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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 3, 1912.
NUMBER 54.
IT'S TIME TO GET EXTREMELY BUSY
Those Thirteen Days May Prove a Hoodoo to the Unwary
EVEN MINUTES ARE NUMBERED
Thirteen more days—beg your parndon, we forgot you were superstitious—ninety-one hours, then (that is college hours), or fifty-four hundred and sixty minutes from noon today, and the whistle releases you for seventeen days of loafing. You'll then have four full days to think why you didn't bring her a ten pound box instead of a three-quarters size, and to explain to dad that you'd like to take back the telegram you sent on November fifteenth saying you'd rather have a ticket to Lincoln now than a gift from Santa Claus six weeks later.
But Think of Those Seventeen Mornings When You Can Forget the Alarm Clock.
And when you get home just bear in mind that if you sleep all day Sundays it'll be only fifteen of the days you're awake till the whistle will arouse you at t:30 for a dozen and a half day's run till semester exams. $18+13=31$, or the number of college days till exams begin.
After the exams it will be approximately five and a half weeks till Easter and after Easter ten weeks till final begin. There will be three holidays during the second semester besides the Easter recess—Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays and Memorial Day.
PROMINENT JUDGES SPEAK HERE FRIDAY
Justices Pinkney and Winslow to Adress Three Charitable Societies
Judge Merritt W. Pinkney will speak on "The Juvenile Court and Dependent Children of Chicago." Judge Pinkney is in charge of the juvenile court of Cook county, Illinois. He will speak later upon that of the Penman Law, a topic that is being widely discussed at this time.
Judge John B. Winslow, chief justice of the supreme court of Wisconsin, is listed among the speakers to appear during the joint conventions to be held in Snow hall this week.
Judge Winslow is noted for the efforts he has made to raise his court from a machine, to a court of justice. His subject will be "A Judicial Recall That Failed." His talk will not be a mere technical discussion of the judicial field of securing improvements to meet the present day conditions.
“Everything is coming along in good shape,” is the way Manager Cain expresses himself in regard to the annual Masque club production which is to be staged the 17th and 18th of this month. The play staged this year will be the first time this play has ever been staged by an amateur company and is a royalty production.
MASQUE CLUB WILL GET
ITS SCENGER FROM N. Y
At present Manager Cain is negotiation with Delacorte of New York for the scenery necessary for the staging of the play. The club was unable to secure the contracts which would warrant its use in the production and for that reason is making arrangements in New York.
Will Address State Editors.
Prof. Marle Thorpe of the department of journalism left last night for Colby where he will address a meeting of the Southwest Editorial Association.
SPAIN IS IGNORED,
SAYS PROF. OWEN
Romance Language Instructor Declares that Dons are Most Progressive
"I believe that Spain is more grossly ignored and more grossly misrepresented by Americans than any other nation of Europe," declared Prof. A. L. Owen in speaking of that country in chapel this morning, "and yet, contrary to the general opinion, it is one of the most progressive of European nations in many respects.
"Not long ago I heard a University professor say that the study of the Spanish language was not a part of an education, but I am glad to say that he was behind the times. The language and literature of sixty millions of civilized Christians should eighty be and is fast coming to be an object of an election. Spanish literature is one of theophlist known to man."
Professor Owen said that the fact that we got our informatim about Spain through England accounted for the prejudices we hold, because the prolonged religious antagonism between the two nations has produced an ill feeling that time has never altogether effaced.
The King of Spain has been aided by a progressive parliament in encouraging foreigners to visit there. Professor Owen said, "A few years ago a custom law was passed by which foreign baggage was not to be inspected or taxed upon the statement of the owner that it contained nothing that was not for his own use.
"In 1910 the first 'student residence', corresponding to oru fraternities, was established at the University of Madrid with seventeen colleges. It now has fifty members, owns its own house, and a good athletic field.
"Spain is one of the few countries on the continent possessing a woman's college. One was started in 1880 by the wife of a missionary and it now has an enrollment of several hundred young women from Spain and many other countries, and is equipped with a splendid-five-story building, containing complete and up-to-date laboratory equipment in biological and physical sciences as well as domestic art.
