STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TOPEKA KAN.
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6, 1912.
NUMBER 57.
FRATERNITIES SHOW HIGHER SCHOLARSHIP
Greek Letter Men Surpass Barbs in Matter of Grades
SAME IS TRUE FOR CO-EDS
Girls Pass Ninety-Four Per Cent of Work Against Eighty-Eight for Men.
It isn't often that the fraternity man has his inning, and when he does, everybody ought to know about it. Registrar George O. Foster gave him one today in his annual report to Chancellor Frank Strong on student scholarships.
Of the twenty-five men who failed completely last year, but one was a fraternity man. The statistics gathered by the registrar show that the 224 members of Kansas fraternities passed in 89.45 per cent of the 883 members compared with the 88.35 per cent of the 1001 non-fraternity men.
The sorority girls Mr. Foster found to be making even a better showing than the men. They passed in 96.85 per cent of their work, a little more than one per cent higher than the 95.03 grade received by the other women students. But twenty per cent of the members of Greek societies proved deficient in their studies and none failed completely. Of the non-sorority girls, twenty-two per cent did unsatisfactory work and .7 received poor grades in all their work.
Registrar Foster explains the showing made by the fraternity members by the fact that the societies pay careful attention to the static standsings and make organized efforts to improve scholarship.
A healthy rise in scholarship on the part of the general student body is pointed out in a comparison made in the report with the preceding year.
A feature of the report was the superiority of the women over the men. Forty-five per cent of the male students registered black marks in part of their courses in contrast with the twenty-three per cent undergraduates in the same class. The women passed in ninety-four per cent of their hours, six points better than the men.
ROCK CHALKS TRAVEL
HOME VIA PALACE CAR
Greenwood County Students to Rida in Luxury and Boost Mill Tax From Pullman Seats.
Woodrow Wilson travels in his special car, so does Bill Taft, and also Ex-Teddy Roosevelt; but never in the history of the University has an organization of the rank of a county club attended to dozzie the takeoff of cars, bringing themselves into town in a special car, and a palace car at that.
At a meeting held Wednesday night, the Rah Rahs from Greenwood county made arrangements whereby a special car will leave Lawrence December 20 with more than 150 of Jay Hawk enthusiastically welling.
"Ricker Chicker Bum Ricker Chicker Bum Greenwood Greenwood Makes things hum."
The special will proceed to Topeka where it will gather up a half dozen Ichabods from Washburn and on to Manhattan for a bunch of Aggies and then on down the line to the trembling Christmas turkey.
Something like eight or ten of the bunch play musical instruments and as the jerkwater train pulls into Eureka the strains of "Oh Where, Oh Where is Old Missouri," will tell the sleepy inhabitants that the University is awake and needs the mill tax.
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BILLINGS IS HONORED
Will Head Committee to Study Method Of Fighting
Germs
Dr. F. H. Billings, associate professor of Botany and bacteriology has been honored by receiving the appointment of chairman of a national committee or five to make a plan of methods for fighting disease bacteria.
The appointment came from the president of the association of state and National Food and Dairy Departments and the commission was chosen from among authorities all over the United States. The other members selected are Dr. D. J. Healy of Lexington, Kentucky, Dr. J. S. Abott of Austin, Texas, Dr. J. H. Wright of Fargo, North Dakota, and G. W. Stiles of the United States Department of Agriculture.
The purpose of this commission is to carry on research work and make tests to determine a standard of methods for waging war against Austria and to present their results to the association for its adoption.
The commission has been at work for almost a year now and many important results have been accomplished. At present work is being done to establish the standards. The next meeting of the commission will be in Mobile next May.
JUDGES IN SONG CONTEST
FIND EFFORTS UNSUITABLE
Prize Money Turned Over to Student Council Until Distinctive Kansas Anthem is Found.
To encourage the writing of a typical University of Kansas football song, fifteen dollars was turned over to the Men's Student Council this afternoon by the judges in the Daily Kansan song contest.
No award was made in last month's competition because no fitting song was submitted and the officials decided to create a fund to be held until a real prize song is written.
