson, manager of the Annual, "but I feel that the student body of the University must have been year that it is ready to support a book or class book or in future years it must demand a book superior to those published at other state institutions in the Missouri Valley."
Prof. Carl A. Preyer, with a new original composition will be the attraction instead of Mr. Smith. Miss Maude B. Cook will act as accompanist for Professor Preyer. Professor Preyer played his concerttuck in Kansas City last week with the Kansas Symphony Orchestra, and made a big hit.
PROFESSOR PREYER WILL
PLAY AT FRIDAY CHAPEL
Judge Smith of the Supreme Court will not be able to speak in chapel Friday on account of illness.
"The committee has met with success thus far," said Frank Carson chairman, this afternoon. "A thorough canvass of the student body will be made. The work will be completed as soon as possible in order that the manager of the Annual may know what to count or from the students. The fifty cent reduction should prove a substantia argument in favor of early purchase."
The finance committee of the sen-
or class is now selling tickets for
the annual which will appear next
pring. The amount charged for a
icket is $2.50. After February 1
he price will be $3.00.
The contract for the 1913 Jay-hawker was let yesterday to the Union Bank Note company of Kansas City, who also published last year's annual, according to Asher Hobson, business manager of the annual.
rhythm and cadence of the music in that piece are far more demoralizing than the words. The same is true of the majority of the popular 'rags' with which the country is flooded.
"There is something about that type of music that very few people can resist, and it is not uncommon to see persons who are normally staid and serious swaying unknowingly when one of these pieces is played. I write such music is an artist, for no other artist could produce such result."
So there you are. It's the demoralizing music; therefore the reformers should go after the music writers. They are the real cause of the war and if the reformers would restore the young people the old stately dances that the forbears enjoyed so much they music do something with the melody men.
But it can't be helped. It's the psychological effect of syncopated melody. We are powerless in the grasp of the rag-time composer.
But the "rag" is with us. The formations hammer-locks and death-grips used by the terpischorean devotees of the old school are tabooed. "Mistah Brown" and his "rag-time" "violin" in full possession.
PRELIMINARY TRYOUT FORTUNATE THE MAN FOR DEBATORS TODAY WHO HAS A BLUE TAG
Fifty Men Expected at Firs Speech-Making for Oratory Squad
Fifty men are expected to attend he first debating tryout to be held in room 313, Fraser hall, at 3:30 thirtime.
Six minutes will be allowed for each speech. A dozen men will be chosen for finals for the debating squad who will hold an elimination tryout next Wednesday. From this散兵担阵 for the Oklahoma Missouri, and Colorado contests will be chosen.
Debating relations with Oklahoma, which were somewhat strained for a while this fall, have been amicably resumed. South Dakota and Iowa, who wrote in for debates, will not be met this year.
Minor, Wilbur, Carson, and other members of last year's debating squau will be out for the team and will undoubtedly be strong contenders for places on the regular squau.
"The question on competition offers a fine opportunity for someone to argue Socialism," said Emmett Bennett, president of the Debating prospects in speaking of the prospects for the future if they would like nothing better than to have someone present the Socialists' side of the argument today."
Professors Gesell and Dykstra wi. judge the contestants.
DEAN GREEN TO BE SPEAKER
AT SEDGWICK CO. BANQUET
Meeting Called Thursday Night to Organize County Club for Big Xmas Feed at Wichita.
With "Uncle Jimmy" Green as the speaker of the evening, the Kansas Club of Wichita and the Sedgwick County Club of the University will hold their fifth annual banquet in the rooms of the Kansas Club in Wichita on the night of December 27th.
In order to hold up the University end of the banquet a meeting of all Sedgewick County students is called for Thursday night, 7 p. m. at Myers College, a county club, elect officers, and lay planners, for making the banquet a big affair.
A. M. Ebright, former baseball coach at the University is president of the Kansas club.
Will Join Dean Templin.
Will Join Dean Templin.
Mrs. Olin Templin and daughter,
Marjorie, leave this afternoon for
Brandon, Florida, where they will
join Dean Templin and spend the
Christmas holidays.
Frances I. Powell, a junior in the College, has pledged Pbeta Phi.