CLUB OF CLUBS WILL ORGANIZE TONIGHT
Representatives of All Kansas County Societies Will Meet in Fraser Hall to Draw up Platform.
The Confederation of County Clubs will meet this afternoon at 4:30 in room 116 Fraser. This meeting is of great importance and all the counties should have their representatives there.
By this time all counties are supposed to be organized and at the meeting today representatives will formulate plans whereby the united efforts of the counties can be concentrated on the problem of the mill tax which is of vital importance to the University.
At a meeting November 19 the Confederation was organized, officers were elected and plans discussed to begin active work in the counties in the interests of the University. Over forty counties had been organized up to that time and were represented by their presidents and secretaries while others had representatives there also.
"Mr. Green has sung here before and needs no introduction, as all who heard him last year remembered the fine quality of his voice and will not miss this second opportunity to hear him," said Dean Skilton this afternoon.
The concert by Marian Green, the celebrated baritone, will be given tomorrow night at 8 o'clock instead of Thursday evening as was first announced.
BARITONE WILL SING
IN CONCERT TOMORROW
D. O. Smith of Rosseide is representing the local chapter of Nu Sigma Nu at the biennial convention of the fraternity in Baltimore this week.
WUXTRY! SUB-FRESHMAN QUALIFIES FOR SOB-SQUAD
(Monday, November 25, was a holiday for University students, but not for the Oread high school. Here is what a student in an Oread rhetoric class wrote as his theme for that day!)
OO! !—OO! —O! O! O!—Oread!
Oread! Oread!
Up, up from the frosty, dun-hazed up of Mount Oread, where the early morning mists of the day after the day after the day the Tiger's tailpiece was twelve times knotted on the wind-blowed sod of banner-decked, yell-chanked McCook field, a lonesome water flaited out in long, piercing, heart-bursting accents of anguish. Against the speechless walls of the museum it wandered and was lost; toward the immobile face of the rock, down the bleak, chilled road in front of a deserted law building,—aye, even unto the tall sentinel chimney of the heating plant that no longer vomited off great goo-ey wreathes of Weir City slack smoke, it (the wall) staggered, painfully rose again, again stumbled, and with one final laugh, strongly suggestive of midnight sons, sank down and was
But in front of Myers hall, reluctant, indignant, resentful, with the taste of burnt omeal strong on their tongues, a little band of patriots stood, wavered, and slowly melted into the arched entrance.
Again a lonesome wail came, like a faint whisper. "Oread," it said, and echo silenced it in its clammy November clasp.
again lost. A painful silence fell all and was shattered into a thousand shimmering fragments. In the trees she wrestled; he grappled; the trees wept; it was raining.
Monday morning it was, and high onto the cold, breakfastless hour of eight; but the cement walks along Oread avenue did not creak under the footsteps of a hurrying throng. From vacant eyes, bleary from a week of excitement, the windows of Fraser looked down on a deserted campus. Not a sound sounded on the hill; a dullness suggestive of the day after the day after the day after a great celebration enveloped all in its sable robes—muffled it, to be up-to-date.
It was Monday, the 25th. There was no school on the hill; but there was school at the Oread high school.
CONGRESS DELAYED FORMER DEAN WILL BY LACK OF FUNDS ADDRESS STUDENTS
National Social Center Assoc
national Social Center Assi nation Will Not Meet Until February
Lack of funds is the reason given out today by Prof. Richard R. Price for the postponement of the National Social Center Association congress till January 22 and probably not until February 12.
"It was thought some time ago that the necessary financial support had been secured, but recently some of the backers withdrew their support," said Professor Price this morning.
"I discussed the situation with Frank P. Walsh, Chas. M. Sumner, and Chas. H. Talbot in Kansas City Saturday and we decided that the team he held before the last of January and probably not till February 22."
Harvey County Club to meet The Harvey County K. U. club will meet Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock at the home of Professor Baumgartner, 1209 Ohio street. Every member is urged to be present.
Owing to the indefinite postponement of the congress, it has been found impossible to arrange a definite program. It is estimated that between 400 and 500 delegates will be present at the meeting.
Seven University artists will appear on the program at the Kansas State Music Teachers' Convention held at Manhattan December 5 and 6.