"The judges, felt that no worthy Kansas song was presented in the Daily Kansas contest," said one of the judges this afternoon. "That the students did not care to adopt any of them was shown by the fact that at the Missouri game, only the old chants were used. The prize of fifteen dollars will be held by the Men's Student Council until some author appears who can compose a worthy song."
The judges in the contest were Professor D. C.rosso and Martie Thomas.
PAN-HELLENIC TO GAMBOL
GAILY AT FOOTBALL SMOKES
The foball smoker to be given at F. A. A. hall next Wednesday evening under the direction of the Men's Student Council promises to be the best ever yet.
One of the big features will be a gambling playlet given by members of the Pan-Hellenic in length and atone worth the four-bits price of admission. Considerable expense is being entailed by the council to get up the smoker, but the sale of tickets, which started today, indicates a large crowd.
The program and feed will eclipse those of last year's smoker who was so successful. Tickets may now be obtained from agents on the bill for fifty cents.
Frank O. Marvin, dean of the School of Engineering is expected to spend his Christmas vacation in Lawrence.
DEAN MARVIN HOME
FROM MICHIGAN SOON
Recent reports from Northport, Michigan, where the dean has been, say that he is "feeling fine" and on his way home now. Nothing definite can be obtained as to the present whereabouts of the dean but it is rumored that he is stopping in Chicago for a few days and will be home some time in the near future.
Before commencement last spring Dean Marvin went to northern Michigan to recuperate after he was down.
Carl Logan, a sophomore in the College, is spending a few days in Topeka.
ONCE A JAYHAWKER,
ALWAYS A JAYHAWKER
Student of Forty Years Ago Says Kansans Excel In Research
ONCE DEAN OF THE MEDICS
Gives Annual Sigma Xi Address to
Members of Local Chapter This Afternoon
This Afternoon.
"Half the research workers in my line of work in the United States are from Kansas," said Dr. S. W. Williston, head of the department of paleontology in Chicago University, speaking in chapel this morning.
Speaking in a reminiscent vein Dr. Williston worked out the idea which seems to cling with everybody that has ever lived in Kansas —"Once a Kansan, always a Kansan."
Dr. Williston was at one time head of the University Medical School he is here to give the annual Sigma Xi conference in Fraser hall this afternoon at 4:30.
According to his story, there are four persons living who received degrees from the University before he was here, which was just forty years ago. "I am not a graduate of the University of Kansas," he said "but better still, a graduate of the state of Kansas."
Dr. Williston gives the Kansas spirit of liberty and equality and human sympathy as the thinns which Kansas means to outsiders, and attributes his success to the discipline he received while one of the few score students that in his day made up the University.
WM. CAIN TO CHICAGO.
According to him, Kansas students are more aggressive and therefore excel in research work in competitor with students of Eastern and Middle states.
Makes Arrangements for Special
Scenery for Masone Club Play.
Mr. William Cain, manager of the Masque club, will leave to oorw morning for Chicago where he will make arrangements for some special scenery to be used in the club's production of the "Boys of Company B" at the Bowersock theater; December 17 and 18.
His work deals with the problems of mining mountain coal in seams that stand almost perpendicular, owing to volcanic action, which, according to Professor Haworth, is a difficult engineering problem.
Special drops depicting scenes of the camp of Meadow Greys on the Hudson and the army scene will be brought from Chicago especially for use in two of the acts of Rida Johnson Young's clever comedy-drama.
For the past year he has been assistant engineer for a British Columbia coal company forty miles north of the Line, and after January 1 will be head engineer.
John Love, '10, a graduate of the School of Mining, passed through Lawrence yesterday on his way to his home in Arkansas City to spend the Christmas holidays.
LOVE IS MINING COAL THAT
VOLCANOES SET ON END
ADVOCATE PENSIONS FOR NEEDY MOTHERS
Criminology Conference Will
Probably Adopt Resolutions for Such a Law
GIVE SALARIES TO CONVICTS
Over in the cold, damp and dreary basement of Snow hall, three shivering and frightened monkeys are crouched against the wall waiting and watching fearfully, for their fate is unknown. The only thing they are sure of, is their meals which are delivered with the same regularity that one finds in the cell of the convicted murderer who is under the close supervision of the "Dead Watch."