FOOTBALL STAR DIGS DIRT
FOR NEW ADM. FOUNDATION
About 1300 cubic yards of rock have been taken out of the excavations for the second part of the new administration building and the work is not more than one-fifth done. A force of eighteen men is at work drilling. They are using a steam drill and high crane and a great quantity of earth but do not expect to complete the excavation before the last of March.
This will give some idea of the size of the project and the great addition it will be to the University when completed. It will be by far the largest and finest building on the campus.
"Box" Dahlene, of the all-victorious team of 1908, has charge of the excavating work.
Mechanicals Will Meet.
The Student Section, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, will hold its weekly meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at 1301 Ohio street. E. A. Van Houton will talk on "The Concrete Construction at Keoku. Fairchild and Degen will give magazine reports.
Democrats Will Meet
Democrat Will Meet
The Democratic Club of the University of Kansas will meet at the Phi Alpha Delta house Thursday evening at 7:00 o'clock. It is important that every democrat be present as important business will be brought up.
Only Students Who Have Already Bought Tickets May Attend Smoker
PREFERENCIAS ARE COSTLESS
Eats, Drinks, Smoke, Laughter,
Hilarity, Joy, Merriment, Mirth
Oratory, and Wit to be There
Five hundred tickets have been sold and, these with the members of the team and other guests, will crowd Fraternal Aid hall to the rallery.
You're too late to go to the big annual football smoker if you haven't already purchased that ticket. None will be sold at the door tonight and removed from sale before noon today. The house is sold out, so to speak.
The whole gamut of vaudeville will be staged at 8 o'clock tonight from boxing exhibitions to giddy Gaby Deslys. The doors will open at 7:45, and the program will start promptly at eight o'clock.
The following is the complete program:
Opening address, Charles W. Coats; talk, Chancellor Frank Strong; "How They Did It." Coach Arthur Mose and Asst. Coach Frank; address, "Uncle Jimmy" Green.
"Sam's Dreams," a one-act lyrical drama presented under the auspices of the Pan-Hellenic Council, directly night run in the American music hall.
Boxing Match—Coach Frank's Unknown "White Hopes." "Whirlwind" Smith and "Wharffat" Dingman. Glee Club Quartet.
"A Night in a Hen-House or Virtue is its Own Reward," presented by the senior society of Sachems. Dramatis Broilers—Nellie, the beautiful cloak model, Mr. E. O. Rhodes; Bertha, the sewing machine girl, Mr. ?????; Sadie, the Queen of the High Binders, Mr. W. K. Bramwell; Gaby Deslys, the Salvation Army lissie, Mr. R. H. Clark; Lillian Russel, beauty-hint house matron, Mr. R. W. Magill, and Hazel Claire Foghorn, the prize Gabazabess from Cawker City, Mr. H. F. Rambo.
*K-Nights* by Black Helmets—Cast: "Skid" Howden, "The Pledge." "Big" Hatchet, "My Cigarette;" "Pug" Morris, "Big Bass Viol;" "Nutz" Hurst, "Canary;" "Mitch" Mitchell, "Piano-man;" and members of Black Helmets, "Bonch."
Presentation of "K's," Manager Hamilton and "Uncle Jimmy."
JOE BISHOP INJURED BY
FALL DURING REHEARSAL
Joe Bishop sprained his wrist in the rehearsal of "The Boys of Company B" by the Masque Club in the Dick building last night. He is the principal in a blanket-tossing scene in the third act and it was while they were rehearsing this scene that the accident happened. Instead of hitting the bucket when he came down he hit the trumpet and the result was a sprained wrist. The accident will not prevent his keeping his part in the show as the performance is not given until next Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
THE BLUE BLOSE DIAMOND CAST TO BE NAMED SOON
"The successful competitors for places in the Red Domino play, 'The Blue Rose Diamond', will not be announced until Friday," said Manager Campion this morning. "There is so much good material to pick from that it is hard to decide just what people will fit the characters best." "There will be a rehearsal for the chorus Thursday night, but as yet we have not definitely decided on the personnel."
Former Students to Wed.
Miss Blanche Benedict and Mr. Walter Varmum, two former students of K. U. will be married at the home bride in Lawrence this evening. The School of Pharmacy in 1910 and is now with Woodward & Co., in this city.
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