UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Society
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 2, 1912.
NUMBER 10.
POLITICAL CAUCUSES ARE ALL THE RAGE
Juniors Are Busy and the Race for Offices Promises to be Warm.
THE SENIORS MEET TONIGHT
Two More Tickets by Fourth Yean Men Will be Out Tomorrow— Senior Laws Elect.
Caucuses and still more caucuses are all the rage these days. Last night it was the junior "Square Dealers" at the Keltz house. Tonight it is the junior "Representative Ticket" at Myers hall at 9:00 o'clock. Prospects for much vigorous scratching on all tickets were never better.
As a result of the new ruling on eligibility laid down by the Student Council, Don Rankin, candidate on the "Square Deal" ticket for prom manager, withdrew today. He will be succeeded by Oscar Dingman.
The junior race promises to be the closest contest on the hill this year. With Weidlein and Hazen, both engineers, heading opposing tickets, it's a toss-up for the average unsophisticated voter.
The two regulation senior tickets will be definitely put out at caucuses to be held tonight, making an unusual split in senior politics, with a chance for a "dark horse."
Two sophomore caucuses are also on for tonight so that all class tickets will be fully in the field by tomorrow night.
Professor Duncan Coming
The senior laws have elected the following officers: President, Kenneth Simmons; Vice-President, Roger Sullivan; Secretary, Roy Rogers; Treasurer, Harry Fisher.
Prof. Robert Kennedy Duncan, director of industrial research in the University of Kansas and in the University of Pittsburgh, will lecture tomorrow before the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia upon the subject of the industrial fellowships in these Universities. The Franklin Institute is one of the oldest engineering societies in this country and it is a signal honor to be asked to address it.
Professor Duncan is expected here next week.
Old Tunes Will be Disguised.
To Speak on "University Ethics."
Dr. H. E. Wolf of the Methodist church is giving a series of Sunday evening talks on "Questions Which Young People are Asking." Next Sunday he speaks on "University Ethics."
Tunes will float forth from the ancient walls of old North College in the future with such a changed appearance that students in the neighborhood will wonder what can have happened. Seven new Knabe pianos have been ordered to take the place of those which had been used since North College was given over to the Fine Arts department. Students and teachers both claim that it is a decided change for the beginner.
Tag Day at Nebraska.
Yesterday was official "tag day" at the University of Nebraska for the support of athletics. Prominent men of Lincoln as well as pretty coeds entered into the campaign. The athletic booster tickets sold for $3 and were good for the entire list of athletic events of the year.
The scheme is worked by Nebraska to arouse enthusiasm and boost the spirit of the school.
Not Like Old Kansas.
The good old Kansas hens and the fertile soil for the "filling" spuds keep K. C. clubs out of the hole. But at Yale the Jayhawker fowls and farms are of no benefit and the Yale dining hall lost $3,501 during the last fiscal year. A report says that the deficit was due largely to the increased cost of eggs and potatoes.
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EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS HONOR K. U. PROFESSOR
Dr. Hyde of the Physiology Department Read Papers Before B.A.A.S.
K. U. MAY GET FELLOWSHIPS
Experiments Conducted on Nerves o Kaw River Frogs Hold Foreign Savants' Attention.
Prof. iaa H. Hyde, head of the department of physiology, was signally honored at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Dundee, Scotland, last month. Dr Hyde read several papers before the society, all of which were well received. She was offered fellowships in English universities for those of her pupils whom she might recommend. Dr. Hyde is expected to arrive in Lawrence next week and resume charge of her department.
A copy of the Dundee Advertiser for September 7, was received here this morning containing an account of the proceedings of the society and a resume of Dr. Hyde's address. She told of experiments carried on here at the university in connection with blocking nerve impulses in the cut and intact nerves of frogs.
Normal and strychninized frogs were used and the nerve impulses were blocked by means of freezing temperatures and by triparal galvanic currents. The experiments were along lines hitherto unexplored and proved exceedingly interesting to the scientists. There also gave addresses at universities in Sweden and Norway on the same subject.$^8$
In a letter mailed before she left Dundee, Dr. Hydte mentioned the offer of the fellowships but did not say when she would fill the proffered places with K. U. students. On her tour she would to take up with the faculty some of the aspects of education that she met with on her European tour.