UNIVERSITY ARTISTS TO PLAY AT CONVENTION
At the concert of Kansas composers, Prof. C. A. Prayer will play three piano compositions, Dean Skilton one organ composition, and with Prof. Wort Morse he will play his composition for piano and violin.
The Literary staff of the Annual Board will meet Wednesday night.
Professor Hubach will sing at chapel at K. S. A. C. Thursday morning and at the evening concert Thursday evening. Miss Sweeney and Miss Cook will be the other artists to take part in the program.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Harvey County Club to Meet
Dr. S.W. Williston of Chicago Will Speak Here Friday
and Saturday
Samuel Wendell Williston, paleontologist, professor at the University of Chicago, will lecture at the University Friday and Saturday. He will talk in chapel on Friday and he will give the Sigma Xi address at 4:30 on "Early Animals of North America". Saturday he will lecture at 10:30 in Snow hall on "Some Laws of Evolution of the Vertebrates."
Professor Williston is one of the most prominent scientists of America. He attended Kansas State Agricultural College and received the degree of B. S. in 1872 and A. M. in 1875. He then went to Yale and received M. D. in 1880 and Ph. D. in 1885.
Professor Williston was formerly on the University faculty. He was professor of the history of geology and anatomy and Dean of the Medical School from 1880-02. He served on the Kansas State Board of Health in 1889-1900 and on the Board of Medical Examiners in 1900-02.
He has been professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago since 1902. He was president of Sigma Xi from 1901 to 1905.
As an author Professor Williston has a wide reputation. He wrote "Manual of North America Dipthera" 1896-1908; Reports of University Geological Survey of Kansas, Vol. iv. 1907; and about 200 scientific papers on entomology, zoology, sanitation, and several other subjects.
All new girls have been invited $ t_2 $ attend this meeting as it is especially for the new girls, who will be voted to the association.
New Members for Y. W. C. A.
"Recognition Service for New
Members," the subject of the Y. W.
C. A, meeting to be held tomorrow at
4:30 in Myers hall. Mary Redding,
of the association will be the
leader.
RED CARDS TO WARN OF IMPENDING DOOM
"If you don't watch out the red cards'll get you."
No More That Terrible Sus pense Which Cometh with Term's End
Tea will be served before the meeting.
A new system of red cards to be sent direct from the instructors to the deans' offices has been adopted because of trouble caused by the present system.
Dorothy Parkhurst, and Marguerite Ward, sophomores in the College, have gone today to Topoak, to hear Evan Williams, the great tenor.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
—PONCE.
The game is won, and so's the mon, vacation time is past, and 'een the Turk has quit his work and gone to rest at last. Now comes the time when we look back, and ponder on the scores, and wonder how the Heck we came $\circ$ waddle back to shore. We give all honor to the team and to the student pup, but I'm inclined to hand the grapes to Minniefrankies "Hep." All honor to Coach Moses I say, all honor to the team, but you'll confess we ate 'em up with Minnesota steam. The All-Missouri Valley队 is doped by every gink, with nerve enough to brave the strong and brains enough to think, but there's a silent member of that team of fancied might, and that we should "Give it to him," is no more than or just right.
As soon as an instructor finds that he must condition or fail a student, he will at once send a red card to the dean's office. This will be recorded and when the student enrolls for the next term his class adviser will have conditions on the student's transcript, and can direct him properly.
At the present time the record of failures and conditions is not sent in until the report of the instructor is made. It passes through the registers of the computer, more elapsed before the point is reached where action can be taken.
CADY STILL HAS BEST
OF BOREASE AND PLUVIUS
Only Two Earthquakes Recorded in November Owing to Seismograph's Indisposition on the 23rd.
The weather man was extraordinarily good to us last month according to Prof. H. P. Cady, who yesterday statistics for the month just ended.
Perhaps it was a case of tempering the wind to the shorn lamb, said unfortunate being the battered Jayhawk during the first of the month and the slinking Tiger in the latter portion. At any rate the mean temperature in the summer is 9 degrees above the average for preceding years on record.
Also those of us who were ashamed to wear our jaded raincoats were equally blessed; for the raincoat was a fine garment, average, just 1.23 inches, to be exerted.