OH,SHADES OF DARWIN! THIS IS A PLAINTIVETALF
However, these young and tender simians, descendants of our own for-bears, are not paying a penalty to society for having violated one of its many laws, but it is barely possible that they will be made to share
Judge Smart Believes Innocent Medi
in the discovery of a preventative.
Should be Paid for Time in Penitentiary.
A pension law for worthy and needy mothers, the raising of the age for compulsory education from fourteen to sixteen years and the abolition of the ice system for the compensation of probate judges were among the important changes in the laws of kansas advocated by Governor Frank W. Perry of the three legal societies in session in Snow hail this morning.
Supt. W. H. Hall, president of the Kansas Conference of Charities and Corrections advocated strongly the adoption of resolutions asking for the passing of a mothers' pension law.
"In the law of 1911, he said, "we have provision for the city's caring for the family of the fireman who has lost his life or his efficiency as a bread winner in the discharge of his duty. This is a laudable and worthy expenditure of money. Would it not be wise and fair to make similar provision for the maintenance of the family of a poor widow who has no way of educating her children other than by her own labor? Is not her family of more value to the state than the money it would take to educate them?"
"The innocent should no longer be punished for the crimes of the guilty as is the prisoner's family," declared the judge. "The state should no longer take his earnings from his wife and children. Nor should an innocent citizen suffer the (Continued on page 3.)"
Picture Show Censorship.
Supt. Hall then made a statement of the resolutions which had been passed by the society of which he is president calling for the extension of the jurisdiction of the probate court to include criminal and civil jurisdiction, the adoption of a law abolishing the fee system, judges and placing them on adequate salaries, and public defense in criminal trials.
“Our conference believes that these resolutions look to the public good, and if enacted into law would benefit’' declared the superintendent.
Convicts Deserve Pay.
Probably the most radical changes were put forth by Judge C. A. Smart, president of the Society of Criminal Justice, advanced the idea that prisoners should share of their earnings while in the penitentiary, and that citizens found innocent of the crime of which they were accused should be paid for the time they were held prisoners.
Judge Roy T. Osborne, president of the Association of Probate Judges advocated the change in the limit of the age for compulsory education to 18 years old. He also suggested stricter censorship of motion picture films.
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or possibly the cause of one of the many terrible diseases to which the flesh of man is heir to.
The whole department of entomology maintains a silence regarding the fate of these hand-organ adjuncts, that would make the Sphinx sound like a Fourth of July orator. They refuse to utter a word which would throw the slightest glimmer of light on the disposal of the shrinking, chattering, anthropoids, huddled in the basement. There they are now, but who knows how much their deaths, should they be forced to step over the great divide into the celestial hereafter of the monkey, will benefit humanity?
Annual Formal Party of School of Law Tonight at
F. A. A.
Music, lights, dancing, refreshments, gearing shirt fronts and evening gowns will feature the tenth annual Law Scrimeography given tonight at the Internal Aid hall in honor of the 1912 football heroes of the University.
The grand march will start at nine o'clock and the dancing will continue throughout the evening, interrupted only by refreshments, which will be served in five courses.
The dance programs are on purple leather, tied with white strings, the School of Law colors. On the front of the poster is the letter "K" on it. Below in the nier is an "LL. B." They contain the program of dances, the names of the members of the football squad, and other material which makes them a worth-while souvenir. The attendance tonight will be large and the laws will have a number of distinguished men as their
COMPETITION IS NOT NEEDED FOR EFFICIENCY
Combination is Better, the Decision at the K. U. Debating Society Last Night.
Is competition essential to the attainment of industrial and social efficiency? No! At least that is the decision reached by the judges after weighting the arguments pro and con at the clash last night at the meeting of the K. U. Debating Society.
Donald Joseph, Hugh Adair, and Ira Irwin who set forth the points against competition, winning the decision, argued the monopolies can be controlled, that the wastes of competition should be avoided, and that the efficiency of controlled monopoly is much greater than that obtained under cut-throat competition.