The British Association for the Advancement of Science is composed of all of the leading scientists of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Eery department of scientific work is covered in their meetings and the meeting is divided into six areas containing those represented in each special issue. In representative from every civilized nation attend its sessions and exchange views on the recent developments in the scientific world.
Barometer Has Tradition
The University Mandolin club will rehearse Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in the chapel room of Fraser hall. The membership of the club is to be increased this season and there are openings for mandolin and guitar players. A cello player is also badly needed. The manager, Mr. James Lawrence, wishes all who expect to be with the club this year to be on hand Thursday night to start practice.
All Universities have their traditions; all places have those things of historical interest in which they pride themselves. Likewise the barometer, in Prof. H. H. P. Cady's laboratory has traditions which has clung to it these forty-four years of actual service in the chemistry department. Traditions tells us that in the year 1868, sometime in September or October Mrs. Snow, wife of Dr. H. F. Snow who was at one time Chancellor of the University, carried this instrument all the way from Boston to give to this University. Ever since this instrument was carried this instrument has faithfully, truthfully presented all barometrical reading. "It is a marine compass, made in Liverpool or London," remarked Professor Cady, "and has proven itself apparently correct. All observations have been made by it and it is always accurate to two-thousands of an inch."
Mandolin Club.
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RATS!
THEY'VE REGISTERED IN THIS COLLEGE CLASS
White rats will soon step into the places formerly occupied by dogs and cats as students in Prof. F. C. Dockeray's animal psychology class.
"During the summer we used cats instead of dogs which were the pupils last winter. Cats are slower than dogs to learn but are so much more easily handled that the work can be carried on more advantageously.
"To determine whether or not the lower animals are able to apply former experiences to new situations is an important question for Professor Docker this morning.
"A babyrinh through which the cats had to find their way in order
OREGON GRADS SEND REGISTRAR HEADS DR. STRONG GREETING NATIONAL BOARI
to obtain food was used. After the cats learned the way through the labyrinth so well that they would not go into a blind alley, the path that had to be traveled in order to obtain the food was changed at some point. If the new path was learned more quickly, the decision reached was that the animal could apply old experiences to new conditions.
Class of 1902 Hails Chancellor Who Was President in Their Day.
"In the case of one of the two cats used it was decided that the cat had the power mentioned above. White rats act practically the same as cats and it is along this same line that we will work this fall."
With the opening of the University last month, Chancellor Frank Strong entered upon his eleventh year of service at the head of Kansas. Although a decade has passed since he resigned as president of the University of Oregon, graduates of the Pacific Coast institution have not forgotten the days when Dr. Strong presided there, as a telegram resting on the desk of the Chancellor this morning would testify.
"Dr. Frank Strong, Chancellor University of Kansas," the yellow sheet proclaims. "The class of 1902 of the University of Oregon assembled in reunion at Eugene recall that two years ago you as our president graduated of the debt we owed the state of Oregon for our education."
"It remains for others to say whether that obligation is being met, but this message conveys our wishes for your continued success."
The Woodrow Wilson club, recently reorganized, will hold a regular meeting in the lecture room of Green hall tomorrow evening at 7:15. Several prominent speakers including W. C. Lansdon, former manager of athletics at K. U., Henry Albach, candidate for probate judge of Doug-Lee University, a former student at K. U. will deliver addresses. All three men are good speakers and the meeting will no doubt be a most enthusiastic one.
Woodrow Wilson Club.
PROF, H. C. CULBERTSON
WILL ADDRESS Y. M. C. A.
"The Bible and Life's Ideals" is the subject of the address to be delivered by H. C. Bulbertson, president of the College of Emporia, at the regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Myers hall.
"President Culbertson is extremely active in Y. M. C. A. work," said Secretary Roy Stockwell. "He is a man who has been very prominent along this line in Kansas and attends the Summer Conferences where he is indeed popular with the college men. He is a pleasing speaker." Special music has been provided for.