The total run of wind was 9,893 miles which is 1,094 below the November average.
Two earthquakes were recorded during the month, on November 6 and 19.
OLD GRAD TO HELP FIGHT
PLAGUE IN CONSTANTINOPLI
Dr Andrew W. Sellards, '04, one of the resident physicians of the John Hopkins hospital, has been selected by the American Red Cross to go to Constantinople to study and aid in the fight against the Asiatic cholera.
The proposition was referred to the medical committee for the selection of a physician. After several names had been proposed that of Dr. Sellars was selected. The committee decided to remain in this work and since Dr. Sellars is an authority on the subject, he was chosen.
The proposition met with Dr. Sellards' approval and all arrangements have been made for the trip. As soon as word from Ambassador Rockhill, who is stationed in Constantinople, is received the doctor will leave for Turkey.
SOUVERIN CALENDARS ARE
PUT ON SALE BY Y. W. C. A.
The University of Kansas calendars have been put on sale. They are issued by the Y. W. C. A. to help pay the expenses of the association. Frederika Hodder has charge of them and they can also be obtained from Miss Carrol, secretary of the Y. W. C. A. and Mary Redding.
T The cover designed by Mamie McFarlin, is made up of a conventionalised sunflower, with Kansa in 1913 at the bottom of the page. Fraser hall, Museum building, and back of Law building, Potter's Lake, and snow scenes are the photographs of the campus included in the calendar. Most of the views were taken by Louis Wilhelm.
MARBLE SUCCEEDS REGENT W. A. WHITE
Miners to Hear Report.
Clay Roberts will give a talk on the trip to Joplin in the meeting of the mining journal Wednesday at 4:30 in Haworth hall. Some of the students did work at Joplin last week and for those who could not go Mr. Roberts will talk.
Fort Scott Editor Appointed by Stubbs to Replace Fmporia Journalist
WHITE HAS TOO MUCH WORK
New Member of Board Has Risen Rapidly From Reporter to Present Important Position.
William Allen White resigned yesterday as a member of the Board of Regents of the University, and George W. Marble, of Ft. Scott, was appointed by Governor Stubbs to fill the vacancy.
Mr. White's successor is the publisher of the Ft. Scott Tribune, a man who has long shown great interest in music and literature. Titled to step into the work at once.
Pressure of business and politics is given as the reason for Mr. White's resignation. Finding it impossible to give enough of his time to the business of being a reagent of the University, Mr. White requested that he be excused and his resignation was accordingly accepted.
Excepting Hopkins, White was the senior member of the Board of Regents and during his incumbency of 7
years has exerted his influence and given valuable time to further the best interests of the University in every way possible. As a member of the Committee on Efficiency of the board of higher education he
selped draft the report made to Governor Stubbs on the institutions of higher learning in Kansas in which it was shown that Kansas is paying less for students is young men and women than other states pay in similar institutions.
At one time a student of the University, he has become one of its most noted and honored alumni. He did his first newspaper work at the University and on Lawrence papers and edited the Kansas annual one volume "Volubility" of other alumnus of the University has done as much for his Alma Mater as he has, and for that reason his loss to the school will be felt.
FACULTY CHANGES LANGUAGE ENTRANCE
Five Languages Instead of Two Will Now Be Accepted Here
That proposed change in entrance requirements to the College was adopted by the faculty at its regular meeting last night. The recommendations of the committee were approved intact. The greatest change is in the matter of language requirements, five languages being accredited now instead of Latin and German as formerly. Three units from the miscellaneous group may now be offered instead of but one.
"Fifteen units are required for admission as at present," said Dean Olin Templin this morning. "However, any graduate of a high school, properly recommended, who has fifteen accredited units will be admitted without condition, but must make up group deficiencies after admission.
"In foreign languages the student may hereafter offer for admission two units of one language and one of another. Greek, Latin German, French, and both be required. Formerly three units of either Latin or German were required.
"Three units from the miscellaneous group may be offered. The old rule was that but one unit from this group could be offered."
The entrance requirements in the other groups are not changed In English three units are required; in mathematics, 24%; in physical science, biological science, and history, one unit each.