TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1912.
NUMBER 56.
EARLY LAND ANIMALS WILLISTON'S SUBJECT
Lecture Tomorrow By a Man Who Could Teach Anything in Catalogue
HE SPEAKS 14 LANGUAGES
And Refuses to Wear a New Hat Even When One is Purchased
"The Early Land Animals of North America" will be the subject of Dean S. W. Williston's popular lecture for the general public, which will be given Friday at 4:30 in the lecture room of Snow hall. The people of Lawrence as well as the student body are invited to attend. A second lecture, "Causes of the Evolution of the Animals of North America" will be given at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning at Snow hall. This lecture will be more technical but is open to the general public.
With the return of former Dean Williston to Mount Oread, several stories have come to light about his eccentricity. It is related that in the early days of the University of Kansas, Mr. Williston was asked by the Chancellor what he wished to teach "Anything in the catalogue" he replied. The former dean thanked him for his knowledge and his knowledge of various languages. When introduced to persons he used to try them out in various languages. It is said that he could speak seven languages, and read fourteen.
Like many other men, Dean Williston used to have a favorite hat. It was an old, battered relic, but was worn constantly upon all occasions. Some of his assistants thought of a plan to improve the appearance of their dean. They bought a new hat and placed it where the old one usually hung, and hid the battered hat in a far court. When Dean Williston started to go home he could not find his hat. He looked everywhere, and finally went home bareheaded, refusing to wear the new one.
FORMER DEAN TO SPEAK
IN CHAPEL TOMORRO'
Dr. Williston left here in 1902 to accept a position in the University of Chicago.
Dr. Williston was the first dean of the School of Medicine when that department was enlarged and made a separate school. This was in 1899 when a two year course was installed, which might be combined with the College course to receive a degree of A. B. in medicine or B. S. in medicine. At that time the requirements for admission to the school of medicine were the same as those required by the Collere.
Samuel Wendell Williston, former dean of the University School of Medicine and at present professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago will speak in chapel tomorrow morning. Professor Williston came here in 1890 to take charge of the first medical course installed in the University. But one year ago we grieved that the wine was offered. The instruction was merely preparatory for work in other schools.
NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED
ON UNIVERSITY PAY ROLL
The membership of the faculty of the University now totals 169. Of this number forty-three hold the title of professor, twenty-seven of associate professor, fifty-two of assistant professor, forty-five of instructor, and two of assistant instructor.
Besides the faculty 158 persons are employed on Mt. Oread in keeping up the grounds and buildings and in doing office work. There are 327 persons on the regular pay roll of the institution.
Thirty-nine members of the faculty have had the degree of Ph. D. conferred on them and the entire list shows that they are graduates from seventy different colleges and universities teaching here.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
M. Jinbo Takes Hon. Pen In Hand
He Rises to Ignite How Esteemed Highbrows is Many Better as Hon. Ivory Domes.
Masatarjo Jinbo has enrolled in the University of Kansas.
Be it known at once that Masarato Jinbo is not the name of a new breakfast food, a new kind of shrubbery, or the latest Oriental musical comedy. Masarato Jinbo is a young Japanese art goods dealer of Kansas City, and he attends the University through the United States mails.
Masataro Jinbo is very much in earnest in his work, as his letters to the Extension Division show. These letters, taken from the charm to the English language.
"In response to your esteemed letter under the date some time in last August of which it has been in my consideration to reply to, I have the honor to inquire the further details of it, as I desire to study only the political economy and the English specially in the correspondence probably intended for me. Names and have been in United States about eight years only, I am hardly to make the familiar expression in English."
Masataro's letters show care in the composition and misspelled words are perhaps less common than in the letters of the average native American. For over a year he has been corresponding with the Extension Department and in suavity and politeness his letters are models.
He wihes courses, to use his own words, "to get the modern commercial knowledge, to write the expository business contract nainer in English."
Masataro expresses himself as "very much satisfy with your worthy advice" and hopes "to make a good schooler under your favor."
Here's our best to M. Jinbo!
SWARTZ WILL SPEAK
Secretary of Student Volunteer Will Address University Y. M. C. A.
The speaker at the regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon will be Mr. Philip A. Swartz, traveling secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement. Mr. Swartz is a graduate of Lafayette College, class of 1910, and since 1912 has been in traveling work throughout the colleges and universities of the United States.