The exceptional enrollment of 600 freshmen this year, which has crowded all 24 rhetoric classes to the limit, gives the Kansan statistician a chance to unlumber the following:
George O. Foster Name
Chairman of Important
Committee
WORDS FLOW IN STREAMS FROM FRESHMEN PENS
Averaging 2 themes of 300 words each per week, two sheets of paper per theme, these freshmen will use in one week over 380,000 words, or very nearly all of the 400,000 words in the new International Dictionary.
If the sheets of paper used each week were laid abreast end to end.
Registrar George O. Foster accepted this afternoon an invitation to act as chairman of a national committee of university registrars to devise uniform college statistics in accordance with the Federal Bureau of Education.
The work will be undertaken at the request of Dr. Kendric Babcock of the United States department who is anxious to collect the facts concerning the institutions of the country on some common basis.
Registrar Foster will have assisting him on the committee Registrar Cravens of Indiana University or one other man not yet appointed. and one other man not yet appointed.
Since each of the 1200 themes per week will be written twice, first draft and revision, it takes over 4800 words in this case. In a typical week to meet these demands please
STILL NO DECISION ON
PAY OF ANNUAL MANAGER
"The problem is a big and serious one," said President Coats today, "so it will take considerable more discussion to arrive at any agreement. The committee is working hard to perfect a good plan, and will make further recommendations at today's meeting."
The faculty of the department of zoology of the University has been organized into a committee with Prof. W. J. Baumgartner, chairman, and Miss Nadine Nowlin, secretary, and Miss Nadine Nowlin, organized in this way, they will be involved in different phases of the subject to a much better advantage.
No decision on the question of remuneration for the manager of the senior Annual was reached at last night's meeting of the Student Coun-
The members of the Pi Upsilion fraternity believe in boosting the Daily Kansan. A copy for each member of the society and five copies for the house have been ordered. The members will be invited to be sent to a friend or relative "so the people may know" something about the University of Kansas.
Zoologists Organize.
Frank M. Gold, '06, of Stockton, is here visiting friends and attending to legal business. Frank is now a candidate for a third term as County Attorney of Rooks County, Kan.
Boost The Kansan.
they would make a three-foot walk from Fraser hall to Haskell Institute.
If one pen were to write all these papers, it would travel over 15 miles each day.
Think of the bottles of ink used each week on these themes, the bottles of red correction ink, the "t's" to be dotted (though only freshmen are required to do that, the "t's" that are to be crossed.
One person, working day and night, would be 100 days in writing all these papers.
(Think of the desperation of the reporter who is forced to write this in order to get his copy in the paper.)
SALARIES TOO LOW
SAYS THE CHANCELLOR
In Speech Before Faculty Dr Strong Scores University Pay System.
A Committee Will Investigate High School Credit System—Faculty Members Officially Introduced
"The salaries at the University of Kansas now, so far as their relation to the standard of living and the cost of living is concerned, are lower than they have ever been before in the history of the institution." Chancellor Frank. Strong made the above statement in his annual address yesterday at Snow hall before the faculty.
"But now comes the perplexing question," he continued. "Shall an attempt be made to increase all salaries in as equitable a manner as possible, raising the maximum of each grade as high as circumstances will permit, or shall we create a few positions on what for this University would be very high salary, thus entering the competitive field against other much larger and wealthier institutions, and leave the other salaries of the institution fairly stationary and permanent."
Chancellor Strong explained the lecture system in use among the arge colleges and declared himself opposed to the plan. He believes that authorities should have the greatest possible liberty in arranging their ourses.
Entrance Requirements.
"The entrance requirements to the college should be more liberal," the Chancellor declared. "I would have it arranged so that the student may find work here adapted to his needs no matter whether his training has conformed to the type which we have hitherto demanded or not."
A committee has been appointed by Chancellor Strong to make an inquiry into the high school entrance credit system. There will be a meeting at the State Superintendent's office at Topeka which will be attended by representatives of all the Kansas colleges and it is probable that some changes will be made in the requirements for admission.