George Marks, Webster Kimball and Fred Soper were the opposing speakers.
FIRST CHRISTMAS TEA
HAD LARGE ATTENDANCE
About 300 girls enjoyed the Christmas tea given yesterday afternoon in Haworth hall by the ladies of the faculty. Mrs. Frank Strong and Mrs. M. R. Sterling greeted the young women at the door. Mrs. James Green and Miss McEntire presided over the table.
The room was attractively decorated with Christmas greens and bells. On the tea table was a miniature Christmas tree and red candles.
WEDDING CEREMONY WILL BE HELD IN PHILIPPINES
Romance Begun on Mt. Oread Will Culminate When Bride-to-be Reaches the Islands.
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Half way around the world to be married is the trip Miss Pearl Stucky of Formosa, Kansas, a university of Kansas graduate, started upon Wednesday night. Her husband-to-be, Joseph Pratt, has a civil position in the islands, and was assigned the ceremony. The marriage will take place immediately upon Miss Stucky's arrival in the Philippines.
The romance was begun when Miss Stucky and Mr. Pratt were students in the University. Miss Stucky was widely known at the University. She was president of the Woman's Student Government Association, and a member of the Phi Beta Phi sorority. She was graduated from the College. Mr. Pratt is a graduate of the Engineering school, and formerly lived at Phillipsburg, Kansas.
Beatty Gets Promotion.
Beaty Gets Promotion.
Jerome Beatty, formerly a member of the Kansan board, and a K. U. graduate who has been very successful in newspaper work, was promoted this month to the position of Sunday editor of the New York World. For the past year and a half he has been doing special assignment work on the Globe.
K. U. EXPOSITION IS PLANNED FOR SPRING
Scheme to Show Working Exhibit of every Department Is Launched
WEEDE INVENTS THE PLAN
hancellor Strong, Student Council,
W. S. G. A., and Members of
Faculty to aid the Project
"All Theory and no Practice" is the impression of many people of the state, in regard to the University. That is the general impression held by some people of universities in general. In order to bear this belief, and to show the people just what the University has for the children of the state, a plan has been drawn up by Orlin A. Weede by which the citizens of Kansas can see with their eyes the things that are done by University students. It is proposed that a University Exposition be given on May 2, and 3, 1913. It is to be a college fair modelled along the regular "World's Fair" line. It can be made as interesting in its way as any of the larger fairs.
The plan has been indorsed by Chancellor Frank Strong and the University Council, the Men's Student Government Association, and the Women's Student Government Association. The Chancellor's statement is as follows:
"I have been very much interested in the exposition plan since it was brought to my attention, and I sincerely believe that an exposition of the kind suggested would be of great benefit to the people of the state as well as to the University. The University Council has carefully weighed the points for and against such an exposition and has found that it would be advisable to sanction and support a University Exposition on May 2, and 3, 1913. The students can depend upon the co-operation of the whole University."
What K. U. Could Show.
The limited knowledge of the average person concerning the function of the University and its service to the public is astonishing. Because they have no children many people believe that they can deny no benefit from a University. Others are convinced that Lawrence is merely a place to have a good time. Most people must be shown before they believe, and a University Exposition is designed to show that K. U. students do work, and benefit the state by that work.
The plan, in brief, is to give working exhibitions of the various departments of the University in the various buildings on the days mentioned. Visitors would be shown the serious side of the school's activities and could see at a glance the work of each department.
It is planned to hold at the same time several meetings of interest to outsiders and also the annual high school track meet. Parents' Dav will also probably be included in the scheme so that the fathers and mothers of the students will have the best opportunity of seeing just what the University is accomplishing.
Many Interesting Exhibits.
For instance, instead of laying the finished products of Fowler shops on some dark shelf, let them be placed out in the open for public scrutiny, from the crude chain-links to the most delicate instruments in machine construction could be grouped together in typical camp life on the frontier around drafting tables covered with maps and profiles.
All the other departments of the school could be similarly depicted The plan will be submitted to the students soon and they will be given an opportunity to vote on its adoption.
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