"Mr. Swartz is quite a young man, but a man of extraordinary personality and ability, as evidenced by the important position he now occupies," aid Roy Stockwell this morning. "He has a particularly strong record or scholarship and will be sent to Russia in the near future to work in the great student centers of the Russian Empire."
WILL GIVE TWO COURSES IN
COLUMBIA SUMMER SCHOO
Two courses in summer school work in Columbia University, New York, will be given by Prof. Chas H. Johnston, dean of the School of Education, next summer.
Arrangements have just been completed whereby Professor Johnston will give a course for high school principals on "Administrative Problems" and another to high school teachers on the "Supervisory, Curriculum, and Instructional Problems of the High School Teacher."
the trout for the Red Domino club play, "The Blue Rose Diamond," will be held tonight in room 116, Fraser hall, at seven o'clock, under the management of Miss Patti Hiatt.
There are several parts that do not require singing voices. Any persons who have an original stunt, or are instructed such a stunt, are urged to try out.
TRYOUT TONIGHT FOR CAST
OF DOMINO CLUB FARCELET
More than four thousand students have graduated from the University of Kansas.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
TERRIBLE TROUBLES
TORTURE MASQUE
Fire Escape Clingers Prove Unwelcome Audience
at Rehersals
The management of the Masque club is having its troubles already. This year "The Boys of Company B" is the offering of the club and in order to get ready for the two performances which will be given at the Bowersock theater December 17 and 18, the members of the cast, are forced to rehearse in Fraser hall. For the past few rehearsals William Cain, manager, has had to keep a guard at the fire escapes of the building to keep anxious students from hearing the play.
Manager Cain says there will be plenty of seats at the Bowersock and he wishes the students would not try to see the rehearsals as it gives him much worry. The members of the cast also dislike the idea of rehearing their parts before an unwelcome audience. It is hard enough to act in a room before the director to say nothing of working before critical students who look at them from hiding places.
NO MORE WILL TINY TOES
PEE PIMTIDLY FROM HOSE
That Darning Bureau is ready to begin work at once.
Five girls have put in applications for this work. The girls will be paid by the hour for the work done. All kinds of mendling will be received from the W.C.A. room until further arrangements are made for its disposal.
The bureau will operate on a strictly cash basis.
All work should have the name of the owner attached to it.
THETAS HOLD OPEN HOUSE
STUDENTS AND ALUMNAE
The girls of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority will be at home Saturday and Sunday afternoons to show their new chapter house to their friends. Town friends and alumnae have been invited for Saturday afternoon and on Sunday afternoon, the University students will be entertained.
FAIR AND COOLER TONIGHT
But You Won't Need Any Overcoat in the Library.
The Theta house is a handsome white Colonial house, costing $10,000. The first floor is finished in grained oak and has four rooms, a reception hall, living room, dining room, and kitchen. A large porch opens off the living room on the south side of the house. On the second and third floors are twelve sleeping rooms furnished in white and blue.
Prospects for good weather are more promising today with the assurance that a spell of fair and cooler weather is about to break upon us. The general indications point to a month of relatively cold weather with precipitation slightly above that of last month.
In view of these prospects and those offered by Prof. Walker on the low gas pressure, the library is preparing to accommodate more nightly inhabitants than have been on hand thus far this year. Better make your seat reservations early, in order to be prepared for the grand rush which will naturally accompany these conditions, aided by the fact that exams, are now only twenty-nine days off.
Prof. C. M. Young of the mining engineering department left today with a party of his senior miners for Lansing.
THEY WILL BE THE ONLY MINORS IN THE DIGGINGS
Hold on. Don't cheer yet, lawyers.
He didn't take them over to lock
them up until all danger of snow is
past.
Oh, no. They will be in the penitentiary for a short time. Then they will return.
The purpose of their visit is to collect material for senior theses which are required of all fourth year engineers.
LAWS PREPARE TO DON THEIR P. A.'S
Number of Scrimm Tickets
Sold Insures Success of Annual Affair
Boiled shirts and spike tailed coats are going to be much in evidence tomorrow night when the tenth annual Law Scrimimage will be held in the Fraternal Aid hall.