Chancellor Strong also spoke of the field work of the University, in which $50,000 has been expended. The board of regents will ask the legislature to reimburse the University for this expenditure.
Before beginning his address,
Chancellor Strong introduced the
new members of the faculty. He required each professor as named to rise in his place while he read his "pedigree."
PRESENT ENROLLMENT IN ALL SCHOOLS IS 237
University Larger by 396 Than at Same Time Last Year—Foster Expects 300 More.
The enrollment of the University of Kansas at present exceeds that of the corresponding time last year by 396, and judging from figures of preceding years at least 300 more students will enter.
The total today is 2372 last year at this time it was 1976.
"The total enrollment will fall little short of 2800," said Registrar Esther Morning, the largest in the history of the school. This should be a banner year."
Exclusive of the Summer Session school, the students are distributed among the various departments as follower: College, 1174; Instructional Design, 153; Pharmacy, 55; Law, 185; Graduate, 71; Medicine, 21.
Warning to Freshmen.
"Standing Freshmen Reception Committees exist in each school of the University," commented Charles Coats, president of the Student Council this morning. "It is probably well that all first year men know this as Friday is the day when the new headline headdress must appear and bind them on these committees are not slow in reting out their naddling breezes."
getting out their paddling brigades."
CHANCELLOR INVITES CHAMP CLARK HERE
Democratic Leader May Give Chapel Address on October 11.
HE IS NOW ON A KANSAS TOUR
Former College President to Speak on College Subject Before Students of University.
The students of the University probably will hear "Champ" Clark, speaker of the House of Representatives, in clapel Friday morning, October 10. Chancellor Strong wield the Democratic leader today asking that he arrange his Kansas campaign tour so that he might speak to the students at chapel. A favorable reply is expected.
Mr. Clark is a college president, having been at the head of Marshall College in West Virginia in 1874, and a thorough friend of college students. His speech, which will be on a popular subject of interest to students, undoubtedly will be a treat.
The committee on chapel arrangements has secured speakers for the next several weeks. The Rev. N. S. Elderkin, pastor of the Congregational church of Lawrence, will be the Friday speaker this week. Following Dr. Elderkin will come Dr. Burris A. Jenkins, pastor of the Linwood Boulevard Christian church of Kansas City, Mo. W. Y. Morgan, editor of the Hutchinson News will speak on October 18.
"We are attempting this year to secure professional men with interesting practical subjects for our speakers," said Prof. J. N. Van der Vries, chairman of the chapel committee, "and soon we will be able to announce a list of well known talkers."
FACULTY LADIES RECEIVE
Annual Reception for Members of Faculty and Wives to be Held
The faculty ladies will give a reception to all members of the faculty and their wives on Friday evening, October 4th, at Robinson gymnasium, in honor of the new members of the faculty.
In order to facilitate the identification of the new-comers, the committee in charge has decided to place them all on the receiving line, instead of following the usual custom. After passing down the line, the real hostesses will station themselves about the room in groups arranged according to the departments they represent, and will assist everybody to meet and get acquainted with everybody else.
Throughout the evening, refreshments will be served from a long table, a either end of which Mrs. Strong and Mrs. Green, alternating with Mrs. Sayre and Mrs. Templin, will pour coffee while their assistants serve cakes and sandwiches. The affair will be quite informal, and it is hoped that a large number will attend.
SIX KANSAS SCHOOLS
MAY BE ACCREDITED
The high schools at Walton, Palco, Woodston, Thayer, Longton, and Dexter, are arranging to meet the entrance requirements of the University, so that they may receive the benefits of the Barnes high school law.
This law allows high schools to receive a certain amount of monetary aid from the state, in counties where there is no county high school. One requirement of the law is that the graduates of the high schools to be benefited must have sufficient credit to enter the state University.
The schools are examined by W. H.
Johnson, University high school visitor,
and must be approved by him.
He must sit on his souls of
'inspection next week.'
Last year there were 310 Kansas high schools accredited to the University and Mr. Johnson expects thirty more to be added this year.
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