The laws are spreading themselves, to put it in campus vernacular, and are going to make this one of the big occasions of the year. They will have as their guests the thirty-two members of the football squad, the faculty of the School of Law and their wives, Coach and Mrs. Mosse, Coach Frank, Manager and managers of the Supreme Court of Kansas and their wives. All told, it will be an array of gleaning shirt fronts worth going miles to see.
"Tickets are going good," salia,
"Bob" Campbell this morning, and "I
would advise all who have not got
tickets to watch the game at
once, as they are going fast."
While he was speaking, a law student came up and handed out four dollars for a pasteboard to the african-American students. The stration of the demand for tickets.
"The laws know how to manage an affair like this," said another law who for various reasons shall be nameless. "They are not always stepping on each other's feet like the engineers."
Which remark may be construed as meaning that the love feast of the laws and engineers is ended, and this is going to be a great occasion.
WHY NOT TAKE GREENWOOD
INSTEAD OF OLD BOURBON?
Any county club that wishes to compete for the state spelling champion with the Wyandotte county club, the present champions, can get a match by accepting this challenge through the announcement columns of the Kansan. Bourbon county is preferred.
The foregoing is the result of willful action and premeditation on the part of the members of the Wyandotte county club at its regular monthly meeting last night at Myers ball.
Carl A. Preyer, head of the University piano department, played an original composition Tuesday as the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra.
When the captain of the Wyandotte team was asked why he preferred the Bourbonites he said that there are tales being circulated around the campus to the effect that system of spelling taught in the Bourbon county high schools the Wyandottes wished to prove that the Bourbons failed to take the advantage of this while they were in high school.
PROF. PREYER SCORES
IN CONCERT PROGRAM
the enthusiastic manner in which Professor Preyer's program was received is indicated in the following from the Kansas City Journal:
"The solist of the afternoon was Carl A. Preyer, head of the piano department of the Kansas state University, who played his latest and most pretentious composition, a brilliant concertstuk for piano and orchestra. This gifted musician is not heard in this community nearly as much as he complements deserve. His latest work is a distant advance upon what he has done in the past, a bold and virile conception admirably developed and proving Mr. Preyer a concertist and composer of his merit."
The officers chosen at the las meeting are: President, Mrs. Arthur Moon; vice-president, Mrs. L. A. Winsor; secretary, Mrs. A. J. McAllister; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Katherine Means.
K. U. Dames Elect.
The Taming of the Shrew was effectively accomplished to the extent of the first act by the K. U. Dames, which met yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. N. P. Sherwood.
Orthographics Are Decidedly Booming
Greenwood County Students Believe They Are the Guys That Put the Spell in Spelling.
Constantinopoliheredoodlesackpfeienmachergeselleshaft—this is the longest word in the German language according to Vice-Chancellor Carruth but the students from Greenwood county claim that they can spell any English word no matter if it is three feet longer than this.
"We have some word mongers in our county club that we think can outspell any organization from the International Hobo's Association to the Past Grand Order of Harvard Rhetoric Professors," said Denton Howard, president of the Greenwood county club this morning as he came into the office and asked us to run an announcement to the effect that "Greenwood county hereby challenges all county clubs of the University to an old fashioned spelling match to be held any time and any place that the 'accepting organization may wish.
"Any other county club that desires to accept the challenge may meet with our committee and frame up a set of rules. One rule that will probably be enacted is that cub reporters on the Daily Kansan and sign painters shall be barred from competition in said match."
The Greenwood county club is aiming at a revival of that good old standby that gave our fathers so much enjoyment in those "little red school houses." It decries the present mad scramble for psychological, philosophical, biological, and ethical education, and the mental element of putting the A, B, C's together in the right combinations.
TO PUBLISH POETRY
Wattles and Shuler of Wichita Write Volumes of Kansas Poetry
A book of original verse, written wholly on Kansas subjects and by Willard A. Wattles, a graduate of the University, and illustrated by John Shuler, another Kansas boy, both formerly of Wichita, will appear early next spring, according to a communication received this week from Wattles, now teaching at Amherst, Mass.
Two years ago Wattles, Harry Kemp, and others got out a book of poetry by University students called "Songs from the Hill." This new book will be entirely by Wattles, and in addition will deal only with Kansas subjects, endeavoring to typify Kansas by every possible means and by the things most characteristic to Kansas. It will contain the following poems: "Kansas," "My People," "May on Oread," "The University of Kansas," "Sunflowers in the Corn," and "The Prairie Wind."
Shuler, who will illustrate the book, is a graduate of Fairmount College and spent three years in the art institutes of Chicago and New York. He also worked for his work, and has one painting now on exhibition in Vienna.
Got Your Bugs Yet?
Already 170 persons have been accinated and 20 more are being
The typhoid vaccination will be given for the remainder of the month for the students who have not finished the treatment.
The treatment is administered by Prof. T. H. Boughton in room 203 Snow hall.
All students who have completed the vaccination are in good condition.
Rhodes Awards Delayed.
The announcement in regard to the Rhodes scholarships will not be made for several days, owing to the fact that the committee in charge has been unable to meet.
Tea was served before the meeting.
Y. W. Takes in 100 Members.
More than 100 new members were voted in and welcomed by Mary Redding, president at the recognition meeting for new members of the Y. W. C. A. yesterday.
CRIMINOLOGISTS TO CONVENE TONIGHT
Chancellor Strong Will Wield the Gavel Over Learned Delegates
JURISTS WILL HOLD TWO DAYS
to Speak.
Winslow of Wisconsin, Warden Codding,
Crumbine and Others
The first meeting of the joint session of the Kansas State Society of Criminal Law, the Kansas Conference of Charities and Corrections, and the Association of Probate Judges will be held in Snow hall tonight at eight o'clock. Chancellor Frank Strong will preside as chairman.
Three addresses are scheduled for the evening by Supt. W. B. Hail, president of the Kansas Conference of Charities and Corrections, Judge Roy T. Osborne, president of the Association of Probate Judges, and President of the Kansas State Society of Criminal Law and Criminology.
Sessions Start at Nine O'clock.
Sessions Start at Nine O'clock.
The societies will meet in three divisions from nine a. m. till 3:30 p. m. tomorrow and again in joint session tomorrow night. During the day the presidents of the three associations will preside over their respective meetings and Chancellor Strong will again preside over the joint session in the evening.
- The addresses to be delivered tomorrow are as follows: 9:00 a.m. "a. Study of Jails and Lock-ups—Needed Legislation", Warden J. K. Coding; 10:00 a. m. "Economics of Public Health", Dean S. J. Crumbine, Secretary State Board of Health; 11:00 a. m. "What is the State Doing for the Delinquent Boy?" Sup H. W. Charles of the Boy's Industrial School, Topeka; "The State and the Homeless Child", Miss Adla Lobdell, state agent, Orphans' Home, Atchison; 1:50 p. m. "Methods of Handling Insane Cases as Viewed by Probate Judge John Sims, Prosecutor Wyndotte County; 3:30 p. m. "The County Charity Work of Kansas", H. C. Bowman, chairman, state Board of Control; "The Funds to Parents Act of Illinois", Judge Merritt W. Pinkney, juvenile Court, Cook county, Ill.; 8:00 p. m. "A Judicial Recall That Failed", John B. Winslow, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin; "The Juvenile Court and Delinquent and Dependent Children of Chicago", Judge Pinkney.
Prominent Jurist Attend
Prominent Jurist Attend Other prominent jurists and public men present for the meeting are the following: Roy Carr, pro-bono counsel for Homeromony county; W. W. Piper, probate judge, Lyon county; F. F. Bain, probate judge, Neodesha county; Hugh Means, probate judge Republic county; B. E. Lindley, probate judge-elect of Douglas county; John Dawson, Attorney-general; and Sherwin W. Elliot, secretary if the State Board of Control.
"I estimate that there will be about one hundred delegates present for the meeting," said Prof. W. E. Hizzins, secretary of the Kansas Society of Criminal Law and Criminology, this morning.
A luncheon will be served at 12:30 tomorrow to the members and invited guests of the three societies, over which Vice-president W. H. Carruth will preside. Talks will be made at this luncheon by Judge W. F. Schoh, Dr. L. L. Uhls, and Warden J. K. Codding
RECTCTAL BY MARION GREEN
WAS VARIED AND PLEASING
Marion Green, the celebrated baritone, delighted a large University audience last night in Fraser hall chapel room with a song recital. Mr. Green's program was varied and well chosen. Classical or popular in a well balanced program. His encores were pleasing and frequent.
Professor Billings Lectured.
Professor Blining Lecture
have a lantern slide lecture last night in Snow hall, before the Botany Club, on "Infectious Diseases."